Neo Office 2.2.2 out

Go get it here

Hopefully that bug where the office 2007 Excel files take years to open has been fixed.

Daft iPhone Owner

Taken directly from a letter sent to Macintouch:

"...Yet, at the same time, I cannot understand why Apple would refuse such a repair for a charge. The shear inconvenience of a dead phone, having to locate and travel to an Apple Store, and the paying of a fee should be enough to discourage future alterations to the phone. I can certainly say I have lost all interest in "hacks".

Why yes, there is a pay for means to have your iphone put into ship shape:

iPhone
8GB

Ships: Within 24 hours
Free Shipping

$399.00

Who knew?

Shifting Habits

Ny times auto blog about manual transmissions:

At first everyone in the conference thought he was joking. He wasn’t. His magazine isn’t a car magazine, so there’s no professional reason for him to know how to drive a stick. But I’d always thought it was a basic life skill, like rock, paper, scissors, and shuffling cards. I’d always taken it for granted.

Seriously though, Most automatic tranny drivers I know are lazy and have really bad driving habits. They ride their brakes... Oh yeah, you got to do that to keep the car from moving while in drive...right. Look, I want the car to move when I want it to move. I want to brake when I choose. I want to hold the engine at whatever RPM I choose. I want to disconnect the engine from the tranny when I want to. Get it? When. I. Want. To.

I don't care about how fast the computer can shift. I like the hand, foot, eye coordination.

New N800 Kernel

While a lot of N800 and 770 owners have been sniggering at iPhone owners who had their phones "reset" by the latest Apple update, Nokia has released a kernel patch to fix a glaring problem in it's kernel that has "bricked" many peoples SDHC cards. Of course we'll have to re-install everything we have in order to get this fix. Me. I'm waiting for a more significant update cause I'm about tired of reloading apps.

Marion Jones: Cheater

Took Steriods for two years. Lied repeatedly about it. For shame.

New Amazon Store

Amazon.com has gotten into the music download business, having already been in the CD selling business for some time now.
The store features 89c single tracks and albums from $5.99 to $9.99.

I won't go into the actual workings of the store as other sites are doing that. However I've been thinking about some things here. Is it possible that the Record companies are engaging in unfair competition against Apple?

From what Steve Jobs has said, the Apple Store uses DRM because they are under contractual obligation to record companies to do so. If that is the case why are the record companies allowing Amazon to sell the same tracks sans DRM? It would seem to me that is an unfair business practice. I would also point out the price difference but it is entirely possible that Amazon is taking a hit on their end rather than the record companies taking it on theirs.

Still though, it smells like collusion against a company to me. I mean it's not like the record companies are incurring extra cost to get product <i> to</i> Amazon. And it is pretty clear that Amazon doesn't currently have the retail moving power that iTunes has, so it's not like they are getting some kind of bulk discount. The only thing I can see is that record companies simply decided to give Amazon different terms for the same exact product in order to put pressure on one particular retailer. I thought such things were illegal. I'm probably wrong since lawsuits haven't flown but it still smells pretty bad to me.

Jilly is Released y'all

Getz ta downloadin'

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=264572714&s=143441