Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Comcast is well known for outrageously poor customer service, but seem to be taking steps to remedy the situation. One of their more successful and visible prongs of attack is the Comcastcares account on Twitter. Frank Eliason, the Comcast employee who is behind the account, is an extremely helpful and ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
One of the features of the social networking applications I use is being able to see the music my friends are listening to. It gives me an occasion to reminisce over a nostalgic favorite song, or to discover something new.
Commissioned by BBC Audio & Music Interactive R&D, and ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Do you rack up miles flying around all year? If you've accumulated 2,000,000 miles on Virgin Airlines, you could exchange your miles for space flight when Virgin Galactic makes its maiden voyage in 2009. To put that in perspective, that would be the equivalent of 125 round trip flights ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
http://www.trackertrail.c...andchocolatebar
Finally, my poor dietary habits serve me well.
If you are roughing it with a six pack of Coke and a bar of chocolate, and become disoriented during your sugar coma, you can polish the bottom of the can with the chocolate and use it as a lens to focus sunlight ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
Over at Scobleizer, Robert points out something I found very interesting.
He compared Google Map's image of 1 Microsoft Way to that of TerraServer. At first glance, it looks like TerraServer's image is clearer and has less distortion. Indeed, TerraServer hands down serves up the better image of ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
In documents made public on Wednesday, health regulators estimated that up to 93 percent of silicone breast implants ruptured within 10 years. The surprisingly high figure will further roil a debate next week about whether to lift the 13-year-old ban on silicone implants for breast enhancement. Yet, as I always ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
http://prodigem.com/marketplace.html
Prodigem has just launched a new part of its service that creates a new marketplace for independent media producers. Content owners upload their works to Prodigem, name a selling price and Prodigem collects the revenue while controlling access. They take out 10% + the Paypal fees and send ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/
iTunes DRM protected music doesn't start it's life off as 'rights managed'. Apple adds the DRM instructions to the file on the fly while the file is being downloaded to you.
What an opportunity! Jon Johansen has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process ...
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Friday, March 11th, 2005
http://news.com.com/Think...ml?tag=nefd.top
About a year ago I realized I don't memorize telephone numbers. Every time that one of my co-workers who, like me work from their home offices, wants to talk on the phone I need to ask them via instant messenger for their number.
When I realized this, it made me ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/ga...llet-035056.php
AllofMP3.com was under investigation recently, but has been let off the hook by the Russian DA of the South-West district, who denied IPFI’s request to open a criminal case against Allofmp3.com., because of a loophole in Russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request.
Even though the ...
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