August 2008
34 posts
Geeky Thought of the Day
evanwalsh:
Here’s the cost of 1GB of Storage over the past 22 years:
1986: $100,000
1990: $10,000
1994: $1,000
1997: $100
2000: $10
2004: $1
2007: $0.20 (via here:here:here)
“Does it strike you ironic that Dirty Sanchez plays for the condoms?”
– The missus, UVA alum, talking about Mark Sanchez, the quarterback for the USC Trojans.
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OS X Tip: Combine PDFs using Preview →
Using drag-and-drop and the sidebar, you can easily combine PDFs using Preview. You can also append PDFs with other files (such as images) by dragging them in the sidebar. Very cool, as I would have had to download a special app to do the same thing in Windows.
And it Begins
College Football season starts in earnest today. Suddenly, all is good and right in the world once again. Go Hokies!
Opentape makes RIAA feel stupid →
So the RIAA, in their endless wisdom, has decided to take down Muxtape, a site which streamed music uploaded by users, and provided convenient links to buy the music being streamed from Amazon.
Now, thanks to the RIAA’s shutdown, Opentape has been released, which allows the same streaming, and provides links for users to download the music being streamed. Further, Opentape is designed to...
What’s the opposite of “running late”? Is it “running early”? If you’re early, why are you running? Can it be “strolling early”? Or “moseying early”? Or is “early” all we’re allowed to be? I guess we don’t want to rub in people’s faces that we have enough time to mosey…
Pregap →
Unbeknownst to me, artists like to hide secret songs on track zero on CDs, which is (almost) exclusively used for silence. Very neat. (via evanwalsh)
Regarding OCD
Me: So are you Danny Tanner [from Full House]?
Sean: Sort of. Think Danny Tanner with regard to cleanliness, and Bob Saget when it comes to dirty, dirty jokes.
An embodiment of the Olympic ideal, Phelps... →
A great feel-good article.
“It’s like Mustangs with the fake scoop. I would like American makers to...”
– Adam Carolla
Man buys truck using $8k... in coins →
Apparently he didn’t trust banks, and knew paper money could burn. Thus, coinage was the winner. (via Autoblog)
“Under the traditional, capitalist, Adam Smithian model, new and better things...”
– TIME on how Apple does it (via DaringFireball)
“Phone differentiation used to be about radios and antennas and things like that....”
– Steve Jobs on applications for the iPhone (via WSJ:TUAW)
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InterfaceLIFT →
Excellent site for wallpapers. (via vinh)
“Phelps is Tiger in a Speedo.”
– Olympics Commentator
Realization
I pretty much survive on Diet Coke.
Apple patent for streaming music to iPods/iPhones?
The [iPod/iPhone] would sync the metadata associated with your music library at home—titles, album art, file size, etc.—but not the files themselves. This would allow you to have access to gigs upon gigs of media sitting on your home machine without filling up all the space on your iPod or iPhone. “In this manner, the virtual capacity of an electronic device may be increased,” writes...
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Tom's Hardware says Apple and PC prices are... →
Another explanation may be what Marco said:
Cost isn’t as ridiculous as many people assume. Most Apple machines are very competitively priced with similarly specced PCs. But Apple’s specs only match the high end of most manufacturers’ lineups.
Apple's Malicious Applications List →
Applications listed at this URL can and will be remotely disabled, even once installed. Interesting yet unsurprising that Apple is capable of this. (via MacRumors)
