No secret I am not a huge windows fan, but you have to respect what is starting to happen with these Media Centers. More and more digital media is being created by the consumer and easy access to share it or simply view it in the living room is (or will be) desired. At once … Read moreGateway FMC-901X Family Room Media Center
So much for a smooth transition for Nokia… Psion’s biggest shareholder on Thursday announced its opposition to the mobile computing company’s £135.7m sale of its stake in the Symbian joint venture and urged other shareholders to vote down the proposal next week. Phoenix Asset Management Partners, which holds 56m shares representing a 13.1 per cent … Read morePsion faces opposition over Symbian
Wednesday Nights 10:30 EST on Comedy Central – Set your DVR! Why is Dave Chappelle’s malice so winning? [Slate Magazine] A challenge, though, when watching Chappelle’s Show, is to resist the temptation to grant it—because Chappelle is black, and because he deals in harsh racial caricatures, and because you’re laughing your ass off, and because … Read moreHe’s Rich, Biatch!
This just allows mediocre 30 second spots to live on in a medium where people are already ignoring them. Nothing like innovating or simply altering your creative message and format for the channel in which you are communicating! Unicast’s “rich” media format, where it allows TV advertisers to recycle creative meant for the tube, continues … Read moreUnicast TV Recycler Format Spreading
Ditch your browser—RSS makes surfing for news a joy. [Slate Magazine]
This is one of the more out there ideas. I would think it would be easier to use an electronic device like a phone or PDA than to have a master card you morph into the card you need. How do you convince merchants you are not pulling one over… An upcoming product promises to … Read moreChameleon Card Changes Stripes
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Moving to Cross the Chasm… The broadband phone provider moves beyond its early “geek” adopters, reaching its first deal with a national retailer to sell its services. [CNET News.com]
I sent an email to Six Apart today at 2:47 pm EST about my data corruption issue. I was given an email address to use as a paying customer for support and expected that I would hear back shortly, yet I have not even received an auto-responder stating that my message even got to someone’s … Read moreHow long should it take for customer service?
DVD is going to be single biggest roadblock for massive deployment of Video On Demand. Mike Walsh writes that, “After a decade of whispered promises, the prospects of video on demand are finally looking up. Certainly the current buzz about a possible Comcast/Disney tie up has started the rumour mill up again. But with Hollywood … Read moreWill DVD mean VoD is DOA?
Dirty Secrets? Did Microsoft help fund SCO, and, by association, SCO’s lawsuits against Linux vendors and users? A new internal memo leads to that conclusion. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
OK, P2P is ‘piracy.’ But Hollywood, radio, cable TV and, yes, even the music industry all sprang from different forms of thievery. By Lawrence Lessig from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
These look very slick! Javoedge has a interesting set of new cases out for the Tungsten T3 and Zire 71. They are a clear plastic that wrap around the handheld for protection that also features a flip cover. [PalmInfocenter] More on this can be found here
Useful stuff!! Gallery Link Plugin for Movable Type: I knew it wouldn’t be long before these two platforms came together. [This plugin] allows you to add graphical links to photos on your Gallery website in a way that required much less cutting and pasting and will probably save you much headache if you move your … Read moreMovable Type – Gallery Plugin
Professor Lessig revists Eldred v. Ashcroft with this article on legalaffairs.org. [Lessig News]
The newsmaster is an individual capable of personally crafting RSS-based specialized information channels by utilizing technologies that allow hir to select, aggregate, filter, exclude and identify quality news, information, content, tools and resources from the whole universe of content, news and information available on the Internet. Newsmastering is the ability of a human being to … Read moreRSS NewsMaster
Amazon recently turned on a whole bunch of RSS Feeds. Very cool. [Scobleizer]
Interestingly Clear Channel still feels Howard is good enough to use on air as voice talent for commercials he reads. Nice… From the moment last week when Clear Channel Communications suspended Howard Stern’s syndicated morning show from the company’s radio stations, denouncing it as “vulgar, offensive and insulting,” speculation erupted that the move had more … Read moreThe passion of Howard Stern
So it appears that the database containing everything I’ve written and linked for the past few years (amazing how time flies) is corrupted, an unfortunately common occurrence in Moveable Type Berkeley DB installations. I can export my posts just fine, but cannot import them into a fresh install on a new server. I also cannot … Read moreStuck between Berkeley DB and MySQL
Xitel has announced its Ground Loop Isolator designed specifically to stop the ground loop hum that can result from connecting computers to home stereo equipment. “As the trend towards more and more consumers playing digital audio from their computers through their home stereo systems continue, many are discovering an annoying hum in their speakers. The … Read moreXitel debuts Ground Loop Isolator