… and more on my flickr.

kylecooper:

For those of you playing along at home, yesterday at around 6 pm I received a hilarious wrong number voicemail from a girl heading to her ex's place to pick up her stuff.

I tried to call her back but the phone just rang and never went to voicemail. Likewise a text I sent went unresponded to. So she calls around 11 am this morning and I miss the call because I'm hardcore nocturnal and went to bed at 9 and slept like a baby until 4 this afternoon.

Now, thanks to the power of Google Voice, I present to you:

The Greatest Voicemail Ever Pt. 2

be sure to listen to the first part… first. Totally awesome!

Mary, they are getting closer to the teleporter you asked for…. (via davemorin)

Former Vice President at Microsoft discussing how Microsoft internally stifles it’s own innovation:

For example, early in my tenure, our group of very clever graphics experts invented a way to display text on screen called ClearType. It worked by using the color dots of liquid crystal displays to make type much more readable on the screen. Although we built it to help sell e-books, it gave Microsoft a huge potential advantage for every device with a screen. But it also annoyed other Microsoft groups that felt threatened by our success.

Engineers in the Windows group falsely claimed it made the display go haywire when certain colors were used. The head of Office products said it was fuzzy and gave him headaches. The vice president for pocket devices was blunter: he'd support ClearType and use it, but only if I transferred the program and the programmers to his control. As a result, even though it received much public praise, internal promotion and patents, a decade passed before a fully operational version of ClearType finally made it into Windows.

While to most is seems like “fanboy-ism” to love Apple, and hate Microsoft, in reality it’s just that we Apple “fanboys” noticed the shift in the way products were developed / executed long before normal computer users.

For a while there Microsoft was developing new / cool products that were superior to anything else on the market. Windows 95 was huge. Microsoft Office was coming out with newer better versions regularly. Then for whatever reason, possibly for the reasons mentioned in this article, they just stopped. You saw other companies coming out with the new cool product or software. You saw Firefox come out with tabbed browsing (no longer had to minimize 5 windows, just one window with 5 tabs) and wondered why when IE would come out with something similar (several years later). Apple was releasing cool hardware and software that didn’t require a computer science degree to keep from slowing down in 3 months. Microsoft was left in the dust.

People often stick up for Microsoft when I start Apple praising and I think it’s because for so long, they were the game changers. It just happens that now they are not, and someone else has stepped into that role. Who knows, in 10 years it may be Apple that has become stagnant and Microsoft is the innovator.

khump:

poor rusty…

This cracks me up every time

In search for something unrelated, I decided to stick my hand down in the couch where no one has in a long time. The first handful made me interested to look for more.

This is everything I found.

My favorite is the Ace. Someone’s been cheatin’

Why I Don't Check Voicemail Anymore

Google Voice FTW.

AMEN!

Coal Mine Branch Falls, Alabama, USA

(via nwbama)

Must find.

caseyliss:

How happy would it make your grandparents if you said "Not only do you not have to worry about a whole computer, but [thanks to your 3G enabled iPad] you don't have to keep paying for your cable modem (or in the case of my grandparents, WebTV). Oh, and PS, when you come to visit or go on vacation, you are still online. And also, it will actually make having a digital camera easy."

This is, in my eyes, the ultimate Grandma computer.

I love this idea to replace Mama Nell’s computer… except for one thing. She has a collection of documents that she has scanned and saved on her existing computer that she likes to print. I haven’t seen or heard one thing about how she could use the iPad and print documents. Maybe after it comes out someone will get that working.