Other Data on iPhone – The Yellow Bar of Death
The Issue – After upgrading to iOS5 I noticed I had 4gb of “other” data when performing Syncs. Large amounts of Other Data appears to be a common problem on iPhone 3 & 4 with a major uptick […]
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Losing the HP Way
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Losing the HP Way – Cringely on technology. “American firms have been laying-off their engineering staffs for years. In today’s world of MBA-managed companies, R&D is perceived as not being […]
Firefox – Dear Mozilla…
Mozilla, When did you start smoking the crack? Solution to the below rant for Enterprise or EDU -> see Firefox ESR Extended Support Release Mozilla, apparently under the bright light of Google Chrome 14 and Microsoft […]
Are Internet Explorer users dumb?
(CNN) — Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it. The survey by AptiQuant, a […]
How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google
“It’s not like Android’s free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents.” That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview last year with The Wall Street Journal. At the time, Microsoft […]
Hackers Are Everywhere. Panic!
“I think the number of recent hacks and the amount of news coverage on these attacks is suspicious. Could they be false flag events to help the government regulate the Internet? …” Read the full story […]
PROTECT IP Act is unconstitutional
“An ideologically diverse group of 90 law professors has signed a letter opposing the PROTECT IP Act, the Hollywood-backed copyright enforcement/Internet blacklist legislation now working its way through Congress. The letter argues that its domain-blocking provisions […]
Bob’s Way – The War
Bob’s Way — 4) The War I’d learned how the war started from a magazine. Way back in the dark ages of computers, a shadowy figure walked off with a paper tape during a computer demonstration. […]
Windows Movie Maker 2.6 – Windows 7
Stumped by limitations of Windows Movie Maker Live I went in search of an alternate free video editing program. Lo and behold I found an old friend. Microsoft had stopped development of Windows Movie Maker after Windows Vista so I hadn’t used it […]
USB Windows 7 install
Use a USB Key to Install Windows 7 – Even on a Netbook. From Microsoft Technet – “Putting the Windows 7 installation on a USB thumb drive has a few advantages—a small USB key is much […]