Archive for January, 2008
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Time/CNN reports about Vinyl making a comeback. Reality is Vinyl has never really left.
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No Comments »OK, so I’m not the most organized person in the world. But one thing I did do is set a schedule of when to do things. I get reminders to pay bills, send greetings, get my car serviced and yes, I set a reminder to clean. And that is what happened today.
It was a good thing because I was sitting at the computer wondering what I should write about for this week’s Focus. I thought, "Yeah. Change of pace and I might get inspired about something in an article." Little did I know the answer was sitting in front of my face the whole time.
Cleaning.
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Google at 20 Petabytes a day
Amazon to add BMG Music
OLPC Falling apart?
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I remember when I got my first MP3. It was 1999, and I was pulling it from a P2P site that doesn’t exist anymore. That, well, and the entire collection of photo shopped Brittany Spears pictures. Back then, rights were being trampled and we did it because we didn’t know better.
Nowadays, we have people right and left telling us that downloading music is not legal. Some people have turned to legal methods of music acquisition – 99 cents per song, or through a subscription service like Napster or Rhapsody. Others decided to take their chances and continue downloading and trading music. And because of this, companies have begun the attempt to curb the illegal download of such music. But as they did that, both artists and consumers rights were getting trampled, which lead us to ask the question: Does DRM actually work?
No Comments »Site Changes – Flash Drive Winner – Vocalo.org – Special Report this week – I forgot to
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CES:
Bill Gates Keynote
TechPodcasts Back
Channel
Buglabs.net
832 gig SSD
8 Core Mac Pro
Spammer Arrested – CNN
Quantum Computers? – National Post
OLPC and Intel Part – NewYorkTimes
RealPlayer Security Flaw – PCWorld
Microsoft fixes Critical flaw – Cnet
Apple Bullying Microsoft? – CNNMoney
On the Geek
Comcast Open-cable Platform – Cnet
Network Solutions Hoarding – DomainNameNews
CompUSA Sold – PCWorld
Hollywood goes BluRay – Wired
Microsoft Stands Behind HDDVD – BetaNews
Yahoo on Mobile SDK – Ars Technica
Yahoo Rebuilding – eWeek
Copying CD’s made legal? – BBC
Mozilla’s new CEO – InfoWorld
The Queen Wii – people.co.uk
Of Note:
Laser TV
1 inch thin Plasma
Hack your XBox Fan
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No Comments »Last years’ Consumer Electronic Show brought a bevy of new gadgets – some
really changed the way we use electronics. This year, CES is starting up and so
far it looks like we might have another winner. Like last week, I
polled the Techpodcasts panel to get their thoughts of what they expect from the
show.
1 Comment »Andy McCaskey and Todd Cochrane are out at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. They will be sending tons of video. You can watch the coverage here on Geekazine! Just hit the ‘Play’ button and it will scroll through all the great videos Andy and Todd are running. Each video is approx. 8 minutes.
3 Comments »OK. So I revamped the Pink Floyd song for the title. But it just fit the situation. The Recording Industry Association of America (a.k.a. RIAA) has gone after some frivolous items before with kids and Grandmothers. Recently (if the claims are true) they took the proverbial cake by announcing that people cannot make copies for their music. The RIAA later were quoted “Rips are Unauthorized but we’re not suing over it.” How long before that stance changes? It really does make one wonder – Is the RIAA getting out of control?
3 Comments »New Years Activities – Computer issues – Bowl Games – Wordpress
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Year End Stats – PCWorld
Home Server Issues – Computerworld
iPhone 1.1.3 – Gizmodo
Online Spending at 28 Billion – MacWorld
Seniors Choose Wii – DallasNews
1 in 6 PC’s Infected – Internetnews
PS3 with HDTV – Joystiq
On the Geek:
WalMart Dumps Movie Download
FootMouse
What Would Fix Windows Mobile
Patent on Monitoring Employees Brains – TechDirt
5 Most Annoying Programs on PC – DownloadSquad
Transform Windows into… – Makeuseof
100 Years of Tech NYE Ball – Gizmodo
Battery Check on Flights – Ars Technica
Australia Plans Tough Web Rules – BBC
2007 Scorecard – InfoWorld
iSnake – BBC
8 Hottest Skills of 08 – Computerworld
Texting Delays on New Years – Engadget
FBI Uses IT – eWeek
RIP:
WalMart Movie Downloads
Netscape Navigator
RIAA to die?
25 Year Watch:
TCP/IP
Updates:
1st Perl Update in 5 Years
Of Note:
Foxtrot DRM
25 Things 2007 Taught Us
Best Hard Drive Enclosure
Action Figure Archive
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