{"id":494,"date":"2006-10-26T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/the-dork-report-for-october-26-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:58","slug":"the-dork-report-for-october-26-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-october-26-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for October 26, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The MyDreamApp winners<\/a> are in, and scores of Hijack lovers (why, why?) are sticking out their lower lips and crying foul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adobe Soundbooth<\/a>, a free beta until February 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street seems to think Apple can do no knong these days, but in the bad old years there was plenty of wrong to go around: Apple\u2019s Missteps: 8 Products that tanked<\/a>. Who know Apple tried to enter the digital camera market in 1994?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The MyDreamApp winners are in, and scores of Hijack lovers (why, why?) are sticking out their lower lips and crying foul. Adobe Soundbooth, a free beta until February 27. Wall Street seems to think Apple can do no knong these days, but in the bad old years there was plenty of wrong to go around: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-7Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-9-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":494,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for November 9, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jasper Hauser on designing Disco's icon. 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More of the amazingly intricate DaVinci Code product placement & online marketing. More 80's TV trash coming to the screen with Knight Rider. Goliath gets a shout-out, but what about KARR? 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ThinkSecret throws some cold water on Apple fans' iPipe dreams. A slew of exciting new trailers: Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.","rel":"","context":"In "The Dork Report"","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":566,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-1-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":494,"position":3},"title":"The Dork Report for January 1, 2007","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"John Siracusa goes to town on .Mac (spotted on Daring Fireball). Yes, it's expensive, painfully slow, and sometimes unreliable, but I am still totally and utterly wedded to it. I don't want it dead, I want it fixed. 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This situation will not alter in the next twelve months.\" Even if nothing comes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Dork Report"","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":376,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-16-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":494,"position":5},"title":"The Dork Report for August 16, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black (no longer online: veer.com\/ideas\/btt). 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