Category: Products
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Bad name, bad placement, bad… bad.
IMAG0005, originally uploaded by toddlyons. I saw this at the Uniprix pharmacy near my workplace. I’m not sure what the marketers were thinking when they named the product. I’m not aware of too many runaway best sellers (well, any) where the treatment was named after the disease. Evidently, someone slept through that semester of university……
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Get a Grip
Get a Grip 1, originally uploaded by toddlyons. My wife loves me, This I know, For her gag gifts Tell me so. Just about ever Saturday, my wife brings me home something from the second-hand shop she works at. Often it’s clothes, but occasionally it’s a novelty gift like this one. Yeah, sometimes I do…
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Android Video Player Roundup 2010
If you’re like me, you want the latest and greatest apps on your phone, and you want them for free. Linux has spoiled me to expect top quality, nag-free, ad-free software. In that regard, Android is a bit of a letdown (as are all the mobile phone platforms, to be fair). In developing a Marketplace…
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Getting Longer Battery Life on the HTC Desire
I love my Android phone. Here’s a useful video I found that summarizes many of the techniques I also use to prolong the battery of my Desire.
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Virtual Desktops in KDE
Linux OS desktops have had Virtual Workspaces since long before Windows or MacOS—just one of the reasons I’ve been a full time Linux user for the last 6 years, with no temptation to switch back. Here’s a video demonstrating Novell’s openSUSE Linux, which is what I’m running on my main desktop at the moment.
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Is It Windows 7 or KDE 4?
People are bowled over by Linux with the new KDE 4 desktop, believing that they’re looking at Windows 7. (I’ve been using Linux with a KDE desktop since early 2005).
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Foursquare Fail Page
Latest in my series of website fail pages is Foursquare, who, late on a Sunday evening of all times, served me up this:
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Unlimited Gmail aliases
A helpful tip from Google, if you didn’t know about this already: Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to [email protected]. For example, messages sent to [email protected] are delivered to [email protected]. You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox,…
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Classic Commercial: Star Trek & MCI
The funniest thing about this commercial is how much these people loathe each other in real life. Time may never heal all wounds, but as you can see here, screen time and a paycheck can at least restore the illusion of healthy functioning.