Hijinks Inc.

Category: Technology

  • Google phone official. Honest-to-goodness.

    Apparently all the speculation is confirmed.

    Google will come out in mid-2008 with a mobile phone platform that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create applications, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

    I like the fact that Google is coming right out and saying they are letting outside devs in from the get-go. Obviously a shot at Apple, but let’s face it: Apple set themselves up for that one.

    When asked about the complex and competative world of mobile technology, Marissa Meyer made this brilliant statement.

    “The mobile space is very complicated,” she said.

    We bet.

    Report: Google phone platform due out in mid 2008

  • 70% of computer repair companies don’t know jack

    While it may not be the companies themselves that are complete morons and rather their employees, they still hired them and should be held responsible.

    CBC Marketplace conducted a sting of 10 different computer companies and found that only three of them correctly diagnosed the problem.

    In the interview a former employee of a large computer repair company states that they were always encouraged to sell upgrades, I used to work for a local computer repair company, and I can vouch for this… my boss wanted me to “up sell” every appointment by $200… which is ridiculous when their problem is as simple as plugging their computer back in, or disabling a startup item. He even went as far as to recommend that if I fixed the problem in under in hour, that I should continue to pretend the problem was still their until after the second hour started (since his company billed for an hour even if you were only 15 minutes into the hour). Needless to say, I didn’t work there long.

    Video and link after the jump…

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  • Web Hosting

    I run a couple different websites off the same server and have had a few problems here and there, but lately I’ve been having nothing but problems. Recently we were moved to a new server. In that move one of my domains stopped functioning altogether and this domain started working intermittently, then all the sudden I was getting 403 Forbidden errors every time I tried to access a page. Twelve long hours later my websites are finally all in working order (for now).

    Another website I run (which will remain unnamed) lost a good chuck of its MySQL database in the move. My host didn’t have a backup of everything (even though they were in the middle of a transfer between servers), thankfully I made a backup the day of the move.

    So I’m shopping around for a new web hosts, any one have any recommendations?

  • The future is here…

    It’s the weekend, and you know what that means? Super short posts that have links to random meaningless content! Yay!

    That’s right folks… The future is here! Remember Microsoft Surface? Well the fellows over at Sarcastic Gamer have put together a beautifully crafted parody of the Microsoft Surface promo video.

    Check it out after the jump.

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  • Walt Mossberg disses on Ubuntu

    Walt Mossberg lays the smack down on Ubuntu.

    I agree that Linux isn’t right for a lot of people, but some of his points are a bit off base. For instance his complaint about having to download codecs just to play an MP3 or a video, he states that these codecs are included in Windows and OS X, however, there are quite a few codecs for both operating systems that you have to manually download and install in order to play content encoded in that format. DivX and Xvid come to mind right off the bat, neither of those formats is supported natively in either Windows or OS X. Sure MP3 support is something you’d expect out of the box, but it’s not the end of the world.