Archive for the 'Technology' Category

More on iTunes and your personal information

Thursday, January 12th, 2006 • 9:59 am

More of the iTunes 6.0.2 stealth upgrade with the new “MiniStore.”

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iTunes and your personal information: Disturbing trends

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 • 6:34 pm

There is something very wrong with the iTunes 6.0.2 update.

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Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 • 2:24 pm

A musician’s perspective on the recent Sony BMG debacle.

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Mail in Mac OS X 10.4.3: Signed, encrypted, delivered

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 • 10:36 am

There might be hope for e-mail encryption for the rest of us after all.

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CD packaging for dummies

Sunday, November 20th, 2005 • 11:57 am

A criminally useless new design for the centre piece in CD jewel cases.

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Aliant.net’s high-speed Internet service availability web form

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 • 6:18 pm

Local phone company trying to establish a new record for web form stupidity.

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iTunes: Reason #356 to hate DRM

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 • 10:28 am

A clean install of Mac OS X is enough to confuse the authorization system of the iTunes Music Store.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Caller ID feature doesn’t work

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 • 11:03 am

The convenient Caller ID feature on the new PVR units is defective.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Daylight Savings Time change screws up one-off timers

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 • 10:44 am

A really bad bug with the Daylight Savings Time change.

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Stretching the iTunes concept

Monday, October 17th, 2005 • 3:59 pm

What’s so tuneful about an episode of “Desperate Housewives”?

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R.I.P WYSIWYG? Not so fast…

Thursday, October 13th, 2005 • 4:58 pm

Comments on Jakob Nielsen’s latest column.

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Idea for word processors/text editors: Really smart drag-and-drop (for whole words)

Friday, September 23rd, 2005 • 2:42 pm

A small, yet significant improvement that could be implemented in text drag-and-drop.

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FutureShop web site: If it looks like a native Aqua menu…

Monday, September 19th, 2005 • 2:31 pm

FutureShop.ca’s idea of Mac-friendliness is purely a façade.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Bad default behaviour for event timers

Monday, September 19th, 2005 • 9:29 am

A really, really stupid default behaviour when programming event timers on the Bell ExpressVu 9200 receiver.

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Automatic phone bill payments with Aliant: Modern world absurdity

Friday, September 16th, 2005 • 2:30 pm

In which we see that user interface flaws are everywhere in this modern world.

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