Astoundingly Easy Powerbook Upgrade. I'm in awe of Apple. I just finished getting my new Powerbook running and it was astoundingly easy. Having spent many years in the Windows camp, I'm conditioned to think that moving all your programs, data, and settings from one computer to another is supposed to take an entire weekend and… Continue reading Astoundingly Easy Powerbook Upgrade
Author: Vince Kimball
Break out the violins
Break out the violins. Doh!. We're functioning with peacetime constraints, with legal requirements, in a wartime situation in the Information Age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media,… Donald Rumsfeld [The Obvious?] [Curiouser and curiouser!]
You dare to dicker with your pontiff?
You dare to dicker with your pontiff?. Watching The Agony and the Ecstasy as I code. Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II — my kind of Pontiff. I wonder what the direction to Rex was, something like: “Get on that horse and be… Popish!” [Curiouser and curiouser!]
VOIP: Be Very Afraid
VOIP: Be Very Afraid. Here's what Michael Powell had to say about voice over IP to the main cable industry trade show: “If you're a big incumbent and you've sort of enjoyed a competitive advantage . . . you, in my opinion, ought to be terrified.” “I think it's going to be the very,… Continue reading VOIP: Be Very Afraid
Twenty Years Later, we're still losing data to crashes
Twenty Years Later, we're still losing data to crashes. It happened again. I lost a whole bunch of unsaved work due to a crash. This time, I was converting some scribbles to lovely design documentation in OmniGraffle when my G4 suddenly shut down. (It's been doing that lately; this time I reset the power manager… Continue reading Twenty Years Later, we're still losing data to crashes
Blogs: The Other Half of Customer Relationship
Blogs: The Other Half of Customer Relationship. I've been reading with great interest recent posts by Robert Scoble and Tim Bray about blogging in a corporate context. As Scoble and others have shown, blogs are a powerful way to quickly react to negative publicity, to establish real credibility, and build lasting bonds with customers and the… Continue reading Blogs: The Other Half of Customer Relationship
“Understanding the hosted messaging market”
“Understanding the hosted messaging market”. “Industry analysts and outsourcing experts said that even though hosted e-mail services have their pluses and minuses, they can add increased security and productivity to many companies' messaging equations. However, for one user, those assertions don't add up. The experts, who spoke this week at TechTarget's Enterprise Messaging Decisions conference,… Continue reading “Understanding the hosted messaging market”
Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware
Sick of Spam? Prepare for Adware. Adware and its spyware cousins now account for more than 12 percent of all technical support calls, says Dell. It's the single largest category of complaints, and it's only getting worse. Can anything be done to stop the problem before it becomes an epidemic? By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]
The Economist says Fire Rummy
The Economist says Fire Rummy. There's no shortage of news articles about abuses of prisoners in Iraq. And now several publications, including the New York Times and The Economist are calling for the resignation of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The Economist's op-ed, Resign, Rumsfeld has a clear premise, “Responsibility for errors and indiscipline… Continue reading The Economist says Fire Rummy
Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall
Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall. Information Architecture and Findability is Peter Morville’s contribution to the UX roadshow circuit. Boston, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. will all be Fall stops – $695 US for the day for early registration (reasonable compared to IA Summit workshops, still spendy for students and folks out of… Continue reading Peter Morville goes on the road this Fall