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Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure

Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure

By Adron Hall on July 5, 2013

Yesterday I received my X1 Carbon Touch from Amazon. First part of this whole adventure is that I sent it to my old address in one part of town so that led to a little sleuth action to track it down. After a short bike ride up the street I arrived and the office staff …

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Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged Apple, brick, broken, carbon, fail, great tech support, hardware, how-to, lenovo, linux, Microsoft Windows, My Updates, operating system, tech support, thinkpad, ubuntu, windows 8, x1

How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step

How to Lose Your Work in Gmail in One Simple Step

By Zoli Erdos on April 30, 2012

I’ve been planning to come back from my “blogging hiatus” (code for writers’ block) with a more substantial piece.  After all, my drafts folder is full of half-baked, abandoned posts. But hey, no better incentive to write then frustration! Have you ever seen this error? Yes, I’ve just finished composing email, hit SEND, and thought […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged email, fail, GFail, gmail, google, google apps

Future Prediction Epic #FAIL!

Future Prediction Epic #FAIL!

By Adron Hall on March 19, 2012

A quote from 1995 in Newsweek, “Newsweek magazine in 1995: “Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic. Baloney. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Darth Vader, epic, fail, Funny Bits | 2 Responses

Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers

Nothing says Information Security Fail quite like 75000 compromised computers

By Dan Morrill on February 18, 2010

Information Security people in companies worldwide are reeling this morning with the news of just how large the Google break in was, and the sheer number of company’s and computers compromised in the latest round of attacks. Nothing says “Information Security Failed” more than this simple number, 2,500 companies, 75,000 computers and counting, and hundreds […]

Posted in Security | Tagged botnet, call to action, certification, education, fail, industry, information, intellectual property, Intellectual Property Protection, Security, training | 2 Responses

The Lego Internet

The Lego Internet

By Dan Morrill on October 16, 2009

Jessie Stay over at Staynalive brings up the idea of the Lego internet, where large companies are busy making widgets, API’s and other building blocks that designers and developers can leverage in their own applications. Jessie mentions that the Building Block internet might just be a way to visualize Web 3.0 which is not a […]

Posted in Security | Tagged api, Apple, Application programming interface, facebook, fail, google, idea, microsoft, myspace, sla, Social network, Technology, twitter, web 2.0 | 2 Responses

*Chirp, the Twhirl-killer Wannabe. DOA.

*Chirp, the Twhirl-killer Wannabe. DOA.

By Zoli Erdos on January 28, 2009

Gotta love new killer apps – like Chirp – actually, it is  *chirp – the Twhirl-killer mother-of-all Twitter Clients.  Only for Vista – oh, well, if I am stuck with Vista, for once in my life let this be a benefit – let’s try this baby. First installation attempt crashes Windows Explorer.  Not a good […]

Posted in Product reviews | Tagged chirp, fail, failed launch, failure, launch, startups, twhirl, twitter, twitter client | 2 Responses

Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration?

Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration?

By Zoli Erdos on January 20, 2009

O-Day was supposed to be the first US Presidential Inauguration largely available online. 54% of our readers are based in the US, and it’s probably fair to say the lives of others will also be affected by the change of guards in the US,  so I thought it was a good idea to provide the […]

Posted in General | Tagged fail, failure, hulu, inauguration, o-day, obama, streaming video

How Do You Tweet that Twitter is Down, when Twitter is Down?

How Do You Tweet that Twitter is Down, when Twitter is Down?

By Zoli Erdos on November 18, 2008

Twitter homepage: Has the Fail Whale retired?   Will the Maintenance Worm become as popular a brand as the Whale is? Related articles: Twitter is Down! (I forgot how much I miss typing that) Caterpillar Cone: The new Fail Whale for Twitter? Simultaneous Downtime for SmugMug and Twitter

Posted in Design | Tagged brand, fail, fail whale, twitter

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