Hawk Wings has a fantastic Mail.app tip that sped up my install dramatically. It’s definitely worth checking out. I have a massive and ancient mail archive, so my improvement was dramatic. Your milage may vary. Just make sure you do a backup first.
File under general nerdery: My friend Tom send this to me and I felt the need to share. One part NES + one part guitar = NES Paul
For anyone who thinks I’ve been overly critical, take a look at what Time Magazine had to say about Windows Vista:
The fact that it took Microsoft over five years and $6 billion dollars to create Vista is — and I mean this quite seriously — an embarrassment to the good name of American innovation, but [...]
Shouldn’t the new version of an OS run better than the five year old version? Techgage decided to do a comparison of game performance for Vista and XP and it looks like Vista runs games slower than XP does. In many cases, it’s a dramatic downgrade.
The short of it? If you’re a [...]
If you thought the iPhone multi-touch screen was impressive, take a look into the future of interaction courtesy of Jeff Han at NYU. Make sure you play the video on the right side of the linked page.
I did pretty well with my tech predictions for 2006, so I figured I’d have some fun and take a guess at both Macworld tomorrow and the year ahead.
Blu-ray will officially take the lead over HD-DVD. How? Every PS3 sold supports Blu-ray. Every Xbox 360 requires an additional purchase to support HD-DVD [...]
Tivo is compelling for two reasons.
You get to watch programs when you want.
You get to skip commercials.
And yet Tivo, the company, is clearly doing everything in it’s power to shove more commercials into your day.
Tivo subscribers pay a monthly fee to skip commercials. I can’t imagine they’ll take kindly to having more put in [...]
Walmart’s video download service will fall on it’s face for all the obvious reasons. They have no momentum in this space nor a reputation in retail that nutures a leap of this sort from retail to digital. Just as with it’s music service, it will waste an incredible amount of money trying to [...]
It seemed like a little math would be helpful to see where all the consoles stand going into this holiday season.
Wii
Xbox 360
PS3
Console
$250
$400
$600
2nd Controller
$60
$50
$50
Game
included
$60
$60
WiFi
included
$100
included
Online Gaming
included
$50
included
Classic Controller
$20
n/a
n/a
Total
$330
$660
$710
Of course add $60, for Xbox 360 and PS3, or $50, for Wii, for each additional game you plan to buy at launch.
The thing I found most surprising in the process [...]
The difference between Blu-ray and HD-DVD is simple: capacity, as in how much stuff you can put on a disc.
Blu-ray
HD-DVD
HD Video Capacity
~5 hours
~3 hours
Data Capacity
25 GB
15 GB
In short, blu-ray holds 40% more stuff. That means you can back up more photos on your computer and watch more episodes of Lost on a single disc. [...]
