Andrew
“Gourmet”

We’ve released our Googol Deskbar, the second version.

Most of the code rewritten an we added some features.

• Now you can check and work with your Gmail account using deskbar minibrowser
• Deskbar is compatible with Vista
• Press Ctrl+Alt+Z to rise big search box on the desktop
• Now deskbar supports flash widgets. Hope we’ll include some hot widgets in package

Download it here.

Andrew
“Gourmet”

Do you think before posting your new twit? You  should.

The conflict between National Post technology reporter David George-Cosh and April Dunford, an experienced marketing professional got famous among twitters.

David become furious after hi call April and she doesn’t return his call shortly.

April twitted about that obtaining any names “Reporter to me “When the media calls you, you jump, OK!?” Why, when you called me and I’m not selling? Newspapers will get what they deserve” .

And the battle begun:

sirdavid: @aprildunford what the fuck. I called you for comment two days ago. What did you expect when you called me back? Don’t post that shit online

sirdavid: @aprildunford furthermore, I called you several times in the afternoon. Don’t be condescending to me when I actually wanted to talk to you

sirdavid: @aprildunford how about you stop blasting personal conversations on twitter and call me back. what the hell is wrong with you.

aprildunford: @sirdavid All I did was return your call. I didn’t expect you to do anything. Wow. Like, seriously, calm down.

sirdavid: @aprildunford & then repost everything? & then hang up on me & don’t call back? I’ve recorded everything. U don’t look as nice as u put on

aprildunford: @sirdavid Dude – I never said who you were. Twitter meet David. David is having a bad day. David, meet Twitter.

sirdavid: @aprildunford hey april – fuck you. seriously. fuck you.

sirdavid: @aprildunford if u can’t handle any heat from what u post and immediate hang up, fuck u. u know my number. u call if you want to settle.

aprildunford: @sirdavid Re-read what you have just Twittered. Then re-read what I Twittered. Deep breaths David. Calm.

I like twitter

Andrew
“Gourmet”

New service is available to help you monetize your  tweets. Meet Magpie. The concept is very clear. Once every 10 your twits service insert ad tweet (they call it magpie-tweet). The text match your topic, that’s clever! You’ll be paid for that magpie-tweets. The service looks very reasonable and if you tweet a lot, I’d recommend to try it out.

Seems that very soon anything in this world will be monetized. Just imagine, 20 years later….. You can earn money by implanting BrainAd – small chip that delivers ad text right into your brain. Every 10 minutes you speak to your friends you tell small ad and get points that you will be paid for.

Do you recall Futurama, where Fry saw advertising in his dreams?

Andrew
“Gourmet”

Obama is strange person. The most strange in whole US history.
He is not from the Establishment. He has strange father and strange mother. He looks like made character. Somebody gets him out and moving forward.
Power elite understand that next administration will face with big problems and won’t keep till the appointed time. There is no any sense to put in White House somebody from own circle. He will fail in any case. They need somebody they don’t care, he will take the blow.

The most painful stage of world crisis is already begun. If US government stops emission, dollar will fall dramatically in 2-3 month. We’ll get the 1929 scenario. If they lower emission – falling down will take 2-3 years. If they make hyperinflation – the economy will crash in 1-1,5 year.
US economy will be cut by one third, world economy – by 20 percent. The planet will be in great depression in 10-12 years. The worst situation will be in US and Europe. Many people will starve, the car will be luxury.

Andrew
“Gourmet”

Have you ever bought stuff and found out that you bought piece of junk?
Have you ever saw movie that sucks and you felt that just threw your money?
Have you ever read useless book?

Yep, there is a lot of stuff that sucks.
Introducing you new web-site Sux Or Not. Vote for stuff that sucks.

Andrew
“Gourmet”

As many of you I heard about Basecamp from Signal vs. Noises. I saw quotes from this blog on many blogs over the Internet. And many complimentary words to 37signals too. Strange enough that their product is useless. Basecamp is project management tool but I was shocked when didn’t find there Gantt charts. What can be more convenient to draw project as Gantt chart? It’s de-facto in project management tools.

Sometime ago I worked as Project Manager. I used MS Project. Yes, it’s not the best tool for software and web-project management tool. But it works ok (it was prior the era of all those web2.0 apps)

I want to control project, I don’t want to think what color scheme I like and all this bells and whistles. That’s the main reason why Basecamp sucks.

The second is the biggest one. YOU CAN’T EXPORT DATA FROM BASECAMP. It’s the killer. I don’t know who’ll trust all projects to one SMALL company? It’s the silliest thing you can do being in business.

1. Your business now depends on this company. Let’s pray that this company will be stable.

2. Your business now depends on basecamp server reliability. Let’s pray that it won’t get down for ever.

3. Your data security in hands of 37signals. Let’s be honest, probability of hacking any well-known web software is more than in-house. You’ll never know that your data were stolen.

4. You can’t use any project data in other application. There is no any damn Outlook synchronization even.

Recently I found web-site WhyBaseCampSucks . There are a lot of reasons and arguments.

There is one thing that I like in BaseCamp though. It’s a loyalty of users. I’d like to have such web-site like WhyBaseCampSucks about my products. Why? Because if there is someone that really really hate your product. There is always someone who love it. Love with possession. If you take a look at BaseCamp community you’ll see that it looks like sect. And Jason Fried its leader.

Only mediocre and bad products have no haters. Haters and followers are always going along.

Money always there. Want to earn money, build something that people hates. It happened to Microsoft, Google and Dell.

Now playing: Clannad – Neansai Mhile Gra

Andrew
“Gourmet”

Mac always inspired me. Inspired me of being something hmm …. “different”. I always was a Windows user. I’m not stick with it, I just use it because I always used.

Is it something that I really like or chose? No. I use it mechanically. It like favorite brand of beer or cigarettes (I don’t smoke though). Your drink or smoke it because you got into the habit. Maybe there are better but you don’t want to experiment, you like this one and that’s fits you.

Back to the topic. Mac always inspired me. In the era of Windows 3.11 (anybody remembers that silly system?) Mac looks like something really useful and user friendly.

But I didn’t like it. Because it was sooooooo different. When I was sitting at Mac I just falling into stupor. It’s like you spoke English all of your life and you got into one of Arab country. Maybe there is sense, maybe it’s more useful. But all those hieroglyphs and manner to write from right to left got your down. You just can’t use it. It’s too difficult to you. You need to burn all that you knew and used and start from the scratch. It’s very close to find yourself in UK. Everything is different. The left side traffic kills you. You can’t drive because you always feel yourself confusing what side to turn. You can’t cross the roads because you feel yourself confusing what side to look at. You step into the road, look left, and then look right, cross it spinning your head both sides. Thirty years ago there was duodecimal system with pennies, shillings, pounds. I can’t understand this system completely. I’m sure that there is rational explanation of this system. Like everything weird in UK (I really like this country though).

The same with the Mac. Reason # 1. It’s too different.

Being on Windows side gives me a wide rang of software to choose from. I don’t want to drop software that I use for years. I don’t want to switch to another ones. I like Winamp. I like Total Commander (ex-Windows Commander) and Far (I’m from DOS era and can’t use this funny Windows Explorer). I like Microsoft Outlook, all my emails, daily to-dos and reminders there. I like app that shows me my city map along with yellow pages (there is no Mac version and there is no any on-line analogue). There are a lot of software that for Windows only. The big reason #2 Lack of software

Reason #3 Lack of support. I know that if something happen to my PC laptop I can call to local tech. service and repair it. It’ll not work for Mac. Simply because there is no tech. service in my city. I don’t know how much time it may take for repair.

Reason #4 Expensive. Mac is more expensive than PC. That’s the fact. It’s not so important reason. But when taking into account 3 other reasons – what’s the hell I should pay extra?

I will never switch to Mac. Damn!

Andrew
“Gourmet”

Yahoo!!! We’ve finally launched our adorable Googol Deskbar.

The good one tool are back now to the world from the dead.

Now web search became as easy as it was back to 2003. We hope to add many cool thing to this deskbar soon.

Now playing: Kaskade – Brighter Day (Quant Remix)

Rob
“Fop”

I love clients. I have to, because I’m in support. I find French the most funniest. You need just to read what they are writing. That’s outstanding.

“If that that will be that then …”

“Can you say me how to make return it is name in the application”

“Is what script with dimensions customer is carried out by you? ”

“Is the inscription part of the customer to alarm it to carry out or it to you me which does it?”

“the software on my waiter which configuration waiter than it is necessary ?”

“Yes pls send by frensh longuage”

Ok, Chinese, German or others also send stuff like this, but it can’t be compared to French one.

 Maybe it happens just for me?