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Macbook Chicklets?

By alex | Published: 5/18/2006
The new Apple Macbook features what some are calling a Chiclet keyboard, though the Wikipedia definition seems to suggest it is not. Rather, it shares the square keys of my first computer, a Tandy Color Computer. Nostalgia is great and all, but I’m looking forward to some typing reports from the field. I still remember […]
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(MS) Word Blogs?

By alex | Published: 5/13/2006
Yes, there are some neat little tools out there that let you blog from the desktop. But shouldn’t your Word Processor do that? It looks like the new version of Word (out probably sometime before the Apocalypse) will do that for you. And before you make the natural assumptions (crummy code, only integrated with MS […]
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Web services and reliability

By alex | Published: 5/11/2006
It’s the second time in about a week that I don’t have access to Google Mail. There were two reasons I switched to GMail: I liked the interface and I could easily access from anywhere. Email is my lifeblood, and having it periodically go down is just not tenable. It also makes me glad that […]
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Spamming for freedom

By alex | Published: 3/28/2006
We are conditioned to think of spam as a bad thing. What if we really wanted to make a statement about warrantless monitoring of Americans’ communications? Yes, we can encrypt our email, but frankly, except for some folks on the tin-foil-hat margin (which doesn’t seem quite as marginal these days), usually the people who are […]
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