Category Archives: Technology

Musings on physical media

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, [...]
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iPhone dictation app

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 punctuation [...]
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New AOL logos

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 it’s [...]
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URL shortening service for twitter

David Rees, whose Get Your War On comics and unstoppable techniques I have enjoyed for years, has created a new URL shortening service that looks pretty brilliant. www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com And here’s a link to this post using the new service.
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Inventor of internet: whoops, my bad

Web Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has gone on record saying he wishes he hadn’t made the two slashes after http: a necessary part of the standard web address.  I say if this is the biggest mistake he thinks he has made, then we cut him a little slack because the positive things he has done far [...]
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