Why Everyone Is Wrong About Gas Prices

Everyone, of course, blames it on running out of oil.  what they ARENT accounting for is the fact that while the price in US dollars has nearly quadrupled recently, the price of a barrel of crude oil in euros has barely doubled in the same amount of time.  Had the dollar stayed even with the euro, gas would be under $2 a gallon.  so don’t blame bp, don’t blame the people providing the oil, don’t blame George Bush (well…), blame whoever’s bright idea it was to stop investing in the dollar.

This Blog Is Once Again In Use.

yay.

New Samsung Instinct – Biased Much?

Have You Seen The New Ads For The Samsung Instinct? The Instinct is the only real iPhone competitor, maybe other than the Blackberry. However, the advertisements make it look like the iPhone is caveman technology. Most noteably, the GPS advertisement. When finding your location, the iPhone gives you a large circle around where you are. The Instinct gives you the exact location. However, the iPhone has extra features. You can then drop a pin at where you are, where you want to go, view traffic, etc. Does the Instinct? Nobody really knows, but if they did, you would think they would show them off. Unless, of course, the iPhone’s are better.

Clipboard Extension

You know the feeling.  You find a cool website that you want to share with your friends.  You copy the website address and close the window.  Oh, look!  Another cool website!  Let’s copy that address too.  Ok, I have an email open,  I hit paste, wait, where’s the first item?  Or maybe you found an awesome picture, or 2, or 4, and you copy them so that you can close the windows, unclutter the screen.  Oh, but wait, all the other photos are gone except for the last one!  Well, for Windows users, there’s Clipx. ClipX saves everything in a queue – whether they are screen shots, text captures or even images that you copy to the clipboard from the browser. You can then access these individual clips via hotkeys.This software is totally free. On the Mac side of the story is what I always use: PHP Pasteboard. PTHPasteboard 4 adds a number of exciting new features.
-Settings are now controlled via a Preference Pane in System Preferences
-Search field now available on all the Pasteboard windows
-Access information on Pasteboard items by right/control clicking on any item
-Paste formated text as unformatted by middle/command clicking on any item
-Vastly improved HotKeys support
-Fully integrated Mac OS X Help
-Ability to choose menubar icons for Custom Pasteboard windows
Best of all it’s free, or you can buy the pro version for $24.95, which adds filters, syncing, and more.

iPhone 3G – Twice As Fast, Half The Price, Still No Word Documents

Unfortunately, The Apple Designers Have Overlooked The Fact That We Want To Be Able To Use The iPhone for writing, instead of just looking at it.  Luckily for us, there’s Glide, which offers the ability to write documents, in addition to many other features. It is also compatible with many other devices, including the iPod touch. Speaking of which, the iPhone is now $199, but the iPod touch is still at $299. Obviously, the price of the iPhone was influenced by the new Voyager price ($200, what else), but still, no one will buy the iPod touch if they can get an equally capable phone for 2/3 the price. Actually, I’m tempted

Let’s Get Things Straight…

Although I do have a Mac at home, I am not going to use that as an excuse to shun Windows.  I love my Mac, but that’s only because I don’t use Windows very often.

Turf War

This Is Based Upon The (Unextensive) Information That I Could Find, So It May Be Inaccurate.  This, However, Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story.  

:::MACS:::

-[In the desktop segment,] they’re up 45 percent. The [overall] market is down 20 percent. Windows desktops would be down 25 percent.

-In notebooks they’re growing two times the market. Windows notebooks are pretty much flat right now.

-Apple holds a 66% share of the retail market for computers that sell for $1,000 or more.

-Of the sub-grand market, Apple-branded computers account for a “mere” 14%.

 

:::LINUX:::

There isn’t much about Linux that I can think of, except that I suspect an awful lot of servers – and home computers – get counted as Windows machines because that is how they were sold, even if they now run Linux.

:::WINDOWS:::

Nothing Current, As Their Sales Aren’t Getting Better, But Still…

Two interesting market surveys indicate that Windows has actually gained market share in the most recent quarter, even though PC sales have almost flattened and will likely grow at an abbreviated rate through 2003. According to market researcher OneStat.com, Windows now controls 97.46 percent of the global desktop operating system market, compared to just 1.43 percent for Apple Macintosh and 0.26 percent for Linux. OneStat.com says its figures are derived from real-time global Web site analysis, and are an average of the past two months. EST Sep. 10 2002