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One thing I always hated on my MacBook Pro was the absence of any feet that would raise the back of the computer, making it easier to type.

Thankfully Cool Feet (by Bluelounge) come to the rescue. Cool Feet is a set of medium-hard rubber feet that lifts your laptop on the back and the front, allowing for more comfortable, ergonomic position of your keyboard. It also lifts your laptop off the desk, allowing for more air circulation that provides better cooling of your machine.

Cool Feet are easily attached and held by suction cup, so no glue is needed. The pack includes continue reading…

Guys from 37 signals write about their experience with program installation on Windows Vista. To give you an idea how it works, here is only part of installation process, as described by the writer:

First I have to make sure my copy of Windows is “genuine,” which involves installing an ActiveX component (yuck!) or downloading and running a 1.35 MB program that takes 15 seconds to load and forces me to copy and paste a code into a tiny text field. Once I’m past the validation step, I click to download and run the Script Debugger installer, which leads me through six confirmation dialogs before actually starting the installation.

But the best of all is Ryan’s description of Windows:

Windows in general has been like a confused and slow person. Vista is like a person who lost their meds and is trying their best to ignore the voices

Gotta lov’em, 37 signals

A picture of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, taken in 1976.

Microsoft is launching a subscription service aimed at providing better protection for the Windows operating system, which has been vulnerable to Internet attacks, MSN reports.

Windows Live OneCare will protect up to three computers for US$49.95 a year.

I just can’t understand how people can put up with this anymore. First, Microsoft releases a product that is so flawed that it would never make a shelf in any other industry. Then they write EULA that gives you no right for any damages and puts no responsibility on the software maker. Then finally, they publicly announce that their software is insecure and that there is a paid service to protect it. But guess who do you pay to? The very software maker who sold you the dodgy operating system. So why not put it in in the first place?

We all know that America is a crazy place, we also know that their laws are absolutely ridiculous. The place where everyone sues everyone else for all possible and imposible reasons and that sometimes it gets really entertaining to watch how they make fools of themselves and ruin each other lives. But it will be the most entertaining to watch someone suing the hell out of Microsoft for “selling me a car with faulty door locks and charging me annual fee to keep my doors closed while I’m driving”. I just can’t wait the show to begin.

Japanes company Evergreen has just released the worlds cheapest MP3 player – DN-2000, costing only 999 Yen (about A$12).

The player is very small, 60x60x13 mm and it comes with neck strap and headphones but no memory. What, no memory? That’s right, it uses the SD card to store your MP3 files and supprts SD cards up to 1GB. The player uses one AAA battery and it runs for about five hours on it.

There is no display but the player has start, stop, volume up and down, next and previous song controls. It also doesn’t have shuffle function and it will play the songs in the same sequence every time. But for the price of a pizza …