Links for Sunday 30th of April 2006

TechBlog: Dell offers to delete its junkware
Techdirt: Spam King Rumored To Be In Jail As Spam Underworld Worries…
Make You Go Hmm: » Attempted to drop DSL for cable for our offline business yesterday

Links for Saturday 29th of April 2006

Night Flight Training Completed (by Jeremy Zawodny)
jkOnTheRun: BitLocker Encryption in Vista: good for mobile PCs, bad for dual-booting
Henner Malchert – artmac – Mac mini SATA mod
Second Annual MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards
Did Nintendo Punk Us with Wii? – Kotaku
Mobile Desktop : MobileWhack.com
Insecurity Assessment – The Daily WTF

Go Play with Your Wii

What is in a name? When it comes to marketing a next generation console, I would imagine quite a lot. Nintendo’s choice of name for its new console is certainly a popular topic around the Internet at the moment, but is this really a marketing blunder?
Look at it this way, just because Nintendo chose a, [...]

Links for Thursday 27th of April 2006

See into S60: Why some new S60 devices still using 2nd Edition?
jkOnTheRun: Microsoft relaxing DRM on audio files
Flock pre-Cardinal Update at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net
Feld Thoughts
YouTube – Tetris Final Game Challenge – A must see, this guy is incredible!

A Sentence

Sure Kent, I’ll play. Here are the instructions:

Grab the nearest book.
Open it to page 161.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

My sentence is: “We’ve seen conditional statements and loop statements in this [...]

Links for Wednesday 26th of April 2006

Make You Go Hmm: » The change country trick to try out Yahoo Mail beta
YouTube – Fast OS Switching

Links for Tuesday 25th of April 2006

Palais Ideal – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Get Your Blog Noticed! — Alec Saunders .LOG
SvenOnTech – Leopard to Run Windows Apps via API Just Like OS/2 Did
Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress : tan tan noodles – msg free since 2005
Nokia N80 review – infoSync World

Links for Monday 24th of April 2006

Fishbitt
Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise » Vista versions: maybe not so confusing after all
Self-Stirring Cup
Sidebar Geek : Windows Vista Build 5365 – Beta 2 Preview
MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo – review

Motorola’s Shock Alert – Prior Art?

I received an email from Daniel Holth this morning, pointing me to this page on Halfbakery. It seems as though he described almost the same device as the Motorola shock alert system for mobile phones that was patented a couple of days ago, back in July 2004. See my article on MobileBurn about the patent [...]

Does The Register Know it Sucks?

I’ll admit that I’m not the biggest fan of The Register – its style, ethics, or content – but I will also admit that this letter that was sent in to them is taking it a little far. Sure, write in to have your say, but keep it civilised.
The thing that really strikes me as [...]