This applies to those of you who put “social media expert, “social media guru”, “social media consultant” or “social media specialist” on your LinkedIn and other social media profiles. Who are you trying to fool?
There is no such thing as being an expert in social media. Just because you know how to tweet and create a Facebook account does not make you an expert.
My 14 year old sister knows how to do all of that, I guess she should drop out of school and start doing full time social media consulting, she is an expert after all, right?
Remember back in the day maybe late 90’s / early 00’s when you installed Windows automatic updates and you had to restart your PC after they were done? It’s 2011 and yet I still have to restart my machine after some new Windows hotfix downloads, why?
I propose a soft reset instead. All your programs would close, you would be logged out and your machine would apply the updates and then you log back in. It’s a pain in the ass waiting for my PC to restart when it shouldn’t have too.
The Zune is finally dead.
After years of haemorrhaging money and trying to compete with the iPod, Microsoft are finally killing off the failed Zune media player.
Don’t cry too much my much loathed nerds, they’re going to incorporate the Zune media player software into Windows Phone 7.
In true Microsoft style, they just won’t let a product truly die. At the time of writing this a Zune HD 16gb will still set you back over $300 on eBay, a device that was released in 2009 still costs $300? No wonder the Zune failed.
Freedom of speech for the win. Sony are trying to remove this code from the internet because it effectively lets you sign any piece of software to run on the Playstation 3 console as if it were 100% legit without the use of firmware hacks and exploits. This is the equivalent of a master key, it unlocks the entire console allowing you to install anything.
The image below is a screenshot of someone tricking a faux representative of Sony into Tweeting the Playstation 3 security key for all to see on the internet.
Nobody uses IE7 any more (well 91% of people on the internet at least). Sure, your mother probably still uses Internet Explorer 7 because she’s stupid and doesn’t know anything about computers (you still have to show her where the power button is sometimes), but the market share of IE7 is currently sitting around 9% – I think it’s time we drop this archaic piece of shit.
Whoaaa, wait just a minute Dwayne. My mother uses IE7 and she thinks it’s great! if you were any smarter than your mother you would upgrade her browser while she was in the kitchen cooking your dinner. But the dramatic change of the icon for Internet Explorer might be too much for her, or perhaps you’re just making excuses.
Did you upgrade to iTunes 10 and discover that when you connect to your AirTunes what once was normal volume levels are now non-existent? I spent days trying to find out the problem.
I would connect to my AirTunes like I normally would but I would have to turn the volume up on the amplifier all the way just to hear my music (well, barely hear it). Turns out Apple introduced some volume control panel in iTunes and by default the volume of AirTunes is almost all the way down, wtf?
When the amazing content-aware fill feature was announced a little while before CS5’s impending launch the first thought that came to mind was, “Am I going to be able to remove watermarks from iStockPhoto images with it?” So when a copy of Photoshop CS5 recently fell into my lap, I decided to test this theory out.
Below are images with both the watermark and watermarks removed from the images, no more than 3 or so minutes was spent on the images. I’m sure with a little bit of time spent on using the tool carefully, you would get a much better result.