atmaspheric | endeavors

For the past 30 minutes I have been listening to a ridiculously loud employment interview directly behind me. It’s hard to appreciate the lack of privacy my common area (literally) office provides without seeing it, but it is killing me. I just put headphones on, just to block sound. Soon…

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Recent internal research by Procter & Gamble Co. indicates that consumers who fast-forward through ads with digital personal video recorders such as TiVo still recall those ads at roughly the same rates as people who see them at normal speed in real time.
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“That’s probably not an unusual finding based on the way people recall things,” [...]

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John C Dvorak certainly does not think so….

Here is the problem, from the beginning. This kind of online information business has never made money. The Source (1980s) went out of business and was absorbed by CompuServe. CompuServe was always sketchy and was eventually absorbed by AOL. Ziff-Davis developed an online service that lost money and [...]

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Nextel Communications by next year will offer a mobile phone with Motorola  based on Microsoft’s Windows Powered Smartphone platform, and in the second quarter of this year the carrier will begin trials with a phone that can be used on Wi-Fi wireless LANs, a Nextel executive said here Sunday.
  
The Smartphone device will support tri-band [...]

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The results?
Final Rating: Windows XP 8.55 Mac OS X 8.33 BeOS 8.22 KDE 6.72 Gnome 6.61
[OSNews]

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AppleLinks writer John Martellaro has posted a Q&A interview with AquaMinds founder and NoteTaker braintrust Scott Love…
[Applelinks via Mac Net Journal]

John: Can you share with us some ideas about where you think NT is going?
Scott: We have announced several product features that will become available this year including more outline processing features (naturally), [...]

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A new supercharged digital audio technology has taken a broad step closer to becoming part of the evolving MPEG-4 digital multimedia standard. The Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) body voted last week to finalize the specification for “aacPlus,” a digital music standard based on work from a company called Coding Technologies. The recommendation still must [...]

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In Safari V62 or V64 and later….
Instead of Control+Click or dropping the menu down and selecting open in tabs, you can simply Command(Apple)+Click and get a tab set to open. Simple. elegant and wonderful…
I love how the tabs work the way you want when you want them. It’s your choice, single bookmarks or [...]

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According to this article from Unstrung, the Push to Talk (PTT) software from Sonim that Erricsson is using has a ways to go. In fact, at times it does not work at all.
The idea is to create an inter-carrier digital two way radio/walkie-talkie that works between CDMA and GPRS. Working across [...]

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“The new strategy,” according to IDC, “marks the eventual end of Microsoft’s most visible foray into telecommunications.” The report added that MSN was “increasingly likely to exit the market” for supplying Internet access, though it added that would be “a year or years away,” probably in a sale of its subscribers to another service [...]

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“VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of digital trust
services, today unveiled its NetDiscovery(TM) service bureau solution for accomplishing lawful intercepts of packet data on GPRS and CDMA 1x wireless network technologies. VeriSign introduced NetDiscovery services for voice networks last year, offering a cost-efficient, turnkey solution for landline, wireless, and packet cable operators to meet federally-mandated [...]

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Still deciding which site to choose to manage your March Madness picks? Holovaty offers some help in understanding the differences each site has to offer…

It’s college basketball tournament time in America, and millions of sports fans are taking their best shot at predicting the winners.
I took some time to look at a few online [...]

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Different roads and times but our minds clearly crossed…
Mine is the left shot - driving East on I80 from Portland last Winter. I used my Sony Handicam and did a video still capture. Dave just completed a cross country drive though I think we used a still digital camera for his capture.

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How can I rip albums from my CD collection with two sources? I’d like to use both the internal drive and the FireWire CDR drive I have. Seems impossible in iTunes for now anyway.

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It is a truly beautiful one here in NYC today but I have spent the whole day working and (mostly) waiting… We have a major pitch happening and coordinating between shops has been taking over all that I might have been doing. Too bad since it is just over 50 degrees today and [...]

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I guess time will tell…

A report of Safari v65:
- Autofill toolbar button (looks like a pencil writing)
- Autofill form option under edit menu now (works!)
- Open links from apps in existing window
- Always show tab bar
- Tab mouse over now the text turns white
[macrumors page 2]

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In the past weeks I have experimented with a few ways to do email. What I realize from speaking with others both in person and via email discussions lists, is how differently everyone sees things. Not that surprising actually, but the ways in which people handle the deluge of messages is pretty interesting.
In [...]

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Amazon.com now has an early adopter picks section. [Werblog]

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I just realized this was possible though it has been sitting there all along.
If you have found a way to v64 of Safari you can choose to Control+Click on a folder in your Bookmark Bar and quickly open all the Bookmarks across the window as a tab set. Nice! I have [...]

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