I write occasionally, marking down my adventures, expressing my thoughts, and my rants.
Arrival of iPad, and new SDK, and some more..
So Mr Steve Jobs, announced the iPad, iBooks, iWork on iPad, some accessories, yadda yadda and not to forget iCanHaveADockWithKeyboard too. SDK will be out soon, so developers can start writing applications for iPad.
The Many Versions of Windows 7 – WTF?
Uhm, maybe WTF should be replaced by “.. And How I Hoped It Should Be Offered”.
The latest version of Microsoft Windows, Windows 7, was released a while ago. I’m a Mac user at home, and Ubuntu user at work, but this release of Microsoft Windows, and the many words I heard about it, made me want to try this particular version.
OK read, I have not used Windows 7 yet, when I was writing this.
So, the first thing I figured I would check is what editions are they offering. To my shock, I see all these (ref: Wikipedia):
- Windows 7 Starter
- Windows 7 Home Basic
- Windows 7 Home Premium
- Windows 7 Professional
- Windows 7 Enterprise
- Windows 7 Ultimate
Horror! How am I going to choose from them? And that does not include the upgrade editions from Windows Vista to Windows 7 (ref: Wikipedia).
Although they have a comparison chart widely available (ref: Wikipedia), it still makes me scratch my balls.
Here’s a little thought, what I think they should do:
- Offer very few editions, say maybe Basic, Home, Professional.
- Have a marketplace or store of some sort, allowing users to get what extra features they want in their edition, with a price (I can’t say free can I, Microsoft?)
I would prefer that, it reduces all the complexity of choosing that many different editions, which is a pain, in my opinion.
What do you think?
Google Public DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
Google wants to make the web faster, first by experimenting with a public DNS resolution service, called the Google Public DNS.
To try Google Public DNS, you gotta change your DNS server details to:
- 8.8.8.8
- 8.8.4.4
Now we have a new alternative to OpenDNS.
Twitter’s Retweet Feature
I don’t usually jump into the web interface of my Twitter account, but today I did.
I was greeted by this.
So what is this new feature about? It provides a new interface for doing retweets by a (few) mouseclick(s), and provides a new display for retweeted tweets.
To retweet another tweet, click the tiny ‘retweet’ icon at the bottom right of a tweet, right beside the ‘reply’ icon, then share to you followers.
So once I have retweeted, I see something like this in my timeline.
I think it is kind of neat.
Actions > Words
Ever since I started working, it has taught me one thing: “actions speak louder than words”.
If you want to convince others, prove it by actions, not words. The “all talk” theory won’t work because it usually comes back as “all talk all cock”.
Don’t bitch, do it and prove it.
If you want recognition, earn it, its not given.
