The MBTA Releases a Mobile Site that’s Actually Useful
After parking my car in the garage this morning, I walked down stairs to the train platform to see it full of people waiting for a train that wasn’t there. It was now 8:26 and the 8:25 was no where…
Comcast High-Speed IS Really Fast
Lately I’ve started seeing some pretty impressive download speeds from Comcast. For example, it took me less than 4 minutes to download VMWare Fusion: That’s 1.2MB/sec which is pretty damn speedy if you ask me. Ironically, at the office the…
Farewell MacOSRumors.com
Well, it seems that an old staple of Mac rumor sites has finally seen it’s last day. The site MacOSRumors.com was once one of the greatest Mac sites around. Over the past few years however, due to health issues with…
When Cool Flash Ads Break
I love it when an ActionScripter can’t handle errors gracefully. I ran across this Dell Ad on OSNews.com today: It might have been useful had it worked
Microsoft Silverlight: It’s Like Flash without an Installed Base
By now, you’ve probably read plenty about Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform and how it’s going be a major player in the coming year. While I don’t doubt that Silverlight will be significant, I have a very tough time seeing how…
Another Spring, Another 100-Year Flood
I hate this crap. After dealing with a major flood last May, I awoken yesterday to someone knocking at my door at 5am telling me to move my car because the parking lot was flooding. Here’s a view about 3…
Some Mac Users STILL have nothing better to do!
I’m a fan of MacRumors.com, but every now and again there’s a new post that make me embarrassed to be a Mac user. Just last year, I had to call out the lameness of “MacBook unpacking photos.” Now, there’s this…
Camino 1.1: My Mac OS X Web Browser of Choice
Since I got my Mac Book Pro last November, I have been extremely disappointed with the stability of FireFox on Intel Macs. The PPC version is quite stable and gives Safari a run for the money. On Intel however, it…
Two for Flinchin’ Boston, the terrorists win this one
So Jim Samples resigned from the Cartoon Network over the knee-jerk reaction made by the city of Boston over the ridiculous ad campaign launched by Interference Inc. The resignation is pretty sad actually since Jim most likely wasn’t directly responsible…
Pink.
My mother is a breast cancer survivor and I have another family member who is currently fighting the disease. So in support of the National Breast Cancer Awareness month, Damn Handy will be Pink for the month of October!
