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Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare

The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading

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Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare

The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading

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brrreeeport Cause Scoble said to.

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Devil May Cry 3 for PC

Ahh, the state of gaming on the PC is rather grim at the moment.  Consoles are where the money is at, and publishers have been flocking there in droves.  Games on PC’s are increasingly skewing towards MMORPG’s and rehashed FPS’s…which … Continue reading

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Calling out Google search result fakers

So apparently, Google hits websites with a so-called death penalty if they perform shenanigans like returning different results for search engines as compared to regular users.  This policy, for obvious reasons, keeps the integrity of the search process honest and … Continue reading

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External monitors with notebooks/tablets

Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC’s) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC. Here’s my advice…if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, … Continue reading

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Windows Vista Build 5270 – Heading in the right direction?

I’ve been playing with the most recent CTP of Vista over the past few days in order to test compatibility and just get a general feel for where this next version of the operating system is taking us.  So far, … Continue reading

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The Toshiba M400 is out

I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago.  The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this?  Two things.  One, my main laptop broke, so … Continue reading

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Lay’s Stax vs Pringles

For some reason, I like snacking on artificially formed potato crisps.  Yep, that’s right.  Is it not odd that they are called crisps instead of chips?  I suppose calling them potato chips is a crime that would get you arrested … Continue reading

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Unwired and loving it

After heading out to get some networking gear from Fry’s, I spent the earlier part of yesterday installing the goods. Let’s keep this short. It all pretty much works.  The wireless PCI cards from Airlink I bought seem to work … Continue reading

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