The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a nice post on whether you are supposed to have a space between the value and the unit when talking about digital storage. For example, do you write 250GB or 250 GB (or 1.44MB vs 1.44 MB if you’re old school). It turns out that the correct answer is to [...]
This is a good idea: an extension for the Google Chrome browser which automatically fixes all sorts of punctuation errors on Facebook. So if you’ve ever been annoyed with people on Facebook who like to add multiple exclamations to show how excited they are about something, this extension is for you. The only drawback to [...]
I was just reading about how Fantastic Mr. Fox is coming out on DVD/Blu-ray next month, and thinking that I was probably going to have to pick it up. Then I got to thinking about the last movie I bought for myself on DVD. I couldn’t remember what it was. So I searched my email, [...]
New Iphone iPhone app that takes dictation for you, from a well-known company in the speech recognition field. I have seen their dictation program that is specific to the medical field, and it works well. What’s interesting about the new iPhone app with regard to punctuation is that you can say the names of the [...]
Yesterday AOL released images of its new logo. We’re going to spend some time looking at this “rebranding” effort to understand what the goals were, and whether they were successful. I have to say I’m a little confused. I thought AOL stood for America Online, and it turns out this used to be true, but [...]
