T-Mobile today announced the Sidekick 3 smartphone and Engadget has a bunch of hands-on photos. I just hope that T-Mo fixed the swiss cheese security protecting their Sidekick Web portal. As promised, our initial impressions of the new T-Mobile Sidekick 3…First off, the Sidekick 3 is really just an evolution and enhancement of its predecessor […]
Month: June 2006
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Bill Gates All Hands Email
If you haven’t yet, you really should read Bill Gates’ all hands email announcing his departure as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft in 2008. What’s even funnier though is ValleyWag’s line-by-line interpretation of said email. Another official memo, another official string of bull: After his retirement announcement, Microsoft founder Bill Gates sent an all-hands internal […]
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The ‘Mac OS X Closed by Pirates’ Myth
According to the proponents of this myth, Apple has abandoned their open source initiatives as they move to Intel, because they are afraid that, armed with the Darwin source code, pirate 3lit3 haxx0rs will p0wn them and have Mac OS X running on generic PCs. They’re wrong, here’s why.
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The Apple Core: iChat AV needs a rewrite
iChat was once the pantheon of instant messaging clients with its delicious aqua interface, no obnoxious ads (like AIM) and a simple ease-of-use that’s undeniable. But since the release of iChat AV (a.k.a. version 3) the application has added features at the expense of reliability. First came the addition of audio chat, which was novel, […]
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Fixing .Mac – Hyperblog the Web
In this series, I’ll describe features I think Apple needs to add to move .Mac from “web hosting and email plus” to a complete suite of services that are valuable, obvious, and will sell themselves to potential subscribers. Plus, I want to use them!