Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category
Saturday, February 19th, 2005
http://www.tvtechnology.c...one.php?id=2755
The soon to be government sponsored mandate to control content on the public airways will be introduced this summer sparking DRM in each information appliance that can receive that signal with the flag.
Can you hear that? That is the death of Digital Television before it ever really took off.
Public ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
http://slashdot.org/comme...59&cid=11709630
An excellent point was brought up on Boing Boing today about a post on Slashdot. The Television Industry is concerned about viewers recording shows and are putting a stop to it in a number of ways. Sometimes they strong arm DVR producers, or convince the manufactures of DVR ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
https://www.beatport.com/beatport.php
Longing for your hard to find electronica? Beatport is for you-- Like iTunes and Napster Beatport offers club tracks for the DJ set without any form of DRM to slow you down. Buy the music and do what you will.
There are thousands of tracks from hundreds of labels ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
http://story.news.yahoo.c...nternet_privacy
Okay, so freeiPods.com might not qualify entirely as a scam. They have been sending out free iPods to people who manage to complete the offer and are able to get five friends to do complete the offers as well, but the whole thing smacks of scamonella. If you feel ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
http://injoke.org/index.p...p;tb=1&pb=1
In the past, I've made attempts to create panorama shots with my megapixel digital camera, but they never really turned out quite right. Finding the proper perspective and overlap points was beyond me. So, I gave up on the idea. None of the photos were anything I'd ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
http://video.google.com/video_about.html
It was only a matter of time. Late Monday Google released a new service that will index previously aired content from ABC, PBS, Fox News and C-SPAN offering it as part of its Web search. They aren't doing any whiz-bangery, like converting the video to divx and text-to speeching ...
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
http://blog.outer-court.c...-01-22-n48.html
Google has increased their web search word limit from 10 to 32 words. Prior to this change parameters after the 10th word were ignored.
This is great for me, since I frequently exclude words (using the 'minus' operator) to pair down my search results.
I can only guess that they must ...
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Monday, January 17th, 2005
I experimented recently with Tor. It's a great application which, in conjunction with an app like Privoxy, conceals [to a degree] your IP address by routing your traffic along a network of other users of Tor.
The off-shoot of this is that from request to request it appears that the ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
http://www.boring.ch/matt...dss_banned.html
A freelance photojournalist, Matthias Bruggman, was denied boarding on an El Al flight due to his carry-ons-- a Canon EOS-1D digital SLR camera and an iBook. Oddly, neither of these items are listed by El AL's as prohibited.
El Al indicated that the items were too complex to disassemble, ...
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