Yes, I think you're entirely correct. "Astroturf" was the first thing that came to mind when I read that summary. There's also the fact that the submitter's link is to marketing company's weblog. "Today's communication modes and methods" indeed.
Actually, iTunes will rename mp3s if you let it. I ran into the same thing when I first switched (to the Mac version). I remember having to actually listen to several tracks that had been renamed to helpful things like "-" to figure out what they were (whoever ripped them originally didn't bother getting track info first). I've since turned off the Music folder organization stuff, however, and iTunes now peacefully coexists with my own naming convention.
Interesting question, and one that occured to me while taking notes for the review. My favorite third-party utility would have to be Key Xing - it's shareware, not freeware, but it allows you to set your own keyboard shortcuts for obvious things (like applications) and less obvious things (like copying full file paths from the Finder). Perhaps the only drawback is that I'm now so used to my own commands that I find myself using them on other people's Macs.
A close second would be CodeTek Virtual Desktop, which also isn't free but does a much better job of implementing virtual desktops in OS X than any of the free options I've tried. Of course, the best of all would be if this functionality were included in the OS. Maybe it will be someday - remember when iTunes was still SoundJam?
Thanks for clarifying my sarcasm - that's exactly what I meant; I didn't realize it could be interpreted differently, but in retrospect I guess it could be read either way. (Thanks, also, for not referring to me as "he".)
Although I considered buying a laptop many, many times (mostly because I type so much faster than I can write by hand), I ended up sticking with old fashioned pen-and-paper. The main reason is the fact that I live off campus and commute to NYU from Brooklyn - I'm already carrying an entire day's worth of textbooks when I leave my apartment in the morning, and the added weight of a laptop would only add to the back problems I've already started to develop.
At NYU (and most schools), students are given the standard smallish chunk of web space on a university server, which I used to store papers in progress and other files I'd need both from home and from school - that way, I could still work on whatever I needed to from a lab between classes without having to lug around a second machine.
There's a healthy percentage of laptop users around NYU, but I'd say the majority are still sticking with notebooks. PDAs, however, are absolutely everywhere.
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I posted a review of this book today as well, available here . I came to similar conclusions - a lot of it is great, although some of it will be old news to experienced users.
That's exactly how I figure out who sings a song I hear at a club and really like. Shouting a snippet of the possibly-misheard lyrics at a friend for identification purposes can be fun as far as impromptu games of Telephone go (especially if the night's drinking has already reached an advanced stage), but Googling for the line instead is a tad more efficient.
Google hasn't announced any such thing, at least as far as removing weblog content from the main search is concerned. If you read the article, you'll note that it's Orlowski speculating about a Slashdot comment, of all things - specifically, a comment from the William Gibson blog thread. evhead posted about this Register article on Friday.
I think professorial technophobia may be relaxing a little, anyway. I took a couple years off to work and I've noticed a difference even between my freshman year and now - NYU has, in that time, implemented Blackboard, and many professors take advantage of it. It's not much more than simple templated course home pages and discussion boards, but it's somewhere to get handouts and assignments and discuss topics outside of class. It's easy for the faculty, and a lot of them use it.
In the past year, nearly all of my courses have had their own sites - either through Blackboard or set up independently by the professors themselves, on NYU servers or elsewhere. Approximately half of my professors are using PowerPoint presentations now, and most post lecture notes or make use of class mailing lists to varying degrees. It's not shockingly progressive, but it wasn't the case when I started school a few years ago.
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Yes, I think you're entirely correct. "Astroturf" was the first thing that came to mind when I read that summary. There's also the fact that the submitter's link is to marketing company's weblog. "Today's communication modes and methods" indeed.
Actually, iTunes will rename mp3s if you let it. I ran into the same thing when I first switched (to the Mac version). I remember having to actually listen to several tracks that had been renamed to helpful things like "-" to figure out what they were (whoever ripped them originally didn't bother getting track info first). I've since turned off the Music folder organization stuff, however, and iTunes now peacefully coexists with my own naming convention.
Interesting question, and one that occured to me while taking notes for the review. My favorite third-party utility would have to be Key Xing - it's shareware, not freeware, but it allows you to set your own keyboard shortcuts for obvious things (like applications) and less obvious things (like copying full file paths from the Finder). Perhaps the only drawback is that I'm now so used to my own commands that I find myself using them on other people's Macs.
A close second would be CodeTek Virtual Desktop, which also isn't free but does a much better job of implementing virtual desktops in OS X than any of the free options I've tried. Of course, the best of all would be if this functionality were included in the OS. Maybe it will be someday - remember when iTunes was still SoundJam?
Thanks for clarifying my sarcasm - that's exactly what I meant; I didn't realize it could be interpreted differently, but in retrospect I guess it could be read either way. (Thanks, also, for not referring to me as "he".)
Although I considered buying a laptop many, many times (mostly because I type so much faster than I can write by hand), I ended up sticking with old fashioned pen-and-paper. The main reason is the fact that I live off campus and commute to NYU from Brooklyn - I'm already carrying an entire day's worth of textbooks when I leave my apartment in the morning, and the added weight of a laptop would only add to the back problems I've already started to develop.
At NYU (and most schools), students are given the standard smallish chunk of web space on a university server, which I used to store papers in progress and other files I'd need both from home and from school - that way, I could still work on whatever I needed to from a lab between classes without having to lug around a second machine.
There's a healthy percentage of laptop users around NYU, but I'd say the majority are still sticking with notebooks. PDAs, however, are absolutely everywhere.
I posted a review of this book today as well, available here . I came to similar conclusions - a lot of it is great, although some of it will be old news to experienced users.
That's exactly how I figure out who sings a song I hear at a club and really like. Shouting a snippet of the possibly-misheard lyrics at a friend for identification purposes can be fun as far as impromptu games of Telephone go (especially if the night's drinking has already reached an advanced stage), but Googling for the line instead is a tad more efficient.
Google hasn't announced any such thing, at least as far as removing weblog content from the main search is concerned. If you read the article, you'll note that it's Orlowski speculating about a Slashdot comment, of all things - specifically, a comment from the William Gibson blog thread. evhead posted about this Register article on Friday.
I think professorial technophobia may be relaxing a little, anyway. I took a couple years off to work and I've noticed a difference even between my freshman year and now - NYU has, in that time, implemented Blackboard, and many professors take advantage of it. It's not much more than simple templated course home pages and discussion boards, but it's somewhere to get handouts and assignments and discuss topics outside of class. It's easy for the faculty, and a lot of them use it.
In the past year, nearly all of my courses have had their own sites - either through Blackboard or set up independently by the professors themselves, on NYU servers or elsewhere. Approximately half of my professors are using PowerPoint presentations now, and most post lecture notes or make use of class mailing lists to varying degrees. It's not shockingly progressive, but it wasn't the case when I started school a few years ago.