Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it’s trivial enough to transform the regular url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE) into its shorter counterpart (http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE), but let’s face it, we’re all a bunch of lazy sobs. To cut a long story short, I pieced together [...]
Category Archives: I’m a geek
Wallpaper
June 10, 2010 – 19:20
Today Google added a background image to their search page. And since a lot of people really seem to dislike things that change, a lot of people started to complain about this new ‘wallpaper’ feature. All of a sudden, Google isn’t white enough, looks too much like Bing, loads too slow, and blah blah blah. [...]
Let It Be
June 7, 2010 – 23:04
There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf’s cover of “Let It Be.” According to the liner notes of the “Not a Dry Eye in the House” single, it was recorded for ABC’s Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have [...]
Thoughts on Open
April 29, 2010 – 17:09
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, just issued some thoughts on Flash, detailing why Apple won’t support it on their iPhones and -Pads. They’ll probably have some valid points there, but as I don’t own or plan to own any of those products, I don’t really care. Still, there’s one bone I have to pick with [...]
Ready, Schmeady
April 6, 2010 – 22:56
In case you have been living under a rock: Apple has just released the iPod Touch XXL iPad. The device itself doesn’t interest me much, so I’d like to talk about related subject: Apple’s official list of “iPad-ready websites.” While Apple is being vague what “iPad-ready” really means, from the language on the page and [...]
