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January 17, 2007

Apple’s GetAMac Sabotage?

I woke up to Apple’s latest commercial for their Macs: Get A Mac – Sabotage. Apparently a PC or some similar “guy”, acts as if he is a “Mac”, and tries to dispute the good Apple statistics. Then the real Mac comes in. My question remains, in what ways is this really sabotage. Above the [...]

January 16, 2007

WikiSeek Nice, but Necessary?

WikiSeek a search engine that searches Wiki articles as well other web sites that link to WikiPedia. I am really uncertain of the practicality of this service. But it is a feature that I am sure could serve some educational purposes as well. Their pages is definitely richly decorated with adwords. Regarding adwords, I am [...]

January 11, 2007

Cisco Apple Trademark War

The first shots were fired yesterday (Wednesday Jan. 10th 2007) after peace talk negotiations for the last five years failed. This came as a shock to the apparent peaceful response from Cisco that I briefly mentioned at the end of Apple iPhone-d Us After All… . I went to bed yesterday, with a peace of [...]

January 10, 2007

Apple iPhone-d Us After All…

The greatest surprise to me, they even called it iPhone, though I have yet to see it officially without the Apple logo in front. How does this affect all the trademarks that LinkSys/Cisco acquired? (Hoping Apple Doesn’t iPhone  and  iPhone is Not Apple’s iPhone)   So it looks really, cool, and I actually do think, [...]

January 6, 2007

WordPress 2.0.6 Partially Solves one.com Error?

I just updated stepheno.net to WordPress 2.0.6. It appears that some of the initial errors and problems I stumbled upon when I was installing WordPress 2.0.5 for the first time here at one.com are now solved. (My workaround for WP 2.0.5 can be read here: Installing WordPress at one.com). As visitors may experience, I am [...]

December 28, 2006

Laptops are NOT a Microsoft Bribe?

Well Microsoft’s so called bribing of profiled bloggers has flourished on the net the past day or so. (Wired’s: Microsoft Tries To Buy New Friends). Microsoft has apparently given laptops and mediacenters for free. Slashdot’s post linking to, amongst others, blogger Long Zheng. Well some of these “privileged” bloggers have felt the heat from critics. [...]