Like your neighbors’ Xmas lights werent annoying enuff…
let's add Guitar Hero into the mix thanks to Former Disney Imagineer and special effects wizard Ric Turner. With just a ring of the door bell is all you need to get playin, but please...no Slow Ride.
Where its all going… and why Google has the head start.
Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in a year, but soon. There will be a complete paradigm shift. Its going to change everything, and some people will get it, and some wont, but it will happen. Mark my words, it will happen. (Not the image of the guy with his thumb in his ear, that is just stupid) Just hear me out.
There are armies of engineers, developers, and marketers right now figuring out how to make this work, how its going to work, the amounts of processing power and form factors. Some are already laying out the road right in front of your face, right here, right now. Using the entire populous as a beta network. The entire concept lies with us, with everyday users, and everyday devices. Its happening right now, and yes even to you, even right now. They are just not showing you the big picture yet. Don't worry, I'll give you a peak into the master plan... Click for More
Google Wave: Wow, this is awesome! Hey, were is everyone…
From Wikipedia;
Google plans to release most of the source code as open source, allowing the public to develop its features through extensions. Google will also allow third-parties to build their own Wave services as quickly as possible (be it private or commercial) because it wants the Wave protocol to replace the e-mail protocol. Initially, Google will be the only Wave service provider, but it is hoped that, as the protocol becomes standardized and the prototype server becomes stable, other service providers will launch their own Wave services, possibly designing their own unique web-based clients as is common with many email service providers. The possibility also exists for native Wave clients to be made, as demonstrated by Google with their CLI-based console client.
Heh, thats ambitious.
... and how does Google feel about IE users?
And what is "Google Chrome Frame" you ask? Why, its a replacement for Internet Explorer, inside of internet explorer. BRILLIANT!
Nokia N900, not your fathers Maemo…
Nokia N900
I was interested until I learned it used the Edge network and cost $700+. Maybe its better on another carrier, but on AT&T you get a blazing fast 107k/64.2k (DL/UL)
I had the Nokia 770, the age old grandfather of this device and the first Maemo device (Also on eBay right now). It was "OK" for the time, but unless things have changed drastically, don't expect much mainstream support for this. Perhaps that is the niche market for this device though, Linux users and people who constantly like to tweak things, which it should do very well for that.
Don't expect it to ever be anything remotely as refined or polished as say an iPhone or Android phone. No offence with the open source Linux crowd, but in this day and age with the iPhones, Droids, and HTC HD2's out or coming out, why bother Nokia? Too little too late. It just makes you go "Meh". For $150 and you could have a Droid and do everything you see here, perhaps even better (Especially if you are a Google and Facebook user).
But all in all, cool video Nokia! Scary stuff!
iDon’t Need you Anymore
and you used to be so hot...
Dearest iPhone,
There comes a time when all relationships must come to an end. Good or bad, you come to a fork in the road and whatever your choice you have to make it, and deal with the consequences. We both knew it wasn’t working and its hard breaking up. I just need some space. Some freedom to control my own background. I… I need to multitask. Apple, maybe we could still be friends, but seriously we both know that will never work, and it would be weird. We’ve hurt each other too much. You know I loved you.
You see, I found someone new. Her name is DROID and she’s open source, and well… More athletic than you. The way she snaps from app to app is something you never had. Not to mention she has GTalk built in, syncs my contacts over the internet, and she’s more accepting of my own personal freedom to choose how I interface with her memory and file system. She uses standards, like Micro USB, and Micro SD Cards, and doesn’t require iTunes to be installed in every bedroom we interface in. Let’s face it; you were so rude to Linux when he came over… You acted like you were above him or something. So sad cause you were from the same tree.
Her screen is brighter, higher resolution. Not trying to be rude, but just perkier. Not even mentioning how hot she looks in her media cradle doubling as my alarm clock. Your little white cradle, even though I told you it was hot, never did it for me. The way she downloaded all my contacts from Gmail and merged them with Facebook, I just didn’t even need you anymore. She merges things without me even needing to explain it to her. It’s like she thinks for me, and in this day and age, I appreciate a good intellectual.
I mean… I know… You’ll improve over time and the next time I see you in public you’ll look great. You definitely tried to be kinky when I jailbroke you with BlackRa1n. I’m sorry… maybe it’s just me, but having iTunes forever in our lives kills the relationship. You’ll never be the one.
So this is goodbye, and you’ve been a good girl, but everything you didn't, DROID DOES, and I just don’t need you anymore.
ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO APPLE
iDon't have my data anymore.
You know, I miss the time where my data for my phone was on a little memory card, or that maybe it would just simply act like a USB Drive when plugged into a computer. No drivers, no bloated ass management studio. Just a simple file system.
Good old "Drag & Drop". Let me manage my content in folders. I can organize everything with clever little names like "Pictures" and like "Music" and like not have to deal with some database that thinks it owns all my content.
Not to long ago I bought into the Mac thing. "Wow, this new Mac is so simple to use! Everything just works! I love mac. Its soooooo cooooool looking!! XXX!!! OOO!!!" and for a while it was. Life seemed simple again, my phone had a little sync app, I could easily download movies, and music, and TV shows! Everything seemed so easy!
Its like the story of Hansel & Gretel. You find this nice house, and its made of candy. So your like, "Wow, this is really great, cause I love candy!". So long as you're there, everything seems great! You eat and eat, gain a bunch of weight, until the witch rares her ugly head having fed you all this digital content and wants to throw you in a damn oven and eat you with a nice chianti. Ppffffftfftft.
At some point, my love affair with the neat Mac'isms started to fade. What seemed so fresh and new and hot, started becoming annoying and pretentious. Everything had to be in mac format, it damn near updated every day, images were no longer image files, they were hold up in some database, and all my music and movie files now no longer worked with the outer world or my XBox. I started missing the simplicity of CTRL+C and CTRL+V just working like it's supposed to. Instead the mac would beep/cackle at me, and remind me that "Oh yea, mac is Option+C, sigh, Option+V".
I wanted change, I wanted my PC back, I wanted my file system back. I wanted simple.
So I got a laptop, installed Windows 7, and everything was in its right place. I lost a lot of data that is tethered to the mac world, but it was like getting back together with the old girlfriend. Comfortable. Familiar.
Which brings me to today. Still have this damned iPhone, with about 8 gigs of music, pictures, movies, pod-casts, applications. You know, everything. So I thought, screw it, I'll go ahead and get that new 3.1.2 update, it adds MMS messaging right. Cool. Should be simple.
Downloaded iTunes, plugged in my phone, everything is great. Downloaded the update, backed up my phone, my settings, my music, pictures, applications, and movies. Restarted and everything is gone. No music, no pictures, no applications, ALL GONE.
No warning, no "If you upgrade or sync on this PC, since you threw away your mac, we are going to remove all the stuff you put on your phone. Its ours and all your data belongs to us." No sir.. Just GONE. BLANK. Full reset. When did we stop owning things we paid money for?
So take your databases and take your media control Apple; and I'll take my file system and my "Drag & Drop".
You know what...
Fuck you Apple, I'm a PC.
Windows 7 upgrade from XP??
Sorry, there is no easy and Microsoft supported way to upgrade your trusty XP machines to Win7 without essentially performing a full install. During the install if you don't format your drives, the installer will rename your old Windows folder to Windows.Old but you will only retain your Windows settings which will have to be manually imported into Win7. All the programs you had previously will need to be reinstalled, ugg.
Another option is to use Microsoft's Easy Transfer Wizard as described by Microsoft here. But once again this only grabs your Windows settings and not your Programs.
How bout first upgrading XP to Vista then Upgrading to Win7? Oh ya, that'll work if you have access to a Vista install disc and you damn well better make sure it matches your version of 7 with plenty of free time to spare.
I have come across an application from Laplink that is supposed to make the process simpler but I do not know of anyone who has used it. For 20 bones it might be something worth looking into.
Best of luck to all that performs this feat and please for all that is holy, do a full backup of your machine before you do 
Motorola DROID official on Verizon: $199 on contract, coming November 6th
Android 2.0 will be front and center, along with Visual Voicemail, a 3.7-inch display (854 x 480 resolution), 5 megapixel camera (with dual-LED flash), a bundled 16GB memory card and a beta version of Google Maps Navigation(!). For those wondering, yeah -- the DROID is the first phone to offer that, which transforms Google Maps into a turn-by-turn routing system that'll have your dedicated TomTom / Garmin trembling in fear. There's also a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3G, WiFi, voice-activated search and over-the-air Amazon MP3 downloads.
Your iPhone shivers... for a second...
Now how to get out of that AT&T contract without loosing the bank...
Updated with hands on Video;
Windows 7 endless reboot answer evades Microsoft
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