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Christopher

Member since: Oct 13th, 2006

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Mailplane 2.0: desktop Gmail client now supports Gmail video chat (Download Squad)

Dec 5th 2008 1:33PM If you're running multiple gmail accounts you're better off using Fluid to create a custom browser instance for each. (I've tested both.)

Mailplane will only show you how many unread messages you have in whichever gmail account is currently the 'active' one. That's no good if you want to be able to tell at a glance if you have new messages in more than one account.

First plug-in Priuses to hit fleets next year (Engadget)

Aug 31st 2008 11:51AM What an astonishing heap of idiocy the comments thus far have proven to be. I suppose anyone in need of a laundry list of the ignorant prejudices and irrational fears possessed by consumers who fear this kind of change could look here.

1) The fact that there is nowhere to plug these cars in, other than your home, is irrelevant. The majority of commutes in the U.S. are short enough that the entire commute could be accomplished solely via the electrical power stored in the batteries of this car. The gasoline engine is, in a way, therefore only there for long trips. The savings on carbon emissions would therefore be significant.

2) It costs far less to run a car on electricity, and produces far less carbon emissions, even when 100% of the power used to charge the car comes from coal. Don't you like saving money? Even if you think global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the red states, you'd be a fool not to recognize that, 10 or 20 years from now when the cost of plug-in hybrids has fallen significantly, it simply won't make sense to stick with a gasoline engine (unless it's in some kind of futuristic, ultralight carbon fiber car or something).

3) Are hybrid drivers really all that smug, or is your assumption that they are an alien species based more on your ignorance / fear of those whose priorities are different from your own? Or is this simply a class issue? Yes, hybrids are expensive -- that's why there aren't more of them on the road. Early adopters tend to be high-income... so what? Just because cars themselves were once a luxury doesn't mean they didn't go on to become a virtual right for every American.

Los Angeles becomes home to Tesla Motors' first dealership (Engadget)

May 4th 2008 9:38AM Also, you're wrong, the problem of the limited lifespan of the Lithium-ion batteries in this electric car (and others) *has* been solved, and I'm not just talking about some prototype, either. Google A123 battery (or pick up a copy of the latest issue of Tech Review) and read all about the crash-proof, lightweight, fast charge / discharge, long-life lithium-ion batteries they're going to put into the Chevy Volt.

Intel shows of MIDs / UMPCs aplenty at IDF (Engadget)

Sep 19th 2007 4:07PM Maybe I'm an idiot, but I just don't see the appeal of MIDs. Seriously, what's the killer app here? Does anyone actually use these things?

Global Warming: Is There a Silver Lining? (News Bloggers)

Aug 5th 2007 9:10AM Your ignorance is breath-taking. You are aware, of course, that the reason we still have an ozone layer is that they banned the CFCs (present in aerosols) that were destroying it, aren't you? It's one of the great environmental success stories of this century. So, no, it didn't just take care of itself, or whatever it is you're implying.

Live at the Yahoo press conference (Engadget)

Jan 9th 2007 12:34AM I also covered this over at the Scientific American blog (hi Barb!)

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=blogging_the_ces_why_is_everyone_using_t&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

...and I've got to say, I kind of feel like the angry ex-yahoo employee might be right. The guy giving the presentation admitted that folks simply don't use their phones for this kind of content for a reason - and then he claimed that it was that this content hadn't been presented all that well / accessibly before.

The Netscape Homepage Experience (Netscape Blog)

Nov 4th 2006 9:40AM I believe in what you're trying to do, I just don't think your implementation is all that good. Putting a frame around external links? How frikking mid 90's is that? Seriously, get some design and usability people in here.

Meanwhile, is it possible that the homepage of netscape wasn't the best place to so publicly make all your startup-esque mistakes? But then I suppose you wouldn't have any visitors at all, given the clunkiness of this interface.

Electric-hybrid 'aquatankers' could solve water shortages (Autoblog Green)

Oct 15th 2006 7:07PM Is this actually better than, say, giant sails? I mean humans *did* explore almost the entirety of the world's oceans that way, before this newfangled internal combustion engine business.

In other news, today I woke up feeling prurient. Fortunately I'm not single. Then I took a nap. Damn I was tired after last night's late-night wine-and-cheese in Murray Hill, at which my friend told me a story about the girl he just broke up with after only a couple weeks of passion. Her primary objection to being broken up with was that she'd paid for dinner on the first date--I guess she felt like he owed her.

BMW shooting brake in 2008 (Autoblog)

Oct 14th 2006 7:03PM I'll never forget the first time I rode in a shooting brake... OK so really it was a subaru outback, which has four doors. It was brand new and we took it all the way down to Miami, where some skateboarders sold us ecstasy and we munched it before walking down the beach and, eventually, basking in the waves.

In other news, today I rode bikes with my girlfriend in Prospect Park. Then we bought okra at the farme'rs market and talked to my roommate about the master cleanse juice fast.

Previously on WIN (AdJab)

Oct 13th 2006 10:41PM Good god, does Rocketboom still even exist? That thing is the Flav-a-Flav of new media.

In other news, tonight I tried to do some work, but instead I ended up reading Gawker's coverage of the Aleksey Vayner schadenfestival and eating Candy Corns for dinner. God I love Halloween.