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Entries from October 2004

Treos To Get MS Exchange Sync Support

October 5th, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology, software

PalmOne will soon enable native Exchange sync support, which will not only eliminate the need for 3rd party products, but also give total control to the user. This can’t be too good for Good, and seems to work around the need for RIM’s software as well. I’ll have to ask about this stuff [...]

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EarthLink to Offer Free Calling Between Computers Over the Web

October 5th, 2004 · Comments · VOIP, marketing

Earthlink goes VOIP…
For now, Earthlink’s phone service will only allow its customers to call one another via their computers instead of through their regular phones. That means they need a headset, or a microphone and speaker, and will have to dial an Internet address instead of a normal phone number. As a result, avid technology [...]

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Vonage Account Review…

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · VOIP, marketing

According to MediaPost…
Arnold Worldwide, Carat, and Lowe, along with Avenue A/Razorfish, are the remaining agencies competing for Vonage’s estimated $50 million account.

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MacTheRipper

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · software

This seems like it works… good to have in the toolbox.
MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc’s region to ‘0′ for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. This is to backup your legally-purchased DVDs onto your hard drive. [MacUpdate]

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Beyond just Audiobook Bookmarks

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · music, software

An AppleScript providing Bookmarks in iTunes to get this feature working in MP3 files like those you might be downloading via iPodder…

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The Need For Softphones

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · VOIP, marketing

Andy at VoIP Watch has been traveling a fair bit lately and as expected, been doing a lot of calling over VOIP. As he’s moved along, all the calling has been over softphone since they make it easier to route around hotel port blocking as well as basic configuration issues.
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Time Warner Cable VOIP offering in NYC

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · VOIP, marketing

The VoIP Weblog notes the launch of Time Warner Cable’s VOIP service in NYC. The pricing is out of whack for VOIP, but certainly less than you are probably paying Verizon for unlimited calling. Seems they’ve chosen to target pricing against Cablevision which makes no sense, since you can’t pick what cable company [...]

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Blazer 4.0

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology, software

Blazer 4.0 is part of the included software on the T5 and looks like a very nice upgrade to the Blazer browser on the current Treo. Aside from device specific enhancements, like wide-screen viewing for the T5, the new Blazer handles web standards (HTML 4.01, xHTML 1.0, cHTML, WML 1.3, SSL 3.0, HTTP 1.1, [...]

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T5 is Live

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology

PalmOne released the Tungsten T5 today as the official successor to T3… No Wifi, but a nice amount of memory (256MB) Documents to Go 7 and a feature than enables the the both device and SD card to be seen as a removable drive on any computer regardless of whether the Palm Desktop has [...]

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Gmail Adds Atom Feeds

October 4th, 2004 · Comments · software

I don’t see this yet on my GMail, but am looking forward to adding my Gmail account to my aggregator… This will be cool to add to my RSS2email as well for learning about new Gmail messages while on the go.
Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that’s akin to RSS. The [...]

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Podcast Directory

October 3rd, 2004 · Comments · software

Podcasting.net is a new site designed to serve as a directory for podcasts… There are other feeds with enclosures, but this is (so far) primarily for people broadcasting.

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RogueAmoeba Consider Podcasting Product

October 3rd, 2004 · Comments · software

Very cool news … You know a meme is maturing when products being to develop on the commercial side of life.
Rogueamoeba, who make audio hijack pro and nicecast are considering developing an all-in-one podcasting solution. From my own experience I can say they definitely have all the bits in place. Routing audio through applications [...]

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Open Source and Just About Off the Grid

October 2nd, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology

Thanks to Om for the link to Cringley on this one… I’ve got serious geek envy!
Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and telephone. He [...]

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Control Your Slim Server via iTunes

October 2nd, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology, music, software

I’ve used my SliMP3 for quite a while now and have enjoyed streaming music on my home network as well as remotely since even before I purchased my player. The typical manner to control what plays has been through the hardware remote, the software player (now built in) or via the Web UI. [...]

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Scientific-Atlanta may give TiVo heave-ho with new DVR

October 1st, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology

I know I just got the 8000HD, but to be able to record and archive to DVD would be very handy…
Scientific-Atlanta’s next-generation DVR will record content to both a hard drive and a portable DVD so the content can be replayed on a variety of devices, including personal computers, home entertainment systems with DVD players, [...]

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T-Mobile Going PTT … in Europe anyway

October 1st, 2004 · Comments · gadgets and technology, marketing

I’d consider this a test… have to wait to see if people care for this over text before they roll into other areas like the US — though the US is much more voice oriented than Europe which has been quite comfortable with text.
T-Mobile is to become the latest European mobile operator to [...]

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request

October 1st, 2004 · Comments · fun stuff and good links, spam

“request” - a spamologue by zefrank

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