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The power of popular culture: 'unfriend' officially enters the American language {Download Squad}
Nov 20th 2009 12:59AM It's in the OED. It arrived along with 'iPod' and 'Blairite' a few years back.
Unlike other european languages (French, German..etc), there is no body that governs the English language. What people say is categorically correct.
UMAzone UMA-ISO drive enclosure takes the sting out of mounting disk images {Engadget}
Nov 18th 2009 11:44AM On Windows there is. OSX and Linux can mount images by double-clicking the file - in fact, Mac software is usually distributed online through disk images.
Easy image mounting is one of the top things people have been crying out to Microsoft for. They make powertoys to do it, so they obviously recognise the need to integrate the functionality.
iPhone gets live Sky Mobile TV, O2 offering 3 months' free access {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 7:48AM @Eddie
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2190624/robbie_keane_belter_vs_arsenal/
'nuff said
Entelligence: Heads I win, tails so do you {Engadget}
Nov 8th 2009 8:50PM I typed a longer, thought-out reply to this, but deleted it with a "can I be bothered?" sigh.
I've been doing that more and more on engadget lately. This place is a mess, not a place for sensible commenting on technology.
Apple rejects Macworld iPhone Superguide from App Store... for using the word 'iPhone' {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 3:14PM I think that about sums it up, although the author's probably loving it: his sales are going to go through the roof when it finally gets approved (with or without 'iPhone' in the title).
Feel free to reject my post because I used the word 'iPhone' in it.
iWork files are really just zip files, and contain PDF previews {Download Squad}
Nov 2nd 2009 12:31AM People should just use PDFs straight. Seriously, since I bought a Mac, my hatred for anything PDF has just gone. On Windows, you have to open up Acrobat reader (which is a pig). On a Mac, it opens up in Preview just like a JPEG, or in Safari in a seamless built-in reader. Microsoft need to add support to windows' picture viewer - it's just so useful!
PDFs are quick to open, and represent things exactly as they would appear on paper. They're also vector-based for easy scaling whilst preserving formatting, and can be opened easily on any platform. Also, unlike OOXML, you don't get formatting errors on other platforms (nobody formats things like Word, reading from the same spec sheet).
Uncle Walt says "Apple's built-in software still has the edge" {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 29th 2009 4:28AM No. Microsoft didn't remove things like Windows Mail because of antitrust issues, they did it to try and build their "Windows Live" brand.
It was always easy to change your default email client. The problem competitors faced was not competing against built-in products like Windows Mail, but competing against Outlook. Obviously, Outlook is not bundled with Windows, so antitrust doesn't come in to it.
The game has changed {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 1:38PM GPS companies like TomTom and Garmin have been milking consumers for years with poorly designed systems for exorbitant sums of money. Google maps has shown us for years that this kind of thing is easy to do better, but licensing restrictions have stopped it happening.
Google has actually been innovating in this market. TomTom and Garmin have been overcharging for too long. For them, it's the day of reckoning. Google going in to turn-by-turn was always the obvious next step, and if these two haven't prepared for it, they're just showing the same inertia which is making people turn to Google.
The game has changed {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 1:01PM Follow it live!
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1256760000000&chddm=30&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=AMS:TOM2;NASDAQ:GOOG&cmptdms=1;0&q=NASDAQ:GRMN&ntsp=0
Asustek announces a 1.1 Teraflop, Tesla GPU powered supercomputer {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 1:35AM "cost structure of $14,519 over five years"
Wow! That's almost as much as a Mac Pro!
