Google Buzz

The latest, greatest thing to come from Google was announced this week and has been rolling out to Gmail users as well. I finally got mine turned on yesterday and have a few thoughts.

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The Sunday Post #85

I’m a Tweetie user on my Mac. I’m also a cheap skate, so I use the free version, which shows the occasional advertisement. And, so far, some of them have been helpful.

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Why I hate Safari

There are many things that this brilliant iMac sitting on my desk does that I absolutely adore. There are many apps that I run on a daily or almost daily basis that I also think are quite keen. Keen enough to remember their name so I can fire them up in QuickSilver or that they have earned a place in the all mighty dock.

Safari is not one of them.

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Get it right the first time, part 2

Have any of you used Windows Vista? Specifically, Windows Vista on any computer with only 2GB of RAM? I have and every time I do I keep asking myself the same question.

How could anyone think this was acceptable?

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The Problem with BitTorrent

We discussed this back in ‘06 and I am here to say that BitTorrent is still not useful. Back then I said,

For bittorrent to be useful, there has to more than a few users with fast connections. If you try to download something that is only shared by a few users, the download will take forever. Same goes if any of the users sharing are doing so over a dial up connection.

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