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And that’s why you’re not in an advertising department :)

2 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad

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I thought it was funny. Google was riffing on themselves more than anybody else.

2 days ago on Leaked Scroogled video sees Microsoft parody Google's Chrome ad 1 recommend

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Yeah, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with Google Hangouts messenger… If you try to message someone at username@aol.com it just goes nowhere.

2 days ago on Google says SMS integration and outgoing calls 'coming soon' to Hangouts

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So this is insane, but I still have friends that use AOL/AIM as their messenger of choice, and refuse to switch to something else. AIM used to work with Gmail’s integrate GTalk platform, but it looks like it’s been dropped from Hangouts. Anybody have any info on this?

2 days ago on Google says SMS integration and outgoing calls 'coming soon' to Hangouts 1 reply

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Always surprised how large drones are when you see them next to people.

4 days ago on US Navy launches first drone from aboard an aircraft carrier 1 recommend

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Congress just passed the internet sales tax bill, so it’s likely that more states will adopt digital purchase tax. Being a Taxachusetts resident as well, I feel you.

4 days ago on Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system 1 reply 1 recommend

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Thank God, it was about time 7 years ago when this console launched. I’m perpetually stuck with a weird number of XBox points, like $3.45 or something on the console… which is effectively useless, too little to buy anything, but still just a balance sitting around.

4 days ago on Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system 3 replies 2 recommends

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The one improvement I want is to be able to scroll/pan with two fingers. Two fingers should not zoom in, because IMO, you are more likely to pan the map left, right, up, down (or West, East, North South) than you are to zoom into a location. It is so brutal navigating Google Maps on a track pad.

4 days ago on Google Maps overhaul leaks ahead of I/O conference

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It routinely doesn’t have the latest messages. Sometimes I’ll open it up and it’ll have messages from 4 or 5 days ago… even though I had used it recently, with recent conversations, within the last hour. Also, there is the peculiar glitch (that Apple is working on a patch for) where it cuts off the last word of many messages.

6 days ago on Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all?

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Adobe does not use CoreImage

10 days ago on Pixelmator 2.2 goes after graphic design with new shape tools and vectors-first UI 9 recommends

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You can install 2 concurrent versions with Creative Cloud now. I have 1 on my windows PC and 1 on my Mac, same license. You aren’t supposed to use them both at the same time, so sometimes if I do have them both open (ie, I left PS open downstairs on my PC and I’m using by MBA in bed), then it will ask you to “de-authorize” the other PC. It’s never a flag.

12 days ago on Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite to become subscription-only products 1 reply 2 recommends

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I don’t know anybody who uses WhatsApp or kik, and 90% of the people I know who are using iMessage, don’t actually know that they’re using iMessage… they think they’re texting.

Here’s what I want:

A messaging app that works with texting (can send and receive texts), google’s talk platform (which integrates with AIM/AOL — which a frightful number of my friends still use), and has access via a computer. Google Talk on Android was the closest, and since I switched to iOS, I really miss not having a real IM client embedded onto the phone… instead of having to launch one, which is super annoying. iMessage is good but only if everybody you message has an iPhone, and it has desktop support but only from a Mac and only via running the application on your Mac, not from a browser. Also iMessage is super glitchy on the desktop.

16 days ago on Alone together: will one messaging app rule them all? 1 reply

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My least favorite blogging cliche is an image of a keyboard where a key is replaced with something fake.

18 days ago on Meet the 'Deciders,' the gatekeepers of free speech on the internet 1 reply 1 recommend

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Totally didn’t expect that twist

20 days ago on Rewriting history with ‘DuckTales Remastered’ 1 recommend

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I’m with you. Went from 8.8 to 28.8 to 56k… Obviously, each was an improvement, but when I finally got a 1.5Mbps cable line, it changed everything. It was the single biggest jump in my connected experience. Even now, I have 100Mbps service at my house, and at my apartment before I bought my house, it was 10Mbps… that 10 → 100 was mostly negligible. The jump from dialup 56k to always connected cable was enormous.

26 days ago on First commercial white space service brings high-speed internet to rural California

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a) This was before the FBI said that
b) Everybody wants to break a story

about 1 month ago on Online witch hunt for Boston bomber leads to NY Post cover photo of innocent 'suspects'

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Pretty damn good point there.

about 1 month ago on Online witch hunt for Boston bomber leads to NY Post cover photo of innocent 'suspects'

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I think it’s a stretch to compare Casey Anthony to two guys watching the Boston Marathon, who were as much victims of the attack as anybody else.

about 1 month ago on Online witch hunt for Boston bomber leads to NY Post cover photo of innocent 'suspects' 1 reply

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I dunno, maybe he lost it when … yknow … those bombs exploded.

about 1 month ago on Online witch hunt for Boston bomber leads to NY Post cover photo of innocent 'suspects'

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I am having trouble comprehending the contradicting facts that you are using a computer, which requires some level of brain power, and simultaneously asking that question.

about 1 month ago on Online witch hunt for Boston bomber leads to NY Post cover photo of innocent 'suspects'