Archive for January 17th, 2007

Burning Sensation in my Laptop

Recently the hotly anticipated expansion for World of Warcraft, thewow_1007.jpg Burning Crusade came out. I got the chance to play it and I was blown away by the improvements made to the game play. The following are the top three coolest new additions to the game.

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iTunes 7 Crashes and Freezes, or How to Ruin the User Experience

Apple gets a lot of credit for putting effort into the user experience. Many attribute the success of the original Mac, iPods, the iTunes Music Store, iBooks, and their other products to ease of use.

But building a brand based on user experience can be much harder than, say, a brand based on low prices (like Dell) or ubiquity (like Microsoft). Because it doesn’t take too much to go from “it just works” to “it doesn’t work,” which has been my experience with iTunes 7. The worst problem: it freezes up whenever I don’t have an internet connection.

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