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Aug 06, 2006
Apple

Inexplicable Design Decisions in iCal

Since Tiger shipped in early 2005, Mail.app has gone from being one of my favorite mail clients around, to being my absolute least favorite mail client. It frequently displays unintelligible warnings like “The message could not be saved,” or it si...

Aug 06, 2006
Random Funniness

Paris Hilton. Again.

Paris Hilton claims she’s going celibate for a year. Unlike Rivers Cuomo, I think she’s a damned liar.

Aug 06, 2006
Windows

Sprinkle on a Little Ribbon and You’re Good to…Oh Wait

The Ribbon is the biggest new feature in Office 2007, and probably the biggest new feature for the past few releases of the product. It’s an incredibly cool new feature, and makes Office 2007 significantly easier to use, in my opinion. I’ve seen ...

Aug 05, 2006
Apple

Windows Developers vs. Mac Users

Drunkenbatman wrote a scathing review of the Meetro for OS X Alpha preview last December. I read his complaints about it last year when it was first published, and it caused me to go give their Windows version a shot. I found that the Windows vers...

Aug 04, 2006
Branding

Best Brands of 2006

Found through BrandChannel.com (of course): Interbrand in association with Business Week published a report on the best brands of 2006 (watch out, it’s a PDF). Topping the charts, not surprisingly, was Coca-Cola. What did surprise me, though, wa...