Month: June 2008
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800 messages processed per day
Over the past few days I’ve held off on emptying my deleted items folder in Outlook to get a better sense of the number of messages I “process” per day. The average over the past three days with very little varyance per day was 800 per day. Granted this does include RSS feed posts I…
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Apple, don’t try to fool your users
It really annoys me when a software vendor tries to bundle other applications with the one you downloaded and installed. It’s even worse when they try to do it through their crapware auto update mechanism. Adobe is guilty of this and so now is Apple. The problem here is that I only want QuickTime…
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When a product with promise disappoints…
In mid-May I bought an Argus Bean 5 MP camera from Best Buy. I was captivated by the industrial design and ruggedness of the camera. It can clip like a carabiner to a bag or belt loop, is weather resistant and has pretty simple controls. Though it is designed for kids, I thought it would make…