“Between the forums, emails, private messages, meeting in person, reading users’ blogs, etc., there’s a very good chance that we’ve heard your feature request before. And with developing new things, bug fixes, writing documentation, improving our support resources, assisting with elevated support issues, and so on, we’re constantly busy. Bombarded is an accurate description. So before posting a feature request, pretend that we’ve already heard it, because we probably have.” +1 Read more: Feature Requests - a Developer’s Eye View
“We think it’ll be the best phone … this year. It will kill the iPhone,” Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman said in an interview. Wow, that’s a lot of smack talk for just an image. I wasn’t able to find any additional information on this new phone at all. Still, as always, and companies like Verizon don’t get this, “it’s the software, stupid.” My prediction: this barely makes a ripple. Verizon unveils iPhone rival for holiday shoppers
“It screws with developer’s expensive and painstakingly created icons by adding not one, but two awful fake shadows, a reflection and a weird shelf look which doesn’t fit in with the the actual perspective of any of the icons.”
Word. The new dock sucks in all the ways Rory lists and more and he offers an alternative.
How to redesign the Leopard dock so it sucks less
An interesting idea, though my expectations are low. Still, who knows…? I find the idea of it being “myspace for widgets” the most interested piece of it.
“Popfly is a social network that enables you to connect with other creators. Using Popfly, you can add your favorite creators as friends and keep track of their latest projects.”
Microsoft launches no-code mashup tool
Et tu, Firefox? Didn’t they learn ANYTHING from the mess that Netscape became? The slow start ups, the memory hogging, the pieces that weren’t really necessary in day to day web browsing… Apparently not.
More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain’t So, Mozilla
This isn’t Vista bashing from any group of “Maczealots” this is a report from a real actual Windows user who did everything they could to make a go with Vista. Their conclusion: On the whole, we wish we’d never moved.
Facing the full horror of Windows Vista
Simson who “is executive director of SoundExchange, which collects and distributes royalties on behalf of the recording industry.” and is hardly unbiased, argues: “In short, the CRB did what Congress asked it to do, at the behest of Webcasters. But when the CRB set what it judged to be fair and reasonable royalty rates, the Webcasters decided they were too high, cried foul and denounced the very process they had sought.” This completely misses the real issue: that small and independent streamers will get KILLED by this, leaving only the majors to provide the service. For instance: Save Internet Radio. Hardly the group that asked Congress to do ANYTHING, but the group with the greatest amount to lose.
The Internet Radio Royalty Follies
