John Gruber, Daring Fireball:
Why do people complain that Google doesn’t offer customer support via the phone? Of course they do. For their actual customers: advertisers.
September 7, 2011#
Google’s Customers
September 6, 2011#
TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over
MG Siegler:
It has almost been exactly one year since AOL acquired us. At the time, they promised not to interfere with the way we do things. For 11+ months, they’ve kept their word, and things have run beautifully from our end. Our business is one of the few sterling ornaments on their mantel. Now they may break their promise to us. And if that promise is broken, it will break TechCrunch.
They killed Engadget. Now TechCrunch. AOL’s still the same dumb company.
September 6, 2011#
“Google doesn’t get people, it sells them”
Don Norman:
“They have lots of people, lots of servers, they have Android, they have Google Docs, they just bought Motorola. Most people would say ‘we’re the users, and the product is advertising’,” he said. “But in fact the advertisers are the users and you are the product.”
Then he went further. “They say their goal is to gather all the knowledge in the world in one place, but really their goal is to gather all of the people in the world and sell them.”
September 5, 2011#
September 3, 2011#
Hilarious.
September 3, 2011#
Cloud-Backup mit S3 und Arq
Ich nutze nun seit einiger Zeit Arq um meine wichtigsten Daten zu backupen. Bisher lief das so: eine erste externe HDD für Time Machine Backups, eine zweite für manuelle Sicherung ausgewählter Daten (hauptsächlich Musik, Bilder, Dokumente). Die zweite hatte ich nie permanent angeschlossen, sondern sicher verwahrt und nur für die Backups aktiviert.
Seit ich Arq verwende denke ich darüber nach, ob die zweite Methode noch notwendig ist. Mit Arq wähle ich die Ordner, die auf S3 gesichert werden sollen, lege mein monatliches Budget fest – und fertig. Um Kontrolle über mein Upstream zu haben, backupe ich manuell. Trotz der letzten beiden Ausfälle bei Amazon und deren Cloud bin ich mir sicher, dass die Datensicherheit weit höher ist als auf einer externen Festplatte.
Kostenpunkt? Arq 2 kostet $39. S3 hat mich über die letzten Monate jeweils $3 im Monat gekostet. Ich habe derzeit knapp 40 GB dort gelagert.
Time Machine Backups werde ich weiterhin machen. Das ist schlicht zu komfortabel, um es sein zu lassen. Ich würde übrigens trotzdem nicht mein Time Machine Backup auf eine OS X Neuinstallation übertragen; dies rät auch kein AppleCare-Mitarbeiter, da einfach zu viel Caches, Einstellungen, etc. pp. des alten Systems auf ein neues übertragen werden.
August 30, 2011#
Right click delay (Trackpad, OS X Lion)
Tired of the delay when using two finger tap on your trackpad? It seems OS X by default needs this to check whether you want to right click or “smart” zoom. Luckily, you can disable this by unchecking “Smart Zoom” in your trackpad preferences.
August 29, 2011#
(via Peter Vidani)
August 29, 2011#
The Next Web: Samsung hires ex-HP VP to boost PC sales, considers buying webOS
Instead, the company is said to be targeting HP’s webOS platform after the computing giant announced it was to discontinue development of webOS devices, providing it with an additional smartphone operating system that it could use to power a new range of devices capable of competing against Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices.
Let’s just hope they won’t put TouchWiz on it.
August 29, 2011#
Chris Eidhof: On Minimalism
Excellent stuff:
A few years ago, I first read Stuff by Paul Graham. The article really resonated with me, even though I was living in a small room at the time and didn’t have that much stuff. In recent months, I have been discussing similar topics with some of my friends, philosofying about Minimalism, Stoicism and Buddhism. Since then, I have been actively trying to get rid of more stuff and making my life simpler in general.