Jonathan George

Welcome to the world of Reals. Learn how to treat other Reals. We can’t live out our entire life online… can we? Read more…

It’s official ladies and gentlemen. Simon Cowell wishes he wasn’t always right. If you remember back when General Larry Platt was on American Idol, Simon told him that although he was afraid that his song “Pants on the Ground” could become a very big hit, he was in fact to old for American Idol and that he didn’t really like the song. Well… Read more…

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.

Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first public gripe was in 2008, when I said that urgent changes were needed. The biggest problem is simply deleting old emails. It takes so long that I have thousands of unread and read but not deleted messages in my inbox. [via Techcrunch] Read more…

I don’t know if this should speak for itself or not. All I can say is 1. AWESOME! 2. Props for using a 4×4x4 instead of a 3×3x3.

So I’ve discovered recently that I don’t have time this Friday to do the live event.  We’ll try again at a later date.

So you may have noticed lately that a button has appeared at the top of the blog. Live. Wondering what this is? Or do you just get my emails? Find out. Read more…

It’s been announced! The brand new apple iPad. With a 9.7-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology, displaying at 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi), who wouldn’t want one? Read more…

* Twitter site has service outage
* Company attributes outage to denial-of-service attack
* Some Facebook users have trouble logging in (Adds Google, LiveJournal background, comments)

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When Google announced yesterday that it was to start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6, a million web developers will have cheered. Is this the big catalyst the “Kill IE6″ campaign needs?

IE6 is a truly hated browser amongst web developers. It’s out of date and doesn’t support many modern web technologies properly. Yet it remains one of the most popular browsers amongst users – mainly thanks to businesses who haven’t upgraded their corporate software suite in years.

So, now that Google is throwing its weight behind the movement to consign IE6 to history, will we finally see it disappearing for good? Don’t count on it. Read more…

Ok ok..  no this isn’t tips on how to “Get the Girl of your Dreams”, because frankly, I don’t have any of those.  What this really is, is some information I learned while talking to some of my friends.  But the title got you going, eh?

It all started with one of those questions.  You know, the question.  Alright, not the question, but a question; “why does it seem the bad boys always get the girls?”, which could be better translated to “Why are girls attracted to the rough bad boy type?”.  I got all kinds of input on this subject, but not a lot that I care to share in a “G Rated” environment.  My input ranges equally almost from male to female, so lets see where this goes.  These are opinions of other people, and I’m trying to understand them.  Lets try to understand together.  In fact, everything is simple (or so I’m told). Read more…

Apple just had its best quarter ever, but much of the public focus on the company is concentrated on something else: whatever it is Apple plans to announce at a press event Wednesday.

With almost $40 billion accumulated in cash, revenue topping $3 billion, and almost 9 million iPhones sold in the last three months of 2009, the much-discussed tablet is what both investors and tech fans seem most concerned about.

The company didn’t shy away from providing even more fodder for hungry Apple fans related to Wednesday’s event. In a press release about Monday’s quarterly earnings, CEO Steve Jobs was quoted as saying, ‘The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we’re really excited about.”
Until we do see that, there’s going to continue to be a parade of headlines trumpeting every latest morsel of info related to what Jobs will unveil. Here’s Monday’s round, from around the Web.” (Via CNET Tech News.)

But here’s the thing. Can apple really produce a tablet like iPhone device to replace the current Windows running tablet PC’s? There’s been some big speculation as to whether this was going to be some great service, or if it was just going to become another eReader. Certain publishers have offered up inside information about the ‘Apple Tablet’ (unconfirmed) as to what it will do and what kind of content it will host.

At any rate, we’ll all have to wait till Jan 27 to find out exactly what “big project” Apple has been working on. Until then, enjoy these nice photoshopped mockups of the apple tablet. (Via Gizmodo.)