Crooked Spin

Archive for October, 2007

Computers

October 4, 2007

antiCAPSLOCK

apple’s antiCAPSLOCK (Via John Rentzsch.):

Unique among the rest of the keys, Caps Lock doesn’t activate immediately upon strike. There’s a very small time window — perhaps a quarter of a second — where if you release the key inside the window, the keystroke is ignored.
But that’s only part of the conspiracy. The Caps Lock [...]

Computers

Don’t Bounce Spam

Daniel Jalkut:

I remember using that “Bounce” command in Mail.app a few times many years ago. My intentions were good: to convince spammers that my email doesn’t exist and they shouldn’t bother. But I always sort of wondered whether it was worth it, and whether I would sufficiently fool the sender that my email address no [...]

Computers

October 2, 2007

Out to Pasture

Don Reisinger:

While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once [...]