Technology

Who wants Dreamhost invitations? 4x normal disk and bandwidth for any plan and big discounts for multi-year plans. First 5 replies get 'em.

On what planet or in what dimension does a MacBook battery actually last anywhere close to five hours?

Walking around holding my phone like a Geiger counter, trying to turn "No Service" into bars.

"You have chosen not to receive Marriott email. Please allow 10 business days for processing."

Waiting to find out if my iPod is toast. If it is, at least I'll get some breakfast out of it. Nyuk, nyuk.

For today's drive, the difference between regular Google Maps and iPhone's Google Maps is over 50 miles and almost 2 hours. Regular wins.

What is the point of WordPress allowing you to edit the HTML of your posts if it still overrides that markup with its own?

Checking out TwittEarth. twittearth.com?lat=39.95227&lon=-…

NewsGator for iPhone is fantastic, but I wish the e-mail feature actually worked more than half the time.

All Illustrator documents are closed, but it takes its time quitting. AI is that final party guest who doesn't notice you put on pajamas.

Calculating how much I paid for Illustrator to always fuck up my saved workspace arrangements.

Anxiously awaiting karma's plans for people who attempt to promote themselves by following thousands of unfamiliar Twitter users.

Having a lot of admiration for responsible SEOs, swimming against the current in a river of assholes.

All kinds of MAILER DAEMON e-mails today, bouncing back spam that was apparently sent from my e-mail address. Awesome.

The Safari 3.1 upgrade seems to have killed PicLens for me. Anyone else having this problem?

Seriously, Adobe, fuck you.

Just rendered Leah's iPhone useless by daring to upgrade it to 1.1.4. Now it won't even restore to factory settings. Thank you, Windows.

Finally dipping a toe in Expression Engine, and chuckling as a site I designed immediately pops up in the EE Showcase.

My fourth year at Austin’s juggernaut of an interactive conference was more of a mixed bag than years past, as both I and SXSW adapted to its growing pains.

This year’s conference was, I believe, about three times the size of my first (in 2005). Daytime sessions expanded to remote areas of Austin’s sprawling convention center, and overcrowded lunch and evening activities tested even Texas’s deft corralling hand. Those who knew the territory well enough… See more →

Realizing that Newsgator on the iPhone lets me read more feeds without distraction, and wondering if it'll ultimately be bad for my eyes.

Feeling like a hedonist for thinking that a third monitor for my Mac would be really handy right about now.

Anyone know a way to use Google Maps to map population density using a collection of addresses (eg, the contents of one's address book)?

At risk of sounding materialist, seven months in, I love this iPhone thing even more than the day I got it.

Behold, self-contradiction in a single statement: The World Wide Web is something of a breeding ground for hyperbole.

Well, the day has finally come. Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion: nytimes.com/reuters/business/…

hoping the Location field in Calendar on the iPhone eventually integrates with Contacts and Google Maps.

It took 3 of us and a Leatherman to open (read: destroy) the Windows Vista packaging, and we still don't know how it's supposed to open.

I'll consider registering Twitterrific once Twitter gets its shit together. The ads are no more disruptive than the perpetual error message.

Actually, Illustrator, there aren't any changes to save. I'd expect you to know that better than anyone.

I was recently involved in a music exchange with a handful of friends, in which we each put together a compilation of songs, and everyone involved got a copy of all of the compilations. Aside from giving me a good excuse to put together a fun mix, it allowed me the ever-cherished opportunity to do some unsolicited philosophizing, and I thought both were worth sharing with a larger audience.

Here’s an excerpt of an e-mail… See more →

definitely not needing the play-by-play on @shauninman's iPhone update.

The problem with Netflix is that very few people on the planet are capable of properly handling a DVD.

astonished by the modern file compression technology that enabled me to create a zip archive a mere 99% of its original size!

seeing both sides of the bombshell ALA dropped today, and thinking browsers supporting version targeting will eventually be quite bloated.

wanting iPhone's Weather and Clock application icons to be dynamic like Calendar's is.

wishing Photoshop had a throat I could cut.

Dude, Spanning Sync, there must be a better way to let me know there's an upgrade than to wait for me to notice you've stopped working.

It's easy to distinguish HDTVs from each other by their catchy names, like the Panasonic TH-42PZ700U and the Philips 42PFL7432D.

Why does the Flash Player on the Mac still suck so bad?

predicting that excessive compression artifacts will become a hip retro design trend after lossy compression schemes are extinct.

just dumped all of my RSS subscriptions. I'm starting the new year fresh and looking forward to seeing what brings me back.

wondering why a term as relative and vague as "new media" ever took off, and why its usage continues.

thinking about turning off the RSS reader for the rest of the year, then unsubscribing from everything to see what I come back to.

iPhone + Shure Music Phone Adapter + Bose On-Ear Headphones = Hands-Free Bliss.

just sent a nasty e-mail to a mailing list whose unsubscribe doesn't work. Catch 22: If they don't call the cops, it wasn't nasty enough.

Apparently it never occurred to Omnigraffle that someone might want to select text in a PDF.

watching the splogs overtake Google.

working from @jasonsantamaria's place, where I am reminded that the MacBook didn't yet exist when Apple designed the Cinema HD Display.

discovering the Photoshop DCS format, which didn't exist the last time I did prepress spot color separations in Photoshop, many years ago.

so not asking enough of my MacBook for it to be behaving this way. Wondering if I really should have just sucked it up and gone Pro.