The Mac OS X Dock provides a quick way to launch your favorite applications, but one thing I don't think Apple has thought about is how people use different apps depending on the task they're trying to complete. Spaces, Leopard's virtual desktop manager, makes it easy to create one desktop for work, another for fun, and so on.
A nifty little program called Amazon Watcher can save you from those "" moments. What it can do is watch any item on Amazon, and then notify you when the price has dropped or when an item becomes available.
BBC recently posted a video titled "Britain seen from the skies above" and while it was fascinating simply to watch, to think about it really gave us a new perspective on privacy. It's a real short clip, about a minute, so take a look and you'll see what we mean:
As you probably remember Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 was sporting a brown theme when it was released, and it made some people do a double-take to figure out what the heck was going on. Just about two-weeks ago Alpha 3 was released of the new version of Ubuntu, and it still included the dark brown theme (called NewHuman) from the original release.
It looks as though Microsoft is dancing around the fact that they a forum - a place where people can go to post their tips and questions for anything Microsoft related whether it be Windows or the Zune. They just relaunched Windowslive.com as a community site which we see as a step in the right direction, but they aren't quite there yet.
Apple really surprised us by launching an update to the iPhone firmware last night. We knew that version 2.1 of the firmware was supposed to be coming in September sometime because it will have the push notification system for 3rd party apps that everybody has been talking about, but we definitely didn't know that Apple was working on 2.0.1.
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One trend that I've noticed as bandwidth and hard drive storage space continues to grow is that sending CD/DVD's over the Internet is becoming a preferred way for distributing media. These files are typically in an ISO or BIN/CUE format, which most people will then burn to a CD/DVD before using them.
