Archive for July, 2006

Viva DownloadSquad!

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

While the internets have been abuzz about Jason’s latest plans to compensate content creators at Netscape, another initiative of his seems to have gone somewhat unnoticed: he’s planning to beef up DownloadSquad to compete more directly with Lifehacker. As a big fan of both sites (and one of the founding bloggers on DownloadSquad), I wish [...]

Totally tubular

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Much fun has been had at the expense of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who recently referred to the Internet as a “series of tubes.” And, while it is fun to mock the Senator for his awkward metaphor and curious use of the term “Internet” as a proxy for email (“an Internet was sent by my [...]

Writing in the dark

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Kudos to Jordan for tracking down Dark Room, a full-screen text editor for Windows. Such editors are all the rage in the Mac world, but are a rarity on Windows machines. I suspect this has something to do with the novelty of working in a non-WYSIWYG environment for Mac developers and users. Many Windows [...]

Microsoft goes to 11

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Ah, where would we be without Spinal Tap? Too bad Rob Reiner never trademarked “goes to 11.”