When Apple announced its new Ping service on Wednesday, I was ecstatic. Most people use Myspace to find and share music, but I didn’t like Myspace at all. In fact I don’t even have a Myspace account. Integrating iTunes with a music-based social media network felt like two things that went well together – like chocolate and peanut butter.
A few years ago, I was very heavy into the Windows XP GUI mod community. There was one thing I always wanted to do and that’s create a translucent Command Prompt like you can do in Mac OS X. The problem was that there was no perfect way to do it. The one mod that did allow you to was very limited in what it was capable of doing. I even tried writing one myself which I could never get working properly.
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Recently, Google started using a new Word-type document format for Google Docs. While this is good for most people, I find that it’s very constrained for certain types of documents that I work on – specifically, the show notes we use for the podcasts. I find that the Word-type format is very constrained whereas the old format is very open and free form.
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Apple today is releasing its latest operating system for the iPhone, named iOS 4. While it’s meant to run on all iPhones that are available, not all iPhones will have all the features of iOS 4. To see a breakdown of the features each iPhone type will have, click here. Before you upgrade, here are some things you need to do.
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Excited about WordPress 3.0? Ready to experience all the new features like the lighter admin interface, merge of WP with WP MU, the new default theme Twenty Ten, plus bug fixes and feature enhancements? It’s easy and it’s quick – just upgrade from your WP’s Dashboard and ta-da! your blog is… wait, broken? Yikes.
