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Monthly Archives: January 2007

Feelings on Microsoft Windows after we have not been together for a long time

Friday, January 26, 2007

I did not have to spend more than 30 seconds at MS Windows screen for several years. Now I’ve spent several hours.
1. In IE, you can’t stop flicking animated images.
2. In IE, you can’t force all fonts to be at least 12 point size. IE thinks you can not be trusted to select the font [...]

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Locking mobile phones in the USA

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The practice of locking mobile phones to a single mobile provider has become quite annoying in the United States. While the rest of the world can freely change providers by simply swapping out a SIM card, US customers are usually stuck with multi-year contracts and locked phones. Apple is continuing this tradition by locking all [...]

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