atmaspheric | endeavors

Hard to believe that a third season of 24 has begun… in fact it’s hard to believe that they have been able to manage 3 seasons of what seemed like a one season special in year one. This series picks up where the last one left off, though 3 years later… Jack has clearly [...]

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Coca-Cola launched the ‘Decibel Central’ campaign that will allow consumers to interact with the brand and win thousands prizes using text messaging. It appears to be a one of those smart ideas that helps both with branding and direct sales, also benefiting from the novelty of the medium. [MarketingWonk]
The coolest part of this program [...]

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“Panther has a cool feature that allows you to set keyboard shortcuts for pretty much any application, including iTunes. However, one thing I discovered is that you can set keyboard shortcuts to the AppleScripts in your iTunes Scripts Menu. [macscripter.net news]
Something I will certainly have to deal with when my system gets Panther… [...]

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I learned today that my company was planning to officially cut off my cell plan as I have a carrier they no longer wish to pay for… This led to an immediate panic as the phone I’ve been coveting (the Treo 600) is not yet available beyond Sprint… As much as I like [...]

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Rogue Amoeba Software has announced Nicecast, an new application to broadcast music using Mac OS X: … [MacNN]
This looks outrageous! You can broadcast any audio from your Mac with this and then tune in yourself or tell others - across any platform.
Update - Gave this a shot tonight and was a bit [...]

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On Nov. 19, 1.4 million Time Warner customers in New York and New Jersey will see the latest permutation in sports programming: the digital sports tier.
For $3.95 a month, viewers with digital cable will be able to buy a package containing NBA TV, the Tennis Channel, Fuel (Fox’s new extreme sports network) and Fox [...]

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MT-Blacklist 1.5 is officially out. Installed and fighting comment spammers… took all of 5 minutes. Now running a blacklist of over 450 thanks to the pre-installed config.

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Much of the information content of Apple’s iTunes Music Store is provided by Muze Inc., a source of entertainment product information for music, books, videos and games. And the company’s founder and CEO, Paul Zullo, feels that the online music experience will only improve in the days ahead. [MacCentral]
Good quick read…

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Mailblocks today announced availability of its spam-free, Web-based e-mail service optimized for Mac OS X… [MacMinute]
Have not used this but have heard good things… now supports Mac.

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New from the Pew Internet & American Life Project…
Spam: How it is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet

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TiVo, the best-known maker of digital video recorders, may need to worry about the cable industry, which is nipping at its heels. [New York Times]
We’ll see how far they get aiming to be a premium brand in the DVR space. It’s not about the features as much as it is about the simplicity. [...]

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Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system for sharing music on campus that they say can avoid copyright battles. [New York Times]

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The Golden State wins its first antispam judgment, against marketing firm PW Marketing. The company is fined $2 million under a 1998 statute; the state expects spammers will be easier to prosecute under its tougher new law. [Wired News]

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Just in time for Panther, one of my external drives started failing on me. This is sadly, not the first time this drive has crapped out. I took action and replaced it not wanting to risk losing the almost 80GB of music I’ve got archived there… I picked up a second La [...]

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I suppose this is the now mandatory post on Panther…
I upgraded our home machine last night without a hitch. All our user settings came over and having enabled Fast User Switching, we are very happy in general. Finder performance is much improved, which is worth the cost of entry in my [...]

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Photoshop for the Camera Phone
Here’s a pretty swanky server-based image manipulation tool designed for photoshop-style image manipulation of (primarily) camera phone images. It is still in the pre-production stage (assumably that means it works, but hasn’t been cleanly integrated into the morass that is MMS image standards), but a cool idea nonetheless.
Similarly, Scalado’s PhotoFusion [...]

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Start-up Antelope Technologies is getting ready to release the Modular Computing Core, a Windows XP computer that fits into a person’s hand. [CNET News.com]
WOW - this is a very cool idea!

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A new product, the Knee Defender, keeps the person in the airline seat in front of you from leaning their seat back. I really want this, not because I’m a tall person (far from it!) but because I’d like the person sitting in front of me ask before they can lean their seat back. I’ve [...]

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Ever searching for paying customers, spammers have turned their attention to blogs, where they mass-post target URLs in the comments section. [Wired News]

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Apple points to over 150 new features in Panther. Though many of these additions are aimed at the end user, a large number of changes in both client and server versions are targeted for enterprise customers, said Brian Croll, a senior director of product marketing for software at Apple. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff [...]

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