Charles on… anything that comes along

• Technology Pundits ~ Michael Dell Jokes No Dependence on Microsoft Needed for Blu-ray HD PCs
  Michael Dell makes a good point: which was the first version of Windows to support a DVD drive? (He asked a bunch of technical journalists, who all thought they knew the answer.) The correct answer: none. The manufacturers do it. Well, I suppose they have to have something to do. But it does put the “dispute” about Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD into a clearer light: it’ll be what the customer wants, which means where the content is.
• The iTunes setting for that nano scratching problem
  Ah, so that’s where we went wrong. Now, how do you disable this?
  A nice Photoshop/Interface Builder job by Daniel.

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I’d not heard of Gorkana (are they new? I dunno) but they certainly caught my attention with the alert that dropped into my mailbox:

Damian Reece, City Editor The Independent, is leaving to join The Daily Telegraph business desk…. Roy Greenslade is leaving The Guardian after 13 years to write a media column for The Daily Telegraph which will appear in business pages.

To which - wow. I thought Greenslade would have to be carried out of The Guardian feet-first. The joke was always that no matter what marvel The Indie performed, Greenslade would manage to find a way to make it sound like disaster. It’ll be interesting to see how, or whether, that changes when he’s at The Telegraph.

The Economist: Alison Kahler has recently joined The Economist as banking correspondent based in London. Alison joins from The Australian Financial Review where she was financial services reporter and personal finance editor.

So, more Aussies coming over here.. whatsamatter, a continent not big enough? Does this mean there’s a job over in Oz?

(Numbers removed, btw, though Gorkana, being useful included them. Very interesting.)

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• Jonathan’s Question: which would you give up - your browser, or everything else?
  Actually there are quite a few apps that I wouldn’t give up… but the core of the question is how vital is your browser? Answer, of course, essential to modern working. (Seen at ongoing)
• NetNewsWire to be bought by Newsgator? (from Om Malik’s broadband blog):
  

  Richard asked about who is on the menu for Newsgator? He has many guesses and one of them is right: Ranchero Software, the company behind Mac-a-licious RSS reader NetNewsWire. Sources in Silicon Valley tell me that this deal is pretty much done, and expect the deal to be announced sometime on Wednesday at Web 2.0. Greg Reinacker refused to comment. This is going to be a major coup for Newsgator, because NNW is the default gold standard in MacRSS space. This deal would be very much of the same caliber as Newsgator’s acquisition of Bradbury Software, the maker of Feed Demon, a Windows only RSS reader. Back then, I posted this question: Will Newsgator finally buy a Mac desktop application and fill out the obvious hole in its product portfolio. With NNW, Newsgator fills that hole, and in swoop enhances the value of Newsgator Online. Syncing across the platforms? That would be nice. Stay tuned for further details!

  Wow, this would be huge for Brent (Simmons, who runs Ranchero Software, which does NNW). I’d have to hope it wouldn’t affect the marvellousness of NNW, though, where I’ve always liked the fact you can email Brent and get an answer (generally). Update 2230: yup, the deal is done. See this Newsgator page. (Seen at Om Malik’s Broadband Blog)

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• Where should you start if you want to read blogs? Here. (And how should you give presentations?) (1 August 2006; score: 44.8%)