WizbangTech: July 2006 Archives

United States cedes control of the internet - but what now?

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 27, 2006

What'd the big problem with the internet? Too much English. From the US-hating The Register: Ultimately, what came out of a gathering of the (English-speaking) great and the good regarding the internet was two things: That the US government recognises it has to transition its role if it wants to... [Full Story]

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PRESS RELEASE: TUAW writer bucks trend, sticks with Mac OS X

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 27, 2006

PRESS RELEASE: TUAW writer bucks trend, sticks with Mac OS X You can find and replace "Ubunutu" with "Windows 95" and change the date to 1996.... [Full Story]

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Yahoo! spying on employees?

Posted by · Published: July 20, 2006 · Comments (2)

According to this post by newly-hired Paul Stamatiou, Yahoo! sniffs and logs its employees' IM sessions. Considering they use Yahoo's instant messenger, it looks like a good argument to use something else!... [Full Story]

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Graffletopia

Posted by · Published: July 17, 2006

Anybody who's used the OmniGroup's Mac-based diagramming application, OmniGraffle, has probably run up against the package's anemic stencil offerings. There's precious few there, and the ones that are there can be a bit, ahem, rudimentary at times. Enter Graffletopia! With a growing set of user-submitted stencil sets, Graffletopia's quickly becoming... [Full Story]

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TechLinks

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 5, 2006

Red Swoosh - free your links Free movie hosting, but I don't understand how it'll make money. It seems to need the user to install something...bad idea. Google Operating System: If Google Didn't Exist... Not sure about this list, but the comments sure make convincing arguments. Red Sweater Blog -... [Full Story]

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TechLinks

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 3, 2006

EIGHT WAYS TO KILL SOMEONE BY USING AN IPOD NANO, ACCORDING TO EX-MARINE BRAD COLLUM http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/6/23fleming.html This would be where it all started. So Much Fanfare, So Few Hits http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_28/b3992051.htm Interesting look at the successes of the products from Google that aren't search-related. HTML Dog http://www.htmldog.com Web designer's HTML and... [Full Story]

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Internet Explorer 7 beta 3

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: July 1, 2006 · Comments (1)

Read about what's new in Beta 3: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 is now available for download and includes improvements in reliability, compatibility, user features, and security. Although Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 was layout complete, based on our customers' feedback, we've made some additional changes to the look... [Full Story]

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Corel Cites Linux Products as Profit-Killers

Posted by · Published: July 1, 2006 · Comments (6)

Hapless software house Corel is finally turning a profit, after years of being little more than WordPerfect's life-support system. Why the turnaround, you ask? According to their executive vice president of software development Graham Brown, it's partly because they stopped developing for Linux: Looking back, Brown describes the decision to... [Full Story]

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