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Archive for April, 2009
Dreaming of an Apple Netbook
Apr 30th
Everyone these days seems to be talking about Apple and their supposed forthcoming netbook – that Apple needs to release a netbook to remain viable in today’s market. The folks at MacFormat have sketched up what a potential Apple netbook may look like along with its possible specifications.
Byline, Native iPhone RSS Reader, Reviewed and Dissected
Apr 29th
If you are like most of us Miso Soupheads then chances are you double as both a Google and Apple aficionado and are all over Google Reader on your iPhone. While the Google Reader web interface is pretty snazzy in Mobile Safari it does not compare to accessing web-based services from within a native iPhone app. This is where Byline by Phantom Fish comes in to play – it’s a native iPhone RSS reader designed to synchronize with Google Reader – and it is just what the doctor ordered!
The iPhone Has Changed Mobile Computing Forever
Apr 28th
It was a cold and rainy day in the summer of 2008 when I drove to the local SoftBank shop on a mission to be one of the few lucky souls to snatch an iPhone on the first full day of sales in Japan. I was really jazzed about finally getting my hands on an iPhone because the device was nothing short of beautiful. Even with fairly advanced mobile phones widespread in Japan, nothing could have prepared me for the way the iPhone ended up changing my mobile computing life.
The Mac Experience
Apr 28th
A quick couple of months have passed since I migrated from a Microsoft Windows environment to Apple’s OS X — the experience so far has turned out to be nothing shy of rapturous.
I’m still grounded in Microsoft at work, but have no complaints doing so — it keeps me unbiased.
I’ll say this about Mac-
California Taxpayers Paid To Train Kink.com Porn Staff
Apr 27th
A racy story making its rounds from blog to blog — Kink.com’s use of taxpayer funds to drive their online porn business is most worthy and deserving of a spoonful of Miso.
We are a legal business in the state of California, said Daniel Riedel, Kink.com’s Chief Operating Officer. We follow all of the state of California laws.
Danny, come off it. You most certainly are kidding us, right?
Apple Condones Murdering Infants, Realizes It Screwed Up and Pulls App from App Store
Apr 24th
A few short weeks ago we wrote about the App Store being one huge joke after a simple update to Tweetie was mysteriously rejected for ostensible violations of Apple’s App Store policies. It should come as no surprise to see the geniuses at Apple displaying another stunning example of their utter incompetence to properly manage the App Store yet again.
Baby Shaker, an application designed to simulate shaking a crying baby, somehow made it through the approval process and landed smack dab in the middle of the App Store and controversy. The point of the app is to make the baby stop crying by shaking your iPhone really hard. If successful, the baby stops crying and two red X’s are placed over the baby’s eyes, seemingly to imply the baby has died!
Windows 7 Starter Edition Blows Chunks, Limits Users to Three Simultaneous Applications
Apr 23rd
In early February we wrote about Microsoft’s plan to offer Windows 7 in 6 flavors. The least expensive version offered, Windows 7 Starter Edition, is directed towards the netbook market because netbooks are [supposedly] not used for much other than web browsing. That in and of itself is no big deal – what is absolutely as crazy as a bed bug is Microsoft’s peculiar decision-making process: the company has implemented a limit of running three simultaneous applications in Windows 7 Starter Edition!
Viva La Vivek! America’s New CIO Assigned To Mission Impossible
Apr 23rd
TechMiso reported back in early March that the “U.S. Government Needs Visionary CIO Leadership for 21st Century Success.” At the time, it was widely speculated Vivek Kundra was to become the first CIO of the United States of America.
As expected, President Obama announced Kundra’s appointment to CIO on March 5th, 2009. Kundra’s stint as CIO however was cut short as the FBI raided his former offices for evidence related to possible financial misdoings as D.C. CIO. The FBI subsequently cleared Kundra of any implication, thus paving the way for him to work on President’s Obama’s mission impossible.
Google is Not In Danger Thanks to The Pirate Bay Guilty Verdict
Apr 21st
Late last week the verdict was announced in the most closely watched P2P related legal skirmish to date, the Swedish trial of the four administrators of The Pirate Bay. All of the defendants were found guilty of “assisting in making copyright content available” and received 1-year jail sentences and a fine totaling over $3.5m.
In the aftermath of the decision, many folks are speculating that Google might be an entertainment industry target of opportunity because the most widely used search engine provides the ability to locate copyrighted content owned by the music and movie studio. Is this really a possibility?
Why is Twitter A Beneficial Service for the Average User?
Apr 20th
Over this weekend CNN was running one of their “Quick Vote” polls and the question was, “Do you use Twitter?” The overwhelming majority of respondents, approximately 94%, answered either “No” or “What’s Twitter?” compared to the meager 6% who stated they do use the micro-blogging service. The CNN audience reflects the average user, most of whom have no clue what the service is all about. So this begs the question, what benefits can the average user appreciate from using Twitter?
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