Feb
20
It took two months?
Tagged apple
Angry “apple” fan throws a tantrum…and a Dell PC :
A teen who wanted an apple Macintosh computer (mac) for Christmas after seeing one of the ubiquitous apple ads on the apple website, but instead got to inherit his father’s older Windows PC, finally got mad early Saturday morning and threw out the inherited Dell PC out of the window in a bizarre case of life imitating “the internet world”. The 16 year old boy, Dam Enkhbayar, threw out the computer after it froze while he was downloading video files online. The boy said, “If this had been a Macintosh, I would never have had this problem.”
Via Steve.
Feb
19
Well, after Leo and Merlin didn’t stop talking about it on MacBreak Weekly a few weeks ago, I decided to give Twitter a whirl. I have to say, it’s pretty fun. As Scoble said, it’s kind of like mini-blogging: just a short little blurb about what you’re doing.
What makes the service even better are all the different options you have for updating your status (and recieving your friends’ updates). You can use the website, of course; there’s a nice big text box to use. They also let you use Twitter from a mobile phone via SMS, which is great for keeping up with your friends on the go. If, like me, you’ve always got your IM program open, you can add Twitter to your AIM or Jabber (including Google Talk) list and keep up to date like you would with any other buddy. If all this wasn’t enough, there’s an extensive API which lets you do anything with your own aplications, using simple XML calls, which lets me keep the list of my last “tweets” on my status page. There are also a lot of programs available for all platforms that let you update straight from your desktop, including my current favorite, twitterrific from the icon factory.
So why not give twitter a try? There are tonnes of people on it (including Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann, and even Bill Clinton, Condeliza Rice and Borat) and you can get your friends to sign up, too. And why not see what I’m up to, while you’re at it?