Juixe Techknow

As of late I have been more active on Twitter and often I just blast tweets about gadgets, software and services. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants on tech products.

• Apple, I am so freaking tired of having to update iTunes every other week. Not even windows is this annoying.
• Since the release of the iPhone 2.2 firmware update Safari keeps crashing. Funny thing is that I still have update from version 2.1. WTH?
• I wish Firefox had the double tap zoom in and out feature that the iPhone Safari has.
• Google Chrome first impressions: Slooooooooooow, cartoon-like look and feel, tight integration with Google search, almost retro-evolutionary.
• I have Firefox, MS has IE, Apple has Safari, Norwegians have Opera, Linux has Konqueror, and now Google has Chrome.
• Google Chrome is put together from open source components. What companies will now also release custom browsers with plugin to tie to propriety services? Adobe, Mcaffee, Amazon, EBay?
• Is Google just an internet search powered ad agency? It seems that no matter what they do most of their revenue is from ads.
• The problem with the G1 is branding. The phone’s brand image is split by different trademarks, T-Mobile, GPhone, Google Phone, Android, HTC.
• Is Google Analytics slowing down the web? Every time a site is slow, I read ‘transferring data from google-analytic.com’ on the browser status bar.
• Do no evil does not equal to do some good. If you going to do some good, you might do better if you ask who is benifits from said goodness.
• My Lenovo ThinkPad goes through it’s battery faster in ‘stand by’ mode than my MacBook Pro in ‘doing work’ mode.
• The Lenovo ThinkPad on a full battery last a few days on ‘stand by’ mode, the MacBook Pro last weeks.
• Abode is the Microsoft of the PDF standard. There is no good PDF solution, the only acceptable solution is their solutions.
• The multiple shareware, open source PDF solutions have a ton of limitations. You can’t print a half decent PDF document from Java.
• Is the Download Manager the new trojan horse? Adobe, do I need a download manager for a 30MB file? Is this an acknowledgment of bloatware?
• Amazon wishlist needs an upgrade. It needs a pie chart breakdown by category, price range. It needs a search for items on the wishlist, this is supposed to be Web 2.0 for God’s sake.
• And perhaps, most importantly, Amazon’s wishlist needs to multiple delete. It can’t believe they only allow to delete one item at a time.
• I have to say, except for the keyboard being cramped and the right shift key being out of place, the Asus Eee PC is really nice.
• Vista is pretty stupid. It actually allows you to delete your recycle bin. I asked around and folks have accidentally deleted recycle bin.
• When Microsoft VP say their products runs on multi-platform, they mean Windows ME, Windows XP, Wisdom Vista, Windows Server 2008, etc.
• Okay, I had to do it, I downgraded my work Lenovo T61 from Vista to XP SP2.
• There should be a class action lawsuit for the waste of time and money that Vista has ended up for end users.
• Why don’t gadget makers standardize on chargers? Do I really need a different charger with different jacks for similar devices?

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