atmaspheric | endeavors

Caught X2 this rainy afternoon and it rocks. Much stronger than the first, which is saying a lot. I like how it picks right where the first left off and immediately swings into action. A definite winner.
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On my walk home from the subway last night I used WiFinder and scanned for open APs… finding 28 places to connect!! My walk home is only about 5-7 minutes…About 5 of these places had WEP enabled and were locked while most I am sure I can connect to with little effort. I [...]

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Unwanted messages now makes up more than 50% of e-mails, according to experts. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
Not that surprising, but certainly depressing…
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Turner has a great piece in the Post about the dangers in Michael Powell’s June 2 proposal.
[Lessig Blog]
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1. Get the hell out of my way, I’m coming through.
[kottke.org]
Damn Straight!
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Turbo10 really is that good [The Register]
But how good is a search engine whose home page does not load and cannot even be loaded through the Google Cache???
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The association’s new working anti-spam strategy takes a wide view of how to deal with the spam problem. [internetnews.com: Top News]
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[Microsoft Watch]
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There was a little earthquake here last night. 3.7. Nothing like the big one we had a couple years ago. But still. The earth should hold still a little better. [inessential.com]
I just missed it… left Seattle yesterday!
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Like other U.S. telephone companies, Qwest is getting set to pump video and TV services into homes in order to counter recent moves by cable providers to sell Net-based phone services. [CNET News.com Communications]

Qwest is the third of the nation’s four major phone companies to tip its hand about upcoming video services. SBC Communications recently [...]

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Rather than argue back and forth as to why only 25% of all Mac users have moved to OS X, I really wanted to know the ‘real’ reasons. So began my research into why OS 9 users refuse to join the rest of us in OS X-land. My non-scientific answers are very disappointing, but are [...]

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[infoSync]

First and foremost, VLI is introducing Gphone for Palm handhelds to enable VoIP for Palm Tungsten C handheld users. Gphone is a VoIP (Voice-over-IP) application available for several platforms that will allow users to place phone calls to any other Gphone-using Tungsten C, Pocket PC, or desktop system, or even over the [...]

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Just what we needed…
A new app has been released to make it easier to find a working WiFi connection. WiFinder works on the Palm Tungsten C to scan the airwaves for working 802.11 access points. [PalmInfocenter]
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Major U.S. phone companies have plans to pump video and TV services into homes via their lines–countering recent moves by cable providers to sell Net-based phone services. [CNET News.com Communications]
It could be 10 years until we see this and by that time I would imagine the TV guys will have long since upgraded to even [...]

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As the recording industry swoons over Apple’s 99 cent download store, the software giant renews its bet on more-advanced subscription services. [CNET News.com Entertainment & Media]
Will it be a premium service for MSN, or just a service that runs Windows only?
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Most people do not know how to avoid getting spam even though they find it hugely annoying, says Yahoo. [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]
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I won’t say I don’t receive pitches for the occasional mortgage discount or Vegas vacation, the latest performance-enhancing elixir or anatomical wonder pills. In general, though, I’ve had good results with a built-in spam stopper in Apple’s Mail program, which I’ve used daily since it was released with the Jaguar update of OS X last [...]

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Web surfers are urged to dump junk mail as Yahoo kicks off the first global antispam day, its effort to raise the profile of the worldwide spam problem.
[CNET News.com Entertainment & Media]
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Chairman Bill Gates writes a letter advocating a combination of law and self-regulation by the industry to stop unwanted e-mail. [CNET News.com Entertainment & Media]
First - here’s a link to the Bill Gates Letter.
While the ADV subject line would be easy to filter for unsolicited emails, it would also completely kill any and all attempts [...]

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Things are getting extremely competitive with integrated service offerings for telco… Cable vs. DSL is a serious game. Seems the Cable guys have an advantage, since coax can carry more data and it can handle phone. DSL providers can not offer TV - at least not today. Just for comparison… [...]

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