saw this when i was reading this article im

Saw this when I was reading this article.

I’m sorry too, Adobe. I’m sorry it didn’t work out. But, look, we both just have to move on, okay?

this is the dialog you get when you dont have

This is the dialog you get when you don’t have Flash installed on Mac OS X, and you click¹ the ‘Missing Plug-In’ text on a page that has a Flash applet.

I assumed it would link you to the page where you can download Flash, but no. Just in case it wasn’t perfectly clear, Apple really doesn’t like Flash and isn’t going to help you install it.

1. Note that this dialog does not appear automatically when the page loads. It used to. ↩︎

David Pogue on the Canon S95

David Pogue on the Canon S95

I love the wink-driven self-timer. Yes, I set up the camera, walk into the scene, and then wink—the picture is taken two seconds later. Beats hunting around for a remote control. (Or I can ask you to wait two seconds after a new person—that would be me, joining the group—enters the frame.)

Ingenious.

I'm going to show them a world you don't want them to see.

I’m going to show them a world you don’t want them to see.

A world… without you Flash.

evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies

evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies

Think you can get rid of this cookie?

I’m glad this proof-of-concept demonstration exists, because advertisers are probably already using these methods.

[T]he responses we get tend to indicate a good many people are determined to believe whatever they want to believe, and no collection of contradictory factual information, no matter how large or authoritative or impressive it might be, is ever going to dissuade them from their beliefs.

[T]he responses we get tend to indicate a good many people are determined to believe whatever they want to believe, and no collection of contradictory factual information, no matter how large or authoritative or impressive it might be, is ever going to dissuade them from their beliefs.

—Authors of Snopes.com

IPv4 address exhaustion within one year

As of today, we’ll be out of IPv4 addresses in 272 days.

from Hurricane Electric

Virgin Mobile's $40 unlimited MiFi - David Pogue

Virgin Mobile’s $40 unlimited MiFi - David Pogue

Been using this for a few months now, and love it. This + iPod Touch + cheap prepaid phone = no need for AT&T ever.

Also: Internet radio in the car. Awesome. (I recommend TuneIn Radio. Go to settings, set buffering to 30 seconds - with this I can listen to 128kbps streams with hardly any drop-outs.)

Pogue also has a follow-up.

Twitter … seriously botched its OAuth implementation and demonstrated, yet again, that it lacks the engineering competence that is needed to reliably operate its service.

Twitter … seriously botched its OAuth implementation and demonstrated, yet again, that it lacks the engineering competence that is needed to reliably operate its service.

—Ryan Paul, on Twitter’s ridiculous OAuth implementation

How to fix iTunes 10's weird vertical window controls

Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

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