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Blue Screen Olympics

August 13th, 2008

Perhaps this is simply Microsoft’s idea of “product placement”, as the BSOD is one of the more recognizable features of Windows, and perhaps transcends all language barriers.

From Windows BSoD takes the Gold at macenstein

Product placement just does not get much worse than this… The picture below is from the official opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympics Games. Yes I know, it’s not really Mac related news. But the picture will most probably make most Mac users smile at least a little bit.

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Flickr Phones

August 13th, 2008

In many ways, the iPhone’s success on one of the Internet’s most popular photo sharing services isn’t surprising: its ease-of-use makes taking photos and e-mailing them to Flickr extremely simple compared to many obnoxious mobile phone interfaces.

From iPhone atop Flickr’s cameraphone list once again at ars technica

Despite having one of the worst mobile phone cameras on the market, the Apple iPhone is the clear leader in number of picture uploads to Flicker from mobile cameras. Unlike ars technica however I don’t think it’s all about functionality though; with mobile camera images approaching megabytes in size a mobile data subscription is really needed to simplify online distribution. And having an iPhone without a mobile data subscription is kind of like having a car without fuel.

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