I commented yesterday about the apparently great usability of Apple's just-announced iPhone, and now I have to ask "Apple, are you idiots?"

Someone else has had tha "iPhone" name trademarked for six years:

Of course, that someone sued Apple over it.

Apple, splitting the most infinitesimal hairs, said that because Apple's product is for a cellular phone and the current "iPhone" offerings from Cisco are VoIP (i.e. "internet phones"), Apple is not in violation because "they're different products."

I'm not a lawyer, blah blah blah, but isn't this exactly what trademark law is designed for?

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I've never had a cell phone that didn't totally suck. This is as true for you as it is for me, because they are all horrible. The only metric in which a cell phone can't rate "abysmal" is when compared against other cell phones, because there are different levels of abysmal.

For example, every phone number in America is 10 digits and of the form "(123) 456-7890", so when you type in 10 digits on an American-market phone (or bring up numbers in your phone book, or receive a call with caller id), why do most of them display a [...]

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Kodak just announced a new product, to be available in March, that has the potential to be really interesting. They announced new Wifi enabled digital picture frames that can apparently auto-update from an online source. This means that once you set it up for someone who is perhaps "techno-challenged," you can update the pictures from afar.

For the only somewhat-challenged, they can perhaps pick and choose from among images in the online gallery themselves, but you can still add to the list of images from afar. I can imagine my folks having one of these, and my [...]
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The new Dell computer I ordered a while ago actually arrived ahead of schedule, two weeks ago, but I came down with a cold the evening it arrived, and am only just feeling good enough to write about it.

In short: it rocks.

Its processor actually has a slower GHz rating than my old computer, but it's a Core 2 Duo, and each of its dual processors is much faster than a similarly-rated Pentium. It's fast. My old computer's name was "WINFOO". This one is "ZIPPY".

It showed up one Wednesday at about noon. I pulled it out of the [...]

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I've released Version 2 of my Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building script.

Here's a summary of new features:

Added the ability to populate the calendar with holiday/birthdays/etc data read from a file. Added an "auto save" feature, particularly useful when generating whole-year templates for distribution.

Summary of bug fixes:

Fixed the "weeks start on Monday" option, which had been broken when building all months in one shot. Fixed the pre-set margins and such for Portrait mode actually work properly (see an example above). It now references only fonts that come standard with CS2. I thought that's what I'd done, but [...]
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