Sony making final stand in Australia

Looks like Sony wasn't kidding when they said "We'll make our final stand against iTunes Music store in Australia". iTunes Music Store Australia launched without Sony, just like Japan. As J puts it best, "Australia is only like really important if you are playing Risk or something."

My screen is bigger than yours

A couple of years ago, people thought 17 inch LCD on laptop is too big to be a useful thing. Today, every vendor offers some configuration of laptop with 17 inch LCD. So it was only a matter of time before someone comes along and kick it up a notch. That someone is Samsung

OpenOffice 2.0 released

OpenOffice 2.0 has finally been released. This is a giant step for local mankind. Finally OO Calc can have same size spreadsheet as Excel. And the feature I miss the most from Microsoft Word, word count, is in OO Write. So download it, and at least keep it side by side with Microsoft Office.

Customized caller graphics

This is cool. Hopfully someday in a far far future we'll actaully have this in US. Heck, we don't even have ringback ringtones in US yet. Ringback ringtone is basically customized ringer for incoming caller based on caller id. Which is awesome, because I can then subject all my incoming callers to my "most likely to repeat" music.

AMD finally over takes Intel in retail

It's a long time in coming. But it finally happened. With this, we've finally come full circle. It started with AMD being the little guy, copying Intel's idea and technology. Providing slower but cheaper cpus. Then we have 3dNOW, and AMD64. Today, Intel makes CPUs that are AMD64 compatible (EMT64). And now for the first time, AMD sold more cpus in retail than Intel this past month.

Yahoo Podcasts goes live

Yahoo Podcasts is finally live. Enough said.

Everybody wants to rule the media world

Here we go again The ability to control what you can and can not do is just so important that everyone wants to rule it wil iron fist. Sony wants to prevent you from streaming, MS wants to prevent you from ripping. Both sides are pretending that the new format is due to lack of storage of the current DVD system. The reality is, they can't control the current DVD format effectively. So of course, the solution is, let's introduce more crap that's incompatible, but enable them to let you do less so they make more money. How did we go from using techologies to solve more problems to using it to let you do "less"and create more problems? The big loser in this is, sadly all of us.