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Re: http://mac.finerthingsin.com/post/8472677766

AppleNag — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:26:41 -0000

Search for .webloc in Spotlight, hover over files, see preview. Nice.

Re: Twitter Enables Two-Way SMS for Rogers and Fido Customers in Canada

AppleNag — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:46:19 -0000

Rogers is permitting Twitter to send SMS messages, no doubt by charging them a good deal of money, and they are also now going to charge recipients without a text plan 15 cents for each message. Rogers is now going to make a ton of money for something that costs them next to nothing. I'm now waiting for Rogers to start charging fees to compose and read messages on top of the delivery charge.

Don't expect government regulators to step in. The feds and the provinces collect taxes on each message charged for as well. "The first rule of any scam is to pay off the government."

Re: Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime addresses OnLive, iPhone competition and used games

AppleNag — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:05:33 -0000

So Reggie doesn't believe that used games are good for consumers. I'm sure he also doesn't believe in the recession. We need people like Reggie to drive the economy as he buys a new Lamborghini, a new Gulfstream V, a new yacht, a new mansion, …

Say Reggie, when you get some time, do ya think you could solve the Wii console shortage? It's only been two and a half years. Oh, right, that's not good for consumers either.

Re: tumbléo

AppleNag — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:38:30 -0000

Please don't let Steve Jobs see this. He's in frail health and the sight of all those knobs and sliders and buttons would just kill him.

Re: Tired of Twitter Talk?

AppleNag — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:16:18 -0000

Having worked at Nortel in the group that brought TCP/IP to the huge DMS switches back in the late '80s, we constantly struggled for funding because that "Internet thing" was just for universities. Our group was told that TCP/IP was dying and soon to be replaced by OSI. The group broke up and people went on to other things. Meanwhile, Nortel lost a huge lead in Internet technology an scrambled to catch up. Did you know that Nortel was once thinking about, and in a position to acquire Cisco? Where is Nortel now?

A product achieves critical mass because visionaries talk about it in spite of the naysayers. They use the product, they try new ways of using it, they get their friends and family to use it.

I'm not saying that Twitter will be as big as the Internet or even Facebook. But it is a big story because it's on the way up. How can a tech journalist or broadcaster NOT talk about one of the biggest tech stories out there?