According to this system requirements page, all of Microsoft's fancy-shmancy new cordless-intelli-wheely-eye-mouse products need 30 MB of available hard disk space! For installing a mouse driver? Is this just code bloat, or another nefarious scheme to infiltrate our personal data? Cleverly disguised mouse drivers that secretly send password files and system configurations to Redmond. On the up side, the Mac version of the software only requires 15 MB of disk space.
posted by grant
on Dec 13, 1999 -
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Ever noticed that the also-rans who have yet to be acquired by one of their peers seem to glom together like cornmeal in water?
Take a look at who Be is partnering with for their Stinger internet appliance software:
Bitstream - clearly a runner-up to Adobe in the typeface technology department; and
Opera - who are trying desperately to be the alternative browser of choice. Who's next? Corel, and their latest BeOS port of WordPerfect?
posted by grant
on Dec 9, 1999 -
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The Attorney General's Office just released the results of it's
sixth annual holiday scanner accuracy survey (betcha didn't know you already missed five of these puppies, eh?) The survey unearthed an overall scanner error rate of 16.8 per cent, of which 85 per cent of the errors were overcharges. I always thought those cashiers at Sears looked shifty.
posted by grant
on Nov 24, 1999 -
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Palm Buddy lets you view and install files on your Palm using a slick Finder-like window. It also does file conversion, but doesn't sync. Nice. Here's
a screen shot.
posted by grant
on Nov 22, 1999 -
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