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The Grouse Weighs in on Wolfram
Wolfram AlphaHIDEWith the collective brainpower of Google, Wikipedia, and IMDB always just a few keystrokes away, is there really a need for another source of knowledge, factoids, and trivia on the...
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Bing Is Pretty, But Is it Any Good?
BingHIDEThe Grouse takes a chance on Microsoft's Google-killer Heard of Bing yet? If not, you soon will. Backed by a reported $100-million-dollar promotional campaign, Bing is Microsoft's latest grasp...
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At WWDC 2009, a Few Bad Apples
WWDC 2009kalleboo (CC Licensed)The Grouse finds the latest round of announcements from the glowing giant underwhelming, to say the least Now that I've had a day or two to digest the rapidfire assault...
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The Kindle: We Can Rebuild It. We Have the Technology
Kindle DXHIDEThe Grouse plays with the new Kindle DX. It could be better in oh, so many ways This week I put some face time in with Amazon's latest print assassin, the Kindle DX. I was a big fan of the...
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The Curious Case of Flash on the iPhone
iPhone, Flashified? Will it happen? Does it even make sense? Earlier in the week, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that a mobile implementation of the full Flash Player 10 would be making its way...
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How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People: The Revenge!
American Shad1904 print by Shermon F. DentonOr: why does Google hate this fish? Welcome to another installment of The Grouse's semi-annual lambasting of poor practices on the Web. When I compiled my...
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Ten Computing Tasks You Won't Be Doing With Chrome OS
Google Chrome OSDeath knells for the desktop operating system as we know it are exaggerated--here's why most users won't be making a total switch to Chrome OS any time soon When Google pulled the lid...
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How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing
The Mythical Apple Tablet, Imaginedvia GizmodoHint: the mobile network providers are involved Though whispers of an Apple tablet device practically predate Australopithecus, this week they've reached a...
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How About Cash for Tech Clunkers?
Clunkerdno1967 (CC licensed)This week, Uncle Sam's gas-guzzler gold rush was officially put to sleep. With some 800,000 fuel-efficient cars sold in the months of July and August, you'd be hard pressed...
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Why 4G is Nothing More Than a Band-Aid (and Why the FCC Isn't Helping)
ATT's 3G Northeast Coverage 3G is in blue. On vacation on Cape Cod, my now-insatiable need for constant connectivity provides a revelation Besides world peace and a visit from the Publishers Clearing...
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Mourning the Death of the Meta Media Experience
Touching StaticJason Rogers/FlickrFace it: On-demand is the future of TV. But is passive channel surfing and collective viewing something we won't know the value of until it's gone? I tend to think of...
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The Grouse's Wishes For a Happy, Techy 2010
Goal For 2010: More Stock ImagesThere goes 2009, and what a year she was. Let's see, the iTunes App Store eclipsed one billion downloads, Google surprised us all with the announcement of Chrome OS,...
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The iPad's Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
Hoist the Mighty TabletIllustration by Nate DeYoungRemember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom...
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Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6
Burying IE6Aten Design Group's IE6funeral.comIt's the bane of designers everywhere, and it makes most modern sites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of Web surfers still using it? Today was...
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It's About Time: Satellite Video Delivery That Finally Makes Discs Obsolete
Get It: XStreamHD Starter Pack From $400 (plus $10/month and cost per title); xstreamhd.com SatoshiIf your video store isn't already six feet under, XStreamHD will finally put it there. The company is...
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The Grouse Weighs in on Wolfram
Wolfram Alpha HIDE Wolfram|Alpha ... what a name, huh? And I mean that in the worst way possible. Dismal chances of ever entering the lexicon aside, there's a lot of excitement surrounding...
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Bing Is Pretty, But Is it Any Good?
Bing HIDE Heard of Bing yet? If not, you soon will. Backed by a reported $100-million-dollar promotional campaign, Bing is Microsoft's latest grasp at double digits in the war for search engine market...
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At WWDC 2009, a Few Bad Apples
WWDC 2009 kalleboo (CC Licensed) Now that I've had a day or two to digest the rapidfire assault of product updates that was the Apple WWDC 2009 keynote, I must admit I'm less than thrilled with what...
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The Kindle: We Can Rebuild It. We Have the Technology
Kindle DX HIDE This week I put some face time in with Amazon's latest print assassin, the Kindle DX. I was a big fan of the original recipe, despite what I'd call some minor design flaws. But I always...
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The Curious Case of Flash on the iPhone
iPhone, Flashified? Will it happen? Does it even make sense? Earlier in the week, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that a mobile implementation of the full Flash Player 10 would be making its way...
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