http://www.hbjzrc.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:04:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the Reuters TV segment below to see me further pontificate on all things Spore. Spore's main concepts, designing a creature and eventually building a habitat for it, are actually intellectually similar to The Sims, but the setting is much more abstract. It's much harder to identify with a ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/09/04/whats-so-special-about-spore/ And as always, drop me a line or follow me on Twitter! Hulu's success has surprised me somewhat and in today's video, I tell you exactly why.. http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/29/the-digital-home-video-hulus-success-surprised-m/ "A Norwegian master of B moviemaking is thrilled someone would actually invest the time and effort to rip off one of his schlock extravaganzas so that the Porky's crowd won't have to do without this spring...and so on and so forth." As TechDirt is wont to say, that is ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/all-together-now-long-flat-balls-for-free/ Yahoo's board has decided Microsoft's $31-per-share offer "massively undervalues" the company, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Yahoo is expected to formally reject Microsoft's offer, the Journal reported. CNET News.com's Elinor Mills contributed to this report. Update 11:00 a.m. PT: Representatives from Yahoo and Microsoft on Saturday declined ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/report-yahoo-to-reject-microsoft-bid/ The desktop monitor market is driven largely by commercial purchases, as opposed to those by consumers. The U.S. is a mature market, and the upgrade process of switching to newer crops of LCD monitors is slower here than in a market such as China, where many businesses purchasing monitors over ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/china-to-pass-us-as-second-biggest-flat-panel-mo/ The article, which was briefly available here but is now apparently offline for a while, also makes the argument that full-bore IP and domain blocks may gradually fall off in favor of more refined filtering of actual content. Aside from the fact that The Atlantic has made the lovely choice ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/china-keeps-information-in-not-just-out-with-int/ (Credit: Caroline McCarthy/CNET News.com) Mike Huckabee, on videoconference, answers questions from the audience. NEW YORK--MTV's "Choose or Lose" pre-Super Tuesday event, co-hosted with MySpace and the Associated Press, marked my first time in a live studio audience. It sure has been a trip; there are cameras just about everywhere, and MTV packed ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/in-mtv-myspace-talk-huckabee-focuses-on-economy/ Until you add a new account, you zip right to the desktop when you boot the OS, with no stop at the Welcome screen. Once you set up one or more new accounts, the default administrator disappears, though you can bring it back in both XP Home and ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/enable-vistas-hidden-administrator-and-password/ SpinVox, a London-based company that offers voice mail-to-text conversion technology, doesn't hide the fact that cell phones can be downright irritating at times. Today the company released the results of a poll of the most annoying cell phone practices as chosen by SpinVox users. Though most of the results aren't ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/top-10-cell-phone-gaffes/ (Credit: CNET Networks) [via MakeUseOf and LifeHacker] It's a free service that takes any PDF you can throw at it and reorders the pages and layout to be printable as a multipage booklet. For the sake of your clients, it's even nice enough to send you back a copy that can be ... http://www.hbjzrc.com/2010/08/24/bookletcreator-helps-those-with-pdfs-lame-printer/