This is a short post, but a valid point.

As any user out there on the web, you’ve your monitor set for something like 1680 or higher, and you’ve your fast computer and everything is just hunky-dory, but the confusing part is that most sites are only created to handle or work with 1280; that’s just the way it is- It’s sad really.

Why are people torturing themselves with these itty-bitty little images and text?

It cries stupidity and it doesn’t make any sense!

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I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu the other day to my DELL M60 laptop; it’s about 5 years old and it was really struggling with life as a laptop with Windows. I had issues with power, issues with hibernation and issues with staying connected with my wireless router.

I was incurring all these problems and I figured, what the hell, what do I’ve to lose? If I screw it completely up, I’ll just reload Windows and go back to shoveling muck around; just like I was doing before.

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There’s this jockeying contest right now for who can be the best Smartphone out there and I don’t really care; I don’t. They’re advertising these Smartphones like they’re the best thing since sliced bread, but it’s not swaying me to change or do any thing special right now.

It’s not the feature set of the phone, what it can do or so much the coverage it can offer- as a customer, it’s the transference of the data/information.

And from that your asking, what am I talking about?

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I understand the concept of wanting to protect your product and self-preservation, but where’s the adherement to web standards? Why can’t you just understand there are standards and everything needs to work through a browser.

And because a person chooses to use a browser other than Internet Explorer they should not suffer a penalty.

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I read this article today about how Mozilla Thunderbird is coming together and they’re working on the ‘Universal Inbox’; this is SO MUCH what everyone needs.

And I agree with a lot of what it has to say.

I was discussing this with a friend of mine the other day about this very same problem and he posted a link to RainDrop and it’s a very good point.

People are communicating in all kinds of portals, Instant Message, email, forums, Twitter, Facebook…. the list goes on.

There has to be a way to make sense of it all- maybe Raindrop and be that answer.

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Who knows where Twitter is going; I don’t, but it has lacked organization for a while now. No filtering, not easy block people, not easy to report abusers and now they’ve released a ‘LIST’.

Twitter Lists, it’s a good idea, but so far bad execution. I follow a bunch of people [a bunch for me] and there’s no way to weed the ‘important’ to the ‘not so important’.

Thinking about it a little bit more…

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I’m supposed to be impressed with this?

I’m a customer in the year 2009 and I’m supposed to be impressed that you’ve ported DOOM [a game from almost 15 years ago] to the iPhone and your able to play it any where; are you serious?

I realize this is just a phallus measuring contest with technology, but can everyone agree that the iPhone is not a phone; it’s just a portable computer and a side function of being able to talk to people with it…

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Can everyone agree that ZIP is a standard now?

I think it’s a standard now. It’s basic functionality was built in to the Windows XP Operating System; you could open ZIP [compressed] files without doing anything.

I’ve an associate that absolutely swears by WinZIP. It’s the end all be all of file compression and all he really uses it for is opening ZIP files.

If that’s all, then there’s better options.

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