Daily Archives: July 20th, 2007

The Jing Project: Screen captures, Screencasts and Sharing

My job as Tucows’ Tech Evangelist often requires me to take screenshots and screencasts. Although Mac OS X (Tiger) is my primary laptop OS and Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) is my primary desktop OS, I shoot and edit screencasts on Windows because Camtasia is the one screen recording app that does the job for me.
TechSmith, the [...]

Guitar vs. “Guitar Hero”

Click to see the comic on its original page.
Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this:

One Lapdance Per Child

Sometimes I write a blog entry just for the sake of getting a funny title out there. This is one of those times, thanks to this report: Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops.
(With apologies to the fine people at the One Laptop Per Child project)

Facebook is the new…

Jason Kottke wrote that Facebook was the new AOL. Dave McClure disagreed and said that it’s the new Visual Basic, Brandon Paddock disagrees with both of them and says that it’s the new Windows.
According to a Google search for the phrase “Facebook is the new”, Facebook is the new…

AOL
Apple
data black hole
internet
social platform
Eclipse hangout
MySpace
Google
social networking darling
hockey
way
Twitter
Craigslist
WWW
journalism
net [...]

Facebook is the next…

According to a Google search for the phrase “Facebook is the next”, Facebook is the next…

Broadcast.com
Google
Big Thing
big IPO
frontier
Microsoft
Friendster
big web evolution
MySpace
level in the way kids are interacting
best thing to sliced bread
big thing in presidential politics
SharePoint
Wordpress
Orkut
site to be sold
shift that we are witnessing
target
thing in the UK
barbed-wire camp