Robert Janelle
Why I didn’t buy an iPad today
So, after a slight delay, the great Apple tablet launched in Canada today.
Now, I could go off on a rant about openness, Apple’s App Store policies, Adobe Flash and all that stuff but I might as well just come out and tell the truth.
I’m broke!
As for anything else I can say on [...]
Another app I like: DropBox
So, here’s another application that has become a must have for me: DropBox.
It creates a DropBox directory and putting files will automatically upload them to a remote server.
Now, there are more than enough online services that do this – what makes DropBox so special?
If you install it on another computer and enter [...]
Thinklinkr: an online outliner
Ah, outliners. The poor forgotten class of software.
At one point in time, there were programs like Ecco Pro and Symantec GrandView that allowed you to organize ideas (or articles) in a hierarchy, expanding and collapsing piece of text and moving them around until they made sense.
These days (at least on Windows) you’ve got [...]
Google Pac-Man costs the world more than $120 billion
Last week, Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by making the game playable from the main search page.
Well, time management software maker RescueTime crunched the numbers.
According to the company’s calculations, users spent a combined 4,819,352 hours on Google’s search page on May 23rd.
Now, assuming the average Google user’s time worth $25/h, [...]
My Blog Haiku
Writing syllables
Nothing to do but write post
Since LOST is over
A letter to the University Alumni Office
Ah, Craigslist rants and raves.
While it is frequently a great window into human stupidity, there are some true gems in there that end up in the “Best Of” section.
Today I’d like to highlight a rant in February written by someone whose been unemployed for the past two years in response to his Alma [...]
Weekend Reading 05/22
Maureen Tkacik has an incredible piece examining modern journalism and “personal branding” in the Columbia Review of Journalism.
Quinn Norton looks back at 1980s software piracy scene
And The Onion brings us news a new social networking app that…ah, forget it.
Happy Birthday Pac-Man
Pac-Man, the iconic yellow circle that runs through mazes gobbling up white pills, saying nothing more than “waka waka,” while being pursued by ghosts turns 30 today.
The game spawned sequels, a cartoon show and even a breakfast cereal!
As one of the the most recognizable video game brands, Pac-Man in a way came to be [...]
How many Cheezburgers until the Internet breaks?
So, in 2007, I Can Has Cheezburger? was launched and those involved made buckets of money.
Turns out, lots of people wanted a central site to get their fix of cat pictures with amusing captions.
Now there are 50 sites in the network, all acting as repositories for amusing pictures.
I’m suddenly left to wonder, [...]
Windows Live Writer is awesome. That is all.
I think my favourite Microsoft product is actually one of their free offerings.
Windows Live Writer
Essentially, it’s a word processor for bloggers. You enter your blog’s URL and your password and you’re ready to go.
Open it up (it loads pretty quickly on all my computers,) write then post. Done.
It pulls in your blog’s [...]
