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From E-Commerce News: How did CEO Steve Jobs rescue Apple and create the most important consumer product of the 21st century (so far)? The answer will not be comforting to those who work for relentless, hard-driving, impossible-to-please CEOs. According to Levy, the iPod became The Perfect Thing and a marketplace blockbuster because of Jobs, in …
Long-time friend and reader Shawn sent me this… Check this out: http://www.10minutemail.com/ It might be good content for your ezine. It gives you a temporary email address so that you can sign up for more info on other sites, read/get the info you want, and then the address is gone (so you can avoid spam, …
From the New York Times: Imagine paying $580 million for an ever-expanding heap of personal ads, random photos, private blathering, demo recordings and camcorder video clips. That’s what Rupert Murdoch did when his News Corporation bought MySpace in July. Then imagine paying $1.65 billion for a flood of grainy TV excerpts, snarkily edited film clips, …
From TechRepublic: Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there’s a world market for five computers. But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually. “The world needs only five computers,” Papadopoulos said on his blog. He then listed …
Showing texture in photographs is not that difficult when you know how to capture it. Photographs are a two dimensional medium, so to show texture, we need to light our subject in such a way that we present the illusion of depth in the image. To maximize texture in a photograph, side lighting is key. …
From TechRepublic: Hammers and nails are gathering dust in the elves’ workshop this season. That’s because two hot gifts–PlayStation 3 and Tickle Me Extreme Elmo–are almost entirely dependent on software inside. These new toys are just the latest evidence that software platforms have become one of the most important economic and technological developments of the …
From the New York Times (via CNet): Hearing from a lot of new friends lately? You know, the ones that write “It’s me, Esmeralda,” and tip you off to an obscure stock that is “poised to explode” or a great deal on prescription drugs. You’re not the only one. Spam is back — in e-mail …
I just finished reviewing Partition Manager 8.0 Professional from Paragon Software Group: When a product has been around for many different versions, it is often hard for the programmers to come up with enough new features to make the upgrades worthwhile. I’ve reviewed several Paragon Software Group products in the past, and have always been …
From BBC News: Growing use of the web is stripping people of their personal privacy, warns a UN agency report. The number of passwords and logins web users need makes it inevitable they will re-use phrases, warned the International Telecommunications Union. Re-using these identifiers puts people at serious risk of falling victim to identity theft, …
Our printer at church died the other day and we won’t have a replacement for a time. A piece of software that we use has to print reports before moving on to other functions. Someone suggested we download a PDF writer so that we could at least print the information to file. I assumed that …