The twin-brother to the G3 line, Crunching Numbers G4 is also custom-made and individually hand-crafted from retired Macintosh G4s and up to 70% reclaimed materials. Because the reclaimed materials can vary in shape and size, the different combinations make every table we create truly one-of-a-kind.
Cool.
Tim Edwards:
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Windows 8 is the worst computing experience I’ve ever had. As a desktop operating system, it’s annoying, frustrating, irritating, and baffling to use. I’ve tried on many occasions to explain exactly why it’s so awful to use day-to-day, and most of the time, smoke starts pouring out of my ears. I thought it would be better to get down exactly what the issues are and why you should avoid it.
And that was the nice thing he had to say.
Rob Pegoraro wrote an interesting piece on how stories can, and have, gone wrong.
John Gruber:
I’m thinking it makes more sense for Apple to hold two events. First, an iPhone event, focused solely on the new iPhone and iOS 6. Then, the iPhone ships nine days later, and there’s another wave of iPhone-focused attention as the reviews come out. Then, in the first or second week of October, Apple holds its traditional “music event”, exactly along the lines of the events at which they’ve been debuting new iPods for the last decade.
Oh that Gruber is a smart fellow.
If you’re a retro gamer—or if you want to try out the games long-time gamers are always going on about, there’s never been a better time than now to indulge your passion for vintage video games. There are lots of good ways to do feed your jones, and even a few that don’t cost too much money.
Sega!
Ms. Giménez said she had worked on the fresco using a 10-year-old picture of it, but she eventually left Jesus with a half-beard and, some say, a monkeylike appearance.
Wow. Just wow.
The update contains the following changes:
As soon as you sign up with Facebook, Twitter or G+, we start learning about you and connecting you with the most interesting stories. Prismatic is a smart personal newsfeed with simple layouts that creates a delightful reading experience.
I downloaded this and it looks great. I like an app that learns with me and gives me news that I want to read.
Update: I just noticed that The Loop is included as one of the publishers in the app, so be sure and add it.
VMware Fusion 5 has been designed to work on Mountain Lion and integrate to some of its key features. You can now get VMware Fusion updates directly in Mountain Lion’s notification center or search for your favorite Windows programs in Launchpad. And if you have an Apple TV, you can even use “AirPlay Mirroring” to view your Windows environment on your HDTV.
I talked to the folks at VMware earlier this week and it looks like a great update. Not only Mountain Lion and Retina support, but also lots of performance enhancements too. There’s also upgrade pricing.
“I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan’s use of my song ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ as recorded by my band Twisted Sister.”
Om Malik:
Dell, in fact, is no different than HP which also has blown the shift to mobile and now is trying to do a comb-over by using cloud and enterprise as its areas of focus.
Om’s story on HP and Dell cuts deep, but he’s right on.
Dan Wineman talking about App.net:
Most of this criticism stems from a perception of the service as a Twitter clone that costs money. Which is totally fair because right now, that’s all it is. But it’s also a bit like calling the web in 1993 an AOL clone for rich white college students. Fair, but entirely missing the point.
Dan brings up some great points.
The folks over at Webdesigner Depot wrote about this bug in their Disqus commenting system today. Incredible.
Update: Disqus posted a knowledge base article on their Web site addressing this issue.
Peter Kirn finds another goodie for Mac users.
Counternotions:
Suppose you were the CEO of Apple in 2005 when a couple of intergalactic visitors with time-warping technology offered you this bet:Design and manufacture a small mobile device that seamlessly combines the functionalities of a cellular phone, a web surfer, an audio/video player and a small PC, and your company will double its market cap and establish a third mass-market computing platform after Windows and Macintosh.Would you take it?Before you say, “Are you nuts, why wouldn’t I?” ponder just a few of the issues involved.
Reading his analysis of the issues Apple faced back in 2005 makes it even more remarkable that Apple “bet the company” on the iPhone.
Derek Turner for Wired:
Though it’s trying its best to hide it, the truth is that AT&T’s motivation here is to prop up its slowly declining voice and text revenue streams, which are expensive services that the open internet is making obsolete. If AT&T can weaken the FCC’s Net Neutrality protections at the same time, well that’s a bonus. The decision to block FaceTime likely will not be the last anti-consumer thing AT&T attempts as it tries to reassert its control over the communications ecosystem that the open internet pried away long ago.
Turner hits the nail on the head.
Tony Wolverton for MercuryNews.com:
The company owed $30 million to $40 million to various creditors and had little money to pay them. It had failed to find a buyer despite shopping itself around and was facing a complete shutdown of its services, said Joel Weinberg, CEO of Insolvency Services Group.
OnLive is the video game service that enables you to stream popular PC games to your Mac or PC over the Internet, or to your TV using a small settop box.
OnLive made headlines last week when its assets were abruptly sold to a newly formed company (also called OnLive) and many employees were terminated. The service continues for customers, however.
The CEO of a firm tasked with paying some of OnLive’s old debts explained that OnLive “had only days to live” because of cashflow and credit issues.
OnLive emerged as one of the highest profile “cloud gaming” services, which enable people to play games without actually buying them and downloading them – paying a monthly subscription fee instead.
On this day in 1969, two days after their final recording session, the Beatles gathered at Tittenhurst Park, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono resided, for a photo shoot they didn’t realize would be their last — an instance of those bittersweet “unknown lasts” that wedge themselves between our lived experience and our memory, sometimes violently and other times with the tender wistfulness of nostalgia.
The hobo is a migratory worker, some with a special skill or trade, others ready to work at any task, but always willing to work to make his way.The tramp, they’ll tell you, is a traveling non-worker, moving from town to town, but never willing to work for the handouts that he begs for. A bum is the lowest class, too lazy to roam around and never works.
GigaOM:
AT&T’s decision to block Apple’s video-calling program on its cellular network for certain customers has raised the ire of consumers and public-interest groups, and it may even draw the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. And after the wireless carrier posted its rationale on Wednesday on its decision to limit video over FaceTime to customers who have signed up for its Mobile Shared Data plan, I see two reasons the carrier has picked this fight.The first is to push more consumers over to the Mobile Shared Data plan, and the second is to establish a precedent that will put its Wi-Fi network on the same legal footing as its cellular one, especially when it comes to network neutrality.
This pack is perfect for the songwriter looking for a wide variety of basic drums for a broad spectrum of playing styles. It covers anything from mellow ballads to funky midtempo swing and straight uptempo rock, all categorized in different songs and full 4-8 bar song part blocks.
I love Toontrack’s products. I have almost everything they make.
Makes more sense now.
More CSS3 goodness.
Glassboard premium was created to give you more of what you need from Glassboard – more storage, more boards, the ability to bookmark messages and much more, all for just $5/month.
Great stuff from Sepia Labs.
You knew it was going to happen.
Like all of us, Tom Webster gets spam. E-mail spam, Web site comment spam, the usual. Unlike most of us, Tom’s put it to good use on his blog called Tom Reads His Spam.
Webster, VP of Strategy at Edison Research in North Carolina, has a terrific voice, and Tom Reads His Spam is a whole bunch of audio clips of Webster doing exactly that. Funny stuff – check it out!
Some cool tools to help you with your CSS.
You’re welcome.
iPhone in Canada:
For those accessing iTunes today, you may have noticed Apple has added extra security to your iTunes Account by asking you to fill out three security questions and input an alternate recovery email address. With these additional security questions now being asked in the event of account recovery, and the additional rescue email option, it should increase Apple ID security. But of course, nothing can beat a strong password, which Apple ID accounts now require a capital letter and numbers.
I’ve checked with friends in Canada and some of the questions are really obvious – like, “What is the name of your lead dogsled dog?” and “How many relatives do you have in Toronto?”
I laughed so hard at this. Especially the Siri part:
“Chickpea salad. Nom nom nom. I am happy.”