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Updated Opera 10 Beta 2u
A new beta of Opera 10 has just been released: beta 2u. Here’s what the change log has to say:
* Support for auto-rotation * Support for right-to-left rendering of web content * Quicker launch, up to 70% faster on some phone models * Nicer [...]
NRG’s 28014 Rocks!
I downloaded and installed NRG’s latest 28014 ROM a few days again. It is outstanding! Both through my own experience and reading through the NRG thread, there are no significant problems. It’s stable, fast, solid on battery use, and incredible eye candy.
NRG even offers a version with Max Manila and another with an Xmas theme. [...]
Psychology of Technology: Real-time Web, Unreal-time Life
Pete Cashmore, the founder and CEO of Mashable, the well-read social-media blog, suggested in a recent CNN column that real-time Web is one of the top 10 Web trends of 2010. Real-time Web means being able to send and receive information almost instantaneously.
Mr. Cashmore (great business name, by the way) argues that real-time [...]
Psychology of Technology: The Art of the Deal
On my recent post about AT&T, a commenter, Who? (no, this isn’t a Who’s on First game; that’s his username), asked me to elaborate on how I am consistently able to get good deals from AT&T (and other companies that want my business). I thought others might be interested, so I’m posting here.
No magic. [...]
Mea Culpa, AT&T
Disclaimer: I am a long-time AT&T customer with both voice and data family plans.
As a previous blog post demonstrates (here), I don’t let my relationship with AT&T interfere with my giving them direct, brutally honest, and sometimes snarky feedback. They have a long and illustrious history of deceptive advertising, bad customer service, poor reception, [...]
Mea Culpa, AT&T
Disclaimer: I am a long-time AT&T customer with both voice and data family plans.
As a previous blog post demonstrates (here), I don’t let my relationship with AT&T interfere with my giving them direct, brutally honest, and sometimes snarky feedback. They have a long and illustrious history of deceptive advertising, bad customer service, poor reception, [...]
Psychology of Technology: On-line Communities: The Kindness of Strangers
For those of you who follow my Psychology of Technology blog posts (especially here and here), you know that I’m a bit cynical about how technology is impacting us, particularly when it comes to how we define relationships. My worries aren’t so great that I’m looking to wipe out our communications grid with an [...]
Psychology of Technology: Should Search Engines Have a Conscience?
The recent appearance of a racist image of the First Lady Michelle Obama during a search on Google’s search engine raises an interesting question: Should search engines have a conscience? Obviously, search engines, like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, that rely on highly complex algorithms to determine search results, have no intentional bias or inclinations that [...]
Psychology of Technology: What Do Experts Know? Nada!
As many of you know, Windows Mobile doesn’t get a whole of respect from tech writers and bloggers. It’s practically a sport among tech geeks to diss WM every chance they get.
Well, as often is the case, I’m happy to tell you that the end users (read real people who buy the stuff) actually [...]
Psychology of Technology: What Do Experts Know? Nada!
As many of you know, Windows Mobile doesn’t get a whole of respect from tech writers and bloggers. It’s practically a sport among tech geeks to diss WM every chance they get.
Well, as often is the case, I’m happy to tell you that the end users (read real people who buy the stuff) actually [...]
