Entries Tagged as 'Electronics'

Peter Recommends CLI

He’s, uh, keen on getting a new keyboard.

Update:

…And everything you ever wanted to know about domain name availability.

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Forget Skippy, I think I Want One

CDR Salamander - ..but does she fit in a seabag?

If she vacuums, this could be love.

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Heap Big Plane, Chiefie

Brett McS sent this to me yesterday. Peter was dead impressed.

New Tech Spy - Boeing to take on Airbus with (1000 seat) giant 797 Blended Wing plane

Boeing is preparing a 1000 passenger jet that could reshape the Air travel industry for the next 100 years. The radical Blended Wing design has been [...]

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Peter Recommends CXXIV

Peter says:

Jesus. How out of touch can one possibly be. Leetspeak has NOTHING to do with any of the crap they wrote about. First fricken hit on Google had they bothered to actually try and verify any of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

The article, accompanied by [...]

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Peter Recommends CX

This is freakin’ hilarious. And really well done.

YouTube - Microsoft designs the iPod Package

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Why Any of You Still Using PCs Have Rocks For Brains

This is a sampling of Microsoft’s “business forms” fax cover templates:

And the one that comes closest to semi-tasteful:

And this is what Apple’s Pages gives you (Click to enlarge):

There now.

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Every Road a Toll Road

The Times - Friendly gizmos that will abolish traffic jams, by Gabriel Rozenberg The sat-nav stuck to your dashboard could make it possible; what we need now is a bit of political imagination

First, a thought experiment. What would happen if you tried to buy the street on which you live? Bear with me on [...]

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Pocket Change For the Twenty-First Century

I saw this on the FOXnews crawler last night.

BBC - Levi makes iPod controlling jeans

The RedWire DLX Jeans will have an iPod remote control and docking station fitted in its pockets, and comes complete with attached headphones.

These kids today don’t use cash anyway.

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Mahdi Me!

RFE - Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says that when he delivered his speech at the UN General Assembly in September, he felt there was a light around him and that the attention of the world leaders in the audience was unblinkingly focused upon him.

Hm. [...]

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I Hate Windows Media Player

Well I’m glad everyone else with a blog had such a nice time watching the RNC’s pretty new video. Too bad the bloody thing runs in Windows Media Player, which, on a good day, will get half way through before freezing on a single frame while the audio marches cheerfully on. Now, I [...]

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Peter Recommends LXXXIII

Firefox is funny.

Kill Bill’s Browser

Explorer Destroyer

Update:

Oh and I forgot yesterday he showed me the new Yahoo! maps (proving once again that competition forces improvement on even years worth of the same thing), and I think I like it better than Google. It certainly easier to figure out. Google’s kind of mystifying, until someone [...]

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These Little Internets, They Grow Up So Fast.

The Sunday Telegraph - A is for Apple, B is for Broadband and C is for … why have I just clicked on Gay Swedish Nurses? By Sebastian Faulks

…The internet is 15-years-old this month, but in my experience it is only quite recently that it has started to deliver the goods. [...]

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Peter Recommends LXXIX

(I’m coming out of the silent treatment, but I’m still pissed.)

Freeverse - Comic Life

Your Life in a Comic! Expand what you can do with your digital photos! With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life Deluxe Edition gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, [...]

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Making God Trendy

I usually shudder at these things, but this is actually nice:

iBelieve

And $2 from every purchase goes to children’s funds and charities. Huh. How unexpectedly classy.

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Peter Recommends LXXV

Laudanum. Or rather, I am recommending it to him. He’s at work, alternating between frantically refreshing his Apple news sites and hysterically emailing me. However, when something solid is announced, I shall pass it on. Watch this space.

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