SciFi’s new identity promos don’t help

Sorry SciFi—nay, SyFy—but these new identities still don’t justify your terrible decision.

Google Voice allows users to change numbers

Google Voice Blog: Need a new number? Just $10 to change your number—take that, traditional telecoms. But Google went above and beyond, addingsome great polish to the number change process. Your previous number will continue to work for three months. Calls and texts to both the old and new numbers will appear in the same inbox and [...]

Official Gmail Blog: Labels get drag and drop, hiding, and more

Official Gmail Blog: Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more Gmail now tries to be smart about displaying the labels you use most often, and hiding the rest under a “more” menu. You can pick which labels are displayed, however, and there is more control over handling labels from the Gmail front-end. For instance, you can [...]

The notebook is the new anchor, the iPhone is the new sail

Yep: A decade ago, my first PowerBook was a secondary machine to the desktop anchored at my desk. Now, my main machine is my MacBook Pro, but it feels a bit like an anchor now. My mobile secondary computer is my iPhone. - John Gruber, Daring Fireball: Meg Hourihan on the iPhone as a Computer

Firefox 3.5 gets multi-touch suppport, but it’s turned off by default

Be still my heart: multi-touch tab switching in Firefox! – Crunchgear What a weird feature to add in such a half-assed way. Firefox’s new multi-touch support doesn’t seem to be advertised anywhere, and you have to resort to about:blank preference tinkering to enable it.

Doom Resurrection Review for iPhone – Touch Arcade

Doom Resurrection Review for iPhone | Touch Arcade It uses a unique control style to eliminate the weaknesses of FPS gameplay on an all-touch device. Movement is automatic along a scripted path, but you use the display, accelerometer, and various HUD buttons around the screen to aim, shoot, pick up items, and dodge fire. This looks [...]

Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way

From Official Google Blog: Google Voice invites on their way: A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond former GrandCentral users. If [...]

Apple Support: Taking calls on iPhone 3GS while in a Nike + iPod workout

I’ve been wondering about this myself. Case in point: If you choose to answer the call, your workout will be paused during the call. When the call completes, press Play to continue the workout. Basically: answering a call will interrupt your workout, but turning on Airplane Mode isn’t very feasible, either. I think you can turn Bluetooth [...]

Microsoft forbids changes to Windows 7 netbook wallpaper – The Register

Microsoft forbids changes to Windows 7 netbook wallpaper • The Register Sounds like Microsoft has been taking tips from the RIAA on how to hate their customers.

Welcome to the new davebc.com

[Insert UnderConstruction.GIF] I am rebuilding this site to encompass my previous efforts at davidchartier.com and blog.davebc.com. Soon this site will be all about software tips, tech industry news, commentary, good (and bad) design, and much more.