My N900 Review
This is not the typical N900 review, as I find the “normal” ones too superficial (see Engadget and Ubergizmo). Instead, I’ll give you an intro to the device’s background and the current state of affairs for smartphones as a whole (IMHO), and also talk about some aspects of the Linux flavor running on the N900. The state of things So, it’s 2010 and Nokia still rules (supreme) the worldwide mobile handset market. But these two “little known” companies (Apple and Google) know that all that “convergence” talk from the early and mid 90s is actually coming to life now,... Read more
January 22, 2010 | View Comments | review, tech, maemo, n900The Great Google Scare
There’s been a lot of weird things coming out of Google lately. For some, it is the inevitability of wanting to get a larger chunk of something, whether it is the mobile market with Android or the desktop market with Chromium. For others, it is starting to look all too Redmond-ish. For others still, it may just be the inevitability of competition, since you can’t compete with Apple and Microsoft being nice – because they’re not nice (Google has certainly been the target of my outspoken rage for their non-open “open-source” Android strategy). I do believe there’s talent at work... Read more
January 09, 2010 | View Comments | google, be_afraid, tech, opinionCodebits aftermath
So, Codebits is over now (as is my caffeine + pizza + peanut M&M’s withdrawal), and I must say that overall, it was cool. Of course, there were the usual rough edges you get when you gather a bunch of nerds together (guys thinking they’re rock stars and treating the friendly people serving us pizza like trash, a guy next to the coder tables listening to a football match with the volume up to 11 on his laptop, one of the staff treating me and a friend of mine like “weird people” saying PT is ripping us off with the... Read more
December 07, 2009 | View Comments | codebits, events, codeSteve Jobs needed it
I’ve just read this article on TechCrunch about Steve Jobs’ triumphant return to Apple after being let go by the same CEO he hired from Pepsi, and it got me thinking – where would he be without it? But before going into that, there’s something most people miss in this story – Jobs left Apple in 1985 for a reason! The company was smaller back then and relied on a few key people for their engineering needs, since the knowledge required to build the world’s first mass-produced GUI computer wasn’t exactly around the corner. And Jobs’ legendary bad temper was... Read more
November 27, 2009 | View Comments | randomSettled In
So, all the links should be working now and so on (still waiting for Google Custom Search to index the site) and I’ve pushed my changes to jduff’s template to my github page (it’s on the sidebar to the right). All in all, this solution really works for me now: I can write my posts in any editor I like, and I always have a copy of the website with me since basically the publishing process recreates it from scratch all the time. I’m also pleasently surprised with NearlyFreeSpeech, my new webhost, and their “pay-as-you-use” approach – highly recommended (so... Read more
November 15, 2009 | View Comments | random, geek