Archive for August, 2009

I am so glad this did not happen to me. I made sure that I backed up all my important data, heck I even did an online backup to make sure I had everything stored securely.

Apple has angered thousands of Mac users with the release of Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 because the new operating system has caused some computers to fail. After a startup failure, users are greeted with a continuous icon described as the “spinning ball of death.”

In most cases, a spinning color wheel or beach ball indicates that a system is engaged in a processor-intensive activity. The ball usually disappears after a few seconds. However, when the ball spins for a much longer period, as users of Snow Leopard have reported, it is referred to as the “spinning beach ball of death.”

If my MacBook had died, I don’t know what I might have done.

Apple announced the MMS capabilities in June. AT&T was dragging their feet but promised to implement MMS on their network before the end of summer. Summer ends on September 19th.

iPhone owners have been clamoring not-so-quietly to use the MMS features that are still lying dormant in their devices since Apple’s iPhone 3.0 update in June. Earlier, we took another look into what the holdup might be, and as if by magic, AT&T has finally answered the call for a due date: September 25.

Why on Earth would they add the functionality in June but delay releasing it until September? That’s like selling me a large screen television and making me wait three months for a tv stand.

Does it really matter that they will be six days late? It’s not like we haven’t been waiting for three months anyway.

While I agree that Google should not have released the personal information of this blogger, you can hardly say they failed to protecter her “right to privacy”. You have no right to privacy from a company. You have a right to privacy from the government, not people.

A blogger who called a magazine cover model offensive names on a Web site says Google failed to protect her right to privacy.

Rosemary Port tells the Daily News in Sunday editions that she’s angry that Google unmasked her after a Manhattan judge forced the company to reveal her identity.

I wonder what the attorneys really discussed though. When the model’s attorney asked for the information, how long did it take them to respond? Did they sit and chat about softball games, little league, or Monday night bowling? Maybe they sat down to compare term life insurance rates just to pass the time and pad the books?

Seriously, doesn’t it just seem too convenient that Google turned over the name of the blogger so willingly?

I went to the music/bookstore this week, and it was a hassle I don’t want to go through again. Once I made my way through the crowds and found the items I was looking for, the clerk could not ring them up because they were missing barcodes and apparently the only way to purchase something from this store is to use the barcode scanner. There was no option (they said) for manual entry. How archaic. It’s nice to see some things progressing though.

A federal appeals court in New York ruled that a Yahoo Inc Internet radio service is not required to pay fees to copyright holders of songs it plays, a defeat for Sony Corp’s BMG Music.

In a case closely watched by the recording industry, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2007 jury verdict that Launchcast, a webcasting service run by Yahoo’s Launch Media Inc unit, did not give listeners enough control to be an “interactive service” that would require the fees.

Finally. I hope to see more rulings like this in the future.

Check this out. Although the people working at a fulfillment center might have an issue with digital books, I think having them available as an option is awesome.

The fight against a legal settlement that would give Google Inc. the digital rights to millions of copyrighted books is starting to resemble a heavyweight brawl in the library.

Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. are joining a coalition that hopes to rally opposition to Google’s digital book ambitions and ultimately persuade a federal judge to block or revise the Internet search leader’s plans.

I really don’t care who gets the rights, but having the books available online so people like me can download them, load them on the Kindle, or read them in a browser is an awesome idea. I’ve always thought it would be nice to have access to many different books with the click of my mouse.

I am in my second month using the iPhone 3G. So far, I am loving it. I’ve downloaded a ton of applications and I can do just about anything from the iPhone when I am away from my desk.

There are a couple things I wish I could do through an application, without having to visit a webpage, and that is ordering pizza (not Pizza Hut), ordering Chinese Food, monitor the server load of my webserver, and maybe grab some pet supplies while I am at it.

In fact, I can do so much from my phone I usually forget half the stuff I could do while I was out until after I return to the office.