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Scott Adams (Dilbert) has figured it out: computers are designed to disintegrate after 2 - 3 years so you’ll buy a new one, just like the say they do with light bulbs…

When buying a new PC with a windows xp license Microsoft adds a coupon for a Vista update, starting in October. Fair enough. But what’s the new hot feature for xp users to make them pay for an upgrade?

I was watching the last apple keynote speech last week in which Steve Jobs shows some of  the new features in the new OS x release. When watching a video, after ten minutes or so, my laptop thinks since there is no activity that the screen saver should pop up. I use the standard screen saver that comes with xp and every time it happened while watching the apple keynote it was a real disappointment to see the windows-xp logo show up.

Is there a vista video around that will have the same effect on me?

Dave Winer has a scripting news page especially for mobile viewing. I’ve been the proud owner of a Nokia N70 for some weeks now, and i can get on the internet at old-school 14k4 speed, and the Scripting News site is one of the fastest loading sites i like to check while waiting for my train.

If you want to design a website and also want it to work on mobile-devices then put the maincontent on top, and the mainnavigation just below that. I’ve tried reading my subscriptions in bloglines but that’s not working since the posts itself are at the bottom of the (rendered) page.

Just revived my blog and now am updating the first default post with Windows live writer… First impression is very good!

XoXo-outliner
Les Orchard continues working on his XoXo-outliner project, a browser based outliner that uses the opml community server for storage. There remain some puzzles to be solved…

A Simple CSS Image preloading technique
Good things tend to be so simple.

JavaScript: Rotating Cube Animation Effect
Very cool!

Google Calendar task list feature?
Garett Rogers took a look at the javascript under the hood (bonnet..) of google and found some functions for showing debugging info and some code that suggest that tasks (todo list) will be added in the future.

tags: xoxo opml css javascript google calendar

The Eirepreneur posts about google calendar sharing the author’s emailaddress in the gdata-feed…

tags: google calendar spam

I’ve been playing arround with google calendar today and must say i like it very much. Although, one thing is missing, the one thing that makes gmail so powerfull: Labels (or tags).
By adding more calendars you can of course make a distinction between your private, you work and other events but it’s not possible (i think) to add an event to more then one categories, like you can add more then one label to an email. I think that tagging or labeling would make google calendar a more powerfull product.

tags: tag label google calendar