I follow a number of people on Twitter who also use Tumblr or the newish TypePad Microblog service. Some of these people have linked their Twitter accounts to their Tumblrs or Microblogs.
Some of these people are annoying.
I’m not going to name names, but you know who you are.
Basically, if all you’re using your Tumblr or [...]
I’m not sure if this is a huge deal or whether it marks the first time Twitter is calling updates such, but I noticed this morning after about 10 a.m. ET that emails from the company began referring to postings on the service as tweets:
At or Before 10 a.m. ET: Updates
After 10 a.m. ET: Tweets
The [...]
And I’ll quote from a great essay on Twitter that I just read today [my emphasis]:
“But Rands, I need to follow this person, but they won’t shut up.”
There’s a legitimate complaint here. I’m certain there’s a sensible feature request based on this complaint, like “Please don’t show me tweets contain RT or @” or maybe [...]
I love that Flickr user Hitachi GST favorited this photo. Do you know what happened to this hard drive? IT FAILED. Less than a year after I installed it.
Then guess what? I ordered a new Hitachi hard drive for my MacBook. That one failed, too.
I then ordered a TOSHIBA HD to replace the Hitachi. I [...]
This 1981 video, about a very early form of Internet-accessible newspapers, is making the rounds. It’s more prophetic than it intends to be, with the San Francisco Examiner’s David Cole saying, “This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what this means to us as editors and reporters and what it means to the [...]
Oh, well. Not that big a deal. Would be nice to be removed.
The interregnum between Christmas and New Year’s is a slow one for most daily and weekly news outlets. So’s the case on Serious Eats. We planned an onslaught of year-in-review posts, but readers grew tired of it before I could post about my favorite new (or new-to-me) food blogs of 2008. So I’ll just do [...]
The New Yorker ran a fascinating story last week about the German company Herrenknecht and its tunnel-boring machines. Here’s a link to the story, but don’t bother clicking through. It’s just an abstract; the whole thing isn’t online.
Anyway, I thought the story could have benefited from a few good photos of the machines it described, [...]
A friend recently asked for advice on buying a MacBook. Here’s what I told her.
What you quoted (2GB) is the default amount of RAM. The MacBook supports up to 4GB.
You totally want to max out the RAM in that thing. But if they offer to sell you RAM in the store, don’t buy it. It’s [...]