This is in no way related to technology, but it still is quite funny. Cheers, kottke for discovering it.
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Hat-tip to Macgeneration for discovering these two, fine apps.
TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more!
HyperDock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.
The apps are free, for now at least.
Another quite fascinating piece by Babbage on Time as a concept. It explains the famous story of the pendulum that went up in the air and came back down—younger.
Obviously not even the finest Swiss timepiece can boast the accuracy required to detect such minute shifts. So physicists have come up with “atomic” clocks that rely on some fundamental physical properties of electrons in an atom. Normally, these reside on specific energy levels but when electromagnetic waves of a particular frequency are shone on them, they absorb energy and jump to a higher level. As they re-emit the energy, they drop back down. By creating a feedback loop which has electrons continuously hopping between two levels, physicists are able to construct an ultrafast and extremely consistent subatomic pendulum. The clocks currently used to set the international time standard rely on microwaves with a frequency of 9.2 billion cycles per second being shone on cesium atoms.
On an un-tech related note, Jason Kottke’s substitute, Aaron Cohen, for the holidays linked to a cool article that helps you create your own sodas.
It smells like it’s the end of a great yet short adventure, which will continue, in another language.
In January 2009, I changed Whytech’s language (at this time, TechAwe.com was Whytech.fr) for diverse reasons such as personal blooming. Now, I’m changing back to french. Why? Because you’re not reading it. What? In french, I had a superior visibility and comments and a lot more of visitors. It’s normal, don’t you think? I think it is.
I’m not sad, I’m not disappointed, I’m not going to cry; I made this experiment (changing languages) and I’m now more mature and experimented in terms of blogging. I’m going to apply these changes to french and we’ll see. If nobody comes back, I’ll stop, because blogging when you’re alone ain’t blogging.
Yet, some trails of english blogging will remain. Every month, I’ll try to translate my best articles in english.
Thank you (if you’re reading) for this—short—adventure.
TechAwe.com won’t redirect to Whytech.fr
Or the new State of TechAwe. I updated the whole /else pages, too
This is one of the greatest ‘reality’ adaptation of a video game I’ve ever seen. But it’s Halo and it’s Bungie.
Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with? Then you were clearly using the web in the mid to late 1990s when pages were rudimentary affairs containing lists of links and information.Thanks to the waybackmachine internet archive, we’re still able to see some of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 pioneers looked in their earliest incarnations.
1. google.com – launched in 1996
2. facebook.com – launched in 2004
3. myspace.com – launched in 2003
4. yahoo.com – launched in 1994
5. youtube.com – launched in 2005
6. wikipedia.org – launched in 2001
7. msn.com – launched in 1995
8. apple.com – launched in 1987 (screenshot from 1996)
9. drudgereport.com – launched in 1997
10. amazon.com – launched in 1995
11. twitter.com – launched in 2006
12. whitehouse.gov – launched in 1994
13. craigslist.org – launched in 1995
14. nytimes.com - launched in 1995
15. news.bbc.co.uk – launched in 1997
16. dell.com – launched in 1996
17. friendsreunited.com – launched in 2000
18. telegraph.co.uk – launched in 1994
19. blogger.com – launched in 1999
20. flickr.com – launched in 2004
via telegraph.co.uk
Seriously, I’m sorry for them. The only one I remember is MySpace…
Twitter sure has had its moments. And with ever-increasing numbers of celebs and celeb-watchers tweeting their lives away, the number of arguments, vulgar behaviour and people losing the plot has reached epic proportions.
Here we look at 10 of the best Twitter meltdowns. Or 10 of the worst, depending on your point of view. Got some other favourites? Tell us in the comments.
1. Perez Hilton vs Will.I.Am
Hilton usually snorts up celebrity gossip like a vacuum cleaner but in June, he was the subject of the goss. After an awards ceremony in Toronto, Perez tweeted that he had been attacked by Black Eyed Pea Will.I.Am and his bodyguards, that he was bleeding and needed to file a police report.
Within minutes Will.I.Am opened a Twitter account to retort: ‘i just made a twitter account because it isnt cool for someone to blame you and blast you with lies…’ following up with ‘this is dude is crazy…he will go to any length to get press… wow…!!!!’ Both then posted videos on their websites with wildly differing views of the events.
2. Darren Bent goes north
Epitomising the nomadic, egotistical and disloyal nature of the modern footballer, Tottenham Hotspur player Bent was determined to engineer a move north to Sunderland this summer.
‘Seriously getting pissed off now,’ he wrote. ‘Why can’t anything be simple. It’s so frustrating hanging round doing jack shit.’
Then he hit out at Spurs chairman Daniel Levy in a particularly eloquent tweet. ‘Do I wanna go Hull City NO. Do I wanna go stoke NO do I wanna go sunderland YES so stop fucking around levy.’ Nice. Sadly, he got his way but his Twitter account is no more.
3. Fry goes off on BlackBerry
Apple-loving Stephen Fry loves Apple. He really does. And its iPhone. But he HATED the BlackBerry Storm WITH A PASSION. And no, he wasn’t talking about the lack of Wi-Fi.
‘Been playing with the BB Storm. Shockingly bad. I mean embarrassingly awful. Such a disappointment. Rushed out unfinished. What a pity.’ Oops. But there was more. ‘Problems are terrible lag: inaccurate t’screen, awful, slow and fiddly text input. I SO wanted to like it… iPhone killer? Ha!’
It’s not all that bad, though: thankfully Storm 2 will pack Wi-Fi.
4. Gail Porter’s relationship woes
Poor Gail was left by boyfriend of three years James Lloyd. after which she posted a succession of sad tweets including commenting on her teary times and her boyfriend closing his Facebook account to shut her out. She then hit out at him and former husband Dan Hipgrave. Poor Gail.
5. Demi Moore’s husband in relationship faux pas
What was he thinking? (Although it was great for the rest of us.) Ashton Kutcher posted a picture of Demi’s rear end as she bent over in a bikini, saying ‘shhh don’t tell wifey.’
He had previously tweeted ‘watching my wife steam my suit while wearing a bikini. I love God!’ Moore, who has nearly two million followers, retorted ‘He is such a sneak and while I was steaming his suit too!’ In private, please people.
6. Lindsay Lohan v. Sam Ronson
LiLo and Ronson had a massive fight at LA’s posho Chateau Marmont hotel, after which they both retired to separate rooms. Then Lohan decided pouring out her heart on Twitter was the best course of action. ‘I was right all along. Cheat.’
Other follow-ups during the diatribe of heartache included: ‘PLEASE leave me ALONE. And stop staying in the room below me, youve woken me and my mother up. Go to bed. Keep cheating – u win.’ And then: ‘Ask ur sister 2 stop yelling profanity plz; stop doing drugs. Please go away & go to bed.’ Sigh.
7. Auzzie batsman lets cat outta bag
‘Disappointed not to be on the field with the lads today, will be supporting the guys, it’s a BIG test match 4 us. Thanks 4 all the support!’ Sounds innocuous enough? Well yes. Unless you’re playing in the third Ashes test against England and you’ve pre-empted the announcement of the team. Phillip Hughes = not a popular man in Oz that day.
8. US security guy over Baghdad
Yeah! I’m over Baghdad! On a secret mission! Let’s tweet! Peter Hoekstra, from the US House Intelligence Committee did just that. ‘Just landed in Baghdad. I believe it may be first time I’ve had bb [BlackBerry] service in Iraq. 11th trip here.’
US media outlets were aware of the trip, but had agreed not to cover it until departure. Hoekstra wasn’t so clever and was seriously risking lives.
9. Calvin Harris doesn’t like his review
After a storm of bad reviews for his new album, Calvin Harris went off on a big one last month. ‘RICH PEOPLE’S KIDS GETTING GOOD REVIEWS BECAUSE MUMMY FUCKED THE JOURNO IN THE 80S’ and followed that up with: THIS ENTIRE INDUSTRY IS FULL OF RICH PEOPLE’S KIDS, EVERYWHERE, FUCKING RICH PEOPLE’S KIDS RICH PEOPLE’S KIDS.’
And there was more than that, too. NOT HAPPY.
10. Lily Allen vs Perez Hilton
And as if to make a beautiful circle of Twitter madness, it’s that man Hilton again. The socialite gossiper was branded as a ‘little parasite’ by Allen after Hilton asked his followers to petition Allen to put him in her new video. ‘oh, I’m sorry, we’ve already cast the jealous and bitter lonely old queen role. Next time eh?’ she wrote in reply.
Several other barbed tweets followed, but the best was when Allen was battered by Hilton’s superb riposte: ‘If I wanted to be a fucked up Brit, I’d rather be Amy Winehouse’.
(Via TechRadar: All Latest Feeds.)
Especially in these times of hardcore Apple rumor, I’ll tweet the news, don’t worry, you’ll stay updated even though I’m trying to get some vacation.
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From the french OVH to (mt). So that’s why there isn’t anything in the blog.
