I’ll make this brief. I was excited when Google’s Picasa was announced for Mac since I was eager to try it with my photos. Upon installing it yesterday, I noticed something very disturbing:
On initial launch of Picasa, it forces you to scan your computer for images. It gives you two choices: 1. Scan your entire computer 2. Scan specific folders such as Documents, Pictures, and Desktop (which they choose, not you)
There is no opt-out. You either scan or you force quit the program. I don’t like this. In fact, I hate it. I don’t want Picasa to know or even care about ALL of the photos on my computer. I’d like to pick and choose which it can use. I don’t like being forced to scan my computer for anything. It bothers me for several reasons that I won’t go into here.
I’m uninstalling Picasa and I don’t think I’ll run it again. iPhoto it is.
I wanted to find a site that gives me information about cool and preferably free stickers on the internet. If you search for “free stickers” on Google, be prepared to wade through a sea of spam. Rather than wait for someone to do it, I decided to spend $0.99 at Godaddy.com and build it myself.
If you are sent this message by one of you Twitter friends, please let them know they have been compromised and to change their Twitter password immediately. This is no time to relax however, since there is a new variant which is circulating today:
Again, DO NOT CLICK!! As soon as I saw it, I let my followers know and you should do the same:
Let your friends know this is a phishing scam and is out to steal their credentials. Twitter is now an official phishing pond. There will be many more variants, copycats, and more destructive behaviors.
Hey Twitter: It’s time for an API authentication fix. Now. Users have become accustomed to giving their Twitter usernames and passwords to any and everything. It’s only going to get worse.
I’ll admit, when I first saw Robert Scoble’s Tweet on FriendFeed about Tweetree, I was immediately skeptical. Robert posted that it was a decent app, but not going to replace TweetDeck for him. I saw the name, and I thought: “Great, another Twitter application that’s going to try to hack conversation context“. You may recall, I wrote about Quotably back in March 2008, and their attempt to capture Twitter conversations in a nice format.
I went over to tweetree.com and saw threaded conversations which met my expectations, but I also saw something else: Read the rest of this entry »
You know, I never thought I’d cling so much to a phone as much as I cling to the iPhone. When the iPhone was updated to version 2.0, I knew that it was going to make things worse. While many still believe the iPhone to be over hyped and not worth the time, money, and support, I firmly believe it has changed the smart phone market in a very short amount of time.
On the matter at hand. Here at the end of 2008, which iPhone applications were the most valuable players? Let’s count it down:
January 6, 2009 
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