atmaspheric | endeavors

I’ve received several hundred comment spam attempts here in the past 12 hours and my Spaminator plugin has smacked them all down which rocks. If you use WordPress, I can’t recommend this enough!
Actually they just keep on coming… there have been at least another hundred since I initially deleted the notes in my email. [...]

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They want your machine to go down down down…
BoingBoing reports on a hole in some Windows DRM that is being fully exploited by record industry pal Overpeer to infect user machines. Lovely.

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Stanley Bing writes a regular humor column in Fortune but this one’s a keeper! Driving while replying… please! I only check messages on my Treo while cruising at highway speeds. Well, OK, I guess I’ve replied to a few including IM. ahem…

Ah, sweet and capable instrument! The things you have shown me [...]

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There’s a great feature piece on Comcast running on this week’s cover at Barrons. They present the current financials of the company and talk about the 98% upgraded network which is running quite an array of enhanced services. Most recently the dual-tuner HD DVR has been rolling out but the enhanced VOD service, [...]

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David Pogue tells all on Cable Cards in his latest Circuits column. It’s clearly a version 1 product which might be right for certain customers… for most however, a cable box is in the cards (pun intended) for years to come. Aside from the fact that today’s TVs won’t work with the 2-way [...]

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bbPress is built like WordPress by PhotoMatt, the creator of WordPress and looks like it will be a great new BB system.

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Think Secret reports that Apple is going to make an announcement of a headless (no monitor) iMac at MacWorld san Francisco and I am very excited at the prospect.
According to the report, the idea is to get a machine below $500 to attract Windows users currently using iPods who might buy Macs if the prices [...]

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With the right aggregator and enclosures within feeds, you can enjoy video and audio quite easily…
Though the movement is only in its early stages, it’s easy to imagine that video blogs could have as big an impact as the text blogs. Indeed, they’re already doing what has been the real strength of traditional blogging — [...]

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John Dvorak chums the water today with some serious Mac bait and I just can’t help but comment.
He initiates his silly rant stating that the Mac is stagnant, having maintained the market share rather than growing. I can’t argue that point actually, but I don’t even think it matters since there are plenty of [...]

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AOL reports on a considerable spam decline for the year… check out that graph – those are BILLIONS of emails. And it’s just AOL…

Time Warner Inc. unit America Online said it has seen a big decline in overall junk e-mail volume this year, in a reversal of a five-year escalation in spam aimed at [...]

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Sirius announced they’ve cleared the 1 Million subscriber mark today via their customer newsletter and XM announced they’ve grown past 3 Million. Sounds like quite a few people gave the gift of music this holiday season…

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As you probably know the Treo 650 is still only available through Sprint and will continue to be the exclusive carrier through year end. January should bring Cingular on board with their GSM / EDGE capable device, but the unlocked GSM version I’ve got on order seems to be in queue for a [...]

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Scoble just pointed me to Indeed, a very cool Job Search Engine. You can search by title or keyword and by geography. A killer feature is that you can then add that search as an email or RSS agent so you can stay in touch. Very slick.

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I don’t care what anyone says about the Treo 650’s memory issues, lack of WiFi support, limited Bluetooth functionality, poor sound quality, dialing delays or the fact that it’s only available on Sprint PCS. It’s the still the best Smartphone on the market. Mobile business professionals who want an integrated device should look no further, [...]

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I just learned today that Dish Network offers Sirius as an add-on package. Seem like a great and actually logical combo when you consider the addition of Music Choice on DirecTV and many cable systems. I’ve been finding the programming much stronger on Sirius than I’ve heard in the past on Music Choice, [...]

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While all the rumors say that Sirius has something cooking with Apple, I just caught an XM exclusive album on iTunes via my newsreader. A quick search revealed another XM album as well as well as a track from Sirius…
I guess they’ve both been dabbling…

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Time Warner is working on a special feature for digital cable subscribers called Start Over, the WSJ reports. The cool thing about this idea is that you don’t have to be recording or even using a DVR to enable it. You simply tune to a program and press “Start Over” on your remote [...]

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If you’ve been contemplating a move to the future Trump-land on the UWS of NYC, I’m sure you knew you’d get a big bang for the buck you’ll be shelling out. A bonus for early movers is a new super high speed network…
A pact between GigaBeam, Microwave Satellite Technologies (MST) and Trump properties will [...]

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Walt Mossberg has been spending some quality time with the HP z545-b Digital Entertainment Center and it’s Media Extender counterpart and came away reasonably satisfied, but in no way recommending the experience for anyone but techies. It’s too bad that $2,000 of kit still does not make it easy enough to just watch and [...]

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Simon Woodside at MobileWhack delivers some good thoughts on iPhone and is certainly worth a read. I can’t see UWB happening in the first edition only since they’ll be targeting the mid-line according the report at Forbes. Who knows, I am sure it will be full of surprises when iPhone arrives.

Timewise, iPhone could [...]

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