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 [...]
Category Archives: The Internet
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 [...]
Gimme Some Words I Can Live By
December 3, 2009 – 19:50
Okay, so I’ve done this one before. Only this time I didn’t need no website to find some quotes. If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain, from a 1894 notebook. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and [...]
Fixing Last.fm's library with Greasemonkey
October 15, 2009 – 15:27
While I love all the data my Last.fm library, I was missing something. To be precise, easy access from song and album pages in your library to the corresponding artist page in your library. Also, while there is a link to the site-wide artist pages, there is no link to the side-wide album pages. So [...]
Bumafaal faalt
October 9, 2009 – 17:30
Buma / Stemra [heeft] op 1 oktober jl. haar tarieven voor 2010 gepubliceerd voor gebruik van muziek op het internet. Onderdeel daarvan was het tarief voor niet-bedrijfsmatig muziekgebruik door middel van zgn. embedded files. Dit onderdeel van het tarief heeft tot grote commotie geleid bij een breed publiek en in de volksvertegenwoordiging. Deze commotie heeft [...]
