Opera Mini 2.0

Opera Mini™ for Mobile: Opera Mini™ is a fast and tiny Web browser, that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. … The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone. I’ve had previous version of OperaMini running on my Nokia 6230 … Read more

GUI vs. console

Is the Console next Desktop?: For professions that require loads of data-entry, such as bookkeepping, income tax, retail… console-based applications still provide more user performance than any visual design. This is the second para in the first comment posted. I can’t agree more. Time and time again I am seeing that good GUI metaphors are … Read more

Macbook — continuation

I have now had a little more time to play with the “little white box,” here’s a few amendments/additions/clarifications to my earlier review. Glare/display There is a glare. In some case it might, indeed, be strong. Yet you can relatively easily get rid or reduce it — you should generally not be sitting with strong … Read more

Why Your Boss Is Overpaid – Forbes.com

Why Your Boss Is Overpaid – Forbes.com: Workers are frequently ranked relative to each other and promoted not for being good at their jobs but for being better than their rivals. It is a natural response to the difficulty of true performance pay. Now, this is one interesting statement, and so very true. This also … Read more

MacBook

Today marks the day when I yielded to a temptation thoroughly. I saw, I liked and I bought — a new bright and shiny Apple MacBook. A nice little white marvel that fits so comfortably on ones laps or an airplane table… By way of rationalization I bought it for my wife — she claims … Read more

Creationism is not Cristianity

Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer: Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in … Read more

Windows API as part of MacOS X 10.x?

There May Be an End-run for Apple Around Windows After All: A souped-up OS X kernel with native Windows API support and the prospect of mixing and matching Windows and Mac applications would be, for many users, the best of both worlds. There would be no copy of Windows XP to buy, no large overhead … Read more

Pirating to benefit Microsoft?

How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows: The proliferation of pirated copies nevertheless establishes Microsoft products — particularly Windows and Office — as the software standard. I could not agree more — this is exactly what I have been seeing in Russia, and it really is annoying. One would think that a country that is (used … Read more