With iOS, Android, and other platforms, we see some sites creating a native applications. What's interesting to me is that this idea of optimizing the end-user's experience could have been done ages ago by creating applications that interact with the web on Windows and OSX. My guess is that it just wasn't practical at the time.

For probably the first time in a VERY long time, I have decided to choose my next "main" desktop computer as a Windows machine. While most people update their computers every few years, I usually have bought a new computer every year. My last computer was a 3.02GHz Intel Dual Core iMac 27" which was bought about 2 years ago. Although the computer is still running okay, I cannot stand lag. Although I am a programmer at heart, I also all types of media development and editing (motion graphics, sound editing, etc). So while waiting for a redesign and spec bump in the iMac lineup, I ran into a gaming case, the Thermaltake Level 10 GT. For some strange reason, it just looked really geeky and attractive to my eyes.