Yesterday, our favourite black turtleneck-wearing guru published a short essay detailing his Thoughts on Flash, where he details why Adobe’s Flash will never by supported on his iPhones and iPads.
Recommended reading, definitively! It’s just hilarious.
I obviously have to admit that the iPhone, new Macs, etc. have sent Jobs soaring through the stratosphere. Unfortunately, I’m afraid his brain is now lacking oxygen…
Take a look at some of Jobs’s points:
It has been suggested that I’m addicted to Twitter. This is, of course, nonsense, as evidenced by my stats ;)
If I were addicted to Twitter, however, Lufthansa’s MySkyStatus is the Twitter/Facebook app I’d be really looking forward to use. Actually, who am I kidding? The only reason I haven’t actually used it is because I have no plans to get on a plane anytime soon.
So, what’s it all about?
I was sitting at my desk when, suddenly, someone came in the office and asked the weirdest question:
We’re working on Excel and there’s a column with order number that end with a star and we’d like to remove it. Does anyone know how?
Obviously, we all immediately responded in choir:
Why, Ctrl+H (or Edit > Replace) and you replace character ‘*’ with nothing!
Except that, obviously, it didn’t work.
…Adobe! For this magnificent dialog box in its ubiquitous Adobe Reader.
The best part is that I couldn’t even open the PDF I wanted to open, and I’ll never know why :P
Comments: Beedoo - Aug 3, 2009
I have the same :) It occurs when you open a pdf file through IE on Windows 7 ? If yes, try to download it and open it :)
Patrice Lamarche - Aug 3, 2009
This famous phrase has been used for a long time by typesetters, typographers and other professionals that need to use all 26 letters of the English alphabet. Today, courtesy of YouTube, I give you the illustrated version:
[Via Rocketboom]
I was doing the Hands on Labs from the Azure SDK the other day and one of them involves a task list that a very handy PowerShell commandlet is supposed to fill.
The problem?
Registering commandlets... Add-PSSnapin : No Windows PowerShell Snap-ins are available for version 1. At C:UsersMadd0DocumentsAzureServicesKit-FebLabsAdvancedSQLDataServicesAssetsSDSSetup.ps1:17 char:13 + Add-pssnapin <<<< AzureServicesManagement
Now, why wouldn’t there be any snap-ins available for version 1? I can see the dll sitting there and I can only assume that Microsoft released code that works.
Pierre sent me a DM to let me know that I appear for a second or so in this Microsoft video:
I’m guessing that many of you won’t watch it until the end, so I’m just going to copy the part that caught my attention the most:
I bet you didn’t know this
42% of global IT employment…
relies on Microsoft technologies.
Wow!
Finally, as a side note to myself: do not accept interviews late at night, especially if you hadn’t slept much the nights before ;)
[youtube As funny and cute as this little girl talking about Visual Studio 2008 might be, I’d be really, really scared if my kids turned out like this :P (that is, assuming anyone would actually dare have kids with me in the first place).
Oh, and did she actually test the WPF designer and XAML Intellisense? All the rest, I pretty much agree, but I’m really looking forward to better WPF and XAML support in VS 2010 ;)
Very nice video created by Melih Bilgil as part of his diploma project PICOL illustrating the history of the Internet from 1957 to 1990.
He uses the icons of his design to represent every element of the story. That and a well written voice over, make for a very interesting, easy to understand video. I’m actually considering asking my teachers to play this as an introduction to our web development classes.
Anina from 360°Fashion seemed to go a bit off-topic this week at Le Web when she asked one of the Google executives when we could expect to see task or “to do” lists in Gmail. Well, by what I can only hope is coincidence, it would seem that she wasn’t that off-topic after all. Today Gmail Labs is launching task lists and text messaging within Gmail.
With a keyboard shortcut to create tasks from mail (Ctrl+T) this is exactly what I needed.
