Recent Comments:
If it takes 1000 Microsoft engineers to code Windows 7, how many are required to change a lightbulb? {Engadget}
Aug 20th 2008 9:53AM Actually the answer for Apple is:
* 1 product manager to spec the product and lead the product team
* 1 engineer to make the iBulb work
* 2 industrial designers to make the iBulb look really, really cool and different from every other bulb
* 3 VPs to act as the interface between the poor product team and Steve Jobs who is REALLY going to design the thing and thinks the PM is an idiot and the engineers are fools and wonders why Apple actually needs more than 1 employee
* the aforementioned 12 lawyers - some to work on the recall, several to work on threatening
any site that leaks information on the iBulb
* A cadre of PR flacks to properly stroke Mossberg, Pogue and others to ensure breathless write-ups from day one
* 1 guy in a black shirt to record the web video demo on how an iBulb works and how the fact that they've designed a bulb without threads is really a huge improvement over that "regular" bulb you get from anyone else
* 3 people at every Apple Store to applaud the customers who are "visionary" and "cool" enough to stand in line for 10 hours to buy an iBulb (given that the hardware store down the street sells "just bulbs" for 1/3 the price, you don't have to wait in line, and they work with your existing electrical equiment)
* 1 person at every Genius Bar to make customers feel stupid because they can't get the threadless iBulb to work in their existing lamps
* A million fan-boys to so want the product that they'll wait in line...
[and I'm a freakin' FAN of Apple!]
iPhone activation servers back online; stock updates from around the world {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2008 5:53AM Ouch - someone is getting very fired at Apple over this. Totally nuts.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 2) - Office Ultimate 2007 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 2:59PM Favorite MS product is one they didn't build, but bought. Visio!
Why? Because it just perfectly accomplishes what it wants.
Because every time you think "you know, if this were cool it would do X"... it does and it does it the way you think it ought to.
Microsoft gets kudos on Visio for 1 thing... they did NOT f it up after they bought it - they let it mostly be.
CES 2008 ultimate swag bag giveaway: like a Xmas stocking in January {Engadget}
Jan 11th 2008 12:32PM iRobot Looj... as much for the name as the function and, BTW, at $99 it is pretty darn amazing.
(Not that I can possibly use it on MY home)... but still cool
Mikontalo dormitory converted into gigantic Tetris display {Engadget}
Dec 5th 2007 12:27PM First (as far as I know) done in 2000 at Brown University in RI:
http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
Yeah, Gmail does IMAP, it's on Mobile {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2007 9:22AM I know you all are a bunch of AOL haters (and there are good reasons for it), but AOL has had this for YEARS.
The hundred gadget giveaway, grand prize round: Nikon D40 DSLR {Engadget}
Sep 14th 2007 9:05PM Yowsa! Nice giveaway!
Know Your Rights: Is it illegal to make my own ringtones? {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2007 2:29PM Question....
Is it ILLEGAL to use your iTMS music for a ringtone or just a violation of your contract with Apple?
I THINK there's a big difference (unless you're going to tell me that DMCA makes violating the contract a violation of law....)
(Hey, if you're going to do a column on legal topics... you gotta be REALLY clear.)
Microsoft contracts Siemens VDO for in-car entertainment {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2007 10:39AM Great! So as long as you have $100 million dollar annual budget, only want to drive around and around making left turns on a 2.5 mile loop for 3 hours per week, have active monitoring by computers and a team of people of your car whenever it is in motion, and have a crew standing by to add fuel, change tires, use duct tape to patch the body, and tweek all your settings every 100 or so miles.... THEN your Microsoft-powered car will work REALLY WELL!
How would you change the iPhone? {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2007 6:04PM Small thing:
When you call AT&T for directory service, it texts you all the info for the number you looked up (name, address, phone, etc). There should be a one-press "Add this to my address book" which should parse all the info and put it in the right fields.
This isn't even tough!
