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Droids, iPhones, and Trolls: An Observation

By Nick, June 25, 2010

*Tap tap* Is this thing on?

I guess it’s been a while since anything’s been posted here, so I figure I may as well use good ol’ DT as a personal blog of sorts. Anyway, here it goes!

Over the past few days, while following the iPhone 4 launch coverage it’s occurred to me that the old platform wars are over, Nobody really gives a crap about Mac vs. PC any longer. It may explain why macvswindows has gone quiet as of late.

Instead, the debate has shifted to phones, and Microsoft is nowhere to be seen. It’s Google and Apple duking it out. And fans of those companies too. And not surprising, the arguments for Android are quite similar to those once used to support using Windows. The anti- and pro-iPhone comments are reminiscent to what people once said about the Mac. And it’s remarkable how quickly things have turned too. Even one year ago there was still plenty of chatter surrounding Windows and Mac. After all, Apple was still running its “Get a Mac” ads, and Microsoft was firing back.

Heck, we’re even seeing the same overblown rhetoric! (Google can’t be trusted! Apple is too closed! The iPhone will be dead in a year! Android is too hard to use!)

I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I just have to wonder...what will next year’s big debate be?


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In Light of the Lyrics App Debacle

By Liam, May 19, 2009

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Apple initially rejected Jelle Prins’ iPhone app Lyrics, which displays lyrics for the songs in your music library, including the profanity contained in some song lyrics. Apple cited that fact as the reason for turning Prins down.

Oh Apple, look what I found:

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Perhaps maybe you should make them censor it?

Ooh, and there’s this other app that allows unfiltered access to the internet, including objectionable content which you seem not to like allowing. I think it’s called… um.... Safari, that’s it! Wait a minute....

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Yeah, make the developers of that conduit of smut pay for their sins against our children.

Speaking of children, won’t somebody think of them?


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Classy Gradient Wallpapers Using Only MS Paint

By Liam, March 29, 2009

If you just want a classy, simple wallpaper, but only have access to MS Paint (this is most useful in an office,) there exists a way to create simple gradients using an image as small as nine pixels square.

  1. Use the Attributes dialog to specify a very small image. Depending on the amount of colors you want to use for the gradient, you may want to add more or less, but keep the image square.
  2. The pencil tool can be used to color individual pixels and fill the image. Play around with the shape and tones of the intended gradient.
  3. Save the file as a .jpg.
  4. Set it as your wallpaper, in stretch mode. Windows will scale the image as if it were a photograph, and smoothly blend the image.

et viola!

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To download the sample image, “Right Click, Save As” this text.


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