April 2006
Monthly Archive
Making the Switch to Digital
Posted by Andy Rush on 28 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: News & Commentary
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Originally uploaded by Sears Wishbook.
Thanks to Digg I found this bit o’ history at the Flickr website. It looks to me like the word awesome was coming into its own about the time that the word digital was. I love how they relate the workings of the CD to the old technology. “Wow and flutter” that is almost imperceptible. There’s a laser diode and a beam splitter reading those awesome “musical information pits”. Laser is such an awesome word.
When is the last time you saw the word laser on a CD or DVD player. I love technology history.
More Windows and Mac Stuff
Posted by Andy Rush on 20 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: IT, News & Commentary
One of the sites that I have found to be invaluable lately is Paul Thurrot’s SuperSite for Windows (I noticed the web browser title bar says “SuperSit”, hehe). Two recent articles were good reads, as Paul is brutally honest about his findings. He is not a Windows biggot or a Mac hater, just honest.
The first article is about the status of Windows Vista. While he likes the product, he is downright negative about it. He gives countless examples of why it could have been much better, at least based on promises made by Bill Gates in 2003.
The other article is about Boot Camp, the Apple product that will allow dual booting of either Mac OS X or Windows XP on Mac Intel machines. It provides a good Windows user prospective. Go. Read.
Back To a Barter Economy
Posted by Andy Rush on 14 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: News & Commentary
Is money becoming obsolete? Is the web going to enable us to just trade for things we need. Some of the recent evidence of note is the One Red Paperclip site that I referenced earlier, and also a new site called Zunafish. Its idea is to allow people to trade their old, unwanted media for “new” media that someone else wants to get rid of. The trade costs only a dollar, and the end result, theoretically, is two happy customers. The media is limited to things like CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, books, and video games. I always thought the Internet was at times bizarre, but not A bazaar.
The New Email
Posted by Andy Rush on 11 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: General
Bloglines was having major issues today. It got so bad that they got to introduce who was actually in charge of keeping things running 
It also made me realize that a backup to Bloglines is in order. I’ve heard others recommend BlogBridge, so I’ll give it a go. Plus it imports Bloglines feeds!
Easy, Free, Videoblogging
Posted by Andy Rush on 07 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Audio & Video, Screencasts
My newest screencast to help you start videoblogging. Using two free websites, Wordpress.com and YouTube.com, you can have video up on your blog in no time.
Windows on a Mac - That Is So 1996
Posted by Andy Rush on 05 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: News & Commentary
All signs pointed to Windows running on the new Macs. The question will be, how fast. It was a dog ten years ago. Here’s the latest PR-speak from Apple:
“but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple’s superior hardware, now that we use Intel processors,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing (emphasis mine).
It will run better than the first PC compatiblity attempt from Apple, but I see lots of benchmark testing coming calling the “superior hardware” line into question.
