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No Longer a member of the elite iPhone club
Aug 18th
Yes, since March 2008 I had been a member of the elite “I own an iPhone” club. That is until I sold my iPhone this August, for $350, only losing $50 after owning it for just over 5 months. What phone do I own now? A Motorola Q9h (AT&T), and yes it is in fact a Windows Mobile Smartphone. This is quite a reversal of phones. Going from an Apple iPhone to a Windows smartphone. I will explain why I made the switch, and give you some insight if you too are deciding between similar phones.
First off I will tell you that I have a Macbook Pro, and a desktop that runs Windows XP and Ubuntu. So, I am neither a Apple, Linux, or Microsoft loyalist. I love my MBP, and OS X. I have no problem with Apple products. I also don’t mind Microsoft and Windows XP, as it does what I need it to do (Call of Duty 4). Thus, I have no bias. I use both Apple and Microsoft products, and enjoy both to some extent.
Spammers have a time machine!!
Mar 26th
Not only do I get a lot of spam during the day, I have now started to get spam from the future! Damn spammers.
The iPod Touch really is amazing
Dec 30th
I got the 8GB iPod Touch for Christmas, and started playing around with it. As it is out-of-the-box, there are some fun things to do but overall it isn’t that exciting. Luckily the iPod can be ‘jailbroken’ to make it more exciting. Here are some screens of my iPod touch:
So whats so good about jailbreaking an iPod Touch?
By following a few steps (that take around 20 minutes) you can install an application on your iPod that allows you to browse various software sources and install applications, completely free of charge. I have installed some apps like Mail, Google Maps, SSH, Terminal, Apollo Instant Messenger (AIM, etc), and a few more that allow you to customize the UI.
If you want to do this to your iPod, follow the very simple directions at this site.
Is Vista’s market share really that bad? Yes, it is.
Nov 12th
I have been conducting some research over the last, to be honest 3 days concerning browser and operating system trends of people who visit websites I either own or host for people. I collected data based on just over 6000 requests from Saturday morning, until Monday night (11-10-07 to 11-12-07). The results of this were very interesting (to me and a few people I discussed this with). First I will show the usage graph:
Possible -+0.1% margin of error.
As you can see, this graph shows 6195 total page requests over the 3 days the data was collected. Most requests were 1-2 pages, so this was not the result of user spam. Notice that Windows has 57.1% OS graph, OS X has 39.5%. That is surprising in the fact that OS X has such a high percentage. Most people consider OS X to be in the lower percentile, nearing 1-15% of the market share, but surely not nearly 40%.
Then take a look at Vista, in its splendor. Of the 6195 requests, only 11.5% of them were served to Vista computers. Compare that to 39.5% of OS X requests, and 45.6% of Windows XP requests. Is anyone surprised by these statistics? I honestly am, I expected Vista to have a higher share in the websites I researched (tech websites, due to privacy as of now I am not releasing the domain names).
Does this mean that Vista is not popular? Yes, in the scope of the researched sites. Granted this was in no way a global study, or a in-depth one it does give a glimpse into a few tech-oriented websites over a 3 day time period to show you how Vista is stacking up in the OS world.
And just for the heck of it, here was the data collected on browser trends:
-Steve
If my computer was like the ones in the movies, I wouldn’t use it
Nov 11th
After watching the movie “Live Free or Die Hard”, the latest Die hard movie, a realization I made years ago was refreshed. The movie contains heavy computer-usage scenes as the entire movie revolves around the hacking of the entire U.S. infrastructure. In all of the computer scenes, a distinct sound can be heard every time the computer does something. That sound is a soft beep. A new window pops up, and it beeps, the user clicks, and it beeps, a window resizes, and it beeps. Everything done on the computer is followed by a beeping sound. How annoying.
Would you use a computer that beeps over and over every single time you do something? What about a computer that, instead of displaying text instantly required it to scroll all across the screen, while beeping of course. Would you use that computer? Probably not. The fact is that ‘Hollywood’ computer scenes consist of nothing more than constant scrolling and beeping, for absolutely no reason. That is enough to drive anyone crazy. The question is why do they do this?
Favorite Videos of the week
Oct 25th
Binary Explosive
Instant Hot Ice
Turn a Laser Pen into a real burning laser (at home laser surgery anyone?)
Nice Car
Quagmire Compilation
Worst Blooper Ever