Apple has their panties in a wad about Adobe for a while now. Specifically they don’t like Adobe’s shortcomings with Flash. Fine, so the iPhone and iPad will never have Flash and will keep showing the blue box. HTML 5 isn’t official yet. But Apple is behind it because it reduces the need for third-party software like Flash (Adobe) and Silverlight (Microsoft). Who cares, right? Those are just two pesky little companies anyway. But the behavior of both Adobe toward [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Facebook apparently has overstepped some bounds and taken more than liberties with its policies that govern users’ personal information. In addition to sharing with applications on Facebook, information will now be able to be shared with any Website that inserts a Like button.
Categories: Security
Piwik is an open source Web analytics solution. While it’s still beta, it shows great promise for those who can’t afford high-priced hosted solutions and are intimidated about giving Google all their data.
A brief review on a piece of software that’s easy to install, maintain and customize.
Categories: Web Analytics
Let’s cut to the chase, I’m still not impressed. The apps load fast and the rendering is great. It is, as advertised, a “magic” device that’s not a computer, starts up quick and connects if there’s an app for it. But this is a toy, not a tool. The very pro-Apple-drinking Kool Aid guy who provided me the demo admitted that the iPad is not a good device for taking to a meeting to take notes and syncing with Exchange. [...]
Well, its been several weeks now and I’m both impressed and disappointed with the Android upgrade. The ability to dictate to any text field is impressive. I have used this in the car with the sunroof open and lots of white noise and it rarely misses. However, when it does miss the result is quite amusing.
