Category Archives for Digitoy
I love toys, I love digital things. I love them together.
iPodaudio gettin’ better all the time
I’ve been Turkmen-bashing Apple here a lot (just read the most hilarious obit for Saparmurat Niyazov) for not yet having released a Vista-compatible iTunes. I can’t decide if it’s out of what I suspect is pique at Microsoft having shipped … Continue reading
Apple: I’m in freakin’ agony, OK? You’ve made your point.
Hello…Apple? Could you please please pretty please ship the freakin’ update of iTunes for Windows Vista? I know – I just know – you have the thing finished. After all, if nearly everybody else could have their products somewhat ready … Continue reading
Apple + DRM = doubleplusgood
I know that in the torrent of comment, wailing and teeth-gnashing the blogosphere, podosphere and ipodo-universe will generate about Steve Job’s comments on digital-rights management, my little post here will live in obscurity. Still, I can’t help myself: I’m blue … Continue reading
Microsoft gets whacked up side the head, and I can’t help myself
Wow! Is this Internet thing powerful or what? Over the Xmas holiday, a well-known security expert and professor in New Zealand named Peter Gutman wrote and posted on the ‘net a scathing critique of Windows Vista’s new DRM technology. Now, … Continue reading
An Alito for the Wall Street Journal
I am seriously bent out of shape by an editorial entitled “Franchise Freedom” that I read in the January 2, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal. I can’t link to the editorial here, because even the Journal’s red-meat-Republican opinions … Continue reading
Perpetually catching up..but not quite
Many pundits who review software are saying that Microsoft has "caught up" with Firefox in Internet Explorer 7 (here and here, among others). I beg to differ. Since the mid-1990s, what Microsoft has done — time after time — is … Continue reading
Banal to you…and amazing to me
My Google searching skills must be off…way off. I'd been trying for days to find an authoritative recommendation for when to switch from summer (actually All-Season) tires to snow tires. I just couldn't find anything other than the usual forum … Continue reading
