Joanna Stern reviews the MacBook Air as a Windows laptop. I enjoyed this—I've considered in the past whether the MacBook Air would be a suitable laptop for me even though most of the time I don't run OS/X. (Conclusion: probably not any more, though it might have seemed that way once.) She does highlight the… Continue reading Hard edges, small keys
Category: Non-Work
Operating system updates
Google have released a version of their Chrome web browser for Android, and it seems to be rather good—but it only runs on the very latest version of Android, version 4. Which is a bit of an annoyance, because hardly anybody has that version. Glancing at the 12 most popular Android phones on the Expansys… Continue reading Operating system updates
The other Internet
Facebook aims to go public— So far I've mostly thought of Facebook as the other Internet. It's an Internet that contains all the stuff I don't really want to know. A site with the handy property that almost everything on it requires you to log in to see it, meaning that I never see any… Continue reading The other Internet
I had been thinking of praising SkyDrive too
Then I tried to log in to it just now, and Eloquent. Perhaps it has a bit more in common with the typical ASP site of the 90s than I'd thought.
Was Windows popular?
Paul Robert Lloyd writes: "As more services require a Facebook account to use them, I wonder if it’s set to become the next Microsoft Windows; a popular piece of software that becomes the only choice available." I first read this as "an unpopular piece of software that becomes the only choice available." Plenty of people… Continue reading Was Windows popular?
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M., brandishing new telephone: I find it a bit difficult to actually make phone calls, but it's great for the internet. No, I really like it. The battery's hopeless though. Me: How often do you have to charge it? M.: About every two days. I thought it was defective at first. A fun mental exercise… Continue reading Buy Our Superior Celluloid Cylinders
The Breakfast Post 