Steve Eley of Escape Pod lays down his Ten Laws of Twitter. #1 is probably the best: RESPECT. Every message consumes people’s time. Don’t twitter what you wouldn’t be happy to spend 10 seconds of your own life reading. But they’re all worth reading, and are applicable to more than just Twitter — Facebook wall … Read more
I love it when a geeky plan comes together. A few weeks ago I heard a story on the Geek Acres podcast about a grade school teacher who installed Ubuntu Linux on a bunch of iMacs that had been donated to his school. I have a lime-green G3 iMac at home that’s been running Mac … Read more
If you’re ever feeling like, gee, you’re just not geeky enough … try downloading some polyhedral dice icons for your computer. Available for Windows and for Macintosh. Now if only they had one that matched my glow-in-the-dark d20…
If there’s one thing I don’t like about Mac OS X, it’s that it’s all too easy to delete a printer. I’ve done it a few times when I thought I was deleting a print job. At the very least, I’d like to see some sort of “Are you sure you want to delete this … Read more
As a Mac user, I get a fair amount of flack from PC folks. Some of it was about the toilet-seat design of the original colorful iBooks (hey, I agree – those things looked awful). Some of it was aimed at processor speed (I admit it – PCs have faster processors, although gap isn’t nearly … Read more