Just as radio was not made obsolete by television, we should not be surprised that the U.S. Postal Service and even typewriters are finding their place in a digital world.
Category Archives: Computers and technology
Windows 95 — Has it really been ten years?
Windows 95 was launched ten years ago yesterday. It was a huge deal at the time. People lined up at midnight to buy it, and some of them didn’t even own a PC! I was interning at Microsoft that summer, and I remember how massive the launch was. Calling it a carnival is not an …
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Cryovacking our way to the future
Sous vide, sometimes called “cryovacking,” is a method of food preparation where food is put into a bag and vacuum packed. The bag is sometimes cooked later at low temperatures, or the process itself is used to infuse the food with flavor or to change its texture. When I heard Alton Brown explain sous vide …
Easy-to-use phone from Motorola?
Motorola announced a new cell phone, the E895, to be available in the last quarter of this year. It uses a combination of Java and Linux called JUIX, which Motorola claims is easier to use than other smartphone OSes. But Motorola doesn’t have a good history of easy-to-use phones — one of my friends said …
Standards war over pet tags
You think HD-DVD vs Blu Ray is pointless: there are two competing standards for microchipping pets. If you have the wrong scanner, you cannot read, or even detect, the implanted chip. This has caused anger, confusion, and animals to be accidentally put to death. Yikes.
Holymolyitstrue: Apple switches to Intel
Makes me wonder if I should buy a Mac in a few years. I could run Windows and Mac software full speed on the same box. (Writing the next version of Virtual PC for the Mac should become a lot easier…) It also makes me wonder who will buy a Mac for the next couple …
Big week in information technology
It’s been a more eventful week in IT land than I expected. First, Microsoft announced yesterday that the next versions of Office for Windows and Mac OS X will use ZIP-compressed XML file formats as the default. Woohoo! No more brittle binary files. And they’re being smart enough to change the extensions so you can …
USB flash drives that look good enough to eat
I’ll be darned: USB flash drives that really look like sushi.
Segway polo
Wanna get to know Woz, the famed Apple co-founder? Then get a Segway and learn to play Segway polo.
More about Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection
Apparently I misunderstood Microsoft’s intent over its new ClearType Font Collection. John Hudson, the designer of one of the typefaces in the collection, says that these new fonts are supposed to be a bonus specifically for Longhorn users.