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diff --git a/VPN-review.txt b/VPN-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57e93e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/VPN-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +VPN picks: + +Verified don't log: +ExpressVPN: https://proprivacy.com/privacy-news/expressvpn-cannot-hand-over-logs +PIA +https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ + + + diff --git a/best-amazon-tablets.txt b/best-amazon-tablets.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7dac53b --- /dev/null +++ b/best-amazon-tablets.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Amazon’s Fire tablets are seductive. Most of us already use Amazon, and the Fire tablets are some of the only high-profile, affordable tablets around. Their prices seem too good to be true—and in some ways, they are—but Fire tablets are also completely functional, reasonably capable devices. To help you decide if a Fire tablet is right for you, we reviewed every model. These are our unfiltered recommendations. + +*Updated in Decemeber 2019 with the new 10-inch Fire tablets. Be sure to check out our guides to the [Best Tablets](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-tablets/) and [Best Alexa Speakers](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-echo/).* + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +###The Best Fire Tablet + +**[Fire HD 10](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-10/dp/B07K1RZWMC/){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5a0f0f868ec26226c230f378]|||||| + +The Fire HD 10 is the speediest and most well-rounded Amazon tablet. It's been refreshed for 2020 with a slight processor bump and 2-gigabytes of RAM. The bigger news is the new USB-C charging. This is the first USB-C capable device from Amazon and we hope it spreads to the rest of the line as well. Otherwise the 2019 Fire HD 10 remains the same as the previous version. + +The Fire HD 10 has a larger screen with more pixels (1080p) than its siblings, making it better for video. ([Read our Fire HD 10 review.](https://www.wired.com/2017/10/review-amazon-fire-hd-10-2017/)) And, like the Fire HD 8, you can shout commands at Alexa from across the room. To use Show Mode on the Fire HD 10 just swipe down on the notification overlay and check the Show Mode box. After that you can set your HD 10 on a stand (we like the [official magnetic standing case](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-HD-10-Tablet-Case/dp/B07RS8J6QP/){: rel=nofollow}) and it essentially becomes an Echo Show. + +You can choose between a 32 GB model and a 64 GB model (with a MicroSD slot if you need more space). Whichever you choose Amazon will serve up advertisements on the lock screen. To get rid of that you'll need to spend $15 more for the version without "special offers." + +__[The Fire HD 10 costs $150 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-10/dp/B07K1RZWMC/){: rel=nofollow}__ + +###The Best for Travel + +**[Fire HD 8](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0794RHPZD/){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5bc0e70e6278de2d21234897]|||||| + +With a travel-friendly size and a price tag below $100, the 2018 Fire HD 8 is our favorite all-around Fire tablet. ([Read our Fire HD 8 review.](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-2018/)) It’s portable enough to take with you anywhere, and its screen won’t torture your eyes when you watch Netflix. It’s an ideal size for kids under 10 but old enough to not drop it constantly. + +The HD 8 has most of the benefits of the larger Fire HD 10, including hands-free Alexa, stereo sound, and 9- to 10-hour battery life. I recommend picking up [Amazon’s magnetic stand-up case](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N44JBS4/) if you plan on watching movies or TV or a [Show Mode Dock](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BNXZDJ3/){: rel=nofollow} if you want to use it like an Alexa speaker. + +__[The Fire HD 8 costs $80 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0794RHPZD/){: rel=nofollow}__ + +###The Best Fire Tablet For Kids + +**[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition (2018)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HQBS21/){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5bd397cdc09dee5cbd062e90]|||||| + +In the past year, Amazon released updates to both of their kid tablets, the [Fire 7 Kids Edition (2019)](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-fire-7-kids-edition-2019/) and the [Fire HD 8 Kids Edition (2018)](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-kids-edition/). The company also announced a new [Fire HD 10 Kids Edition](https://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-10-Kids-Edition/dp/B07KD7K4B1){: rel=nofollow}. + +We still think the HD 8 is the best device for most kids. It has a larger, sharper HD screen, Dolby stereo sound, and dual speakers compared to the Fire 7. But the Fire HD 10 (which also has all those features) is *really* big in kid hands, especially with the Kids Edition case around it. + +We recommend the Fire 7 for kids under 7. If your kid's hands are especially tiny, they'll appreciate the Fire 7's smaller size and the puffy case with included stand. For older kids the Fire HD 10 Kids Edition offers more screen real estate if they want it. + +The updates to FreeTime Unlimited, which include Audible books and Spanish-language content, apply to all versions. + +__[The Fire HD 8 Kids Edition costs $130 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HQBS21/){: rel=nofollow}__ + +###Avoid the Fire 7 + +The Fire 7 is Amazon’s cheapest tablet, and it has a tantalizing $50 price. But if you're making more demands on your Fire tablet than a 3-year-old who loves *[Carl the Super Truck](https://www.amazon.com/Super-Truck-Carl-the-Transformer/dp/B07QJTGMRS){: rel=nofollow}*, you should probably cough up a little extra and buy an HD 8. Like we said in our [Fire 7 review](https://www.wired.com/2017/10/review-amazon-fire-7-2017/), the 7-inch screen will feel somewhat cramped and its screen resolution is noticeably pixelated. You won’t love the mono speaker, which is easily blocked by a single finger. Its battery also lags behind the other two tablets, and the 8 GB of internal storage is pitifully small, mandating a [MicroSD card](https://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Ultra-Micro-UHS-I-Adapter/dp/B073JYVKNX/){: rel=nofollow} from the get go. + +###Amazon Sells Older Fire Tablets. Don’t Buy Them + +Only buy one of the "7th Generation", "8th Generation", or "9th Generation" Fire tablets. We suggest sticking to the tablets we talk about in this article ([also listed here](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-Tablet-Family/b/?node=6669703011)), though we do sometimes see good deals on the previous models. + +If you're on a tight budget the 2017 Fire HD 10 is often available refurbished for considerably less than the new one. The downside with it and other, older model Fire tablets is that they may not get software updates for a long as the current generation will. You'll also miss out on the faster processor and more RAM in the newer model. + +It’s a pain, but if you're buying an old device you should also cross reference the latest update available for the tablet you’re going to buy ([find it on this sheet](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200529680){: rel=nofollow}) with the [latest version of Fire OS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_OS) to see how up-to-date your software will be. + +###What’s WIRED About All Fire Tablets + +**A Faucet for Amazon Content:** If you subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, you can listen to all the included music, movies, TV, and books while also shopping for all the items you can get with its free two-day shipping or browsing your free Amazon photo storage. You can do most of the same things from an Android tablet or iPad, but the Fire OS interface is crafted specifically to deliver Amazon goods, with swipeable pages for each type of media Amazon sells. + +**Built ‘Good Enough’:** Physically, Amazon’s Fire tablets are made of cheap-ish plastic, but they’re designed with enough care that the build quality won’t bother you too much. They are also some of the best-quality tablets for kids, encased in a rugged bumper, and all have MicroSD slots so you can add extra storage. (We recommend this [128 GB MicroSD card](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073JYC4XM/){: rel=nofollow}.) + +**Cheap:** Did we mention the price? They all cost $150 or less, which is a price that would have legitimately shocked you just a few years ago. They offer high value for the price. You can also to get them with Amazon lock-screen ads, which will lower your price by $15. + +###What’s TIRED About All Fire Tablets + +**Non-Amazon Content is Lacking:** The greatest strength of these tablets is also their greatest weakness. If you aren’t an Amazon Prime subscriber, and plan to get your video, audio, or books from Amazon, the Fire tablet line is far less compelling. They do have Alexa, so that could be a plus, but again, that’s tied deeply into Amazon’s content library. + +You can download third-party apps like Netflix on Amazon’s Appstore, but the selection is *far* more limited than the apps available on [Apple's iPad](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/review-apple-ipad-2017/) or the Google Play store on standard Android tablets. Tech-savvy users have found ways to add the Google Play Store or sideload apps, but these devices are built to serve up Amazon first and foremost. + +**Old Tech:** The tech inside these tablets is very old. They all run on processors that would have impressed 4+ years ago, but show their age today with small fits of lag and a general lack of power. Since many of the apps are built with weak processing power in mind, you don’t notice it too much. The operating system is also several years old, which could hide some of the weakness. Amazon’s latest Fire OS is a modified version of Android Nougat, which first came out in 2016. Amazon keeps updating its tablets to some degree, but not nearly as often as it should. + +**Short Warranties:** Only the Fire HD 10 comes with a full one-year warranty. Oddly, the smaller devices come with 90-day warranties. + +**Special Offers:** In the last year, Amazon's Special Offers lockscreen ads have gotten more overt. We recommend you pay the extra $15 to buy a Fire tablet without them. + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* Explaining the [“gender data gap,”](https://www.wired.com/story/caroline-criado-perez-invisible-women/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) from phones to transit +* The terrifying unknowns [of an exotic invasive tick](https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrifying-unknowns-of-the-asian-longhorned-tick/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Inside Backpage.com’s [vicious battle with the Feds](https://www.wired.com/story/inside-backpage-vicious-battle-feds/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* The importance of [photographing women in sports](https://www.wired.com/story/female-hockey-players-photo-gallery/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* An all-white town’s divisive [experiment with crypto](https://www.wired.com/story/inside-an-all-white-towns-divisive-experiment-with-cryptocurrency/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 🎧 Things not sounding right? Check out our favorite [wireless headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-headphones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [soundbars](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-soundbars/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), and [bluetooth speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) +* 📩 Want more? [Sign up for our daily newsletter](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=daily&sourceCode=BottomStories) and never miss our latest and greatest stories diff --git a/best-last-miute-deals.txt b/best-last-miute-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38f7323 --- /dev/null +++ b/best-last-miute-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +So you avoided the Black Friday madness, were working hard on Cyber Monday, and didn't get in on any of the deals. Good news fellow last-minute deal seeker, there are some surprisingly good deals still going on, especially on Amazon devices. + +Amazon's last minute device deals aren't quite a cheap as the same items were during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals week, but they're pretty close. Our favorite deals right now are on Kindles, Echo speakers, and Fire HD tablets. In most cases the current sale price is within $10 of the lowest we've ever seen. And if you need a last minute gift, most these will arrive before Christmas (the exceptions are the Echos). + +Also remember that some of these devices do contain cameras and microphones. If you're considering these as gifts, [keep in mind the privacy implications](https://www.wired.com/story/tech-gifts-microphones-cameras-be-careful/) for the recipient. + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +###Kindles + + +[#image: /photos/5b05a0a00864e3415cb90de1]|||||| + + +Say what you will about the rest of the company, Amazon makes a damn fine ebook reader. Kindles are the most eye-friendly way to read digital books, and the battery life is outstanding (about a month per charge). To figure out which Kindle is right for you, check out our [guide to choosing the right Kindle](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle/). + +- **[Kindle for $70 ($20 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DLPWYB7/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you're looking for an ebook reader, the 2019 Kindle has everything you need ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-kindle-2019/)). This model uses a 6-inch E Ink capacitive touchscreen for reading, and it lights up so you can read in the dark. + +- **[Kindle Paperwhite for $100 ($30 off)](){: rel=nofollow}:** The Kindle Paperwhite is an upgrade worth considering. The touchscreen is noticeably clearer (300 pixels per inch vs. 167 for the standard) and the light is better. The Paperwhite is also rated IPX8, meaning it can sit in 2 meters of water for two hours. That makes bathtub reading a little more relaxing. + + +###Fire Tablets + + +[#image: /photos/59de4e48666f9b7b9032cfd3]|||||| + +The company's Fire Tablets aren't best in class by any means, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a cheaper alternative. As long as you tablet needs are pretty basic -- watching videos, browsing the web, answering email -- the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 make great options. For a more in-depth guide to all Amazon's Fire offerings, check out our [guide to Fire tablets](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/). + +- **[Fire HD 10 for $120 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1RZWMC/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 10 is the speediest and most well-rounded Amazon tablet. The Fire HD 10 has a larger screen with more pixels (1080p) than its siblings, making it better for video. It's been refreshed for 2020 with a slight processor bump and 2-gigabytes of RAM. The bigger news is the new USB-C charging. The new "Show Mode" for the Fire HD 10 turns the tablet into an Echo-like device. Set your HD 10 on a stand (we like the [official magnetic standing case](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-HD-10-Tablet-Case/dp/B07RS8J6QP/){: rel=nofollow}) and it essentially becomes an Echo Show. + +- **[Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0794RHPZD/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 8 is the 10's travel-friendly sibling. The 2018 Fire HD 8 is our favorite all-around Fire tablet. ([Read our Fire HD 8 review.](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-2018/)) It’s portable enough to take with you anywhere, and its screen won’t torture your eyes when you watch Netflix. + +- **[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition for $90 ($40 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HQBS21/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Kids Edition Fire HD 8 adds a padded case to protect it from accidents, and includes one year of FreeTime Unlimited, with access to a ton of educational content from PBS Kids. If your kids are older, and want a larger screen, the [Fire HD 10 Kids Edition is also on sale](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KD7K4B1/){: rel=nofollow} for $160 ($40 off). + +The [Fire 7 is also on sale](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKR6KXF/){: rel=nofollow}, and at $40 it might be worth it. But keep in mind that it's underpowered, has a mere 8 GB of storage space and a screen with visible pixels. Remember when everything had those? I actually use a Fire 7 occasionally and I don't mind it, but I'd also be the first to say you're better off spending the extra $10 to get the Fire 8. + +###Echo Devices + + +[#image: /photos/5ba977ac80ec002859e56ac4]|||||| + + +Amazon's family of Echos keeps growing, this year the company added the Echo Show 8 to go along with the larger Echo Show, the smaller Echo Show 5 and the can-shaped Echo speaker. And of course there's the Echo Dot, which now displays the time. To make sense of it all, check out our [guide Amazon Echos and Alexa speakers](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-echo/). These tips will help [keep your privacy intact](https://www.wired.com/story/alexa-google-assistant-echo-smart-speaker-privacy-controls/) when placing smart speakers around your house. + +**Note: While these are good deals, none of these devices will arrive in time for Christmas. If you're shopping for someone else, and you want to actually hand them a gift, you'll need to get something else.** + +- **[Echo Show 8 for $80 ($40 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PF1Y28C/){: rel=nofollow}:** This year Amazon added the Echo Show 8 ($130), the middle child between the full size Echo Show and the Echo Show 5. We haven't laid hands on one yet, but with the same pixel density of the 10.1-inch model in a smaller form factor, the Echo Show 8 will likely offer the best screen quality of the Echo show family. + +- **[Echo Dot for $35 ($25 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N8RPRF7/){: rel=nofollow}:** This smart-home building block is handy and compact. You can place it nearly anywhere. It sounds pretty good for its size, and makes a great way to test the world of smart home devices without spending a fortune. + +- **[Echo Show for $170 ($60 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077SXWSRP/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Echo Show started off a blocky chunk of a device, but these days it's much easier on the eyes. The larger 10-inch display is better for viewing from a distance, and the rear speakers aren't half bad. + +- **[Echo for $80 ($20 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R1CXKN7/){: rel=nofollow}:** The original echo, now in its third incarnation is has become a decent speaker in its own right. It's no Sonos One (also [on sale for $170 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Sonos-One-Gen-Controlled-Built/dp/B07NJPXRBC/){: rel=nofollow}), but the Echo isn't bad, especially if you pair it with an [Echo Sub ($130)](https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Sub-Powerful-subwoofer-compatible/dp/B0798KPH5X/){: rel=nofollow}. + + + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* Instagram, [my daughter, and me](https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-my-daughter-and-me/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Tweak these Google Chrome settings to [level up your browsing](https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-browser-settings-tips-tricks/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Welcome to Rachel, Nevada—[the town closest to Area 51](https://www.wired.com/story/rachel-nevada-area-51/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* *The Irishman* gets de-aging right—[no tracking dots necessary](https://www.wired.com/story/the-irishman-netflix-ilm-de-aging/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Ewoks are the most tactically advanced [fighting force in Star Wars](https://www.wired.com/story/ewoks-star-wars-tactics-endor-moon/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 👁 Will AI as a field ["hit the wall" soon](https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-ai-says-field-hit-wall/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5)? Plus, the [latest news on artificial intelligence](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 🎧 Things not sounding right? Check out our favorite [wireless headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-headphones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [soundbars](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-soundbars/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), and [Bluetooth speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) diff --git a/best-latte-machines.txt b/best-latte-machines.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e2f506 --- /dev/null +++ b/best-latte-machines.txt @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +A good latte or cappuccino is like a rich milky mug of heaven. Just writing about these delicious, warming drinks makes me want one. Sadly, creating the perfect cap or latte at home can be a hassle. Making a barista-worthy espresso is tough enough, but adding the right amount of milk and foam, perfectly heated and combined, is surprisingly daunting. + +In mid-2018, I dove headfirst into the world of advanced coffee devices and find out what makes them tick … er … hiss. I've tried more than a dozen machines with latte and cappuccino functionality. Some machines made pure espresso using coffee-shop-style portafilters and came with milk canisters for frothing. Others relied on single-use pods with separate foamers. A few even came with legit steam wands and advanced options. These are the best latte and cappuccino machines I've found so far. + +*Updated December 2019: We've updated this guide for 2020, with several new picks, the Breville Barista Pro, two new Delonghi machines, and the Flair Pro 2. Be sure to read our [guide to portable espresso makers](https://www.wired.com/story/best-portable-espresso-makers/), as well as our many other [holiday guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/). + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +##1. Best Overall + +###[Mr. Coffee One-Touch CoffeeHouse ($325)](https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-One-Touch-CoffeeHouse-Cappuccino/dp/B07CJ3CYF7/){: rel=nofollow} + +[#image: /photos/5c183e50c088d25346fc68b2]|||||| + +This Mr. Coffee machine sits at the comfortable intersection where ease of use, automation, and affordability meet. It can extract a flavorful espresso from almost any beans and grind, and its milk reservoir will automatically mix a cappuccino or latte for you. + +This is basically a sturdier, better-designed version of the Mr. Coffee Café Barista, our affordable pick, with a nicer portafilter basket that takes [ESE espresso pods](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node=14978414011&field-keywords=ESE%20espresso%20pods&rh=n:16310101,n:16310231,n:16521305011,n:16318031,n:14978414011,k:ESE%20espresso%20pods){: rel=nofollow} and a milk reservoir that holds more milk and snaps in more firmly. Like the cheaper version, you have to load coffee in the portafilter basket yourself and twist it on (use a fine grind and tamp it down with some pressure for the best taste), but the machine can mix a cappuccino or latte macchiato for you at the press of a button. It has two sizes of each, and a manual mode that will just keep foaming or extracting espresso until you tell it to stop. + +On the downside, you'll need to clean the milk canister at least once a week (you can keep it in the fridge). It also won't extract quite as much rich espresso flavor as the Breville machines below, but it is *a lot* easier to use. One day, for fun, I put standard Maxwell House coffee into it. The end result was definitely Maxwell House-like espresso, but it was still an acceptable Maxwell House espresso—good to the last drop™. It pulls as nice an espresso as it can from almost anything. + +**[Buy Mr. Coffee One-Touch Coffeehouse for $325 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-One-Touch-CoffeeHouse-Cappuccino/dp/B07CJ3CYF7/){: rel=nofollow}** + + +*** + +##2. Better Taste, High Learning Curve + +###[Breville Barista Pro ($720)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08133HX34/){: rel=nofollow} + + +The Breville Barista Pro is a coffee shop in a box. The built-in pressure-activated conical burr grinder gives you fresh grounds however you like them, and the pressure gauge and options let you adjust the water temperature and shot amount. You have to froth your own milk, and the steam wand makes it easier than the competition, with a handle and the ability to tilt in any direction. It cleans itself and you can get hot water from the machine to brew tea or make an Americano. + +Previously we recommended the Express model because it's a bit cheaper, but it was also more difficult to use. The Pro has revamped the controls, and operating it is much simpler and more intuitive. All the accessories you need are included here—there's a stainless steel milk jug, magnetic tamper, trimming tool, and more. + +The Barista Pro isn’t cheap, and it's probably overkill if you already own a burr grinder, but you’d be hard-pressed finding a sturdier, more authentic latte and cappuccino machine that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars. If you don't mind wading through the manual, the [Barista Express ($550)](https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BES870XL-Barista-Express-Espresso/dp/B00CH9QWOU/){: rel=nofollow} is another option. + +**[Buy the Barista Pro for $720](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08133HX34/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*(Tip: Use the double-walled filters—they deliver better crema—and when heating your milk, try to position your steam wand just below the surface. If you have it right, the milk will spin as it's heating. Slowly lower the jug to add foam.)* + +*** + +##3. Best Latte for Your Dollar + +###[Mr. Coffee Café Barista ($200)](https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-Barista-Espresso-Cappuccino/dp/B007K9OIMU/){: rel=nofollow} + +[#image: /photos/5b7e0945f521ce3ac9ba463f]|||||| + +The Café Barista is perfect if you want pure espresso and a machine that mixes the milk for you without much fuss. It’s plastic and lightweight, which means you have to steady the machine with your hand as you twist the portafilter into place, but other than that it makes fairly rich single or double-sized espressos, cappuccinos, and lattes with the push of a button. + +Like the Mr. Coffee One-Touch Coffeehouse, this machine's integrated milk container has its pros and cons. You will have to remember to remove and refrigerate it each morning and clean it every few days or it could clog up—clean-up is easy, thankfully. Milk tends to come out a little foamier than I prefer for a latte, and it took me some time to understand what size glasses I needed for each drink (a double latte, for instance, is 15 ounces, but a double cappuccino is only 10 ounces). The slide-out booster is nice for smaller glasses. + +**[Buy the Café Barista for $200 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Coffee-Barista-Espresso-Cappuccino/dp/B007K9OIMU/){: rel=nofollow}, [Mr. Coffee](https://www.mrcoffee.com/espresso-machines/mr.-coffee-cafe-barista/BVMC-ECMP1000-RB.html){: rel=nofollow}, and [Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=bestlattecap&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMr-Coffee-Cafe-Barista-Espresso-Maker-Black-Silver-BVMC-ECMP1000%2F24293168){: rel=nofollow})** + +*** + +##4. Best For Compact Kitchens + +###[Breville Bambino Plus ($500)](https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BES500BSS-Bambino-Espresso-Stainless/dp/B07JVD78TT/){: rel=nofollow} + +[#image: /photos/5c183e25e91b067f6d57de99]|||||| + +If you want to play at being a barista but have a small kitchen, you might want to take a look at Breville’s new Bambino Plus. This machine has a remarkable number of features squeezed into a compact countertop footprint of 7.5 by 12.5 inches. It doesn’t have a burr grinder like the Barista Pro—and has a similarly high price—but it does come with the same high quality accessories, such as a tamper and measuring tool. + +I found the learning curve on the Bambino Plus to be very steep. You fill up the water talk, fill the portafilter basket and the milk jug to the indicated fill lines, slide them into their respective spots, and push a button. In my testing, the two-shot setting outputs a little less than the advertised two ounces of espresso. + +However, as with the Barista Express, this isn’t a latte machine for someone who wants a quick, convenient cuppa. The Bambino Plus requires attentive maintenance, whether you’re washing out the drip tray, or purging and wiping down the steam wand. Still, I found it fun to painstakingly replicate a process that I’ve seen so many times from the other side of the counter. + +**[Buy the Bambino Plus for $500 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BES500BSS-Bambino-Espresso-Stainless/dp/B07JVD78TT/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** + +##5. Most Convenient, Easiest Cleanup + +###[Keurig K-Café ($179)](https://www.amazon.com/Keurig-K-Cafe-Single-Cappuccino-Charcoal/dp/B07C1XC3GF/){: rel=nofollow} + +[#image: /photos/5b7e097e5560bb1fedf11d5b]|||||| + +I love this machine. It's the best Keurig I’ve used ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-keurig-k-cafe/)), and has the best frother of any machine I tested for this guide. Despite the fact that the K-Café doesn’t technically make espresso shots (the K-cup system doesn't put its grounds under any pressure), it still makes a delicious “espresso style” 2-ounce shot that can taste almost as strong, though without the crema that you might desire. + +The real magic is the frother. It has three settings—cold, latte, and cappuccino—and froths milk to perfection with the tap of a button. When it’s done, simply pour your milk with the spout on the side. The jug is made of stainless steel, and the plastic spinner comes right off, making cleanup as easy as a quick run under the faucet. It was so simple to use and clean that I sometimes frothed milk with it even when I used other machines to make my espresso. I liked it so much, I didn’t even mind that the spout on the frother was designed for right handed folks. This lefty was happy to adapt. + +**[Buy the K-Café for $179](https://www.amazon.com/Keurig-K-Cafe-Single-Cappuccino-Charcoal/dp/B07C1XC3GF/){: rel=nofollow}** + + +*** + +##6. Best Hand-Pump Espresso + +###[Flair Pro 2 ($309)](https://www.flairespresso.com/product-page/flair-signature-pro-2){: rel=nofollow} + +[#image: /photos/5d6068e5895f71000883d365]|||||| + + +If you want to add the feel of a 1950s Italian cafe to your kitchen, the Flair Pro 2 not only looks the part, but brews a great espresso too. It's entirely human-powered. There's no cord, no need for anything other than a little pressure from your arm. As an added bonus, it comes with a little carrying case if you want to take it work, camping or wherever else the need for a shot of espresso strikes you. + +The Flair is simple to use. You can see the process in the company's very helpful video guide to brewing. It's also built like a tank, and clean-up is just a matter of dumping the espresso and rinsing out the portafilter. If you want a latte or cappuccino you'll need a milk frother like this [Secura frother ($35)](https://www.amazon.com/Secura-Automatic-Electric-Frother-Warmer/dp/B00JEPP64C/){: rel=nofollow} + +**[Buy the Flair Pro 2 for $309](https://www.flairespresso.com/product-page/flair-signature-pro-2){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** + +##7. Cheap, Simple Espresso + +###[De'Longhi Espresso and Cappuccino Maker ($100)](https://www.amazon.com/DeLonghi-EC155-Espresso-Cappuccino-Maker/dp/B000F49XXG/){: rel=nofollow} + +If all you want is a dead simple espresso maker and frothing wand, this De'Longhi works well considering its $100 price tag. Espresso comes out tasting as rich as you’d expect, with a healthy head of crema thanks to the 15 bars of pump pressure. + +The water tank can be removed for easier cleaning, and the drip tray can also slides out so you can rinse off any spills. + + +**[Buy the De'Longhi Espresso and Cappuccino Maker for $100](https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-40792-Espresso-Cappuccino/dp/B01AT75AX0/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** + +##Machines that Didn’t Make the Cut + +**[Keurig K-Latte ($100)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=bestlattecap&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FKeurig-K-Latte-Single-Serve-K-Cup-Coffee-and-Latte-Maker-Comes-with-Milk-Frother-Compatible-With-all-Keurig-K-Cup-Pods-Black%2F669553233){: rel=nofollow}:** The K-Latte is an admirable, affordable little Keurig with a traditional electric frother on it. It can put out a concentrated shot like the K-Café we recommend, but the frother isn’t any better than one you can buy separate, and its nonstick coating sometimes requires a gentle scrub. + +**[Gourmia GCM4000 K-Cup Latte Maker](https://www.amazon.com/Gourmia-GCM4000-Compatible-Cappuccino-Straight/dp/B076VMC483/){: rel=nofollow}:** This Gourmia also uses Keurig K Cups, has an easy interface, and a nice milk frother built-in. Unfortunately, it has some design flaws. The K-Cup drawer often leaves a puddle around your cup, and if you use reusable K-Cups, they could get stuck in it. The milk jug is also difficult to remove and the distance from the milk spout to a normal cup is too far, leading to splashing and spills. You can adjust the cup shelf height, but you have to watch diligently: there’s a chance your cup might slide right off due to the flimsy nature of the shelf. + +**[Delonghi Lattissima One ($380)](https://www.amazon.com/Nespresso-Lattissima-DeLonghi-Warm-Slate/dp/B079W6RV3Z){: rel=nofollow}:** My house has had a Nespresso in it for years. Nespresso isn't as flavorful as a freshly brewed shot from a coffee shop, but it’s fast and does the trick. There are other Nespresso makers with frothers, but Delonghi’s Lattissima One is an elegant little machine with a solid 19 bars of pressure. This used to be one of our picks, but it ended up springing a leak and getting water everywhere. It's not a bad machine, but in our experience, and in other reviews around the web, it does not hold up long term. + + +##Questions and Answers + +[#image: /photos/5b7e0b0c4711c736f78633e0]|||||| + +###How did you test each machine? + +To find the best latte and cappuccino makers, I first researched what was on the market, widely available, and stuck to models under $800. I ended up testing around a dozen different machines for between one and three months (depending on the model), using different types of coffees, pods, and milks. I tried to live with each machine, to a degree, and use them casually, but also tested the same milk and grounds in each (where possible) to compare milk/froth ratios and taste. + +Setup and cleanup were especially important, as was durability. The entire point of a device like these is to save time and energy, and/or produce a drink of higher quality than can be made without it, so we didn’t recommend any products that didn’t produce tasty espresso *and* save time. + +###How do you make a good latte or cappuccino? + +There are a lot of differing opinions on ratios, but generally a cappuccino is a 1-ounce espresso shot (or a 2-ounce double shot), 2 ounces steamed milk, and 2 ounces foamed milk. A latte is similar but has more milk and less foam. It’s a 1- to 2-ounce espresso shot, 6 (ish) ounces of steamed milk, and a bit of foam that mixes with the espresso crema as you pour in the milk. I sometimes use a spoon to hold back the foam until the end. (I have yet to try to [make latte art](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86p0cKwjUw).) + +Technically, the machines in this guide that have milk canisters make latte macchiatos, because they pour the milk and foam before the espresso shot. In a traditional latte, the coffee comes first. I prefer traditional lattes in my testing. They were creamier and richer, but they were also more work to make (except with the Keurig K-Café). + +##Other Espresso Necessities + +**Great Beans:** If you haven’t made espresso before, I recommend you use your favorite standard coffee beans. Just make sure they have a fine grind and pack them tight if your machine has a portafilter. I tried a lot of pre-ground popular espresso blends like [Lavazza](https://www.amazon.com/Lavazza-Coffee-Medium-Espresso-2-2-Pound/dp/B00P0ZMWEC/){: rel=nofollow}, [Gevalia](https://www.amazon.com/Gevalia-French-Roast-Coffee-Ground/dp/B00UT3YLKS/ref=sr_1_3_sspa/){: rel=nofollow}, and [Café Bustelo](https://www.amazon.com/Bustelo-Espresso-Ground-Coffee-Packaging/dp/B01ERBUCM8/){: rel=nofollow}. They were all too dark and bitter for my taste, but you may like them. Right now, I’m enjoying [Kicking Horse coffee beans](https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Horse-Coffee-Variety-Flavors/dp/B00RM5APQ0/){: rel=nofollow}, specifically [Three Sisters](https://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Horse-Coffee-Sisters-Medium/dp/B00KC0LLFQ){: rel=nofollow}. + +**Electric Frother:** Even if you don’t use one of these machines, you can add some froth to your espressos or coffee with an electric milk frother. This [$35 Secura frother](https://www.amazon.com/Secura-Automatic-Electric-Frother-Warmer/dp/B00JEPP64C/){: rel=nofollow} is pretty standard and has a two-year warranty. + +**Leveler & Tamper:** A lot of machines come with a plastic tamper, but out of the units I tested, only the Barista Express had a proper leveler and tamper. I immediately began using it for other machines. You'll need to check the size of your portafilter (some are smaller than normal), but this [$19 leveler and tamper](https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Distributor-Leveler-tool-Distribution/dp/B077BZ4CV6/){: rel=nofollow} should help you pack in those espresso baskets. + +**Stainless Steel Frothing Pitcher:** If your latte maker comes with just a steam wand (like the Hamilton Beach machine on this list), you’ll want to invest in a frothing jug. This [$17 Star Coffee Frothing Pitcher](https://www.amazon.com/Star-Coffee-Stainless-Frothing-Pitcher/dp/B01DXYHXXQ/){: rel=nofollow} is nice because it has measurement scales on the inside, which is helpful if you want to get the right coffee-to-milk ratio. + + + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* *The Irishman* gets de-aging right—[no tracking dots necessary](https://www.wired.com/story/the-irishman-netflix-ilm-de-aging/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* The tech-obsessed, hyper-experimental [restaurant of the future](https://www.wired.com/story/eric-rivera/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Hacker Lexicon: [What is a dead drop](https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-dead-drop/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5)? +* A society photographer [turns his lens on smartphone addiction](https://www.wired.com/story/smartphone-society/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Wish List 2019: 52 amazing gifts [you'll want to keep for yourself](https://www.wired.com/gallery/wish-list-2019/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 👁 Will AI as a field ["hit the wall" soon](https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-ai-says-field-hit-wall/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5)? 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Google brought its considerable camera prowess down to the affordable phone market. It also has good battery life too, a sore point on the new Pixel 4, and its polycarbonate body won't shatter at the first drop. Because it's a Pixel phone, it will get software and security updates directly from Google (the maker of the Android operating system) for three years. + +####Google Pixel 4 for $669 ($130 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YMNLXL3/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The latest Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-4-and-pixel-4-xl/)) are some of our favorite Android phones because of their simple but smart software, excellent cameras, and Google's commitment to delivering timely updates. Their biggest flaw is battery life, which will barely get through a full day of use, if at all. + + +####Sonos One Speaker for $170 ($30 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Sonos-One-Gen-Controlled-Built/dp/B07NJPXRBC/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +Sonos speakers are some of the best functioning and easiest-to-set-up smart speakers you'll find, but they can be a bit spendy. If you've been thinking about starting your system, today is a good day, as you can get $50 off the Play:One and [$40 off the One SL](https://fave.co/2LdacUj){: rel=nofollow} (which lacks the microphone of the One, but has the same great multiroom music functionality). + + +####Roku Streaming Stick Plus for $44 ($15 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Stick-HDR-Streaming-Long-range/dp/B075XLWML4/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart ($49)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FRoku-Streaming-Stick-4K-Media-Player%2F300825724&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is the [best Roku](https://www.wired.com/gallery/how-to-pick-the-right-roku/) for the most people. It works with HD or 4K HDR televisions and can connect to dual-band Wi-Fi networks. 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If you've been looking to get into the full-frame mirrorless camera system, you'd be hard-pressed to find a cheaper way to do it. + +####Olympus Tough TG-6 Waterproof Camera for $349 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Tough-TG-6-Waterproof-Camera/dp/B07RC8HPHL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2qJAYwF){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/olympus-tough-tg-6-12-0-megapixel-water-resistant-digital-camera-red/6351697.p?skuId=6351697&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Olympus-Tough-TG-6-Compact-Camera-Red/795602545){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Olympus TG-6 is a rugged little camera that soars where smartphones crash ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/olympus-tough-tg-6/)). It offers excellent image quality for a small camera (complete with support for RAW images), and it's nearly indestructible. If you want a camera that's a GoPro-style, go-anywhere machine, but retains the lens and sensor quality of a point and shoot, the TG-6 is your best bet. + +####GoPro Hero 8 Black for $349 ($50 off) +*[Amazon (with SD card)](https://www.amazon.com/GoPro-HERO8-Elite-X-microSDHC-Bundle/dp/B07Y13ZWQQ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoPro-HERO8-Black%2F769593864&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgopro-hero8-black-4k-waterproof-action-camera-black%2F6365359.p%3FskuId%3D6365359&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Target](https://fave.co/2rIGAXY){: rel=nofollow}* + +The GoPro Hero 8 Black ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/go-pro-hero-8-black/)) brings some major changes to the Hero line. You no longer have to deal with a mounting cage, and some new add-ons make for easier vlogging. But the real highlight is the new customizable menu system, which simplifies using the camera in extreme conditions. + +####Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II for $399 ($80 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2OhsMfT){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/canon-powershot-g9-x-mark-ii-20-1-megapixel-digital-camera-black/5715504.p?skuId=5715504){: rel=nofollow}* + +This little Canon hits the sweet spot for price, features, and image quality ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-canon-powershot-g7-x-mark-ii/)). It's compact, the tilting touchscreen is a standout feature in this class, and the autofocus is surprisingly speedy. + + +####DJI Osmo Action for $244 ($135 off) + +*[Amazon ($256)](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Digital-Displays-Waterproof-HDR-Video/dp/B07RJMK2GV/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +DJI's Osmo Action is our favorite action cam ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-action-camera/)), and at this price it's an even sweeter deal. The front screen makes filming yourself easier, and the frame rates for video match what you get out of DJI's drones, saving you some headaches in postproduction if you're combining drone and handheld footage. + +##Laptops/Tablets + +####Surface Pro 7—i5, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB—With Type Cover for $799 ($230 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/2rLA4Q8){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Pro 7 is one of our favorite laptop-tablet hybrids ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-pro-7-2019/)). 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For more info, [read our full write-up on this deal](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ipad-cyber-monday-2019-deal/). + +##Random Stuff + +####Fitbit Versa Lite Smartwatch for $99 ($60 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fitbit-Versa-Lite-Edition-Smartwatch/935368703&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Target](https://fave.co/2Oyn1Lb){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Kohl's](https://fave.co/2Y6ZgNr){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/fitbit-versa-lite-edition-smartwatch-silver-with-charcoal-silicone-band/6351050.p?skuId=6351050){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Fitbit-Versa-Smart-Watch-included/dp/B07MFZ9MHM/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Versa Lite ([8/10, Wired Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-fitbit-versa-lite-edition/)) is one of [the best fitness trackers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-fitness-tracker/) you can get for your money. It works with both Android and iOS, can track everything from ovulation cycles to sleep, and unlike an Apple Watch, you don't have to charge it every day. + +####PlayStation 4 Pro 1 TB Console for $315 ($85 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FSony-PlayStation-4-Pro-1TB-Gaming-Console-Wireless-Game-Pad-Black%2F741505081&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +The PlayStation 4 Pro is the most powerful PlayStation you can buy, and even if a new PlayStation 5 is [expected next year](https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-playstation-5/), it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some of the best games from the past decade on this console, from *God of War* to *Red Dead Redemption 2*. + + + +- **[Ecovacs Deebot 500 for $135 ($145 off)](https://www.amazon.com/ECOVACS-DEEBOT-500-Controls-Self-Charging/dp/B07Q7Y84S6/){: rel=nofollow}:** I think aso likes this one. + + +###Kindles/Fire + + +- **[Kindle for $70 ($20 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DLPWYB7/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you're looking for an ebook reader, the 2019 Kindle has everything you need ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-kindle-2019/)). This model uses a 6-inch E Ink capacitive touchscreen for reading, and it lights up so you can read in the dark. + +- **[Kindle Paperwhite for $100 ($30 off)](){: rel=nofollow}:** The Kindle Paperwhite is an upgrade worth considering. The touchscreen is noticeably clearer (300 pixels per inch vs. 167 for the standard) and the light is better. The Paperwhite is also rated IPX8, meaning it can sit in 2 meters of water for two hours. That makes bathtub reading a little more relaxing. + +- **[Fire HD 10 for $120 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1RZWMC/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 10 is the speediest and most well-rounded Amazon tablet. The Fire HD 10 has a larger screen with more pixels (1080p) than its siblings, making it better for video. It's been refreshed for 2020 with a slight processor bump and 2-gigabytes of RAM. The bigger news is the new USB-C charging. The new "Show Mode" for the Fire HD 10 turns the tablet into an Echo-like device. Set your HD 10 on a stand (we like the [official magnetic standing case](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-HD-10-Tablet-Case/dp/B07RS8J6QP/){: rel=nofollow}) and it essentially becomes an Echo Show. + +- **[Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0794RHPZD/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 8 is the 10's travel-friendly sibling. The 2018 Fire HD 8 is our favorite all-around Fire tablet. ([Read our Fire HD 8 review.](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-2018/)) It’s portable enough to take with you anywhere, and its screen won’t torture your eyes when you watch Netflix. + +- **[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition for $90 ($40 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078HQBS21/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Kids Edition Fire HD 8 adds a padded case to protect it from accidents, and includes one year of FreeTime Unlimited, with access to a ton of educational content from PBS Kids. If your kids are older, and want a larger screen, the [Fire HD 10 Kids Edition is also on sale](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KD7K4B1/){: rel=nofollow} for $160 ($40 off). diff --git a/ces-scratch.txt b/ces-scratch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d119dac --- /dev/null +++ b/ces-scratch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Microduino's Itty Bitty Buggy is bot-building system based around an Arduino-powered wheeled buggy. Kids can start out building bots via instructions, and then design tracks the bots will follow (including the rope-climbing Sloth bot pictured above). All the bot can be controlled with an app as well, and for older kids there are a variety of programming possibilities starting with the popular Scratch language and working all the way up to complex code written in Python. Microduino’s toys are LEGO compatible as well so they can fit in + +, too, so the possibilities for creating something extremely unique with Itty Bitty Buggy is a within reach of every child with an imagination. + +line-following + +Easy to build and fun to play! +Building block compatible. The possibilities are endless. +Supports & teaches Scratch and Arduino (C++) programming. diff --git a/cheap-laptops.txt b/cheap-laptops.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f906eee --- /dev/null +++ b/cheap-laptops.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +- action cams +- portable coffee +- labor day sales +- REI sale update + + + +Low end laptop round up notes + +Acer Aspire 5 +Model Name: A515-54-51DJ Part Number: NX.HG5AA.001 $529.99: + specs: + Intel Core i5 i5-8265U 1.60 GHz quad core + Intel UHD Graphics 620 + Screen Size 15.6" LCD IPS 1920 x 1080 + 8 GB RAM + Ports: ethernet, USB, USB-C, HDMI, headphones + notes: + - screen is lackluster, not super sharp + - hard to open from front edge + - edge is sharp on wrists in some situations + - tends to be quiet, speakers are weak + - plenty fast + - no problems with windows + +Acer Chromebook + - keyboard is nice + - same screen as Swift 3 + - Micro SD card is flush/recessed + - RAM was sufficient for chrome tasks + - Android apps are still hit or miss, mostly miss + - Linux on Chromebook works quite well and gives you access to tools you'd need for basic STEM-type courses, though not necessarily compiling software, probably not enough processing power. + +Acer Swift 3 + +Lenovo Chromebook C330 + +one are the days when a decent laptop would cost you north of $1,000. In this market, manufacturers are inventing new ways to outsell each other, including aggressive price cutting. It's now possible to pick up a full-size or ultraportable Windows 10 notebook with a processor powerful enough for use at home, school, or work, for around $500 to $600. It's also easy to find full-featured Chromebooks and hybrid systems that give you both laptop and tablet functionality in one device for as little as $300. + +You should be prepared to compromise, however. While it's certainly possible to find a powerful laptop with a 15-inch screen, you might have to make do with a flimsy keyboard and touchpad. Likewise, you could buy an impeccably made ultraportable that uses an underpowered CPU and a tiny hard drive to achieve its low price. diff --git a/instax-ode.txt b/instax-ode.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9406050 --- /dev/null +++ b/instax-ode.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ + +In Instax prints, like Polaroids before them, the ink is in the frame of the print and is released as the print is forces out of the camera. This is why the image fades into view. Word to the wise though, there will never be a song "shake it like an Instax picture" because shaking an Instax image does nothing. + + + +Canon, Kodak and HP have all released Zink based cameras and printers with a form factor roughly similar to the new Fujifilm LiPlay. The big difference is of course the end result. The LiPlay uses Instax prints, a technology similar to Polaroids with puffy white edges and an image that develops while you watch. Zink on the other hand can produce borderless prints, but takes a bit longer to spit them out. + diff --git a/magazine/wishlist2019.txt b/magazine/wishlist2019.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43e2fb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/magazine/wishlist2019.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Instax Mini LiPlay + +Instagram your walls with this pocket-size instant camera and printer in one. The LCD screen allows you to preview before printing, so only the winners end up on your wall. The glass lens produces sharp images, or you can use images from your phone, printed with the app. + + +YubiKey for iOS +https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5ci + +The YubiKey now works with iPhones. Unlike a laptop, you don't even need to insert the YubiKey into your phone. Instead the hardware key taps NFC authentication to identify you to apps on your iPhone. Some of our favorite security apps are already compatible, including the LastPass password manager. + +Raspberry Pi 4 (which we still need sent over, if you have it handy) +https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ + +A $50 desktop computer? Yes please. The Raspberry Pi created and defined a new era of DIY computing and now the fourth generation wants to conquer the desktop too. It's not quite there, but with 4GB of RAM and support for dual 4K displays, it's tantalizingly close. And it's plenty powerful enough to handle whatever DIY project you throw at it.. + +DJI Robomaster S1 +https://www.dji.com/robomaster-s1 + +DJI took some time off building drones to create the coolest robotic vehicle we've tested. Designed for robotics competitions, the Robomaster S1 is fun to build and even more fun to program and drive. More of a STEM project than a laser-shooting, remote-controlled car, it is still a laser-shooting robot ready to do battle with other drivers. + +Breville Super Q +https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/blenders/bbl920.html +Breville brings the commercial blender to your kitchen. The powerful motor and surprisingly quiet operation make the Super Q a versatile and powerful tool. Not making sauces to feed dozens? No problem. The personal blender cup lets you churn out a smoothie for one with ease. + +"Sandworm" by Andy Greenberg +https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/597684/sandworm-by-andy-greenberg/ + +WIRED's own Andy Greenberg brings you a globe-spanning detective story in search of the new digital battlefield (spoiler: it's everywhere). Sandworm looks at where the digital and physical battlefields begin to merge and how that's going to shake up our world. + +Form Goggles +https://www.formswim.com/ +Runners have it easy, just glance at your wrist to see your workout stats. Now swimmers can see the same data just as easily with Form Goggles. The heads-up display brings real-time access to your workout stats without breaking your stroke—time, stroke rate, pace, distance, and more all float in front of your eyes. + + +Peek & Push +https://stellarfactory.com/shop/games/peek-and-push +This 2-player strategy game taps is little like playing dominoes blindfolded. You can peek to see which tiles are where, and then keep track of them as you and your opponent "push" them around the board. 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Whether or not these hard and fast divisions actually exist, cameras aimed at each market certainly do. Being about 150 years younger, the aerial photography market is somewhat less segmented. Up til now there have been only two categories: Professional drones and hobbiest drones. + +With the new Breeze 4K, Yuneec is hoping to lure in the previously ignored newcomer market. Yes, it's the drone equivalent of a cellphone camera, complete with an over-emphasis on selfies. + +As someone who falls somewhere between the professional and serious amateur markets (which is to say I make money off drone cameras, but have not, thus far, felt the need for a "pro" level drone like the DJI Inspire 2) the Breeze should be something I scoff at, but to tell you the truth it's a lot of fun. Would I bring it to a high end real estate photo shoot? No, but it's good at what it does, loads of fun to fly and produces the kind of results that will look good shared on small screens via Instagram and YouTube. + +The Breeze is lightweight and designed to fit in a backpack. While it's light, at 13 ounces it still needs to be registered with the FAA. It comes in a plastic suitcase-style case that keeps it protected from accidents while in your bag, but overall the plastic feels stiff and it felt a little more fragile than the GDU Byrd, which I happened to be testing at the same time. The good news is that pretty much every part you're liable to break is for sale individually, making it easy, if perhaps costly, to get your drone back in the air should you crash or otherwise break it. + +As the name implies the Breeze comes with a 4K capable camera (30fps) though there are several important caveats to bear in mind. First, there is no stabilizing gimbal so the steadiness of your video is directly tied to your skills as a pilot. Recognizing that the newcomer won't have those piloting skills yet, the Breeze includes a host of preprogrammed auto flying modes that go a long way to improving video results. In other words the auto modes handle the stability issues. There's also some built in digital stabilization, but, and here's the second caveat: digital stabilization only works with 1080p video, not the 4K footage. Sadly, that means that, while the Breeze clearly wants to tout its 4K capabilities, they're of limited usefulness without stabilization. + +That doesn't mean, however, that the Breeze isn't capable of some great shots and video. Once I got my hands on a device new enough to run the companion app I had no trouble getting great looking 1080p footage of the kind that it took me months to learn how to get back when the first DJI Phantom was released. It was an eye opening view of how quickly the drone market has progressed. + +But back to the controller, or rather lack of controller. Yes, the Breeze controller is a smartphone app. The controller consists of virtual joysticks that behave just like the real thing, minus all the tactile feedback that can help with your reaction times. But again, the manual controls are almost an afterthought here, the point is the plethora of automated flight modes. There's the usual suspects that every current drone has -- follow me and orbit -- and there's also a couple of others like the selfie mode, journey mode and the manual pilot mode. + +Follow me and orbit work like they do in Yuneec's larger, more expensive drones. Selfie mode ditches the control interface entirely and simple offers a slider for controlling the camera. Journey mode was the most impressive, it starts with a fly away shot and then comes zooming back in producing some very nice, smooth video in the process. + +The image and video quality is surprisingly good for a $500 drone this small. Video can be a little soft at times and stills probably won't look good as 16x20 prints, but for online sharing it's more than good enough most of the time. The one place I found it just didn't work well was in follow me mode where too tight of a shot made for jerky camera movements as the drone tried to keep up. + +Backing it up a bit in altitude fixed the problem, but highlighted the other big shortcoming: the Breeze really only stays aloft for about 10 minutes. On the plus side Yuneec includes two batteries, which means you get 20 minutes of flight time out of the box (with one battery switch) which should be enough time to get all the selfies you need. + +At $500 the Breeze feels maybe slightly overpriced for that it is. Fortunately since its release there seems to have been something of a price war going on between various retailers. I had no trouble finding it for $380 and even less at some stores. At that price I have no qualms saying the Breeze makes a great buy for anyone looking to get into drone photography without breaking the bank or their expensive new drone. + +Wired: Automated flight modes make it possible to get good quality video and photos without the learning curve of more expensive drones. In app sharing lets you get the results out to the world with little effort. Surprisingly fun to fly when you do decide to try manual mode + +Tired: Flight time is only about 10 minutes, no stabilization for 4K video makes it next to useless, follow me mode produced jerky flight (and therefore video) when it was lower in altitude. + +Rating: 6? 7? diff --git a/old/canon-m5.txt b/old/canon-m5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a0b506 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/canon-m5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +The mirrorless camera market has long been notable for what it lacked -- cameras from Nikon and Canon. + +Technically Canon has had a mirrorless offering for about four years, the EOS M, but it was a low end model that felt more like a token gesture than a real camera. Then for four years the company largely ignored the mirrorless market in favor of the DSLR. Canon fans have been hoping in vain for a more capable successor to the EOS M for some time and, with the new M5, I can now safely say, the wait is over. + +That's not to say the M5 is perfect -- I have several reservations about this camera -- but it's certainly a step in the right direction and it shows that Canon can make a very capable higher-end mirrorless camera. + +Imagine the Canon EOS 80 -- one of the company's more popular consumer-level DSLRs -- shrunk into a smaller body and stripped of the mirror and you have more or less the M5. + +One thing that's worth pointing out up front is just how small this thing is. Pictures on the web did not fully prepare me for how small it really is. It's slightly taller than the Panasonic GX85 that I tested recently. + +It's not the lightest thing though. Despite the diminutive size the M5 is surprisingly weighty. Not heavy exactly, but it does have a solid feel to it. + +Unlike Canon's previous mirrorless offerings like the M3 and M10, the M5 sports an SLR-style body with a built-in electronic viewfinder. A very good EVF in fact, with a 0.39-inch OLED that packs in 2.36M dots, which is to say it's bright, clear and easy to compose through. There's also a built-in diopter underneath the rear edge, which means it won't get spun around in your bag. If you want to shoot without the EVF the 2-axis tilting 3.2-inch touchscreen display is equally bright and sharp. + +The 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor is very sharp even if it does eschew current trends and include an anti-aliasing filter. The chip features the same on-sensor phase-detect AF common in Canon DSLRs, which is a first for Canon's mirrorless line and, to my mind, the number one sign Canon is starting to take mirrorless seriously. + +The dynamic range is quite good, especially next to similarly specced DSLRs in Canon's current line up, though this is an area where Canon seems to struggle. The dynamic range of its APS-C chips has never been the best and while the M5 continues the recent improvements Canon has made with these chips, it still doesn't quite match what I've seen coming out of the new Sony a6500. + +The autofocus portion of the equation is, however, much better. I found that the "dual pixel" phase-detect system was fast, but more important, extremely accurate even in challenging situations. In fact I would say the M5 one of the fastest, most accurate mirrorless camera AF systems I've tested. Is it DSLR fast? No. But it's 95 percent of the way there. + +Unfortunately the speed of autofocus is marred by one significant downside -- the viewfinder blackout time when shooting is, to put it diplomatically, pronounced. It's downright awful really. This can be overcome a little bit by the 7 fps burst shooting speed. Just mash the button and hope for the best. Alas, that will fill the buffer after a mere second or two if you shoot RAW. I also found the shutter button to be a little unreliable, more than once I mashed and nothing happened. + +So the M5 might not be the best thing to bring to the Olympics, but that's not really the market here. I can't imagine a pro tossing their 5D in the trash to run out and grab an M5. The M5 is aimed at what the marketing folk call "enthusiasts" -- those of us who enjoy photography and are willing to spend some money on it, but aren't pros. Pros will not accept the trade offs of the M5 just to save a couple pounds. For rest of us, however, the trade offs might not be a big deal. + +For the enthusiast market, especially the subsection who already own some Canon lenses, the M5 makes a great lightweight camera. The biggest downside to the M5 in my view is the lack of native lenses. Canon sent me the 15-45mm f/3.5 and the longer 18-150mm f/3.5-f/6.3, which were both capable lenses though neither one bowled me over. However Canon also sent along an adapter (sold separately) that allows you to mount EF and EF-S lenses on the M5 and enjoy full autofocus. You could even bring some L glass to the M5 if you want, though the size and weight of L lenses generally defeats the purpose of getting a compact, lightweight body like the M5. + +One other nitpick with the M5 is there's no 4K, which feels like a painful omission at this point. That said I was quite happy with what I got at 1080p/60fps. The M5 allows for touch screen focusing while shooting, but even better the AF system is again wonderfully accurate. + +In the end the M5 is not the perfect mirrorless offering Canon fans have been hoping for. It's tantalizingly close though. In fact I could overlook everything except the viewfinder blackout. On the bright side the M5 clearly shows that not only is Canon actively exploring the mirrorless market, it's starting to target the higher end portion of it. + +wired: Fast, accurate AF, small and light weight, excellent EVF and touchscreen +tired: Lacks fast native lenses, viewfinder blackout is pronounced, no 4K video diff --git a/old/contract GILBERTSON - 20060172.PDF.pdf b/old/contract GILBERTSON - 20060172.PDF.pdf Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..76eb9a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/contract GILBERTSON - 20060172.PDF.pdf diff --git a/old/gdu.txt b/old/gdu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e3d75e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/gdu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +I'll confess I was slightly confused when the GDU Byrd Drone showed up at my door last month. It's rare that a new drone maker slips past my radar completely, but a quick trip to the internet set me straight: GDU is the new name of ProDrone, which unveiled the Byrd to much fanfare at least years' CES. + +The Byrd that arrived at my door was the newly announced Byrd advanced. The Byrd Standard which launched earlier this year has a built-in camera with some relatively unimpressive specs. The Byrd Advanced ditches the built-in camera in favor of a gimbal designed to fit the GoPro Hero 4 (and any newer GoPro provided GoPro doesn't change the form factor too much). + +The first thing that jumps out at you when you get the Byrd is how well it's packaged. It's a small thing perhaps, but GDU has put some serious thought into this drone, all the way down to the packaging. + +Once you've unpacked everything you'll notice two things, first, fully collapsed the Byrd is surprisingly compact and second, you get a very nice well padded carrying case for the included GoPro Hero 4 camera and gimbal. Having damaged the gimbal trying to put two different drones back in their all-in-one carrying cases, I really appreciated the separate case. + +The Byrd's collapsible nature does mean that getting everything setup and ready to fly is slightly more time consuming than it would be with drones that don't fold up, but once you've done it a couple of times you'll get it down to just a couple of minutes. It's a small hassle to pay for the ability to shove the Byrd in a backpack and have room to spare. + +As with drones from Yuneec, DJI and others you'll have to calibrate the Byrd by doing the little drone dance, spinning around in the circle while holding the Byrd out at arm's length. In all my testing the Byrd had no trouble find at least 10 satellites and calibration took just a couple of minutes. + +Once you've got it set up, flying the Byrd is more or less the same as flying any other drone with a two-joystick controller and POV video feed. Anyone who's flown a Phantom will be able to use GDU's controller without much thought at all. I suppose you could argue that GDU is copying DJI, but I for one welcome the copying. There's nothing I'd like more than for every drone controller handset to have to same buttons with the same functions in the same places -- standardization is good because the muscle memory makes you a better pilot. + +One place the Byrd does differ from DJI controllers is the control wheels for panning the camera. Unlike a lot of drones, the Byrd can pan the camera independent of the direction of flight. This makes it possible to get some shots the you won't be able to get with other drones, though it also means you can end up with the landing gear in your shot. This is one of the reasons that higher-priced drones (which typically can pan independent of flight direction) offer retractable landing gear. It's possible to get some unique shots without getting the landing gear in them, but the lack of collapsible landing gear does limit the usefulness of this feature a little bit. + +I found the Byrd to be a real pleasure to fly. It's not quite as snappy or fast as the Phantom 4, but it's more responsive than the Typhoon H. More importantly though it's fun to fly and it responds faithfully to your commands, which gives the experience a trustworthiness that's sometimes more important than actually performance. + +The only time the Byrd broke that sense of trust was the live video feed, which hung up twice when I was testing it. Both times I was testing with an older 2nd gen iPad, which may be the source of the problem since I had no similar problems on my Android phone, which, though small, was still useable. + +How it handles obviously depends somewhat on weather conditions, but I found that when the GPS signal is strong the Byrd has no trouble staying locked in place in hover mode. Due to drone restrictions at local parks and the number of tree in my area I wasn't able to test the follow feature too much, but the Byrd had no trouble tracking me running down the street. + +Other automated flight features include automatic takeoff and landing via the Home button, both of which worked as advertised. I don't happen to like automated takeoff, but it is nice to be able to call the drone home with a single button. The only downside is that there does not appear to be a way to cancel the return home feature once you've pressed the button. The return home feature also works should you fly out of range (the Byrd will turn around and fly home) or run low on battery. + +The Byrd's battery is a massive thing, but it does indeed manage to deliver on Byrd's claim of 30 minutes of flight time. Actual flight times will depend on many factors, shoot video continuously while flying in to a 20 MPH headwind and you'll be back before 30 minutes. But in average conditions the Byrd managed to stay up for 27 minutes in my testing. + +I've been testing drones for two years now and have flow dozens of models from nearly as many manufacturers. What I've been hoping to see for some time is what amounts to the travel photographer's dream: a lightweight, small package that still offers high quality photos and video footage and flying with the stability of larger models. The Byrd isn't perfect, but it gets closer to fulfilling that dream than anything else I've tested to date. + +Wired: Compact, relatively lightweight means the Byrd can fit in your backpack with room to spare. 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It's not every day that a brand new camera maker comes out of the woodwork, and indeed this isn't YI's first camera -- the company makes an "action" camera which is, by most accounts, quite impressive -- but it is the first brand new entrant in the Micro Four Thirds game in some time. + +If you've ever wondered what would happen if you took the camera interface of your average cellphone and bolted it onto a Leica-inspired compact Micro Four Thirds body, well, the M1 is here with the answer. The M1's design owes a debt to the Leica T. The compact body with flush dials, minimal buttons and even a distinctive red logo mark all recall the Leica T, along with some of Panasonic's Leica partnered efforts. With a sticker price of only $700 though, the M1 is definitely not a Leica T. + +The M1 sports an almost entirely touchscreen UI. There's a mode dial and a control dial for setting shutter and aperture (depending on which mode you're in) and just two buttons on the back, one for playback and one for AF selection. There's a hotshoe, but the package I was sent did not include a flash of any kind. + +Holding the M1 is comfortable, it's a lightweight, mostly plastic camera that feels more like a point and shoot than anything. For comparison's sake it's about one half of an inch narrower and shorter than the Panasonic GX 85 I tested last month. The shutter button is well placed and easy enough to find by feel, not that you'll have the M1 held to your eye, but just picking up the camera puts your fingers where you want them, something a surprising number of compact cameras get wrong. There's a dedicated video button in the center of the mode dial that's somewhat less easy to find by feel. + +The control dial is similarly well placed, just under where my thumb rested while holding the M1. I primarily shoot in aperture priority mode and had no trouble with the control dial. The mode dial also manages to find the sweet spot between "easy to turn" and "doesn't accidentally turn in your bag". Aside from the playback button and AF select button that's it for the physical interface of the M1. + +The rest of what you'll want to control in the M1 will be done through the touch interface. The menu is simple enough and follows touch UI conventions with swipe gestures as well as tab buttons supported. The interface works quite well and is responsive enough, though it's nowhere near as fast as the UI of a phone. I bring this up mainly because the target market here seems to be cellphone users who want to move up to a "real" camera. The UI won't be a problem for anyone who's well versed in mobile device photography, but the experience is somewhat slower. + +The lack of physical buttons means that you'll need to dive into the menus quite a bit, which can make it tricky to get the settings you want quickly. This will depend somewhat on how you shoot, but for me the biggest annoyance was no quick access to ISO settings. On the other hand, if you were upgrading from a cellphone camera and just stuck with auto for most things you won't likely be hindered by any lag in the UI. + +The UI itself is simple to use. There are three tap-target circles on the left edge of the screen in shooting mode. They are, from top to bottom, aperture, shutter speed, and EV compensation. To adjust them you can just select by tapping and use the control dial. Alternately you can tap on them and adjust via the touch screen though this takes much longer. + +Changing the metering mode, adjusting white balance, ISO or other setting mean going deeper into the UI with a swipe the right. This will bring up three screens worth of settings and adjustments. Swiping the main screen to the left bring up some different output settings, like vivid, high contrast black and white among others. + +Overall I would put the M1's UI at about average for the field. It is an almost entirely touchscreen base, which while not completely original, but is not common in Micro Four Thirds either. As with any new camera spending some time learning the quirks of the UI will pay off down the road. + +One place the M1 shines is that the $700 base price gets you not one, but two kit lenses. One is a macro-capable 42.5mm f1.8 prime lens (85mm equivalent for 35mm). The other is a 12-40 f3.5-f5.6 zoom (24-80mm 35mm equivalent). They are both lightweight, plastic lenses with about the build quality you'd expect at this price, which is to say they didn't fall apart, but they're a long way from solid. + +Optically the zoom is predictably soft at the edges until you get above F8. The prime is much sharper and makes a decent portrait lens. Unfortunately the manual focus wheel is just for looks. This makes the macro feature next to useless on what would otherwise be a pretty decent "macro capable" prime lens. + +The other reason the lack of manual focus is disappointment is that autofocus is not the M1's strong suit. Focusing is slow, and not just in low light. The M1 takes a noticeable amount of time to lock onto static targets and if anything is moving, forget it. You might think that switching to continuous AF would help, but alas, it does not. Combine C-AF with burst mode and you'll get some hilariously bad results. I tried to shoot this way while my kids were flying a kite at the park and found that the M1 was never actually able to refocus after the first shot, to say nothing of tracking. Suffice to say that if shooting fast moving subjects, and possibly moving subjects at all, is a requirement, then this is not the camera for you. It would be possible to overcome this a bit by going old school with a manual focus lens and small aperture, but if that's how you shoot you probably aren't in the target market for the M1 in the first place. + +The M1 uses a 20MP Sony sensor that produces either JPEG or DNG RAW files (but not both at the same time). The image quality of both the RAW and JPG files is quite good. I found the color rendition of the JPGs to be a bit washed out, but the RAW files had decent dynamic range and you can easily pull out an extra two stops of detail in the shadows before the noise gets too bad. Speaking of noise, the M1 will shoot up to ISO 25600, though in my testing anything over 6400 was largely unusable (very noise in RAW and a blurry mush in the camera-corrected JPGs). + +The M1 is capable of quality video at 30fps, which is an impressive spec for a $700 camera with two lenses. Unfortunately to shoot in 4k it does some serious cropping, which means wide angle shots are largely impossible. There's also no external mic jack, and, as with stills, AF speed is an issue. + +Should you pick up the M1? Probably not. It's a decent first release, but there are other options in this price range that are considerably more capable. Both the Olympus PEN E-PL7 and Panasonic GX85 are only $100 more than the M1 and can run circles around in it nearly every category. If you really want to step up, the APS-C based Sony alpha 5000 is currently available with kit lens for roughly the same as the M1. It's not that the M1 is incapable, in fact I look forward to seeing what YI comes up with in future releases, just that in its current incarnation it's not a good value for the money. diff --git a/old/published/Adobe Open Source.doc b/old/published/Adobe Open Source.doc Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b77f84 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Adobe Open Source.doc diff --git a/old/published/AdobeAIR.txt b/old/published/AdobeAIR.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93ec4c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/AdobeAIR.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +If dropped wireless connections, wifi black holes and other connection woes are stifling your love of web-based application, brace yourself -- the offline functionality of your favorite web apps just got a boost from Adobe's new AIR platform. + +The new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), the successor to what was previous code-named Apollo, now features support for HTML/Javascript applications in addition to the company's proprietary Flash technology. + +Adobe AIR, will pit the company against Microsoft's Silverlight platform, Java's JavaFX development tools, Google's recent Google Gears and even perhaps even Firefox, in the race to bridge the divide between browser-based and desktop applications. + +While the field seemed to be shaping up along the classic battle lines of programming frameworks -- Flash developers favoring AIR, .NET coders embracing Silverlight and open source fans following Firefox's lead -- Adobe is hoping to widen Apollo's impact by opening the doors to users who may not actually own any Adobe products. + +"We're really excited by the level of interest that we've seen amongst the developer community," says Pam Deziel Director of Product Management for Adobe's Platform Unit. "Now that AIR has enhanced AJAX support, we expect to see that huge community begin to experiment with AIR as well." + +Jesse James Garrett, president of Adaptive Path, who coined the phrase AJAX, believes that AIR may end up freeing AJAX from the shackles of the browser. Historically the problem for HTML developers has been the fact that there's no easy way to port their code to the desktop environment. + +"I think that AJAX developers have kind of been running up against the constraint of the browser for a while now -- there's a lot of code from your browser application that you'd have to throw out for the offline portion of your app." Says Garrett. + +More code means more work for developers, but AIR is changing that. "The advantage of AIR is the reusability of that code outside the browser," says Garrett. + +While Adobe initially launched Apollo primarily as a tool for Flash and Flex developers, Deziel says the company planned to target HTML and Javascript from the beginning, but concedes that it took longer to add the functionality because of cross platform issues. + +"it wasn't that HTML was never considered to be a first class citizen, but we had additional work to do on the HTML and Javascript side." + +Flash and AJAX developers have long touted the various merits of each platform at the expense of the other, but that has changed in recent years and even Adobe now seems eager to embrace a community it once saw as a competitor. + +But the AJAX community may not be so eager to return the embrace -- many in the AJAX community favor the platform for its open source nature and reject Flash on the grounds that it involves proprietary and expensive Adobe tools. + +For its part Adobe says there's no lock-in with AIR. Deziel says that "developers can employ the same code and tools that they use for browser implementations, so they are not locked +into any aspect of AIR development." + +Adobe even says they are working with Google to align the APIs used to access local database storage for offline applications, which Deziel says "will be consistent for developers both in the browser and via Adobe AIR on the desktop. " + +In the battle for web-app space on your desktop, the dust is far from settled. "It's too soon to say what the relative advantages of each platform will be, says Garrett, "it may be that they all find their place." + diff --git a/old/published/Adobe_Mobile.txt b/old/published/Adobe_Mobile.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7632ffc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Adobe_Mobile.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +In addition to its <a href="">desktop software announcements</a>, Adobe is introducing a new mobile service designed to make it dead simple to upload images from your mobile device. + +If you've been looking for an easier way to get your camera phone images posted onto the web (or wanted to do a bit of light editing before posting something to Flickr, the company's new Photoshop.com Mobile app might be the answer. + +The service, which requires FlashLite and will be released as a public beta in September, allows you to upload, backup and share your photos from your phone or mobile device. The initial release will support Blackjack, Treo, and other smartphones and the company says that support for Android, the iPhone, Symbian and RiM will be coming in 2009. + +The Flash-based Photoshop.com Mobile greatly simplifies the task up uploading images from your phone. In fact, you won't need to do anything to upload an image to Photoshop.com -- point and click, and the photo shows up in your gallery in about 10 seconds. You have the option to simply upload and keep images private or to upload and share your images through Photoshop.com. + +While Photoshop.com Mobile will automatically upload your images as soon as you take them, to pass them on to sharing sites like Facebook or Flickr it will require a separate trip to the browser (or desktop software if you're using it). + +Adobe says it's working toward an update that will allow you to share images directly from the mobile app but it won't be available for the initial release. + +Other features in the mobile app include full access to your Photoshop.com library and albums as well as the ability to turn off the automatic upload service, for those images you don't want to upload. + +While the iPhone has made it pretty easy to send photos to Flickr, thanks to its e-mail app and Flickr's upload via e-mail feature, on other phones it isn't as simple to upload and share your images and that's the gap Photoshop.com Mobile hopes to fill. + +The public beta will be available as a free download at [mobile.photoshop.com][1] in the fall. + +[1]: http://mobile.photoshop.com
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Adobe_elements.txt b/old/published/Adobe_elements.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0982ab --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Adobe_elements.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Adobe has announced new versions of its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements photo and video editing suites for the Windows platform. The new versions of both apps pack in the features and enhancements, but the clear standout is the new Photoshop.com integration. + +Both Photoshop and Premiere Elements now offer automatic syncing and backup of your images and videos through the new Photoshop.com service. Photoshop.com is essentially Photoshop Express, combined with the new Elements desktop software. + +When you fire up either Elements app for the first time, you'll be given an option to sign up for a free Photoshop.com account (there's also a pay version with more storage space). Once Elements has your account info, using the new features is dead simple -- just select the folder you want to back up away you go. All backup and syncing operations are handled in the background -- no need to wait or pause what you're doing. + +If you make some changes using the online editor at Photoshop.com, the next time you open the desktop software it'll update to match your changes. And don't worry, it wont overwrite anything on your local drive, any changes will stacked with the original, much the way Photoshop Lightroom works. + +For those not interested in the new online features, fear not, both apps have plenty of new features on the desktop side as well. Of course, Elements continues Adobe's flagrant disregard for the UI conventions of Windows (or any other platform), but so long as you can get past that, the new versions have some very nice new tools. + +Photoshop Elements now offers a very slick Scene Cleaner feature, which builds on the Photomerge tool that debuted in the last version of Elements. + +Where Photomerge was designed to combine several images to find the best overall composite (handy for group shots where Grandma closed her eyes), Scene Cleaner works in the opposite direction, taking several photos and allowing you simply brush away unwanted subjects, such as tourists cluttering up your image of the Eiffel Tower. + +Also new is the Smart Brush, which makes it easy to apply pre-set effects as a mask without having to understand that that's what you're doing. More advanced users can then move in and change and manipulate the mask and effects. But even at the default settings the Smart Brush is one of the easiest ways you'll find to selectively touch up an image. + +There's also a new set of "Quick Fix" tools designed to make it easier to do common retouching tasks like whitening teeth, brightening blue skies, enhancing sunsets or softened skin while retaining nice sharp edges and details. + +On the video editing side the new Adobe Premiere Elements now supports AVCHD video, which should be welcome news for hi-def camera wielding auteurs. + +The software also features a new InstantMovie tool that can create professional-looking effects through a simple drag and drop theming tool. There's also a new "green screen" tool that makes it easy to merge video or superimpose your subject on top of another scene, without needing sophisticated video editing skills. + +Once you've got your video looking the way you want it, Premiere can burn it off to DVD or Blu-ray and offers publishing options for just about any screen size -- from mobile phones to HDTV. There's also an option to upload your movie directly to YouTube. + +Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements will be available toward the end of September and will cost $100 each. There will be bundle available with both apps for $150. + +The new Photoshop.com service is tiered. At the bottom level there's the Photoshop Express account, which hasn't change, you'll still get 5 gigs of storage for free. Up from that is the Basic Membership which you can signup for through either Elements app. Basic is still free and offers the same 5 gig storage limit, but gives you access to the automatic backup features as well as tutorials and some additional themes. + +Also available is the Photoshop.com Plus membership, which will set you back $50, but bumps the storage to 20 gigs and offers a steady stream of updated themes, video tutorials, hints, trick and ideas.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Core_Animation_LK_Edit.doc b/old/published/Core_Animation_LK_Edit.doc Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..24756d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Core_Animation_LK_Edit.doc diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/HDR tutorial.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/HDR tutorial.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ace9384 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/HDR tutorial.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +Once primarily a tool of video post production, High Dynamic Range photography has enjoyed a surge in popularity thanks to digital photography software, which makes it easy to produce HDR images. + +Photoshop, Photomatix and other software tools make it possible to combine multiple exposures of the same subject into one image that more closely matches what the human eye sees. + +If you're unfamiliar with HDR consider the classic western movie ending -- the cowboy rides off into the sunset while the love interest he leaves behind watches from the doorway. Such a scene has far to great a range between light and dark to be rendered by film or digital sensors, which is where HDR comes in. + +The key to HDR is the "Dynamic Range" which refers to the range of brightness levels that exist in a scene -- from darkest, just before before complete black, to the lightest, just before total white. Film and digital sensors are both very limited in expressing this brightness range when compared to the human eye. + +HDR sidesteps these limitations by combining multiple exposures to extract a greater range of brightness than is possible with a single exposure. The results can range from the barely noticeable to the highly surreal. Check out the [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hdr&w=all&m=tags HDR tag on Flickr] for some example images. + +Tool: What you need + + +Traditionally HDR results have been achieved through tools like neutral density lens filters, which shade the brighter portion of an image to allow the photographer to use a lower F-stop, thus opening up the detail in the darker portions of the a scene. + +Thanks to Photoshop and other digital image editing software, you can leave the neutral density filters at home and still bring back HDR images. + +To get started creating HDR images you'll need a camera which allows you to manually set your exposure. + +HDR works best if you start with RAW images since they have a greater tonal range than compressed JPEGs, but if JPEGs are all your camera is capable of, fear not you can still create an HDR image. + +Some cameras, especially SLRs, offer a bracketed exposure mode where you can specify exposures above and below the metered exposure. If your camera is capable of such feats check your manual and figure out how to use the bracketed mode since it'll make your HDR life much easier. + +If you camera doesn't have a bracketed exposure option, don't worry you can still create HDR images you'll just have to take your multiple exposures by hand. + +Unless you have phenomenally steady hands, you'll also want a sturdy tripod and preferably a cable release to minimize any jiggling that might occur when pressing buttons, though again, with patience and steady hands you may be able to get by without them. + +As with long-exposure photography, HDR works best when your subject isn't moving. + + +HDR in the camera + + +The first step is to meter your scene and select whatever aperture you want. Now you're going to take a photo of the same scene several times with different shutter speeds. + +If you're camera allows you to bracket automatically, set it capture something like -2EV, metered EV, +2EV. You can (and probably should) include at least one more image on either side of the metered exposure, but three images will often suffice. + +If your camera doesn't have a auto-bracketing feature, just meter the scene and then manually adjust the shutter speed to both under- and over-expose the scene. + +screen1.jpg + + +HDR in software + + +Note that while all the examples that follow refer to Photoshop CS2+, there are other software package like [http://www.hdrsoft.com/ Photomatix] that offer similar, and in some cases more advanced, capabilities. + +Now that you have your images, download them to you computer. If you're shooting RAW images, open them up with Photoshop and make sure that all three photos are the same color temperature and tint. Once you've found a setting that works well across all the images click "done." + +To actually create the HDR image, head into Photoshop's File menu, look for the "Automate" submenu and select "Merge to HDR." This will open a new dialog box asking you to select the files you want to use. Navigate through your images to select the photos you just worked with in the Camera RAW tool. + +In the HDR dialog you'll notice an option to have Photoshop "Align automatically" your images. While this tool can fix small jitters or misalignments, don't expect miracles and be aware that it will add a huge processing overhead. + +Once you've selected all your images click okay and sit back and wait while Photoshop creates your new HDR image preview. If you're using the "Align Automatically" option, now might be a good time to head into the kitchen and start a fresh pot of coffee. + +Once Photoshop has crunched through your starting images it will produce an HDR preview. If one of your images is out of alignment, you can deselect it in the this dialog. There's also a histogram which will control the baseline for the curves in our next step. For now, just ignore the histogram, though as you become more proficient in creating HDR images this is will be something to explore later. + +screen2.jpg + +For now, click okay and wait while Photoshop generates your HDR image. + +Once your HDR image has been created give it a name and save the file. This image will have a bit depth of 32, which is greater than that which your monitor is capable of displaying so don't worry if your image doesn't look like much yet. + +The next step is create a 16 bit image which you can then further manipulate in Photoshop. To do this head up to Image menu and look for the "mode" submenu and select "16 bits per channel." + +This will bring up yet another dialog box. Toggle the small arrow to reveal the Histogram at the bottom of the dialog and the go into the little menu at the top of the dialog and select the "Local Adaptation" option. + +Now head down to the histogram and bring the left hand side of the histogram to the beginning of the shadows information. + +screen3.jpg + +Now start bending and changing the curves through the histogram until you're happy with how the image looks. If you're new to the curves tool, you may want to look up a tutorial explaining the finer points about how it works. + +Once you have the image looking roughly the way you'd like click okay and Photoshop will produce a 16 bit file. If you're looking to display the image on the web you'll want to further down-sample to 8 bit so that you can save it as a web-ready jpeg file. + +Here's our final image (note that I did use the "Align Automatically" option since my source images were less than perfect and, as you can see by the vague blurring, so is Photoshop's tool). + +screen4.jpg diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/Pandora.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/Pandora.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cb8a67 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/Pandora.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Pandora and other U.S.-based streaming music services have long since shuttered their doors to international listeners. Its not that they wanted to, rather the xenophobic restrictions are the result of U.S. and international copyright laws and restrictions. + +Pandora is reportedly working out international licensing deals, but, as Tim Westerberg writes in a message to international users, "the pace of global licensing is hard to predict, but we have the ultimate goal of being able to offer our service everywhere." + +So what are our overseas friends to do in the mean time? + +Well one solution is to use a proxy server. Pandora blocks international users by blocking non-U.S. IP addresses. But if you connect to a server in the U.S. and allow it act as a "proxy" between your PC and Pandora, Pandora will think you're connecting from inside the U.S., making it possible to listen to Pandora from anywhere in the world. + +So how do you use a proxy? Grab a cup of coffee and let's dig into the wonderful world of proxies. + +== Where can I find proxy servers? == + +The answer is everywhere. The problem though is that you aren't the only one that can find them. Pandora is very likely aware of many proxy servers as well, so you're essentially embarking on a game of cat and mouse. And you're the mouse. + +We could give you a list of proxy servers, but if we did half of them wouldn't work, and many others would be blacklisted. Sometimes you have to try out twenty servers before you hit one that works. + +Rather than try to get too specific, we'll just take a look at the general methods and how to use a proxy server. + +== Roll Your Own Proxy == + +The best and most likely to work solution is to run your own proxy server. To do that you'll need to have some web hosting space on a server in the U.S. Also make sure that your server either runs PHP for [http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpproxy/ PHPProxy] or CGI scripts for [http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ CGIProxy]. + +Installation instructions can be found in both downloads and so long as you're familiar with PHP or Perl they aren't too hard to set up. + +Once you have to server running, hop over to our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Traverse_Corporate_Firewalls How To Traverse Corporate Firewalls] tutorial and skip down to last section which contains all the instructions you need to connect to your new proxy server via SSH. + +== Other methods: Firefox == + +Firefox and some other web browsers offer ways to set up a proxy between you and the site you're connecting to. Hook up Firefox to run through an anonymous proxy and you should be able to connect to Pandora. + +Open up the Options/Preferences panel in Firefox click the Advanced tab. Under Advanced you should see a sub-tab for Network, click that and then press the Settings button. That will open another panel with an option to manually set up a proxy server. Just enter the settings for your new proxy server and you're away. + +If you haven't set up a custom proxy server don't worry. The trick then is to find a working proxy server that you use to fool Pandora. Once you find some proxy servers, just enter the settings in the Firefox panel we opened earlier. + +Some sites that provide lists of proxies include [http://www.publicproxyservers.com/ Public Proxy Servers[, [http://www.proxz.com/ Proxz] or [http://www.stayinvisible.com/ Stay Invisible]. Remember, it's a hit or miss affair so don't give up if the first few you try don't work. + +If you'd like more options in Firefox, [http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ FoxyProxy] is essentially the same as the built in system, but with more options. FoxyProxy can automatically switch connections across one or more proxy servers based on URL patterns and rules you define. For instance you could create a server proxy for Pandora.com only and do the rest of browsing as you normally would without having to manually switch back and forth. + +== Web based Proxies == + +There are literally thousands of web based proxy services out there. Unfortunately none of the ones I tested worked with Pandora. In theory, services like [https://proxify.com/ Proxify], [http://www.the-cloak.com/ The Cloak] or [http://www.vtunnel.com/ VTunnel] should work, but in my testing they didn't -- YMMV. + +One method I tried that seems to work is pipe Pandora through Google Translate. Although it isn't designed to be one, Translate ends up working like a proxy. [http://http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|fr&u=www.pandora.com http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|fr&u=www.pandora.com]. I haven't tested it outside the U.S., but it should, theoretically, work. + +== Other Options == + +Other options include combining [http://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and [http://www.privoxy.org/ Privoxy] to set up anonymous browsing. The problem there is that, just because you're anonymous, doesn't mean you're using a U.S. IP address. + + +== The Future == + +As we mentioned in the beginning Pandora is reportedly working on licensing deal with individual countries, but who knows how long that will take. If none of the above methods work for you, you can always check in periodically with [http://globalpandora.com/ Global Pandora] which was trying to do the hard work for you. The site managed to work for a couple weeks, but has since shut down. It claims it will rise again, but don't hold your breathe. + +We'd love to see Pandora available globally, but it may well be some time before that happens. In the mean time, hopefully one of these methods will work for you. If you have other ideas, be sure to add them. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/automatejobsearch.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/automatejobsearch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd3e10e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/automatejobsearch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Unless you helped start Instagram you probably need a job. Maybe you already have a job, but it's not turning out the way you imagined it would. Or perhaps you're looking to change careers, or maybe you're re-entering the job market for fun after you got bored traveling the world with your dot-com millions. + +Whatever the case finding a job can be daunting, especially right now. The economy is in the dumps and finding a job is more difficult than ever. And the more difficult something is, the more effort it takes, right? Well, maybe with some things, but job hunting needn't be one of them. + +You need to use your web smarts to put the internet to work finding a job for you. + +We can't promise that you'll be able to sit back and do nothing, but we can show you how to get notified the minute your dream job shows up on the web, helping you get the jump on the competition. + +Here's our guide to passively job hunting with automated web searches. + +== Scour the big job sites == + +Many job-related websites offer "personal job agents" that can help automate your job search. Tell these agents what type of job you're looking for and then the agent will send you an email whenever something crops up in your field. The quality of these so-called agents varies widely, with some sites offering little more than per-category RSS feeds while others charge a bit of money and may even claim to have an actual human doing the work for you. + +That's all good and well, but let's back up a minute. Did we say RSS feed? Why yes, yes we did. + +You know what you can do with an RSS feed? Just about anything. + +== If This Then That == + +If This Then That or, more awkwardly, [http://ifttt.com/ Ifttt], is a handy little website that takes whatever data you give it and allows you to automate tasks related to it. Ifttt allows you to construct simple "programs" that take the format "if this is [true or false or matches something, etc], then do that". + +Here's an example that's relevant to our purposes: grab a Craigslist job search RSS feed (at the bottom of category and search pages), pipe it into Ifttt and create a task that says "if a new underwater basket weaving job is posted then send me a text message." Now every time your dream job is posted to your local Craigslist you'll know about it without ever lifting a finger. + +Don't want text messages? No problem, Ifttt.com can connect to dozens of services so you can notify yourself by email, phone call, Facebook message or even a tweet. + +== Rinse and repeat == + +Now go back to step one and start scouring the big job sites like [http://www.monster.com/ monster.com] or [http://www.ihire.com/ ihire.com], but don't look for individual jobs, instead find search categories and look for RSS feeds (look for an RSS icon in your browser's URL bar or on the search results page). Not all job websites will offer RSS feeds, but many do. Gather up a bunch of job feeds and plug them into Ifttt.com to send yourself a series of alerts. + +Now you'll always know about new jobs the minute they show up and you can get back to the finer parts of actually getting a job like polishing your resume and perfecting your interviewing skills. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_jet_lag.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_jet_lag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e999743 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_jet_lag.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The biggest downside to long trips is the dreaded jet lag. Whether you're off on a short family holiday or frequently need to travel for business, nothing kills your time like jet lag.
When you only have a week to spend somewhere the last thing you want to do is waste it sleeping through the days because your body still thinks it's in your home time zone.
So how do you get around jet lag? Well it seem that just about everyone has their own personal formula for avoiding it, but there are some common themes that doctors agree help.
# Drink lots of water -- Dehydration will exacerbate the effects of jet lag leaving you even more tired and cranky. Drink plenty of water before and during your flight. We recommend buying your own bottled water once you're past security, since some airlines have been known to refill their bottled water with the stuff in the holding tank -- yuck.
# Avoid Alcohol -- Yes we like a drink on the plane too, but because of altitude, pressurization and dehydration, one drink inflight is the equivalent of nearly two and a half on the ground. On long flights it's a disastrous recipe for a hangover, which isn't going to help your jet lag. Try water instead.
# Stretch -- Many people find that long periods on a plane leave them cramped and muscle fatigued. Get up a move around a bit (if you're drinking water as suggested you'll probably need head for the toilet a few time anyway). Although not everyone find stretching a necessity, it's worth a try.
# Force yourself onto local time -- This is the single most helpful thing, when you land, no matter what time your body thinks it is, force yourself to stay up until your normal bedtime by local time. For instance, you land in London at 4PM, your body still thinks it's in Bangkok where it' the middle of the night -- avoid the temptation to nap. Take a walk, do some pushups or whatever you need to do, just don't go to sleep until 10 PM local time (or whenever you normally go to bed).
# Force yourself to sleep -- If you're moving in the opposite direction, ask your doctor to prescribe some sleeping pills (or use over the counter or natural alternatives like melatonin). That way, even if your body thinks it's early morning, you can go to sleep at the reasonable local hour.
# Adjust ahead of time -- It's not for everyone, but one way to avoid jet lag is to simply adjust to your destination's time zone before you leave.
For some other ideas check out the [http://www.britishairways.com/travel/drsleep/public/en_us British Airways Jet Lag Calculator], which was developed in conjunction with sleep specialists.
And of course be sure to add your own tried and true jet lag tips.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_registration.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_registration.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e708d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/avoid_registration.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +As newspapers and magazines make the slow transition from print to online content, they make some mistakes along the way like requiring registration to view content. From their point of view it seems like a good idea, they can track their users just like their used to doing with dead tree format subscribers. + +But for those of us that think a webpage is, well, something entirely different that quite obviously shouldn't require giving up e-mails and creating usernames and passwords, it's a serious barrier. + +You could do what we did, just ignore registration sites (sorry LA Times but we stopped reading you years ago). Or you could be a bit more subversive and use a service like [http://www.bugmenot.com/tutorial.php BugMeNot]. + +== Fake your way in == + +BugMeNot isn't some complex or overly clever hack, it's just a site where people share login and password info for various sites. For instance, some aspects of the New York Times continue to require registration. + +So rather than waste time signing up, just head over to BugMeNot and search for other users login credentials for the time. For most big sites like the Times, there are several options to choose from and we've generally had great success. BugMeNot has regular updates too, so if something doesn't work try back later and see if there's another option available. + +== Smoothing the Process == + +Good news for Firefox fans: There's a BugMeNot plugin that can save you a trip to the site. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349 BugMeNot 2.0] works with nearly all version of Firefox. + +Once its installed just write click the registration form and you'll see a new menu item Login with BugMeNot. Just select that and the plugin will automatically generate a username and password by querying BugMeNot + +== Pay sites == + +Of course registration isn't the only barrier, some sites still charge for access or hide some pages behind "premium" paywalls. + +Ostensibly BugMeNot doesn't let users share pay site login information, there's even a section where site administrators (or concerned users) can tell BugMeNot to block certain submissions. Naturally, clever users have found ways around this and there are a few pay site logins to be found from time to time on BugMeNot. + +But for more reliable sources you're going to have to dig deeper and head into the internet's darker corners. Anything we link to from here is likely to be shutdown pretty quickly so we're not going to give you specific sites (and please refrain from posting direct links if you're editing the page), but we do have some suggestions. + +The first place to look would be on [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Share_Files_on_Usenet Usenet], the ancient, but still useful precursor to the internet which remains to this day, much more wild west like than the web. If you want to confine yourself to the web, start looking in forums. A [http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups] (or similar) search will yield more than a traditional web search. Also try the forums on various torrent rackers like [http://suprbay.org/ The Pirate Bay], where less scrupulous users tend to congregate. + +== Conclusion == + +Getting around registration forms isn't too difficult thanks to BugMeNot and since most of those looking to get around this stuff wouldn't be giving out real info anyway there's little harm done. Circumventing pay sites is obviously less morally justifiable, but if it bothers you there's an easy solution -- don't do it.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/boke.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/boke.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..194e0e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/boke.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Veteran photographers will often tell you that the chief difference between the camera and the eye is focus -- your eye has a nearly unlimited depth of field, but a camera lens does not. This affects photography in the number of ways since it makes it largely impossible to truly capture what the eye sees.
Some photographers have fought to overcome the limitations of the camera lens depth of field. Seminal photographers Minor White and Ansel Addam's even formed the "f/64 club," which took its name from the smallest lens aperture (which yields the greatest depth of field) and sought to produce images that matched what the human eye might see (at least when it comes to depth of field).
Others have chosen to embrace the limitations of the lens and in doing so gave birth to a type of photography known as "Boke" (sometimes spelled Bokeh). Boke is a Japanese term that translates to roughly "become blurred or fuzzy" and is used to describe images that have a sharply focused subject surrounded by a blurry background.
Whether you're looking to break out of a photo rut or just interested learning something new, read on and we'll show you how to create a Boke effect using your camera, and how to fake Boke in your favorite image editing software.
A technical explanation of what causes lens blur is beyond the scope of this how to, but if you're interested in the why and not just the how, we recommend reading through [http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml Luminous Landscape's essay] on the subject.
== Using the Camera ==
The "true" way to achieve selective focus is to use the manual settings of your camera and allow the lens to be its imperfect self.
So how do you do it?
Well, the best place to start is with a very large aperture opening which will decrease the depth of field, in turn creating the out-of-focus background effect associated with boke. In terms of settings that would mean the lowest f-stop -- depending on your lens or camera that could be anywhere from f/1.4 to f/4.9. The lower the number the wider the aperture opening and the less depth of field.
But blur isn't solely a result of aperture, it is also influenced by the distance in front and back of the focus plane. The focus plan refers to that portion of an image which is perfectly in focus.
Let's say you're standing three feet from your friend and you focus on their face. Behind them is a barn, over twenty feet away. Using a large aperture opening will limit the focus plane to your friend's face while the barn blurs in the background.
Here's the same effect, the focal plane is on the dandelions will the grass in the background is blurred:
truelensblur.jpg
The trick to getting a good boke image is knowing how to compose the image and what aperture to use. The best way to learn is to experiment, especially since the results will vary radically from camera to camera and even lens to lens.
== Using Software ==
Didn't get the boke effect quite the way you wanted using just the camera? That's okay, we can simulate the effect in Adobe Photoshop, but of course you can do something similar using the GIMP or almost any other image editor that has a blur tool.
There are a number of ways to fake depth of field in Photoshop and which one works best will depend on your image.
Probably the easiest option is simply use the lens blur, but keep in mind that how succesful you are depends a great deal on your image and subject. The example image shown here is a very difficult scene because of the thin blades of grass that stick up into the background.
lensblur.jpg
If we had used a lower aperture setting when composing the shot, those blades sticking up would be in sharp focus will the background remained blurred. Simulating that in Photoshop would be incrediply tendious, so we've settled for "good enough." However, if your foreground subject is sharply and cleanly set out from the background, the task is somewhat easier.
As you can see, to get the effect show above we've duplicated the background, applied a lens blur and then converted that layer to a mask. Then we just very carefully painted around the primary subject to establish the focal plane.
Another way to accomplish the same thing is to use Lens Blur in conjunction with a gradient channel. To do that you need to make sure your image is in RGB mode then click the channels palette and add a new channel.
Now, grab the gradient tool and set the colors to black and white and create a linear gradient so that the area of the image that you want in focus is roughly covered with black.
gradientlensblur.jpg
To check your gradient, select the RGB channel and you'll see the blur appear as a reddish glow. Once you're happy, make sure you have the RGB channel is selected and apply the Lens Blur Filter
This time make sure to select your new channel as the source. Then you can use the focal distance slider and other options to fine tune your blur.
gradientlensblur-filter.jpg
== Conclusion ==
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In the end, to create the image above, I used a mixture of both techniques -- starting with a gradient on the channel and then painting in the areas where the dog's head sticks up into the gradient. And as with most things done in an image editor, there are other ways of doing this as well. Be sure to add your favorites.
Once you've mastered the art of the blur, or if you're looking for some inspiration to get started, head over to Flickr where blur aficionados celebrate Bokeh Wednesday with new images submitted to the [http://www.flickr.com/groups/bokehwednesday/ Bokeh Wednesday Pool].
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/choose_strong_pw.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/choose_strong_pw.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..394fe0f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/choose_strong_pw.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Your digital private life has a weak point that can unlock all your secrets -- your password. Whether you use a single-sign-in solution like [http://openid.net/ OpenID], or have separate passwords for every account, your accounts are only as secure as your passwords. + +Based on what limited data is available, the vast majority of us choose very poor passwords. A MySpace phishing attack that netted some 34,000 actual user names and passwords, [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/12/72300 revealed] that the number one password was "password1." + +While we admire the stab at security -- throwing a number in the mix -- in today's world that's not going to cut it. Here's some tips for choosing a strong password. + +**Size matters** Some sites put restrictions on password length, but whenever possible try to choose the longest password you feel comfortable remembering. + +**Don't rely on the dictionary.** Using a word may make your password easy to remember, but it also makes it vulnerable to a dictionary attack, that is, throwing every word in the dictionary at your account until the attacker finds your password. Making up your own word or using a random series of letters and digits greatly reduces the chances of someone cracking your account. + +**Use numbers, capital letters and symbols.** Again, the less human readable the password, the greater the chances no one is ever going to guess it. Throwing a bit of cartoon swearing, like @#$@$%#, in your passwords will make them more difficult to guess. + +**Use a Password Manager for websites** Applications like [http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password 1Password] for the Mac, or [http://keepass.info/index.html KeePass] or [http://www.roboform.com/ Roboform] for Windows, can create and manage strong passwords for you. One of the key features in both is the ability to generate random passwords for websites. That means you can have a very long, totally random password that you don't need to remember. The only catch is that, if you use multiple PCs, you'll need to sync your password manager. + +**Use patterns of the keyboard** Want a random password for optimum security, but can't memorize things? Look at your keyboard and find a pattern, for example type straight up from the b key: bgt5, and then back down from the 6: 6yhn. Throw a made up word in the middle, complete with capital letters, a few symbols and you've got a password no one is likely to guess. + +**Type a sentence** If the keyboard patterns doesn't work for you try using a short sentence and instead of spaces between the words, insert symbols and numbers. It's not quite as secure, but it sure beats password1. Bonus points for typing the sentence backwards + +==Future Outlook== + +In the future security is going to be an even greater concern, both online and off. As attackers get more sophisticated, users will be forced to do likewise. Fingerprint readers and retinal scanners will be common built-in items on PCs. To login to sites your browser will ask the operating system to scan your retina or read a fingerprint before proceeding. + +Artwork: I'm a fan of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabiovenni/457695833/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/chose_an_ISP.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/chose_an_ISP.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8279271 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/chose_an_ISP.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +A computer without an internet connection is an overpriced typewriter, who wants that? The internet is seemingly everywhere these days -- from the corner coffee shop to an airplane at 30,000 -- but despite the ubiquity of internet access around us, most of us still have a home connection through some sort of internet service provider or ISP. + +ISPs connect your home to the larger web, but not every connection is the same and not every ISP is worth the roughly $50 a month you'll likely pay for high speed home internet access. + +To take the mystery out of ISPs we've put together this guide to help you figure out the best option in your area. + +== Decide what you need == + +Just looking to check your e-mail and read some news? Well, though it may sound archaic, a good old-fashioned dial-up connection might be the best choice. Dial-up is cheap, though don't expect blazing speeds or at least be prepared to wait a few days for that movie to download. + +If you're looking to play online games, share photos, download music and movies or other high-bandwidth activities, DSL or cable is the way to go. + +== Ask around == + +Chances are your neighbors have some opinions on ISPs in your area. Ask them which company they use and whether or not they like it. Be sure to find out if they've had problems and how good the ISP was at solving their problems. + +And remember, just because you had a horrible experience with a company at your last residence doesn't mean they're universally horrible. Many nationwide providers have radically different quality of service in different part of the country. + +Once you've taken an informal survey of your neighborhood, take your search online. Head to the library or use the wifi at your local coffee shop to see what people are saying about your potential ISP. + +Also be sure to check with sites like [http://www.speedtest.net/ Speed Test] to see how your ISP's speed compares to others your area. + +== Bundle with other services == + +Chances are, if you're looking for high speed internet access in the United States, you're going to be looking at either DSL through the phone company or cable through the cable company. + +In either case most ISPs offer bundles that package internet service with other services. For example, you can get a better deal on both cable internet and cable TV if you order both together. If you're going to get both anyway, be sure to ask your ISP about bundling to save yourself some money. + +Similar bundles exist with DSL providers, some of which even offer television bundles. + +== Future Outlook == + +The future of home-based internet connections lies with your cell phone provider. Once 4g and then 5g networks catch up to the speeds offered by cable and DSL providers, we'll cut the home internet connection just like we've cut the telephone land line in favor of the cell phone. + +Artwork: uh, not much for this one, I like http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmuth/2256186646/ perhaps cropped a bit. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/create_a_wifi_network.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/create_a_wifi_network.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..748a4b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/create_a_wifi_network.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Setting up a Wifi network will allow all your computers (and any guests you want to share your network with) to get online without needing to plug in an ethernet cable. A wireless network can also make it easy to stream music and video to any device on the network. Still got some old PCs that don't have wireless cards? That's okay, most wifi routers have a few ethernet ports as well. + +Before we get started building the network, you will need to purchase a wireless router, as well as some wireless network interface cards if your computers don't already have them built in. + +Once you have your router the next step is choosing a good location. Try to install your router in a central location so that every room in your house is covered by the wifi signal. + +To set up the network, follow these steps: + +===Step 1: Connect Everything === + +Connect your existing modem to the wireless router using an Ethernet cable. This moves the internet connection from your modem, to the wireless router. Once that's done, plug your PC into the back of the router using the ethernet jacks. We'll need this connection to configure the wifi network. + +===Step 2: Turning it on === + +Turn on your modem first, then the wireless router and finally the computer. The order is important since each successive device need to to detect the connection to the one that precedes it in the chain. + +===Step 3 Set up the network=== + +Check the documentation that came with your wireless router for the default IP address used by the device. Launch your computer's Web browser and head to IP address of the router. + +You should see a login window requiring a username and password. The default values should be in your router's documentation. + +Once you've logged in, you'll see your router's settings page. The first step is make sure you change the default admin password so other users won't be able to login to the settings page and reconfiguring the router. + +The next thing you'll probably want to do is changing the SSID value of the router. This is the name broadcasted by the router to identify it across the network. Chose a unique SSID name and save your changes (this will likely reboot the router). + +===Step 3 Turn on encryption=== + +Right now your wifi network is up and running, but anyone can access it. If that doesn't bother you, then you're done. However, you might want to enable some sort of wifi encryption to protect your network and make sure that only trusted computers have access. + +Different routers support different levels of encryption so what you use is up to you, though we should note that WEP encryption is trivially easy to defeat; you'll be much better off using WPA Personal or WPA Enterprise if your router supports it. + +===Step 4 Connect=== + +Once you're happy with your settings, disconnect your PC and then head to your network settings tool and you should see your new wifi network listed under available networks. Select your network and type in your password (if you're using one) to connect. + +==Future Outlook== + +With more public wifi hotspots showing up everyday, the need for home networks is dwindling. The promise of wifi through electrical outlets could eventually eliminate the need for home networks -- streaming data from one PC to another will happen over the same wires that deliver power.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/image_posibilities.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/image_posibilities.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2ca8a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/create a wifi network/image_posibilities.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +this is a touch one to illustrate, here's a couple things I dug up on Flickr: + +http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/2242950723/ +http://www.flickr.com/photos/horrortaxi/123482465/ diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/delete cookies/delete_cookies.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/delete cookies/delete_cookies.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cb412a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/delete cookies/delete_cookies.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +The web knows who you are. It knows what which sites you like, what you search for, where you spend your time and collating these and other bits of data, it's not hard to figure out quite a bit about you. + +If that makes you nervous, you need to learn how to get rid of cookies and browse privately, without leaving a digital fingerprint everywhere you go. + +Cookies are like digital leeches that websites inject into your web browser to collect and remember data. In some case cookies are quite benign and simple remember that you're logged into to particular site. But some cookies are less benign, tracking for example everything you search for and sending that data back to a central server. + +Ostensibly such data is anonymized, but as several sets of leaked data have demonstrated it is, despite the anonymizing often easy to match users back to their data. + +== Getting rid of Cookies == + +Exactly how you delete cookies depend on which browser you're using. Here's step for four of the most popular web browsers. + +* '''Internet Explorer''' - Open the Internet Options panel and select the general tab. in the middle of panel you'll see options to delete cookies, click the button and your cookies are gone. + +* '''Firefox''' - Head to Preference and click the privacy tab. There you'll see option to view and delete cookies. You'll also find options to control which sites are allowed to set cookies and how long those cookies should be kept. If you're serious about stopping cookies, be sure to check out the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5207 CS Lite add-on] which offers excellent cookie and privacy controls. + +* '''Safari''' - To delete cookies in Safari, head to the Safari menu and choose "Reset Safari." A dialog box will pop up giving you the option to delete all sorts of data; make sure "Remove all cookies" is checked and hit the reset button. + +* '''Chrome''' - Click the wrench menu and select options. Then click the Under the Hood tab and look for "Privacy" where you'll find the cookie settings section, To delete all cookies from the list, click Remove all. + +== Keeping Cookies out of your browser == + +Okay, you've deleted the cookies you've accumulated as you move around the web, but how do you keep them out? Well, in some cases you're not going to be able to, but tools like Firefox's [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5207 CS Lite add-on] can help. + +All of the browsers listed above support some kind of "private browsing" mode, which make your browser much more incognito, denying cookies and not keeping track of where you go (note that in case of Internet Explorer you'll need to using version 8 or better to use private browsing). + +==Future Outlook== + +Already legal protections are starting to make their way into governments everywhere and a number of high profile companies have already pledge to cut back on the amount of data they collect. + +Still, the future of cookies and online privacy looks bleakly Orwellian. Already sites are turning to Flash-based cookies and other tricks that make it even harder to cover your online tracks. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/download_mp3.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/download_mp3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db0d289 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/download_mp3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Have you ever been annoyed that services like [http://muxtape.com/ MuxTape] (currently unavailable thanks to the RIAA), [http://favtape.com/ FavTape] or other playlist-based music sites don't let you download songs. The better sites offer a link to purchase the songs through the iTunes Store or Amazon.com, but some just stream the music and then it's gone. + +Or is it? Most services like the ones above rely on Flash to obsfucate urls and make it difficult, though not impossible, to download the actual files. + +We'll show you how you can grab just about any file you want by exploring your browser's cache. + +== Why this works == + +When you stream music content from a site your browser has to download the file and store it for playback. There are ways the site can prevent your browser from caching the file, but most sites don't bother with such techniques since most people don't know how to do what we're going to show you. + +The trick is to find the temporarily stored song file in your browser's cache and then copy it to a more permanent location on your hard drive. + +To show you how this works we'll use [http://www.seeqpod.com/ Seeqpod] as an example, but the same technique will work for similar sites (and other kinds of files -- like video -- as well). + +== Using Firefox == + +The first thing we need to do if find out where Firefox stores its cache. + +To access the Firefox cache data, open a new tab and type <code>about:cache</code>. That will load a page that gives you all sorts of info about your cache. Look for the "Disk cache device" header and then find the Cache Directory path. + +Using Finder or Windows Explorer open that folder and sort the contents by date and time. While the file names are randomly generated, we can guess which files we're looking for by creation time and size, so make sure you can see both columns in your Finder/Explorer window. + +Now point your browser to Seeqpod and search for a song you want to download. Load the song in Seeqpod's Flash player and wait for it to finish loading (watch the gray process bar). Once the file is loaded in memory, head back to your Firefox cache folder and look for the new file. + +It might take a little trial and error but look for recently created cache files in 3-6 MB range and drag them over to your desktop. Add a .mp3 extension to the file and you now have a copy of the song. + +== Using Internet Explorer == + +If IE is more your bag, fear not, the process is the same, in fact it's even a little bit easier. + +Once the Seeqpod track has finished loading, open up Tools >> Internet Options. In the Internet Options panel look for the Temporary Internet Files section and click "Settings." That will bring up a new panel where you can click the "View files" button. + +That should open a new Window with a list of cache files. Just look for the ones with the <code>.mp3</code> extension and then copy and paste the file over your desktop. + +== Conclusion == + +Once you have the <code>.mp3</code> files on your desktop, just add them to your favorite music software, upload them to your iPod or other music player and enjoy. + +Is this legal? Depending on the copyright applied to the song you're downloading, using this technique may violate the copyright of the content owner. This article is not intended as legal advice and is for educational purposes only.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/ebooksiphone.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/ebooksiphone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c88b4a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/ebooksiphone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Printing things out to read them away from your PC is so last century. Today devices like the iPhone offer perfectly readable displays, and bookmarking articles is no problem thanks to apps like [http://www.instapaper.com/ Instapaper]. + +But what about whole books? Think you need to invest in the Kindle? You could, but why lug around yet another device when the iPhone can do a perfectly acceptable job? We'll admit that the Kindle has a some nice features you won't find in iPhone readers, but if you've already got an iPhone it's worth a shot. + +Here's a roundup of the best ebook reader software for the iPhone; + +# [http://www.lexcycle.com/iphone Stanza] ([http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284956128&mt=8 App Store link]) -- far and away the nicest ebook reader for the iPhone, Stanza also happens to be free. Once you install Stanza and download some books (Stanza offers a large library of downloadable books, see below for more sources) reading is just a matter of flicking your fingers down the page. + +Stanza also offers the ability to import your own ebooks into using a free computer-based app from [http://www.lexcycle.com/ LexCycle] (available for both Windows and Mac). It's currently a beta, but worked well in our testing. Ebooks you create are then available for download on your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and computer. + +#[http://www.ereader.com/iphone/ eReader] ([http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284499993&mt=8 App Store link]) -- An iPhone version of the e-book reader popular on the Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms, eReader isn't quite a iPhone-esque as Stanza but it's still a capable app. And eReader has done a good job of porting to the iPhone, embracing the platform norms like accelerometer support for reading orientation and gestures for page-turning. Another very nice feature in eReader is the ability to look up words in a built-in dictionary app. + +EReader is primarily tied to two online book services -- eReader.com and Fictionwise.com -- where you can buy and download texts. Sadly there's no way to purchase directly from the iPhone app, but the website does have an iPhone-optimized version to make purchasing a bit easier. + +But despite some nice features eReader was a bit buggy in our testing, crashing repeatedly. EReader is a free download. + +# [http://www.iphonebookshelf.com/ BookShelf] ([http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284934036&mt=8 App Store link]) -- another very nice option, BookShelf will set you back $10 but offers some nice extras not found in the others, like different color schemes (black on white, green on black and more), customizable fonts and more. + +Other great features include custom bookmarks and the ability to make your book collection publicly available. The latter feature requires a desktop app which itself requires a recent version of Java. + +== Finding books == + +We'd like to say that every book you want to read is available digitally in a nice common open format that makes loading it on the device of your choice a snap. But unfortunately there is no MP3 of digital books. + +That said, things are improving. The ever-growing [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg] has some 20,000 books available for free, though many of them are likely the "classics" you didn't read in high school and may not want to read now. + +for something a bit more interesting try Diesel Books which has a pretty good selection of current and older, less mainstream options (we found a copy of Neil Stephenson's classic [http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/parent-9780380815937/In-the-BeginningWas-the-Command-Line-eBook.html In the Beginning was the Command Line] for just over 6 bucks). + +For technical books try [http://www.ebookspyder.net/ eBookSpyder] or [http://www.pdfchm.com/ Pdfchm], both of which have a good catalog of programming and science books available. + +Of course here's the dirty secret of ebooks: most can be had for free if you know where to look. For instance, don't want to pay six bucks for In the Beginning was the Command Line? Okay, just head to this page and save the file. Now load the resulting HTML file in your ebook reader. + +What about new books? Have you ever heard of bittorrent? Sites like Pirate Bay and Mininova are overflowing with ebook options. + +== Dealing with DRM and formats == + +one of the big problems with ebook readers -- on the iPhone and elsewhere -- is finding texts. Most of the major publishers ship their electronic books with cumbersome DRM that means they end up only working on certain devices. + +But naturally where there's DRM there's someone who has already cracked it. One of the most common formats for DRMed ebooks is Microsoft .lit, which thankfully has been cracked. the excellent (though somewhat old) [http://dukelupus.pri.ee/convertlit.php ConvertLit] can take care of the process for you. For other formats like Mobipocket and eReader, check out cracker [http://darkreverser.wordpress.com/ Darkreverser’s Python Scripts] which can set your books free. + +Even if you skirt the DRM by buying unencumbered ebooks, the world of digital books is still an acronym soup of formats. Luckily there are literally dozens of apps that can convert between them. Check out the [http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion MobileRead wiki] for a vast selection of options that will work on Macs and PCs. There are also some online converters for changing formats. + +Here are some common cross platform formats that most ebook readers support (though double check whatever app you chose just to be on the safe side): + +# Plain Text [.txt] +# HTML with images [.html] +# FictionBook2 with images [.fb2] +# PalmDoc / AportisDoc [.pdb] +# MobiPocket (unencrypted) [.pdb, .prc, .mobi] + +== Conclusion == + +Ebooks may not have made it to the mainstream yet, but if you need something more than a webpage to get you through the long commuters combining some free ebook downloads with one of the iphone ebook readers is pretty easy. And once you have a good library on your iPhone you'll wonder why others fuss about the expensive Kindle.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/edit wikipedia.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/edit wikipedia.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c04922 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/edit wikipedia.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +So you've tested your editing skills here on the How To Wiki and you're thinking you might be ready to take on the original crowd-sourced beast -- Wikipedia. Well, conceptually it's the same -- anyone can easily edit any unprotected page on Wikipedia (and you don't even need to register) -- but making your changes stick requires a bit more finesse.
Wikipedia can be a fickle place, editors egos and the group politick of the site sometimes mean that good edits get wiped just because no one knows who you are. But using these tricks you can make sure that your changes and additions are unassailably factual and stick with the community.
== Technical details ==
Editing most Wikipedia pages is easy. Just click on the "edit this page" tab at the top of the page. Just like this site, the link will bring up the text of the page in editable form. The next thing you need to do is get familiar with Wiki Markup. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit#Wiki_markup How to Edit] page has all the syntax info you need to know for creating links, adding emphasis and other markup tools.
In addition to the markup, make sure you check out the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia Manual of Style] to get a feel for how Wikipedia likes to handle issues of grammar, syntax and style. (For instance, most people would probably call the style page, the Wikipedia Style Guide, but that's not, uh, Wikipedia's style).
== Don't make anonymous edits ==
Making your additions and changes to Wikipedia fit with the site's voice will go a long way to ensuring that the community welcomes your input, but it's not the only thing you should do.
Yes, Wikipedia allows anyone to edit a page. But anonymous edits are a red flag. If you're serious about contributing to the community, register with the site, pick a username and develop an identity.
Not only does it make you less suspect, it's the only way you'll get any bragging rights for your contributions.
== Always cite references ==
As the Wikipedia editing guide says:
>If you add information to a page, please provide references, as unreferenced facts are subject to removal.
Edits lacking citations are most often deleted, though sometimes a page will simple get the warning you occasionally see, noting that the page contains unverified information. The solution is so simple it's ridiculous not to back up your words: just provide a link to your source. If you don't have one, you probably shouldn't be adding the information.
== Always write a summary of your changes ==
When you are finished with an edit, make sure you provide a quick synopsis in the summary field. Doing so makes the editors life easier and happy editors are your ticket to Wikipedia glory.
== Conclusion ==
If you're a seasoned Wikipedia editing ace be sure to add your own tips and tricks for success.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/encryptusbstick.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/encryptusbstick.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd367df --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/encryptusbstick.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Memory sticks are a great way to store data and applications for access on any computer you come across. With storage capacities already reaching 256GB, today's USB sticks are often larger than yesterday's hard drives. Thanks to increased storage space and lowering prices, you can easy store nearly all your personal files on a tiny, go-anywhere USB memory stick. + +There's a downside to all that cheap, easy storage though -- it means there's even more data at risk should your USB stick be lost of stolen. + +Luckily it isn't hard to encrypt the data on your USB stick so that, should misfortune snatch it away from you, at least you can rest easy knowing that your data is secure. + +===Encrytion on Windows== + +There are a variety of Windows-based tools for creating an encrypted volume on a USB stick, but our favorite is the free, open-source [http://www.truecrypt.org/ TrueCrypt]. TrueCrypt uses on-the-fly encryption, which means that data is automatically encrypted and decrypted without you needing to do anything other than enter a password or keyfile. + +To get started download and install TrueCrypt. Then open the application and select your USB stick in the Volume menu. TrueCrypt will then walk you through the process of setting up your encrypted volume and help you chose an encrption algorythm and set other options. + +Once TrueCrypt finishes, your USB stick will contain an encrypted volume where you can store sensative data to keep it safe from prying eyes. + +===Encryption on Mac OS X=== + +TrueCrypt offers a Mac version as well, but OS X actually has a nice built-in encryption tool you can use right out of the box. + +To get started, just plug in your USB stick and open up Disk Utility (you'll find it in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder). + +In Disk Utility head to File >> New >> Blank Disk Image. Select your USB stick as the destination and choose one of the encryption options. You can also set the size of the volume, number of partitions and the format. + +Once that's done click create and enter a good password (see our guide to picking strong passwords). + +===Future Outlook=== + +Many USB stick manufacturers are offering built-in encryption options these says we expect that trend to continue, though hopefully more will use open source, well-tested encryption tools rather than the proprietary systems common today.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/firefoxbookmarks.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/firefoxbookmarks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66baf79 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/firefoxbookmarks.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Browser bookmarks are a great way to keep track of websites you want to refer back to, interesting articles you plan to read some day or sites you visit everyday. But bookmarks are only useful if you can find them again. + +Throw hundreds of bookmarks into your browser with no organization and it will likely take you as long to find the bookmark as it would to search the site on Google. + +Fortunately Firefox offers several ways to keep your bookmarks in order -- tools like folders, tags and syncing them between computers mean you'll have your bookmarks under control in no time. + +Here's out guide to become a bookmark ninja using Firefox. + +== Organize what you already have == + +The first thing to do is open up the Firefox bookmark window (Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks) and take a look at what you've got. + +One of the easiest ways to keep your bookmarks organized is to create folders within the Firefox Bookmarks Bar and then sort your bookmarks into those folders. Create, for example, a folder for all your favorite tech blogs and dump the bookmarks inside. Then you can get to your list of tech blogs from any browser window just by click on that folder in the Bookmarks bar. + +Alternately you can create the same folder system, but drop it in the Bookmarks Menu and access your bookmarks from the main Bookmarks drop-down menu. + +Tip: Having trouble figuring out which bookmarks and filed and which aren't? Head to the "Unsorted Bookmarks" item in the bookmarks window to see which ones you've missed. + +Another organization method is to use tags, which work a bit like folders in GMail. To edit the tags on your bookmarks you'll need to go through each bookmark and individually tag them, which can be time comsuming, but does allow you to have the same bookmark in multiple tag bundles. + +== Organizing new bookmarks == + +The key to any sucessful filing system is to make sure that it's easy to file new items -- otherwise you'll just end up with another mess in a few months, or even weeks if you frequently bookmarks websites. + +Fortunately, as of version 3.0, Firefox offers a handy drop-down menu whenever you add a bookmark, which makes it easy to filter the new bookmark into the approriate folder or add whatever tags you'd like. If nothing in your current collection of folders fits the new bookmark you can even create a new folder within the add bookmark dialog. + +In fact, it's possible to keep your bookmarks perfectly organized without ever needing to re-visit the "organize bookmarks" window. + +== Sync == + +Your bookmarks are useless if you can't get to them no matter what computer you're on. Firefox makes it easy to keep your bookmarks sync with it's new built in syncing tool. Sadly, Firefox 4, the first version with built-in syncing, is still a beta release at them moment. You can try using the beta or grab the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/ Firefox Sync extension], which will tide you over until the final version of Firefox 4 arrives.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/fix_a_scratched_cd.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/fix_a_scratched_cd.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8712b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/fix_a_scratched_cd.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Most of us have long since abandoned the CD in favor of MP3s, but sometimes the process of converting from CD reveals some discs that haven't fared the passage of time very well. CDs are vulnerable to everything from fingerprint smudges, a bit of dried syrup from the time you spilled that Coke in the car, perhaps even some scratches in the case of that CD that disappeared under the passender's seat three years ago. + +If you've got some CDs that are well past their prime (and no, we don't mean that perfectly unblemished Spice Girls disc you've been hiding from your friends) fear not, there are ways to get that disc spinning again so you can transfer the music or data onto something else. + +The first thing to try with your potentially damaged CDs is a PC. Many times a CD that's too mangled to work in a car stereo will work just fine in your (much faster) computer CD/DVD drive. + +==Polish== + +If you've got a disc that won't play, start with the simplest solution -- give it a gentle, but thorough cleaning. + +Take a damp, lint free cloth (clothes used to clean eyeglasses work well) and starting in the center of the CD, wipe to the outside edge in a straight line. The direction of the polishing is important, don't wipe in circles, and don't wipe randomly, move in a straight line, center to edge. + +Now that you've got all the surface blemishes off, give the CD another try. Still no luck? Well, read on. + +== Repairing scratches == + +If polishing alone doesn't work, chance are your CD is scratched. See if you can find the offending scratch -- hold your CD up to the light and check it from different angles. + +CDs read from the inside out to the edge so you may be able to locate the scratch that's causing the problem based on which tracks skip. Obviously if you CD has data rather than music this method won't work. + +Once you've found the scratch there are a few ways you can repair it. However, but for we get started be aware that some of these methods can actually damage the disc even more so '''use them only as a last resort'''. + +'''Polish the CD''' Two popular ways of polishing out scratches include using toothpaste (get the kind with baking soda in it) and Brasso. In either case apply a thin layer to the scratched area and wipe from the inside out to polish out the scratch. + +'''Wax the CD''' Along the same lines as the toothpaste method, you can try applying a very thin coat of vaseline, car wax or shoe polish to the scratched area. + +'''Professional Refinishing''' Unless the scratch is very deep the above methods should work. If they don't you can always try having your CD refinished by a professional service. Consult your local music store or try searching for CD refinishing in your favorite search engine. + +==Future Outlook== + +The future of CDs will mirror that of the Dodo circa 1660. While music, movies and data storage devices of the future will have their own set of problems, at least we won't have to resort to toothpaste to recover lost tunes.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/flashbackvirushowto.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/flashbackvirushowto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46b0d41 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/flashbackvirushowto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +Mac fans recently got a little taste of what it's like to be a Windows user. That's right, a virus targeting Mac OS X is making the rounds. The latest stats from security companies tracking the virus put the number of infected Macs at well over half a million. That's nowhere near the level of some Windows viruses, but it's widespread enough to be a concern for Mac users. + +The virus is known as Flashback and can hijack your Mac without so much as an administrative password. It manages to pull off its attack by exploiting a vulnerability in Java. Oracle, which makes Java, quickly issued a fix for the problem back in February. Unfortunately, because Apple ships its own version of Java (and therefore must provide its own patches), Mac users had to wait on Apple's fix, which didn't arrive until last week. + +The slow fix from Apple gave Flashback time to propagate and led to well over half a million infected machines -- one of which could be yours. + +So how do you know if your mac has been infected with the Flashback virus? Here's our guide to finding out if you've got the Flashback virus and how to remove it from your system if you do. + +== Checking for Flashback == +The simplest way to check for Flashback is to use the [http://www.flashbackcheck.com/ Flashback Check website] set up by security vendor Kaspersky Lab. Just head to the site, plug in your Mac's UUID (to find your UUID, follow [http://www.flashbackcheck.com/where.html these instructions]) and the site will tell you if your Mac has been infected. + +If you don't want to hand over your UUID to a website, there are two other options. The first option is to download [https://github.com/jils/FlashbackChecker/wiki FlashbackChecker] and run it on your machine. + +Flashback checker is really just a wrapper around the second option -- manually checking for the Flashback virus using the Terminal app. To do that open up the Terminal application (it's in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder). Now paste this line of code into the terminal and hit return: + +defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES + +The response back should look something like this: + +The domain/default pair of (/Users/<yourusername>/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist + +If the message doesn't say that the pair "does not exist," than Flashback is present on your system. Assuming the message is negative, let's keep going. Now paste in this line: + +defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment + +That should generate the same "does not exist" message. Again, if it doesn't then your Mac has been infected with Flashback. If it's negative try this line: + +defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment + +Again, the message is (hopefully) negative. If it's not, read on. + +==Getting rid of Flashback == + +If your testing turns up evidence of Flashback on your system, you'll need to delete some files to reclaim your Mac. Kaspersky Lab has a special app that claims to take care of the process for you. You can download the company's [http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/utility Flashfake Removal Tool] and run it to disinfect your Mac. + +Remember to rerun the above tests when you're done to make sure it worked. + +Alternately you can remove the files Flashback installed by hand and wipe it from your drive yourself. Be forewarned though, this involves the command line and is recommended only for advanced users. + +These instructions come from [http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_k.shtml F-Secure], which originally reported the widespread outbreak of Flashback. + +<li>1. Run the following command in Terminal: + <br /> <br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>2. Take note of the value, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</li> + <li>3. Proceed to step <b>8</b> if you got the following error message:<br /> + <br /> + <span style="color:#666666">"The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist"</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>4. Otherwise, run the following command in Terminal: + <br /> <br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' <b>%path_obtained_in_step2%</b></span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>5. Take note of the value after "__ldpath__"</li> + <li>6. Run the following commands in Terminal (first make sure there is only one entry, from step 2): + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">sudo defaults delete /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment</span> + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>7. Delete the files obtained in steps 2 and 5</li> + <li>8. Run the following command in Terminal: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>9. Take note of the result. Your system is already clean of this variant if you got an error message similar to the following: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#666666">"The domain/default pair of (/Users/joe/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist"</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>10. Otherwise, run the following command in Terminal: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' <b>%path_obtained_in_step9%</b></span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>11. Take note of the value after "__ldpath__"</li> + <li>12. Run the following commands in Terminal: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">defaults delete ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</span> + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">launchctl unsetenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>13. Finally, delete the files obtained in steps 9 and 11.</li> + <li>14. Run the following command in Terminal: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">ls -lA ~/Library/LaunchAgents/</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>15. Take note of the filename. Proceed only when you have one file. Otherwise contact our customer care.</li> + <li>16. Run the following command in Terminal: + <br /><br /> + <span style="color:#800000;">defaults read ~/Library/LaunchAgents/<b>%filename_obtained_in_step15%</b> ProgramArguments</span> + <br /><br /> + </li> + <li>17. Take note of the path. If the filename does not start with a ".", then you might not be infected with this variant.</li> + <li>18. Delete the files obtained in steps 15 and 17.</li> + </ul> + + +== Is the sky falling? == + +For a long time OS X was largely ignored by virus and malware writers, partly because its Unix underpinnings are pretty well time-tested and secure at this point, but also because it lacks the market share numbers of Windows. For the most part that's likely to continue to be the case, but that doesn't mean your Mac is invulnerable to attack. + +Flashback serves as a healthy reminder that every computer is vulnerable in some way. + +That doesn't necessarily mean you need antivirus software on your Mac. In fact one of the more interesting aspects of Flashback is that while it deletes itself when it detects Apple's developer tools or applications like [http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Little Snitch], [http://waxy.org/2012/04/flashback_trojan_creators_scared_of_xcode_users_but_not_norton_antivir/ it doesn't care at all if you have a commercial antivirus utility like Norton Antivirus, McAfee VirusScan or F-Secure installed]. In other words, the developers of Flashback are worried about being discovered by savvy users, not anti-virus software. + +Take a tip from the virus writers themselves and focus on being a savvy user -- avoiding suspicious downloads and using basic web smarts -- rather than installing anti-virus software and blindly trusting it to protect you. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/focus.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/focus.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b353fc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/focus.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +There's more to focusing your camera than just making sure objects are sharp. In fact, focus is one of the primary ways to lead the viewer's eye through an image and getting a scene focused just right depends on the scene and your camera. + +While there are no hard and fast rules to focusing, in this how to we'll take a look at some common situations and give you tips on how to make your photos draw the viewer in and give them a deeper connection to the image. + +For simplicity we'll assume you're using the auto-focus features on your camera. + +==Not all Auto Focus is created equal== + +Auto-focus tools vary by camera manufacturer, but generally most include several modes like area, spot and continuous. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages: + +'''Area (sometimes called multi-area)''' Chances are this is default setting and what you've been using. With Area auto focusing the camera automatically focuses using multiple focus points. Think of this as the camera taking an average of your scene and then trying to find the focal point that holds most things in focus. Although it's the default, area focus tends to be the least accurate of auto focus modes. Recommended for: landscapes, scenes where there isn't a large of depth of field. + +'''Spot focus''' In this mode your camera will focus on a spot at the center of the screen. How large of a spot depends on the camera, but most offer a visual guide that shows the spot area when you look through the viewfinder (or the screen if your camera doesn't have a viewfinder). Spot focus allows for the most control and, when combined with a half-press of the shutter button, can be used the keep foreground objects in focus and blur the background for a nice effect. Recommended for: almost anything, spot focus is really the best option in most cases. + +'''Continuous autofocus''' Generally used with moving subjects, continuous auto focus allows you to keep a primary subject in focus against a changing background. This mode can be very helpful, but is typically only found in high-end DSLRs. Still, if you have it continuous auto focus it's worth exploring. Recommended for: sporting events and other situations where your subject is moving. + + +==Common Photo situations== + +'''Portraits''' The common wisdom of portrait photography is to make sure the subject's eyes are sharply in focus. In addition to focusing on the eyes, use a large aperture (f/2.8-f/1.4) to decrease depth of field and maximize the effect of the sharply focused eyes. + +'''Landscapes''' If you want the whole scene in sharp focus, chose a very small aperture (f/16 or better if you have it) and focus on the middle or back of the scene. If you'd like a sharp foreground with a soft background, focus on the foreground and open up the aperture a bit more to allow the background to blur. + +'''Combinations''' Sometimes called an "environmental portrait" the combination of a portrait-style subject in a larger landscape is probably the most common situation you'll find yourself capturing. The trick here is to make sure that the primary point of interest is in focus. If that's a person against a landscape use a fast shutter to make sure the person doesn't blur through motion and again, try to keep the eyes in focus. If you want a softer subject against a sharp background, do the opposite, focusing on the background and using a middle of the road aperture to let the person soften a bit. + +'''Macros''' Macros are extreme close-ups -- the center of a flower, detail of wood grain and so on. Macros generally require either a special lens or a macro focus mode. Due to the extreme depth of field in such a small area you'll want to use a small aperture and probably use a tripod since the combination of close-up and small aperture mean less light and longer shutter times. + + +==Future Outlook== + +Auto-focus keeps improving with each new round of cameras and new modes using ever more sophisticated algorithms are always trying to do the hard work for you. Still, no amount of technology will ever be able to exactly anticipate the way you want your photos to look. It will, however, be significantly easier and faster to get the focus you want out of tomorrow's cameras. + + +artwork: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/3760102198/
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/getridofdsl.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/getridofdsl.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a17d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/getridofdsl.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +When it comes to gadgets, there's only one hard and fast rule: if it has a wire today, it'll get rid of the wire tomorrow. Even things you wouldn't expect -- yes, someone actually is working on wireless electricity -- will probably one day be wireless. + +You may think of your wireless modem as, well, wireless. But of course it's not, it needs the DSL or cable landline to actually connect you to the rest of the world. + +Today your internet has a wire. Tomorrow it probably won't. + +=== Welcome to 4G === + +DSL and Cable have battled for dominancy in home internet connections pretty much ever since dial up disappeared. But why bother with the wires and cables when there's 3G and 4G networks forming a cloud over your house, your city and pretty soon the entire nation. + +So what is 4G? In a nutshell 4G is the high-speed successor to the 3G networks that are currently, for the most part, limited to mobile device. Where the speed of 3G currently averages around 800kbps, 4G networks will offer roughly double that (1.5mbps) in the near term and possibly as fast as 20-30mbps as the technology improves. + +4G isn't just about speed either, larger chipsets and better antennas mean 4G is more reliable and cuts through signal noise faster. + +In short 4G is already shaping up to good enough to ditch the DSL and go all-mobile, all the time. + +=== Tapping into 4G today === + +The best thing about 4G is that it's already here, albiet at a price. Clearwire has offered 4G service is select U.S. cities for some time and now Sprint has introduced the [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/sprint-overdrive/ Overdrive] a 3G/4G modem that takes advantage of Clearwire's 4G when it's available and falls back on Sprint's 3G when it isn't. + +The result is complete mobile access -- no wires to be found -- in a single device with average 4G speeds of between 3-6Mbps. Compare that to the average DSL and cable speeds 4-8Mbps (in the U.S. anyway) and it's easy to see why the future is wireless. + +At roughly $80 per month, Sprints 3G/4G network is a bit more than DSL or cable, but the ability to connect from virtually anywhere makes up for the slight cost increase. + +=== Other Options === + +Sprint isn't the only wireless broadband option out there, Verizon offers the [http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/verizon_mifi_2000_portable_hotspot Mifi portable hotspot] which turns a 3G cellular signal into wifi. The Mifi does not, however, offer 4G connections. + +Thus far, Verizon is only in the testing stages with its LTE 4G network, while there are 4G LTE modems available in overseas, even if you can get them, unfortunately they won't do you much good here in the U.S. + +=== Conclusion === + +4G isn't here for everyone, coverage varies by provider to is thus far limited to select U.S. cities. However, as coverage expands and networks speed up the days of landlines delivering the web to your home are numbered.
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Last year some 898 million people traveled the globe, and the international tourism industry earned $7 trillion (and those figures don’t include people who vacation in their own countries). To think there wasn't a significant environmental and cultural cost to those travel is naive.
So what's a responsible citizen of the earth to do? Give up traveling?
We have another idea, vote with your dollar. Here's the Wired guide to traveling green and being responsible.
== Carbon Offsets ==
Sure they're controversial, but it's better than doing nothing at all.
The basic idea behind carbon offsets is that for every chunk of carbon you use (i.e. air travel, driving, etc) you donate a corresponding "offset" to a charity which can then invest the money in a project that reduces our carbon dependance -- generally things like wind farms, biomass energy, or hydroelectric dams.
In other words you offset your unavoidable carbon use by making an investment in a (hopefully) carbon free future.
Critics argue that carbon offsets merely give the guilty an easy source of absolution rather than the more productive route of behavior change. The critics are probably right in this case, but if you're going to fly no matter what, you might as well contribute to alternatives while you're at it.
To help you out there are a number of sites that can help you calculate your carbon usage and suggest an offset amount. [http://www.terrapass.com/ Terrapass] offers all sorts of carbon calculators and has partnered with travel stalwart Expedia to make it easy to buy and offset when you purchase tickets. Other online travel agencies such as Orbitz and Travelocity as well as airlines like British Airways, Virgin and Continental now offer carbon offsets when you purchase your flight.
== Green Hotels ==
Not all lodging is created equal. Some hotels are locally owned, recycle and make a real effort to minimize their environmental impact. Others are colossal chains that import labor from abroad and throw out the preverbal baby with every gallon of bath water.
So how to chose a responsible hotel? It might mean a little extra research on your part, but luckily there are a number of websites that can help take the pain out of finding responsible lodgings.
[http://www.environmentallyfriendlyhotels.com/ Environmentally Friendly Hotels], [http://www.ec3global.com/products-programs/green-globe/Default.aspx Green Globe] and [http://www.rezhub.com/GreenTravel/GreenHotels/tabid/119/Default.aspx RezHub] are just a few of the many sites that track hotel's eco-friendliness and can recommend green hotels in your destination.
But don't leave everything to web, if you can't find anything about a hotel you'd like to stay in, just call them up and ask some questions:
# Is the hotel locally owned and operated? If not, is it does it at least employ a local labor force?
# Is there an option to reuse towels and sheets instead of having them changed every day?
# Does the hotel have any recycling programs (paper, plastic, gray water irrigation, composting, etc)?
# Does the hotel have programs to reduce guest consumption? For example, energy-efficient lighting, water-saving shower heads etc.
Not only will you get answers to your questions you'll help send a message that these things matter to today's traveler. When enough hotels start to feel the pressure to go grean, they will. Send them a message with your wallet.
== When you're there ==
Okay so you paid your carbon offsets, found an environmentally friendly place to stay, now what?
Here's a few tips to reducing your impact on the places you love to visit:
# Reduce your water consumption. Clean water is one of the most endangered resources in the world. Keep your showers short and turn off the water when your brushing your teeth.
# Power is also in limited supply -- turn off the air conditioning, heat, television, lights and any other electric devices when you leave your room.
# Reuse your linens. Do you wash your sheets every single day when you're at home? The why the heck are you doing it when you travel? Call the front desk and tell them you're okay with using the same towel two, three, ten days in row.
# Give your hotel feedback. Tell them you're happy about any eco programs they have and tell them you'd love to see them embrace more.
# Buy local. You just traveled half way around the world and you're headed to Starbucks? Try supporting the local economy, stop into the corner coffee shop, eat with the locals and shop in local markets rather than chain stores. You'll learn more about the culture you're visiting, have much better food and encourage local businesses.
# Be responsible when you're off sightseeing. There's a reson why the cliche "take nothing but photographs, and leave nothing but footprints," is a cliche -- because it's good advice.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/gvoice.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/gvoice.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04e7261 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/gvoice.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +How to get more out of Google Voice + +Google Voice is a fantastic way to manage your phone life. The service offers the ability to route any incoming call to any phone or straight to voicemail, if you prefer, and you can create rules based on the caller. Other standout features include SMS, voicemail via e-mail, call recording, call screening and the ability to switch phones mid call. + +In addition to the easy-to-use, Gmail-like interface, Google Voice can be used to search for past messages, keep a store of all your text messages and otherwise organize your life. + +There are also some things your can do with Google Voice that might not be apparent at first glance, but can make the service even more powerful. + +===Infinite mobile minutes=== + +Perhaps the best Google Voice hack involves taking advantage of some loopholes in your mobile contract. Follow these steps and you'll never need to use any of your mobile plan's minutes again. Note that this will only work if you have a plan that offers free calling to select numbers. + +The trick is to add your Google Voice number to your list of free numbers, then have everyone call your Google Voice number. From your mobile provider's perspective it will look like only one person ever calls you and since that number is part of your plan, viola, no more worrying about how many minutes you've used. + +===Pure Google Voice mobile=== + +The Google Voice app might have been banned from Apple's App Store, but if you've jailbroken your phone, it's available through the Cydia app store. Android users can grab a legit copy through the Android marketplace. + +Although neither app is quite as seamless as just using your mobile, you won't have to pay to use the Google Voice number (and if you're on Wifi you won't be charged minutes either). This tactic is also handy for international calls. Google Voice isn't free when calling overseas (see [Google Voice's international rates http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141925]), but it's cheaper than most mobile carriers. + +===Web calling=== + +Firefox users can install the Firefox add-on [Google Voice for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11167] which makes any number on the web into a link that will automatically dial from your Google Voice number. Shortly after your phone rings and then the call is connected. + +===Future Outlook=== + +Eventually it will easy to forward your Google Voice number to any phone in the world. It's actually possible right now, but it's increadibly complicated and requires linking together three separate online services, any of which might fail. Google Voice is serious threat the current revenue model of mobile carriers, expect Google to push them and the carrier to fight back with better deals and cheaper rates.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/hdvideo.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/hdvideo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d0c2cc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/hdvideo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +The prospects of High Definition video on the web are looking up. The latest version of Adobe's Flash Player 9, the de facto standard in online video thanks to YouTube, includes support for the H.264 video standard — the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players. + +HD already enjoys widespread support in many video editing applications. Heavyweights like Adobe Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro have long supported H.264, but even cheaper options like iMovie 07 support HD and can export H.264 video. + +With the user supply chain already set to launch a new wave of HD content on the web, the only hang up is the video sharing sites themselves and the new Flash Player is poised to change that. + +Today's announcement means, as Kevin Towes, product manager for Adobe Flash Media Server, says "the entire H.264 workflow is now solid from end to end." + +Already professional sites like the Fox/NBC backed <a href="http://www.hulu.com/">Hulu</a> have announced they will support the new Flash Player and Hulu even has a sampling of movie trailers and clips in 720p HD available now. + +Eric Feng, CTO of Hulu says that he's excited about the quality boost H.264 gives online video, "H.264 is a much more advanced codec, it offers better visuals, higher color saturation and hardware acceleration, which means we're going to be able to provide a much better viewing experience, especially in full screen mode." + +Feng says the current HD gallery is just the beginning. Hulu plans to continue expanding its HD offerings as Flash Player 9's market saturation grows. Hulu is currently a private beta, though Feng says the site will open to the public in "a couple of months." + +For user content oriented sites, the combination of cheaper HD cameras and the new Flash Player support mean that even your home movies may soon be viewable in HD glory. + +Some popular web video sharing sites like <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a> already offer HD video through older formats, but with YouTube still the traffic leader in online video, HD in your browser won't really kick into high gear until YouTube offers H.264 movies. + +YouTube was unable to respond in time for this story, but since H.264 is already the standard video format for the YouTube functionality on the iPhone and Apple TV, it might not be long before the same quality finds its way on to the web. + +Should YouTube dally too long this could prove a chance for smaller sites to catch up to the web video leader. In addition to the Flash Player front-end, Adobe has released a new version of Flash Media Streaming Server 3. The streaming server supports H.264 encoded files and Adobe has slashed the price of the top end version by 90 percent. + +While it's still too pricy for casual users, startup video sites can now offer video through the Flash Media Streaming Server for a mere $4500 instead of the previous price, often referred to as the "Flash Tax," of $45,000. + +Kevin Towes argues that for smaller sites especially, the lower price barrier will help offset the increased bandwidth costs associated with HD content. "Bandwidth cost is huge, but H.264 offers the highest quality versus for the bandwidth and the new pricing structures will alleviate some of those costs." + +But not everyone thinks HD is going to help user-generated sites. Gilles BianRosa CEO of <a href="http://www.vuze.com/">Vuze</a>, which has long offered professional HD content in a bittorrent-based client thinks the costs of streaming HD will far outstrip the value. + +"We're happy about it," says BianRosa, "it shows what we've been saying for months, users want HD video." However, BianRosa doesn't think it's practical for sites like YouTube because the higher bandwidth costs of HD won't increase YouTube's ad revenue. "If you increase the pixels on a cat playing the piano that's not going to do anything for advertisers." diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/hiresyoutube.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/hiresyoutube.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18cb090 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/hiresyoutube.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +YouTube is finally making good on its promise to start encoding videos at higher resolutions. Select videos on the site are already available in 480x360 resolution -- it's not HD, but it is a step up from the old 320x240 format. + +For the most part this change only affects newer videos and YouTube is rolling it out in a somewhat haphazard manner. Some the videos are identified on the site with a little link offering to take you to a higher res version, but if you want to see the high quality version by default here are a few ways to pull that off. + +# Add <code>&fmt=18</code> to the end of a normal YouTube URL. If there's a high quality version available that will cause it to load. + +# Firefox Add-on -- The team over at Lifehacker makes the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6460 Better YouTube extension] for Firefox and the latest version of the add-on includes the URL hacking technique above (as well as some other goodies like the ability to stop movies from auto-playing). + +# The Easily Overlooked Obvious Method -- If you're logged in to YouTube anyway, just head over to your account settings page and near the bottom you'll find a "Video Quality" option. Click that link and you'll land on a page where you can choose to always see the higher quality videos. Obviously this requires you to login to YouTube, so if you don't want to do that stick with one of the methods above. + +Even at the higher quality, YouTube videos aren't going to look good on a HD TV. But for smaller monitors and laptops, they may be good enough to at least watch in full screen mode without the video turning the chunky moving blocks of color.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how to be a whistleblower.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to be a whistleblower.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a5e982 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to be a whistleblower.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Nobody wants to be party to coverups, outright lies and the other scandalous behavior sometimes uncovered in both the government and businesses. But what should you do if you uncover something you think is unethical or potentially criminal? + +Blow the whistle. + +However, doing so can have serious repercussions -- whistleblowers have been ostracized, fired, threatened, jailed, and worse. + +Still, from Deep Throat to Enron, whistleblowers have a distinguished legacy of helping the public good. Stephen M. Kohn President of the "National Whistleblower Center"<http://www.whistleblowers.org/> in Washington DC says that "The majority of all civil fraud recoveries in the US are based on whistleblower disclosures," which means it could be up to you to point out wrongdoings. + +Legal protection for whistleblowers varies from country to country and Wired can't provide you with legal advice, but we do have some tips that might help whistleblowers remain anonymous and possibly escape detection for long enough to get the word out. + +#Anonymous Web Surfing + +One tool explicitly designed with whistleblowers in mind is "Tor"<https://tor.eff.org/>. Tor is a free networking software program and allows you to use the internet anonymously. Need to login to that GMail account you used to contact the press, but you're stuck at work? Tor can help cover your tracks. + +When you log into to Tor you join a network of machines scattered around the world that pass internet traffic randomly amongst themselves before it emerges at its destination. The process is somewhat like a ball bouncing around inside a sealed box. Every now and then a ball comes out of the box, but it's impossible to tell who put it in the box to begin with. + +The process is know as "onion routing," and it was first developed at the Naval Research Laboratory. Tor uses a layered encryption protocol, which is where the onion skin analogy comes from. + +Tor is designed to defeat one specific form of digital eavesdropping known as traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that tracks who is talking to whom over a public network. + +Without Tor an malicious employer can easily detect your outgoing traffic to the media announcing your whistleblowing intentions. + +#Encryption + +But Tor alone isn't enough to hide you from the snoops. To use our earlier example, if you login to GMail via Tor and send your whistleblowing message, the company might not be able to trace where it can from, but they can read it the minute it leaves Tor. + +Anonymity is not the same as security. + +It's important to recognize the Tor does not encrypt traffic once it emerges from the Tor network. Thus you data is going to exposed unless it has been encrypted by you. + +To learn more about encrypting your e-mail, see the Wired How To Wiki entry: "Keep Your E-mail Private, Secret and Secure"<http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=keep_your_e_mail_private_secret_and_secure;action=display;category=Work>. + +But if you're collecting whistleblowing data you'll likely want to encrypt more than just your e-mail. + +#File encryption + +To encrypt a file in Windows XP your hard drive needs to formated as NTFS which supports encryption. As long as you aren't on a FAT32 formated disk encrypting in Windows XP is easy, just select the files or folder in Windows Explorer, right click it and choose "properties." In the "attributes" section at the bottom, click "advanced" and check the 'encrypt contents to secure data' box, then click OK twice. + +There's a couple of caveats here though. First off the encryption is useless if someone else knows your login password (which is often assigned by the IT department) and second, if you encrypt a folder, anyone can still read the file names they just can't open them. + +A better option is to use "GPG4win,"<http://www.gpg4win.org/> an open source encryption program for Windows, to encrypt files with a private key. Again, if anyone else has access to your account, the security provided is ruined because they will have access to your GPG key. + +If you find yourself in a situation where you can't control access to your computer you might investing an encrypted USB thumb drive, though there could be some record of accessing it on your computer that leaves you vulnerable. + +In the end most whistleblowers do end up exposed out of necessity (whether for legal testimony or simply accidental exposure). Many have been fired, but many of those people have also sued and won their cases. Ultimately the choice to blow the whistle is always fraught with risk.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how to onlinecal b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to onlinecal new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aefcb3a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to onlinecal @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Just about all your data is finding its way onto the web. You can organize and share your bookmarks, upload and edit photos and share and edit documents so why not do the same with your calendar? + +There are dozens of options in the world of online calendars, but while some of the smaller players offer some nice niche features, the big players offer stability and there's little danger of the services disappearing one day. + +Yahoo, Google and Microsoft all offer web-based calendar systems, each with their distinct advantages and disadvantages. While Yahoo and Microsoft have capable calendaring apps, we found Google Calendar offered a cleaner, simpler interface and it's setup and sharing options were more robust and simpler to use. + +The big downside to Google Google calendar is that it does not offer support for Microsoft Outlook calendars. + +There are some third party offerings like "SyncMyCal"<http://www.syncmycal.com/> ($25 per seat) that can fill this void in "Google Calendar"<http://www.google.com/calendar/>, but they are unofficial and could stop working, should Google decide to alter its calendar service. Google has said in the past that it plans to add Outlook support, but it has never given a timeline. + +If you need Outlook support you're better off with "Yahoo Calendar"<http://calendar.yahoo.com/?>, however, for the rest of us, Google's offering is slicker and has better sharing features. + + +#Basic cal setup + +To get started in Google Calendar login to your Google Account or just login to GMail and click "Calendar," which will land you in the main calendar page. Head to "Settings" and then click "Calendars," followed by "Create New Calendar." + +Give your Calendar a name, description so other will know what it is when you share it. You can also set a location and time zone. + +#Sharing and Collaboration + +Below these basic setup options you'll see some preferences for sharing. The "Share with everyone" option refers to who can see your calendar and its events. There are three settings, "everyone," which makes the URL public, "share only free/ busy information" which lets other see when you're occupied, but doesn't say what you're doing, and "do not share," which keeps your calendar entirely private. + +Once you decide how much you want the world at large to know its time to set up your Calendar for Google's specialty: collaboration. If you need to track and coordinate with a team of employees or just a group of friends you can add their e-mail addresses and control what sort of access they have to your calendar. + +If you forget someone, no need to panic, just head to settings >> calendars and click on the calendar to edit. + +Once you've added a user and given them permission to change events, that person can edit the shared calendar and you'll both see the changes. + +#Do More + +Google Calendar can send alerts via e-mail and SMS messages to keep you abreast of your appointments, but there are number of other ways to track your calendars. + +For your mobile needs there's calendar.google.com which provides a slimmed down interface for mobile phones and even auto-detects the iPhone and delivers a version designed for the touch screen. + +You can subscribe to your Google Calendar in any desktop application that supports the variety of formats Google Calendar offers. Just head to the "Calendars" section and copy and paste the URL in to your favorite Desktop app. + +Keep in mind however, that most desktop calendar apps won't offer round trip syncs with Google Calendar. Mac users can invest in "Spanning Sync"<http://www.spanningsync.com/> ($25/year or $65 for life) which enables Apple iCal to read and write to Google Calendars. There's also a free project, "Provider"<http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/mozilla-sunbird.html>, that enables the Mozilla's Sunbird Calendar to read and write to Google Calendar. + +Firefox users can check out "Google Calendar Notifier"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2528>, which provides update and schedule-at-a-glance views in the Firefox status bar. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how to supercharge gmail.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to supercharge gmail.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfba2b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how to supercharge gmail.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +When Gmail was released in April of 2004 it was heralded as a revolutionary new approach to e-mail. Indeed, conversation threads, search, tagging, and keyboard shortcuts have changed the way many look at their e-mail. + +But because it's different, "GMail"<https://mail.google.com/> can take some getting used to, here's our guide to getting the most of GMail. + +#Consolidate + +Like most of us, you probably have several e-mail address, one for work, personal, mailing lists and perhaps a throw-away for signing up for new online services. + +GMail makes it easy to get all your e-mail in a single account. Best of all you can send e-mails from GMail and they will look like they can from your other addresses. + +To set up additional accounts head to the "Settings" tab in the top right corner of the GMail interface. Then click on the "Accounts" tab and click "Add Another Account" in the "Get mail from other accounts" section. + +Enter the e-mail address you'd like to integrate into GMail and click next. Then enter your e-mail account login info and mail server name. You can select a number of other options such as always using a secure connection (if your other mail host provides that feature), leaving a copy on the server and control how GMail handles the incoming messages. + +Gmail will then send a message to the new account and you'll have to click the provided link to verify that it is in fact your account. + +Now return the Accounts tab and repeat the process in the "Send mail as" section so that you can send messages from your GMail account that look like they can from your other accounts. If you'd like, you can set one of these added accounts as the default sending account in GMail, though you can always select any verified address when you compose a message in GMail. + +#Filtering and Labels + +GMail doesn't use folders. This is perhaps the most disorienting aspect for new users accustomed to filing mail according to time honored traditions. But Gmail does offer the same functionality you're used to with folders. + +Instead of filing messages in folders, Gmail lumps all your message in a single archive mailbox (which you can view by clicking the "All Mail" link). But GMail uses tags (or "Labels" as Google calls them) to give you the same functionality as folders. To get started using labels, click the "settings" tab and then click "Labels." Create a new label. + +Let's say you want a label named "Work" for all your incoming work e-mails. Create the label and then any time you get an e-mail that's work related, apply the label and archive the message. Now click the label "Work" in GMail's sidebar and you'll see all your filed messages, just like you would with a folder named "Work." What makes labels more powerful is that single messages can have in multiple labels, something that isn't possible with folders. + +But labeling messages by hand is tedious and that's where filters come in handy. GMail's filters are pretty similar in feature to those you've used in desktop clients. Define the matching criteria and then define what actions you want applied to those message. + +Here's a tip for power filtering: by default GMail uses the AND operator when combining filter attributes. Thus is want to match messages that come from foo@bar.com or have the subject line "test," we're out of luck. However, there's a way around this limitation because the "Has the words" option in the Filter dialog can accept any search criteria. + +Thus in a single line in "Has The Words" we can define the follow rule: (from:(foo@bar.com) OR subject:(test)). This trick can also be used with any other GMail search operators. + + +#GMail UI power user tips + +GMail has some nice keyboard shortcuts you'll want to memorize, such as j/k for selecting the next and previous messages in the mail list view, n/p to move between messages in message view and y to archive a message. There are a host of others available, see the Gmail "help pages"<https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6594> for more details. If you find yourself loving GMail's simple shortcuts, but prefer a desktop client, have a look at the Thunderbird add-on "GMailUI"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/1339> which brings many of GMail's shortcuts to Thunderbird. + +If you're using a browser that supports "Greasemonkey"<http://www.greasespot.net/> scripts there are a whole bunch of things you can do to enhance GMail. Some notable options include "GMail macros"<userscripts.org/scripts/show/2432>, which greatly enhances the keyboard shortcuts in GMail, and "Force encrypted connections"<>(can't seem to connect to userscripts.org right now) which ensures that you always connect to GMail via a https connection. + +To encrypt your messages in GMail, see our earlier guide: "Keep Your E-mail Private, Secret and Secure"<http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=keep_your_e_mail_private_secret_and_secure;action=display;category=Work>. + +For more options and other ways to improve you GMail experience with Greasemonkey, have a look at every tagged "GMail"<http://userscripts.org/tag/gmail> in the scripts archive. + +If you're a Firefox user, Gina Tripani of Lifehacker has put together a very nice little extension called "Better GMail"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4866> that combines a couple dozen scripts, hacks and other tools and makes it easy to install everything without hunting down the individual scripts. For more details on Better GMail see the Lifehacker "tutorial and guide"<http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/hack-attack-supercharge-your-gmail-252737.php>. + + +#Do more + +Given that Gmail offers almost 3 gigs of storage, why not use it backup some files? For easier, FTP-like access check out these options: Windows users have "GMail Drive"<http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm>, while Mac users have "gDisk"<http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/> and there's also a Firefox based option "Gmail File Space"<http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php>. Note that this may violate GMail's TOS, so it's probably best to use a separate account. + +If you still love your Desktop e-mail client there's no need to fret, just enable POP in the settings tab of GMail and you can connect and download your mail into your favorite client.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to back up Mac.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to back up Mac.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfbd5b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to back up Mac.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Nothing you do with a computer will ever be as important as making a solid back up. Hard drives crash and without a back up you'll find yourself facing expensive data recovery services or simply without your data. + +As part of Apple's upcoming Leopard OS the company is including a back up software system by the name of [Time Machine][1] which will offer incremental back up and recovery of files, but even this won't save you if your drive goes south. + +Ideally even your back up system should be redundant, in other words at least two back ups on two forms of media, but at the very least you should have a clone of your hard drive handy should your primary system sink. + +What you'll need + +A secondary hard drive of equal or greater capacity to the machine you want to back up. + +Some back up software from one of the third party vendors listed below (if you're Unix savvy you can get by with rsync and cron, which are built in to Mac OS X, but we'll just be looking at GUI solutions). + +Options: + +EMC (formerly Dantz) Retrospect (or Retrospect Express) + +[Retrospect][3] is the classic Mac back up solution. It isn't cheap, but its comprehensive, full-featured and supports just about any media from high-end tape drives to optical media. + +On the cost side, you may find a special edition of Retrospect, dubbed Retrospect HD is included with some external hard drives that specifically target the Mac. Retrospect HD is stripped down a bit from its sibling and only backs up to hard drives, but if its bundled with the drive there's no need to purchase the full version. + +SuperDuper + +[SuperDuper][4] is a relatively inexpensive piece of software designed to make it easy to clone a drive or back up folders. + +In the free mode Super Duper makes it easy to create complete and/or user-specific back up clones to a hard disk or disk image image file (.dmg). + +For $28 you can unlock the registered mode which allows you to schedule periodic back ups and also allows for more fine-grained control over which files get backed up. + +SuperDuper also features a unique option named "Sandbox," which protects your boot disk from some types of catastrophic failure by creating a bootable copy of your system, stored on another hard drive that shares your personal documents and data with the original. + +This allows you to install system updates or evaluation software in the Sandbox, without worrying about your actual system. If something does go wrong, you simply start up from the original system. + +ChronoSync + +[ChronoSync][2] is another synchronization option that allows for drag-and-drop cloning. Just drag the folders you'd like to sync onto the application windows and then choose your options. Chronosync offers quite a few sophisticated options for deciding which files are sync and which ones are ignored. + +While ChronoSync is a decent back up option its also a very easy way to keep folders between two Macs in sync. For instance, if you have desktop machine and a laptop that you use when traveling, ChronoSync makes it very easy to sync up the laptop to the current state of the desktop whenever you head out of town. + +ChronoSync will set you back $30 but you can download a demo copy to see if it fits your needs. + + +LaCie SilverKeeper + +[SilverKeeper][5] is a simple, but capable back up program which allows you to back up files to any device that is mountable (i.e. CD, DVD, hard disk, tape drives etc). + +Silverkeeper is made by the hard drive manufacturer LaCie and ships with many of its drives. + +But if you're not interested in LaCie drives, never fear Silverkeeper is available as free download from the Lacie site. + +Silverkeeper can set up schedules, make bootable clones, skip selected files and has a number of other nice customization features. + + +Internet back up + +If you have a large library of media files this one probably isn't a good solution, but for a secondary (or third or fourth line of back up) the web is always an option. + +There are a number of services (probably hundreds) that offer to back up your files. Most hover in the 1 gigabyte range so this obviously isn't for an entire drive, but it doesn't hurt to have an extra copy of your documents folder somewhere offsite. + +Most Mac users have probably heard of [Apple's .Mac service][6] which offers a gigabyte of space for $100 a year (it also offers some other services not related to backing up files). + +Dot Mac comes with some pre-designed templates that make it easy to back up key folders, but you can also roll your own template. Apple's back up solution will even run if your machine is asleep at the scheduled time. + + +[1]: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/timemachine.html +[2]: http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html +[3]: http://www.emcinsignia.com/products/smb/retroformac/ +[4]: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html +[5]: http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ +[6]: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to install Windows on a Mac.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to install Windows on a Mac.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6090f7e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to install Windows on a Mac.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Intro + +When Apple transitioned from IBM's PowerPC chips to the new Intel-based Macs, it opened up a world of possibilities for users who want to run other operating systems alongside Mac OS X on the same machine. Additionally, because Linux and Windows also use the same Intel chip architecture, virtualization software no longer needs to emulate a different chip, which means huge performance gains for users who want to run Windows or Linux inside OS X. + +If you want to run Windows, OS X and nearly any variant of Linux on the same machine you'll need to have one of the newer Intel-based Mac machines. Unfortunately, due to hardware restrictions, running OS X on an ordinary Windows box requires some serious hacking and unless you're very comfortable with both systems, isn't a practical option. + +There are two basic ways of running multiple operating systems on your Mac. The first option is dual booting, meaning that to switch between operating systems requires a reboot. The chief advantage of this method is speed. Because Windows or Linux will be running on its own there's none of the performance hits associated with virtualization. + +The main disadvantage is of course you'll have to restart to switch systems. + +Apple officially supports the dual-boot option via its Boot Camp software. For gamers and others looking for performance optimized solutions, this is probably the best option. + +The second method of creating an all-in-one machine is to use one of the virtualization software packages available from a variety of third party manufacturers. Perhaps the most popular of these package is the much touted Parallels 3, though there are also options available from VMWare. + +The main advantage of virtualization is that it integrates into OS X and there's no need to restart your machine. Parallels 3 even offers support of file mapping which means opening a file from OS X's Finder will automatically launch the virtual machine and open the Windows application associated with that file. + +What you'll need + +For the dual boot option you'll need to install <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/">Boot Camp from Apple</a>. Though Boot Camp is officially a beta offering, in almost a year of use I've experienced few technical problems. Boot Camp will reportedly by an official part of the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Leopard, which is due for release in October of 2007. + +For the virtualization route, you'll need either <a href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/">Parallels Desktop for Mac</a>, VMWare's <a href="http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/index.html">Fusion</a> or similar third party virtualization app. + +No matter what method you use, you'll need a full, licensed copy of the version of Windows you'd like to install. + +Bear in mind, if you go the virtualization route and want to use Windows Vista you'll need the Ultimate version according to Microsoft's licensing terms. + +Dual Booting + +Once you've downloaded Boot Camp, double click the .dmg file to mount the disk image and then double click the installer. + +Once you've installed Boot Camp, navigate in the Finder to /Applications/Utilities/Boot Camp Assistant. Double click the assistant and you should see a welcome screen that asks you to burn a Windows driver CD. + +Insert a CD and burn the Windows drivers. You'll need these drivers after you install Windows since they contain all the information Windows needs to recognize your keyboard, mouse, iSite and other peripherals. Note that many third party devices are not included so you may need to download additional Windows drivers for printers, scanners and the like. + +Once you have your Windows Driver CD, return to the main menu and select the option "Start the Windows Installer." At this point Boot Camp Assistant will ask you to insert your Windows CD. At the time of writing supported systems include Windows XP Home and Professional and Windows Vista Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. + +Click "Start the Installation" and Boot Camp Assistant will walk you through the steps of adding a partition to your hard drive and installing Windows. + +Once Windows is installed, you can chose which system you'd like to boot from by holding down the "Option" key during startup. + +Don't forget to insert the Windows Drivers CD you burned earlier and run that installer from within the Windows partition. + +Enjoy your dual booting system. + +Virtualization + +To use parallels you can download a 30-day trial from the site, or purchase the software for $80. + +To use VMWare's Fusion virtualization download a copy of the beta from VMWare's site. For the time being the beta is free, pre-orders for the final version cost $40 and when it's released Fusion will retail for $80. + +Once you've installed either system double click the application and you'll be walked through the steps necessary to set up the virtual machine and install Windows or Linux. + +VMWare offers pre-built virtual machines that can be downloaded and used if you don't own a copy of Windows. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to music off ipod.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to music off ipod.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88fb0ba --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to music off ipod.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Dumping your entire music collection onto an iPod is a simple one-click process, but what about getting music off an iPod? That's not so simple. + +Fortunately there are ways to get music off your iPod including some that won't cost you a thing. + +There are a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from your iPod to your hard drive. For instance, if you consider you iPod a backup of your music collection, if that fateful say arrives and your PC hard drive crashes, you can get your music back without re-ripping all those CDs (which isn't to say that you shouldn't have other backups, when it comes to backups the more the merrier). + +What you'll need: + +An iPod obviously and either a Windows or Mac machine. + +Then there are a number of third party software solutions, some free, some not free all of which provide slightly different ways of browsing and recovering songs from your iPod. + + +How To + +The simplest and most difficult way to grab tunes from your iPod is enable the "Disk Mode" feature of the iPod from within iTunes. This will cause the iPod to mount as a hard drive drive which you can browse through Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. + +In the case of the Mac you'll need to enable hidden folders in the Finder which you can do by firing up Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and pasting in these lines of code: + +defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE + +killall Finder + +To turn them off just change TRUE to FALSE. + +While functionally this method will work, there are plenty of software apps that make the process of browsing and copying files much much easier. + +Third Party Apps + +Senuti +Senuti is a free and open-source, Mac-only application that allows you to recover songs, photos and movies from your iPod. Senuti features drag-and-drop transfer of songs and playlists. Senuti also allows you to copy songs from a Windows formatted iPod. + +The main downside to Senuti is that it doesn't recognize duplicate tracks. If you have a playlist with 10 songs on your iPod and the same playlist already exists in iTunes, Senuti will add the same 10 songs again. + +You can stop Senuti from duplicating the actual song files by choosing "overwrite songs" in the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the duplication of songs within playlists. + +iPodRip +IPodRip works in both Mac OS X and Windows. It has drag-and-drop support for moving songs from your iPod directly into iTunes, as well as one-click importing to restore a local collection. + +IPodRip also features a number of nice extras not found elsewhere, such as a database integrity check for your iPod database, an option to export your library information to HTML or XML formats, and the ability to sync metadata between your iPod and iTunes. + +IPodRip is shareware, and it costs $15. The unlicensed version is not crippled, but it will expire after 10 uses. So, if you just need to recover from a hard drive failure or similar one-time problem, iPodRip can do it for free. + +iPod Access +Another cross-platform offering, copying songs with iPod Access is simple: Just highlight the songs you want to copy and click "Add to iTunes." The trial version only allows you to transfer five songs at a time, but I had no problems copying songs within the limit. A full license costs $20. + +When it comes to handling song transfers, iPod Access gives you more options than the other programs reviewed, including the option to rename the songs in a variety of formats. IPod Access will also only overwrite existing files on your computer if the iPod copy is newer. + +Anapod Explorer +This Windows-only app raises the bar somewhat compared to the other programs. It doesn't just recover files, it also does a whole bunch of other stuff as well. The downside is that those additional features come at an additional cost -- the full version of Anapod Explorer is $30. + +Anapod Explorer includes a separate program, Anapod Xtreamer, which allows you to browse your iPod in a web browser. Xtreamer makes it easy to transfer files, not just from your iPod to the connected computer, but to any computer on your network. + +There are about a dozen more features in Anapod Explorer, but since most of them go far beyond our review goals (get music off your iPod) I'll leave them for you to discover. + +Podworks +Another Mac-only program, Podworks boasts a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod. Podworks can send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" option, or it can transfer songs to any other location on your hard drive. + +Podworks lacks the desirable-drag and-drop features of other applications, but it does avoid duplicating songs. + +The shareware app costs $8. There is a 30-day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers. + + +YamiPod +This is the only tool of the bunch that supports all three major operating systems. It's also free. YamiPod can transfer songs to and from an iPod, and it offers a good range of options for handling duplicates. + +YamiPod also has some extra features not found in the other programs, including the ability to create playlists and send them to Last.fm. YamiPod can add song lyrics to your tunes, and it also supports Mac OS X's Growl notification system. Read our full review. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-electricity.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-electricity.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5603f73 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-electricity.txt @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Perhaps the most complex thing for nerds headed abroad is sorting out all the different voltages and Hertz levels around the world. + +All electricity is not created equal. In fact, the world is full of varying voltages and Hertz levels that make traveling with electronic devices somewhat complicated. Do just you need a wall adapter? An adapter and a voltage converter? And what about a surge protector? + +Fear not my traveling nerds, the Wired How-To Wiki is here to answer those questions and more. + +##What's the deal with electricity?## + +###Voltage### + +Worldwide voltages range from around 110 to 240. Plug a device expecting 110 into a wall outlet delivery 240 and you can easily end up with a melted hunk of plastic and burnt out circuits. + +Fortunately newer electronics are often able to handle a wide range of voltages. You know those tiny print labels on all your battery chargers that you've always ignored? Time to pull them out and have a closer look. + +The text you're interested in is the voltage rating, which, if you're lucky, says "100V - 240V." If yours says just 110V or just 240V, you're going to need a voltage converter. When it comes to voltage converters, the best option is to buy one that covers the whole range. Voltage converters can be found at just about any online retailer that sells electronics. + +Also bear in mind, if you happen to be a war correspondent, that Afganistan and few other countries sometimes have voltages up to 280V, so you may want a converter that can handle more than 240V. + +But before you rush and buy a converter, keep reading, voltage isn't the end of the story. + +###Hertz### + +If voltage wasn't enough to worry about, the world's electricity supplies also deliver varying degrees of Hertz. Generally speaking the options range between 50-60Hz. + +So again, pull out those chargers and check to see how many Hz they can handle. Now, if you need to, you can buy a voltage adapter that spans 100V-240V and 50Hz-60Hz. + +But wait, how do you know what you're going to encounter at your destination? Just look it up in this [http://kropla.com/electric2.htm indispensable chart of electricity around the world]. The table on that page lists every country and displays the voltage, hertz and the type of wall adapter necessary. + +##Plugging it in## + +The last and simplest concern for travelers totting high tech gear is a good set of travel plug adapters. + +A plug adaptor is a relatively simple little gadget that will allow you to plug an appliance designed for one type of outlet into another type of outlet. Generally you can buy plug adaptors in kits of five or six plugs. + +If you take a look at one of the many guides to all the wall socket types in the world, you'll notice that there's over a dozen -- so how come adapter kits have fewer options? The answer is that you average travel adapter kit ignores the grounding wire. + +While that's not necessarily a bad thing, it is important to remember that (unless you spring for a grounded adapter) there is no grounding, which creates some potential safety concerns. For most short terms uses, like recharging your laptop or camera battery you can get by without the grounding. If you're planning a long term stay abroad, you should probably grab some grounding adapters. + +Unfortunately it can be somewhat difficult to come by grounding adapters outside the area in question. Your best bet may be to buy one at an electronics shop when you get to your destination (it may also be much cheaper to do it that way). + +Another thing to keep in mind if you're coming from the U.S.: not all type A outlets are the same. In the States we've mainly switched over to polarized outlets, where one hole is slightly larger than the other to accommodate the slightly larger plug blade. (the larger plug blade is the neutral side of the current). + +Unfortunately not every country that uses type A outlets has switched to polarized wall outlets. That means that if you devices have a larger blade in one side you may still need an adapter to fit an older, non-enlarged, Type A wall unit. + + + +###Beware the AC/DC### + +There is one final concern when plugging things in abroad -- direct current (DC) outlets. Although DC is rare it does exist and will most definitely fry your gear. If you're unsure if a particular outlet is DC, ask someone at your hotel or guesthouse. I've been to 23 countries on three continents and never encountered a DC outlet, but there are some still hanging around. + +##Watts and Surge protectors## + +We've not got voltage, Hz and wall adapters covered, you're essentially good to go as far as recharging you devices goes, but you don't just plug your laptop into the wall at home, why would you do that abroad. + +Travel surge protectors can be had from most of the same places that sell adapters, sometimes you can even find surge protectors that come with adapters. A travel surge protector is essentially the same as your usual strip, though it generally only offers one or two plugs to conserve on space and weight. + +The last thing to keep in mind is that so far we've focused on nerd gadgets -- laptops, digital camera batteries and the like. Most of these devices operate in the 75-200 watt range. To find out exactly how many watts your devices use, look on the power plug label, comsult the manual or use this formula: + +Volts(AC input) x Amps(amperage) = Watts (Wattage) + +e.g.: + +110V x .5 amps = 55 watt + +When you're looking at at voltage converters bear this number in mind since different converters can power different wattages. + +Also bear in mind that, if you're the type that has to keep the coifed Flock of Seagulls 'do even when you're traveling, heating appliances such as hair dryers (as well as irons, coffee makers and more) need a 1600-watt converter. + +##Buying tips ## + +Although it's not a bad thing to buy some of this stuff ahead of time, it may, in some cases, be cheaper to find abroad -- especially if you're headed to Asia. + +Also be aware that not all adapter/voltage/surge kits are created equal. I bought an rather expensive combo unit in the States that blew up in Paris. I bought another expensive one in Paris and it blew up in Nepal. Finally I bought a cheap, all-in-one unit for $2 on the street in Bangkok and it has lasted for four years now. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-mac-windows-file-share.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-mac-windows-file-share.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66d0247 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-mac-windows-file-share.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Nothing gets a flame war going faster than an operating system debate, but these days many people are using more than one system on a network. Maybe you have a Mac on the den for video editing but use a PC for serving digital media in your living room. + +Wouldn't it be great to share files between the two over your home network? Fortunately it's not hard to do that at all, you just need to set a few things up. + +To share files on between a Windows PC and a Mac OS X machine you need to enable File Sharing on both and create some common folders accessible to both computers. + +Note that we are assuming an environment of trusted users such as a secure, home network behind a router firewall. + +The Mac Setup (Tiger and Panther) + +Head to your System Preferences and click the "Sharing" icon. Then select the "Services" tab and check "Windows Sharing." You may need to adjust your firewall settings as well. + +Write down your Mac's IP address as you'll need to enter this later when you connect from the PC. + +The Windows setup (XP) + +Right-click on the folder you want the Mac to be able to access and click on Properties. Click on the Sharing tab and select to option that reads: "Share this folder on the network." + +If you want read and write access check the option to "Allow network users to change my files." Click Apply and then OK. + +That's it. + +Access The PC from the Mac + +In the OS X Finder click the Go menu and choose "Network." This will open a new Finder Window with a list a visible machines. Select the folder you created earlier on the Windows machine. You should be able to access those files as if they were on your Mac. + +For a slightly more sophisticated approach you could choose the "Connect To Server" option in the Finder's Go menu and then enter the server address. Once it connects choose the shared folder and hit OK. This should mount the folder on your desktop for convenient access. + +Access the Mac from the PC + +Open your Start menu and click Search. Then select the "Computers or people" option and then choose "A computer on the network." Now enter the Mac's IP address (which you wrote down earlier) in the search field. You should then be prompted for your Mac's username and password. + +Once you've entered the username and password you should see the home folder from your Mac and you should now be able to browse, edit, create and delete files just as you would on your Mac. + +And there you have it, painless file sharing between Mac and PC and note that this will work over wifi connections or wired ethernet or any combination of the two.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-travel.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-travel.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5858dc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-travel.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +So you've decide to leave the nerd lair and head out to explore the larger world. Perhaps a conference in Bangkok beckons, maybe a Linux gathering in Europe or possible a trip with the family to some deserted isle. + +Whatever the case, no self respecting nerd goes traveling without researching all the angles. To save your from having to scour the net, here's Wired's guide to mastering the art of high tech travel. + + + +==Inspector Gadget== + +No nerd would leave home without the proper assortment of technological devices. But then the question arises, what should I bring, how do I make sure it survives and what's the proper gadget etiquette on the road? + +The most pressing question for most of us is one of power. For full details on what you need to make sure all your gadgets have plenty (and the right kind) of electricity, [link-to-electric-how-to see our guide to electricity]. + +Once you have the power supply taken care of, it's worth asking which devices you should bring. + +===Laptops=== + +The laptop is tempting and in many cases a must have (especially if your destination is a conference or the like). But in some cases, if you're just traveling for pleasure the internet cafe is more than enough and spares you the added weight and headache of lugging a laptop. + +The availability of internet cafes abroad varies too much to offer any pronouncement. Your best bet is to do some searching and see what those who have already been to where you are going have found. Generally speaking though, internet cafes aren't hard to come by unless you get well off the beaten tourist path. + +Mac users take note: in internet cafes you will almost always find Windows PCs. Also worth mentioning is that, I've noticed on recent trips that a number of Internet cafes have started banning USB sticks, which ruins the [how-to-portable-apps-link portable Firefox idea]. One the plus side nearly every one I visited had Firefox installed. The practice isn't widespread enough to worry about yet, but you may encounter a few spots where your USB stick is frowned upon. + +The other consideration is the availability of wifi networks. In major cities you shouldn't have to much trouble finding hotspots, though you may have to pay for them. Sites like [http://www.wififreespot.com/ Wififreespot] and other attempt to travel free wifi networks around the world. However, you're probably better off searching for just your particular destination since smaller sites often have more active updates. + +If you venture off the beaten path at all (looking for the nerd nirvana in central Laos are you?) don't expect wireless networks to be waiting. + +===Digital Cameras=== + +Naturally you want to document the fact that you've made it abroad and let you friends and family back home keep up with what you're doing. If you don't have on already, get a Flickr account and you can easily upload your photos from most internet cafes or your own laptop via Wifi. + +Even if you've got your laptop with you it may be worth stopping by an internet cafe to pick up some CD/DVDs for backing up your images. Not only do CD/DVD backups let you clear out your memory card, they also aren't affected by x-rays at the airport, which are often much stronger than the one's common in U.S. terminals. We've never had a memory card scrambled, but it does happen so optical media has definite advantage. + +Also worth bringing are a spare battery, particularly if your camera uses an expensive and hard to find lithium variety. Spare memory cards are never a bad idea either. + +===Phones=== + +The laptop and camera are obvious and not too difficult to deal with, but what about a phone? + +Generally speaking most modern tri-band GSM phones will work just about anywhere in the world. In fact you may find that the service and technologies abroad are light years ahead of what you're used to in the States (the same goes for internet speed, particularly in Asia). + +However, you home service provider will likely charge pretty outrageous rates while you're abroad. A much cheaper way to go about it is unlock your phone and buy local SIM cards in your destination country. The availability of SIM cards varies greatly by country, but generally speaking disposable SIM cards are the norm outside the U.S. SIM cards are often available at kiosks in the airport. + +And even calling home may be cheaper on a local SIM card than paying the roaming rates your home carrier will charge. For more info on how to use and navigate the cell phone networks of the world, have a look at [http://www.kropla.com/mobilephones.htm this informative guide]. + +Keep in mind though that if you store your contacts and other data on your SIM card's memory, you'll lose that information when you pop in the new SIM. Read through your phone's manual before you leave and figure out how to store your contact data on the phone memory, rather than the SIM card. + +Obviously iPhone users are out of luck here since the iPhone is tied down to AT&T and you can't just pop in another SIM card without some hacking. If you don't want to hack on your phone you have two choices: buy a different phone for travel, or pay AT&T's roaming rates while you're abroad. If neither of those appeal to you, take heart in the fact that you can still bring your iPhone and leave it in airplane mode, but use the features like the calculator for currency converter and other useful apps. + +If AT&T's prices don't bother you Apple has a list of [http://www.apple.com/webapps/travel/ travel oriented web apps] and we expect a number of native apps to pop up once the iPhone 2.0 update arrives. + +==Gadget Etiquette== + +Just because you have $4000 worth of fancy electronic gear on you doesn't mean you should whip it out on a chicken bus careening through the Indian countryside. In general your gear is probably safer abroad than it is at your local Starbucks, but that doesn't mean you need to go flaunting it. + +I've traveled a good bit in Asia and never worried about my laptop or other gear. I've even forgotten it on trains, buses and once at the Taj Mahal and every time it was returned to me intact (try not to be as forgetful as I am). Europe and the U.S. are a bit different and it generally pays to be more careful whenever you're in larger cities. + +If you're going to be gone for a considerable length of time consider investing in travel insurance to cover your expensive gear. It generally isn't too expensive and you may even be able to get a replacement before you get home (depending on the policy you choose). [http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/ Travel Insurance Review] has some tips on selecting a policy. + +Also worth investing in is a [http://www.pacsafe.com/www/index.php Pacsafe] or similar bag lock. When possible store your valuable in a hotel or guesthouse safe. When there isn't one available, just lock them up in the Pacsafe. It isn't foolproof, but it will deter the casual criminal. + +Also be mindful of religious institutions and people in public when you're taking pictures. Ask before you start snapping away inside a Buddhist temple or if you want photograph people on the street. Not only are you showing some respect, it's an easy way to meet locals who can often tell you far more about their town than any guidebook. + + +==Travel Etiquette -- RTFM== + +You know how annoying it is when newbies show up in WoW and behave like complete jerks? That's how the native inhabitants of your destination are going to look at you if you don't respect their culture, habits and beliefs. + +And as you know from WoW, it really isn't that hard to learn the rules of the game -- just RTFM. + +Most guidebooks include a culture section at the beginning. Don't skip over that in your hurried quest to find cheap lodging. Other resources include travel forums, the CIA's [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ World Factbook] and Wikipedia. Spend some time figuring out whether it's okay to go topless on Thai beaches (no) or if you should wear long pants when visiting a Hindu temple (yes). Not only does it spare you some embarrassment (or worse), it helps you fit in with the local sensibilities. + +Also try to avoid doing downright stupid things like shouting your anarchist beliefs at soldiers on patrol (witnessed in Nicaragua) or crowding in to photograph politicians when they stop for coffee (which resulted in a two-man security tackling a tourist in Budapest, and yes, I was sorely tempted to photograph that, but thought better of it). + +In general nerds are the least likely people to turn into brash, annoying tourists, but that means we also bear a certain burden to make up for those people that do. Make an effort to learn the local language (a little goes a long way) and think of yourself not just as a tourist, but an ambassador of your country.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-user-agent.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-user-agent.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08d58b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-user-agent.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +In the ugly early days of the interest websites were optimized for specific browsers. While this trend has largely disappeared there are still a few examples lingering in the far corners of the web. + +But lately the trend of block specific browsers has reared its ugly head again. This time "Firefox"<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/> has been targeted by some sites unhappy with the "AdBlock Plus extension"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865> which blocks ads and thus hurts the site's bottom line. At the moment it's really just a handful of fringe sites using the technique as a means of gaining publicity, however, as both Firefox and AdBlock Plus grow in popularity, it could become a more common practice. + +Naturally there's a way around all this browser blocking. Every browser identifies itself with something called a user-agent string. Because the string is arbitrary, it's easy to spoof the user-agent of a browser other than the one you're using. + +^^^^ Firefox And Relatives + +It's possible to change the user-agent string in Firefox by hand, but it's much easier to use the "User Agent Switch add-on"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59>. Just install the extension and restart Firefox. You'll then see a new menu of user agent options under the Tools menu. + +To spoof another browser, just select the user-agent you'd like and reload the page. + +And note that this extension will work with Firefox, Flock, Mozilla, Netscape and any other browser built on the Mozilla platform that supports add-ons. This add-on will not, however, work with Camino. Luckily there's a "Camino Preference Pane"<http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/user-agent> that can accomplish the same thing. + +^^^^ Safari + +Safari has a built-in user-agent switching mechanism very much like the Firefox system above, the only catch in Safari is that you need to enable the "Debug" menu. The Debug menu offers a number of tools, but near the bottom of the options you'll find a "User Agent" heading. Just select the user agent you'd like to use and Safari will reload the page spoofing that browser. + +To enable the Debug menu in Safari for Mac OS X, first close the application and then open up Application >> Terminal and type: + +% defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 + +To turn it off again use the same command, but change the 1 to 0. If you don't want to muck about with the command line there are plenty of freeware apps the allow you to turn on the debug menu. Both "SafarIcon"<http://web.mac.com/reinholdpenner/Software/SafarIcon.html> and "Onyx"<http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/onyx_tiger.html> can be used to turn on the Safari debug menu. + +To Enable the Debug menu in Safari 3 for Windows open the file C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Preferences in a text editor (NotePad will work). Add the following lines: + +<key>IncludeDebugMenu</key> +<true/> + +Save the file and open up Safari, you should see the new debug menu on the righthand side of the toolbar. + +^^^^ Opera + +Opera used to automatically spoof the Internet Explorer user-agent, but recently the application stopped doing that. To change Opera's user agent just type "about:config" in the address bar. The resulting screen shows all the configuration settings section for Opera. Then search for "Spoof UserAgent ID." + +You should see a drop down box with five numbers. The numbers represent: + +* 1) Opera (default user agent) +* 2) Mozilla (but admitting to spoofing) +* 3) Internet Explorer (but admitting to spoofing) +* 4) Mozilla, without mentioning the spoofing +* 5) Internet Explorer, without mentioning spoof + +Select the one you'd like and reload the page in question. + +^^^^ Internet Explorer + +Usually when you choose to spoof a browser agent, IE is the one you'll spoof, but in case you ever need IE to masquerade as something else here's how you do it. For Internet Explorer 7, download and install the "User Agent String Utility"<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9517db9c-3c0d-47fe-bd04-fad82a9aac9f&displaylang=en> from Microsoft, which makes it easy to change user agents. + +Internet Explorer 6 is a little tricker. To change the user agent for IE6 on XP you'll need to edit editing the Windows registry -- proceed at your own risk. + +Open the registry (Start >> Run >> "regedit") and browse to find the following line: + +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform + +Create a new sub-key called "Version," change the value to whatever user-agent you'd like to spoof. + +^^^^ Why User Agent Spoofing is bad + +Most browser manufacturers dislike user agent spoofing because, for the most part, any browser can render any page, the only thing stopping them is the website itself. If you spoof the user agent, these sites never know that you're using the browser you're using and have no incentive to change. If you're trying to access something that's been blocked for no good reason, by all means spoof your way in it, but take the time to write to the site and let them know that they should stop blocking your favorite browser.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-word.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-word.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7277e70 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to-word.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Microsoft Word has its place, but that place isn't the web. If you've ever tried to go from a Word document to an HTML document you know that Word's tools are a disaster -- bloated files, proprietary markup and exposed personal information are among the gems you'll get with the Convert to HTML function. + +So if Word isn't up to the job, then how to go about turning a .doc file into a web page? + +The answer depends how many .doc files you have to convert. If you've got a client who just needs a few .doc files turned into web pages, there are a number of way to go about it. If you have a lot of files or very large, complex files to deal with, consider one the batch processing options listed below. + +For the simpler case of converting just a few documents, read on. + +==Working With Word== + +To get so a semi-sane starting point, try using Word's "Save As: Web Page, Filtered" rather than the regular webpage option. This will strip out many of the proprietary tags and won't include potentially personal and revealing info contained in the File Properties dialog (the regular HTML converter in Word appends anything in the File Properties dialog to the top of the HTML code). + +It's a start, but your HTML can be made even better with some outside tools. + +===Textism=== + +When you use Word's built in Convert to HTML tool you'll get an HTML file, but the problem is that it will include enough markup so that Microsoft Word can still understand it as a native file. + +That means your code will be full of proprietary HTML tags and tons of unnecessary markup (from a show-it-on-the-web point of view). But fear not, you're not the first person to encounter this mess of so-called HTML. + +The good folks over at [http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ Textism] have a tool that will "strip Microsoft’s proprietary tags and other superfluous noise from Word-generated HTML documents." The results are not only much closer to standards compliant markup, they also create much much smaller pages. + +Keep in mind of course that Textism is not intended to convert massive, complexly styled documents. In such cases you're probably going to have to resort to at least some hand coding. + +But if you do most of your writing in Word and you just want a way to generate a nice slim web page from your documents, Textism fits the bill. It even does a nice job of handling typographer’s quotes, dashes, and other non-ascii characters, which are converted into their respective HTML entities. + +===HTMLTidy=== + +Another way to process the HTML that word generates is to use [http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ HTMLTidy], a tool for cleaning up HTML. Although Tidy was not designed specifically for handling Word's skewed HTML, it can help. + +The only catch is that it will require a bit of command line know-how on your part. There are some graphical tools that use Tidy in the background (many text editors offer Tidy plugins) and there's a [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249 Firefox plugin] as well (Windows and Linux). + +However, the main way to use Tidy is from the command line. To clean up Word docs use the --word2000 flag which should handle some of Word's bloated HTML output. + +For instance, the following, when entered in your terminal, will process the file named myWordHTML.html. + +tidy -f errs.txt --word2000 myWordHTML.html + +While Tidy sounds like it would great (and indeed it is for many things) sometimes its handling of the Word generated HTML isn't all that great, but it can help get you started on the road to cleaner HTML. + +==Other Options== + +If Word's HTML export options don't strike you as a good starting point, there are some other ways to go about the conversion process. One way would be to take advantage of the work others have already done. + +===Gmail=== + +For instance, Gmail offers the ability to view Word attachments as HTML files. When you click the "View as HTML" link at the bottom of your Gmail message, Google will spit out a converted page. Just use your browser's view source tool to copy and paste the results. + +Gmail will do some things you may not like, such use font tags to specify text colors and heading attributes, but you can always clean those up later. + +===TinyMCE=== +Another viable option is to use a tool like [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ TinyMCE], a JavaScript Rich Text Editor that offers a "Paste from Word" option. Paste From Word is intended to used by those who would like to just select-all in Word and paste the content into TinyMCE. Depending on the complexity of your document, TinyMCE may be able to fix some of Word's styling quirks and output usable HTML. + +To use this feature look for the TinyMCE icon that has a small Word graphic on a clipboard. Click that and then paste your Word doc in the resulting window. Click insert and to see your results just click the source button in the TinyMCE interface. Then copy and paste that code into your web document. + +There's even a [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true demo version of TinyMCE available] through the website that you can use. + +Again, neither of these options is going to handle really complex documents, but for the simple case, they may take care of some grunt work, meaning that all you need to do is a little clean up. + +==Batch Processing== + +If you've got a significant number of files to convert you best option is probably to throw down the cash for a dedicated converter. Tools like [http://www.zapadoo.com/ Word Cleaner] or [http://www.clicktoconvert.com/pages/convert_word_document_to_html/index.htm Click to Convert] can batch process your files and generate acceptable HTML. You'll also get some extra features like automatic PDF creation and other niceties. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_create_an_elevator_pitch.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_create_an_elevator_pitch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..411e970 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_create_an_elevator_pitch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Self-promotion has a bad rap, but it's a necessary part of finding a great job. Somewhere between the sleazy real estate agent billboards and the wallflower at the party is the perfect blend of self promotion and humility that'll land you your dream job. + +Here's our guide to mastering the tools and skills you need to elevator pitch yourself of employment nirvana. + +== Grow up == + +One easy way to avoid any embarrassing gaffes with potential employers is to keep your business life separated from your personal. + +Still using bongload69@AOL.com for all your e-mail? It's time to move on, grab something a bit more dignified for professional use. While there's nothing inherently wrong with free webmail sometimes it's a bit nicer to use something with your own domain name. + +There's no need to set up a full blown website, just register a domain name (about $5/year) and you'll have your own e-mail address, something like yourname@yourdomain.com. + +== Separate your spheres == + +Now you've got a more professional e-mail address, consider a separate phone line as well. You can set a second number for business use for free through Google Voice. Just sign up and point your new number to your existing phone. Now you can distinguish between personal and professional, avoiding that awkward silence that comes after your long drawn out wazzup greeting to the head of HR. + +== Advertise == + +Bump for the iPhone and Android phones is fast making business cards a thing of the past. Sadly, many employers are still stuck in the past and you need to accommodate them by going old school with some business cards. + +Print something simple, nothing too clever or cheeky, just your name and contact info. Hand them out whenever you can, but get too carried away, business cards are not a conversation starter. + +== Promote == + +The fine art of self-promotion is a very tricky and subtle thing to get right. Imagine you've just met the ideal professional contact at a party, and you're so excited you're stumbling over yourself, babbling incoherently and making an awful first impression. + +As the saying goes you don't get second chance with first impressions and if Malcolm Gladwell is right, then first impressions might be all that matters -- so get it right. + +That means practice your elevator pitch. Rehearse a 30 second pitch of you and what you want to do until you have it down and you'll be comfortable giving it in any situation, whether it's at a party, over the phone or on a plane. + +== Conclusion == + +Self-promotion is difficult, especially if you're not a naturally outgoing person, but with these tools and tips and little bit of practice even the shyest
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_green_cleaning_tips_for_your_home.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_green_cleaning_tips_for_your_home.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e449640 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_green_cleaning_tips_for_your_home.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Think your home is green paradise free of toxins and pollutions? Think again. According to the EPA indoor air is anywhere from two to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air. Why you ask? Much of it comes from volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate from both furniture and cleaning products. + +That's right, cleaning your home is actually making it more toxic. But it doesn't have to be that way. In fact, homes were cleaned for centuries before today's high-tech (but toxic) cleaners came along. + +Want to do yourself and the environment a favor? Ditch the toxic cleaning supplies and go green with out complete guide to cleaning your home the green way. + +== DIY cleaners == + +There are plenty of designer label green cleaning products out there, but most will cost you an arm and leg and, as it turns out, two of the best cleaning substances are probably already in your kitch -- vinegar and backing soda. + +Vinegar and backing soda are two of the most versatile and powerful cleaners around. Mix either one with a bit of water and some liquid soap and you've got everything from window cleaner to a bathroom scrubber. + +Throw some washing soda in the mix and you have an almost limitless range of green cleaning possibilities. + +Here's a few handy recipes: + +General Purpose Cleaner + +1/2 tsp washing soda +two drops of liquid soap +2 cups hot tap water +Combine in a spray bottle and shake until dissolved + + +Window Cleaner + +1/4-1/2 tsp liquid soap +3 tbs white vinegar +2 cups water +pour in a spray bottle + +Floor Cleaner + +1/3 white vinegar and 2/3 water + +Bathroom Scrubber + +Just make a paste with baking soda and a bit of water. Works wonder on mildew and tile grout. Substitute a bit of liquid soap instead of water and you've got a great bathtub cleaner that won't leave any grit behind. + +The first two recipes will keep indefinitely. The second two you can just make on an as-you-need-it basis. + +== Fancier DIY cleaners == + +Most of the time you won't notice much of an odor at all with these home-brew cleaners, but if you miss the lemony fresh smell of your old toxic cleaners never fear, you can make your own scented cleaners. + +Just head to your local market and grab a few of your favorite essential oils. Drop a bit of lemon or orange oil (and we mean literally just a drop) in your mixes and you'll have a nice, green, fresh-smelling cleaner. Should you opt for lavender oil you'll be getting a natural antiseptic. + +== Conclusion == + +There's no need to spend huge sums of money buying cleaning products that actually make your home more toxic than it was before you started cleaning. Using time-tested cleaning recipes with simple, cheap ingredients like vinegar and baking soda will keep your house clean and green.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_travel_light_without_leaving_your_PC_behind.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_travel_light_without_leaving_your_PC_behind.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..732eb05 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how-to_travel_light_without_leaving_your_PC_behind.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Technology can be a traveler's best friend, keeping you in touch with friends, family and colleagues. It can also be your worst enemy weighing you down and producing a rat's nest of cables and chargers. + +Thankfully, today's traveler -- whether it's for business or pleasure -- can lighten their digital load and still keep in touch, work and enjoy all the technology of home while on the road. + +There's no need to lug around a ten pound laptop anymore, a new breed of laptops offer the lighter load of a netbook, but retain the features of their larger brethren. + +This new bread of laptop also boast some new features that make life ont he road a bit more like life at home thanks to lighter frames, longer battery life and traveling niceties like wireless HDMI for streaming HD movies to any television. + +=== Lighten your laptop load === + +Today's laptops are thinner and lighter than ever before. Laptops weighing in at less than five pounds have become common and, unlike netbooks, these are full-fledged laptops with DVD players, full size keyboards and generous 13-inch displays. + +But the real benefit for travelers is battery life. Today's laptops can get over 5 hours out of a single battery charge, letting you leave the extra battery at home. + +=== Leave camera at home === + +Who needs a camera these days? Chances are your smartphone has a pretty impressive camera already built-in and you're not leaving the phone at home so your camera needs are covered. The days of lugging around a single device for every task are long gone -- ditch the point and shoot. + +Getting rid of the camera also means getting rid of the camera charger and why stop there? Get rid of your phone charger too. Just bring along the USB cable you use to sync your phone to your laptop -- most smartphones will charge over USB too. + +=== Learn to love e-books === + +Tired of lugging War and Peace around the airports of the world? Go digital with e-books. There's no need for a separate e-book reader, just download the files to your laptop or smartphone and use one of the many digital reading apps available. + +It might not be quite as nice as paper, but your back will thank you. + +=== Conclusion === + +Today's traveler has it easy. Thanks to lightweight, but powerful, laptops, multi-tasking phones and ubiquitous wifi you can leave the bulky PC laptop at home without sacrificing the tools you need.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_effective_presentations.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_effective_presentations.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..782b01e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_effective_presentations.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +The business presentation has a reputation for mind numbing dullness -- Powerpoint slides with tiny text and a monotone voice droning away, Bueller? Bueller?. + +While we can't help you if you're suffering through such a talk, we can offer you some tips on how to make sure your own presentations don't suck the life out of the room. + +Follow these steps and you'll be a sought after speaker in no time. + +Outline + +Organize your talk by starting with an outline. Not only does this help you organize your thoughts and find the natural progressions and links between them, it can also help you figure out which points need slides and which don't. + +Make sure you stick to key phrases and include only essential information. Digressing into anecdotes is rarely as entertaining for your audience as it might seem to you. For now, stick with just the facts and branch out when you're more comfortable. + +Slides + +Not every point in your talk deserves a spot on a slide. Use slides only for key points and make sure to include some sort of photo with each slide. + +Photos offer a chance to make your talk more entertaining so get creative with your images. Talking about competitors? Use a pic of a lion. Talking about finding customers? Show a guy fishing. Sure it's cheesy, but even a bad joke can help keep the audience engaged. + +To find great photos search Flickr for images licensed under the Creative Commons (just make sure to include a slide at the end of your talk giving credit where required). Also, make sure to include the actual image files in your presentations -- don't rely on web access. + +Make sure you avoid the tiny-text syndrome in your slides. Keep slides simple with a maximum of three data points per slide. Fill in the blanks with your walk, but keep the slides simple. Also be sure to use a legible font, skip the creative fonts and stick with something clean and simple like Helvetica. + +It's also a good idea to keep your slide color schemes nice and simple -- use contrasting colors like a white background with dark text. + +Practice + +It makes perfect. If you know your venue make sure to use a similar PC and projector set up. If possible project your slides ahead of time so you can see how they'll look to your audience. + +Convince some colleagues or family members to watch your presentation and give you feedback -- where does your presentation lag, which points aren't entirely clear and so on. + +Conclusion + +For most people, public speaking ranks with death and tax audits on the list of things to avoid, but it needn't be that bad. + +With a bit of planning, so well crafted slides and little practice you'll be able to not only get your point across, but keep your audience entertained and engaged.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_get_more_from_Google_Reader.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_get_more_from_Google_Reader.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f68c15 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_get_more_from_Google_Reader.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Want to get more out of your RSS feeds? Are you curious how some people are able to follow thousands of feeds while you feel overwhelmed with fifty? + +Today we're going to look at how you can use Google Reader to help organize and tame your RSS workflow. + +Because it's web-based Google Reader is easy to hack -- users have created everything from Greasemonkey scripts to entire themes. With a few scripts and some ingenious tips you'll soon be a Google Reader power user in no time. + +So roll up your sleeves and get ready to dive in. + +== Organization tips == + +How you organize your feeds is up to you, but if you want more out of Google Reader getting organized is essential. Reader makes it relatively easy to organize by creating tags which show up in the left-hand column as folders. + +For example you might create a "Wired" tag and use it to hold all the various feeds from Wired.com and related sites. + +Other methods include separating high priority feeds in a separate folder or keeping work-related feeds in one folder and personal or just-for-fun feeds in another. Whatever method you use, make sure you stick to it. Once your feed list tops a couple dozen sources, organization becomes key. + +Tip: When you're plowing through your feeds if you see something you want to read, star the item and move on. Once you've skimmed through everything head to your starred items folder and you'll find just the items you really care about. + +== Shortcuts == + +The next thing to master is Google Reader's keyboard shortcuts, which provide all the tools necessary to zip through your feed items without ever taking your fingers off the keys. Here's a few, *cough*, key shortcuts: + +#j/k - selects the next/previous item in the list +#space - moves the page down/up +#o - in list view, expands or collapses the selected item +#s toggle star stars the selected item +#v - opens the original source for this article in a new window/tab +#shift-n/p - selects the next/previous subscription or folder in the navigation +#shift-o - opens the item currently selected in the navigation +#u - show and hide the list of feeds in the left-hand sidebar +#? - displays a quick guide to all of Reader's shortcuts + +The two you'll find most useful are j/k for quickly skimming through feeds and s for marking important items. Another trick: if you've reached the end of your unread items in one folder and want to jump to the next folder without resorting to mouse, just hit shift-n to select the next folder and then shift-o to load its contents. + +If keyboard shortcuts aren't your bag, check out the [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8843 Read by Mouse], a Greasemonkey script which, when toggled gives you some additional mouse based options. When you activate it, the script will make Left clicks go to the next item, Right clicks go to the previous item. Middle click takes whatever action is selected in the drop-down list (open original URL in tab, share the item, star the item, or add a specified tag to the item). Works wherever Greasemonkey does. + +== Browser-based tricks == + +Perhaps the best browser-based tip is to [http://gears.google.com/ install Gears], which will enable you to take Google Reader offline -- read your feeds wherever you like, no internet connection needed. Gears is available for nearly all platforms, Firefox and IE browsers. + +Once you have offline capabilities set up, it's time to explore some third-party scripts and hacks. + +There are literally [http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?search=google+reader hundreds of Greasemonkey scripts] to customize and enhance Google Reader, but our favorite way to get the cream of the crop is using Gina Tripani's [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6424 Better Google Reader], a Firefox plugin which takes many of the most useful Greasemonkey scripts and wraps them up in a neat package. + +If you'd rather track down Greasemonkey scripts yourself, here's a few of our favs: + +#Preview Item - Instead of the RSS feed content, this script automatically fetches the linked URL and displays it within the Google Reader item frame. Very handy, comes in two flavors, [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6412 Automatic] and [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9455 Preview Button]. The second does the same thing, but only when you click the "Preview" button. +#Google Reader Minimalistic - Hit the "w" key to toggle the top frame of Google Reader in and out of view. Handy for laptops and situations where screen real estate is limited. +# Google Reader + del.icio.us - [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11620 Google Reader + del.icio.us] allows you to post your favorite news items directly to your del.icio.us account. Great for bookmarking your favorite articles. +#Auto Add - [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8390 Auto Add] bypasses the screen that asks if you want to add a new feed to iGoogle or Reader and takes you straight to Reader. Handy if Google Reader is your default feed reader and you frequently add new feeds. +#Google Reader All Starred - [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2345 All Starred] adds a button to Google Reader that allows you download all your starred items as HTML links. + +== Misc Tips and Tricks == + +Using the Sharing features -- Google reader lets you mark items to share. You get your own URL and your own RSS feed of shared items, so why not use them? To start sharing items, just click the "Share" link at the bottom of the item, or hit shift-s. There's also a [http://mike.crute.org/blog/2006/12/29/wordpress-google-reader-plugin/ WordPress plugin to display your shared items on your blog]. You can even [http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2007/10/26/feeding-twitter-google-readers-shared-posts/ pass your shared items directly on to Twitter]. + +Use Notes -- Not long ago Google [http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/New__Notes__Turns_Google_Reader_Into_a_Web_Clipping_Machine added a Notes feature to Reader]. Notes allow you to share even non-feed items (any webpage basically). When you're on a page you'd like to add to Google Reader just use the Notes feature to bookmark it and it'll be added to your shared items along with any notes you want to make. + +Get a Desktop Notifier -- Don't have your browser open all the time? No problem, just install a notifier and you can see when news arrives. There are versions for [http://troelsbay.eu/software/reader Mac], [http://www.braindotty.com/google-reader-notifier/ Win], [http://markdbd.com/proyectos/google_reader_notifier/ Firefox] and [http://electragician.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-toolbar-for-ie-google-reader.html Internet Explorer]. + +Broaden your Idea of Feeds -- Feeds don't have to come just from content publishers. You can turn even your Google searches into feeds using a service like [http://feedmysearch.com/ Feed My Search]. It's even possible to create custom page scraping feeds for sites that don't offer RSS. Check out [http://www.dapper.net/ Dapper.net] for more info. + +Go Mobile -- Google Reader offers a mobile optimized version for reading news on the go. Just point your mobile browser to [http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/ http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/]. If you're on an iPhone you can get your own iPhone-specific version at [http://www.google.com/reader/i/ http://www.google.com/reader/i/] + +Theme it -- Don't like the way Reader looks? No problem, just install one of these scripts to change it. [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8782 Colorful List View colorizes the item headers in Google Reader list view; [http://userstyles.org/styles/1236 Google Reader Optimized] removes all unnecessary UI elements; and Jon Hicks' [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/google-reader-theme Google Reader Theme] make Google reader look more like a native Mac OS X app].
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_squarefoot_garden.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_squarefoot_garden.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fd7f37 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/how_to_squarefoot_garden.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Face it, when you think of growing your own food you think of endless rows of corn, the middle of nowhere, men in overalls and dial up internet. You're also probably thinking about hours spend tilling soil, raking leaves and plowing. + +Surely there's a better way for those of use living in urban areas with fast internet connections and no room to drive a tractor? + +Of course there is and it's known as square foot gardening. Square-foot gardening is a takeoff on what's known as the French Intensive or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointensive Biointensive] method of farming. Mel Bartholomew helped popularize the square-foot name and even has [http://www.squarefootgardening.com/ a book] on the subject. + +But don't worry, the concept is pretty simple and you don't need a book or a change of national status to get a highly productive garden going. We'll walk you through the basic steps to getting started on your own tiny plot of land. + +==Square Foot Gardening in a Nutshell== + +The square-foot concept is simple. First we'll build a raised bed. That way there's no need to worry about poor soil (or total lack of soil, you can even build a raised bed atop a concrete patio) since we'll use our own mixture. + +Then you divide your bed into sections -- one square-foot each, hence the name -- and then plant vegetables in just the amount of space they need. For instance, while you might only be able to fit one tomato plant in a square, it isn't hard to stuff in a whole bunch of carrots, onions or other smaller vegetables. + +The main advantages of the square foot system are less watering (great for drought areas), easier weeding (no long rows to wander down), and a greatly reduced workload. + +On the downside you won't be able to create a corn maze come October, but with a little work you should have fresh veggies on the table well through the end of summer. + +==Getting Started== + +The first step is a pick a decent section of your yard for gardening. Look for an area that gets enough sunlight for all the plants you'd like to grow. + +Once you've selected an area you can dig down for an added bit of depth if you like (you can even [http://www.communitycrops.org/doubledig double dig the soil] if you're looking for a workout). However I've never bothered with the digging and have achieved perfectly healthy gardens. + +The next thing to do is construct your beds. You can make the beds whatever size you'd like, but for beginner we recommend a 4' x 4' plot. It's small enough that you won't feel overwhelmed and big enough to yield a decent crop. It also just so happens that most lumber comes in 8' lengths so you only need to buy two boards and have your local hardware shop saw them in half for you. + +===A word on wood=== + +Since our garden will be out in the elements all summer you might think about getting pressure treated wood which is better at repelling water -- *don't*. Not only is pressure treated wood much more expensive, it has a number of chemicals in it that can leech into your soil, end up in your food and make you sick. Stick to regular, untreated pine. + +Make sure you get something think enough a couple of 10'' x 2'' x 8' boards should do the trick. + +==Putting it together== + +The next step is screw your boards together and build the box. You'll just need a drill and some good size screws. Sink at least three screws at each end, when soil gets wet it's quite heavy and you don't want your garden to burst at the seams. + +The next step is to fill your new box with soil. Mel Bartholomew sells a special mix of soil tailored to square foot gardening. his mixture is 1/3 blended compost, 1/3 peat moss, and 1/3 coarse vermiculite. With the exception of vermiculite it's pretty easy get the other ingredients on your own. In fact, even regular old potting soil will work though you may need to fertilize a bit more. Tip: many organic markets like Earth Fare compost their leftover and unsold vegetables, try asking your local market if they have some compost you could buy on the cheap. Or [link to other tut start your own compost]. + +The next step is to mark off your grid. You might be able to find a wooden grid at the lumbar yard, or you can make your own. Being lazy we tend to use string, which works just as well. Just make some marks at one foot intervals along each side of the garden. Then use either some small screws or nails to hold your string in place and stretch them across your garden, creating one foot squares. + +==Planting== + +Now the fun part, putting in the plants. If you're starting from seed make sure you start early enough -- just after the last frost. Check with your local nursery if you're unsure when to plant in your area. + +Planting a square-foot garden depends on what you're planting. Consult the directions on your seed packets to see how far apart the plants need to be in order to thrive. Generally you should plant in a grid of either 1, 4, 9, or 16 plants per square foot. If you feel like you've packed the plants too close you can always thin them as the grow. + +As for what you should grow, that's up to you. Plant things you like and don't limit yourself just the vegetables -- herbs and flowers will work as well. + +Then just sit back and wait for nature to take it's course. Water your garden by hand with a watering can, but you probably won't need to fertilize, since we used nice rich soil to begin with. + +When you harvest a particular crop, go ahead and dig out that square foot and replenish the soil and plant again if there's still time left in your growing season + + +==Tips and Tricks== + +So you're stuck living in an upstairs apartment which no space at all? Well, all is not lost. It won't offer as much space but you can check out container options, which work something like a square foot garden. + +You can get good results from plants grown in large self-watering pots on a patio or balcony. Check out this [http://www.gardenguides.com/how-to/tipstechniques/containerindoor/container.asp Guide to Container Gardening] for more info. + +If you want to get really fancy with your garden (or if you happen to travel a lot) you can hook up an automated drip watering system. It isn't too hard to do and some hardware stores even sell complete kits that contain everything you need. Check out [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/10756512/in/set-265456/ this photo series on Flickr], which covers the essentials to setting up a small drip irrigation system. + +==Conclusion== + +And there you have it, sit back and enjoy a summer full of fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers without the back breaking work. Once you've done it for a while you may want to expand your garden. Perhaps next year do two plots or even three. Just remember to leave some room between then so you can get to your plants easily for watering and harvesting.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto - get around region encoding.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto - get around region encoding.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f178d0e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto - get around region encoding.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +You might think a DVD is a DVD and it will work on any DVD player, but you're wrong. Hollywood has segregated the world into seven "regions" and DVDs are generally encoded for playback in only one region. + +Ostensibly the studios do this because release dates differ in different regions of the world. For instance if a DVD comes out in the U.S. before the same movie is in the theatre in France, U.S. DVDs could hurt ticket sales of the movie in French theaters. Or at least that's what the studios claim. DVD region encoding exist primarily to solve a problem with a very poor distribution scheme that the studios have come up with. + +What's more there have been accusations that region encoding creates an illegal price-fixing structure that can be enforced by region. So far this argument hasn't made it in front of a court, but New Zealand has been lobbying heavily to eliminate region codes on price fixing grounds. + +As it stands, if you're on holiday in Paris and you pick up a copy of the new Harry Potter movie, when you get home you'll have yourself a nice $20+ coaster. But luckily region encoding isn't a complex process, in fact it's just a single bit at the beginning of the disc, which means it isn't hard to get around. + +^^^^ Regions + +Before we get started here's a quick overview of the regions that Hollywood has come up with: + +* REGION 1 -- USA, Canada +* REGION 2 -- Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Greenland +* REGION 3 -- S.Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and parts of Southeast Asia +* REGION 4 -- Australia, New Zealand, Latin America +* REGION 5 -- Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Africa +* REGION 6 -- China +* REGION 7 -- Reserved for Unspecified Special Use +* REGION 8 -- Reserved for cruise ships, airplanes and the like +* REGION ALL -- Uncoded discs that will work anywhere + +^^^^ Hardware solutions + +Perhaps the easiest way around region encodings is to just buy a region free player. A quick web search will turn up a number of manufacturers that have declined to accept Hollywood's region plans. + +But what if you've already got a nice DVD player or you want to use the disc on your PC? Well there are a number of hacks that you can use to turn off the region encoding in your DVD player. For a complete list check out "Video Help"<http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks> or use the site to search for your DVD model to see if there's a solution available. + +Note that hacking your DVD player to circumvent region encoding technology is a violation of the DMCA, which means it's illegal if you're living in the United States. Those living in the free world, shouldn't have any trouble. + +^^^^ Software + +If you live in the U.S. or if you simply want a solution that will work on any DVD player, even those that haven't been hacked, your best solution is to burn a copy of the movie. Fair Use provisions in U.S. law have long held that consumers can make backup copies of media they own. + +With that in mind, what you'll want to do is rip a copy of your DVD using one of the many popular ripping programs on the market (we suggest "ImgBurn"<http://www.imgburn.com/> on Windows and "Mac The Ripper"<http://www.mactheripper.org/> for Mac). Make sure that you set the ripping software to produce a "region all" file and then, when you've got a copy on your hard drive, burn a new DVD using software like "Toast"<http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html?ccid=google&o_e25=Paid%20Search&gclid=CIew_fiqh48CFTaoGgodgyqT2w> (Mac) or "Nero"<http://www.nero.com/enu/nero8-introduction.html> (Windows). + +The result will be a DVD that works as you would expect -- in any player anywhere. Well almost any player. There's one gotcha that might be a problem for some users, but there's little you can do about since it involves video playback. + +Keep in mind that PAL discs must be played in a PAL-compatible DVD players and NTSC discs must be played in an NTSC DVD player. In general the U.S. produces NTSC formatted video and the rest of the world uses PAL. There are some DVD players that can handle both so if you spend a lot of time outside the U.S. it might be worth spending some extra money to get a DVD player that can handle both formats.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto organize bookmarks.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto organize bookmarks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..449813f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto organize bookmarks.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Like speed dial, bookmarks are essential. Just like you've long since forgotten your friends phone numbers, good luck trying to remember the exact URLs of the pages you want to revisit. + +The problem is most of us have several computers, one at work, one at home and maybe a laptop as well. Syncing and managing bookmarks between them is pain, especially if some are Macs, some Windows and some running a mobile OS. + +But it isn't impossible, here's a our guide to keeping your bookmarks in sync at work, at home and on the go. + +#Get Organized + +Before you run off exploring sync options, it's worth taking a minute to organize your bookmarks and develop a consistent system of folders or tags or other organizational scheme. There's no one recipe that's going to work for everyone, so you'll just have to settle on one that works for you. + +Many browsers on the market today offer more bookmark tools than most people realize. Opera and Firefox for instance both let you add descriptions and short notes to your bookmarks. They also allow you to assign "keyword" shortcuts. + +In Firefox head to Bookmarks >> Organize Bookmarks. Select the bookmark you want to create a shortcut for and click the information icon. This will bring up a little window where you can extra data about the bookmark, including a keyword abbreviate. Say you're bookmarking Wired.com, enter a "w" in the keyword field and save your changes. Now head to the URL bar, type and "w" and hit return. Firefox will automatically load wired.com. + +#Bookmark Applications + +We tend to think of Bookmarks as something stored in the browser, but they don't have to be. In fact system wide URL managers are common on all platforms and offer the advantage of accessing your bookmarks from any program. + +Most system wide managers will add a new option to menu bar (Mac) or taskbar (Windows) that offers a list of bookmarks just like you're used to in a browser, but you can get to it from anywhere. + +If you're just trying to have access to your bookmarks regardless of what browser you're using this is an ideal way to go. + +On the Mac you can try "URL Manager Pro"<http://www.url-manager.com/>. The app costs 25 Euro and is slightly outdated looking but has powerful features like tracking your History using several different browsers (making it a universal history manager as well), multiple format import and export and integration with .Mac. Other Mac options include "iURL"<http://www.turingart.com/iurl_lan__en.htm> (19 Euro) and "Bookdog"<http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookdog/> ($20). + +Windows users can turn to "Links2Tray"<http://www.wv-be.com/Links2tray.asp>, a free a utility that resides in the system tray and combine Internet Explorer's Favorites, Netscape's Bookmarks, and Opera's Hotlist links. Despite what it says, the app will also read Firefox bookmarks. + +#Online Bookmark Servers + +The above methods are great if you're on one machine and using multiple browsers or IM clients, but what if you want access to the same bookmarks on two separate machines? + +For that you have two options, one would be a thumb drive, but that involves constantly exporting and importing, or dedicated portable apps, neither of which are as simple as the second option -- online storage. + +If you just want to store and access your bookmarks there are plenty of dedicated bookmark storage sites that will allow you load your favorites into any browser from anywhere. Some even offer browser plugins or add-on to make the process smoother. + +"SiteBar"<http://sitebar.org/> is one option. The free service is limited to 500 bookmarks, though for a 1 euro a month you can upgrade to unlimited. SiteBar offers link validation, secure access (SSL) and daily backups. + +"Yahoo Bookmarks"<http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/> and "Google Bookmarks"<http://www.google.com/bookmarks/> offer similar services for free, though lack niceties such as validation and duplicate removal. Both companies make toolbars for Firefox and IE to provide easy access to your bookmarks. + +#Social Bookmarking + +Like bookmark servers, social bookmarking services let you keep links to your favorite web destinations in one location that's accessible from any computer on the net. + +But the added ability to share your favorite web destinations and search through other users' bookmarks to discover new sites, has made them a highly addictive and truly remarkable phenomenon in last couple years. + +There's a score of services out there, and no single service has it all. Some social bookmarking sites focus more closely on sharing and discovery, while others offer more options for sorting and organizing. + +"Del.icio.us"<http://del.icio.us/> is the site that started the whole social bookmarking trend, and with more than 3 million users, it remains one of the most popular. The site's search and sharing features make it an interesting place to explore even if you don't use it for storage. + +Handy tools like browser toolbars and Firefox plug-ins are available del.icio.us, one of which, "del.icio.us Bookmarks"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615>, will effectively replace the Firefox bookmarks manager with live access to the delicious account. Mark sites while you're at work and when you get home they'll be right there in your browser. + +The downside to del.icio.us is that, while you tag entries, there are no folders or other sorting mechanisms. + +"Ma.gnolia"<http://ma.gnolia.com/> offers almost all the same basic features as del.icio.us, plus a few more. Ma.gnolia lets you rate your bookmarks using a Netflix-style 5-star system. The site also has a feature called Roots. It utilizes a browser bookmarklet that you can click on while you're surfing to see how many Ma.gnolia users have linked to that particular site, as well as their ratings and descriptions. + +Ma.gnolia also offers thumbnails and page caches for all bookmarks so you can see those old pages even after they're gone. + +If you're serious about your bookmarks and you're working across locations and platforms, social bookmarking sites are the way to go. What they lack in organizational methods they make up for in search capabilities. + +One final tip: Most social bookmark services offer an RSS feed for your bookmarks. Send that feed to a service like RssFwd, enter your e-mail account and get your bookmarks delivered to your e-mail. If you use an online service like GMail or Yahoo, you've got another way to access your bookmarks from anywhere in the world. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto- usenet.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto- usenet.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e900b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto- usenet.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +The technology behind Usenet may be almost thirty years old, but that doesn't mean it's obsolete. In fact Usenet is growing in popularity every day. So what is Usenet? + +Simply put, Usenet is a network of newsgroups with a built-in file sharing protocol. Join a newsgroup that caters to your taste and you can begin downloading and sharing files. + +Why would you want to use Usenet when fantastic file sharing options like bittorrent exist? The main advantage of Usenet is speed. P2P networks, like bittorrent, depends on peers for download speed and reliability. Usenet on the other hand, depends largely on your own speeds, there is no slow peer connection to choke your downloads. + +Combine that with the fact that Usenet files are generally from trusted members, less likely to contain malicious files and less likely to monitored by the RIAA, the MPAA and other watchdogs, and you begin to see why its popularity is growing. + +Unfortunately, Usenet has a steeper learning curve than some other file sharing options, but don't worry we'll sort things out for you. + +^^^^ How it works + +The Usenet network is self propagating, when you upload to a Usenet server, that message is transferred from news server to news server until eventually every Usenet server contains a copy of that message. In practice it may not hit every new server, but it'll hit the big ones. + +How long that message -- whether it's just text or binary files -- stays on the server depend on the server in question. The average is around 90 days. + +To get started with Usenet you'll need two components: a client on your PC to grab the information, and a server to connect to (where the information is stored). + +^^^^ Usenet Clients And Servers + +The first step to Usenet is finding a suitable client program. "Grabit"<http://www.shemes.com/> is a popular free client for Windows. Mac users can turn to "OSXnews"<http://osxnews.sourceforge.net/new2/>, which borrows the look and feel of Apple's Mail app. Another more sophisticated option is "Unison"<http://www.panic.com/unison/>, which is a little easier to use, but costs $25. + +Once you've got a client you need to find a Usenet server to connect to. The most popular servers (and the ones with the most files available) tend to be private and often charge a subscription fee. + +For beginners, a free Usenet server will work just fine, there's list of available servers at "DMoz.org"<http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/>. But if you find yourself using Usenet frequently you may want to consider upgrading to premium server. Some popular premium servers include "newshosting"<http://newshosting.com/> (plans start at $10/month) or "usenetserver"<http://usenetserver.com/en/index.php> ($15/month). + +The advantages of premium servers are more files, longer retention of files and faster download speeds. + +^^^^ Setting up your Usenet Client + +When you go through the install process your client will ask for a news server address. Either enter on of the more popular free servers, or you premium server and the client will then download all the newsgroups on that server. + +Find a group the servers your interest and download the messages. Depending on the newsgroup, this could involve thousands of message header and can take a considerable amount of time. + +^^^^ Better Usenet Searching + +A partial solution to the overwhelming amount of data available on Usenet comes in the form of NZB or NewzBin files. NZB were developed by "NewzBin.com"<http://www.newzbin.com/>, a commercial newsgroup indexing site, but the format is open source and many other sites now use them. + +NZB files are essentially Usenet search engines. Add them to your client and you can search for and only download the headers specific to the file you're after. + +"Newzleech"<http://newzleech.com/> and "Yabse"<http://yabse.com/> both offer NZB files which will speed up your Usenet browsing. Just download the files and point your Usenet Client to them (how to do that varies somewhat from client to client, try looking in the client's preferences pane). + +^^^^ Putting it all together + +Your Usenet client should now be connecting to a server and offering the ability to search before download header. Now, once you see the headers containing the files you want, just click download and the files will start downloading. + +Most Usenet files are uploaded as RAR files, which will need to decompressed and reassembled using a RAR extractor. Windows users can grab the free "WinRAR"<http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm> and Mac users can turn to "UnRarX"<http://www.unrarx.com/> which offer similar capabilities. + +Just point the RAR extractor to the downloaded files and wait for it to pull out the actual files. + +That's it, enjoy your newfound file sharing capabilities. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto--speeduplinux.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto--speeduplinux.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fe5d98 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto--speeduplinux.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Linux is fairly lean machine out of the box, some distros more so than others, but overall Linux is not known as a resource hog. Still, there are some tweaks you can make to speed things up. + +Given that most of the tips below involve the command line and editing system files, you should be fairly comfortable with Linux before attempting any of these tweaks. + +And remember to always make a backup when you're editing system files, the quickest approach is to use the Terminal command cp. For instance to back up /etc/sysctl.conf you'd type: sudo cp /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.backup + +== Get Rid of Unnecessary Processes == + +If you flip through our other OS speed guides you'll find this is one common element -- every OS ships with some processes you probably don't need. + +Most Linux distros have some sort of startup items tool in their "System" or "Administration" menus that let you control what runs in the background. In Ubuntu the main one is System >> Preferences >> Sessions. + +Open your distro's equivalent of the Sessions panel and have a look around. Unless you sync your phone with your computer there's no need for the sync process to be running. Same withe the Bluetooth process if there is one. If you're using Gnome, but not Evolution (generally the default mail client) get rid of the Evolution Alarm. + +While the Sessions panel lists most of the common processes, it doesn't have everything. For that you'll need the command line app sysv-rc-conf (sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf). At this point you've entered into advanced user territory so be very careful about what you change since you can permanently hose your system using this editor. + +Remember to backup files and make small changes to single items rather than deleting in batches. After making a change log out and then log back in to make sure everything still works as you would expect. + +== Reduce Swappiness == + +Swap files are what Linux uses to temporarily write things to disk. If you have enough RAM available, Linux uses that instead of the hard drive, but sometimes it's still over aggressive in writing to the swap drive. + +Naturally you can configure how often the kernel falls back on the swap disk. + +How much this will speed things up is debatable -- most of the time the out-of-the-box setting will strike a nice balance -- but if you're really suffering it's worth a try. + +Before you change anything, run this command and look at the output number. The higher the number the more often the kernel will use the swap disk. + +$ sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness + +Most distros set this number around 50-60. If you'd like to lower that open up /etc/sysctl.conf: + +$ sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf + +Naturally if you're on KDE swap kate for gedit (or use emacs, vi or any other text editor you're comfortable with), then add this like to the sysctl.conf file: + +vm.swappiness=10 + +== Applications == + +We can't cover everything but here are a few common apps you can speed up with various tweaks + +# OpenOffice -- It's full featured and it acts like when it starts up. Suffer through it one last time and then open the OO preferences window. Look for the Memory option under OpenOffice.org and increase the memory allotted to the Graphics cache, both the "Use for OpenOffice.org" and "Memory per Object." If you're a heavy office user and you have RAM to spare don't be afraid to set these high say 100+ for the Graphics Cache and around 10MB per Object. Play around and see what works on your system. + +# Firefox -- if the Fox has you down, try [http://202.108.100.164:8080/gate/big5/www.konqueror.org/features/browser.php Konqueror] if you're on KDE or [http://www.opera.com/ Opera]. Both use less RAM than Firefox and may be faster on older hardware. Of course Firefox 3 addresses hundreds of Firefox memory leaks so this may be less of an issue when it's released. + +# Get rid of Compiz -- it used to be that very few distros shipped with the whiz-bang graphics enabled, but that's changing and if you're on an older system it's worth disabling to cut down on the processor overhead + +# Use a "Lighter" Desktop Environment -- KDE and Gnome both look very nice and offer some great advanced features, but both are also harder on the processor. Give [http://www.fvwm.org/ fvwm], [http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ fluxbox] [http://www.icewm.org/ IceWM] or even [http://www.xfce.org/ Xfce] (which is still quite nice to look at) a try, they'll be much snappier, especially on older systems. Even better, master the command line -- it's fast, lightweight and simple once you adjust to its way of thinking. + +== Things That Probably Won't Help == + +Among the common suggestions for speeding up Linux is one that almost always comes up and yet does almost nothing for you (at least in my experience). Linux typically uses up to six virtual terminals, which run in the background and eat up very miniscule amounts of RAM. The virtual terminals could, maybe, in some ever-so-slight way slow down your system, but RAM is cheap and frankly throwing in an extra stick is going to do way more than disabling virtual terminals could ever hope to -- don't bother with this one. + +== The last resort -- Optimized distros == + +If you're really looking for a lean and mean Linux machine -- especially if you're using older hardware -- consider one of the many ultra-lightweight distros. [http://damnsmalllinux.org/ Damn Small Linux], [http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1 Puppy Linux], [http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ Feather Linux] and others are specifically designed to run on older computers using very little in the way of resources. + +They may lack some of the nicer graphical features of the larger distributions, but they have all the basic apps you'll need to get your work done.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-betterflashpics.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-betterflashpics.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ced2e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-betterflashpics.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +You just spent $1000 on a fancy digital camera, so why do your pictures of your kids make it seen like they're playing in Carlsbad Caverns rather than your living room? + +The answer is that cheap flash setup that came with your fancy camera. So how do you avoid the cave look, the harsh shadows, blue skin and shiny faces common to amateur flash photos? + +We always recommend avoiding the flash when possible (see our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Shoot_Better_Low-Light_Pictures Shoot Better Low-Light Pictures] how to for more details), but sometimes there is no other option. + +Don't worry though, photo pros create amazing images using the flash all the time and they aren't necessarily wizards, they just know a few tricks. + +Here's our guide to taking better flash photos. + +==Never point a loaded Flash at anyone.== + +What's true of guns is also true of camera flashes -- never point them at your subject. The flash of light is simply too much for most scenes, particularly people. Instead rotate your flash mount to bounce off a wall or ceiling so the light is more evenly spread through your scene. + +One note of caution: this works best with white walls, if the walls surrounding you are not white be aware that you'll need to adjust your white balance, either in the camera before hand, or, if you're shooting RAW images, you can fix it afterwards using RAW processing software. + +==Really, never point a flash at anyone== + +Okay, but what if my flash is the pop-up variety that doesn't pivot? Well, that does make it hard to bounce off the walls, but don't worry there are still some solutions. One of our favorites is a homemade diffuser. + +A diffusers is just something that slows down, partially blocks and otherwise spreads the light from your flash around the scene. You can buy diffusers, if you happen to like spending money, but you can just as easily make them yourself. + +One of our favorite tricks, which works great on point-and-shoot cameras with a pop-up flash, is to cut a ping pong ball in half and slip it over the popup flash -- viola, flash diffused. + +==My photos still don't look that great== + +So, diffused and reflected flash hasn't solved all your problems? Now it's time for the hard part. + +It's important to understand that when you use a flash there are suddenly two light source for your camera to deal with -- the natural, ambient light in the scene and the flash you're adding. That means that everything about photography -- shutter speed, aperture, ISO, depth of field, etc -- is at least twice as complex with a flash. + +In fact, there are numerous books devoted to the subject, but here's a good rule of thumb to get you started: your goal when using a flash is simply to bring the overall light in the scene up a level your camera can successfully record. + +In order to do that you need to understand how your Flash works. There is some variation between camera makers, so one of the best places to start is your camera's instruction manual. See which settings and modes are optimized for flash and start experimenting to see what works. + +As with all things in photography, experimenting and practicing are the best way to ensure that when you need to use a flash, you know how to do so successfully. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-deleted web pages.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-deleted web pages.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6823293 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-deleted web pages.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +There's nothing more frustrating than searching for a page, finding what looks like a promising result and then clicking though only to discover that the page is gone. Unfortunately it happens all the time servers get jammed, pages are removed, some moved and some simply no longer maintained. But what happens you want to find a page that's gone? Is there anything you can do? The answer depends somewhat on why the page was removed. + +#The Slashdot Effect + +Some sites, particularly smaller independent publishers and bloggers can't handle the traffic influx from having a link show up on Slashdot or Digg. The sites simply stop responding as their servers become overwhelmed. However, you might still be able to see the content using "Coral Cache"<http://www.coralcdn.org/>. + +Coral Cache is a service that uses distributed computing to lessen the so-called Slashdot effect. Coral Cache was developed to provide a distributed mirror of the original page that can handle the high traffic volume. + +But don't worry, you don't need any special software, just append .nyud.net to the end of a regular URL and you'll hit the page through Coral Cache rather than directly connecting. + +It won't be quite as fast as you may be used to (compare "wired.com"<http://www.wired.com/> directly with the "Coral Cache"<http://www.wired.com.nyud.net/> version) but it could help you get to content that's currently choked full of direct connections. + +#Content that's been removed + +Perhaps the easiest trick to see deleted web pages that were removed by their publisher is to use Google's cache feature. Search of the original page and, if it's in Google's cache you'll see a little link leading to the page as it looked the last time Google indexed it. + +In some cases this will lead you straight to the content you want. However, sometimes that wont work. The page owner may have replaced the original page with new content and if Google's indexing spiders have been back to the page since the change you won't see the old content. + +In those cases you may be out of luck, but there is one final thing you can try. + +#The Wayback Machine + +The "Internet Archive"<http://www.archive.org/index.php> is a non-profit organization founded with the goal of building an Internet library that could offer permanent access to webpages for researchers, historians, and scholars. + +The Internet Archive's ambitious goal of indexing every page of content that ever been on the public web is not a reality, but it tries, and it just might have the page you seek. + +The "Wayback Machine"<http://www.archive.org/web/web.php> is a search engine that takes a URL and then looks for pages on that site over time. Using the Wayback Machine you can often find pages that have since been removed or deleted from the live web. + +In some cases the pages may appear a bit mangled and won't necessarily have all the formatting of the original -- stylesheets may not work, Javascript doesn't function -- but you can at least get at the actual text content. + +At the time of writing the Internet Archive boasts 85 billion webpages and it also recently started archiving other files like movies, audio files and live music, though it's indexes for multimedia content are not as extensive as the web page offerings. + +#preventing pages from disappearing. + +Many of today's popular web-based bookmark services offer page caching as a feature. Ma.gnolia for instance takes a snapshot of a page when you bookmark it and caches the contents. This is helpful for ensuring that your favorite bookmarked pages don't disappear on you. If they do, just head to ma.gnolia and click through to the cached version. Del.icio.us and others offer similar features.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-emailgroup.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-emailgroup.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7733a14 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-emailgroup.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +An e-mail group or "mailing list" as its often known is an easy way to send e-mail to specific group of people without adding their addresses to the CC or BCC fields by hand every time. An e-mail group also makes it easy for your recipients to reply to everyone rather than just the sender (a common problem for less sophisticated users). + +An e-mail group also ensures that everyone involved in a project receives all correspondence since the group emails are delivered to everyone. + +An e-mail group is useful for everything from inter-office memos to even short term projects, especially those projects which involve small teams made up of people in multiple locations. Rather than daily phone conferences or time-consuming face-to-face meetings. While e-mail might not entirely replace human meetings, a list that includes all the projects members can significantly smooth your workflow + + +==Setting up a group e-mail== + +The first step is to create a new group on your e-mail server. During the setup your software will ask you to add the name and e-mail addresses of everyone in your group. Once you've added everyone that needs to be part of the group, you're ready to go. + +Some e-mail software enables your members to chose between individual messages or group digests. Typically individual messages will work just fine, but some members may want to receive once a day digests. Digests simply collect up all the e-mails sent to the group -- including any replies to older messages -- and deliver them as a single e-mail. + +If you'd like to allow group members to select the digest option make sure you enable it when you set up your e-mail group. + +Once you group is set up, the first step is to send out a welcome address to all your group members with some basic instructions on how to use the group -- how to reply, how to behave and how to unsubscribe. Make sure you include your e-mail or the mailing lists technical administrator so if any of your group members have problems they know where to get help. + + +==Mailing List Rules and Etiquette== + +Unless you run your office like Michael Scott (Steve Carrell in the Office) you'll probably want to set up some ground rules for group e-mail etiquette. + +It's a good idea to periodically send out a boiler plate e-mail going over the ground rules and gently reminding your members that the success of the list depends on their behavior. + +Some thing to suggest: + + +# Stick to the topic. Off topic e-mails should be taken off the list. If you list members want to discuss where to get lunch, they should do so without disturbing the rest of the list. + +# No personal attacks or "flaming." Flame wars, where list members go back and forth with personal attacks should be avoided at all cost. + +# Refrain from sending out unnecessary responses to the entire group, for instance, "Me too!", "Cool!", "Thank you" and other single word replies. When those are warranted, email the individual privately. + +# Never forward correspondence or attachments to others outside of the group without permission + +# When beginning a new thread, change the subject line of your email rather than using the auto-reply function from a previous topic. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-indash.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-indash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b31787 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-indash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Most new cars ship with fancy on-board navigation and entertainment systems, but you don't need to take ona massive car loan just to get some fancy gadgets on your dashboard. In fact you're probably already toting around a smartphone that's every bit as sophisticated as most in-dash units. + +In this how-to we'll take a look at how to build your own system on the cheap. + +==Deck out your phone== + +While navigation systems in cars are pretty sophisticated, chances are your smartphone is capable of the same turn-by-turn directions, and, if it's running Android or iOS, you can add apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and a cheap gas locator. + +Because you've got 3G signal you'll also have access to anything on the web -- grab some new mp3s from iTunes, update your podcasts while you're waiting at a stoplight or check in with Facebook's new Places service to find out who's nearby. + +==Set up your car== + +To make your set-up hands free and slicker than just a phone in your packet, grab some velcro from your local fabic store and bit of strong, double-sided tape. Find a suitable flat surface on your car's dashboard, or center console and secure the bottom half of velcro to your dash with the double-sided tape (or glue if you're more committed) and then put the other half on the back of your phone. + +Then plug your car charger into your car's lighter and run the cord up to your phone. Bonus points if you can get the cord behind the dash, out of sight and tangles. + +Need some music? No problem, just pick up a cheap auxillary audio cable and run it from your Phone's headphone jack down to the back of your car stereo. If you can't get to the back of the stereo, or the stereo doesn't have any open inputs, pick up an FM transmitter and you'll still be able to pipe your tunes into your car stereo. + +==Go Mobile== + +Now for the best part of your DIY setup -- you can take it with you. While a car-bound system loses its usefulness when you reach your destination, you can take your custom, DIY navigation system with you. + +==Other ideas== + +Throw in a solar charger to power your smartphone and free up your car's lighter input to charge anything else you might need on the road -- a netbook, Nintendo 3DS or, god forbid, light a cigarette. + +If you want to get even fancier -- and your car has room for it -- you can try fitting in a 3G equipped iPad for a bigger screen that's easier to use on the go.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lionsecurity.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lionsecurity.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..218d8fb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lionsecurity.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Apple's new OS X Lion has some great new features like versions for tracking changes to your files, auto save to ensure you never lose any data and some much-improved default apps like Mail and Safari. + +Less publicized are a number of under the hood improvements that go a long way to making OS X 10.7 more secure and better at protecting your privacy, both online and off. + +Lion boasts an entirely new application security model that's leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessors. The application sandboxing makes it tough for the bad guys to launch attacks that move from one app to another -- a malicious website that wants to access your files is out of luck in Lion. + +While that's a great feature there's several things you can do to make Lion even more secure. + +Here's our guide to making sure that you get the most out of the new privacy and security features in OS X 10.7. + +== Security == + +Turn on the firewall. Head to System Preferences >> Security & Privacy and select the Firewall tab. Click the lock at the bottom of window so that you can make changes and then enable the firewall. With the firewall on, Lion will automatically prompt you whenever a new application wants to connect to the web. That way you always know exactly which apps are dialing out. + +Next up, in the same System Preference pane is FileVault, which encrypts your hard drive on the fly. Unlike previous versions of FileVault, this release encrypts well below the file-level, making it much faster and more transparent. We recommend FileVault to anyone with a laptop. + +== Privacy == + +Safari 5.1, which is available as part of Lion or as a separate download for those sticking with OS X 10.6, has several privacy enhancements worth checking out. + +The first is a new "Private AutoFill" feature that won't auto-fill web forms until you tell it to. You can even choose the specific info your want filled in. + +There's also a new "Privacy" option in Safari's preference pane where you can control which sites are allowed to set cookies, delete any cookies that you might have accumulated and even get rid of Flash cookies, along with any other info a website might have stored in browser. + +== Conclusion == + +While Lion is more secure than its predecessors, that doesn't mean it isn't vulnerable to attack. Also use caution when downloading files from the web and only open files from trusted sources.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lowlight.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lowlight.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51b9555 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-lowlight.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +You just spent $500 on a fancy digital camera, why do the kids still look like pasty ghosts blowing out small nuclear exposions on top of a cake whose letter you can't read? The answer is that indoor, low light photography is not always as simple as point and shoot. + +Using a flash is the most obvious solution to low light digital photography. But flash images have their downsides. Not only will a flash interfere with any social "moment" happening at the time -- don't be that guy popping flash photos during your friend's wedding ceremony -- it also tends to flatten images and distort colors and washout skin tones. This problem is especially true with the cheap built-in flashes on most compact digital cameras. + +If not flash then what? + +The first thing many photographers with a film background will suggest is to ratchet up the ISO or "light sensativity" setting. Traditionally high speed film (ISO 800 and higher) was better suited for low light photography. Unfortunately, where high speed film produced enlarged grain, which could often be used for artist effect, higher ISOs on digital cameras tend to just produce color noise -- little specks of red green and blue scattered across your image. + +Most point and shoot cameras, even those with manual controls, won't produce quality images above 400 ISO. The solution then is to use lower ISO settings, but that means you'll be facing a new concern -- long exposures. + +Since long exposure times increase the chance you'll blur the shot, whether through the subject's movement or yours, start with the largest aperture your camera allows. Use aperture-priority mode if you have one and set f-stop down to f/1.8 or the lowest availabl. + +If the exposure time is still greater than what you can handhold, it's time to break out the tripod. + +If you haven't made peace with being the person who totes a tripod to dinner, consider something like the [http://www.joby.com/products/gorillapod/ Gorilla Pod], a small, flexible tripod which will fit nicely in the average coat pocket. There are several sizes available some of which probably won't fit in your pocket, but still aren't a cumbersome as full-size tripod. + +Alternately, if you have a surgeon's hands you can try hand-holding even long exposures. Pick a solid stance with your legs slightly apart (like two legs of a tripod) and brace the camera against your face. Hold your breath while you press the shutter and be sure to zoom in on the resulting image to check for blurring. + +The next challenge you face in low light situations is the lighting. In most cases you'll be shooting in artificial light -- the chandelier above your dinner table for instance. + +Light temperatures from incandescent bulbs or florescent overheads can cast yellow or blue tones over a scene. Some times this can have a nice warming effect (in the case of incandescent light), but other times it may not be what you're looking for. + +The solution is to adjust the white balance in your camera. Most digital cameras offer a variety of preset white balance settings which you can experiment with. If all else fails you may be able to customize your own settings. Keep in mind that if you're shooting RAW images you can always change the white balance after the fact using software. + +Earlier I mentioned that high ISO setting tend to create unacceptable levels of color noise. While that's true, there are some ways to get rid of color noise after the fact. Photoshop ships with a noise filter which will smooth your pixels by blending surrounding areas together. + +Unfortunately, for all but the most basic situations, the results won't bowl you over. Dedicated software like [http://www.picturecode.com/ Noise Ninja] can produce much more dramatic improvements with very little blurring or other side effects. Noise Ninja will set you back between $35-$80 depending on what license is right for you. It isn't cheap but if you do a lot of low light photography it's a godsend. + +Finally, after you've experimented a bit with ISOs, white balance and long exposures you'll probably start to notice that your camera's exposure meter isn't all that helpful in low light situations. Here's our general guide to exposure times (assuming the widest aperture possible). You'll need to experiment to see what works for you. + +* Christmas lights: 1/4 to 3 seconds of exposure. +* Cityscapes: 2 to 30 seconds. +* For a night sky with star trails, use the formula: exposure = 600/focal length of the lens
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-newsalerts.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-newsalerts.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e06e4c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-newsalerts.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +News alerts are updates letting you know about the latest news. Whether you receive updates via e-mail or some other delivery method, new alert help you stay informed about the topics that are important to your company. + +For example you might want to receive an alert every time there's a news story about your company. Or you might want to stay abreast of what your clients, partners or even your competitors are doing. + +News alerts save you the time and effort of searching through millions of web pages to find out the latest information about what matters to you. + +There are many web-based services that make it easy to set up alerts. Which one you chose depends mainly on how you'd like your news delivered. + +==Setting up news alerts== + +===Option 1: E-Mail=== + +If you'd like to receive an e-mail each time there's a bit of news about your company, simply sign up for an e-mail based service. Enter the terms you'd like to receive alerts about and then add your e-mail address. + +Be careful not to make your search terms too broad or you may end up with hundreds of alerts each day. + +Most e-mail alert services allow you to chose how often you'd like to receive updates. If you're just casually keeping tabs on something, chose a once a week option. If you'd like to know the minute something happens then chose a more frequent deliver option. + + +===Option 2: RSS feed=== + +Many alert services and even search engines offer RSS feeds for your particular search terms. For example, if you search for "my company" you can then add that search to an RSS reader and it will update every time a new story about "my company" is found. + +To get started you'll need to create an account at one of the many free RSS readers available. Alternately, you can download one of the many desktop RSS programs. Some e-mail clients can also handle RSS feeds, making it easy to get your alert right alongside you e-mail. + +Once you've decided on a suitable RSS reader, just add the URL of the feed you'd like to read. Most web browsers display a small RSS graphic in the URL bar whenever there's a feed available on the page. Just click the RSS icon and the browser will ask what you'd like to do. Select your RSS program and it will take care of the rest. + +Now, whenever you open your RSS reader you'll be able to see if there are any new news alerts available. + + +===Option 3: Widget and Startpages === + +Many online services offer "startpages," web pages which load each time you open a new browser window. If you frequently use a web browser, this makes a quick, easy way to stay abreast of the news. + +The trick is the add your news alert widgets to your start page. The exact method will vary according to which startpage you're using, but most offer customizable widgets. To get alerts just add an RSS widget to your start page and then paste in the URL of your new alert feed. + + + + +[[Category:Work]] +[[Category:Office]] +[[Category:Software]] diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-portableapps.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-portableapps.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1dba1c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-portableapps.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Even the lightest laptops on the market won't fit in your pocket, but these days you don't need to lug around an entire computer to get some work done. If you're looking to travel light, but still want access to your favorite applications and websites no matter what computer you sit down in front of, you need to get on the portable apps bandwagon. + +To take advantage of portable apps you'll need to have some sort of portable device, whether an iPod, a SD card or USB flash drive. With USB flash drives frequently given away as promotional offerings, it shouldn't be to hard to find something with ample space for under $20. + +The definition of a portable app will vary a little depending on who you talk to, but the basic requirement is the once installed on the removable media it will plug in and work on any compatible machine. + +Keep in mind that portable apps are not cross platform, don't expect your Windows XP portable apps to run on a Mac. + +Wikipedia has one of the most extensive lists of "standalone portable apps"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_software>. + +For greater ease of use there are a number of portable app launchers available which can auto-launch when you plug your media into the host computer. Two of the more popular options are the portable apps suite from "Portableapps.com"<http://portableapps.com/> and "MojoPac"<http://www.mojopac.com/>. + +Both function in a similar manner, once installed on your portable device and connected to a host machine they will auto-launch with menus allowing you to select which programs to use. + +MojoPac is a little more full-featured in that it create a virtual desktop which you can set up to mimic your home machine. Both will read and write from the portable media so don't expect amazing performance, but so long as you aren't editing large photoshop files you should be okay. + +Mac users can turn the Free Open Source Software Mac User Group (FreeSMUG), which offers a complete listing of individul "portable applications"<http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/> for your Mac-compatible storage device. Keep in mind though that passwords and other information stored in the Keychain application are not portable. + +What applications should you install? Well that depends on what you think you'll need, it's possible to pretty much replicate your home computer, but most people can probably get by with a web browser, an e-mail client, a multi-protocol chat app and perhaps an office suite. + +#A word about security + +One of the advantages of using portable apps is that you can avoid insecure application (say that unpatched, six-year-old install of IE 6 running in the internet cafe next to your hotel). However, if the host machine is infected or compromised you could be in trouble. + +To get around this you can either put your USB flash drive in read-only mode or carry some sort of anti-virus application. Read-only mode can be a bit limiting, depending on your needs so we would recommend using some sort of anti-virus software. + +Also, keep in mind that spyware tools like keystroke loggers will still capture your keystrokes. Unfortunately it's increasingly common for internet cafes around the world to become compromised with keystroke loggers. Painful though it may be, we suggest typing passwords backwards or otherwise out of order to foil the potential snoops. It isn't foolproof of course, but it may slow them down enough that they move on to easier prey. + +#Advanced portable Apps + +Linux is an ideal candidate for a portable drive. "Puppy Linux"<http://www.puppylinux.org/> and "Damn Small Linux"<http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/> are two distributions designed to be lightweight and can be installed on most storage devices. Using a virtual machine like "QEMU"<http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/> you can create a cross platform virtual machine that will allow you to plug your USB device into any computer and run Linux, regardless of whether the host is a Mac or PC. + +The process is not too difficult, but recommended primarily for those that are already familiar with Linux. Hackszine has a "tutorial"<http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/running_puppy_linux_inside_os.html> on how to set up Puppy Linux with a QEMU virtual machine that will run on a Mac. + +From there you just need to add Windows and Linux QEMU executables to the your storage drive and your portable cross-platform dreams will come true -- provided you can get by with Puppy Linux or the equivalent.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-postinstalltipswindows.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-postinstalltipswindows.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4269b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-postinstalltipswindows.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Spyware and viruses drive all of us to just chuck it at some point and simply re-install Windows, starting fresh. After swearing to pay more attention to the links you follow and walking through the installation process you find yourself staring at a brand new desktop -- now what? + +You system if fresh and untarnished, nows the time to tweak it to your satisfaction. Start by running Windows Update to make sure you're up to date with all the patches and security updates and then follow our handy guide to get the most out of Windows. + +==Drivers== + +If you've never paid much attention to drivers, consider yourself lucky. Drivers are small chunks of software that control and communicate with a device or part of your computer -- for instance, there are video card drivers, drivers for peripherals, and more. + +Both XP and Vista ship with common drivers installed for most of the things you'll need, but the driver included may be out of date and if you don't get the latest version may find yourself encountering subpar performance or bugs that have already been fixed. + +Even you don't have a lot of peripherals you still might want to upgrade your video driver, especially if you're installing an older manufacturer-specific version of Windows XP. There's a really good chance you won't have the latest video drivers since a lot has changed since XP was released. + +The two most common video drivers are those from [http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html ATI] and [http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp NVIDIA]. Find out what video card your computer uses and then search the manufacturer's site to download the right driver for your video card. + +Peripherals are another story. If, like most people, you've got a printer, scanner, digital camera and more, you'll want to head to the device maker's website and find the latest driver for your model. + +==Clear out the junk== + +If you're installing a retail copy of Windows you can skip this step. However, if you're installing Windows from the CD that came with your machine you'll likely end up with a bunch of trial copies of software you don't need or want. + +You can use the built-in Add/Remove functionality bundled with Windows to clean up the cruft, but the freeware app [http://www.revouninstaller.com/ Revo Uninstaller] makes the process faster and easier. Revo actually manages to make the process somewhat fun with its "Hunter Mode," which lets you drag a cross-hair onto any application to uninstall. Just aim it at your system tray, applications folder or where ever you see an app you don't want. + +Revo Uninstaller also sports a very nice startup manager, which lets you control what apps start with Windows. + +==security== + +Make sure that Windows Firewall is enabled. Open up the Control Panel and click "Security Center and find Windows Firewall. Make sure it's set to "on" and then click okay. + +We recommend installing [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox 2] as a more secure alternative to Internet Explorer, but if you're not a fan at least make sure you have some decent anti-virus and anti-spyware software. + +There are hundreds of possibilities for anti-spyware and anti-virus software, we're partial to [http://free.grisoft.com/ AVG] for virus protection. [http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Windows Defender] is a free anti-spyware app from Microsoft and, while it isn't perfect, it's free and it won't hurt. Also worth grabbing are [http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster] and [http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html Spybot Search & Destroy]. + +Alone none of these three are really enough, but running all three should cover most of your bases. If you find yourself constantly infected with spyware consider one of the commercial solution like [http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ PC Tools Spyware Doctor] ($30). + +Keep in mind that you should only run one anti-virus program, but it's a good idea to have a several spyware detecting and removing applications. Be sure to set whatever apps you choose to scan your computer frequently and remember to keep them updated. + +==Windows Update== + +By default Windows Update is generally set to automatic, but there are a number of reasons you might want to switch it to manual. There's nothing worse than finding out an update is broken after it's already installed. + +Keep in mind though that if you do turn off the auto-update feature you need to be diligent about running it by hand. + +==Free Software== + +There are thousands of software packages out there covering just about anything you'd ever want to do with your computer. Here's a few we like + +# Photos - Google's [http://picasa.google.com/ Picasa] is the best breed when it comes to managing your photos. +# BitTorrent - [http://www.utorrent.com/ µTorrent] is a popular lightweight choice. [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Azureus] offers more options, but will also eat up more processor time. +# Chat - It's hard to beat the multi-protocol options of [http://www.pidgin.im/ Pidgin]. +# [http://www.dopdf.com/ doPDF] is a great little utility that installs a virtual printer and lets you print any document as a PDF. +# [http://www.ccleaner.com/ CCleaner] is a must have for sweeping out old and unnecessary files +# [http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml Clipomatic] is a nice way to get more out of your clipboard.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-remotemeeting.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-remotemeeting.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0875d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-remotemeeting.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +It's hard to get everyone in the same room at the same time for a productive meeting. Fortunately, collaborative desktop software and web-based tools mean you can set up a virtual meeting place and keep everyone on your team informed. + +While remote meetings might not entirely replace the face-to-face version, a remote meeting can save you time and money by bringing your team together regardless of where they are. + +This how-to will also show you the ease and efficiency shared and cloud-based services can bring to workplace collaboration. + +==Setting up a Remote Meeting== + +===Step 1: Set a time=== + +Pick a time and place by consulting your team's shared calendar. If everyone on your team has their location and status (vacation, out of the office, working from home) in the calendar, it makes choosing a meeting place and time much easier. + +Some software and web-based calendars can do this automatically, consulting everyone's schedule and suggesting a time that works for your entire team. + +===Step 2: Notify Participants=== + +Next, send a meeting request over e-mail. Most shared calendar services will do this for you when you create a new event. Just add each attendee's address to the invitation, or, if you're using a [email group] just send the message to the group. + +===Step 3: Track Attendance === + +Use either your desktop e-mail client, or your shared calendar to maintain an RSVP list so you know who will be available to attend the meeting. + +===Step 4: Share Materials === + +Send your meeting agenda in an e-mail so your team knows what to expect. Also make sure to post any needed materials -- spreadsheets, presentation slides, notes video, etc -- to a shared network drive or cloud-based storage drive. Include a link to the materials in your agenda e-mail. + +This helps ensure that everyone involved in the meeting has all the material ahead of time. + +==Hold the meeting== + +If people are calling in from a remote location, make sure everyone has the dial-in number. If you're using videoconferencing or a screen-sharing software, make sure everyone has the proper links and any required login information. + +==After the meeting== + +Once your meeting is over be sure to post meeting notes for your team to refer back to if they have questions. Again, a shared network drive or a cloud-based storage service works well for this allowing you to post the notes in one place where everyone can access them. + +You may also want to put the meeting minutes as well as any materials (videos, presentations) on a wiki so people can follow up and add to the discussion afterwards. To learn more about how to set up a wiki, see our [wiki link] + + +[[Category:Work]] +[[Category:Office]] +[[Category:Software]] diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-ripdurndvd-mac.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-ripdurndvd-mac.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dccd4b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-ripdurndvd-mac.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Back when Apple first getting started out in digital music it used the slogan "Rip Mix Burn." Indeed, using your Mac it was dead simple to copy and burn music CDs, but what about video DVDs? + +It turns out that's pretty easy too, though you may need to invest in some additional software. + +There are three basic steps to copying a DVD, the first is to rip the DVD onto your hard drive. This involves decoding any DRM that has been added to the disk. The exact legality of this is subject to debate, but most experts argue that if you own the disk, fair use laws say you can legally copy it. + +The second step is to compress the ripped movie so that it will fit onto a standard single layer DVD. Depending on the movie, you may be able to skip this step. Another way around it is to use dual layer DVDs which offer more space. However dual layer DVDs won't always play in your DVD player so check your model to make sure before you invest in the rather price dual layer DVDs + +== What You'll Need == + +# A DVD that you own +# A blank single or dual layer DVD +# Ripping software like MacTheRipper +# compression software like Roxio Toast or DVD2oneX (optional) + +== Ripping == + +Grab a copy of Mac the Ripper, it's free and the most reliable option for ripping DVDs on your Mac. + +Insert the DVD you want to copy and open up MacTheRipper. The software should automatically detect the disk and scan it for region encoding. Region encodings are something the movie industry uses to ensure that you movie only works with the players where you live. It's an annoying practice, but fear not, MacTheRipper will get rid of it and your new copy will play anywhere in the world + +Now just click rip, select where you'd like to store the ripped files and sit back and wait for MacTheRipper to do its thing. + +=== If you Encounter Problems === + +Some newer title may contain DRM that MacTheRipper can't decode. Check the MacTheRipper forums to see if anyone has posted a solution for your title or consider donating to the project which will entitle you to a newer beta version of the software which can handle the newer DRM schemes. + +== Compressing and Burning == + +There isn't, so far as we're aware, a good free utility for Mac that allows you to compress your ripped video so that it will fit on a single layer DVD. There are however several commercial options. [http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html Roxio Toast 8] ($100) offers compression options when you burn a disc and [http://www.dvd2one.com/?loc=download DVD2oneX] (40 Euro) also compresses movies (and offers fine-grained controls not found in Toast 8) + +To compress you ripped files in Toast 8, open the application and select the video tab on the left hand side of the screen and click the VIDEO_TS folder option. Now hit select and navigate to the folder you saved from MacTheRipper + +Select that folder and open it in Toast. Click the Copy Options button and Toast will show you how much your files need to be compressed to fit on your new disc. If you don't mind ditching the extra features of your original DVD you can pick and choose what to record using the drop down menus. + +Once you're happy with the amount of compression applied, click the burn button at the bottom right corner of the screen and site back and relax, you're done. + +Your New DVD will be free of any DRM and region encoding and now you have backup copy should your original disc get lost scratched or otherwise become unplayable.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupmac b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupmac new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cccf642 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupmac @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Despite your best efforts, your Mac is running a bit slow, hard disk space is filling up fast and applications are getting sluggish. Don't worry, it happens to everyone. While there is no definitive cure-all, there are some basic things you can do that might help, reclaim disk space and speed up your Mac. + +Before you get started keep in mind that none of these tips will change your aging G4 iMac into an Intel Quad-core speed machine. One of the best ways to speed up any aging computer is upgrade the hardware -- invest in a larger hard drive or more RAM. + +In the past, the case design in many Mac make it very complicated to upgrade the hard drive (more recent models are much easier to upgrade), but even if a new hard drive amounts to open heart surgery you should still be able to add more RAM without too much trouble. + +The other things to do before we get down to specifics is to run Software Update and make sure that you have the latest version of OS X and other Apple supplied applications. + +== Recover Hard Disk space == + +When your hard drive gets too full drive (and by full we mean past the 90% mark) it can slow down your Mac. But don't start deleting your precious family photo albums, here's a few things that you may not know about that eat up space on your Mac drive. + +# Delete unused language packs. You probably aren't using the Farsi language localizations on your machine and even if you are, then you can probably still get rid of French or German. Check out the freeware app [http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ Monolingual] which makes getting rid of unused language files a snap. +# Take a hard look at your applications folder. Do you really need all those shareware apps you aren't using? If not, get rid of them and free up a little space. +# Download [http://www.derlien.com/ Disk Inventory X] which will give you a nice graphical overview of what is using space on your drive. If it is indeed those precious family photos, consider moving them off to a USB or Firewire external drive + +== Speed Up Slow Applications == + +When most people complain about their Mac being slow, what they're referring to is the applications running on their Mac. There are too many applications to cover everything, but here's a few common culprits. + +# Safari -- Safari is fast and lightweight, but it can get bogged down if your browsing history is excessively large or Safari is storing a ton of Autofill entries. One easy way to reset nearly everything at once is the select Safari >> Reset Safari, which will clear all your caches. + +# Dashboard -- Dashboard widgets are handy tools, but the eat up RAM, sometimes even when you aren't suing them, which means there's less RAM available for the applications you are using. Head into your Applications Folder, select the Utilities Folder and look for Activity Monitor. Activity monitor is a great way to see what applications are using the most memory. If you see a lot of Dashboard widgets high up on the list, consider disabling them. + +# Universal binaries -- If you're using an Intel Mac make sure that all your applications are universal binaries. Older copies compiled to run on PowerPC machines will be noticeably slower on Intel machines. + +== General System tips == + +# Clean Our Your Startup Items -- If you Mac is slow starting up, open your System Preferences and click accounts. Select your username and see what's listed in the startup items. Sometime applications will inject themselves here without asking (or even if they asked you may not want them anymore). Getting rid of some startup items can speed up your boot times. + +# Cleaning up your desktop -- If your desktop is covered with dozens or even hundreds of icons you may see a performance hit. Mac OS X treats each desktop icon as its own window which incurs a small memory hit. For most people this won't be an issue but if you have hundreds of icons it might help to move them off to another location. + +# Fonts -- although they won't produce a huge performance gain, getting rid of any corrupt fonts will make your Mac more stable. Open up Font Book, select all the fonts in the Font list and choose File >> Validate Fonts. Font Book will open a new window with icons to show font's status. If a font is corrupt, select it and click on the Remove Checked button. Font Book can't actually repair corrupt fonts, for that you'll need a commercial utility like [http://www.insidersoftware.com/FA_pro4_osx.php FontAgent Pro] ($100). + +== Things that Won't Help No Matter What the "Pros" in Forums Tell You == + +# Repairing File Permissions -- The uneducated Mac users favorite cure-all, which in fact does next to nothing. Unless you're having problems logging in or using certain system files, this won't do anything for you. It certainly won't speed up your Mac. +# Updating Prebinding -- Prebinding is updated when apps are launched (and when new ones are installed), there's no need to do it by hand. +# Speed up Safari by reducing the "page load delay" -- David Hyatt, lead programmer for Safari, [http://webkit.org/blog/94/amusing/ says], "the preference in question is dead and does absolutely nothing in Safari." Trust him, he created it. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupwindows.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupwindows.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b176857 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-speedupwindows.txt @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +The flash of polish of Windows Vista seduced you, but performance isn't what you'd hoped -- the visual effects are dragging you down. + +Keep in mind though, that, while these tips can help you speed up Windows and recover hard drive space, you aren't going to see the sort of speed boost you'd get from upgrading your hardware. + +If you're unhappy, for instance, with the speed of Vista on a machine where XP used to scream, while these tips will help, you might want to consider a new graphics card, more RAM and perhaps even a faster processor. + +== Use ReadyBoost == + +ReadyBoost is one of the more appealing features in Vista. Put simply it uses a solid state memory disk as a extra disk memory cache. + +To take advantage of ReadyBoost find the fastest USB flash drive you can find and plug it in. AutoPlay will pop up a dialog offering to use it for ReadyBoost, just enable it and you're done. + +Microsoft suggests that you use a USB drive roughly the same size as the amount of RAM you have. + +ReadyBoost data is encrypted, so if someone snatches your flash drive they won't be able to read your data. + +Don't expect miracles from ReadyBoost and keep in mind that it isn't an alternative to a memory upgrade -- it won't help if you're short on RAM -- rather it caches disk reads on the fly and can often speed up data access. + + +== Defragment Your Hard Drive == + +Once the go-to solution for all speed problems in Windows, Vista actually defragments your drive automatically in the background. By default the system is configured to defrag your hard drive once a week. + +The problem with Vista's defragmentation routine is that unless you frequently install and uninstall programs and constantly move files around, once a week is probably overkill and when Vista is defragmenting you'll see a performance hit. We suggest turning off the scheduler and doing it by hand. + +Fragmentation happens when the computer writes files to disk without keeping everything together in one spot. Thus if you just saved a large image you've been working on in Photoshop, part of it might be near the middle of the disk and part of it might be at the end, which means it takes longer for the disk to find it. + +Bring those separate parts together is what's known as defragmenting. + +To defragment your boot drive open My Computer and right-click the disk you want to defragment. Select Properties and then click the Tools tab where you'll see the Defragment Now option. Just click Defragment and wait for the process to finish. + +You'll may notice that Vista did away with many of the nicer features in XP's defragmenting program. If you'd like more advanced feedback try out the free [http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download Disk Defrag] from Auslogics, which gives you a nice drive map and other advanced features. + +== Clean House == + +Part of what slows Vista down is the number of secondary applications running in the background and hogging RAM. The first place to start speeding up Vista is getting rid of the things you don't need. + +=== Turn Off Unnecessary Services === + +Services are background processes that run silently without you ever knowing about them. Because Vista takes the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach there's likely to be some unnecessary services running in the background. + +To get rid of them go to Start >> Run, type "services.msc" and hit return. Double-click on the service you want to get rid of and change the startup type to Disable. + +Here's some examples of services you may not need: Secondary Logon, Remote Registry, Computer Browser, Windows Error Reporting, Tablet PC Input Service and Distributed Link Tracking Client. There are dozens more you sift through to see if you need them. + + +=== Improve Startup Times === + +Whenever Windows starts it automatically loads a number of programs, many of which you may not need. The System Configuration Utility and Windows Defender can both be used to control what programs auto-start in Vista. + +To disabling auto-start applications with the System Configuration Utility + +# Open up msconfig (use the Vista Start Menu’s Instant Search feature: just press the Windows key and type 'System' and the hit return). +# Select the Startup tab. +# Uncheck any items that you do not want to auto-load and click OK. + +To disabling auto-start applications with Windows Defender + +# Open Windows Defender +# Click on the Tools in the top menu bar. +# Click on Software Explorer. +# Hit Show for All Users. +# Select an application and then click either Remove or Disable. + + +== Speed Up Vista on Older Machines == + +Vista's snazzy UI design is easy on the eye but hard on the processor and consequently older machines may lag, but there's no need to rush out and buy new hardware. Give these tips a try first and see if they improve your Vista experience. + +# Get rid of Aero -- The Aero interface is nice but it has demanding graphics requirements. Vista will disable it by default if your graphics card isn't up to snuff, but even if it is, you might find the speed tradeoff unacceptable. Head to the Window Color and Appearance panel (right click the desktop and choose personalize) and click the link to "Open classic appearance properties for more color options." Select an option other than Aero and you're done. For a less radical option just turn off the "glass transparency" setting which seems to be the source of much of Aero's memory usage. + +# Disable the Sidebar -- widgets are memory hogs and getting rid of them will help speed up Vista. + + +== Declutter your Drive == + +Like most people you probably have a number of files and programs you don't need that are eating up dard drive space. When it comes to files it's your call, but for getting rid of programs we recommend the free application [http://www.ccleaner.com/ CCleaner] which is faster and much more thorough than the default Add/Remove application provided with Windows. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trick out your mac.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trick out your mac.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d23bbb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trick out your mac.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Apple would like you to believe that Mac OS X is a complete package, able to fulfill all your needs out of the box, but unless your needs are limited to e-mail and web browsing there's some room to improve on OS X's solid foundations. + +You could go out and spend hundreds of dollars on software, but in most cases there's no need to fork over your hard earned cash. Here's our list of all the free software you need to trick out your Mac. + +==Web and Chat== + +Safari is nice, but it never hurts to have an extra browser around. [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Firefox 2] offers add-ons, allowing you to customize and extend its behavior far beyond Safari's limited options. [http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=mac Opera] is also very capable and worth having on hand. + +If you're looking for BitTorrent clients, [http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Transmission] should handle your needs with aplomb. It's fast and lightweight, but if you prefer the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach to BitTorrent [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php Azureus] is the client for you. + +OS X ships with iChat, but it only handles AOL chats. If you regularly use a number of chat networks [http://www.adiumx.com/ Adium X]is the answer. It can handle all your chat needs across nearly a dozen platforms -- all your friends in one place. + +==Office== + +Microsoft Office isn't the only answer. Although OpenOffice doesn't offer a native version for Mac OS X (one is, however in the works), [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php NeoOffice] is pretty close to the same thing and it's all dressed up in OS X clothes so it won't look out of place on your machine. + +If it's a full featured text editor you're after, [http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ TextWangler] is one of the best. + +==Multimedia== + +If you want to be able to play back Windows Media videos or audio you'll want to install [http://www.flip4mac.com/ Flip4Mac], which will handle your WMA needs (and integrates into most browsers so you can view WMA files within the browser). + +Another must have is [http://perian.org/ Perian] which add Quicktime support for AVI, DivX, and XviD codecs, which are often used when compressing DVDs. + +For playback of virtually any media file, look no further than the cross platform [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC]. [http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayer] also offers similar multi-format support. + +[http://www.mactheripper.org/ MacTheRipper] is essential if you're looking to copy DVDs and [http://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake] makes it easy to get your ripped DVDs onto an iPod or similar device. + + +==Backups== + +As of Leopard, OS X ships with Time Machine, an incremental back solution, but we like to keep an exact cloned copy of our drives around just to be on the safe side. Both [http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html SuperDuper] and [http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html Carbon Copy Cloner] make it dead simple to clone your hard drive from one disk to another, ensuring that you're well protected against the nightmare of disk failure. + + +==System Tweaks== + +#[http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/ Double Command] - If you're coming from Windows, where the command and control (ALT) keys are in opposite locations, you'll want to grab Double Command which allows you to remap your Mac's keyboard. You can also assign things like caps lock some other function. + +#[http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/ TextExpander] - Text Expander is snippet manager that can save you loads of time and even fix many common typos. You create shortcuts and whenever you type them TextExpander will replace what you typed with a preset block of text. For instance, set up TextExpander to handle your e-mail signature with the abbreviation "yrs" and you'll be able to sign your e-mails regards of what client you're using. + +#[http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Quicksilver] - If you're a keyboard shortcut fan, the multifaceted Quicksilver is right up your alley. Quicksilver can be used as everything from an application launcher, files transfer tool, clipboard manager and loads more + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trickoutyourubuntu.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trickoutyourubuntu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..193e3ee --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-trickoutyourubuntu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +You've just download the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu Linux and it didn't cost you a thing. You breezed through the installation and a brand new desktop is staring you in the face -- now what? + +There's a few things you'll need to do if you want to get the most out of Linux, but don't worry none of this is complicated -- in fact it's much easier than trying to do the same on Windows or a Mac. + +The first thing to do is open up the Add/Remove Programs app (Applications >> Add/Remove...) and start installing all the free goodies at your disposal. + +== Web and Chat == + +Ubuntu ships with Firefox 2, but it never hurts to have an alternative like Opera around. And make sure to go ahead and install the Flash player so you won't have any problems with YouTube and other Flash-heavy sites. + +If you'd like to live on the bleeding edge, Firefox 3 offers a new visual theme that integrates very nicely with the Gnome desktop. You won't find Firefox 3 in Add/Remove programs yet, but you can [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html download it from Mozilla] and follow [http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-firefox-3-beta-2-in-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon.html UbuntuGeek's instructions] to get it up and running. + +For BitTorrent downloads our personal favorite is [http://deluge-torrent.org/ Deluge], a Gnome app that's a bit like [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Azureus], but doesn't use Java. If you're a KDE fan, [http://ktorrent.org/ kTorrent] is your best bet. You can also run a Windows copy of µTorrent through [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] if you want, some swear it's still the fastest Torrent app on Linux. + +Chatting in Ubuntu happens through [http://pidgin.im/ Pidgin], a very nice multi-protocol chat client (formerly known as Gaim) that can handle just about any chat service you're likely to be a member of. However if Pidgin's not your cup of tea there's also [http://kopete.kde.org/ Kopete] (KDE). + +== Multimedia == + +While the default audio player that ships in Ubuntu will do just fine, you may as well grab the king of digital music on any platform -- Amarok. It's like iTunes with Wikipedia and Last.fm stashed away inside it, and it'll never sell you DRM. + +If you're planing to copy and burn DVDs you'll want to have a look at [http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/ K9copy]. Yes, it's a KDE app, but it will run in Gnome without too many dependencies and it strikes a nice balance between no-need-to-tweak default settings and not too hard to tweak if you're in the mood power features. + +For movies we recommend having both MPlayer and VLC around, between the two of them you should have most everything covered. We also like the Miro video player, which isn't in the Ubuntu Repositories, but there's a very simple install guide on the [http://www.getmiro.com/download/ubuntu.php Miro site]. Worth the effort for the great Ubuntu channels with tutorials galore. + +Also make sure to install the various GStreamer plugins, which will handle most video codecs -- from mpeg to DivX, the GStreamer collection should have your covered. + +=== Enabling DVD Playback === + +For legal reasons Ubuntu does not ship with the ability to decrypt and play the video files that live on most commercial DVDs. Unfortunately the libraries we need aren't available through the package manager either which means we'll need to use the Terminal (Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal). But there's no need to panic, this is only time you'll need the command line and it's only two lines of code. + +Just open up a new terminal window and type: + +sudo apt-get install libdvdread3 + +Ubuntu will ask for your password and then download the package. Now you just need to install it with this line: + +sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh + +That's it, now your DVDs will playback without any trouble. However the default media player in Ubuntu isn't all that great, we suggest replacing it with VLC. To do that just head to Add/Remove Programs and search for VLC. Check the box, hit apply and you're done. + +To make the newly installed VLC player the default option, just click the System menu and navigate to Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media. That'll open a new window where you'll see a Multimedia tab. Click that and look under the "Video DVD Discs" section where you'll find a text box which likely reads: "totem %m." Just replace "totem" with "vlc" and you're done. + +==Desktop Effects== + +Although certainly not necessary for getting the most out of Ubuntu, the visual candy of Compiz adds some bling to your desktop. As of Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) Ubuntu ships with Compiz installed. There are three default settings (under System >> Preferences >> Appearance) which offer varying degrees of visual effects. + +If you'd like more control just fire up Add/Remove Programs and search for the Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Check the box to install and head back to the Appearance panel where you should now see a fourth option -- Customize. + +Click that and you'll be able to fine tune Compiz until you achieve desktop nirvana. + +==Accessories== + +The Install/Remove program manager offers a huge list of applications available for your system. Here's some of our suggestions: + +# Microsoft Core Fonts - This will install a number of Microsoft TrueType fonts which will greatly improve the readability of your system. + +# Glipper - A clipboard manager that allows you to step backward in time through your cut-n-paste actions and retrieve bits of text. + +# Flickr Uploader - An easy way to get your images into Flickr, the online photo-sharing app. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-upsidedown.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-upsidedown.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cae67b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-upsidedown.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +If you've ever been up late watching TV in the wee hours of the morning you've probably noticed those ads for upside down tomato planters. You've probably even asked yourself why anyone would want to grow tomatoes (or anything else) upside down. You obviously do not live in an apartment. + +However, while space is probably the most common motivator for upside down planting -- look ma, no ground necessary -- there are actually some other good reasons to consider growing upside down tomato plants even if you do have the space to plow. + +# No need to stake -- gravity takes care of the vines so you don't need to and that's one less thing to worry about + +# No weeding -- well, technically you can get weeds in the top of the bucket, especially if you don't put a lid on it, but it'll still be nothing compared to a traditional garden. + +# Fewer soil diseases/root rot -- Because you'll be using bagged soil and (most likely) changing it every year you don't really need to worry about disease. + +# Better air circulation -- related to both of the above, hanging plants get better air circulation with means better pollination and overall healthier plants. + +Sold? Well, hand on a minute, there are a couple of disadvantages as well. The biggest problem with upside down plants is heat. The soil is not insulated so heat will dry it out much, much faster than it would in a ground. That means more water and more diligence on your part. Another problem is weight -- especially after watering. Make sure you hang your plants somewhere secure that can handle the weight. + +If those worries don't put your off then read on to learn how to go about setting up your own hanging tomato garden. + +== The DIY method == + +Forget late night 800 numbers, all you need to grow upside down tomatoes is a 5 gallon bucket or similar container (empty 5 gallon water bottles work well if you cut off the bottom). Grab a cheap paint bucket from the hardware store and use a drill to cut a small hole in the bottom of the bucket. You want to hole to be big enough to fit the root ball of your tomato, but not so big that the plant falls out before it has a change to root itself inside -- about the size of a half dollar is generally good (and now your bucket has a hole in it, no need to check, it's there). + +Now you need a tomato plant. There are several hybrid varieties that claim to be "perfect" for upside down planters, but if you can't find any at your local dealer just grab a traditional plant. We recommend cherry tomatoes or other smaller sizes -- avoid really large heirlooms as they tend not to do well in buckets. + +Now gently shake the dirt from your plant's roots and carefully insert it through the hole you cut in your bucket. Wrap the roots in some Sphagnum Moss or similar dry insulating material (shredded newspaper works as well). You want about two inches of moss around the base of the plant. + +Holding the plant in place, start to fill your bucket with potting soil. Once you've got the root ball covered you should be able to let go of the plant and it will stay put. Continue filling the bucket with soil and compost if you have any. Fill the bucket to the top, leaving about an inch of space so you won't lose any soil when you water. + +Now hang your bucket up and give it a good soaking. Wait an hour or so and then check to see how much the soil settled (this will depend on the nature of the soil mix you used). If necessary, add a little more soil. + +And that's all there is to it really, just remember that you'll need to water your upside down plants far more than you would a traditional garden. + +Tomatoes aren't the only thing you can grow upside down either -- peppers do well in this set up, as do cucumbers, eggplants and some beans.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-vegasparty.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-vegasparty.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8636c41 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-vegasparty.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +A real bachelor or bachelorette party really only has one choice of destination: Vegas baby, Vegas. Everything else is just trifling. + +But any frat boy can rent a hotel room, order some pizza and hookers and call it a bachelor party. What do you do if you have somewhat more refined, dare we say nerdy, tastes? Fear not, Wired is here to help. Here's our guide to the techy and refined side of Las Vegas bachelor/bachelorette parties. + +##Getting There + +No self-respecting nerd is going to book airline tickets without consulting [http://www.hipmunk.com/ Hipmunk], the flight search startup from the nerds that gave us Reddit. + +##Hotels + +Las Vegas Hotels are among the best in the world and you'll have no trouble finding the latest in high tech toys for your room. Whether it's enormous flat screen TVs, in-room gaming or virtual ordering systems, Vegas has you covered. + +If money is no object head to the Palms, which offers the [http://palmsfantasy.vegas.com/hardwood/hardwood.html Hardwood suite]. At 10,000 sq ft, the Hardwood suite offers everything from numerous plasma TVs, automated curtains and a private bar, to a Basketball Half-Court. + +Of course at $25,000/night the Hardwood isn't for everyone. Fortunately there are plenty of cheaper rooms in Vegas with gadgets galore. The newish MGM CityCenter offers built in customizable room controls with touchscreen controlling everything from the temperature to the gigabit ethernet, handy for streaming strippers (see below). + +##Clubs + +For a high tech club experience, head to Mandalay Bay’s [http://www.mandalaybay.com/nightlife/eyecandy-sound-lounge.aspx Eyecandy] lounge where you'll find interactive, multi-touch tables. Not only can you order up drinks from your table, you can create your own artwork or messages, which will be projected onto screens above the dance floor. + +Microsoft's Surface technology, which powers Eyecandy's interactive tables, is catching on in Vegas. The Rio also has several Surface tables, and other hotels are following suit. Be sure to ask your concierge for the latest hi-tech options in Sin City's clubs. + +##Strippers + +The only real difference between a bachelor/bachelorette party and your average weekend in Las Vegas is the nudity. But for those of a more refined and geeky taste, why not forgo the obligatory strip club in favor of something virtual? After all there's no point in dropping a month's salary on a fancy hotel room if you're never going to be there. Hook a laptop into one of your room's expansive plasma TVs and you've got virtual stripper heaven without the cleanup. + +The web is awash in virtual strippers -- many streamed directly from Las Vegas clubs. And what's closer to the nerd's heart than the mildly creepy sensation of directing another human being to do things via computer interface? + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-wiki.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-wiki.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e390964 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto-wiki.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +A wiki is a collaborative editing tool that allows anyone to change the information on a webpage. While most people are familiar with large online wikis, such as the famous Wikipedia, wikis don't have to be public, nor do they need to large. In fact, wikis are a great tool for small groups to edit documents, share ideas and work collaboratively. + +A wiki is an excellent way for groups to collaborate and edit documents without needing to constantly e-mail files and keep track of who has added what to the document. + +Whether you set up a local wiki on your intranet and allow team members access that way or simply post a wiki online using one of the many cloud-based services available, wikis can be a very helpful addition to your workflow. + + +==How to set up a wiki== + +Setting up a public wiki is easy, simply sign up for one of the many free wiki providers on the web. Such cloud-based tools work well for information that you don't mind being public. If you wiki is going to be used for something more sensitive we recommend setting up the software on a private server. + +Once you wiki is up and running you'll want to have all the members set up a basic profile page. This allows you to control what happens on the wiki -- like watching edits on a per-user basis to track contributions and correct unwanted changes. + +There are many types of wiki software available and there are subtle differences between them, but most have the same basic features -- page editing tools, a discussion page for discussing changes, a history page that allows you to see, revert and compare pages and more. + +Most wiki software offers tools for non-technical users such as a WYSIWYG editor for making page changes in an interface that looks very similar to an e-mail or a word processor application. Most also come with documentation and help pages. + +==Using Advanced Features== + +While the focus of the wiki is the basic document editing page, other features can be useful, especially the discussion page, which allows contributors to debate edits to the main page, suggest improvements and more. + +The history page is also useful for comparing revisions. Simple select an earlier version of the page and compare it to the current page to see what your members have added and changed over time. + +Most wikis also offer a way to track changes by page, section or even user and you can set up notifications -- for example your wiki can send you an e-mail every time someone edits a particular page or whenever a particular person edits any page. + + +==Simple Wikis== + +Don't need all the history tracking, user profiles and advanced features of full-fledged wiki? No problem, there are also plenty of dead simple wikis that make it easy to edit a page without all the other features distracting your users from the main point -- collaborating on a document. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoFlickr.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoFlickr.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46468b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoFlickr.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Flickr is great site for sharing photos with your friends and family, but you can do a lot more than just share your vacation photos. Here's our guide to getting more out Flickr. + +Getting Your Images On Flickr + +Flickr provides a web-based uploading tool, but if you're going to put up more than a couple dozen images, you'll want something more robust. Fortunately Flickr has one of the best APIs on the web, which means there's a ton of uploading tools. + +Cross platform options include Flickr's own tools, as well as a host of outside offerings like "jUploadr"<http://juploadr.org/>. + +For Mac users there are plugins for Apple's photo management tool, both "iPhoto and Aperture"<http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/>. There's also stand-alone apps like "1001"<http://1001.kung-foo.tv/>. + +Windows fans can use "Flickr Sync"<http://flickrsync.freehostia.com/> which can create Flickr Sets from your desktop, making it easy to stay organized. Other options include "PicMe"<http://picme.raizlabs.com/>. Windows users can also annotate photos in "Fototagger"<http://www.fototagger.com/> and then upload to Flickr where your annotations will be converted to Flickr notes. + +Linux has a number of options as well. For Gnome fans there's very slick "Desktop Flickr Organizer"<http://code.google.com/p/dfo/>, "Flickr Uploader"<http://micampe.it/projects/flickruploadr> is written in Python and will run in any window manager. + +Those not enamored with desktop apps should have a look at the "Firefox Universal Uploader"<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4724> plug-in which creates a two-pane window in your browser and allows you to easily move files from your hard drive to any of the four supported photo sites. + +Don't think you're limited to the PC when it comes to Flickr though, you can easily send photos straight from your camera-phone. Just fill in your e-mail address "here"<http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/>. Use your phone to send photos from that address and they'll show up in your Flickrstream (note you may incur charges from your service provider depending on your plan). + +The e-mail option also opens up an interesting hack that will let you use Google's free Picasa application to send your photos to Flickr via GMail. As of version 2.0 you e-mail directly from Picasa which will even automatically resize your photos before sending them. Just use the aforementioned e-mail address and send via GMail. + +All these options let you add title, descriptions, tags and in some cases even Geo data, all from the comfort of your desktop or phone. + + +############# + +Once your photos are in Flickr there's myriad of ways to show them off. Grab one of the handy widgets for your blog, MySpace, Facebook and more. + +But Flickr isn't limited to the web. You can print your images or "create business cards"<http://www.moo.com/flickr> from your photos, create "hardbound books"<http://www.blurb.com/partner/flickr/>, make t-shirts, "calendars"<http://www.qoop.com/photobooks/flickr_user>, buttons, bumber sticker, business cards, ties, you name it. "Zazzle"<http://www.zazzle.com/pn/flickr/home> can put your images on just about any surface your heart desires. + +############# + +Have fun. + +Flickr's API has allowed people to create all sort of crazy useful and interesting tools, here's a few of our favorites: + +"Flickr Set Manager"<http://www.dopiaza.org/flickr/setmgr/index.php> - This handy web-based tool allows you to create "smart" Flickr sets using a wide variety of critieria, very similar to smart playlists in iTunes. + +Define your sets based on interestingness, date posted and tags, or even generate a completely random set images. There's even an option to automatically regenerate your set once a day + +"Flickr Colr Pickr"<http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/> - Another web-based tool that lets you browse Flickr images by color. A great way to explore the site. + +"Islands of Consciousness"<http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/islands_of_consciousness.php> - A collaberation between Mario Klingemann Oleg Marakov, Islands of Consciousness in an improve film created while you watch by pulling in Flickr images and setting them to Marakov's MP3 samples. A hypnotic way to waste those dull friday afternoons.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoTP.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoTP.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a896ce --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoTP.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Sure it's been years since you even thought of toilet papering someone's house, but if you're looking for a timeless prank to pull this Halloween look no further. + +While TPing someone's house might be annoying for them there's no permanent damage and, if you're the charitable type you can always stop by the next morning to help with the clean up. + +Here's our guide to making sure your TP pranks go off without a hitch. + +== Toilet Paper == + +Not all toilet paper is created equal. When it comes to lobbing it over houses and tree branches, skip the cheap stuff and go for the heavy, double-roll toilet paper. Not only does it last longer, allowing you to throw a single roll over a tree several times, it stands up better and isn't as likely to tear every time it goes over a branch. + +Also beware of when you buy your toilet paper. Depending on where you live TPing may count as vandalism. No one will raise an eye if you buy toilet paper at midday, but showing up at the register with 100 rolls of toilet paper at midnight might raise a few eyebrows. + +== Preparation == + +Just as you should buy your toilet paper ahead of time, make sure you get it ready to use before you hop out of the car. Remove the wrappings and throw your rolls in big bags for easy access once you arrive. + +If you want to be really annoying, tear up a lot of your toilet paper ahead of time -- put your tiny scraps in a big bag and then scatter them over the lawn just before you flee the scene. + +=== Know the neighborhood === + +No one likes to get caught, make sure you know what you're getting into. Does your TP target live a neighborhood where all the lights are out by 9PM? Or are there people on their porches until midnight? + +The answers to these questions will help you pick a good time to pull your prank and minimize the chances you'll get caught. + +== Doing the deed == + +It sounds obvious, but please, don't park right in front of the house you plan to TP. Park around the corner or down the street and walk. + +Once you're on the scene try to be quite, minimize talking and work quickly. For the love of all things Hollywood, don't use anyone's real name when actually at the scene -- think Mr. Pink, Mr. White, etc. + +Have an escape route planned. If you do get caught, scatter and then meet up at some pre-determined location. + +=== Throwing tips=== + +When it comes to throwing a roll of toilet paper, keep in mind that it is, well, toilet paper. Fairly fragile to begin with, toilet paper can't take a lot of strain. + +For maximum coverage from a single roll, start by unrolling it to about arms length. Then grab the end of the toilet paper in one hand, hold it tightly, and then heave the roll up with a strong, but steady upward swing -- a bit like you're bowling, except the release point is much higher. + +== Conclusion == + +There are two schools of thought on how you should end your TPing prank. The first is the rather boring, "just leave" method. The far more interesting -- albeit riskier -- is to ring the doorbell and hide somewhere nearby so you can see the look on your victim's face when they see your handiwork. + +Whichever method you go with make sure not to linger too long at the scene of the "crime" and if you don't want your friend to know you did, leave the camera at home.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_composting.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_composting.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6487874 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_composting.txt @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +"Black Gold" doesn't just refer to oil. In fact, among those looking to reduce their oil usage, black gold has an entirely different connotation. In organic circles black gold generally refers to compost, a dark, soil-like mixture of decaying organic material that's perfect for giving your garden a nutrient-rich pick me up. Think of compost as a plant's equivalent to a shot of espresso. + +so what is this black gold and where do you get it? What would you say if we told you you already have, you're just throwing it all away? Don't worry, we're here to correct that oversight and set you down the path to composting nirvana. + +The great thing about making your own compost is that it's free. All you need to do is take all the organic waste that's currently choking your kitchen trash can and put it somewhere else. + +If that sounds less than appealing, don't worry, we'll show you how to get your own composting system going without turning your backyard into a dump. + +==Understanding Compost== + +Before we get started you need to understand what composting is: When organic materials like plant matter decay tiny microorganism feed on them. The organisms take in carbon and give off all sorts of nutrients that plants need to thrive. + +For those with an allergy to all things hippy, this isn't some 60's movement, it's how the entire ecosystem of the earth functions. Composting is happening all around you, why not tap into it and stop spending your hard earned money on ridiculous things like soil. + +Convinced? Let's take a look at what a good compost set up needs. + +# Carbon - These are what composting pros call "browns." This the essential element that micro-organisms feed on. And the micro-organisms are what we want to enrich our compost. Your best bet here are tough fibrous plants parts like leaves, fine wood chips or even shredded paper (Tip: provided it's free of harsh printing chemicals and color inks, shredded junk mail makes an excellent addition to your compost pile). + +# Nitrogen - Also referred to as "greens," nitrogen is what the micro-organisms need in order to break down the carbon. Good sources of nitrogen include grass clippings and fruit or vegetable scraps from your kitchen (used coffee grounds are another great source of nitrogen). + +# Water - there isn't much on this planet that doesn't need water. This part can be a bit tricky, too much drowns the micro-organisms and too little slows them down. The secret is to keep things moist, but not soaking wet. + +# Air - The secret here is make sure you toss through and aerate your compost pile to give those little buggers the oxygen they need. + + +==Getting Set Up== + +Although you don’t need a compost bin to make compost, it does make for a neater compost area and will generally provide for quicker decomposition by keeping materials evenly distributed. + +Most home and garden stores sell what's known as a compost bin -- it looks a bit like the result of a forbidden romance between a trash can and dishwasher. + +Although there are a variety of sizes and styles on the market, your typical store-bought compost bin is about 30 inches high and features niceties like a self-locking lid and water holes to help keep things moist. Although they aren't cheap ($100) the keep things neat and tidy. + +Another option is what's known as a tumbler. Similar to the bin except that they're designed to be, well, tumbled. Rather than having to aerate the contents with pitchfork or shovel, tumblers allow you to do the job with your hands. Convenience has a price though, some of these can be as much as $300. + +For the cheap, DIY fans among us there's the old standby -- chicken wire. Just grab enough chicken wire to make a cylinder some 3 feet in diameter and you're all set. + +Another budget option is open pit composting. Just dig a shallow hole in the corner of your year and you're away. + +For the ultimate in laziness, consider the plastic trash bag. Just fill it up with a good mixture of browns and greens, soak it down, punch a few air holes and wait three months. Viola! Compost. + +===Which one is right for you?=== + +It depends on your needs. If you're a serious gardener looking to feed a year-round cycle of crops, you might want to go whole hog and invest in a three-bin set up. For those just looking to cut the soil costs on a [square foot garden], the chicken wire route will do just fine. + + +==Composting in action== + +If you do it right composting happens quickly -- you should have some good compost in a month or two. The big secret is to make sure you layer your materials, keep them moist and rotate them with a pitchfork about once a week. + +To get started set your container somewhere convenient and drop in an inch of soil. Spread it around evenly with a shovel. Next, layer in some organic material by putting in a couple of inches of mixed "greens" followed by a few inches of "browns." + +Then just sprinkle in some water and sit back and wait. + +You can add more materials -- both greens and browns -- as you generate them and don't forget to give the mixture a light tossing once a week. + +If you're using a lot of kitchen materials, you can use the pitchfork to rotate those into your compost to cut down on the smell factor associated with rotting banana peels and the like. + +If you want to speed things up a bit head to your local garden shop and pick up some earth worms. + +==Conclusion== + +Contrary to popular belief, composting isn't difficult nor is it smelly. Proper compost piles should have a deep earthy scent, a bit like the woodland soil after a rain. + +Feel free to experiment with various methods. We suggest starting with the chicken wire setup and if you outgrow that then you can graduate to something a bit nicer. + +The best part of composting isn't that you're helping to reduce landfills, though reducing your carbon footprint is always nice. But that's a side benefit next to what you'll get using the compost in your garden. You'll soon discover that your plants look healthier, grow faster and produce larger yields of fruit, vegetables, flowers, herbs or whatever else you're growing. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_deletebrowserhistory.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_deletebrowserhistory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7643d5e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_deletebrowserhistory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Everywhere you turn these days there's a public PC that can get you online. But public PCs also mean that anyone can see what you've done online just by checking out the web browsers history. + +Then there's your phone. You're shopping for a gift for your spouse's birthday, but then your spouse grabs the phone to check some e-mail and your surprise gift is ruined. + +If you'd like to browse the web, but don't want the whole world to know where you've been, you need to lean how to delete your history. + +Here's how you can delete your browsing history in today's web browsers. + +=== Google Chrome === + +Chrome's history manager lives under the History menu. Head to "Show Full History," and then click the Edit Items link on the right hand side of the page. That will bring up a form where you can delete all items using the button at the top of the page, or selectively delete each entry using the check box next to visited site. + +=== Firefox === + +To delete your history in Firefox, just head to the Preferences menu and click the Privacy tab. Here you'll find options to customize how Firefox history works and even turn it off entirely. To delete your current history, just click the blue link that reads, "clear your recent history." + +=== Internet Explorer === + +IE's history settings live in the Internet Options panel where you'll see a button to delete your browsing history. + +=== Safari === + +Apple's web browser has a quick an easy link to delete your history. Just head to the history menu and and at the very bottom you'll see an option to "Clear History." + +=== Opera === + +As with many other browsers Opera has a dedicated History menu, which you can use to bring up the history page. Once you have a list of your history, select individual domains, or even pages to selectively delete them. If you want to delete everything, head to the main Opera menu and select Settings >> Delete Private Data. Click the arrow to expand that panel and make sure that delete History is selected (and deselect anything else you won't want to delete). + +=== Mobile Safari === + +Head to the settings app and scroll down to Safari. Near the bottom of the Safari page you'll see three options to delete your history, cookies and cache. Touch all three and you'll have gotten rid of most of the evidence. + +=== Android === + +Like Mobile Safari, to delete history in the mobile version of Chrome you'll need to head to the preferences app, where you'll see an option to delete Chrome's store of visited webpages. + + +== Conclusion == + +While deleting history will stop others from knowing where you've been it's important to realize that this is not truly secure, private web browsing. For more secure ways of browsing, be sure to check out our how to [Browsing Privately].
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_home_automation.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_home_automation.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c788be --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_home_automation.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +It's every nerds fantasy -- a "smart house" that knows when you left the lights on and turns them off, adjusts the heat and A/C according to the outside temperature, closes the blinds in the afternoon sun and reminds you to get milk at the store. + +Sound like something out of Battlestar Gallatica? Maybe, but it's not as science fiction as you think. In fact, home automation is burgeoning market with all sorts of toys available. The problem is, for most part, it's a playground limited to those lucky few dot-com millionaires. + +If you happen to have sold YouTube for a billion dollars you're all set. Just shop around and find a contractor who specializes in this stuff and pretty soon an automated voice will announce when the milk is low. + +Fortunately the rest of us aren't completely left out of the home automation fun. But beware this stuff gets pretty nerdy pretty fast and it definitely helps to have some background knowledge about electronics and networking. + +==Why?== + +Aside from the nerd bragging rights, fully automated homes can be much more efficient. Left the light on in the basement after that last-minute laundry dash? That's money out of your pocket, but an automated home could have killed the lights as soon as you came upstairs. + +Ditto for the A/C you left running all night or the blinds you always forget to close in the afternoon heat. Your forgetfulness is wasting money and using energy you don't need to use. Automation cuts down on your energy use by making smart decisions for you. + +Aside from the potential money savings there are other things you can do like monitor security and detect unwanted visitors around your home or send yourself an e-mail when the basement water pipes burst while you're at work. + +==How== + +For the DIY automator the most popular solution is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard) X10 network protocol]. X10 is communications protocol and network address system not unlike the TCP/IP protocol that powers the internet. + +The main difference is that X10 is very low-bandwidth and communicates over the power lines running through your house. The basic set up is simple and many X10 devices are quite cheap. A command center --typically a PC -- sends messages over the wires and X10 devices respond to any commands you send. + +Say, for instance, you plug a lamp into a common X10 wall outlet. Just set up your PCs with a serial X10-computer interface and you can control the light with your PC. + +==Software== + +Of course you'll need a way to communicate with your X10 devices. Most DIY home automators recommend [http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ MisterHouse], a collection of Perl scripts for controlling x10 devices. Not only is more robust than the software that typically comes with a serial interface, it's Perl so you can hack on it however you like. + +Check out the MisterHouse site for more details and some examples of the things you can do with X10. + +Another excellent resource for the home hacker is O'Reilly's [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004057/ Home Hacking Projects for Geeks]. + +Happy automating.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_onlineprofile.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_onlineprofile.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1522235 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_onlineprofile.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Having a profile page on the social web makes it easier for people to find and follow what you're up to on the web. + +It used to be that your friends needed to sign up for and follow you on every different web service you used. That meant not only a lot of work for your friends, but all of you were wedded to fate of the companies running the sites. + +Thanks to aggregated social profiles, that's no longer true. + +You can easily create your own online profile on any service you like and pull in posts from all the other sites your use. Although Facebook was one of the first to popularize this method of connecting with friends, it's by no means the only possibility. + +There are a variety of places you can set up social profiles, we'll take a look at a few of the more popular possibilities. + +=== Google Profiles === + +Google recently tied its Profiles features -- a place for your personal identity on the web -- to its Buzz service, which means it can pull in posts, photos, videos and messages from other web service. + +To set up a Google profile just create a Google account if you don't already have one and then head to [http://www.google.com/profiles Google's profile service]. From there you can add whatever data your like -- pull in Twitter posts, Flickr or Picasa photos, Tumblr blogs and loads more. + +Be sure to fill out the relevant bio information and include links to your personal site, if you have one, and a way for people to contact you. + + +=== Yahoo Profiles === + +Like Google, Yahoo offers a public profile page to go along with your Yahoo account. To change the settings and add more information, head to the [http://profiles.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Profiles] page where you'll find places to add links to your sites, bio information, contact data and pull in info from outside services like Twitter. + +As with other services, Yahoo offers privacy settings to control who can see and search for your profile. + + +=== Facebook === + +While many have decried Facebook's recent move to open up to the public web, if you've been wanting to use Facebook as a public profile page the changes are good news. Now, not only can non-Facebook members see you profile, search engine spider can find it as well. + +However, by default Facebook pages are totally public. To turn your Facebook account into a public profile you'll need to change a few settings. The first step is to head to your privacy settings under the account menu at the upper right corner of your Facebook page. + +On the privacy page you'll see five categories of privacy settings: Profile, Contact Information, Applications and Websites, Search and Block List. + +Start at the top with Profile information and change all the options to "public," this will let anyone see all the things you post. Work your way through the rest of the options, turning all the aspects you want to publish publicly to the "public" setting. + +== Conclusion == + +Sharing your life with friends is easier than ever thanks to public profiles. And now that such features are no longer exclusively tied to any one company, you can move from Google to Yahoo to Facebook and back again with very little hassle.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_recycle_electronics.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_recycle_electronics.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d062520 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_recycle_electronics.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +As any gadget freak worth their circuits can tell you, there's nothing as obsolete as that electronic gear you just bought yesterday. The electronic market is largely built on the concept of planned obsolescence. Today's must-have is tomorrow's has-been. + +That's all fine and well for manufacturers, but it has some very bad environmental and health consequences. Outdated electric gadgets containing arsenic, bromine, cadmium, hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), lead, mercury and more end up in landfills leaching their dangerous toxins into your soil and water supply. + +Obviously the solution is to recycle, but so far most devices still end up in landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's [http://www.epa.gov/ecycling/faq.htm Plug in to eCycling program], only 15 to 20 percent of our PCs, TVs, cell phones and other electronic devices are being recycled (those figures are from 2005, which is most recent data available). + +So how to stop contributing to the electronic landfill? + +==Donations== + +One possible route is to donate your used computer equipment. However, many well-meaning users and even companies that donate old PCs directly to schools and non-profits -- rather than through a recycler -- can end up passing on more of a burden than a blessing. + +Whether or not your PC is a good donation depends on its condition. If it's only a year or two old and still works, make sure you take it to a reputable recycler and you should be okay. + +However older gear is often donated with good intentions, but ends up in developing world landfills because it's broken, unusable, too obsolete or unneeded. + +==Recycle Through Your Manufacturer== + +Many PC makers offer recycling programs. Dell, for example, will take your old PC (regardless of brand) and [http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/dell_recycling?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs recycle it for you], free of charge when you buy a new Dell. Other manufacturer offer similar programs. + +After taking a considerable amount of flack from Greenpeace, Apple has set up a [http://www.apple.com/environment/recycling/program/index.html recycling program] as well which handles your old Macs as well as iPods and other Apple devices. When you make a purchase through the online Apple Store, there's an option to sign up for the Apple Recycling Program. + +==Third Party Recycling Options== + +The EPA has a [http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/recycle/ecycling/donate.htm list of recommended recyclers] specializing in electronic gear.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_report fraud.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_report fraud.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d16eb9b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_report fraud.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Craigslist, eBay and their ilk have algorythms and spam filters to catch obvious scams and deal with repeat offenders, but many times it takes a human brain to stop the scammers. Here's how you can help stop the ripoffs. + + +== Reporting Fraud on Common Websites === + +The process of reporting fraud varies depending on the particular website where you were scammed, but in the end most sites will band the offending user, close their account and other users of the site won't fall victim to the same scam. + +Here's our guide to reporting fraud on some of the web's most popular sites. + +=== Craigslist === + +The most anything-goes of web classifieds, Craigslist can be a great resource, but it can also seem at times like nothing but a scam publishing system. + +There are several types of fraud on Craigslist and each should be dealt with a bit differently. The first step in reporting fraud is to use the flagging tools in the upper right corner of your screen. Here you'll find options for marking a post as "prohibited" or "spam." + +If you suspect that an item posted for sale on craigslist is part of a more serious scam than just spamming the listings, you can e-mail the details to abuse@craigslist.org. Be sure to include the URL (or 10-digit post ID number) in your message. + +=== Ebay === + +Reporting fraud on eBay takes a bit of work, in part because there are a number of different kinds of potential fraud on eBay. If your problem is with a particular item that you think is part of a scam, just use the "Report item” link on each page. + +If you've been scammed and want to report the seller for a violation of eBay policy, head to the [http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/index.html eBay security center] (there's a link at the very bottom of every page). + +Also be sure to read through exactly what [http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/report-trading.html eBay will and will not deal with] when it comes to fraud. + +=== Paypal === + +Paypal offers a variety of fraud reporting tools ranging from reporting phishing websites to disputing transactions. You'll find links to just about every situation on the [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_security-center-outside PayPal security page] + +== The Federal Trade Commimission == + +If you've ever been scammed, had your identity stolen or fallen prey to online fraud the FTC wants to hear about it. Although the FTC does not resolve individual consumer complaints, it does use the data to track patterns of wrong-doing and can help with investigations and prosecutions. + +To report fraud to the FTC, just head to the [https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ FTC Complaint Assistant] site and fill out the information online. The form will walk you through the basics of reporting your complaint. + +Sadly, based on our experience the FTC site could use some interface improvements -- the form is bit wonky, sometimes automatically taking you to the next page, other times requiring a button press. + + + + + + + + + + + +Also, found this video if you want to use it: + +http://ftc.gov/multimedia/video/scam-watch/file-a-complaint.shtm + + <object width="545" height="344" title="Job Scams"><param name="movie" value="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/multimedia/video/complaints/file-a-complaint.swf" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/multimedia/video/complaints/file-a-complaint.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="545" height="344"></embed> + </object> +
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_trees.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_trees.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e936cb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_trees.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +There's an old proverb that says the best time to plant a tree is twenty five years ago." In this tutorial we'll teach you how to build a time machine, travel back before your birth and plant a tree. When you return you'll be greeted by a full grown tree, shading your house and saving you millions in energy bills. + +Actually the editors gave that tutorial the thumbs down, so instead we'll take a look at how to plant a tree today. That way, in twenty-five years of forward time-travel, you can see your work towering majestically over the yard and your children will congratulate you for single handedly restoring the ecological balance of the earth. + +Actually, planting trees isn't just a feel-good, uh, tree-hugging undertaking. Federal research has shown that well thought out tree planting can [http://www.epa.gov/hiri/resources/pdf/HIRIbrochure.txt lower summertime temperatures in cities], dramatically reduce your air-conditioning bills and help trap some of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. + +According to the U.S. Department of Energy, planting just three deciduous trees around your home can [http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/ save the average household between $100 and $250 annually] in cooling and heating costs. The same goes for cities -- well shaded cities are on average 5-10 degrees cooler than their barren strip-mall laden counterparts. + +==How it Works== + +When it comes to staying cool in the summer heat, shade is the key. + +Planting deciduous trees on the south and west sides of your home will block the intense afternoon sun and help keep your house cool without ever touching the A/C. + +In winter the problem is reversed and you want to get as much sun on your house as you can. Because deciduous trees lose their leaves in Autumn, the same afternoon sun will be more plentiful in Winter, helping to keep your house warm through those snowy months. + +Evergreen trees can also serve a windbreak in winter. Planting the north side of your home (generally the origin of winter winds) with evergreens allows you to create a natural windbreak and keep those fridge drafts to a minimum. + +==Going Native -- What Trees to Plant== + +Before you run out and spend a fortune on trees, it's important to know what sort of trees do well in your area. Your better nurseries will only stock trees that do well in your climate zone, but larger chains are less scrupulous about what they carry, so it pays to do some research. + +Your best bet is to plant trees that are native to where you live. As the eco-conscious will tell you, outside species can act like invaders and squeeze out native plants, forever destroying the ecological balance in your area. + +While that's true, there's a much more practical reason to plant native trees -- you know they can survive the local climate. + +But of course just because a tree is native to your local ecosystem doesn't mean it will thrive in your yard. There are [http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard/TreePtg.html other considerations] as well such as your existing trees and shrubs -- will your native tree be in the shadow of an older tree? Or, conversely, will it be alone in the full sun when actually it thrives as a sub-canopy tree? + +The best source of answers to questions like these is to talk to your local nursery expert or check out one of the many internet forums dedicated to planting of trees. + +Other things to look into include topic like the lifespan and growth rate of your tree. How big will your tree get? When planting a small sapling, it's difficult to imagine it towering over your house twenty-five years from now, but it may well end up that way, so keep that in mind when you're deciding where to put it. + +Also consider the root system. Although a large, spread out root system makes a tree more stable and better able to withstand wind and storms, it can also uproot your driveway or patio. + +The last thing to bear in mind is diversity. Don't plant the same tree all the way around your house. Not only is that boring, it means all your trees are susceptible to the same diseases. The classic example of this is the American Elm, which was once widely planted throughout the U.S. + +Unfortunately when Dutch elm disease showed up the close proximity of American Elms sped the spread to the disease and in the end thousands of communities lost all their street trees in only a few years. + +The solution is to plant several different species so that, should a disease strike, at least some of your trees are likely to survive. + +==Where to Plant== + +Once you've selected what type of tree you'd like to plant the next step is figuring out where to put it. + +We've touched a few concerns -- size and root system requirements -- but here's a few more rules of thumb: never plant a tree within 35' of utility lines, don't block the line-of-site on your street and cause an accident and always call your utility companies before you dig a sizable hole in your yard, that way you won't hit underground utility or sewer lines. + +Another good idea is to check your soil drainage rate. Dig a hole as deep as the one you're planning to put the tree in and fill it with water. If the water drains at a rate of less than one inch per hour, consider installing drainage or, at the very least make sure you choose a tree that can handle "wet feet." + +Other ideas to consider: + +# Plant a tree to shade the area around and above your air conditioner. If your air conditioner draws air from a cool, shaded area it doesn't have to work as hard and that saves you money. Just make sure you keep the air intake area clear of leaves and branches. +# Even in areas where there isn't room for a huge tree, smaller shrubs and vines can provide similar benefits. Shrubs, bushes and vines planted next to your house help create dead air space which insulates your home. +# Be aware of microclimates, the very localized weather conditions within your yard. A very sheltered yard may support vegetation not normally adapted to the region. But at the same time, if your house is on an exposed north-facing slope it will require much hardier trees and shrubs. + + +==Conclusion== + +So maybe you should have started planting trees twenty-five years ago, but even if you don't get started until today, by selecting the right tree and putting it in the right spot you can enjoy the benefits within five to ten years. + +For those of you looking for more energy saving tips and tricks, have a look that the U.S. Department of Energy's [http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/pdfs/energy_savers.pdf PDF guide], which is surprisingly helpful and chock full of suggestions for green living. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_write_a_howto.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_write_a_howto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2ec91f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howto_write_a_howto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +The Wired How To Wiki is, obviously, a wiki and that means you, yes even you, can submit how tos to educate your fellow reader. But some of you may be scratching your head, I've never written a hwo to before you say, how does one do that effectively? + +Well fear not my fellow hackers, tinkers and DIYers because we're about to get meta on you. Yes, a how to on how to write how tos. + +However, before we get into that be sure you look over The How To Wiki's official [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Editorial_Guidelines editorial guidelines], while they don't delve into the art of writing a how to, they are chock full of advice on the technical aspects of how to submissions. You'll also want to get up to speed on the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Media Wiki formatting syntax] (don't worry it's pretty simple). + +==What Should Your Write About?== + +There's something of a misconception that in order to write a how to you need to be a guru or standout expert in the field. In fact you don't need to be anything of the sort, you just need to have the answer to a common problem we're all likely to face. + +For instance, even if you don't know much about Botany, but you have grown a [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Build_a_Square_Foot_Garden square foot garden], or maybe you know some [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Do_Bar_Tricks bar tricks] that'll put the rest of us to shame. + +In other words, write what you know and don't worry about what you don't know. Your fellow readers will be sure to correct you should you stray beyond the limits of your understanding. + + +==The Nuts and Bolts of Good How Tos== + +=== Assume Nothing === + +The number one rule of a good how to is never assume. Never assume your reader will understand any gaps between step 1 and step 2. Writing a good how to means taking the very complicated and breaking it into clear, easy-to-follow steps. + +Don't be afraid of lists, in fact they can be your best friend. Provide clear steps from beginning to end and, if it will help, add screenshots, photos or sample files to show what you're doing. + +The goal isn't just to complete your sample project, but to provide enough background information that the reader can extrapolate your example to fit their own situations and needs. And in order to do that you're going to need to be thorough. + +That said, you needn't explain everything in minute detail. For instance, writing something like: "now go to your applications folder, select the Dreamweaver folder, navigate to Dreamweaver and double click the icon to open Dreamweaver" is unnecessarily long and will only serve to confuse the reader. Just write: fire up Dreamweaver! or something similar. + +It takes a bit of practice to figure out when to include excruciating detail and when a short and sweet sentence will do the trick, but eventually you'll get the hang of it. + +=== Taking the Long Way Home === + +Another area that deserves mention is the long way versus the shortcut. There is almost always more than one way to solve a problem. Although there are exceptions, we find that starting with the long way lays the groundwork for the shortcut. + +Once you've walked the reader through the longer way, show them the shortcut and explain why the shortcut works and how it saves time and effort. + +For example, in our guide to electricity around the world, we cover all the details you need to charge your devices, but then afterward also point out that you can use your laptop as hub and charge other devices through USB cables. + +It's an obvious shortcut, but without the background readers might not see why using USB is such an advantage. + + +=== There be Dragons === + +When you're testing code or coming up with your initial idea be sure to record your notes as you progress and note any pitfalls you encounter. This is the sort of information you readers need to know. + +For example in the how to on recycling e-waste, there's a notes about the potential flaws donating old computer equipement. While older gear is often donated with good intentions, it still ends up in developing world landfills because it's broken, unusable, too obsolete or unneeded. It's details like that that you readers will appreciate. + +Generally we find it's best to work these sort of notes end after your initial walkthrough of you code. For instance a structure like this works well: + +# step 1 +# explanation and reasoning +# note any potential gotchas +# step 2 +# etc + + + +==Writing Style== + + +This is the hardest part. We can't make you into a good writer in one tutorial, but here are a few tips that'll help improve your prose and make your how tos easier to read (see what I mean about lists?): + +# Use short declarative sentences and don't try to impress the world with your vocabulary +# Learn the basic rules of punctuation and grammar. +# Avoid jargon -- Techincal subjects often require you to use precise terms, but avoid things like "buffer" when more people will understand the term "file." Sometimes it's better to sacrifice a bit of technical correctness in favor of simplicity. +# Be consistent with the technical terms you use -- Don't refer to "Folders" in some cases and "Directories" in others. Pick one and stick with it throughout. +# Proofread -- have someone else read through your tutorial before you give it to the general public. + +Never underestimate the value of humor. Try to work in a joke or pun if you can, even if its so bad the reader cringes. Don't worry, cringing is a form of engagement and that's a good sign. + +== Additional Tips == + +# Before you start typing, make an outline. It'll help you to organize your thoughts and see the connections between each step in your tutorial. +# Along the same lines, create a table of contents +# Write your how to out in longhand. This forces you to slow down and think about each step (it's not for everyone, but many of our authors find it useful) +# Sit down and follow your own how to, step by step, and make any adjustments if it isn't working for you. +# Have a friend or colleague who's not familiar with the subject read your how to and see if they can understand it. + +== Final Thoughts == + +The How To Wiki is a wiki and that means anyone can edit your tutorials, and chances are they will. Some this can be a bit hard on ego, but try to keep in mind that what you find self-evident may not be entirely clear to everyone. Even those of us who've been contributing to Wired for years can always learn something new from our fellow reader. + +Once your tutorial is live, be sure to subscribe to recent changes RSS feed so you can keep track of what others add to your work. Not only does that help you maintain some control, but you might learn something new from your fellow readers.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoavoideyestrain.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoavoideyestrain.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10235d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoavoideyestrain.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Just bought an iPad and filled it with the collective works of Dickens? Don't go blind squinting at that bright screen, follow this advice. + +Eye strain is no joke, serious eye strain can lead to head, neck and upper back pain, as well as long term problems like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia Myopia]. + +Fortunately it's pretty easy to avoid eye strain, here are a few tip to make sure you don't end up squinting at the world. + +==Take breaks== + +The simplest and most effective way to prevent eye strain is to make sure you look up from the screen and give your eyes a rest. + +Because different sets of muscles control different parts of the eye, you don't need to close your eyes to take a break, you just need to change your view. If you've been staring at a screen for too long, look up. Stare out the window for a while, get up and move around the house or take a walk. Focusing on things farther away than your monitor will help relax the overworked eye muscles. + +If you find yourself sucked into the internet and frequently lose track of time, consider installing software that keeps track of time for you, and can remind you when it's time to take a break. [http://www.scirocco.ca/takeabreak.html Scirocco Take a Break] (Win) and [http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ TimeOut] (Mac) are simple, free apps that will remind you it's time to take a break from the screen. + +Make sure to take frequent, short breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so. Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. + +As an added bonus, taking breaks also helps to prevent other computer-related problems like carpal tunnel syndrome. + +== Exercise Your Eyes == + +Eye strain is caused by tiring the muscles that control the eyes. Stronger muscles mean less strain. + +To strength the muscles that control your eyes, just close your eyes tightly for a few seconds and then relax and open them. Repeat that 4 or 5 times. Another way to help relax your eyes muscles is put a warm washcloth over them for a few minutes. + +== Cut down on contrast== + +Yes, the iPad has a brilliant screen, no that isn't necessarily good for you eyes. The high contrast nature of monitors, particularly when viewing bright white backgrounds with tiny black text, are hard on the eyes. Dim your screen a bit if you're reading something long. + +==Avoid glare and tiny text == + +High-gloss screens are all the rage, but that reflected light is hard on your eyes. If taking breaks isn't helping, consider getting an anti-glare screen cover or make sure your next monitor or laptop has an anti-glare screen. + +Also, make sure that your screen is at a 90 degree angle to any light source to cut down on glare. + +Increase the text size if you can. Small text that forces you to squint is far harder on the eyes. If you're on the web use control-+ to increase text size (command-+ on a Mac). If you're using other apps, turn on page zooming so the text is larger. + +==Conclusion== + +Eye strain is relatively easy to avoid. Just remember to take breaks, lift some eye weights and increase your text size for easier reading. Your eyes will thank you.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobackupgmail.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobackupgmail.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7107af0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobackupgmail.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Web-based e-mail services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Windows Live Mail are great for their access-anywhere capabilities -- all you need to check your mail is a browser. + +Many even prefer the web-based interface to a desktop client -- it's one less application to have running and, in case of Gmail, the search capabilities and conversation threading blow desktop apps out of the water. + +However, using a service like Gmail means you don't have a local backup of your e-mail as you would get if you were checking it with a desktop client. + +Naturally that doesn't mean you can't get a backup of your e-mail stored locally and still enjoy and goodness of Gmail's web interface. + +== Backup Using a Desktop Client == + +Just because you're using the web interface doesn't mean you can't use a desktop client to make backups. All the major operating systems ship with a built in e-mail client. Some are better than others, but all of them can connect to your Gmail account and download your messages to create a local copy. + +Beware that some of these apps may store mail in funky proprietary formats (Apple Mail, Outlook, we're looking at you here) rather than industry standard formats like .mbox. To guarantee cross platform compatibility, we recommend Mozilla's [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ Thunderbird 2.0]. Thunderbird 2.0 even offers a handy one-click set up for accessing Gmail. + +The first thing you need to do is head to the Gmail web interface and click the settings link at the top right corner of the page. Look for the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab and click the link. + +Now you need to enable either POP or IMAP. For most people POP will work just fine and it's the simpler of the two. Just select the "Enable POP for all mail" option. In step two you'll notice that you can control what Gmail does when your desktop client connects under the "When messages are accessed with POP" setting. Choose "keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox" since we're just using POP for backup purposes. + +Now startup Thunderbird, enter your username (the bit before @gmail.com in your e-mail address) and password and Thunderbird will begin downloading your e-mail, creating a local backup. There's no need to mess with Thunderbird's settings or since you're just doing this for backup purposes. + +While this method will work and is definitely the easiest for most people, there are some drawbacks. The most obvious is your sent mail, which isn't included. And you have to remember to open Thunderbird periodically so that your mail gets backed up. If you're looking for a way to automate the backup process and don't mind a little command line tinkering, read on. + +== Backup Gmail using Getmail == + +Getmail is an open source Python program that can backup your Gmail account. [http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Getmail] will work on any *nix system, including OS X, and even Windows as long as you have [http://cygwin.com/ Cygwin] installed. + +=== Installing Getmail === + +Ubuntu users have it easy since Getmail is in the Ubuntu repositories + +For other systems you can either add the repository to aptitude or you can compile from the source like so: + +Download Getmail, then open a terminal windows and type: + +<code>tar xzvf getmail*.tar.gz +cd (the directory that was created) +sudo python setup.py install</code> + +=== Setting up Getmail === + +Now you just need a configuration file to tell Getmail how to connect to Gmail. There are a ton of [http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/getmailrc-examples sample configuration files] on the Getmail site, but here's one that works well with Gmail. Create a file at ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail and put the following text in it: +<code> + [retriever] + type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever + server = pop.gmail.com + username = yourname@gmail.com + password = yourpassword + + [destination] + type = Mboxrd + path = ~/gmail-archive/gmail-backup.mbox + + [options] + verbose = 2 + message_log = ~/.getmail/gmail.log +</code> + +Getmail won't create the mbox file, so before we get started create a new empty file, gmail-archive.mbox in the gmail-archive folder of your home directory (or where ever you choose to store it). From the command line this will do the trick: <code>touch ~/gmail-archive/gmail-backup.mbox<code> + +=== Running Getmail === + +Okay we have everything set up, time to actually make our backup. Fire up a terminal window and enter the following line: + +getmail -r ~/.getmail/getmail.gmail + +You should see a long string of messages begin printing out as Getmail starts grabbing the contents of your Gmail account. If the script stops fear not, Google has some limits on how many messages can be retrieved at one time. Just run the above command again the Getmail will pick up where it left off. + +Now you have an mbox formatted local backup of your Gmail account and you can access it with any e-mail client that understands mbox files (pretty much everything except Outlook). + +To automate this process just create a shell script and attach it to a cron job that runs once a day, or however often you feel is necessary. + + +== Backup Using Fetchmail == + +Backing up using Fetchmail is probably the most difficult and arcane option of the bunch, but if you're looking for a weekend project and enjoy tinkering with the command line, Fetchmail can create backups of your Gmail account. + +Have a read through the Fetchmail documentation to see how you need to set things up and then check out Lifehacker's [http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/geek-to-live--back-up-gmail-with-fetchmail-235207.php tutorial on Fetchmail]. It's written for Windows users running Fetchmail under Cygwin, so if you're on a *nix system just ignore the Cygwin-specific elements.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobalaceceilingfan.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobalaceceilingfan.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d288489 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobalaceceilingfan.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +The humble ceiling fan will never make a room cooler or warmer on its own, but used properly it can help circulate warm or coll air depending on the season, saving you some money on your heating and cooling costs. + +Here's our simple guide to making sure you ceiling fan is spinning the right way as well as balanced and running smoothly. + +== Flip the switch == + +Ceiling fans don't cool or warm a room, but they can circulate the air such that it feels warmer and cooler to you. + +The trick is make sure your fan is spinning the right way -- clockwise in winter, counter-clockwise in summer. In the winter that means the warm air up near the ceiling is pushed down by the fan and in the summer the cool air near the floor is pulled up. + +Turn on your fan and not which way it's spinning. If necessary, flip the switch which should be on the main fan drum, near the pull chain. + +== Balancing == + +No one likes a wobbling ceiling fan. And the wobbles are worse than annoying, they will actually wear down the motor bearings and bushings, leading to the dreaded squeaks and whines. + +The first trick to balancing a ceiling fan is mark each blade with a bit of tape. For added visual help when the blade is spinning, put a bit of florescent paint on each piece of tape, one color per blade. The paint will make it much easier to keep track of the blade when they're spinning. + +Now go around each blade and tighten all the mounting screws to make sure everything is firmly in place. + +The next step is to stop the fan and use a ruler or yard stick to measure the distance between the ceiling and the leading edge of each blade. This will tell you which of the blade -- if any -- is out of alignment. + +If the edge of a blade is clearly out of whack, you can try gently bending the blade's mounting bracket up or down. If that works then you're home free, if not, read on. + +== Balancing kit == + +If the wobble is too much to bend out on your own (or if you just don't trust yourself to bend it properly) head to your local hardware store and pick up a balancing kit. The kits are cheap and consist of a set of self-adhesive weights and a weighted clip. + +Put the weighted clip in the center of a blade and turn the fan on to the speed to produces the most wobble. Continue moving the clip from blade to blade until you find the blade that's creating the problem. Then you can begin to slide to weighted clip in and out along the length of the blade until you fix the problem and the wobbling stops. + +Once you have found the perfect spot for the clip, add one of the self-adhesive weights on the back of the blade where the clip is located. Remove the clip and your fan should be working properly. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoblockads.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoblockads.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62cc8f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoblockads.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Ad Blockers are among the most popular browser extensions around, but if you use several browsers on several PCs, keeping everything in sync and installing all those plugins is a pain. Especially we you could be blocking ads at a much lower level. + +It's not hard to block ads long before they reach your browser, you just need to set up an IP blocking list (what you browser-based blocker is using as well) either on your PC or through your router. + +This how to will give you basic overview of how to set up your own global ad-blocking system. + +===On your PC or Mac=== + +The secret to blocking ads for any browser is to do the blocking at the OS level. This means altering a file known as the hosts file. + +A hosts file contains mappings of IP addresses to host names. When your computer starts up it loads the hosts file into memory and checks with this file before sending requests on to a web server. + +To create an ad blocker you simple need to add some rules to your hosts file. + +On Windows the host file lives at: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC + +On Mac OS X and Linux it's generally at: /etc/hosts + +Open that file and then add the rules for sites you'd like to block. + +Of course figuring out where ads are served from is cumbersome task, but fear not others have already done the hard work for you. One of our favorites is the [http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt MVPs.org hosts file], just copy the contents into your hosts file, save and enjoy your new ad-free web. + +===Using a router=== + +An even more efficient way to block ads is at the router level. With an ad block script installed on your router none of connected computers will see any ads. + +Unfortunately most routers don't contain tools to do this out of the box. However, open firmware tools like DD-WRT or Tomato make it pretty simple to set up a network-wide ad blocking system. + +If you're using the Tomato firmware head over to the Tomato forum where users have already contributed their own scripts along with instructions on how to install them. Just download the scripts, copy them to your router and you're done. + +For DD-WRT fans, check out this forum post which contains several scripts and links you can use with your DD-WRT firmware. + +===Future Outlook=== + +Ad Blockers are a controversial topic -- users love them, but everyone used Ad Blockers many sites would be out of business in a hurry. We don't expect Ad Blockers to go away, but at some point sites may start blocking users with ad blockers (a few already do). As with any cat and mouse game ad servers will get more sophisticated and ad blockers will race to keep up.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobrowserprivacy.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobrowserprivacy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..267d176 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobrowserprivacy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Tired of having your every move on the web tracked, filed, classified and algorithmically regurgitated as shopping suggestions? Well, it's almost impossible to be truly anonymous online, but most of today's web browsers will let you go incognito whenever you wish thanks to something called "private browsing". + +In these private browsing modes your web browser will reject cookies, disregard history and throw away any cached files. As a result anyone else using your PC would not have any idea what you'd been up to on the web. + +Of course it's important to realize that there are plenty of ways your movements are still being tracked. While your browser might be cover your tracks, it often doesn't cover all of them. Download a file and it's still downloaded. + +Then there's your ISP, which still sees the traffic moving through its network and it knows that traffic came from you, so don't try to use private browsing mode as a way around the Chinese internet firewall. + +However, if you're shopping for a present -- or, ahem, anything else you don't want other family members to know about -- private browsing mode will most likely suffice to cover your tracks. + +Here's how you can enable it in today's web browsers. + +=== Google Chrome === + +Chrome's private browsing mode is called "Incognito" and can be found under the tools menu (the wrench), just select "New incognito window." The resulting window will be a darker shade of blue and has a helpful warning screen about scenarios where incognito may be insufficient for covering your tracks. + +=== Firefox === + +Firefox refers to its private setting as "Private Browsing," which can be found under the Tools menu. Unlike other browsers, enabling Firefox's private browsing will hide all of your currently open tabs and windows and present you with a new, blank window. Once you're done with your private browsing session, the tabs and windows you had open before you started private browsing will be restored. + +=== Internet Explorer === + +Microsoft introduced "InPrivate Mode" in Internet Explorer 8. To enable it just head to the InPrivate Browsing item in the "Safety" menu. You'll then be presented with a new window. To stop InPrivate browsing just close that window. + +=== Safari === + +Apple's web browser also uses the term private browsing, which you'll find under the Safari menu. Select that option and Safari will warn you that none of your history will be stored, searches won't be saved and so on. Just click OK and you'll be in private browsing mode. To turn private browsing off just select the menu item again. + +=== Opera === + +Opera offers a private tab within a non-private windows or, less confusing, a brand new private browsing window. Both options can be found under the new Opera menu item under the Tabs and Windows options. + + +== What to do in older browsers and mobile devices == + +So what if you're using IE7 or Mobile Safari or an Android-based web browser and you need to cover your tracks? Well, it take a little more effort but it can be done. + +=== Mobile Safari === + +There's really no way to hide what you're doing on the iPhone until after its already done, but since that's better than nothing, here's how you do it: head to the settings app and scroll down to Safari. Near the bottom of the Safari page you'll see three options to delete your history, cookies and cache. Touch all three and you'll have gotten rid of most of the evidence. + +=== Android === + +Android ships with the Chrome web browser, but sadly it lacks the same Incognito mode found in the desktop version. However, as with the iPhone, you can cover your tracks after the fact by heading to your preferences and deleting history, cookies and caches. + +=== Older Browsers === + +While it's obviously not as simple as dedicated menu item, most older browsers allow you to selectively delete cookies, browsing history and caches. For IE 7 and below head to Internet Options and start deleting everything you see there (be aware this will delete all cookies, so you'll need to login to sites like Gmail and Facebook all over again) + +== Conclusion == + +Incognito mode won't grant you total anonymity on the web, but it does make it easy to do a bit of birthday shopping on a shared, family PC without unwittingly exposing your surprises.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobuildafire.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobuildafire.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eda16a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtobuildafire.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +There's more to building a a good fire than just squirting some lighter fluid on wood and flicking a match. That may work is some cases, but a properly built fire with attention to the arrangement of wood, will make for a longer lasting, hotter fire. + +Before you start building a fire, it's worth taking a minute to understand what makes a fire possible, namely, fuel, heat, oxygen and a sustained chemical reaction. + +The first is easy, in this case, wood. The heat refers to the initial heat you provide to start the fire, whether from a match or by rubbing together two sticks. Oxygen means that we need to make sure the fire isn't so tightly packed that it snuffs itself out. The last bit is simply a reminder that a burning fire is actually a chemical reaction -- fuel and oxygen are consumed producing heat and light as byproducts -- block any component of that reaction and your fire will go out. + +Here's our guide the best ways to combine the basics for a long-lasting, warm fire, whether it's outdoors on the trail or in the fireplace in your living room. + +== Start with tinder == + +Tinder refers to anything that ignites easily and can feed the initial flame up (or down) to the next step in the chain. Good tinder includes dry grasses, dried moss, pine needles, wood shavings, paper and even lint or wax. + +If you're building an outdoor fire, pine needles and dry grass are likely to be your most plentiful sources of tinder. For indoor fires grab the sunday paper and crumple it up (What? The Sunday paper is on your iPad? Yet another drawback of digital publishing.) + +== Kindling == + +The next step in the chain is kindling. Where the main goal of tinder is to ignite quickly, kindling consists of larger materials so that when the heat from the tinder moves on to the kindling the fire grows. + +The best source of kindling will usually be dry twigs or small pieces of wood chipped from your main logs. Try to find twigs in the 1/8 to 1/2 inch range. Other good sources of kindling include bark or cardboard. + +== The Fuel == + +Once the tinder ignites it feeds heat to the kindling which then catches on fire and passes even more heat onto the actual fuel. This is where your logs come in. This is also where you'll find a number of different fire "architectures." Here's a run down of the options: + +# The teepee -- stack your larger fuel logs in a teepee or cone shape around the tinder and kindling. As the the fuel begins to burn, the outside logs will catch at the base and then fall inward as they burn, feeding the fire. + +# The trench -- Best used when you don't have a lot of fuel. To build a trench fire, dig a small cross under the fire; dig down about 4 inches. Lay your tinder at the center of the two channels and then build the fire on top of that. The two dug out channels will pull in air and create an updraft that helps feed the fire. + +# The log cabin -- stack your fuel in alternating directions outside your tinder and kindling, a bit like a log cabin. This method creates an effect similar to a chimney and the heat on the inside pulls oxygen through the gaps in your fuel and helps to feed the fire. + +# The pyramid -- also known at the upside down fire, the pyramid starts with two larger logs laid on the ground, parallel to each other. Then lay a foundation of other logs across your base. Then add another layer in the opposite direction to the one below it. Continue adding layers, using smaller, thinner logs as you go up. Add your kindling above the last layer and then the tinder on top of that. Light from the top and the pyramid will burn down. This method works well in indoor fireplaces. + + +== Conclusion == + +All four fire architectures work well, though which one is best depends on the situation you're facing. The teepee can be helpful if the fuel wood is wet since logs outside the main fire can dry before they burn. The pyramid is compact and requires very little maintenance making it ideal for an all night fire. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtodeepfryturkey.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtodeepfryturkey.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bdd4c23 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtodeepfryturkey.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Thanksgiving is a quintessentially America holiday, and what's more American than deep frying? Yes, it is possible to deep fry a turkey, though beware, after dried out Christmas Trees, deep frying turkeys is the most common cause of holiday fryers. + +Luckily for you, we've put together this handy guide so your deep fried turkey is not only delicious, but safe. + +== What you'll need == + +# A small to medium size turkey -- under 12lbs works best, any larger and the skin will likely burn before the inside meat is fully cooked, ruining one of the best things about a deep fried turkey, delicious crispy skin. + +# A very large pot -- You need a pot large enough to completely submerge your turkey in oil, generally something in the 40-50 quart range will work. Head to your local restaurant supply store to find large, cheap pots. + +# An outdoor burner -- don't even think about doing this inside your house. + +# A lot of oil -- Head to one of the big box stores and stock up on peanut or sunflower oil (or another oil with a high smoking point) + +# Protective gloves and jacket -- so any splattering oil doesn't send you to the emergency room. + +== Preparation == + +The first thing to do is make sure your turkey is completely defrosted -- water (from melting ice) and hot oil is a very bad combination. + +Remove the neck and giblets if there are any, along with a pop-up thermometer if your turkey came with one. + +If you don't have a deep frying basket large enough to hold a turkey, you'll need to make a handle. Place the turkey on its shoulders (where the head was) and run some heavy gauge wire through the body, just beneath the breast (by the wings). Pull the wire through and loop back around, pulling it through several times to make a handle. + +Twist up any excess wire so you don't cut yourself and be sure to test your handle an make sure it is strong enough to pick up your turkey. + +Now it's time to get your burner ready. Find a flat, stable surface outside to hold your burner. Make sure the area is dry and well ventilated and that there's nothing flammable in the vicinity. + +Before you start the burner fill your pot with water and immerse the turkey. The water level should cover the turkey completely, but still be five or six inches below the rim of your pot. Remove the turkey and note water level -- this is how much oil you'll need in the pot. + +Now wash your turkey inside and out and pat it dry. Make sure it is very dry. Then season it however you would like. + +**Thoroughly dry both the pot and the turkey before continuing** + +== Cooking == + +Deep frying a turkey is a really a two person job, you need one person to always be with the turkey, keeping an eye on the pot, making sure the oil isn't smoking and the turkey is cooking properly and another to help out. + +To get started fill your completely dry pot with oil up to the point you noted earlier when you put the water in. Now light your burner and let the oil head up to about 350 degrees F (175C). + +Now put on the protective gloves and jacket and, using a metal hook to hold your wire handle, pick up the bird. Have the person helping you turn off the burner while you put the turkey in the oil -- this will prevent one of the major source of deep fryer accidents, spattering oil hitting the open flame. + +Turn off the burner and gently lower the bird into the oil. The reaction -- even with a thorough dry bird -- will be violent and oil will spray. Be extremely careful and lower the Turkey slowly to minimize splattering oil. + +Once your bird is in the oil, the hard part is over. You can relax a bit and set the timer -- generally allow about 4 minutes of cooking time per pound of turkey. + +**Never leave the turkey fryer unattended.** + +Once the turkey has cooked for the allotted about of time, remove the turkey and check the internal temperature with a food thermometer. The internal temperature should be 165°F to 170°F in the breast and 175°F to 180°F in the thigh. + +When your turkey is done, allow it to cool and remove the wire handle. + +== Safety Tips == + +# Always keep a grease fire extinguisher handy, make sure your extinguisher is rated for grease fires. + +# Make sure other people, especially children, and pets stay away from the cooking area. + +# Allow the oil to cool completely before disposing or storing. + +# Immediately wash hands, utensils, equipment and surfaces that have come in contact with raw turkey. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoencryptbittorrent.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoencryptbittorrent.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12e627d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoencryptbittorrent.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +There's been a lot of buzz on the internet lately about ISPs throttling bittorrent traffic. Comcast users have reported that the company appears to be using SandVine to detect and then break connections to out-of-network clients, though the company continues to deny it. + +If you happen to be in Canada the notoriously anti-P2P ISP, Rogers, throttles all encrypted network traffic on the premise that it must be bittorrent traffic (try using PGP to send e-mail on that network). + +While there's some valid arguments on both sides of the issue, rather than debate we wanted to know — is there anything you can do to get around an ISP that's throttling your bittorrent traffic? + +The answer is maybe? + +You can try encrypting your traffic and changing the default port number, but neither is guaranteed to work. + +The RC4 encryption offered by many popular torrent clients will obfuscate not only the header but the entire stream, which means that it's considerably more difficult, though by no means impossible, for your ISP to detect that the traffic is from bittorrent. + +How To Obfuscate Bittorrent Traffic: + +Not all torrent clients support encryption, you'll need to check if your favorite isn't listed below. + +<a href="http://azureus.sourceforge.net/">Azureus</a> is written in Java and therefore cross-platform. To turn on encryption head to the Tools menu select Options the Connection then Transport Encryption. Check the 'require encrypted transport' box and select RC4 in the 'minimum encryption' drop-down menu. Azureus also offers an 'Allow non-encrypted outgoing connections if encrypted connection attempt fails' option, which means you'll still be able to get torrents that don't have any encrypted seeders. + +<a href="http://www.utorrent.com/">µTorrent</a> (and now <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/download">BitTorrent</a> which is based on µTorrent) is a Windows only client. In µTorrent open up the Preferences panel and select the BitTorrent tab. Select 'Protocol encryption' and then you can choose between "enabled" and "forced." µTorrent's 'Enabled' option mirrors Azureus' option to allow unencrypted connections when no encrypted clients exist — it will give you more connections but won't be as effective at defeating traffic shapers. + +µTorrent/BitTorrent also offers a option to 'Allow legacy incoming connections' which lets non-encrypted clients connect to you. This improves compatibility between clients but again, makes your traffic more vulnerable to shapers. + +<a href="http://www.bitcomet.com/">Bitcomet</a> is another popular Windows Client (98/Me/2000/XP). To turn on encryption in BitComet head to the Options menu and choose Preferences. Then go to Advanced > Connection and select "Protocol encryption." There are options for "auto detect" and "always." + +As with the others auto detect will connect to more peers but won't hide traffic as well. you'll need to play with the settings in your program to see if it has any affect on your download/upload speeds. + +Other clients that support encryption include <a href="http://ktorrent.org/">KTorrent</a> (Linux), <a href="http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/">rTorrent</a> (Linux, Mac) and <a href="http://bittornado.com/">BitTornado</a> (Windows). + +Now for the bad news. + +ISPs are taking advantage of more sophisticated shaping technology all the time and many of the newer shapers won't be fooled by encrypted traffic. For instance, SandVine, the shaping tool that many believe Comcast employs won't be fooled by obfuscating your traffic. + +So what can you do beyond obfuscating? + +The short answer is not much. There is no fool-proof way to do it. You best choice is probably to switch to an ISP that doesn't employ anti-bittorrent traffic shaping. In the long run this also has the benefit of sending an effective customer message. For a list of ISPs to avoid, have a look at the <a href="http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_States_of_America">list maintained on the Azureus Wiki</a>. + +But what if you have no other option when it comes to ISPs? Start by calling customer service. Call now and call often. Disgruntled consumers tend to cost an ISP far more money than any bittorrent traffic. And by all mean try the encryption, though your results may vary considerably depending on what shaping tools your ISP is employing. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoevadecorpfirewall.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoevadecorpfirewall.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9b68ff --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoevadecorpfirewall.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Censorship has never been popular with Americans. Unfortunately for most, censorship is very popular with American companies, whether it's to keep you from wasting your time checking Facebook or to stop potential viruses, most corporate networks impose some level of censorship on the protocols or even sites employees can visit. + +The situation is even worse for those outside the U.S. Many countries outright band certain sites and others provide only limited access to outside sites at all. + +Naturally there are ways around most of these roadblocks, but many are not for the faint of heart. Not only do some of these technique require a reasonable degree of computer knowhow, they also could get you fired. Or worse. + +But for those undaunted, here's our guide to circumventing internet censorship. + +#Web-based circumventors + +The simplest, and also least effective, thing you can try is a web-based circumventor. Web-based circumvention systems have the advantage of being dead simple. There's no software to install, just point your browser to the site and see if it works. + +The longtime favorite in this realm was Anonymizer, but the site has since discontinued its web-based service. Instead try "Anonymouse.org"<http://anonymouse.org/> or The Cloak"<http://www.the-cloak.com/>. Both are free but bear in mind your data, while anonymous, could be viewed by an admin on your corporate network. + +The other chief disadvantage of these services is that many services that require authentication (e-mail, Facebook, etc) may not work properly. Also bear in mind that SSL is often not available. + +Another trick that sometimes works is to use Google's translation services. Due to way the translation service is configured it works as a proxy, the trick is to tell it to convert from English to English (your or native language). The URL will look like this http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.dontgohere.com, where dontgohere.com is the site you want to see. + +A more sophisticated approach is to use a web-based proxy. CGIProxy is popular perl script that can act as an HTTP or FTP proxy. The site "Peacefire"<http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/> offers a tool named Circumventor which wraps an automated installer program around CGIProxy making it easy for the non-technical user to set up the script. + +#Proxies + +The next step up is a true proxy server. A "proxy server" sits between a client (your browser) and the web server you're trying to reach. Unlike the web-based services a dedicated proxy can web traffic (HTTP), file transfers (FTP) and encrypted traffic (SSL). + +Perhaps the best known use of proxies is with ssh. With "Open SSH"<http://www.openssh.com/>, a free implementation of SSH, you can set up a proxy on your computer that allows you to browse sites via an encrypted connection. This prevents your corporate or government overlords from eavesdropping on your activities. + +To set up ssh you'll need an to have a trusted server with ssh access. Most better web-hosting plans, including a few free ones, offer such services. + +Once you have Open SSH installed and a server to connect to, fire up the terminal and enter: + +ssh -Nf username@hostaddress.com -D 1080 + +The last bit of that line refers to the port number. Depending on your hosting service and what ports your firewall blocks you may need to adjust it. + + +Now you need to tell your browser to use the tunnel we just created. Open up the preference panel in your browser and there should be an option to configure how the browser connects to the internet. Choose "manual" and the look for the SOCKS Host line and enter "localhost" + +The most sophisticated approach to evading a firewall is set up port forwarding on an always-on home server. The first step is to install Open SSH on your home machine and change the port to 443 in the config file. Now configure your router to forward 443 to your internal IP. + +For a proxy, you can install "Squid"<http://www.squid-cache.org/>, which uses port 3128. So once you have Squid installed and configured, change your browser proxy to use localhost 3128. + +Also note that with a setup like this you can use Remote Desktop software to access files on your home machine and even set up a program like "Hamachi"<https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp?lang=en> to serve music and video to remote locations. + +Note that none of these methods is guaranteed to work and all have potential pitfalls. Be sure to read up on some the potential problems and security concerns at the well-maintained "Reporters Sans Frontières"<http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15037#5> site.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendipadbattery.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendipadbattery.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..019f605 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendipadbattery.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Part of the iPad's appeal is its long battery life. Apple claims 10 hours for the wifi version and 9 hours for the 3G iPad, both of which are pretty impressive. + +Of course the real world is considerably different than battery stress tests. Watch movies continuously at full brightness with push e-mail notifications for a dozen accounts going in the background and you aren't going to get even 8 hours out of the iPad. + +But in our experience is possible to get close to Apple's claims, provided you're willing to turn off a few features and dim your screen a bit. + +Here's our guide to making your iPad battery last a bit longer + +== The obvious == + +# Lock your iPad when you aren't using it -- Sure it will auto-lock after a set period of time, but why leave it sitting there wasting battery when it's so simple to lock? While you're at it, shorten the auto-lock settings; head to Settings > General > Auto-Lock and set the interval to a shorter time. + +# Dim the screen -- This is probably the biggest single thing you can do to save battery life. By default, the iPad has its Auto-Brightness feature turned on which means screen adjusts to the ambient lighting around you. That's nice, but in low light situations that means the screen is battery draining bright. Head to Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper and adjust the brightness down a bit. + +# Ditch the case -- Some cases can cause the iPad to become quite warm which decreases battery life. + +== Features worth disabling == + +# Turn off 3G -- Whenever you're on wifi, turn off the 3G network if you have an iPad that support 3G. + +# Turn off wifi -- Although it severely limits the usefulness of your iPad, if you're just watching a movie anyway, turn off the wifi and make the battery last a bit longer. + +# Disable Bluetooth -- like the other forms of network Bluetooth drains the battery. Assuming you aren't using any peripherals that need it, turn it off. + +# Learn to Love Airplane Mode -- The easiest way to temporarily disable all forms of networking is to switch into Airplane Mode when you don't need to connect, say when you're watching a movie or working on a document. + +# Watch your apps -- There are two types of apps that are particularly hard on your iPad's batteries -- games that never let the screen dim and location based services that constantly check your geo whereabouts. Make sure to shutdown such apps when you're not using them + +# Disable Push notification -- The built-in Mail app as well as dozens of other apps poll servers in the background look for new tweets, mail and messages, all of which costs your precious battery life. Open Settings and select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select Fetch New Data and turn off Push. + +# Delay data fetching -- So you've turned off push notifications, go a step further and make Mail and other apps check-in with the server less frequently. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings and select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting add applies to all apps. It's also worth noting that setting Fetch New Data to hourly means you can't find your iPad using the MobileMe Find My iPad tools. + +== Extending the life of the battery == + +While all of the above will help your battery last a bit longer, none of it extends the life of the battery. For that Apple [http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html recommends "cycling" your iPad battery once a month], which means charging it all the way up and then running it all the way down.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendiphonebattery.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendiphonebattery.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db3c8ae --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoextendiphonebattery.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Smartphones aren't noted for their incredible battery life -- with great power comes the need for great batteries. While batteries are improving, mobile devices still don't last long enough for most of our tastes. + +Apple's iPhone is one of the better candidate when it comes to battery life, but despite Apple's claims of up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G, in our experience the battery begins to fade away much sooner. + +Still, if you tweak a few settings, turn off some features when you don't need them and dim your screen a bit it'll go a long way toward getting you 7 hours of 3G use. + +Here's our guide to making your iPhone battery last a bit longer + +== The obvious == + +# Dim the screen -- This is probably the biggest single thing you can do to save battery life. Head to Settings, select Brightness and dim down the screen. + +# Lock your iPhone when you aren't using it -- Sure it will auto-lock after a set period of time, but why leave it sitting there wasting battery when it's so simple to lock? Just make it a habit of pressing the lock button every time you put it down. While you're at it, shorten the auto-lock settings; head to Settings > General > Auto-Lock and set the interval to a shorter time. + +== Features worth disabling == + +# Turn off 3G -- You're on the AT&T network, there's no 3G coverage anyway. Just kidding. But if you're on wifi, turn off the 3G network. Also, if you in a place you know there's no 3G coverage, don't waste battery searching for it. + +# Learn to Love Airplane Mode -- The easiest way to temporarily disable all forms of battery draining networking is to switch into Airplane Mode when you don't need to connect, say when you're just listening to music on the bus. + +# Watch your apps -- There are two types of apps that are particularly hard on your iPhone's batteries -- games that never let the screen dim and location based services that constantly check your geo whereabouts. Make sure to shutdown such apps when you're not using them. + +# Disable Push notification -- The built-in Mail app as well as dozens of other apps poll servers in the background look for new tweets, mail and messages, all of which costs your precious battery life. Open Settings and select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select Fetch New Data and turn off Push. + +# Delay data fetching -- So you've turned off push notifications, go a step further and make Mail and other apps check-in with the server less frequently. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings and select Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then select Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting add applies to all apps. It's also worth noting that setting Fetch New Data to hourly means you can't find your iPhone using the MobileMe Find My iPhone tools. + +== Extending the life of the battery == + +While all of the above will help your battery last a bit longer, none of it extends the life of the battery. For that Apple [http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html recommends "cycling" your iPhone battery once a month], which means charging it all the way up and then running it all the way down.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofacebookprivacy.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofacebookprivacy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e30cb7b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofacebookprivacy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Facebook needs to make money and so far it seems that the most likely route to riches for the Internet darling will be your personal information. The company recently (December 2009) unveiled a radically revamped set of privacy controls which are better than previous efforts, but make one very important change -- by default almost all of your data is now made public. + +For accounts created since the change, most profile settings, contact information and application settings in Facebook default to "everyone," which means the whole world can see everything you post. For more details on the good bad and ugly of Facebook's most recently privacy changes, see the [http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly Electronic Frontier Foundations overview]. + +But the worst part for most people will be the public search results settings which means if you post something and later decide you want to switch to a private profile, well, good luck trying to remove your embarrassing posts from search engine indexes. + +The good news is that Facebook actually offers pretty fine-grained control over which bits of personal information you share. The bad news is that the high level of control makes preserving your privacy a fairly complex process. There's no longer a simple check box that says make my profile private. + +But fear not, we've got you covered with this how to. + +== Locking Down Your Profile == + +The First step is to head to your privacy settings under the account menu at the upper right corner of your Facebook page. + +On the privacy page you'll see five categories of privacy settings: Profile, Contact Information, Applications and Websites, Search and Block List. + +Start at the top with Profile information and change all the options to "friends" this will stop people you don't know from accessing any of your personal data. + +Do the same for contacts, most of which, thankfully, still defaults to Only Friends. + +Also be aware that each setting has a "customize" option which allows you to, for example, set your information to visible only to friends but also block certain "friends" like your mom so she won't see your drunken late night wall rants. + +== Applications and Outside data == + +Facebook isn't just Facebook anymore, it includes a vast network of connected websites and applications linked together through Facebook Connect and Facebook's App Platform. + +This is one area that many people overlook, but it has perhaps the highest potential to unwittingly leak information about you. + +Head to Privacy Settings >> Applications and Websites and adjust the settings to Friends Only. + +But there's more. Click the edit settings button for the "What your friends can share about you" section and uncheck anything you aren't comfortable leaking out of Facebook. + +Finally, and in the long run, most importantly, head to the Search section of your Privacy settings and uncheck the box that allows search engines to index your posts. + +== Conclusion == + +It takes a little bit of work to lock your data down, but if you'd like to keep Facebook the private, for-your-eyes-only social network it once was, you still can. At least for now.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofreezelock.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofreezelock.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2259d72 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofreezelock.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +You seen it in movies sure, but it turns out freezing a lock and then smashing it with a hammer really does work. Most of the time. This probably won't work on Kryptonite or other heavy duty locks, but for the garden variety you're likely to use around the house (and subsequently lose the key to) it will do the trick. + +Before we get started, keep in mind that breaking locks is illegal. If you lost the key to the lock on your shed and you don't want to pay a locksmith, then this trick works just fine. If you want to get in your neighbors shed, well that's not cool so don't do it. + +Here's our guide to freezing and smashing a lock. + +== Materials == + +The trick to making this work is getting the metal lock cold enough that it becomes brittle and easy to smash with a hammer. In this case we'll use a can or two of compressed air -- like the stuff you use to clean out your keyboard. + +You'll also need a hammer and, obviously, a lock that you'd like to open. It's also a good idea to put on a pair of heavy duty work gloves since we'll be working with temperatures that can easily freeze human skin. + +== Technique == + +Hold the compressed air can upside down and empty it onto the lock. You'll notice a lot of white powdery stuff coming out; don't worry that's just Tetraflouroethane. If you're thinking Tetraflouroethane is probably bad for the environment, well, you're right so try to keep it to a minimum. + +As soon as the air can is empty, grab the hammer and smash the lock. If all went well the compressed air should have brought the temperature of the metal down to around -47F, making it brittle and easier to break. + +== For crazy people == + +There are of course other sources of extreme cold that can do far more to metal than a can of compressed air. Liquid Nitrogen has long been a favorite of Hollywood and it will break many more types of locks. + +If your name isn't Adam Savage or Jamie Hyneman then you probably shouldn't do this. But, if you happen to have some liquid nitrogen around, along with the proper gloves and other protective gear, go ahead and drip a little into the lock and then give it a good smashing. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofutureproof.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofutureproof.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d5856f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtofutureproof.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +How To Future Proof Your Tech Purchases. + +Buying gadgets has become an arms race -- you buy the latest and greatest only to have it become obsolete two months later. We're all for sticking with [http://www.lastyearsmodel.org/ last year's model], but when it comes to buying new tech gear you want to make sure you don't buy this year's model two days before it becomes last year's model. + +To help make sure your purchases aren't old new before you get home from the store, here's our guide to future-proofing your tech purchases + +## Know the release cycle + +New gadgets don't appear at random. For example, Apple products are so predictable there are website dedicated to tracking the release cycles. Thinking of buying an iPad or iPhone? Check out [http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ MacRumors' product cycle buying guide] before you do. + +Not every company puts out new products with the Metamucil-like regularity of Apple, but here are some basic guidelines: + +# PCs/laptops/tablets -- The Consumer Electronics Show each January brings not only new laptops, tablets and PCs, but also new chips. That means the Christmas season, and the time leading up to CES is the worst time to buy new PCs. There's a reason gift cards are popular. + +# Cameras -- Like laptops, new cameras often show up at CES; avoid buying a new camera in the last few weeks of the year. By the same token, come February, last year's models are available at deep discounts to pave the way for the new lineup. + +# HDTVs -- Wait until fall. Typically new models show up at CES and then again in August. Football season in the U.S. means deep discounts even on those models that are only a month or two old. By the same token just before the Super Bowl (but after CES) at the end of January is another good time to upgrade. + +## Returns, warranties and buy backs + +Wherever you end up purchasing your gadget, make sure the return policy allows you to easily exchange your purchase should something go wrong. Lemons happen, make sure you're covered. + +The usefulness of warranties, particularly "extended warranties," depends on how long you plan to keep your gadgets. If you upgrade frequently, you'll probably want the new version long before the old breaks, making the warranty a waste of money. + +What might be more useful is something like Best Buy's "[http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Misc/Buy-Back-Program/pcmcat230000050010.c?id=pcmcat230000050010 Buy Back]" program. Buy back programs allow you to bring in your hardware and exchange it for a gift card worth a percentage of the gadget's original value. You won't come out ahead, but it will save you the trouble of putting your old gadgets on Ebay. + +## Don't buy the hype + +Finally, exercise a little restraint. Sometimes, despite how advertising may portray it there isn't a huge difference between last year's gadgets and this year's gadgets. When you're considering upgrading, make sure you're upgrading for features you'll actually use, not just buying into the hype-induced frenzy.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtogetmoreoutoffirefox4.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtogetmoreoutoffirefox4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cfdb8c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtogetmoreoutoffirefox4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Firefox 4 is a massive overhaul with some big changes to how the browser works, how it looks and what it can do. A glance at the [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/ new features page] might make some users feel overwhelmed, but there's loads of good stuff in there that will make your web browsing life easier. + +Of course Firefox 4 is faster than previous releases (as much as 6 times as fast) and offers tons of improvements under the hood, but some of the new features aren't immediately obvious if you don't know where to look. + +To make sure you don't miss out on anything, here's our guide to rocking Firefox 4. + +## Out with the old + +The first thing to do after you upgrade is make sure any add-ons you're using are up-to-date. Firefox will check for you, making sure that all your add-ons will work with Firefox 4. If there's something that doesn't work you can head to the new add-ons page and search for an update or suitable replacement. + +Once you've got everything running the latest version it's time to check out some of the new features. + +## Sync + +The first thing to set up is the new integrated sync features. Syncing means you have your bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history and even open tabs on any computer running Firefox. Even if you only use one computer, syncing makes a great way to backup your Firefox data. + +To get started head to Preferences and click the sync tab. Firefox will walk you through the process of setting up an account and choosing which items to sync. Firefox's new syncing tools use end-to-end encryption so you don't have to worry about prying eyes stealing your data. + +## Native Video + +Firefox 4 brings tons of support for the latest and greatest in HTML5, the next generation of the web's lingua franca, but perhaps the most useful is support for the HTML5 video tag. Native web video means you can watch movies in your web browser without the Flash plugin. That's especially good new for laptop users since Flash has historically put a heavy strain on your CPU and consequently your battery. + +Of course not every site offers HTML5 video, but one big one does -- YouTube. To get HTML5 video from YouTube, head over to the site and [http://www.youtube.com/html5 opt in to the HTML experiment]. It won't work for every video, but YouTube is adding more HTML5 videos everyday. + +## Tabs + +You probably noticed some of the visual changes the minute you launched Firefox 4 -- tabs, for example, are now above the URL bar. And that's not the only thing new in tabs, Firefox 4 also features what Mozilla calls Tab Panorama. Tab Panorama lets you group and quickly switch between related clusters of open tabs. For example, you can group tabs for work and tabs for fun, and then quickly switch between groups. + +To use Panorama just click the small multi-window icon on the right side of the Firefox window, which will bring up the Panorama interface. + +There's also a new feature to pin frequently used sites in a smaller tab. Just right-click on a tab, choose the pin tab feature and Firefox will shrink the tab and make it persist even when you switch tab groups. Handy for apps you leave open all the time, like Gmail or Twitter. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoipadvideo.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoipadvideo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3827f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoipadvideo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Ripping a DVD to your hard drive is easy (check out our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Rip_a_DVD_to_Your_iPhone_or_iPod_Touch guide to ripping DVDs for more info]). + +Sadly, converting video to support the myriad of devices in our homes these days isn't quite a simple. With every new device comes a new set of video options, screen resolutions and framerates. + +For example, while some of your older iPod-encoded movies will play just fine on your new iPad or iPhone 4, both devices support much higher resolution video than their predecessors. + +Here's our guide to getting the most out videos on your iPad or iPhone 4. + +== The new specs == + +The iPad and iPhone 4 support 30fps H.264 video at a resolution of 1280 by 720 (720p). + +Older versions of the iPhone and iPods supported 30fps H.264 video at 640 by 480, which means, if you want to support older devices you're either going to have stick with the older settings, or encode two separate copies of your movies. + +== Brave new HD video == + +Assuming you're embracing the new, you'll need to re-encode your movies to get the high quality video playback the iPad is capable of. + +The free and open-source HandBrake app is available for nearly every OS out there and can do an able job of encoding your ripped VIDEO_TS folder into a high quality video file that will look great on the iPad. + +The simplest way to get video on your iPad using Handbrake is to take advantage of the Universal preset, which, will generally turn 720p video into 705 by 400 pixels. That's a bit below what the iPad can handle, but it generally looks fine (with a few artifacts here and there) and is definitely the easiest way to go. + +If you're more of purist, well, get ready to dive into the intricacies of video encoding. While there has been some effort in the Handbrake community to [http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14898 release an iPad optimized preset], for now, that's not an option. + +The best thing to do is start with either the Normal or High Profile presets. Then, depending on your source video, you may need to scale down the screen size. Make sure you set the picture options for the anamorphic menu are set to "loose" or "custom" and the width is 1024 or less. + +The last thing to correct for is framerate -- if your source is greater than 30fps, you're going to have to lower it. + +For more info on optimizing other settings see the [http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16303 Handbrake forums]. + +== Transferring == + +Once you've got a video file that the iPad can understand, all you need to do is add it to your iTunes Library and then sync it over to your iPad where you can enjoy your new higher-res video. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoiphoneringtones.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoiphoneringtones.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55f3989 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoiphoneringtones.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Almost as soon as the iPhone was in the hands of hackers they started looking for ways to install custom ringtones. Now that Apple has announced it will sell ringtones for $2 a piece, many people will no doubt go with the iTunes store. + +To ensure that it corners the market on iPhone ringtones, Apple recently updated iTunes to blocks users from adding free custom ringtones to their phones. But despite Apple's efforts, a new workaround has already been found. + +Which means you aren't stuck shelling out an extra dollar just to convert a song you already own into a ringtone. If you're not a afraid to do a little tinkering you can still get that copy of Sexy Back without having to pay for it a second time. + +For a brief moment after the release of iTunes 7.4, users noticed that the main difference between ringtones and regular song files was a simple as a file extension. Apple quickly broke this ultra-simple free ringtone method with the release of iTunes 7.4.1, but if you haven't upgraded to 7.4.1 yet you can still get your free ringtones to work. + +If you have iTunes 7.4 installed there should be a file in your iTunes Music Folder labeled "ringtones." This is where you'll want to put your song files, but first you'll need to edit them down to a suitable size. + +For Mac users there are several options, you could use Apple's Quicktime Pro or Garageband if you have them, or edit MP3s in the free <a href="http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/Jailbreak_iPhone">Audion 3</a>, which features a nice waveform editing tool. + +Windows users can edit audio files with Audacity (which also has a Mac version) or other popular audio file editors. + +The next step is to open up iTunes and convert your file to AAC format. Use the "Reveal in Finder" option to locate the new file and then move it to the Ringtones folder. Now change the file extension to .m4r. This part can be tricky since both Windows and Mac like to hide file extensions. Make sure you aren't just appending a file extension to the hidden one, by choosing "Get Info" in Mac's Finder or, on Windows, make sure the "Hide extensions for known file types" option in Windows Explorer is turned off. + +Now sync to your iPhone and you should see the new ringtones displayed. + +At this point you can either make sure to <strong>not</strong> upgrade to iTunes 7.4.1 and most likely all subsequent versions, or you can try this simple trick: head back into the iTunes Music Folder and change your ringtones back to the .m4a extension. Convoluted, yes but it does work. For now. + +If trying to keep up with the wack-a-mole game between Apple and the hackers doesn't appeal to you, there's a commercial software offering known as iToner, which might be more your style. IToner sells for $15. + +There's no guarantee iToner will continue to work (iTunes 7.4 broke iToner, but Ambrosia Software, who makes the program, managed to get it working again in a few days) but at least, with a copy of iToner, you can let the developers play the wack-a-mole game. + +iToner also gives a nice graphical interface, with drag-and-drop features, making it somewhat easier than rooting around in your filesystem for the right folders and constantly changing file extensions. + +There is another method of getting custom ringtones on your iPhone as well, though it requires using the <a href="http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/Jailbreak_iPhone">Jailbreak</a> application and a bit of command line sauce. Use Jailbreak to unlock your iPhone and then install the SSH application and you can now interact with the iPhone's file system just as you would any other remote device — install ringtones and much much more. + +Before we go though, we can't help but suggest that perhaps you should consider another ring option, the ever popular vibrate setting. Like a timeless black suit or little black dress, vibrate is classy, demure and doesn't annoy the hell out of everyone within twenty feet of you. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtolioninstall.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtolioninstall.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42dea7c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtolioninstall.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +The optical disk is dead. Or at least it is for Apple fans. The company had been dropping DVD drives from its latest hardware and its new operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion, is now available in digital form only, via the Mac App Store. + +On one hand that's great -- upgrading is just a matter of clicking a button and you're done, everything is handled seamlessly behind the scenes. + +However, the App Store method means you'll have to be running Snow Leopard (which is the only other OS that supports the App Store), and you'll have to download a nearly 4GB file, which can take quite a while if you haven't got a fast internet connection. + +The other problem is that the App Store install doesn't offer the opportunity to do a "clean" install, that is, wipe away your old system and install a fresh copy of Lion. To do a clean install Apple would have you wait until August, when the company will be begin shipping Lion on USB sticks for a whopping $70, more the double the $30 App Store price. + +However, despite what Apple says, there are in fact other ways to install Lion. Here's our guide to the various ways of installing Apple's newest OS on your Mac without waiting until August or paying double for the USB stick. + +==Downloading Lion== + +The simplest way to install Lion is to download it from the Mac App Store and then run the installer. If your connection is too slow to make a 4 GB download practical, head to your nearest Apple Store which will allow you to download a copy via their speedy wifi connection. It'll still take a while, but at least you can play with fancy new Macs while you wait. + +Don't have fast broadband or live near a Mac store? Make friends with someone who has the broadband you need, or be patient and wait several days for Lion to download. Alternately you can wait until August and pay a premium for a USB copy. + +==Build your own install disk == + +Just because Apple wants everything to be digital doesn't mean you have to oblige them. In fact it's dead simple to create your own DVD or USB Lion installer. When Lion installs it will create a hidden recovery partition on your harddrive. Should anything ever go wrong with your installation you can always hold down the option key at start up and boot from the emergency partition to re-install Lion. + +Given the new hidden disk failsafe, why bother creating an installation disk? Well, you'll need it if you want to do a clean install and it's not a bad thing to have around. If your hard drive fails the hidden partition will fail with it and you'll be stuck downloading Lion again. + +Fortunately creating an install disk from the Lion installer is pretty easy. First head to your Applications folder, where you'll see the freshly downloaded Lion installer app. Right-click on the app and select "Show Package Contents." That will open the installer bundle in a new window where you'll see a folder called "SharedSupport." Inside "SharedSupport" there's a disk image called "InstallESD.dmg." The "ESD" bit stands for "Emergency Startup Disk," which is what we'll use to create a new Lion install disk, so copy "InstallESD.dmg" somewhere else. + +Now insert your disk -- a DVD, a USB stick or an external hard drive will all work -- and launch Disk Utility. Select the drive you're using and then click the "Restore" tab. Make sure your backup drive is set as the "Destination," and then just drag and drop the "InstallESD.dmg" into the "Source" box. Click "Restore" and wait for Disk Utility to work it's magic. Once it's done, eject your disk and you're finished. Use that disk as you would any other installation disk. + +== Over the air "clean" install == + +If something goes catastrophically wrong with your Mac, Apple has a new hidden option in Lion that will allow you to wipe your drive and do a clean install via the internet. That's great for recovery purposes, should something go wrong with your install. + +To get to the new options, just start up your Mac holding down command-R and you'll be greeted by a menu that will allow you to restore your system to any point in time from a Time Machine backup, run Disk Utility to check, repair or partition disks and connect to Apple via Safari. That's the hidden recovery partition kicking in. + +Lion's so-called [http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 Internet Recovery mode] lets you start your Mac directly from Apple's Servers, as per Apple's tech note: + +>If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you've installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically. It downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air. + +== Conclusion == + +As with in OS upgrade be sure to make complete bootable backups (and test them!) before you begin installing OS X Lion.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomakeaguitarslide.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomakeaguitarslide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74ed7d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomakeaguitarslide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Blues guitar masters like Robert Johnson, BB King and T-Bone Walker didn't use the cheap pyrex guitar slides you'll find at your local music shop. They went for something with a little more soul, a little more mojo if you will -- bottle necks. + +Legend has it that the preferred method of the masters was to find a bottle and drink the contents (natch). The next step is to soak hemp twine in kerosene, wrap it around the bottle neck and light it on fire. After it burns out, you then plunge the bottle in ice water and it will break off where the hemp twine was. + +While it undoubtedly looks cool and makes for a great story, we've yet to hear of anyone having success with this method. Perhaps you need to be Robert Johnson himself before the burning twine method will work. + +Since you aren't, here's our guide to making your own glass guitar slide without lighting anything on fire. + +== Find the perfect bottle == + +This is really a matter of preference and your preferences may change so there's no harm in making a dozen slides before you find the perfect fit. Start with a bottleneck that comfortably fits your finger. Beer bottles work well and have a certain gritty dive bar charm. If you're looking for something a bit classier try some Sherry or Port bottles. + +If you happen to have a good antiques store nearby, ask around for some old TK bottles, which work well and may fit your finger, no glass cutting required. + +Once you've found the prefect bottle buy two or three because there's a good chance your first attempt won't quite go as planed. + +Once you've found a suitable bottle and a few backups pour the contents down your throat late one night and then head outside to howl at the moon. + +== Cutting the bottle == + +The easiest and safest way to cut glass is with a glass cutting, which you can pick of for around $10 at your local hardware store. You'll also need some cutting fluid or, if you want to channel the masters you can use kerosene, just don't light it. + +Clean the bottle. Wipe away any fingerprints and grease around the section where you're going to cut. Now dip your cutter in the cutting fluid and, holding the cutter like a pencil, score a line around the neck of the bottle. For the best results make multiple light passes with an even pressure -- too much pressure in one spot and not enough in another will make for uneven breaks. + +Now put on a pair of heavy glove and some eye protection. Grab hold of the neck above where you just scored it with the glass cutter and gently, but firmly, knock the boddy of the bottle against something solid -- an empty trash can or recycling bin works well. This should cause the neck and body to break on the groove you made with the glass cutter. + +== Polishing up == + +Congratulations, you have a guitar slide. The only problem is the razor sharp edge of the break will probably cut your finger off before you can get too far down the neck of your guitar. + +Unless you're going for a G.G. Allen vibe, you'll need to sand or file down the edges of your new slide they're nice and smooth and safe. Sand paper, emory boards or fine metal files can all do the job. For the outside edge you can even just drag it along some concrete. Whatever method you prefer, make sure you get rid of all the sharp edges before you slip it on your finger. + +== Conclusion == + +Now you've got an authentic (and unique) glass guitar slide. If you'd like to branch out buy some metal tubing and cut some brass or chrome slides. Experiment with various metals to see which resonates the best with your playing. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomeditate.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomeditate.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c21231d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomeditate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Mediation isn't just something for yogis or crystal-collecting new age fanatics. Mediation is ascientifically proven method of lowering stress levels and helping your body and mind relax. + +And, contrary to its image in popular media, meditation isn't difficult, though it does take practice and certain sense of discipline. + +There are many different kinds of meditation, but nearly all of them share a common goal -- focusing and quieting your mind. + +Don't worry, you don't need to bend yourself into a pretzel to meditate, in fact all you need is bit of free time and a quiet place you can sit undisturbed. + +== Getting started == + +Although it may seem like you're just sitting there doing nothing, it turns out that sitting and doing nothing is actually very difficult -- especially when you first get started. To ensure that you don't get frustrated start small. Most books on the subject recommend beginners start with a short session of 5-12 minutes. + +Find a confortable chair that you can sit up straight in with your feet flat on the floor -- your dinning room chairs will likely work well. Grab a pillow if you need a little extra cushioning. + +There's no right or wrong time to meditate, though you'll likely find that being very hungry or very full can be distracting, so avoid both of those times. + +In the beginning its best to close your eyes and focus your attention on your breathe. Breath freely and deeply, but naturally, don't force the breathe; just let yourself breathe and feel your muscles relax. + +Your mind will wander, probably immediately, that's okay, just bring your attention back to your breathe and run your awareness over your body, looking for spots you can continue to relax. + +Some people find that counting their breathe -- 1 to 10 and then starting over again -- is an effective way to remain focused. Just don't worry if it's some time before you get past two without your mind drifting away. + +In the beginning your mind will trick you, you'll wander off on a train of thought and not even realize it for some time. That's okay, just bring your attention back to your breathe whenever you notice that your mind has wandered. Over time (years in most cases) you'll notice that your mind wanders less. + +== The Wandering Mind == + +There are several ways to stop your mind from wandering. One, mentioned above, is to focus your attention back on the breathe. Another is to use a mantra, something your repeat so that your mind has something to focus on. + +Still another method is to simply watch your mind wander, to tell yourself you are detached from your thoughts and to let them simply float by, watching, but not judging them. + +Whichever method you use remember to relax -- meditation isn't a test and there is nothing wrong with a wandering mind. After all, if your mind didn't wander then you wouldn't have any need to meditate. Work with yourself, not against. + +== Moving past focus == + +Once you're able to focus on a single thing -- your breathe, a mantra or whatever works for you -- the next step is to focus on nothing at all. This is the "clearing the mind" part of meditation that's probably always sounded a bit mysterious. The truth is it's not easy, but once you've got your attention under control you can begin to let go of the thing that is controlling it. + +Push the object of focus away from your mind and simply let it rest. Or continue to observe it, but remain impartial and detached from it. If any thoughts come up, take the same attitude toward them. + +== Conclusion == + +While meditation is actually quite easy, it take a tremendous amount of practice before it will feel natural. Luckily you'll likely begin to notice some of the benefits long before you begin to feel that you're "successful" at meditation. Once you notice the nice relaxed feeling you get after even a short five minute meditation, you'll find yourself wanting to work more such moments into your day.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomultiplemonitors.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomultiplemonitors.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e093d08 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtomultiplemonitors.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Multiple monitors don't just look cool, they can actually post your productivity. Whether you're editing large images, working with video or simply playing games, multiple monitors give you you more screen real estate to work on your projects, a bit like having a larger digital desk. + +With monitor prices falling and most modern graphics cards supporting at least a dual monitor set-up, having several screens isn't as expensive as it used to be. + +However, there are a few tricks to setting up multiple monitors that can make the process a little tricky. Here's our guide to setting up multiple monitors. + +== Graphics cards == + +Start by checking out your current graphics card to see if there's a second output. If not, your first step will be buying a new graphics card that can connect two monitors. + +There are numerous graphics cards on the market, ranging from the simple $100 models that will work for most people, to high-end models aimed at gamers. Unless you're doing very graphics intensive work (video editing or the like) the lower end will probably work just fine. + +== Monitors == + +You could go out and splurge on some nice big, new monitors, but there's a good chance whatever you're using now will work just fine, which means you just need to add a second screen. + +When it comes to buying a second monitor, try to stick with a similar model to what you have. While not totally necessary, similar models will generally be easier to set up and configure. + +Also keep in mind that older graphics cards probably won't have support for modeler connections like HDMI. Fortunately are adapters to connect HDMI to DVI (the most common connector). If you've got a new monitor, but old graphics card, be sure to pick up the appropriate adapter when you buy that second monitor. + +== Multiple monitors in Windows == + +Once you've got your second monitor and graphics card installed and hooked up to your PC, it's time to connect to Windows. Turn off your PC, plugin in the second monitor and restart Windows. With any luck Windows will detect the new display and install the drivers for you. + +At this point your should have a mirror of your desktop on two screens. That's nice, but not what we're after here. Head to Control Panel >> Display and select the multiple display option. Adjust the resolution and orientation to suit your monitor setup and you'll now have dual monitors. + +Now you can drag windows between monitors and adjust your windows to suit your workflow. + +== Multiple monitors in Ubuntu == + +Ubuntu's monitor setup screen live in System >> Preference >> Display. Once that screen is up, click the detect monitors button which will force the system to find your new monitor. Select all the monitors listed and click the "on" radio button. + +Be sure to uncheck the "mirror" option and then click apply. + +While the process of setting up multiple monitors in Linux is easy, finding drivers that support your monitors isn't always easy. Before you head out to purchase a new graphics card, be sure to check with the Ubuntu forums and read up on success and failure stories. + +== Multiple monitors in Mac OS X == + +Not every Mac supports multiple monitors, so be sure to check the Apple support documents for your model before you purchase a second monitor. + +Assuming your Mac does, all you need to do is plug it in and Mac OS X should automatically recognize it. Head to System Preferences >> Displays and you will see two screens pop-up -- one on each monitor. From here you can control your monitor settings, add backgrounds and so on. + +== Everything all at once == + +While we've focused on dual monitors for single operating systems, it is in fact possible to run multiple OSes on multiple monitors simultaneously. If you're interested check out [http://synergy-foss.org/ Synergy]. Not only can Synergy share a single mouse, keyboard and multiple monitors across operating systems, it can even share clipboard data across all those PCs and operating systems. + +== Conclusion == + +Thanks to the falling price of LCD monitors, having a dual monitor set up is no longer just something for the very wealthy. In fact, you can grab a graphics card and a new 19 inch monitor for less than $250. With the price of a dual monitor setup well below that of the average smart phone, why not double the size of your digital desk?
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopinsitesinie9.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopinsitesinie9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ee6815 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopinsitesinie9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The new Internet Explorer 9 sees Microsoft doing a lot of catching up with other web browsers, but IE9 does have a few innovative features that you won't find elsewhere just yet. Perhaps the most useful of these is the new "pinned sites" feature. + +Pinned sites in IE9 are a bit like bookmarks for your taskbar -- handy for frequently used websites or online applications. Naturally, since there is limited real estate in your taskbar, you don't want to put everything in there, but for sites you visit everyday the shortcuts can save you time. + +Here's our guide to getting the most out of IE9's pinned sites. + +## Drag and Drop Simple + +To pin a website to your task bar just launch IE9 and point it to the site you'd like to pin. Once the site has loaded grab the tab and drag it down to the taskbar. That's it. The site now lives in your task bar. To return to that site just click the taskbar button and you'll go directly there. + +Any time you you open a browser window from one of your pinned sites you'll notice that there's a small site icon to the left of the back and forward buttons. If you browse away from the pinned site, the icon serves as a quick link to snap you back to where you started. + +If you ever want to get rid of a pinned site in your taskbar, just right-click the icon and choose: "Unpin this program from taskbar." + +Here's a power user tip: pinned sites aren't just for the taskbar. In fact pinned sites work anywhere in the file system. That's good news for Vista users who can't pin sites to their taskbar, but can add them to the start menu using the same drag-and-drop technique. + +## Extra Features + +While pinned sites are handy in Windows 7 the real power comes when websites integrate Microsoft's new pinned sites code into their webpages. Using a few (non-standard) lines of code, sites can include their entire menu in the task bar's jump list. Even better sites can use the pinned icon as a message indicator (for example, flash the task bar when a new message arrives on Facebook), or even add Play/Pause buttons to the icon's preview window if there is audio or video content on the page. + +Of course not every website supports pinned sites, especially since it only works in IE, which, despite the new release, is still losing market share. However, some popular sites have jumped on board, including favorites like Twitter, which offers a jump list for quick access to New Tweet, Messages, Mentions, Favorites and Search, and Facebook which offers similar links and will also notify you of new messages by flashing the taskbar icon.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopreventhangovers.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopreventhangovers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1ac665 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtopreventhangovers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Hangovers are one of life's mysteries. Not their origin, that's obvious enough, but rather why we still have to deal with them. We have been to moon, but like the common cold, a true cure for hangovers remains elusive. It's just not fair. + +Most doctors will tell you there is no way to cure a hangover, save waiting for your body to metabolize and get rid of the alcohol. While that may be true, there are number of things you can do to speed things up. + +Here's out guide to preventing and, failing that, speeding up the departure of a nasty hangover. + +===Preventing a hangover=== + +Obviously not drinking any alcohol would be one option. For those of you not planning to embrace a neo-temperance movement, here are some guidelines to minimizing the lingering effects of too much alcohol. + +# Know your limits -- the best way to avoid a hangover is to not drink too much. How much is too much depends on everything body weight to racial type. A general rule of thumb is to make sure you don't have more than three drinks in a two hour span, and no more than five in a single night + +# Don't drink on an empty stomach -- Eat something before you go out. Have big dinner or, if you consider yourself a professional, have a big breakfast. Even a snack is better than nothing. There's a reason bars have snacks, the more you eat the slower alcohol will effect you (thus the more you can drink). Eat before you drink and, if you can, eat afterwards too. Fatty foods are better since they slow the absorption of alcohol. + +# Drink water -- Much of the hangover feeling is in fact dehydration. Drink water in between alcoholic drinks to make sure you aren't dehydrated when you go to bed. Failing that, at least have a nice big glass of water before you pass out on the bathroom rug. + +#Embrace your drunken self -- Interesting, some research suggests that feeling guilty about your drinking or just being depressed in general is a good predictor of how bad your hangover will be. If you're drinking straight from the bottle, sitting alone on the floor of the closet, clutching a photo of your ex, well, we can't help you. But if you're otherwise well adjusted, don't beat yourself up for drinking too much, your body will do that for you. + +===Cure your hangover=== + +Okay, you ignored all of the above advice and now you're lying on the couch in your underwear clutching at the blanket tangled on your chest wishing the day was already over. Here's a few things you can do to speed up the slow and painful process of getting rid of that excess alcohol. + +# Drink Water -- yes it makes both lists. Alcohol has dehydrated you and to speed up your recovery the first thing to do is get the water back in your body. + +# Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen -- Although all of these are helpful for alleving headaches, you're better off avoiding them when you're hung over. Aspirin is a blood thinner, but so is alcohol, combining the two is a bad idea. Acetaminophen when combined with alcohol can cause liver damage and Ibuprofen is more likely to damage your stomach lining when combined with alcohol. + +# Avoid Coffee -- Sacrilege yes, but coffee will just make you more dehydrated. One cup might be okay, but try not to down an entire pot in some misguided quest to wake up. Drink water instead. + +# Sleep -- the best way to cure a hangover is to sleep through it. The physical effects of alcohol on your body, combined with the late nights that typically precede a hangover mean that sleep is usually easy to come by. Embrace it. + +# Exercise -- frankly this sounds crazy to us, but exercise speeds up your metabolic rate and thus gets the alcohol moving out a bit faster. Not for the faint of heart, but if you feel like going for a run, by all means knock yourself out. Bonus points if you smell like a bar sweating its way down the street. + +# Bury yourself up to the neck in moist river sand -- Okay, no don't really do this, (though apparently some people in Ireland swear by it) it's just here to illustrate that all those hangover cures your friends have, well, unfortunately they're all folk tales. There is no easy cure, save toughing it out. + +===Conclusion=== + +Most of the so-called hangover cures you've ever heard of are untrue. The problem is that everyone is different so what works for one person might do nothing for another. That said, if you have a tried and true method don't let us talk you out of it. If it works it works, even if it is the placebo effect. + +Now if you'll excuse us, we need a drink.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoprotectyourphone.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoprotectyourphone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36c1bc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoprotectyourphone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Attention Californians, do you know what's on your cellphone? + +You better because when police arrest anyone in California they can search that person's mobile phone. That means the police would have access to your email, call records, photos, text messages and GPS data. It could even mean the police would be able to access your bank records, files on your home computer, travel plans and countless other tidbits of data that are stored on your phone -- all without the need for a warrant. + +Warrantless searches like those [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/warrantless-phone-searches/ California legislators were trying to block] are becoming more common. The state of Michigan has even equipped its officers with smart phone forensic devices. + +Want to stop big brother from sinking his teeth into your data? Well, it's not easy to do. In fact, you probably can't stop determined experts from getting into your phone. You can, however, put up some roadblocks that will slow them down and most likely stump the average person -- law enforcement or otherwise -- from accessing your data. Here's our guide to securing your mobile phone. + +==Lock it down== + +Password-protecting your smartphone should be a no-brainer. If you haven't already, turn on the password lock feature on your phone. It's a mild inconvenience to type your password every time your phone comes out of sleep mode, but it's your best first line of defense against would-be snoops. + +If your phone allows it, set it up to automatically wipe your data after a few failed password attempts. That way, should anyone try to guess your password they'll automatically delete your data after a few tries. Be careful though, the data gets deleted whether it's a cop trying to hack your phone or just your toddler playing around with it. + +The U.S. courts are, thus far, unclear on whether or not you can be compelled to hand over your password to law enforcement. If nothing else having one in place should help buy you some time to get in touch with a lawyer or wipe your data remotely (see below for details). + + +==Button it up== + +While it isn't absolutely foolproof, full-disk encryption is the best, most practical method of safeguarding your phone's data from the prying eyes of law enforcement (or just that creepy guy who found your phone in a bar). + +Sadly most phones don't support full-disk encryption. Apple's iOS 4 introduced a feature dubbed "data protection," which encrypts some types of data when the phone is locked or turned off. There are encryption APIs in iOS so other apps can protect your data, but how many actually do is unclear and support varies on an app by app basis. There is no way to completely encrypt your iPhone. + +Android doesn't fair much better. So far Android doesn't offer a built-in encryption option though there are some third-party apps that can do it. If you have a Nexus S or Nexus One the new [http://whispersys.com/whispercore.html Whispercore] app can do full disk encryption. If you've got a different Android model and you're looking for a full disk encryption solution, well, you're not alone. Even DARPA, the famed U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has put out a call for help when it comes to finding [https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=3473e17cb0615b10d9c93533180aa345&tab=core&_cview=0 full-disk encryption for Android]. + +==Wipe it Away== + +What happens if the cops seize your phone and take it off to the bat cave where powerful hackers will defeat all your best encryption tools? Remote wipe it of course. + +If you've got an iPhone, set up Find My Phone, which includes an option to delete all your data from afar. + +Android users can wipe their phones with a number of apps, including [http://seekdroid.com/ SeekDroid] and [http://www.webroot.com/En_US/index.html Webroot], both of which offer additional security measures as well. + +Blackberry users have several options, but for individuals the easiest thing to do is set up [http://us.blackberry.com/apps-software/protect/ Blackberry Protect]. + +One problem with remote wipes is that it's easy to defeat -- just remove the SIM chip. If there's no way to connect to your phone there's no way to wipe it. Another problem is that in some cases wiping your phone might be considered destruction of evidence. + +==Conclusion== + +Smartphone security is just beginning to get off the ground. Right now our phones seem more like fun little toys to tote around than potentially incriminating data stores, but that's starting to change. At the moment Blackberry remains the most secure platform out there thanks to its strong background in enterprise and business environments. After that iOS and Android both offer similar features, though both can, with access to right tools, still be compromised. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosiphon.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosiphon.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47fb821 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosiphon.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Siphoning gas out of a tank or water out of an elevated jacuzzi is an excercise in physics. Unlike what many of us assume though, a siphon does not rely on atmospheric pressure (it works just fine a vacuum, should you ever need to siphon gas from your spaceship), but rather gravity (a potential problem for the spaceship senario) and the cohesive forces at work in columns of liquid. + +So now that you understand how it works, here's our guide to siphoning. + +== Siphoning == + +At the most basic level you need three things for a siphon to work -- a source of liquid, a place for the liquid to go and a hose. Ideally the hose would be clear you can see what's going on, but that's not absolutely necessary. + +In order for a siphon to work the source liquid must be above wherever you're trying to make it go (remember, gravity is doing the work here). + +In the case of siphoning gas out of a tank, feed the hose into the tank and then put your gasoline approved contain on the ground. + +Now you need to suck the gas out of the tank and get rid of any air in the tube. If you're slighly crazy you can do this with your mouth. We've seen it done by the side of the road in countless backwater places, but unless you're in dire straits it's far safer to buy a siphon pump. + +A siphon pump does the same thing your mouth does, but eliminates any chance of you swallowing gasoline and ending up in the hospital. + +Once the air is out of the tube and the liquid has reached the end of the hose, maintain suction on the hose and carefully crimp the hose or use your thumb as a stopper. In either case to goal is to prevent any air from entering the hose. + +Now just drop the the hose into your gas can and release the crimp. Viola, siphon complete. + +== Tips == + + +# The trick to avoiding air bubbles in your siphon line is hold the hose straight up and down so you're sucking the liquid up, rather than sideways or down. +# be sure to keep an eye on your source liquid and make sure the hose stays fully submerged otherwise you'll end up with bubbles. +# It's illegal to siphon gas out of someone's car, you will go to jail. +# Yes you can siphon with your mouth. That's fine if you're draining the jacuzzi, but it's a really bad idea with more toxic liquids like gasoline. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosolder.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosolder.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f25e9c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosolder.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +two videos, both from an instructables article, fyi, but there are hundreds more on youtube: +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjdiRxr0OM +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjdiRxr0OM + +Images: +http://www.flickr.com/photos/28172221@N08/4107068482/ +http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadya/299936460/ +http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmpalmer/183501808/ +http://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_coleman/1349420770/ +wine charms ??? http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/437342029/ + + +Soldering is essentially gluing with molten metal. It isn't hard, and mastering the art of soldering opens up a whole new realm of DIY project possibilities. + +Perhaps the best part of soldering is that it's cheap. All you need is a cheap (around $25) soldering iron, a bit of solder. Now you could spend quite a bit more on a soldering iron, but for electronics like wires and circuit boards, the lower end models are actually better. + +The difference between soldering irons is primarily the amount of heat they put out. Something in the 15-30W range is best for electronics, circuit boards and the like. Anything more powerful and you're likely to fry the board. If you're projects will be heavier wire and thicker metal then a more expensive, 40+ Watt iron will work better. + +== What you need == + +Soldering is the process of taking a metal that liquifies at low temperature, called solder, and using it to join stronger metal together -- a bit like gluing with metal. To make it work you need heat (the soldering iron) and solder. + +For your first attempt at soldering you'll want something to practice on, a old scrap of metal and some spare wire work well until you get the basics down. + + +=== Types of solder === + +There several kinds of solder available and which one you want depends on what you plan to do. For electronics work you're going to want rosin core solder. Any decent hardware or electronics store will likely stock cheap roles of rosin core for just a few dollars. Something in the 0.75MM to 1.0MM works best for circuit boards. + +Be aware of what you're buying, acid core solder is also very common in hardware stores, but it won't work on electronic circuits (the acid will destroy the circuit board). Acid core solder is meant for use on heavier metal -- copper pipes and the like. + +Depending on where you live you may find lead solder. Some states (like California and New York, as well as most of the EU) have already banned lead solder, but even if it's available where you are, avoid it -- lead solder has been linked to everything from birth defects to neurological damage. Buy lead-free solder. + +== Preparation == + +Before you actually touch solder to wire, you'll need to "tin" the tip of your new soldering iron. Plug it in and let it heat up (be careful, soldering iron tips can be upwards of 800 degrees). Lay down a scrap of cardboard or other heavy material to protect your work surface (you'll likely drip quite a bit of solder in the beginning). Also keep a moist sponge handy for cleaning your tip. + +When the iron is hot, cut off a length of solder and hold it out, rolling it around on the tip of the iron, coating the iron's tip on all sides. A well "tinned" iron will transfer heat better and it give the solder a starting point to flow from. + +Now that your iron is primed it's time to solder. + +== Down to business == + +If you're working with a circuit board, you generally won't need much solder. In fact, with delicate pieces, it's much easier to dip the tip of your iron in the solder, rather than getting a big chunk of solder near your circuit board. + +Before we do that though, we need to heat up the solder pad on the board -- the metal that your solder will be "glued" to. To do that hold the tip of your iron against both the component lead (the resistor whatever you're adding to your board) and the board. This generally takes a second or two, though it can take longer on heavier duty boards. Once these two parts are hot, you can add the actual solder. + +Dip your tip in the solder and wipe off any excess flux on the sponge. Then move that thin strand of solder over to the joint. Work quickly, as the flux in your solder will dry out fairly fast. + +Assuming you've properly heated your components the solder should flow freely around the lead and the pad. Keep adding solder until there is a nice even coat around the joint, with a small mound at the base. + +http://www.flickr.com/photos/meddygarnet/2782362977/ + +Probably the biggest problem for beginners is adding too much solder. Just add a little bit at a time. + +Another problem is what's known as a "cold solder joint." As the name emplies, cold solder joints are what happens when either the board or the component or both aren't hot enough. Cold solder joints are brittle and can crack, ruining your circuit board. + +If you see cracks, your solder looks dull gray or grainy then you may have a cold solder joint. Sometimes you can fix a cold solder by reheating it and removing it from the board. Other times you'll need to desolder it and start over. + +== Tips == + +# If you do need to get a larger amount of solder then what you can get by dipping the tip in the solder, don't just break off a tiny skinny piece and try to hold it in place. Cut off a bit longer piece of solder and roll up one end like you're coiling a rope -- that way it's much easier to hold. + +# Make sure whatever you're soldering is clean -- wipe down circuit boards and anything else you're soldering with a clean, dry rag to eliminate finger oil or anything else that might weaken the soldered joint. + +# Use a vice, or for smaller projects, a set of alligator clips, to hold your boards and wires while you solder them. + +== Projects == + +So you've practiced soldering, built of up your skills and eliminated or fixed sold solder joints. Now you'd like to actually build something -- but what? + +Thanks to Make, Instructibles and other DIY havens the internet is awash in project ideas, instructions and even pre-made kits. One of our favorite projects is the [http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/index.html Minty Boost, a kit that will help you build a standard AA battery-based iPod/iPhone/MP3/Phone/GPS charger. It's easy to build, doesn't require a lot of soldering and ends up with something very useful. + +== Conclusion == + +Soldering is gluing for the digital age and everyone should know how to do it. Now that you've figured it out, get out there and build something awesome.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtostreammobilevideo.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtostreammobilevideo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3986dfa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtostreammobilevideo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Remember when a phone was just a phone? Yeah, we don't either. Our "phones" are search engines, GPS navigation devices and even streaming video cameras capable of documenting our entire lives in real time. + +Take that Hollywood. + +Want to get started with the mobile video craze? No problem we've got everything you need to know about streaming video from your mobile phone. + +== Prerequisites == + +Obviously you mobile needs to have a built-in video camera. It'll also help if you have a reasonably large memory card since any locally stored video will take up considerable room. + +The next requirement is some sort of video streaming software. There are a number of possibilities, but two of the most popular are [http://qik.com/ Qik] and [http://www.livecast.com/corporate/index.html LiveCast], both of which work on just about every mobile OS out there. + +Qik, LiveCast and others of their ilk can handle recording video, uploading it to the web and, in some cases, can even post your live streams on to video hosting sites like YouTube or alert your Twitter fans when you've got some new video to share. + +Download a copy of the video streaming software of your choice and let's get started. + +== Shooting mobile video == + +The software and hardware combination of mobile video stream has roughly the same quality as your average web cam -- you aren't going to get gorgeous, sweeping Terrence Malick-style panoramas -- but that doesn't mean you can't get reasonable quality footage if you follow our tips. + +=== Embrace the limitations === + +The quality isn't cinematic, but mobile video has a distinct advantage over high budget cameras -- it's almost always in your pocket. The always-at-hand advantage also lends itself it documentary style shooting, don't worry if the lighting isn't perfect, just point and shoot, er, stream. + +=== Steady Cam === + +Streaming mobile video has a tendency to shake, bounce and weave more than drunk clown pogo sticking his way through a reenactment of the Blair Witch project. If you're fortunate enough to have the steady hands of surgeon then by all means, free-hand it, otherwise, prop your phone against something supportive (depending on the shape of your phone, a styrofoam cup turned upside down and sliced to accommodate your phone can serve as a cheap, lightweight tripod). + +=== Watch your batteries === + +There's really no way around it, streaming video will wear down your batteries. If you're serious about video consider investing in a second battery so you can still make calls at the end of the day. + +== Conclusion == + +It's never going to get you an audition, but when something is as fun as streaming live video, who care about the technical limitations. A few blurry pixels never hurt the web.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosustainablegarden.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosustainablegarden.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2052fed --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosustainablegarden.txt @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +How to Garden Sustainably + +So you've started your first garden, perhaps some tomatoes, potatoes, other vegetables and herbs, maybe even a few flower beds for color. But your initial investment was likely quite a bit of money -- soil, soil conditioner, mulch, plants, fertilizer and more. + +It adds up quickly, and if you start all over every year you'll quickly find your garden is taking over your bank account. Luckily most gardening setups can be a one time expense provided you use sustainable gardening methods. + +Sustainable gardening refers to a garden that can be used productively over and over without the need for any addition materials. + +Some people argue that a "true" sustainable garden should use only organic materials, but that's really up to you. Using the occasional commercial pesticide or other non-organic product doesn't mean your entire garden isn't sustainable. + +For health and safety reasons we suggest sticking to primarily organic gardening, but the main key to sustainability is reuse. + +The basic lifecycle of a sustainable garden looks like this: + +# High quality compost goes into your garden's topsoil rejuvenating it from last year +# Seedling grown from seed or taken from cuttings are planted +# Mulch generated from raked leaves or local mulching services covers the compost and protects and conditions the soil +# Water from sustainable sources like a rain barrel or other rainwater capture system provides water +# More compost throughout the season feed your plants +# Soil treatments, non-chemical pest prevention, sympathetic planting and predatory insects protect your plants from slugs, mites and other pests. +# You harvest your food, saving enough seeds for next year's plants and putting all the waste matter back in a compost bin where it will turn into compost, ready to use next year + +Of course there's considerably leeway in this scenario and you don't have to do all of it. Even something as simple as starting a compost bin can be huge time and money saver when it comes to planting your garden next year. + +Let's break this cycle down and take a look at each part and see what you can do to make your garden more productive and more sustainable from year to year. + +== Compost == + +When organic material like plant matter decays, tiny microorganisms feed on it. The organisms take in carbon and give off all sorts of nutrients that plants need to thrive. + +For those with an allergy to all things hippie, keep in mind that composting isn't some 1960's feel-good movement -- it's how the entire ecosystem of the Earth functions. Composting is happening all around you. Why not tap into it and stop spending your hard earned money on ridiculous things like soil? + +Contrary to popular belief, composting isn't difficult, nor is it smelly. Proper compost piles should have a deep earthy scent, a bit like the woodland soil after a rain. + +For more details on how to set up a productive compost bin, check out our Composting Guide. + +Once you've generated some "black gold," as compost aficionados call it, work it into your topsoil before you plant. Most plants' roots stay in the first six inches of soil so concentrate on working your compost into that area. + +By doing so you'll be returning nutrients to the soil -- minerals like phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese and iron all help your plants grow. + +Compost also improves the texture or "tilth" of the soil. This has a dual benefit; if your soil is naturally loose or sandy, compost will help it retain water better. Conversely, if you have very heavy clay soil, the compost will improve drainage. + +In either case the end result is healthier, easy to maintain plants that need far less fertilizer and are more productive. + +== Mulch == + +Mulch refers to putting an additional layer of organic material on top of your soil. + +There are several reasons mulching is smart -- it suppresses weeds, keeps soil moist, prevents soil runoff, keeps your soil from being compacted by rain, keeps soil temperatures down, increases the number of beneficial earthworms and microorganisms in the soil, keeps mud from splattering on your plants and more. + +In fact, most gardeners regard mulch as then most important part of sustainable, low-maintenance gardens. + +Okay, so it's good stuff this mulch; what sort should I use? + +Well, just about every gardener you ask is going to have a different opinion on this one and the truth is there are no right answers when it comes to mulch. + +It depends on what you're growing (for example pine needles are cheap option that work well for plants that need highly acidic soil, but a terrible idea for plants that want a more neutral soil). + +We'll run through some of the possible options in just a minute, but first let's talk about where and how much mulch you should you use. A good rule of thumb is to use two inches of mulch on top of your well composted soil. You can add more mulch if it starts to breaks down over the course of the season. + +Also make sure that you never put mulch on top of plants or have mulch touching their stems. A sadly very common, but very bad idea, is piling much against tree trunks. Not only do these "volcanos" of mulch look ridiculous, they're horrible for the health of your trees. + +Simply scatter a two inch layer of mulch over your compost and top soil, making sure to keep it a few inches back from the stems and trunks of your plants. + +As for what to use, that's up to you, but avoid commercial mulches with dyes. Not only do they look ugly, the wood chips used often comes from sources that may have harmful chemicals. Stick to organic materials like shredded wood chips and bark, leafmold, "pine fines" (very fine-textured pieces of pine bark), husks and even recycled rubber from old tires. + +Our favorite is leafmold, which is rarely sold at commercial shops, but can easily be made -- just run your mower over a pile leaves several times, catching the chopped up results in the grass bag. Don't have an excess of leaves to chop in your area? Try asking your local government if they have any. Many local governments provide it for free or very cheaply. Check your local government website to see if its available in your area. + +== watering == + +Unless you happen to live in the tropics, chances are you're going to need to water your garden. + +The sustainable way to do that is using a rain barrel to catch excess water whenever it rains. You can buy rain barrels complete with hose attachments and then just place them below your gutter's exit spout. That way you capture run off and can use it to water your garden between rains. + +But even with a rain barrel there are still plenty of ways you can cut down on watering. If you're planting an ornamental garden choose local, drought-resistant plants that are well adapted to your zone (check with your local gardening store to find out which drought-resistant and local plants do the best in your area). + +Another way to cut down on watering is to only water where it's needed -- the plants' root zone. Anything beyond the root zone is simply going to feed weeds and be a waste of water. This why switching from a typical sprinkler system to a targeted drip system is probably the single most water saving move most gardeners can make. + +Drip systems range from the very complex professionally installed sort (expensive, but potentially money saving in the long run) to the simpler variety you can build yourself. Ask your local garden shop to point you to the flexible hosing and check out [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/sets/265456/ this illustrated tutorial on Flickr]. Even something as simple as a plastic bottle can create a basic drip system, see this tutorial from [http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/dripsystem.php You Grow Girl]. + +Another tip: plant intelligently. That is, plant plants that have similar water needs next to each other. One way to do this is with [square foot gardening]. + +==pest and disease== + +Once your garden is up and running with quality, well-enriched soil and a nice layer of mulch, it's time to deal with nature's pests and diseases. If your soil is good and you plant things native to your area you shouldn't have too many diseases to worry about, but pests are another matter. + +It might be tempting to simply spray on one of the nearly infinite number of commercial pesticides, but not only is that expensive, possibly hazardous to your health and terrible for the environment, it generally isn't necessary. + +Human beings have been cultivating plants for over 10,000 years; commercial pesticides on the other hand didn't come about until roughly the 1940s. So yes, for every pesticide there is nearly always an organic, less-hazardous solution. + +One popular sustainable solution is planting sympathetic plants. For example, many of the pests and diseases that affect tomatoes can be prevented by planting marigolds nearby your tomatoes. There's also some evidence that tomatoes grow better and bear more fruit with marigolds growing around them. + +Similar sympathetic solutions exist for other plants, try searching the web to find out what works well with the plants you've chosen for your garden. + +Another solution is predatory insects, for example lady bugs (often sold at gardening centers) eat aphids, a common source of problems for rose bushes. + + +== Future== + +So you've successfully grown your garden, harvest your fruit, vegetables and flowers and now winter is coming, so what about next year? + +There's no need to buy new seeds every year (unless you've been buying them from the notorious Monsanto company), you can use seeds from this year's fruit and vegetables to grow next year's plants. + +In most cases you'll need to process the seeds slightly, usually by fermenting and drying them, but the process generally isn't too difficult. Just select some fruit from the very healthiest looking plants and then remove the seeds from the fruit. + +In the case of tomatoes its simply a matter of washing the seeds and then placing them in water and leaving them somewhere warm for a few days. Once the fermentation process is complete there will be a fine film of "scum" on the top of the water. Just scoop that off and then spread the seeds out to dry. This can take a while, up to a week in the case of some big tomatoes. Once the seeds have dried just package them up in something airtight and you're ready to go for next year. + +Most common vegetable plants can be harvested for seeds in a similar manner, just consult your local garden center experts or do a bit of internet searching to find out the details of each plant. + +Another thing to remember is that bulbs like irises or tulips can be dug up and over-wintered somewhere indoors and then replanted again next year. + +If you're feeling really ambitious and have a greenhouse of some sort you can take cutting of your more successful plants and grow them indoors over the winter. Cuttings work primarily with woodier plants like tree and shrubs though there are exceptions. + +== Conclusion == + +Gardening can be a very expensive proposition, but fortunately it doesn't need to be that way. In fact, if you follow all the suggestion above and are willing to put a bit of effort into it, sustainable gardening is just about free. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosync_smart_tv.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosync_smart_tv.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f42fce --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtosync_smart_tv.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +The future of television is connected. Smart TVs are already coming on the market, but despite the name they aren't yet terribly smart. A better way to think of these new TVs is connected -- pulling video from the web and services like Netflix or Hulu Plus in addition to typical broadcast content. + +Sadly, it's still going to be a while before your television is smart enough to know what you want to watch before you do. For now your best bet is to sync the content you're already consuming over the web -- YouTube favorites, Netflix queue, etc -- to your new smart TV. + +Here's our guide to getting everything on your PC onto your smart television + +## Start with apps + +Like smartphones, smart TVs have embraced the app model. Netflix, Hulu Plus and other sites with streaming content -- everything from MLB to Twitter and weather forecasts -- have developed apps that will work on most smart TVs. In these cases syncing is simply a matter of logging in to your account. Once your TV has your YouTube info, for example, anything you've liked or added to your queue on YouTube is now available on your TV. + +## Add a little wifi + +So far so good, but what about all those movies you have on your PC? Well, that depends on your TV. The latest and greatest TVs can connect to your local network and automatically find any videos on your PC. For example, LG's new Smart Share TVs can stream any content on your PC's media player. Smart Share also includes what LG calls "Media Link," which provides extra information about what you're watching -- plot synopsis, actor bios and other metadata. + +LG's new Smart TVs, and similar models from other manufacturers, also offer their own homegrown apps for streaming other things, like educational content or games for kids. And of course most offer a built-in web browser as well. Though browsing the web from your armchair is not an ideal experience, it does offer a fall back plan for content that you can't get any other way. + +## Fallbacks + +If your TV isn't one of the newest models that includes built-in streaming tools you'll need to add another box to the mix -- like the Apple TV 2, [http://www.boxee.tv/ Boxee] or a PC running [http://xbmc.org/ XMBC]. + +## Go mobile, or not + +The AppleTV 2 makes it incredibly simple to stream content from any iOS mobile device to an AppleTV on the same network. Sadly, the smart TVs on the market at the time of this writing can not easily stream movies or other content on your phone. For now at least, you'll have to content yourself with the movies on your PC or jump on the Apple bandwagon.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotimeyourthanksgiving.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotimeyourthanksgiving.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1320186 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotimeyourthanksgiving.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Thanksgiving is more than just turkey or ham. There's mashed potatoes, yams, casseroles, stuffing, dressing, cranberry sauce, gravy and countless other side dishes. It's enough to overwhelm even a well-trained professional chef to say nothing of the rest of us. + +The key to making your Thanksgiving dinner come off without a hitch is careful planning and timing. + +Here's our guide to making sure everything gets on the table at the same time. + +== Plan ahead == + +Professional chefs don't just walk in the kitchen at 5 pm and send out perfect dishes, they plan ahead and so should you. + +Make a list of all the dishes you plan to serve and buy all your ingredients well ahead of time. + +Look up how long each recipe says it will take, paying attention to both the prep time and the cooking time. Then start plotting out the order in which you should work, starting with the longest recipes. + +Other sides, like cranberry sauce, are generally served cold, so feel free to make them well ahead of time. + +== Par cooking == + +Par cooking simply means half cooking. For example, even if you dont want to reheat your mashed potatoes you can still cook the potatoes about half way the day before and then finish then up in half the time. + +Vegetables are also good candidate for par cooking. Par cook your green beans and then just reheat them through before serving. + +== Get help == + +It's impossible to baste a turkey, kneed dough for rolls and dress a salad all at the same time. Deputize some helpers and get them in the kitchen with you. You don't need to be a dictator about it, but make sure everyone heling you knows what they're doing and has a place to work. + +== Relax == + +Thanksgiving dinner is a stressful time for many people, but with a little planning, some help form friends and family and a few Bloody Marys, you can get everything together like a pro and have plenty of time to relax and enjoy the time with friends and family. + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotravelrecession.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotravelrecession.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39e7bc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtotravelrecession.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +Have economic jitters got your rethinking your summer vacation? Well, you might want to take another look at it, but not because it's a bad idea. In fact, as morbid as it sounds, a recession is often the cheapest and best time to hit the open road. + +But it pays to do some research, if you leap blindly into a resort package-trip you could end up spending a fortune, which is no good in any economic climate. + +To help you out we've put together this handy guide to cheap travel tricks with a little something for everyone, whether you're looking for a cheap two week escape with the family or are a recently unemployed vagabond looking to circumnavigate the globe. + +== Find Cheap Airfare == + +Buying plane tickets is a nightmare. If there's a more complex and downright idiotic way to sell things, we don't know about it. + +But within the maze of prices and ticket restrictions there are some loopholes and the occasional killer deal, so how do you find them? + +=== Go Local === + +The first thing to do is check out the budget airline options. The large carriers have brand recognition, while the low cost carriers can only really compete on price so if you're looking for cheap tickets, small, local carriers are often a much better deal. + +The trick is to find those flights, many of which never make it in the larger search engines like Expedia or Kayak. + +That's where [http://www.whichbudget.com/ Which Budget] comes in. The Which Budget search engine is a bit different than a traditional airfare search engine, it doesn't generally list prices, but it does tell you about loads of airlines you've probably never heard of before. + +Just plugin in the cities (or even countries) where you're looking to fly and Which Budget will show you roundup of cheap, regional airlines available for your route. Follow the links to the actual sites and compare them with results from Kayak and its ilk. + +=== Be Flexible === + +Another great airfare tool is [http://farecast.live.com/? Farecast] (now part of Microsoft Live Search) which can predict whether the price of your flight is likely to go up or down in the future. Along the same lines, try searching for one-way tickets or by flexible dates. Some airline websites will highlight cheaper days around your dates that can save you a bundle. And remember, while it's not 100 percent true, it's generally cheaper to fly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. + +=== Pick up the Phone === + +Great as the web is, sometimes the better deals can be found by calling the airlines directly. For example, we recently saw tickets from Atlanta to San Francisco for $129 each way. That sounds like a good deal right? Well, we couldn't get them for the dates we wanted so we called Delta and the agent told us that while that fare was sold out, there were tickets available for the same flight at $109. Uh, okay. Why didn't the cheaper fare show up in our search? Well it did, but only after the agent explained how to make it show up by searching at specific times of the day. Crazy, but true. + +It might sound old fashioned, but picking up the phone can be a great way to save money on plane tickets. Be sure to tell the agent that you're days are flexible so they can let you know if there's something cheaper available around the same time. + + +=== Frequent Flyer Miles === + + +Another excellent way to travel on the cheap is using frequent flyer miles. Although it's not for everyone, world traveler extraordinaire, Chris Guillebeau at The Art of Non-Conformity recently outlined how he got [http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/the-5-million-frequent-flyer-mile-challenge/ just under 300,000 frequent flyer miles] in a few short weeks. The trick involves opening a few credit card accounts, so make sure you're comfortable with that before you dive in. Your success will of course depend on your credit score and a number of other factors, but Guillebeau has been tracking how his readers do and together they've managed to get close to 2 million miles earned. + +== Cheap Accommodations == + +Hotels will eat up a travel budget in a hurry, which has always left us wondering why more people don't use alternatives. Here's four ways to avoid the high price of a hotel: + +# Rent -- It's almost always cheaper, even for a short vacation, to rent an apartment, condo or house than to stay in the hotel. The added benefit of being able to cook your own meals can also save a bundle. The trick is again to do your research -- sites like [http://www.homeaway.com/World/r1.htm Homeaway] and [http://www.stayrentals.com/ Stay Rentals] have extensive listings to suit most any budget. [http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/travel/home_exchanges/home_rentals_worldwide.shtml Transitions Abroad] has a comprehensive list of other rental sites specializing in specific countries, and even craigslist has a plethora of short term rentals, though the usual craigslist cautions apply -- beware the scammers. + +# Hostels -- hostels aren't just for backpackers anymore. In fact, many hostels have gone upscale offering private, tasteful rooms and upscale amenities -- call them boutique hostels. And since many of these, especially in Europe, have adopted a bed and breakfast approach, you can save a bit of money on food. Check out [http://www.hostelbookers.com/article/hostel-types/flashpacking-hostels/ Hostel Bookers for more details (hint: the keyword to search for here is "flashpacking" -- for those comfortable with backpacking, but looking for a bit more, um, flash). + +# home stays -- Another way to stay on the cheap is to stay with the locals. Many areas of the world have hospitality organizations that can put in touch with a host family. [http://www.worldwidehomestay.com/ Worldwide Homestay is a site specializing in connecting visitors with local hosts. Other options include [http://www.homestaybooking.com/ Homestay Booking] and [http://www.homestayfinder.com/CurrentRates.aspxHomestay Finder]. Also be sure to search for possibilities in your destination of choice. + +# House Swap -- Site like [http://www.homeexchange.com/ Home Exchange] and [http://www.homeforswap.com/ Home for Swap] are dedicated to people that want to exchange house for a period of time. If you live in SF NY or a major city, there's bound to be plenty of options at your disposal. + +# Caretakers -- If you aren't keen on strangers traipsing through your house, there's still ways to get free lodging. Many home owners (especially those with second homes) like someone to be around when they aren't -- to care for the garden, feed the animals or just perform some basic maintenance. [http://www.caretaker.org/ The Caretaker Gazette] is the granddaddy of housesitting opportunities. Unfortunately it isn't free, but you can browse online listings to see if there's anything that interests you. + +# Couch Surfing -- What's better than free? Couch surfing has taken what was once the sole province of your annoying uncle and turned it into a worldwide phenomena. Not only do you get free lodging, you get to meet people around the world, make new friends and get a personal view into the life of the locals wherever you're traveling. It's clearly not for everyone, but if you're an adventurous traveler, it's definitely the cheapest option. + +== Cheap Destinations == + +Now that you know some ways to get cheaper flights and alternatives to traditional, expensive hotels, it's worth considering where to go. + +Because currency rates fluctuate and deals come and go it's hard to definitely say that one place is cheaper than another. For example Asia is generally cheaper than Europe once you land, but factor in the high cost of airfare from the U.S. to Asia versus the deals available to Europe and the total costs get much closer. + +Still, there are some obvious places to avoid -- London is a good example of somewhere that's almost impossible to visit on a budget. + +Perhaps the best way to find a cheap location is to ask yourself what you want to see -- looking for beaches? Well, The Caribbean is rarely a bargain, so consider Eastern Europe, particularly the coastal towns in Bulgaria, along the shores of the Black Sea. Not only will you escape the crowds, the beaches are beautiful and the prices much better than what you'll find in the Bahamas. + +The point is to get off the beaten path, not only is cheaper, you'll get see and interact with a world less overrun by tourist hordes. + +== Alternative ways to travel == + +Finding great deals isn't the only way to travel cheap. Sometimes it's worth changing your whole view of travel by doing something well outside the mainstream of travel -- like a volunteer vacation. While not all volunteer opportunies are free -- and even with the ones that are, it probably isn't the best reason for doing it -- they generally offer cheaper lodging and food in exchange for helping out with local projects. + +Volunteer opportunities abound, whether teaching English in rural villages, helping third world entrepreneurs learn business skills or helping to dig a well, there's an endless need for volunteer labor, especially skilled labor, abroad. + +However, this is probably best not viewed as a way to travel cheaply. If you heart isn't in it, then don't do it. But if you'd like to help, there are plenty of ways you can. + +College students can check out [http://www.alternativebreaks.org/ Alternative Breaks] which is focused on helping you do something more than tequila shooters during your spring break or summer vacation. + +Travel site BootsnAll has a [http://www.bootsnall.com/guides/volunteering-abroad-travel-guide/ Volunteering Abroad Travel Guide] that makes a good starting point for the rest of us. + + +== Conclusion == + +Travel need not be expensive, it just takes a little DIY effort and some creative thinking to come up with a trip that's cheap, fun and memorable.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoturkey.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoturkey.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c79fea0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoturkey.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Thanksgiving, a time for families to go together and fight like cats and dogs over the delicious smells of golden roast turkey. Or, if your family is more like ours, a blackened, dried out turkey that looks more like a dog treat than something you'd serve to humans. + +The truth is turkey isn't the most exciting thing to eat to begin with and the fact that it's easy to overcook makes it an even trickier project to tackle. + +If you're hosting thanksgiving, we can't stop the old sibling resentments from bubbling up, but we can help you make sure your turkey is golden, moist and delicious. + +Here's our guide to roasting the perfect turkey. + +== What you'll need == + +# A Turkey -- plan on about one and one half pound of uncooked turkey per person. Much of that weight in in bones, so the final portion works out to more like 8-10oz per person. When in doubt, use [http://www.csgnetwork.com/turkeydinnercalc.html an online calculator]. + +# Large Roasting Pan and V-Rack -- Make sure you have something big enough to hold your turkey, but still fits in your oven. + +# Meat thermometer -- Forget those pop up thermometers that come with some turkeys and get a real thermometer. + +# Turkey Baster -- yes, it's more work, but the results are worth the effort. + +== Picking your turkey == + +Not all turkeys are sold equal. For the best flavor avoid frozen and go with a local meat shop if you can. Ask your butcher about freshness and buy organic if that's important to you. Also consider a kosher turkey, while they're typically more expensive, they also tend to have more flavor. + +== Brine == + +To bring out the flavor in your turkey, brine it before you cook. Brining the turkey in slat water with some minimal herbs helps ensure that the salt penetrates into the flesh and brings out the full flavor. + +To brine your turkey either use a large stock pot or by a brining bag from your local supermarket. + +Remove the gizard, neck and any other extras included with your turkey. Wash the bird inside and out. + +If you want to get fancy you can boil up your brine with herbs -- bay leaves, savory, thyme, rosemary and sage are all popular choices. In a large stock pot, combine water (or vegetable stock and water if you like), salt and about a tablespoon each of rosemary, sage, thyme, and whatever other herbs you'd like and bring to a boil. Once the salt is dissolved remove the pot from the heat, and let cool to room temperature. Then put your turkey inside, or pour the mixture into a brining bag. + +== Roasting == + +Pull your turkey out of the brine and place it breast-side down on your V-rack inside the roasting pan. Preheat the oven to 425. If you aren't worried about fat, brush a bit of melted butter over the Turkey, this will help ensure crispy, golden skin. + +Rub the inside and out of your bird with salt, pepper and any other seasonings you want. If you're making stuff, now would be the time to stuff it inside the bird. + +When the oven is hot place the turkey inside. Cook the turkey or 15 minutes and then lower the temperature to 350 degrees. The initial higher temperature helps crisp the skin. + +There are all sorts of formulas for how long your should roast your turkey, but every bird and oven are different. The best way to do it is to use your meat thermometer. Cook until the breast temperature reaches 165-170 degrees F, and thigh temperature reaches 175-180 degrees F. + +Every thirty minutes or so use your baster to suck up the pan drippings and pour them onto the back and the legs. + +== Conclusion == + +When the breast and leg temperatures are where they should be, pull your turkey out of the oven and cover it with a tinfoil tent. Let the Turkey rest about 20 minutes before serving.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoweatherproofwindows.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoweatherproofwindows.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f5e141 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoweatherproofwindows.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +The Arctic cold is creeping in again in the northern hemisphere which means we're all cranking up the heat. Nice as the heater is, you might be losing a good bit of heat -- and with it money spent generating more heat -- if your windows aren't properly sealed. + +If you have an older house, chances are your windows drain quite a bit of heat to the outside world. It would be nice if that leaking heat would simply make it feel like Spring outside, but since that doesn't work, here's out guide to weatherproofing your windows. + +== Buy new energy efficient windows == + +If you're burning money logs in the fireplace then this upgrade is for you. New, energy efficient windows will ensure that your house stays warmer without the hassles of sealing, taping plastic or any of other techniques we'll cover. + +Unfortunately, installing all new windows isn't cheap and takes a considerable amount of time and effort. If you're looking for something a bit more budget friendly, read on. + +== Install storm windows == + +Storm windows are essentially a second piece of glass fitted over your existing windows. There are both outside storm windows and inside, though the former tends to be the more popular choice. + +Storm windows give you some of the benefits of energy efficient windows (like double paned glass for better insulation) without the cost of installing new windows. + +Storm windows are also a popular solution for those with older houses, where old windows are part of the charm. + +Installing storm windows isn't difficult, just head to your local big box home improvement store and pick up a few storm windows that fit your existing windows. Then grab a drill and screw driver and mount to storm windows according to the instructions that came with them. + +== Tape and seal == + +If you don't want to go the storm windows route, the cheapest option is to simply improve on your existing windows. Give you windows a thorough inspection, if there are and cracked panes replace then or seal them with caulk. Check the putty around the edges of the glass and seal any cracked or missing areas. + +The next step is get some weather stripping and seal the edges of your windows. Weather stripping is cheap and will go a long way toward keeping out those drafty flows of outside air. Be sure to buy the self-adhesive variety, which makes for easy installation. The drawback to weather stripping is that you won't be able to open your windows, but you probably won't be doing that until spring anyway. + +Finally, head to your local home improvement store and buy some windows plastic. Tape the plastic around your windows and use a hair drier to tighten the plastic. It might not be the prettiest solution, but it will cut your heating bill down to size. + +Also, if you have curtains, be sure to close them at night -- the more insulation around your windows they warmer you'll be. + +== Conclusion == + +Winter isn't cheap, but with a few inexpensive fixes, you can stop the chill from coming indoors and sending your heating bill through the roof. + +Image possibilities: + +poorly sealed windows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/4809701462/ +storm windows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillsdalehouse/1795065154/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc1c4a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +YouTube and other video sharing sites provide endless hours of wholesome, time-wasting entertainment, but what if you want to watch movies without the browser? There's no easy way to download YouTube videos from the site, but thankfully there are other ways to do it. + +The best and easiest solution is to use the Firefox plugin <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006">Download Helper</a>. Download Helper can handle much more than just YouTube, in fact the add-on can grab just about any media file from nearly any source and download it to your machine. There are also a couple of other Firefox plugins, notably <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390">Video Downloader</a>, though the latest YouTube update seems to have broken most of them. + +If you're not a Firefox user, don't worry, there's some other options. <a href="http://myvideodownloader.com/tryitnow.html">My Video Downloader</a> is a Windows program that will download movies from YouTube, though it will set you back $30 (there's a free trial that allows for 10 downloads). + +Mac users looking to go from YouTube straight over to your video iPod or AppleTV have a couple options. There's <a href="http://djodjodesign.free.fr/podtube.html">Podtube 2</a> which will download and convert files from YouTube, Daily Motion and MySpace. PodTube 2 is $5. <a href="http://stinkbot.com/Tubesock/index.html">TubeSock 2.0</a> offer similar features, though it only handles YouTube videos, and costs $15. + +Although it hasn't been released yet, there's also a lot of talk surrounding <a href="http://tubularapp.com/blog/">Tubular</a> which looks a bit like iTunes applied to YouTube. Look for Tubular to enter the public beta phase later this year. + +And finally, the most primitive, but definitely free and working, method is to use <a href="http://www.savetube.com/">SaveTube.com</a>. Just paste in the YouTube URL and SaveTube will find the cached file and give you a download link. + +What to do with your downloaded video + +Unless you're using one of the all-in-one solutions listed above, once you've pulled down the Flash FLV file from YouTube, or other video sharing site, you'll need to convert it to another format for viewing in QuickTime (which includes iTunes and AppleTV) or Windows Media Player. + +Alternately you can just use an FLV capable media player like the excellent and free <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a> (all platforms). + +To convert your FLV file on a Mac you can use <a href="http://www.isquint.org/">iSquint</a>, which is free though limited to output in MP4, or through the aforementioned TubeSock. For Windows folks there's <a href="http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html">Super</a>, which is free, or <a href="http://www.zillatube.com/">Zillatube</a>, which costs $30. Both support a wide range of output options. + +Linux users can turn to <a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/">ffmpeg</a> (which also works on OS X and Windows) and a little command line juice, this should get you started: + +ffmpeg -i myFile.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 myFile.mpg + +And there you have it, now you can watch your YouTube favorites anywhere you'd like in nearly any video format you can name. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube2.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0498ce9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/howtoyoutube2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +You don't need to spend to much time on YouTube to realize that all videos are not created equal. There is a marked contrast between the grainy, poorly shot cat movies your aunt uploads and the much better looking submissions that rank at the top of YouTube's most popular. + +While grain and noise are factors largely due to camera and lens quality, pixilation and distorted video is often the result of poor compression choices. + +There are dozens of video editing software packages on the market ranging from the free packages Apple's "iMovie"<http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/> or "Windows Movie Maker"<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/moviemaker.mspx> to the high end apps like Apple's "Final Cut Pro"<http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/>or "Adobe Premiere"<http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/>. + +While the big boys offer impressive options like sharpening overlays and gamma correction, for most user's there's no need to drop over $500 on software just for YouTube. + +Most of the quality problems in YouTube stem from the fact that YouTube not only compresses your movie, but also converts it to an entirely different format (the FLV format for the YouTube Flash player). + +So how to make your videos sharper and clearer? + +YouTube "recommends"<http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55745&topic=10526> that you encode your movie in MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format, shrink it to 320x240 resolution, use MP3 audio, and 30 frames per second + +While these suggestions are dead simple and fine for the aunt's cat movie, it's possible to get much better results by ignoring some of them. + +First off, the 320x240 pixel dimensions are not a good idea since YouTube's player actually has a broadcast size of 425 x 318. What YouTube does is upscale your movie to fit the full player, which is one way that the quality is degraded. + +If you happen to be shooting at larger than 425 x 318 anyway (and unless you're using a cellphone, you probably are), there's no need to shrink your movie just to have YouTube enlarge it again. Set your editing software to export at 425 x 318 to begin with. The only downside is that your upload time will likely increase somewhat since your files will be bigger. + + +Obviously both of the these dimensions are for 4:3 ratio videos. If you're shooting in 16:9 you'll have to either crop your movie or letterbox it. Thus far YouTube doesn't offer a 16:9 player. + + +Note that iMovie '08 features a one-click export to YouTube feature which offers to publish to either 480X360 or 640X480. We would suggest the larger if you have the bandwidth to spare. When uploading to YouTube iMovie 08 will automatically use H.264 at 30 fps. + +The other questionable aspect of YouTube's advice is the Divx and Xvid CODECs. If you happen to be on the Apple platform you may as well use the MPEG-4 part 10 (H.264). All of Apple's video editing applications support it and YouTube can still convert it to FLV. + +In fact the YouTube movies you watch on AppleTV and the iPhone is broadcast in H.264 and Adobe recently announced that future versions of the Flash Player will support H.264, which means at some point this will likely become the default format of choice. + +Another possibility is the PhotoJPEG CODEC. For more on why you might want to use PhotoJPEG and some more tips on optimizing movies for YouTube using Final Cut Pro, have a look at "Brian Gary's tutorial"<http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/youtube_compressor_gary.html>. + +If your video software supports it, enable a little bit of sharpening and color correction since FLV compression tends to make edges go a bit soft. You'll need to play with your setting to find the right amount of sharpening, but don't be afraid to overdo it, in fact, you're essentially trying to overdo it and then letting the YouTube's encoder blur things back to normal. + +Depending on the quality of your video editing tools there may be more options at your disposal, check the forums for your software package to see what others recommend tweaking for maximum sharpness. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/html5canvastutorial.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/html5canvastutorial.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e301cd1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/html5canvastutorial.txt @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +HTML 5 isn't just about making semantic sense out of the web, it's also been written with an eye toward making the web a more interesting place. One of the central parts of that interestingness is a new tag called the Canvas tag. + +Canvas is quite simply a blank spot for you to draw. The best way to understand how canvas works is to simply dive in and see it in action. That of course raises an inevitable question, how many of you are going to see the following examples? + +Well, here's the browser breakdown as of August 2009: Safari 3, Safari 4, FF 3.0, FF3.5 Opera 10, Chrome 3 and IE 7 & 8 (note that the IE support requires the third-party JavaScript Library, [http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/ explorer canvas], download it, add the script to your pages and IE 7 and 8 will play nice with Canvas). + +== The blank slate of HTML 5 == + +Okay, so, what is the canvas tag? Well, here's the simplest case: + +<pre> +<code><canvas></canvas></code> +</pre> + +Like any other tag, canvas will show up in the page's DOM and can be accessed just like any other HTML element. And that's one of the main purposes of canvas, to provide a blank slate of HTML which you can then draw on and manipulate using JavaScript. + +To get a better idea of what that means, let's create a slightly more complex example. Here's another blank canvas: + +<pre> +<code><canvas id="mycanvas" width="600" height="300" ></canvas></code> +</pre> + +If you're using one of the browsers above, here's what that code will look like rendered in the browser (note we've added a 1 pixel black border): + +<canvas id="mycanvas" width="600" height="300" style="border: #000 1px solid;"></canvas> + +Now let's access that blank slate and do something to it. To do that we'll select the element with some JavaScript and then use some drawing methods. + +<pre> +<code> +var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas"); +var canvas_context = canvas.getContext("2d"); +canvas_context.fillRect(100,100,200,100); +</code> +</pre> + +What we've done here is use the standard JavaScript <code>getElementById</code> function to select our canvas element. Then we need to call the getContext() method and set it to 2d. That's the required first step for using any canvas element. Now we know what you're thinking, is there a 3d context? Well, for now, the answer is no. But expect one to come along eventually, it's on the W3C's list of future features. + +Once we've set the getContext() of our canvas we can then start drawing. In this case we're simply drawing a black rectangle 100 pixels from the top and 100 pixels from the left of our canvas' edge. The basic parameters of the fillRect method look like this: <code>fillRect(x, y, width, height)</code>. Other basic drawing methods like <code>fillStyle</code>, <code>strokeStyle</code>, gradient tools and more. You can get a full rundown on all the drawing methods in the [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html WHATWG's current working draft]. + +Now for a live example, let's take the code above and wrap it in function and then call it from a link's onclick() handler. + +<canvas id="mycanvas2" width="600" height="300" style="border: #000 1px solid;"></canvas> + +<script> +function draw_mycanvas() { + var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas2"); + var canvas_context = canvas.getContext("2d"); + canvas_context.fillRect(100,100,200,100); +} +</script> + +<a href="#" onclick="draw_mycanvas();return false">Click here to draw in Canvas element above</a> + +The code for the above example looks like this: + +<pre> +<code> +<canvas id="mycanvas2" width="600" height="300" style="border: #000 1px solid;"></canvas> + +<script> +function draw_mycanvas() { + var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas2"); + var canvas_context = canvas.getContext("2d"); + canvas_context.fillRect(100,100,200,100); +} +</script> + +<a href="#" onclick="draw_mycanvas();return false">Click here to draw in Canvas element above</a> +</code> +</pre> + +Note that you can have as many canvas elements in a page as you'd like and each one maintains its own state, that is, drawing in one won't effect any of the others. To effectively target each one, just make sure it has a unique ID, or use hierarchical selectors. + +== Doing more with Canvas == + +Okay so it can draw black boxes, who cares? Well, actually Canvas can draw a lot more that just black boxes. In fact, if you dig into the drawing methods available via the Canvas API and start writing some more sophisticated code, just about anything is possible. + +The idea behind Canvas is to offer a way to create live graphs and charts that would previously have required a static image. Now it's true there are some JavaScript libraries that can create impressive charts and graphs without Canvas, but the Canvas tag can do all that and opens the door to much, much more. + +Take images for example. Ever wanted to load an image into a page and then start messing with it using JavaScript? Let's see how easy that is using Canvas. + +<pre> +<code> +function draw() { + var c = document.getElementById('canvas').getContext('2d'); + var img = new Image(); + img.onload = function(){ + c.drawImage(img,0,0); + // additional manipulations here + } + img.src = 'images/myimage.png'; + } +</code> +</pre> + +Or we can simply grab an image from the current page by selecting it via <code>getElementById</code> or similar method: + +<pre> +<code> +window.onload = function() { + var c = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext("2d"); + var img = document.getElementById("myimage"); + c.drawImage(img, 0, 0); +}; +</code> +</pre> + +Once we have an image in our canvas element it's possible to do just about anything with it -- rotating, flipping, scaling, cropping and more. + +Common use cases for dropping an image inside a canvas tag include adding icons or backgrounds to charts (which saves considerable load time compared to drawing everything from scratch). And of course yes, it's potentially possible to build a full blown browser-native version of the Gimp. + +Remember kids, if it can be written in JavaScript, eventually it will. + +For some more examples of how you can push the boundaries with the canvas tag, be sure to check out Mozilla's [https://developer.mozilla.org/Special:Tags?tag=Canvas_examples&language=en collection of Canvas experiments]. Also be sure to try out [http://htmlfive.appspot.com/static/tracker1.html this motion tracking system] which combines canvas and the HTML5 video tag to create real-time motion tracking in video. + +== Conclusion == + +We've really only scratched the surface of Canvas in this intro, but hopefully it's piqued your curiosity about one of the few elements in HTML 5 that enjoys pretty darn good cross-browser support (IE 6 is about they only common browser that can't handle canvas). + +If you'd like to learn more have a look at the WHATWG's [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html draft spec of canvas] and be sure to check out Mark Pilgrim's Dive into HTML 5 which has a few [http://diveintohtml5.org/canvas.html more details on Canvas]. The Mozilla developer website has a [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial nice, thorough look at the canvas element] and covers a few things we've skipped like image compositing and simple animations. The Opera dev crew also has a very nice tutorial that walks you through the process of building an in-browser [http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html5-canvas-painting/ MSPaint-style app using canvas]. + + diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/installsnowleopard.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/installsnowleopard.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b2a072 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/installsnowleopard.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Get Ready for Snow Leopard. + +Apple's latest operating system is just about here. Snow Leopard as OS X 10.6 is known is a something of a departure for Apple, being less about new features and more about incremental upgrades, refinements and speed boosts. At $30 Snow Leopard is also considerably cheaper than past OS X upgrades. + +Before you join the legions of Apple faithful at the Apple Store tomorrow, there are a few things you should know about Snow Leopard. + +Snow Leopard requires an Intel-based Mac, at least a gig of RAM and a DVD drive. Check out the Apple website for the [http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html full list of Snow Leopard requirements]. Technically Apple also says that the Snow Leopard upgrade will only work for those using OS X 10.5 Leopard. + +In this how to we'll walk you through the things you should do before you make the leap to Snow Leopard, and how to go about the actual installation, including how to install it even if you aren't using its predecessor, OS X 10.5 Leopard. + + +==Before You Upgrade== + +Whether you decide to do a clean install of Snow Leopard or simply update your existing system, now is the perfect time to clean up your hard drive. This means getting rid of unused applications, cleaning out your start up items folder or even just getting rid of that desktop file clutter. As for deleting bloated logs and other background files, we like [http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html OnyX] which can handle those tasks and quite a bit more. Other options include [http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php Cocktail]. See our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Your_Mac How To Speed Up Your Mac] guide for more details. + +The next thing to do before you upgrade to Snow Leopard is to back up your current OS X installation. Than means using Time Machine or one of the many third party solutions available. Have a look at our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Back_Up_Your_Data_on_a_Mac Guide to Backing Up Your Mac] for suggestions and backup strategies. + +== Installation == + +Once your Mac is cleaned, optimized and backed up it's time to install Snow Leopard. + +According to Apple Snow Leopard will only upgrade your Mac from OS X 10.5 Leopard. If you skipped Leopard, Apple will point you to the $170 Mac Box Set which contains both Leopard and Snow Leopard. + +However, Lifehacker has [http://lifehacker.com/5345690/prep-your-mac-for-snow-leopard confirmed] that it was able to erase a hard drive and install Snow Leopard. That means if you backup your files on Tiger, you should be technically able to buy Snow Leopard for $30, install it on a clean drive and then migrate your files over. You'll likely have to download newer versions of third-party software that are Leopard — or Snow Leopard — compatible. That extra work is probably worth it, because this OS is a pretty big performance upgrade if you're switching from Tiger. + +Of course, using the $30 upgrade to go from Tiger to Snow Leopard may violate Apple's terms of service. We were unable to confirm this with Apple, which did not respond to our queries about Snow Leopard pricing. + +There are two ways to install Snow Leopard: + +# Option 1 -- Install Snow Leopard on top of your existing Leopard install. This is the method recommended by Apple and will be the easiest, quickest option for most people. Just pop in the disk, select "Upgrade" and wait for Snow Leopard to install. + +# Option 2 -- Wipe your drive and start from scratch. If you see OS upgrades as chance to make a clean start on a pristine new disk than this option is for you. To go this route just insert your Snow Leopard DVD and choose "Install Mac OS X." + +== Conclusion == + +Now that Snow Leopard is installed, have a look at our [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/6-things-snow-leopard/ guide to the major new features]. There are also some smaller new tools that aren't grabbing the limelight, but are nevertheless handy. for example Quicktime now offers the ability to record screencasts. Snow Leopard's screencast tools aren't as powerful as some third part apps, but if you just need a basic record function it'll fit the bill. + +And remember, this is wiki so if you've found other little, less obvious upgrades in Snow leopard be sure to add them to this page.
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But fear not my DIY friends, we've raided the back lots of hollywood to bring you some simple recipes to concoct your own fake blood using common household ingredients.
== The non-toxic variety ==
Halloween tends to mean children will be around and children + antifreeze = bad. So we'll start with the non-toxic variety of fake blood. It may not be the choice of indie horror film directors, but it'll get the job done for Halloween.
Here's the recipe:
# White corn syrup
# Red food coloring
# Water
# blue or green food coloring
# Arrowroot powder or Corn Starch
Start with about 1 tablespoon of Arrowroot powder or Corn Starch in a large bowl. Either one of these will do, though Arrowroot powder is better for avoiding lumps. Now add about a cup of White Corn Syrup and mix it up with the powder. The results will be rather thick, so once you have it mixed, start thinning it down with water until you get something close to the consistency of blood -- about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of water should do the trick.
Now that you have a base, it's time to add the dye. Start with the red and add a few drops at a time, mixing thoroughly until you have a nice red color. But of course everyone knows that blood isn't bright red. That's where the blue and green dye comes in. Add a couple of drops of either color until it looks more like actual blood.
Once it looks like blood, set your mixture aside and let it thicken a bit before applying it to your costume. If you're looking for something a bit more edible, add a couple drops of peppermint extract -- mmm minty blood.
A word of warning: this mixture will stain your clothes and might temporarily discolor your skin as well.
== The semi-toxic, I-made-it-in-hollywood variety ==
It won't leech lead into your skin or do anything else truly frightening, but you definitely don't want to eat this fake blood.
Here's the recipe:
Pour alcohol-free, water-soluble hair gel in a bowl. We're going to add some other liquids so you only need to use about three-quarters of what you want the total amount of blood to be. Now add some water-soluble lubricant (a hem, astroglide works well here). You want the lubricant to thin the hair gel down so that it's just slightly thicker than water -- start with a small amount and add more if you need it.
Now it's time to color the mixture. As with the non-toxic version, start with red dye and then add blue or green to shift the color to something more blood like. Chocolate syrup can also be used to create a bit more maroon color.
The advantage of this blood is that it's not sticky and, if you experiment a little bit you'll find that flinging it around creates very realistic splatters.
But, as with the other, use caution since this mixture will stain just about everything it touches.
== Bonus points ==
Fake blood is all good and well, but what's even cooler is using the fake blood in some live action stunts. The secret is what Hollywood calls a "squib." Technically a squib is actually the explosive part of the equation, but the idea is to fill a plastic bag with fake blood and hide under you clothes. In the Hollywood version a very small charge then blows open the bag. We strongly suggest avoiding the pyrotechnics. When you get "shot" or "stabbed" just clutch the affected area and pop the bag, letting the blood pour out.
The simplest way to make a squib is to spoon a little blood into a small, cheap plastic baggie and then mash it against yourself to make the blood leak out. For a little more sophistication you can tape the bag under your clothes and then smash it so it seems out through your clothes.
If you want to really go for the realism, use the bag as above, but super glue some thin wire to the back of it (which will be a little tricky, but is possible) and then pull the wire to start the bleeding without anything so dramatic as clutching your chest.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/makesmoke.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/makesmoke.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51c693f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/makesmoke.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fog lends the ordinary landscape a much spookier, eerier quality that's perfect for scaring the bejesus out of your Halloween guests. I mean, come on, did you ever see an episode of Scooby Doo that didn't have wisps of fog floating by at some point? If it scared Shaggy, it'll get your stoner friends too.
Unfortunately commercial fog machines can be rather expensive and the cheap varieties don't produce much more fog than a cluster of smokers huddled outside a bar. You could call Ozzy Osborne and see if he has an extra fog machine lying around, but we have a simpler solution -- build your own.
== Dry Ice ==
Dry Ice is carbon dioxide in solid form. To stay solid dry ice needs to be colder than -78.5 °C (-109.3 °F). Unless you're the Penguin chances are your house is much warmer than that which means dry ice will sublimate -- changing directly to a gas that looks like, yes, fog.
For Halloween purposes all you need is a good size block of dry ice, a bucket or caldron that can handle the chill and some water. Fill your bucket with a bit of water, drop in the dry ice and bam! instant fog.
So where do you get dry ice? It sounds primitive, but try looking up ice suppliers in the phone book. Other options include your local grocery store, ice cream parlor and sometimes even hospitals.
A note of caution -- the dry ice will sublimate in your car producing potentially dangerous amounts of CO2 in a confined space. Keep the windows down to make sure you don't asphyxiate (the same goes for dry ice inside the home, though it's a bigger space so the danger isn't as great).
The main disadvantage to dry ice as fog is that it's heavier than air, which means it tends to stay near the ground. One possible workaround is to put the water and dry ice in a wet/dry shop vacuum and then reverse the vacuum to blow the fog out. Stick the hose somewhere higher up and the fog will cascade down, adding a bit more altitude to the effect.
Remember that dry ice is somewhat dangerous and will freeze anything it touches. Use gloves and tongs when handling dry ice and keep it away from pets and children.
== DIY Fog for Commercial machines ==
If the dry ice idea seems passe, you might want to consider investing in a commercial fog machine. The downside to the commercial machines is price, but one way to cut back on your expenses is to make your own fog solution.
A word of caution: making your own fog solution may void the warranty on your fog machine.
Here's a recipe that auto mechanics often use to check for leaks in exhaust systems:
4 ounces food-grade Glycerin
1 quart (32 ounces) Distilled Water
Just mix the two and you're done.
Adding more Glycerin will produce thicker fog, while using a bit less will generate thinner fog.
== Chilled Fog Machine ==
Most fog machines generate warm fog, if you want the ground hugging effects of cold fog, as you'd get with dry ice, but don't want to mess with dry ice, Pat over at Kick the Fog has an awesome guide to [http://www.kickthefog.com/chiller.htm building your own fog chiller]. The project uses water cooled copper tubing to take the hot fog out of your machine and then run it through the chilling system to produce the eery effects of chilled fog.
Kick the Fog's guide isn't for the faint of heart, but if you're looking for the ultimate in Halloween fog, it delivers.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/monsterhowto01.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/monsterhowto01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0d7378 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/monsterhowto01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +The days of working 40 years with a single company -- taking the gold watch and cashing in -- are long gone. With the demise of that stability comes the burden of uncertainty, but it also brings the freedom to completely change careers whenever you feel like it. + +In today's job market no one bats an eye at the vet tech-turned-venture-capitalist or the .NET programmer-turned-legal aide -- the only thing pigeon-holing you into one career is you. + +If you've been itching for a change of scene or routine, we've got what you need to get started picking a new career. + +=== Find what you love === + +The hardest part of choosing moving to a new career is often figuring out what you might want to do. Start with your current job, even if it's mind-numbingly dull there's probably at least something you like. For example, filing TCP reports might not be the highlight of your current day, but perhaps you enjoy working in an office environment. Make a list of what you like and keep it handy. + +Now head to job search site like [http://www.monster.com/ Monster.com] or grab the classified ads if you're the pen and paper type. Start browsing to see what's out there. Don't limit yourself, look at every thing, even if it isn't what you have in mind -- there's a good chance you'll find yourself looking at something you didn't even realize were jobs. + +Now you can be a bit more realistic if you like. Check out industry hiring trends if you'd like a better idea of what you're up against in switching to your dream career. Job listing sites like Monster.com often publish anonymized data showing [http://career-advice.monster.com/job-search/company-industry-research/2010-jobs-and-hiring-outlook/article.aspx which careers are growing], which job markets are the toughest, and what employers expect from their prospective hires. + +=== Find out what skills you need === + +Found a job that catches your eye? Great. Now it's time to figure out if any of the skills you've already got will help you land a new career or perhaps you'll need to take a few night classes or pass some exams. + +For example, a strong background in sales will translate well to a career in real estate, however, there are licensing requirements and other small hurdles you'll need to overcome first. + +One of the best ways to figure out what it takes to excel in your new career is to get in touch with someone who already does it. Sticking with the previous example, you might want to call up a few local realtors and see if they have the time to give you some advice. + +Find one or two that seem the most helpful and ask if you can follow them around for a day to see what they do and whether or not the job is everything you think it is. + + +=== Beef up your resume === + +If you're changing careers you won't have any experience, but employers always prefer experience, so how do you land a new career without experience? The answer is perseverance and perhaps a bit of luck. + +You may need to land a lower-paying job than you're used to at first, something to get your foot in the door and help you meet people in the field. If even that isn't work consider volunteering your time if that's possible or ask someone else already in the field to write a recommendation for you. + +=== Conclusion === + +There's no doubt it's intimidating, but changing a career isn't is hard -- or as scary -- as you might think. Figure out what you really want to do and start working toward it today.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/negotiate_a_better_deal_with_your_ISP.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/negotiate_a_better_deal_with_your_ISP.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0930588 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/negotiate_a_better_deal_with_your_ISP.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Desperate times call for desperate measure so it shouldn't be any surprise that the fine art of haggling and negotiating bargains is on the rise in these financially trying times. Believe it or not, with a bit of perseverance and some bargaining skill you can negotiate better deals from even the largest of corporations. + +When it comes to saving money lowering your monthly bills ought to be top of the list, which is why we've put together this guide to help you negotiate a better deal with your internet service provider. + +== Do your research == + +Before you contact your current ISP, be sure to take a general survey of the competition. Find out how your monthly bill compares to other offers both in your area and out if it. Pay particular attention to your ISP's primary competition, for example if you've got DSL see what the cable company is offering and be sure to note the bandwidth that comes with their deals. + +What if you find out you already have the best deal? Quite frankly that's very unlikely, but even if it turns out you already have a good deal, you still might be able to get an even better one following the steps below. + +== Pick up the phone == + +Sure you can try messaging your ISP on Twitter, but if you really want to negotiate you're going to need some good old-fashioned human interaction. Call your ISP and press whatever annoying array of buttons you need to get an actual human being on the line. + +Once you're got a person, tell them you'd like to see if you can get a better deal. The trick to negotiating is to be polite, but firm, and don't go nuclear from the start. Ease in by saying you're concerned with the cost of your service, not that you're jumping ship for the competition. + +'''Ask if there any specials.''' ISPs routinely offer introductory rates to entice new customers. They generally claim the special rates are only for new customers, but with a bit of convincing on your part, most will give them to just about anyone. It never hurts to ask. + +'''Let them know you are in demand.''' Remember, you're the customer, you're in control whether you feel that way or not. Tell the representative you've got an offer from a competitor and you're wondering if they can match the price. If you're talking about a DSL offer to a cable company you'll probably get an earful about the advantages of cable over DSL. Politely, but firmly list the actual bandwidth speeds that you researched earlier. Generally this will put an end to the cable vs DSL debate and bring the focus back to getting you a better deal. + +'''Let your ISP know you're willing to switch to the competition.''' If you still haven't gotten anywhere, then you can pull out the big guns and say that you'd like to cancel your account and move to another ISP. We've only had to do this once and it quickly routed us to a new representative who's sole job was to make us happy and ensure we didn't switch. Sure enough, that representative was more than happy to lower our bill and increase our bandwidth. + +'''Ask for a manager''' Many times the basic customer service reps aren't allowed to negotiate deals and will tell you as much. Politely ask to speak with the next person up in the chain. + +== Future Outlook == + +Given that most areas of the country have, at best, only a handful of internet service providers, there's very little competition and hence very little pressure to drive down prices. However, as cellular networks catch up to cable and DSL in speed and price, the traditional land-line-based ISPs are beginning to feel the pressure. Expect both price and speed wars to break out eventually, which will mean faster, cheaper internet service for all of us.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/onlinebookmarksprivate.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/onlinebookmarksprivate.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa87eae --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/onlinebookmarksprivate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +The explosive growth of social bookmarking sites like [http://del.icio.us/ del.icio.us], [http://ma.gnolia.com/ ma.gnolia] and others have proved that there are legions of us that want to share our favorite sites with the world. + +However there are others who don't necessarily want to share everything with everyone, but still want an accessible-anywhere online backup of their bookmarks. + +Even if you're happily sharing away on del.icio.us, there may still be some bookmarks you don't want to share -- site admin links, banking sites, and, uh, "other" sites. + +If you've been looking for a way to backup your bookmarks online, but keep them private at the same time, grab yourself some coffee as we explore your options. + +== Social Bookmarking == + +Just because del.icio.us makes it easy to share your bookmarks doesn't mean you have to. You could in fact keep your entire del.icio.us account (or ma.gnolia or almost any alternative) private. + +Just make sure that each time you bookmark a page you mark it as private. If you're using Firefox with the del.icio.us add-on, this would be our recommendation. That way you get a local copy of your bookmarks, a private online backup and use the Firefox add-on to keep the two in sync with ease. + +Of course there's the problem of remembering to mark your bookmarks as private each time you add one. If that sounds like something you'd eventually mess up, then keep reading for some more solutions. + +== Go Old School == + +As primitive as this sounds, I still use a simple HTML bookmark list exported straight out of the browser. I then upload that file to my own server and use an .htaccess file to require a login before you can see the page. It isn't totally secure, but it'll stop most prying eyes. + +To make the setup a bit slicker, check out the Firefox plug-in [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410 Foxmarks]. Foxmarks allows you to create the backup bookmark file directly without manually exporting and uploading via FTP. Just plug your server settings into Foxmarks and it'll take care of the rest. Foxmarks works over FTP or WebDAV. See the [http://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/Foxmarks:_Frequently_Asked_Questions#Using_Other_Servers Foxmarks Wiki] for more details. + +As for the password protection, (assuming you're using an Apache web server) just create a .htaccess file in the directory where the bookmarks backup file is located and paste in these lines: + +<pre> +AuthName "Password Protect Directory" +AuthType Basic +AuthUserFile /home/username/.htpasswd +<Limit GET POST PUT> +Require valid-user +</Limit> +</pre> + +Now change the <code>AuthUserFile</code> path to a directory on your server that '''is not accessible for the web''', and create the .htpasswd file. The username/password combo in .htpasswd takes this form: + +<pre> +username:encryptedpassword +</pre> + +To get an encrypted version of your desired password, just use one of the many free generators available like the one from [http://www.htmlite.com/HTA006a.php htmlite] + +You can also generate the .htpasswd file from the shell like so: + +htpasswd -c /path/to/the/folder/.htpasswd your_username + +Now if you try to access your bookmarks file, the browser should prompt you for a username and password. + +== Evernote, Box.net and online backup solutions == + +If you don't have your own server to backup a bookmarks file, checkout some of the many free services that can do it for you -- [http://box.net/ box.net], [http://www.putplace.com/ PutPlace], [http://mozy.com/ Mozy] and more. + +None of these services are specifically geared to backing up bookmarks, but all of them offer online storage (generally around 2-5 gigs for free) and often provide ftp access, which would work with Foxmarks or similar solutions. + +Another possibility is [http://www.evernote.com/ Evernote], a [http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/evernote-offers.html backup solution] that's one part web-based, one part desktop application and one part mobile app. Like the social bookmarking services, Evernote has excellent privacy controls so if you want to share something you can, if not you can keep it private. + +As an added advantage Evernote can take just about anything as imput -- images, webpages, movies and more -- not just bookmarks. + +== Conclusion == + +There are a number of ways you can have your cake and keep a private online backup as well. Which method works best for you depends on your work habits and how organized you are. It might take some experimenting to find a system that works best for you.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/openidhowto.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/openidhowto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73fde96 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/openidhowto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Chances are, if you use a lot of social networks, you've run across the term OpenID. It's become de rigueur for new social websites to offer the ability to sign in with OpenID instead of creating yet another username and password. + +But just what is this OpenID and how do you go about using it? + +OpenID was designed to be a free, decentralized identity system -- in other words a bit like a driver's license for the web. + +Instead of dozens of usernames and passwords spread out over all the web, OpenID is a single username with just one password. When you want to login to a site you simple provide it with your OpenID and the website connects to your OpenID account. + +Not only does OpenID create a single username you can take wherever you go on the web, it also makes it easy to set up new accounts, offering to import e-mail and other personal data, as well as set limits on what information each website has access to. + +If you're thinking that sounds a lot like Facebook Connect -- which also allows you to sign in to other sites, using your Facebook credentials -- you're right. The difference is the OpenID isn't controlled by any one company (which may or may not be around in five years). + +== Getting Started with OpenID == + +The first step in using OpenID is to set up an account with one of the many providers on the web. The good news is that you most likely already have an OpenID enabled account. If you have an account with Google, Yahoo, AOL, LiveJournal, Blogger, Flickr, MySpace or any of the other [http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ common, big name OpenID providers] then you already have OpenID. + +All you need to do is look for the various "sign in with your Yahoo account" or "sign in with your Google Account" buttons around the web. Whenever you see that, simply sign in with your account credentials and you'll be redirected to your Google or Yahoo account and you can authorize the new site to access your username, e-mail and other data. + +== Rolling your own == + +But wait, isn't relying on Google, Yahoo or any of those other companies pretty much the same as using Facebook Connect? Well, technically no, but for most users in practice the answer is yes. Although you can leave Google or Yahoo and set up a new OpenID elsewhere (which you can't do with Facebook Connect) doing so isn't as easy as it should be. + +So, if you prefer to have your OpenID separate from any of the companies listed above, then you can set up your free own account through services like [https://www.myopenid.com/ MyOpenID] or [ClaimID], which are both dedicated (and free) OpenID providers. + +Whichever service you choose you'll get a unique URL (something like myusername.myopenid.com) that you can use around the web. + +== Using OpenID == + +Here's where OpenID falls apart slightly -- the sign in experience varies from site to site. To pick one example let's look at how you could sign in to comment on a blog. The first thing you need to do is learn to look for the OpenID logo. + +[open id logo pic here] + +Wherever you see that logo you can simply enter the URL you got from your OpenID provider (whether it's your own or a URL from LiveJournal, Flickr and others). + +Enter that URL, sign into your OpenID account and approve the site in question to access as much of your data as you'd like -- that's all there is to it. + +After you approve the site you'll land back at the blog you started on, but now you'll be signed in and can comment using your new web identity. + +== Security Questions Answered == + +Is OpenID secure? Yes. But of course OpenID is no more or less secure than the traditional multitude of usernames and passwords you're using now. Protect your OpenID username and password as you would any other secret info. + +Isn't OpenID like putting all my eggs in one basket, i.e. if some gains access to my OpenID account they'll have access to all my social network accounts? That's true, but if the same intruder gains access to your e-mail account (which isn't hard to do once they've cracked your social network account) they can reset all your user names and passwords anyway. As with any username and password, you should always protect your OpenID credentials. + +== Conclusion == + +OpenID isn't perfect, but it's become widespread and once you get the hang of it you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/photograph a sunset/photograph_a_sunset.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/photograph a sunset/photograph_a_sunset.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bffad9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/photograph a sunset/photograph_a_sunset.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Photographing the sunset is pretty easy, just point your camera at the setting sun right? Well, if it were that easy we'd all be Ansel Adams. The truth is, like any scene, sunsets have their own unique set of possibilities and problems. + +To get the most out of your sunset shots, follow our handy set of tips on how to photograph sunsets like a master. + +===Show up ahead of time=== + +Composing a great shot takes time and when the sun is setting light changes rapidly. Pick a likely location head of time and figure out what you want to include in your shot so that when the light starts to fade, you're ready. + +Add a compass to your camera bag and when you're out scouting during the day you can check to see where in the scene the sun will set. + + +===Turn off the flash=== + +Sometimes fill flash can be used to illuminate the foreground in a sunset shot, but by and large, the flash is your enemy when it comes to sunset shots, so leave it off. + +===Be patient=== + +Colors are usually deepest at the end of a sunset. While that shouldn't stop you from snapping a few image as the sunset comenses, be sure to stick around for the whole show because the best part is generally the end. + +===Turn around=== + +Depending on where you are, there may be some after-sunset color as well. Especially in the mountains, just after sunset a phenomenon called "alpen glow" often appears for few fleeting moments. The counter-intuitive part is that alpen glow occurs on the ''opposite'' horizen from where the sunset. + +The term Alpen Glow is sometimes used to refer to sunset light seen on the mountains, but true alpenglow is not direct sunlight at all and is only seen after sunset or before sunrise. + + +===Use your camera's spot meter=== + +Sunsets lend themselves to silhouettes -- a lone soul strolling the beach, a tree against the sky and so on. But most camera's will automatically adjust to the lower light level and ruin your silhouette. + +Most cameras average light readings from various points in a scene. If possible switch your camera to spot mode so that the center is weighted and you can control the exposure even with a point-and-shoot. + +If that's not possible, point your camera a the brightest part of the sky and then press the shutter button halfway to lock in the light reading. Then, keep the shutter half pressed, come down and frame your shot to achieve a nice silhouette. + +===Future Outlook=== + +Smarter cameras will eventually recognize when you're taking a photograph of a sunset and adjust accordingly, offering a silhouette mode or ways to over-saturate color for more intense sunsets.
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But while it might be easy to get those photos on Facebook or Flickr, printing them out to hang on your walls is a little more difficult. + +While none of the follow options are totally free, here's three ways to get high quality prints from your digital camera without breaking the bank. + +'''Use your existing printer.''' Once you've got your photos on your PC, and fine tuned them a bit with Photoshop, GIMP or some other image editor, you can print them out using a standard inkjet printer. + +The quality of prints you get from an inkjet will vary considerably depend on the brand and capabilities of your printer. While very few inkjets are capable of museum quality prints, so long as you stick with smaller image you should be able to get decent results. + +Be sure to buy some decent quality glossy or matte photo paper. See your printer's instructions for more details on the best types of paper to use. + +'''Invest in a photo printer''' Generally more expensive and often limited to smaller print sizes, dedicated photo printers are nevertheless capable of higher quality prints than traditional inkjets. + +High-end photo printers often use a technique known as dye-sublimation. Rather than squirting dots of ink on a page the way an inkjet does, dye-sublimation printers use a chemical process to transfer ink to paper. The result is much higher quality prints. The trade-off is a correspondingly higher price tag. + +Many dedicated photo printers also allow you to print directly from your camera or memory card, eliminating the hassle of downloading all your images onto your PC before printing. + +'''Head back to the lab''' If you're only interested in printing a few images it might well be cheaper to have your photos printed by a lab. Most drug stores still offer printing services at reasonable prices. + +Just bring your camera's memory card down to the store and load your photos into the printer. A short while later you'll have nice glossy prints. + +If you've spend a good bit of time refining your images and editing them to perfect, you'll probably want true museum-quality prints. For that we recommend a professional photo lab which generally offers higher quality printers and knowledgeable staff that can help you get more out of your images. + +'''Online Services''' If you've got your images on your PC already, there's no need to head to drug store, the web is filled with printers that will allow you to upload your images and deliver prints to your door. + +Many of these services also offer options like bound books, calendars and more. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/registerdomainname.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/registerdomainname.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd5f653 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/registerdomainname.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Buying a domain name is pretty simple, just head to an [http://www.internic.net/regist.html accredited domain name registrar], plug in your domain and pull out your wallet. But what do you do when you plug in your domain name only to discover that someone else has already registered it? + +Well, if you've ever wondered why the web is full of companies with strange domain names like Flickr or del.icio.us, wonder no more -- domains can be hard to come by. + +Here's our guide to getting the domain you want when someone else already has it. + +== The basics == + +The first step is getting in touch with the current owner. Generally that means doing a WhoIs search to find contact information for the current owner. Assuming the contact info works you can just email the current owner and ask if they're willing to transfer the domain to you. + +In some cases you may be more comfortable going through a domain broker, though that will incur an additional fee, is no guarantee of success and isn't strictly necessary provided you're able to negotiate like a professional. + +==Things that go wrong == + +=== Unable to find the current owner === + +One of the biggest stumbling blocks to acquiring a domain can be the simplest -- getting in touch with the current owner. If the current registrant of the domain doesn't have working contact info available via a WhoIs search it can be difficult and sometimes even impossible to get in touch. + +Start with the website itself, if there is one. Contact anyone listed on the site and ask who you would need to talk to about the domain name (make sure to view source if you can't find any contact info, web developers sometimes leave their contact info in HTML comments, which can provide a lead). + +If the domain doesn't currently have a website it's worth checking domain auction websites like [http://www.sedo.com/us/home/getting-started/ Sedo]. Type in your domain and Sedo will point you to any ongoing sales. It's not complete and it's nearly always better to get in touch yourself, but if that's already failed Sedo and its ilk offer another way. The chief problem with domain auctions is that the sellers typically think their domains are worth far more than you'll think they are. + +Another trick to finding contact information is to look at older versions of the site. Head over to the Internet Archive [http://archive.org/web/web.php Wayback Machine] and plugin in the URL to get some idea of the history of the domain. Perhaps the site had contact info on it at some point in the past. + +The Wayback Machine may also give you some bargaining advantage -- how many times has the domain changed hands? How long has it been unused? Also look at Google's search rankings for the domain. All of these tidbits will help you get a clearer picture of how valuable the domain is. + +=== The owner doesn't want to sell === + +Make a bigger offer. It's worth a try. But sometimes no matter how much venture capital money your start up has, throwing more of it at the current owner of a domain isn't going to induce them to sell. + +==Conclusion == + +Sometimes it just isn't worth it. With an ever shrinking number of domains remaining unregistered we're all having to get more creative with our domain names. If you can't get what you want, consider getting creative. + +Ever wonder why Flickr is missing its "e"? The owner of the domain name "Flicker.com" didn't want to sell so [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/26/tech/main2731568.shtml Flickr dropped the "e"] and moved on. It's nice to get the domain you want, but it's not necessary. Dropbox spend most of its early life at getdropbox.com because dropbox.com was either not for sale or too expensive. Dropbox later acquired the domain, but not having it from the beginning certainly didn't hurt the company's success. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/replacegnotebook.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/replacegnotebook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b85190 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/replacegnotebook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +There are a multitude of way to store clipping of interesting things you find on the web -- bookmark services like Delicious, clippings tools like Evernote and more. + +But one popular place to store your notes and bookmarks is headed to the garbage bin of the web. Google recently announced it will be [http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/google-circles.html shutting down its Google Notebook service]. While there are some other Google tools that can handle some aspects of Notebook, such as Google Bookmarks, the [http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/05/new-notes-turn.html notes feature in Google Reader] or even the [http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/12/new-task-manage.html new to-do and tasks lists in GMail]. Unfortunately none of the related tools quite cover the ground the Google Notebook diid. + +Luckily for Notebook fans though, all is not lost. There are in fact several worthy Notebook successors out there on the web and some of Notebook's competitors have stepped up to offer single-click import tools for your existing Google Notebook items. + +Here's a rundown of what's available, what you might miss and what you'll gain should you choose to switch to one of these options. + + +### [http://notebook.zoho.com/ Zoho Notebook] + +Probably the closest thing to Google Notebook, Zoho's product of the same name works much like Google's version but adds the ability to collaborate and share notebooks with other users. + +Thanks to the Zoho suite of web apps you'll also have access to tools like live chat, voice recording, and a browser plugin that works much like the one Google Notebook offered. + +The two services don't match up exactly one-to-one and the Zoho interface is significantly different, but to help ease the transition Zoho recently [http://blogs.zoho.com/notebook/google-notebook-import-new-zoho-notebook-plug-in-more/announced a a new Google Notebook import tool]. + +The importing process is fairly simple; first you'll need to install the new Zoho Notebook Plugin and restart your browser. Then login to both Zoho and Google Notebook. Then head to the url: [chrome://zoho-notebook/content/g2z.html chrome://zoho-notebook/content/g2z.html] and click Start. + +See the Zoho blog for a [http://blogs.zoho.com/notebook/google-notebook-import-new-zoho-notebook-plug-in-more/ more detailed walk-through] of how to move from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook. + +### [http://evernote.com/ Evernote] + +Like Google Notebook, Evernote is cross-platform, which means you can access and add to Evernote from any PC, as well as a number of mobile platforms (including the iPhone). Evernote also has a desktop software client that acts a bit like the Google Notebook's Firefox plugin on steroids -- you can add, view and edit notes without an internet connection, handy for those times when the wifi dries up. + +But Evernote's real strength lies in its optical character recognition software, which means any images you send will be scanned for text. Once converted to text the content is then indexed for searching. Evernote makes a great place to store receipts, send photos of documents and more -- all the text becomes searchable and is easy to find what you're after, even if its a photo. + +The main downside to Evernote is that the free version only allows you to upload 40MB of data per month. Depending on what you're archiving that may be plenty. If you do find yourself going over that limit on a regular basis there is a premium service available for $45 a year. + +To smooth the transition fron Google Notebook to Evernote, the company recently launched a Google Notebook importer. The process is quite simple, just use Google Notebook's Export function (select Atom when asked what format to save your export in). Then head to your new Evernote account and upload the saved Atom file. You'll need to do that for each Google Notebook that you want to transfer, see the video below for a quick tutorial. + +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJn7hOhbJ8 + +<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvJn7hOhbJ8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dvJn7hOhbJ8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> + +### [http://www.diigo.com/ Diigo] + +Diigo is a social bookmarking service that throws in a number of extra features, many of which can fill the gaps left by Google Notebook. The closest thing to Google Notebook in Diigo is the Lists feature. Diigo Lists allow you to organize, share and display specific collections of bookmarks -- pretty mjuch like a Google Notebook. + +The main drawback is that Diigo currently doesn't allow you to include non-bookmark data in lists, but that's a shortcoming that the company [http://blog.diigo.com/2009/01/15/diigo-vs-google-notebook-importer/ promises will be addressed very shortly]. + +Diigo also has many features that go well beyond what Google Notebook offered, like the ability to see your notes (called “highlights” in Diigo parlance) on the original web pages when you re-visit them. + +The team behind Diigo is also working on a Google Notebook importer, though so far it hasn't been officially released. + +### [http://www.ubernote.com/webnote/pages/default.aspx Ubernote] + +Ubernote is similar to Evernote, offering a multitude of ways to store just about any kind of note, document, image, bookmark or other digital clipping. Ubernote offers search features, the ability to annotate stored items and a Firefox plugin to make interacting with Ubernote a bit smoother. + +The service is free and recently unveiled a very simple to use [http://blog.ubernote.com/2009/01/google-notebook-import-tool-complete.html import tool for moving your Google notebooks over to Ubernote]. + +### Microsoft OneNote + +Yes it's desktop software, but Onenote can sync across PCs and offers many of the same features you'll find in Google Notebook. OneNote can clip parts of webpages and store desktop files, as well as organize and categorize just about anything you throw at it. + +The big drawback to OneNote is that there's no web access (at least at the moment). Still, OneNote is free with most versions of Office 2007 and, if storing your data in the cloud isn't a priority, OneNote can handle most of your Google Notebook needs. + +### [http://delicious.com/ Delicious], [http://ma.gnolia.com/ Magnolia], and other social bookmark sites + +If you were primarily using Google Notebook for storing bookmarks, Delicious and its rivals make a great alternative. Most have some form of browser plugin (few match Delicious' [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615 awesome Firefox plugin], but at least there are some options) and make storing and sharing bookmarks a snap. + +Unfortunately, as of this writing, there are no import tools that will make the Google Notebook transition a simple process. As far as we've been able to find, if you want to switch to Delicious and its ilk, you'll be handling the export-import process by hand. + +Also bear in mind that if you used Google Notebook for making notes or handling tasks other than bookmarking you'll lose the tools. + + + +Naturally there are other options out there, so if you have a favorite Google Notebook replacement be sure to add it to the list. Also, if you encounter any problems or bumps along the migration path, be sure to add a note so others can avoid them.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/securetravel.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/securetravel.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8891acc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/securetravel.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Most people traveling abroad for vacation or even business can take some basic steps to secure their data on the road and rest easy knowing that their data is reasonably safe. Sometimes however, you might be headed for more serious situations, for example, journalists or human rights workers, both of whom often travel to overtly hostile countries. + +In these cases the potential consequences of exposing your data is considerably more serious than need to cancel some credit cards. If you're headed somewhere beyond the ordinary world of holiday travel and want to make sure you don't end up in some foreign gulag you need to make sure that your data is encrypted and kept doubly safe from prying eyes. + +Here's our guide to making sure that your digital ass is covered while you travel to world's darkest corners. + +== Nothing is foolproof == + +The first thing to bear in mind is that every system, no matter how well considered, is potentially vulnerable. Even the best security systems can be defeated. That's doubly true if you're up against potentially hostile nation states rather than just crafty individuals. The resources amassed against you are even bigger and much more frightening when an entire government is footing the bill. + +That doesn't mean you should just throw in the towel, become a xenophobe and mutter to yourself about the dangers of the world while pacing the confines of your secure underground bunker. + +As with all things there is a middle ground that consists of assessing the threats, identifying your potential vulnerabilities and securing against attacks as best you can. + +== Assessing Threats == + +If you're headed to North Korea, Iran or some place where you may not have the right to resist searches of your property and person the first thing to do is minimize your exposure. Do you need to bring those PDF files outlining Ghandi's guide to successful non-violent protest? Probably not. + +Assume from the start that someone will get into your file system and eliminate everything you don't absolutely need and certainly anything that might be seen as incriminating by foreign agents. + +What remains should be only the absolute necessities which you can now work on securing. + +==Encryption== + +Your first line of defense, encryption hides your data from prying eyes. When it comes to encrypting your files, all the major operating systems offer some form of whole disk encryption. Turn it on and set a secure password. For more info see our previous article on how to [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Encrypt_your_Hard_Drive Encrypt your Hard Drive] and be sure to use AES encryption if it's available. + +That keeps your hard drive and files reasonably secure, but what about your connections to the outside world? Wifi connections are vulnerable and e-mail, as well as any other network data you plan to access, needs to be secured as well. To secure your e-mail follow the steps in our [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Encrypt_Your_E-Mail Encrypt Your E-Mail] guide. + +The first rule of free public wifi is that you never connect directly to it. Ever. It's convenient, ubiquitous and almost impossible to secure, which is why you're going to connect to the web through a VPN instead. + +== Virtual Private Networks == + +Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, are more or less just tunnels that connect your laptop to another network elsewhere -- ideally your own network at home, which you control. All data is then sent and received by the other network. From your end everything seems as through you're simply connected directly to your own network. Running over a wifi network, a well-secured VPN session "looks like" a standard https connection to someone watching the packets as they come and go over the wifi network. That means it will defeat most surveillance, interception, or data theft. + +At the time of this writing there are no known exploits to subvert the security of VPNs based on open, peer-reviewed frameworks like [http://openvpn.net/ OpenVPN]. If you prefer not to set up your own VPN, you can always use commercial offerings like [https://www.ipredator.se/ iPredator] (from the same folks that started The Pirate Bay), [https://www.witopia.net/ WiTopia] or others. + +== Don't forget the real world == + +Not all threats are clever high tech hackers sniffing wifi or border patrol guards running cracking software, some vulnerabilities are more mundane. For example, perhaps the simplest thing you can do to keep your data safe is make sure it's always on your person. Don't give it to anyone, ever. That includes hotel lockboxes and hotel safes in the lobby. After all what's stopping an agent of the state from opening that safe and having his way with your laptop while you're out to dinner? That right, nothing at all. Don't let anything you want to keep private out of your sight and trust no one with your data. + +== Conclusion == + +Keeping your data secure in hostile environments is not easy, nor is it something for the feint of heart, but it's not impossible. Government agents, NGO works and journalists do it all the time and in most cases they do it using the same tools you can. Just remember to be safe, obey local laws and always know the best route to your embassy doors in case you need to get there in a hurry. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/speed_reading.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/speed_reading.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5eb358d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/speed_reading.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Part of the success of Twitter lies with its brevity. 140 characters is easy to read with a quick glance. But it's also possible to quickly read and absorb much longer texts -- e-mails from mom, long-winded co-worker rants, even whole textbooks -- if you know a thing or two about speed reading. + +For some background check out our how to on speed reading, but if that strikes you as a little too much effort, don't worry you can improve your reading speed by taking a few tips from Twitter. + +===Consider the interface=== + +Aside from brevity, Twitter is notable for its clean, white interface. To improve your reading speed you might want to replicate the same, uncluttered, distraction free environment. + +Reading a long article online? Look for a link to the print version, which typically strips away sidebars, advertisements and other distractions, leaving you with a simple column of text that's easier to digest. + +===The power of the snippet=== + +Skimming through the average news site is a chore, dozens of images, videos and other clutter compete for your attention. The solution is to feed your favorite sites into a news reader where you can quickly scan a column of headlines to find what interests you. + +Have a look at our how to on news readers to get up and running with any of the many free news readers available on the desktop and web. + +===Use Twitter=== + +Twitter isn't just a way to keep up with friends, it can also be used as a kind of real-time news reader. Follow your favorite news sources on Twitter for quick, easy to scan headlines with links to the full text. + +=== Future Outlook === + +While it'd be nice to think the future will offer Matrix-style brain dumps -- need to understand Kung fu? There's an app for that -- but that's probably a good ways off. More realistic are text-to-speech converters that can read your important e-mail, news and other data, summarize it and give you quick synopsis. + +artwork: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loomer/299579768/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/start_a_blog.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/start_a_blog.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd64f47 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/start_a_blog.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +First off, congratulations on being the last person to start a blog. No need to feel bad, nor should you really feel like you're last person, it just seems that way sometimes. + +In the beginning blogs required things like server space and domain names, not to mention some technical know-how. Fortunately with popularity comes simplicity. + +Today you can set up a blog, pick a fancy template and be publishing your way to fame and fortune in less than ten minutes. Best of all it's totally free. Take that Gutenberg. + +===Pick a topic=== + +There are already a lot of blogs on the web and pretty much every niche has already been filled at this point, but don't let that get you down. Your blog might not be unique but your voice will be, so make sure you blog about something you're passionate about and have experience with. + +Even if there are already hundreds of bloggers writing about the same thing, quality voices rise out of the herd and new blogs gain vast readerships every day. + +===Pick a provider=== + +The internet is littered with blog hosts, which one you go with is fairly arbitrary in the beginning. However, one thing to keep in mind: make sure the option you choose has good exporting tools, should you ever want to move your data down the road. + +All of the following service providers offer very similar tools and decent methods of exporting your data should you ever want to jump ship: + +# [http://wordpress.com/ Wordpress.com] - One of the first large open source blogging projects, wordpress remains a popular choice for bloggers small and large. + +# [https://www.blogger.com/start Blogger.com] - Google's entry into the blogging world. + +# [Xanga http://www.xanga.com/] - Part blog, part social network, Xanga offers some extra community-orietned features. + +# [http://www.vox.com/ Vox] - The free version of Typepad/Movable Type, like Xanga, Vox features some extra social components as well. + +===Pimp your blog=== + +So you've got a blog set up, now take some time to customize the look and feel of your new site. Most providers offer a variety of templates you can choose from, pick something that fits with your topic/theme. + +Once you're happy with the basic look of your blog you can trick it out with blogging freebies like widgets to connect your readers, badges to display Diggs, guest maps, guestbooks, and more. + +Get the word out. Very few people will ever visit your blog if they can't find it. Send out an e-mail to friends and family, In the beginning they'll be your most loyal readers. Then submit your site to social sites like Delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter and so on. + +Don't be shy. Approach some of the more popular bloggers in your field and see if they'll let you do a guest post. They get some fresh content and your get a link back to your site and potentially quite a few new readers. + +==Future Outlook== + +Around 2020 Wordpress will offer an in-utero installation option and thanks to the genetically engineered keyboards growing under an infant's fingers, children will blog before they breathe. No more feeling the baby kick, you'll know your child is healthy by the steady tapping of fingers typing out messages for the world to read. + +artwork: I'm partial to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/karola/3623765061/ but I can keep looking that doesn't work for you...
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/stopgooglewebhistory.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/stopgooglewebhistory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09c2227 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/stopgooglewebhistory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +If you've been to Google's homepage lately, and the chances you have are astronomical, you may have noticed a little announcement mentioning something about changes in Google's privacy policy. You've probably ignored it, but you shouldn't. + +On March 1st 2012, Google will implement a new, unified privacy policy. The new policy is retroactive, meaning it will affect any data Google has collected on you prior to that date, as well as any data it gathers afterward. The official Google Blog has more [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html details on what the new privacy policy means]. The short story is that under the new policy your Google Web History (all of your searches and the sites you clicked through to) can be combined with other data Google has gathered about you through other services -- Gmail, Google+, etc. + +Previously Google kept your search history separate, which means that its profile of you was less complete. If you'd like to keep that profile, you'll need to delete your existing search history and prevent Google from using that history in the future. + +The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more details on [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect why you might want to turn off Google's Web History feature]. + +Here's our guide to cleaning your Google house and making sure it stays clean. + +==Wiping your history== + +First sign into your Google account and head to the page [https://www.google.com/history/ https://www.google.com/history/]. Click the button labeled "remove all Web History." Then click "Okay" to confirm. Note that this also pauses your web history going forward. + +[pic1.jpg] + +==Caveats and Considerations == + +This will not stop Google from gathering data when you search. To do that you would need to block Google cookies completely. However, while it will still gather the data, Google will not use it to serve targeted ads or do anything other than use it for internal purposes. Also, with Web History disabled your data is at least partially anonymized after 18 months (if you leave Web History on Google will keep your search records indefinitely). + +On the negative side, bear in mind that while this won't prevent Google from making search suggestions, it will prevent you from getting *personalized* suggestions based on your previous searches. + +To completely block Google from tracking you as you search and browse you would need a cookie and script blocking browser add-on such as [http://www.ghostery.com/ Ghostery]. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/surf_anonymously_using_tor.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/surf_anonymously_using_tor.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9f6fca --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/surf_anonymously_using_tor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Want to surf the web anonymously, without every website you visit collecting data about you? Sadly, remaining anonymous online isn't easy, everything from search engines to social networking sites are dropping cookies in your web browser to see how you behave -- which links you click, which ads you click, where you are and more. + +To stop such data gathering is going to take a bit for work on your part, but it is possible and no, it won't break the whole web. Everything will work just as before, but no one will know who you are. + + +== Introducing Tor == + +[http://www.torproject.org/ Tor] is a free networking software program and allows you to use the internet anonymously. + +When you log into to Tor you join a network of machines scattered around the world that pass internet traffic randomly amongst themselves before it emerges at its destination. The process is somewhat like a ball bouncing around inside a sealed box. Every now and then a ball comes out of the box, but it's impossible to tell who put it in the box to begin with. + +The process is called "onion routing," and it was first developed at the Naval Research Laboratory. Tor uses a layered encryption protocol, which is where the onionskin analogy comes from. Tor is designed to defeat one specific type of digital eavesdropping known as traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that tracks who is talking to whom over a public network. + +== Getting Started with Tor== + +Tor only protects applications that route their traffic through it. That means you need to configure your web browser to first connect to Tor. + +To get started with Tor, follow these simple steps: + +# Download Tor for [http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en Mac, PC or Linux]. +# Install Tor +# Connect your browser to Tor. The easiest way to do this is using Firefox with the [https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/ Torbutton] add-on or Opera with the [http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator OperaTor] extension. For other browsers you'll need to manually config your proxy settings, see the [https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html.en Tor documentation] for more details. + +== What Tor Can and Cannot Do == + +It's important to understand what Tor does for you, specifically it anonymizes you, but it doesn't encrypt data or provide any security. + +Also note that if you ever turn Tor off and visit a site that installs a cookie, that cookie can be used to track you even after you turn Tor back on. Consequently it's always a good idea to clear your cookies before you start using Tor. + +The other thing to be aware of is that browser plugins can sometimes be used to track you even when you're using Tor. For that reason it's a good idea to disable Flash, ActiveX and any other plugins you may have installed. + +==Future Outlook== + +Already legal protections are starting to make their way into governments everywhere and a number of high profile companies have already pledge to cut back on the amount of data they collect. + +Still, the future of cookies and online privacy looks bleakly Orwellian. Already sites are turning to Flash-based cookies and other tricks that make it even harder to cover your online tracks. diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/take_better_cameraphone_pics.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/take_better_cameraphone_pics.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc2d8a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/take_better_cameraphone_pics.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +While professionals would likely dismiss the cameraphone as a viable camera, for the rest of us the cameraphone is fast become the easiest way to take photos. + +Not only is your cameraphone almost always in your pocket, in many cases the cameras themselves are approaching point-and-shoot level quality. + +The big drawbacks to camera phones are the tiny lens and lack of manual controls. The secret to taking better pictures with your cameraphone is understand the limitations and adapting to them. + +'''Get up close and personal.''' The closer you are to your subject the better the image will likely turn out. Some phones these days have digital zoom capabilities, but as with the same features in point-and-shoot models it's best to avoid digital zoom. + +'''Brace yourself''' Probably the number one culprit of bad cameraphone shots is blur. It's not easy to hold a phone still, particularly in low-light situations. Whenever possible brace your phone against something solid. Depending on the design of your phone you might try pressing is to your face like a traditional camera. Also be sure to keep holding your phone after you press the shutter button, most cameraphones have a considerable lag between pressing the shutter and actually capturing the image. + +'''Light is your friend''' Cameraphones typically have very small lens which means the more light you can get in them, the better your images will be. That said, don't dismiss a sunset shot just because there isn't much light. Experiment wil different settings and lighting situations until you get a better idea of how your phone responds and then adapt to any shortcomings you discover. + +'''Clean the lens''' There's a good chance that when you're talking on the phone your fingers and palms are pressed up against the lens of the camera. Given your lens a quick wipe before you take an image to eliminate any potential smudges or fingerprints. + +'''Use the modes Luke''' Some cameraphones have "modes," which, like their point-shoot cousins offer presets optimized for common situations. For example you might have night mode, or a portrait mode. While such modes aren't always that great on point-and-shoots, they're generally the only way to change anything in your camera phone, so take advantage of them. + +==Future Outlook== + +Camera phones will keep getting more sophisticated. Already they've caught up to many point-and-shoots in the megapixel race. Expect the megapixels to keep going up and the built-in software for editing photos to get more sophisticated as well. Eventually lens will get bigger and and the cameraphone will, for most people, replace the the dedicated point-and-shoot instant camera. + +Artwork: http://www.flickr.com/photos/emrank/3631002156/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/test_your_connection_speed.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/test_your_connection_speed.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8689a4d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/test_your_connection_speed.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Chances are when you signed up with your ISP they offered you service at 5mb or 10mb. However, the service you actually get is often quite different. In the real world you're unlikely to get the upper limit of your connection speed all the time. + +Worse, some ISPs are actively shaping their networks -- prioritizing certain traffic, services and users at the expense of others. + +But before you get up and arms about your speed or the overal quality of you connection you first need to know what your connection speeds are. To find out, and to help you detect any traffic shaping on your ISP, we've put together this handy guide to network testing. + +== Testing with an online service == + +The quickest and easiest way to test your connection speed is using one of the countless online speed tests. We've found both [http://www.speedtest.net/ Speed Test] and [http://www.dslreports.com/stest DSL Reports] (dont' let the name fool you, DSL Reports can test any type of connection) to both provide reliable results. + +== Software to monitor your connection speed == + +Obviously heading to an online speed test everyday is not the most practical way to monitor your bandwidth speed. For that we recommend network monitoring software. + +For Windows users there's [http://ispmonitor.be/software/ ISP Monitor], [http://www.bwmonitor.com/ Bandwidth Monitor] and others which all offer full monitoring tools, and in some cases background widgets that give you a quick overview of your current speed and can even log your speed throughout the day. + +For Mac users we recommend [http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/ iStat Menus], a suite of tools which includes a network speed monitor that sits in the menu bar and gives you a nice, at-a-glance way to keep an eye on your connection speeds. + +== Testing for traffic shaping == + +Speed isn't the only potential problem your ISP is dishing up. So far we've focused on web traffic, but what about BitTorrent, FTP and other common internet protocols? Many ISPs are already employing traffic shaping tools that slow down your torrent traffic to make room for what the ISP's consider more "legitimate" traffic. + +If net neutrality advocates are successful, traffic shaping and other nefarious ISP tactics will be illegal. In the mean time, to find out of your ISP is using such tools you can download a complete test suite from Google. + +Measurement Lab, a joint venture between Google and others offers a [http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools suite of tools] that can help you detect network shaping, check BitTorrent traffic and determine whether your ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations. + +== Future Outlook == + +With any luck the future of connection speeds is headed only one direction: up. At the same time there's an ongoing battle between those that believe all traffic is equal (the net neutrality movement) and those that don't (ISPs). + +It's too early to say who will win the net neutrality fight, but if it is the ISPs expect the web, and your connection speed, to suffer. + +artwork: The tubes of course: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheresmysocks/205710716/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/travel_light.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/travel_light.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e35cbb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/travel_light.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +It used to be that packing light was something only backpackers had to worry about, you know the hard-core types who, like John Muir, set off with just the clothes on their back, a few tea leaves and a sack of hardtack to last them through a two-week trip.
But with today's baggage fees and carry-on restrictions, packing light isn't just something to keep you unencumbered. With some airlines charging for even the first checked bag, If you can lighten your load down to a carry on, it'll stop the airlines fromlighten your wallet with their endless fees.
So it's the day before you big trip and you're staring at a collection of steamer trunks that would have made Imelda Marcos proud, how to you cut it down to something that won't cost an arm and leg when you get to the check-in counter?
Here's our guide to packing light.
== The Bag ==
This is one place that it's worth dropping some change. A good bag is essential and opting to save a few bucks on something cheap will seem like a really bad idea when you're at the side of the road with a torn bag, broken straps and a flimsy useless zipper.
The big question is, should you opt or a wheeled bag or a backpack?
The answer depends on the kind of traveling you're doing. If you're headed straight from the airport to a posh hotel room, or expect to primarily be on paved ground with your bag, then the wheeled options are for you.
If you plan to heading into the wilds, off the beaten pack or to countries where pavement is a relative unknown, wheels are going to be useless. The time-honored backpack is probably your best bet.
Whichever you decide is best for you, make sure it's a small enough bag to pass muster with airline carry on restrictions.
== Lightweight clothing ==
Unless you're headed to Sweden for Christmas, chances are you're bring too many clothes when you travel. When it comes to packing light, instead of thinking what do I need, think what can I do without.
One great way to minimize the weight and bulk is to bring less clothing and do a bit of laundry on the road. Most hotels offer 10day laundry service at a decent rate and if that isn't available, you can always spend ten minutes washing your shirt in the sink.
If you're going the hand wash route make sure to choose clothes that dry quickly.
The other alternative to over-packing on the clothes is to simply buy items when you arrive. Packing that favorite old t-shirt? Why bother, you'd be hard pressed to find a place on earth where you can't buy a cheap t-shirt once you arrive.
Finally, we know they aren't the hippest look around, but many of the lightweight fabrics and "convertable" clothing options from travel gear specialists really do work and save considerable room and weight thanks to their space age materials.
== Toiletries ==
Leave them at home. Once you step into the world of carry-on-only traveling, the TSA pretty much eliminates your toiletries thanks to fears about Liquids on a Plane.
Don't worry though, toothpaste, deodorant and the rest are easy to come by once you arrive. Chances are you'll run across some freebies in your hotel and, if not, you can always make a quick stop at a local pharmacy.
== Forget the electronics ==
Do you really want to check your e-mail while you're traveling? Laptops are heavy and chances are you don't need one. Use internet cafes or send good old-fashioned postcards instead.
If you're traveling for business and simply can't be without a laptop, consider one of the many ultra-portable netbooks on the market. They're lightweight and tiny, though depending on the size of your hands, you may have trouble with the smaller keyboard. If you've got big hands ("you know you're the one," er, sorry) consider a [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Carry_Your_Desktop_Anywhere_with_Portable_Apps portable USB stick] with all your home data and apps stored and ready to use in any computer around the globe.
Another source of weight are all the converters and adapters you need to plug in most electronics. to par things down to only the essentials, see our [[Stay Plugged In While Traveling]] guide.
== Lists from the pros ==
Want a to see a list of what travel pros think are bare necessities for traveling light? The lists will vary depending on how militant the authors are about going lightweight, but for newcomers looking to slim from a full size bag to a single carry on, veteran travel author Rick Steve's [http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0211/ricksteves_packlighttravelhappy.shtml Guide to Traveling light] is a good place to start.
For those looking to get a little more serious, check out the ReidsguidesAnother article on [http://www.reidsguides.com/t_pa/t_pa_packing_light.html The Fine Art of Packing Light].
Another widely regarded traveling light guru is Doug Dyment's [http://www.onebag.com/ One Bag] which is chock full of suggestions on how to lighten your load.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/traveltips.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/traveltips.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b727072 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/traveltips.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The web has been a boon for the travel industry -- in fact sometimes it seems like the web is little more than travel advice and porn.
From discount airfare searches to travel guides, the internet is overflowing with useful travel information.
But don't just limit yourself to Orbitz and the Lonely Planet forums, with a little creativity web can offer a myriad of other ways to plan a trip.
Here's out roundup of the best tips and tricks for planning your next travel extravaganza.
== Google Earth ==
It's not just eye candy, Google Earth can actually give you all sorts of useful information. Just plug in your destination and do a fly-over, not only is it cool way to see just how far away you're going, you can get a feel for the terrain -- is that two minute walk to the subway straight up hill?
For photo nerds Google Earth also offers an easy way to preplan the best picture taking spots. What's the best place to go for that perfect sunset shot? Just hind the highest point with good westerly lines of sight.
== Flickr ==
Sure it makes a great way to post your travel photos, but it can be helpful for planning too. If you're tired of seeing the same thing as the rest of the tourists, plug your destination into [http://www.flickr.com/places/ Flickr Places] and hunt around for some unusual, less visited sights -- find obscure parks, museums no one visits and architecture marvels the guidebooks miss.
Also be sure to check out any groups listed under your destination. The groups are generally made up of locals who know their locations hidden secrets and can be a wealth of information.
Another trick: plugin in your travel dates, but restrict the results to the year before (use Flickr's [http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ advanced search] to get date-based results). Check the resulting photos for cloudy days versus sunny. The results can help give you some idea of just how wet the "wet" season really is.
== Twitter ==
The microblogging service, [http://twitter.com/home Twitter] can act as a great lazyweb resource. Put out some random queries for the best place to eat or something unusual to do in your destination city. With any luck locals can offer insights your fellow guidebook carrying travelers will miss. Thanks to Twitter's built-in limitations, answers will be short and to the point.
Of course you're probably not the first person headed to where ever you're going so use Twitter's new [http://search.twitter.com/ search engine] to mine queries from those who came before. Many users encode their tweets with "hash tags" so try searching, for example, both "paris" and "#paris." Also keep in mind that Twitter is limited to 160 characters so abbreviations are common, rather than searching sanfrancisco, just search sf.
== Yelp ==
It might be the most opinionated site on the web, but with a little work you can find the best eats in town by pouring through [http://www.yelp.com/ Yelp reviews]. And unlike your guidebook, you'll know if that tiny, hole-in-the-wall taqueria is out of business before you walk twenty blocks to find it.
== The iPhone/iPod ==
First off, if you're headed out of the country with an iPhone, turn off the automatic updates function so you don't end up with outrageous roaming charges. See the [http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Travel_Tips_for_Globetrotting_Geeks Travel Tips for Globetrotting Geeks] for details.
But it's more than just a phone, use it download some music podcasts from local radio stations. Not only is there the potential to discover new bands it can also help find clubs and other music venues to check out while you're in town -- beats watching TV in your hotel room.
There are also hundreds of city guide walking tours you can download for most major metropolitan areas.
The iPhone/iPod is also great for maps. Sure there's the built-in Google maps on more recent versions, but even if you don't have the latest and greatest iPod, you can still download subway maps and other images guides to most major cities.
If you're headed abroad, consider buying one of the many foreign language dictionaries available through the App Store. It isn't the babelfish by any means, but little language knowledge goes a long way.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/How To Wiki/vpnhowto.txt b/old/published/How To Wiki/vpnhowto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df0fabb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/How To Wiki/vpnhowto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a network that piggybacks on the internet to connect a remote PC -- you with your laptop beside the pool in Shanghai -- to a central network elsewhere, for example, your employer's secure network back home. Think of VPNs as tunnels; secure tunnels that you data can travel through on its way to its destination. + +The idea behind a VPN is that you should always be able to connect securely to your own network. With a VPN connection everything seems as though you are simply connected directly to your own network, regardless of where in the world you might actually be. + +Running over a wifi network, a well-secured VPN session looks like a standard https connection to someone watching the packets as they come and go over the wifi network. That means it will defeat most surveillance, interception, and data theft. + +Sounds good, right? Here's our guide to setting up your own VPN for secure connections wherever you go. + +== The Network == + +There are two parts to running a VPN -- the network and the client which connects to it. The first thing you'll need to do to run a VPN is set up the actual VPN server. There are third-party VPN servers available, but as of Windows 7, Microsoft ships all the tools you need right in the operating system. + +To start up a VPN server in Windows 7, first open up the control panel. Click on Network and Internet and select the Network Connections option. That will bring up a new window with no toolbar. For reasons that escape everyone but Microsoft's Win7 developers, you must hold down the Alt key to see the toolbar. So, with the alt key held down, click on the file menu and choose "New Incoming Connection." + +That will launch a wizard which walks you through setting up your VPN server. The first screen asks you to pick a user, in most cases you'll want to choose your Windows 7 username from the list. The next step is to select the option to allow connections through the internet. Then you'll need to decide which sort of connections to allow. At a minimum you need to select the TCP/IPv4 option. Other choices include IPv6, as well as File and Print Sharing, which will allow for remote printing should you need it. + +The last screen asks you to allow network access and how to assign IP address. The latter option is best left to "Assign IP addresses automatically using DHCP," unless you really know what you're doing. + +Once you're finished with the wizard, Windows 7 will show you the computer name that you'll be connecting to. + +===Potential Problems === + +If your PC is behind a firewall there are a couple of extra steps you'll need to take to make sure that your connection can get through. Since router admin screens vary considerably we can't give you step by step instructions, but what you want to do is open up the VPN port (port 1723) in the firewall. You'll also want to forward that port to the local IP address of your Windows 7 VPN server. + +== Connecting to the network == + +Now that you have a VPN server running on your home machine you just need to set up your laptop to connect to it. To do that, open up the Network and Sharing option in the Control Panel and choose "Set up a new connection or network." That will bring up another wizard that walks you through the step necessary to connect to the VPN on the other machine. + +The first step is to choose to connect using "my Internet connection (VPN)". Now type in the IP address of the computer you're trying to connect to (don't know? Hit up [http://www.whatsmyip.org/ What's My IP]). Then give the connection a name -- something like MyAwesomeVPN. We suggest leaving the user login info blank and typing it in each time you need to connect for increased security. + +Now to actually connect, click the network icon at the bottom right corner of the system tray and pick the connection we just created from the list. Click connect and you're away. + +===Potential Problems === + +The biggest problem for most users will be the potentially changing IP address of the home machine. If your IP address is static then there's nothing to worry about. If you don't know whether you have a static or dynamic IP then chances are you have a dynamic IP address. That means your ISP assigns your connection an IP address and that address may change it at any time. If is does change then that happens your remote machine will be trying to connect to an IP that isn't you (or just doesn't exist). + +To get around this problem you can use solutions like [FreeDNS http://freedns.afraid.org/], which assigns a permanent domain name to your dynamic IP address. In that scenario you would go back to the previous step and instead of looking up your IP address, just enter your new domain name from FreeDNS. FreeDNS then handles forwarding the connection on to the actual IP of your PC at home. + +== Conclusion == + +Setting up a VPN isn't the simplest thing in the world, but once you have it up and running the peace of mind that comes from knowing you have a secure connection wherever you go will be well worth the effort. diff --git a/old/published/IE7Add-Ons.txt b/old/published/IE7Add-Ons.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28c05ad --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/IE7Add-Ons.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +No web browser is perfect and no web browser does everything just the way everyone wants it to, which why more and more browsers are opening themselves up to user-created extensions. One of Firefox's most appealing features is it's extensibility, but Internet Explorer users need not be left out in the cold -- Internet Explorer 7 has some nice extensions too. Here's our round up of the seven best ways to trick out Internet Explorer 7. + +1. ieSpell http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=1513531 + +It's a shame IE7 didn't integrate a spell checker, but not to worry ieSpell lets you have your Internet Explorer and eat your spell checker too. Once installed IeSpell does a nice job of staying out of the way until you need it. There are three ways to activate ieSpell, from the tools menu, from its own top level menu and from the contextual (right click) menu. If you happen to using a branded version of IE7 such as those from MSN or AOL that last option will be your only means of accessing ieSpell. (also available for IE6) + +2. Inline Search http://www.ieforge.com/InlineSearch/HomePage + +Inline search supercharges your IE searching capabilities providing find-as-you-type functionality. Once installed the default CRTL-F shortcut will bring up a toolbar at the base of your window that mimics the search functionality of Firefox's built-in search. Find as you type, highlight all instances of your search terms on the page or make your search case sensitive. Regrettably the keyboard shortcuts aren't customizable so you'll want to memorize the following shortcuts: ESC to close the search pane when in focus, F3 or ENTER find the next occurrence and SHIFT-F3 or Shift-Enter to find the previous occurrence. (also available for IE6) + +3. IE7 Open Last Closed Tab http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3119163 + +Open Last Closed Tab does exactly what it says. This add-on creates a keyboard shortcut (ALT-X) to restore the last tab after it's been closed. It isn't the most glamorous of add-ons, but it'll save you from your fat-fingered mistakes and overly-hasty decisions. + +4. Add more search engines. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx + +Let's face it Microsoft's Live Search is a dog and everyone on the internet knows it. But don't worry you can add new search engines with ease. Head over to the Search provider's page and grab the some of the prebuilt search tool. Want to create your own? It's easy just open the search engine of your choice and search for "TEST" then Just paste the resulting URL in the search provider box, give your engine a name and hit install. IE will take care of the rest. + + +5. Trailfire http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3053984 + +Trailfire is a new way to leave behind notes on web pages. Trailfire members can download and install the Trailfire add-on for IE7 and start sharing "trails" with fellow users. For the uninitiated, Trailmarks, are notes on individual web pages which create an interpretive trail of notes across the web that other Trailfire users can follow and comment on. (also available for IE6) + +6. Stumbleupon http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=2831472 + +Haven't tried the random web yet? The Stumbleupon toolbar for IE lets you stumble and bumble your way through the web by "channel surfing" through sites that like-minded users have marked as interesting, helpful or informative. For a full background on StumbleUpon see [our review][1] of social bookmarking sites. Caution highly addictive. (also available for IE6) + + +7. Google Preview http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview-ie/ + +Want to see a preview of a web page before you visit? The GooglePreviewIE toolbar provides a customized results page with thumbnail previews for popular sites like Google, Yahoo and Amazon. The GooglePreviewIE toolbar images are only visible when search through the toolbar, a normal search will still give you the default results. Handy for Image and product searches. (also available for IE6) + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72070-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1 "Social Bookmarking Showdown page 2"
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You won't find pretentious artistic statements and oversize egos here. + +While the crowd includes everyone from amateur directors and editors working on pet projects in their spare time to Academy Award-winning, big-budget Hollywood filmmakers, the focus is on technical issues that don't make it into celebrity sound bites. + +Anthony Minghella's 2003 blockbuster, Cold Mountain, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, was the first big-budget Hollywood film to be edited entirely in Final Cut Pro. It drew attention not only to Apple's editing application, but also to the directors and editors who used it. Now Final Cut Pro, and nonlinear editing programs like it, are taking over the movie industry. + +"I think one reason that Final Cut Pro really took off was because of the groups and communities around it," said Ken Stone, who helped founder Michael Horton start the Los Angeles group and who runs his own Final Cut Pro website. + +The group's first meeting was held at a small house six years ago and drew about 30 curious Final Cut Pro users. Since then, it has attracted more than 5,000 members. + +"It caught on very quickly," says Horton. "It was an out-of-control fire from day one." + +Inspired by another user group in San Francisco, Horton says he "wanted to get involved in it because I'd be able to surround myself with all these people who knew Final Cut Pro a heck of a lot better than I did." + +The monthly meetings feature speakers from within the industry and filmmakers showing off new movies or work-flow suggestions, as well as software developers working on Final Cut Pro plug-ins and add-ons. Every meeting opens with a "Stump the Experts" Q-and-A session during which users can raise problems and get answers from speakers and fellow audience members. + +"If you leave with a problem, we haven't done our job," Horton extols before opening the meeting for questions. + +The gatherings provide "a great forum for creative feedback," said Christine Steel, an Apple-certified Final Cut Studio trainer who shares tips and tricks at the meetings. + +Horton calls the monthly meetings "a way to get us out of the house," but believes that the group's real power is on the web, where users from all over the world can connect to exchange ideas, learn new editing tips and tricks, and even find job opportunities. + +"Just because we are named LAFCPUG doesn't mean the rest of the world can't participate," says Horton. "A lot of the things we do are geared towards the local members, but I also go out of my way to make sure the rest of the world's included." + +But Horton also sees his organization as an advocacy group for Final Cut's users. And Apple is listening. + +"We've become a kind of a conduit," he says. "Apple reads our forums, and they listened to what we said and I think we make it easier for them to add new features." + +Apple reps have been known to drop by the monthly meetings to demo new features and field questions from users. + +"I've always wanted to start something from nothing and see if I can build it," says Horton. "So far it's going pretty good. There's a lot left to do. 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New metadata handling removes location data if you're worried about privacy. Also track log support -- eg an app on your phone that tracks where you are and aligns location with time stamp of image. data will be written into the image if you so desire. may end up with metadata fields IPTC fields populated -- not for sure. + +Better video support -- lightroom 3 maintains a record of the video locations, but doesn't really do anything with it. L4 improves overall video support, treating it much like your camera and phone do -- as just another image. Under the hood it uses high quality video playback features pulled from Preiemer + +Frame editing, drag and drop film strip, pull out still frames, set poster frame. + +Video quick develop applies some of the develop module controls (still can't load video in develop module proper) white balance, white clipping, Saturation, Exposure, Vibrance + +Great camera support AVCHD etc + + +Book- Basic layout tools like what you'll find in iPhoto, but then really detailed text controls, kerning, leading etc Also presets, uses blurb.com + +It's archaic but lightroom finally has an email photo feature. + +== Develop module == + +brightness is gone, covered the same ground as exposure, reordered as well + +highlights and shows balance highlights and shadows also white and black sliders + +No more recovery and fill light, instead there's highlight and shadows. similar, btu not replacesments highlights is like recovery, but more powerful, shadows in like fill light but more restrained. + +Graduated filters can now do noise reduction and moire (or brush to brush in noise reduction) ditto of everything else, better local adjustments that is applying things to select parts of images -- highlights and shadows can be applied locally as well + +Chromatic abberation is now a single click -- image analysis based rather than profile based as in LR3. + +== Printing == + +Soft proofing -- make adjustments on a soft proof copy, automatically creates image copy. + +New print adjustment features -- to pump up the brightness and contrast before it's sent on to the printer (adjustments not shown on screen). + +== DNG format now allows lossy compression -- 7D 24MB file reduced down to 5MB file almost 25% (not enabled) +== DNG embed fast load data -- Adobe apps can show things faster without waiting for the entire data to load, adobe claims that images load 8X faster. (enabled by default) + +== Revel (nee Carosel) == + +New export option to login to Revel and upload images + +Beta time will likely be shorter than with the major rearch that happened in LR3. + +==Follow Up== + +Possible to use a pre-public build? + +With the new fast load data embedded into DNG: + +does that increase the file size of the image compared to older version of DNG or the RAW format used by your camera? If so, is it significant? Do you have an average percentage? + +Is there a way to upgrade older files? Is that something LR4 will do automatically on the first run? Is it part of the "upgrading library" message that sometimes happens when upgrading to a new release or is it amnual process? + +Is the new DNG format backwards compatible with older version of lightroom? 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Of course if you're a serious photographer, you could just go download the beta yourself, which, if you're the curious type, I suggest you do, though I would not use it with images you care about. The only thing I have that you don't have is that I got to sit down with Adobe's Tom Hagaarty, the head of Lightroom and take a tour of the new features. There's nothing in what follow that you can't find on your own or in Adobe's reference material, but if you'd like a guided tour, read on. + +Anyway, here's the part that doesn't spin in Wired: Lightroom is an awesome piece of software and this is written for people that think likewise. If you perfer Aperture or Bibble (now part of Corel I believe) then this is not for you. + +Okay, if you're still with me here's where + + +I haven't had any problems with it ruining images, but I still wouldn't trust beta software to do anything with my images. + + +When I talk about libraries and images below I'm referring to a cloned duplicate of a portion of my library (I copied about 10,000 images over to test Lightroom 4. + + diff --git a/old/published/LR4/review.txt b/old/published/LR4/review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8541d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/LR4/review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +<p>Adobe has released the first public beta of what will become Photoshop Lightroom 4, a major upgrade of the Lightroom line. This release sees Adobe primarily focusing on improving the Lightroom interface, particularly the Develop Module which is now easier and faster to use and features more intuitive set of controls.</p> + +<p>Lightroom 4 beta is a free download available from the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/">Adobe Labs website</a>, but do keep in mind that this is beta software intended for testing. Be sure to use duplicates of images that have been backed up elsewhere when testing Lightroom 4.</p> + +<p>The first thing you'll notice on launching the new Lightroom 4 is that it will ask you to create a new catalog. This partly so that you can run it alongside the production version (Lightroom 3.6) and partly because Lightroom has some new tricks up its sleeve, in particular, a new Map Module for adding and storing geodata. </p> + +<p>The Map Module only works with an internet connection and uses Google Maps, which you can use to add geodata just as you might through a web service like Flickr. Naturally, while that works it's a huge pain if you're working with a lot of images so Lightroom also supports importing track logs. For example, if your phone platform has an app that you use to log your image locations, Lightroom can read the data (provided the app can export it) and attatch it to your images. Of course if your camera records the geodata to directly to your images then Lightroom will use that info. Once you have the geodata added you can search images be location and view them on the map.</p> + +<p>Along with the geodata comes some new privacy settings for your images, including an option to ignore any geographic data Lightroom might find.</p> + +<p>The other entirely new menu item in Lightroom 4 is the Book options which does exactly what you think it does -- helps you layout and typeset a book for printing. The Book module works much like what you'll find in other software and online -- select your images, choose from a number of template and then start customizing. The difference with Lightroom is the level of customization possible, which includes everything from layouts to fonts to even the leading and kerning applied to fonts. Actual book printing is handled through <a href="http://blurb.com/">Blurb.com</a>.</p> + +<p>The other notable new feature worth mentioning before we dive into the revamped modules is that Lightroom 4 includes much improved support for videos. While Lightroom 3 can import and will maintain a record of your video locations, it lacks any way to do anything with your videos. Lightroom 4 steps up the video support, treating movies as just another image. That means you can adjust levels and make basic tweaks to your video directly in Lightroom 4 using most of the tools in the Quick Develop panel (except for Crop, Highlights, Shadows and Clarity which are disabled for video). There's nothing as powerful as what you'll find in Adobe Premiere, but it will work for serious photographers that occasionally dabble in video.</p> + +<h3>The Develop Module</h3> + +<p>The Develop Module is the heart of Lightroom and it's where most of the changes in Lightroom 4 have happened. At first glance the Develop Module looks about the same, but the basic development tools have been considerably reworked. Instead of the somewhat obscure tone sliders like Recovery, Fill Light and Brightness, Lightroom 4 has been reorganized to Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks. Each slider controls exactly what its name suggests.</p> + +<p>Adobe has also changed the sliders so that all of the tone adjustments default to the middle. Drag the slider left and whichever effect you're using gets darker; drag it to the right and it gets lighter. It's a small change, but it makes adjusting images more intuitive and also makes it easier to see where you're at with a quick glance.</p> + +<p>Of course while the new controls may be more intuitive and somewhat easier to use that only matters if they're capable of the same or better results. In playing with them for a few days it's clear that they do, though the experience is not without a learning curve and sometimes the loss of the brightness slider is annoying (though Adobe assures me that Exposure covers the same ground, sometimes it doesn't feel that way).</p> + +<p>The new Highlights and Shadows sliders essentially do the work of recovery and Fill Light and in most situations do it much better. Highlights in particular is more useful than Recovery and actually lightens or darkens all your highlights, rather than washing out the middle highlights in kind of neutral gray color the way Recovery often did (this is particularly noticeable in images with snow, clouds, concrete or any other situation with a wide and subtle range of highlight tones).</p> + +<p>Where Highlights is more powerful than Recovery was, Shadows seems more constrained than Fill Light. Indeed in some image I tested it was hard to tell any effect at all with the Shadows adjustment until it was paired with the Blacks slider. However, the subtleness of Shadows makes it perfect for adjusting shadows in darker images where more subtly is called for. If you're just looking to create greater contrast look to the Blacks or Contrast adjustments. </p> + +<p>In the end Highlights and Shadows are not intended to be one-to-one replacements for Recovery and Fill Light; they're similar, but different enough that it takes some practice to get comfortable with them. However, after developing around 50 images in Lightroom 4 I found that I was able to produce better results than I had on the same images using Lightroom 3.</p> + +<p>[Note that, should you export some images from Lightroom 3 to test in Lightroom 4 you may not see the new sliders in the Develop Module. Instead you'll see a small exclamation point icon at the bottom right corner of the images window. Click that icon and Lightroom will offer to upgrade your images to the "current process." Once you've converted the images the new sliders will appear.]</p> + +<p>Lightroom 4's Develop Module also features better local adjustment tools, making it easier to apply adjustments to only select parts of images. For example graduated filters can now apply effects like noise reduction and moire. Both of those new filters are also available via the brush so you can brush noise reduction into say, only the shadow areas of your image. Similar local adjustments can be made using the new Highlights and Shadows as well as the Blacks and Whites.</p> + +<p>There are a number of other changes in the development panel -- for example the algorithms behind clarity slider have been updated to reduce halos -- but perhaps the most interesting is the ability to make Point Curve edits to individual RGB channels. Previously this sort of fine-grained tweaking necessitated a trip to Photoshop (or similar), but now you can tweak your RGB channels right in Lightroom.</p> + +<h3>Other Improvements</h3> + +<p>There are a number of small, but welcome changes in Lightroom 4 that solve some "paper cut" problems in previous releases. For example Lightroom 4 now has an option to email a photo. Strange that it took four revisions to get something so simple in, but it's there now. Another nice new change is the ability to hide the main menu items you don't need. Outside of verifying that it works for review purposes I've never used Lightroom's Web Module, so now I can stop it from taking up screen real estate -- handy considering that with the Book and Map menu items the menu is occupying more space than ever.</p> + +<p>Under the hood Adobe has made some changes to the DNG format that will affect anyone who opts to convert their images to DNG. The most significant change for Lightroom is something Adobe calls fast load data. Fast load data means that Adobe apps can display images faster using just the core data, without waiting for the entire set of image data to load. Adobe claims that images using fast load, load up to eight times faster. If you're worried about backwards or cross compatibility with other apps Adobe assured me that apps that don't understand fast load will still be able to process these images. The new fast load features is enabled by default.</p> + +<p>The second change to the DNG format is the addition of lossy compression. Given that part of the appeal of DNG (and more generally, Camera Raw) format is that it preserves all your data combined with the every plummeting price of storage it's hard to see why anyone would want lossy compression, but it's there if you do (the new lossy compression option is, thankfully, disabled by default).</p> + +<h3>Conclusion</h3> + +<p>Lightroom 4 looks to be the sort of update photographers can get behind, there are no major new features, but the basic toolset had been improved and new Develop Module in particular makes processing your images easier and faster. It might take a day or two to wrap your head around the changes in the tone adjustments, but once you do you won't want to go back. </p> + +<p>Indeed that's the biggest problem with this beta release -- it's a beta and much as I'd like to I'm not willing to entrust it with my actual library or new images just yet. However, Adobe tells Wired that the Lightroom 4 beta period will likely be somewhat shorter than the rather long Lightroom 3 beta test.</p> + +<p>Of course, given that the changes in Lightroom 4 are seemingly not as big as the move from Lightroom 2 to 3, it's worth asking whether or not Lightroom 4 will be worth the price of the upgrade. The answer will depend on your workflow and how much the improved tools improve your experience with it. For that reason I would suggest trying the beta now and spending some time with it before the final release rolls around later this year.</p> diff --git a/old/published/Lightroom.txt b/old/published/Lightroom.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9f84be --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Lightroom.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +After a full year as a public beta, Adobe began shipping [Photoshop Lightroom][1] earlier this week. Image software traditionally falls into two categories, photo cataloging software like Apple's [iPhoto][2] or Google's [Picasa][5] for organization, and image editing software like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro for working with individual files. Adobe Lightroom straddles these two categories and is part of a significant new kind of photo software -- RAW workflow software. + +With more digital camera manufacturers including RAW image capabilities in increasingly less expensive cameras, a whole new crop of digital tools has sprung up to accommodate the more complex workflow RAW images necessitate. Others in this hybrid realm include Apple's [Aperture][3] and Bibble Labs' [Bibble][3]. + +Lightroom is designed to make it easy to quickly browse your photos, highlight the ones you like (via ranking, tagging and some other means), applying enhancements and corrections to the photo, and exporting the photo for web or print. + +Lightroom's workflow is divided into five modules, Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web. The Library module serves to organize and browse your images. Importing photos can be done direct from a camera or existing files on disk. The import dialog has a "File Handling" option, which allows to to control whether Lightroom works with a copied file or leaves the image where it is and simply references it. + +The Library module lets you edit meta data, add keywords, search for images and organize your photos into collections. There's also a "Quick Develop" panel for simple image manipulations. + +For more sophisticated editing options you'll want to jump over to the Develop module, which is where the majority of Lightroom's features congregate. + +The Develop module offers the traditional slider-based methods of adjusting exposure, tone and a myriad of other options, but Develop also allows you to grab and drag the image histogram directly. + +In the upper right panel of the Develop module is a preview thumbnail, rolling your mouse over the various image setting presets shows the results in the preview thumb before they're applied to the image. Frequently applied adjustments can be saved as custom presets. + +All of the adjustment panels in the Develop module have a one-click on-off "switch" making it easy to review settings. + +The Develop module also has a history panel and snapshot tool which makes it easy to jump forward and backward through development steps and mirrors the functionality of same tools in Photoshop. + +Although the goal of Lightroom is to allow for quick editing, some images will naturally require more intricate adjustments than Lightroom is capable of. One area where Lightroom falls short is image sharpening. The controls in Lightroom are limited to a single slider to control the amount of sharpening, whereas Photoshop offers additional controls over radius and threshold settings. + +For those times when Lightroom is not up to the task, Lightroom offers tight integration with Photoshop, including the ability to do non-destructive roundtrip edits. Using the "Edit in Photoshop" command, Lightroom will pass off an image to Photoshop where more sophisticated edits are possible, such as applying a filter or performing fine grained touch ups. + +When sending an image to Photoshop, selecting the "Edit a Copy With Lightroom Adjustments," the default option for RAW images, will convert your raw image to a TIFF or PSD file for editing. After editing in Photoshop your changes will appear as a new image in Lightroom. By default Lightroom nicely "stacks" the various duplicate images, saving display space in the Library Module. Every stacked image in has an icon to show the number of images stacked and clicking on the edge of the image will expand in collapse the stacks. + +Once you have your images looking the way you want them the last three modules, Slideshow, Print and Web, allow you to export the final product to a variety of formats. + +Regrettably the web module doesn't seem to offer any integration with popular online photo sharing sites, but the good news is that Lightroom offers a plugin architecture for third party developers to fill in the functionality gaps. Unfortunately Photoshop plugins do not work in Lightroom due to differences in the way the two applications handle photos. + +Other nice features in Lightroom include the ability to "watch" folders which means if you add photos to a folder in another application, Lightroom automatically adds them to the Library. + +Lightroom was fast and responsive in my testing (Macbook Core 2 Duo 2.0 with 1gig RAM) in both OS X and Windows, though as with any image app, you can never have to much RAM. + +Lightroom is aimed squarely at the RAW photographer and while Lightroom can handle other formats, it is probably overkill for the casual user. Nor is Lightroom intended to replace Photoshop, it lacks the refined editing tools of a dedicated image editing program. + +Lightroom costs $300, but Adobe is offering an introductory price of $200 through April 30. + +links: + +[1]: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom" +[2]: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/ "Apple iPhoto" +[3]: http://www.bibblelabs.com/products/bibble/bibble4.html "Bibble Pro" +[4]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ "Apple Aperture" +[5]: http://picasa.google.com/ "Google Picassa"
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The Russian knockoff was partially based on the Cosina CX-1, but the Lomo version was quirky and often produced the kind of "happy accident" photos that have endeared it to camera lovers over the years. + +But if you don't feel like ponying up for a vintage Lomo (or on the remanufactured versions offered by [http://shop.lomography.com/shop/index.php?artID=5759 Lomography.com]) you can fake the characteristics of the Lomo in Photoshop or the Gimp. + +The Lomo is best known for three things over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposures, and severe vignetting (darkening of the image at the corners and sides). + +To get started open your image in Photoshop or the Gimp (the follow instructions reference Photoshop CS2 +). + +The first thing we'll do is simulate the over saturated colors of a Lomo image. Adjust the image as you normally would and once you're happy with it create a new adjustment layer for Brightness/Contrast. Bump the contrast about 20. + +Create another adjustment layer for Hue/Saturation and increase the image's saturation by about 20. + +Feel free to play with those numbers, some images may require more saturation and contrast while others will need less. + +Now head over to the Rectangular Marquee Tool and set the feather amount to 1/12 the width of your picture (if your picture is 1048px wide then set your feather to roughly 87px). Select the entire image and resist the urge to use Select All since that won't work, you need to drag the selection over the image. + +Now head up to the Select menu and choose Inverse. Add a new layer and make sure your foreground color is set to black. Fill in your selection and then deselect it. Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay and then duplicate it. + +lomo_vignette.jpg + +Now we have the vignetting and over saturated colors covered. The last step is to partially washout the center of the image. + +Grab the gradient tool and switch the Gradient Type to Radial (second form the left in the Gradient toolbar). Set your Gradient picker to Foreground to Transparent and then switch your Foreground color to white. + +Now start in the middle of the image and drag your gradient tool out toward the longest edge. Once you have a white radial gradient in the middle of the image set the layer’s Blending Mode to Overlay, and decrease the opacity to around 50 percent. + +And that's about all there is to it. You've successfully used the latest and greatest software to simulate what amounts to a broken camera from the '80s. + +lomo_final.jpg + +There are other ways to achieve the same results as well so feel free to play around -- for instance you could bump the contrast of individual color channels to create the hyper-saturated color effect. 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"Photoshop does not assume anything about the person that's using it -- it just says here's a whole set of tools you can use". People use things in unexpected ways. "We've been tuning workflows.. not just adding adding adding. There's a lot of working with what we've got and making sure it works as best it can. There's a lot more that's designed to just work -- the blur tools. + +Nobody building photoshop v1 probably imagined it would one day be the go to software for web developers slicing up images etc + +27th of feb for photoshop touch on ios + +same sys requirements as the previous release (still supports win xp as well though some 3D features won't work since drivers and software for 3D on xp) + +Public beta for free + +What problems does it solve? Being able to amange the activations -- previously you needed to call Adobe and deactivate software and making sure you have the latest updates. + +Bridge is now 64 bit native which makes it faster (can address more RAM) + +mini bridge can be a tray at the bottom of the window, a bit like you'd find in Lightroom. + +Like Lightroom the Camera Raw dialogue has been revamped and the underlying image processing tools have been rewritten -- see out earlier Lightroom review for more details on what's changed with raw adjustment + +Totally revamped interface for the first time in 22 years -- adobe calls it "a more immersive experience" Not everyone is a photogra[pher looking for a lightroom-style interface so there are actually a variety of shades to choose from, including one that will look just like the good old light grey interface you're accustomed to. + +review of photoshop circulated and every single widget has been rewritten and unified. The interface is more polished than its every been. It + +Background saves -- auto recover that fits nicely with Mac OS x, or MS office apps which recover when they crash. + +Transforms -- free transform, liquify, etc are now pushed throught he GPU, the Adobe mercury graphics engine + +Adobe's own fact gathering system tells a different story. In fact we do use "auto" features and we use them a lot. So much so that Adobe decided they needsed some improvements. Auto is now a much more analytic engine in some cases doing monochromatic content aware adjustments -- with no gaps in the histigram. For photographers the improvments to levels and curves auto features will make developing and fine tuning images much, much faster + +New blur options -- iris, field, and tilt shift shallower depth of field -- like turning even your iphone into a f/1.4 lens. Again there's nothing you can't do here with CS5 and a high end DSLR, but now you can do it faster woithout fiddling as much. bokeh adjustments -- the light in the image + +adaptive lens filter is much better at correcting the distortion of wide angle lenses + +Video support arrived in CS 3 extended, but few people used it and it wasn't easy to use. Video is now in regular photoshop, not just PS extended. There's now a timeline and interface somewhat like what you'll find in Premeire elements. Add and combine video, stills, drag and drop timeline, use filters -- make black and white -- add transitions is simple, drag and drop transitions into the image. You can use layers for overlays, for example text, or black and white filter etc. Also pan and zoom ken burns style movement ofr still images. Export presets for just about anything you could imagine. If you have Preiemer Pro installed as well you'll have even more options for high end formats. + +MAGIC-- + +Content aware patch tool -- so you can use content aware till's rather amazing algorithm but direct which portions of your image for the algroythm to draw from (like you always have with the patch tool) + +Content aware move -- select portions of the image and moving them to other portions of the image. can also extend as in the roof. + +Crop tool -- the minute you click it the entire image is selected , to straighten you can just drag a line along the plane you'd like to straighten to. The crop tool is now non-destructive + +masks --- skin tone maskes that detect faces + +Designer stuff-- + +The vector engine has been rewritten so that it's now (as it should be) easy to make a line dashed or dotted or anything else. + +Layers -- some documents have 100s even 1000s of layers. There's now a search functions for layers -- search by modes, attributes, type -- if you;'re a day to day designer working in photoshop, this features alone is going to save you hours of time and compeltely change your workflow. + +little things -- Built in Lorem ipsom + diff --git a/old/published/RSS power user tips.txt b/old/published/RSS power user tips.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d423f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/RSS power user tips.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +On January 30th Microsoft's Windows Vista Operating System will hit the shelves of your local retailer bringing with it a huge upsurge in Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft claims there have already been 100 million downloads of IE7 and because IE7 has native RSS support, many predict this is the year the RSS will go mainstream.
While RSS may finally enter your grandmother's lexicon, many savvy Wired readers have been using RSS of years. But who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? We recently set out to test a number of RSS services that help you do more with your news feeds.
As most of you probably know RSS feeds are a means of pulling in news without having to open a browser. For some background on popular news readers and other way to get started using RSS, check out our review from a couple years back.
New services from the likes of internet giants Google and Yahoo combined with smaller, niche services like RMail, RSSfwd or Feed Shake can be combined to make your feeds even more useful.
One of the first frustrations many users experience on discovering to joys of RSS is that not every website offers RSS feeds. Even those sites that do have good RSS support may not delivery exactly what you're looking for.
One solution is to use feeds from search engines. If you'd like to track articles from your favorite author, but there's no feed available or that author writes for a number of sites, Yahoo News can help. Just search by byline and/or column title on Yahoo News and then subscribe to the search as a feed.
-------------the above tip should probably be credited to [Micro Persuasion][2]---------
Tired of always looking up your local theaters to find out what's playing? Thanks to [isnoop.net][1] it's easy to track your local movie listings even if the theaters near you don't have their own RSS feed. Just plug in your zip code and the scripts on isnoop will scrap Google to give you a list of theaters with movies, show times and an RSS feed for each. Combine those in your favorite RSS reader and you have an instant list of what's playing, where and when.
If your RSS reader has grown to a disorganized mass of feeds, you might want to consider combining and consolidating your subscription in to theme-based feeds. [Feed Shake][3] can merge, sort and filter multiple RSS feeds and Podcasts. Just enter the URLs meeting your criteria give your new merged feed a title and add it to your RSS reader. Feed Shake can also filter by keyword.
One the areas in which RSS excels is pushing time sensitive data quickly and efficiently. Thanks to Yahoo's Alerts service you can now get your RSS forwarded to your mobile device in the form of SMS messages.
One possible use for Yahoo Alerts involves combining search-based RSS feeds from Craig's List, or a similar service, to get apartment listings delivered directly to your phone. Enter your search criteria in Craig's List and copy the feed URL at the bottom of the search page. Paste that URL in Yahoo Alerts and select notification via SMS. Now every time an apartment goes up that meets your criteria, you'll get a text notification.
Many of even the best RSS clients on the market lack compelling archiving solutions. Thanks to services like RMail or [RSSfwd][4] it's easy to get your feeds delivered to your email account which makes archiving simple, but what if you only want to archive specific items?
The solution is to use a social bookmarking site to "flag" items. One possible work flow would be to read your feeds as you normally would in your favorite reader, then just open those items you'd like to save in a web browser and add them to your del.icio.us account (or similar service) and give them a unique tag. Then paste the feed URL for that tag into your RMail account and all your favorite items will be sent to your email account for easy storage.
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The above is a reader submitted tip, though I actually had the idea before he submitted it, however I didn't publish so i don't know about credit on that one
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If you use an email provider like GMail that offers tagging and search features you can quickly index and classify your saved items and build your own private reference library that's accessible from any computer.
[1]: http://isnoop.net/rss/theater.php "Theatre Search"
[2]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/10/ten_rss_hacks.html "Micro Persuasion"
[3]: http://www.feedshake.com/ "Feed Shake"
[4]: http://rssfwd.com/ "RSSfwd"
[5]: http://www.r-mail.org/ "RMail"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/RYOfacebook.txt b/old/published/RYOfacebook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ff0c3e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/RYOfacebook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +Social networks initially took the web by storm because they filled a gap in how people wanted to interact over the internet. + +Facebook, MySpace and Friendster all essentially offer the same services: tools to keep track of your friends and ways to manage your personal data. They collect your photos, your social calendar, interests and written thoughts into one place, your own personal corner of the web. + +While most web services offer an Application Programming Interface to retrieve your data, Facebook and MySpace have created an Application Programming Wormhole — your data goes in, but nothing ever gets pulled out. That also means that anyone without a Facebook account will never make it to your little corner of the internet. + +And what happens when the next Facebook comes along? How will you migrate your data? Facebook offers no export options — you, and your data, are bound up with the services and limitations of Facebook. So why tie all of your personal data to Facebook's little corner of the web when you can do the same without it? + +Phase two of social networking is here — the roll-your-own solution has arrived. + +To truly control your data from all the disparate sources — Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn and the rest — ideally you'd pull it in and store it in your own database. While this requires some programming know-how, tools like <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/">Ruby on Rails</a> or <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Django</a> have made it easier than ever to take that plunge. + +Not up to speed with Ruby or Python? No need to fret, you can still carve out your own corner of the web, without resorting to Facebook. By using your own web site and freely available components that you can embed on it, you can develop your own data aggregating platform. + +Before we get started it's worth asking: are we trading one big black hole for a series of smaller ones? As it turns out no, all of the services below offer some sort of way to retrieve your data, whether through an API or a bulk exporter. + +The drawback to badges and widgets is that they just display your data, they don't actually save it anywhere, so if these outside services disappear will your data go with them? Yes, but it will be just a small portion of your overall web existence. + +<hr /> + +"Get Hosted" + +If you decide to go the hosted website route, we'd recommend <a href="http://wordpress.org/">Wordpress</a> as a content management system. + +First off you'll need a domain name, then you need some sort of content management service — Wordpress is a great choice for its extendibility, fueled by its massive community of plug-in developers. And while web hosting isn't necessarily free, it's pretty cheap and there's even a number of hosts that offer Wordpress pre-installed. + +Another option is to use a sharable and customizable start pages from Pageflakes or Protopage. PageFlakes will allows you to build a customized chunk of cyberspace that aggregates all your content just like Facebook, but PageFlakes also has export options. + +The basics — blogging and comments + +Now let's look at Facebook's main feature set. There's the "wall," which is essentially a blog/comments thread folded into one confusing list. No need to fret here, the blogging capabilities and built-in comment system of Wordpress more than cover your bases. + +But Facebook's wall lacks a direct coupling between your posts and people comments. Want to offer a way for friends to stop by and leave a shout-out? No problem, there's a nice Wordpress plugin called <a href="http://pierre.sudarovich.free.fr/">Ajax Shoutbox</a>, which has you covered. + +If you're going the PageFlakes route, there's a feature dubbed Message Board, which accomplishes the same thing. + +"This is how I roll" + +One of the key ingredients to social networking is showing off your impeccable taste. List your likes, your dislikes. Show off your new hairstyle. + +Ostensibly this is point of Facebook's new Platform and its myrid of plug-and-play tools. But most of the services offering those new Facebook widgets have been offering the same to the internet at large for years, so let's grab a few. + +For all those hip new sites you stumble across before your friends there's <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a> or <a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/">ma.gnolia</a>, both of which offer full APIs and customizable widgets for your site. + +Displaying your musical tastes via widgets from <a href="http://www.ilike.com/">iLike</a> or <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a> ensures your status with the hipsters hanging in front of the record store. + +That cuty down at Starbucks needs to know you're the sensitive literary type — post about your favorite book at <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/">Shelfari</a> or <a href="http://www.librarything.com/">LibraryThing</a> and, yup you guessed it, pull it in with a nice little widget. + +When the Starbucks cuty is finally yours, you'll want to post plenty of pics as you travel the world in bliss. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://picasa.google.com/">Picasa</a>, <a href="http://www.zooomr.com/">Zooomr</a> and more offer all Facebook's photo functionality and loads more. Naturally there's a healthy dearth of widgets for displaying them on your site. + +"Keep up with the crowds" + +Want to know what your friends are up to? Facebook will let you know about your friend's plans and thoughts via status updates, but there's no need to login to Facebook just to see what you're friends are doing tonight. + +Why not just stick that info in your RSS reader and then display it on your site, giving you two ways to stay on top of all the happenings. + +The wildly popular <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/">Upcoming</a> event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a widget listing all your public events as well as those from any groups you belong to (groups on Upcoming are the equivalent of networks on Facebook). + +You're already showing off your own Twitter activities, but the what about your friends' feeds? Twitter also offers badges and widgets for pulling in tweets from your friends. + +There are also a number of third party apps which use the Twitter API to offer more options. There's even a ready-to-go plugin for Wordpress. + +Other potential friend management tools include <a href="http://www.plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a> for contact information, <a href="http://wwwl.meebo.com/">MyBlogLog</a> for including snippets from your friend's sites and any number of RSS badges which can pull information from just about any feed source. + +"Chat" + +Tweets and blog shout-outs are nice, but as long as we're replacing Facebook, let's make some improvements as well, how about we add in something more immediate: live chat. + +No need to switch over to another program, there's plenty of tools that let you and your friends chat right from your own site. <a href="http://wwwl.meebo.com/">Meebo</a> offers an embeddable widget for chatting, but no need to stop there — <a href="http://jaxtr.com/user/index.jsp">Jaxtr</a> does the same for SMS and <a href="http://skype.com/">Skype</a> offers a button for one-click calling straight from your page. + +"Read All About It" + +You'll never have anything to talk about if you aren't up on what's happening. Thankfully, you can pull in headlines from all of your favorite services — <a href="http://digg.com/">Digg</a>, <a href="http://reddit.com/">Reddit</a>, Netscape, or any news site and keep you and your friends informed. + +"Giving it away" + +What if someone else wants to subscribe to your feed? No problem for individual sections, i.e links, photos etc, just point your friends to the feed source (check with the services you're using to find out where that is). + +To create an everything in one place feed like Facebook offers, just create an account at one of the many feed re-mixing site — <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/">Yahoo Pipes</a>, <a href="http://feedshake.com/feedshakev1/login.fs">FeedShake</a> or <a href="http://feedblendr.com/">FeedBlendr</a> will all get the job done. Just plug-in all the feeds from your various sources and then cut-and-paste the resulting URL into your site — viola. + +"Make connections" + +So far so good. We've replicated most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into the black hole, but what about the concept of "friends" and "networks"? + +Well here's where it gets a bit tricky. We can pull in info from friends, but we don't have an easy way to manage friends or to define the relationship between our site and theirs. + +Friend relationships are unique to social networks — the web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people. This absence is what gave rise to social networks in the first place, and while we've outgrown the limitations of social site, no one has stepped forward with an open solution to managing your friends on internet at large. + +One possibility is the microformat <a href="http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/">XHTML Friends Network</a> (XFN) which provides ways of defining the relationship between the linker and the linkee, but while these convey the information they don't provide any way to utilize the information. + +Some developers are beginning to offer easy-to-use tools which can create XFN code (Wordpress and Movable type both offer templating solutions), but use of XFN isn't yet widespread enough and doesn't offer any tools for managing friends. + +Which is why we'd like to propose a humble idea, the next big leap in social connectivity is going to be an open standard for defining and connecting with people on the internet. + +Think of it as a language or structural way to link individuals sites along friendship lines, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web. + +Ideally this micro-network, or microwork, would be open and discoverable. There would be ways of defining and managing multi- tiered relationship and creating links between individuals and their sites. + +It may sound daunting or even impossible, but nearly all the tools we've mentioned so far started small. Movable Type was a few people trying to publish on a daily basis, del.icio.us started with one person looking for a way to manage his bookmarks and even Facebook started with a few friends trying to keep in touch. Eventually an open network will emerge. diff --git a/old/published/SXSW.txt b/old/published/SXSW.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fc0085 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/SXSW.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +For many the South By Southwest Conference held each spring in Austin Texas brings to mind music, sweaty clubs and the chance to see the next big thing before they become the next big thing. But in fact the conference is much more than just music and includes what may well be the year's biggest gathering of web and technology movers and shakers. + +The Interactive component of SXSW made its debut in 1994 as part of the SXSW Film and Multimedia Conference. The following year film got it's own conference and and by 1998 the multimedia conference had ben dubbed SXSW Interactive. + +The four day Interactive conference, which overlaps with the music and film conferences to form part of what organizers now refer to as SXSWeek, features discussion panels, a trade show and exhibition and brings together a diverse group of digerati from around the world. + +"SXSW is an interesting show for web developers since it brings the geeks out of the pure-geek conference circuit, and mixes them in with designers, filmmakers, and musicians." says Marc Hedlund founder of the internet banking site Wesabe who will be speaking on a panel entitled "Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps". + +The SXSW website touts the Interactive festival as a gathering of "digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs." And indeed any conference that can have Dan Rather keynote just hours after engineeers from Google host a panel with the working title "Why XSLT is Sexy," has some right to brag about diversity. + +But the focus of the conference is not just on celebrities digital and otherwise, but instead tries to create a level playing-field with the majority of daytime events hosted as discussion panels almost all of which close with an open question and answer period. + +SXSW has also started to reflects the growing trend of user-generated content and beginning this year the conference organizers turned over panel selection to the community. Using the panel Picker tool on the website anyone could suggest and vote on panel topics and speaker recruiting. + +Hugh Forrest, Event Director, SXSW Interactive Festival, says SXSW "received some really incredible panel ideas via the Panel Picker." He goes on to add that "the bulk of programming for the 2007 event was determined via this interface." + +That the people chose the majority of the panes at this year's conference reflects the growing popularity of internet video. Scheduled panels (subject to change) include such topics as "Your Video Blog Can Save the World" and "Better than 1,000 Words: Video on the Web." + +The true geeks aren't left out either, there are plenty of highly technically themed discussions including panels about popular programming languages like Ruby and AJAX. + +The total package of SXSWeek, which includes the SXSW Film Conference & Festival, as well as the SXSW Music Conference & Festival, means that some of the brightest minds in three different industries are in Austin during this time period. + +"Point is that you have all these incredibly artistic and creative people in town for this short period of time," Forrest enthuses. "So, the amount of new ideas and new brainstorms and new business connections that spring forth from the many amazing connections that are made during the event is truly astounding." diff --git a/old/published/Silverlight.txt b/old/published/Silverlight.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51831ff --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Silverlight.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +What ever happened to Silverlight? Microsoft's plugin and development platform + +TK lede :-) + +What's telling is that Apple fans aren't clamoring for Silverlight on the iPhone, it's Flash that makes it's absense felt in many users daily web experience. Indeed I bought a new laptop in January of 2009 and it wasn't until recently, when I started using Netflix's on-demand streaming that I found it necessary to install Silverlight. + +It wasn't that I had anything against Silverlight, but that I simply never needed it until that moment. And that's bad news for Microsoft. + +Aside from Netflix and the recent Olympics streaming sites you'd be hard pressed to find a major site that's using Silverlight. Major League Baseball flirted with it, but quickly reverted to Flash. Billboard Live has a few videos in Silverlight, as do McDonalds and UFC, but watching Microsoft's Silverlight promo video one has the feeling that Microsoft has to troll far and wide to find examples to showcase. + +What's doubly curious about Silverlights inability to gain ground is that in many ways it's far nicer than Flash. For example, the Netflix player, probably the example most people encounter Silverlight most frequently, never sends my laptop's fan into overdrive the way Flash-based Hulu movies do. + +TK another example of Silverlight's advantages over Flash + +From a developers point of view Silverlight also offers much that Flash lacks like the ability to [write apps in a variety of programming languages][1] and still compile down to code that will run in the Silverlight player. + +Having written apps in both Flash and Silverlight the truth is Silverlight is much nicer. I can work in the language I prefer (IronPython in this case), develop without the need for a timeline or other animation oddities and build apps much faster thanks to a well-designed framework and API set. + +With all the Python and Ruby on Rails developers out there you would think that Silverlight would be more compelling than Flash, which requires learning a whole new programming langauge. But it turns out Python and Ruby programmers don't seem to interested and Flash developer aren't interested in learning a new programming language either. + +Developers did not rush to Silverlight in droves, nor did Flash programmers suddenly pick and decamp for Microsoft's new playground. + +TK graf about early versions Silverlight failing to offer developers compelling features not found in flash + +Part of Silverlight's failure to gain traction is that it arrived late in the game. Adobe routine touts statics showing somewhere between 90-95 percent of all web browsers have Flash installed. Silverlight can only dream of that sort of penetration. + +The second problem Silverlight faces is a chicken and egg problem. Few sites use Silverlight because it's install base is much smaller than it's competitor Flash. But few people need to install Silverlight because few websites use it. Worse, perhaps the biggest chunk of users developers can rely on to have Silverlight installed -- Internet Explorer users -- are dwindling every day as Firefox and Google Chrome continue to steal users away from IE. + +The third and perhaps most damaging for Silverlight is timing. Silverlight arrived as an alternative to Flash at the time when HTML5 was beginning to enjoy wider support among modern web browsers. Suddenly Silverlight needed to compete against not just the obvious, Flash, but also the very foundation of the web -- HTML 5. + +While Silverlight is capable of much that remains just proposed ideas for HTML5 (and much that HTML5 will never have) it suffers from the perception that it is just another plugin in an atmosphere where even the most dominant plugin is the punching bag of standards advocates everywhere. + +Essentially Silverlight is a better widget in a world that's trying ditching widgets entirely. + +[1]: http://www.silverlight.net/learn/dynamic-languages/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/delicious.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/delicious.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19d699d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/delicious.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Del.icio.us started the social bookmarking revolution and it continues to a popular way to store and share your bookmarks with the world. + +Thanks to its API, it's relatively simple to retrieve your bookmarks and display them on your own site or mash them up somewhere else. And there's no need to limit yourself to your own bookmarks, you can grab bookmarks by tag, other users, date and half a dozen other means. + +As an example, we'll use the del.icio.us API to grab your recent bookmarks, however, if you want to grab something else, say a list of all your tags, you'll just need to change one line. + +== Getting Started == + +There are a number of client libraries available for those looking to access the del.icio.us API. There's a particularly nice one for [http://code.google.com/p/pydelicious/ Python] and one for [http://delicious-java.sourceforge.net/ Java] as well. + +However we're going to skip the client in favor of writing our own code in PHP. The process is simple, just send your login credentials and then the url of the method you're trying to access. + +Copy this code into your PHP file. + +<? +$dusername = "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"; +$dpassword = "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"; +$api = "api.del.icio.us/v1"; +$apicall = "https://$dusername:$dpassword@$api/posts/recent?&count=30"; +function del_connect($url) { + $ch = curl_init(); + curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); + curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); + curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'mycoolname'); + curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); + $xml = curl_exec ($ch); + curl_close ($ch); + return $xml; +} +$result = del_connect($apicall); +echo $result; +?> + +The first four lines just set up our URL to retrieve the last 30 bookmarks posted to your account. Naturally you can change this to access any of the [http://del.icio.us/help/api/ API methods] that del.icio.us offers. + +Once we have the URL in place we just pass it to our <code>del_connect()</code> which then uses PHP's built in cURL library to retrieve the XML data from del.icio.us. + +== Where to go from here == + +So we have our last 30 bookmarks, but of course you'll need to parse that XML into some usable PHP structure, like an array, for displaying on a webpage. Since there are at least half a dozen XML parsers for PHP we'll leave that for you to decide. + +The other thing to keep in mind is that we haven't cached our results at all, so don't use this code in an actual web page or del.icio.us may well ban you. You need to set up some sort of cache -- Apache's mod_cache can fit the bill -- so that you don't pound on the del.icio.us servers every time your page refreshes. + + + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/disqusapi.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/disqusapi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76a968b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/disqusapi.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Disqus is a very clever and simple way to add comments to just about any page. Thanks to the handy plugins for various blogging platforms (WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger and more) it's easy to integrate into your current publishing system.
For those of using a custom blogging engine there's even some nice JavaScript code that can get Disqus comments on your site in no time.
The only problem with using Disqus is there's no on-site backup -- all your comments are stored and managed through Disqus, but if Disqus is down for some reason, or you decide to stop using it in the future, well, you're screwed.
There's a nicely integrated plugin for WordPress that automatically pushes your Disqus comments to your WordPress database, but the those of us not using WordPress are seemingly out of luck.
Luckily for us the the company [http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Disqus_Poised_to_Rule_the_World_of_Blog_Comments recently launched] a new [http://disqus.com/docs/api/ public API], which offers some ways to retrieve your comment data and store it wherever you like. Grab a couple of joe and we'll dig into to how the Disqus API works.
== Getting Started ==
The Disqus API is slightly convoluted, but with a little work we can get what we're after. The first step is grabbing your [http://disqus.com/api/get_my_key/ Disqus API key] (note that you need to be logged into Disqus for that link to work).
Now, if you look over the documentation you'll notice that there's actually two API keys we need. The first is the one linked above, but then we'll also need a key for each "forum" that we're going to access. Luckily we can query for the second key.
If the word "forum" is a little confusing, here's low down (the terminology we suspect originates from Disqus' infancy when it was a forum software project).
Each of your sites in Disqus are what Disqus calls a "forum." Within each site or forum, you have message threads. The threads correspond to you blog posts (or the page where you embed Disqus).
Then within each thread are the "posts," or comments, people have left on your site.
So the API process means first you fetch a list of forums (if you only have one site, there's just one forum_id to worry about), then you fetch a list of "threads" in each forum, then you can request the actual comments for each thread.
== Dive in ==
To help get you started I've written a quick and dirty Disqus API Client for Python. Because the Disqus API is young and subject to change, I didn't mirror it, rather I created a generic wrapper function which can handle all the current (and future) methods.
Here's the code:
<pre>
import urllib
import simplejson
BASE_PATH = 'http://disqus.com/api/'
DEBUG = True
class DisqusError(Exception):
def __init__(self, code, message):
self.code, self.message = code, message
def __str__(self):
return 'DisqusError %s: %s' % (self.code, self.message)
class DisqusAPIClient():
def __init__(self):
"""instantiate"""
def __getattr__(self, method):
def method(_self=self, _method=method, **params):
url = "%s%s/?&%s" % (BASE_PATH, _method, urllib.urlencode(params))
if DEBUG: print url
data = self.fetch(url)
return data
return method
def fetch(self, url):
data = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(url))
if data.get("code", "") != "ok":
raise DisqusError(data["code"], data["message"])
return data['message']
def __repr__(self):
return "<DisqusClient: %s>" % self.method
</pre>
Save that in a new file, named disqus.py, somewhere on your PythonPath. Be sure to note that we're using the Python simplejson library, so you'll need to [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson download and install] that if you haven't already.
== Using the Disqus API ==
Okay, now we have something we can use to access Disqus and return nice, native Python objects. So do we go about using it?
Here's an example using the Python command line interface:
<pre>
>>> from disqus import DisqusAPIClient
>>> client = DisqusAPIClient()
>>> API_KEY = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
>>> fkey = client.get_forum_list(user_api_key=API_KEY)
>>> fkey
[{u'created_at': u'2008-08-29 18:33:26.560284', u'shortname': u'luxagraf', u'name': u'luxagraf', u'id': u'00000000'}]
</pre>
So the first thing we do is import our client. Then we define our API key. The next step is fetch our list of forums using the Disqus method <code>get_forum_list</code>, which requires a parameter <code>user_api_key</code> along with the actual key.
As you can see the result is a Python list containing, among other data, our forum id. So now we can plug that into the function that will retrieve our forum key.
Here's how that works:
<pre>
>>> forum_key = client.get_forum_api_key(user_api_key=API_KEY, forum_id=fkey[0]['id'])
>>> forum_key
u'u@E6KnR....'
</pre>
All we've done here is call the <code>get_forum_api_key</code> method, passing it the user API key and the forum id, which we extracted from our earlier call.
Now that we have the forum key we can actually retrieve a list of threads (all the posts where we have Disqus comments running).
Once we have the list of threads, we can then query of all the comments on each thread:
<pre>
>>> comments = []
>>> posts = client.get_thread_list(forum_api_key=forum_key)
>>> for post in posts:
... comments.append(client.get_thread_posts(forum_api_key=forum_key, thread_id=post['id']))
</pre>
What we've done here is create a list object to store all our comments and then queried for the list of threads. Once we have the thread we loop through each one and call <code>get_thread_posts</code> which returns the actual comments.
Then we just append those to our <code>comments</code> list.
Now we have all the comments that have been posted on each entry in a single Python list. From here all we need to do loop through the comments and store them in database that matches to all the kinds of data Disqus stores -- comment, commenter name, avatar and so on.
Because there are any number of ways you can do that, different databases etc, we'll leave that as an exercise for the reader, but to access the individual comments and associated data you would just need to loop through our comments list like so:
<pre>
>>> for c in comments:
... if c:
... print c[0]['message']... etc
</pre>
Rather than simply printing out the data, just call a function that writes the data to the database and you'll have your local backup of Disqus comments.
== Conclusion ==
When it comes to sending comments to Disqus, you'll have to stick with the JavaScript forms that the company provides. At least for now, though the API docs do note that Disqus is looking into other ways of submitting.
Still, despite being one-way, the Disqus API makes it relatively easy to store a local backup of all the comments that have been submitted to your site through the Disqus service.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/flickr.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/flickr.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c052dd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/flickr.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +One the first and most comprehensive APIs of web 2.0, the Flickr API was in no small part responsible for the site's success. There were dozens of photo sharing sites clamoring for attention when Flickr first launched, but thanks the API developers begin building tool and extending the site far beyond the capabilities of others. + +The Flickr API exposes just about every piece of data that the site store and offer near limitless possibilities for mashups, data scraping, tracking friends and just about anything else you can think of. + +Some of the more popular applications leveraging the API are the various desktop uploaders available on all platforms, endless mapping mashups and more. Perhaps the most prolific of Flickr API users is John Watson (Flickr user fd) who has an [http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ extensive collection] of tools and mashups available. + +== Getting Started == + +The nice thing about Flickr is that the API is mature and there are already client libraries available for most languages (several libraries in some cases). That mean you don't need to sit down and work out the details of every method in the API, you just need to grab the library for your favorite programming language. + +For the sake of example, I'm going to use a Python library to retrieve all the photos I've marked as favorites on Flickr. + +First grab [http://flickrapi.sourceforge.net/ Beej's Python Flickr API library] and install it on your Python path (instructions on how to do that can be found in the [http://flickrapi.sourceforge.net/flickrapi.html documentation]). I like Beej's library because it handles the XML parsing without being dependent on any other libraries. + +== Writing the Code == + +Now let's write some code. Fire up a terminal and start Python. Now import the flickrapi and set your API key: + +import flickrapi +api_key = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' + +Now we're going to create an instance of the flickrapo client: + +flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key) + +Okay, now let's grab all the photos we've marked as favorites. Accessing all the methods of the Flickr API takes the general form: + +flickr.method_name(params) + +So to grab our favorites we'll use: + +favs = flickr.favorites_getPublicList(user_id='85322932@N00') + +So the favs variable now holds our list of images as parsed XML data. To print it we just loop through and pull out what we want: + +for photo in favs.photos[0].photo: + print photo['title'] + +To access the actual images, for instance to generate some HTML, we just need to build a url: + +for photo in favs.photos[0].photo: + print '<img src="'+"http://farm%s.static.flickr.com/%s/%s_%s_m.jpg" % (photo['farm'], photo['server'], photo['id'], photo['secret']) +'" />' + + +== Mashups == + +If all you want to do is put images on your website there's probably already a widget that can handle the task (of course you *can* DIY if you like). But what if you wanted to plot all the Favorites we just retrieved on a Google Map? + +That's exactly the sort of mashup that the Flickr API excels at. To do that, we would just need to add a parameter to our original method call, to tell flickr to include the photos geo coordinates, for instance: + +favs = flickr.favorites_getPublicList(user_id='85322932@N00', extras='geo') + +Now we can parse through and grab the coordinates: + +for photo in favs.photos[0].photo: + print photo['latitude'] + photo['longitude'] + +Then we can pass that over to the Google Maps API and plot the images. Note that in this particular case only a couple of the returned photos actually have lat/long info so it would be a good idea to test for non-zero values before passing the data to the Google Maps API. + +I should also point out that the Flickr API will return other formats besides XML. For instance we coud use this method to get a JSON response: + +favs = flickr.favorites_getPublicList(user_id='85322932@N00', extras='geo', format='JSON') + +== Conclusion == + +The Flickr Maps API exposes nearly every aspect of the site, which makes it both limitless and daunting, but thankfully Flickr has excellent documentation. As for what you can do with the Flickr API, the best mashups seem to start with the thought, "you know what would be cool..."
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gajaxsearch.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gajaxsearch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69dbb3e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gajaxsearch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Building a site search engine is pain and unless you're handy at writing algorithms, yours probably isn't going to be that great, even after all your hard work. So why bother? Especially when there's already a reasonably popular search engine by the name of Google that's perfectly willing to handle the job for you. + +The [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/ Google Search API] is not only really good at searching, since it accesses the Google index, but it's also really easy to use. + +The mashup potential here is near limitless, but we'll confine ourselves to a much more common case -- a site specific search engine for your blog. + +== Getting Started == + +The first step is to get a Google Search API. Just login to your Google account and head over the application page. Tell Google the domain where you'll be using the Search API and then copy and paste your key, we'll need it in just a minute. + +First, just to ensure there's no confusion, the only search API from Google uses AJAX. There was an older SOAP-based API, but sadly, that's no longer available. You might still run across a few SOAP-based implementation since Google hasn't shut it down, but it doesn't hand out new keys. + +The other thing to keep in mind is that if you're launching a new site, the site-specific results won't exist, since Google probably hasn't crawled the URL yet. If you don't have one, set up a Google Webmaster accounts and tell Google about your site by creating a sitemap. That should speed up the indexing process though you will likely still have to wait a few days before a Google search returns anything. + +== Implementing The Basic Search Engine == + +The first thing to do if open up your site template and add this line to the head tags: + +<code> + <script src="http://www.google.com/uds/api?file=uds.js&v=1.0&key=YOURKEYHERE" type="text/javascript"></script> +</code> + +Paste in that API key you generated earlier and you're ready to go. For now we're going to write all our code in the page head tags, but if you end up with a long and complex script it's a better idea to break it out in its own file. + +<code> +<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"> + //<![CDATA[ + + function OnLoad() { + // Create a search control + var searchControl = new GSearchControl(); + + // create a search object + searchControl.addSearcher(new GwebSearch()); + // tell Google where to draw the searchbox + searchControl.draw(document.getElementById("search-box")); + + } + GSearch.setOnLoadCallback(OnLoad); + + //]]> +</script> +</code> + +What we've done here is create a function that fires when the page loads and creates a new GSearchControl object which is a text input box and a search button (there's also a little "powered by Google" badge). We then create a searcher, in this case we're just using a normal GwebSearch, which mimics the Google homepage. + +Other options include video search, image search, blog search and several other of Google's specialized search engines. For more details check out the [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_intro_GSearch Search Docs]. + +Once we have the object initialized and the type of search set we have to tell Google where to draw the object. In this case we'll use a div with an id of "search-box," so add this code somewhere in the body of you html file: + +<code> +<div id="search-box"> + +</div> +</code> + +That's all there is to it, your users can now search Google without leaving your page. But that's not exactly what we want, read on to find out how we can limit the search to just your site. + +== Site Specific Search Engine == + +To restrict the results to just your domain we need to create a site restriction. To do that we're going to change this line: + +<code>searchControl.addSearcher(new GwebSearch());</code> + +To this: + +<code> +var siteSearch = new GwebSearch(); +siteSearch.setUserDefinedLabel("YourSite"); +siteSearch.setUserDefinedClassSuffix("siteSearch"); +siteSearch.setSiteRestriction("example.com"); +searchControl.addSearcher(siteSearch); +</code> + +Just fill in your site name and url and you're done. Give it a shot and you should see results limited to your domain (assuming Google has indexed it already) + +One thing to note, you can string together as many of these site search as you'd like and use the setUserDefinedClassSuffix to add a different class to each domain which makes it possible to do some fancy CSS work to, for instance, color code your results by domain. + +You can also create a search using a custom search engine if you have one defined. See the Search Docs for more details. + +== Where to go From Here == + +We've really just scratched the surface of what you can do with the AJAX Search API, so definitely read through the documentation and have a look at some of the example. Mashup potentials abound, especially using some the specialized search engines like local search or video. + +Other options include the ability to control most of the look and feel via stylesheets, the ability to search Google Books to find quotes for your blog and more. + +If even this is just too much code, you can always use the handy [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/wizards.html Ajax Search Wizards] to generate some cut and paste code that will perform basic searches. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gdata_documents_list.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gdata_documents_list.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b654b81 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gdata_documents_list.txt @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +Google Documents offers free online storage for a variety of common files -- your MS Office documents, spreadsheets, text files, and more. + +Even if you don't actually use Google Documents for editing or creating documents, it can serve as a handy backup for your desktop files. Today we'll take a look at the gData APIs that allow you to upload files from your local machine and store them in Google Documents. + + +== Installing the gData API == + +Because most of what we're going to do is shell-based, we'll be using the the Python gData library. If you're not a Python fan there are a number of other client libraries available for interacting with Google Docs including [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_php.html PHP], [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_dotnet.html .NET], [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_java.html Java] and [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_python.html Python]. + +To get started go ahead and download the [http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ Python gData Client Library]. Follow the instructions for installing the Library as well as the dependancies (in this case, ElementTree -- only necessary if you aren't running Python 2.5) + +Now, just to make sure you've got everything set up correctly, fire up a terminal window, start Python and try importing the modules we need: + +<pre> +>>> import gdata.docs +>>> import gdata.docs.service +</pre> + +Assuming those work, you're ready to start working with the API. + +== Getting Started == + +The first thing we need to get out of the way is what kinds of documents we can upload. There's a handy static member we can access to get a complete list: + +<pre> +>>> from gdata.docs.service import SUPPORTED_FILETYPES +>>> SUPPORTED_FILETYPES +</pre> + +Running that command will reveal that these are our supported upload options: + +#RTF: application/rtf +#PPT: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint +#DOC: application/msword +#HTM: text/html +#ODS: application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet +#ODT: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text +#TXT: text/plain +#PPS: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint +#HTML: text/html +#TAB: text/tab-separated-values +#SXW: application/vnd.sun.xml.writer +#TSV: text/tab-separated-values +#CSV: text/csv +#XLS: application/vnd.ms-excel + +Definitely not everything you might want to upload, but between the MS Office options and good old plain text, you should be able to backup at least the majority of your files. + +Now let's take a look at authenticating with the gData API. + +Create a new file named gdata_uploader.py and save it somewhere on your Python Path. Now open it in your favorite text editor. Paste in this code: + +<pre> +from gdata.docs import service + +def create_client(): + client = service.DocsService() + client.email = 'yourname@gmail.com' + client.password = 'password' + client.ProgrammaticLogin() + return client + +</pre> + +All we've done here is create a wrapper function for easy logins. Now, any time we want to login, we simply call <code>create_client</code>. To make you code a bit more robust you can pull out those hardcoded <code>email</code> and <code>password</code> attributes and define them elsewhere. + +== Uploading a document == + +Now we need to add a function that will actually upload a document. Just below the code we created above, paste in this function: + +<pre> +def upload_file(file_path, content_type, title=None): + import gdata + ms = gdata.MediaSource(file_path = file_path, content_type = content_type) + client = create_client() + entry = client.UploadDocument(ms,title) + print 'Link:', entry.GetAlternateLink().href +</pre> + +Now let's play with this stuff in the shell: + +>>> import gdata_upload +>>> gdata_upload.upload_file('path/to/file.txt','text/plain','Testing gData File Upload') +Link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=<random string of numbers> +>>> + +Note that our <code>upload_file</code> takes an optional parameter "title", if you import Python's date module and pass along the date as a string it's easy to make incremental backups, like: myfile-082908.txt, myfile-083008.txt and so on. + +== Where to go from here == + +To automate our backup process you could call the upload file function from a cronjob. For instance I use: + +<pre> +0 21 * * * python path/to/backup_docs.py 2>&1 +</pre> + +In this case backup_docs.py is just a three line file that imports our functions from gdata_uploader.py and then uses Python's <code>os</code> module to grab a list of files I want backed up and calls the <code>upload_file</code> function. + +While the automated script is a nice extra backup, unfortunately the gData Documents API is somewhat limited. For instance it would be nice if we could automatically move our document to a specific folder, but that currently isn't possible. + +There are some read functions available though, have a look through the [http://code.google.com/apis/documents/reference.html official docs] and if you come up with a cool way to use the API, be sure to add it to this page. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/glossary.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/glossary.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54938ab --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/glossary.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +An Application Programming Interface, better know by it's abbrieviation, API, is a simple way to interact with websites. Using an API you can extract public data from sites like del.icio.us, flickr, Digg and more to create mashups, reuse data or just about anything else you can imagine. + +APIs are also useful for extracting your own private data from a site so that you can back it up elsewhere or display it on another site. + +When talking about APIs you'll here the following terms quite a bit. + +== Common API Related Terms == + +# Web service/API -- These terms are largely interchangable and simple refer to the ways you can interact with the data on your favorite websites. + +# Method -- A method is just one aspect of an API; you might also see methods refered to a functions. For instance, if you're interacting with Flickr, you might want to get your public photos. To do so you would use the get_user_photos method. + +# Response -- the information returned by the API method that you've called. + +# REST -- short for Representational State Transfer. REST treats data as a web document that lives at a specific URL. REST APIs use standard HTTP requests such as GET, PUT, HEAD, DELETE and POST to interact with data. + +# XML-RPC -- This older API scheme formats method calls and reponses as XML documents which are sent over HTTP. + +# SOAP -- Simple Object Access Protocol. A W3C standard for passing messages across the network. SOAP is the successor to XML-RPC. It's complexity has led many to disparage SOAP and with more APIs leaning toward REST, SOAP's future is uncertain. + +# AJAX -- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Technically it has nothing to do with APIs, however many sites using APIs send their queries out using AJAX which is partially resposible for the popularity of JSON. + +# JSON -- JavaScript Object Notation. JSON's main advantage is that it is easy to convert from JSON to nearly any other programming language. JSON uses key-value pairs and arrays, something common to PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby and most other languages. The portability of JSON has made it an increasingly popular choice for sites developing APIs. + +== Popular Web APIs == + +# [http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Google Maps] +# [http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ Yahoo Maps] +# [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ Flickr] +# [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html YouTube] +# [http://del.icio.us/help/api/ del.icio.us] +# [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Ma.gnolia_API ma.gnolia] +# [http://twitter.com/help/api Twitter] +# [http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/search_api Yelp] +# [http://openid.net/ OpenID] +# [http://www.amazonws.com/ Amazon S3] +# [http://atomenabled.org/ AtomAPI] +# [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API MediaWiki API]
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gmaps.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gmaps.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..134eab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/gmaps.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +Google Maps is perhaps the biggest and most useful of all the common web APIs, but it's also one of the more complex and can be intimidating for newcomers. It's also somewhat difficult to immediately recognize all the possibilities of the Google Maps API since there are literally hundreds of ways to use it. + +To keep things simple we'll start with a vary common use: Adding a map to your site and displaying some markers. + +== Getting Started == + +The first thing you need to do is apply for a Google Maps key. Just head over to the [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html API key signup page] and login to your Google account. Once you have the key, create an html file with this basic code: + +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> + <head> + <title>My Map</title> + <script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=yourkeyhere" type="text/javascript"></script> + </head> + <body> + <h1>My Map</h1> + <div id="map-canvas"></div> + </body> +</html> + +Remember to paste your map key into the JavaScript tag and you're all set. Well, almost. WE need to add one more little thing so that Google will go ahead and initialize the map. Change the body tag to include the following handlers: + +<body onload="initialize()" onunload="GUnload()"> + +== Adding in the Map == + +We've got our script set up and it's loading, now we just need to tell the API where to draw the map. To do that we're going to write a little JavaScript. Let's get started by inserting this code into the head tags of your HTML file + +<style> +div#map-canvas { + width: 500px; + height: 300px; +} +</style> +<script type="text/javascript"> + var map = null; + + function initialize() { + if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { + // create a center for our map + point = new GLatLng(37.780764,-122.395592) + // create a new map. + map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map-canvas")); + // set the center + map.setCenter(point, 15, G_NORMAL_MAP); + + } + } +</script> + +Now load your html file in your browser and you should see a map centered on the Wired News offices. + +== Adding Markers == + +Let's add in marker so users have something to interact with. To do that we'll extend our initialize function. Add these lines just below map.setCenter bit: + + markerOptions = {clickable:true, draggable:false }; + marker = new GMarker(point, markerOptions); + map.addOverlay(marker); + marker.info_window_content = '<h2><strong>Wired News</strong></h2><p>Home of Monkeys</p>' + marker.bindInfoWindowHtml(marker.info_window_content, {maxWidth:350}); + GEvent.addListener(marker, "click", function() { + map.panTo(point, 2); + }); + + +Reload your page in the browser and you should now see a little red pin and when you click it, you should see our little info window. + +And that's all there is to it. + +== Where to go from here == + +Obviously the GMaps API is far more powerful than this simple example. By itself the Google Maps API might not be the most exciting web service, but when you start mashing it together with other data, it can turn boring address tables into map plotted, location-aware information for your visitors. + +Here's a few ideas to get you started exploring some other Google Maps options. + +# Include driving direction -- to get the handy "directions to here" links that you'll find on a normal Google map, see the [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GDirections GDirections class] +# Include map controls - There are a variety of different [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GControl GMap controls] for your users to pan and zoom. Try adding this line just above the initialize function: map.addControl(new GSmallZoomControl()); +# Batch Add Markers - The best way to add markers is to pull info from your database and loop through it when you output the HTML. Just nestle the code from the "Adding Markers" section inside a loop and make the marker names dynamic. +# Custom Markers - There's no need to stick with the default red pin, you can use any image you want, see [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GMarkerOptions the docs for more details]. +# Hide the Google logo and map image credits - Most definitely against the TOS, but if you're so inclined add this to your stylesheet: img[src="http://maps.google.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/poweredby.png"], +#map-canvas>div:first-child+div>*, +a[href="http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html"]
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/oembed.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/oembed.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f997f3e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/oembed.txt @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +Have you ever wished you could get full multimedia embed code from a simple URL? Suppose you're building a social app that allows users to post links to images, videos or songs, wouldn't it be nice if you could turn that simple link into an embedded Flickr image or YouTube video? + +Of course you can reverse engineer many of the various embed structures, but what happens when the source site of your multimedia embed changes its format or relocates the actual image? Thousands of broken links suddenly litter your site. There has to be a better way. + +That's the thinking behind OEmbed, a new proposed standard for taking a URL and generating an embed link. OEmbed is the brainchild of Pownce developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone, as well Cal Henderson of Flickr and Richard Crowley of OpenDNS. + +OEmbed isn't going to solve all your embedding needs since not every site supports it, but given that some big names -- like Flickr and Viddler -- have already signed on, we think others will soon follow suit. + +So grab your coding tools and let's dive in to see how OEmbed can make your life easier. + +== What is OEmbed == + +Put simply, OEmbed dictates a standard format where you send a URL and the host site provides the embed code. In the simplest case you would capture the URL you user has entered and then query the originating service's API to get back any additional info you need. + +Here's how it works: The user enters a URL, the service (say Pownce) then queries the source of the URL (say, Flickr). The source site then sends back all the necessary information for Pownce to embed the image automatically. + +The full OEmbed spec says that all requests sent to the API endpoint (Flickr in our example) must be HTTP GET requests, with any arguments sent as query parameters. Obviously any arguments you send through HTTP should be url-encoded (as per [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html RFC 1738] in this case). + +The following query parameters are defined as part of the spec: + +# url (required) - The URL to retrieve embedding information for. +# maxwidth (optional) - the maximum width of the embedded resource. +# maxheight (optional) - the maximum height of the embedded resource. +# format (optional) - the required response format (i.e. XML or JSON). + +The maxwidth, maxheight parameters are nice when you're embedding content into a fixed width design and you don't want to end up with embeds that turn your carefully designed site into some horrible-looking MySpace page. + +As for the response you get back from an OEmbed call, that will depend somewhat on what type of object you're interested in embedding. In general you can expect things like the type of object, the owner of the content, thumbnails and more. For full details check out the [http://OEmbed.com/ OEmbed site]. + +== Using OEmbed == + +Let's say you've built a content sharing site like FriendFeed. I join your site and want to post [http://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf/137254255/ this Flickr image of the Himalayas] using just the URL. I cut and paste the URL from my browser window to your text field and then you would query Flickr using this code: + +<pre> +http://www.flickr.com/services/OEmbed/?url=http%3A//www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf/137254255/ +</pre> + +The XML response you would get back looks like this: + +<pre> +<OEmbed> + <version>1.0</version> + <type>photo</type> + <title>Nepal-Sarangkot_12_16_05_31</title> + <author_name>luxagraf</author_name> + <author_url>http://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf/</author_url> + <cache_age>3600</cache_age> + <provider_name>Flickr</provider_name> + <provider_url>http://www.flickr.com/</provider_url> + <width>375</width> + <height>500</height> + <url>http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/137254255_008f50c357.jpg</url> +</OEmbed> +</pre> + +As you can see all you need to do is grab the <code>url</code> and plug that into a standard <code>img</code> tag and my photo will show up without me having to do any extra work at all. + +And I know what you're thinking, if I just provide a text field for the user to paste in a URL how will I know what service to query? There's two obvious ways you can handle that. One would be to provide a drop down menu that allows users to specify the source of the link. The other would be the just parse the link with some [http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Regular_Expressions_Tutorial Regular Expressions] [http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Use_Regex_in_Perl magic] and handle it transparently. + +If you have other ideas, be sure to add them. + +== Getting more complex == + +That's all well and good, but what about more complex examples like video? This is actually where OEmbed shines -- no more filling in some complex embedding template that's liable to break whenever something changes on the source site. + +This time we'll use Viddler as an example. Let's say the visitor to our sharing site wants to embed [http://www.viddler.com/explore/RickRoll/videos/2/ this video]... they copy the URL and paste it in our form text field and then we query Viddler's OEmbed URL. But this time we'll add a parameter to make sure the embedded video is 400 pixels wide. + +The query code would look like this: + +<pre> +http://lab.viddler.com/services/OEmbed/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viddler.com%2Fexplore%2FRickRoll%2Fvideos%2F2%2F&width=400&format=xml +</pre> + +Viddler will then return this XML response (or if you change the <code>format</code> parameter to JSON, you could get a JSON response): + + +<pre> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<OEmbed> + <version>1.0</version> + <type>video</type> + <width>400</width> + <height>342</height> + <title>Rick Roll Muppets Version</title> + <url>http://www.viddler.com/explore/RickRoll/videos/2/</url> + <author_name>RickRoll</author_name> + <author_url>http://www.viddler.com/explore/RickRoll/</author_url> + <provider>Viddler</provider> + <provider_url>http://www.viddler.com/</provider_url> + <html><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="342" id="viddlerplayer-4310bfba"><param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/4310bfba/" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/4310bfba/" width="400" height="342" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" name="viddlerplayer-4310bfba" ></embed></object></html> +</OEmbed> +</pre> + +As you can see, the last element of the response, the <code>html</code> node, gives us the embed code and keeps the video constrained to the dimensions we specified. It doesn't get much easier than that. + +Viddler has even put together a cool little sample app that [http://lab.viddler.com/services/OEmbed/form.php shows OEmbed in action]. + +=== Security Note === + + +When you're creating a site that's going to display HTML (as with video embeds), there's always the potential for XSS attacks from the site providing the code. At the moment all the site offering OEmbed are reputable, but that may not always be the case. To avoid opening your site up to XSS attacks, the OEmbed authors recommend displaying the HTML in an iframe, hosted from another domain. This ensures that the HTML cannot access cookies from the consumer domain. + + +== Sky's the Limit == + +OEmbed isn't just for developers either. At the moment no one has released any, but if you wrapped OEmbed as a WordPress or Movable Type Plug-in, even posting content on your own site would be considerably easier. + +If happen to be working with the Django web framework there's already a nice set of [http://code.google.com/p/django-OEmbed/ OEmbed template tags] up on Google code. The project allows you to do things like this in your Django templates: + +{% OEmbed %} +http://www.flickr.com/photos/luxagraf/ +{% endOEmbed %} + +If you know of other implementations, add them here. + +== Why We Love OEmbed == + +There's a bunch of ever-changing social web specs out there promising all sort of things, from easier logins though OAuth and OpenID to Google and Facebook's widget platforms, but where most of the promises remain unfulfilled, OEmbed is here today and it just works. + +Obviously it's missing some key sites like YouTube or Picasa, but hopefully it won't be long before OEmbed becomes a standard part of every successful web API.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/twitter.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/twitter.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86e0b4b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/twitter.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +It's the hottest web service around and if you're looking to try out an API for the first time Twitter is a good place to start. + +Like the service itself, the Twitter API is simple and easy to use. The only thing to keep in mind is that Twitter limits you to 70 requests per 60 sixty minute interval so remember to cache or otherwise store your results or you may find yourself band. + +If you end up building something that needs to make more requests you can always e-mail Twitter and ask for permission. + + + +== Getting Started == + +Twitter's API is REST-based and will return results as either XML or JSON, as well as both RSS and ATOM feed formats. + +For a very simple look at the data returned fire up a terminal window and type: + +<code> +curl http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss +</code> + +That line will give you the latest 20 tweets from the public timeline in the form of an RSS feed. To get the same results in JSON just change the extension to ".json". + +Public timelines can be accessed by any client, but all other Twitter methods require authentication. + + +=== Authenticating with Twitter === + +To authenticate yourself to Twitter you need to send a username and password. The basic format is: + +curl -u email:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml + +Most client libraries offer easy ways to pass in a username/password pair, making it very simple to authenticate with Twitter. + + +== Client Libraries == + +There's no need to re-invent the wheel and there are already some pretty good libraries out there for accessing Twitter. Whether you're looking for [http://twitter.com/help/api ActionScript], [http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/ Python], [http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/twitter4r-open-source-ruby-library-for-twitter-rest-api Ruby], [http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Scripts#PHP PHP] and [http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Scripts many more]. + +For the sake of example we'll use the Python library. Download and install the library and fire up a terminal window. + +Let's grab your last twenty tweets, fire up Python and type the following line, replacing "youusername" with your username: +<code> +>>> import twitter +>>> client = twitter.Api() +>>> latest_posts = client.GetUserTimeline(yourusername) +>>> print [s.text for s in latest_posts] +</code> +The last line prints out just the text of your posts. To get at things like date pasted and other useful methods, have a read through the [http://static.unto.net/python-twitter/0.5/doc/twitter.html Python library documentation]. + +To go the other direction, posting something to Twitter we'll need to authenticate. Recreate our Twitter client, but this time pass in your username and password: +<code> +>>> client = twitter.Api(username='yourusername', password='yourpassword') +>>> update = client.PostUpdate('The Twitter API is easy') +</code> + +Head over to your Twitter page and you should see the update. + +== Mashups, Apps and more == + +To get some idea of what you can do with the Twitter API, head over the fan wiki and check out some of the [http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps applications] and [http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Mashups mashups] that Twitterheads have created. + +One area of particular usefulness is the hashtags concept. Hashtags involve inserting a # sign to denote keywords or other data like location. Although not everyone is a fan of hashtags (they tend to make your tweets less readable) parsing Twitter streams for hashtags can yield a wealth of useful data. + +Some of the client libraries include functions to parse hashtags, but in many case you may have to write your own functions (have a look at the webmonkey primer on regular expressions, it might come in handy?)
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_data_api.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_data_api.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2be548b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_data_api.txt @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +Last time around we looked at the YouTube Player API which allows you to customize, skin and otherwise control the playback of YouTube videos. + +Now it's time to explore the YouTube Data API, which you can use to request and store info about movies you'd like to display on your site. + +There are a variety of client libraries available for the youTube Data API, including [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_php.html PHP], [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_dotnet.html .NET], [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_java.html Java] and [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_python.html Python]. + +We'll be using the latter, but the general concepts will be the same no matter which language you use. + +== Getting Started == + +Let's say you frequently post movies to YouTube and you're tired of cutting and pasting the embed code to get them to show up on your site. + +Using the YouTube Data API and some quick Python scripts, we can grab all our movies, along with some metadata and automatically add them our database. For instance, if you followed along with a Django tutorial series, this would be handy way to add YouTube to your list of data providers. + +To get started go ahead and download the [http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75582 Python YouTube Data Client Library]. Follow the instructions for installing the Library as well as the dependancies (in this case, ElementTree -- only necessary if you aren't running Python 2.5) + +Now, just to make sure you've got everything set up correctly, fire up a terminal window, start Python and try importing the modules we need: + +<pre> +>>> import gdata.youtube +>>> import gdata.youtube.service +</pre> + +Assuming those work, you're ready to start grabbing data. + +== Working with the YouTube Data API == + +The first thing we need to do is construct an instance of the YouTube Data service. Entry this code at the prompt: + +<pre> +yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService() +</pre> + +That's a generic object, with no authentication, so we can only retrieve public feeds, but for our purposes that's all we need. First let's write a function that can parse the data we'll be returning. + +Create a new text file named youtube_client.py and paste in this code: + +<pre> +import gdata.youtube +import gdata.youtube.service + +class YoutubeClient: + def __init__(self): + self.yt_service = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService() + + def print_items(self, entry): + print 'Video title: %s' % entry.media.title.text + print 'Video published on: %s ' % entry.published.text + print 'Video description: %s' % entry.media.description.text + print 'Video category: %s' % entry.media.category[0].text + print 'Video tags: %s' % entry.media.keywords.text + print 'Video flash player URL: %s' % entry.GetSwfUrl() + print 'Video duration: %s' % entry.media.duration.seconds + print '----------------------------------------' + + def get_items(self, feed): + for entry in feed.entry: + self.print_items(entry) +</pre> + +Now obviously if you want to store the data you're about to grab, you need to rewrite the <code>print_items</code> function to do something other than just print out the data. But for the sake of example (and because there are a near infinite number of ways your database could be structured) we'll just stick with a simple print function for now. + +So make sure that <code>youtube_client.py</code> is on your PythonPath and then fire up Python again and input these lines: + +<pre> +>>> from youtube_client import YoutubeClient +>>> client = YoutubeClient() +>>> client.get_items(client.yt_service.GetMostLinkedVideoFeed()) +</pre> + +The last line should produce a barrage of output as the client prints out a list of most linked videos and all the associated data. To get that list we used one of the YouTube service modules built-in methods <code>GetMostLinkedVideoFeed()</code>. + +Okay, that's all well and good if you want the most linked videos on YouTube, but what about ''our'' uploaded videos? + +To do that we're going to use another method of YouTube service module, this time the <code>GetYouTubeVideoFeed()</code> method. + +First, find the video feed url for your account, which should look something like this: + +<pre> +http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/YOURUSERNAME/uploads +</pre> + +So let's plug that into our already running client with these two lines: + +<pre> +url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/YOURUSERNAME/uploads' +client.get_items(client.yt_service.GetYouTubeVideoFeed(url)) +</pre> + +You should see a list of all your recently uploaded videos, along with all the metadata we plugged into our <code>print_items()</code> function. + +== Conclusion == + +Hopefully this has given you some insight into how the data API works. We've really just scratched the surface, there are dozens of methods available to retrieve all sorts of data -- see the [Python YouTube Data API guide] for more details. + +While we've used Python, the methods and techniques are essentially the same for all the client libraries, so you should be able to interact with YouTube via a language you're comfortable with. + +Obviously you'll need to adjust the <code>print_items()</code> function to do something better than just printing the results. If you're using Django, create a model to hold all the data and then use the model's <code>get_or_create()</code> method to plug the data in via <code>print_items()</code>. + +For full automation, write a shell script to call the methods we used above and attach the script to a cron job. + +And there you have it -- an easy way to add YouTube videos to your own personal site, with no manual labor on your end. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_player_api.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_player_api.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..737ec20 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/APIs/youtube_player_api.txt @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +While other sites may offer higher quality video, if you want traffic YouTube is the place to be. But thanks to a recent overhaul to the YouTube API, you can do more than just embed your videos on your own site. In fact you could build your own uploading system and simultaneously post videos to YouTube and your site. + +The YouTube API is has a number of different functions -- there's the Data API for grabbing info about movies, the Player API for skinning your embedded players and more. We;re going to take a look at both the Data API and Player API. + +We'll start with the Player API since it's a little bit simpler to interact with. + +YouTube recently unveiled a new improved [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/getting_started.html#player_apis Player API] that allows developers to do things like re-skin the video player or create your own custom controls. Many of the new functions can be accessed through both JavaScript and ActionScript. We'll take a look at the JavaScript controls, but the ActionScript API is very similar so you can convert this code without too much trouble. + + +== Getting Started == + +When it come to embedding Flash, YouTube recommends using SWFObject, which is a JavaScript library for embedding Flash movies. Grab a copy of [http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ SWFObject] and put it in your public web folder. Now include this line at the top of your page: + +<code> +<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/swfobject.js"></script> +</code> + +Now let's embed a movie and start playing with the new API. + +== Using SWFObject == + +If you've never encountered SWFObject you're in for a treat. SWFObject greatly simplifies the process of embedding Flash movies, taking care of various cross-browser issues and other problems. + +All you need to do is define a tag for SWFObject to replace with a Flash movie. Here's some example HTML code you can use for this tutorial: + +<pre> +<body> +<div id="ytplayer"> +<p>You will need Flash 8 or better to view this content.</p> +</div> + + +<script type="text/javascript"> + var params = { allowScriptAccess: "always" }; + swfobject.embedSWF( + "http://www.youtube.com/v/tFI7JAybF6E&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer", "ytplayer", "425", "365", "8", null, null, params); +</script> + +</body> +</pre> + +Okay, here's how it works: first of all we create a <code>div</code> container to hold our embedded movie. If the user doesn't have Flash 8 or better they'll see our plain paragraph text (note that SWFObject offers far more sophisticated ways of handling this, like auto-updating the users Flash player, see the docs for full details). + +The next step is to write the JavaScript and embed the movie. We've defined a params argument to tell Flash that it's okay to let the YouTube domain load scripts and then we call the <code>embedSWF</code> function. + +The parameters passed to <code>embedSWF</code> include the location of the .swf file, the id of the tag we want to replace, width, height, player version to require (the YouTube API requires 8 or above) two params we're not using and finally our params value. + +Now let's take a look at that URL was passed to <code>embedSWF</code>. For the most part it's an ordinary YouTube URL, but we've added to additional bits of data, we've told YouTube that we want to use the JavaScript API and we've given our player an API name. + +The API name, in this case "ytplayer" is important because if you ever embed two movies one the same page and want to control them separately each one needs to have a unique name. + +== Controlling the Player with JavaScript == + +If you load the above code in a browser you'll notice that you just rickrolled yourself. But more importantly, you'll notice that the movie file doesn't look any different than a normal embedded movie. + +Let's start adding some outside controls to our page so you can see how the Player API works. Go ahead and paste this function into your HTML, just below the SWFObject function: + +<pre> +function play() { + if (ytplayer) { + ytplayer.playVideo(); + } +} + +function pause() { + if (ytplayer) { + ytplayer.pauseVideo(); + } +} + +function stop() { + if (ytplayer) { + ytplayer.stopVideo(); + } +} + +</pre> + +Now just below the div element that we're replacing, add this HTML code: + +<pre> + <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="play();">Play</a> + <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="pause();">Pause</a> + <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="stop();">Stop</a> +</pre> + +If you reload the page you'll see that our HTML links can now control the player. + +Now you might be thinking, what's the point? After all the player already has controls. but if you're trying to make embedded movies more closely match the look and feel of your site's design, these tools make it easy to create your own controls. + +So how to get rid of YouTube 's controls? Well, to do that we'll need to use the "chromeless" player. To embed the chromeless player you'll need to sign up for an API, which you can do at [http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/dashboard/ YouTube API Dashboard]. + +To use the chromeless player, our url parameter inside the <code>embedSWF</code> function becomes something like: + +<pre> +http://gdata.youtube.com/apiplayer?dev_key=YOUR_DEV_KEY&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer +</pre> + +notice that we haven't passed an actual movie id in this case. To do that with the chromeless player we use the <code>loadNewVideo</code> function. So add this code below our other JavaScript functions: + +<pre> +function loadNewVideo(id, startSeconds) { + if (ytplayer) { + ytplayer.loadVideoById(id, startSeconds); + } +} + +</pre> + +There are a number of ways we can call this function -- through a drop down list of options, a text input box, etc -- but for simplicity let's just add another link button: + +<pre> +<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="loadNewVideo('tFI7JAybF6E', 0);">load</a> +</pre> + +And there you have it custom, chromeless movie player that you can control with JavaScript. + +== Conclusion == + +Now you know how to control YouTube movie players and hopefully feel comfortable customizing them to fit your own site. If JavaScript isn't you bag, there's also a very similar (in function) ActionScript API that you can use to build your own controls and load chromeless players. + +Now you may be wondering, how can I get some YouTube movie data to display on my site? For instance maybe you'd like to grab all the movies you've marked as favorites and display them on your blog? Or maybe you want to grab your own movies for display elsewhere. + +Well, read on to our next installment when we'll tackle the other half of the YouTube API -- The Data API.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Flash/Fancy Flash Fonts.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Flash/Fancy Flash Fonts.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3d231f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Flash/Fancy Flash Fonts.txt @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +Now let's imagine for a moment that you are a purist. You love strict XHTML as only a mother can. Let's suppose you're as rabid about your little baby's standards as Diane Ladd in "[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/ Wild at Heart]." How could we convince you that there is a practical application for Flash files, even in your twisted, lipstick-smeared world? + +Well, we would criticize your typography of course. We already know your code is impeccable, but wow. Those headlines are still in Georgia huh? Kind of primitive, don't you think? + +As web designers, we have reliable access to maybe six fonts that all users will have. This was one of the limitations of HTML that first drew me to Flash. Now, you may not be as obsessed with typography as some of us (if you know that Mrs Eaves is not Mr. Eaves wife, then you might be obsessed with typography), but wouldn't you like to use something other than Arial sometimes? + +Well, I can't really help with the body text. But headlines, oh headlines, do I have a revolution for you. It's called sIFR. + +First, a brief history. SIFR is not exactly a new idea, rather an improvement on an old one. Web designers have always disliked the limited selection of fonts available. The problem is that in order for a browser to render a font, that font must reside on the user's hard drive. How many universally available fonts are there? Well conservatively, probably about six: Verdana, Times, Arial, Helvetica, Courier, and Geneva. Trebuchet, Tahoma and Lucida are also widespread, but less so than the Big Six. If you're using stylesheets, you know that the only options for total compatibility are simple sans or serif declarations. You declare a sans-serif font for a block of text and it's the browser's decision as to which sans-serif font it uses to display the given text. + +From a designer's standpoint, this situation is undesirable to say the least. So, way back when, some folks thought, "Hey, we could replace a headline with a graphic that has the same text, but as an image. That way we can exercise control over the typeface being used. We can use any typeface because it's an image." + +While a solution, this is still less than ideal. For one thing, it means that every single headline must be generated by hand using some sort of image application. Even if you automate the creation process with scripts, this is impractical for all but the simplest of sites. Today's database driven, content-assembled-on-the-fly website engineer cannot afford to create a separate image for every single headline. + +There is another problem. Actually there are several others, but the biggest one is that this technique effectively ruins the site for the visually impaired. Instead of tags that look like this: + +<code><h1>This is my great headline</h1> </code> + +You need something like this: + +<code><img scr="mygreatheadline.jpg" alt="This is my great headline"></code> + +A screen reader is going to read that whole second line aloud, and the person using it is going to be annoyed because you were too caught up in the appearance of the text to remember that lots of people don't care about the appearance. + +So, allow me to introduce scalable Inman Flash Replacement. Yes, sIFR stands for scalable Inman Flash Replacement. The technique takes its name from the man who invented it, [http://www.shauninman.com/ Shaun Inman]. The scalable part was added by [http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/ Mike Davidson], who improved on the original and maintains the current code. The technique is essentially the same as image replacement, but relies on JavaScript and Flash to dynamically replace XHTML text with Flash text. + +Why is this better? Many reasons. Foremost, sIFR allows us to code our pages as we normally would. We can create a stylesheet and set the size and other parameters of a headline. With sIFR on the page, something amazing is going to happen. When the browser requests the page, a JavaScript class parses the page for a given variable and replaces it. In our example, we'll say that the element we want the replace is an <code><h1></code> tag, but it could be anything. Wherever the JavaScript finds that <code><h1></code> tag, it sets the text contained within the tag to "hidden" and then embeds a Flash movie matching the element's original size. The script then feeds the Flash movie the hidden text. Finally, like magic, the Flash movie displays the text it gets from the JavaScript. + +There are no restrictions for which fonts we can and can't use within a Flash movie, so we can design our headlines however we'd like. + +If the user doesn't have Flash, doesn't have JavaScript enabled, doesn't have either, or is using some assistive device, the original text is still there just as it would have been had we done nothing at all. + +====How and when to use sIFR==== + +Mike Davidson, who maintains the code for sIFR, has [http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr excellent instructions] on the sIFR wiki that explain to use the code. For the sake of clarity, I'll walk through a quick example here. + +To get started, [http://novemberborn.net/sifr/2.0.5 download the .zip file] containing the script. The package also includes the Flash movie template. Open the Flash template and double click on the movieclip that occupies the main stage. This will take you to the actual text box. Just change the font for the text box to whatever font you want to use and publish the movie. Upload the resulting .swf file to your site. + +You can also try the <a href="http://digitalretrograde.com/Projects/sifrFontEmbedder/">sIFR Font Embedder</a> for Windows or <a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/opensifr-tool-to-generate-font-files">OpensIFR</a> for Mac OS X (also works in Windows), which are applications that can create the font files without requiring you to own Adobe Flash. + +Now we need to add sIFR to our XHTML and CSS files to make it work. The first thing to do is include the JavaScript using the <code><head></code> tags of XHTML. + +<pre><script src="sifr.js" type="text/javascript"></script></pre> + +Next, open the JavaScript file sifr.js. Near the very bottom of the file, you'll see a function call that looks like this: + + <pre> + + sIFR.setup(); + + </pre> + +Just below that line, we're going to add another function call. The syntax is explained in the readme file that accompanied your download. The code I use on my site looks something like this: + + <pre> + + sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:"h1", sFlashSrc:"http://www.mysite.com/path/to/sifr.swf", sColor:"#FEDB18", sBgColor:"#6f5f45"})); + + </pre> + +This calls the JavaScript function <code>replaceElement</code>. The sSelector parameter tells the function which tag to replace. The sFlashSrc parameter tells the function where to find the Flash movie. The sColor parameter controls the color of the font and sBgColor controls the background color of the Flash Movie. + +In the example above, all the <code><h1></code> elements will be replaced. We could get more specific. In fact, you can be as specific or generic as you like with the sSelector parameter. Let's say for example that we only want to replace <code><h1></code> tags that occur in a <code><div></code> named body. We would just change our code to read: + + <pre> + + sIFR.replaceElement(named({sSelector:"#body h1", sFlashSrc:"http://www.mysite.com/path/to/sifr.swf", sColor:"#FEDB18", sBgColor:"#6f5f45"})); + + </pre> + +There are additional parameters that you can pass to the function to control things like hover states for links, transforming text to uppercase, and more. For a complete list of parameters, see the [http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/How+to+use sIFR documentation]. + +====Putting sIFR on the page==== + +The next step is to include the sIFR classes in our CSS file. Open your CSS file in a text editor and add this code: + + <pre> + + .sIFR-hasFlash h1 + + { + + visibility: hidden; + + } + + .sIFR-flash { visibility: visible !important; } + + .sIFR-replaced { visibility: visible !important; } + + span.sIFR-alternate + + { + + position: absolute; + + left: 0; + + top: 0; + + width: 0; + + height: 0; + + display: block; + + overflow: hidden; + + letter-spacing: 0; + + } + + </pre> + +This chunk of CSS does a couple of things. First, it creates a hidden selector class for the element we are going to replace. Then, the rest of the declarations handle the display of the replacement movie. + +The primary thing were going to do with this code is use the class <code>.sIFR-hasFlash h1</code> to control the size of our replacement text. The creators of sIFR refer to this as "tuning" your fonts. + +This tuning process can be a little tricky, and is essentially a process of trial and error. The goal is to make the original text the same dimensions as the replacement text. To do so, we can add declarations like <code>line-height</code>, <code>font-size</code>, <code>font-weight</code> and <code>margin</code> or <code>padding</code> to the <code>.sIFR-hasFlash h1</code> declaration. Unfortunately, there is no general solution I can give you. Some situations require more tuning than others. + +If you open up the sifr.js file again and look near the bottom, just above where we inserted our function all earlier. You should see a function that reads: + + <pre> + + sIFR.setup(); + + </pre> + +Comment out that line and add this one just below so you have: + + <pre> + + //sIFR.setup(); + + sIFR.debug(); + + </pre> + +This will allow you to see your tuning in real-time. When you're done, just uncomment the <code>.setup()</code> line and comment out the <code>debug()</code> line. + +The only other thing you'll want to do is change your print-css stylesheet to make sure your replacements don't happen when the user prints the page. If you're having problems refer to [http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/show/HomePage the sIFR wiki] for troubleshooting and more detailed instructions. + +There might be a temptation, given this newfound control over fonts, to go a bit crazy and use it everywhere. Resist that temptation. sIFR wasn't designed to replace everything on the page. Your body text is still going to be limited to the big six. sIFR is best used for headlines, and maybe subheadlines if you don't have too many. + +One thing you may notice is a slight lag time before your headlines are displayed. On my MacBook, this little pause is about one second. If this bothers you, you can set sIFR to show the normal font before it replaces it with Flash. + +I should note that you do not have to put the function call in the sifr.js file. In fact, sometimes you may not want to. You can also write it into the XHTML pages as well. Just remember to put it at the bottom so it doesn't slow down your page load times. + +If you ever get stuck using sIFR, refer to the documentation or the wiki. And of course, nothing beats trial and error. + +==sIFR in the Wild== + + +sIFR is all over the place these days, from ABCNews.com to the official Red Hat site. You can look at [http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/Examples the official example page]. It's not always easy to tell when sIFR is being employed, and that's kind of the point. If you don't notice the behind the scenes stuff, then you are witnessing a truly seemless integration of XHTML and Flash. + +Adhering to web standards is no longer an excuse to avoid Flash. At the same time, don't use these techniques to justify doing a whole site in Flash. Flash has its place. It does some things very well and other things are best left to XHTML. + +Choose wisely, grasshopper.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-firstapp.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-firstapp.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d01b52 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-firstapp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,381 @@ +Assuming you've had a read through our [Django Overview], you're probably ready to dive into some code. But before we start installing we need to grab a copy of Django and set it up. + +As we mentioned in the overview, Django doesn't have a 1.0 release yet. The latest official release was .96, but that version lacks many of the features we're going to use in this project. + +In order to use the latest and greatest Django tools (like model inheritance) we're going to checkout a copy of the trunk build using Subversion. + +If you don't have [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] installed, go grab a copy. + +Then fire up your terminal and paste in this line: + +<pre> +svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django-trunk +</pre> + +Once that finishes downloading all the files, we need to make sure Python is aware of Django. There's a couple ways to go about that, but a symbolic link to your Python site packages directory is probably the easiest. + +Assuming you're on a *nix system, this line will do the trick + +<pre> +ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django /path/to/python_site_packages/django +</pre> + +If you don't know where your Python site directory is, here's a handy bit of Python that will tell you: + +<pre> +python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()" +</pre> + +If you're on Windows the easiest thing to do is add Django to your PythonPath environment variable. On Windows you can define environment variables in the Control Panel, see Microsoft's [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491071.aspx Command Line Reference] for more details. + +The excellent Django [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ installation docs] suggest creating a symbolic link to the file django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py in a directory on your system path, such as /usr/local/bin. I find that I don't use django-admin.py all that often, but you can create the link if you like, just paste this code in your shell: + +<pre> +ln -s `pwd`/path/to/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin +</pre> + +So we've got Django installed and Python knows where it lives, let's get started. + +Remember that we have a Subversion checkout so if you ever want to update to the latest release, just head to the django-trunk folder and run <code>svn update</code>. + +== Set up our First Project == + +Okay, let's get started. From the command line switch to your web development directory, something like this: + +<pre> +cd ~/sites/dev +</pre> + +Now we're going to run the <code>django-admin</code> tool we mentioned earlier. If you created the symlink, you don't need the full path, but if you didn't here's the code: + +<pre> +python /path/to/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject djangoblog +</pre> + +Yes, we're going to build a blog. + +Now cd over to the new folder: + +<pre> +cd ~/sites/dev/djangoblog +</pre> + +This is going to be our project folder into which we will add various apps, some we'll create and some we'll be downloading from Google code projects. I like to keep my Python import statements clean and free of project specific module names, so I always make sure my root project folder (in this case djangoblog) is on my python path. To do that just add the path to your PythonPath variable. + +That way we can write statements like: + +<pre> +import myapp +</pre> + +rather than + +<pre> +import myproject.myapp +</pre> + +It's not a huge thing, but it does make your code more portable. + +Okay, we're getting there. The next step is to fill out our project settings file. Fire up your favorite text editor and open up the settings.py file inside the djangoblog directory. + +The core of what we need to set up is at the top of the file. Look for these lines: + +<pre> +DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'. +DATABASE_NAME = '/path/to/djangoblog' # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. +DATABASE_USER = '' # Not used with sqlite3. +DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' # Not used with sqlite3. +DATABASE_HOST = '' # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3. +DATABASE_PORT = '' # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. +</pre> + +Note that we're using SQLite as a database for development purposes. Assuming you have Python 2.5 installed you don't need to do anything to use SQLite. If you're on either Python 2.3 or Python 2.4, you'll need [http://oss.itsystementwicklung.de/trac/pysqlite/ pysqlite] -- make sure you install version 2.0.3 or higher. If you have MySQL or PostgreSQL already installed, feel free to use them. + +The other settings are well documented in the settings.py file and most of them can be ignored for now. But there is one other thing we need to do. If you look at the bottom of the settings.py file you'll notice this bit of code: + + +<pre> +INSTALLED_APPS = ( + 'django.contrib.auth', + 'django.contrib.contenttypes', + 'django.contrib.sessions', + 'django.contrib.sites', +) +</pre> + +This where we tell our django project, which apps we want to install. In a minute we'll add our blog app, but for now let's just add Django's built-in admin section. Paste in this line, just below the sites app: + +<pre> +'django.contrib.admin', +</pre> + +Before we finish with settings.py, here's a handy trick for the template directories. I generally keep all my templates in a folder named templates within my project folder (in this case djangoblog). But I generally move between development and live servers quite a bit and I hate having to change the path to the templates folder. This trick takes care of that: + +<pre> +import os.path +TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( + os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates'), +) +</pre> + +Instead of hard coding the path to our templates folder this is dynamic -- and it showcases how easy it is to tweak django using Python. We just import the <code>os.path</code> Python module and then find the path to the directory where settings.py is and then appends 'templates' to that path. + +Now when we push the site live, there's no need to change the settings.py file. (Actually you'd probably want to change to a more robust database, but we'll get to that much later). + +So now let's use one of the tools included in manage.py, the <code>syncdb</code> tool. Paste this line in your terminal: + +<pre> +python manage.py syncdb +</pre> + +The <code>syncdb</code> tool tells Django to translate all our installed apps' models.py files into actual database table. In this case they only thing we have installed are some of the built-in Django tools, but fear not, we'll get to writing our own models in just a minute. + +Once you enter the line above, you'll get some feedback from Django telling you you've just installed the auth system and walking you through setting up a user. The output looks like this: + +<pre> +sng: /djangoblog/ $ python manage.py syncdb +Creating table auth_message +Creating table auth_group +Creating table auth_user +Creating table auth_permission +Creating table django_content_type +Creating table django_session +Creating table django_site + +You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined. +Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): no +Installing index for auth.Message model +Installing index for auth.Permission model +sng: /djangoblog/ $ python manage.py syncdb +Creating table auth_message +Creating table auth_group +Creating table auth_user +Creating table auth_permission +Creating table django_content_type +Creating table django_session +Creating table django_site +Creating table django_admin_log + +You just installed Django's auth system, which means you don't have any superusers defined. +Would you like to create one now? (yes/no): yes +Username (Leave blank to use 'luxagraf'): +E-mail address: none@none.com +Password: +Password (again): +Superuser created successfully. +Installing index for auth.Message model +Installing index for auth.Permission model +Installing index for admin.LogEntry model +sng: /djangoblog/ $ +</pre> + +Once you've created your username and password, it's time to fire up Django's built-in server: + +<pre> +/djangoblog/ $ python manage.py runserver +Validating models... +0 errors found + +Django version 0.97-pre-SVN-6920, using settings 'djangoblog.settings' +Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ +Quit the server with CONTROL-C. +</pre> + +Now open up your browser and head to [http://127.0.0.1:8000/ http://127.0.0.1:8000/]. You should see a page like this: + +[djangocreen1.jpg] + +It works! But that isn't very exciting, let's check out the admin. However, before we do that, we need to tell django about the admin url. Fire up your text editor and open the file urls.py in your djangoblog folder. You should see some code like this: + +<pre> +urlpatterns = patterns('', + # Example: + # (r'^djangoblog/', include('djangoblog.foo.urls')), + + # Uncomment this for admin: +# (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), +) + +</pre> + +Go ahead and uncomment the admin url line (just delete the hash mark at the beginning of the line) and now head to [http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/]. Login with the user/pass combo you created earlier and you should see something like this: + +[djangocreen2.jpg] + +Now that's pretty cool. If you've ever labored over creating an admin system in Ruby on Rails or, god forbid, PHP, you're going to love Django's built-in admin. + +But at the moment there isn't much to see in the Admin, so let's get started building our blog. + +Now we could just throw in some code that creates a date field, title, entry and other basics, but that wouldn't be a very complete blog would it? What about tags? An RSS feed? A sitemap? Maybe some [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ Markdown] support for easier publishing? + +Yeah, let's add all that. But remember Django's DRY principles -- sure someone else has already created a Feed app? A Sitemap app? + +As a matter of fact Django ships with those built-in. + +Nice. But what about tags? Well there's one of those available as well -- the cleverly named [http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/ django-tagging]. Grab the source from Google code and drop it in your djangoblog folder. There's also a handy [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153041 Python implementation of Markdown], so grab that as well (of course Markdown is entirely optional, feel free to skip it). + +Got all that stuff stashed in your djangoblog folder? Good. + +Now let's go ahead and create our first Django application. + +To do that we'll use Django's app creating script, which lives inside manage.py in our project folder. Paste this line into your shell: + +<pre> +python manage.py createapp blog +</pre> + +If you look inside djangoblog you should now see a new "blog" folder. Open that up and find the models.py file. Open models.py in your favorite text editor and paste in this code: + +<pre> +from django.db import models +from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed +from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap + +import markdown +from tagging.fields import TagField +from tagging.models import Tag + +# Create your models here. + +class Entry(models.Model): + title = models.CharField(max_length=200) + slug = models.SlugField( + unique_for_date='pub_date', + prepopulate_from=('title',), + help_text='Automatically built from the title.' + ) + body_html = models.TextField(blank=True) + body_markdown = models.TextField() + pub_date = models.DateTimeField('Date published') + tags = TagField() + enable_comments = models.BooleanField(default=True) + PUB_STATUS = ( + (0, 'Draft'), + (1, 'Published'), + ) + status = models.IntegerField(choices=PUB_STATUS, default=0) + +</pre> + + +Let's step through the code line by line and we'll talk about what's going on. First we import the basic stuff from django, including the model class, the Feed class and the Sitemap class. + +Then we import the tagging and markdown files we just saved in our project folder. + +Once we have all the modules we're going to use, we can create our blog model. I elected to call it Entry, you can change that name if you like, but remember to substitute your name everywhere I refer to Entry. + +Entry extends Django's built-in model.Model class, which handles all the basic create read update and delete (CRUD) tasks. In other words all we have to do is tell Django about the various elements of the database table (like the title field, the entry slug, etc) and all the hard work is handled behind the scenes. + +The first bit of our Entry class definition just defines all our various blog entry components. Django will use this information to create our database tables and structure, and also to generate the Admin interface. + +Note that we're using Django's various model fields. Most of it should self explanatory, but if you want to learn more about each type check out the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model-api/ Django documentation]. Also be aware that there are quite a few more field types available. + +One thing worth mentioning is the <code>body_html = models.TextField(blank=True)</code> line. What's up with that <code>blank=True</code> bit? Well that information is part of Django's built-in Admin error checking. + +Unless you tell it otherwise all fields in your model will create NOT NULL columns in your database. To allow for null columns, we would just add <code>null=True</code>. But adding <code>null=True</code> only affects the database, Django's admin would still complain that it needs the information. To get around that we simple add the <code>blank=True</code>. + +In this case what we're going to do is fill in the <code>body_html</code> field programatically, after we hit save in the admin and before Django actually writes to the database. So we need the Admin section to allow <code>body_html</code> to be blank, but not null. + +== Check Your Head == + +Now we need to tell Django about our new apps. Open up settings.py again and add these lines to your list of installed apps: + +<pre> +INSTALLED_APPS = ( + 'django.contrib.auth', + 'django.contrib.contenttypes', + 'django.contrib.sessions', + 'django.contrib.sites', + 'django.contrib.admin', + 'djangoblog.tagging', + 'djangoblog.blog', +) +</pre> + + +Okay, head over to the terminal and run <code>manage.py syncdb</code>. Refresh your admin section and you should see the tagging application we downloaded. Very cool. + +But where's our blog model? Well, even though Django knows about our blog app, we haven't told the app what to do in the Admin section. + +So head back over to your text editor and add these lines to bottom of the model definition: + +<pre> +class Entry(models.Model): + """ + ...earlier stuff omitted... + """ + + class Meta: + ordering = ('-pub_date',) + get_latest_by = 'pub_date' + verbose_name_plural = 'entries' + + class Admin: + list_display = ('title', 'pub_date','enable_comments', 'status',) + search_fields = ['title', 'body_markdown'] + list_filter = ('pub_date', 'enable_comments', 'status') + fields = ( + (None, { + 'fields': (('title', 'status'), 'body_markdown', ('pub_date', 'enable_comments'), 'tags', 'slug') + }), + ) + + + def __unicode__(self): + return u'%s' %(self.title) + + def get_absolute_url(self): + return "/%s/%s/" %(self.pub_date.strftime("%Y/%b/%d").lower(), self.slug) + + def save(self): + self.body_html = markdown.markdown(self.body_markdown, safe_mode = False) + super(Entry, self).save() + +</pre> + +Okay, what does all that do? Well let's start with the Meta class. Meta handles things like how Django should order our entries and what the name of the class would be. By default Django would refer to our class as 'Entrys', and that offends my grammatical senses so we just explicitly tell Django the plural name. + +The next class, 'Admin,' as you might suspect, controls how the admin interface looks. Now these customizations are entirely optional. You could simple write <code>pass</code> and go with the default admin layout. However I've customized a few things and added some filters to the admin list view so we can sort and filter our entries. + +Then we have a few function definitions. All Python objects should return their name. Django recently added unicode support so we'll return our name in unicode. Then there's <code>get_absolute_url</code>. As you might imagine this refers to the entry's permalink page. + +When we get to creating templates we'll use this to put in our permalinks. That way if you ever decide to change your permalinks you only have to change one line and your entire site will update accordingly -- very slick. + +The last function simply overrides Django's save function. Every Django model has a save function and since we didn't expose the bogy_html field we need to fill it in. So we grab the text from our <code>body_markdown</code> field (which is exposed in the admin), run it through the markdown filter and store it in <code>body_html</code>. + +That way we can just call this field in our templates and we'll get nicely formatted html and yet still keep the process transparent -- write in markdown, display html. + +Now we're going to add a few more line to our models.py file and then we're done: + +<pre> + def get_previous_published(self): + return self.get_previous_by_pub_date(status__exact=1) + + def get_next_published(self): + return self.get_next_by_pub_date(status__exact=1) + + def get_tags(self): + return Tag.objects.get_for_object(self) + +</pre> + +So what's going on here? Django includes a bunch of built-in methods for common tasks, like displaying next and previous links. The function is called <code>get_previous_by_</code> with the last bit of the function being the name of your datetime field, in our case <code>pub_date</code>. However, we included the ability to save drafts in our model, unfortunately Django's built-in function doesn't know about our drafts and will include them in our next/previous links which isn't what we want. + +So what to do? How about just wrapping the Django function with a one-liner? That's what we've done here. + +<pre> + def get_previous_published(self): + return self.get_previous_by_pub_date(status__exact=1) +</pre> + +All we do is wrap the django function with a new name <code>get_next_published</code>, call the original <code>get_previous_by_</code> function, but add a filter so that only published entries are included in the results. + +The last function is just a time saver. There's a good chance you'll want to list all the tags you've added to your entry, so I've included a convenience method that does just that. + +Whew. That's a lot of code to sort through and we've glassed over a few things, but when you look at the models.py file and consider that from these 49 lines of code Django is going to create an entire blog website, it doesn't seem like so much code at all does it. + +So save the file and head back over to your browser. Refresh the admin page and click "add new." Feel free to create a few entries -- blog monkey blog! + +So now we've got our back-end blogging system set up and everything in in place to create a public site. Feel free to take a well deserved break. When you're ready, head over to the next section and we'll [build the public facing side of our blog]. + + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-migrate.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-migrate.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cfe49f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-migrate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +If you started following our Django tutorials back when they first started you may be wondering about the recent news that the [http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsAdminBranch NewForms Admin branch] of Django was recently merged to trunk. + +What does that mean? Well it means that, if you update your svn checkout of Django, it's going to break all the code we wrote earlier. But don't worry, the changes aren't too radical and adjusting our code takes only a few minutes. + +The goal of the NewForms Admin branch was two-fold. First the developers wanted to make sure that the admin app (which is a standalone app that ships with Django) used the latest Django froms code (hence the NewForms bit of the name). The other goal was to decouple the admin and make it much easier to customize. + +We're not going to dive into customizations today (see the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/admin/ updated Django docs] if you're itching to know more details), but let's take a look at what we need to do to port our code over to the latest version of Django. + +But first make sure you have the latest version of Django: fire up your terminal and cd over to your Django folder. Then run <code>svn up</code> and Django will update itself. + +== Decoupling == + +The first thing we need to do is create a new file in our blog app folder named admin.py. As part of the decoupling, a model's admin definitions now live in seperate file, which makes sense since the old Admin class really had nothing to do with the model. + +So open up the admin.py file and we'll re-write our admin class definition. Our old code, where the <code>Admin</code> class lived in model.py looked something like this (I've left out a few things for clarity): + +<pre> +class Entry(models.Model): + """ + ...all the field definitions omitted... + """ + + class Meta: + ordering = ('-pub_date',) + get_latest_by = 'pub_date' + verbose_name_plural = 'entries' + + class Admin: + list_display = ('title', 'pub_date','enable_comments', 'status',) + search_fields = ['title', 'body_markdown'] + list_filter = ('pub_date', 'enable_comments', 'status') + fields = ( + (None, { + 'fields': (('title', 'status'), 'body_markdown', ('pub_date', 'enable_comments'), 'tags', 'slug') + }), + ) +</pre> + +Now the <code>Meta</code> class remains part of the models.py file, since it controls model-related behavior. But the <code>Admin</code> class really doesn't relate directly to the model, so open up blog/models.py and we're going to cut all that data out, so our models.py file now looks like: + +<pre> +class Entry(models.Model): + title = models.CharField(max_length=200) + slug = models.SlugField( + unique_for_date='pub_date', + help_text='Automatically built from the title.' + ) + body_html = models.TextField(blank=True) + body_markdown = models.TextField() #note, if you're using Markdown, include this field, otherwise just go with body_html + pub_date = models.DateTimeField('Date published') + tags = TagField() + enable_comments = models.BooleanField(default=True) + PUB_STATUS = ( + (0, 'Draft'), + (1, 'Published'), + ) + status = models.IntegerField(choices=PUB_STATUS, default=0) + + class Meta: + ordering = ('-pub_date',) + get_latest_by = 'pub_date' + verbose_name_plural = 'entries' + + def __unicode__(self): + return u'%s' %(self.title) + + def get_absolute_url(self): + return "/%s/%s/" %(self.pub_date.strftime("%Y/%b/%d").lower(), self.slug) + + def save(self): + self.body_html = markdown.markdown(self.body_markdown, safe_mode = False) + super(Entry, self).save() + +</pre> + +Note that we also deleted the prepopulate_from field in the slug definition. That's another thing that's moved over to the new admin.py file. + +Okay, now we need to define our <code>Admin</code> class according to the new conventions. Jump back to the new admin.py and paste in this code: + +<pre> +from django.contrib import admin + +from djangoblog.blog import Entry + +class EntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): + list_display = ('title', 'pub_date','enable_comments', 'status') + search_fields = ['title', 'body_markdown'] + list_filter = ('pub_date', 'enable_comments', 'status') + prepopulated_fields = {"slug" : ('title',)} + fields = ( + (None, {'fields': (('title', 'status'), 'body_markdown', ('pub_date', 'enable_comments'), 'tags', 'slug')}), + ) + +admin.site.register(Entry, EntryAdmin) +</pre> + +So what's different? Well, first off we import the admin module and new extend the ModelAdmin class with our own <code>EntryAdmin</code> class. Then we brought over the same definitions we use above to control <code>list_display</code>, <code>search_fields</code> and <code>list_filter</code>. Then we use one brand new bit of syntax. Remember in our original model we used <code>prepopulate_from</code> to automatically fill our slug field with whatever is typed in our title field? + +Well the new name is <code>prepopulated_fields</code> and instead of a string, it's now a dictionary. The key is the field to fill and the value is where to pull from. Obviously, since it's a dictionary you could add several fields if need be. + +The fields customizations remain the same in our case, though there is a new fieldsets option if you want to have several, uh, sets of fields. + +The last line of our code just registers our new Admin class and lets Django know that whenever it's displaying info about our Entry model it should follow the rules we set up in EntryAdmin. + +See that wasn't so bad. + +== New URL structures == + +As I said earlier one of the main goals with NewForms Admin ws to make the Django admin more flexible. Part of the way that's achieved is through the urls.py file. So open up our project level urls.py file and you should see something like this: + +<pre> +urlpatterns = patterns('', + # Example: + # (r'^djangoblog/', include('djangoblog.foo.urls')), + (r'^admin/(.*)', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), +) + +</pre> + +We're going to change that to this: + +<pre> +from django.conf.urls.defaults import * +from django.contrib import admin + +admin.autodiscover() + + +urlpatterns = patterns('', + (r'^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root), + ... the rest stays the same... +) + +</pre> + +Notice that we're no longer simply handing off all the admin urls to an mysterious include statement. That means we could concievably create all sort of urls and pass them to our own custom views. In fact you could have several different admin sites if you so desired. + +== Updating Tagging == + +The last step in our transition to NewForms Admin is to update our django-tagging application. As of this writing, django-tagging hasn't caught up to the newforms admin update yet, so we're actually going to need to checkout the Newforms Admin branch of the django-tagging codebase. + +To do that we'll grab the files using Subversion. Paste this code into your terminal window: + +<pre> +svn checkout http://django-tagging.googlecode.com/svn/branches/newforms-admin django-tagging +</pre> + +Now cd into the new django-tagging folder and type: + +<pre> +python setup.py install +</pre> + +After that just delete the old version (if you're good with Subversion, there are other ways to do this). + +== Other Changes == + +There are quite a few other changes to the admin section, and if you have a lot of old code to port definitely head over and [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/admin/ check out the new documentation]. Also highly recommended is [http://oebfare.com/blog/2008/jul/20/newforms-admin-migration-and-screencast/ Brian Rosner's very informative screencast] which covers inlines and some other more complicated things our project isn't using.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-overview.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-overview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7856231 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-overview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Django is web framework written in Python and design to help you build complex web applications simply and quickly. If you're familiar with Ruby on Rails, think of Django as Rails for Python. It might not be technically correct, but it captures the basic idea. + +Django was designed from the ground up to handle two common web developer challenges: intensive deadlines and strict adherance to the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself DRY principle]. + +The results are framework that's fast, nibble and capable of generating full site mockups in no time at all. Django's slogan captures it's essence quite nicely: The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. + +Bu quick doesn't mean sloppy, Django comes with a very slick built-in Admin section for administering sites, support for a variety of cacheing options, including memcached, and a host of other stable, scalable tools. + +But perhaps the best part about Django is its outstanding documentation. Unlike many open source projects, Django has [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/ very thorough and readable docs available online]. If you have any problems with our tutorials head over to the Django site for additional reading. Also consider joining the [http://groups.google.com/group/django-users django-users Google Group] which is full of helpful folks who can point you in the right direction. + +== Why Isn't Django a 1.0 Release? == + +As of this writing Django has not yet released an official 1.0 version. The tenative schedule calls for Django 1.0 to arrive in September 2008, though that is subject to change. However both Django .95 and .96 are stable -- if not feature-complete -- releases. + +That said, the best way to use Django is working off the current trunk by doing a Subversion checkout. This will give you access to the latest and greatest tools and improvements and, unlike many projects, the Django trunk is remarkably stable. + +I've been using Django for two years on a number of production sites all built using Django trunk checkouts and have yet to encounter a bug or other issue. + +Of course the fact that Django doesn't have a 1.0 release will make some developers nervous and the Django team is aware of that. Django is close to 1.0 and work is progressing everyday toward that release, but remember all that stuff about perfectionists? It isn't just a slogan. + +The Django devs are probably tired of explaining themselves by now, but on the bright side you can rest assured that when 1.0 does arrive it's going to be rock solid. +== Background == + +Before we dive in it's worth pausing for a moment to understand where Django comes from, which has influenced both what it is and what it is not. + +Django was developed over a two year period by programmers working for an online-news operation (World Online in Lawrence Kansas). Eventually the team realized that they had a real framework on their hands and released the code to the public under an open source BSD license. + +Once it became a community project the development took off and Django began to pop up all over the web. For a complete list of Django sites check out [http://www.djangosites.org/ Django Sites], but notable examples include [http://pownce.com/ Pownce, [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ The Washington Post] and [http://everyblock.net/ Everyblock]. + +Perhaps the most common misconception is that Django is a content management system. It's not. It's a [http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Get_Started_with_Web_Frameworks framework] and it can be used to build a CMS, but it isn't like Drupal or other CMS systems. + +Django is designed to work in slightly modified Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The original Django developers refer to Django as an "MTV" framework — that is, "model", "template", and "view." + +The central difference is that in Django's version of MVC development the view refers to the data that gets presented to user -- not ''how'' it looks, but ''which data''. In other words, to quote the Django documentation, "the view describes which data you see, not how you see it." + +It's a subtle, but important difference and it explains the additional element -- templates -- which handle how the data looks. + + +== Overview == + +Django was designed to make web development fast and easy, dare I even say fun. And when I say fast I mean it, once you're comfortable with Django it's not hard to go from simple wireframe to working demo site in an hour or so. + +For development purposes Django is entirely self-contained. It includes a command line interface, a web server and everything you need to get up and running without installing anything other than Django. + +That said, the web server included with Django is not intended to be used in a production environment. For that the prefered method is to run Django through mod_python or mod_wsgi. Don't worry we'll get to that in a minute, but first let's look at how you might go about building a Django application. + +As it turns out, building a Django app actually takes much less time than explaining how to build it. + +Before we dive in though, it's worth asking, what do you mean by Django app? Django's official documentation and many of its built-in tools are set up to create projects (think of this a container for your whole site) and then within projects you have many apps (section of your site). + +Note that apps don't need to be in projects though and in many cases it's better not to put them there. + +For the sake of example here's a very high-level overview of building a Django app: + +# Create a project using the built in command line tool (<code>python django-admin.py startproject projectname</code>). This will generate a new folder containing the project's base settings file which you can use to specify database connections, template locations and more, urls.py which defines your base urls, manage.py which contains a standard set of command line tools. +# The next step is to create an app using the built in command line tool <code>python manage.py startapp appname</code>. + +Once the app folder is in place, it you look inside you'll see three files: models.py, urls.py and views.py. These are the files you'll use to actually build the app: + +# design your model (models.py) +# write your URLs (urls.py) +# create your views (views.py) +# build your templates + +Django includes it's own template language, although, as with many elements of Django, it's entirely optional. You can drop in another template language if you like, though you might want to give Django's a try first. It's simple, fast and already there. + +The other thing to keep in mind is that Django is written in Python and requires Python 2.3 or higher. Mac OS X and most Linux distros ship with Python 2.5 so that isn't a problem. Windows users may need to install Python. + +== So just how does Django work? == + +The simplest way to look at Django is to break it down into it's component parts. First off there's a models.py file which defines all your data model and extrapolates your single lines of code into full database tables and a pre-built (totally optional) administration section to add content. + +The next element is the urls.py file which uses regular expressions to capture url patterns for processing. + +The actual processing happens in your views, which, if you haven't seen the pattern yet, live in views.py. This is really the meat of Django, since views are where you grab the data that that you're presenting to the visitor. + +Here's what happens when a visitor lands on your django page: + +First Django consults the various URL patterns you've created and uses that information to retrieve a view. The view then processes the request, querying your database if necessary and passes the requested information on to your template. The template then renders the data in layout you've created and displays the page. + +== Dive in == + +Now that you have at least some idea of how Django works, it's time to dive in and get your hands dirty. For the sake of example we'll be building a blog-type site. It makes a nice intro to Django and takes advantage of some of Django's handy shortcuts and other features. + +But don't worry we aren't going to just build a blog, we'll also walk through adding a contact form, static pages (like an 'about' page) and even integrate Django with del.icio.us web services to display all your del.icio.us links on your new Django blog. + +So head on over to part two of our intro to Django [Installing Django and Building Your First App]
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-templates.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-templates.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ded612 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-templates.txt @@ -0,0 +1,239 @@ +When we left off last time we had defined some URLs for our blog and even wrote a custom view to handle displaying posts by tag. But if you point your browser to our development url (http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/) you'll still see a Django error page complaining that the template blog/list.html does not exist, which is true since we haven't created it yet. + +It's time to tackle the last aspect of Django -- the template syntax. + +If you look back through the code we've written so far you'll find that we've point Django to a number of templates (look in the urlpatterns code and the custom view we wrote). The templates we've defined need to be created as follows: + +djangoblog + - templates + -blog + list.html + detail.html + -tags + list.html + +You can go ahead and create that directory structure -- just create a folder in your main djangoblog folder and name it templates. Then inside that create two folders, blog and tags. Then create your list and detail.html files (note that the .html extension is totally optional, I use it because it turns on the syntax highlighting in my text editor, but you can use any extension you like). + +== Inheritance == + +If we step back for a minute and think about our blog and what our templates need to display, the first thing that jumps out at you is that there's a whole bunch of stuff that's common to every page -- a header, site navigation, sidebar, footer, etc. + +It would be silly (and a egregious violation of the DRY principle) if we wrote that code more than once. Luckily, like most good template languages, Django provides a way to extend a single template file. We can define our site-wide components once and then simple inherit from that file, adding in the aspects of the site that do change. + +So before we dive into the detail pages, let's first create a base file. Being the creative type I generally call the file base.html. So inside the templates folder you created above, add a new file, base.html. + +Now open that file in your text editor and let's sketch out some of the site-wide html we might need. For the sake of this tutorial I've kept things pretty simple, but feel free to get as fancy as you want with your HTML. Here's a basic starting point: + +<pre> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <title>My Site - {%block pagetitle %}{% endblock %}</title> + </head> + <body> + <div id="header">My Site</div> + <div id="nav"> + <ul> + <li><a href="/">home</a></li> + <li><a href="/blog/">Blog</a></li> + <li><a href="/links/">Links</a></li> + <li><a href="/about/">About</a></li> + </ul> + </div> + <div id="content"> + <div id="primary"> + <h1>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</h1> + {% block primary %}{% endblock %} + </div> + <div id="secondary"> + <h3>Recent Entries:</h3> + <div> + </div> + </body> +</html> +</pre> + +That should be pretty self explanatory, save perhaps the curious things enclosed in curly brackets, the <code>{% %}</code> bits. What up with that stuff? + +That is Django's template syntax for creating blocks which other templates can plug data into. In this case we're creating a base template with a few blocks (think of them as holes) and our other templates will extend this and fill in the holes. + +To see what I mean let's create the blog/list.html template. Add a new blog folder in the templates folder (if you haven't already) and create a file list.html. Now open that up and past in the line <code>{% extends 'base.html' %}</code>. + +Now if you revisit [http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/ http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/] the template not found error should be gone and in its place you should see everything we just put in base.html -- not much I'm afraid. + +But fear not, now that we're extending base.html we can start plugging in some values for those blocks we created earlier. + +Add this below the extends statement: + +<pre> +{% block pagetitle %}Tumblelog{% endblock %} +{% block title %}My Page Headline{% endblock %} +{% block primary %} +{% for object in latest %} + <h2>{{ object.title }}</h2> + <p>{{ object.pub_date }}</p> + {{ object.body_html|truncatewords_html:"20"|safe }} + <p>tags: {% for tag in object.get_tags%}<a href="/blog/tags/{{tag.name|slugify}}/">{{tag}}</a>{% endfor %}</p> + <p><a href="{{object.get_absolute_url}}">read more</a></p> +{% endfor %} +{% endblock %} +</pre> + +Okay, first off we fill in our page title block in the head tags and then we do the same for the displayed title. The next block we fill in is the primary content block. Here's where we display the data that our generic view grabbed for us. + +The Django template syntax is fairly Pythonic in that your define loops using the same <code>for x in dataset</code> syntax. In this case the generic view function object_detail passes in a variable named latest (by default the fifteen latest entries, though you can go back to the urls.py and increase that number using the num_latest param). + +So all we do is construct a loop using the <code>latest</code> variable. Then within that loop we pull out some of our data -- again accessing an objects attributes uses the python-like dot accessor methods. + +The only part that requires additional explaining is the <code>object.body_html</code> section where we've applied two built-in Django template filters, <code>truncatewords_html</code> and <code>safe</code>. + +Truncatewords_html should be fairly obvious, this clips the the body of our post after twenty words, but also preserves the structure of the html by appending any closing tags to make sure the html is intact. + +The <code>safe</code> filter simply tells Django that it's okay to display HTML. Without the safe filter Django will automatically escape all HTML entities and tags. Autoescaping is a nice feature for avoiding nefarious XSS attacks and the like, but in this case, since we trust the source, we'll let the HTML through. + +Okay, cool, but what about tags? We do after all have tags on our entries, might as well display them which is what we do in the next line. Here we have a loop within a loop. Remember when we created our models we added a get_tags method to return all the tags for each entry? Well here it is in action. + +That will loop through all the tags for each entry and display them along with a link to that tag's permalink page. And note that we've used the slugify filter to make sure than any multiword tags will be hyphenated in the URL (if you remember back when we wrote our custom tag view we used a string replace function to "unslugify" the url for lookup in the datebase). + +The last line calls the <code>get_absolute_url</code> function that we defined when we built our model in the last lesson. This provides a link to the permalink page for each entry in the list. + +So click that link and what happens? Error page. You need to define the detail.html template. That's not to hard, just create the file, add the extends base.html instruction at the top and fill in the blank blocks like title and primary. This time there's no need to loop through anything since there's only one object. Just call it directly like we did inside the loop on the archive page: <code>{{object.title}}</code> etc. + +The code might look something like this: + +<pre> +{% block pagetitle %}{{object.title}}{% endblock %} +{% block title %}{{object.title}}{% endblock %} +{% block primary %} + <ul class="page-nav"> + {% if object.get_previous_published%} + <li> + <a href="{{ object.get_previous_published.get_absolute_url }}" title=" {{object.get_previous_published.title}}">« previous</a> + </li> + {%endif%} + {% if object.get_next_published%} + <li> + <a href="{{ object.get_next_published.get_absolute_url }}" title=" {{object.get_next_published.title}}">next »</a> + </li> + {%endif%} + </ul> + <h2>{{ object.title }}</h2> + <p>{{ object.pub_date }}</p> + {{ object.body_html|safe }} + <p>tags: {% for tag in object.get_tags%}<a href="/blog/tags/{{tag.name|slugify}}/">{{tag}}</a>{% endfor %}</p> + <p><a href="{{object.get_absolute_url}}">read more</a></p> +{% endblock %} +</pre> + +Note that I've made use of those <code>get_next_published</code> and <code>get_previous_published</code> functions that we defined way back when wrote our models. That way, users have some handy next and previous links for navigating through your permalink pages. + +Naturally you can get much more sophisticated with your HTML than this simple example. + +To create the templates for the tag pages you'll essentially do the same thing. In our custom tag view we returned a list of all the entries in an object named <code>object_list</code>. So in order to display them, just loop through <code>object_list</code> like we did with the <code>latest</code> variable above. + +==Built-in Template Filters== + +Before we move on, it's worth paying a visit to the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/ Django documentation on template filters and tags]. There's a whole bunch of useful stuff built in. You can use <code>{% if %}</code> tags to narrow and filter results, and there's also <code>{% else %}</code>, <code>{% ifequal var1 var2 %}</code>, <code>{% ifnotequal var1 var2 %}</code> and most other common programming structures. + +Then there's a host of template filters, like the truncatewords_html and safe filters we used above. For instance there's a handy date filter if you'd like to display your post date in something a little sexier than a UNIX timestamp. + +Here's what that would look like using the "date" filter: + +{{object.pub_date|date:"D d M Y"}} + +Another great filter is the "timesince" filter which will automatically convert a date into syntax like "1 week, 2 days ago" and so on. + +There are also filters for escaping ampersands, escaping javascript, adding linebreaks, removing HTML, converting to upper/lowercase and dozens more. In fact in two and a half years of building sites with Django I've only needed to write a custom filter once. Naturally your mileage may vary somewhat. + +==Roll Your Own Template Tags== + +One thing I do frequently do is write custom template "tags." Template tags are perhaps one of the more confusing aspects of Django since they still have a little bit of "magic" in them, but luckily it isn't too hard to work with. + +Template tags are a way of extending the Django template system to use it in project specific ways. For instance, custom template tags are a perfect way to handle things that don't make sense in a view, but do require some database logic. + +Perhaps the best example is something like a sidebar. So far ours is empty, but we can easily add a list of our most recent blog posts. + +Now we could write a filter that specifically fetches blog entries, but then what happens when we add links in the next lesson and want to display the most recent links? Write another template filter? That's not very DRY so let's just write a filter that fetches the most recent entries from any model with a date field. + +In fact we don't even need to really write it. James Bennett has already [http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/07/django-tips-write-better-template-tags/ written some great reusable code] so we'll just use that. I strongly recommend that you have read through James' tutorial so you can see how and why this code works. + +Open a new file and paste in this code: + +<pre> +from django.template import Library, Node +from django.db.models import get_model + +register = Library() + +class LatestContentNode(Node): + def __init__(self, model, num, varname): + self.num, self.varname = num, varname + self.model = get_model(*model.split('.')) + + def render(self, context): + context[self.varname] = self.model._default_manager.all()[:self.num] + return '' + +def get_latest(parser, token): + bits = token.contents.split() + if len(bits) != 5: + raise TemplateSyntaxError, "get_latest tag takes exactly four arguments" + if bits[3] != 'as': + raise TemplateSyntaxError, "third argument to get_latest tag must be 'as'" + return LatestContentNode(bits[1], bits[2], bits[4]) + +get_latest = register.tag(get_latest) + +</pre> + +Now save that file in a new folder within the blog app, named templatetags. The folder name and location are important since Django only looks up template tags in specific locations. + +One thing to note about this code, if you look closely you'll notice that our template tag is going to fetch all entries, not just the public ones. In other words, our model allows for draft posts, but our template tag doesn't. + +This is the line in question: + +<pre> +self.model._default_manager.all() +</pre> + +There are two ways around this, one is quick and dirty: just change that line to filter only published entries. In other words: + +<pre> +self.model._default_manager.filter(status=1) +</pre> + +The better and cleaner way to do it would be overwrite the default manager for our Entry model. However, that's a little beyond the scope of this article, so for now we'll just use the quick and dirty method. + +Now open up base.html again and add this line at the top: + +<pre> +{% load get_latest %} +</pre> + +That tells Django to load the template tag, but then we need to grab the actual data, so head down to the sidebar section and replace it with this code: + +<pre> +<div id="secondary"> + <h3>Recent Entries:</h3> + {% get_latest blog.Entry 5 as recent_posts %} + <ul class="archive"> + {% for obj in recent_posts %} + <li> + <a href="{{ obj.get_absolute_url }}" title="Permanent Link to {{ obj.title}}">{{ obj.title}}</a> + </li> + </ul> +<div> +</pre> + +Now if you want to override that in templates that are inheriting from base.html, just wrap that code in a {% block %} tag and then replace it with something else in the new template. + +== Conclusion == + +The Django template system is quite vast in terms of capabilities and we've really just scratched the surface. Make sure you [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/ read through the documentation for Python programmers] as well as [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/ the documentation for template authors] and familiarize yourself with all the various built in tags and filters. Another great article is Jeff Croft's [http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/feb/21/django-templates-an-introduction/ Django Templates: An Introduction]. + +It's worth noting that there's an extensive collection of useful filters and template tags on the [http://www.djangosnippets.org/ Django Snippets site], so if you ever find yourself needing a custom tag or filter, have a look through there and see if anyone has already written something that works for your project. + +I should also point out that if you just don't for whatever reason like Django's template system, it's possible drop in your template language, like [http://cheetahtemplate.sourceforge.net/ Cheetah] or others. + +Be sure to stop by for our next installment when we'll tackle a plan to import, store and display our del.icio.us bookmarks. + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-website.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-website.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a207154 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/django-website.txt @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +Last time around we installed Django and started building a blog application. We got Django's built-in admin system up and running and explored some third-party libraries like the django-tagging project. + +So far we have some cool administrative tools, but no website for the rest of the world to see. This time around we'll look at building the url patterns and some "views" to sort and display our content to the world. + +Everything we're going to do will make more sense if you understand how Django processes your visitor's request. We went over some of this in our introduction, but here's a quick refresher course. + +The flow is something like this: + +1) Visitor's browser asks for a URL +2) Django matches the request against its urls.py files. +3) if a match is found Django moves on to the view that's associated with the url. Views are generally found inside each app in the views.py file. +4) The view generally handles all the database manipulation. It grabs data and passes it on. 5) A template (specified in the view) then displays that data. + +With that in mind, let's start building our public site by creating some url patterns. Remember the urls.py file where we set up our admin urls in the last lesson? Open that file in your favorite text editor. + +Now we could define all our URLs in this file. But then what happens if we want to reuse this blog in an entirely separate project? + +A far better idea is to define all your app-specific URLs in a file that lives inside the app itself. In this case we're going to use a file inside the blog app, which will also be named urls.py. + +However, before we start with that file, we need to tell Django about it. So add this line to the project-wide urls.py file, just below the line that defines the admin urls, like so: + +<pre> +from django.conf.urls.defaults import * +urlpatterns = patterns('', + (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), + (r'^blog/', include('djangoblog.blog.urls')), +) +</pre> + +Okay, now head into the blog app folder and create a new urls.py file, which we'll use to hold all the URLs related to our blog application. + +==Thoughts on URLs== + +One of the nice things about Django is that it forces you to think about your URL designs, something many people don't spend much time considering. If perchance you've never spent too much time thinking about URLs, now is good time to [http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI read the W3C guide on the subject]. + +As the W3C points out, good URLs don't change, in fact, URLs never change, people change them. But change your URLs and you break everyone's bookmarks. So spend a bit of time designing a good URL scheme from the beginning and you shouldn't need to change things down the road. + +I would add one thing to the W3Cs guidelines, good URLs are hackable. So what do I mean by hackable? Let's say our blog has urls like: + +<pre> +http://mysite.com/blog/2008/jul/08/post-slug/ +</pre> + +That would display the post whose slug is "post-slug" and was published on July 8, 2008. Ideally, if the user heads up to their url bar and chops off the <code>post-slug/</code> bit they would see all the entries from July 8, 2008. If they chop off <code>08/</code> they would see all the posts from July 2008 and so on. + +In other words, the url is hackable. Now, most people probably won't do that, but in addition to being useful for those that do, it also creates an easy to use structure around which to build your site. In this case the date-based structure was probably already obvious, but what about tags? + +<pre> +http://mysite.com/blog/tags/tag-slug/ +</pre> + +This url accomplishes the same idea, but one ups it. Not only can you hack the url to get to list of all tags (provided you create such a page), it should be obvious that you could plug just about any word into the url and it effectively functions like a tag-based search engine. + +Okay, that's all good and well, how do we actually build the URLs? + +==Being Generic is Good== + +Let's get started, paste this code into your blog/urls.py file: + +<pre> +from django.conf.urls.defaults import * +from djangoblog.blog.models import Entry +from tagging.views import tagged_object_list + +info_dict = { + 'queryset': Entry.objects.filter(status=1), + 'date_field': 'pub_date', +} + +urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.date_based', + (r'(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', dict(info_dict, slug_field='slug',template_name='blog/detail.html')), + (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', dict(info_dict, template_name='blog/list.html')), + (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/$','archive_day',dict(info_dict,template_name='blog/list.html')), + (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$','archive_month', dict(info_dict, template_name='blog/list.html')), + (r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/$','archive_year', dict(info_dict, template_name='blog/list.html')), + (r'^$','archive_index', dict(info_dict, template_name='blog/list.html')), +) + +</pre> + +Now remember when I said that the url patterns determine which view Django will use to grab data from our database? In that scheme we would write our regular expressions and then point each pattern to a function in views.py. + +But we're cheating a little bit here by taking advantage of some built in views that Django provides, known as generic views. + +The developers of Django wisely figured that date-based archives were likely to be a common problem that just about every site has at least some use for, so they baked in some generic data-based views. + +What we've done here is take advantage of the built in views to construct our urls. + +Let's start with <code>info_dict</code>, which is just a Python dictionary that holds two things: a queryset that contains all our public blog entries and the name of our date field in the database. + +It's important to realize that Django querysets are lazy, that is Django only hits the database when the queryset is evaluated, so there's no performance penalty for defining a queryset that looks for everything and then filtering it on a case by case basis, which is essentially what we've just done. + +Passing the queryset to the generic view enables Django to automatically do whatever date sorting we need, for instance, to show all the entries from a single month or year. For more info on querysets, check out the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/ database API docs] on the Django site. + +That's all the URL patterns list is, a regular expression that looks at the URL, figures out what view to use and then the view determines which entry or list of entries to show. + +Let's break it down and go through each part of the url pattern; we'll use the first line as an example: +<pre> +(r'(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$', 'object_detail', dict(info_dict, slug_field='slug',template_name='blog/detail.html')), +</pre> + +The first bit: + +<pre> +(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)/$ +</pre> + +is the regular expression. In this case the expression will match our permalink urls and capture the year, month, day and slug of a particular entry. That information will then be passed to the next bit <code>object_detail</code> which is the name of the generic view that will pull out a single entry. + +The full path to object_detail is actually <code>django.views.generic.date_based.object_detail</code>, but since we started our urlpattern definition by including the <code>django.views.generic.date_based</code> bit, there's no need to retype it every time, we just need to call the individual function, in this case object_detail. + +After we grab the URL info and pass it to the <code>object_detail</code> function, we also pass along a dictionary of data. Most of the time you can just pass <code>info_dict</code> here. The <code>object_detail</code> generic view is something of an exception because it needs to pass along the slug_field variable as well. + +I wanted to show some of the other data you can include as well, so I wrapped it in the <code>dict</code> your see above. In this case we've passed <code>info_dict</code>, the slug_field and the name of the template that Django should use to display the data. + +The rest of the patterns just work their way back up the url using ever-shortening regular expressions until we get to nothing, which would be the url: http:/mysite.com/blog/. We'll be using that as our archive page, so I guess you can think of this as a tumblelog rather than a traditional blog, which would probably have separate archive and home pages. Naturally you can tweak the url patterns to fit whatever design you'd like. + +Django's generic views are incredibly powerful and there are quite a few other options beyond just the date-based ones we've used here (there's also a super-handy built-in pagination system for some generic views). Be sure to read through the [http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/ documentation on the Django website] and also have a look at [http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/nov/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views/ James Bennett's excellent guide to the various ways you can wrap and extend generic views]. + +== Go Your Own Way == + +Django's generic views can save you quite a bit of time, but you will probably encounter some situations where they don't quite do what you want. When that happens it's time to write your own views. + +Fear not, writing a custom view isn't hard. + +We've pretty much covered our blogs URLs, from date-based archives to the detail pages, but what about the pages that display our entries by tag? + +The tagging application actually includes some views that we could use, but for the sake of example we'll write some custom views. Rather than overwriting what's already in the tagging application, we're just going to create a views file that lives on its own in our main project folder. + +So, inside the djangoblog folder create a new file named tag_views.py. Now remember, before we get started there we need to tell Django about the tag_views file, so open up djangoblog/urls.py and add the last line below what's already there: + + +<pre> +urlpatterns = patterns('', + (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), + (r'^blog/', include('djangoblog.blog.urls')), + (r'^tags/(?P<slug>[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)/$', 'djangoblog.tag_views.tag_detail'), +) +</pre> + +Okay, now here we haven't included another url.py file like we did with the lines above. You could argue that we should, but just to show that you don't ''have'' to, we'll just point directly to our tag_views.py file which will soon have a function named <code>tag_detail</code>. Note that in the tag URL, we're capturing the slug param; we'll use that in just a minute to filter our blog entries by tag. + +Now it's time to create the tag_detail function in the tag_views.py file, so open up that file in your text editor and paste in this code: + + +<pre> +from django.views.generic.list_detail import object_detail + +from tagging.models import Tag,TaggedItem +from blog.models import Entry + +def tag_detail(request, slug): + unslug = slug.replace('-', ' ') + tag = Tag.objects.get(name=unslug) + qs = TaggedItem.objects.get_by_model(Entry, tag) + return object_list(request, queryset=qs, extra_context={'tag':slug}, template_name='tags/detail.html') +</pre> + +Okay, so what's going on here? Well, ignore the first line for now, we'll get to that in a minute. We import all the things we need, in this case the Tag and TaggedItem classes from django tagging and then our own Entry class. Then we define the <code>tag_detail</code> function, which is just an ordinary Python function that take two parameters. The first is <code>request</code> which Django passes to all view functions and the second it the slug param we defined in our URL pattern above. + +Now because we're using a slug (a slug is an old newspaper term, which is this context refers to the last bit of the URL and can contain letters and dashes rather than space) for our tag URLs, but words with spaces for our tags we need to get rid of the dashes and replace them with spaces. Because our slug parameter is just a string, we can use the normal Python string function to make that replacement. + +In the next line we look up our tag name in the database using the <code>objects</code> manager. Then we take advantage of django-tagging's built in function <code>get_by_model</code> to grab all the entries with the given tag. + +The last step is to return something so that Django can load our template and display the entries to our visitor. To do that we're going to use another of Django's generic view functions -- <code>object_detail</code> from the generic list views. Object detail requires a few things, first of the request object, then the queryset of results and then I've added an extra context variable named tag, so our template will be aware not just what entries to display, but also the current tag. And then the last item simple tells Django which template to use. + +Now we haven't created a URL for http://mysite.com/blog/tags/ to list all our tags, but that's a good way to practice writing a view function on your own. Here's a hint, you can use pretty much the same code we used for the tag_detail function, but you don't need to worry about the <code>slug</code> param. And instead of looking up TaggedItems, just grab all the tags (i.e. <code>qs = Tag.objects.all()</code>) + +== Conclusion == + +And there you have it, a quick and dirty overview of how url patterns and view work in Django. + +If you point your browser to our development url (http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/) you should see a Django error page complaining that the template blog/list.html does not exist, which is true since we haven't created it yet (visiting the tag pages will give you "list index out of range" error, also due to the missing templates). + +But don't worry in the next lesson well dive into Django's template system and explore all the cool things we can do, including how to write custom template filters and more.
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Doing so is tiresome and violates one of the core tenants of good programming -- Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY). + +Luckily for you other people long ago noticed that web developers face similar problems when building a new site. Sure, there are always edge cases which will vary from site to site, but for the most part there are four general tasks we developers have to handle -- Create, Read, Update and Delete, otherwise known as CRUD. + +To help you out, a number of web application frameworks have emerged over the years. You might have heard of some of the more famous frameworks -- [http://www.rubyonrails.com/ Ruby on Rails], [http://www.cakephp.org/ CakePHP] and [http://www.djangoproject.com/ Django]. + +== What is a Web Framework? == + +A web framework is a software framework designed to simply your web development life. Frameworks exist to save you from having to re-invent the wheel and help alleviate some of the overhead when you're building a new site. Typically frameworks provide libraries for accessing a database, managing sessions and cookies, creating templates to display your HTML and in general, promote the reuse of code. + +It's important not to confuse a framework with a content management system. While a framework deals with many of the same issues and, in some cases, may make it very easy to build a content management system, a framework is much more general. + +In fact a framework isn't really anything at all. Think of a framework as a collection of tools, rather than a specific thing. + +==What Can You Do With a Web Framework== + +Frameworks exist to make building a website faster and easier. Typically frameworks provide tools to cover the common CRUD cases. For instance you'll likely find libraries for accessing a database, managing sessions and cookies, creating templates to display your HTML pages and more. + +Frameworks also promote the reuse of code. With a good framework you only need to design, for instance, a contact form once. Then you can drop your generic contact form code into all your projects and save yourself some time and effort. + +Nearly any site you're going to build will have to interact with a database. Frameworks generally offer some means of doing so without having to delve into writing your own SQL every time you want to create, read, update or delete a record. + +Similarly, most frameworks either provide a template system, or make it easy to add on your own templating system so that common chunks of HTML that rarely change, for instance, the header and footer of your page, need only be written once. + +==How Do You Choose A Framework== + +Although having a wide range of framework choices is definitely good, it can also be a source of confusion for inexperienced developers. With all of the possibilities out there, choosing one can be a daunting task the newcomer, so how do you decide? + +That's something of a religious question, but a good place to start is to see if your favorite scripting language has a framework available. The Ruby in Ruby on Rails refers to the fact that Rails is a Ruby framework. So if you're a Ruby fan, Rails might be the framework for you, but there's also [http://www.nitroproject.org/ Nitro] and [http://www.merbivore.com/ Merb]. + +Python fans have a few to choose from. Django is fast becoming the Python framework of choice, but there are other options like [http://pylonshq.com/ Pylons] and [TurboGears http://turbogears.org/]. PHP lovers can check out [http://www.cakephp.org/ CakePHP], [http://www.symfony-project.org/ Symfony] and [http://framework.zend.com/ Zend]. There are also Perl and Java frameworks for those that enjoy Perl or Java. + +However, just because there's a framework available in your favorite programming language doesn't mean it's the ideal choice. Each of the frameworks mentioned has its strengths and weaknesses and you'll have to evaluate each to see which is the best fit for your site's needs. + +Although none of these should be the sole criteria, each of these frameworks are noted for certain things. + +For instance, Ruby on Rails offers tight integration with JavaScript, making it a popular choice for Ajax heavy sites. Ruby on Rails even includes the Prototype Javascript Library which you can integrate directly. + +Django was developed for a very large newspaper website and offers a fantastic auto-generated site administration section for your site's users to create, edit and update content. It also includes built-in tools for caching data and building flexible URLs. + +CakePHP borrows many conceptual ideas from Ruby on Rails but applies them to PHP. Given the widespread availability of PHP on shared web hosting servers, and the fact that Cake supports PHP4, it might be the most widely usable framework. + +There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of more web frameworks in all sorts of programming languages, but there just isn't room to cover them all. Perhaps the best way to choose a framework is to simply dive and and try building a site with each one. That way you can see which frameworks fits the best with your style and goals. + +==Popular Frameworks== + +**Note: I thought this section could just be a list on frameworks with link to the corresponding detail page in the webmonkey wiki.** + +# [Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.com/] (Ruby) (Dive in with the webmonkey tutorial) +# [Django http://www.djangoproject.com/] (Python) (webmonkey intro) +# [Symfony http://www.symfony-project.org/] (PHP) +# [CakePHP v] (PHP) +# [Zend http://framework.zend.com/] (PHP) +# [Nitro http://www.nitroproject.org/] (Ruby) +# [Merb http://www.merbivore.com/] (Ruby) +# [Pylons http://pylonshq.com/] (Python) +# [TurboGears http://turbogears.org/] (Python) + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/vagablogging_submission.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/vagablogging_submission.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c6e8be --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Frameworks/vagablogging_submission.txt @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Vagablogging Editors- + +Hello, my name is Scott Gilbertson and I'm applying for the travel blogger opening at Vagablogging. + +I've read Rolf's book Vagabonding, in fact it was the one of the two books that was key to my own 11 month trip around Southeast Asia (the other was Edward Hasbrouck's, The Practical Nomad) and I think it would be fun to give back to the source and perhaps inspire someone else to attempt the same. + +I've been a freelance writer for five years now. I'm under a full-time contract with Wired.com, though that's limited to technical/computer topics. I also write about internet technology, Linux and more for theregister.co.uk, as well as some other smaller publications. + +I have, when the opportunity presented itself, written about travel for Wired, for instance a how to on recharging gadgets abroad <http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Stay_Plugged_In_While_Traveling> (that's a wiki page, so anyone can edit it). + +I also run my own travel blog at luxagraf.net to keep friends and family abreast of my adventures. + +I would have to say that my travel highlight thus far was a five day camel trek through the Thar desert in India. On the third night, in the middle of nowhere, we finally hit the dunes and made camp. It had been at least 18 hours since we'd seen another living soul. While our guides were cooking dinner, the four of us on the trip decided to climb up to the top of the tallest sand dune and watch the sunset. We were sitting atop the crest of the dune, trying to avoid the rather persistant black beetles that infested all of the scrub bushes on the leeward side of the dune, when an Indian man on a camel came riding slowly over the dune below us. He dismounted and without so much as a hello began selling us beer. To me it was the perfect reminder that no matter how far you go, no matter how much you want to leave "it" all behind, it's just not possible anymore. On one hand that's sort of depressing, but on the other hand it's not -- there is afterall, nothing wrong with "it," us or the world we live in. + +Anyway, here's a couple of unpublished pieces. The first is my take on a newsy item about train travel in the United States, and the second is a bit more personal, some thoughts on travel and life. I've also included a narrative piece from a recent trip to Nicaragua (though I recognize that that's not the focus of Vagablogging.net). + +------------- + +America's train system was once a model for the world -- fast, luxurious and a model of efficiency. Now, if anyone bothered to ride the train, they would find it an absolute nightmare. American trains are expensive, constantly delayed and almost always slower than every other mode of transportation. + +Of course, if you're looking to go on a journey as opposed to just getting somewhere, the last bit might be a good thing. Sometimes it's fun to get stuck,to get off of the train in the middle of nowhere and chat with your fellow passengers while engineers tinker -- to make the old cliche about journeys being more important than destinations into a practical reality. + +For many though, the romance and appeal of rail travel is seriously hindered by the delays and almost inevitable late arrivals. But that's really just train travel in the U.S. In Europe and Asia the trains systems are the lifeblood of travel. In India trains aren't just romance and slow travel, the train system is vital to the economy. Not only do millions of Indians use the train to get around, the Indian Railway system is the largest commercial employer in the world. + +So why do the American railways suck so bad? Ben Jervey over at Good Magazine recently rode the rails from New York to San Francisco to find out. The article is worth a read in its entirety, but from the people he talks to Jervey hears about "stories of 12-hour delays on routes that would take six hours to drive; of breakdowns in the desert; of five-hour unexplained standstills in upstate New York," and worse, a train that spent two days stopped on the tracks in California. In short, riding the rails isn't the smooth, seamless process of Europe and Asia. + +But Jervey also find some signs that things may be improving, especially with gasoline on the rise and people increasingly fed up with air travel in the U.S. Unfortunately some of the bright spots Jervey points to aren't much, like the mag-lev train between LA and Las Vegas, which developers have been talking about ever since I was kid -- and there's still no mag-lev line. + +For now anyway the train in America seems limited to enthusiasts -- people chasing the old North by Northwest romance -- or those of us who don't mind arriving late, so long as the journey proves worth the undertaking. + + +------------- + + +Everywhere I go I think, I should live here... not just travel too and enjoy for a visit, but really inhabit. I should know what it's like to work in a cigar factory in Leon, fish in the Mekong, living in a floating house on Tonle Sap, sell hot dogs at Fenway Park, trade stocks in New York, wander the Thar Desert by camel, navigate the Danube, see the way Denali looks at sunset, the smell the Sonora Desert after a rain, taste the dust of a Juarez street, know how to make tortillas, what Mate tastes like, feel autumn in Paris, spend a winter in Moscow, a summer in Death Valley. + +There is, so far as I know, only one short life. And in this life I will do very few of these things. + +Sometimes I think that's very sad. + + +--------------- + +The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant; no, this is constant banging, the sort of atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. The firecrackers bursting back over behind the cathedral add an off rhythm that only makes the whole mess more jarring. + +But Francisco seems entirely unperturbed and only once even glances over at toward the other side of the park, the source of all the noise and confusion. He's too fascinated with the tattoo on Corrinne's shoulder to bother with what slowly just becomes yet another sound echoing through León. + +Francisco is a shoe shiner, but since we're both wearing sandals he's out of luck and has reverted to the secondary universal appeal of travelers — a chance to practice English. + +We're sipping Victorias in a cafe just off the main park in León, Nicaragua. It's our fourth day here — with an extra day spent at the nearby Pacific beaches — in what is, so far, my favorite city in Nicaragua. + +Architecturally León is a bit like Granada, but since it lacks the UNESCO stamp it's somewhat less touristy and a bit more Nicaraguan, whatever that means. + +It's a city of poets and painters, philosophers and political revolutionaries. In fact, Nicaragua as a whole is full of poets and artists, all the newspapers still carry at least one poem everyday (U.S. newspapers used to do that too), but León is perhaps the pinnacle of Nicaraguan writing and painting, if for no other reason than it's a college town — the constant influx of youth always brings with it vitality and art. + +There are three separate Nicaragua universities in León and even though none of them are in session right now, as with Athens, GA the fomenting imprint of students lingers even when they are gone — political graffiti dots the cafes, bars are open later, people seem more active, the bells clang, the fireworks explode on an otherwise ordinary Sunday evening. + +In short, León has something that most of the rest of Nicaragua (and the U.S. for that matter) lacks — a vibrant sense of community. + +Of course in relation to the States nearly everywhere seems to have a much stronger sense of community and togetherness. + +The irony though is that just writing those words together fills me with dread and loathing, a sure sign of my own inherent Americanism. + +But the truth is community doesn't have to mean over-priced "organic" markets, war protests round the maypole and whatever other useless crap passes itself off as community in Athens and elsewhere in America. + +Every time I go abroad, not just Nicaragua, but Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, just about anywhere, the communities are somehow more vibrant, more alive, more sensual — full of bright colors, playing children, people walking to work, to the market, to the gym, to wherever. There is life in the streets. + +In Athens there's mainly just cars in the streets. Big, fast cars. + +For instance, in León the houses are not the stolid tans, boring greys and muted greens you find in Athens, but brightly colored — reds, blues, yellows, crimson, indigo, chartreuse even — the doors are not shuttered and double-bolted, there are no lawns, no barriers between the life of the home and life of the street, everything co-mingles, a great soup of public and private with each overlapping the other. + +The clatter of the Red Sox game drifts out the window, along with the smell of fresh roasted chicken that mingles with the dust of the street, the kids gathering in the park, the declining light of the day, the first streetlights, the evening news, the women in curlers walking in the shadows just behind the half-open wooden doors…. + +And it makes the streets more fun to walk down, there's something to experience, things to see and hear and smell and taste. + +Which isn't to say that León is Paris or New York, but in its own way it sort of is. Certainly it's better than my own neighborhood where I know exactly what color the houses will be before I even step out the door — and not because I know the neighborhood, but because I know what colors comprise the set of acceptable options in the States — where the children are staked in the front yard on leashes (invisible for the most part, but it won't surprise me when the leashes can be seen), neighbors wave, but rarely stop to talk and certainly no one walks anywhere unless it's for exercise. + +Why are American neighborhoods so dull? Why no happy colors? Why make things more lifeless than they already are, given that our neighborhoods are set up in such away that we abandon them all day and return only at night to sleep? + +Dunno, but I can tell you this, León, Paris, Phnom Phen, Prague, Vientiane and just about everywhere else is far more exciting to walk around than the average American town. And it isn't just the exotic appeal of the foreign; it's about architecture, design and the sharp division of public and private those two create to make our neighborhoods into the rigid anti-fun caricature that the rest of the world sees. + +Do I sound like a transcendentalist-inspired, anti-american crank? Sorry about that. I like America, really I do. And I hold out hope. One day my house will be vermillion — my own small step. + +Plus, that's a big part of what I enjoy about traveling — seeing how other people construct their house, their neighborhoods, their cities, their way of life… see not just how it differs from our own, but perhaps see some ways you could improve our lives. + +Like hammocks. We desperately need more hammocks. Lots of hammocks. + +But León isn't perfect. In fact it fails on several levels — take that butt ugly radio/microwave/cell tower on the horizon — why the hell would you put that in the middle of otherwise majestic 18th century Spanish colonial city? + +León, I'll miss you, you're just about perfect as far as Central America goes, maybe just see about moving that radio tower…. + + +-------------------- + + + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCal.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCal.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f79bd07 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCal.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +Calendar and event information is one of the most common chunks of data on the web -- it answers the age old question, what are you doing? Given the prevalence of event announcements and scheduling applications, it makes sense to have a standard format that all sorts of programs can exchange. + +That's exactly what the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt iCalendar standard] does for apps like Apple's iCal or Mozilla's Sunbird; but what about web pages? + +The answer is the hCalendar microformat, which provides an open, distributed means of marking up calendar and event information on your pages. Once your data is marked up in hCalendar format it's easy for search engine spiders and browsers to detect, understand and even convert it back to iCalendar format for importing into desktop applications. + +##Overview## + +If you have a blog, chances are you've mentioned an event at some point -- a conference you're planning to attend or just a get together at a local pub. Using hCalender when you write about upcoming events allows applications to retrieve the details of the event directly from your page without having to reference a separate iCalendar file. + +And that makes it easier for your friends to get the info into their own calendar apps, making them more likely to show up and buy you a round at that pub meet up. + +##The Basics of hCalendar## + +Let's say your blog displays a calendar widget with all your upcoming events in a table, something like this: + +<code> +<tr> + <td>Sat March 14</td> + <td>6pm</td> + <td>Meet up at Enid's</td> +</tr> +</code> + +That's fine, but just adding a few extra detail enriches the data and makes it easy for the spiders and apps to pull it out and do something useful -- like adding the event to a calendar app. + +Here's the same data marked up with the hCalendar syntax + +<code> +<tr class="vevent"> + <td><abbr title="20080314T1800-0500" class="dtstart">March 14th 6pm</abbr></td> + <td><abbr title="20080315T200-0500" class="dtend"> 2am 2008</abbr></td> + <td><span class="location">Enid's Bar, Williamsburg, NY</span></td> + <td class="summary">Meetup at Enid's</td> +</tr> +</code> + +The two main things we've done here are add date-time stamps around our human readable dates and added a few class names to define the data. + +##More Complex exampes## + +As with other microformats, hCalendar data is wrapped in tags and the class names used in those tags define what the data relates to. For instance, the <code>dtstart</code> property let's you know that the text in that HTML element is the starting time for the event. + +The only things required for a hCalendar definition are a <code>dtstart</code> class with the date and time of the event and a <code>summary</code> that gives a brief description of the event. + +Other properties you can define include: + +# location +# url +# dtend (ISO date), duration (ISO date duration) +# rdate, rrule +# category, description +# uid +# geo (latitude, longitude) + +Here's a more complex example: + +<code> +<div class="vevent"> + <h5 class="summary">I am eating bananas</h5> + <div>Posted on: <abbr class="dtstamp" title="20080314T1300Z">March 14, 2008</abbr></div> + <div>Dates: <abbr class="dtstart" title="20080314T1300Z">March 14, 2008, 16:30 UTC</abbr>- + <abbr class="dtend" title="1920080316T1300Z">March 16, 2008 01:00 UTC</abbr></div> + <div>Banana eating is a <span class="class">public</span> and <span class="transp">transparent</span> event.</div> + <div>Filed under:</div> + <ul> + <li class="category">Business</li> + </ul> +</div> +</code> + +Here we have a couple of additional class definitions. The <code>transp</code> class maps to a similar class in the iCalendar format and tells anything searching through our schedule to not include this event. In other words it won't show up when people search to see when we're busy. + +For some even more complex examples, check out the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-examples microformats wiki page]. + +But of course there's no need to write hCalendar info out by hand. There's a handy [http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator hCalendar creator], and even better are the [http://structuredblogging.org/formats.php plugins for Wordpress and Movable Type] that make it easy to add hCalendar markup to events you're writing about. + +##Conclusion## + +Although perhaps the most complex of the microformats, hCalendar is also one of the more useful ones. Sure, you can publish your schedule as an iCalendar feed, but unless all your friends are tech savvy nerds, they might not know what to do with the iCalendar feed address. + +Keep in mind that hCalendar is still a work in progress, if you have ideas or suggestions, head over to the Microformats site and [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-brainstorming let them know]. + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCard.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCard.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b088bb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/hCard.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +VCards are a common format for exchanging address information, business locations, place data and more. But on the web vCards become invisible to search engine spiders and webmail apps often can't import them straight from a download link, which is why the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard hCard microformat] was created. + +Designed to be a simple, open and distributed format, hCards are an extension of (X)HTML that makes it easy to represent people, companies, organizations, and places. All the data encapsulated in hCard maps directly to the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt vCard specification] so programs that can handle vCards can easily add hCard support as well (whether or not they do is up the creators). + +##Overview## + +As with other microformats, hCard uses semantic HTML or XHTML to add more meaning to your address data. Using a series of pre-defined class definitions, hCard creates a consistent format that spiders and people alike can easily recognize. + +The root class name for hCard is "vcard," so the standard definition starts like this: + +<div class="vcard"> + <a class="url fn" href="http://yoursite.com/">Your Name</a> +</div> + +As you can see the definition is wrapped in a <code><div></code> tag with the root class of vcard. The next line is an ordinary link to your website with your name as the link text. Note however the class definitions, <code>url</code> and <code>fn</code>. Obviously url denotes the fact that this chunk of data is a url, but what about that <code>fn</code> class. + +It gets a little bit complicated, do some contradictions in the vCard spec, but generally you can think of fn as short for formal name. There is also an <code>n</code> property that can be used, though <code>n</code> can be assumed to be the same as <code>fn</code> in most cases. + +##Full Example## + +So far all we have is a name leading to a website. For many that's all the contact info they're willing to give, but for the sake of example let's consider Joe Monkey, an employee of ACME Banana company. In this case we might create an hCard that looks like this: + +<code> +<div id="hcard-Joe-Monkey" class="vcard"> + <span class="fn">Joe Monkey</span> + <div class="org">ACME Banana</div> + <div class="adr"> + <span class="type">Work</span>: + <div class="street-address">314 Monkey Avenue</div> + <span class="locality">Monkey Island</span>, + <abbr class="region" title="California">CA</abbr> + <span class="postal-code">94301</span> + <div class="country-name">USA</div> + </div> + <div class="tel"> + <span class="type">Work</span> +1-555-555-5555 + </div> + <div class="tel"> + <span class="type">Fax</span> +1-555-555-5555 + </div> + <div>Email: + <span class="email">joe@acmebanana.com</span> + </div> + + <a class="url" href="aim:goim?screenname=monkeybites">AIM</a> +</code> + +Most of the class names here should be self-evident, save perhaps locality, which just means the city of municipal area. + +Note that in this case we're making a card for an individual at a company so we've used separate definitions for <code>fn</code> and <code>org</code>. However, when dealing with a company listing it would be perfectly acceptable to combine the two into one line, like so: + +<code> +<span class="fn org">ACME Banana</span> +</code> + +The various class properties are as follows: + +Required: + +# fn +# n (family-name, given-name, additional-name, honorific-prefix, honorific-suffix) + +Optional: + +# nickname, sort-string +# url, email (type, value), tel2 (type, value) +# adr (post-office-box, extended-address, street-address, locality, region, postal-code, country-name, type, value), label +# geo (latitude, longitude), tz +# photo, logo, sound, bday +# title, role, org (organization-name, organization-unit) +# category, note +# class, key, mailer, uid, rev + +##The hCard Creator## + +There's no need to write out all your hCard markup by hand. The very handy [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator] can handle the grunt work for you, generating some nice cut and paste code. + +If you're displaying hCards dynamically (say as part of your hot new social network's profile page), just whip up a skeleton like the one above and replace the fake data with the variables from your database. + +It's also worth noting that contact or profile pages aren't the only place you can use hCard. HCard markup works well inside a <code><cite></code> block, for instance when you're citing another blog and want to provide some basic contact info for the author of the blog. + +Once you've got a basic handle on hCards, go ahead and put them in the wild and add your site to list of example on the Microformats Wiki. If you're feeling extra frisky have a read through the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard hCard specification] for all the gritty details.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/overview.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/overview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1505b3f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Microformats/overview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Thus far the promise of the semantic web remains unfulfilled. Machines still aren't very good at understanding the code they're rendering, but Microformats are changing that. + +Perhaps the most difficult part of microformats is explaining what they actually are. The short answer is that microformats are a way of adding semantic meaning to HTML tags. First and foremost, microformats were designed to be easy for humans to read and write. If you know HTML, you know microformats. + +Tantek Çelik, chief Technology Officer at Technorati and creator of microformats, describes them as a way of "making web pages both more useful and more usable to the average person." + +The real power of microformats is in the way they refine data that already exists. + +##What Microformats Do## + + +Right now your data is spread across the internet, photos on Flickr, friends on Facebook, bookmarks at ma.gnolia, calendar on Google Calendar and so on. Microformats can make it easier to track and aggregate that data into one centralized space -- your own domain, a blog or perhaps your personalized homepage. + +In many ways microformats have the potential to replace web-based APIs and make data that was once only available to those with programming skills, available to anyone who knows a bit of HTML. + +And it isn't just people, search engines can use microformats to provide better results. "By marking up contacts with hCard, events with hCalendar, reviews with hReview, listings with hListing, search engines will be (and are) able to find that information on those sites better," Çelik says. + +Instead of guessing what information is on the page, microformats can tell search engines exactly what data they are looking at. For instance, as Çelik points out, "rel-license, the microformat for license links, is parsed and supported by Google and Yahoo's license/CC search." And rel-tag is supported by Technorati and others for browsing tagged blog posts. + +##Usage Overview## + +The basic example used to illustrate the power of microformats is the hCard format. An hCard accomplishes the same thing a vCard does -- click on an hCard on somebody's web page and you can add that person to your address book in an instant. + +The hCard format is probably the most widespread of all microformats, the hCard standard is already in use on contact and profile pages around the web, heck even [http://microformats.org/blog/2006/07/28/steve-martin-has-an-hcard/ Steve Martin] has one -- yes, that Steve Martin. + +Another excellent example of the way microformats can make your life easier is the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar hCalendar] format. The popular social networking site Facebook is one of many sites that encode calendar events in hCalendar format making it easy to add events to your calendar. + +Click on an event and it gets added to your hCalendar-compatible calendaring application. Most web calendars and desktop calendars have support for these microformats. + +Another, arguably more powerful, application of microformats is the [http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal hListing] microformat. Imagine you want to sell something on the web; you could head to an auction site, create an account, list your item and post the information. But why bother with all that when you could just post your item on your blog using the hListing format? + +Sites like [http://www.edgeio.com/ Edgeio] can scrap hListing data and aggregate it to a larger community which can then bid to you directly, without the hassle of creating and listing an item on multiple sites. + +A complete list of microformats can be found on the [http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page microformats wiki]. + +##Real World Example## + +To get started with microformats let's consider the most basic example, the rel="tag" format. Many people are probably already using this without even realizing it's a microformat. The syntax is simple, start with an ordinary link tag like this: + + <a href="http://mysite.com/wine/" title="my thoughts on wine">wine</a> + +Now if we just add one additional attribute we'll have a microformat that tells search engine spiders that our link is to a page (at least partly) about wine. + + <code><a href="http://mysite.com/wine/" title="my thoughts on wine" rel="tag">wine</a></code> + +The only thing to note is that the url determines to tag, not the link text. in other words: + + <code><a href="http://mysite.com/wine/" title="my thoughts on wine" rel="tag">beer</a></code> + +would be read as a link to the tag wine, **not** beer. + +So far so good, how about something more sophisticated. Let's give hCard a try. Here's some example code: + +<code> + <div id="hcard-Scott-Gilbertson" class="vcard"> + <a class="url fn" href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/">Scott Gilbertson</a> + <div class="org">Wired News</div> + <a class="email" href="mailto:scott_gilbertson@wired.com">scott_gilbertson@wired.com</a> + <div class="adr"> + <div class="street-address">3rd Floor, 520 Third Street</div> + <span class="locality">San Francisco</span>, + <span class="region">CA</span>, + <span class="postal-code">94107</span> + <span class="country-name">USA</span> + </div> + </div> +</code> + +And here's what it would look like rendered in a browser: + +<div id="hcard-Scott-Gilbertson" class="vcard"> +<a class="url fn" href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/">Scott Gilbertson</a> +<div class="org">Wired News</div> +<a class="email" href="mailto:scott_gilbertson@wired.com">scott_gilbertson@wired.com</a> +<div class="adr"> +<div class="street-address">3rd Floor, 520 Third Street</div> +<span class="locality">San Francisco</span>, +<span class="region">CA</span>, +<span class="postal-code">94107</span> +<span class="country-name">USA</span> +</div> +</div> + +If the writing the code yourself is too laborious there's always the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator]. In fact nearly all of the more complicated microformats have code creators that take your input and spit out some cut-and-paste code you can drop into your site. + +For more examples and an in-depth look at various microformats see our more detailed tutorials on [link hCard], [link XFN], [link hCal] and [link hListing].
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Using a series of different <code>rel</code> tags in your markup you can indicate who your friends are what the nature of your relationship is. + +While not officially part of Microformats, XNF uses some microformats to define relationships and the two groups share similar goals. + +##XFN Overview## + +You have blog. Your best friend has a blog. Your blog links to your friend's blog, but beyond that there's no way to indicate that that person is your friend. Let's say you link to your friend's blog like so: + +<code><a href="http://yourfriendsblog.net/">Bill</a> </code> + +And here's what the same link would look like after we drop in some XFN markup: + +<code><a href="http://yourfriendsblog.net/" rel="friend met">Dave</a> </code> + +As you can see we've just added a rel tag and defined Dave as a friend that we've met. The XFN specification has a fairly complete range of options for defining various types of relationship. Some of the more common attributes are: + + +# friendship (at most one): friend acquaintance contact +# physical: met +# professional: co-worker colleague +# geographical (at most one): co-resident neighbor +# family (at most one): child parent sibling spouse kin +# romantic: muse crush date sweetheart +# identity: me + +##What XFN Does## + +The primary benefit of XFN is that page scraping tools like spiders can crawl through your code and pick out various relationships you've defined. It gets even more interesting when those spiders follow your links, crawl your friend's site and find a similar link leading back to you. + +The spider then knows that the relations is symmetrical. In other words, you call Dave a friend and Dave calls you a friend and that relationship is confirmed. When symmetry is established page crawlers can give the relationship added validity. + +Symmetry is also useful with the <code>rel="me"</code> tag since it allows you to claim all the various pages you may have. Sites like Flickr allow you to enter your blog on your profile page and then mark that up with a <code>rel="me"</code> tag. + +If you then link to that same page from your blog, the relationship is symmetrical and a claim of ownership can be assumed. If someone else points to your blog from their Flickr page trying to claim your blog as their own, the lack of a reciprocating link tells a web crawler that the claim is suspect and indexing services will ignore it. + +##Using XFN## + +Hand coding your XFN links isn't that hard, but there is a JavaScript widget that can [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator generate the links for you] if you like. + +So far the primary consumers of XFN have been search engine spiders and some attempts at open social networks like the [http://code.google.com/p/diso/ DiSo project], but Google recently released an oft overlooked [http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=13821 Social Graph API] that relies heavily on XFN data. + +The Social Graph API is somewhat limited at the moment, but there are some interesting tools you can use to see what sort of relationships you might already have defined. To see what sort of things are possible, have a look at the [http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/examples.html example applications]. + + +##Limitations## + +While there are reasonably wide range of options for defining relationships there is one common sort of relationship in the web that XFN doesn't account for -- being a fan of someone. That is, while I have never met Ze Frank, for example, I am a fan of his work and XFN doesn't offer a way to define that relationship. + +However there is a proposed solution, though for the time being it only allows the reverse. For instance if someone is a fan of you, you can add a <code>rel="fan"</code> tag to your outbound link. Unfortunately the reverse isn't possible. + +There are of course further fringe cases which also can't be defined (one particular instance, a child with legal guardians rather than parents has been accepted and will be implemented in the future), but the XFN group has does a good job of preventing the list of definitions from getting too out of hand. If you have a compelling argument for including something, you can always join the group and [http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn-issues add your suggestions].
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Just download and install Acid Search and the next time you restart Safari you'll have a customizable search menu in your toolbar.
Acid Search comes with a whole boatload of predefined search customizations, which it calls "search channels" and allows you to add your own. It's a handy way to switch between searching Google, Technorati, del.icio.us and any other site you want to add. Even better, you can add prefix and suffix terms to your urls. For instance if you'd like to search Google but add the suffix string that [GMBMG][3] adds you can create and search with the normal Google search URL and then add GMBMG's <code>-inurl</code> terms in the suffix field (just make sure you use the URL encoded string).
Acid Search also allows you to assign each custom search channel a keyboard shortcut so it's simple to switch between your various search engines.
If you're aware of similar functionality for Firefox or IE let me know in the comments.
[1]: http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch "Acid Search"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/google_announce_1.html
[3]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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####How it Works
The process of saving a bookmark is simple. Just drag del.icio.us' bookmarklets to your browser toolbar and, whenever you're on a site you want to bookmark, click the button and it will be automatically added to your del.icio.us account. The bookmarklet will take you to the "post" page on del.icio.us where you can then fill any additional information you want to add such as a description, notes, tags and privacy setting.
By default del.icio.us sets all your bookmarks to public which means anyone can see what you've bookmarked. If you'd like to make them private you need to check the "do not share" box when you create a new bookmark. Del.icio.us also auto-suggests tags that might fit your bookmark which can save you some typing.
Once you've saved your bookmark, del.icio.us will return you to the page you were viewing.
The whole process is actually much simpler than it may sound; it takes far more time to describe it than to actually do it.
####Give the People What They Want
Once your bookmarks are in del.icio.us you can share them in a variety of ways. There's a search feature that pulls in results from everyone's bookmarks including yours. And you can also search just your bookmarks to find that lost site you've been looking for.
Del.icio.us also allows you to share your bookmarks with designated people through a feature called "your network." To add people to your network you just enter their screenname, and viola! their (public) bookmarks will be added to your "network" page.
Your network is useful for sharing with friends, family and coworkers, but if you want to see everyone's bookmarks, tags are the way to go. To do this you can use the subscriptions feature. Subscriptions can be by tag, person or both. In other words you can limit a subscription to just Uncle Albert's bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" or you could subscribe to all bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" and so on.
It's also possible to designate individual bookmarks for other del.icio.us users. When you save a new bookmark if you add a for:username tag to it, they will see your bookmark under the "for you" link the next time they log in. This sharing feature works for both public and private bookmarks
Nearly every page in del.icio.us has an RSS feed of some sort, whether it' by tag, user, your network or your subscriptions you can always stay up-to-date via your RSS reader. There's also a nice backend API if you'd like to access your account directly with outside programs.
####Personal Gripes
I may be overly anal or perhaps just old-fashioned, but I rather like putting my bookmarks in folders. I suppose you could argue that tags are a kind of folder, at least on the metaphorical level, but tags are really the only organizational tool del.icio.us offers. The newly redesigned Yahoo Bookmarks has folders though, and since Yahoo owns del.icio.us it's possible this feature could find it's way to del.icio.us at some point.
Many people complain about del.icio.us' rather primitive interface, other people love the minimalist look, you'll have to decide for yourself, but in terms of functionality, del.icio.us has been, and continues to be, one of the sites to beat.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Simple and easy to use
* Good sharing features
* Nice backend API
**Cons**
* Not enough organizational options
* No screen captures (The bookmarks on the main page have them, but individual pages don't)
* Bookmarked pages aren't cached
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One of the annoying things about torrents is that the trackers are often spread all across the web making it time consuming to search each site individually. FullTorrent makes it easy to search over half a dozen such trackers in one spot. And if FullTorrent doesn't currently search your favorite tracker, you can send them a note asking them to add it.
FullTorrent also allows you to set the timeout limit for your search to avoid long page loads for those sites that respond slowly.
The one downside to FullTorrent is it doesn't take you straight to the actual torrent, but dumps you on the hosting page for whatever site is tracking that torrent. While this is slightly annoying, it's still better than searching each site individually.
And please, there are a lot of perfectly legal torrents, let's limit ourselves to those, mmmkay?
[1]: http://www.fulltorrent.net/ "Fulltorrent.net"
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* [Youtube][2] has undergone a partial redesign. While the homepage remains unchanged, other sections are a bit more colorful with "channels" and "groups" now under colored headers.
* Apple [announced a new AJAX webmail interface][3] for its .Mac members complete with drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts and more. Welcome to the 21st century Apple.
* The Google blog is announcing a [new Google Alert for blogs][4]. Type in your search params and Google Alert will send you an email whenever there's a new post that fits your search.
[1]: http://www.flurl.com/ "Flurl.com"
[2]: http://www.youtube.com/index "YouTube.com"
[3]: http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/825D5958-DE09-499C-94A5-6FC8839DA398.html ".Mac webmail update"
[4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-alert-for-bloggers.html "Google Alerts"
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I think we'll probably limit this specifically to sites that let you share bookmarks with other people. Services like Yahoo's Bookmarks and Google Bookmarks are more *storage* sites than *sharing* sites, but I'm sure there are other bookmark sharing sites out there that I don't know about so here's your chance to educate me.
And while we're at it, can anyone explain why social bookmarking sites like to put dots in their name?
[Note that our comments feature strips out html so just type the address in directly and it'll show up.]
[1]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
[4]: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ "StumpleUpon"
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Ubuntu now ships with Firefox 2.0 installed as well as version 2.8 of the Evolution mail client. Ubuntu 6.1 also features F-Spot, a nice looking photo organizer that can upload to many popular photo sharing sites including Flickr. Also included is the very handy Tomboy, a wiki-style note taking tool. For full details see the [6.1 release notes][1].
The new version promises faster boot times and features a new optimized kernal and GNOME 2.16.
I've been playing around with running various Linux distributions under Parallels on my MacBook and I can definitely say if you've never used Linux before, Ubuntu is a great place to start.
Disk images and torrent files can be downloaded from [the Ubuntu site][3].
[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes "New Ubuntu Released"
[2]: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/610released "Release Announcement for Ubuntu 6.10"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download?action=show&redirect=download "Download Ubuntu 6.10"
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Fanpop's concept is simple. Browse links by category. When you find a link that piques your interest, click it and you will be taken to that site. Fanpop leaves a simple, unobtrusive toolbar across the top of your browser window and the external page is in a frame -- very similar to the results from a Google image search. The Fanpop toolbar enables you to jump back to Fanpop to rate or comment on the link and of course you can close the frame and leave Fanpop behind.
Fanpop is built around the concept of "spots" which is really just a poor name for groups. Like groups on say flickr.com, you can join whatever Fanpop "spots" you like and contribute links to a community of like-minded users. All groups have rss feeds you can subscribe to.
Fanpop is an interesting concept, I'm not sure how much the social networking aspect will appeal to people but it seems to me there is a need for some kind of human-filtered means of searching the web. Who wouldn't like to have Google results rated by quality rather than simple page rankings (which admittedly aren't simple)? And what if that quality rating came from people you knew you could trust?
Fanpop is sort of a halfway point, it searches its user posted listings which more than likely came from searching something else. I'd like Fanpop a whole lot more if it limited itself to essentially providing Google-like search results with user ratings... Perhaps there is something like that out there, anyone care to educate me?
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* Google added links to [Google Blog Search][1] on the front page of [Google News][2] this weekend, a quiet reminder that they haven't forgotten about the underused Blog Search service.
* [YouTube wiped nearly 30,000 files][3] from its website this weekend after copyright complaints from Japanese media companies.
* Tomorrow will see the release of the official version of Firefox 2.0 but it appears the new version is [already on the Mozilla foundation's FTP servers][4].
* Regretting those pics from last year's Christmas party that linger on flickr.com? A newly-launched service, [Reputation Defender][5], can help you monitor and erase such info. And if the site in question won't remove the content, Reputation Defender can set the lawyers on them.
* It's that time of year: Google Earth adds U.S. election guide. The new overlays include information with candidate names, parties and links to register to vote. [[Lifehacker]][6]
[1]: http://blogsearch.google.com/ "Google Blog Search"
[2]: http://news.google.com/ "Google News"
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061020-8038.html "Google removes Video files"
[4]: http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4242/44/ "Firefox 2.0"
[5]: https://www.reputationdefender.com/
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/google-earth/google-earth-adds-us-election-guide-209430.php "Google Earth Adds Election Guide"
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The free component cuts off at three message reminders per day. It's possible to buy more, but I was unable to find a price list. Also note that your mobile service provider may charge you for incoming SMS messages depending on your service plan.
The javascript heavy interface may put some people off, but the demo was responsive and easy to use when I tested it. It's not the most attractive interface, but the functionality is impressive.
The SMS test widget that mymemorizer provides worked fine on my phone (cingular) your milage may vary.
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Realtravel is not aimed at finding airfares or buying tickets online, though it does have some links and price listings, instead Realtravel's main focus is on user stories, tips and reviews.
Realtravel offers far too many things to cover in a short post, but my favorite section is the destinations tab. Under destinations you'll get a map with the world broken into regions for easy browsing, or you can pick a country from the "most blogged" list. Once you select a country you'll be taken to that country's page which has a wealth of information ranging from dining reviews to travel ideas and everything in between. From there you can continue to tunnel in a get more detailed information by city.
What makes Realtravel worthwhile for travelers is their user-generated content. Anyone can buy a guidebook, but do you know how long it takes for a guidebook to get printed and onto the shelf? Most guidebooks are hopelessly outdated before they even get into your hands. Realtravel and other sites like it are invaluable for their up-to-the-minute stories, reviews and trip suggestions from travelers who've just been in, and in some cases, currently are in, the places you're headed for.
I wish I could say Realtravel has a great interface for creating your own travel blog and contributing to the community, but unfortunately the sign up process is somewhat long and more convoluted than seems necessary and once you have an account set up the process of posting to it is fairly arduous as well. Still if you're willing to jump through the hoops, you can get a free blog, picture uploads, and more.
[1]: http://realtravel.com/ "Real Travel"
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<p>Reputation Defender claims they will monitor sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga, Bebo, Flickr, LiveJournal and a whole host of others for any material that might be damaging to you. If they do find something they will, on your behalf, ask the site owner to remove it. Should the site owner refuse, Reputation Defender will "use our array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web."</p>
<p>Reputation Defender is a paid service with rates starting at $15.95 a month for six months. </p>
<p>The site also offers two other related services they call "mychild" and "myprivacy." My child searches and collects information on your child and provides a monthly report. Setting aside the vaguely Orwellian feeling that gives me, I can see where, with the recently announced number of registered sex offenders on MySpace, this would be an attract service for many parents.</p>
<p>The "my privacy" feature is not yet available but promises to do something about the massive number of companies that buy and sell personal information, much of which is often inaccurate. This sounds like something I'd actually want.</p>
<p>The site didn't have an answer to the first question that popped in my mind — what about duplicate names? For instance there is a Scott Gilbertson serving time in prison in Michigan for something or other, how will Reputation Defender know that's not me?</p>
<p>Another thing I haven't been able to sort out from browsing the site is the exact legal status of the "destroy" component of Reputation Defender. After all, just because you're applying for a job, why does that mean I have to take down those pics from the Animal House-style Halloween Party of 2002? And if I refuse is there any legal ground to compel me to take them down? The user agreement on the site says, "[Reputation Defender] does not guarantee or warrant that it will be successful in effecting removal or alteration," which seems to imply that there may not be a legal way to force content removal.</p>
<p>I'm no lawyer so if you have any insight please leave your thoughts in the comments section.</p>
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In other Skype-related news, there's a new site, [Anothr][2], that allows you to get RSS feeds delivered via your Skype account. I was impressed with the idea until I ran across this tidbit in the company's blog: "Skype is not only a cool voice-over-IP tool, but also a perfect P2P application platform with high security."
If anyone out there thinks the VOIP protocol has "high security," contact me for some important real estate listings you don't want to miss.
[1]: http://www.Skype.com/download/Skype/macosx/ "Skype 2.0 of Mac"
[2]: http://www.anothr.com/ "RSS to your Skype Account"
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Ilike has all the familar trapping of a social networking site, create a profile, various ways to meet new members, upload pictures, and more, but iLike also has some very nice tools for finding new music.
The main tool is the iTunes sidebar. The iLike sidebar is an iTunes plugin that adds a sidebar to your iTunes application and makes music recommendations based on what you're listening to at the time. The sidebar adds a little bit of startup time to iTunes, but once it's running it doesn't seem to add any load to the application. Naturally you must be connected to the internet for the iLike sidebar to work.
There are two categories of recommendation from the iLike sidebar: established artists and new, unsigned artists. When you're listening to a song and you see an iLike recommendation you like just click the arrow beside the name and iLike pauses your iTunes playback and streams the new song from its host site. For the established artists you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song (from iTunes Music Store).
Music for the unsigned artists comes from iLike's partner site, GarageBand and you can listen to the whole song. If you decide you like the song there's a link that will open your web browser and download the file. It would be nice if iLike could somehow just download the song in the background and automatically add it to your library, but that currently isn't possible (if you use Safari this more or less happens anyway).
iLike accounts offers a sort of privacy control that lets you hide "embarrassing" artists which is a good way to hide that fact that I'm currently rockin' the Dio. Not really. Seriously. I'm not.
The search and recommendations feature is fairly good. I tried throwing a few more obscure artists at it and it was stumped by some them, but it surprised me by finding recommendations for many of them. Interestingly enough, while a few randomly selected Sun Ra tracks turned up nothing in the way of matches, other Sun Ra songs did -- go figure. I suppose as time goes on and more members give more information, the recommended tracks will likely become better.
ILife also claims they will be adding support for other music players in the future (in fact they're openly soliciting programmers to help them if that's your bag).
I will confess to being initially ill-disposed toward iLike and I can take or leave the actual website and social network aspect of the service, but the iTunes sidebar is very slick. It integrates nicely with iTunes and it's a great way to explore both established and new, emerging artists. I try out a lot of stuff for this blog and most of it I forget about a month later, but iLike I might actually keeping around.
[1]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike Music Networking site"
[2]: http://garageband.com/ "GarageBand.com"
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How does the data collection process work?
What methods do you employ for gathering the data on people -- is it all spiders/bots or is there a human element as well?
How do you sort out name collision? For any given name there are usually several individuals in the country, how do you know who's who? And how do you a pontentially libelous statement is directed at your client and not another person with the same name?
From the site:
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"Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web"
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What methods do you use to eliminate content?
Is there a legal component and if so on what basis? Obviously libel law applies in some cases, but what about "embarrassing" content, can you effect the removal of that as well? i.e. drunken prank video on YouTube etc.
How do you handle material posted on sites outside U.S. jurisdiction?
I realize the "myprivacy" feature is in "coming soon" status, but can you say anything about how you plan to get these companies to stop selling personal data?
And finally, this is a bit more abstract, but...
There was a comment on a mashable.com post on reputation defender that talked about human nature being more reactive than proactive and thus people are more likely to care about things of this nature after it's too late (in otherwords after they don't get the job etc). Do you have any response to this thought?
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It's an interesting way to dig through census data (or at least I'm assuming the information is coming from census data) without loosing yourself in the numbers. The color codes on the map could be a little bit starker in contrast, sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what shade you're looking at, and deeper zooming on the maps would be nice, but Neighboroo is great at what it does.
Handy for anyone who's moving or thinking of moving and I'm sure there's other uses as well. Found via Folksonomy.
[1]: http://www.neighboroo.com/ "Neighboroo.com"
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* Struggling podcast site [Odeo][1] was acquired today by [Obvious Corp][2] a new company founded by, among others, Odeo's own founder Evan Williams
* Social music service [iLike][3] launched its public beta last night. Similar to Last.fm, iLike is a social networking site built around the music you listen to. iLike helps connect you with emerging artists based on similarities with music you already like.
* Adobe Labs has release a public beta for a new piece of software it calls [SoundBooth][4]. Soundbooth is designed to allow you to easily clean up and edit your audio recordings.
* And finally here's something for the bored: [all 200,000 Enron emails][5] in a searchable database. From Trampoline: "The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten."
[1]: http://odeo.com/ "odeo.com"
[2]: http://obviouscorp.com/ "Obvious Corp"
[3]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike.com"
[4]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/ "Adobe Soundbooth Beta"
[5]: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/ "Browse Enron emails"
[6]: http://veeker.com/veeker/Login.html "Veeker.com"
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The user interface and layout is vaguely reminiscent of Flickr, clean, simple and slick. There is no way to directly customize the code of your pages but Vox gives you a ton of page "themes" (165 of them to be exact) to choose from so your pages can have your personal stamp. Even better, adding external content like YouTube movies dead simple.
There's also very minimal advertising on the site pages, most of the ads are confined to the inside editing pages. Within your page there are monitized Amazon affiliate links and other small things, but for the most part you don't notice it when browsing through the site.
As much as I would like to call Vox a potential MySpace killer, the truth is I think they're after a much different demographic. I don't know that the kids will flock to Vox, but older users looking for a non-technical way to join an online community should be very happy with Vox.
No word on how this affects the future of LiveJournal.
[1]: http://www.vox.com/ "Vox.com"
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As a Mac user, Windows updates tend to slip by me, but Media Player is somewhat cross-platform and I would like to be able to watch .wmv movies on my Mac. Unfortunately Microsoft ceased development on the Mac version of Windows Media Player back at Windows Media Player 9.
Since that time [Flip4Mac][1] has released a set of codecs that allow you to watch .wmv files via Quicktime (Flip4Mac's free offering is essential a set of codecs that allow Quicktime to read .wmv files). With Microsoft's own website pointing Mac users to Flip4Mac, this seems to be the only option at this point.
I've been quite happy with Flip4Mac and in some ways I like .wmv better than Quicktime movies, but with the imminent release of a new version of Windows Media Player it's possible that we Mac users won't be able to view movies made with the new player.
Does anyone have an suggestions on alternate ways a Mac user can view wmv files? Are there any alternative to Flip4Mac? And does anyone know of a Mac program that can handle Windows Media DRM files (something neither Flip4Mac nor the old official WMPlayer 9 can do)?
[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/ "Flip4Mac"
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The look and feel of Fedora Core 6 have changed a bit too with a new default font and theme. Naturally the new version ships with the latest releases of GNOME and KDE, as well as "some additional options in window managers."
Red Hat claims users will see a noticeable speed boost in application start up, particularly for memory heavy apps like OpenOffice. From the Red Hat press release:
>Enhancements in performance in Fedora Core 6 build upon established, underlying systems. The start-up boost that applications such as OpenOffice.org receive is gained from being rebuilt with DT_GNU_HASH. This hash is optimized for speed and data cache accesses. Another area of enhanced performance is in network file systems, including NFS.
Grab the [torrent from the Fedora site][3].
[1]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/ "Fedora Core 6 released"
[2]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html "Core 6 release notes"
[3]: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ "Download Fedora Core 6 via torrent file"
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I just gave it a shot and indeed it works as advertised. After you make your request and before you get your answer you have have to sit through fifteen seconds of adverts. I guess the real question is, what do you value more -- those fifteen seconds of your time, or the $1.25 traditional 411 charges?
[1]: http://www.free411.com/index.php "Call information for free"
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A number of competing sites like [Rollyo][2] (which we have [covered in the past][3]) have offered similar services for some time, but the big difference in Google's offering is the ability to monotize your search engine. Which is of course jargon for "it connects to your AdSense account."
Setup is relatively simple. You create a search engine, give it a name, description and some keywords to indicate what it's targeting. Then you add the sites you want to search. According to Google's docs, "you can specify single web pages, entire web sites, and patterns that match certain pages or directories on a site." Which means that target only the content you want found. For instance, if you're including your blog in your search engine, you can tell Google to ignore the homepage (which may change frequently and therefore not be up-to-date in Google's index) and only search your permalinks or individual pages. You can also exclude whole domains using wildcard characters which allows you to build a search engine that can search the whole web, but ignore known link-spam sites (in fact someone has already [start such a search engine][9]).
Once your search engine is built you can collaborate with others by inviting them to contribute to your search engine. Contributors can add sites to include or exclude in your search engine and apply search refinements to them, but they can't change the look or feel of your search, nor can they make money from it. The contributors feature can be open to the world at large or limited to people you invite. This will likely be a popular feature with large organizations looking to build a customized search engine that serves a whole company.
Another useful feature is the "refinements" option which allows you "annotate the websites in your search engine with labels that help users narrow down their search." The labels appear as links at the top of your search results pages and when a user clicks the link that site is given priority in search results.
One nice feature of Rollyo that Google's offering thus far lacks is the [Rollbar][4]. True, Google has [a bookmarklet for easily adding sites to your search][10] as you find them, but the Rollyo Rollbar takes this a step further and let's you search whatever page you're on, whether you add it to your search engine or not. Hopefully Google will offer something similar soon.
You can customize the look and feel of your search engine, colors, logo, and more. And there's about half a dozen other [tweaks][6] and [customizations][5] you can apply that I don't have time to cover in detail.
####But what does it all mean?
Well there's really two possibilities here. One is for web users like you and me who want to be able to control which sites get searched and, perhaps more importantly, which sites *don't* get searched. There is also the potential to earn some revenue via AdSense, but let's be honest, for the average user that isn't going to be much.
And then there's the other side of it for those looking to build a custom search feature into a webpage. For instance, if you have a blog where you write posts but you also pull in photos from your Flickr page, you might want to make a search engine that will search both you blog posts and your Flickr pages for a given term. Most blogging software can do a fairly decent job of searching your posts, but it's useless for the Flickr content. By embedding your custom Google search page in an iframe, you've suddenly got a more powerful search with very little setup effort. To see a real world example of a customized Google search try using the search feature at [RealClimate][7].
All and all Google's new customized search is a very impressive offering, but there are some downsides. if you use the service on your site in an iframe you'll get Google's text ads in addition to your results (you can only get rid of adds if your site qualifies as a "501(c)(3) non-profit, university, or government agency website"). Then there's the whole iframe concept, which is annoying. Thankfully Google is offering what they call an [AJAX Search API][8] for advanced users.
Now if I could just figure out how to get Safari's toolbar Google search to automatically use my new customized search page....
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html "Google Announces new Customized Search"
[2]: http://www.rollyo.com/ "Rollyo.com"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/08/rollyo_introduc.html "Monkeybites on Rollyo"
[4]: http://www.rollyo.com/bookmarklet.html "Rollbar Bookmarklet"
[5]: http://www.google.com/coop/docs/cse/cse_file.html "Custom Search Engine XML Specification"
[6]: http://google.com/coop/docs/cse/label_file.html "Annotations label file "
[7]: http://www.realclimate.org/ "Try Real Climate's implementation of Google's Customized search engine"
[8]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ "Google Custom Search AJAX API"
[9]: http://www.putch.com/
[10]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/marker "Google marker bookmarklet"
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The internet has been all abuzz since MediaFire launched last weekend and so far the reaction seems positive. This is one of those services where I keep waiting for someone to find the hidden catch, but to the best of my knowledge no one seems to have found a catch.
MediaFire acts as a file transfer and storage facility. You upload a file and MediaFire stores it for you. Pretty simple. Transfer times will depend on your internet connection speed.
Once you've uploaded a file MediaFire gives you some cut-and-paste links, one for direct download url, one to create links on your site and one even give you the link in forum code for phpBB and similar bulletin boards. You can also chose send a link via AIM or Yahoo messenger services, or you can send out an email to notify people of your upload.
As some users have pointed out, the email sent vaguely resembles spam, which could cause problems if you have aggressive spam filters, but otherwise the site is excellent. The interface is simple and easy to use with nice AJAXy progress bars and upload status information.
Though you don't have to, you can sign up for a free account.
There's no ads on the site, and in fact Mediafire might be one of the simplest sites I've seen in a long time. There isn't much in the way of advertising either which is nice. The only thing I can't figure out is how they plan to make money. Of course that never stopped YouTube.
[1]: http://www.mediafire.com/ "MediaFire.com"
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* [Apple computer announced][1] that "its entire MacBook Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation."
* Google launched a customized search service this morning. Called [Google Co-op][2], the service allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included in the results.
* [IBM is suing Amazon][3] over some e-commerce patents, most notably the technology that powers the product recommendation features.
* CrunchGear is reporting an interesting rumor (note that, *rumor*) that Microsoft's upcoming [Zune mp3 player will offer referral payments][4] which you can cash in for free songs or other items from the Zune Marketplace.
*
[1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/oct/24macbookpro.html "New Macbook Pros"
[2]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ "Google Co-op"
[3]: http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=47239 "IBM sues Amazon"
[4]: http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/23/zune-to-pay-you-back-for-sharing-songs/ "Earn credits for sharing music? Maybe."
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I found the user content more appealing, but Travelistic does license some fairly big-name video content like ThirstyTraveler and others. The site also claims to be looking for "Rocketboom of Travel" so if you feel you've got the talent... (Note to Travelistic: I think this would be more compelling if advertised as "the Ze Frank of travel").
Travelistic also has a super handy feature named "mapify" that lets you generate cut-n-paste code to drop a Google map on your profile page so others can track where you are in the world.
[1]: http://www.travelistic.com/ "Travelistic.com"
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When you write about the happenings of the tech world Muammar Qaddafi doesn't come up much, but in this case he's one of the first customers of the 2B1 and he hopes to put one in the hands of every child in Libya. China, Argentina, Brazil and others are also slated to receive the new machines.
But it seems that no good deed must go uncriticized and in this case the winner of the Monty Burns Jackass Award is Intel CEO Craig Barrett who has roundly criticized the project and, according to Forbes magazine, wrote an internal memo claiming "the OLPC represents a limited version of the modern PC, reliant on old hardware that limits its functionality."
I think what he means by this is that the 2B1 uses cutting edge hardware from rival chip maker AMD. Bill Gates is no big fan of the project either. Would it shock you to learn that the 2B1 ships with Linux pre-installed? I didn't think so.
Having just returned from traveling in some of the countries slated to receive these machines I thought I'd share a few thoughts. First off no one who's living a small rural village cares whether or not they have the latest hardware or software. Many of the potential recipients of these machines would be happy to get running water or electricity.
The other thing that I think get's overlooked quite a bit in the 2B1 coverage is that these machines can form an ad-hoc wireless network with each other. I haven't been able to track down distance specs for the network, but one of things that limits the lives of people in remote locations is lack of communication and anything that addresses this need is going to be welcome.
If current plans hold, OLPC will ship at least 50 million 2B1s a year by the end of 2008. That's more than all the laptops sold worldwide last year.
[1]: http://laptop.org "One Laptop Per Child"
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Yahoo's services have always been a bit of a jumble (go the home page and try to find a link to MyWeb) and frankly I still haven't figured out a way to get to the new Bookmarks service without typing it straight in the url. But it is in beta so we'll leave that alone for now.
If you'd like to see what all the new Bookmarks service has to offer there's [an excellent screencast available][3], but I'll give a quick overview anyway.
Yahoo Bookmarks has all the standard bells and whistles we've come to expect in bookmarking sites such as annotations, tags and thumbnails. It also offers a caching feature much like [Ma.gnolia][4] which stores the content of the page so it's accessible even if the page disappears. Personally this is the reason I switched from Del.icio.us to Magnolia some time ago so kudos to Yahoo for offering this feature. Unfortunately the "view saved copy" link didn't actually work when I tested it, but it may just take a little while for Yahoo to actually cache the page.
The integration with the Yahoo toolbar is seamless and quite nice, something I wish other services were better at providing. Yahoo also claims it's working on integrating with FireFox which would be nice for users that don't want to be bound to the Yahoo toolbar.
While at first glance Bookmarks looks a lot like a better designed, AJAX heavy De.lico.us, they're really quite different. For one thing, Yahoo Bookmarks is not a social bookmarking site, it's a way to store your bookmarks online. You can share bookmarks by emailing them to others, but there is no "community pool" feature and no searching through other users bookmarks such as del.ici.ous offers.
There are more powerful bookmarking sites out there, but Yahoo's interface is nice and for existing Yahoo users the addition of Bookmarks will no doubt prove useful. As for those already using Del.icio.and other services, or those wanting the sharing aspect of social bookmarking site, Yahoo's new service may leave you wanting.
And finally I should note that Safari had some issues with Yahoo's JavaScript features, but everything worked well in FireFox. Your mileage may vary.
[1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/Yahoo-bookmarks-enters-21st-century/#comment-298831
[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"
[3]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/welcome "Yahoo Bookmarks Screencast"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com "Social bookmarking with Ma.gnolia"
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Briefly is simple and efficient. I was able to very easily find a PDF manual for my Canon s50 camera without wading through the results of a traditional search. Briefli ignores links in pages in favor of the actual files those links point to, making it more efficient for finding files than an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search.
Along the same lines is the nice [GMBMG][4] (Give Me Back My Google), which strips out affiliate links in Google searches.
And yes I know I can do all this stuff myself on Google, but services like Briefli and GMBMG save me from having to remember all those keywords and operators.
For those that have never explored the extensive list of keywords and operators that Google offers for refining searches, check out the [Advanced Operators][3] documentation.
[1]: http://www.briefli.com/
[2]: http://www.marcandangel.com/2006/10/13/turn-google-into-napster-2000/ "Google Advanced Search Techniques"
[3]: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html "Google Advanced Operators"
[4]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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It's almost like a record company has suddenly realized what century it is. But not really, because after an hour on Google I'm no closer to finding a link to said service than I was when I read about it yesterday. Oh there's half a dozen pages of news blurbs culled from Parlophone press releases, but nothing like an actual link. Parlophone's own website resembles a link spam page and offers nothing more than links to its artist's websites.
Assuming Parlophone (and the several other labels that already use this service) ever get their act together and provide some information to these struggling artists they purport to support, the question remains -- will the kids today even care?
Let's see, upload your music to Parlophone and hope a suit will hear the money in your songs, or upload it to MySpace and reach millions of fans directly... Gosh. It's almost like, uh, maybe we don't need these record companies anymore.
[1]: http://www.parlophone.co.uk/newsite/ "Parlophone Website"
[2]: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1930202,00.html "Guardian Article on Parlophone Announcement"
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* Windows Defender [the free anti-spyware package][1] from Microsoft has entered the final release phase. Finally. After two years.
* Yahoo announces [Yahoo Bookmarks][2] a delicious like bookmarking service for Yahoo members.
* [Amazon has said no to Google's request][3] for information about Amazon's book search feature. Amazon lawyers claim Google wants "essentially all documents concerning Amazon's sale of books on its Web sites, and all searching and indexing functions." Ya think? Google says it needs the information to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.
* [Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop][4] is going into production in November. The goal is to provide cheap technology for children around the world.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en "Download Windows Defender"
[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"
[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KV7AUO0.htm "Google wants Amazon Search Info"
[4]: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391805/ "$100 laptop starts production"
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Or a nearly free upgrade since the exact process varies somewhat between manufacturers. [NotebookReview][2] has a detailed rundown of what different vendors are offering in terms of rebates.
The upgrade program is good from October 26, 2006 thru March 15, 2007. In some ways there's never been a better time to buy a new machine since you'll effectively get both Vista and XP for the price of one.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/expressupgrade.mspx "Free Upgrade to Vista for eligible Purchases"
[2]: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3302
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You probably think of Amazon as a store, but Amazon would like to change that impression. Today's Business Week has a long article entitled *[Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet][2]* that focuses on Amazon's attempt to transform from an e-commerce giant to a software company.
One of the big problems with e-commerce packages is that they're either too customized or not customizable enough. Amazon's strength lies in the fact that Amazon, as an article on [Web Services Journal][3] puts it, "eats it's own dog food."
To solve this problem of the gap between what a programmer thinks is necessary in a web service and what a business actually wants, Amazon effectively forked itself into components. As it set about developing web services for internal use, Amazon became a consumer of its own services. The feedback that happened internally at Amazon has led to a package of web services that take some remarkably complex engineering problems and wrap them up in easy to use APIs. That Amazon has turned around and started offering various web service APIs to the world at large, is indicative of it's transformation from online store to online service provider.
And the services that Amazon is now slowly releasing are in fact the same tools it uses to power it's own e-commerce offerings.
From an engineer point of view what makes Amazon's offerings, for instance the S3 storage service, compelling is that the services are completely decoupled from each other. If a small business wants to use S3 to store data but doesn't want any other service from Amazon and in fact wants to use a competing service for the other areas of their business, that's fine. The S3 service has no lock-in with anything else. Amazon has essentially just taken the core principles of Object Oriented Programming and scaled them to encompass whole web services.
While this is a somewhat technical point that may be lost on many observers, for savvy web 2.0 startups this means they aren't entangled in a spider web of interconnected components. It also means Amazon's services scale well. Because of the loose coupling between them, Amazon makes it easy to add new services as a company grows or to discard services that are no longer needed.
It might sound too simple to be remarkable, but Amazon's greatest strength in the web services game may be that it has taken to heart an old engineering quip, do one thing and do it well. In Amazon's case this means have each individual part do one thing and do it well. Doing one thing well is far often more valuable to businesses than a huge unwieldy service that attempts to do everything and ends up doing nothing very well.
But as the Business Week article points out, Wall Street is still scratching it's head trying to figure out where the money is. Analysts seem so far skeptical of a model that takes e-commerce necessities like search, storage, lookup and management of data and turns them into pay-per-use services.
And In some respects Wall Street is right, the target market here is small and medium size businesses, larger companies may well stay with in-house solutions. Is Amazon betting on the long tail effect for revenue? That remains to be seen, but it is worth noting that some big players have already taken advantage of Amazon's services, most notably Microsoft which uses the Elastic Compute Cloud service to help speed software downloads.
Amazon will very likely be rolling out some more services and an overview of it's strategy at next week's Web 2.0 Conference.
Monkey Bites coverage of the Web 2.0 Conference begins on Wednesday, be sure to check here for all the latest news.
[1]: http://Amazon.com/ "Amazon.com"
[2]: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.htm "Business Week"
[3]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/262024.htm "Web Services Journal"
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According to [The Hollywood Reporter][2], the new site plans on "offering a syndication capability allowing users to grab and embed their favorite clips for posting on their own Web pages."
Hmm. That sounds like another site I've heard of.
The new site will also feature clips in Flash for better cross-platform capability (the current site shows .wmv movies).
The good news is that the Comedy Central website has no where to go but up. The current site is a disaster, the kind of site the haunts Jakob Nielsen's darkest nightmares
In researching this post, the current site managed to crash Safari three times and in Firefox produced a bizarre flickering effect and overlaid content on top of the menus. Hopefully these and myriad of other issues will be addressed in the revamping.
It's nice to see Comedy Central trying to improve their site and reaching out to viewers wanting online content, but I can't help thinking that a partnership with YouTube might make more sense. I manage to watch The Daily Show almost every day and until today I'd never actually been to the Comedy Central site. I suspect that I am not alone in this.
YouTube already offers a distribution network exactly like what Comedy Central claims they are building, why not use it? Comedy Central may be a destination channel on the dial, but that doesn't translate to a destination website, which is something corporate media companies fail to understand. The audience doesn't want all their Comedy Central video content in one place, they want *all* their video content in one place.
[Update: It would seem that the flickering effect I witnessed was actually due to an adblocking plugin. But hey, if you can't block the ads, what's the point in browsing the internet?]
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/comedy_central_.html "Monkey Bites on CC and YouTube"
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3iBJfr5p%2BGfIe4f6SRiNPJ7w%3D%3D
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With the "Evoca Browser Mic", you can let visitors post audio comments. The comments are private and accessible only by the site owner. To get your comments you need to login to your Evoca account.
I suspect that the default private comments setting will change fairly soon as I think most people would be more interested in public audio comments.
There are currently plugins for TypePad, Wordpress and Blogger.
There are other services that have previously offered similar features, but none that I'm aware of offer the plugin support that Evoca gives.
Can't wait to hear the first audio spam comments
[found via [Mashable][2]]
[1]: http://www.evoca.com/ "Evoca.com"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/03/evoca-launches-voice-comments-for-myspace-blogs/ "Mashable.com"
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The developers' goal was to create a GNU/Linux distribution where all sources, from the kernal itself to the applications in the system, were free and available to user.
Ted Teah, the FSF's software directory maintainer says, "with all the kernel firmware and restricted repositories removed, and the reliance on Ubuntu's proprietary distribution management tool gone, this distribution is the most advanced GNU/Linux distribution that has a commitment to be 100% free."
The developers added that their aim is "to produce a fully free distribution, not to have as many features as possible."
I want to get behind this because I'm a big supporter of free software, but there seems to be something perverse about ditching features and therefore usefulness just to gain total freedom. What good is freedom if I can't use it? And I get the pun in the name, but I also can't help wondering if perhaps the FSF isn't becoming more of fringe "nuisance" than a viable "new sense."
[1]: http://www.gnewsense.org "gNewSense"
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* Apple is offering a [free 30-day trial][1] of their post-production photo tool, Aperture. The trial gives you an uncrippled version of Aperture, but it doesn't come with samples or tutorials and it expires 30 days after the first launch.
* One of the first things I noticed about Firefox 2.0 was that it ditched the option to block 3rd part cookies. [Here's a thread in the MozillaZine Forums][2] that tells how to restore that setting.
* CNet reports that Microsoft's failed MSN music site will soon be [redirecting to the Zune Marketplace Web][3].
* Did you know the NSA uses Linux? Did you know you can [download their "security enhanced"][4] version?
* And finally, there's an interesting (and long) [story on IEEE Spectrum][5] about a new project named Parakey, from Blake Ross the creator of Firefox.
[1]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/trial/
[2]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=478545&sid=dc67fdf31128b1926968063cd7f6247f
[3]: http://news.com.com/MSN+Music+presses+mute+on+downloads/2100-1027_3-6132201.html
[4]: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/code/download0.cfm
[5]: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696
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Travelhiker is looking for people to write detailed city guides. Travelhiker calls this "[The Travelhiker Project][2]." Once you've signed up for an account you enter your Google Adsense ID and you'll get half the revenue generated by your page. It's a nice incentive to get people contributing and its always nice to get a little something for your writing. I don't think anyone is going to get rich, but in many places a little bit of money can go a long way.
The interesting thing about Travelhiker's program is there's really no need to be a traveller to take advantage of it. In fact hometown knowledge is usually better since you can offer inside information and cool hidden treasures for out-or-towners looking for things the guidebooks will miss.
Travelhiker has another cool feature that isn't new. There's a whole section of site devoted to helping you plan a trip and find people who might be interested in going with you. Some places can be overwhelming on your own (India comes to mind), and this way you can kind find other people interested in going to the same places you're headed.
Travelhiker is relatively new and doesn't have a huge user base yet, but I expect the site to grow. I should note that the site didn't work very well in Safari, but it was fine in Firefox.
[1]: http://travelhiker.com/index.php "Travelhiker.com"
[2]: http://travelhiker.com/about_travelguides.php
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Microsoft claims it's aiming Office Accounting Express at eBay sellers and other home and small businesses, which probably accounts for the give away. Such users are unlikely to be willing to spend money on new software when they already have Excel and other programs.
While the basic software is free certain online premium services are also available for additional fees.
Office Accounting Express 2007 requires Windows XP, 2003 Server or Vista.
[1]: http://www.ideawins.com/ "Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007"
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Ma.gnolia works very similar to del.icio.us and offers almost all the same basic features but it adds a few more. Ma.gnolia allows you to rate your bookmarks using a 5 star rating system (very similar to NetFlix), and ma.gnolia allows you to cross post with del.icio.us so you can in effect use both at the same time.
Ma.gnolia also recently added a feature they call "roots." Roots is a javascript bookmarklet that you can save in your browser and when you're on a page, just click the bookmarklet and a javascript window will overlay the page and display how many ma.gnolia users have linked to that site and give their ratings and descriptions of the site.
I switched to ma.gnolia because of their backend API. I love online storage of bookmarks and I like the sharing aspect of all these services, but I also like to share bookmarks through my own site. Both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia offer programming APIs which allow you to connect and pull out bookmarks, but del.icio.us truncates the description field and ma.gnolia doesn't.
This was the main reason I switched (though in fairness this was some time ago and it's possible that del.icio.us no longer does that). The ma.gnolia API is both deep and rich in methods allowing you to do just about anything you want with the data retreived.
Ma.gnolia also has an [API that mirrors the del.icio.us API][2] so that tools built for del.icio.us can also work with ma.gnolia.
Ma.gnolia has a very well designed user interface and makes nice use of AJAX without being bogged down in useless tricks.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Feature rich and actively developed
* Screen captures and page cache
* Excellent backend API
**Cons**
* No folders for organization
* The interface design is nice, but some may find it slower than del.icio.us
Previously reviewed:
[del.icio.us][3]
[1]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia.com"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/08/23/the-mirrord-api "Ma.gnolia's del.icio.us API mirror"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
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Some people claim they can't tell the difference so don't expect miracles, but i've noticed that javascript seems to execute faster (making GMail much quicker) and the overall memory footprint seems smaller.
All of my Firefox plugins and add-ons work perfectly and updating them in one build also updates the other builds. I haven't tried running both versions at the same time since that seems like asking for trouble.
Swiftfox offers a similar set of [optimized builds for linux users][1], and further digging revealed that Mozilla has a [whole forum full of different optimized builds][3]
[1]: http://getswiftfox.com/ "Swiftfox optimized Firefox builds"
[2]: http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2006/10/26/firefox-20 "Beatnikpad Mac-optimized Firefox Builds"
[3]: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42 "Third Party/Unofficial Firefox builds"
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* On a similar note, [MySpace is expected to announce a partnership with Gracenote][6] today. Gracenote will help MySpace "detect and block copyrighted music from being posted on MySpace member pages." [via [TechCrunch][7]]
* The very first global [Internet Governance Forum][1] gets together starting today to discuss the future of the internet [via [LifeHacker][2]]
* [Minglenow][8] is a new social networking site based around the club and bar scene, providing yet another excellent resource for stalkers. [via [Mashable][9]]
* The NBA kicks off its season this week and with that in mind here's a link to a set of [RSS feeds from the official NBA website][3]. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]
[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6087174.stm "The BBC of the Internet Governance Forum"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/ "LifeHacker"
[3]: http://www.nba.com/rss/index.html "NBA RSS feeds"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/sports_finds.html "MicroPersuatsion.com"
[5]: http://www.newscloud.com/read/75528 "YouTube Removes Comedy Central materials"
[6]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/29/myspace-moves-to-protect-copyright-holders/ "TechCrunch: MySpace Moves to Protect Copyright Holders"
[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/ "TechCrunch"
[8]: http://minglenow.com/ "Minglenow.com"
[9]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/30/minglenow-launches-myspace-for-events-and-nightlife/
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On the storage side, Wink offers many of the same features as del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, but focuses more on the search and discover aspects of social bookmarking. Wink offers a feature that allows you sync your del.icio.us bookmarks with your Wink account, making it easy to migrate from del.icio.us to Wink, or simply use both sites. That said, I couldn't get it to work for me. Clicking the "sync with del.icio.us" link opened an AJAXy window on top of the page, but never displayed anything else.
For adding bookmarks Wink provides the same sort of bookmarklet setup that other sites offer, just drag it to your toolbar and click it whenever you're on a page you want to save. Beware that Wink's bookmarklet opens in a popup window which some browsers may block. Of course if you know Javascript, you could change this behavior.
Wink links can be shared among fellow users by creating what Wink calls "collections." Collections are roughly analogous to what over sites call groups or subscriptions. Collections are tag-based and you can make new collections or join and contribute to existing ones.
In addition to the bookmarks users submit and store, Wink also scrapes tags from del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb, Flickr and other sites to provide search results based on those tags. What you end up with is a Google Search with a Wink tags search on top.
Wink's genius lies in a search results feature that it calls "PeopleRank." PeopleRank allows anyone to rate the quality of the results which Wink then stores and uses next time it serves up results for that search. In theory it could add a nice human element to all the search algorithms out there. Of course it could also lead to results slanted toward the preference of the heaviest Wink users, only time will tell.
Wink is interesting and I'll be keeping a closer eye on it since I think the "PeopleRank" concept has some merit, but on the whole there are better places to go for social bookmarking.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Search Engine crawls other sites offering better listings
* Can sync with del.icio.us
* Search results rating system
**Cons**
* Poor Documentation
* JavaScript errors abound
* No page cache
Previously reviewed:
[del.icio.us][3]
[ma.gnolia][4]
[1]: http://Wink.com/
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html "Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html "Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia"
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>Yes, we work with Microsoft and do plan support for upcoming codecs as needed. One common misperception is the new Windows Media Players. The introduction of the player doesn't necessarily mean the introduction of new codecs (as in recent player introductions). We currently support [the codecs listed on our website][1].
As for MPlayer, yes, it does support most WMV codecs. You can check [the complete list on the official website][2]. It also turns out you *can* use MPlayer to view movies in [Mozilla browsers][3]. I haven't tested mplayerplug-in on a Mac, but it claims to work on any *nix platform so it should be possible to use it on a Mac. Your mileage may vary.
As for DRM, Microsoft has thus far limited its DRM technology to the Windows platform so there is no way for Mac (or Linux) users to view Windows DRM protected movies, nor, based on reader comments, does there seem to be much demand for the ability to do so.
[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/images_06/wmv_supported_codecs.jpg "Flip4Mac Codecs"
[2]: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html#vc "MPlayer official list of supported codecs"
[3]: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ "MPlayer Plugin"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/wmv_on_a_mac.html "The original MonkeyBites post"
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Like most of the iTunes Music Store, the focus is on mainstream artists and at the moment the selection is a bit wanting (particularly in Brazilan Jazz) but hopefully that will improve in the future.
There is also a whole section of Spanish language podcasts, audio books and music videos. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any Spanish language movies at the moment.
Many of the artists now in the iTunes Latino Store were formerly listed under the "world" genre, but there are also new artists as well. It's nice to see Apple at least partially abandon what I've always considered the most meaningless of genres, "world," in favor of something that makes sense.
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* [Gmail for mobile devices][1] launched this morning. Prior to today, you could only access Gmail via a mobile browser. Requires a java-enabled phone and data plan.
* [CNet reports that a denial-of-service bug has been found in Firefox 2.0][2]. According to the CNet report, "The vulnerability lies in the way the open-source browser handles JavaScript code."
* Microsoft's [Zune.net][3] is now up and running.
* Utube, an American piping and tubes manufacturer, is [suing YouTube][4] seeking damages for bandwidth usage by millions of users seeking the video sharing network. See, the internet really is a bunch of tubes. [via [TechMeme][5]]
[1]: http://www.google.com/mobile/ "Gmail for mobile"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6131624.html?part=rss&tag=6131624&subj=news "CNet on a Firefox 2 bug"
[3]: http://www.zune.net "Zune.net"
[4]: http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6131594.html "UTube sue YouTube"
[5]: http://www.techmeme.com/ "Techmeme"
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Of course that announcement only applies to business customers, consumers will have to wait until January 30 2007 for the consumer versions. November 30th will also see the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 which works with the upgraded Outlook 2007.
Vista is the first major new release of the Windows operating system in over five years.
Vista has previously been announced and then pushed back a number of times, but with the beta release now in "release candidate" stage it seem likely that Microsoft will in fact deliver on their promise to ship Vista in 2006.
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In a former life I ran a restaurant kitchen for five years and I have something of a fetish for online recipe collections. [Epicurious][2] has always been my favorite food destination on the web, but Yahoo's new offering looks nice and in fact includes recipes from the the Epicurious database.
Yahoo Food has a sleek user interface with good search features to help you sift through thousands of recipes. You can search by ingredient, course, cuisine, dish, "taste," and more. I was intrigued by the taste search filter, I'm not aware any other recipe sites that let you search for recipes that "taste" "creamy" or "cheesy."
Like many other sites, all of Yahoo's recipes are user rated and you can leave comments, tips and suggestions for other cooks. Recipes can be shared via email and IM. If you sign in to your Yahoo account, Yahoo Food will show a list of your recently viewed articles, recipes and searches.
Yahoo Food is also integrated with Yahoo Answers, which will now highlight relevant questions about food, and Yahoo Local, which has dining guides, restaurant ratings and reviews from around the U.S.
As with so many food websites Yahoo Food focuses heavily on celebrity chefs and their branded recipes and product plugs. While it may be my own snobbishness nothing turns me off to a food site quicker than seeing a recipe from Rachel Ray on the front page (today we'll be making learning how to make *toast* in 23 seconds).
But in spite of the inevitable celebrity chef emphasis, Yahoo Food is a very well done and comprehensive food site.
That said, I'd really like to see a true "social" site for food that doesn't rely on over-hyped celebrity chefs, but instead allows users to post their own recipes, videos and advice. I want a site that doesn't just pay lip service to the concept of the "everyday cook," but actually draws it's content from everyday cooks.
[1]: http://food.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Food"
[2]: http://www.epicurious.com/ "Epicurious"
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Yourminis is a Flash-based web app that creates a homepage with a number of little widgets that pull in whatever web services you'd like to track. The default set includes a Google search widget, quote of the day, RSS feed reader, weather, YouTube videos, Flickr images and more.
I was always impressed with the UI of Goowy, which has to be one of the more impressive attempts to duplicate your desktop within a browser window, but the appeal of yourminis is kind of lost on me.
Is it just me or does it seem like lately we're living in some revenge of the portal movie? I've been playing with yourminis off and on for most of the day and the more I look at it the more I have flashbacks to Lyco's "homepage portals" of yesteryear. Of course yourminis is better looking, infinitely more functional and easier to use, but the concept is essentially the same.
Then again, I've never used Apple Dashboard app either. Maybe I'm just not a widget guy, if widgets and homepages are your thing, yourminis is certainly a very impressive rendering of the concept.
[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/ "yourminis.com"
[2]: http://www.goowy.com/ "goowy.com"
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A quick glance at my applications folder revealed five small, one-off programs on my whose sole purpose is to convert various document formats. It makes so much more sense to have a web service to take care of this process.
Zamzar allows for multiple file conversions (provided all files are to and from the same formats) and will send and email with a link to your converted file(s).
I frequently have to send .doc files to clients and since I don't have an office program, this has always been quite a pain for me. Zamzar easily converted my plain text file into .doc format, eliminating the one headache of not having an office program.
Video and audio conversion will of course have some loss of quality when moving between compressed formats. I didn't tested those features, but Zamzar did successfully convert a cvs file to a MS Excel spreadsheet.
Currently Zamzar has a size limit of 100mb, but frankly even uploading that over http is masochistic, I don't imagine there's too great of demand for bigger files.
Thanks to [LifeHacker][3].
[1]: http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar.com"
[2]: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php "Zamzar conversion types"
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/conversions/online-file-conversion-with-zamzar-211968.php "LifeHacker on Zamzar"
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For those that aren't familiar with Amarok, it's somewhat like iTunes, but has additional features like integrated Wikipedia entries for bands, auto-discovery of newly added songs, lyrics download, and more. And yes it does sync with your iPod.
Amarok version 1.4.4 is a free download and requires the KDElibs.
OS X users interested in Amarok can install the package via Fink, though it's good to have some experience with the command line before attempting an install. There are [instructions on the Amarok Wiki][2].
[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/content/view/84/66/ "Amarok 1.4.4"
[2]: http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/On_OS_X "Install Amarok on OS X"
[3]: http://www.magnatune.com/ "Magnatune.com"
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Furl works according to the same principles that should be familiar by now if you're following this series. To aid in the collecting of bookmarks, Furl offers bookmarklets for your browser or, if you use IE or Firefox, you can download and install a toolbar which will give you access to your bookmarks without having to go to the site.
Sharing and searching features are on par with the field and, Furl caches bookmarked pages for you. Furl also allows you to export your archives, cached pages and all to a zip file for easy backup. All your bookmarks are available via RSS as well.
Furl offers tagging, though it refers to tags as "topics," and also adds the ability to save keywords. I'm not really clear on what the difference between "topics" and "keywords" is other than what the FAQ says: "the keywords you assign are search hints." But aren't tags search hints as well since I can search my bookmarks by tags?<img alt="Furladdnew" title="Furladdnew" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/furladdnew.jpg" border="0" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />
Furl also allows you to save considerably more metadata than competing services. In fact the edit form is almost overwhelming, but thankfully you needn't provide any more than a url and title. For those that like to store more information about their bookmarks, this is the site for you.
Furl offers one thing I haven't found on other sites, the ability to leave comments on other people's bookmarks. Naturally Furl has privacy controls so if you don't want comments on your bookmarks, you can make the bookmark private, but comments allows people to stop by and say "hey, if you liked this you might like..." all without you having to lift a finger.
Furl also offers a number of export options above an beyond the ordinary HTML/XML formats that most of these sites use. With Furl you can export your bookmarks to some obscure formats like MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE, BibTeX, RIS/EndNote citations. Just to test this out I exported my del.icio.us bookmarks to HTML, imported those into Furl and then exported them again as BibTex and I am happy to report that it worked. This could be very handy for academics and other authors who frequently collect and quote online sources.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Excellent wide range of export options
* Browser toolbars available (IE and Firefox only)
* Caches page and allows export of cached pages
**Cons**
* Organizational options are limited
* No thumbnails
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>
[1]: http://www.furl.net/ "Furl.net"
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* According to CNN, Yahoo may be trying to [acquire AOL][7]
* [FairGame][3] will strip Apple-DRM protected iTunes Store purchases leaving you with an unprotected .mp3 file that can be used as you see fit. [via [BoingBoing][4]]
* [FindMeOn][5] attempts to keep track of all the social networks you have joined. According to the site, "FindMeOn is a new way to assert and verify ownership over online elements , identities and personalities. We empower you to verifiably extend your true identity across social networks and blogs, essentially creating an ad-hoc social network out of everything you join." [via [LifeHacker][6]]
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/spot-on.html "Google acquires JotSpot"
[2]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/10/google_buys_jot.html "Micro Persuasion"
[3]: http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai%20Software.html "FairGame"
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/31/fairgame_cracks_itun.html "BoingBoing"
[5]: http://findmeon.com/ "FindMeOn.com"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/social-networking/findmeoncom-identity-aggregator-211211.php "LifeHacker"
[7]: http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/28/magazines/fortune/yahoo.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2006102810 "Yahoo acquiring AOL?"
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As its name implies, StumbleUpon takes social bookmarking into the realm of randomness -- instead of searching, you stumble. Of course you can search too, and technically you could achieve the randomness of StumbleUpon with any of these sites, but StumbleUpon makes it easy and fun. The biggest downside to StumbleUpon is that it requires the installation of a toolbar which is only available for IE and Mozilla browsers.
Once you have the toolbar installed and your account set up, just click "Stumble!" and you'll be transported to a random page that fits your preferences. Your preferences are based in part on what categories you specify an interest in, and also what tags you use. You can change these settings at any time by visiting your profile page. You can also import tags from your del.icio.us account.
Of course you don't have to use the stumble button, you could just use StumbleUpon like any of the other sites we've looked at -- find a page you like, click the "I Like It" button in the toolbar and it's saved -- but after a few clicks of the Stumble button you'll probably find yourself hooked. You might even find that you start getting emails from your editor that read, "uh are you gonna post anything today...?" or maybe that's just me.
When you're using the stumble feature you can filter results by a number of categories like, video, photos, news, Wikipedia and more. Of course what sites fall in which categories is determined entirely by other users, but you always have the option to correct their mistakes.
StumbleUpon keeps track of the pages you view so if you decide later that you'd like to see a random site again, you can browse back through your history.
Your saved bookmarks are sorted a number of ways, for instance you can view sites you found, sties you stumbled upon and liked, sites you didn't like and more. It's not exactly folders, but it is the best organizational tool out of the sites I've reviewed.
Like Wink, StumbleUpon puts additional emphasis on *using* bookmarks rather than simply storing and sharing them. Thanks to the simple and yet feature rich toolbar, StumbleUpon makes browsing fun again. Beware productivity drops.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Fun, random way to browse
* Can import del.icio.us tags
* Good bookmark organization options
**Cons**
* Requires toolbar (Mozilla and IE only)
* No thumbnail or page cache
* Highly addictive
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Never mind the imitators, let's have a look at BlinkList.
Signup is painless and once you verify your account via a link BlinkList will send to your email address, you're ready to go. During the signup process BlinkList served up the usual bookmarklet for my browser toolbar, but unfortunately it didn't work in Safari. Switching to Firefox solved the problem. Your mileage may vary.
BlinkList allows you to import links from a browser, del.icio.us or Furl. Once you've got things set up and all your bookmarks imported, you can share them with other users via RSS, friendslists or email.
BlinkList has some nice options for those that want to display link or tags on their blog. BlinkList will give you Javascript widgets to show both links and tags, just cut-and-paste the provided code into your site, MySpace page or where ever you like.
BlinkList has a star ratings system like ma.gnolia, and BlinkList also allows you to mark links or tags as favorites. Favorites then show up at the top of your profile page so you can get to them quickly.
The standout feature for me though was BlinkList's ability to take any highlighted text on the screen and auto fill a bookmark's description field with the text. This is really nice for quickly getting snippets of descriptive text into your bookmarks.
BlinkList has a very intuitive interface and a nice clean design that makes it simple and pleasant to use. And as a sidenote I always like to see a company with a sense of humor, the folks behind BlinkList have a Ozzy the Labradoodle as their offical PR rep.
####The Low Down
**Pros**
* Can import a number of formats
* Has bookmark thumbnails
* autofill a description field
**Cons**
* No backend API
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a></p>
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br />
[1]: http://www.blinklist.com "BlinkList.com"
[2]: http://blog.mindvalley.com/2006/10/20/copyright-in-web20-blatant-code-theft-of-a-web-20-site/ "Wirefan steals BlinkList Design"
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With a new version of Ubuntu announced recently I thought it was high time I installed Ubuntu and gave it a hands on trial.
My options are as follows, I could install Ubuntu under Parallels on a new MacBook or I could install the PPC version of Ubuntu natively on an old G3 iBook.
I would prefer to run Ubuntu without the virtualization of Parallels just so I know that any problems I might have are not connected to the virtual environment. But at the same time, a PPC G3 processor is pretty outdated and I don't know how Ubuntu performs on PPC chips, let alone ancient ones like my iBook.
If you have experience with either set up and can offer any tips or recommendations let me know in the comments section below. And *please* let's not let this degrade into an OS superiority contest. I like OS X, I like Windows and I want to like Ubuntu. Every operating system has its merits and weaknesses and none is better than the other, they're just different mmmkay?
[1]: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks "Mark Pilgrim switches to Ubuntu"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark_pilgrims_list_o.html "Corey Doctorow switching to Ubuntu"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/ "Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings"
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I've never actually had any stability issues with iTunes, but I can say that the update does indeed address the performance issues that appeared with iTunes 7.0. Since upgrading to 7.0, iTunes had been almost unusable for me on a MacBook Core Duo. But the new update returns iTunes to its former snappy self.
Before upgrading importing new music was one of those tasks that I would start and then head off for a cup of coffee while iTunes effectively locked up my computer until it was complete. The 7.0.2 update vastly improves importing times. Just to test it out I threw a large import of five new albums at once (I've been avoiding iTunes) and it handled it quite nicely. The gapless playback processing that used to hold things up, slipped by without me noticing its existence. I was able to create new playlists and interact with the UI while the songs imported, something that was largely impossible with earlier 7.0.x releases.
I highly recommend the upgrade for all iTunes 7.0 users based on the speed improvement alone. That said, I have no way to test the Windows version and I believe that the Windows version was even worse than what we Mac users have been putting up with. If you install the new version on windows, let us know how your experience goes.
I'm happy with the new update, but having reviewed the Linux jukebox software, Amarok yesterday, I suddenly find iTunes somewhat lacking. Where is my integration with Wikipedia? Where is my nice tabbed interface? Are there any kindly Cocoa programmers out there trying to port Amarok to OS X (yes I know I can install Amarok via Fink, but a native port, would be so much nicer)? Apple needs a competitor in the software jukebox world, if for no other reason than to drive them to improve iTunes.
As for the shuffle, it looks nice, but personally I think I'd loose it by the end of the day. It reminds me a bit of the scene in Zoolander when Ben Stiller answers an impossibly, ridiculously small cellphone.
[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
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Last.fm's bread and butter feature is it's collaborative filtering which is analogous to Amazon's recommendations and that remains unchanged. Instead today's update focuses on auxiliary features, an improved Flash music player, concert listings, free downloads, a "Taste-o-meter" and slightly redesigned music pages.
The most immediately noticeable change is the new Flash music player embedded in nearly music every page. The new music player means you can listen to Last.fm either through the browser or through the Last.fm client. To set your preference head to your user profile and adjust the setting to the playback method of your choice.
The ability to listen through the browser is nice, but the biggest feature in today's announcement is undoubtedly the addition of concert and event listings. The breadth of listings is subpar at the moment (apparently no one is playing in Los Angeles this week), but Last.fm has promised to add more listings and of course you can always add your own events. In addition to your own listings, you can view what events your friends are attending and Last.fm will recommend events based on your profile.
Last.fm offers free downloads for bands/labels that will allow it. Unfortunately finding tracks you want requires quite a bit of digging at the moment. Last.fm claims they're trying to come up with a better system, but until they do, the downloads feature is almost more work than it's worth.
The new "Taste-o-meter" is an extension of the collaborative filtering mechanism Last.fm employs. The taste-o-meter tells you at a glance whether you have any common musical ground with other listeners. Whenever you visit another listeners profile page, the taste-o-meter appears in the top left corner so you can see at a glance what music you have in common.
Judging by user comments on the site, the new artist pages aren't very popular. A number of people dismiss them as simply "ugly." As with the rest of the site, how you feel about the redesigned artist pages may be somewhat determined by how you feel about gradients.
Regardless of how the interface design strikes you, Last.fm's changes bring some welcome new features and should make users happy.
[*This post was written by Scott Gilbertson of [Monkey Bites][2] the Wired News blog covering daily developments in software and web services.*]
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59522,00.html "Wired News: Last.fm: Music to Listeners' Ears"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/ "Monkey Bites"
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And it might be the most useful site of the bunch. OnlyWire is really just a bookmarklet. Drag it to your toolbar like any other and when you're on a site you want to save, hit the bookmark.
But if OnlyWire doesn't save my page why would i want to to do that you ask? Because this is the one ring to, well, nevermind. When you click OnlyWire's bookmarklet your page and whatever descriptive info you fill in will be submitted to up to seventeen bookmarking sites.
Yes, this is for those that want it all. Just provide your sign in name and password for all your social bookmark sites and OnlyWire will submit the info to all of them. You can simultaneously maintain bookmarks on seventeen sites. And if that's not enough you can send OnlyWire a note asking them to add your favorite site.
Note that if I were to review two social bookmarking sites a day, I might be done by the holidays, but I'm cutting it off here. If your favorite site was omitted from out reviews, don't feel slighted, just plug it in the comments section.
And we'll have a complete wrap up for you in the very near future.
<p>Previously Reviewed: <br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/delicious_is_th.html" title="Monkeybite's review of del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_1.html" title="Monkeybite's review of ma.gnolia">ma.gnolia</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html" title="Monkeybite's review of wink">Wink</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_3.html" title="Monkeybite's review of StumbleUpon">StumbleUpon</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_4.html" title="Monkeybite's review of furl">Furl</a><br /><br />
<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_5.html" title="Monkeybite's review of BlinkList">BlinkList</a><br /></p>
[1]: http://onlywire.com/ "OnlyWire.com"
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* [Apple has updated iTunes][1]. According to Apple, "iTunes 7.0.2 adds support for the [Second Generation iPod shuffle][2] and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1." The update is 25.7 MB and can be [downloaded from the Apple website][3].
* Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that [Microsoft Office Live will be coming out of beta][4] on Nov. 15. Office Live is a set of Internet-based services for small business owners. [via [ZDNet][5]]
* [Last.fm][6], the popular music-centric social network, will apparently be [upgrading its services tomorrow][8]. New features include a new flash player, an events system, free MP3 downloads and revamped profile pages. [via [Mashable][7]]
* Scrybe, an online organizer and calendar application, launched its beta release last night. [via [TechCrunch][10]]
* Photo sharing site [Zooomr has increased user's monthly photo upload limits][11]. Free accounts now get 100 MB per month and pro accounts 4 GB per month, which is nearly double the offerings of rival Flickr. [also via [TechCrunch][12]]
[1]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ "Apple iTunes"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ "iPod Shuffle"
[3]: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ "Download iTunes"
[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-312007OfficeLivePR.mspx "Microsoft Announces Office Live"
[5]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=72 "ZDNet"
[6]: http://www.last.fm/ "Last.fm"
[7]: http://mashable.com/2006/10/31/lastfm-to-announce-free-mp3s-events-and-more/ "Mashable on Last.fm"
[8]: http://www.last.fm/updates/ "Last.fm upgrade"
[9]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
[10]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/scrybe-syncing-calendar-has-launched-in-beta/ "TechCrunch on Scrybe"
[11]: http://blog.zooomr.com/2006/11/01/trickr-or-treatr-pro-accounts-upgraded-to-4gbmo-free-accounts-to-100mmo/ "Zooomr upgrades bandwidth limits"
[12]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/01/zooomr-doubles-flickrs-monthly-photo-upload/ "TechCrunch on Zooomr"
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In fact Scrybe offers so much that it would take some time to run through everything, so instead of that I'll offer this official video that the creators of Scrybe released earlier today.
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I should note that the entire interface is done in Flash which may put some people off, but the ability to work offline and sync your changes the next time you're online probably necessitates Flash. And for the old-fashioned folks like me, the ability to print out foldable copies of calendars and lists is fantastic, but for me the real drool-worthy feature is the Thought pages which allow you to browse the internet a create a clipbook of images, text and sites.
I will confess to being somewhat ignorant of alternative offerings and should probably say that I'm not a heavy user of calendar apps and organizational tools (I still favor the offerings of Monte Blanc and Moleskine when it comes to this stuff). But, that said, if Scrybe is really capable of everything shown in the above video, it will likely prove a very popular offering.
[1]: http://iscrybe.com/main/index.php "Scrybe.com"
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But what about getting music off your iPod? That's not so simple.
In fact, using only the tools provided by Apple, it's impossible; there is no way to transfer songs from an iPod to anywhere else.
Ostensibly the reason is so we don't all go copying each others music from one iPod to another. Personally, I find this assumption of criminality irritating, there are in fact a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from an iPod to your hard drive.
For instance, suppose you hard drive crashes taking all your MP3's with it? What if the capacity of your iPod is larger than your notebook hard drive and as you load music onto your iPod, you delete it off your hard drive to conserve space?
In short there are potentially dozens of reasons you might want to transfer music off your iPod and Apple has left you with no options, but they did leave the back door open so to speak.
There are no hardware or firmware restrictions that stop you from transferring music off an iPod and so a number of non-Apple, third party developers have released tools to help you get your tunes off your iPod and put them wherever you like.
Next week we'll be doing some reviews of this software and we'd like the hear from you. What tools do you use? We're especially interested in Windows and Linux options. Share your experiences and suggestions in the comments below.
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Although not currently available, the site promises to eventually feature a way to send notes via cellphones and email and plans to allow for scheduled reminders via SMS or e-mail.
The site is simple and easy to use, in fact it's layout felt somehow familiar... oh yeah it's an orange GMail. A lot of sites use fairly similar layouts and designs, and there is something to be said for a standardization of interfaces, but some may feel Nottr has crossed the line between imitation and rip-off.
Perhaps the derivative design is simply to ease the transition in the event of a sale to Google. I have to admit that Nottr on it's own probably won't be a regular destination for me, but if Google were to snatch it up and roll it into GMail it would fit nicely with the Gmail feature set.
I like Nottr and it think it has the potential to be useful for students especially, but at the moment its feature set is fairly limited. I would like to see a way to export saved notes to other formats. A simple text file export would be nice, multiple text files in a zip download would be even better. RSS support is conspicuously lacking which means there's little or no way to share your notes beyond your public page.
[1]: http://www.nottr.com/ "Nottr.com"
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Offertrax allows you to create what it call's "tracks." Tracks are bookmarks you make on products you interested in. Taking a tip from the social bookmarking scene offers a bookmarklet that allows you to add any page to your tracks with a single click.
Once you sign up, just drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar and go find a product you'd like to track. Click the bookmarklet and Offertrax will take ask you to give the bookmark a title, description and a choice of images to represent the product. You can then add the bookmark to any of your existing tracks, or create a new track.
In addition to bookmarks Offertrax lets you add reviews, notes and control wether or not your tracks are public.
So far it sounds pretty much like del.icio.us, but here's the difference: Offertrax gives you an RSS feed and will send you announcement whenever prices change or special offers are available. Offertrax sends out bots once an hour to check all the bookmarks in your tracks. If they find a change you'll be notified in your RSS reader (or on the site obviously).
Offertrax's bots did a great job with Amazon, but weren't able to find prices for some of the smaller sites I bookmarked.
Offertrax is a great time saver and looks very promising, but there are a number of features I would like to have seen. For one thing there doesn't seem to be an immediately obvious way to see other people's tracks. There are links to leave comments when you view your own profile so obviously there must be a way to do this for other people's tracks as well, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
Also, while Offertrax lets you add reviews, the reviews are intended to be you doing the reviewing. That's fine and I like that, but what if I want to collect other reviews from around the web? I'd like to see is a way to bookmark existing reviews and add then to my tracks. For instance, if I'm sopping for new camera, I'd like to have all my camera bookmarks be joined with bookmarks to reviews on say dpreview.com in the same track container. That way I could see my research and track products all in one interface. As it is the track feature is the only dynamic off-site feature.
But Offertrax is in beta and I'm sure that they'll be adding new features in the future.
Offertrax is also offering it's services to online retailers in the form of a "track this" badge which can be added to the bottom of any page. Curious customers who might otherwise abandon the page can click the track this button and they'll be prompted to create an Offertrax account and start tracking that merchant. The pitch to merchants is that Offertrax can help them convert browsing customers into actively watching customers, which probably sounds good to retailers.
I suppose the cynical might point out that Offertrax stands to learn a lot about your online shopping habits, which is ture and there's no doubt that if the service catches Offertrax will have some valuable market statics at it's disposal. But in the end there's really no way to connect your Offertrax account to the final purchase so your privacy should be relatively secure.
Overall Offertrax is solid offering and well timed with the Holiday shopping season nearly upon us.
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* Internet analysts [ComScore released a study][1] today that finds more than 14 of the top 25 U.S. web properties draw more traffic from outside the US than within. There's a fair amount of buzz about this this morning, but I don't follow. Given that the vast majority of the world's population lives outside the U.S. this seems like a fairly obvious statistic.
* Walt Disney Co. announced yesterday that it has [sold 500,000 films][2] through its fledgling distribution deal with the iTunes Music Store. Total revenue for the sales is around $4 million, not bad for a the first two months.
* The W3C has [proposed a standard for widgets][3]. The W3C definition of widgets includes "clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters." The W3C proposal is currently in draft status and looking for comments. [via [MicroPersuasion][4]]
* FCC commissioner Mjchael J. Copps wrote an op/ed piece in the Washington Post yesterday [calling the U.S a laggard in broadband internet access][5]. Anyone living in rural America could have told you that. No word on the possible connection between this and point number one in today's reboot. [Ars Technica][6] has some suggestions for the FCC.
[1]: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1057 "Comscore Internet Usage Study"
[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2222 "Apple Insider on Disney"
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/ "W3C widget Standard"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/w3c_proposes_wi.html "Micro Persuasion on the W3C"
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110701230.html "Copps on Broadband"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061109-8185.html "Ars Technica on Broadband"
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As [TechCrunch points out in their write up][2], Wink's indexing is not simply pulling from MySpace's search features, they've actually indexed more than 100 million profiles.
The new People Search feature get's it's own tab at the top of the page next to "the web." The results show the user's name, gender and a few lines from their profile. Searches can be refined by specific social network, gender, age and relationship status.
When I reviewed Wink it stood out as fundamentally different than most social bookmarking sites and this announcement underscores those differences. What Wink seems to be aiming for in a search engine with human ratings more than a simple bookmark sharing platform.
Wink appears to headed more and more for the social search market which is so far largely untapped. With a new niche social network popping up nearly every day, Wink's indexing puts the site in a position to be the one stop search destination for all your social networks.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/the_social_book_2.html "Monkey Bites on Wink"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/10/wink-now-searches-myspace-linkedin-and-beebo/ "TechCrunch on Wink"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
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Daily Strength is centered around health "wellness support," and aims to build a network for people who are, in the site's words "going through challenges." Some people might sneers at such semantics, but I expect it will be appreciated by those who don't like experiences like paralysis being referred to as a disease.
In addition to those directly affected, DailyStrength also has communities for caretakers, family and friends.
Daily Strength uses the term communities to describe groups that form around various health issues. But the site isn't limited to physical health alone, there are groups on parenting, mental health and addiction, relationships, sexuality and more.
Every user gets a "wellness journal" for sharing with the community, as well as a standard profile page. One of the great things about DailyStrength is that each member in a group lists what medical and psychological treatments they have undergone and whether or not those were effective.
Assuming the pharma companies don't start paying bloggers to write fake positive experiences, this could be a good way to get some advice if your doctor has recommended a treatment you know nothing about.
DailyStrength does a nice job of tracking numbers within communities. For each community there is front page bulletin that lists the top ten treatments for that ailment. Click on any of the links then take you to a list of members and how that treatment worked for them.
Each community also has news feeds that pull in headlines relative to the groups focus,
As with any online medical community, you'll have to decide what advice to follow and what is nonsense and it's certainly not an alternative to seeing a doctor. That said, DailyStrength does list a number of doctors as "community advisors" whom it claims are active in their relative areas of expertise.
With so many social networking sites that end up as little more than vanity mouthpieces, it's nice to see one that has a real purpose.
[1]: http://www.dailystrength.org/ "DailyStrength"
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The concept is pretty simple, given two photographs, which do you like better? The site then attempts to calculate what your choices say about you. Whenever the site thinks it knows something about you the brain turns pink and if you click on it the brain will tell what it knows about you.
The extrapolations based on your answers are bit far fetched, and yet can be creepily accurate. For instance, based on my choices of only five sets of photos Likebetter guessed that I lived in an apartment or condo, which is true. I went back through the photos and tried to figure out what might be the reasoning behind that, but I came away empty.
It is just a game though, and it's wildly inaccurate as often as it is correct (not only do I not watch a lot of television I don't even own one).
Some of the picture combinations are bizarre, like the one below, and it's tough to say what that choice might say about you.
As with anything remotely like a personality test I tried to game Likebetter to see if I could control what it thought about me, but for the most part Likebetter's image are too random for that. Really, what does it say about you if you choose a fat Elvis impersonator over Adam Sandler?
LikeBetter is hardly earth shattering, but it's a silly and fun way to waste a bit of the company time.
[1]: http://www.likebetter.com/ "What do you Likebetter?"
[2]: http://www.morehotter.com/ "Morehotter"
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For those that don't know, portable applications are packaged so you can carry them on a USB thumb drive, iPod, memory card, or any other portable memory storage device. They're compiled in such a way that your preferences are read and written to the portable drive so you can have your settings and preferences available on any machine.
The ubiquitous presence of USB stick drives has seen an growing demand for portable apps. There's several repositories of portable Windows application out there, but this is the first I've seen that is Mac specific. I suppose you could argue that there aren't as many Macs out there to plug your USB stick into which might make these less useful, but I'm sure Mac users will appreciate the possibility.
It's small point, but I'm curious why a group calling itself the Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group lists Safari and other Apple software that isn't open source.
[1]: http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/ "Portable Mac Apps"
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>Under the deal, Universal, the world's largest music corporation, will receive a percentage of both download revenue and digital player sales when the Zune and its related service are introduced next week.
Ever since I mentioned it in the morning reboot, I've be trying work exactly why Microsoft would cut Universal Music in on the deal. [Several analysts have suggested][3] that this [has the makings of a new business model][4] -- hardware manufacturers cut content producers in on the profits of device sales.
The logic is that since online music sales aren't picking up with near the pace at which retail CD sales are declining, kindly hardware manufacturers can cut them in on some profits.
That would make sense if Microsoft were a charity organization, but obviously it's not. But Google has reportedly reached similar set of agreements with various entertainment companies regarding YouTube, so maybe this idea is gaining some traction.
Canada tried to institute an "iPod tax" for a while in an attempt to compensate the music industry for what it perceives as lost revenue through file sharing. The law was later struck down by Canadian courts.
Apple's tactic so far has been to compensate the music companies through sales on the iTunes Music Store. But online music sales aren't exactly raking in the money. According to an unnamed study quoted by the Times: "Apple has sold an average of 20 songs per iPod."
Naturally music industry claims the decline in sales is directly attributable to file sharing. To a certain extent they're probably right. But presupposing that your entire consumer base is criminal, which is what something like the Canadian tax does, seems a bit extreme.
Perhaps this wouldn't be a bad model for the music industry to adopt. I for one would much rather pay $25 or $50 more for an iPod or Zune if I could avoid DRM and download whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.
Personally I think that with more and more bands selling their music outside the traditional realms of the music industry, and many of them making a healthy profit doing so, that alternatives to current structure are more likely. Already sites like [Amie Street][5] offer musicians better ways of delivering their music to the world and I expect we'll see many more similar services pop up soon.
Of course well established acts like U2 and Britney Spears aren't going to go this route, but the acts that will inevitably supplant them as the new industry leaders may well be coming from outside the existing industry.
What do you think?
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09music.html?ex=1320728400&en=b380ce3d90e6a342&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "New York times says Microsoft to pay Universal Music a portion of Zune proceeds"
[3]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Techdirt on the microsoft Universal deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/on-universal-music-groups-zune-tax/ "TechCrunch on the Microsoft Universal deal"
[5]: http://amiestreet.com/home.php "Amiestreet.com"
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* Google has fessed up to [accidentally sending out some e-mail containing the Kama Sutra mass mailing worm][1]. The official statement begins, "On Tuesday evening, three posts were made to the Google Video Blog-group that should not have been posted." Mmmhmm.
* And in other Google News, Mashable is reporting that [Google Video is being sued][2] for copyright infringement. The announcement comes straight from Google, but so far there are no details beyond that.
* MagiQ Technologies claims to have [developed an unbreakable encryption scheme][3] that exploits Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to generate cypher keys. While that sounds good, I can't help thinking that unsinkable ships sounded good at one point too.
* And finally in TSIA category: [Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why][4]
[1]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127788-c,worms/article.html "Google emails Kama Sutra worm"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/09/google-video-sued/ "Google Video Sued"
[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061106_302053.htm?campaign_id=bier_tcv.g3a.rssm1109z "Unbreakable Encryption?"
[4]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why"
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e-lusion.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/index.php">mezzoblue § min-height: fixed;</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://zovirl.com/2003/software/blosxom/">Zovirl Industries</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.theideabasket.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=26">The Idea Basket - News</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://zovirl.com/2003/software/blosxom/">Zovirl Industries</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bstpierre.org/Projects/sublog/sublog">http://www.bstpierre.org/Projects/sublog/sublog</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/barijaona/download/static_file">http://homepage.mac.com/barijaona/download/static_file</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.robotstxt.org/">robotstxt.org</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://scribbling.net/help_the_googlebot_understand_your_web_site">Help the Googlebot understand your web site [Scribbling.net]</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://usabletype.com/articles/2004/how-and-when-to-use-sifr/">How and when to use sIFR »Articles » Usable Type: Typography for the world wide web</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/106/106.css&page=4">css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/050/zengarden.jpg">zengarden.jpg 740x330 pixels</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/010/010.css&page=16">css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.couloir.org/js_slideshow/#1">Couloir.org: Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.typeworks21.com/">TypeWorks™</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/">Stopdesign | Examples</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Style_Sheets/CSS/Examples/Layout/">Open Directory - Computers: Data Formats: Style Sheets: CSS: Examples: Layout</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/csslayout/2-col/finished.html">Simple 2 column CSS layout, final layout</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/09/16/minheight_fi/">mezzoblue § min-height: fixed;</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/">centricle : css filters (css hacks)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://glish.com/css/">glish.com : CSS layout techniques</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ex=1275019200&en=9970f3282b0b87cc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">Karl's New Manifesto - New York Times</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200505/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders/">Transparent custom corners and borders | 456 Berea Street</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/contenttabs.shtml">Cut & Paste Content Tabs script</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/">Six Apart ProNet - Plugin Directory</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/bbedit_css_checker">Daring Fireball: BBEdit CSS Syntax Checker 1.0</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>MySQL</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL: The World's Most Popular Open Source Database</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>perl</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.perl.com/">Perl.com: The Source for Perl -- perl development, perl conferences</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://regexlib.com/">Regular Expression Library</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.karlnelson.net/nestedlists/">Expanding Nested Lists</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp">CSS Examples</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/09/weblog.html">MacDevCenter.com: Build Your Own Blogging Application, Part 1</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal/">iGal: online image gallery generator</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/resources/programming/perl-tutorial/regex.html">Perl Programming Tutorial: Regular Expressions and String Manipulation</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.regular-expressions.info/perl.html">Perl Text Patterns for Search and Replace</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://members.fortunecity.com/scs245/245wisse/www.scs.carleton.ca/_weiss/courses/205/slides/Perl-3/lecture.html">http://members.fortunecity.com/scs245/245wisse/www.scs.carleton.ca/_weiss/courses/205/slides/Perl-3/lecture.html</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.infocopter.com/perl_corner/perlre.htm">Regular Expressions: Perl Scripts</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/regular-expressions/">Regular Expressions (Regex) Tutorial</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators">perlop - perldoc.perl.org</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/CS445/regex.html">A Regular Expression Primer</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq6.html#How_can_I_hope_to_us">perlfaq6</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>rss</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/3.html">Introduction to RSS: WebRef and the Future of RSS - WebReference.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.newarchitectmag.com/archives/2000/02/eisenzopf/">New Architect: Features</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html?page=2">XML.com: What is RSS? [Dec. 18, 2002]</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Design Theory</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap3.htm">Repetition of Ratios</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://home.att.net/~vmueller/prop/theo.html">Proportions: Golden Section</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kappraff/kap7.htm">Root 3 System</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2004/05/24/grey_box_method.php">Jason Santa Maria | Grey Box Methodology</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://porn.tblog.com/">Porn</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html">FontEditor BitfontMaker</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.uxmag.com/design/86/the-layers-of-design-the-style-layer">UX Magazine - The Layers of Design: the style layer</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://fenopy.com/index.php?keyword=oneida&x=0&y=0&select=c_1">Fenopy : Search results for : oneida</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://soundpedia.com/discover">SoundPedia : Music Community</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.cssremix.com/page/2/">CSS Remix: CSS-Based Website Gallery</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.cssbloom.com/page/47/">CSS Bloom - Cool CSS Gallery, CSS Examples, Website Showcase and Design Inspiration, CSS Design, CSS Designs, Best Looking Blogs, CSS Tricks, Blog's and Online Portfolio's Designs, css & xhtml</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.spine.ro/">Web studio : Spine ™</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.peopleofourtime.com/">People Of Our Time</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/">The Net is Dead - 100% gradient free!</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.casasastre.com/">Casa Sastre, Apartamentos de turismo rural</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://tuscany.cssmastery.com/">Tuscany Luxury Resorts</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.ashwebstudio.com/resources/7-days.html">New website for San Diego businesses in just 7 days</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts">Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html">file formats</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/">How to redirect a web page, the smart way</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://fckeditor.wikiwikiweb.de/Developer's_Guide/Participating/Server_Side_Integration#Samples">Developer's Guide/Participating/Server Side Integration - FCKeditor Wiki</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://source.mihelac.org/x/simple_parser/tinymce.php">Simple Parser TinyMCE Example</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Freelance Job Info</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.awpwriter.org/joblist/">AWP Interim Job List</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalismjobs.com/">www.journalismjobs.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.freelancewriting.com/forumdir/fjb/index.html">PAYING - Freelance Writing Opportunities</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.inscriptionsmagazine.com/Jobs.html">Inscriptions: </A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.sunoasis.com/jobpostings.html">SUNOASIS JOBS for Writers, Editors, and Copywriters</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.writersweekly.com/markets/122602-04.html">Markets and Freelance Writing Jobs - 12-26-02</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalismjobs.com/Search_Jobs_All.cfm">JournalismJobs.com - Job Listings</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/sls/7177448.html">Creative Maximizer</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://writerswrite.com/messages/tech.html">Writers Write Technical Writing Message Board</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mamohanraj.com/Writing/porn.html">Porn/Erotica Magazine Resource List for Writers</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nwu.org//hotline/hotsurv.htm">Writer's Rates</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.comteck.com/~tanuki/links/jobs.html">Freelance Mailing List: Links/Jobs</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec97/gak3.htm"> Job Online *Writers Write -- The IWJ*</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs/">Graduate School of Journalism -- Jobs Database</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.writerswrite.com/cgi-bin/job.pl?job=1910">The Write Jobs: Job Listings</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mymac.com/about/reviewinfo.shtml">MyMac.com: About</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.constant-content.com/">Constant Content - Web Site Content, Articles, Tutorials, Reviews and other Content</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.backpacker.com/guidelines/0,3132,,00.html">Backpacker Magazine - Contributor's Guidelines</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.thebackpacker.com/articles/addart.php">thebackpacker.com - articles - submit an article</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.sidejobtrack.com/index.php?CALLBACK=%2Funo%2Findex.php">Side Job Track</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.saltonstall.org/fellowships/guidelines.php">Saltonstall Summer Fellowship Guidelines</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/fellowship.html">NYPL, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.macdowellcolony.org/indexalt.html">The MacDowell Colony</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.jentelarts.org/">Jentel Artist Residency Program</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.i-park.org/">I-PARK</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.hiddenriverarts.org/articles/article.php?3">Hidden River Arts | Residencies</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.fawc.org/">Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/fellowship.html">NYPL, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.saltonstall.org/fellowships/guidelines.php">Saltonstall Summer Fellowship Guidelines</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.writtenroad.com/archives/cat_market_leads.shtml">Market Leads Archives - written road blog</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://boards.bootsnall.com/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&f=979095755">Travel Writing - Forum BootsnAll Travel Network</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.electricpenguin.com/ohi/inkygirl/">Inkygirl - A weblog for writers who work from home</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.fundsforwriters.com/submissions.htm">submissions</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mediabistro.com/content/archives/howtopitch.asp">mediabistro.com: Content: How to Pitch</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://programmermeetdesigner.com/listing/view/172">Listing 172 - Designer looking for Programmer - Programmer Meet Designer - where web developers find web designers</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://schaver.com/websites.htm">The Most Useful Web Sites for Reporters</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Recipes</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.italianmade.com/recipes/recipe71.cfm">ItalianMade.com - RECIPES: AGRODOLCE</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.paoloslacucina.com/archive.html">Recipe Archives</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://foodandwine.com/">Food & Wine</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://eat.epicurious.com/">EPICURIOUS</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Blogs</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.snackfight.com/">snackfight</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/agentofdiscord/contents.html">agent</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.theonionavclub.com/">The Onion A.V. Club</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.theonion.com/">The Onion | America's Finest News Sourceª</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/">mcsweeneys</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.skankypossum.com/">skankypossum</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.ubu.com/">www.ubu.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://ub3.homepagetools.com/Dashboard/">Dashboard</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.wordriot.org/">wordriot.org</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pigironmalt.com/issue.htm">pigironmalt</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://factoryschool.org/content/sounds/poetry/frontenac.html">Poetry and Literature</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.soundtoys.net/a/journal/index.html">S O U N D T O Y S . N E T</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.zefrank.com/">ze's page</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://openguides.org/">OpenGuides - Home</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.chompy.net/blogs/jacob/">remake/remodel</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mariesworldtour.com/">Marie's World Tour</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://agentofdiscord.blogspot.com/">everything or nothing at all.</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Travel</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://nycsubway.eyebeamresearch.org/">NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps : Using VGMap by Eyebeam R&D</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.workonaboat.com/">Work on a Boat | Yacht Jobs, Crew Houses, and Cruise Ship Jobs</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.workonaboat.com/work-on-a-yacht">Work on a Yacht | Work on a Boat</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.boatcrew.com/">BoatCrew.com - Oceans of Opportunity</A> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>RTW</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.roundtheworldflights.com/">RoundTheWorldFlights.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.statravel.co.uk/index.asp?bhcp=1">STA Travel: cheap student flights and deals for young people, discounted travel, cheap flights New York, Sydney, Bangkok, Auckland, round the world, Hong Kong, Beijing, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris, Athens, San Francisco, Cairo, Boston, Brisbane, Prague, Delhi, Cape Town, Tokyo</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.thetravellerslounge.co.uk/round-the-world/rtwsurface_sector.htm">The Travellers Lounge: Your Round the World Flight Plan</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1864501588/thetravellerslou/026-5964431-0494025">Amazon.co.uk: : Explore similar items</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.talesofasia.com/cambodia-overland-bkksr-self.htm">Tales of Asia - Overland - BKK-SR - Self</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.airtreks.com/">Airtreks.com: Affordable International Airline Tickets</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.travellerspoint.com/round-the-world-tickets.cfm">Round the World Tickets & Airfares - Around the World Travel - Travellerspoint</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.teaching-abroad.co.uk/index.php">..:: Teaching&Projects Abroad ::..</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.ochealthinfo.com/mcah/immuniz.htm">MCAH - Immunization Services</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000303.html">The Practical Nomad blog: Practical Nomad night at Airtreks.com in San Francisco</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/000031.html">The Practical Nomad blog: Overseas? Dial home on the cheap</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorcontent/quadbandphones.htm">Do you need a Dual Tri or Quad Band GSM Cell Phone</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_th.shtml">GSM Roaming - Thailand</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/cheap/20030923a2.asp#switch">Getting a deal on an overseas cell phone, page 2</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pac-safe.com/wheretobuy.aspx?pId=641&pName=backpack%20&%20bag%20protector">Pacsafe</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&catalogId=40000008000&storeId=8000&partNumber=709207&memberId=-2000&link=1&source=9021">PacSafe 55 Security Web - Small from REI.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.vagabonding.com/about/000126.html">V A G A B O N D I N G > About > Press/Awards</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.wompom.ca/vietnam/vntrvext10.htm">VietNam | Getting There » HongKong » GuangZhou » VietNam | WomPom.ca /¯)/¯)/¯)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.seat61.com/Thailand.htm">How to travel by train in Thailand - a complete guide</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.letsgo.com/connect/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7006&sid=74527036f13d34be84e25495438b3515">Let's Go Travel Guides | View topic - Must see places in Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.letsgo.com/connect/forum/viewforum.php?f=17">Let's Go Travel Guides | View Forum - Southeast Asia</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/">MapMachine--online dynamic atlas, street maps (National Geographic)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.magellans.com/store/Electrical___Plug_AdaptorsEA256?Args=">Transformer Voltage Converter with Adaptor Plug Kit - Magellan's Travel Supplies</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201526&pcount=&Product_Id=182400#">Travel Surge Protector</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.magellans.com/store/Comfort___Security___Locks__Alarms___Safety_DevicesSP643?Args=">Door Stop Alarm - Magellan's Travel Supplies</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.escapeartist.com/global/photos.html">Diagrams of Adapter Plugs</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nepalhomepage.com/travel/places/hilly/outktm.html">Nepal Home Page Travel Guide: The Most Comprehensive Guide to Nepal Travellers. News, Travel, Himalayas, Music, Food, Business, Arts, Society, Politics, Government, Chat, Discussion Forums, Economy, Yellow Pages, Phone, White Pages, and everything else you would ever want to know.</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.traveldocs.com/th/vr.htm">Thailand Visa Requirements Page</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www1.mobissimo.com/travel/search_airfare.php">Mobissimo Travel | Search airfare</A> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>_camping</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.recreation.gov/">Recreation.gov</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nationalparks.com/">National Parks: Accommodations, Lodging, and Information for U.S. National Parks</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/">National Park Service - Experience Your America</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.reserveusa.com/">Camping and Campground Reservation Site</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.state.me.us/doc/parks/">Maine Department of Conservation's Bureau of Parks & Lands</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://gorp.away.com/index.html">GORP.com - Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.hermitisland.com/">Hermit Island - Ocean Camping on Maine's Beautiful Rockbound Coast</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mainecamping.addr.com/">Maine Camping Online - a directory of links to Maine campgrounds and rv parks with websites</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.baxterstateparkauthority.com/index.html">Welcome to Baxter State Park</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.greenmountainclub.org/hikes.htm">Hikes</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.summitpost.org/">SummitPost.org - Mountaineering, Climbing, Hiking</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bettercamper.com/show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/2275">SummitPost.org - Stratton Mountain Climbing Information</A> + <DT><A HREF="https://www.trails.com/explore/subscription_order.asp?mscssid=2A9UVKF4KS8J9L3X9KEFUT7GFH2N13WB">Trails.com : Subscription Check Out</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.hike-nh.com/trips/readers/nancy.shtml">Hike-NH.com: Reader's Trips - Nancy and Noecross Pond</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.hike-nh.com/trips/nancy/index.shtml">Hike-NH.com: Nancy Pond & Norcross Pond Hike</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://sherpaguides.com/tennessee/lower_cumberland_plateau/bowaters_pocket_wild_areas.html">Sherpa Guides | Tennessee | The Tennessee Mountains | Lower Cumberland Plateau | Bowaters Pocket Wilderness Areas</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://goldstarmountaincabins.com/trails1.htm#virgin%20falls">Trails</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://gorp.away.com//gorp/resource/us_national_forest/nh_white.htm">White Mountain National Forest Campgrounds</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://mis.easygroup.co.uk/easyHotel/news/index.html">easyHotel.com : latest news</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.travelistic.com/video/featured">Travelistic</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.tripmates.com/">tripmates™ - the interactive travel community</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Music</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1131/nmhtab.html">Neutral Milk Hotel Guitar Tablature</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.azchords.com/">AZChords.com >>> Tablatures, Tabs, Chords for Guitar and Bass</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/romeria/bittorrentsites.htm">500+ Bittorrent Sites @ BTsites.tk</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://elephant6.com/sound/neutral.html">The Elephant Six Recording Company - MP3s - Neutral Milk Hotel</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/jff_77/nmh/">Guitar Tabs For You: Neutral Milk Hotel</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml">BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - downloads</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://homemadeporntorrents.com/index.php">Home Made Porn Torrents</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.cmj.com/articles/browse_reviews.php">CMJ.com: new music first</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1118376,00.html">TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- The Road Ahead</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.1736/">Bertrand Russell : Why I Am Not A Christian</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/">PENNsound</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.hiphopmusic.com/radio.html">DJ Mixes</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/index.html">Musical Instruments Gallery, Music Gallery, Experimental music, and Music Downloads</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/index.html">Musical Instruments Gallery, Music Gallery, Experimental music, and Music Downloads</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Research for Articles</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink">New York Times Link Generator</A> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>ipod harbinger</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1501-1491500-1501,00.html">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1501-1491500-1501,00.html</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/7/rosen.htm">The New Atlantis - The Age of Egocasting - Christine Rosen</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1396485,00.html">Guardian Unlimited | Online | John Naughton: A generation lost in its personal space</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/magazine/20WWLN.html?ex=1268974800&en=fca8190266cc6b78&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt">The New York Times > Magazine > The Way We Live Now: Bad Connections</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>web not bell curve</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,972764,00.html">The Observer | Business | Web's lack of bell curve is alarming</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://reason.com/9808/fe.mccracken.shtml">Reason magazine -- August/September 1998</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>reading on decline</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0524/p11s01-legn.html">Matching boys with books | csmonitor.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/22/reading_lists_speak_volumes_in_schools?pg=2">Reading lists speak volumes in schools - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0436,essay,56522,1.html">village voice > news > The Essay by Paul Collins</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html">NEA News Room: Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0465078443-0">Powell's Books - Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times by Kevin Smokler</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/05/about_a_book_.html">The Elegant Variation: About a Book:</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://spaces.msn.com/members/estundesaje/Blog/cns!1pPxRJ-Eide0N3QJa2JuonJQ!107.entry">Aktivní dlouhá hláska a mít klid: The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Coffee</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197305/wine.in.arabia.1.htm">coffee history</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Shaikh+ash-Shadhili&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">coffee history Shaikh ash-Shadhili - Google Search</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee">Coffee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.2basnob.com/coffee-history.html">A Brief History of Coffee and Coffee Timeline</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.telusplanet.net/public/coffee/history.htm">History of Coffee</A> + </DL><p> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Search Engines</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://print.google.com/">Google Print</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/">Blog Directory - BlogExplosion.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://blogsearch.google.com/">Google Blog Search</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bloglines.com/login?r=/myblogs">Bloglines | Log In</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation</A> + <DT><A HREF="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=reader&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2F">Google Reader</A> + <DT><A HREF="https://www.google.com/adsense/default?destination=%2Fadsense%2Fhome">Google AdSense</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do">USPS - Track & Confirm</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/">The Scout Report -- Volume 11, Number 8</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/parmigia/convex.html">Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum</A> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Torrent Search Engines</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=avant+garde+project">mininova : Search</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://torrentspy.com/latest.asp">TorrentSpy.com : The Largest BitTorrent Community</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.scrapetorrent.com/index.php">Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.scrapetorrent.com/index.php">Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.novatina.com/">novatina - Your Torrents Site.</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://torrentreactor.net/index0.php">Torrent Reactor new</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/archive/index.php/f-17-p-2.html">Sharing the Groove - Audio Bit Torrent Downloads</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.epitonic.com/">Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://torrentreactor.net/">Torrent Reactor NET</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.mybittorrent.com/">myBittorrent - Bittorrent Releases From Across The Web</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://69.25.58.102/index.php">CDDVDHeaven.co.uk</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.evolutiontt.org/browse.php?cat=6">Evolution :: Downloads</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentreactor.to/index.php">Home - Torrentreactor.TO/.COM - The most active torrents on the web</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentz.ws/">Torrentz.ws Rss BitTorrent Search Engine</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://btjunkie.org/">btjunkie - the largest bittorrent search engine</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.torrentportal.com/">Torrent Portal - Free Bit Torrent Downloads</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.fulltorrent.net/">FullTorrent.net - Search and find more torrents</A> + </DL><p> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>Shopping</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>lingerie</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.stardustlingerie.com/">Stardust Lingerie, Leather and Clothing</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TPOSE/sr=1-9/qid=1101664733/ref=sr_1_9/002-8690869-1450440?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=1036682&s=apparel&v=glance">arianne camisole black $28</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.figleaves.com/us/brand.asp?brand=92&node_id=109">Beau Bra-Figleaves</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.figleaves.com/us/brand.asp?brand=187&node_id=109">Arianne-Figleaves (very nice $$$)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.figleaves.com/us/brand.asp?brand=186&node_id=109">Fleur T-Figleaves (very nice $$$)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.lingeriedreams.blogspot.com/">Lingerie Dreams (blog)</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nysexshop.com/p_drmgl.asp?offset=120">Dreamgirl Sexy Lingerie for lovers of sexy lingerie</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.enchanted-dreams.com/clothing/new-dreamgirl-6.html">dg fishnet</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.nysexshop.com/a4.asp?m=4921">Enchanted Stripe 2 Piece Set by Dreamgirl</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.enchanted-dreams.com/clothing/new-dreamgirl-11.html">tattoo lace</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.3wishes.com/sale3.asp">Ribbon lace sale 25.17</A> + <DT><A HREF="https://www.3wishes.com/ssl/confirm.asp">3 Wishes Lingerie-SF Order Confirmation Page</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pfieldwalker.com/index.html">Exclusive designer silk lingerie with custom lace from France.</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.boutique-fifichachnil.com/fr/index.php">Boutique Fifi Chachnil</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.wildheartsranch.com/index2.html">Sacred Sexuality :Women's Arts, Lesbian Artists Photography, Poetry, Free Lesbian Postcards: A Women Artists Place</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.cafepress.com/posters_tshirts">Fine Art Vintage Erotica Philosophy Prints Clothes : CafePress.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pfieldwalker.com/lingerie-shopping.html">Wholesale Silk Lingerie Shopping</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.damaris-london.com/#">Damaris 'sine qua non'</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099msc.pdf">http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099msc.pdf</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.pamperedpassions.com/sensuous_bracli_pearl_thong_1703_prd1.html">PP Lingerie - Sexy Lingerie Gifts > Pearl Thong G-String by Bracli</A> + </DL><p> + <DT><H3 FOLDED>camping</H3> + <DL><p> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=47588321&parent_category_rn=0&">Leki Makalu Anti-Shock 3 Trekking Poles - Pair from REI.com</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.backpacker.com/article/1,2646,7725__2_4,00.html">Backpacker.com - REI/BACKPACKER Camp Cook-off</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30535.asp">Backpacking Breakfast Ideas - Hiking & Backpacking</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.backpacker.com/gear/article/0,1023,5169,00.html">Backpacker Magazine - ULA Equipment P-2</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://order.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/wg-order?unique=f4686&catalog=trailfoods&et=425f4d8e&basket=b%3D5C1d8088d8006df2425f4686d0d03bea9a3428a413c18fba58dd21a32f04d7e19%26l%3D%26s%3DnYC25ec9v55ji5bjZXLGzKyY39U-">egg powder</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.bushwalking.org.au/FAQ/FAQ_Stoves.htm#EN417">FAQ - Stoves</A> + <DT><A HREF="http://www.backpacking.net/rv-ul-03.html">Ultralight Stoves, Cookware - 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Tips, Tricks and Statement of Purpose That Got Me Accepted</A> + </DL><p> +</HTML> diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4846189 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobe-logo.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f59fcde --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Tues/adobeopensource.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +As we reported in this morning's reboot, [Adobe has open-sourced a bundle of code][1] to the Mozilla Foundation under the name Tamarin. The whooping 135,000 lines of code in today's release constitute the largest single contribution to the Mozilla foundation since its inception.
The code consists primarily of the source behind Adobe's ActionScript Virtual Machine, but that doesn't mean Adobe is open sourcing the Flash player.
ActionScript 3.0, the language used in the Flash Player v9.0, is based on an International Standard by the name of ECMAScript. ECMAScript is also the basis of Javascript, which is the language behind the ever-growing AJAX technologies.
But the difference between ActionScript and Javascript is more than just semantics. ActionScript requires the Flash plugin which handles the rendering of code. Javascript on the other hand, is processed and rendered by the web browser.
One of the problems for AJAX developers is that every major browser has its own Javascript virtual machine. Internet Explorer uses what it calls JScript, while Mozilla uses an implementation known as SpiderMonkey. Adobe's ActionScript on the other hand has always used a third renderer which is built into the Flash player.
While all three of these renderers are *based* around ECMAScript, they all vary somewhat on how they process the actual code. These variations make developing complex cross-platform AJAX applications difficult and sometimes impossible.
Today's announcement essentially means that the Mozilla and Internet Explorer now have access to the same rendering implementation that Adobe uses in ActionScript. Adobe hopes that this release will help build a standardized rendering engine for all implementations of ECMAScript.
Adobe claims it's "Just In Time" compiler can render up to ten times faster than Mozilla's SpiderMonkey.
The end result will see Adobe's virtual machine built into future versions of the Firefox browser in early 2008. Microsoft hasn't publicly commented on Adobe's release yet, but given the five years between IE 6 and IE 7 it seems unlikely we'll see IE incorporating the new VM any time soon.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html "Adobe releases Tamarin"
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* Adobe releases Flash VM as open source. The release has been named Tamarin and will be hosted by the Mozilla foundation. This doesn't mean that the Flash player is open source, just the EMCAScript 4 virtual machine, frameworks and garbage collection engine.
* [CNet reports that an "extremely critical"][2] vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's XML Core Services. The exploit threatens Windows 2000, Windows XP SP 2, and Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's next patch release is scheduled for November 14, but so far [no word on whether this will be included in the patch][3].
* Time magazine has [picked YouTube as "Invention of the Year."][4] Nevermind that YouTube isn't exactly an invention.
* Microsoft has announced that it will be [offering movie and tv downloads][5] through its XBox Live online service. The movies will be playable for a 24 hour period and can't be burned to DVD and won't play back on other devices.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200611/110706Mozilla.html "Adobe releases Tamarin"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6133028.html?part=rss&tag=6133028&subj=news "CNet Windows security exploit"
[3]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/927892.mspx?tag=nl "Microsoft Security advisory"
[4]: http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/youtube2.html "YouTube: Invention of the Year"
[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/technology/07xboxcnd.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1162917687-33kUEqXt4SBVXW9M9q2IgA "NYTimes on Microsoft Downloads"
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>In the last few years, Microsoft has been pushing the idea of Media Center PCs, which are meant to sit in the living room and supply music and video to the stereo and the television set. But the concept has not caught on, in part because of the complexity of setting up and using these systems.
Microsoft apparently hopes to change this by streaming movies not to your computer but to your XBox 360 which is, in most cases, already hooked up to the internet.
One of the interesting things about this is it seems to circumvent Microsoft's previous push of its "Media Center PC."
While the HD delivery is pretty cool, the size of the files is significantly larger and ruins the whole impulse purchase factor. You can still impulsively decided to order a movie, you just might have to wait an hour or two before it's viewable.
Microsoft is positioning this as movie-rental service. Licensing agreements and DRM will prevent you from moving your content from the XBox to any other playback devise.
Given the XBox 360's paltry storage capacity (currently 20gigs), this means you can only store about 4 hours of high-def video at a time. For movies this won't matter since they are "rentals" that expire after 24 hours. Television shows on the other hand can be stored and, to address the lack of storage space, Microsoft says that television shows you delete can be downloaded again at no additional charge.
The DVR market is currently saturated with some pretty awful technology, but hopefully with Microsoft entering the foray, consumers will see some better options become available.
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At the moment Like focuses on shopping searches and you can't upload an image, rather you start out with a text search and then Like gives you a choice of images based on your search terms. You can also browse by celebrity photos and find products similar to those that Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and others are wearing in the pictures.
The idea is that if you find an item you like in a photograph, for example, a particular watch, pair of shoes, handbag or jewelry, Like will find related products by examining the actual image. Like.com then presents a link to purchase the item from Amazon an other online retailers.
I'm probably not the target market for finding shopping results based on celebrity photos, but the search results themselves are pretty impressive. And you can specify that like match against various criteria including, color texture and shape. So if you see a photo on the site of Paris Hilton in red shoes, but you decide you'd like to see them in black, just select black from the color picker and Like narrows your search. You can also weight your criteria's importance using sliders at the top of each results page. This way you can search by color, but emphasis results based on shape.
Because the site is currently limited to images already in its database, the experience is somewhat less than spectacular, but Like claims to be launching an image upload feature in the next few months. Although Like claims to be in alpha status, I had no problems using the site and I'm looking forward to using like with uploaded images wherever that feature becomes available.
[1]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
[2]: http://riya.com/ "Riya.com"
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Mojiti offers what it calls a "Spot Ticker" which allows you to add a subtitle at any point in the movie.
To use Mojiti you just paste in the URL of whatever clip you'd like to annotate and then add your caption. Mojiti also lets you add highlights to parts a video, for instance to point out your crazy cousin picking his nose at the family picnic.
Aside from the obvious fun of doing more with your videos, Mojiti has a large base of users who add subtitles to foreign language clips. Of course there's no way to verify the accuracy of the translations, but it's nice to see people making an effort.
Once you're done adding your content you can host the new movie with Mojiti or download it and post it on your own site.
The Mojiti video player is not quite as nice as YouTube's and it seems to have a nasty habit of crashing the Safari browser, but Firefox was unfazed.
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* [Like.com][6] is a new image search engine that can search using an image as input. This has been the holy grail of image search for some time. If Like can do what it says it can do, this will be huge. [via [TechCrunch][5]
* [Skype has released v3 beta][1] which features, among other things, a completely redesigned UI. The beta is Windows only and has a couple of known issues you should review before jumping in with both feet.
* Google has announced it will be increasing its presence in the radio advertising market. Advertisers will be able to sign up via their AdWords accounts. Google Audio Ads should begin testing by the end of the year. [via [CNet][3]]
* Apple has [announced new MacBooks featuring the Intel Core 2 Duo][4]. Now where did I put that receipt for my month old Core Duo?
[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/downloading_beta.html "Download Skype Beta 3"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-6133325.html?tag=nefd.top "CNet on Google Audio Ads"
[4]: http://www.apple.com/ "MacBook Core 2 Duo"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/08/riyas-likecom-is-first-true-visual-image-search/ "TechCrunch on Like.com"
[6]: http://www.like.com/ "Like.com"
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Flixster has a staggering amount of content. I played around with the site this morning and lost a good hour of productivity browsing through reviews and movie listings.
Imagine Netflix and IMDB mashed together and mixed with user generated pages and you'll have the basic idea. The most addictive thing on the site is the never-ending movie quiz, which is sure to suck you in after a few questions.
It may just be me, I'm a bit of movie freak, but I loved Flixster. With all the hallmarks of a successful social networking site, seamless integration with your existing MySpace page, YouTube hosted movie previews and skinnable user pages, Flixster has enormous potential.
I've always been disappointed in Netflix's offerings when it comes to reviewing and sharing movie reviews and now I find that I'm disappointed that Flixster doesn't rent movies. But it seems like a fairly obvious step for Flixter to eventually partner with movie studios for sales, rentals, downloads, promotions and of course advertisements.
[1]: http://www.flixster.com/ "Flixster.com"
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Google has tried venturing into the print realm before. Around this time last year Google tried brokering with some magazines to resell ad space to AdWords users, but the project met with limited success.
Round two sees Google with a prodigious number of big name newpapers on its side and looks like a much more promising venture. At the moment the Google Print Ads program is in "alpha" status and limited to
Google's partners in this new venture include some impressive names in old media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and nearly fifty others. So far Google has declined to release a list of advertisers.
Google Print Ads begins its test run later this week and the initial period will last through January. Google claims that it will be adding weekly newspapers and magazines at some point in the future.
[1]: http://www.google.com "Google"
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Google torrents give you access to all the popular torrent reactors, plus whatever else happens to indexed on the Google servers. I few test searches turned up results from mininova, isohunt and other big trackers as well as a few I hadn't heard of before.
I have no idea why the folks behind the site chose to use the word Google in their name, but I suspect they'll be getting a cease-and-desist letter before too long. However, I also have no doubt that similar search engines will pop up soon. Heck, you could even make one just for yourself.
[1]: http://googletorrents.com/ "Googletorrents.com"
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Pop out opens your buddy list and chat screen in new windows, though if you have a popup blocker installed you may have to disable it get this working.
The new version of Meebo also reportedly boosts speed improvements and a fantastic selection of localizations, including Thai, Swiss German and a host of others.
The layout and design of Meebo is clean, simple and intuitive. I will confess to never using the old Meebo so I can't comment much on the redesign except to say that it has a very heavy Windows XP influence. If you're a long-time Meebo user and you like the old interface, you can revert to that by choosing a different skin.
My favorite feature of Meebo is that it doesn't require you to sign up for an account, just login with your existing IM information and Meebo will open up a chat session for you.
For those looking to do even more with Meebo, there's a Javascript widget, [Meebome][2] that allows you put a chat window on your website, MySpace page or anywhere else. Now you can chat with people as they browse your site.
Like the man said, the url bar is the new command line, and Meebo brings the ability to IM to any computer with a web browser. This should be handy for travelers and others who don't want to, or don't have the admin access to, install client IM programs.
[1]: http://wwwm.meebo.com/index-en.html "Meebo.com"
[2]: http://www.meebome.com/ "Meebome.com"
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* Wikipedia as a virus platform -- German hackers exploited the anyone-can-edit feature of Wikipedia to spread the blaster worm. The hackers added a note to the existing page on the Blaster Worm with a link to a "fix" which actually downloaded the worm. Wikipedia quickly changed the page. [via [Tech2][2]
* [Meebo][3], the web-based IM client, has announced its 1.0 release. New features include custom skins, drag-and-drop groups, and "pop-out," a feature that opens your chat session in a new window. [via [Mashable][4]]
* [WhoToTalkTo][5] is a new job search tool built around the idea of referrals. It's a simple but potentially helpful concept, post about places you know that are hiring and see posts by others. [via [Lifehacker][6]
* Fox Interactive announced a new desktop/browser widget platform this morning. The service, going under the name [SpringWidgets][7], offers customized news feeds, weather and more. The desktop version is currently limited to Windows. [via [TechCrunch][8]]
* Technorati has released a new "[State of the Blogosphere][9]" report
which claims, among other things, to now be tracking 57 million blogs.
[2]: http://www.tech2.com/india/news/telecom/wikipedia-hijacked-to-spread-malware/2667/0 "Tech2.com"
[3]: http://wwwm.meebo.com/index-en.html "Meebo.com"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/04/meebo-im-launches-10-version/ "Mashable on Meebo"
[5]: http://www.whototalkto.com/ "whototalkto.com"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/job-search/turn-job-referrals-into-new-jobs-212630.php "LifeHacker on WhoToTalkTo"
[7]: http://www.springwidgets.com/ "Spring Widgets"
[8]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/06/fox-interactive-launches-desktopwebsite-widget-platform/ "TechCrunch on SpringWidgets"
[9]: http://technorati.com/weblog/2006/11/161.html "Technorati: State of the Blogosphere"
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Similar to Snocap, the MySpace music player/store, SoundStation makes it easy to embed your music in a page and sell it, rather than having to redirect listeners to iTunes, Napster or other dedicated music store.
But SoundStation has it's work cut out for them. Snocap is already way ahead in terms of market share and profile, but SoundStation offer better royalty rates for musicians and in a world where nearly everything seems to be cut-and-paste simple, royalties could tip the balance.
SoundSation offers artists a slightly lower fee of $0.33 on a $0.99 track whereas iTunes takes $0.34 and MySpace Music and Snocap scrape a whopping $0.45 off every track.
As part of the service, SoundLoud automatically tracks all the activity of your SoundStation Music Stores. You can view your total visitors, plays, downloads, and earnings information at SoundLoud.
At the moment you are limited to selling 7 songs, but SoundLoud promises unlimited downloads and whole album downloads are both in the works.
Oh and a note to SoundLoud, just because you're building a Flash-based music paler is no reason to build your whole site in Flash. Yuck.
[1]: http://soundloud.com/ "SoundStation from SoundLoud.com"
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Fair enough.
Back when I [wrote about Reputation Defender][2] a bunch of comment came in suggesting that Reputation Defender should expand their services to track stolen blog content. The problem for many blog owners is that spam blogs (splogs) often scrape out content and then include it on their own sites.
Most of the time splogs aren't claiming credit for what you write, but they are taking your content and making money off it via advertising and that amounts to copyright infringement in many cases.
Copyscape lets you track these people down using their search engine. The premium version of the site allows for automated tracking at the rate of $0.05 per search and allows you to track your responses.
But Copyscape doesn't provide any way of actually dealing with people stealing your work, which is what people wanted Reputation Defender or someone else to offer.
But until such a service arises, you can at least use Copyscape to keep tabs on who's ripping off your content.
[1]: http://copyscape.com "Copyscape"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/need_someone_to.html "Monkey Bites on Reputation Defender"
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Curbly offers the familiar features of social networking sites, a blog, profile page, photos etc. Curbly also offers what it calls "clippings," for grabbing photos around the web. Just put the Curbly bookmarklet in your toolbar and next time you see a photo you'd like to save, click the bookmark and you're away.
the clippings feature works quite well too, I click a page rather than a photo and Curbly pulled out all the photos on the page and asked which one I wanted.
But the focus of the site is sharing design tips and home-decor projects with other users. if anyone has seen the DIY Photo Wall project that I've come across on several sites lately, well, that [comes from a Curbly user][2].
I discovered everything from bathroom remodeling tips to how to [make window blinds out of punch cards][3].
If you're looking to spruce up your home or just want a new DIY project for the weekend, Curbly is a good place to start.
[1]: http://www.curbly.com/ "Curbly.com"
[2]: http://www.curbly.com/alttext/posts/74-Easy-Photo-Wall-on-a-Shoe-s-string-s-wire-Budget "Easy Photo Wall Project"
[3]: http://www.curbly.com/benmoore/posts/84-DIY-Computer-Punchcard-Window-Blinds "Curbly project: window blinds out of computer punch cards"
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<p>At the same time it’s a nice way for film fans to find new work without having to wade through the overwhelming amount of video available on more traditional video sharing sites like YouTube. LiberatedFilms is not for posting videos of your cat chasing string, it’s a bit more highbrow than that.</p>
<p>To keep the quality of the site high, all uploaded films are screened and reviewed by a panel of filmmakers before they are made public. Of course this means there are less films posted everyday, but it also means you don’t have to wade through the massive amount of not-so-great content found on more public sites.</p>
<p>At the moment there are only 41 films and 62 members, but keep in mind when we say just launched we mean just launched as in hours ago.</p>
<p>Casual browsers can watch films in low-fi broadcast similar in quality to the best of what you see on YouTube, but LiberatedFilms also offers a hi-res alternative (for some films). Unfortunately but you’ll have to pay to access the hi-res versions; a one month membership is $4.99, but buying long subscriptions drop the rates somewhat. Of course keep in mind that not all films are available in the higher resolution format.</p>
<p>The remainder of LiberatedFilms functions like a typical social site, you can sign up for an account, reviews and rate films, leave comments for other members and more. There is also nice tagging support and browsing by genre.</p>
<p>As for the films, I only had time to watch two and while neither of them were exactly what I would call groundbreaking, they were light years better than the average YouTube upload. If you’re a film nut, keep an eye on this one it could prove interesting.</p>
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* [According to ITWire][2], German security company, SecurStar, claims that "Simply by sending an invisible and unnoticeable SMS message to a particular cellphone, spying on cell phone users has become child's play." The technique uses a SMS delivered trojan horse to make every call from the victimized phone a 3-way call.
* The EFF reports that [movie studios are suing to stop the loading of DVDs onto iPods][3]. The suit targets Load N' Go Video, a DVD to iPod transfer service.
* The BBC has announced it will be [paying citizen reporters][5] for their cellphone and camera footage. Now you too can discover just how little journalists actually make. [via [Micro Persuasion][4]]
[1]: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;839593139;fp;16;fpid;1 "Computer World on MS's Linux claims"
[2]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7216/127/ "ITWire on cellphone attack"
[3]: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005010.php "EFF on Studio's lawsuit"
[4]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/11/bbc_to_pay_citi.html "Micro Persuasion on BBC"
[5]: http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2006/11/bbc_will_pay_for_citizen_journalism.php
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Wesabe is a community site that lets users share their finance tips, suggestions and more in hopes that the advice will help you make better financial decisions and take control of your personal spending.
I should note upfront that I don't have a lot of experience with personal finance management, I haven't even seen my checkbook in two years, let alone balanced it. My finances are pretty simplistic, I round up whatever is under the couch cushions and deposit it once a week into a checking account. I tried using Quicken a few years ago, but found it tedious and in the end it didn't tell me anything I didn't already know -- I'm broke.
So let's just say I was prepared for Wesabe to bore me out of my skull and not much more. But as it turns out, I'm a huge fan of Wesabe.
Once you create an account Wesabe will let you upload your financial data using a desktop program which you can download (Mac & Windows) or you can manually export data from your bank or credit card accounts and upload it using Wesabe's web form.
I hesitated a bit about uploading my data, this is after all some pretty sensitive stuff, but after digging around a bit on site and reading some reviews I decided that Wesabe was probably just as secure as my bank website. For those that have similar concerns I recommend reading [Wesabe's security and privacy page][2]. Also bear in ming that Wesabe doesn't store you bank login information on their servers.
Imagine Quicken in a web interface with the tagging powers of Flickr and you'll pretty much have Wesabe pegged. Once I uploaded my bank data I used the Wesabe interface to add tags to all my expenditures.
Wesabe's tag system is incredibly smart, for instance I generally always fill up my tank at the Shell station near my house so I tagged one of those entries as "gasoline" and Wesabe added that tag to all the other entries with the same title. what's more, every time I upload a new statement Wesabe will automatically add that tag to the new entries.
One the right hand side of your account page there's a list of your tags and clicking a tag will take you to a page showing how much you spent on those items. As with any tagging-based site you can be a detailed and/or general as you want with your tags.
In addition to the organizational tools and account tracking Wesabe collects user submitted tips and displays relevant bits of advise based on how your tags overlap with other user's tags. Tips range from enlightening to obvious (hasn't everyone's mother been telling them not to grocery shop when you're hungry since you first moved out of the house?). If you have a tip to share you can add it to the site, or comment on existing tips with add insight or further suggestions.
Wesabe's third main feature is creating personal goals. You can choose from existing goals that other users have posted (such as saving up for new computer, paying off credit cards etc) or create your own. Like everything else goals are tied in with tips via tags, but you can also leave comments for the community.
There's a whole lot more to the site that I don't have time to go into, but I should note if you're not comfortable uploading your financial data you can still use Wesabe, you just won't have the personalized access.
My favorite part of Wesabe: at the bottom of every Wesabe page there's a "I'm Freaking Out" link that leads away from all things finance related and gives you a Flickr slideshow of kittens.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/wesabe_promises.html "Monkey Bites on Wesabe"
[2]: https://www.wesabe.com/page/security "Wesabe"
[3]:
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Blogmailr takes advantage of the Metablog API and uses it's own e-mail parsing tools to pull out your post, images, and tags and then posts that info to your blog via the Metablog API.
to get it working you sign up for an account, tell Blogmailr your blog address and login information and you're done. Blogmailr then generates an email address something@blogmailr.com. Just add that address to your address book with the handy vcard Blogmailr generates and you're ready to go.
Write your blog post however you normally do and instead of logging into your admin section, you just email it to your Blogmailr.com address.
Blogmailr supports most major blogging platforms. If yours isn't on the list there's a very good chance it doesn't support the Metablog API, which means there isn't a whole lot Blogmailr can do about it.
The range of support varies somewhat by blogging service, most allow file uploading via email attachments and tags give in the form <code>[tags: tagname1, tagname2]</code>
The usefulness of Blogmailr will depend somewhat on your work habits. Many people live in their email program and it's always open which makes Blogmailr an attractive way to post without having to open a new browser window. But the big appeal here seems to be posting from mobile devices. I haven't used it myself, but there's already a lot of buzz around the web attesting to how easy Blogmailr makes mobile posting.
Which means I could probably post to Monkey Bites from, say, Tahiti, just as easily as this apartment. Hmm.
Blogmailr is free, but will leave a "posted with blogmailr" badge at the bottom of your post. There is also a commercial version available. The Single-User commercial account is $2.99/mo per-user. Blogmailr asks that if you make more than $300/mo from your blog that you use the commercial license.
[1]: https://www.blogmailr.com/
[2]: http://telligent.com/
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But first a bit about Google Earth beta 4. Speed. Oh the speed. GE beta 4 sees much improved performance, particularly if you have a lot of overlays activated. Beta 4 is much faster at rendering, zooming and coming into focus.
GE Version 4 features a new icon set for markers and various overlays. There are also numerous improvements and new features like altitude for overlays. If you use [the popular Global Cloud Layer][2], you can now zoom through the cloud layer and pan back toward the sky and you'll see clouds instead of the generic blue. You can also set the clouds to cast shadows on the surface if you like. The altitude settings can apply to any overlay you want to add.
GE always was and continues to be a RAM hog, but that's somewhat expected given what it's capabilities. With about five overlays activated asking GE to zoom into Manhattan gobbled up almost 400 MB of RAM. As with the previous releases, the more RAM you have the better performance you'll see.
My favorite part of GE beta 4 is definitely the historical maps feature which allows you to overlay Rumsey Historical maps. Regular features like the state and national border overlay will still outline the current layouts so you can see how things have changed over the centuries. At the moment there are about twenty maps available, including the world globe of 1790, London in 1843, New York in 1836, the Lewis and Clarke expedition of 1814 and more. Below is a screenshot of New York in 1836 and one of the present day Manhattan.
Google Earth remains a one of kind program and beta 4 sees some great new features and a welcome speed boost. If your computer is up for it, I highly recommend downloading Google Earth beta 4.
[2]: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/09/global_clouds_w.html "Google Earth Global Could Overlay"
[1]: http://earth.google.com/ "Google Earth"
[3]: http://earth.google.com/earth4.html "Google Earth Beta 4"
[4]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=387 "ZDNet blog on Historical Maps"
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There are a couple of other sites out there offering similar services, but none of the ones I've tried have anywhere near the simple, streamlined and easy to use interface that Jamglue offers.
Jamglue is bit like a simplified version of Apple's garageband, living in the confines of your browser. After you set up your account, just upload any audio clips you'd like to play with. During the upload process you have the option to attach a creative commons license to your work, which is a nice touch. Alternately you can make use of clips that other users have uploaded.
The next step is to create a mix, give it a title, brief description, set the tempo and pick a license. You will then be take into Jamglue's Flash-based mixing app. For the most part everything is pretty intuitive and much of the interface is accomplished via very nice drag-and-drop features.
Once you're happy with your mix you can save it, share it with the Jamglue community or use some YouTube-style cut-and-paste code to embed it in any page you like.
Jamglue is a private beta at the moment so you'll have to sign up and wait for a while. Most people seem to have gotten an invite sent within a few days at the most.
The only real side to Jamglue was how quickly it revealed that I have no talent for remix tracks. But that's no fault of Jamglue.
[1]: http://www.jamglue.com/ "Jamglue.com"
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Podworks has a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod, the easiest of which is to simply click "Copy All," which copies everything on your iPod to whatever location you select. Alternately you can select a range of songs and only copy those songs.
Podworks can also send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" or "Send Selected to iTunes" options.
Podworks lacks the drag and drop features of Senuti, but makes up for it by being smarter about duplicate songs. Podworks still doesn't warn or ask about duplicates, instead it just silently skips them (or overwrites them depending on your settings.
Like others, Podworks can play songs on your iPod though when I say play I mean literally play, not skip or fast-forward and changing views will stop playback.
Podworks is shareware and costs $8. There is 30 day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transfering songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Easy to use
**Bad**
* Lack of Universal binary makes it a bit slower than others
* No way to view your iTunes Library along side your iPod
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
[1]: http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/ "Podworks"
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* Sun Microsystems announced today that it will [release the Java source code under a GPL license][1]. The software will be under the version 2 of the General Public License (GPLv2), which governs Linux and many other open-source products, but Sun is employing the so-called "classpath exception," so that programs shipping with Java, need not use the GPL.
* More on Microsoft/Universal deal: According to Universal CEO Doug Morris the iPod and Zune, "are just repositories for stolen music." He went on to [tell Billboard Magazine][2], "So it's time to get paid for it." So does this mean it's okay for Zune owners to steal music from Universal artists, since Universal has already taken their cut?
* Google has [introduced a new start page for Google Apps for Your Domain][3] which allows for more customization, including the use of GMail with customized addresses in place of @gmail.com.
* [Lycos announced a new service today called Lycos Cinema][4]. The company claims Cinema will combine online video and social networking. Lycos claims the technology it has created "allows for the virtual living room." No word on whether anyone has told them about YouTube.
[1]: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6134584.html "ZDNet on Sun Announcment"
[2]: http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003380831 "Billboard.com"
[3]: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10413.html
[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061113/wr_nm/media_lycos_dc "Yahoo on Lycos"
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First up in our review of iPod circumventors is a [Mac-only program by the name of Senuti][1]. Senuti is free (as in beer) and open source, licensed under the GNU GPL.
Senuti's interface mimics that of iTunes circa version 6 and should be easy for most users to figure out.
You can copy songs in Senuti by simply selecting the songs on your iPod and clicking the copy button. You can also copy playlists via drag-and-drop. By default Senuti will copy the songs to the music folder set in your iTunes preferences, but if you'd like the change that you can do so in Senuti's preferences.
I had no problems copying songs with Senuti and even discovered some music I had forgotten about using the "Hide iTunes Songs" feature. Invoking hide iTunes songs will show only those songs that are only on your iPod, select them, click copy and your songs will be recovered.
The main downside to Senuti is that it doesn't know to not duplicate tracks. If you have a playlist with ten songs on your iPod and the same playlist already exists in itunes, Senuti won't warn your about duplicates. Instead is will simply make copies of songs so you end up with a playlist that now has twenty songs. You can stop Senuti from duplicating the actual song files by choosing "overwrite songs" in the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the duplication of songs within playlists.
Senuti can also copy movies just like songs and can even restore photos from you iPod.
Senuti is developed and maintained Whitney Young; if you like the program you can make a contribution by visiting [fadingred.org][2].
*Good*
* Easy to use, interface will be familiar for iTunes users
* Can copy songs from Windows or Mac formatted iPods
* Ability to view only songs not in your music library
*Bad*
* no one-click sync of iPod to iTunes (though this is listed in the Senuti roadmap)
* No way to avoid duplicates when copying playlists
[1]: http://www.fadingred.org/senuti/ "Senuti"
[2]: http://www.fadingred.org/ "fadingred.org"
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Clicking the link reveals a dropdown menu asking for your phone number. Enter your number and click "connect for free" and Google will call your phone number and automatically connect you to the business.
The call is free, but if you use a mobile number airtime minutes will still be used.
There is also an option to remember your number so in the future you can make calls with just two clicks.
It's a small but handy addition, especially since the call from Google will cause the phone number to show up on your caller ID in case you need later.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/click-to-call-in-google-maps.html "The Official Google Blog"
[2]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps"
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[According to a newly release U.S. government study][1], only one percent of the sites indexed by Google and Microsoft contain sexually explicit content. The study goes on the conclude that less than 6 percent of all searches return any sexually explicit results at all.
The government's new study, conducted by Philip B. Stark, a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, was commissioned by the Justice Department in the hopes of reviving the 1998 Child Online Protection Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Child Online Protection Act in 2004, ruling that it would also stifle the free speech rights of adults on the Internet. The court went on to say that filtering software may work better than such laws.
Stark's research also looked at software filters and concludes that the strictest filter they tested, AOL's Mature Teen, blocked 91 percent of the sexually explicit Web sites. I'm no mathematician, but I think that means the odds of children finding porn on computers with filter software are, uh, low.
The less restrictive filters typically blocked about 40 percent of sexually explicit sites in Google and Microsoft's indexes.
The ACLU, which has long fought the Child Online Protection Act, is citing the new study as evidence that software filters are an effective alternative to legislation.
Additional Stark's study found that roughly half of all sexually explicit sites are foreign and thus beyond the reach of the Child Online Protection Act, whereas software filters retain their effectiveness regardless of the origin of the content.
The burgeoning field of image recognition software holds some promise that in the future software filters will get smarter and more effective, but in the mean time the debate over legislation will likely continue.
[1]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16007733.html
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MP3.com, founded in 1997 by Michael Robertson, once had one of the largest collections of downloadable music on the net. A series of lawsuits forced MP3.com to pay out millions in copyright infringement damages. After being acquired by Universal Music in 2001 it was later sold to its current owner, CNET, in 2003.
However CNET only acquired the domain name not the millions of files once hosted on MP3.com's servers. CNET had transformed MP3.com into a music news and editorial site, but now the site is once again offering audio uploads for aspiring bands.
MP3.com is now offering band profiles, 100 MB of audio storage, and software to upload and edit music, videos, and photos. There's also a new Flash audio player that creates and saves playlists.
The feature set of the redesign seems targeted at going after MySpace Music, but having browsed around the site for the last hour, as much as I hate to admit it, from a band's point of view, I think MySpace is better.
The pages lack the customization features of MySpace (though the defaults look better than most MySpace pages) and the emphasis is less organic, community-based. MP3.com tries to integrate established artists with unknowns and claims to put them on equal footing, but in the end if comes off more like your favorite local band hired some slick PR company to turn them into an pseudo-established artist.
Like many CNET properties MP3.com feels like it's trying to do too much. And the advertising is prolific and annoying.
I want to be excited about MP3.com's redesign and new features, but frankly I found it less than compelling as a way to discover new bands.
[1]: http://www.mp3.com/ "MP3.com"
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The announcement is part 3's new "X-series" service which aims to more broadband services to mobile subscribers. The X-series service, which for now will only run on the Nokia N73 and the Sony Ericsson W950i, will come with Sling Player Mobile pre-installed.
Also included in the package are offerings from Orb, Google and Microsoft. For the time being 3 has declined to give any pricing details, but a SlingMedia spokesperson I talked to said the new package plans will move away from a bandwidth-based price structure to a subscription model.
The new service is available in the UK beginning December 1st.
SlingPlayer Mobile is software that allows you to watch their regular television on your mobile handset. The company first introduced the software earlier this year and currently supports Windows Mobile smart phones.
The version to be installed on UK phones will be running on the Symbian software found in popular Nokia and Erikson handsets.
Hutchinson, 3's parent company has 3G networks in eight countries worldwide and is expected to follow the UK rollout with similar offerings in its Australian, European and Asian markets.
This is the first time SlingMedia has partnered with a mobile carrier to deliver its software and services.
Entertainment companies and content providers have historically been reluctant to support any technology that delivers content outside the traditional channels, but Brian Jaquet of SlingMedia claims the company has been working with not against the entertainment industry.
"We've had a lot of discussions with content holders to address their concerns," he says adding, "It's a fine line that you walk, you want to deliver a great application and service, but you want to be mindful of the content providers rights as well."
I asked about the possibility of a similar U.S offering, but so far SlingMedia has no immediate plans. Jaquet says, "you can't look at it as a cookie cutter situation, every market is very different."
[1]: http://www.slingmedia.com/indexa.php "SlingMedia.com"
[2]: http://www.three.com/ "3 X-series"
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* [Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have agreed on a standardized format for sitemaps][1]. The structure, currently [available at Sitemaps.org][6], allows web masters to install an XML file on their servers that all three engines can use to track site updates.
* Google has added a new feature to Google Calendar that allows you to search public events. The search feature helps you find out what's happening in your area.
* [MP3.com officially relaunched][2] itself yesterday, with some nice new features for bands. The site now offers bands a profile page, 100 MB of audio storage and unlimited video hosting. [via [Mashable][3]]
* [Skype has released a new beta version its Mac software][5] with support for SMS and conference-calling. Skype 2.5 also lets you leave messages for offline users. It still doesn't have all the features of the Windows-only Skype 3.0, but it's getting there.
* Rumor: A number of news agencies are [reporting that production of the ever elusive Apple iPhone][4] has been contracted out to Hon Sio a Taiwanese manufacturing company. Rumor also claims that the iPhone will be sold unlocked. But just who is this "Rumor," That's what I'd like to know.
[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/11/15/microsoft-google-yahoo-unite-to-support-sitemaps.aspx "Microsoft, Yahoo and Google unite"
[2]: http://www.mp3.com/ "MP3.com"
[3]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/15/mp3com-to-challenge-myspace-in-music/ "Mashable on MP3.com"
[4]: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=AAPL:US&sid=a5skb65I7L4c "Bloomberg.com on the Apple iPhone"
[5]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/macosx/25beta.html "Skype 2.5 beta"
[6]: http://www.sitemaps.org/ "Sitemaps.org"
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Anapod Explorer features all the basic stuff you'll find in the other programs, one-click back ups, duplicate file detection and drag-and-drop transfers. But in addition to that AE features the "Window's Integration," which allows you to browse your iPod like you would in Windows Explorer, but without the quirky file-names. AE can also sync your photos and movies as well.
AE includes a separate program, Anapod Xtreamer, which allows you to browse your iPod via any standard browser. Xtreamer makes it easy to transfer files, not just from your iPod to the connected computer, but to any computer on the network.
But the coolest feature in my opinion is the ability to do alter bitrates on the fly using AE's AudioMorph when transferring songs. This means you can keep high bitrate copies of your music on your hard drive and compress them during transfer to save space on your iPod.
Just in case all that wasn't enough for you, Anapod Explorer goes completely over the top and includes a database search engine that lets you execute SQL statements to search for music. Holy nerdy goodness.
There are about a dozen more features I haven't haven't touched on, but since most of them go far beyond our review goals (get music off your iPod) I'll leave them for you to discover.
It's not the cheapest way to get music off your iPod, but if you're looking to do more with your iPod and music, Anapod Explorer is worth a closer look.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Excellent additional features (too many to list)
* Avoids duplicating songs
**Bad**
* Not free
* Overkill if all you want to do is get songs off your iPod
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[IPodRip][4] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_3.html "Monkey Bites on iPodRip"
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Today's announcement puts Intel on top again in the never-ending chip race with AMD, whom Intel has been trailing for several years. AMD is planning on releasing its own quad cores sometime next year.
Intel claims the quad cores, which are essentially two dual cores sandwiched on the same chip, will give some applications as much as a 70% performance boost.
Before you get too excited, bear in mind that there isn't a whole lot of software out there that can really take advantage of a quad core chip. The most immediate beneficiaries of the new chips will likely be servers and grid computing projects. There are some high-end multimedia and scientific programs that are capable of using however many cores are present, but your average office and desktop programs will likely see only marginal performances gains from the new chips.
Intel's performance figures may however prove correct at some point in the future when software catches up with hardware. With more and more consumer machines already using dual cores and the new quad cores hitting the market, we will undoubtedly see more programs becoming multithread capable in the near future.
ZDNet has put together an interesting informal benchmark test using Intel's new quad-core Xeon 5355. The folks over at ZDNet reconfigured a Mac Pro to fit it with two quad cores, making an eight core machine, and [ran some benchmark tests][2]. In some tests the original Mac Pro actually out performs the new chips, though as ZDNet points out their custom machine does not benefit from optimized firmware or other components that Apple would likely add if they use the new chips.
So far Dell, IBM and a few others have announced plans to use the new chips. Apple, who typically does not announce such things, has so far not said anything about the new chips.
At $999 per chip, Intel's quad cores probably aren't going to fit most consumer budgets, but early adopters, gaming junkies and those who just have to have the latest and greatest will no doubt be excited.
[1]: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=49E53381-F875-4EAE-96E8-DE26355F2A94 "Intel to Ship Kentsfield"
[2]: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000193,39284700,00.htm "ZDNet benchmarks"
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We tested iPod Access on both Windows and Mac with very similar results. The Mac interface is definitely not the most refined we've seen in our tests, but it functions well enough and gives you the information you need.
Ipod Access works very similar to PodWorks, just highlight the songs you want to copy and click "Add to iTunes." The trial version only allows you transfer five songs at a time, but I had no problems copying songs within the limit.
The "Clone Playlist" feature is not available in the trial version so I wasn't able to test it.
When it comes to handling song transfers, IPod Access gives you more options than the other programs reviewed, including the option to rename the songs in a variety of formats. Ipod Access did a great job of not making duplicate copies and offers the option to only overwrite existing files if the iPod copy is newer.
Like Podworks, iPod Access is not currently a universal binary so performance on Intel Macs is lackluster. In Windows XP we had no issues with speed.
Ipod Access may not be the prettiest of the bunch, but it offers the most features (albeit at the slightly higher price).
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Doesn't duplicate tracks when transferring songs
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Available for Windows and Mac
**Bad**
* Interface is basic (some might say ugly)
* Trial version had numerous errors/warnings
* No drag-and-drop transfers.
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://www.findleydesigns.com/products.html "iPod Access"
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IPodRip is shareware and costs $14.95. The unlicensed version is not crippled, but will expire after 10 uses, which means if you just need to recover from a hard drive failure or similar one-time problem, iPodRip can do it for free.
IPodRip features, drag-and-drop support for moving songs off your iPod directly into iTunes, as well as one-click importing to restore everything. Alternately you can select individual songs and import them one at a time or in groups.
<img alt="Ipodrip" title="Ipodrip" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/ipodrip.jpg" border="0" style="display: block; margin: 10px 0px 10px 5px;" />IPodRip also has a very nice feature that allow you to restore all your playlists with one-click. IPodRip also allows for something it terms "smart sync" which allows you to copy songs based on various criteria (pretty much like "smart playlists" in iTunes).
IPodRip also features a number of nice extras not found elsewhere, such as a database check for your iPod DB, an option to export your library information to HTML or XML formats, and sync metadata between your iPod and iTunes.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Available for Windows and Mac
* Excellant additional features
**Bad**
* Not free (though it can be used 10 times with no limitations)
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip "iPodRip"
[5]: http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/software/index.php "The Little App Factory"
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* Later today TiVo will [announce a plan to allow users to download videos][1] from the Internet and watch them from their television sets. For now the service will be limited to non-copyrighted material from services like YouTube, though TiVo hopes to add iTunes Music Store content in the future. This is reportedly only one of several new features TiVo will be announcing.
* Bloomberg.com reports that, according the Steve Ballmer, [Microsoft plans to add video-sharing and a phone feature][2] to future versions of its Zune music player.
* The AP reports you will be able to [buy Windows Vista licenses at CompUSA][3] starting November 30th. Microsoft claims the move is aimed at small businesses most of whom purchase software at retail stores. The licensing purchase is reported cheaper than the traditional boxed product.
* The U.K.-based [OpenStreetMap is collecting cartography information][4] from GPS wielding volunteers in hopes of creating a free, open-source wiki-style map of the planet. [via [CNet][5]]
[1]: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/hold-for-release-1201-am-est-tuesday/n20061113191809990018 "TiVo to allow internet downloads"
[2]: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6kJgarwWLeg "Microsoft's Ballmer on the future of Zune"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_hi_te/vista_compusa "Microsoft to sell business license through CompUSA"
[4]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page "OpenStreetMap.org"
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6134871.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on OpenStreetMap"
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The increase in buddy list size brings AIM up to speed with other popular IM services such as those from Yahoo and Microsoft.
Other features include a new "dashboard" which AOL says will make it easier for users to access mobile features like the new IM forwarding. IM forwarding allows you to have messages sent while you are offline forwarded to your mobile device.
AIM 6.0 also adds further integration with the new "AIM Pages," AOL's blogging and social networking feature. You can subscribe to your buddies page (via RSS) and receive updates in your instant messenger.
Some news reports have mentioned that the subscription abilities extend beyond AOL's limited offerings to include sites such as YouTube, Digg and Flickr, but I couldn't find anything about that on the AIM website.
The AIM service remains a lone wolf when it comes to interoperability. Unlike Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, which both allow you to chat with members of either service, AIM is a closed system.
AOL says it is in talks with Google about the possibility of linking AIM with Google Talk. Presumably this would function somewhat like the way AIM works with ICQ or Apple's iChat.
AOL has provided an new open SDK for developers so those of us who use the AIM service but not the the client program can expect to see third party developers incorporate the new features soon.
The AIM 6.0 client is thus far Windows only and requires either 2000 or XP.
[1]: http://www.aim.com/index.adp?aolp=0 "AIM 6.0"
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I use LibraryThing to grab book covers for display on my blog, but I've never really tinkered with the site too much. However the new feature "UnSuggester" sounded interesting.
But let's start with LibraryThing's "BookSuggester." LibraryThing claims to have 7.1 million books and over 9.5 million user generated tags in it's database. The new BookSuggester feature combs through those books to find things you might like, based on the title of a book you know you like.
The obvious question is why use this over Amazon's recommended books feature? Well for one thing, Amazon's results are included so you get those plus more. LibraryThing also offers more results and separates them into tag-based results and actual humans-have-read-and-liked results.
At the top of each results page there's an intriguing link for Library Thing's other new search feature, called "UnSuggest" which offers "bad" recommendations.
[UnSuggester][2] is a recommendation engine turned on its head. Instead of telling you what you'd like based on what you already like, UnSuggester tells you what you wouldn't like based on what you like.
At first I thought it was a kind of funny, one-off feature that you play with for half an hour and forget about. After all, I don't need a search engine to tell me that a love of Immanuel Kant probably precludes a deep affinity for *Confessions of a Shopaholic*.
But then I started thinking about something Robert Anton Wilson writes about a lot: expanding your reality tunnel.
Based on the Unsuggester search results you can force expose yourself to other things that might otherwise pass quietly by you. The potential for new discoveries is actually much greater with negative suggestions than it ever will be with those that cater to your mold.
With the tunnel narrowing features like selective RSS news feeds and niche base social networks popping up everyday, it's become relatively easy to hear only what you already know you want to hear. UnSuggester can be refreshing chance to expose yourself to books outside your usual preference. And who knows, maybe I would like *Confessions of a Shopaholic.*
[1]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/14/librarything-creates-worlds-worst-recommendation-engine/ "LibraryThing on Mashable"
[2]: http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester/ "LibraryThing's Unsuggester"
[3]: http://www.librarything.com/ "Library Thing"
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* A phenomenon called "evanescent coupling" could [allow for wireless power sources][1]. The technology uses resonant frequencies to transfer energy without wires over a distance of several meters. So far the idea is just on paper, but the MIT scientists involved say they are working on a prototype, which frankly, would be the coolest thing since the wireless remote.
* Apparently [Zune is incompatible with Windows Vista][2]. Yes, as other have said that's ridiculous, but to be fair, Vista hasn't been released yet. If Vista is released and it still isn't compatible, then you can start jeering.
* [AOL announces version 6 of its popular AIM messaging service][3]. Among some of the cool new features is the ability to forward IMs to you phone when you're offline so you can see what you missed.
* [iTWire reports][4] that cellphone company BoostMobile has launched "a cellphone-based social networking service that enables users to plot the location of their friends on a map." No word on the accuracy of the service.
* And finally, news of the strange kind: [YouTube sent a cease-and-desist letter][5] to the popular tech blog, TechCrunch.
[1]: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10575-evanescent-coupling-could-power-gadgets-wirelessly.html "New Scientist Tech"
[2]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=104 "Vista and Zune not compatible"
[3]: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp?aolp=0 "AIM 6.0"
[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7141/990/ "iTWire on BoostMobile"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/ "TEchCrunch on their cease-and-desist letter"
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In addition, Yamipod will find and remove duplicate files on your iPod, though as with this feature in iTunes you have to be careful since you may have live versions and other "duplicates" that you want to keep.
Yamipod also offer some extra features not found in the other programs including the ability to create playlists, send information to last.fm, growl notifications and add lyrics to your iPod.
There's also a feature in Yamipod that I haven't seen elsewhere called "Find Lost Music," which will recover songs on your iPod but not listed in the library. I don't know how that happens and Yamipod didn't find any such files on my iPod, but if you've ever had music disappear from your library, Yamipod might be able to recover them.
Yamipod is a universal binary and was one of the fastest applications tested on my Macbook.
Stay tuned for a wrap up later this week.
####The Lowdown
**Good**
* Can sync iTunes to iPod with one click
* Nice additional features
* Supports all major operating systems
**Bad**
* Some problems with video iPod and iTunes 7 (see Yamipod forums)
Previously reviewed:
[Senuti][1] (Mac only)<br />
[Podworks][2] (Mac only)<br />
[IPod Access][3] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[IPodRip][4] (Mac & Windows)<br />
[Anapod Explorer] (Windows) <br />
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o.html "Monkey Bites on Senuti"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_1.html "Monkey Bites on PodWorks"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_2.html "Monkey Bites on iPod Access"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_3.html "Monkey Bites on iPodRip"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/getting_songs_o_4.html "Monkey Bites on Anapod Explorer"
[6]: http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ "Yamipod"
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The popular photo sharing site has added three new features, guest passes, a new mobile version and the ability to search images by camera model.
First and most welcome is the new guest pass. Flickr has always been my favorite way to share photos, but it's annoying for people that don't already have a Flickr account.
I don't know about you're family is like but mine has been known to say "the internets" without a trace of irony. Consequently the odds of any of them bothering to open a Flickr account to see my photos is pretty much nil.
The good folks at Flickr have finally addressed what many consider to be the site's main downfall. The solution is a new guest accounts system.
Beside each of your Flickr sets is a new button that says "Share this set." Add up to fifty email addresses and you're away. Now the family can see your photos without any problems. Guest passes work with secret links so you can send a link yourself or have Flickr batch email it for you using the handy form.
Flickr has also [updated the mobile version][3] of the site. I was rather disappointed to discover that the new mobile version requires a Yahoo ID to login and further disappointed to note that apparently at some point all of Flickr with require a Yahoo ID. But word has it the new mobile site is much snappier and had better search features.
With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, this last feature with likely be very popular: [Flickr Camera Finder][2]. Camera Finder lets you search for images by camera so you can compare cameras by looking at the results.
Purists will point out that most images are probably compressed and may not be the best representative of a camera's true capabilities, but I did a bit of searching and actually found a number of high resolution images. Its especially handy for seeing things like the color noise and low light capabilities of your dream camera.
And for the curious, the most popular SLR on Flickr is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.
[2]: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ "Flickr Camera Finder"
[3]: http://m.flickr.com/ "Flickr Mobile"
[1]: http://www.flickr.com/ "Flickr.com"
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A new online photo editing site, [Phixr.com doesn't think so][1]. Phixr offers most of the commonly used photo editing tools in an easy-to-use web interface. Phixr let's use adjust brightness and saturation, color, sharpen, remove noise and of course red eye reduction.
There's a number of sites out there that offer some of this functionality, but I haven't seen any that are as simple and intuitive as Phixr.
Phixr also offers integration with Flickr, Photobucket and more. I grabbed a photo out of my Flickr stream and Phixr imported it without any troubles. I was then able to edit it and upload it back to Flickr.
Naturally you can upload an image straight from your hard drive, work with it in Phixr and export it as a .jpg, .png, .gif and more.
If you happen to have a Livejournal account or use Fotolog, Phixr can upload your images as blog posts, just enter your login information.
If you're a professional photograph Phixr will probably leave you wanting, but if photoshop confuses you and you just want to crop an image, get rid of some red eye and adjust a few colors without getting a computer science degree in the process, Phixr will be a welcome relief.
[1]: http://www.phixr.com/ "Phixr.com"
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* [An article on ZDNet][3] yesterday led some people to conclude that Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage would put the Office Suite in reduced functionality mode if the software couldn't be validated. Turns out [that isn't true][4].
* According to Yahoo News, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that web sites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties [cannot be sued for libel][2]. Should be a boon for flame wars everywhere.
* Nielsen Media Research started [gathering data on the audience for Apple's iPod][5]. It turns out that iPod users spend far more time listening to audio than they do watching TV or movies.
* And finally, TSIA: "[RIAA toilet paper][6]" [via [BoingBoing][1]]
[6]: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=285 "Wipe your ass with the RIAA"
[5]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061120/tc_zd/194424 "Ipod user habits"
[4]: http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/11/21/microsoft-confirms-no-kill-switch-in-office-2007/ "No kill Switch in Office 2207"
[3]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=111 "ZDNet get's it wrong"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_hi_te/internet_libel
[1]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/20/riaa_toilet_paper.html "RIAA toilet paper"
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The MPire plugin includes some nice features for comparison shopping. Similar to [Farecast][4], my favorite airline ticket site, there are predictive graphs indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales.
Mpire can also point you to online coupons and other discounts as well as track Ebay auctions.
I'm very impressed with the new plugin. I've used the Mpire site a few times in past, but frankly I forget about it. With the plugin makes it's easier to take advantage of what Mpire offers without having to visit the actual site.
Right now the Plugin is only available for Firefox, but hopefully we'll see something similar for Internet Explorer in the near future.
[found via [TechCrunch][3]]
[1]: http://mpire.com/ "Mpire.com"
[2]: http://www.mpire.com/corporate/plugin.html "Mpire.com Firefox Plugin"
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/21/mpire-offers-power-shopping-plug-in/ "TechCrunch on Mpire.com"
[4]: http://farecast.com/ "Farecast.com"
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* There have been a couple of minor security exploits found in Mac OS X this month, but today there's one that much more serious, though in fact it's been around a while. The exploit in question [allows a corrupted .dmg file to cause a kernal panic][1], which could be used to inject malicious code. Apple hasn't addressed the problem publically yet, but if you want to avoid any issues, just [disable Safari's auto-open feature][2] and avoid downloading .dmg files from unknown parties.
* CBS is reportedly happy with its YouTube experiment. CBS says that viewers are flocking to CBS TV shows after seeing the clips on YouTube. Perhaps this will encourage other companies to drop the lawsuits and embrace the future of video. [via [Mashable][4]]
* Microsoft Windows will be stumbling out of a bar blindingly drunk later this evening in [celebration of its twenty-first birthday][5].
* To celebrate the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft and Deal have partnered up to create a pretty sweet [special edition computer][6]. The new box features, among other things, a one terabyte raid drive and a 30' widescreen flat panel monitor.
* <b>Rumor:</b> Because everybody loves a good fantasy story, Read/Write Web has an [analysis of the as yet ficticious GoogleOS][7]. "There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products."
[1]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7375/53/ "ITWire on OS X exploit"
[2]: http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/dmg_kernel_panic "Daring Fireball on the .dmg kernal panic"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/21/the-youtube-effect-cbs-gets-massive-boost/ "Mashable on CBS"
[5]: http://www.mstechtoday.com/2006/11/20/microsoft-windows-is-21-years-old-today/ "MS Windows turns 21"
[6]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/21/windows-vista-custom-pc-design.aspx "Windows Vista PC"
[7]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php "The GoogleOS?"
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The signup process is painless, just pick a username, fill out some basic info, and enter your phone numbers. Zemble then sends you a text message with a confirmation number. Enter that number on the sign up page and you're done.
From there you can create your profile and invite friends. Zemble offers integration with MySpace and Facebook so you can batch email your friends from either social network. You can also import your address book from GMail, Yahoo, MSN or Hotmail. I'm sure you friends will love the spam invites.
Once you have a group of friends set up, the messaging process is pretty straight forward. Say you want to invite everyone in your group to Thanksgiving dinner, just go to the "My Zembles" page and create a new Zemble.
Once you've given your Zemble a name and description, Zemble.com will send you a text message with address for that Zemble. Then you add that address to your phone contacts, for instance thanksgiving@zemble.com, and whenever you want to send a message to that Zemble group, just send an SMS message to the address and Zemble will forward the message on to your friends.
To respond to a Zemble just sent a message to re@zemble.com and the message creator will get your reply. To reply to everyone that got a message, use the same address but begin your replay with an exclamation point.
Zemble has a nice feature set and if you can convince your friends to join it might be a good way to batch message invites.
[1]: http://www.zemble.com/ "Zemble.com"
[2]: http://twitter.com/ "Twitter.com"
[3]: http://www.3jam.com/ "3Jam"
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For $.99 cents a month you can buy "hotties" both male and female to add to your profile as friends and what's more they even post 2 comments a week. Oh and fear not, those comments will be germaine because you'll be the on writing them.
FakeYourSpace claims to make it "easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend." Which is really all we want right -- the illusion of friends?
When I worked in a coffeeshop in college we found that starting off the morning by "seeding" the tip jar with a few dollars universally led to bigger tips, so will seeding your MySpace profile with models lead to more models finding your page?
[Update: In the time it took to write this, FakeYourSpace seems to have disappeared, the site now leads to generic, "this domain is for sale" page. Damn, I knew it was too good to be true. What is the world coming to when you can't even buy some decent looking friends?]
[1]: http://www.fakeyourspace.com/ "FakeYourSpace"
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* U.S. companies will have to [track all e-mail, IM and other electronic documents][1] created by their employees thanks to new federal laws that take effect today. The rules will require companies involved in federal litigation to show all "electronically stored information." Even better, making backups by re-burning a CD-RW could be considered "virtual shredding."
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_hi_te/storing_e_mails "Law requires Companies to track e-documents"
* Here's a shocker: Movie Studios are demanding that [Apple add more restrictive DRM][2] before they will sell their movies through iTunes. Among other things the studios want Apple to "reduce the number of devices that can use a film downloaded from iTunes."
[2]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c6aa286-7f08-11db-b193-0000779e2340.html "Movie studios want more DRM"
* On the brighter side of the DRM fight, Russian site [AllofMP3 is fighting back][3] against the U.S.-Russia trade deal which essential calls for the demise of AllofMP3. A lawyer for AllofMP3 told Ars Technica, "Legality is not decided by a legislative branch or an executive branch. It's decided by a court." It's nice to see AllofMP3 fighting the good fight, but personally I'd just head to the Bahamas, no legal hassles, better weather...
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8330.html "Ars Technica on AllofMP3"
* And finally, more good copyright news: [The Internet Archive][5] has [won an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act][4] which will allow them to continue archiving the internets.
[5]: http://www.archive.org/index.php "The Internet Archive"
[4]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/internet_archive_copyright_reprieve/
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Stylefeeder is the shopaholics friend, rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, you can keep everything in one place. Stylefeeder offer and nice bookmarklet that sits in your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed.
The bookmarklet features a nice piece of javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It's so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.
Stylefeeder helps you create a wishlist or just track products your interested in. Stylefeeder has all the features you'd expect from a social bookmarking site such as tags, ratings, RSS feeds and groups.
Unlike a lot of more traditional social bookmark sites, Stylefeeder is decidedly not geek-oriented, in fact the Leica camera I bookmarked looked decidedly out of place on the front page, sandwiched between a kimono dress and a yoga outfit.
Once you add a page to your stylefeed you can keep track of it via RSS, share it with a group if you're a member or email it to a friend. There's also an OPML feed, which means if you're tech savvy you could pull your Stylefeed content into just about anywhere.
For those that want to display their wishlist on a blog or MySpace page, Stylefeeder offers some cut-and-paste code that will embed a nice flash widget on whatever page you would like. You should be aware that some blog sites block Flash plugins, LiveJournal comes to mind, so the widget may or may not work depending on the service you use.
In my cursory browsing I noticed that so far Stylefeeder's users aren't making heavy use of the comments feature which is a bit disappointing since half of what I look for when I'm shopping online is user commentary on a product. Perhaps as the site grows users will start taking advantage of the comments feature.
Stylefeeder does has a nice feature called Watchlist that lets you track what other users bookmark. This allows you in effect to use other Stylewatchers as personal shoppers, just find someone whose taste you like and every time they add a new product you'll get notified.
The one thing Stylefeeder doesn't feature that I would like to have seen is some kind of price tracking. Since [reviewing Offertrax for Monkey Bites][2], I've grown semi-addicted to the idea of tracking prices via RSS. Stylefeeder is decidedly more fun and better looking than Offertrax, but Offertrax has a feature set that's tough to beat.
[1]: http://www.stylefeeder.com/ "Stylefeeder.com"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in "Monkey Bites on Offertrax"
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The fundamental change in the contract is that it now allows the U.S. government sole control over .com price increases and sole control over whether or not VeriSign gets to renew the contract in 2012.
The international community has been pushing to turn this authority over to ICANN who oversees the internet, but the U.S. rejected that idea. As part of the contract VeriSign must recognize the authority of ICANN, but answers only to the U.S government, effectively neutering ICANN.
Currently the U.S. also oversees ICANN but that is schedule to end in 2009. What has irked many countries about the new contract is that it extends U.S authority three years past the point that internet is scheduled to be turned over to an international body. The new contract furthermore adds the option for the U.S. to extend that authority even longer should it choose to renew VeriSign's contract in 2012.
Although somewhat better than the original VeriSign contract revealed earlier this year, today's official announcement is unlikely to make many outside the U.S. very happy. As the UK newspaper [The Register rather sardonically puts it][2], "a decision with global implications was again decided by a few Congressmen in Washington."
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-11-30T194653Z_01_N30191458_RTRIDST_0_VERISIGN-AGREEMENT-UPDATE-1.XML "VeriSign Contract Officially Accepted"
[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/usg_approves_dotcom_contract/ "The Register on VeriSign Contract"
[3]: http://www.verisign.com/ "verisign"
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If the Wii offering is any indicator, these sites should prove popular with fans of the represented brands.
Yahoo's Wii site is chock full of geeky fan goodness with everything from flickr photos showing people hooking up their new Wii, to del.icio.us links with various tips, sites and sale prices, to panel with questions and answers from the ever-growing Yahoo! Answers.
The design of the site is clean and simple, something Yahoo seems to be getting better at and it unifies the many diverse offerings that Yahoo often has a hard time bringing together in a cohesive way.
The buyers guide for instance, integrates Yahoo Shopping, EBay Auctions and Yahoo maps to create a nice one-stop destination for anyone looking to purchase a Wii (never mind that every retailer lists the Wii as out of stock).
Of course the primary focus is on content from Yahoo's offerings, which leaves the Video section for instance, a bit lacking, I imagine users would be better served by aggregating YouTube Video rather than relying on Yahoo's paltry offerings, but I don't image that will be happening any time soon.
What's interesting about the Wii portal and future plans is that Yahoo isn't asking permission or partnering with the brand companies in anyway. Yahoo says they hope brand companies will want to work with and support the Yahoo sites, but as Vince Broady, head of entertainment, games and youth properties at Yahoo, tells Variety, "we don't believe we have to have the participation of the brand owners."
If you're a fan of Nintendo's new Wii console you'll enjoy Yahoo's new site, and it will be interesting to see where this brand-universe strategy takes Yahoo.
[1]: http://wii.yahoo.com/
[2]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954662.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2570
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With Google backing the massively popular YouTube, competitors have increasingly turned to paying contributers in an effort to lure them away from YouTube. [Metacafe launched a similar program called "producer rewards"][3] earlier this year.
In the case of Break, the only stipulation on getting paid is that your video must make it to the homepage. Unfortunately Break doesn't offer much info on how exactly your video can make it to the homepage
The one off payment model differs from sites like [Revver][4] which offer a revenue sharing model where the money earned is based on how many views your video receives. Revver and others like it seem to aim more for serial content (like that of lonelygirl15 or Ze Frank's *The Show* for instance) whereas clips likely to generate only one time views are probably better served by Break, Metacafe and other flat rate services.
A quick browse through the videos on Break failed to find much of what I would call quality content. But to be fair, Break's tag line is "the largest online site for guys," and the content clearly reflects that audience with innumerable videos of backyard stunts, and various sports misshaps as well as a whole NSFW section.
With the online video market still in its infancy, it's tough to gauge where these sites will be in a few years, but one thing is for sure, if you offer money, they will come. Break's homepage claims they have paid out over $300,000 to amateur producers so far.
[1]: http://www.break.com/ "Break.com"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-26T080107Z_01_N24177992_RTRIDST_0_TECH-WEBVIDEO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Break.com increases Video payments"
[4]: http://one.revver.com/browse/Editor%27s+Picks "Revver.com"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired on metacafe"
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It may sound like a nice idea to donate your obsolete computer to someone overseas, but in reality you may be doing little more than shuffling junk off to foreign landfills. No one wants to discourage you from donating an old computers to developing nations, but what constitutes a recyclable machine and what is simply a piece of junk is so far open to debate.
According to the Reuters article, one study last year in Nigeria claims that about 500 containers of secondhand electronics arrive at Lagos seaport every month.
>But dealers said as much as three-quarters of the PCs, televisions and phones inside were "junk" -- so obsolete they could not be repaired. Many were burned at open-air dumps, releasing toxic fumes and leaching chemicals like barium, mercury and brominated flame retardants into surrounding soils.
Some of the proposals the U.N. will be hearing next week include a plan to make computer manufacturers take responsibility for the final disposal of their products.
The U.N. estimates 14-20 million PCs are thrown out every year in the United States alone.
Most major computer manufacturers in the U.S. currently offer some kind of recycling program, but few of these programs are set up to handle overseas waste.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-11-27T103113Z_01_L27347882_RTRUKOC_0_US-WASTE-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-scienceNews-3 "Old Computers create environmental hazards"
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It seems Google was worried that Gaia's success would threaten Google Earth because of the licensing agreements Google Earth has with map and data providers which stipulates that the maps not be used outside Google's specific software clients.
It doesn't appear that Google resorted to lawyers or cease-and-desist letters, rather the developer of Gaia was contacted directly by Michael Jones, Chief Technologist of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Local search.
According to Jones in a letter posted on the Gaia site:
>The data that we license for Google Earth and Google Maps is made available for use under the restriction that it not be accessed or used outside of Google's client software. These products -- Earth, Maps, and Mobile Maps -- each have a data protection mechanism tailored to their environment. ... In all three cases, the ToS are very clear that the data services used by the client software must never be accessed directly and that the
encryption, passkey, and other data protection mechanisms must not be circumvented.
Kudos to Google for not resorting to threatening lawsuits and an equal measure of praise to Gaia's developer for taking the project down, but that said, it's still a shame to see the Gaia project disappear. Perhaps someone could convince the data companies to loosen their license restrictions a bit.
Otherwise, any attempt to create an open source program similar to Google Earth will need to start from scratch and use open earth images from NASA or similar and such a project is certainly not for the faint of heart.
[1]: http://gaia.serezhkin.com/ "Gaia is no more"
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As with any software still in the development stage, this release is not intended for serious production environments or mission critical data. That said, I have the new version installed under Mac OS X's X11 environment and it seems to very stable.
The final release of version 2.1 is slated to feature some pretty cool new stuff, including a new extensions framework for third party developers. So far there are no actual extensions available, but given the functionality extensions have allowed in Firefox, I think the inclusion of an extensions framework could be the biggest thing to hit OO since it's debut.
I'll be doing a full review of Open Office when the official version is released (currently slated for later this month), by which time hopefully some extensions will be available.
[1]: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html "Download OpenOffice 2.1 RC1"
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* Cray and IBM will [split a massive $494M grant][1] from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The money, which will be paid out over four years, is for developing the next generation of supercomputers. Cray says it will use AMD chips and the Linux operating system
[1]: http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/304963.htm "DARPA gives grant to Cray and IBM"
* According to a new British poll, [Britons who watch video on the internet spend less times watching TV][2]. The statistic is yet more bad news for the already beleaguered world of broadcast TV.
[2]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-11-27T113007Z_01_L27856075_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-BRITAIN-DOWNLOADS.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9
* You can now [download 2,500 hand-picked wikipedia educational articles][6] on a handy CD. The cd was compiled by volunteers from the children's charity SOS. The CD is free and should work on any platform. [via [Lifehacker][3]]
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/download/download-of-the-day-wikipedia-cd-all-platforms-217250.php
[6]: http://torrentfreak.com/wikipedia-cd-distributed-over-bittorrent/ "Download wikipedia CD torrent"
* ITWire reports that the banking industry is increasingly [worried that Google may come crashing into their industry][4]. As the article points out, Google Checkout may be the first small step in a larger plan.
[4]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7490/53/
* [Microsoft may be guilt of patent infringement in South Korea][5]. Back in 1997 a Korean professor filed patents for technology used to automatically translate English into Korean within Microsoft Office applications. The CNet article reports that the case "may force Microsoft to temporarily halt sales of Microsoft Office in South Korea."
[5]: http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6138379.html "Microsoft patent violations"
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Zune Microsoft's [Media Transfer Protocol][3], but thanks to libmtp, a free open source library available for Mac and Linux which implements the MS protocol, you should be able to see your Zune in other OSes.
If you'd like to be able to see your Zune on your Mac, grab a copy of WentNet’s open-source program [XNJB][1] (it's free), which leverages libmtp, and you should be able to view your Zune songs.
XNJB was written to support Creative Nomad MP3 players, but some users have reported that they can read the Zune drive and see their music libraries from from a Mac using XNJB. So far no one has been able to transfer songs though. The problem with transferring is that Zune apparently refuses to transfer files with unknown hosts.
Zune may not actually work with other OSes yet, but I have no doubt that someday soon someone will figure out how to make it work.
If you're interested have a look at [this thread in the Zunescene.com forums][2].
[1]: http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/ "wentnet's xnjb"
[2]: http://www.zunescene.com/forums/index.php?topic=3550.0 "Zunescene forum thread on Mac connectivity."
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol "Wikipedia definition of MTP"
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Some time ago the Pentagon floated up an idea called the Policy Analysis Market, which would have allowed online traders to wager on the likelihood of future terrorist attacks. At first glance such a market may sound like a cynical and politically stupid move, which it was and that's why it was abandoned, but the idea behind the market is more than just a so-called death pool.
Decision markets, or predictive markets as they're sometimes called, operate on the same premise as the stock market; that is, a group of people buy and sell shares, but in this case the value of the shares are determined by the value of the judgments attached to them. [According to Wikipedia][4]:
>People who buy low and sell high are rewarded for improving the market prediction, while those who buy high and sell low are punished for degrading the market prediction. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions predicting the same events with a similar pool of participants.
It may sound like little more than modified sports betting, but many economists believe that such markets can find hidden information about future events just like the soaring price of a stock can indicate a healthy company. [For the moment we'll ignore cases like Enron.]
Now thanks to Betocracy you can participate in this growing trend and easily create your own decision markets. The markets on Betocracy do not trade in actual money, but use a points system instead. Theoretically if the site takes off, shareholders with the highest points (i.e. those that buy low and sell high) will have a greater influence on the site.
I spoke briefly with Yaron Koren the man behind Betocracy about the site. Koren says he was "inspired to create the site by reading James Surowiecki's *The
Wisdom of Crowds*." He went on to add, "I was really struck by that idea of collective intelligence."
The idea behind Betocracy is to combine easy-to-use social internet tools with the predictive power of decision markets. Koren likens Betocracy to, "a cross between TradeSports and Blogger: bringing the concept of intuitive self-publishing to prediction markets.
The concept is fairly simple. Create an account, customize your page and create a market to display. You can choose to make your page public, publicly viewable but members only for usage or invite only.
I created a decision market based on [how the popular television show Lost will end][3]. My sample isn't probably the best since as I note on the page the results will be arbitrarily (and randomly I might add) decided by me. Hint: you can do better.
I'll admit that the whole things sounded a bit crazy to me when I first ran across it, but then again there were probably some folks that said the same thing four hundred years ago in Amsterdam.
Many thanks to the ever-prescient folks on the NoEnd mailing list for bring Betocray to my attention.
[1]: http://betocracy.com/ "Betocracy"
[3]: http://luxagraf.betocracy.com/market/8
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_market "Decision markets"
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One of the outstanding features of social internet sites is the ability to leave comments on just about anything, blog posts, saved links, uploaded videos, you name it and there's probably a way for you to express you opinions via comments.
But for amateur web developers creating a comments system can often be a complex and intimidating undertaking. JS-Kit reduces that undertaking to pasting a single line of code into your webpage. Just add this line to your site:
<script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>
That line activates Walkin's comment code which then uses your IP address to fetch the comments from his server.
The script creates threaded comments so you can comment on both the main content and what other people have said. Other niceties including an option to be notified by email whenever some replies to your comment.
You can also embed multiple instances of the script on the same page if you'd like for instance, to have a photo gallery page with individual comments per photo.
For those with the CSS knowhow, it's fairly easy to customize comments to fit the design of your site.
JS-Kit is brand new and lacks a few important comment features like spam protection, but that and other new features are already in the works.
Some people will no doubt be a little nervous about storing their comment data on another person's server, after all what happens if that server crashes or just plain disappears? Perhaps in the future they're will be a way to store comments locally, but for now I don't know of a simpler way to add comments to your web pages.
Found via [TechCrunch][2].
[1]: http://js-kit.com/ "Embed Comments in any page"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/quick-embed-code-to-add-comments-to-any-site/ "Techcrunch on JS-Kit"
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* It's official, [Windows Vista for Business launches today][1]. Microsoft has a new website to celebrate to occasion, complete with a video the ever creepy Steve Ballmer welcoming you to "a new day." Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 will also be today.
* AMD is expected to [launch the Quad FX Platform today][2]. The new chip consists of two of the dual-core Athlon processors connected to two Nvidia chipsets. The Quad FX Platform is AMD's response to Intel's Core 2 Extreme, but the Quad FX is slightly different in that it isn't two chips in one socket, rather two chips in two sockets. If you know what that means, then this could be the chip for you. AMD plans to release a true quad core chip early next year.
* Fast on the heels of yesterday's Verizon/YouTube deal, comes another announcement that [Verizon has a similar deal with Revver][3]. Revver typically adds adverts to the end of it's video streams, but that won't be the case with the mobile offering, instead uploaders will share in the licensing deal with Verizon.
* The NFL is [bringing live broadcasts to the web][4] -- sort of. The NFL Network's Thursday and Saturday telecasts will be available to Verizon's FiOS and DirecTV internet subscribers. The Reuters article has a great quote from NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, "it's not disrupting anything that's already available... It's taking advantage of the current technology." In other words, the NFL still doesn't understand the internet.
[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Windows Vista - it's a new day"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-6139465.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "AMD Quad Core"
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_hi_te/verizon_wireless_revver "Verizon Revver deal"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-11-30T114916Z_01_N30420400_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-NFL.xml&src=rss "The NFL goes online"
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Well, maybe. Searchmash is a bit different, and perhaps better, than most. According the the Lifehacker post by which I discovered it, [Searchmash is run by Google][2], which might explain why it generates almost the exact same results.
At first glance Searchmash isn't much, just a white page with a familiar results listing. But then when you look closer there's a number of features that improve on the basic Google Search concept. For instance you can dynamically collapse and expand the page descriptions and clicking the "more search results" link reveals another nice piece of Javascript which appends the results below the current ones rather than loading a new page. I'm one of those people that rarely delves into the second page of search results, but the ability to append them to current page makes more results somewhat more appealing.
Off the right hand side of the page are a series of collapsed links for images, video, Wikipedia and blog search results. Clicking the plus link opens a panel with the top results in that category. At the bottom of each panel is a link to "see more results," click that link that category becomes the main links for the page and the web pages result is shuffled off and collapsed in the right column.
Essentially Searchmash takes the results of Google's Web Search, Image Search and Blog Search, combines them with a Wikipedia search and video search, gives it an elegantly simple interface and integrates it into a single page. Very nice indeed.
Someone wrote in to the Lifehacker saying:
>(Searchmash) gives you a multi-page search view on one page and the ability to drag (yes drag) the 35th search result to the 3rd slot because you think it's more appropriate to your query.
Personally I can't seem to drag anything to reorder the results. I'm not even sure I'd want to unless there were some way to save the order, but if anyone can enlighten me as to how the drag and drop feature works, I'd at least like to try it.
The main downside to Searchmash is that it doesn't support very many of the advanced Google Search operators that I've come to rely on. Obviously <code>images:</code> works, as do common operators like <code>site:</code>, but more advanced ones like <code>filetype:</code> do not.
Did I mention the searches are lightning fast?
[1]: http://www.searchmash.com/ "Searchmash.com"
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/searchmash-google-interface-experiment-218217.php "Lifehacker on Searchmash.com"
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To sort out what might be the most confusing release of software ever, here's the rundown.
Today *business* users may purchase Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007 and Office 2007 through Microsoft's volume licensing program. But purchase does not equate with use in all cases. Exchange Server 2007 will not be available for even business customers until the end of next month. Vista and Office are available for business customers today.
*Retail* customers, that would be you and I, will have to wait until January for the *retail* versions to hit the shelves. There will be no less than four *retail* versions of Vista -- Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate -- ranging in price from $199 - $299. For more details have a [look at the breakdown of version differences][2] on Microsoft's website (note that there's also an Enterprise version for large businesses and Starter version for sale in developing nations).
I haven't been able to find details on what versions are available today through the business volume licensing program, but it seems reasonable to assume that Business, Ultimate and Enterprise would be the primary targets for the business market. If you know more details leave them in the comments below.
To add to the confusion of today's Vista release/not release, many retail outlets actually resell the business software, so if you're planning to make your purchase via the volume licensing program, you *can* theoretically head down to a participating retailer and walk out with the software.
And just in case you're still reading, to further complicate matters many retailers are offering free or discount coupons for consumer versions of Windows Vista (to be released in January remember) with the purchase of a new computer today. So in a sense you can buy Vista today, you just won't actually get it until January.
* November 30: Business users get Vista, Office 2007
* End of December: Business users get Exchange Server 2007
* January 30: Retail versions of Vista and Office 2007
Everything clear now?
Oh and If you're wondering what new features Window's Vista offers, I stumbled across a thorough and [detailed Q and A][3] on the Dutch site Techworld, which should answer most people's questions.
[1]: http://msnewday.com/ "Window's Vista Launch Site"
[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx "Vista Versions"
[3]: http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/1651/windows-vista-faq.html "Vista FAQ"
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In my experience Boddit works best for casual browsing rather than targeted searching of specific products, but your milage may vary.
Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big discount internet retailers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually Boddit lets you search them all at once.
Boddit also offers what they call "web search, Boddit-style" which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit's was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.
For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.
Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions. You can also search Craig's List, but unfortunately this only seems to work when you start from the Boddit homepage.
Boddit also has a section called "Extras" that tracks various coupons and freebies available around the web, with deals range from printable coupons to mail-in rebate offers.
One thing Boddit lacks is RSS feeds for tracking prices, but even without them, Boddit offers an impressive array of search options and might well save you both time and money this holiday season.
[1]: http://www.boddit.com/ "Boddit - Bargain Shopping"
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Psiphon works by connected the user in an internet restricted country to a user in a none restricted country. The software needs to be installed on the host computer in a non-restricted country and then the user in the restricted-access country can then log into that computer through an encrypted connection and use it as a proxy to bypass any government filters.
According to the designers there is no way to trace the restricted user's tracks from their computer, though the host computer will know what sites the user has accessed.
The network works on a premise of connecting to trusted users found through a social network, but this seems to me somewhat vulnerable to exploitation. I'm sure China would have no problems setting up fake hosts outside of China to trick users into logging in.
That said, the Psiphon model does sidestep a number of pitfalls that have plague other attempts to bypass internet filters, the biggest draw being that it leaves no tracks on the censored user's machine.
Psiphon also has a distinct advantage of being easy to use and requires no software on the censored users end, just login to the host and you're done.
As the Psiphon site notes, bypassing censorship could violate national laws and have legal (and I'm sure much worse than legal) repercussions for users in restricted countries.
Reporters Without Borders recently released a list of thirteen countries they believe are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet including China, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam and more.
Psiphon will be publicly available for [download beginning December 1st][2].
[1]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/ "psiphon, censorship bypassing software"
[2]: http://psiphon.civisec.org/source.html "download psiphon starting december 1st"
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* Reuters reports that [nine out of ten emails worldwide are spam][1]. The United States, China and Poland are the main originators of the more than 7 billion spam messages sent this month. Remember when spam was just a funny sketch from Monty Python?
* Opera Software has [announced version 3.0 of its Mini browser][2] intended for mobile devices. The new version features enhanced photo sharing, an RSS feed reader and secure connections for mobile banking.
* The New York Times reports that [YouTube will finally be going mobile next month][3], partnering with Verizon. Unfortunately the service will involve a $15-a-month subscription to a Verizon's VCast service and will only feature films "approved by both companies." So more or less expect that to suck.
* Hot on the heals of the [UK SlingMedia/3 partnership][5] to stream video to cellphones comes a new company, [Phling, which claims it can do the same for music][4] and works here in the U.S. Found via [Lifehacker][6].
* [Ethernet will be speeding up to 100 gbps][7], which should make it up to ten times faster than the current 10-gigabit version. A study group from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently agreed on a target speed bump for the networking technology, but it may be several years before new products hit the market.
[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/ "9 of 10 emails are spam"
[2]: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/11/28/
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/28/technology/28tube.html?ex=1322370000&en=0a1ba8ec248c869d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "The Times on Verizen/YouTube Deal"
[4]: http://www.phling.com/ "Phling.com"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/3_partners_with.html "Monkey Bites on SlingMedia/3 deal"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mobile-phone/stream-your-music-collection-to-your-phone-217517.php "Lifehacker on Phling"
[7]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061127/tc_pcworld/128015 "Yahoo News on Ethernet speed increase"
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Anyone can create a custom Rootly homepage which will pull in news stories matching the topics you select. If you register with the site you'll also be able to bookmark stories for later reading, share them with friends and browse other users' bookmarks.
The personalized features more or less mirror those of a typical social bookmarking site, but the focus in Rootly is on breaking news rather than general web pages.
Rootly also offers a news search engine, but unfortunately, in my experience, the news search was dog-slow and didn't yield nearly as many results as a similar search on Google News typically returns.
The ability to customize the news feeds can make for some nicely targeted RSS feeds, though again, Google News and others offer nearly the same functionality. Rootly has a slightly less confusing interface than Google News, but the functionality isn't significantly different.
The Rootly homepage does have a nice AJAXy scrolling headline ticker that updates with new headlines about every ten seconds.
In the end Rootly seems like a nice start, but it's entering an already crowded market and doesn't have much in the way of standout features.
[1]: http://www.rootly.com/ "Rootly.com"
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For those that have never used it, Cooliris creates a Javascript pop-up preview whenever you mouse over a link. The pop-up lets you see whatever the link leads to without leaving the page you're on. Cooliris started out limiting its previews to Google, Ebay and other large sites, but now it works just about anywhere.
Simple drag your mouse over a link or thumbnail and Cooliris will automatically show a preview. I should note that this is not a thumbnail or simple image <p>it's</p>
the actual webpage and you can browse it like you would any other. In the case of video links you can watch the video within the preview window, which makes browsing through YouTube considerably less time consuming.
I've been using Cooliris for a few months now and I can honestly say there's a good chance it will change the way you browse the web. For instance, typically, when I searched for something on Google, I would open a few results in tabs and then work my way through them. After a few hours of this I used to have twenty or thirty tabs open and no real idea which were useful and which weren't.
Using Cooliris has streamlined my searching considerably since now I can quickly see and browse a page without leaving the page I'm on. If I decide the page is useful I go ahead and open it in a tab, if not I just move the mouse off the link and the Cooliris window disappears.
Cooliris is available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Flock and Safari, but the exact features vary somewhat between platforms.
[1]: http://www.cooliris.com/ "cooliris"
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I can't say as though I ever used Google Answers so I won't be missing it and, according to Wikipedia that leaves Google with [eighty-five services/search engines/applications][1] so I doubt they'll miss it either.
Since removing the existing Q and A's would be, well, stupid, the site will remain but there will be no more Answers after the end of the year.
Google Answers, which generated only 800 Q and As over the past four years had long taken a back seat to Yahoo's similar offer, [Yahoo Answers][3].
What does this mean? I for one take this to mean that Google is not invincible and that you can in fact compete successfully against Google. It would seem that at least on some leave the long-tail, social model (Yahoo Answers) has a greater appeal than the authority of experts (Google Answers). Though perhaps it has more to do with free versus $2.50 an answer.
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
[3]: http://answers.yahoo.com/
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* Nokia and Yahoo announced today that they will [expand their partnership][1] to include Yahoo's email and messaging services on new Nokia phones.
* Apple has [released a Mac OS X Security Update][2] that patches twenty-two security holes. The update does not, however, appear to address the most serious vulnerability which lies in Mac OS X's Disk Image handling code.
* According to CNet, the [BitTorrent company will launching a video download store][3] early next year. Customers will be able to download movies from some Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox. In other BitTorrent news, it appears that [Bram Cohen is on his way out][4].
* Filed under the sky is still falling: A new study says [violent video games desensitize kids][5] and makes them <strike>more like adults</strike> have less self control.
* And finally, from our own Wired Magazine comes the best news I've heard in a while: [improvements are being made the venerable Jet Pack][6].
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-29T145244Z_01_WEN0453_RTRUKOC_0_US-NOKIA-YAHOO.xml&src=rss "Nokia and Yahoo expand partnership"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ "OS X Security Update"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6139174.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on BitTottent/Hollywood Deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/29/bittorent-raises-25-million-bram-cohen-is-history/ "Techcrunch on Bram Cohen"
[5]: http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2006/11/28/hscout536261.html "YASD: Yet Another Story of Doom"
[6]: http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/start.html?pg=9 "Jet Pack improvements"
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MP3Realm allows you create m3u playlists out of your finds which can then be downloaded and streamed by popular audio software like Winamp. There are also playlist downloads for Windows Media Player.
MP3Realm can be searched by artist, title, genre or album. MP3Realm also index lyrics so you can get your words with your music. If you'd like to submit your own music files, you can submit urls to MP3Realm via an online form.
As for the legality of the search results, that depends. MP3Realm makes a point of saying they host no MP3 files, which might absolve them of responsibility. But Fox is [suing QuickSilverScreen][2] just for *linking* to copyright infringing materials, so who knows if MP3Realm will last. The Fox/QuickSilverScreen case has not been settled and legalities are so far rather confusing.
My search results on MP3Realm were mixed. A search for music from the band Wilco led me to some songs on the band's site, which presumably means they're legal and some other files where downloading them would probably constitute copyright infringement.
If you believe a file is under copyright, and to download it would infringe upon the copyright of the owner, then don't do it.
[1]: http://mp3realm.org/ "MP3Realm"
[2]: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/12/is_simply_linki.html "Fox sues QuickSilverScreen"
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Michael Schmitz's logo evolves over time based on a number of factors related to the company, from the post:
>Looking for a suitable design solution, Mika soon learned about cellular automata, especially Conway's famous Game of Life, subject of many art pieces. His software basically follows the same rules in creating a dynamic logo for MPI-CBG in time, but the parameters are coupled to certain factors: number of employees = density, funding = speed, number of publications = activity. Different logos are being "bred" and then picked by fitness in relation to the parameters or voted for by the employees. Thus, every time the logo is displayed on a website as an animated icon or printed out on a letter, it reflects the current state of the lab as a living organism.
Could semi-intelligent, evolving designs be the wave of the future? The logo reminds me a little of designer Shaun Inman's [recently launched experiment Heap][3] where the archives of his blog fade in color as you go further back in time.
[1]: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009179.php "Evolving Logos"
[2]: http://www.mpi-cbg.de/ "Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics"
[3]: http://www.shauninman.com/post/about/the_heap/ "About Heap"
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However the Ecma approval was not unanimous, IBM cast a no vote, but was in the minority. IBM vice-president for open source and standards, Bob Sutor, [writes on his blog][3]:
>we think the OpenDocument Format ISO standard is vastly superior to the Open XML spec. ODF is what the world needs today to drive competition, innovation, and lower costs for customers. It is an example of a real open standard versus a vendor-dictated spec that documents proprietary products via XML. ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future.
One thing that's important to note is that in spite of what its name might imply, Microsoft's OpenXML is not an open source spec like ODF. OpenXML will be licensed for free, but given the size of the spec (over 4000 pages) and the fact that it eschews industry standard tools like SVG and MathML, it may be difficult for other vendors to implement.
IBM and others fear that difficult in implementing OpenXML will mean only Microsoft will fully support OpenXML with other vendors only using a subset of its features. Obviously such a situation would give Microsoft a distinct advantage in the marketplace.
So what does this mean for consumers? IBM's concerns, while they have some merit, may be unrealistic. Having two standardized formats means venders have more work to do in supporting both, but that hasn't seemed to hurt the graphics sector. After all any number of graphic software packages can read and write jpeg, gif and other standardized image file formats.
If OpenOffice ends up supporting the OpenXML format it may be a more formidable competitor.
For now Open XML will likely have a better shot at compatibility with existing documents, but in the long run ODF's more open approach may gain ground. Many vendors like Corel and Novell have already said they will support both.
[1]: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061207/sfth087.html?.v=82 "Open XML press release"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
[3]: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1264 "Bob Sutor on OpenXML versus ODF"
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* More news on document formats: yesterday Microsoft's Open XML format (used by MS Office 2007) was [certified as a standard][1] by ECMA International. The certification means Open XML is on the fast track to ISO standardization, which will put the Open XML format on even footing with the [Open Document Format][9].
[1]: http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-6141777.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on MS Open XML standard"
[9]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
* In other format news, according to Fox news China has announced a [third DVD format][2] to compete against Blue-Ray and HD-DVD. The new format, known as EVD, is part of China's efforts to create nationwide standards and cut down on outside dependence. EVD has actually been around since 2003, but hasn't caught on yet.
[2]: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,234877,00.html "China announces DVD format"
* Popular social news site [Digg][6] has [come under fire lately][3] because unscrupulous Internet marketers are paying users to promote stories and manipulate rankings. Of course the problem is not limited to Digg, but includes others like [Reddit][4] and [del.icio.us][5].
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6140293.html "Digg under fire"
[4]: http://reddit.com/ "Reddit.com"
[5]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[6]: http://www.digg.com/ "Digg"
* It hasn't even been released to the world yet and pirates have already released cracks for Windows Vista's copy protection. The [latest crack][7] uses Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licensing activation server.
[7]: http://apcmag.com/node/4769
* Microsoft's Zune MP3 player will be [Vista compatible *on June 30*. The lack of compatibility between the companies new MP3 player and much touted new operating system surprised many people. No word on why Zune users will have to wait six months for Vista support.
[8]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7905/52/ "Zune/Vista compatibility coming June 30"
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That said, Yvo Schaap has done some [interesting statistical analysis][1] using Alexa's top 10,000 websites. The potential "damn lies" part of Schaap's analysis comes from his use of data from the controversial tracking site Alexa. Many have questioned the accuracy of Alexa's figures since its data collection relies on user-installed software.
Given that Alexa's user base if currently not that large, there may be some skewing of Schaaps initial data, but provided you take it all with the proverbial grain of salt, here's what he found:
* 10 percent of he top 10,000 websites are Adult oriented.
* The U.S. owns 44% of the top 10,000 websites
* 10 percent of all the homepages provide RSS feeds
* 6 percent of the homepages have Google ads
I find number three encouraging and number four helps to explain where Google's seemingly limitless revenue comes from.
But wait there's more, another batch of statistic from a [blog post at Compete.com][2] which Compete distilled into this nice graph:
Interestingly enough, though they're technically separate domains, if you were to combine Live.com, MSN.com and Microsoft.com, all of which are Microsoft properties, Microsoft would dominate the top twenty with 80 million hits.
The Compete post also points out some traffic shifts from this time last year. Adobe, Live.com, Wikipedia and YouTube are all newcomers to the top 20, while Expedia, Monster, Paypal and Weather.com have all moved off the list.
But lists aren't everything, as Compete notes, despite having fallen from the top 20, both Paypal and Weather.com have actually seen traffic increases.
For those that would like to know where and how these numbers are arrived at, Compete offers a [breakdown of the their methodology][4] and Schaap has released [the raw data][3] he used for your perusal.
[1]: http://www.yvoschaap.com/index.php/weblog/8_questions_about_the_web_you_always_wanted_answers_to/ "Yvo Schaap statistical analysis"
[2]: http://blog.compete.com/2006/12/07/top-20-most-popular-websites-unique-visitors-new-absent/ "Compete's list of the top twenty sites for October 2006"
[3]: http://www.yvoschaap.com/webanalyse/ "Yvo Schaap's raw data"
[4]: http://blog.compete.com/where-do-these-numbers-come-from/ "Compete - statical methodology"
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To be clear, that's something the USA Today author writes, not a quote from Zennstrom, but there's so much hype surrounding The Venice Project Zennstrom doesn't need to make any outlandish claims.
According to the website, The Venice Project will be "launching a secure P2P streaming technology that allows content owners to bring TV-quality video and ease of use to a TV-sized audience mixed with all the wonders of the Internet."
All the content for this everything-you-always-wanted-and-more service will be provided directly by the content owners and will most likely support all the appropriate content protection and ownership restriction. I'm not going to speculate on a service that isn't yet public, but that sure sounds like DRM.
Internet video delivery is heating up, Azureus recently [launched an HD video download service][3], BitTorrent seems [poised to do the same][4] and then of course there's YouTube.
If The Venice Project has any hope of succeeding in the already crowded waters of internet video it needs to do what Zennstrom has done with Skype -- take existing technology and make it easier to use.
Still no word on when The Venice Project plans to go public, but you can fill out an application to join the [private beta testing][5].
[1]: http://www.theveniceproject.com/ "The Venice Project"
[2]: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-12-06-zennstrom-internet-tv_x.htm "USA Today interview with Niklas Zennstrom"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72223-0.html?tw=wn_index_20 "Azureus launches HD download service"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72272-0.html?tw=wn_index_3 "BitTorrent May Be Heading for TV Market"
[5]: https://www.theveniceproject.com/apply.html "The Venice Project Beta Test"
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AskCity mirrors Google Maps in appearance, but adds another column on the far left side of the screen that lets you flip between Businesses, Events, Movies, Directions and more. The layout and design of the site are clean and easy to use and there's a wealth of features without crowding the interface.
You can search for local listings in any category, whether you want to find a business, an event location, movie showtimes or just get directions, everything is kept on one simple page. AskCity trumps most other map providers by offering multipoint directions and walking as opposed to driving directions (of the others, only Yahoo offers similar features).
Like Google Maps, AskCity can show satellite or street maps and offer the option to overlay labels and other information in satellite view (refered to on AskCity as "aerial").
AskCity adds some nice features on top of what you've come to expect from online maps services, including the ability to draw, annotate, mark and save maps. At the bottom of each map panel is a toolbar with various drawing tools for annotating a map, you can then take a spanshot of your customized map or email a permalink to friends. In my testing the customized maps worked best in Firefox and IE.
You can also create your own markers on maps, just drag the marker tool to a location and AskCity will calculate the address and then you can search of things around that location.
While you're browsing through your search results AskCity provides links to send a listing to your phone via SMS or email, get directions, read reviews, search for nearby listings and more.
If you're searching for restaurants AskCity can narrow by cuisine or neighborhood and you can make reservations via OpenTable. Most events can be booked via Ticketmaster and movie listings provide purchase links to Fandango. Movie searches can also be narrowed by location or genre.
I've always been a big fan of Google Maps, but AskCity is a very impressive offering with a great feature set. I found it to be faster, easier to use and offer better results than Google Maps or other services. The three paned interface manages to pack a ton of tools into a single window without cluttering up the site or confusing users.
Combine the excellent features and search results with the ten plus years of reviews pulled in from CitySearch and AskCity may soon have other services scrambling to catch up.
[1]: http://city.ask.com/city "AskCity"
[2]: http://newyork.citysearch.com/ "CitySearch"
[3]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps"
[4]: http://maps.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Maps"
[5]: http://www.mapquest.com/ "Mapquest"
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EListeningPost provides musicians with a way to distribute their music in "secure," limited-play formats via links or email. Customers can listen to a track up to five times before they need to buy it they want to continue listening. Artists can also chose to distribute a non-DRM version their songs.
EListeningPost also offers services to help artists manage mailing lists, track downloads and convert songs between formats.
But musicians take note, other than the clean, non-DRM MP3 option, none of eListeningPost's files will work on an iPod.
According to the site the fees are as follows:
* Onetime Setup Fee: US$45; UK£35; Euro €45; Canadian$55; Australian$65; Japanese Yen ¥6,800.
* Monthly Subscription Fee: US$9; UK£5; Euro €8; Canadian$10; Australian$12; Japanese Yen ¥1,200. Receive a FREE month for every referral you provide that signs up.
* Monthly Email and Contact Management Fee: FREE until January 15, 2007. US$5; UK£4; Euro €5; Canadian$6; Australian$6; Japanese Yen ¥900.
* Bandwidth cost per 10,000 downloads/previews (your first 10,000 previews are included with your setup fee): US$18; UK£10; Euro €15; Canadian$20; Australian$25; Japanese Yen ¥2,200.
We've looked at a few other music distribution channels in the past, see the Monkey Bite's review of [Snocap][2] and Listening Post's take on [Amie St.][3], and while eListeningPost may offer better percentages on sales, their set-up fees are steep for what you get and the over-reliance on DRM may put off some artists.
[1]: http://www.elisteningpost.com/ "EListeningpost"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/myspace_snocap_.html "Monkey Bites on Snocap and MySpace Music"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/11/amie_street_inc.html "Listening Post on Amie St."
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Tew's Million Dollar Homepage, which introduced the new concept of pixel advertising and earned him a cool million dollars in a few short months was unquestionable a novel and huge success. But can Tew repeat that success or has the novelty have worn off?
To his credit, the pixelotto project does add an interesting twist to the Million Dollar Homepage concept. This time around advertisers will pay two dollars a pixel and one lucky user will walk away with a million dollars for clicking the winning pixel, hence the lotto bit in the name.
According to early reports Tew is soliciting the same advertisers from Million Dollar Homepage to purchase advertising space on Pixelotto prior to tomorrow's public launch. The idea is apparently to give loyal customers the first shot at that prime pixel real estate in the center of the page.
With the chance at a million dollar pay-out driving users to view the advertisements, pixelotto could be even bigger than the Million Dollar Homepage. So, are you feeling lucky?
[1]: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ "Million Dollar Homepage"
[2]: http://www.pixelotto.com/ "Pixelotto.com"
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* Yahoo has announced a new partnership with the new organization Reuters which will make it easier for the public to contribute photos and videos of news events. The rather suspiciously named "[You Witness][2]," will be accepting uploads starting tomorrow and will apparently cross post your images to Flickr.
* Last week a U.S. District Judge [ruled that the FBI could use cellphones to spy][3] on you. The technique works by remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone to record nearby conversations.
* [Ask city is a new local search][4] and maps tool from Ask.com. Future plans call for a mobile version as well.
* TiVoToGo's DRM has been [cracked by some industrious hackers][5]. TiVoToGo DRM locks your saved programs once they're transferred to your computer and restricts what you can do with your recordings. [via [BoingBoing][6]]
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-04T114148Z_01_NAAD0401_RTRUKOC_0_US-YAHOO-REUTERS-EYEWITNESS.xml "Yahoo partners with Reuters"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/page/youwitnessnews "You Witness"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html "FBI spies via cellphones"
[4]: http://city.ask.com/city
[5]: http://www.alt.org/wiki/index.php/TiVoToGo
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/04/tivotogo_drm_cracked.html "BoingBoing on TiVoToGo Crack"
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>BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client.
We gave [µTorrent high marks][1] back in our [review of Bittorrent clients][2] for being lightweight and efficient. According to posts in the µTorrent forums, the new deal means, among other things, versions of µTorrent for Mac and Linux, although no timetable has been announced.
Cohen says, "Ludvig Strigeus, the developer of µTorrent, clearly put a significant amount of time into optimizing the client." Cohen went on to say, "BitTorrent recognizes µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community." The FAQ claims that "bringing together BitTorrent expertise with µTorrent's elegance creates... what will be the best BitTorrent client hands-down."
For the time being the µTorrent client and website will remain and the client will continue to be freely available for download. The acquisition FAQ's go on to note that the µTorrent code base will remain closed source.
The merge means that many of BitTorrent Inc's patented delivery innovations will be rolled into the µTorrent client. While that's nice for users, the real reason for the deal may be that BitTorrent Inc, which just inked some deals with Hollywood, needs a lightweight codebase for potential mobile, television and other, non-PC markets.
In a [Wired Interview earlier this week][3], Cohen said, "We're working on making BitTorrent come preinstalled on many embedded devices, as one of the basic services they support in the same class as web browsers."
With the newly acquired lightweight µTorrent client, could BitTorrent-powered movie downloads be headed for a mobile device near you?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/best_of_bt_torr.html "Monkey Bites reviews µTorrent"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71979-0.html?tw=rss.index "Wired: The best of bittorrent"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72222-0.html "Wired Talks to Bram Cohen"
[4]: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17279 "Bram Cohen announces µTorrent acquisition"
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MOG is social networking site based around music. Like last.fm and others it offers a downloadable program (Mac and Windows) that can parse your music collection and display the data on your personal MOG page.
The functionality of the program mirrors that of similar offerings from last.fm and others, but Mog-o-matic supports an impressive array of jukebox software including iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp and many more.
Once the data is uploaded to the site fellow MOG users will be able to see your most frequently listened to songs in a top ten list. MOG also offers a number of widgets to display more targeted information about your listening habits, such as top albums by week and month. Note that there doesn't see to be a way to block listings, so while your friends on MOG may not know you were dancing naked at the time, they will know you put on that Warrant album.
MOG allows you customize your page with a number of skins and widgets using the "customize my MOG" page where you can also rearrange your page elements through a nice drag-and-drop interface. MOG offers a number of automatically updated widgets that pull data from your listening history as well as some manual widgets where you fill in the data yourself, such as, what shows you're going to or a list of your favorite clubs.
To find other listeners with similar tastes you can search using the browse features or use an automated search "find MOGs like me" which searches based on your listening habits. The browse page also allows you to search by zip code which means you can meet users in your area and get tips on local shows.
Overall MOG is a nice site, it's easy to use and has good range of listeners, but it lacks a killer feature to set it apart from the pack of similar services.
However, what it lacks in features, it makes up for in community. There are a ton of social network sites on the market, but few are as well-behaved and well-spoken as the members of MOG. The MOG community is one of the most mature and insightful that I've run across. There's nary a flame war or fan-boy post to be found, which was incredibly refreshing.
MOG also boast a number of active celebrity artists like David Lowery of Cracker and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie who both regularly update their pages. If you're looking to discover new artists through streaming audio and other instant gratification tools, MOG may leave you wanting, but if you want to be part of an impressive and active community of music lovers MOG delivers.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html "Wired on music services"
[2]: http://mog.com/ "Mog.com"
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* A new [report from environmental group Greenpeace][1] ranks Apple Computer last among top PC and cellphone makers for its lack of "green" policies and for contributing to adverse environmental effects.
[1]: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20061206/apple-greenpeace.htm
* Yahoo released its [top ten searches of 2006][4] and for the fifth year running Britney Spears is the most searched for person in the world. Yahoo eliminates porn terms, but otherwise claims the data is unmanipulated. Also check out the [interactive version of the results][3].
[3]: http://buzz.yahoo.com/topsearches2006/categories/ "Yahoo top searches by category"
[4]: http://buzz.yahoo.com/topsearches2006/lists/ "Yahoo Top searches of 2006"
* Yesterday and this morning have seen several stories proclaiming [the beginning of the end of DRM][6]. It would be nice if that were true, but reality is a little more mundane. A few record companies, most notably Britain's EMI, are [experimenting with non-DRM MP3 downloads][5]. In total there are probably less than a hundred tracks available, which hardly constitutes the end of DRM, but at least it's a small step in the right direction.
[5]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16181982.htm
[6]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7849/1023/ "ITWire"
* [A new version of OpenSUSE Linux][2] has been released. The release, which brings the distribution to version 10.2, features redesigned GNOME and KDE desktops and uses ext3 as the new default file system.
[2]: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2006-12/msg00004.html "OpenSUSE announcement"
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The distribution of punk music has always made it an easy candidate for online dissemination since word of mouth has always fueled the scenes. Downloadpunk seems to have recognized this and skipped many of the social features other music sites are touting. Downloadpunk seems to operate on the premise that what punk fans want is an online record store, not an online community and download punk is a darn fine store.
All songs are in 192 bit encoding which should be fine for most punk bands. Users can choose between mp3 and WMA formats. When you sign up you have the option to chose a charity, and Downloadpunk donates 1% of sales to the charities listed on the site. Song prices range from $.79, to $.99. You can also download full albums which range in price from $7.99 to $9.99. Customers can preview a thirty second sample of each song before purchasing.
You can search Downloadpunk by Artist, Album Title, Record Label or Song Title or you can browse by filtering through the various Punk sub-genres. Unfortunately there's no tag-based searching and not much in the way of recommendations, but they again if you're part of the punk scene perhaps you don't need online recommendations.
And the best part? There's no craptastic DRM. Wouldn't be very punk if there was would it?
[1]: http://www.downloadpunk.com "downloadpunk.com"
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To use GoodSearch, just enter the charity you want to support in the provided field, and then enter your search. You can change the designated charity as often as you like and there's even browser based toolbars available for download.
The results will be the same as those returned on Yahoo (a Google option would be nice), so you don't have to feel like you're missing anything in the results and you'll be helping the charity of your choice earn money.
GoodSearch can also be used to donate money to schools. There are currently over 23,000 charities and schools listed on the site.
Thanks to [LifeHacker][2] for pointing me to the site.
[1]: http://www.goodsearch.com/ "GoodSearch.com"
[2]: http://lifehacker.com/software/charity/support-charities-while-you-search-the-web-219330.php "LifeHacker on GoodSearch"
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While neither of those shows is completely gone from YouTube the clips have become somewhat scarce and are uploaded less frequently than previously.
Comedy Central hasn't publicized the iFilm partnership, but Variety.com reports that "iFilm is receiving numerous three-minute clips from the two shows that add up to most, if not all, of an episode the day after it airs."
iFilm also boast a fair amount of other Viacom owned content such as clips from MTV's The Real World and Wondershowzen.
IFilm lacks the current popularity of YouTube, but the site does have an official partnership with Viacom, something YouTube thus far lacks, and may gain some ground thanks to Viacom-owned content, which makes me wonder why iFilm isn't shouting this one from the mountaintops.
[1]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954999.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/youtubes_copyri.html "Monkey Bites on Viacom and YouTube"
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The IMDB has a long way to go before it can claim to be web 2.0, but the new design is at least easier on the eyes and seems to load a little faster. The IMDB could have benefitted from some collapsing menus or tabs, but the new design elements are primarily visual and not functionality overhauls.
Regrettable some of the new design could even be considered a step backwards in terms of functionality. The new homepage is significantly longer and several of the small top-ten link boxes are gone.
The new design does move the IMDB toward a more standards based layout, which for the most part eschews tables in favor of more semantic markup. As a poster at the [digg article where I discovered the redesign][2] points out, there are some funny bits in the new code, such as the CSS selector #nb15iesux.
[1]: http://www.imdb.com/ "The Internet Movie Database"
[2]: http://digg.com/design/IMDB_Gets_a_Face_Lift
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The project will partner MySpace with [Sentinel Tech][3] to built Sentinel Safe, a new technology which will enable MySpace to identify and delete profiles of registered sex offenders.
Because of MySpace's popularity with young users, the sex offender problem has plagued the site for some time and has lead to growing concern about how to address the problem. Wired's own [Kevin Poulsen wrote a program months ago][2] that had reasonable success in tracking down offenders.
The new technology, called Sentinel Safe, will draw on state and federal databases to find registered sex offenders. Interestingly enough, MySpace claims that this is first time anyone has collated data from the 46 individual state tracking systems into one national database.
If that claim is true, then the new technology may have appeal beyond MySpace as well.
Unfortunately, the ease with which users create fake identities on MySpace means the new technology will be only partly effective, since it can only find sex offenders that sign up under their real name.
To combat that issue MySpace has asked Congress to introduce e-mail registration legislation. under the proposed legislation sex offenders would have to register email addresses or face parole violations.
Also note that the new technology applies only to registered sex offenders in the United States, though MySpace says it is looking into similar programs for Europe and Asia.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-05T172807Z_01_N05296258_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-MYSPACE.xml&src=rss
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html "Kevin Poulsen on MySpace sex offenders"
[3]: http://sentryweb.com/ "Sentinal Tech"
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The idea behind ODF is to provide a way for any office program on any platform to share documents with any other office program. OpenOffice.org already saves files in ODF format and Google's web-based office apps support it as well.
Even Microsoft has grudgingly acknowledged the format and plans to release plugins for MS Office 2007 which will allow users to read and write ODF files.
In related news, Novell has announced that its version of OpenOffice.org [will support Microsoft's proprietary document format][2], the confusingly named Open XML (which is not "open" in sense of open source as its name might imply).
Novell also plans to release the code to the open source community so that all versions of OpenOffice.org *could* support the MS format if they wanted.
While it would be nice to see Microsoft adopt the ODF file format for MS Office, at least for the time being the Novel announcement means OpenOffice.org users will be able to trade documents with MS Office users.
Even if Microsoft never moves to using the ODF format by default, these two announcements are still a win for users as enhanced cross-platform capabilities will benefit nearly everyone.
The new version of Novell's OpenOffice.org does not have an official release date yet. Office 2007 [will be available to consumers January 30th][3].
[1]: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=43485&scopelist=PROGRAMME "ISO ODF docs"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/windows_vista_i.html "Monkey Bites on Office 2007 release dates"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20061205/tc_pcworld/128079 "Novell to support Open XML format"
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* Microsoft has [announced a new suite of tools for designers][1], as well as a preview of the much touted "Flash killer," Microsoft Interactive Designer, which now goes by the name Expression Blend. Expression Blend, along with the other three programs, are intended to compete with offerings from rival Adobe. The new software will be available in the second quarter of 2007.
[1]: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061204/sfm044.html?.v=73 "Microsoft Expression Software"
* According to the [Proximity website][2], Apple has [acquired the video and audio software publisher][3]. Few details are available but I would expect to see the software rolled into Apple media editing products like Aperture.
[2]: http://www.proximitygroup.com/ "Proximity Group"
[3]: http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?newsid=16659&pagtype=allchandate "Macworld on Apple/Proximity deal"
* Speaking of Apple, rumors are swirling this morning about the possibility of an [ultra-thin ultra-light MacBook Pro][4]. Pure conjecture as of yet. And to add to the Mac rumor fest [Toshiba has announced a new 100 gig 1.8 hard drive][11], can new larger iPod by far behind?
[4]: http://www.macscoop.com/articles/2006/11/17/sources-confirm-plans-for-a-smaller-ultra-thin-form-factored-macbook-pro "Macscoop on Apple rumors"
[11]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/05/toshiba_intros_100gb_hdd/ "New Toshiba Drive"
* Following the [BitTorrent company's announcement last week][5], bittorrent client [Azureus has announced version 3.0][6] and an accompanying site called [Zudeo][7]. One more small step in bittorrents struggle to legitimize itself.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/bittorrent_cuts.html "Monkey Bites on BitTorrent announcement"
[6]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061204-8348.html "Azureus announcement"
[7]: http://www.zudeo.com/az-web/Index.html "Zudeo"
* The Halo 3 beta [officially opened for new registrations][8] yesterday. Be sure to check out the [system requirements][9] before you get to excited.
[8]: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Halo-3-Beta-Registration-Begins-Today-1893.html "Halo registration opens"
[9]: http://www.halo3.com/ "Halo 3"
* And finally our thought and prayers are with James Kim. For those that haven't heard, the CNet editor's [wife and two daughters were found safe yesterday][10], but the search for Kim continues.
[10]: http://news.com.com/CNET+editors+wife%2C+daughters+found+search+continues/2100-1028_3-6140676.html?tag=cnetfd.mt "James Kim still missing"
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The survey looked at 100 popular sites in twenty different countries and tested them against the [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines][2], the international guidelines for web accessibility.
While that's a pretty daunting statistic, and a dismal failure, the survey also outlined many of the problem areas and suggests most would be fairly easy to remedy.
The most common stumbling block was Javascript, which many so-called web 2.0 sites rely on for their graphical wiz-bang features.
followed closely by a lack of alternative text for images. Screen readers and other assistive devices rely on the <code>alt</code> descriptions in <code>img</code> tags to "show" visually impaired users the graphics on a page.
Another problem the survey touches on was the use of poorly contrasting color combinations, which make Web pages difficult to read for people with visual impairment like color blindness.
Looks like [Jakob Nielson][3] needs to write another book.
And the three success stories? The only websites that met all the minimum standards were the German chancellor's website, the Spanish government website, and the British prime minister's website. The only question is how those three sites ended up in a list of the internet's most popular.
[1]: http://www.nomensa.com/ "Nomensa.com"
[4]: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-05T224424Z_01_N05332044_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-DISABLED.XML&WTmodLoc=TechInternet-C1-Headline-9 "Reuters on UN Study"
[3]: http://www.useit.com/ "Jakob Nielson on web standards and accessibility"
[2]: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ "W3C guidelines for web accessibility"
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The Acrobat line of products now includes Reader, Elements, Standard, and Pro versions ranging in price from free for Reader to $449 US for the Pro version. Early 2007 will see the release of a fifth version, 3D, which features CAD and other 3D imaging integration.
Adobe, who controls the industry-standard Portable Document Format (PDF), is pushing the collaborative side of off the so-called office 2.0 arena. The new Acrobat reader opens with a dialog asking if you want to "go beyond Adobe Reader." The link then loads a full tutorial and overview of Adobe's sharing and online PDF creation tool, Adobe Acrobat Connect.
The new Reader features a vastly simplified toolbar. Gone are the multitude of toolbars and palettes that used to open by default when viewing a PDF file. Even better, Reader now offers user customizable toolbars, a feature I hope to see in other Adobe products.
Other new features include the ability to create PDF documents from any application that prints, including one-button creation from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Adobe Reader also sports a new option to let you fill and submit forms, save data and digitally sign documents.
Those forms can be created using the full versions of the Acrobat family and then sent out and anyone with Reader who can then fill in and digitally sign the documents.
The a new comments feature allows for online (and off) comments within the document space (see the screenshots below).
Another prominent feature (one of the few default buttons on the toolbar) is the "Start Meeting" button which will launch Adobe Acrobat Connect. Connect, the Adobe-hosted software, provides real-time online collaboration through Adobe Flash Player.
My testing revealed a couple glaring negatives, first the Mac installer has no uninstall and what's worse, if you run the installer a second time it will simply reinstall the program. I don't know if the Windows installer is any smarter, but Adobe certainly could have done better.
Interestingly, instead of going the Universal Binary route Adobe has actually released two separate versions of its Acrobat Line for Macs, one for Intel Macs and one for older PowerPC models.
Overall the new suite is impressive and the redesign elements and user customization features bode well for Adobe's other programs which are expected to be updated some time next year.
[1]: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/index.html
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Live Search Books will offer full text searches of scanned books, but for the time being the collection is limited to public domain works from the British Library, the University of California and the University of Toronto.
Microsoft says they will be adding copyrighted books in the future, but only those submitted by publishers or authors. This differs from Google who has scanned everything in the participating libraries' collections, but only offers full text searches of public domain books.
Thus far several publishers and authors have sued Google, as has the US Authors Guild, Microsoft apparently wishes to avoid the lawsuits.
So far the searching is very limited with no advanced options or search operators available but hopefully that will change as the beta progress. If you find something you'd like to save or print Live Search Books offer PDF files for download including a link to download the entire book.
So far the site does not appear to support the Safari Browser but Firefox and IE work just fine.
Microsoft also announced the addition of medical content to the Windows Live Academic Search. Academic Search is a full texts search of journals for institutions that subscribe to them. Today's additions reported quadruple the amount of medical information in Academic Search.
[1]: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books
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The converters are free and Windows only.
Mac users and others those that don't have any version of MS office may want to try using
[Docx-Converter][2]. Docx-Converter is a free online document conversion service that will pull the readable text out of a .docx file and save it as plain text.
Obviously since the tile Docx-Converter generates is plain text, its far from ideal, but until the Mac converters arrive in Spring, it may be the only option available.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466 "download Microsoft Office Compatibility pack"
[2]: http://docx-converter.com/ "Docx-Converter"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on Office Document Formats"
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* Adobe has [released version 8 of their popular Acrobat Reader software][7]. Among the [list of new features][8] are web-based collaboration (via Connect), shared reviews, enhanced search options and more.
[7]: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html "Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 8"
[8]: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/WS00E809B7-1119-4416-8731-033B20B684B3.html "Reader 8 new features"
* According to a new study, [cell phones *do not* cause cancer][1]. The studied 400,000 Danish cellular users, some of whom were tracked for two decades, and concluded that mobile phone usage did not increase the risk of cancer.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-06T152620Z_01_N05280092_RTRUKOC_0_US-CANCER-CELLPHONES.xml&src=rss "Cell Phones don't cause cancer"
* [MySpace is reportedly in talks with Cingular][2] to put the popular social network on Cingular phones. The deal would give the millions of MySpace users mobile access to the site, but so far there are no details on pricing or features. And there's no risk of cancer.
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/fool/20061205/bs_fool_fool/116534248119 "MySpace to go wireless"
* A serious [new flaw has been found in Microsoft Word][3] that allows an attack to excute malicious code when an infected Word file is opened. So far there's no patch and Microsoft recommends that you excercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted parties. See the above link for a list of effected versions.
[3]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx "Zero day attack"
* Microsoft is [releasing Live Search Books today][4], a competitor to Google Book Search. The service is in beta at the moment and only available via a browser, but in the future MS plans to integrate Live Search Books in the the rest of Live Search.
[4]: http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6141162.html "Live Search"
* Yahoo has undergone a serious executive shuffle/shakedown. Check out the Epicenter Blog for [some analysis][5] [on the changes][6].
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2006/12/more_on_yahoo.html
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2006/12/even_more_on_ya.html
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CBS has also signed a deal with Apple's iTunes Music Store to sell the revived label's music and videos.
The CBS Records label is apparently CBS's attempt to keep more of it's content in-house. Rather than paying licensing feeds to other labels for the use of their music, CBS Records will be hunting for unsigned musicians who write and perform their own songs which can be used to promoted CBS's prime-time TV shows.
By owning rather than licensing content CBS reduces costs and gains another source of revenue via online digital sales of the music.
In a CBS press statement CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves says, "with more consumers choosing the online download model as the preferred way to purchase their favorite songs, we have an opportunity to use our unique and broad collection of media platforms to create a new music label paradigm for a small price of admission."
For those less versed in jargon, I think what Moonves means is, people are spending a lot of money on online music and CBS wants some.
Once things get rolling CBS plans to integration music from CBS Records artists into the network's programming. At the end of each show CBS will display artist and purchasing information for interested viewers.
CBS, which recently [demonstrated the merits of giving away video on YouTube][2] seems to understand the online market a little better than many of it's rivals and I have no doubt that the new label together with it's iTunes tie-ins will benefit the company.
I would, however, like to know why companies that don't sell vinyl records insist on calling themselves "record companies," is "music company" just not catchy enough?
[1]: http://www.cbsrecords.com/news.shtml "CBS Records"
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i74d7f1097c5379d6e7722df5ec031798 "CBS YouTube channel a success"
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For those that may have overlooked it, Google became an accredited registrar of domain names almost two years ago, but this is the first time they've done anything with that approval. Rival services from Yahoo have been around for years.
The domain registration service has been rolled into the [Google Apps for Your Domain][2] offering. Google's service offers private listing, a DNS and domain management control panel and comes automatically configured to work with other Google services. You also get free email, calendar and IM services courtesy of Google Apps for Your Domain.
Google clearly wants to be the one-stop shop for small businesses looking to get started with the web and the auto-integration with other services certainly makes Google's new registration services tempting.
Google's new registration service sees the company partnering with [GoDaddy][3] and [eNom][4], and frankly the announcement is a little unclear on whether or not Google is handling the registration or whether it's really just doing a de-branded resale of GoDaddy and eNom's services.
So far Google doesn't have a bulk registration discount or pay-in-advance discount, but the $10 price tag is on par for the field and certainly better than old skool registrar, Network Solutions, who still charges $34.99 a year. Ouch.
[1]: https://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/new.html "Google Domain Registration"
[2]: https://www.google.com/a/ "Google Apps for Your Domain"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy_Software "Wikipedia on GoDaddy"
[4]: http://www.enom.com/ "Enom"
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[1]: http://www.jamglue.com/ "Jam Glue open to public"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/jamglue_remixin.html "Monkey Bites on Wired"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72127-0.html?tw=rss.index "wired review of remixing sites"
* Reddit, which is owned by Conde Nast, who also owns Wired, [reports][4] that a disc containing usernames, passwords and some emails was stolen, possibly compromising users. But then again, who uses their real email address to sign up for web services? however on the outside chance you use the same username and password for other online accounts, Reddit recommends changing them.
[4]: http://reddit.com/blog/theft "Reddit data stolen"
* Possibly inspired by recent Flickr upgrades, Google's [Picassa Web Albums][5] have been updated to support videos, tags, bulk captions and online printing to its growing list of services. [via [Lifehacker][6]]
[5]: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2F&passive=true&service=lh2 "Picassa Web Albums Upgrade"
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/picasa/picasa-web-albums-adds-features-222154.php "Lifehacker on Picassa Upgrade"
* I try and try and try to ignore it, but it just won't go away. Yes it's true, Apple iPhone rumors don't die they just wander over to Gizmodo and get catchy headlines like, "[Gizmodo Knows: iPhone Will Be Announced On Monday][7]." I hope that's true, if only so the rumors stop.
[7]: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/gizmodo-knows-iphone-will-be-announced-on-monday-221991.php "Like the Shadow, Gizmodo knows"
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* Microsoft [strikes back][1]. In an effort to address Windows Vista cracks, a post on the Windows Genuine Advantage blog outlines what will happen to pirated copies of Vista: "Windows Vista will use the new Windows Update client to require only the 'frankenbuild' systems to go through a genuine validation check. These systems will fail that check because we have blocked the RC keys for systems not authorized to use them. The systems will then be flagged as non-genuine systems and the experience will be... losing certain functionality (e.g. Aero, ReadyBoost) and the system will have 30 days to activate with a good product key."
[1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2006/12/14/the-frankenbuild-monster.aspx "MS Addresses Vista Piracy"
* [ThinkFree][2], maker of popular web-based office tools, will offer a [paid version of its application suite][3] that will give users the ability to work offline. The service will cost between $5 and $10 a month.
[2]: http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo "ThinkFree"
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6143755.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "ThinkFree To Offer Offline Version"
* [eMusic][4], a DRM-free MP3 retailer for independent artists, has announced that is has now [sold over 100 million songs][5]. The lucky 100 millionth downloader will be immortalized in song by The Barenaked Ladies and will be featured as a bonus track on their upcoming new album.
[4]: http://www.emusic.com/ "eMusic.com"
[5]: http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/2006/12/13/emusic-crosses-100m-mark/ "eMusic sells 100 million songs"
* It still doesn't appear to be on the main page of [Adobe Labs][6], but an enterprising Digg reader located the [download url][7] for the Photoshop CS 3 beta. Be forewarned: it's a 685 MB monster for Mac, the Windows version is 337 MB.
[6]: http://labs.adobe.com/ "Adobe Labs"
[7]: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fphotoshop "Photoshop CS 3 beta download"
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This morning I found a link on Digg to a handy [list of Unix shell tips and tricks][1] that has already been saving me some time. Michael Stutz over at IBM's Developer Works writes:
>When you use a system often, you tend to fall into set usage patterns. Sometimes, you do not start the habit of doing things in the best possible way. Sometimes, you even pick up bad practices that lead to clutter and clumsiness. One of the best ways to correct such inadequacies is to conscientiously pick up good habits that counteract them. This article suggests 10 UNIX command-line habits worth picking up -- good habits that help you break many common usage foibles and make you more productive at the command line in the process.
One of my biggest annoyances in the shell is when I try to cd to a directory and only then discover that I haven't created that directory yet. This simple line from the article solves that issue by creating the directory if it doesn't exist:
cd tmp/a/b/c || mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c
I suppose if I were smarter I would have thought of that myself, but that's what the article is good at pointing out, tricks that, if you had the time to stop and think about them for a while, you'd probably solve yourself. But who has that time when there's work to be done?
[1]: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html "Unis tips and tricks"
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* Google had a big week. There were [updates][1] to the Firefox toolbar, a patent search engine [launched][2], Google Earth [added Wikipedia][8] content and more, the Google Web Toolkit [became][3] open source and finally Google [entered][4] the domain registration fray.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_upgrade_.html "Google Updates Firefox Toolbar"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_launches.html "Google Patent Search"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_google_web_.html "Google Web Toolkit goes Open source"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/domain_registra.html "Google Domain Registration"
[8]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_earth_ad.html "Google Earth updates"
* The Popular link sharing site StumbleUpon [released][5] StumbleVideo, a new video referral service.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stumblevideo_ne.html "Stumble Video"
* Gotuit [released][6] SceneMaker, a new video-sharing tool that lets you identify scenes within videos from YouTube and Metacafe, then share just those scenes with your friends.
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stumblevideo_ne.html
* Wikia decided to [give it all away][7], offering free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power, free content over the internet and 100 percent of ad revenue goes to the site's owner. The business model was unclear.
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/what_if_we_give.html
* We [took a first look][9] at Mozilla's Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 and liked what we saw.
[9]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mozilla_has_rel.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1"
* And finally, our favorite Old Gray Lady, *The New York Times*, awoke to find herself in the 21st century with links to these newfangled "news-sharing" sites, Digg and Newsvine, embedded at the bottom her articles. Rumor has it that screen real estate is called "[Iconistan][11]."
[10]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/nyt_adds_sharin.html "NYT adds social site links"
[11]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72282-0.html?tw=wn_culture_10 "Wired on Iconistan"
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It turns out the answer is mainly yes, it is illegal in the United States to knowingly link to copyright infringing materials. There's an excellent and very thorough rundown of all the relevant legal precedents on [Webtvwire][2] that I encourage you to read.
But first some background; QuickSilverScreen is a link sharing site almost solely dedicated to helping its visitors find copyright infringing material. Because QuickSilverScreen itself doesn't *host* any of the video clips you might think that the site is perfectly legal.
But you would be wrong. In fact, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), even linking to copyright infringing material is illegal. The DMCA does provide certain "safe harbor" exemptions however, but QuickSilverScreen does not qualify for them. In order to obtain so-called "safe harbor" an online service provider must, according to the [docs on Wikipedia][3]:
>* not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing (512(c)(1)(A)(1)).
* not be aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent (512(c)(1)(A)(2)).
* upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, must act expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material. (512(c)(1)(A)(2) and 512(c)(1)(C))
* not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity (512(c)(1)(B)).
There are several more requirements but the above is sufficient to illustrate why QuickSilverScreen didn't stand a chance in court. The site is fully aware that the content it links to is infringing and that, at least in the U.S., puts them in violation of the law.
What's unclear legally is how far this trail of linking goes; for instance, I just linked to QuickSilverScreen, does that make me liable? If you link to this article which links to QuickSilverScreen does that make you liable?
And where does that leave blogs and other personal sites that might occasionally link to a copyright infringing video? According to Dr. Stephan Ott, a [lawyer interviewed on Webtvwire][4], "if you know that a video is pirated and you link to it, it is very likely that courts will see the link as unlawful."
So what happened to QuickSilverScreen? At first the site rather cleverly converted its links to text boxes, but in the end QuickSilverScreen has done what all questionably legal sites seem to do -- moved offshore beyond the reaches of the DMCA and Fox lawyers.
[1]: http://quicksilverscreen.com/
[2]: http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-to-infringing-content-is-probably-illegal-in-the-us/ "Webtvwire on QuickSilverScreen"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCILLA#Requirements_to_obtain_the_safe_harbor "Wikipedia entry of DMCA Safe Harbor"
[4]: http://www.webtvwire.com/linking-law-expert-dr-stephan-ott-talks-about-linking-to-pirated-video/ "Webtvwire"
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It's tough to enter a market that Google is already in, but for those of you who love Analytics, Clicky still might have a few features even Analytics doesn't offer. For one thing, though it's nowhere near live, Clicky updates far more frequently than Analytics. And Clicky is promises a new service coming soon that is live; Clicky claims it will be much like Digg Spy, but personalized for your site.
Clicky offers all the standard features of site tracking services such as a list of IP addresses, type of browser, user operating system, unique visitors, total page hits and more.
Clicky offers the ability to track users individually and see how they got to your site, what pages they viewed and what content appealed to which users. You can also track custom data, for instance, if your site has user accounts, you can see who logged in and what pages they clicked.
The Clicky dashboard is easy to read and fully customizable, it even allows you to disregard IP address so your own click won't show up in your site data.
Clicky may not meet the needs of large businesses, but small site owners looking to track traffic may find it does the job well.
[1]: http://www.google.com/analytics/ "Google Analytics"
[2]: http://www.haveamint.com/ "Mint"
[3]: http://www.analog.cx/ "Analog"
[4]: http://clicky.roxr.net/ "Clicky"
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There's no need to update Google Earth, the new layers are automatically visible under the Layers menu. That said, if you haven't already, [check out the beta 4 version][4] of Google Earth.
To access the new content when you're using Google Earth just look for the Wikipedia globe icon or Panoramio "star" icon and click them to see the associated content. For Wikipedia entries you'll get the summary and a link to open the full entry in your default web browser. The Panoramio entries show the photograph and offer links to add comments or upload your own photos via the Panoramio site.
Clicking on a Panoramio photo in Google Earth will take you to that page on Panoramio which features integrated Google Maps that can give you directions to that location.
In addition to the Wikipedia and Panorama data, Google Earth now includes information from the [Google Earth community][3]. Represented in Google Earth by a yellow "i" icon, the content comes from user posts and uploaded photographs.
I've always been a huge fan of Google Earth and with the new content it just keeps getting better.
If you like the idea of user generated content on your maps you should also have a look at [Wikimapia.org][5], which isn't affiliated with Google Earth or Google in any way, but it does have some nice content.
[5]: http://wikimapia.org/ "Wikimapia.org"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_earth_ve.html "Monkey Bites on Google Earth beta 4"
[3]: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0 "Google Earth Community"
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/opening-my-eyes-to-whole-new-world.html "Google Blog on new Wikipedia content"
[2]: http://www.panoramio.com/ "Panoramio.com"
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To use Pikipimp just upload a photo and then you can drag-and-drop supplemental images into your picture. You can then drag, rotate and resize the beards, bikinis and other items to fit over the content of your image.
Below the main editing area is a layers "palette" with options that amount to a stripped down version of Photoshop. You can drag and drop to re-order the layers, control the transparency of a layer and manually enter dimensions.
When you're editing and resizing the images may at times be blurry or pixelated to reduce load time, but clicking the "preview image button" will show the sharpened final result.
When you have everything just the way you like it, you can save the image and Pikipimp will generate some cut-and-paste code you can post on any page you want. There's also a link to download a .jpg copy of your creation.
The photo below was at some point Wired columnist Tony Long who I felt, like the rest of us here at Wired.com, could use a makeover into a Nordic Jesus Pimp.
Pikipimp isn't going to change the world, but it is an impressive piece of online software and a fun way to while away the the last few hours of your monday.
[1]: http://www.pikipimp.com/ "Pikipimp.com"
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* IBM has [announced a new storage technology][1] it calls "phase-change" memory. The prototype, developed by a consortium of companies led by IBM, it reportedly 500 times faster than flash memory devices and uses half the power.
[1]: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003280.html
* The New York Times has [added links to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine][2] to all its free articles. According to the press release, the tool is labeled "share" and positioned with the e-mail and print tools.
[2]: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061211005683&newsLang=en "New York Times Adds Sharing Tools"
* The Listening Post blog [reports][3] that Creative Commons folks have "teamed" with Pump Audio, a commercial music licensing firm, to "promote their respective licensing programs to their respective clients."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/creative_common.html
* Google added a feature to Gmail over the weekend which lets you check other POP3 mail accounts via the GMail interface. The new service, [Mail Fetcher][4], may not make GMail [perfect][5], but it's a welcome addition for those of us with multiple email addresses to check.
[4]: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288 "GMail Mail Fetcher"
[5]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/09/uh-oh-gmail-just-got-perfect/ "TechCrunch calls GMail 'perfect'"
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Openserving will run on an easy-to-use version of the MediaWiki software and seems aimed to compete with other packaged services like Movable Type's TypePad.
Wales announcement comes as part of the ongoing Le Blogs conference in Paris France.
The new hosting promises, according to the announcement, "free software, free bandwidth, free storage, free computing power, free content over the internet," and will give 100 percent of ad revenue generated by the site to the "bloggers and website owners who partner with Wikia."
If you're thinking what's the catch, well there doesn't seem to be one. The only requirement is that the sites link back to Wikia.com which generates its revenue from advertising.
To address the widespread incredulity and curiosity about Wikia's business plan, Wells said in a press release, "we don't have all the business model answers, but we are confident -- as we always have been -- that the wisdom of our community will prevail."
Wikia may not be concerned with revenue at the moment since they recently took four million in funding from private sources and last week Wikia partnered with Amazon for an undisclosed sum.
Interestingly, Amazon has its own low-cost, data storage and website-hosting services, but Wales says that's not part of Wikia's deal with Amazon at the moment. "Potentially," [he tells Reuters][2], "but this is really completely separate"
While back links to Wikia.com may get Wikia some additional traffic and therefore generate more revenue, even Google, king of free internet services, takes its cut of advertising revenue.
By offering everything for free and turning down the established web 2.0 revenue stream of advertising, Wikia has set sail in uncharted waters; we'll be keeping an eye on the service to see how it plays out.
[1]: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_unveils_OpenServing
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&symbol=&storyID=2006-12-11T120348Z_01_N11490141_RTRIDST_0_INTERNET-WIKIA.XML&pageNumber=1&WTModLoc=InvArt-C1-ArticlePage1&sz=13 "Reuters on Wikia"
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Early in the week several security updates to Microsoft's Office for Mac software appeared on the companies site for download. Although never officially announced, many users found and downloaded the updates hoping to patch the recently disclosed "zero day" flaws in Microsoft Word.
It turns out that the updates were in fact pre-release software intended for internal testing and not meant for the public. Microsoft has apologized for what it calls a human error and removed the downloads.
The blog post goes on the say that users who installed the not-ready-for-prime-time updates should uninstall them, but fails to provide any suggestions for uninstalling. ITWire [reports][1] that the installers themselves do not have an uninstall option and no directions or how-tos can be found on Microsoft's site.
There are no specifics available on what the software patched or what potential pre-lease hazards there may have been, but the update apparently affected only 7 files. If you installed the software you might consider erasing the whole program and reinstalling from disc, just to the on the safe side. Alternately, if you have a second system with unpatched versions of the seven files in question, you could simply copy the unaffected files.
[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/13/information-on-accidental-posting-of-pre-release-security-updates-for-office-for-mac.aspx "Mac for Office Update snafu"
[2]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8069/53/ "ITWire on Office update"
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Patent Search uses the same technology as Book Search, which means you can scroll through pages and zoom in and out on text and illustrations. So far you are limited to viewing the original documents but the [Google Blog][2] says that saving and printing features will be coming soon.
There's also an Advanced search feature that allows for additional criteria in your searches such as specific patent numbers, inventor name and filing dates. The advanced operators can also be used from the main search by entering the appropriate keywords like <code>ininventor:</code> or <code>intitle:</code>.
Google says there are currently 7 million patents in the database and many more will be added in the future. At the moment the patents stop around the middle of 2006, but the records go back over 200 years.
The records are limited to U.S. patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has its own patent search available via its [website][3]. Google claims that its conversion of Patent and Trademark Office documents makes them easier to search that the existing format.
Many may be wondering how many people really want to search through patents, but Google has historically done well with its niche search offerings like Books, Maps and others.
That said, patents are little more obscure but, if nothing else, enterprising journalists and bloggers can now scour the patent office for patents from Apple, Microsoft and others to see what features and products might be in the works.
However, because Patent Search is currently limited to granted patents, juicy Apple or Microsoft patents that have been applied for, but not yet granted, won't be part of the results.
Google's Patent Search might not be an everyday destination for most people, but the speed and familiar Google results listing page sure beats the pants off the old Patent Office search engine.
[1]: http://www.google.com/patents "Google Patent Search"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html "Google Blog on the new Patent Search"
[3]: http://www.uspto.gov/main/sitesearch.htm "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patent search"
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* Google [announces a new patent search][1]. Using the full text of the U.S. patent corpus, [Google Patent Search][2] allows you to find interesting patents. Similar to [Google Book Search][3], Patent Search allows you to scroll through pages and zoom in on text and illustrations. Print and save features are said to be in the works.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html "Google Blog on Google Patent Search"
[2]: http://www.google.com/patents "Google Patent Search"
[3]: http://books.google.com/ "Google Book Search"
* The internet is in a tizzy this morning about John McCain's [proposed internet legislation][4]. The legislation, aimed at catching child pornographers, would make any site with user registration, liable for the all the content on the site. In addition, webmasters would be required to "report all illegal images or videos posted by their users or face fines up to $300,000." That includes blogs with comments. Ouch.
[4]: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/13/mccain-war-on-blogs/ "Think Progress on John McCain's bill"
* In addition to launching a patent search engine, Google was [awarded a patent][5] yesterday for the design of the Google search page. Google's patent is a design patent covering the layout and visual look, rather than the function.
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6143586.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "CNet on Google design patent"
* Bill Gates met with some bloggers who represent "leaders in various aspects of the web community" to answer questions. There were far too many softballs questions, but Steve Rubel has [a nice summary][6] of the session.
[6]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/12/our_sixty_minut.html "Bill Gates' blogger Q and A"
* Computer manufacturer Fujitsu has announced a [300 gigabyte notebook SATA hard drive][7]. The new drive utilizes perpendicular recording and should be on sale in February of 2007.
[7]: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2006/20061212-01.html "Fujitsu 300 gig hard drive"
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* A new service [Jaxtr][1] lets people call you from your MySpace, Friendster and other social networking site. With the Jaxtr widget a user enters their mobile number and their phone rings, on answering, a call is put through to your phone. Should be handy for stalkers.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-14T114828Z_01_N13329642_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-TELEPHONE.xml&src=rss "Jaxtr debuts"
* Joining what will no doubt be a growing string of silly predictions as the year draws to a close, tech research and analysis firm Gartner claims that [Vista will be the last major update][2] to the Windows OS. According to Reuters, Gartner believes "the era of monolithic deployments of software releases is nearing an end and Microsoft will participate in the trend toward more flexible updates." Because as we all know the world's existing OS code bases cannot possibly be improved any more.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-14T135332Z_01_N13326302_RTRUKOC_0_US-GARTNER-PREDICTION.xml&src=rss "Gartner predicts no more windows"
* Attention Anton Levy fans, there is now a ["satanic" edition][5] of the popular Ubuntu Linux OS. Actually it's more like a theme than a bona fide distro, but who can pass up a slogan like "The Distro of the Beast?"
[5]: http://parker1.co.uk/satanic/disciples/ "Get your satanic Ubuntu"
* And finally, we do love a good "hack" even if it's not software, which is why we were blown away by this [scooter "hack"][3] on the Make blog. [found via [BoingBoing][4]]
[3]: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/scooter_hack.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 "Make Blog presents world's greatest scooter hack."
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/14/worlds_greatest_scoo.html "BoingBoing on scooter hack"
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With GWT, developers can code and debug AJAX applications in Java and then deploy applications using the GWT compiler to translate the Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript.
The [guidelines for the GWT][4] outline the following workflow:
>1. Use your favorite Java IDE to write and debug an application in the Java language, using as many (or as few) GWT libraries as you find useful.
2. Use GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler to distill your application into a set of JavaScript and HTML files that you can serve with any web server.
3. Confirm that your application works in each browser that you want to support, which usually takes no additional work.
One of the reasons Google initially created GWT was to use it for their own development. Programs like GMail are incredibly difficult to create and debug because of myriad of differences between web browsers.
As the GWT homepage puts it, GWT makes creating AJAX applications, "easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language."
Interestingly, in addition to open-sourcing the code, the GWT developers have also released their entire development process to the public. The new "[Making GWT Better][3]" page includes development discussions, code reviews, future milestones, and the codebase for developers to browse through.
If you're a web developer navigating the treacherous waters of AJAX development, you might want to give GWT a try.
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/making-ajax-development-easier.html "Google Web Toolkit initial announcement"
[1]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ "Google Web Toolkit"
[3]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html "Making GWT Better"
[4]: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/overview.html "GWT overview"
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The new service is aimed at business users and will allow users to click on a name in Office Word, Outlook or Communicator and determine that person's availability and make a phone call.
For example, when a colleague sends you an e-mail, clicking their name in Office Outlook will check their phone availability status and place a person-to-person call or arrange a conference call with others.
Office Communications Server is an extension of the previously named Live Communications Server 2005, which allowed for IM, chat and other protocols, but had no support for VoIP.
The new Office Communications Server will work with many existing corporate communications structures, such as those available from Cisco, Siemens and others.
Microsoft's VoIP will use the [Session Initiation Protocol][2], the standard signaling protocol for Internet conferencing and telephony, unlike Skype for instance, which uses its own proprietary network.
The new Office Communications Server also supports audio, video and web conferencing as well as the ability to handle call waiting, forwarding and transfers.
According the Reuters report, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has predicted that within 10 years all business communications will be Web-based, meaning hundreds of millions of people will change how they communicate.
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-12T055233Z_01_N11256623_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-VOIP.xml&src=rss
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The interesting thing to note is that for Swedish users there is no legal reason for Perspektiv to block traffic to allofmp3, rather the broadband provider elected to do so, according the The Pirate Bay, after meeting with Swedish and Danish anti-piracy organizations.
The Pirate Bay claims that Perspektiv Bredband "clearly states in their press release that it is a moral and not legal standpoint." I can't read Swedish, so I can't confirm that Perspektiv did in fact say that, but either way, given that allofmp3.com is not illegal in Sweden, Perspektiv's move to block the site is a bit odd at the least.
For some background on the Pirate Bay see Quinn Norton's [recent coverage][2] for Wired.com.
Many might be tempted to dismiss the whole thing as irrelevant given the questionable legality of TPB in the U.S., but what's interesting about this story is not necessarily the isolated case, but the larger implications.
What happens when your favorite site blocks you from accessing it because the ISP that provides your internet connection does something your favorite site objects to?
I'm not suggesting that ISP's have the right to block content, but it does happen. And this is hardly the first time a site has blocked incoming users, Google blocks all kinds of traffic coming from China as part of its partnership with the Chinese government.
Protest and protest actions like boycotting a product or company have a long history in the United States, but I'm not sure that such actions transfer well to the internet.
For instance, if consumers are unhappy with Acme widgets they can boycott Acme widgets, tell all their friends to boycott Acme Widgets and Acme Widgets may choose to change their policies based on lost revenue.
But even in the midst of such a boycott if you did not agree with the boycott, you can still go to Acme Widget and buy whatever you want. In other words the consumer is not directly effected.
However in this case the consumer is caught in the middle. Now not only can Perspektiv Broadband users not access allofmp3, but now they can't access TPB either. The end result *could* be that enough Perspektiv users complain that company gets rid of its blocking software, but either way the burden of boycott is not on Perspektiv directly, but rather its customer base who must complain enough to initiate change.
It's easy to understand the Pirate Bay's position (and please keep in mind that The Pirate Bay is one of the largest sites in Sweden and that allofmp3 is legal under Swedish copyright law), but the decision to target the users of an ISP rather than the ISP directly seems unwise.
While I agree that Perspektiv's site ban is ultimately a far more chilling threat to concepts like net neutrality, I also hope that we aren't headed toward a future where individual sites begin blocking users as an indirect way of sending a message to abusive companies.
[1]: http://piratbyran.org/perspektiv/english.php "Pirate Bay blocks Perspektive Broadband"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71543-0.html "Secrets of the Pirate Bay"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_morning_reb_7.html "Monkey Bites' Morning Reboot Dec 12"
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* Yesterday a Microsoft patent [surfaced that reveals][1] the company has filed for a patent for "DVR-based targeted advertising." According the the document Microsoft wants to create a database of ads on DVR players to serve up "fresh" advertisements on your DVR recordings. And here we thought DVR's main feature was to skip ads.
[1]: http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/10/microsoft-patents-dvr-application-to-provide-targeted-advertisin/ "Engadget on Microsoft DVR patent"
* Yahoo [opened its "Panama" advertising system][2] up to new users yesterday. The service was previously only available to existing customers, but yesterday marked the beginning of Yahoo's plan to phase out the old system by the end of Q1 2007.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-12T135537Z_01_N11163848_RTRUKOC_0_US-YAHOO-ADVERTISING.xml&src=rss "Yahoo to switch to Panama Advertising system"
* Yet another [flaw in Microsoft Word ][3]has been discovered. This one allows attackers to gain remote access to user's system. There's currently no patch, but the Microsoft advisory claims "the vulnerability is being exploited on a very, very limited and targeted basis." The flaw affects Word 2000, 2002 and 2003, but does not affect the upcoming Word 2007.
[3]: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/10/new-report-of-a-word-zero-day.aspx
* The Dutch are official the first nation to [pull the plug on analog television][4]. According the AP report, hardly anyone noticed the change which should be music to many a government ear. Similar plans are in place for the US as governments around the world try to free up much needed bandwidth in the broadcast spectrum.
[4]: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2716983&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
* The Pirate Bay is [fighting back][6] against a Swedish ISP that blocked Swedish comsumers from visiting the controversial Russian site allofmp3.com. According the press release, The Pirate Bay will block all traffic from the Swedish ISP, Perspektiv Bredband. Could this be the start of a new trend -- a roundabout way for site owners to get back at draconian ISP regulation?
[5]: http://piratbyran.org/perspektiv/english.php "Pirate Bay blocks Swedish ISP"
* And finally, as a blast from the past, Wired's Christopher Null has a great look back at the [10 gadgets That Changed The World][6].
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos6/2006/12/1_rca_model_630.html
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UCLA officials say the database accessed by the attackers contained personal records with the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, home addresses and other contact information. The database in question did not contain any banking or credit card information, but given the amount of personal data it did contain, the attackers could potentially steal the victim's identities.
So far the University says that there is no evidence that information has been used in any way, but UCLA officials will be sending out a letter later today to those effected by the breach encouraging them to keep an eye on their consumer credit files and consider enabling fraud protection.
According to the UCLA announcement:
>an unauthorized person exploited a previously undetected software flaw and fraudulently accessed the database between October 2005 and November 2006. When UCLA discovered this activity on Nov. 21, 2006, computer security staff immediately blocked all access to Social Security numbers and began an emergency investigation.
As noted above, the exploit and attacks appear to have been going on for just over a year. UCLA security technicians discovered the exploit when they noticed a series of suspicious database queries.
In the [UCLA press release][2] Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams says, "We take our responsibility to safeguard personal information very seriously." He went on to assure students, "my primary concern is to make sure this does not happen again and to provide to the people whose data is stored in the database important information on how to minimize the risk of potential identity theft and fraud."
The Los Angeles Times [reports][3] that there are no "comprehensive statistics on computer break-ins at colleges do not exist." However, the Times goes on to say, "in the first six months of this year alone, there were at least 29 security failures at colleges nationwide, jeopardizing the records of 845,000 people."
[1]: http://www.identityalert.ucla.edu/index.htm "UCLA security breach"
[2]: http://www.identityalert.ucla.edu/press_release.htm "UCLA press release"
[3]: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla12dec12,0,7111141.story?coll=la-home-headlines "LATimes on UCLA security breach"
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The Nightly Build is a wrap up of stories we didn't have time to cover in depth, but deserve mention nonetheless. Note that The Nightly Build is currently an Alpha release.
* It had to happen eventually. [RemoteControlMail][1] will receive your snail mail, open it, scan it to PDF and email it to you. Just what I need someone reading my mail. [Via [Lifehacker][2]]
* German lawmakers are on a rampage. First they want to [ban video games][3], now they've added [online gambling][4] to the list.
* Microsoft VP Jim Allchin has [responded][5] to the fervor stemming from an old email that turned up as part of an [Iowa lawsuit][6]. Among some other brow-raising prose was this tidbit: "I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft." For at least one night Mac fanboys didn't need the Viagra.
* Is wifi a health hazard? The [debate rages][7] on...
[2]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/mail/check-your-snail-mail-online-221222.php "Lifehacker on Remote Control Mail"
[1]: http://www.remotecontrolmail.com/ "Remote Control Mail"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/germany_to_outl.html "Wired Blog Gamelife on Germany's attempts to ban FPS games"
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-12T203910Z_01_L1238361_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-INTERNET-GAMBLING.xml&src=rss "Germany wants to ban online gambling"
[5]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/12/12/title.aspx "Setting the Record Straight"
[6]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061209135113443
[7]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72265-0.html?tw=wn_technology_2 "Wired.com on Wifi health worries"
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Is MySpace really that popular? Well maybe, but comScore says that one month at the top could be an anomaly and comScore's figures differ from those published by Nielsen, which found that Yahoo held the top spot in November, with Fox coming in at number two for overall web traffic.
The comScore figures putting Fox at number one are based on page views per site rather than unique visitors. Even comScore's numbers still put Yahoo as the web leader in unique audience, pulling in almost 130 million visitors in November while Fox trailed at a distant sixth with just under 74 million.
In what could be a decided drawback to web 2.0 technologies, some analysts say that Yahoo's increasing use of AJAX technologies for maps, e-mail and other services may have lowered their overall page views.
Because AJAX fetches data in snippets, as it's needed, rather than reloading an entirely new page, Yahoo's traffic may appear to be less than it actually is. MySpace on the other hand relies on more traditional methods of page loading.
Either way the news isn't good for Yahoo which recently restructured with a major staff reorganization in hopes the change would help Yahoo overtake longtime rival Google in the advertising realm.
Pundits have long held that there's a statistic for everything, which may well be true, but one thing's for sure, MySpace is more popular than ever.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-12-13T024649Z_01_N12379148_RTRIDST_0_FOX-YAHOO.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna "Fox sites top Yahoo in traffic scores"
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For the most part the update catches the Firefox toolbar up to where the Google IE toolbar has already been for some time, but there's also some new things that haven't made it to the IE version yet.
The biggest thing missing from the Firefox version was the Google Bookmark menu which stores your bookmarks to your Google account so you can access them wherever you go. This feature already exists in IE, but now Firefox users can enjoy the same integration.
The other standout feature is one that hasn't made it to the IE toolbar yet. Taking a tip from [Zoho][3], The Google Toolbar for Firefox can now open certain spreadsheets and other office docs within the browser window via Google Docs and Spreadsheets. This eliminates the need to download the file first and makes browsing office documents online faster and easier.
There are also some new buttons for Google services that can be placed in the toolbar, including one for GMail, which provides tight integration with Google's popular email service. In the toolbar preferences you can check a setting to have all email links auto-open in GMail, and from the new GMail toolbar button you can snap directly to recent messages in your inbox.
There's also a new button to send links via GMail, SMS or Blogger.
Overall a very nice update that should make Firefox users happy.
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/nifty-toolbar-upgrades-for-firefox_12.html "Google Toolbar for Firefox upgrade"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/zoho_announces_.html "Monkey Bites on Zoho"
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Predictive modeling is all the rage lately, we even looked at a social networking site, [Betocracy][4] built around predictive market a while back. Microsoft's new demographics search purports to predict what sort of people are searching for your terms. The tool is intended mainly for businesses looking to understand their ad markets better, but it's kind of interesting just to play around with it.
The data is drawn from the MSN Search logs for the past month and can be searched by either url or search term. Microsoft says the data is collected anonymously.
There's bunch of other cool free tools in the Microsoft adCenter Labs aimed at businesses including my personal favorite, [Keyword Mutation Detection][2], which will show you the most common misspellings for a given search term.
Another interesting one is the [Detecting Online Commercial Intention][3], which rates the level of intent to purchase for each search query. For example, someone searching for "digital camera" is probably looking to buy someone, whereas a search for "Monkey Bites" is not a "commercial" search.
Microsoft adCenter Labs has some great business tools and best of all they're free.
[1]: http://adlab.msn.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs search demographics"
[2]: http://adlab.msn.com/keyMut/default.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - keyword mutation"
[3]: http://adlab.msn.com/OCI/OCI.aspx "MS adCenter Labs - detecting online commercial intention"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/betocracy_is_a_.html "Betocracy"
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* In addition to charging a new monthly fee as we mentioned in the reboot, Skype also [released version 3][1] of their Windows app today. New features include public chats, music recommendations via last.fm and more.
[1]: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/ "Skype v3"
* One of Apple computer's top secret research labs flooded earlier today destroying all prototypes of the iPhone. Just kidding. About the iPhone. And the top secret lab. But an Apple building [really did flood][2].
[2]: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4848164 "Apple Building Floods"
* The New York Times has a great [blog post][3] about Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist confounding Wall Street analysts at a recent Q and A. When asked how Craigslist maximizes revenue Buckmaster said: "That definitely is not part of the equation. It's not part of the goal."
[3]: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craigslist-meets-the-capitalists/ "Craigslist meet the capitalists"
* According to Wired Mag columnist Bruce Sterling, [the internet of the future][4], "will be wrapped in a Chinese kung fu outfit, intoned in an Indian accent, oozing Brazilian sex appeal." Sweet!
[4]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/posts.html?pg=6 "Bruce Sterling on the future"
* And finally, the bossman extraordinaire, Chris Anderson, has a great [article on his blog][5] about what radical transparency would mean for the future of news organizations. And now that I know what that phrase, "radical transparency," means, I promise I'll never show up at the office wrapped in cellophane again. Man this stuff itches.
[5]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "Radical Transparency"
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* Wired has a [first look][2] at the official 1.0 release of Windows Vista along with some commentary on why you might want to [hold off][3] on upgrading.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos7/ "Wired photo gallery of Vista Screenshots"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,72295-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "Why You Don't need Vista Now"
* Popular photo sharing site Flickr is giving users an early holiday gift in the form of [free bandwidth upgrades][4]. Flickr accounts now get 100mb worth of uploads a month instead of 20mb, and Flickr Pro accounts no longer have an upload limit are all.
[4]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/12/ho_ho_ho_flickr.html "Flickr users get free upgrade"
* Mozilla has released the first [public beta of Thunderbird 2][5] the popular email client from the makers of Firefox. The new version features support for tags, improved filing tools, better support of extension and more. The release is intended for testing purposes only.
[5]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#download "Thunderbird Beta 1"
* Skype [rolled out][6] a new $30 annual subscription plan this morning to make unlimited calls to mobile and land phones in the U.S. This is the first unlimited calling plan for the VoIP provider, previously the service was part of free promotion.
[6]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/technology/13skype.html?ex=1323666000&en=1ae098601517fc02&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "NYTimes on Skype announcement"
* Microsoft is now [offering a security patch][7] for one of the "zero day" flaws in MS Word. The second flaw, discovered more recently, is not addressed in the security update.
[7]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-dec.mspx "Microsoft Security pathc summary"
* Google is [planting solar trees][1]. From the Wired article: "search giant Google (is) joining other companies in planting groves of pole-mounted solar panels ... generating clean power and providing a little shade at the same time."
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72292-0.html?tw=rss.index "Google and other plant solar trees"
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When is comes to beta software some offerings are really beta in name only while others are sloppy, bug-ridden nightmares better labeled alpha. The first beta release of Thunderbird falls somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. Mozilla says beta 1 is intended for developer testing only, which is probably a good guideline since not all the new features are quite stable yet.
The final release of Thunderbird 2 is slated for early next year and if the initial beta is any indication a 2.0 should be impressive.
New features in the Thunderbird beta abound. The most immediately obvious change is the GUI and icons which have been redesigned and cleaned up considerably. Clearly the Thunderbird team has been working hard to improve usability and address design issues.
But the new features aren't all fluffy and eyecandy, there's some great new tools as well.
The beta release brings support for "tagging" mail messages as means of organization. Just select a message, add a tag and Thunderbird can recall your mail according to the tags you define. Tagging is even extended to saved searches which create "smart" mail folders based on your search criteria.
The smart folder concept will be familiar if you've ever used any of Apple's iApps, but the addition of tags makes it much more customizable and more powerful.
Other new features include back and forward buttons to move through your mail browsing history just as you would in a web browser. Curiously these two buttons were not in the default toolbar, I had to go digging to find them. Hopefully in the 2.0 release they'll be enabled by default because once you use them, you'll wonder how you got by without them.
There's also a number of small additions that refine the email experience but aren't immediately obvious. The most useful of these is what the release docs, call "folder summary popups." Summary popups act like link popups in a browser, mouseover a folder with unread messages and a small summary appears with sender, subject and body snippet. It's a handy way to get a quick synopsis of a new message when you're in another folder, without having to switch views.
Other nice touches include folder views in the folder pane. It's now possible to customize the folder pane to show favorite, unread or recent folders and flip between them without effecting the other panes.
On the downside, IMAP performance in Thunderbird is still slow, though it is improved somewhat and in fairness there isn't really an email program on the market that has what I would call snappy IMAP performance. POP mail speed remains excellent and switching between folders, views and mailboxes is notable snappier.
Some of the performance boosts can probably be attributed to the beta being the first Universal Binary for Mac, I haven't tested Thunderbird on Windows or Linux.
So how beta is it? Too beta to use fulltime. There were a number of strange behaviors, lag times, hangs and crashes. However developers and others wanting to test the software and report bugs should go ahead and download a copy.
Be sure to see the [known issues list][3] on the Mozilla developer site.
The rest of us will just have to be patient, but by the looks of this early release, Thunderbird 2.0 will be worth the wait.
[1]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta release notes"
[3]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b1.html#issues "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 known issues"
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The W3C is really isn't being hyperbolic when they say style sheets have "changed the face of the web." We've come a long way from those dark days of Angelfire-hosted tables-based layouts and that progress is in no small part a result of CSS.
By embracing the age-old programming concept of separating content from display, style sheets have allowed designers and amateurs alike to create the fancy and often truly beautiful web that we enjoy today.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of CSS, the W3C has launched an [improved validation service][2] for web programmers who want to test their designs for CSS standards compliance. The W3C is also inviting developers to [submit][3] their favorite CSS designs which will be integrated into the CSS 10 Gallery.
And the future of CSS looks good as well, browser support for CSS3 is already beginning to appear. Apple's Safari browser already supports several aspects of the new spec and other browsers are beginning to as well.
CSS3 is still in development, but it promises even more features and at the same time implementation easier. CSS3 includes all of CSS2 and adds new selectors, more powerful borders and backgrounds, vertical text, speech and more.
And for those that think CSS isn't helpful, consider this: it got me this job. Somewhere around 1998 I was trying to make one of those awful Angelfire "homepages" and in course of searching to understand just what the hell CSS was for, I ran across a Wired-owned tutorial site named Webmonkey. Just hit the fast-forward button and here we are. Thanks CSS.
So happy birthday CSS. I don't like to think about where the web would be without style sheets, it's not a pleasant thought.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease.html "CSS 10 Press Release"
[2]: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ "CSS Validator"
[3]: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS10/reactions.html "CSS 10 Gallery"
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* [CSS turns 10][1]. Sorry we missed your birthday CSS, but truthfully the belated birthday cards are usually much funnier than the regular ones. Yes, Tuesday marked ten years of Cascading Style Sheets on the web. No word on the impending funeral services for the <code><table></code> tag.
[1]: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/css10-pressrelease "CSS turns ten"
* [According to Groklaw][2] Jeremy Allison (of samba fame) has "resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' which will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future.'"
[2]: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061221081000710 "Allison resigns"
* It was bad enough that Microsoft touted RSS in IE7 like it was some revolutionary new technology, but now the Redmond giant is trying to [patent the technology][3]. According documents filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Microsoft is seeking a patent for "finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser." Time to stop drinking your own Kool Aid guys.
[3]: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288011%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288011&RS=DN/20060288011 "Microsoft RSS patent application"
* It's the first nerd restaurant. Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, has [launched][4] a new restaurant, uWink, where each table has touch-screens for ordering food and playing video games. Bushnell says the target audience is 21 to 35 year old women, though he also thinks it will appeal to kids. Ya think?
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-22T140035Z_01_NCE337636_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOOD-RESTAURANT-UWINK.xml&src=rss "Nerd Restuarant"
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Public outcry quickly followed since Microsoft had little if anything to do with the development of RSS. Dave Winer, the self-described inventor of RSS, [lashed out][4] via his blog claiming "Presumably they're eventually going to charge us to use it."
"This should be denounced by everyone who has contributed anything to the success of RSS," Winer writes.
But Winer is wrong about a couple of key points. First of all the documents in question are not patents, but *applications* for patents which have not yet been granted. Second of all, from my reading anyway, Microsoft is not patenting RSS, but RSS within Vista/IE7. Of course I'm not a patent lawyer, I could be wrong about that.
The big mystery is what Microsoft is planning to do with the patents if they are awarded them. The sad state of patent affairs in the United States has led to several cases of Microsoft being [sued ][5]for technologies they did arguably invent simply because some else owned a generic patent on them.
Nick Bradbury author of popular RSS application FeedDemon, [writes][3] on his blog:
>But before the geekosphere goes into "patent attack mode," let's take a breather and think about why this patent was filed. For example, quite often companies file patents just to protect themselves from lawsuits. There are plenty of sleazebags who file patent applications on obvious ideas, and then wait for someone like Microsoft to infringe those patents... Yes, it sucks that the patent process has devolved to such a state, but this is the reality of the environment that today's businesses have to operate in.
The only thing that's for sure is Microsoft did not invent RSS and the do not yet have a patent for it either. The RSS entry on Wikipedia [provides some background][3] if you're curious who did invent RSS. The short answer -- lots of people working together and separately.
It would be nice to see Microsoft release some information on what they plan to do with these patents, but for now we'll just have to wait and see whether the U.S. Copyright and Patent Office grants them.
[1]: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060288329%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060288329&RS=DN/20060288329 "Microsoft Patent application"
[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/06/24/432390.aspx "IE blog on RSS in IE7"
[3]: http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/microsofts_cont.html "Nick Bradbury on Microsoft patent claims"
[4]: http://www.scripting.com/2006/12/21.html#aTaleOfCorporateAtrocity "Dave Winer on Microsoft patent claims"
[5]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1661094,00.asp "Microsoft settles with InterTrust"
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The biggest new feature is the ability to digg podcasts. In an attempt to broaden its appeal, Digg is moving beyond web headlines to "deeper" content like podcasts.
Among the new features in the podcast section is the ability to listen to dugg podcasts within the Digg site. Dugg podcasts can be browsed by series and individual episodes which makes it easy to find podcasts by topic and jump to the most popular episode to see if you like it. Currently the podcasts section is in beta and will require a Digg account to use.
The new layout also sees Digg putting a greater emphasis on the video portion of the site. In addition to giving video its own spot on the top navigation bar, it's now possible to watch videos directly within Digg. Videos from supported services (YouTube, Metacafe and more) can be viewed in an AJAX overlay which embeds the video player and also provides a link to digg the video.
The news pages now offer the ability to sort based on the most popular stories within certain time periods, including the last twenty four hours, last seven days, last thirty days and the last year.
Another nice new feature is the "Top 10" list in the right hand column of most pages on the site which allows you to see at the glance what is "hot" right now on Digg. The new top 10 feature changes categories as you zoom into the the site, showing the top ten list for whatever category you're browsing through.
The new layout will be welcomed by Digg users with large monitors and the top navigation makes finding your way around much easier (which is how it should have been all along).
[1]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=57
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Google Maps Mars? Oh yes. The NASA press release says:
>As the first in a series of joint collaborations, Google and Ames will focus on making the most useful of NASA's information available on the Internet. Real-time weather visualization and forecasting, high-resolution 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, real-time tracking of the International Space Station and the space shuttle will be explored in the future.
NASA says there will be Google Earth flyovers available for the surfaces of Mars and the moon in the near future. Do you role that into Google Earth or is it time to re-brand -- Google Universe maybe?
The NASA data comes from the Ames Research Center which is not far from Google's Mountain View campus.
The Google-Ames partnership began to [take shape][2] last year, but this is the first announcement of practical applications and future plans.
So far there is nothing new on the Google site, but we'll be sure to keep you posted.
But the announcement is much more than cool nerdery like Mars flyovers, NASA and Google intend to collaborate in a variety of areas, including user studies and cognitive modeling for human computer interaction.
The announcement also mentions the possibility of "science data search utilizing a variety of Google features and products."
"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," says Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames.
"Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand," he adds.
One line toward the end of the press release caught my eye, "NASA and Google also are finalizing details for additional collaborations that include joint research, products, facilities, education and *missions*." (emphasis mine)
Google *in* space? Now there's a thought. Perhaps Google will get around to that global free wifi I've been dreaming of and they've been denying.
[1]: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html "NASA-Google Parter for Space Act Agreement"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,69014-0.html "Wired on Google/Ames"
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* In addition to [partnering with NASA][1], Google also [announced][2] it has acquired [Endoxon][3] a European mapping company. According to the Google Blog, the Endoxon acquisition will "enhance Google geo products worldwide."
* Gizmodo wasn't lying, they were just misleading us in a crass attempt to generate page hits over the weekend (judging by comments on Digg, this may have been a bad idea on Gizmodo's part). Anyway Yes, the iPhone [arrived][4] today. The iPhone being a rather dull VoIP phone from Linksys, not the much rumored cellphone from Apple.
* The [Digital Watermarking Alliance][7] has come out in favor selling music in the MP3 format using . See Wired's [Listening Post][6] for more details.
* A company called KishKish has released a lie detector plugin for Skype. Ryan Singel over at Wired blog 27B Stroke 6 wants your help [testing it][5].
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/google_space_go.html "Monkey Bites on Google NASA deal"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/mapping-europe.html "Google Blog On Endoxon acquisition"
[3]: http://www.endoxon.com/ "Endoxon"
[4]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6189145.stm "The iPhone"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/help_27b_test_s.html "Help 27B Stroke 6"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/labels_could_se.html "Listening Post on Digital Watermarking Alliance announcement"
[7]: http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/ "Digital Watermarking Alliance"
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* You, me, we are Time magazine's [Person of the Year][1]. It seems that our contribution to the web trend of "user-generated" content is more significant than Iranian nuclear weapons, delusional North Korean dictators and a host of other seemingly more important people. But then again, when the bombs start flying, it will be nice to have a decent collection of break dancing videos to watch while eating spaghettios and waiting out the U238 half life.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-17T134242Z_01_N15184106_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIME.xml&src=rss "You are Person of the Year"
* The Wall Street Journal will [launch an online stock tracking feature][2] next month. The online content is part of the WSJ's recent downsizing move. From what I can tell the new stock tracker will be free, though WSJ subscribers will access get additional content.
[2]: http://online.wsj.com/submkt/tourc/STARThere.html "Wall Street Journal Markets Data Center"
* [MySpace Mobile][3] will go live today. The service, which partners MySpace with Cingular, allows subscribers to post photos, blog entries and comments to their MySpace pages for $2.99 a month.
[3]: http://cingular.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=1801 "Cingular partners with MySpace"
* It's about time Santa got some geo tracking tech in that sleigh. With that in mind Google Earth is offering a [Santa Tracker][4] overlay. From the Google Earth homepage: "Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa's North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day's toy will be revealed."
[4]: http://earth.google.com/santa/ "Santa in Google Earth"
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The article claims the users will be able to buy a movie from Amazon and other Sony partners and download it onto a Sony MemoryStick. The user can then legally transfer the film via the MemoryStick to one Sony PSP.
Sony is currently distributing a 4 gigabyte version of the MemoryStick which the company claims can hold up to ten movies. Presumably they mean heavily compressed movie files.
For now Amazon is the only official partner onboard although Sony is said to be in talks with both MovieLink and CinemaNow about possible distribution deals.
One player decidedly not invited to the party is Apple's iTunes Store. Currently, the iTunes Store's movie selection is limited to offerings from Disney Studios, whereas Sony will offer films from the Home Entertainment of Sony Pictures.
With more than 20 million PSPs sold worldwide Sony, the demand for PSP movies certainly exists, at least in theory.
Sony expects to launch the service in the first quarter of 2007 after securing more deals with online video providers.
[1]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f290b0ec-8df6-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340.html "FT on Sony Announcement"
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* AllofMP3.com [gets the legal smackdown][1]. Several major record labels are suing the Russian music site claiming it has been profiting by selling copies of music without their permission. Warner Bros., Arista, Capitol and others are behind the suit.
[1]: http://www.mosnews.com/money/2006/12/21/mp3court.shtml "Labels sue AllofMP3.com"
* Seagate, the worlds largest hard disk manufacturer, will [acquire EVault][2], an online data storage service for $185 million. Will Seagate drives start shipping with a one-click back-up-to-web storage solution?
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061221/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_evault_acquisition "Seagate buys EVault"
* [FeedYourZune][3] is a new podcast-to-Zune RSS program that takes care of automatic download and syncing of Audio and Video Podcasts to your Zune. The software also sports RSS video playback, playlists, favorites and more.
[3]: http://feedyourzune.com/ "FeedYourZune"
* Last week we told you about The Pirate Bay's decision to [block Swedish ISP Perspektiv Broadband][7] because Perspektiv had blocked its customers from accessing AllofMP3. Well, it seems that on some level The Pirate Bay's move worked, whether under pressure from negative publicity or some other reason, Prespectiv has lifted its ban of AllofMP3 and The Pirate Bay has in turn [stopped blocking Prespectiv customers][7].
[6]: http://thepiratebay.org/blog/46 "The Pirate Bay Blog"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_pirate_bay_.html "Monkey Bites on TBP"
* It's nearly Christmas and with that in mind, check out [The Luddite's Christmas gift guide][5] and If you haven't seen it yet, definitely take a look at the uncensored version of the Justin Timberlake SNL sketch *[A Special Christmas Box][4]* (NSFW).
[4]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA "YouTube - a Special Christmas Box"
[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72335-0.html?tw=rss.index "The Luddite's Christmas Gift Guide"
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The reaction from consumers was massive. MacHeist sold 16,821 bundles, which though hard statistics are unavailable, given small size of the audience to begin with, might be the largest, most successful sale of Mac shareware ever.
MacHeist is the brainchild of Phill Ryu an eighteen year old mac user who previously created and hosted My Dream App, and John Casasanta, developer of iClip. "John came to me with the idea of a bundle sale, something similar to MacZot," Ryu says. "We started brainstorming about how to make it more fun than just another mac bundle sale and MacHeist was the result."
Ryu says they had no idea that MacHeist would be as successful as it was. "We weren't expecting the kind of sales we ended up with. We told the developers we were expecting somewhere around 5000 sales." The final numbers put MacHeist at over triple the initial forecast.
But the Ryu concedes that at least some of the additional sales may have come about because of controversy surrounding the event.
You might wonder where the controversy lies in a sales event that triples its expectations and donates $200,000 to charity.
According to some commentators, the most important people, the developers themselves, were left out of the equation. The controversy centers around how much money the developers were paid versus how much MacHeist itself made.
Though no figures have officially been released, some developers who declined to participate have reported that they were offered a flat rate around $5000.
Longtime Mac blogger, John Gruber, writes on Daring Fireball, "respectable agents or managers take no more than a 15 percent cut of their clients' revenue, and usually not more than 10 percent. That's true in sports, it's true for authors, and it's true for entertainers."
While that may be true, Mac shareware developers are hardly comparable to celebrities. Most sports celebrities for instance, make more than in an hour than all the developers of MacHeist bundle apps combined will likely make in the lifetime of their products. In other words %10 of a celebrity's profits is a lot of money, but 10% of the Mac developer's profits isn't.
What makes the supposed controversy even sillier is that none of the developers themselves are complaining. In fact most are quite happy with the sale. Oliver Breidenbach writes on his blog, "I don't care how much money the MacHeist guys make, I care about how much my company makes and how the Heist brings us forward towards our goals."
Additionally, because sales so exceeded their expectations, Ryu says MacHeist passed a bonus on to all the developers. "We've given pretty substantial bonuses, which work out to about double the money of the original agreements."
Ryu says that developer feedback has been positive. "Nine of the ten developers are very happy with the sale," he says. The tenth developer asked not to be named and delined to comment for the story.
"I feel like it brought a lot of focus to mac shareware." Ryu counters. "We had a lot of feedback from customers who said they had never even heard of shareware let alone bought."
If you missed out on the bundle, Ryu wouldn't give a date, but he did say that MacHeist will be offering another shareware app bundle sometime next year.
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* There's a new player coming to the field of facial recognition, Swedish startup Polar Rose will [launch a public test][1] of its software in March. Polar Rose's software analyzes digital photos to locate faces and convert to resulting data from 2D images to 3D models.
* The Federal Court of Australia has [ruled][2] that linking to copyright infringing materials is illegal. The case in question involves the now-defunct MP3s4free.net, a user-submitted link site leading to copyright infringing materials. But wait, I thought we were Person of the Year for our user-generated content? Oh, right...
* There are [reports][3] of a worm that may be circulating via a feature in Skype's popular VoIP service. The worm sends messages via Skype Chat, asking recipients to download and run a file called sp.exe. Sp.exe is a trojan horse that will then steal passwords and download additional files.
* The CEO of Phillips Electronics, Paul Zeven, has an interesting [op/ed piece][4] on CNet in which he wonders "if consumers really want all this. Have we gone too far? Are we in step with the needs of today's American consumer?" Needs? *Needs*? We don't need your stinking needs, just gimme my robotic vacuum cleaner and step away from the Wii.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-19T150920Z_01_N19231410_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-RECOGNITION.xml&src=rss "Polar Rose to launch next year"
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6144590.html "CNet on Australian Copyright Case"
[3]: http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7841 "Skype Worm"
[4]: http://news.com.com/2010-1041_3-6144335.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "Do you need gizmos?"
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* Sony has finally [settled][1] with the State of California for a measly $750,000 on charges of violating "state laws prohibiting false or misleading advertising, unfair or unlawful businesses practices, and unauthorized access to computers." The Sony fiasco involved a CD that secretly installed a program on users hard drives as an attempt at DRM. There should definitely be at least two more zeros on the end of that settlement figure.
[1]: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005915959 "Sony settles with California"
* Popular social bookmarking site del.icio.us has a new [developer API][3] coming soon. Details are few thus far, but there is a screencast preview. Among the cool new features is the ability to display tags that other people have applied to your page.
[3]: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/12/preview_of_the.html "del.icio.us API"
* And just to balance the last item, Google has gotten rid of an API. The search giant quietly [removed its SOAP search API][4] earlier this month and is telling developers to switch to the AJAX API instead. Perhaps not coincidentally the AJAX API embeds ads on the users page, whereas the SOAP API did not.
[4]: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006996.html "Google ditches SOAP"
* The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago has an op/ed piece entitled *[The Blog Mob][2]* with the lede: "Written by fools to be read by imbeciles." Ah, thanks Joe. Wait a second, you're writing for a "Journal" and that journal displays its [entries in reverse chronological order][7]... Joe, are you saying you're a fool? (Note the first link may require registration -- natch)
[2]: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009409 "Fools and imbeciles"
[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog "Wikipedia definition of a blog"
* And finally, it has nothing to do with software or the web, but it's pretty darn remarkable: "Japanese man [survives][5] 3 weeks in the outdoors by hibernating." [via [BoingBoing][6]]
[5]: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/061220/K122004AU.html "Japanese Man survives by hibernating"
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/20/japanese_man_survive.html "BoingBoing on hibernation"
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After the jump is the full text of an email interview with Wil Shipley, "Chief Monster" at Delicious Monster Software maker of the popular Mac application [Delicious Monster][1], which was part of the MacHeist Shareware bundle.
<b>There's was some negative reaction to MacHeist's profits versus that of developers, do you feel cheated at all?</b>
I don't feel "cheated," since I knew exactly what the terms of the deal were going in -- I agreed to a fixed amount so they could include my software in a bundle for a week.
The point that most of the detractors are ignoring is that none of us knew how successful the bundle would be -- not the developers, not the guys at MacHeist. They were taking as much of a risk as we were -- if all of their site's visitors had said, "Nice site, but I'm not interested in the bundle" then they would still have been liable to pay all of us developers a fixed amount. There was simply no way to accurately guess how many of the people who were on the MacHeist site might decide to buy the bundle at the end of the game. We were all gambling.
Now, in fact the bundle was enormously successful, more than any of us had ever thought, so MacHeist made a killing. I guess I could whine about this, but such is the nature of gambles -- they assumed more of the risk, and as such they got the bigger payoff when the jackpot hit. Plus, MacHeist actually decided to double what they are paying us developers after it hit so big.
Sure, it twinges a little to think they made something like half a million dollars in two months, but that's largely just jealousy. My reasoning behind agreeing to be in the bundle was pretty straightforward: the first version of Delicious Library has been out for over a year, and so it doesn't get covered a lot in the press -- nobody wants to review a product that is considered "old", and have everyone say, "Dude, I've been using that since, like, your mom used to ride her dinosaur to school!" Exposure is much harder to get at this point, so bundles and sales and other kinds of events are much more attractive to me.
If Phil had come up to me next year sometimes after Delicious Library 2 had shipped and offered me the same bundle -- well, he would have been turned down. But at this point what I have from the bundle is: (a) a pile of cash, (b) a ton of exposure, (c) a week of increased non-bundle sales from said exposure, and (d) 16,821 new customers who might potentially upgrade to 2.0 or recommend 1.0 to their friends.
My philosophy on software sales has always been, if I could GIVE my software to half the people in the world, and they would recommend it to the other half and they all would buy it, I'd be the richest guy who ever lived. The problem with that abstract theory is somehow figuring out how to divide the computer users of the world in half, because if you accidentally give your software to EVERYONE in the world you're boned. This bundle offered the opportunity to get my software into the hands of what I believe to be connected Mac users, at a steep discount for them.
<b>Would you do it again?</b>
If there's ever a MacHeist 2 or similar bundle, I'll certainly consider participating (depending on how long Delicious Library 2 or Delicious Interiors has been out, or whatever), but I'm going to ask for a lot more money. The MacHeist team is a victim of their own success here -- now that everyone in the world KNOWS how popular their bundles are, we KNOW that they aren't taking that much risk, and so the risk/reward calculation is different the second time, and we'll all ask for a bigger slice. C'est la vie!
[1]: http://www.delicious-monster.com/ "Delicious Monster"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72333-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 "MacHeist Is a Bundle of Joy"
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Previously Pandora was somewhat limited in its sharing tools. You've always been able to email station to friends whether or not they were Pandora members, but there weren't many tool for interacting with other Pandora users. The focus of the site was clearly on the music and search tools.
While the focus of Pandora hasn't radically shifted, the new features do put some additional emphasis on Pandora users and community, rather than just services.
All the new profile features come with privacy controls, users can set their profiles public or private and turn comments on and off. It would nice if Pandora had an option to control the privacy of comments rather than just turning them on and off, for instance perhaps an option to allow trusted users to comment but block everyone else. Unfortunately that isn't currently possible.
In addition to the new profile features, there's also a couple of new search possibilities that let you find other users with similar tastes. When you find another user with a station that fits your musical taste, you can add that person by clicking the blue "bookmark this person" button on their profile page (assuming their profile is public of course).
While not exactly revolutionary, the new features bring Pandora more in line with competitors like [last.fm][4] and give yet another way to discover new music. Of all the services I [reviewed][3] last month for Wired, Pandora continues to deliver the most exciting and varied recommendations.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/the_morning_reb_13.html "The Morning Reboot, Wednesday December 20"
[2]: http://www.pandora.com/ "Pandora"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html?tw=wn_technology_software_9 "Fine Tune Your Music Discoveries"
[4]: http://www.last.fm/ "last.fm"
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* The new version of the popular blogging platform, [Blogger][2], is out of beta. [According][1] to Google: "the old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while... maybe go to Hawaii or play World of Warcraft all day?"
[1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2006/12/new-version-of-blogger.html "Blogger out of beta"
[2]: http://www.blogger.com/start "Blogger"
* The Wall Street Journal [reports][3] that Ticketmaster has bought a 25 percent share of the social music site [iLike][4]. Ticketmaster hopes to use links on iLike to <strike>rip off consumers</strike> sell tickets. I really enjoy iLike, hopefully Ticketmaster won't screw it up.
[3]: http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116657976118655285.html%3Fmod%3Drss_whats_news_technology "WSJ on iLike-Ticketmaster deal"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/post.html "Monkey Bites on iLike"
* "It's Pat" as a ringtone? Apparently yes, for Cingular customers anyway. Cingular has [partnered with Saturday Night Live][5] to offer multimedia downloads, including video clips and "original material produced with the mobile screen in mind." And yes, famous sketches as ringtones.
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-20T092931Z_01_N20333885_RTRUKOC_0_US-SNL.xml&src=rss "Cingular to offer SNL sketches, ringtones and more"
* Popular social music site [Pandora][6] has added some [new social features][7] like listener profiles with musical preferences and listener searches.
[6]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72182-0.html?tw=wn_technology_software_9 "Wired.com on Pandora and others"
[7]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/19/pandora-goes-social/ "Techcrunch on Pandora"
* The Free Software Foundation [launched][8] a new anti-Microsoft website called BadVista.org earlier this week. The FSF claims that BadVista.org has a "twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights."
[8]: http://badvista.fsf.org/ "BadVista.org"
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Zoho is pushing their wiki as "wiki for the rest of us," with some nice features like a WYSIWYG editing interface with spell checking, revision history and difference comparisons.
Creating a wiki is one-click simple, just fill in the form information and the wiki will be added under your username with the address something like: mywikiname.wiki.zoho.com. Note that the name of your wiki is not editable after you create it, though you can change the title at any time.
Under the settings button you can control outside access to your wiki by making it public, private or limited to a select group of members.
Wikis are customizable with number of skins available and in addition, users can upload a logo or other image. There's also an option to control the position of the nav bar on the public wiki pages.
Zoho wikis can handle a number of embedded Zoho objects like Zoho Sheet charts, Zoho Show slide shows and Zoho Creator applications, as well as outside content like YouTube videos and more. Any changes to the Zoho object are automatically synced both ways whether the edit is made in the Wiki or the Zoho app.
In total Zoho users can create three wikis and each of those wikis can contain an unlimited number of pages.
Like most of Zoho's offerings the new Wiki feature is free for registered users.
[1]: http://blogs.zoho.com/general/introducing-the-zoho-wiki/
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/zoho_announces_.html "Monkey Bites on Zoho"
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Or perhaps you just want to have two, three or even ten different designs available for your readers. Well it isn't hard to serve up multiple style sheets. Just add the appropriate <code>link</code> tags to your document's header.
Of course if that were the end of the story there wouldn't be a need for a tutorial. Naturally that isn't the end of the story.
The W3C spec says that browsers should offer users a way to switch style sheets, it even suggests that browser manufacturers offer a drop–down menu or tool bar. But there's one browser that fails to implement that suggestion, anyone care to guess which one?
So what to do for poor Internet Explorer users who have no way to switch style sheets? A List Apart (ALA) has the answer in a fine tutorial entitled *[Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets][1]*.
In the end you'll need to add a smidgen of Javascript to your pages, but don't worry, it isn't too difficult and ALA author Paul Sowden provides all the necessary code.
ALA is also a fantastic reference for all sorts of other CSS solutions including the famous [Suckerfish dropdown][2] menu.
[1]: http://alistapart.com/stories/alternate/ "Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets"
[2]: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ "Suckerfish dropdowns"
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* Listening Post tells you how to [turn your Wii into an iTunes Jukebox][1] using Opera.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/turn_your_itune.html "Listening Post on Wii"
* 27B Stroke 6 [points out][2] all the fun things about flying during the holiday season. "People who sneak lighters past security are heroes in airport smoking lounges."
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/27b_traveling_n.html "27B Stroke 6 on holiday flying"
* Gear Factor [claims][3] wireless USB is coming next year. "Expect printers, laptops, cameras and other devices to start sporting built-in Wireless USB after the middle of the year."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2006/12/wireless_usb_co.html "Gear Factor on Wireless USB"
* Bodyhack [reports][4] that Cleveland doctor is all set to do face transplants as soon as the find suitable candidate. "For the transplant, the entire skin flap of a patient's face and possibly parts of the scalp, ears and neck would be replaced."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2006/12/first_full_faci.html "Bodyhack on face transplants"
* John Brownlee over at Table of Malcontents makes me rethink my decision to give up caffeine; the man is prolific with a capital p. Today Table paid homage to [the world's oldest punk rocker][5], and [nude fencing][6]. Nude fencing. Is that really a good idea?
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_death_of_th.html "Death of the World's Oldst Punk Rocker"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/morning_thing_n_2.html "Nude Fencing"
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First there was a more than thirteen hour [blackout][1] of Google's social networking site Orkut. While few in the States may have even noticed, rumor has it panic and confusion reigned in the streets of Brazil.
The message on the site claimed that it was "under construction" which might imply that some new features were on the way, but not only is thirteen hours way too long for a feature upgrade, we've yet to see an announcement from Google explaining the downtime.
Next on Google's oops list came the revelation that some user accounts in the massively popular GMail service had [lost all their email][4]. Google representatives [emailed TechCrunch][3] to say:
>Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th.
Then there was the case of the disappearing sex blogs which BoingBoing [covered][7] throughout the week. It seems that a number of sex blogs disappeared or dropped significantly in their google rankings. And mind you these are not porn splogs, but informational blogs like Violet Blue's [tiny nibbles][5] (note the landing page is okay but the rest is decidedly **NSFW**).
No one seems to know exactly what happened to the sex blogs, though Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has a [thorough analysis][6] of what could have gone wrong. Whatever the cause, it was more bad news for Google.
Outside of soft/hard ware failings Google also took something of a beating in the blogosphere for their [annual Zeitgeist][5], the top ten search terms of the year.
Many readers were suspicious that the otherwise unpopular social networking site Bebo was the number one search term of 2006 according to Google. In Google's defense it's worth noting that Google Zeitgeist tracks the biggest "movers" in search -- the search terms that went from nothing to a lot over a period of time.
In other words, Bebo had the biggest amount of *growth* in 2006, measured in raw percentage, over 2005's numbers, which explains why it's number 1 -- **not** because it's the most-searched term on Google.
But fine print as never been the blogosphere's strong suit and the outcry was such the Google [posted a clarification][2] expounding the criteria behind the Zeitgeist.
The Zeitgeist controversy may be made of misunderstanding and hot blooded bloggers, but Blake Ross, wunderkind of Firefox fame, had a more serious [bone to pick][8] with Google. Ross says that Google's new self promotional tactics are eroding the public trust.
Earlier this week Google searches with terms like "blog," "photo album" and "speadsheet" began displaying "tips" which suggest Google's own services in those fields. Ross accuses Google of abusing its powerful position to promote the company's own products.
Of course Yahoo! and other search engines already do something similar, but many have always held Google to slightly higher standard and the new self promotional efforts seem, well, heavy handed.
For instance I frequently search for old Monkey Bites posts using the <code>site:</code> operator with the full Monkey Bites url. Because that url contains the term "blog" Google now adds a link to Blogger at the top of the page. What's irritating is that the term isn't even part of my search, the <code>site:</code> operator is simply restricting my search parameters.
Even a WWII era punch card machine could probably figure out I'm not looking for a blogging service.
Perhaps the most irritating thing is that Google tries to pass these off as "tips." These aren't tips, they're advertisements and calling them tips is misleading and, well, almost evil.
What ever happened to don't be evil? It was so simple.
At best Google's new self promotional drive is simply annoying and irrelevant, at worst Ross is right and users may lose confidence in the objectivity of Google's search results.
On the brighter side of an otherwise dismal week perhaps Google can take comfort in the notion that things go wrong at Google seldom enough that when they do, like Jennifer Aniston's bad hair days, they make the news. Paul Mitchell was unreachable for comment.
[1]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1461015,00.asp "Orkut Outage"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-we-came-up-with-year-end-zeitgeist.html "Google explains Zeitgeist"
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/gmail-disaster-reports-of-mass-email-deletions/ "GMail Problems"
[4]: http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Problem-solving/browse_thread/thread/e19d6ab5d41e58eb/bd2a9386c2a1ad41 "GMail loses user email"
[7]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/google_disappears_se.html "Boing Boing on disappearing sex blogs"
[5]: http://www.tinynibbles.com/ "Tiny Nibbles"
[6]: http://searchengineland.com/061229-133230.php "Search engine Land on disappearing sex blogs"
[8]: http://www.blakeross.com/2006/12/25/google-tips/ "Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose"
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Of course there's always the chance that some of this stuff will find its way to our vaporware list by the end of next year, but in the mean time raise your glass with unbridled optimism as you peruse our list of Things We're Looking Forward To.
* [Windows Vista][2]. We've got some concerns about DRM and security, but we're cautiously optimistic about Redmond's new system. Here's to upgrades and security patches.
* [OS X Leopard][3]. Chock full of what looks like great features. We're looking forward to putting this one through the paces.
* We want our MP3s and we want them DRM-free. Okay maybe we've had too much of that special punch that's been fermenting since the office Christmas party, but we like to believe 2007 will see a DRM-free, **legal** alternative to the iTunes Music store. And by legal we mean legal in the United States (i.e. not AllofMP3.com).
* Thunderbird 2.0. Our tests of the first beta [whetted our appetite][4] for the real thing. Would a good IMAP mail client be too much to ask for in 2007?
* µTorrent for Linux and Mac. We [love][1] this little client and with BitTorrent Inc. at the helm chances are good that µTorrent will be cross platform by the end of the year.
* [OpenOffice.org][5] finishes the port to Mac OS X and/or NeoOffice improves. We have nothing against MS Office per say, but we [like open document formats][6]. And we like free -- in all senses of the word.
* Full release of the Adobe line. We're [lovin' the PhotoShop CS3 beta][7] and looking forward to the full suite which should arrive some time in the second quarter of the year, but what's up with those icons?
* Would it be too much to ask for an end to OS flame wars? Or is that punch kicking again -- who knew ergot fungi were so tangy? After all, as [Joel points out][8], software is just a tool to help you get laid.
* Speaking of which we're also hoping for more tall hot blonds, or perhaps we're misunderstanding the whole "long tail" thing again?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/best_of_bt_torr.html "Monkey Bites on µTorrent"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/windows_vista_i.html "Vista Release Date Explained"
[3]: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/19/screenshots-from-the-latest-leopard-build/ "Leopard screenshots on TUAW"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mozilla_has_rel.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 reviewed"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/open_office_21_.htm "OpenOffice RC1 available for download"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/office_document.html "Monkey Bites on ODF"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/elsewhere_on_wi.html "Monkey Bites on Photoshop CS3"
[8]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/15.html "Joel on Software: Software is a tool to help you get laid"
[9]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72370-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 "Wired's 2007 predictions"
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* Parallels, the popular Mac software that lets you run other OSes as virtual machines, keeps [cranking out the free betas][1]. Parallels Beta3 features improved USB 2.0 support, improved coherence mode and more.
[1]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Beta3"
* Good old Mainstream Media outlet Reuters [ran an article][2] today on RSS calling it the "coolest thing you've never heard of when it comes to the Internet." Rather depressingly the article cites media analyst group Forrester who claim that less than 2 percent of internet users use RSS.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T185423Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&src=rss "Reuters on RSS"
* I [picked on][4] Google earlier today, but there was one bright spot today for the search giant, Hitwise [reports][3] that traffic to Google's Blog search service now surpasses that of Technorati.
[3]: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/12/google_blog_search_surpasses_t.html "Google Blog Search beats Technorati"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/googles_bad_hai.html "Google has a bad hair week"
* Why writing down passwords is stupid. CBS 5 in SF [reports][5] that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski wrote his journals using code that security expert Bruce Schneier calls "the most complex cipher the FBI has seen since World War II." Neither the FBI nor the NSA could crack the code until they found among Kaczynski's notebooks a page entitled "Unscrambling Sequence." Doh!
[5]: http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_363002905.html "FBI cracks Unabomber security code"
* And finally, let's close out the year with this [incredibly creepy image][6] of the world's largest superconducting magnet. It looks like something out the machine city in the Matrix crossed with the big spider in Arachnophobic. Shiver.
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/29/worlds_largest_super.html "BoingBoing on the world's largest superconducting magnet"
Happy New Year everyone, see you Tuesday.
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This could probably be filed in the same category as the drive to [abolish the caps lock][4] key -- admirable idea, but unlikely to succeed.
But perhaps there is a bigger need for a NSFW indicator. As strange as it might seem to those of us working at home, people actually get [fired][1] for clicking the wrong links at work.
Doland's proposal is to use the <code>REL</code> attribute to indicate when links contain content not suitable for work.
Under Doland's system links would look something like this:
<a href="" title="" rel="NSFW">link text</a>
Currently the <code>REL</code> attribute is mainly used by search engines to determine what links to follow on a site, for instance, adding <code>rel="nofollow"</code> to a link tag will cause Google spiders to ignore the link.
Most browsers ignore the <code>REL</code> attribute, but because it can be styled with CSS NSFW links could be marked with visual clues.
Doland admits that using the <code>REL</code> tag alone has some problems and he has an [expanded][2] his original proposal to also utilize the class attribute.
The idea is sound and would even help search engines by adding another bit of metadata to their indexes, but will it catch on?
[1]: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/3484 "Woman fired for reading MetaFilter"
[2]: http://pj.doland.org/archives/041577.php "NSFW Rel attribute spec"
[3]: http://pj.doland.org/archives/041571.php "Proposal for a NSFW indicator"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index "Death to Caps Lock"
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* Apparently the HD DVD hack we mentioned in yesterday's reboot is real enough that the companies behind the AACS encryption system are [looking][1] into it. Muslix64, the hacker who claims to have cracked AACS, has said he/she will post more code on January 2.
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061229/wr_nm/dvds_hacker_dc "Media Companies Investigate Hacker's Claim"
* In the wake of the earthquake which disrupted internet service in Asia, Asian telecom companies are [moving to install more underseas cables][2] to ensure that this week's internet outage does not happen again.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T054757Z_01_SP140905_RTRUKOC_0_US-INTERNET-ASIA.xml&src=rss "Asian companies to add more cables"
* The French space agency [announced][3] it will publish its archive of UFO sightings and other phenomena online. The names of contributors will be kept secret to protect them from "space fanatics". Damn those space fanatics.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T143450Z_01_L29796180_RTRUKOC_0_US-FRANCE-UFO.xml&src=rss "French to publish UFO reports"
* AT&T has agreed to concessions which will force the company to live up to net neutrality rules if its merger with BellSouth is approved, but not everyone thinks the concessions are enough. TechDirt [reports][4] that midway through the concession doc is this sentence: "This commitment also does not apply to AT&T/BellSouth's Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service." This phrase could mean that while any existing network is governed by the net neutrality in the concessions, future networks are not which paves the way for AT&T to charge companies for preferential bandwidth treatment.
[4]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061229/001833.shtml "TechDirt on AT&T/BellSouth Merger"
* Laughing Squid, one of the recipients of the [laptops from Microsoft][7], is [auctioning][6] off the machine on eBay. Proceeds will benefit the [EFF][5]
[5]: http://www.eff.org/ "Electronic Frontier Foundation"
[6]: http://laughingsquid.com/windows-vista-laptop-on-ebay-proceeds-going-to-eff/ "Laughing Squid auctions laptop"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/microsoft_lapto.html "Monkey Bites on Microsoft Laptops"
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Allofmp3.com sells non-DRM downloads and charges roughly one dollar for albums and only a few cents for individual songs. The U.S.-based iTunes Store on the other hand sells DRM downloads at ten dollars an album and one dollar for songs.
The RIAA's lawsuit against AllofMp3 claims the website is an illegal service and infringes on copyrights owned by the RIAA's members. The RIAA alleges 11 million songs have been "pirated" using AllofMP3.com.
The RIAA lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages per violation , which puts the total at over $1.65 trillion, which as some have already pointed out, is just slightly less than the Gross National Product of Great Britain.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, AllofMP3.com operates in Russia and appears to comply with Russian law so the odds of the suit being settled in a New York court are pretty much nil, which might explain the ridiculous damages figure.
AllofMP3 claims it has complied with Russian law by forwarding all necessary rights fees to the Russian royalty collection firm, ROMS.
Thus far there have been no lawsuits brought against AllofMP3 in Russia, though the U.S. has been pressuring Russian authorities to shut the site down.
[1]: http://blogs.allofmp3.com/allofmp3/2006/12/26/allofmp3-response-to-complaint-by-major-record-labels/ "AllofMp3 response to RIAA"
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I remember thinking at the time that America had made some massive consumer leap in my absence, vending machines having upgraded from candy bars to iPods. I thought it was a brilliant idea since the prospect of spending hours waiting in an airport surrounded by screaming babies and crackling passenger announcements would probably send even the most ardent of Apple haters scrambling to thrust their credit card in the machine.
Apparently I'm not alone in thinking the machines were a great idea. The Atlanta Journal Constitution [reports][1] that the iPod vending machines are wildly successful.
Mark Mullins, executive vice-president of Zoom, the company behind the machines, tells the AJC, "We put in some iPods and found we couldn't keep them in stock. We found no customer resistance to swiping a card and buying a $300 item from a machine. We're selling thousands (of iPods), and the machines at the Atlanta airport are major contributors to that."
Of course there's no way for the those shattered-nerved impulse buyer to put any music on their new pod, but another Zoom spokesperson says there are plans to add a music-download kiosk across from the iPod vending machine.
The machines are also in the San Francisco airport and are reportedly starting to pop up in hotels and other locations across the country. And for those who were wondering, no the iPod doesn't drop in the machine, a robotic arm grabs it and hands it to you.
[1]: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2006/12/26/1227metipod.html "Electronics vending machines are a hit"
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>As you write your review I just wanted to emphasize that this is a review pc. I strongly recommend you disclose that we sent you this machine for review, and I hope you give your honest opinions. Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding of our intentions I'm going to ask that you either give the pc away or send it back when you no longer need it for product reviews.
But I disagree with Kirkpatrick's commentary, I think Microsoft did the right thing by backpedaling a little.
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington [called me out][4] on his CrunchNotes blog yesterday, accusing me of "screaming" scandal for my post on the topic yesterday. I wasn't screaming; clearly Arrington was not at the table this holiday season when my cousin announced she was dropping out of high school to become a tattoo artist. Now that was screaming.
Secondly, I don't really have a problem with what Microsoft did, my criticism is more general -- I don't think bloggers are very good about disclosing promotional materials they receive.
A few points to consider: loaning out review hardware is standard practice, returning it when you're done is also standard practice. In those cases where manufacturers don't want the hardware back, the general practice is to give it away. Microsoft's second note is spot on and how it should have been from the beginning; the machine is not a gift, but for review purposes.
And I agree with Arrington that it's a smart move on Microsoft's part to send out the machines for blogger to use when they review Vista. Vista is a radical upgrade and requires newer hardware that the average blogger probably doesn't want to buy just to write a review.
My problem with Microsoft's move is that it seemed like they were trying to pass off a review machine as swag. That it happened to be sent out around the holiday's and included a note saying "you can hold onto it for as long as you’d like," didn't help Microsoft's cause.
Large news organizations generally have firm policies about how to handle these items. For instance, here at Wired we have "no junkets, no gifts" policy. When Wired writers cover a conference, promotional event or other company-sponsored press event we go on Wired's dime not the company in question. When we get gifts such as a laptop, we use it to test whatever we're supposed to be testing and then we send it back or give it away.
It's not that we don't appreciate such gestures or that we have some Ebenezer Scrooge tendencies, these policies exist so there is absolutely no question about our motivations.
I think it's high time that bloggers came up with their own editorial policies regarding promotions, gifts and swag they receive. The thing is bloggers of the world, we like you and we want to trust you, but you have to show all your cards when you call a hand.
But in truth the ethical burden in this case was never on Microsoft's plate, as Robert Scoble [points out][3] on his blog, it's the blogger's responsibility to disclose what they were given. I like Scoble's summary and hope bloggers everywhere take note of it:
>Now, regarding blogger ethics. Did you disclose? If you did, you have ethics. If you didn't, you don't. It's that black and white with me.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/microsoft_tries_1.html "Monkey Bites on MS laptop giveaway"
[2]: http://marshallk.com/microsoft-wants-its-laptops-back "Marshal Kirkpatrick on MS laptops"
[3]: http://scobleizer.com/2006/12/27/i-think-the-microsoft-vista-giveaway-is-an-awesome-idea/ "Robert Scoble on MS laptops"
[4]: http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=331 "Michael Arrington reads Monkey Bites?"
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* CNet [reports][5] that Red Hat will ship the next version of its premium Linux OS on February 28. The release was originally scheduled for the end of the year, but has been pushed back slightly.
[5]: http://news.com.com/Red+Hat+updates+premium+Linux/2100-7344_3-5576507.html
* Best reason to add learning GPG to your resolutions this year: the government may not need a warrant to search your e-mail. Ars Technica has [more details][1].
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061227-8504.html "Government may not need a warrant to search your email"
* Oh the lists, the lists. Another of my favorite lists the BBC's [100 things we didn't know last year][2]. Number one: Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese."
[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_2.shtml "100 things we didn't know last year"
* If you're a young single woman looking to holiday in Jamacia with a total stranger, there's an [eBay auction][4] with your name on it. It may not be as creepy as it sounds, Reuters [reports][3] that 39 year-old Adam Croot had planned the holiday to propose to his partner, but then she dumped him. Ouch.
[4]: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160067295942 "Holiday with Adam Croot"
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-28T164844Z_01_L28711685_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-HOLIDAY.xml&src=rss "EBay Janacia vacation"
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This is just the stuff that's ready to ship out, not the inventory of the store, but it gives me some frame of reference. I'll refrain from any Raiders of the Lost Ark jokes.
But seriously, where is all that stuff on Amazon.com?
[1]: http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/12/amazonukbig.jpg "Amazon UK Shipping Warehouse"
[2]: http://gizmodo.com/ "Gizmodo"
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* Gadgets [make it easier to lie][1]. According to a survey done in the UK over half of the respondents said using gadgets like cellphones "made them feel less guilty when telling a lie than doing it face to face."
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-28T144304Z_01_L27198468_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-LIES.xml&src=rss "Lying easier with cellphones"
* A programmer by the name of muslix64 has [posted][2] a Java-based app he claims will remove the AACS copy-protection encryption from HD DVD movies. Muslix64 admits the code is highly unstable and it remains to be seen whether how generic it is since so far it only seems to work with one movie.
[2]: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871 "HD DVD cracked?"
* 10 Zen Monkey's wants your help [stopping][3] professional troll (and front-runner for least sexy... something), Michael Crook. The site says: "Are you a blogger or webmaster who tried to cover the story of DMCA fraudmeister, Michael Crook, only to be served a DMCA takedown notice by him? ... Please take some time to tell us your story. It’s the best way to help ensure that nefarious griefers like Crook are no longer able to use the DMCA to violate Free Speech and silence critical commentary." [via [BoingBoing][4]]
[3]: http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/12/27/crook-harass/ "10 Zen Monkeys fights Crook"
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/27/wanted_your_michael_.html "BoingBoing on Crook"
* Ack, the tubes is clogged. [According to CNN][5], "swarms of online shoppers armed with new iPods and iTunes gift cards apparently overwhelmed Apple's iTunes music store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns of 20 minutes or more for downloads of a single song."
[5]: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/12/28/itunes.slowdown.ap/index.html "Tubes clogged"
* If I understand this correctly, the top selling album of the year [failed][6] to reach 4 million in sales. Long tail effect anyone?
[6]: http://www.nypost.com/seven/12272006/business/worst_seller_business_peter_lauria.htm "The New York Post on Music Sales"
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Perhaps the most difficult thing to understand in CSS is the "box model." When people complain about CSS and cross browser incompatibility, the box model is responsible for 90 percent of the problems.
While BrainJar's tutorial covers many aspects of CSS position elements, it stands out for its dead simple explanation of the box model. From the tutorial: "For display purposes, every element in a document is considered to be a rectangular box which has a content area surrounded by padding, a border and margins."
How those spacial elements are rendered varies somewhat by browser, but Internet Explorer is the main culprit here since it fails to comply with the box model defined in the W3C's specs.
The box model is what requires the most hacks when trying to get cross-browser perfection from your style sheets, but fear not the hacks are fairly minor and generally don't mean all that much extra work.
And for the record, lest anyone think I'm Microsoft bashing, the problem with IE is not so much that it gets the box model wrong, but that it renders it differently than the W3C spec.
The way IE renders margin and padding on box elements actually makes sense once you understand it and is even occasionally preferable to the specs definition. But the fact remains, it doesn't adhere to the standards set forth by the W3C, which nearly every other browser uses.
As always, if you know of other tutorials, post them in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp "CSS Positioning Explained"
[2]: http://www.aidejavascript.com/article93.html "positionnement CSS"
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Now it seems that at least one of the big telecoms thinks the Free 411 advertising model might be worth a try.
AT&T has [launched][2] a new free directory listing service, 1-800-YellowPages, which will play ads just before the requested number is given out.
According to AT&T's site, "the caller listens to a maximum of 4 ads, each 5 to 10 seconds, before receiving the number."
My big gripe with Jingle's service is that there is no auto-connect feature, you must hang up and dial the number. AT&T's new service offers the option to auto-connect, but curiously that option is in the hands of advertisers, not the customer.
The AT&T docs say that callers will "connected to the business at no cost if the advertiser has included automatic Call Completion as part of the ad design."
If I'm reading that correctly, and the automatic completion is at the advertiser's discretion, I can't see AT&T ending up with very many happy customers. Leaving a key feature, which would set the service apart from competitors, in the hands of an advertiser seems like a risky move on AT&t's part.
As a number of people have pointed out in the comments on the TechCrunch post where I first [read][3] about the AT&T service, AT&T is delusional if they think people will sit through up to forty seconds of ads just to save a buck fifty. Especially given that competing services play only one ad at 12 seconds.
As they say, time is money too.
in contrast Free 411 plays only one ad.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/make_free_411_c.html "Monkey Bites on Free411"
[2]: http://www.att.com/Common/1800yellowpages/product_description.htm
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/26/att-acquires-infreeda-gets-into-free-411-business/ "Techcrunch on AT&t service"
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I will confess that I have only a dim idea of what makes the Dvorak keyboard better, but I understand that it's much faster than a qwerty keyboard if you know how to use it.
See the rest of [sjwalsh384's Macbook mod photos][1].
[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69631394@N00/ "Macbook Dvorak mod"
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The promotional effort comes just before the release of Microsoft's new Windows Vista Operating System, but Microsoft isn't a computer manufacturer so why are they giving away computers?
Typically when a company wants journalists to review their new software on a fast machine they loan it out for review purposes and then the machine gets returned. If Microsoft were to giveaway copies of Vista that would make sense and probably raise no eyebrows at all, but giving away a whole laptop understandably strikes some as little more than bribery.
Dan Warne a journalist at [APCmag][2] left a comment at the site linked above in which he points out:
>It's bizarre for one of the world's largest PR companies, Edelman, to think it could get away with this. Perhaps they don't know bloggers as well as they thought they did... now that some of the bloggers have disclosed the receipt of the gift, the public knows. Whatever the subtleties of the offer were, it comes across as nothing more than a bribe, and that is a very bad look for Microsoft.
[2]: http://apcmag.com/ "APCmag"
Companies have long sent promotional materials by the boatload to journalists who typically disclose that the item was a gift. Given the increasing influential power of blogs, it's no surprise that companies are beginning to try the same tactics on bloggers who often hold even more sway over tech-savvy consumers.
Earlier this month there was widespread controversy over the fact that companies have been offering money to prominent users of Digg in return for posting links to products and favorable reviews.
But getting paid a few pesos from PayPerPost or to put something on Digg is one thing, getting a $2000+ Acer laptop is a whole other ball of wax. As Warne says, now that the word is out, expect the negative publicity to be every bit as shrill as the positive which means Microsoft's PR move may well end up backfiring.
[1]: http://www.istartedsomething.com.nyud.net:8080/20061227/microsoft-free-ferrari/
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* Well, perhaps we were hasty in condemning Wall Street in the morning reboot, Apple's shares [rebounded][1] later today. Why do we care? We don't really, we actually like it when our cynicism turns out to be unfounded.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-12-27T205452Z_01_N27433638_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-SHARES.xml&src=rss "Apple Shares recover"
* Libraries in Georgia have [developed][2] an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run.
[2]: http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/12/04/1538214.shtml?tid=101 "Librarians stake their future on open source"
* [Renkoo][3] is getting some buzz for being a potential "Evite killer." The site is currently in public beta, though as of this posting it appears to be down for maintenance. Since I haven't used it I can't comment on its potential as an Evite killer except to say that I welcome anything even trying to kill Evite.
[3]: http://renkoo.com/ "Renkoo"
* The Captain Obvious award of the day goes to the Wall Street Journal for an article tantalizingly entitled "[Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble?][4]" I dunno Virginia, what do you think?
[4]: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116679843912957776-fF7CtrdMDTE4n1h5Ju5pv0HKhgM_20071227.html "Is Web 2.0 Another Bubble?"
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* Ack, the tubes are cracked. A major earthquake off the coast of Taiwan [created][3] an Internet blackout across much of Asia. The quake damaged the undersea fiber optic cables that serve China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Officials say the repairs will take some time, but declined to give a specific timeframe.
[3]: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/249389/1/.html "Earthquake disrupts internet in Asia"
* Things are heating up the in investigation of Apple stock options. Law.com [reports][1] that the case against Apple may involve "falsified" stock options documents. Law.com's claim is unverified, but Apple shares [fell][2] 4 percent this morning as Wall Street apparently believes most everything it reads.
[1]: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167127308611
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-27T143635Z_01_N20358521_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARKETS-STOCKS1.xml&src=rss "Reuters on Apple Share Price Drop"
* It's my favorite time of year, list time. And my favorite list, the Wired [vaporware awards][4], just came out this morning.
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72350-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1 "Wired's picks for Vaporware 2006"
* Missed this one: Wired is [suing] AT&T over AT&T's alleged illegal participation in government surveillance. Wired (and some other, lesser news outlets) wants the judge to unseal the documents.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/wired_takes_on_.html "27B Stroke 6 on Wired/AT&T case"
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But Socialist is not just a del.icio.us frontend, it's also an RSS reader.
The design of Socialist mimics that of Apple's Mail.app so it should look immediately familiar to Mac users. Just enter your del.icio.us account information and you'll be logged in and the three-pane interface will show your bookmarks.
You can then subscribe to del.icio.us tags, other users feeds or any old RSS feed you enter by hand. Regrettably Socialist doesn't seem to recognize feed calls from Safari. Using Safari I set Socialist to be my default feed reader and then clicked on a feed link. Socialist came to the forefront, but did not auto-add the feed.
Once you've added your favorite feeds to Socialist, whenever you run across something you'd like to bookmark it's one-click simple to add it to your del.icio.us account. There's also a button to send it as an email, but it didn't seem to work in my testing.
Overall Socialist is a good looking app, it does what it says (except the email issue) and does it well. In addition to looking good, Socialist is lightening fast at loading and refreshing both del.icio.us and RSS accounts.
Because I'm not a del.icio.us user, Socialist is of limited use to me, but if it supported [ma.gnolia.com][4] and polished up its RSS features a little, I could see myself ditching my current RSS setup in favor of Socialist.
If you are a del.icio.us user and you're looking for a way to integrate your RSS feeds with your bookmarks, Socialist just might be exactly what you've been seeking.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72070-0.html "Wired review of Social Bookmarking Sites"
[2]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[3]: http://getsocialist.com/ "Socialist 1.0"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "ma.gnolia.com"
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I thought the next best thing would be to create a Tutorial o' the Day feature here on Monkey Bites. So here's how this will work: each week we'll pick a programming language, popular internet design trend or similar theme and everyday we'll link to a tutorial that will help you create something useful.
Since this was inspired by CSS I thought we'd start there.
There are thousands of CSS tutorials out there, but one CSS feature that it took me a while to understand is the <code>float:</code> feature. Floats are an easy way to create the multi-columned layouts that many popular sites utilize without resorting to table tags.
The best tutorial I've found on [how to use floats][1] comes from Max Design. But "Floatutorial" isn't just a one trick pony, it's actually a whole bunch of tutorials condensed into one easy to browse page. These tutorials will walk you through "the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts."
I should also note that Max Design has an excellent CSS showcase called [Listamatic][3] which will show you how to create a navigation menu of just about any shape, size and arrangement you want using a simple unordered list.
If you have other suggestions or recommendations for people just getting started with CSS or those hoping improve their existing skills, be sure to leave them in the comments below.
Also if you have ideas for future tutorial themes, email me at: scott_gilbertson@wired.com
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/cascading_style.html#comments "Read Comments on Cascading Style Sheets Turn 10"
[1]: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/index.htm "Floatutorial"
[3]: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm "Listamatic"
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Microsoft is a publicly traded company run by non-evil human beings who work to protect the company's market share and profitability just like any other company.
I recently wrote an article for Wired.com [criticizing][2] Microsoft's attempt to foist a "open" standard on office software users, but in spite of what many readers seem to think, I don't think Open Office XML (OOXML) is a deliberate attempt to screw over users.
The problem is that Microsoft's best interests and users best interests do not always overlap.
For our tech-savvy Monkey Bites readers who'd like a more detailed explanation of how and why OOXML is not good for users, Rob Weir has an excellent post entitled [*How to hire Guillaume Portes*][1] that digs into some of the problems with OOXML in more detail.
From Weir's article:
>It is quite possible to write a standard that allows only a single implementation. By focusing entirely on the capabilities of a single application and documenting it in infuriatingly useless detail, you can easily create a "Standard of One."
...
As I've stated before, if this were just a Microsoft specification that they put up on MSDN for their customers to use, this would be par for the course, and not worth my attention. But this is different. Microsoft has started calling this a Standard, and has submitted this format to ISO for approval as an International Standard. It must be judged by those greater expectations.
[1]: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-portes.html "How to hire Guillaume Portes"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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But there is one field in which Microsoft software unquestionably dominates -- Office documents. However [competition in the Office field is heating up][1] and more robust alternatives to the MS Office suite are now available.
The most obvious alternative to office is [OpenOffice.org][3], but so far there hasn't been a true native Mac port. As it stands now, there is an OS X port but it requires the X11 windowing system to be installed.
However, if you're like me and you don't want to mess with X11, there is another alternative -- [NeoOffice][2]. NeoOffice is based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, but it incorporates many native Mac features like Aqua menus, OS X fonts and integration with Apple's mail.app.
Die-hard Mac fans will no doubt love the native Aqua look and feel and NeoOffice does a good job adhering to the Apple UI guidelines. In short, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck, even it it uses Java here and there to take advantage of Aqua widgets.
Naturally NeoOffice offers the full set of applications you'd expect in an office suite (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) and it can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
So how does it stand up in everyday use?
Well it depends on what your needs are. For most people the word processing app, Writer, will ably do just about anything you want and exports to MS .doc files with ease.
As for reading MS Office files from other people, Writer handled everything I threw at, but some people have reported problems with complex double column formats with embedded images and the like.
Also note that at this time Writer does not support the new MS Word format .docx, but a recent update to the NeoOffice homepage says that .docx support will be available later this quarter.
If for some reason you need to embed video or other multimedia materials in your documents, you'll want to look elsewhere since those features haven't been implemented yet NeoOffice.
I also tested Calc, NeoOffice's spreadsheet program and found it to be slightly less stable (it crashed once while importing a very very large .csv file), but it did an excellent job of importing Ms Excel files.
So can NeoOffice replace MS Office? I would say yes for the casual user like myself. If you regularly have to deal with complex MS Office documents your mileage may vary.
[2]: http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php "NeoOffice"
[3]: http://www.openoffice.org/ "OpenOffice.org"
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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* OpenOffice.org has [released a patch][1] for a security flaw involving Windows Metafile files. The vulnerability would allow unauthorized code to run, were the unsuspecting user to open an infected file. Although there were no known public exploits or even proof of concept examples, the patch is recommended for all OpenOffice users.
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070104/tc_pcworld/128396 "Patch Issued for Critical OpenOffice.org Flaw"
* Speaking of office suites, CNN has a review [slamming MS Word 2007][2]. From the review: "after four weeks of side-by-side comparative testing, I could discern no significant improvement in functionality over Word 2003."
[2]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/04/technology/wordreview_fsb.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2007010509 "Microsoft's four-letter #&!? Word"
* We generally eschew rumor sites like ThinkSecret, but it's a slow week and this one has got screenshots, so what the heck. <b>RUMOR</b>: ThinkSecret [has some screenshots][3] of what *could* be an Apple spreadsheet app to be bundled with iWork '07. We'll know for sure next week.
[3]: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0701iwork.html "Apple Spreadsheet App?"
* Running out of room for your movie downloads? Good news, Hitachi just [announced][4] a one terabyte drive aimed at the desktop market.
[4]: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1237560,00.html "Hitachi unveils 1 TB drive for retail"
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* We [looked at BitTyrant and BitThief][1], two new torrent clients that emphasize a selfish streak. BitThief, which downloads without sharing is just plain wrong, but the jury is still out on BitTyrant.
* On Wednesday we asked if [Apple was the new Microsoft][2]. You can imagine how that went over with the fanboys.
* We tried to get in the spirit of the holidays and offered up a bunch of [new year's resolutions for coders][3]. *I will stop making crontab entries to scripts I end up deleting.* D'oh!
* Microformats made the news with Firefox [announcing][4] that version three of the popular browser would offer some kind of support. Naturally we [rounded up][5] some tutorials to help you get started.
* We declared January "Mac Month" and have been [reviewing][6] [software][7] and of course next week we'll be coming to you live from MacWorld. Personally, I had no idea that the weird little symbol on the corner of the Mac "command" key [is called][8] a *severdighet*.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/bittorrent_bull.html "BitTorrent Bullies: BitTyrant and BitThief"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/is_apple_the_ne.html "Is Apple The New Microsoft?"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/new_years_resol.html "New Year's Resolutions for Coders"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/firefox_3_to_su.html "Firefox 3 to support microformats"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/tutorial_o_the__2.html "Tutorial 'O The Day: XHTML Microformats"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/mac_month_neoof.html "Mac Month: NeoOffice The Aqua Friendly MS Office Alternative"
[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/mac_month_image.html "Mac Month: Imagewell Review"
[8]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/mac_month_the_c.html "Mac Month: The Command Key"
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But while semantics are a good start, they aren't the end of the story when it comes to accessibility. There is in fact an entire [W3C spec][5] on accessibility and there are many ways that you can improve your sites accessibility (note that these tips are good whether you're using HTML or XHTML).
The best and most comprehensive tutorial I know of that deals with accessibility is Mark Pilgrim's [Dive Into Accessibility][1], which isn't actually a tutorial it's an entire book downloadable as html or pdf as well as readable online.
Another excellent book-length tutorial is Joe Clark's [*Building Accessible Websites*][3].
While I highly recommend Pilgrim's book, if you don't feel you have the time for something that long, there's also an excellent tutorial on A List Apart called [*What Is Web Accessibility*][2], that will get you acquainted with the basics and point you to a number of other helpful tutorials.
[3]: http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/ "Building Accessible Websites"
[2]: http://alistapart.com/articles/wiwa "What Is Web Accessibility?"
[1]: http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ "Dive Into Accessibility"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/tutorial_o_the__1.html "Tutorial 'O The Day: XHTML Semantics"
[5]: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ "W3C Accessibility Initiative"
[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Access_With_Speech "Wikipedia definition - JAWS"
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* Gear Factor [brings news][1] of an HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo player from LG, but will anyone care? "Consumer disinterest has more to do with the price tags than with philosophical exasperation at the existence of competing formats."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/lg_to_unleash_h.html "LG To Unleash HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Combo Player"
* Table of Malcontent has a [write-up][2] on every cynic's favorite end-of-the-year award -- the Darwin Awards.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/2006s_darwin_aw.html "2006's Darwin Award Winners"
* Listening Post has some [advance details][3] on a slick looking new MP3 player from iRiver which will make its debut at CES next week.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/new_iriver_mp3_.html "New iRiver MP3 Players at CES"
* Our new science blog, aptly titled WIRED Science, [posted a cool video][4] of the initial launch of the Goddard ,a rocket built by Blue Origin, the space launch company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/blue_origin_lif.html "Blue Origin liftoff"
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* More Leopard previews with details on what Jobs previously described as "a few more surprises." And of course some hard and fast release dates.
* iLife upgrades. Here's to a better iTunes.
* 5.1 surround sound in Garageband and iDVD.
* µTorrent for OS X. Please?
* More details on "iTV." Is it a service? Is it tied to the iTunes Store? Is it going to change the way I watch Movies/TV?
* Aperture upgrades. We really like Aperture and we'd like to see some kind of upgrade. It needs better Camera Raw support and a speed boost before we shell out for it.
* iWork to move into Microsoft Office territory, i.e. a real word processor app.
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* This shouldn't shock anyone, but Washington Post security blogger Brian Krebs, has calculated that Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was [vulnerable to known security holes][2], with no available patches for 284 days last year. That's 75% of the time. Firefox on the other hand was vulnerable for only nine days. What's on your screen?
[2]: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/internet_explorer_unsafe_for_2.html "Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006"
* As I mentioned in the Wired Blogs round up below, there's a new HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo player coming soon from LG, but Warner Bros is [reportly planning to release][3] a new *disc*, Total DVD, which is playable on both HD-DVD and BluRay players.
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/technology/04video.html?ex=1325566800&en=65cf5ceda95fc5f3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "New Disc May Sway DVD Wars"
* There's a small chance we might get to see how the RIAA has been screwing us all these years. The RIAA is suing Marie Lindor for allegedly downloading music, and as part of her defense, Lindor's attorney is [trying to gain access][1] to the RIAA's price information which he claims will support his client's claim that the RIAA's damages are excessive.
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070103-8536.html "RIAA fights to keep wholesale pricing secret"
* More Apple woes, Apple shareholders have [launched their own suit][4] against the company, alleging that when Jobs regained control of the company in 1997, he doled out stock options to many of his newly appointed executives. I don't pretend to understand the finer points of law, but does it make sense to sue someone who raised your stock price 48% in one day? How does a lawsuit against the company you've invested in help you as a stockholder?
[4]: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/04/BUGDBNCBRA1.DTL "Investors sue Apple"
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Possible attacks that could be delivered using the flaw include session riding, cross-site scripting attacks and, in the case of Internet Explorer, denial of service attacks.
The attack works via html links that pass additional parameters to the Acrobat Reader plug-in. Because the plug-in does not properly sanitize incoming urls, it's possible to use a link to execute arbitrary code:
http://site.com/file.pdf#FDF=javascript:alert('Test Alert')
In this case the plug-in would execute the Javascript that the end of the url, but other attacks are also possible and vary somewhat by browser.
As Hon Lau [writes][2] on the Symantec security response blog, "the ease in which this weakness can be exploited is breathtaking."
Lau goes on to add, "what this means in a nutshell is that anybody hosting a .pdf, including well-trusted brands and names on the Web, could have their trust abused and become unwilling partners in crime."
Symantec initially reported that the flaw only affected Firefox users, but has since amended that to include Internet Explorer 6. Stefano Di Paola, who originally discovered the flaw, also mentions Opera, but does give any specific Opera examples.
The flaw exists in Adobe Acrobat 7 and below. Adobe recommends upgrading to the new Acrobat 8 (see Monkey Bites [review][3]), but for those that don't want to upgrade, the post on Symantec's security response blog has details on a workaround that disables the Acrobat Reader plugin.
[1]: http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9 "Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin - Multiple Vulnerabilities"
[2]: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/when_pdfs_attack.html "When PDFs attack"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/adobe_acrobat_8.html "Monkey Bites on Acrobat Reader 8"
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We've [looked at Podzinger][1] before and there's a [Wired News article][2] as well, but yesterday's announcement puts the services quite a bit ahead of the competition.
[According][3] to a post on the Podzinger blog, the new YouTube search tools allow you to "search for terms that are actually mentioned inside the audio, allowing for a greater likelihood you will find relevant material."
As with podcast searches on Podzinger, the results page lists the time mark where the term appears in the video.
There's no easy way to compare the accuracy of Podzinger's search to YouTube's tag and metadata-based searches, but using both in tandem will at least give you an added way to find relevant videos.
Much like the podcast portion of Podzinger, RSS feeds are available for any search, so you can get notified any time a new video is posted where your search terms are used.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/03/searchin_podcas.html "Monkey Bites on Podzinger"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69664-0.html "Podcast Chaos Be Gone"
[3]: http://www.blogzinger.com/2007/01/03/youtube-on-podzinger/ "Podzinger adds YouTube support"
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* Attention hackers, WIBU-Systems is [offering $40,000][1] to anyone who can remove its anti-piracy software from an application. Registration starts next week at MacWorld and the challenge will run for six weeks.
[1]: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PI40RF1QFAJHSQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=196800978 "$40,000 for hackers"
* Macworld [reports][2] that Adobe's Premiere software, which abandoned the Mac platform several years ago, will be returning to OS X. The new version will run on Intel-based machines and will be part of the Adobe Production Studio suite.
[2]: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/03/premiere/index.php?lsrc=mwrss "Premiere returns to OS X"
* Here's a Google Maps mash-up you never wanted: locations of plane crashes. Aviation Marine Insurance has taken FAA and NTSB GPS data and created [AVCRASH][3] which plots out the location of plane crashes. [via [Jeremy Zawodny][4]]
[3]: http://aviation-marine.com/avcrash/index.cfm "AVCRASH"
[4]: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ "Jeremy Zawodny's blog"
* Amazon is already [listing Apple's iLife '07][5] software, which seems to confirm that a new version will be announced at next week's MacWorld show. The existence of the software shouldn't come as too much of a surprise since Apple has consistently announced upgrades to the iLife suite at Macworld for several years now.
[5]: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Computer-iLife-07-Mac/dp/B000B8UOU2/sr=1-1/qid=1167869764?ie=UTF8&s=software&tag2=reality "Amazon.com iLife Suite"
* And last but not least, a Monkey Bites welcome to the 110th congress who begin work today. Can we get some net neutrality legislation already?
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Stockpickr calls itself "the stock idea network" and lives up to that claim by blending social networking features with stock portfolios. Stockpickr members can create portfolios and get recommendations based on stocks you're tracking. The recommendations are pulled from other user portfolios as well as top rated funds based on shared stocks.
In additional to the Stockpickr community, you can also view the publicly available portfolios of investment experts like Warren Buffet or George Soros as well as top hedge and mutual funds.
Stockpickr doesn't let actually buy and sell stocks, for that you'll need to either contact your broker or use one of the many of the online services out there.
While overall Stockpickr is a nice site, the more you already know about the market to begin with, the more you'll probably like Stockpickr. The site is not especially helpful for those of us to whom the stock market remains something of a mystery and Stockpickr can at times be overwhelming for the amount of data and jargon it throws out.
I wanted to like Stockpickr, but unfortunately it comes up short in a few key areas. RSS support is lacking, you can subscribe to a number of feeds, but I couldn't find a way to subscribe to individual user portfolios so I could get notified when they add new stocks.
Additionally, the site is riddled with Javascript errors, the biggest of which prevents large portions of the site from showing up in the Safari browser.
Even in Firefox my registration generated an error saying to try again later, however the registration did in fact go through and I received an email confirming it complete with my password revealed in plain text, which leaves me feeling a bit exposed.
[1]: http://www.stockpickr.com/ "Stockpickr"
[2]: http://www.thestreet.com/ "TheStreet.com"
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Microformats are, to quote from the [microformats.org][2] website:
>* a way of thinking about data
* design principles for formats
* adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns ("Pave the cow paths.")
* highly correlated with semantic XHTML, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML
* a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general.
* An evolutionary revolution
* all the above.
Microformats allow browsers and other user agents to "understand" certain chunks of data, for instance hCard, a microformat based on the vCard standard, tell a browser that the information contained within the hCard tags is an address card.
Right now Flickr, Yahoo and others are using microformats and Mozilla has said the next version of Firefox [will support][3] microformats.
For some background and to get started creating your own microformats code [head over the official site][1] and have a look at the various code generators and templates. Happy formating.
[1]: http://microformats.org/code/ "microformats.org - code"
[2]: http://microformats.org/about/ "About Microformats"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/firefox_3_to_su.html#more "Monkey Bites: Firefox 3 to support Microformats"
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The video in question shows Brazilian model and celebrity Daniela Cicarelli having sex with her boyfriend on a beach in Brazil. Cicarelli's boyfriend Tato Malzoni filed a suit in Brazilian court seeking $116,000 in damages *per day* that the video is up on YouTube.
The Reuters article cites legal experts who say enforcing the Brazilian judge's ruling "could be difficult ... in the United States, where YouTube is based."
While many of the copies of the video have reportedly been removed on YouTube, rumor has it users keep posting new ones. The video was the top viewed movie in Brazil for several days.
Aside from the fact that asking YouTube to shut down is, well, somewhat ludicrous and unlikely to happen, the real question is, what difference would it make? If the video has already been widely viewed in Brazil, the only thing the judge's decision does it make it a world wide news item which in turn further fans the flames.
Perhaps Paris Hilton needs to open some sort of how-to-handle-your-sex-video-scandal clinic.
Just for the record, as sex videos go, this one is pretty tame. Not that I would know, that's just the word on the street.
And here we always thought everyone in Brazil was having sex on the beach and no cared. I hope these plane tickets are refundable...
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-04T133629Z_01_N04473895_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-BRAZIL.xml&src=rss "Brazil court orders YouTube shut on celeb sex video"
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For those that have never used Netflix or a similar site, the set up is thus: Pick a list of books you'd like to read, sign up for a rental plan and wait for your first title to arrive.
Booksfree offers free shipping both ways, no late fees and lists over 88,000 titles. Plans range from $8.95 a month, which gets you two books at a time, to $34.99 a month, which allows you to have up to 12 books at a time.
If you're more the audiobook type, Booksfree also offers a wide range of titles, but curiously the pricing is separate and somewhat more expensive than the book rates, which means if you want to rent both you'll have to pony up for two rate plans. Even more awkward, Booksfree actually requires you to maintain two separate accounts -- one for books and one for audiobooks.
If you're like me and you want to keep the books you like, it is possible to buy books from Booksfree. Just head into your account page and select the titles you'd like to keep. Unfortunately Booksfree doesn't let you buy books published prior to 1995 due to their "limited availability." For those older books I guess you'll have to head over to Amazon or the like.
So why would you pay for a service you can get for free from your local library? Well unless you live in a major metropolitan area, Booksfree probably has a better selection than your local library and of course there's no late fees.
Combine that with the ability to keep the titles you like and Booksfree could be a library killer, but luckily for your local library, Booksfree isn't quite there yet.
The Booksfree website is too simplistic and has some glaring omissions in its feature set, most notably there doesn't seem to be a way for users to review books. There is a star rating system just like the Netflix rating system, but come on Booksfree, user-generated content convinced Time to make the people Person of the Year, how are we going to live up to that if we can't post reviews?
There is a "my recommendations" feature which, like similar sites, attempts to recommend books you'll like based on those you've already enjoyed, but why not tap the users for the information?
The search features on Booksfree are good, but browsing is awkward, especially if you're trying to find a specific author. It's far easier to search than it is to browse by author, the later requires you to click through by letter, then sub-letter categories, then author name lists before you finally get what you want.
Perhaps the strangest quirk of Booksfree is that you must return two books at a time, which means if you go for the cheapest plan (two books at a time), you'll have to return both before you get your new books. I presume this has something to do with shipping costs, but it seems like raising the price of the plan would be a better way to cover costs. As it is Booksfree doesn't give you the revolving door circulation of titles that makes Netflix so appealing.
Booksfree is a nice idea, but the service shoots itself in the foot with strange, quirky rental requirements and lack of user generated content. Hopefully the site will improve as time goes on.
[1]: http://www.gamefly.com/ "Gamefly- video game rentals"
[2]: http://www.netflix.com/ "Netflix"
[3]: http://www.lala.com/ "Lala - online cd trading"
[4]: http://www.booksfree.com/ "Booksfree.com"
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* 27B Stroke 6 is not helping my paranoia level. Ryan Singel gives us the lowdown on a [privatized surveillance helicopter][1] in use in Jackson, MS. The chopper can use its "infrared camera to peer into houses, something that's been ruled unconstitutional for police officers." Great.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/precrime_eyeint.html "Pre-Crime Eye-in-the-Sky, Now Privatized"
* Table of Malcontent's points us to something more benign -- [The Axis of Evil finger puppets][2].
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_axes_of_evi.html "The Axis of Evil On Your Fingers"
* Over at Listening Post Eliot Van Buskirk [ponders the meaning of corporate podcasts][3] and concludes "these programs will surely run counter to the independent spirit of the medium."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/corporate_podca.html "Corporate Podcasts: Patronage or Sellout?"
* Gear Factor [finds a cup holder][4] that keeps your coffee hot and your slurpy cold.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/cup_holder_blow.html "Cup Holder Blows Hot and Cold"
* Autopia brings us [news of an in-vehicle wireless network adapter][5] which will debut at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/01/wifi_kit_keeps_.html "WiFi Kit Keeps Drivers Connected"
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The kids today have it easy, when I was young we had to walk to Google just to find our free software. Uphill both ways. In the snow.
True you could still scour the web and dig up all this stuff yourself, but why bother when someone else has already dug it all up and put in one easy to download CD? Just download, burn a copy and pass it down the hall to your friends. It's all legal.
Naturally you needn't be a student to take advantage of the offer.
There are two version of the CD, one for the Windows Platform and one for Mac. For a complete list of what software is included on the CDs have a [look at the FAQ][2] on softwarefor.org.
I'd like to think things like this would put an end to the old piracy argument "but I'm a broke student, I can't afford ____________," but that's probably wishful thinking.
Remember kids, just cause you ain't got no job, doesn't mean you can steal stuff. There's plenty of software out there that can accomplish what you need to do without resorting to piracy.
If you don't believe me feel free to list expensive software in the comments and let the wisdom of Monkey bites readers enlighten you. Or you could get a job, ya freeloaders.
Found via our friends at [Lifehacker][3].
[1]: http://softwarefor.org/ "Software for Starving Students"
[2]: http://softwarefor.org/faq.html#q5 "Software for Starving Students list of programs"
[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/students/download-of-the-day-software-for-starving-students-winmac-225341.php "Lifehacker on Software for Starving Students"
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In a series of posts, Alex Faaborg, a user experience designer for Mozilla, outlines [how microformats work][2], how Firefox might implement them and what it will mean for users. Also see parts [one][3] [two][4] and [three][5].
>Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked up data you encounter on the Web with specific applications, either on your system or online. This means the contact information you see on a Web site will be associated with your favorite contacts application, events will be associated with your favorite calendar application, locations will be associated with your favorite mapping application, phone numbers will be associated with your favorite VOIP application, etc.
The basic premise of microformats is create the "semantic web" (which should have been on our vaporware list, even though it isn't exactly software) using tools that already exist.
Microformats are not a new language or anything overly complicated, they're merely an agreed upon format for structuring data using the language we already have -- XHTML. By marking up data using a specific structure, outside applications can read and "understand" that data. This in turn means that applications can use that data in meaningful ways, like the ones Faaborg describes above.
Notable sites that support microformats include Flickr which uses it in geotags, Yahoo! Local, which encodes search result with an hCard, and Upcoming.org, with encodes events with hCalendar.
Check out [microformats.org][9] for more background, example usages and handy link generators.
As mentioned above, if you can't wait for Firefox 3, there's an add-on available right now, Operator is not the first microformats add-on for Firefox, you may also want to have a look at [Tails Export][8], which offers some, but not all, of the same features.
If you'd like to keep tabs on or make suggestions for Firefox 3's proposed microformats support, take a [look at the thread][6] on the Google Groups.
It will be a while yet before Firefox 3 is released and the microformats support is not yet set in stone, but there's no doubt that whatever form Mozilla chooses Firefox will yet again trump IE's feature set.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/a_look_at_micro.html "Monkey Bites on microformats"
[2]: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2006/12/11/microformats-part-0-introduction/ "Introduction to microformats"
[3]: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2006/12/12/microformats-part-1-structured-data-chaos/ "Microformats can help with the chaos of structured data"
[4]: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2006/12/13/microformats-part-2-the-fundamental-types/ "Microformats - the fundamental types"
[5]: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2006/12/16/microformats-part-3-introducing-operator/ "Introducing Operator"
[6]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_frm/thread/bca5a231d634f87a/4361d223cc01b53f#4361d223cc01b53f "Microformats in Firefox"
[7]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ "Operator - microformats add-on for Firefox"
[8]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2240/ "Tails Export"
[9]: http://microformats.org/ "Microformats.org"
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* Contrary to what TechCrunch and several other news sites reported earlier today, Wikipedia did not ban the nation of Qatar from accessing the Wikipedia site. [According to a post][1] from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, one IP number of Qatar origin was "temporarily blocked for less than 12 hours... a block of an entire nation would go absolutely against Wikipedia policy."
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:82.148.97.69 "Wikipedia denies blocking Qatar"
* Dave Winer of RSS fame claims that not only did he not invent RSS, [RSS wasn't really invented][2], rather "something else happened, something harder than invention, imho -- an activity that we don't have a word for in the English language." Evolved organically?
[2]: http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/02.html#rssWasntInvented "Dave Winer: RSS wasn't Invented"
* Another bizarre outburst from a MSM journalist. Joel Stein of The Los Angeles Times (I'm told that this LATimes thing is apparently printed on paper (!?) and available at "news stands" -- whatever) [doesn't care what you think][3] and doesn't want you to email him. Guess what Digg users are doing by the thousands right now?
[3]: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-stein2jan02,0,3287162.column?coll=la-opinion-columnists
* Macworld is coming up next week and Apple, master of secrecy and hype, is at it again. A tantalizing new teaser graphic on the company's website [reads][4]: The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.
[4]: http://www.apple.com/ "Macworld Teaser"
* Reuters is running a story entitled *[Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software][5]* in which "analysts" throw out some gems like this one: "... makes little sense to computer novices accustomed to working with typewriters or pen and paper..." I dare anyone to to name me a business field in which typewriters are still in use.
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-02T232857Z_01_N22270966_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOFTWARE-PLATT.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1 "Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software"
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But it's 2007 for crying out loud, surely there's a better way to get local news? Well that's the thought behind a new local blog aggregation site, [Placeblogger][1]. Placeblogger ails to help you "discover, browse, and subscribe to local blogs."
Lisa Williams, a local news blogger from Watertown, MA, and creator of Placeblogger [describes][3] placeblogs:
>Placeblogs are sometimes called "hyperlocal sites" because some of them focus on news events and items that cover a particular neighborhood in great detail — and in particular, places that might be too physically small or sparsely populated to attract much traditional media coverage. Because of this, many people have associated them with the term "citizen journalism," or journalism done by non-journalists.
But Placeblogger aims to bring you sites that go beyond just news and include what Williams calls "that part of our lives that isn't news but creates the texture of our daily lives: our commute, where we eat, conversations with our neighbors, the irritations and delights of living in a particular place among particular people."
So far Placeblogger is a little sparse on content, but the site has only been live for two days. If you'd like to suggest a blog for listing on Placeblogger there's a handy form you can use to [submit your favorite local blog][2].
Placeblogger appears to have a fairly liberal definition of what a blog is, the site's top ten list of placeblogs includes the [Gotham Gazette][4] and the [New Haven Independent][5], both of which are considerably more professional than the average blog, but I suppose Placeblogger is entitled to define things however they choose.
For those that just can't get enough of the local goings-on, Placeblogger should help scratch that local news itch.
[1]: http://www.placeblogger.com/ "Placeblogger"
[2]: http://www.placeblogger.com/node/add/content_placeblog "submit a blog to Placeblogger.com"
[3]: http://www.placeblogger.com/whats-a-placeblog "Placeblogger FAQ"
[4]: http://gothamgazette.com/ "Gotham Gazette"
[5]: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/ "New Haven Independent"
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* More bad news for Google: GMail is [vulnerable][1] to a hack which enables malicious websites to hijack your contacts list, including the name, email address and avatar of all your contacts. Google claims to have fixed the flaw, but [apparently it still exists][2] on the Google Notebook and Google Groups server.
[2]: http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2007/01/01/gmail-flaw-can-give-anyone-your-contact-list/ "Cybernetnews on GMail Flaw"
[1]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=434 "ZDNet on GMail exploit"
* The BBC [reports][3] that users will be "driving change in 2007." According to the "tech veterans" interviewed by the BCC, the big trend "among hot web companies will be the 'actualisation of personalisation.'" Actualisation of personalization. Say that ten times with a straight face.
[3]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6198125.stm "BBC new on the future of the web"
* Reuters gets today's optimist award for a story that [claims][4]: "the DRM wall will begin to crumble (in 2007)." The article reports that, among other things, "In 2007, the majors will get the message, and the DRM wall will begin to crumble. Why? Because they'll no longer be able to point to a growing digital marketplace as justification that DRM works."
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-02T134016Z_01_N02295773_RTRUKOC_0_US-DIGITAL.xml&src=rss "Reuters thinks DRM will fade in 2007"
* Ma Bell got rid of the the ill communication? The FCC has [approved][5] the AT&T-BellSouth buyout paving the way for the largest telecommunications takeover in U.S. history.
[5]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_bi_ge/att_bellsouth "AP on AT&T BellSouth buyout"
* What sort of new year would it be without a new worm or virus? Verisign is [reporting][6] a worm delivered via email bearing the subject line "Happy New Year," which also contains an attachment, "postcard.exe." Clicking the attachement will launch the worm.
[6]: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id%3B738590575&cid=1112375805&ei=2EuaRa6XEcCYHYTrtPUM
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To kick things off we'll start with the [official W3Cschools][2] tutorial on converting your old HTML to XHTML. It may not be the prettiest, nor the best written tutorial on the subject, but it's still worth reading over, particularly the section on how the W3C converted their own site to XHTML.
For something far more readable, there's no better place to start that Jeffrey Zeldman's *[Better Living Through XHTML][4]* over on A List Apart. Zeldman's tutorial gives you plenty of tips for converting your site, outlines some common XHTML "gotchas" to avoid and of course offers tons of reasons why XHTML is better than HTML.
Once you're feeling pretty well versed in XHTML, give the [W3C XHTML quiz][3] a shot, but be warned, there's couple tricky ones in there.
[2]: http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_html.asp "W3C schools HTML to XHTML tutorial"
[3]: http://www.w3schools.com/quiztest/quiztest.asp?qtest=XHTML
[4]: http://alistapart.com/articles/betterliving/ "Better Living Through XHTML"
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The first thing I did when I started writing for Monkey Bites was go hunting for something that would let me quickly resize and save screen grabs since pretty much every post has at least one screen grab. Sure I could do it with Photoshop, but that seemed something akin to swatting a mosquito with a sledgehammer.
Then I found Imagewell, a lightweight image processing program perfect for simple picture manipulations that don't require the bulk of something like Photoshop. Not only is Imagewell capable of the simple resize tasks I need to do, but it can actually take the screen captures as well and even autoloads them into an editing window.
When you open Imagewell you'll see a small window where you can drag and drop your images (you can even drag them from iPhoto and other image programs). Once you have the image you want to work with, Imagewell makes it easy to crop, resize, compress, watermark, add drop shadows, add a border, add text, add labels and more.
Once you have your image looking the way you want it, Imagewell can save it to .jpg, .png or .tiff formats.
Imagewell also offers a variety of export-to-the-web options including the ability to upload straight to a server using FTP. Once you upload your image Imagewell copies the corresponding url to the clipboard making it easy to paste the link into a blog post.
The export features would be perfect if you have FTP access to your blog, which you probably do since not having FTP access would be vaguely insane. Grumble.
ImageWell isn't going to replace Photoshop, but it’s a great tool for lightweight image editing. Imagewell is free, although for a small fee you can unlock some nice [additional options and features][2].
[1]: http://xtralean.com/IWOverview.html "Imagewell, the Free and Lean Image Editor"
[2]: http://xtralean.com/IWXtras.html "Imagewell paid features"
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The core of the claim is that Apple violates anti-trust laws by refusing to allow music sold on the iTunes Store to play with other manufacturer's MP3 devices. The lawsuit also alleges that Apple does not make it clear to customers that files downloaded from the iTunes store will only work with an iPod.
Before someone blasts me in the comments, let's be clear, yes you can strip the DRM and convert iTunes Store bought music to MP3, but that's a hack and not something Apple supports.
Apple tried to get the lawsuit dismissed back in November but a judge rejected that request on December 20.
Apple already faces a [similar lawsuit][2] filed in France and several Scandinavian countries are [reportedly][3] preparing similar cases.
What I'd like to know is how much of this alleged monopoly is a result of Apple's decisions and how much of it comes from restrictions and DRM requirements that the recording industry wanted in place?
Obviously from a legal standpoint, who made things the way they are doesn't really matter, but if the iTunes Music store sold DRM-free MP3s this lawsuit would disappear and the world would be a happier place.
Bad Apple, no doughnut.
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,70436-0.html "French Law Seeks Interoperability"
[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/02/HNapplelawsuit_1.html "Class-action suit alleges that Apple violates antitrust laws"
[3]: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002146&intsrc=article_more_side "Apple responds to Nordic iTunes complaints"
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* Wifi is like sand -- it gets everywhere. Wired has a nice [rundown on beaches][2] offering wifi access. My dream of global wifi is coming together grain by grain.
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72371-0.html?tw=rss.index "Where to catch some Wi-Fi waves"
* The Washington Research Foundation (which markets tech produced by the University of Washington) is [suing Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic][3] for violating a patent for Bluetooth technology. The suit seeks damages from the mobile phone maker for using a radio frequency technology without paying royalties.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-03T153017Z_01_L03691045_RTRUKOC_0_US-BLUETOOTH-PATENT-INFRINGEMENT.xml&src=rss "Nokia and others sued over bluetooth"
* The Dutch have [banned Segways from public roads][4]. Frankly it's just as well, you Segway people have no idea how ridiculous you look on those things.
[4]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/16367443.htm "Dutch ban Segway"
* Here at Monkey Bites we've decided that January is [Mac Month][6]. Other folks are more specific and have declared January the [Month Of Apple Bugs][5] (MOAB). MOAB's mission is the highlight flaws in Apple's OS X operating system and other Mac software. Before the fanboys freak (probably too late), remember that finding bugs is good, it leads to fixing bugs.
[5]: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/ "The Month of Apple Bugs"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/mac_month_the_c.html "Mac Month at Monkey Bites"
* [Makethemove.net][1] is a new site designed to help those contemplating Linux as an alternative to Windows and Mac operating systems. The site aims to present Linux and open source software as viable alternatives to the system on your computer.
[1]: http://makethemove.net/
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Semantics refers to the meaning of an element and how that meaning describes the content it contains. Probably the easiest example is an html list. The following two snippets of code can be displayed identically in a browser:
<pre><code><p>list item <br />
list item </p>
</code></pre>
<pre><code>
<ul>
<li>list item</li>
<li>list item</li>
</ul>
</code></pre>
While to the human eye these may look the same, the later actually conveys information about what it is through the markup --i.e. it's a list.
While good semantics aren't necessarily a feature of XHTML (they're important even in HTML) as long as you're re-coding you may as well start using semantically meaningful markup.
If you'd like to see some bad semantic markup just view source on this page. Note how the post title is encoded:
<span class="title">Tutorial 'O The Day: XHTML</span><br>
Because we can use visual clues like font size and typeface to help us, most humans can find the title fairly easily, but what if you're a silly robot, like a search engine spider? You'd have no clue that this line of code is the title of the post.
Why should you care?
Do you like your pages to rank high in search engine indexes? Well, then you should care because robots rely on tags to tell them what is the main focus of the page. In the case of the Wired blog templates, our content is semantically no different than the ads being served with it.
That, as my friend likes to say, = bad.
So what should the post title be wrapped in? Well something like <code><h1>Title</h1></code> would be one option.
To get up to speed on the usefulness of semantically meaningful XHTML, check out the article, [*Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure*][2] over at Brainstorms & Raves, which gives a through rundown of how, when and why to use various (X)HTML tags. Also a good read: Molly Holzschlag's [tutorial][1] on informit.com.
And since we're talking about semantics let me clarify one point, while you can and should try to write semantically meaningful XHTML, XHTML is not *technically* a semantic language. Because it isn't a true semantic language, there's lots of gray areas where several tags may both be legitimate choices.
Web designer and author Dan Cederholm ran a [series of articles][3] a while back that attempt to parse out the gray, but as the the comments on his site demonstrate, some things will always be debatable.
[3]: http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/simplequiz/index.html "SimpleQuiz Archives"
[2]: http://brainstormsandraves.com/articles/semantics/structure/ "Semantics, HTML, XHTML, and Structure"
[1]: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=369225&rl=1 "The Meaning of Semantics (Take I)"
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The Django book website (built in Django of course) has been releasing two chapters a week for the last couple of months, currently there are 18 chapters available with more to be announced.
One of the coolest things about the "beta" of the book is the AJAX inline comments that people can leave for the authors. Be sure to click on the little comment bubbles where fellow Django users have expounded and clarified points covered in the main text. [Also, rumor has it that the scripts behind that comment system will be available at some point.]
And finally because I didn't have time to cover as much as I wanted to this week here's a random link list of helpful Django tutorials:
[1]: http://www.djangobook.com/ "The Django book"
* Example models demonstrating [various parts of the model syntax][2].
[2]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/ "Model Examples"
* The Django community is big on open source, and there's an [extensive code repository][5] available.
[5]: http://code.djangoproject.com/ "Django Code repository"
* Sample Project for [integrating Flickr][3] into your Django app.
[3]: http://code.djangoproject.org/wiki/FlickrIntegration "Flickr Integration with Django"
* [FileBrowser][4] is a wonderful file uploading app you can integrate into the Django Admin. It offers nearly all the functionality of an FTP client.
[4]: http://trac.dedhost-sil-076.sil.at/trac/filebrowser/ "Django FileBrowser"
* Tips for [enhancing][5] Django's built-in FreeComment functionality
[5]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/16/django-tips-hacking-freecomment "B-List: Hacking FreeComment"
* How to [run a Django cron job][6].
[6]: http://slowchop.com/2006/09/17/creating-a-django-cron-job/ "How to run a Django cron job"
* A great tutorial from Wilson Minor (who designed the Admin interface) on [how to create an online portfolio][7] in Django using only generic views.
[7]: http://www.wilsonminer.com/posts/2006/may/10/are-you-generic/ "Are you generic?"
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One of the common complaints from "switchers" is that Mac keyboards swap the position of the alt and command keys from what Windows users are familar with (they also name them differently, instead of Alt and Windows, Mac calls "Alt" "Option" and the "Windows" key becomes "Apple/Command").
If you'd like to get your familiar Windows key mapping back or if you'd like to use a Windows keyboard with your Mac, Double Command is the ticket.
Double Command installs as a Preference Pane and allows you to remap keys and save the settings on a user or system-wide basis.
Once you have the Double Command Preference Pane installed you can remap keys according to the rules you see in the screenshot below. Personally I just remap Shift-Backspace as a forward delete key, a functionality I got used to because BBEdit allows you to remap it within the application.
If you happen to be one of those people with an [aversion to the Caps Lock key][3] you can map it to an extra Control key.
If you're feeling funky you can even hack Double Command and remap additional keys. As a poster in the [Double Command forum points out][2], the replacement of keys is handled by a file called Substitute.cpp, and all the key code definitions are in a file named MBHIDHack.h. You'll need to look up the key codes on your own and I can't vouch for the success of this method since I've never tried it.
Double Command is free and open source under v2 of the GPL.
[1]: http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/ "Double Command"
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1594710&forum_id=221238 "Remapping other keys"
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71606-0.html?tw=rss.index "Death to Caps Lock"
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* Holy Crap. [When Zombie Ostriches Attack][1] in Table of Malcontents.
* Bodyhack has a look at the [current state of cryonic freezing][2]. Apparently for only $28,000 you can turn your corpse into the proverbial ice cube.
* Wired Science bring news of Canadian study that claims multi-lingual skills might help [delay the onset of Alzheimer's][3]. Do computer languages count?
* It's tough to get excited about a refrigerator, but Gadget Lab brings us a concept "[Tree House][4]" fridge that'll knock your socks off.
* 27B Stroke 6 has [The Only European Data Privacy Story You Ever Need To Read][5]. If only I could reclaim all the time I wasted reading those other stories.
* And finally, because we don't want to leave you on paranoid note freaking out about Euro privacy issues, remember no matter what happens: [don't forget the demon][6].
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/morning_thing_w.html "Morning Thing: When Zombie Ostriches Attack"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/preserve_your_b.html "Preserve Your Body Forever: Cheap!"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/language_brains.html "Language, Brains, and Alzheimers"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/the_fridge_of_t.html "The Fridge of the Future"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/the_only_europe.html "The Only European Data Privacy Story You Ever Need To Read"
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/foresides_botto.html "Foreside's Bottom: the Demon Trainset"
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* The New York Stock Exchange will be [testing a program][1] later this year to give real-time stock quotes across the internet (pending SEC approval). Google has already said they will [offer the service for free][2].
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-12T073034Z_01_N12186444_RTRUKOC_0_US-NYSE-INTERNET.xml&src=rss "NYSE plans test of real-time Web quotes"
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html "Real-time quotes for free"
* AOL is ditching its AOL Music Now service in favor of Napster. The two companies [announced today][3] that AOL signed Napster as its exclusive online music subscription service. Napster was widely rumored to be considering itself on the auction block and may still be headed for some sort of sale.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-12T152632Z_01_N12173561_RTRUKOC_0_US-NAPSTER-AOL.xml&src=rss "AOL signs Napster as music subscription service"
* Earlier this week at the Macworld Conference and Expo, Steve Jobs announced that the iTunes Store would be offering movie downloads from Paramount studios, and now it seems that 71 narrative, documentary and animation shorts from the Sundance Film Festival are also [slated to be distributed through iTunes][4].
[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_en_mo/apple_sundance "iTunes to sell short films from Sundance"
* The déjà vu of HD-DVD vs BluRay just keeps getting stronger. According to many, the porn industry's preference for VHS was one of the tipping points in its fight against Betamax and now comes word that [the porn industry prefers HD-DVD][5] to BluRay. But will it give HD-DVD the critical mass it needs to overcome BluRay?
[5]: http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/ "The porn industry says HD DVD"
* Notorious Swedish group The Pirate Bay is [seeking to buy][8] the [micronation of Sealand][6] and use it as a copyright-free haven. I think the idea is genius, if implausible -- straight out of a [Neal Stephenson novel][7]. But what's up with pirates buying stuff? Shouldn't they just clench their sabers between their teeth, grab the nearest halyard and attack?
[6]: http://www.sealandgov.org/ "The Principality Of Sealand"
[7]: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/ "Cryptonomicon"
[8]: http://buysealand.com/ "Buy Sealand"
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Now it seems that the Mozilla Foundation thinks a Windows Safari port is a possibility. Buried in yesterday's tentative Firefox 3 [wiki roadmap][1] document is this line: "WebKit may be ported to Windows."
With the announcement of the iPhone the possibility of a Window's WebKit port does seem like it would make sense. After all, it was the popularity of the iPod that brought iTunes to Windows.
A similar argument could be made that Apple is going to need to port aspects of Cocoa to get iPhone to work with Windows. Whether or not that would include WebKit is debatable, but given the iPhone's reliance on widgets, WebKit seems like a good place to start.
Some people think Apple would be better off not porting its software to Windows and keeping the "Mac experience" unique to their own platform, but as Apple becomes less a computer manufacturer and more a device manufacturer it might make more sense to strive for interoperability.
However, the future seems to pointing toward openness and platform agnosticism, not platform dependancies. As one of the more popular topics in Wired's [call for tech trends][3] reads: "It's more important to capture mind-share by spreading your vision far and wide than it is to hold onto it while you try to outdo rivals."
Will Apple embrace this trend and bring more software to the Windows platform?
[1]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements
[2]: http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=safwins5om.jpg "Fake (probaby) Safari on Windows Screenshot"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/ "What Are The Most Important Biz/Tech Trends Of 2007?"
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Pete Stevens was faced with these choices and opted for number three. Using a bit of networking know-how he split his signal into two networks, one trusted and one untrusted. He then messed with various aspects of the untrusted network including rerouting all traffic to [Kittenwar][2] and, my personal favorite, [the upside down internet][1].
Basically the upside down internet involves using iptables to run all untrusted traffic through a proxy server. The proxy server then downloads all the images from a page, inverts them and serves them out of its local webserver.
The results look like the screenshot below from Pete's site. He has the code available if you'd like to do something similar.
[Thanks to the NoEnd List for bring this to my attention.]
[1]: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html "Upside-Down-Ternet"
[2]: http://kittenwar.com/ "Kittenwar"
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Perhaps the best comparison for Django is Ruby on Rails, which is also a web application framework written, regrettably, in Ruby, whereas Django is, thankfully, written in Python. Django pushes what's known as the DRY principle, "Don't Repeat Yourself." As such most aspects of Django are loosely coupled and extremely easy to reuse.
So what is Django? Is it a CMS? Is it a blogging tool? Is it an early twentieth century jazz guitarist? No. No. And yes, but that's not important right now.
Django is a framework built on Python that you can use to build a Content Management System or a blogging tool, but it is not limited to that. In fact Django reminds me a bit of the character in Airplane who always answers the "what do you make of that?" question literally... *Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...*
You'd be hard pressed to find something in the world of web development that Django can't make. In my own work I've made a blogging CMS, a restaurant menu application, an online store and resort rental reservation system using Django.
So where to get started? Why the official Django website of course. There's a nice [overview][2], an [installation guide][3] and a series of "hello world" type [tutorials][4].
Perhaps the most difficult thing about using Django is getting it installed. While you can run Django with Apache 1.3 and FCGI, I don't recommend it for production work. The preferred method is to use Apache 2 with mod_python, but unfortunately not many web hosts offer that setup for "shared accounts."
If you don't want to pony up for a dedicated server, the Django Wiki maintains a list of [Django friendly hosts][5]. If you're looking to set up a local development server it's not too difficult to do on Mac OS X. Antonio Cavedoni has a [nice tutorial][6] to get you started. (Regrettably I don't know of anything similar for Windows users, but perhaps someone can leave some suggestions in the comments).
I should point out that for simple testing purposes Django includes a built in server which you can use to get started.
Later this week I'll post some links to tutorials that help you build more sophisticated applications using Django.
[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/ "Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines"
[2]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/overview/ "Django Overview"
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ "Installation Guide"
[4]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial1/ "Writing your first Django application"
[5]: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts "Django Friendly Webhosts"
[6]: http://cavedoni.com/2005/django-osx "Installing Django on OS X"
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* The big news today is on Gadget Lab where you'll [find all the latest goodies][1] from the ongoing CES show in Las Vegas.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Gadget Lab"
* Leander Kahney over at Cult of Mac is [predicting a riot][2] at tomorrow's Macworld keynote address. "Expectations for Steve Jobs' keynote speech Tuesday are so unreasonably high that anything less than an iPod-cum-videophone-miniPC that downloads movies wirelessly from the net and projects them on your living room wall with 7.1 surround sound is going to disappoint."
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/macworlds_a_rio.html "Macworld's a Riot"
* Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has a Wired.com article in which he [lists the seven reasons][3] why the MP3 format is the future of the music industry.
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-0.html? "Who's Killing MP3 and ITunes?"
* 27B Stroke 6 [dreams of ACLU and EFF ads][4] on the bottom of airport screening trays (that would be "divestiture bins" for those in the know).
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/the_transportat.html "Screening Bins to Get ACLU ads?"
* Over at Bodyhack, Kristen Philipkoski [wonders][5] if we might need some federal legislation for genetic privacy.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/francis_collins.html "Francis Collins: U.S. Needs Genetic Privacy Protection"
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* Last week I mentioned the Devorak keyboard layout, but now I've discovered yet another alternative to QWERTY -- the [Colemak layout][3]. I agree with the commenter at [Metafilter][4], where I stumbled across the Colemak: "I predict that in 800 years time when all humans live as .hum files running on virtual computers in postbiological cyberspace, our virtual keyboards will still use the QWERTY layout." Old habits die hard.
[3]: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57599 "Like Dorvak, only better"
[4]: http://colemak.com/ "Colemak keyboard layout"
* From the Pew Internet Project & American Life Project's [latest research][2]: "More than half (55%) of all of online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites." People get paid to tell us that?
[2]: http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=134 "55% of online teens use social networks"
* Macworld: The Prequel. Today there's too much hype, too many predictions and too much positive press, [remember when things really sucked][1]?
[1]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html "Wired 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple"
* Second Life is now [open source][5].
[5]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/07/technology/secondlife.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007010807 "CNN: Second Life to go open source"
* Like porn spam, the [idea of a .xxx domain suffix][6] for porn websites just doesn't seem to die.
[6]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6240725.stm "BBC: Proposal for porn domain revived"
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I was a big fan of Nisus Writer back in the OS 9 days, but Nisus Writer Express just never grabbed me.
The new Pro version promises to bring back some more of the layout features that the old classic version had and introduces some new features as well including support for Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images.
The pro version also promises support for Word files, though the announcement lists .doc, not the new .docx format. The default file format for Writer Pro is, like Writer Express, .rtf.
The software isn't publicly available yet, but Nisus says a beta test version will be arriving soon and the final version is expected in early spring. We'll be sure to give you the full rundown once it's available.
[1]: http://www.nisus.com/pro/ "Nisus Writer Pro"
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While this is true, a number of savvy readers have written to tell me that there is an [upgrade pack available][1] for older versions of Office which will allow them to interact with the new OOXML formatted documents.
Microsoft's own documentation is a little vague on what you can do with the converters once they're installed, some of the documentation says, "read Open Office XML files" and other in other places the tech notes say read and write. Hopefully the later case is the accurate one.
One thing I haven't seen is whether or not the converters allow you to create new documents in the OOXML format or whether this is simply a way for legacy Office users to interact with documents they might receive from Office 2007 users.
The Mac Business Unit has [posted converters][2] for Office Mac users and there's also a [rumor][3] that Apple's next OS X, Leopard, will have native support for Open Office XML.
I'm currently downloading the Office 2007 demo so I can create some OOXML documents and play around with them in older versions of Office, but in the mean time if you have any experience let your fellow Monkey Bites readers know in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466 "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel and Powerpoint 2007 File Formats"
[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/12/19/and-we-re-back.aspx "Mac BU blog on Office 2007 compatibility"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/12/rumor_leopard_t.html "Cult of Mac: Rumor: Leopard to Support Office 2007 Files"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_technology_5 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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* The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. From the Blogger Buzz [announcement][1]: "If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free."
[1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html "Blogger supports custom domains"
* Over at CES, Microsoft and Ford [announced an in-car communication and entertainment system][2] which will be available starting later this year. Check out the [Gadget Lab][3] blog to stay abreast of all the CES happenings.
[2]: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/298729_msft07.html "Microsoft and Ford announce deal"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Wired's Gadget Lab"
* PC World takes one for the team. Editors at PC World signed up for 31 different online services and then tried to cancel them. They then wrote up the [resulting hassles][4] so you can avoid them.
[4]: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128206/printable.html "Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!"
* Yahoo is [rebuilding Yahoo Messenger][5] specifically for Windows Vista. The new software will reportedly be released as a public beta in Q2.
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6147793.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "New Yahoo Messenger Previewed at CES"
* And finally, my personal favorite headline of the day: "[NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it][6]."
[6]: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html "CNN: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it"
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I've never used a SlingBox in part because I've never wanted to get things off my TV, I want to get things *on* my TV. The new SlingCatcher does exactly that, it moves content from your PC to your television.
The software bundled with SlingCatcher, dubbed SlingProjector, enables you to wirelessly project your PC's content to your TV. Anything that you can watch on your PC, whether it's YouTube movies or content from the soon-to-be-public Venice Project, can be sent to your TV via SlingProjector.
Along with SlingProjector, the SlingCatcher also features a piece of software called the "SlingPlayer for TV" which allows you to send content from one TV to another without the need for a PC or additional boxes from the cable company.
The appeal for hi-res content like feature films or television shows is obvious, but how is highly compressed video from sites like YouTube going to look on a high-def Plasma or LCD television? So far Sling hasn't given any details on how the software will handle the potential resolution problems.
And it's possible no one will care. According to a Forrester Research study, 80 percent of viewers are uninterested in buying a device to let Internet videos to be viewed on TV sets.
The new Sling device also faces some competition from Apple who are expected to give more details on the "iTV" offering at tomorrow's MacWorld expo.
SlingCatcher will be available "by the middle of this year" and SlingMedia says the price will be under $200.
[Also see Gadget Lab's [coverage][2] of Sling's announcement]
[1]: http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?type=comktNews&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070108:MTFH74380_2007-01-08_03-00-09_N07305248&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=HybArt-C1-ArticlePage1 "Sling Media to link PCs to TVs"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/sling_extends_r.html "Gadget Lab: Sling Extends Reach"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/slingplayer_for.html "Monkey Bites on SlingBox"
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TextExpander is a preference pane and to use it you'll need to enable the Assistive Devices support (also in the preferences under Universal Access). Once installed, TextExpander runs in the background with a fairly small RAM footprint (currently on my Macbook it's using 12 MB).
I'm a big fan of applications that do one thing and do it well, which is exactly the goal of TextExpander whose "one thing" is replacing text you type with other text (or images). The concept is simple, take chunks of text you type on a regular basis, the canonical example being email signatures, and create an abbreviation. Now when you type the abbreviation TextExpander replaces it with the longer text.
For instance, every morning when I post the reboot I need to embed an image using an <code><img /></code> tag. Typing out the full tag with all the attributes every time would be a pain, so I created an abbreviation in TextExpander and now I simply type my abbreviation, <code>anykey.</code>, and TextExpander jumps in a replaces that with the img tag code.
There's a million ways you could use TextExpander, for instance (from the website):
* Insert standard greetings, text fragments, and signatures — including formatted text and pictures.
* Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer.
* Use editor-independent code templates and have Textexpander position the cursor just where it needs to be.
* Type special characters without having to launch any special characters palette.
* Have TextExpander correct typos automatically.
The last item in that list is what got me addicted to TextExpander. The good folks at Smile On My Mac have [created a nice file full of common typos][2] that you can download and use with TextExpander. Say goodbye to "teh" when you meant "the" and other fat-fingered-typist errors.
My one gripe with TextExpander is that whenever it replaces text that text also gets copied to the clipboard potentially replacing things you might be waiting to paste somewhere else. I use [Butler][3] which includes a multiple entry clipboard so I can always get my text back, but it's annoying nonetheless and something to keep in mind when you evaluate TextExpander.
While I love TextExpander I'll be the first to admit that $29.95 is a bit pricey, but it's on par with other offerings in the field -- most notably [TypeIt4Me][4], which offers vary similar features and costs $27.
[1]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/ "TextExpander"
[2]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/autocorrect.html "TextExpander autocorrect file"
[3]: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=butler "Butler"
[4]: http://www.typeit4me.com/ "TypeIt4Me"
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To that end today's Mac software gem is [FotoMagico][2] from Boinx Software which is designed to help you transform a slideshow from boring monotony to something people actually want to see.
FotoMagico is a slideshow app that goes far beyond the limited offerings of something like iPhoto to help you create slideshows your friends might actually sit through.
Here's a quick rundown of the main features:
* Integrates with iLife - use photos from iPhoto and music from iTunes. As of version 1.8 FotoMagico also offers Aperture integration.
* Supports most file formats, everything that QuickTime can read.
* 12 transition methods
* Synchronize slides with music (including your own compositions via GarageBand.
* "Randomize Pan & Zoom" -- for those that want to get things done quickly.
* Add titles to each photo
* Export your slideshow to QuickTime.
* Burn your slideshow to DVD or CD.
* Post your slideshow to your webpage.
The process itself is simple, a main editing panel is flanked by two side panels, the right hand panel has three tabs, one for your iPhoto or Aperture libraries (or plain folders if you use another organizational tool), one for your music via iTunes and one for editing and adding features to each slide. The bottom panel is for organizing your photos (it looks like a more refined version of the top-panel slideshow editor in iPhoto)
To get started all you need to do is call up your photos, drag them to bottom pane, arrange them in the order you want and start adding your titles, effects, transitions, music and more. If you're feeling lazy, just select a photo and head to Options >> Randomize Motion.
I was able to successfully make a passable slide showing using ten images in just a few minutes. A little more time and I could have made something worth posting.
Adding audio is a snap, just click the audio tab and browse through your iTunes library to find the perfect background music and drag it onto your slideshow. You can then edit the audio transitions, fade from one song to another and add markers or fade music based on photo transitions, time and more.
Once you've previewed your slideshow and are happy with the results, you can export it as a Quicktime movie, burn it to DVD or even stash it on your iPod.
FotoMagico is a universal binary and was quite snappy on my Macbook.
At $79 FotoMagico isn't cheap, but if you're serious about showing off your photos to friends, the results are worth the price tag. There's also a [five day demo][2] available if you'd like to try before you buy.
[1]: http://www.fotomagico.com/ "FotoMagico"
[2]: http://www.fotomagico.com/demo/ "FotoMagico Demo"
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For the most part Django's speed is just there and it's lightening fast, but there are still some things you can do to improve performance. Django offers four levels of caching via what Django calls Middleware.
Middleware is just a framework of "hooks" that tie into Django's request/response processing. In terms of speed and optimization the Middleware you'd want to look at is the [CacheMiddleware][1]. The actual cache can use any number of systems from the popular [memcached][2] to Django's own cache techniques.
For more information have a look at the [official cache documentation][3].
The second half of this tutorial round-up involves the Django admin interface. Whenever you create a model in Django, Django maps your model to a database and creates all the necessary tables.
Since handling the code necessary create, read, update and delete (CRUD) functionality to get data in and out of your application is a repetitive task, Django offers an automatically generated Admin interface.
All you need to do is enable it via your settings.py file and include the appropriate urls in the urls.py for your project. For more information and some screenshots head over to the [second tutorial on the Django site][4].
But what if you're on a shared host with Apache 1.3 and FCGI? What if your existing shared host provider is isn't capable of a high load site written in Django? Well here's a thought from Jeff Croft -- you could [still use Django for the back-end][5].
Croft outlines how to go about setting up all your sites CRUD functionality via Django and then use another framework or language to handle the front end display (in this case PHP).
Combine that with Django's built in [inspectdb][6] functionality and you could even upgrade an existing project to give it a nice Django back-end.
[2]: http://danga.com/memcached/ "memchached"
[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/middleware/#django-middleware-cache-cachemiddleware "django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware"
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/ "Django Cache Docs"
[4]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial2/#explore-the-free-admin-functionality "Explore the free admin functionality"
[5]: http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2006/jul/14/django-admin-your-php-app/ "Django admin for your PHP app?"
[6]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django_admin/#inspectdb
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* Wired's own Cult of Mac has great piece on the [litigation surrounding Apple's new iPhone][1] and some other company that also uses the name. Let's face it even if Cisco wins, iPhone will always be an Apple product in the public's mind.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/ask_an_attorney.html "Ask an Attorney: Apple and Cisco Will Share 'iPhone' "
* Torrentfreak has an article on the[ MPAA's fake torrent campaign][2]. "The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try to trap people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. They hire a company to put up fake copies of popular movies, music albums, and TV series." According to Torrentfreak an admin at BTJunkie has figured out a way to find and block the fake torrents.
[2]: http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-caught-uploading-fake-torrents/ "MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents"
* There were rumors earlier this week that OLPC would be selling their budget laptops to the general public with the provision that you buy two, one of which is yours and one of which is donated to someone in need. I for one thought that was a great idea, but [according to Ars Technica][3], the rumor is untrue. However apparently it is one of the options they're considering.
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070110-8593.html "OLPC: no consumer versions planned right now"
* And finally it doesn't have much to do with software or the web, but Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! epic and hacker of the mind, [passed away this morning][4]. Wilson may be gone, but we'll always have the fnords.
[4]: http://robertantonwilson.blogspot.com/index.html "Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11"
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* Cisco is [suing Apple][1] over the rights to the iPhone trademark. Apple was reportedly in talks with Cisco about the rights to the name, but never formally signed off on a deal so Cisco has filed a lawsuit.
* Mozilla [released][2] some semi-official plans for Firefox 3. The list of features in the linked article are broken into three categories, "mandatory," "desirable" and "nice to have." One of the most intriguing things on the list is, "save web pages as PDF files, integrated with history." Hmm. The new target release for Firefox 3 is sometime in Q3 of this year.
* Last year I did [an article on ReputationDefender][5] and the main thing everyone (myself included) wanted to know was how ReputationDefender went about protecting your online reputation. While company was always a bit cagey about their methods, now there's an example available. The Consumerist [received a letter][3] (possibly NSFW) from ReputationDefender requesting that a post be removed. The Consumerist has refused to comply with the request and they've posted a copy of the email they received, which is surprisingly benign.
* Greg Kroah-Hartman, author of O'Reilly's *Linux Kernel in a Nutshell*, has made the book [available for free][4] in a variety of formats. Kroah-Hartman writes on the site: "The more people that try this out, and realize that there is not any real magic behind the whole Linux kernel process, the more people will be willing to jump in and help out in making the kernel the best that it can be."
[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72063-0.html "Delete Your Bad Web Rep"
[4]: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ "Download Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"
[3]: http://consumerist.com/consumer/evil/ronnie-segev--reputationdefender-can-eat-a-dick-227969.php "Ronnie Segev & ReputationDefender Can Eat A Dick"
[2]: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/01/planned-features-for-firefox-3/ "Planned features for Firefox 3"
[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/10/technology/cisco_apple/index.htm?section=money_technology "Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name"
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The new version of Toast features a long list of enhancements including TiVoToGo, Blu-ray disc burning and more.
Roxio scored an exclusive deal with TiVo to bring the popular TiVoToGo service to the Mac platform as part of the new Toast 8. The functionality mirrors that of TiVoToGo for Windows but wraps it up in a Mac-friendly, iTunes-like interface.
If you'd like to cram all your *Lost* episodes on one disc, the new Toast 8 is the first burning software to support BluRay discs on the Mac.
Wannabe DJs and even real DJs will be happy to know the Toast now supports crossfades, volume normalization and other audio niceties.
We'll give you the full rundown when our demo copies arrive. Until then, here's a video of the Best in show awards with Roxio and the rest of the winners.
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We've been [following Snap][1] [for][4] [some][2] [time][3] and the site continues to grow at an astonishing rate, but nothing pulls in users like good old-fashioned TV exposure. Snap.com's Jason Fields tells us search traffic at Snap has tripled since the CNBC broadcast this morning.
I do enjoy Snap, especially the image search, but I don't know if it's a Google killer. It's not hard to imagine Google buying Snap though. Let us know what you think.
[footnote for CNBC: Repeat after me "I will provide video players with embedding code..."]
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/snap_a_photo_wi.html "Snap.com Image Search"
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/05/snap_ajaxpowere.html?entry_id=1481480 "Snap: Ajax-Powered Search"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/snap_launches_p.html "Snap Launches Preview Anywhere"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/snap_shows_off_.html "Snap Shows Off Resizable Panes"
[5]: http://blog.snap.com/2007/01/11/snapcom-ceo-tom-mcgovern-on-cnbc/ "Snap Blog on CNBC show"
[6]: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=163217679&play=1 "CNBC Video on Snap.com"
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Phone Schmone. Where's the Leopard previews? Release dates? Amazing additional features Jobs promised at the WWDC? Can a million rumors about retiring the Aqua interface really be wrong? *We just don't know*.
What about ILife '07? ITunes? IWork? Rumor has it that some Steveo's presentation used some Keynote features that aren't available to us mortals using the '05 version. It seems reasonable to assume that an iWork '07 must therefore exist, but nary a peep from the big man.
Then of course there was my dream of an Aperture update shot to hell. Something about a spreadsheet app as well. Okay let's be honest I don't care about a spreadsheet app, but still the disappointment is palpable over here at Monkey Bites.
We take some measure of consolation in remembering [this quote][2] (brought to our attention again by [Steven Johnson][3]) from Palm CEO Ed Colligan. When asked about the iPhone, Colligan:
>laughed off the idea that any company -- including the wildly popular Apple Computer -- could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector. We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. <b>"PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."</b>
(emphasis mine)
In the immortal words of Ace Venture: RRREHEHEALLY!
[1]: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ "Apple iPhone"
[2]: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/16057579.htm "Palm CEO says, What, me worry?"
[3]: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2007/01/the_iphone.html "THE IPHONE"
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* Cult of Mac's Pete Mortensen writes about the possible [future of the iPod][1], which doesn't seem so cool now that the iPhone is here.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/can_the_ipod_su.html "Can the iPod Survive?"
* Gadget Lab [wants your opinion][2]: was Apple's decision to partner with Cingular a good one?
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/poll_apple_ipho.html "Poll: Apple iPhone on Cingular: Mistake?"
* Thomas Goetz on the Wired Science blog [has the lowdown][3] on a meta study that looks at bias in funded science research.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/pay_for_researc.html "Pay for Research, Get Results"
* Game|Life is at CES where [you won't find much about the PS3][4].
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/ps3_booth_promi.html "PS3 Booth: Promise vs. Reality"
* Table of Malcontents has [dug up some YouTube video][5] from, Werner Herzog's *My Best Friend*, which if nothing else, will make you watch *Fitzcarraldo* in a whole new light.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/a_brief_history.html "A Brief History of Klaus Kinski's Conniptions"
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How the heck does Django do it? Well one of the great tools that Django puts at your disposal is something called generic views. Views are simply python functions that get called whenever a browsers requests a page.
There's a myriad of ways to storing and retrieve data in a web application, but date-based structures are pretty common. For instance, the url of this page contains something like '.../2007/01/...' which is a date-based archive.
Rather than requiring that you write your own code every time you build a site that uses date based archives, the designers of Django included some generic views to handle common cases. In this case, were this site powered by Django, which regrettably it is not, but were it, we could pass the date from the url to django in one easy like of code:
(r'(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_month', data_dict),
Okay maybe it looks confusing, but it's really not. The first part is just a regular expression that captures the url and passes it to the generic view <code>archive_month</code>. The last bit is a python dictionary which would tell Django what data model to use for this page.
Another common task web applications perform is displaying a list of content and to this end there is Django generic view for lists.
Which brings us to today's tutorial. Generic views are great, but what if they don't exactly fit your application? Well, it's pretty easy to extend generic views and James Bennet [has a great tutorial on his blog The B-list][1] that runs through the basics extending, tweaking and otherwise making generic views do what you want.
Mr. Bennet also has a number of other very useful and easy to follow django tutorials, try [digging through the rest of his Django archives][2].
[1]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/11/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views "Django tips: get the most out of generic views"
[2]: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/categories/django "The B-List: category: Django"
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I used to ignore the services menu, that menu of universally accessible command shortcuts, because it's cluttered up with junk most of us never use. I'm sure there are people who use the ChineseTextConverter, but for my daily work it just gets in the way. Ditto for RealPlayer, Speech and many others.
Service Scrubber is a simple app that lets you enable, disable and reorganize services and assign keyboard shortcuts. That's it. Remember: do one thing and do it well.
The process is simple, as outlined on the Service Scrubber site:
* Select a service provider (i.e., an application or a service package) to edit its services only.
* Click on a checkbox to enable/disable the corresponding service(s).
* Click on an [i] button to edit a service's features.
* Click on a [left arrow] button to revert a service provider to its original state.
* Once you're done tweaking your services, click the [Save] button to save your changes. Be prepared to authenticate as an administrator.
Service Scrubber is free, though if you like it you could always consider donating.
[1]: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=servicescrubber "Service Scrubber"
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* The Wall Street Journal is reporting that [Apple and Cingular will partner up][1], with Cingular providing service for Apple's new "iPhone" device which is widely rumored to be announced at Macworld. MSM tends not to go in for rumors, but then again you just never know do you?
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-09T110907Z_01_N08419269_RTRUKOC_0_US-CINGULAR-APPLE.xml&src=rss "Apple, Cingular to partner?"
* Microsoft has sent out some contradictory messages over the last few months about BluRay/HD-DVD and Vista, but now says, [according the the Times UK][5], "a substantial number of PCs running the new version of Windows operating system will not be able to play high-quality DVDs." Though that isn't really Microsoft's fault, blame Hollywood and an its DRM love affair.
[5]: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2536050,00.html "BluRay/HD-DVD won't work on all Vista machines"
* Yahoo! has [purchased][4] the blog tracking site MyBlogLog for an undisclosed amount. Rumors of the purchase surfaced way back in November, but today it appears to be official.
[4]: http://gigaom.com/2007/01/08/yahoo-buys-mybloglog-for-real/ "Yahoo buys MyBlogLog"
* As we [mentioned last week][2], a Brazilian Judge ordered Google to shut down YouTube. Naturally that isn't going to happen, but as [reported by Reuters][3] and several commenters on our original story, Brazilian ISPs began blocking access to YouTube on Monday.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/brazilian_judge.html "Monkey Bites on Brazilian Judge ordering YouTube to shut down"
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-09T005413Z_01_N08418109_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRAZIL-SEX-YOUTUBE.xml&src=rss "Brazilian ISPs block YouTube"
* And finally: the one thing [you really hope][6] Steve Job's doesn't unveil at MacWorld.
[6]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/one_more_thing_.html "Cult of Mac - One More Thing"
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There's post in [the forums at Ideabox][3] that sums up many users' reactions to the ads: "Never. Put. Ads. In. The. Music. Stream."
But the capped at once per day bit seems to be a change based on [negative][4] [feedback][5] since initially users reported hearing the ad several time a day.
I use Pandora pretty much every day and so far I haven't actually heard the ads, but according to most, the primary ad seems to a 9 second segment for McDonald's dollar Value menu. Some of the negative reaction may be attributable to the advertisement's lack of targeting. After all, what the heck does McDonald's Dollar Value menu have to do with music?
Perhaps if the ads applied the same intelligence as Pandora's recommendations features they would be less annoying. For instance why not stream ads from music-relevant services. Conrad says that such targeted advertising may be in the cards, "we're always looking for ways to improve our ability to deliver relevant ads that don't detract from the listening experience."
One of the appeals of Pandora for me, aside from its excellent recommendations features, was that the company seemed more personalized than many of its competitors. For instance the tag line on the main site reads: "We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you." I guess I didn't know that conversation would include product peddling, but if it's any consolation to Pandora, if nothing else, at least you know there are a lot of users who are very passionate about your service.
But at the same time of course Pandora needs to make money, otherwise the service will disappear altogether and the company seems to be listening to feedback since they've apparently cut back on the number of ads.
One of the difficulties facing Pandora, as Pete Cashmore [points out on Mashable][6], is that Pandora's service doesn't generate pageviews, which makes it a hard sell for advertisers who still believe that pageviews are tied to traffic numbers.
Still, regardless of the reasoning, the prospect of in-stream ads leaves me a little cold, wasn't the promise of internet radio at least partly to escape from the high ad-to-music ratio of commercial FM?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
[1]: http://www.pandora.com/ "Pandora"
[2]: http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/2007/01/09/pandora-exec-speaks-about-advertisements-in-stream/ "Pandora exec speaks about advertisements in stream"
[3]: http://ideabox.crispyideas.com/article/show/50313 "Never. Put. Ads. In. The. Music. Stream."
[4]: http://jdamer.com/wordpress/2007/01/06/pandora-crosses-the-line/ "Pandora crosses the line"
[5]: http://geeklimit.com/2007/01/08/pandora-gets-commercials/ "Pandora gets commercials"
[6]: http://mashable.com/2007/01/09/pandora/ "Pandora Audio Ads Unwelcome"
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[Recent betas][2] (I'm using build 3120 which is listed as Release Candidate) from Parallels feature something called "Coherence Mode" which enables you to run Windows applications outside the emulation window. Combine that with a Mac OS X flavored theme for Windows and it can be hard to tell the difference between emulated Windows programs and native application running in Mac OS X.
Coherence Mode is in a word, amazing, but also, as several people I've demonstrated it to have remarked, somehow wrong.
I had a little trouble installing Windows though I can't say for sure that Parallels was at fault. For some reason the first time I tried the installation cd got hung up while trying to "install devices," but a second attempt came off without a hitch.
As you might expect, Parallels is a RAM hungry app, not only does Parallels need RAM, but obviously so does Windows itself. With a lot of applications open in both the VM and Mac OS X, Parallels slows down my Macbook (Core 2 Duo with 1 gig or RAM) to a virtual considerably.
So long as I limit myself to working in either OS, and not switch between them too often it's usable and no doubt increasing my RAM would vastly improve performance. Putting Windows in full screen model and ignoring Mac OS X gives me performance speeds that are on par with mid-level PCs.
Perhaps the best thing about Parallels, once you get past the wow factor, is the ability to seamlessly drag and drop files from Windows to Mac and back. Other useful features include Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution, Transporter RC to migrate an existing Windows installation to a Parallels VM, and improved USB device support.
If you're a PC user who's thought of switching to Mac, but you don't want to give up your favorite applications, there's no need to worry -- you can have the best of both worlds.
To be honest I would be surprised if Apple didn't snatch up Parallels at some point since it provides a much better interface for Windows than Basecamp. And I should point out that if you have Windows installed via Basecamp and you'd like to use that partition via Parallels, the latest beta makes that possible.
The previous betas had some problems with Window's licenses that made it difficult to switch back and forth between Parallels and Basecamp, but beta 3 only requires you to re-activate Windows once.
[1]: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac"
[2]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate"
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* Nothing is perfect and now that the initial wow factor has faded a little bit, there might be a few things about the iPhone that aren't so great. Our own Gear Lab has a [rundown on potential snags][1] in the dream of cellphone perfection.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/top_5_worst_thi.html "Top 5 Worst Things About The iPhone"
* The final version of [Google Earth 4 has been released][2]. We [reviewed the beta][3] a while back, but the final version has some new features that weren't in that beta such as textured buildings.
[2]: http://earth.google.com/earth4.html "Google Earth 4 - what's new"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_earth_ve.html "Monkey Bites Google Earth Version 4 beta review"
* Office 2008 for Mac [has been announced][4]. The Microsoft BU team has a number of Mac only features and claims the software will be available "in the second half of 2007."
[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx "Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac"
* [According the Washington Post][5], in an effort to make Windows Vista more secure, Microsoft tapped the expertise of the NSA. From the linked article: "the agency said it has helped in the development of the security of Microsoft's new operating system -- the brains of a computer -- to protect it from worms, Trojan horses and other insidious computer attackers."
[5]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html "For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros"
* And finally, Wired Magazine has a [creepy scenario][6] from Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, in which he outlines why the internet is doomed.
[6]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=15 "End-Time for the Internet"
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Codefetch has been around for a while, we even mentioned briefly in [an article last year][1] on Wired.com, but this is the first time I've actually tested it.
Codefetch lets you search by language (22 options) and supports a healthy amount of regular expression operators. There's also an option to search literal which means you can match programatic expressions, spaces and all.
Results are displayed with your terms highlighted and showing the chunks of code were your search terms appear. At the top of each booking listing is a link to purchase the book from Amazon (which is how Codefetch generates some revenue).
There may well be a way to perform this kind of search using the tools on Amazon, but I'm not aware of it. An entry on the [Codefetch blog][3] claims the site has considerably better search results than O'Reilly's paid Safari service.
A word of warning, Codefetch made the front page of Digg this morning and was running somewhat slow.
[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70219-0.html "Here Comes a Google for Coders"
[2]: http://www.codefetch.com/ "CodeFetch.com"
[3]: http://codefetch.blogspot.com/ "Code Fetch Blog"
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Comparison points range from general features to system boot time to popularity, and obviously some things are more subjective than others. Each section gets a rating from 0 to 9 and in most cases the description for that category elaborates and clarifies the rating in more detail.
Unfortunately there's no way to compare more than two distros at a time, but the site does have a [nice questionnaire][3] you can fill out that might also help you make a decision. The form asks a few simple questions about what you're looking for in your system and then makes suggestions based on your preferences.
PolishLinux.org also has some great tips for those just starting out with Linux and plenty of links to popular applications, how-to articles and more.
[via [Lifehacker][2]]
[1]: http://polishlinux.org/choose/comparison/ "Compare Linux distros"
[2]: http://lifehacker.com/software/linux/compare-linux-distros-side-by-side-229857.php "Compare Linux distros side by side"
[3]: http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/ "Distro Chooser"
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* I once saw a movie whose name I've long since forgotten that had one of those classic bad guys that just won't die ending. After shooting stabbing beating and otherwise trying to obliterate the bad guy, he finally gets incontrovertibly destroyed -- blown to bits in fact -- and this is confirmed when the hero picks up a burning chunk of the bad guy's arm and lights a cigarette with it. Listening Post outlines why [the RIAA is a lot like that bad guy][1]. Oh, and if anyone knows what movie that is, let me know.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/your_timeshifti.html "Your Right to Time-Shift Is Under Attack"
* Bodyhack [points][2] to an article that suggests George Bush's refusal to support stem cell research might actually be helping the field by drawing in more private sector money. Hey, without Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher we might never have had punk rock.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/did_bush_jumpst.html "Did Bush Jumpstart a Stem Cell Revolution?"
* From [Gadget Lab][3]: "Here's a twist on the megapixel race confusing digital camera buyers: The camera of the future may capture only a single pixel."
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/the_000001megap.html "The .000001-Megapixel Camera"
* Table of Malcontents has great link to the obituary of what sounds like a truly wonderful bookshop. As Brownlee [writes][4], "the fact that Amazon.com is killing off wonderful crackpots like this one-by-one isn't just tragedy, it's blasphemy."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_worlds_most.html "The World's Most Dangerous Bookstore"
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* Google has [announced][1] a partnership with the University of Texas at Austin which will see the search giant digitizing More than a million books from the University's library, including their world renowned Latin American collection.
[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/austin_books.html "Google to Digitize More than a Million Books from the University of Texas at Austin"
* Oh those timely virus writers. [From Reuters][3]: "Computer virus writers attacked thousands of computers on Friday using an unusually topical email citing raging European storms." The new virus, dubbed "Storm Worm," was sent with the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe." Consider yourself warned.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-19T201158Z_01_L19519163_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-EUROPE-COMPUTERS.xml&src=rss "Storm Worm hits computers"
* Wikipedia has [introduced][4] a new means of stopping "indirect" vandalism of the Main Page. Wikipedia calls the new software "cascading protection" and claims it "automatically applies to local images and templates, which have been frequent targets for this type of vandalism."
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-01-15/Cascading_protection "Wikipedia takes steps to prevent vandalism"
* Coolest Greasemonkey script ever: [Eliminate extra exclamation points][2]. Imagine what it can do for MySpace... then again it doesn't make the writing any better does it?
[2]: http://www.zieak.com/2007/01/17/eliminate-extra-exclamation-points/ "Eliminate extra exclamation points"
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The major sections can be seen in the screenshot after the job, but pretty much all the categories you'd expect are there including taxes, retirement, banking and budgeting, and more.
Within each section there are numerous subsections with content from over twenty-five content providers ranging from Consumer Reports and The Motley Fool to CNNmoney and The Wall Street Journal. The majority of the aggregated content consists of advice columns, expert opinions, articles and how-to guides.
There are also over sixty new calculators to help answer questions like "what would my loan payment be?" or "how much interest will this IRA earn over time?"
There's a portfolio tracking tool that can be used to watch stocks, track your current holdings or store a history of sales and purchases. Creating a portfolio is farily simple and includes a tool to lookup company's stock symbols. Interestingly, while the lookup tool would seem like the perfect place for some nice AJAX, it remains a separate page.
Once you add a stock or fund to your portfolio, Yahoo Personal Finance does a nice job of aggregating all the relevant articles on your chosen companies from around the web.
Inexplicably there's no RSS feed available for your portfolio and given that some sort of RSS-like tracker is probably pulling the data in, a similar push out is conspicuously missing.
Recognizing the power of various social networking tools, Yahoo has provided a number of toolbar buttons at the top of each section to promote sharing on other sites, including links to Yahoo's own del.icio.us as well as non-Yahoo tools like Digg.
Other nice features of the new Personal Finance include a Q & A section, interest rate trackers, a nice glossary of financial terms, and time-based suggestions like "Things To Do In January."
Overall Yahoo Personal Finance offers an impressive amount of data in one place, but other than the portfolio tracker, none of it is all that personal. If you're looking for tools to manage your accounts or track spending, you're better off with a service like [Wesabe][2], which offers far more "personalization."
If you're just looking for a lot of aggregated personal finance information in one place then you'll likely enjoy Yahoo's new offering, though the lack of RSS support might be a deal breaker for some. Hopefully Yahoo will wake up and realize their oversight on that one.
[2]: http://www.wesabe.com/ "Wesabe: Take Control of Your Money"
[1]: http://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance "Yahoo Personal Finance"
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* Congress is [considering legislation][7] that would *require* Internet broadcasters to use DRM technology to prevent listeners from making unauthorized copies of music files. The [EFF writes][4]: "This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM-laden, proprietary formats."
[4]: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005072.php "Take Action: Defend Your Right to Record Off the Radio!"
[7]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/18/HNdrmlegislation_1.html "Proposed DRM legislation criticized as too harsh"
* Earlier this week we told you of rumors that Apple would charge $5 to activate the 802.11n wireless protocol that shipped inactive with recent Core 2 Duo machines. The rumor is correct, but the price was wrong, it will actually [cost $1.99 to activate][5].
[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1044_3-6151281.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "Apple to charge for faster Wi-Fi"
* Good news, the desk of the future will [charge electronic devices][3]. Office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. has licensed a technology called eCoupled, which eliminates the need for dedicated chargers.
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/tc_nm/hermanmiller_product_dc "Desk of the future will charge electronic devices"
* Speaking of fatty foods (from [BoingBoing][2]): "Wegman's bakery received an online order for a cake with a message in Italian and English, but couldn't process the accent characters in the Italian passage -- instead, the printer barfed out a ton of error messages in angle-brackets." Which were then [frosted onto the cake][1]. Classic.
[1]: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~tony/cake.jpg "Cake Error Message"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/19/cake_printer_barfs_u.html "Cake printer barfs up error-messages "
* Best Digg submission ever: "[Google Search Engine][6]. Google is a revolutionary internet search website. With it, you can easily find whatever it is you're looking for on the internet! Digg this and spread the word!"
[6]: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Search_Engine_3 "Google Search Engine"
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There are plugins for both Mac (Universal) and Windows, but you'll need to have QuickTime 7.x installed. The Xiph QuickTime components are released under the lesser GPL and the source is available from the site.
[Ogg Vorbis][3] is a popular open source alternative to MP3 and [FLAC][2] is a lossless compression format popular for its ability to maintain audio quality when compressing files.
There have been a few attempts at Ogg Vorbis QuickTime plugins in the past, but most of them seem to have been abandoned. So far as I know this is the first time anyone has created a way for iTunes to play FLAC files.
That's the good news. The bad news is I can't seem to get it working.
The plugins install okay, the additional frameworks also install, but neither Quicktime nor iTunes will actually play the files.
However plenty of people seem to have no problem, so don't let me troubles put you off. I'll post an update if I get it working, but in the mean time let us know if you get these plugins working.
[1]: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ "QuickTime plugins for Ogg and FLAC"
[2]: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ "Free Lossless Audio Codec"
[3]: http://www.vorbis.com/ "Vorbis.com"
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SponsoredReviews offers a few clues in the their FAQ. Disclosure is required, though I can't find any specifics on what sort of disclosure, and payments will range from $10 to a whopping $1000 per review.
The Blog Herald thinks that with price tags of up to a $1000 SponsoredReviews is poised to introduce [a new ethical dilemma][3] for bloggers. Dave Winer on the other hand, [believes][5] that these services are simply a more transparent version of a very old practice. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has long held that PayPerPost and its ilk [are a modern-day payola][4].
Payola is a term describing a practice in which record companies paid radio stations to play whatever tracks the companies wanted to promote without reporting that the spot was paid. The practice is illegal in the United States though it's common in other parts of the world. The reasoning behind the U.S. law is that since radio stations report and publish their playlists and those publication in turn influence other stations the record companies could gain an unfair advantage in the market place.
A similar argument could be made against PayPerPost services since links from prominent blogs can raise the Google rankings of advertisers participating in the service.
I tend to agree with Arrington, though I think that Winer has a point too. Ultimately there is probably no such thing as a truly unbiased review, but if a blogger discloses that they were paid to write a review how useful is that for the discerning consumer?
Call me paranoid, but I probably wouldn't make it past the disclosure sentence in a paid review. Of course SponsoredReviews doesn't have specific guidelines available for disclosure, the site merely says blogger should "state the words 'Sponsored Review' or you can integrate it into the content." Okay, but would a style sheet rule like this be okay?
p.disclosure { font-size: 1px; }
Hopefully not. The FTC recently said word-of-mouth advertisers and reviewers [must disclose their relationships][6] which even includes things like products that have a MySpace page.
Interestingly, while SponsoredReviews claims negative reviews are okay, the official guidelines on the site read:
>* Reviews must be written according to the terms set by the advertiser.
* Constructive criticism is encouraged, however, reviews that are hateful or non-constructive will not be accepted.
* Reviews must be permanent and archived.
* Disclosure that the review is sponsored is mandatory.
What constitutes non-constructive from an advertisers point of view? Would a review like "this service is an adware-ridden nightmare best avoided at all costs" be considered non-constructive? As a reader I might consider that informative, constructive and good to know, but the advertiser would likely have a different opinion.
At this point it looks like these services are here to stay so, while the ethics may be debatable, the real question is what will the long term effect be? Will blogs featuring paid reviews be shunned, is the whole blogging realm doomed or is this much hoopla about nothing?
[1]: http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/ "SponsoredReviews"
[2]: http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/blog/?p=7 "SponsoredReviews Launching Soon"
[3]: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/01/15/sponsoredreviewscom-jumps-into-the-pay-per-post-fray-introduces-new-ethics-quandry/ "SponsoredReviews.com Introduces New Ethics Quandry"
[5]: http://www.scripting.com/2006/10/02.html#whyPayperpostIsBetter "Dave Winer on PayPerPost"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/another-payperpost-virus/ "Another PayPerPost Virus"
[6]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101389.html?nav=hcmodule"
Pull My Strings
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* Over on Cult of Mac Leander Kahney has an awesome rundown on why people still [prefer the Newton][1] to even the potential of the iPhone.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/in_1998_steve_j.html "Apple Newton Versus iPhone"
* Wired Science brings news of a development in which a pox could possibly be used to [kill cancerous cells][2].
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/using_a_pox_to_.html "Using a Pox to Kill Cancer"
* My personal fav of the day, Gadget Lab has has a post about [tires infused with essential oils][3]. Imagine if you will... monster truck rallies with a hint of lavender and jasmine in the air...
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/kumhos_scented_.html "Kumho's Scented Tires"
* Table of Malcontent isn't [wearing pants][4].
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/improve_everywh.html "Improv Everywhere's No Pants! Subway Ride"
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The new version of jQuery boasts numerous enhancements including bugs fixes, speed improvements and a simplified API. The creators of jQuery have also overhauled the documentation and gathered the previous scattered tutorials and guides [into one website][2].
There's a page available to [run speed tests][4] on jQuery 1.1 and the new documentation site should be a boon to web developers looking to get started with AJAX.
[1]: http://jquery.com/ "jQuery Javascript Library"
[3]: http://jquery.com/blog/2007/01/14/jquery-birthday-11-new-site-new-docs/ "jQuery New Site New Docs"
[2]: http://docs.jquery.com/ "jQuery documentation"
[4]: http://john.jquery.com/speed/ "jQuery speed test"
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* Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks franchise has [launched MavsWiki.com][1] a wiki designed to, "be a collaboration between the Mavs and their fans, with the goal being to document every game the Mavs have played." It'll be interesting to see if this catches on.
[1]: http://www.nba.com/mavericks/news/Mavs_Launch_MAVSWIKICOM.html?rss=true "Mavs Launch Mavswiki.Com"
* According to [Apple Insider][2] "Core 2 Duo-based Mac owners who want to unlock next-generation 802.11n wireless technologies hidden inside their computers will first have to fork a few bucks over to Apple." The 802.11n enabler patch will cost $4.99. Certainly $4.99 per person can't mean much to Apple, why not just give it away?
[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2398 "Apple to impose 802.11n unlocking fee on Intel Mac owners"
* Footnote, Inc. has [announced an agreement][4] to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. 4.5 million pages are already online and waiting for your annotations.
[4]: http://www.footnote.com/nara.php "National Archives Records available on Footnote"
* Linux doesn't get enough coverage on this blog and I think it's high time we changed that. I just spent the last half hour [listening to the Linux Action show podcast][3] and decided that the Monkey Bites Linux love must spread. As of yet I have no plan, but in the mean time give the show a listen.
[3]: http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=75 "The Linux Action Show! Podcast"
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* Apple has given a iPhone skin for Windows Mobile [the legal smackdown][1]. There's such a thing as trademark protection, but this seem extreme. Fortunately for the hardcore users who absolutely much have the iPhone skin on their Windows Mobile device, the creator of the skin has posted instructions for creating you own version (see link above).
[1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1097832#post1097832 "iPhone skin removed"
* Drupal, the popular PHP-based content management system, has [released version 5.0][2]. Today also marks the sixth birthday of Drupal. Drupal powers a number of popular sites including [The Onion][3].
[2]: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0 "Drupal 5.0"
[3]: http://www.theonion.com/content/ "The Onion"
* The rumors of an HD-DVD encryption crack appear to be true; TorrentFreak [reports][4] that an HD-DVD torrent of [Serenity][5] is now available. Can we end the BluRay/HD-DVD format "war" now?
[4]: http://torrentfreak.com/first-hd-dvd-movie-leaked-onto-bittorrent/ "First HD-DVD Movie Leaked Onto BitTorrent"
[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film) "Serenity"
* The FBI is [warning of an email scam][6] in which the scammers suggest a "hitman" is on the trail of the recipients. The FBI site notes: "Please note, providing any personal information in response to an unsolicited e-mail can compromise your identity and open you to identity theft." (Note: The FBI's web design budget appears to very very small.)
[6]: http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm "FBI warns of email scam"
* If we spent our time reporting every scam, phishing attack and other security hack that hit MySpace we wouldn't have time for anything else, but this one is funny. Someone apparently hacked MySpace's "Tom" account (the default friend for all new members) to [send out a link to a phishing scam][7]. Not news really until you consider that the Tom account has roughly 148,059,490 friends. What we'd like to know is how much money a phishing attack against MySpace can really generate -- do they ask users to steal their parents credit cards or something? [via Digg]
[7]: http://i12.tinypic.com/3zk2jvr.jpg "Phishing scam screen grab"
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A couple weeks back, around the beginning of the new year, the mainstream media got caught up in series of stories about how RSS would be a breakthrough technology of 2007. RSS savvy Monkey Bites readers might yawn when Reuters [tries to explain][2] a six year old technology to the masses, but we thought maybe now would be a good time to see how "power users" are utilizing RSS.
I've been digging around the web for technologies and services that allow you to do more with your RSS feeds.
So far I've been looking at a variety of services that do RSS via SMS with a particular emphasis on filtering so only the most important things get sent to your phone. I'm familiar with [Zaptxt][3] and Yahoo's "Alerts" which [offers something similar][4], but if you prefer others let me know.
I've also been playing with Google Reader's new "Trends" analytics tool, which can tell you a lot about your reading habits, but I'm still not sure if it's all that useful.
I'm currently enamored with the idea of archiving meaningful feeds via email and I've been testing [RSSFwd][5] and [RMail][6] which both offer feeds delivered to your email account. But so far I haven't found a way to do exactly what I want, which is to have only items I've flagged sent to my email account.
This weeks Tutorial 'o the Day theme will be RSS power tips and at some point this may develop into a a full article, but in the mean time let's hear what you think. While the rest of the world is just getting up to speed, chances are Monkey Bites readers are already pushing the envelope, so let me know what your favorite RSS tips are in the comments below.
[1]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "What Would Radical Transparency Mean For Wired?"
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-02T053910Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C2_internetNews-4 "Untangle the World Wide Web with RSS"
[3]: http://zaptxt.com/home/ "Zaptxt"
[4]: https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ntfy&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
[5]: http://rssfwd.com/ "RSSfwd"
[6]: http://www.r-mail.org/ "RMail"
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Since most of these are one liners, we'll do two a day.
One of the frustrating things about RSS is that once you start using it you expect every site to offer feeds for every single chunk of data, which, unfortunately, few do. For instance, what if you want to get all of my colleague's posts and avoid me like the plague? There's no easy way to do that with the feeds that this page offers.
Here's a trick from [Micro Persuasion][3]'s Steve Rubel: search by byline and/or column title on Yahoo! News and then subscribe to the search as a feed. Every time your favorite writer has a new article published it'll show up in your feed. The only draw back being the slight lag time between when the article is published and when Yahoo News finds it, but hey, it's better than nothing.
The second tip for the day comes via the blog [Get Rich Slowly][2]. Thanks to [isnoop.net][1] it's easy to track your local movie listings even if the theaters near you don't have their own RSS feed. Just plug in your zip code and the scripts on isnoop will scrap Google to give you a list of theaters with movies, show times and an RSS feed for each. Combine those in your favorite RSS reader and you have an instant list of what's playing, where and when.
[1]: http://isnoop.net/rss/theater.php "Theatre Search"
[2]: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/01/14/custom-movie-listings-with-rss/ "Custom Movie Listings with RSS"
[3]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/ "Micro Persuasion"
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* This has relatively the same effect on me that fingernails on a chalkboard seem to have for other people: Bodyhack has a post (with pics) about a [wrist surface piercing with a watch attached][1]. "Surface piercing is hard to heal and with this chunky watched attached, getting bumped and scraped is inevitable."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/watch_piercing_.html "Watch piercing never gets left on the nightstand"
* Who says kids are lazy? Game|Life has the story of a 9-year-old Seattle boy who "became a modern day Frank Abagnale, Jr. when he hijacked a handful of cars and sneaked onto an airline flight, all in an effort to visit his grandfather in Dallas." Naturally his mother [blames the whole thing on video games][2].
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/mother_blames_p.html "Mother Blames PlayStation for Son's Criminal Tendencies"
* Screw iPhone, truly upscale snobs are going to get [the Prada phone][3]. At $780 and sporting a touch screen interface Gadget Lab drily observers: "If an overpriced, touchscreen-only phone sounds oddly familiar, you're not the only one thinking imitation." But doesn't Prada charge like $500 for a belt? So relatively speaking $780 for a phone might not be that bad.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/lg_flatters_iph.html "LG Flatters iPhone"
* Listening Post [has the skinny][4] on a new MP3 player that looks like a Rubik's cube. Except that it's all white, which is probably good since "you need to solve the puzzle in order to turn it off."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/rubiks_cube_is_.html "Rubik's Cube Is Sweeping the Nation Again"
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I'll confess I don't like Spotlight and I hardly ever use it so I wasn't looking forward to Inquisitor, but I was wrong. Where Spotlight is slow, clumsy and to me, useless, Inquisitor is fast, easy-to-use and makes searching the web easier.
Once installed, just type in the Google search box and the Inquisitor window will pop up with the top search results and attempt to auto-complete your word or phase. By default Inquisitor shows the top 3 Google results, but you can customize that number via Safari's preferences window.
Just below the results is a list of auto-complete suggestions and if you enable the feature, below that you'll see links to other search sites. The Search engine sites themselves are limited to offerings from Google or Yahoo, which I assume is because both offer good, stable APIs.
You can add as many search engines as you'd like to the "additional search engines" links and add keyboard shortcuts as well. It would be nice if the custom search engines could have a postfix string appended to them, but that's about my only quibble with this little gem.
The version of Inquisitor 3 that I's using is still officially a beta (currently beta 2), but I had no stability issues and haven't seen any bugs in my testing. Inquisitor is a great little app and it's free, though I'm sure developer Dave Watanabe wouldn't complain if you donated something toward future development.
[1]: http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/ "Inquisitor 3"
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MySpace is hoping that the new tracking software, named "Zephyr" and due to be released this summer, will help stave off what continues to be a growing problem for the popular social networking site.
Though details of Zephyr remain vague, one thing it won't do is provide account passwords. The standalone program, which for now is Windows only, will notify parents whenever a someone logs into a MySpace account from that machine and will provide the name, age and location their children have entered on MySpace, however Zephyr will not give parents access to their children's profiles nor does it let them see email or other password protected communications.
Zephyr stores the data it collects in a password protected file and can notify parents of changes made to the account even if those changes are made from another computer. It also works even if the child's profile is private.
The basis of MySpace's existing security revolves around age restrictions. Last year MySpace enacted features that place restrictions on how adults may contact the site's younger users
Currently MySpace requires users to be over fourteen to register and under sixteen can display their full profiles -- containing hobbies, schools, and any other personal details -- only to people already listed as friends. Others see only the user name, gender, age, and location.
The problem is that the age restrictions aren't really enforceable. To get a full profile that the whole world has access to is a simple as changing your age on the signup form. Zephyr is intended to notify parents if their children are lying about their age to gain access to full profiles.
MySpace says many of Zephyr's specific mechanisms are still being worked out, but one thing is for sure -- the tool won't work if a profile is accessed entirely away from home.
For all practical purposes Zephyr seems to do little more than possibly give MySpace some wiggle room in its many pending lawsuits. The software has little chance of accomplishing anything from a security standpoint, but it does do one thing, it transfers at least some the burden of age policing back to the parents.
MySpace is attempting to walk a thin line here since if they gave parents total access to their children's accounts the kids would likely flee the site in droves for competitors like Facebook.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-18T155950Z_01_N18174054_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-MYSPACE.xml&src=rss "More families sue News Corp's MySpace: attorney"
[2]: http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116900733587978625.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj "MySpace Moves to Give Parents More Information"
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* More proof that Opera can do anything. [From the Register][1]: "A Swedish Wii owner took advantage of the console's built-in Opera browser and Wi-Fi to tap into his PC's media collection shortly before Christmas. The Wii remote can then be used to show photos and browse iTunes playlists on the TV"
[1]: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/18/orb_wii_console/ "Orb brings iTunes to Wii console"
* Google has started pushing Google Checkout again. A couple of months ago they offered merchants free order processing until the end of the year. Now they're targeting buyers with a new deal that's being [promoed on the Google homepage][3]. If you sign up now as a new user, you will get $10 to spend at Google Checkout merchants until March 31, 2007
[3]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_promotes_checkout.php "Google Promotes Checkout on Homepage"
* In a move I believe was motivated by a deep desire to bring real world meaning to the theoretical work of [Jean Baudrillard][4], Microsoft has [patched a patch][5]. Microsoft issued a patch to patch a patch that "messed up the way Excel 2000 processes information."
[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard "Wikipedia: Jean Baudrillard"
[5]: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2085354,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 "Microsoft Patches Buggy Excel Patch"
* The site your boss doesn't want you to see. According to the tagline on [PointlessSites.com][2] the sites aims to "list here only pointless and useless sites that; are completely pointless, don't have pop up/under ads or too many ads in general, are original, useless, are not offensive." What's not to love?
[2]: http://www.pointlesssites.com/ "The definitive place for pointless websites"
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* It took a while longer, but Adobe has finally released the final version of Flash Player 9 for Linux. The new plugin can be [downloaded from the Adobe site][1].
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Linux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4 "Download Flash Player 9 for Linux"
* Web [newspaper blog traffic tripled last month][2]. According to Reuters article "U.S. news organizations are increasingly calling on their reporters and editors to write news blogs and compete with the expanding Internet format for informal analysis and opinion." Oh are they ever dear reader, and sometimes they use bullwhips to drive their point home.
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/wr_nm/nielsen_blogs_dc_1 "Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec"
* Microsoft [plans to offer][3] Windows Vista for sale and download online, marking a new step for the software company, which has previously sold Windows only on packaged discs or pre-loaded on computers.
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista "Microsoft to offer Windows Vista online"
* CNet has compiled a list of the [top ten software downloads][4] of the past ten years, based on download.com usage. ICQ tops the list. I can see where for maybe three or four of those years download.com would be a good indicator of popularity, but after that, I mean does anyone actually download things from download.com?
[4]: http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6257577-1.html "Top 10 downloads of the past 10 years"
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Shelfari is a social network that revolves around books and has an attractive, easy-to-use interface whose design and layout are vaguely reminiscent of the popular Mac software Delicious Library.
Speaking of Delicious Library, Shelfari allows you to upload your Delicious Library info as a text file which means you don't have to input excessive amounts of data (a similar function is available for LibraryThing exports).
If you don't have your book data already in some malleable digital form, you'll have to enter it by hand or search to see if other users have already input your favorite books. You can search for books by title, author, ISBN or subject.
There's all the familiar trappings of social networks, profiles, tagging, friends, recommendations, and more (if I had a dollar for every time I've typed that sentence...).
Shelfari also takes tip from Digg and offers a number of lists like "Top Books," "Top Tags," "Most Opinions" and "Top Shelves" to help you find books that might pique your interest.
Shelfari lets you create separate book shelves for books you've read, books you own and books you plan to read. Your books are displayed, as you might expect, on a bookshelf and above each cover image (pulled from Amazon) are links to friends opinions and other metadata. Each book also has a direct link for purchasing via Amazon, which is part of Shelfari's revenue stream.
Unlike LibraryThing which charges an annual fee for users that want to list over 200 books, Shelfari is free regardless of the size of your book collection.
Overall I liked Shelfari, it has a simple and slick interface an it's easy to add books to your listing. At the same time, something about Shelfari put me off a bit, perhaps it's too slick.
Shelfari is a bit like a meat-space Borders or Barnes and Nobel, clean, organized and well lit, whereas LibraryThing is bit more like a local bookshop, it's run by one person, it's a bit musty, there's dust in the corners and the lighting isn't perfect, but it has a genuine community feel that Shelfari lacks.
Then there's Shelfari's misguided decision to refer to users as "Shelfarians."
My search for the perfect book cataloguing service isn't over yet. What I'd really like is a site that offers a robust API --like the Flickr API-- anyone have any suggestions?
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* [The Freedom Toaster][2] is a self server kiosk that lets you burn software and media. Currently the project is limited to South Africa. From the website: "The Freedom Toaster project began as a means of overcoming the difficulty in obtaining Linux and Open Source software due to the restrictive telecommunications environment in South Africa, where the easy downloading of large pieces of software is just not possible for everyone."
[2]: http://www.freedomtoaster.org/?q=home "Freedom Toaster"
* So far it's just a rumor but [according to ZDNet][1] blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft will be offering a "Family Pack" discount on Vista Ultimate edition. Foley claims that plans are afoot to "allow Vista Ultimate customers to purchase two additional copies of Vista Home Premium for somewhere between $50 to $99 a piece."
[1]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=201 "Microsoft to offer Vista ‘Family Pack’ discount for Ultimate users"
* Google pulls a page from Microsoft's playbook. Google has [removed Yahoo and MapQuest Maps][3] from their search results page. In an official statement Google tells Search Engine Land that, "Google is always working to improve search. The redesign of maps onebox better simplifies the Google user experience when looking for business and address information." In other words shut up and and eat it; Google knows what's best for you.
[3]: http://searchengineland.com/070116-103251.php "Google removes links to Yahoo and MapQuest maps"
* It may not be not software related, but it's pretty cool: George Clooney and the SCI FI Channel are teaming up to [bring a six-hour miniseries][4] version of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age to the small screen. Please don't screw this up Mr. Clooney. [via [BoingBoing][5]]
[4]: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39447 "Clooney, Others Develop SCI FI Shows"
[5]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/16/clooney_and_scifi_ma.html "Clooney and SciFi making "Diamond Age" miniseries "
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* Randy Dotinga over at Bodyhack has news of new study which finds that video games may be [good for your head][1]. Didn't [Steven Johnson][2] already say that? Silly scientists and their "proof" and "evidence."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/video_games_goo.html "Video Games: Good for Your Head (!)"
[2]: http://stevenberlinjohnson.com/ "Everything Bad is Good For You"
* Autopia [reports][3] that Lotus Engineering, which helped to develop the only-cool-electric-car, the Tesla Motors electric car, has partnered with ZAP, a small Santa Rosa company.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/01/lotus_and_zap_t.html "Lotus and ZAP Team for EVs"
* Forget the video iPod, if you want your movies really, really, really Zoolander-style small, you need to check out Gadget Lab's write up on a [wristwatch that plays movies][4].
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/wristwatch_play.html "Wristwatch Plays Movies"
* Table of Malcontents has some great [surreal paintings][5] from Polish artist Jacek Yerka.
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/jacek_yerka.html "Jacek Yerka"
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There was [much][1] [uproar][6] in certain quarters as Word's rendering engine has historically been substandard. Considering that a number of popular authoring tools, such as Dreamweaver ship with special tools whose sole purpose is to clean up the often bloated, non-standards-based output of MS Word's HTML output, using that engine for Outlook might seem like an odd choice.
Rumors have swirled about as to the reasoning behind the switch so to put matters to rest I got in touch with Jessica Arnold, Product Manager for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
It turns out that even older version of Outlook use the Word rendering engine for creating HTML emails so there's no real change on the authoring end. The change to using Word for received emails come because, according to Arnold, "A big thing we heard from customers is that they wanted the richness of the editing experience they were used to from Word integrated throughout Outlook."
The problem she says was that "often the content people created looked different to the recipient receiving it - like the formatting would be slightly off, or things wouldn't appear as they had when the message was in "compose" mode."
The desire for consistency appears to be the main motivation, but Arnold did admit that "for some particular users this may not be true and we're always looking for ways to improve our rendering support in the future."
For a full rundown on what HTML is available via the Word rendering engine there are [two pages][2] [worth of specs][3] on Microsoft's website. There's also a white paper on what's [new in Outlook 2007][4]. Microsoft has a [code validator][5] (Windows only) for those looking to create Outlook 2007 compatible emails using other authoring tools.
Perhaps the most annoying thing for users looking to deliver HTML email newsletters and the like is a lack of support for CSS positioning with <code>div</code> tags and the lack of support for the CSS float property. Without these tools it will be difficult if not impossible to design standards compliant HTML emails.
Arnold says "customers using Outlook don't just want to display HTML content, the way they do in their browser, but also have an expectation that they should be able to author that content as well." Arnold claims "Word's new HTML rendering engine has been improved based on HTML and CSS standards," but did not provide any specifics.
However given that many popular mail clients and services have HTML rendering disabled by default (GMail for instance), and many users consider HTML email a nuisance, perhaps the outcry is misplaced. It's possible that only people really effected by this will be spammers who rely on embedded images to verify when email was viewed.
Unfortunately Microsoft's change of rendering engine doesn't appear to have been motivated by a desire to fight spam or enhance security, while background images are not supported, images nested in tables are, which means spammers can still get information sent back when Outlook renders the HTML content.
If your business relies on HTML email, you'll definitely want to revise your code come January 30th when the new versions of Vista and Office hit the shelves. Until then you might try contacting Microsoft, Arnold says "the Word team is continually examining HTML and CSS support based on customer feedback."
[1]: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2007/01/microsoft_takes_email_design_b.html "Microsoft takes email design back 5 years"
[2]: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 1 of 2)"
[3]: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 2 of 2)"
[4]: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102109301033.aspx "Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 e-mail editor white paper"
[5]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0b764c08-0f86-431e-8bd5-ef0e9ce26a3a&displaylang=en "Outlook HTML and CSS Validator"
[6]: http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=156#5 "Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007"
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* [Wikiseek][1] is a new Wikipedia search engine that indexes only Wikipedia pages and sites those pages link to, which should make for more focused, less spam-laden search results. It's also much faster than Wikipedia's current search engine.
[1]: http://www.wikiseek.com/ "Wikiseek"
* Netflix has [unveiled a new streaming movie service][2]. Select subscribers will gain access to the new service, "Watch Now," which will allow users to watch films straight from the web. The service does not offer actual downloads to cut the risk of piracy. Initially only 250,000 customers will get Watch Now, but Netflix plans to add roughly the same amount each week until June.
[2]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6266819.stm "Netflix unveils online film offer"
* Open source is the way forward. An article over on CNet [claims][3] that more companies are "finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away." The examples they cite are a bit obscure, but hey, here's hoping they're right.
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6150104.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "Taking the plunge into open source"
* HSIA: [US man badly burned by self-combusting mobile][4]
[4]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/16/mobile_phone_fire/ "US man badly burned by self-combusting mobile"
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This morning it occurred to me that using del.icio.us or any other social bookmarking site as an intermediary would make it possible. When I checked my email I noticed that Monkey Bites reader David Rotham had [posted exactly the same workflow][2]. Here's what he suggests:
>decide on how you'll tag items that you want emailed to you. Use that tag to "flag" items you want emailed to you. Get an RSS feed for your user ID and that tag from del.icio.us. Give that feed to RMail. That's it.
So there you have it. And naturally David's tips apply to any social bookmarking site. If you send those emails to GMail, you've got a permanent online archive of news that you can tag and search whenever and wherever you need.
The second tip for the day is pretty simple but something I didn't realize was available. As Digg continues to grow in popularity the signal to noise ratio seems to have corresponding decline. Posts that have nothing to do with technology still end up in that category, but it turns out that you can actually create feeds from Digg searches.
Using a combination of "not" operators in the advanced search page I've generated a Digg feed that cuts out a lot of meaningless chatter that was cluttering up my RSS reader. Muhammad Saleem over at The Mu Life has the full details on [creating search-based Digg feeds][1].
[1]: http://themulife.com/?p=580 "Digg.com's Lesser Known RSS Features"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/stories_were_wo.html "RSS Power Users"
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Because Wikiseek only indexes Wikipedia and sites that Wikipedia links to, the results are less subject to the spam and SEO schemes that can clutter up Google and Yahoo search listings.
According to the Wikiseek pages, the search engine "utilizes Searchme's category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines."
Along with search results Wikiseek displays a tag cloud which allows you to narrow or broaden your search results based on topically related information.
Wikiseek offer a Firefox [search plugin][3] as well as a [Javascript-based extension][4] that alters actual Wikipedia pages to add a Wikiseek search button (see screenshot below). Hopefully similar options will be available for other browsers in the future.
SearchMe is using Wikiseek as a showcase product and is donating a large portion of the advertising revenue generated by Wikiseek, back to Wikipedia. The company also promises to have more niche search engines in the works.
If Wikiseek is any indication, SearchMe will be one to watch. The interface has the simplicity of Google, but searches are considerably faster, lightening fast is fact. Granted Wikiseek is indexing far fewer pages than Google or Yahoo, but if speed is a factor, niche search engines like Wikiseek may pose a serious threat to the giants like Google and Yahoo.
Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion has [an interesting post][5] about the growing influence of Wikipedia and how it could pose a big threat to Google in the near future. Here's some statistics from his post:
>The number of Wikipedians who have edited ten or more articles continues its hockey stick growth. In October 2006 that number climbed to 158,000 people. Further, media citations rose 300% last year, according to data compiled using Factiva. Last year Wikipedia was cited 11,000 times in the press. Traffic is on the rise too. Hitwise says that Wikipedia is the 20th most visited domain in the US.
While Wikiseek will probably not pose a serious threat to the search giants, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is looking to compete with the search giants at some point. While few details have yet emerged, his for profit company Wikia is reportedly working a new search engine dubbed Wikisari which aims to be a people-powered alternative to Google.
With numbers like the ones cited above, Wikipedia may indeed pose a threat to Google, Yahoo and the rest.
[1]: http://www.wikiseek.com "Wikiseek"
[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/16/wikipedia-search-engine-wikiseek-launches/ "TechCrunch: Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches"
[3]: http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/search_plugin/ "Wikiseek Firefox Search Plugin"
[4]: http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/FF_extension/ "Wikiseek Firefox extension"
[5]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/wikipedia_threa.html "Micro Persuasion: The Wikipedia Threat to Google's Empire"
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The Markdown support includes coloring and folding of document structural elements, as well as the ability to preview the finished document using the "Preview in BBEdit" command, which leverages WebKit.
I have several modified versions of Markdown and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to get BBEdit to use these for the native features.
Other enhancements include new commands "Save as Styled HTML" and "Copy as Styled HTML" which generate HTML code duplicating the layout and text styles of syntax-colored code. BBEdit can also now read and write the "binary property list" format, primarily used for preferences files in Mac OS X 10.4.
BBEdit 8.6 is also a maintenance release that fixes reported issues and adds several other refinements to this award-winning HTML and text editor.
BBEdit 8.6 is a [free upgrade][2] for users with version 8.5.x. Users of BBEdit 8 may upgrade for $30, while those with version 7 can upgrade for $40. A new copy of 8.6 is $125.
[2]: http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/updates.shtml "BBEdit 8.6"
[1]: http://web.barebones.com/company/press.php?news_id=158 "Bare Bones Software Ships BBEdit 8.6"
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* Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has a story about [libraries and Windows-only DRM][1]. "Physical library cards don't require a certain type of wallet; why should the electronic ones only work on Windows?"
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/library_media_l.html "Public Libraries, Private DRM"
* Game|Life [reports][2] that someone has figured out a way to use the PlayStation 3 as a digital video recorder using the Plextor ConvertX DVR and MythTV.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/ps3_does_dvr.html "PS3: The Next TiVo?"
* According to an as-yet unverified document provided to [27B Stroke 6][3] by a privacy activist, there's a program afoot to standardize state driver's licenses and create a de facto national I.D card using private sector contractors.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/national_id_to_.html "National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs"
* Hopefully the last item will one day end up in [The Museum of Unworkable Devices][4], which we discovered this morning via Table of Malcontents.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_museum_of_u.html "The Museum of Unworkable Devices"
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The full text of the 287 page report, entitled ""Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU," is [available online][1] (PDF). The report provides one of the most thorough and comprehensive looks at the FLOSS community and what FLOSS software has done for the IT community that I've ever seen.
While most of the statics and numbers are geared toward EU and European nations in general (the lead contractor of the study was UNU-MERIT from the Netherlands), the study nevertheless provides a fascinating look at free software and its impact on the world at large.
Particularly stunning is the estimated time to reproduce this software in proprietary format (131,000 person years) and the estimated amount of donated programming effort in monetary terms (800 million per year).
Here's some more highlights pulled straight from the text:
>* Almost two-thirds of FLOSS software is still written by individuals; firms contribute about 15% and other institutions another 20%.
* Europe is the leading region in terms of globally collaborating FLOSS software developers, and leads in terms of global project leaders, followed closely by North America (interestingly, more in the East Coast than the West). Asia and Latin America.
* The existing base of quality FLOSS applications with reasonable quality control and distribution would <strong>cost firms almost Euro 12 billion to reproduce internally</strong>. This code base has been doubling every 18-24 months over the past eight years, and this growth is projected to continue for several more years.
* This existing base of FLOSS software <strong>represents a lower bound of about 131 000 real person-years of effort that has been devoted exclusively by programmers</strong>. As this is mostly by individuals not directly paid for development, it represents a significant gap in national accounts of productivity. Annualised and adjusted for growth this represents at least Euro 800 million in voluntary contribution from programmers alone each year, of which nearly half are based in Europe.
* Firms have invested an estimated Euro 1.2 billion in developing FLOSS software that is made freely available. Such firms represent in total at least 565 000 jobs and Euro 263 billion in annual revenue. Contributing firms are from several non-IT (but often ICT intensive) sectors, and tend to have much higher revenues than non-contributing firms.
* Defined broadly, FLOSS-related services could reach a 32% share of all IT services by 2010, and the FLOSS-related share of the economy could reach 4% of European GDP by 2010.
* Proprietary packaged software firms account for well below 10% of employment of software developers in the U.S., and "IT user" firms account for over 70% of software developers employed with a similar salary (and thus skill) level. This suggests a relatively low potential for cannibalisation (sic) of proprietary software jobs by FLOSS, and suggests a relatively high potential for software developer jobs to become increasingly FLOSS- related.
This report gives me a warm fuzzy feeling every time I think about it. As government documents go this one is pretty readable and if you have any interest in evangelizing for open source software there's a enough positive numbers in here to sway the opinions of the most hardened proprietary skeptics.
[Discovered via BoingBoing][2]]
[1]: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf ""Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU"
[2]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/17/giant_amazing_study_.html "BoingBoing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software"
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Jajuk has been around a while, but they recently upgraded to version 1.3 which utilizes mPlayer to add more supported music formats. Because I don't have mPlayer installed I wasn't able to test that feature, but MP3 files play fine without an extra work.
Jajuk has some nice features and mirrors Amarok fairly closely. highlights include:
* Ogg, ID3 V1 and V2 support
* Dockable perspectives and views
* Wikipedia view displays artist discography
* Visual catalog of all albums by covers
* Dynamic playlist creation by drag and drop
* Configurable cross-fade
* Recursive play/repeat/shuffle/push in directories/sub-directories or by genre/artist/albums...
* Best Of smart function to play your favorite tracks
Jajuk recommends using Java 1.5, but I got it to run using 1.4, though it did flicker occasionally so if you want to test it on OS X without upgrading Java it's possible, though for long term usage I'd recommend you upgrade to Java 1.5.
Jajuk has no trouble scanning my library and in fact it was able to do so in just over 5 minutes which isn't bad for 65 gigs worth of music, the same task in iTunes takes at least double that.
I had no trouble fetching cover art or CDDB info and the in-app Wikipedia lookup was surprisingly fast. There's also a nice graphical breakdown of your music based on tags that lets you see some aggregated metadata about your music collection (see screenshot below).
I'll admit that I don't really like Java apps, but Jajuk bucks the trend of the previous apps I've used by managing to be both fast and stable. That said, it still won't replace iTunes for me.
Because it's Java-based you can [test out Jajuk in your browser][3] if you'd like to use it without downloading.
[1]: http://amarok.kde.org/ "Amarok"
[2]: http://jajuk.info/index.html "Jajuk Advanced Jukebox"
[3]: http://jajuk.info/jnlp.html "Launch jajuk online"
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The new software enables faster completion of complex animation and simulation tasks, giving artists enhanced creative control on multiple platforms.
Marc Petit, Autodesk's Media & Entertainment vice president, says in the press release, "Autodesk Maya 8.5 is our first Universal application of Maya. This multi-threaded software leverages the latest multi-core workstations from Apple. Maya 8.5 equips digital artists with innovative new technologies such as Maya Nucleus, a unified simulation framework, as well as greater productivity."
New features in Maya include the Maya Nucleus Unified Simulation Framework, a unified simulation framework, Maya nCloth, a module built on Nucleus technology which lets you quickly direct and control cloth, and other material simulations, and the addition of a Python scripting support.
The Python support has bindings to the OpenMaya API which gives you an alternative language for plug-in development. In addition, the Maya Python modules can be imported into an external standalone Python interpreter for batch processing.
There are half a dozen other enhancements which you can [read about on the Autodesk site][2]. Maya ships in two versions, Complete which will set you back $2000 and Ultimate which is a whopping $7000.
[1]: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=7635770 "Maya 8.5"
[2]: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=7635643 "New Features Maya 8.5"
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* Our own Listening Post has some good coverage of Apple's announcement that the company will [license its FairPlay DRM technology][1] to hardware vendors that are part of the "Made for iPod" program.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/apple_opens_fai.html "Apple Opens Fairplay DRM to NetGear"
* Not to be outdone by its stateside equivalent, the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries has [threatened to take legal action against ISPs][2] if they don't stop users who illegally upload and download music. Luckily, the folks at the IFPI don't seem to have heard of [Tor][3].
[2]: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/music-industry-declares-war-internet/story.aspx?guid=%7B0D43D22C-F418-4947-95AE-82A44A2B55DB%7D "Music industry declares war on Internet providers"
[3]: http://tor.eff.org/ "Tor: anonymity online"
* The Choose Your Own Adventure series is coming to the iPod. I don't know if I would get into these anymore, but I loved them when I was kid. Book number one is [now available for download][4] — free of charge until Jan 25, 2007.
[4]: http://www.cyoastore.com/product/show/5773 "Choose Your Own Adventure for the iPod"
* And finally, this Reuters story is just [too amazing not to mention][5]: A New York-based designer has come up with a mirror equipped with infrared technology that sends a live video feed to any cell phone, e-mail account or personal digital assistant device selected by a shopper. Christopher Enright, chief technology officer for digital design company IconNicholson, said putting these mirrors outside store fitting rooms meant women could go shopping with their friends -- remotely. "She could be in Paris, your mom, watching you try on your wedding dress (while you are in New York)," Enright told Reuters on Tuesday as he unveiled the interactive mirror at a retail trade show. Just think of the possibilities for all those one-way mirrors in Italian restaurants...
[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-01-18T002818Z_01_N17321711_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-MIRROR.xml&src=rss "Mirror, mirror on the wall, is this dress for me?"
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* Global digital music sales [nearly doubled in 2006][1], but still failed to over take CDs. The same report, from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) also claims that overall music sales were down 4 percent, something the report attributes to piracy, though it lacks any evidence to back that up.
[1]: http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/digital-music-report.html "IFPI Digital Music Report 2007"
* MySpace will begin [offering parental notification software][2] in an effort to appease critics who claim the site is chock full of underage users. The software, dubbed "Zephyr," can be used to find out what name, age and location their children use to represent themselves on MySpace. No word on how that software might also be used by people who are not the parents of the children.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-17T065753Z_01_N16209418_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-ZEPHYR.xml&src=rss "MySpace to offer parental notification software"
* Despite Microsoft's claim of 100 million IE7 installs, Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market is at 14 percent and has [continued to grow][3] each of the last three months. The disparate claims can probably be attributed to the fact that most IE7 users are upgrading from IE6 rather than switching from anther browser.
[3]: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901142 "Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft's Browser Still Loses Ground"
* Bad news for my English friends: According to a UK survey one in eight men would [swap their girlfriend for an iPod][4] or similar must-have gadget. No word on how many lonely nerds would swap their aging 3G iPod for a girlfriend.
[4]: http://techdigest.tv/2007/01/1_in_8_men_woul.html "1 in 8 men would dump their girlfrend for an iPod"
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The Lifehacker article linked above outlines how to get RSS feeds for Craig's List searches. Just enter your search criteria and look for the RSS link at the bottom of the page. Of course you need not use Craig's List, any similar service that offers RSS feeds for searches would work as well.
But rather than refreshing your news reader obsessively, why not just use [Yahoo's Alerts][2] or a similar service to send those messages to directly to your phone so you can find out about new apartment listings even when you're away from the computer?
To use Yahoo Alerts just login to your Yahoo account and head to the alerts page. Click the "feed/blog" category and paste in the url from Craig's List.
If you haven't already, set up your Yahoo Alert's account to send messages to your mobile phone. Enable your new feed to send SMS text messages and you're done. Using Yahoo Alerts you can limit the number of messages that get forwarded to your phone since, depending on your mobile plan, this may cost a bit of money.
Now you can get new apartment listings (or job leads or any number of other things) even when you're away from your computer.
[1]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/technophilia-craigslist-for-power-users-204312.php "Craigslist for power users"
[2]: http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=splash_signup_signin&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
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Content is a bit sparse at the moment, the site launched with 800 articles and few thousand more ported over from an earlier version of the site, but for the future the content development is in the hands of users. To contribute to Amapedia you must be a registered Amazon.com shopper.
One of the potential problems facing Amapedia is of course spam from product producers touting their wares or unfairly slagging the competition. There's a note in the guidelines that puts is thusly: "Amapedia is not the wild west... only a certain type of content belongs on this site.
As for what that "type of content" is, the following guidelines are listed on Amapedia:
Do:
* write about your favorite products
* find out what others’ favorite products are
* quantify why you like or dislike a product as much as possible ("oh, I didn’t like it" without any context is not very helpful to others)
* cite your sources
* disclose if you are affiliated with the product, such as being the author of a book (or the spouse or close friend of the author)
>Do Not:
* self-promote by referring to yourself, your work, or your Web sites in an article that is unrelated to your self-promotion
* store personal photos
* create a personal home page (we may support that in the future)
* talk in the first person in the main body of product articles (that’s what the "Anecdotes, Experiences, Opinions, Comments" section is for)
* express personal opinions about things that are not products (i.e., while we are very interested in your opinion about a book about the Iraq war -- particularly so if you can calmly document specific good and bad points about it -- we are not at all interested in your personal opinions about the Iraq war itself on this site)
* accept payments or gifts from anyone to edit material on Amapedia
At the moment there's no back-end way to scrape out the data, but given Amazon's typically robust APIs it's probably safe to assume that they're working on something. I'm curious if that last item was added recently, vis-à-vis Microsoft's paid wiki-editing snafu.
[1]: http://amapedia.amazon.com/ "Amapedia"
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* Proving that social media is more than just a marketing word, Senator Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers for some ideas on how normal Americans would [improve health care in the United States][1]. In the two days since Clinton posted her question nearly, 35,000 responses have been offered up.
[1]: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070124144113AAVmBL1 "Based on your own family's experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?"
* In a move that takes hypocrisy to astounding new levels, North Korea says that South Korea's [ban of 30 pro-North websites][2] violates "freedom." We at Monkey Bites abhor all forms of censorship, but this is a bit like black calling itself a kettle. Or words to that effect.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-26T062528Z_01_SEO147382_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-INTERNET.xml&src=rss "North Korea says South's Web ban violates freedom"
* IBM will [donate][3] its new "Identity Mixer" software to the Higgins open-source project. The software is designed to let people keep personal information secret when performing online business transactions. Anthony Nadalin, IBM's chief security architect tells Cnet, "the idea is that people provide encrypted digital credentials issued by trusted parties like a bank or government agency when transacting online, instead of sharing credit card or other details in plain text."
[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6153625.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "IBM donates new privacy tool to open-source"
* Pain in the Tech has a post on how you can [store your iTunes library using Amazon's S3][4] service and be able to access it from anywhere.
[4]: http://paininthetech.com/itunes_everywhere_using_amazon_s3_as_your_music_library "Using Amazon S3 as your music library"
* Yesterday in pointing out a Gadget Lab post on the possibility of new DeLoreans I made a joke about Flux Capacitors. Well it turns out someone at DeLorean has a sense of humor -- you can [order one from the Delorean parts store][5]. Just follow that link and search for "flux."
[5]: http://delorean.com/dmcstore/onlinestore-search.asp "Search DeLorean Parts for Flux Capacitor"
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Starbucks has seen the future and it [involves MP3s][1], not CDs. The coffee giant experimented with CD-burning machine in some stores last year, but later pulled them and apparently abandoned the idea.
Earlier this week, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said that the company will be adding MP3 "filling stations" later this year. "Within 12 months, probably, you're going to be able to walk into a Starbucks and digitally be able to fill up your MP3 player with music," Schultz claimed.
Though there are no details beyond that, but given that Starbucks already has its own section on the iTunes Store, Apple seems a likely partner for the venture.
The question is, will anyone want to buy music from Starbucks? Perhaps the MP3 machine will provide a way to avoid that pointless banter with the chatter-happy barista who's taking his time whipping up your over-priced coffee.
I wonder if Starbucks will list MP3 bit rates in faux Italian...
[1]: http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/personaltech/177102859 "Starbucks To Offer MP3s"
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Skrenta just posted a reminescnce of that time [on his blog][2]:
>It was a practical joke combined with a hack. A wonderful hack.
Back then nothing was networked. We had these computers in a lab, and there was software for them on floppy disks. You stick in the disk and run the software. Simple.
The aha moment was when I realized I could essentially get my program to move around by itself. I could give it its own motive force, by having it hide in the resident RAM of the machine between floppy changes, and hitching a ride onto the next floppy that would be inserted. Whoa. That would be cool.
Insight without implementation is worthless, so to work I went.
Elk Cloner was annoying, but hardly destructive. Every fifty times an infected system was booted Elk Cloner printed out the following poem
Elk Cloner: The program with a personality
>It will get on all your disks
It will infiltrate your chips
Yes it's Cloner!
It will stick to you like glue
It will modify RAM too
Send in the Cloner!
Ah the good old days!
[Trivia note for Apple fanboys: Elk Cloner was written for and infected the Apple II's operating system.]
[photo credit][3]
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner "Elk Cloner"
[2]: http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/the_joy_of_the_hack.html "The joy of the hack"
[3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/42066452/ "Flickr: Snow Crash"
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* [Wired Science][1] has some info on how theories of particles in fluid-dynamical flow can be used to solve such mundane problems as traffic congestion. Fascinating read.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/safety_on_the_j.html "Safety on the Jamarat Bridge"
* Table of Malcontents is [enthusiastic][2] about the first trailer for Danny Boyle's new sci-fi click, *Sunshine*. I watched the trailer over the weekend and while I want it to be good, I don't know, I'll hold off judging until I see the file, but what's up with the music in that trailer?
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_sun_is_dyin.html "The Sun is Dying -- Preview for Danny Boyle's New SF Flick"
* 27B Stroke 6 brings more [bad news in world of copyright][3]. U.S. courts decided not to allow orphaned works into the public domain. An orphaned work is copyrighted material "for which there is no longer a commercial life, and no discernible owner. It's otherwise out of print or unavailable, but no one can re-issue it, because no one can find out who they need permission from to re-issue it." So essentially everyone loses. Way to go U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/kahle_v_gonzale.html "Circuit says copyright orphans stay orphans"
* Last week I got an email announcement from Other Music that mentioned something about selling music online. I assumed that would mean DRM and so I ignored it, but luckily Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk is less cynical than me and he actually read the announcement. Turns out that [Other Music][5] is selling DRM-free MP3s at up to 320 Kbps. Sweet. Elliot has an [interview with the owner][4] of the world's greatest record store and its new online venture.
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/listeningpost/0,72523-0.html "A Real Music Store Sprouts Online"
[5]: http://www.othermusic.com/ "Other Music"
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For the iTunes component of that equation, Grooveshark is promising DRM-free MP3 downloads at under 99 cents a song. According to a [press release][2] the company put out a couple weeks back:
>Visitors can browse songs uploaded by other members and pay to download MP3 files with no digital rights management (DRM) technology. Songs vary in price, but cost no more than 99 cents. Grooveshark will pay appropriate royalties to copyright holders by taking commissions from users' transactions and also compensate users with free music for community participation such as uploading songs, fixing song tags, flagging unwanted files or reviewing music. Members will be rewarded based on their level of contribution to the community
As with Last.fm you create a profile complete with playlists and other info and then share it with your friends. You can join public groups and discover new music through listeners with similar tastes.
Grooveshark will begin beta testing sometime later this quarter.
Grooveshark sounds promising, but then so did that fat your body doesn't absorb and look how that ended. Hopefully Groove Shark won't suck, but we'll have to wait and see. I signed up for the beta so we'll be sure to keep you posted.
[found via [Torrentfreak][3]]
[1]: http://www.grooveshark.com/ "Grooveshark"
[2]: http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20070109/LATU03009012007-1.html "Grooveshark press release"
[3]: http://torrentfreak.com/grooveshark-to-offer-legal-p2p-alternative/ "Grooveshark to Offer Legal P2P Alternative"
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Table of Malcontents [cited][1] our Friday post on [Linux distros][2] as what Table sarcastically calls an "exciting, ultra-journalisticky" story. I'll agree that comparing Linux distros isn't exactly, uh, fun and, in an effort to be spared in Table's impending "armed uprising against the entire Wired News organization," We bring you Joke for Nerds.
Today's Joke for Nerds is [Get A First Life][3], the genius Second Life parody from Darren Barefoot. It's just one page and there isn't much to say about it, but enjoy. And remember in First Life you can "fornicate using your actual genitals." Cool.
Maybe this humor thing will be a daily thing, maybe not. And yeah maybe we did steal the tag-line from [Ze Frank][4], so?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/guns_for_girls_.html "Guns for Girls, Weapons for Women"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/compare_linux_d.html "Compare Linux Distros"
[3]: http://www.getafirstlife.com/ "Get A First Life"
[4]: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/01/012207.html "Ze Frank: The Show"
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The decision to merge the previously separate entities is part of an effort to consolidate and re-organize open-source software development and enable it to compete more effectively against Microsoft.
(Note that those first two links will begin redirecting to the third soon; as of this writing all three are in a state of transition so YMMV.)
[1]: http://www.freestandards.org/ "Free Standards"
[2]: http://osdl.org "Open Source Development Labs"
[3]: http://www.linux-foundation.org/ "Linux Foundation"
Jim Zemlin, formerly FSG's executive director, will head the Linux Foundation and the new group has the backing of I.B.M., Intel, Hewlett-Packard and other major corporations heavily invested in Linux as an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
The Linux Foundation's goals include improving backwards compatibility within Linux distributions and to provide legal protection for Linux kernal developers.
Most open source supporters agree that Linux needs a single standard specification for application developers, which is one of the Linux Foundation's primary goals. The foundation hopes to improve interoperability between the various Linux distributions.
As it stands now, Linux software developers often are forced to modify their applications so they can run on different distributions.
The Linux Foundation plans to continue many existing OSDL and FSG projects, including the [Portland project][4], which seeks, among other things, to bridge the KDE and GNOME GUIs. Other areas the foundation will be helping to organize include software packages, system update tools and software packages.
The hope for organizers, and their corporate backers, is that the Linux Foundation will become the the primary source for Linux development, similar to the way the Mozilla Foundation is the heart of browser development or the Apache Foundation is central to server development.
The one-stop-shop approach will also help Linux provide an organized front in its drive to overtake competitor and chief rival in the desktop market, Microsoft.
[4]: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ "The Portland Project"
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According to the lawsuit, Richter, who was previously sued by Microsoft and settled out of court, either phished MySpace accounts himself or or bought phished accounts to target with his spam campaign.
The lawsuit alleges that Richter "arranged for millions of spam 'bulletins'" to be sent from MySpace users' accounts without their knowledge by gaining access to them illegally.
This is probably the one and only time you'll read this on this blog, but, go MySpace.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T202842Z_01_N22474380_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-SPAM.xml&src=rss "MySpace sues e-mail marketer for spam messages"
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* Apple [faces a new lawsuit][1], this one from Quantum Research Group who claims the iPod's click wheels infringe on their patents. The lawsuit was actually filed way back in December of 2005 but have kept quiet about it until now.
[1]: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/22/40565/Apple+faces+patent+claim+over+iPod+touch+sensor+technology.htm "Apple faces patent claim over iPod touch sensor technology"
* Microsoft's Zune music service could [launch in Europe][2] by the end of the year.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-21T175515Z_01_L20750742_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-ZUNE.xml&WTmodLoc=TechNewsHome_C2_technologyNews-2 "Microsoft could launch Zune in Europe by end 2007"
* Popular blogging tool Wordpress has [updated to version 2.1][3]. New features include: autosave, a new tabbed editor that allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing, lossless XML import and export, spell checking and much more.
[3]: http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/ "WordPress 2.1 'Ella'"
* And finally, TSIA: [Giant Space Invaders scene visible from space][4].
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/22/giant_space_invaders.html "Giant Space Invaders scene visible from space"
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* Farecast, the airfare prediction site, has opened a new service that lets you [lock in low fares][5]. For 10 dollars you can "protect" the lowest fare from your search for the next week. If the fare rises, you pay only your protected, low fare.
[5]: http://www.farecast.com/fareGuardPromo.do "Farecast Fare Guard"
* Google wants to do for books what the iPod did for music. The secret labs over at Google are [cooking up a system][2] that would let readers download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a Blackberry. Call me skeptical, but I don't think eBooks are gonna catch on any time soon.
[2]: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2557728,00.html "Google plots e-books coup"
* IBM will be [introducing][3] a set of social networking services that functions like "a MySpace for office workers" later today. The software, dubbed Lotus Connections, offers "the business equivalent of Web meeting places like MySpace" as well as tools "similar" to del.icio.us and Technorati together in one package. Hmm. So they've released a bunch of stuff that already exists.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T054216Z_01_N21365125_RTRUKOC_0_US-IBM-WEB.xml&src=rss "IBM renews Microsoft rivalry with new Web software"
* From Reuters: "Merlin, the new agency representing the world's independent music sector, has agreed to a deal with digital music company Snocap which will allow its labels' music to be [sold from Web sites][4] such as MySpace."
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T145801Z_01_L21669802_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-INDEPENDENTS.xml&src=rss "Independent record labels sign MySpace deal"
* TSIA: [The web 2.0 name generator][1].
[1]: http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html "Generate Wacky Web 2.0 business names"
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Wikipedia has [experimented with nofollow][3] in the past and the community voted against it, but as Wikipedia continues to grow it becomes an even bigger spam target. Spammers looking to raise their page rank via inbound links continually spam Wikipedia using robots, spiders and even hand editing to get their links onto the site.
Wikipedia's decision to use the nofollow attribute in outbound links may deter some of the link spam since having a link with nofollow doesn't help page rank which is the spammers main goal.
The <code>rel="nofollow"</code> attribute was in fact designed for exactly the reasons that Wikipedia has implemented it. Google [recommends][4] the tag be used in any situation where users may post public links that cannot be trusted, such as wiki-style editable pages or blog comments.
Unlike the "robots" meta tag which resides in a page's header and tells search engine robots not to *follow* any links in the document, the rel tag does not stop Google's spiders from following the link, it merely tells them not to count the link when calculating the linked page's ranking.
Naturally not everyone is happy with Wikipedia's decision.
Critics of the move claim that it will do little to stop spam and argue that it hurts legitimate sites, who may lose search engine ranking, more than it hurts the spammers. Additionally some bloggers are upset because they feel Wikipedia owes its popularity in part to the bloggers who linked to it.
But most of these criticisms don't hold much water, particularly the shrill cries of but-we-made-you-what-you-are from bloggers threatening to add nofollow attributes to all their Wikipedia links.
If I remember right, links were created for humans to get from one page to another, so regardless of what Wikipedia's links may mean for page rank, the links still serve their intended function.
[1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/061137.html "Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now"
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalwarming_awareness2007.2FSEO_world_championship_--_expect_a_spam_onslaught. "Globalwarming_awareness2007 Spam Campaign"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nofollow "Wikipedia history of nofollow"
[4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html "Google Blog on nofollow"
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WriteRoom bills itself as "a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment," which is apt since it straddles the line between word processor and text editor in terms of formatting features, but the focus is really the full screen editing mode.
In full screen mode it is indeed just you and your words -- no distractions. But even in full screen mode, you can still access menus, the menu bar, scroll bar, and word count appear when you move your mouse to the edge of the screen, much like DVD player and other full screen apps. The escape key returns you to the normal editing mode.
You can pick your choice of background and text colors in the preferences pane as well as control the width and height of the editing portion of your screen.
There are also a number of plugins available to further extend WriteRoom's capabilities. Plugins listed on Hog Bay's site range from Mail export scripts to Growl support for word counts.
WriteRoom can also install a plugin that adds a universal "Edit in WriteRoom" menu item to other application's edit menu. Very handy if you end up deciding you love WriteRoom, since with one keystroke combination you can jump from any program over to WriteRoom.
Depending on what sort of writing you're doing that may or may not be helpful. When working on articles for wired or posts for this blog I'm constantly flipping between my editor, my email client, RSS reader and web browser which makes WriteRoom's full screen mode less than ideal, useless in fact. I like to see the browser window in the background with an press release on it.
But later in the evenings, when I write for my own site or work on other projects, I find WriteRoom's appeal easier to understand. I'm not going to suggesting that WriteRoom can replace emacs or Vi(m) in fact though I've had it for over a year I rarely actually open WriteRoom, but when I do I'm always glad I did, if for no other reason than the pure black background reminds me to clean my screen every now and then.
WriteRoom is $25. Windows users can check out [Dark Room][3] which is pretty much the same thing, but made for Windows.
[1]: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/ "Hog Bay Software"
[2]: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom "WriteRoom"
[3]: http://they.misled.us/dark-room "Dark Room"
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* Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has the [scoop on the Avvenu Music Player][1] which "lets you stream any music on your Windows XP computer to all sorts of connected devices: PCs, Macs, PDAs, and Windows Mobile 5 smartphones."
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/01/stream_youritun.html "Stream iTunes Playlists to Anywhere"
* Game|Life [reports][2] that the Pope doesn't like violent video games.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/pope_not_blessi.html "Pope Not Blessing Violent Games"
* Just in time for that beerfest that is the Super Bowl, Table of Malcontents [discovers a Dutch-made beer made for dogs][3]. Give your pooch some love on game day.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_dutch_are_g.html "The Dutch Are Geniuses: Beer for Dogs"
* Gadget Lab wants to [see a new DeLorean][4], which I'm all for so long as the flux capacitor isn't on the fritz.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/yes_bring_back_.html "Yes, Bring back the DeLorean!"
[photo credit][5]
[5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpstorm/117974762/ "Geek's Palette"
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YouTube operates separate from the rest of Google and while I'm sure Google helps out, primary development is still in the hands of YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
Google Video on the other hand will apparently be morphing into some sort of video search engine that catalogs content, according to the Google Blog, "irrespective of where it may be hosted."
Essentially it sounds like Google Video might turn into something like Google Image Search. Is Google trying to get back to its search roots?
[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-ahead-at-google-video-and-youtube.html "A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube"
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* As part of its drive to promote Windows Vista, Microsoft has [reportedly partnered up with T-Mobile][1] to offer free Hotspot Wi-Fi access for 90 days starting Friday. Details are few, but we do know this, you'll need a laptop running Windows Vista.
[1]: http://www.betanews.com/article/Free_TMobile_Hotspot_for_Vista_Users/1169666834 "Free T-Mobile Hotspot for Vista Users"
* Opera has [released][2] the special slimmed down version of its web browser for the OLPC project to the general public. The lightweight version of Opera is "almost a normal desktop build," which means it can compile on any Linux machine.
[2]: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/704304 "Opera OLPC Edition"
* A url hack has been [found in MyBlogLog][3] which can trick innocent members of MyBlogLog into joining your community in one click. Should be a boon for spammers.
[3]: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/mybloglog-spammers-can-trick-users.html "MyBlogLog Spammers Can Trick Users Into Joining Any MyBlogLog Community"
* MySpace and GoDaddy get to share the Jackass of the Week award for [taking down][4] the website SecLists.org. The site's owner writes: "Instead of simply writing me (or abuse_at_seclists.org) asking to have the password list removed, MySpace decided to contact (only) GoDaddy and try to have the whole site of 250,000 pages removed because they don't like one of them."
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/myspace_alleged.html "MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website"
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* Norway's consumer ombudsman has [declared iTunes illegal][1]. Norway says that because iTunes does not allow downloaded songs to be played on rival technology companies' devices, it violates Norway's consumer protection laws. The ombudsman has set a deadline of October 1 for the Apple to make its codes available to other technology companies or face closure orders. I'm all for getting rid of DRM, but by this logic wouldn't OS X be illegal as well since it only runs on Apple hardware?
[1]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1fc40360-abe9-11db-a0ed-0000779e2340.html "Norway declares Apple's iTunes illegal"
* Fox has [subpoenaed YouTube][2] seeking the names of users who uploaded "24" and "Simpsons" episodes to the popular video sharing site. While some networks like CBS have come to realize that YouTube videos actually raise the view audience of TV shows, Fox apparently hasn't gotten that memo and continues its long standing run as the red-headed stepchild of TV networks (no offense to red-headed stepchildren intended).
[2]: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i8e461f30b83c62d96a9492015f195e99 "Fox seeks YouTube user's identity"
* In possibly related news, Americans are smarter than I thought. Despite the efforts of the RIAA, MPAA and others, most Americans [do not equate downloading with theft][3] (the Supreme Court has repeated ruled that copyright infringement does not equate to theft). Solutions Research Group reports that only 40 percent of Americans think downloading is a serious offense on par with shoplifting a CD.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-25T143543Z_01_N25169626_RTRUKOC_0_US-PIRACT.xml&src=rss "Americans think downloading no big deal"
* Slyck, a tech news site I was previously unaware of, has posted a great [interview with muslix64][4] the hacker who cracked the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray encryption schemes. Muslix64 calls his (her?) efforts "fair use enforcement."
[4]: http://www.slyck.com/story1390.html "Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD"
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It might take some time to scan your library so you're probably better off doing it in batches, rather than attempting everything at one time.
Once you've analyzed your library beaTunes can assign a color to each track which helps to visually arrange songs and makes it a little easier to create playlists. Unfortunately creating playlists is mainly a by-hand experience, I wasn't able to find anyway to automate the process save sorting a playlist by BPM.
Because it's written in Java, beaTunes can be a little slow at times and it's certainly a resource hog, currently sucking down about 112MB worth of RAM (iTunes by contrast is using about half that).
There's a couple of odd "features" in beaTunes, first off is the recommendation panel that can be displayed along the bottom of the window. There aren't many details available about the recommendations feature on the beaTunes site, but the data comes from Amazon and I'm pretty sure the program is using affiliate links, which means they get a cut of your purchase.
Now with websites affiliate links don't generally bother me, but with actual desktop software that's already charging $20 for a license, it seems a bit hucksterish to attempt to monetize a feature others give away.
The other odd feature is the "Blog This" tool which allows you to post a blog entry about the selection. The tool supports any Atom 1.0 compatible blog, but I can't help wondering who's going to use it?
If you're looking for a cross-platform BPM solution, beaTunes might be the ticket. But given the lack of speed and hefty resource consumption of the current release, Mac users would be better off with Tangerine.
[1]: http://www.beatunes.com/ "beaTunes"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/tangerine_is_a_.html "Monkeybites on Tangerine"
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* 27B Stroke 6 has your ["Guide to a Guide to Digital Issues in New Congress."][1] Very meta. And informative.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/27bs_guide_to_a.html "Guide to a Guide to Digital Issues in New Congress"
* Bodyhack [sums this one up][2] in the headline: "Germ-Free Paper Debuts... But Why?" Why indeed? It's high time we had an anti-bacterial backlash, spray on germs, shots that give you the flu, other fun stuff.
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/germfree_paper_.html "Germ-Free Paper Debuts... But Why?"
* Wired columnist Tony Long has an article about [the legendary Mac "1984" commercial][3] on this the 23rd anniversary of said ad. I for one never new that the Apple board tried to stop the ad from being shown and Wozniak saved it saying, "he'd pay for the spot personally if the board refused to air it."
[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72496-0.html?tw=rss.index "Jan. 22, 1984: Dawn of the Mac"
* Table of Malcontents [has a post][4] about one of my all time favorite movies, Peter Greenaway's *The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover,* which is still one of the most visceral, disturbing and beautiful films I've ever seen. Speaking of Greenaway, he has a new movie *Nightwatching*, it's currently in post production and is scheduled to be released later this year.
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/erratic_thought_8.html "Table on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
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If you still have your lunch down at the bottom of your stomach then you may not see the humor in [Vojosalsa][1], but the rest of you swallowing and looking for a glass of juice will probably love it.
From the site: "written with just ONE LINE OF CODE using 'Ruby on Rails' on rails, Vojosalsa epitomizes the 'less is more' Web 2.0 philosophy. In fact, when it comes to online services, we are quite possibly the least, and thus, most."
And my personal favorite: "Wow. It seems like only this morning we put the final touches on the drop shadow and shading of our logo. I can't believe that that was actually yesterday afternoon…"
Enjoy.
[1]: http://www.vojosalsa.com/ "Vojosalsa"
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* [Blu-Ray DRM has been cracked][1]. The HD-DVD competitor no longer needs to feel left out. The same person who cracked HD-DVD DRM has applied the technique to Blu-Ray and found that it works.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/bluray_drm_crac.html "Blu-Ray DRM Cracked"
* Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and some others have apparently been working with human rights groups and legal experts to [devise a code of conduct][2] for protecting online free speech and privacy. I'm pretty sure that's not a joke. Perhaps Google just doesn't consider China part of the internet.
[2]: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070122GoogleYahooMSDevisingCodeofConduct.html "Google, Yahoo, MS Devising Code Of Conduct"
* A virus [spread through spam emails][3] with subject lines like "Fidel Castro dead" and "Saddam Hussein safe and sound" has infected thousands of computers according to Spain's Association of Internauts. Wait a sec, there's an Association of Internauts?
[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070122/tc_afp/spaincubainternet "'Castro is dead' spam email infects computers"
* Rumor: [Techcrunch reports][4] that the domain google.de was done for many hours yesterday possibly because Google forgot to renew the domain name. If that's true is sure makes me feel better about the two domains I lost for the same reason.
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/23/google-forgets-to-renew-googlede-site-goes-down/ "Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down"
* This just in: DRM still sucks.
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The preview contains the text of the feed and any images as well. I don't know about enclosure links because I don't subscribe to any podcasts through Google Personalized Homepage.
It's no substitute for a full on RSS reader, but if you use Google Homepage to stay on top of the day's news the new widgets are a nice way to quickly scan a story. (Screenshot after the jump.)
If you'd like to ["Supersize" your RSS experience][2] I compiled last weeks RSS tips into an article that went up on Wired.com this morning.
[1]: http://www.google.com/ig "Google Homepage"
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72542-0.html?tw=wn_index_6 "Supersize Your RSS"
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There's a couple over innovative ways to search Etsy, something called "Time Machine" which I think lists items as they were added by seller, but then again it could items the were recently purchased -- I can't quite figure it out.
My personal favorite is "[Treasury][4]" which I think lets you watch what other people are browsing in realtime. Cursors dart across the screen with that users profile picture (in the have one).
Then there's [Connections][3], which is sort of a shopping version of [They Rule][2]. People and products form nodes and clicking on a person brings up the products they've marked as favorites as well as that users friends.
Etsy runs a little slow, though some of that may be that they wound up on Digg today. This is probably old news to some and the creative browsing methods may qualify as useless eye candy, but Etsy's search methods are sort of fun and definitely different.
[2]: http://www.theyrule.net/ "They Rule"
[1]: http://www.etsy.com/ "Etsy.com"
[3]: http://www.etsy.com/connections.php "Etsy Connections"
[4]: http://www.etsy.com/treasury.php "Etsy Treasury"
[5]: http://www.etsy.com/treasury.php "Etsy Colors"
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ActiveState claims Komodo IDE 4.0 is everything you need to edit, test, and debug entire web applications. In short Komodo wants to be your one ring. ActiveState provided us with a demo version last week and I've been playing with it for several days to see if it delivers on that goal.
Chief among Komodo 4.0's new features is browser-side support. While previous versions offered syntax coloring, Komodo 4.0 adds debugging, a DOM viewer, and HTTP Inspector and more.
With the rising popularity of AJAX and the difficulties involved in debugging Javascript, it's no surprise that ActiveState is touting Komodo's new JavaScript debugging capabilites. Unfortunately this is one case where you'll have to leave the IDE. Komodo's Javascript debugging involves using the Firefox web browser and the Komodo JavaScript DBGP extension.
Similar to the popular Firefox Javascript debugging extension [Firebug][2], the DBGP extension allows you to step through your code within debugging sessions.
For more tradition programming language Komodo offers all the features you'd expect in a good text editor and integrates a shell in the lower pane so you can run your scripts (see screenshots below).
I'll confess that I'm a text editor junkie and this is the first IDE I've ever used, but for people like me Komodo now offers modal Vi keybindings to emulate navigation, as well as text insertion and visual selections which mimic the command-line modes of Vi and Vim. Komodo also supports emacs keybindings.
Komodo also offers a plugin structure using Mozilla APIs based on XUL, XBL, and XPCOM, as well as Komodo's own structures which support plugins written in Python and JavaScript. The company claims "if you've written an extension for Firefox, you'll be comfortable writing one for Komodo."
Komodo was stable and had no speed issues on my MacBook Core 2 Duo. While I don't think I'll be abandoning my beloved text editor any time soon, if you're looking for a full fledged IDE Komodo 4.0 does indeed deliver the goods.
Komodo IDE 4.0 is $295. Right now Komodo is offering a promotional price $245 which lasts until the end of February. Current users can upgrade for $90 and there's a three week trail version as well.
[1]: http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ "Komodo 4.0 now available"
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ "Firefox extension Firebug"
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* The European drive to unlock iTunes is [gaining support][1]. German and French consumer groups have joined the Nordic nations in their drive to force Apple to make iTunes downloads compatible with digital music players made by competitors.
[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/23/europe.itunes.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech "European drive against iTunes builds support"
* Intel has confirmed that it will be [shipping next generation wifi chips][2] ahead of schedule. The announcement comes just after news that the draft 802.11n wireless standard will be finalized later this year.
[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1044_3-6152489.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "Intel speeds up delivery of faster Wi-Fi"
* Google Groups has [come out of beta][3] and announced a few new features including the ability to customize the look of your group, create and edit web pages, upload and share files (including photos), and view member profiles.
[3]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/lets-get-together.html "Google Groups out of beta"
* Wired reports that the CIA is [trawling Facebook][4] looking for new recruits.
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72545-0.html "CIA Gets in Your Face(book)"
* Apple has [patched a flaw in QuickTime][5] that allowed malicious coders to install malware onto vulnerable systems. The vulnerability, brought to light as part of the [Month of Apple Bugs][6]" project, affects both Windows and Mac OS X.
[5]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304989 "About Security Update 2007-001"
[6]: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/ "the Month of Apple Bugs"
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Since I already [reviewed beta 1][4] a while ago I won't go into a lot of details, but I did want to say that beta 2 resolves all the stability issues I experienced with beta 1.
The offical [beta 2 release notes][2] mirror those of beta 1, but there's also a complete list of [bug fixes available][3].
Thunderbird is progressing nicely although I have no real way to test it, beta 2 feels a good bit snappier than the first release and I'm happy to say the IMAP speeds are much improved.
[2]: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/releases/2.0b2.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 release notes"
[3]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/01/2-0beta2.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 2 bug fixes"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mozilla_has_rel.html "Thunderbird 2.0 beta 1 reviewed"
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The first thing you'll notice about the new version of Toast is the completely redesigned interface. Whiz-bang graphical effects abound, background images subtly rotate and when hiding and changing windows Toast 8 fades in and out and resizes the main window into other widows. While mostly useless eye candy, this seems to follow a trend in Mac apps lately as Adobe's PhotoShop CS 3 beta also features some similar effects. [Screenshots after the jump.]
The overall layout of the Toast 8 is significantly different from previous versions. The drawers and tabs are gone, replaced by an interface that looks something like that of iTunes' iPod browser view. The various burning tasks have moved from the old tabs across the top to a sidebar and the iLife media browser now floats in its own palette.
But the changes aren't just skin deep. Once you get past the physical appearances, Toast 8 has some impressive new features as well. Roxio has essential rolled all the features of Jam and Popcorn into Toast making it more of a one-stop burning destination (Popcorn 2.0 is still available as a stand alone product for legacy hardware).
My favorite new feature in Toast 8 is the ability create audio mix CDs with smooth, DJ-style cross-fades and transitions. When you drag your iTunes playlist into Toast 8 there's an edit button for each track that allows you to control the transition and/or fade between tracks. You can choose a preset fade-in/fade-out style or create a custom cross-fade via an editing window that lets you preview your fades before committing to them.
There's also a new set of audio tools including the ability to edit and trim tracks, adjust output levels, apply sound enhancing filters, and set unique pauses between tracks. There's a wide range of filters which offer everything from enhanced reverb to 32 band EQ.
Also on the audio front there are some new tools to help you convert tunes from LPs and tape including noise reduction filters. Unfortunately my record player is kaput so I haven't tested these features.
Toast 8 adds support for printing directly on discs using LightScribe-enabled burners and media if you happen to have one.
On the data side of Toast 8 the ability to span files across multiple discs returns with support for both Mac and PCs. For Mac-only discs there's a new option to auto catalog the contents after burning. If you're burning mixed OS CDs you can still use the stand-alone program DiscCatalogMaker RE (included with the purchase of Toast 8) to create archive listings, but you'll have to do it by hand. Once archived, you can search the contents of your backup CDs and DVDs even when they're not mounted.
The big news in Toast 8's improved video capabilities is addition of Blu-Ray support which makes Toast the first program for the Mac to support the new video format. I don't have a Blu-Ray capable burner so I wasn't able to test it, but the possibility of 50 gigabyte backups makes the purchase of a Blu-Ray burner very tempting.
Another big feature of Toast 8 Titanium is addition of TiVoToGo features. When you install Toast for the first time it will ask you if you want to install TiVoToGo features. You then have the option to enter your TiVo's Media Access key and Toast should automatically acquire the device and allow you to begin importing your DVR content.
Once you bring your TiVo recordings over to the Mac you can then burn them to disc for playback or convert them for use on the video iPod. Because I don't have a TiVo device to test it with I can't say for sure how well it works. My Monkeybites cohort Michael Calore saw a demo at Mac world and said it looked very easy, but the folks over at iLounge [reported a few hiccups][1] and weren't entirely happy with the compression and file size -- YMMV.
Overall Toast 8 Titanium is a solid upgrade and well worth the investment. If you have a TiVo or Blu-Ray burner I highly recommend it. Even if you don't, the new audio editing features and automatic disc cataloging are still enough to make Toast 8 a must-have upgrade.
Toast 8 Titanium is $100, Roxio has a $20 mail in rebate and Toast 7 owners can upgrade for $60. There are also upgrade specials available for the owners of other Roxio software like Popcorn and Jam.
[1]: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/ipod/review/roxio-toast-8-titanium-with-tivotogo/ "Roxio Toast 8 Titanium with TiVoToGo"
[2]: http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html "Toast 8 Overview"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/macworld_best_i.html "Monkeybites on Toast 8 announcement"
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The term Ajax gets bandied about quite a bit, usually in conjunction with that wretch-inducing catch phrase -- web 2.0. Depending on who you're talking to, Ajax can alternately be celebrated as the panacea of the future or, more cynically, the "skip intro" of the 21st century.
To get a good overview of how Ajax works, have a look at Garrett's [article][2] on the subject; it gets fairly technical at times, but if you have some background in web development it shouldn't be too hard to follow.
In order to help you decide whether Ajax is right for your site, I thought we'd start off with another nice overview tutorial/guide from Eddie Traversa of DHTML Nirvana, entitled, aptly enough, *[Ajax: What is it Good For?][1]*.
Traversa walks you through Ajax's history and provides a nice synopsis of what Ajax is and how it can be useful.
>It also needs to be clear that Ajax isn't a technology as such but rather is a technique that combines well with other technologies and techniques. For example, xml, dhtml, css, xhtml. In fact, Ajax really is DHTML with the xmlhttprequest object thrown in
That last sentence is just about the best sound-bite summary of Ajax I've ever heard.
The tutorial also walks you through a simple example and provides all the necessary files to get your Ajax experiment up and running.
Photo from [Colgate-Palmolive][3].
[3]: http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate/US/HC/Products/HouseholdCleaners/Ajax.cvsp "Photo Credit"
[1]: http://dhtmlnirvana.com/ajax/ajax_tutorial/ "DHTML Nirvana on Ajax"
[2]: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications"
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The Google Book Search blog says:
>When our automatic techniques determine that there are a good number of quality locations from a book to show you, you'll find a map on the "About this book" page.
What constitutes "quality locations" is anyone's guess, but a few random searches outside the guidebook genre turned up some interesting maps including one for Bram Stoker's *[Dracula][4]* and Neal Stephenson's globe trotting *[Cryptonomicon][5]*. The Google Book Blog lists some other, non-guide examples including *[The Travels of Marco Polo][3]* and *[Around The World In Eighty Days][2]*.
Each map pin has shows the revelant text from the book and there's a direct link to that page in the book which allows you to see if the information contained is germane to your needs.
While it's fun to zoom to locations in Jules Verne's classic, it may not ultimately be very useful, however, for those looking for a guidebook, the new mapping features are quite helpful.
Unfortunately in some cases the mapping data is not particularly relevant. For instance in the Dracula link given above one of the listings is for Waterloo, Canada (just outside of Toronto) when in fact the book is referring to the more famous [Waterloo][6] of present day Belgium.
Of course a Google search for Waterloo also brings up the Canadian city far ahead of the site in belgium, but since standard Google searches aren't contextual, that isn't really a problem. But maps within Google Books are contextual and somewhat misleading as a result.
Technical quibbles aside, the maps-books mash-up is still quite fun and I'm looking forward to seeing it improve over time.
Mapping for the [Rough Guide to Guatamala][7]:
Example of highlighted in-book reference:
[7]: http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1858288487&id=zS3TjIGbOXkC&dq=rough+Guide+to+Guatamala "Rough Guide to Guatamala"
[6]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo "Wikipedia: Battle of Waterloo"
[3]: http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02715307 "The Travels of Marco Polo"
[2]: http://books.google.com/books?id=2_OflXjThdIC "Around the World in Eighty Days"
[1]: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/01/books-mapped.html "Google Book Search Adds Maps"
[4]: http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486411095&id=1I1wtCeJ1nAC&dq=Dracula "Bram Stoker Dracula"
[5]: http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0380788624&id=FUha9wJrSXMC&dq=Cryptonomicon "Cryptonomicon"
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We should note that, [according to Ars Technica][3], while Lightroom will run fine on Windows Vista, users will need to wait for a free update for full disc-burning support.
New features in the final version of Lightroom include:
* Improvements to Develop, Slideshow, Printing and Web output
* Improved import dialogue with more flexible file handling that allows Lightroom internal data to better match disk structure.
* A new Key Metadata Browser improves the ranking and rating system and now incorporates color labels and a pick/reject system that sorts and locates photographs.
* Additional tools including a Hue, Saturation and Luminance adjustments.
* Full compatibility with Photoshop Camera RAW 3.7
* Virtual Copies and Snapshot tools allow multiple RAW settings on a single physical file.
Camera RAW 3.7 will be released at the same time as Lightroom and features a number of upgrades as well including support for Lightroom's new non-destructive RAW editing tools.
Adobe claims that more than 500,000 users participated in the public beta program over the last 12 months. John Loiacono, senior vice president, Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe said in a press release, "this was truly a collaborative effort and we extend our thanks to everyone who provided invaluable feedback."
Adobe says that, despite the "Photoshop" in Lightroom's official name, the program will not be part of the Photoshop suite, but will remain a standalone program. Nor will Lightroom, as some have claimed, replace Bridge, Adobe's basic RAW editing tool that ships as part of Photoshop.
Most of the features in Lightroom mirror that of Apple's Aperture tool and with nearly identical price points, the competition between the two should start heating up. As soon as we get our hands on a copy of Lightroom 1.0 we'll let you know how the two stack up against each other.
[Lightroom beta 4.1][4] will continue to work until expiration on Febrary 28.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ "Adobe Lightroom 1.0"
[2]: http://www.apple.com/aperture/ "Apple Aperture"
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070128-8720.html "Ars Technica on Lightroom"
[4]: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Flightroom "Download Lightroom beta 4.1"
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* Adobe [announced today][7] that is will release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) specification in hope that it will be ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Perhaps not coincidentally Microsoft Office 2007, which hits retail shelves tomorrow, includes a new file format XPS which aims to dethrone PDF as the de-facto standard.
[7]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/012907OpenPDFAIIM.html "Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization"
* YouTube's Chad Hurley hints that YouTube will begin [sharing advertising revenue with users][2] (video) who contribute to the site. Speaking at the at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Hurley said the system would launch in a "couple of months."
[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlYtu63_uDE&eurl= "Chad Hurley at Davos"
* Google's Sergie Brin recently [admitted][5] that agreeing to China's censorship was, "on a business level... a net negative." Brin says the move has hurt Google's reputation in the U.S. and Europe. The half-hearted apology probably hasn't helped either since Brin implies that the problem isn't the censorship itself, but the [reaction to it][6].
[5]: http://business.guardian.co.uk/davos2007/story/0,,1999994,00.html "Google admits censorship was a mistake"
[6]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070129/005115.shtml "Google's China Censorship Non-Apology Apology Really A Swipe At The Press"
* Adobe has announced the [official release][1] of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom which will arrive in stores on February 19th. Contrary to what the name might imply, Lightroom is not part of the Photoshop suite and will remain a standalone program. Lightroom 1.0 will be $300 though there is a introductory special of $200 if you purchase before April 30.
[1]: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ "Adobe Lightroom"
* [Fake Finder][4] is a new torrent search the lists fake torrents uploaded by the MPAA and RIAA. The torrents are supposedly used to entrap downloaders, but it's doubtful whether such tactics would actually hold up in a court of law. [via [TorrentFreak][3]]
[3]: http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-find-fake-torrents-uploaded-by-the-mpaa-and-riaa/ "How to Find Fake Torrents Uploaded by the MPAA and RIAA"
[4]: http://fenopy.com/fakefinder/ "Fake Finder"
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What remains unclear is exactly what form the revenue sharing will take, the [BBC][3] reports that one of the options might be pre-roll ads, but hopefully that won't be the case. Arguably one the keys to YouTube's success thus far is that they have eschewed in-stream ads.
But lack of compensation has driven many YouTubers to turn to competing services like [lonelygirl15][5], who now posts on both YouTube and the monitized site Revver.
Sites like [Revver][4] and [Metacafe][2] have differentiated themselves from YouTube primarily by offering compensation for content creators, but with YouTube jumping in the revenue sharing game they may lose their appeal.
Revver shares in-stream ad revenue with users and Metacafe offers Producer Rewards which functions in much the same way. Metacafe manages to set itself apart from YouTube a little bit more by reviewing and filtering content and catering more toward semi-professional video producers.
As Arik Czerniak, co-founder & CEO of Metacafe says, "a 5-minute clip of your toddler's birthday isn't going to make it to Metacafe's site but it will sit on YouTube."
Czerniak says that the challenges YouTube will face lie in finding the content that will make advertising dollars. There's also the issue of exposure, which can be hard to come by on YouTube. How do you stand out and earn revenue when there's already a million existing videos of backyard ninja stunts on YouTube?
Then of course there's the copyright issues, if users are able to monotize copyrighted clips of the Simpsons you can bet the lawsuits are going to come crashing down. Presumably YouTube plans to address the copyright issues before it goes public with the new revenue sharing service.
Metacafe's Czerniak isn't worried about YouTube's planned sharing model. "You have to market and promote your own video to get noticed and it's very easy to get lost," he says. He believes that Metacafe's reviewed content model offers a better solution, "if your content is good, it will rise to the top."
Much like Czerniak's vision of Metacafe, the most financially viable of these sites will also likely rise to the top, and only time will tell which one will come out ahead.
[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72022-0.html?tw=rss.index "Runner-Up Takes on YouTube"
[3]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6305957.stm "YouTubers to get ad money share"
[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71780-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 "Piercing the Veil of Lonelygirl15"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/networks.html "Wired Roundup of video sharing sites"
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[1]: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WORLD_FORUM_YOUTUBE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-27-10-10-20 "YouTube to Share Revenue With Users"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.29.07/Tue/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.29.07/Tue/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d1eab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.29.07/Tue/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Vista has arrived. Microsoft brings retail versions of its flagship products to stores today. Check out Bruce Gain's [review of Vista][1] and my own take on [Office 2007][2]. + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/reviews/0,72295-0.html "Why You Don't Need Vista Now" +[2]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72596-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 "Blue Ribbon Debut for Office 2007" + +* Not sure if it's what MS has in mind for Vista's launch publicity, but Canadian hacker Alex Ionescu claims to have found a way to [circumvent the built-in DRM][4]. So far he hasn't released the code because he's worried about legal implications. + +[4]: http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=24 "Vista DRM exploit" + +* In a move that must have been calculated to steal a bit Microsoft's thunder, Apple [released][3] new multi-colored iPod Shuffles this morning. You can now get your shuffle in pink, orange, green, blue and gray. + +[3]: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/ "iPod Shuffle" + +* In an attempt to make the possibly popular online world, Second Life, as pointlessly dull as the real world, Sweden [announced][6] it will open the first embassy inside Second Life. That does it, Second Life has official joined MySpace which means there's now two items on my list of "never have, never will." + + +[6]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-30T141717Z_01_L30445021_RTRUKOC_0_US-SWEDEN-SECONDLIFE.xml&src=rss "Sweden to open first virtual embassy in Second Life" + +* Google Earth has [added a layer][5] that brings the sunrise to your computer screen. The new layer include video vignettes drawn from Discovery HD Theater's "Sunrise Earth" program. + +[5]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-sunrise-layer-on-google-earth.html "New sunrise layer on Google Earth"
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Highlights from the study: over 50 percent of blog pings are spam, most spam blogs are based in Mountain View CA and MySpace is now the largest contributer of to the world of blogs. + +[4]: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/01/pings-spings-splogs-and-the-splogosphere-2007-updates/ "Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates" + +* For those Mac users who are lovin' Vista, Parallels has [released a new build][7] of its popular virtualization software. Parallels Release Candidate 2 adds full USB support, improvements to Coherence Mode and more. + +[7]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 2" + +* Google has added some more tools to its [Webmaster Tools][5] to include a way to view a much larger sample of pages with inbound links your site. From the [Google Webmaster Central blog][6]: "unlike the link: operator, this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and downloaded. All you need to do is verify site ownership to see this information." + +[5]: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ "Webmaster Tools" +[6]: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html "Google Webmaster Central Blog" + +* TSIA: [Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized Copies Of Windows][8] + +[8]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070205/122618.shtml "Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized Copies Of Windows" + +* And finally your daily web zen: [photoshopped animals][2] (most of which were taken from the ever-entertaining [worth1000][3].) [Thanks NoEnd] + +[2]: http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=21785 "Photoshopped animals" +[3]: http://www.worth1000.com/ "worth1000.com" + +[photo credit][1] + +[1]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twoblueday/376922196/ "Sunset Lake Dora" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..949b63a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Mon/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Rumors of an Apple announcement in a super Bowl ad proved to be unfounded, but Reuters reports that Apple has [settled their long-running trademark dispute with the Beatles'][1] record company of nearly the same name. Which means you can probably expect to see the Beatles' music on the iTunes Store sooner rather than later. + +[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-05T144058Z_01_WEN3541_RTRUKOC_0_US-APPLE-BEATLES.xml&src=rss "Apple and Beatles settle trademark squabble" + +* Speaking of Super Bowl ads, YouTube has got them [all in one spot][2]. + +[2]: http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=sb&t=&c=0&l=&p=1 "Superbowl Ads" + +* Microsoft has [turned on a feature][3] in Internet Explorer that allows Web sites with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in IE 7. The certificate is designed to help prevent phishing scams. + +[3]: http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6155826.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "IE 7 gives secure Web sites the green light" + +* Is a Google Powerpoint on the way? Techcrunch [reports][4] that some posted what appears to be a header file from an existing Google application by the name of "Presently." The files has since been edited to remove that reference, but Techcrunch posted a screencap of the original if you're interested. + +[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/04/google-powerpoint-clone-coming/ "Google PowerPoint Clone Coming" + +* This is the headline every traveler has been waiting for: [Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers][5]. The New York Times reports that Meraki, a start up founded by two MIT grad students is hoping to solve the "last ten yards" problem of universal WiFi access by using in-home boxes to create a "mesh network." The network then "dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment." + +[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?ex=1328245200&en=28e094940f7284cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers"
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It's true that Vista Home and Home Premium can not be installed in virtual machines. The specific text reads: + +>USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. + +Microsoft claims that the majority of users wanting to run Vista under virtualization software are businesses and enthusiast who would be better served by the Business and Ultimate versions respectively. Which, while it may have some merit, is nevertheless market-speak for "we arbitrarily decided to punish users looking to run our software on a part time basis." + +But the crippling doesn't stop there, even those who go with Vista Ultimate on their virtual machine still can't play Microsoft DRM content: + +>You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker + +Another rumor I'd heard about the Vista EULA is that it allows Windows Defender, the built in virus and spyware protection that ships with Vista, to arbitrarily remove programs. How much merit this has depends on how paranoid you are, here's the relevant text: + +>If turned on, Windows Defender will search your computer for "spyware," "adware" and other potentially unwanted software. If it finds potentially unwanted software, the software will ask you if you want to ignore, disable (quarantine) or remove it. Any potentially unwanted software rated "high" or "severe," will automatically be removed after scanning unless you change the default setting. Removing or disabling potentially unwanted software may result in + +* other software on your computer ceasing to work, or +* your breaching a license to use other software on your computer. + +By using this software, it is possible that you will also remove or disable software that is not potentially unwanted software. + +In other words, Windows Defender could remove programs you don't want removed (certain torrent software comes to mind) if the mothership decided to tell it to do so with an update. However you can always disable it and use another anti-virus/adware remover. + +The last line in that quote is kind of interesting since it basically says that Windows Defender may not work. However in this day and age it probably behooves Microsoft to error on the side of caution when it comes to security, still it's not very comforting. + +The last part of the licensing that bears mention is sure to send shivers down the spine of any FLOSS advocate: + +>The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/userights. You may not + +* work around any technical limitations in the software; +* reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation; +* use components of the software to run applications not running on the software; + +I still have trouble with the idea that commercial software is not sold but licensed, but that's hardly unique to Windows, most other large commercial software packages ships with similar wording. What varies from manufacturer to manufacturer is how the license is applied. In Vista's case the software is licensed to a specific machine, not a user. You can transfer your software and license to a new machine exactly once if you bought Vista retail. If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of new computer that copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine. + +On the bright side, Microsoft has done a good job of writing the Vista EULA in a surprisingly readable, low-jargon manner. There's a few places where the wording gets tricky, but it's nothing compared to the Yahoo user agreement I [struggled through][2] last week. + +I should also point out that regardless of the Vista EULA, local laws governing the country of your residence always trump any EULA so bear that in mind. + +[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/default.aspx "Find License Terms for Software Licensed from Microsoft" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/yahoo_wii_porta.html "Yahoo Wii Portal Gets Pwned"
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It's probably obvious by now that I don't like DRM and I refuse to use anything that has DRM. + +But DRM is really just a method of trying to enforce copyright. Earlier this week Steve Jobs [wrote an essay][5] slamming DRM and professing a wish to get rid of it, which got me thinking that really there is no way to get rid of DRM without making some radical changes to U.S. copyright law. + +[Jonathan Lethem][4], author the novel *Motherless Brooklyn*, had one of the best essays I've ever read on the issue of copyright in the last issue of Harpers. The article, entitled [*The Ecstasy of Influence*][6], is now online and, while I admit it's quite long, I encourage you to read it through to the end, because at the end you'll discover something -- most of what Lethem writes is borrowed, copied and re-appropriated from other texts. + +Even the authorial "I" of the article is often not the "I" of Lethem himself, but that of other authors ranging from Lawrence Lessig to David Foster Wallace. Not only does Lethem make an incredibly cohesive, well-reasoned argument for a more open copyright system, but he does so using the very methods and results he's advocating. + +Here's a clip: + +>If nostalgic cartoonists had never borrowed from Fritz the Cat, there would be no Ren & Stimpy Show; without the Rankin/Bass and Charlie Brown Christmas specials, there would be no South Park; and without The Flintstones—more or less The Honeymooners in cartoon loincloths—The Simpsons would cease to exist. If those don't strike you as essential losses, then consider the remarkable series of "plagiarisms" that links Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, or Shakespeare's description of Cleopatra, copied nearly verbatim from Plutarch's life of Mark Antony and also later nicked by T. S. Eliot for The Waste Land. If these are examples of plagiarism, then we want more plagiarism. + +I'm something of a copyright nut, the first thing I did while playing with [Yahoo's new Pipes tool][7] was try to create a mashup of newsfeeds that just track the word copyright. Unfortunately the site went down before I could get it set up, but when I do I'll add a link to the bottom of this article if anyone is interested. My personal feeling on copyright is nicely summed up by Woodie Guthrie: + +>This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. + +Lethem, along with [Mike Doughty][1], [Mark Hosler][2], and [Siva Vaidhyanathan][3] were also on PRI's Open Source Radio last night to talk about issues of copyright. The broadcast repeats much of the article but is still a marvelous listen and it's available online (mp3). + +>Why do we need a term like open source? Why do we need a term to apply to cultural production and distribution? Why do we need a term like open source to apply to software? The reason is that in just the last twenty or thirty years we've seen the rise of a completely different model of cultural distribution, what I call the proprietary model. + +>... + +>What we think of as open source is basically culture, it's how human beings have organized themselves, communicated with each other, joined each other, forged identities and most importantly grooved and danced for centuries. This is basically how people have always dealt with each other. It's just in recent years that we've imposed these interesting cages, legal cages, psychological cages, ethical cages around this level of sharing. + +The suggestion here is not that copyright should be abolished, but that it was working just fine before Disney and Sonny Bono got hold of it. Of course the ultimate irony being that almost nothing Disney has ever done is remotely original. + +Think about this way, if Bob Dylan were just starting out today, he'd be sued out of existence. + + + +[1]: http://www.mikedoughty.com/ "Mike Doughty" +[2]: http://www.negativland.com/ "Mark Hosler founder of Negativland" +[3]: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/ "Siva Vaidhyanathan Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, New York University" +[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem "Wikipedia: Jonathan Lethem" +[5]: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ "Thoughts on Music" +[6]: http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html "The Ecstasy of Influence" +[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/yahoo_launches_.html "Yahoo Launches Pipes"
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I haven't had any stability problems, but there are bad memory leaks. Gran Paradiso, as Firefox 3 is code named, launches using about 33mb of RAM; after ten minutes of browsing that number jumped to 100mb and after a couple of hours it was close to 400mb -- and that's with no extensions installed. If that doesn't discourage you then nothing will. + +However, the main reason for the memory leaks, according to the release notes, is the new and improved garbage collection system which promises a much improved memory footprint once the bugs are ironed out. The release notes say: + +>In order to better handle memory issues, a new garbage collection system has been implemented. However, as the process of integrating Gecko into this system is still ongoing, there are some known leaks that result in large memory usage when the browser is used for a long period of time. A restart should resolve the problem, which will be fixed in Alpha 3. + +While this alpha may have some memory leaks, I am happy to say that it uses much less CPU power than Firefox 2, especially when it's idle. One of my main gripes with Firefox 2 is that even when it's in the background doing nothing it still manages to consume 4-5 percent of my processing power, which seems unnecessary. However, when Gran Paradiso is sitting in the background unused its CPU usage drops to zero, which beats even Safari. + +Gran Paradiso is the first release to use the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which means that Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME are no longer supported and Mac users will need OS X 10.3.9 or better. + +This new release is the first from Mozilla to be totally [Acid2 compliant][2]. Gran Paradiso supports the new Cairo graphics layer which alo still has a few bugs. + +Mac users are no doubt looking forward to Firefox 3's use of native Cocoa widgets which should make the browser feel more "Mac-like." Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what Cocoa widgets are, but in my testing UI elements like drop down lists and text fields still look the same as they always have in Firefox. + +Overall Firefox 3 looks very promising and feels much faster than Firefox 2 (particularly on graphic heavy sites like Flickr). Alpha 2 marks yet another milestone on the way to the finished product, but it's still obviously only for testing. If you'd like to help out the Firefox team by testing out the alpha 2 build they'd love to [hear your feedback][3]. + +[1]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a2/releasenotes/ "Firefox 3 alpha 2 release notes" +[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2 "Wikipedia: Acid2 test" +[3]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.feedback/topics "mozilla.feedback" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09324b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.05.06/Thu/nightly.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build + +* Did anyone else hear a loud popping noise earlier today? I think it was the sound of a bunch of congressional heads pulling out of, er, the ground and deciding that [e-voting machines ought to have a paper trail][1]. Because frankly that movie with Robin Williams wasn't really that good. + +[1]: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3658576 "E-Voting Machines Get The Fish-Eye" + + +* In case you couldn't figure it out yourself, [Reuters has the inside scoop][2]: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube are very very very rich. + +[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-08T015758Z_01_N07247460_RTRUKOC_0_US-YOUTUBE-PAYDAY.xml&src=rss "YouTube founders split $650 mln in Google payday" + +Today's web zen: [24: Aqua Teen Hunger Force][3] + +[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWUaQVZHzyI "24: Aqua Teen Hunger Force"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Fri/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Fri/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc6ee74 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Fri/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Apple has released a [new security update][1] that patches four of the flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs project. The update is recommended for all users of 10.4 and can be downloaded from Apple or by using Software Update. + +[1]: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/security_updates/securityupdate2007002universal.html "Security Update 2007-002 (Universal)" + +* According to a new report broadband users will [finally crest over the 50 percent mark][2] later this year, making high speed internet access more common than dial-up for the first time. + +[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070215/tc_zd/201301 "Report: Broadband Users Now the Majority in U.S." + +* Google has agreed to [purchase video game ad service Adscape][3] for $23 million. Adscape gives Google access to some patents and opens the potential for partnerships with game companies like Electronic Arts, but many analysts don't expect any deals in the near future. + +[3]: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21323 "Google Agrees to Buy Adscape" + +* Speaking of Google, the Google Code Blog has kicked off [Summer of Code 2007][4] and will begin accepting application next month. Last year Google funded over 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups. + +[4]: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/02/speaking-of-summer.html "Google Summer of Code"
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The new Flash Lite 3.0 will be available "in the first half of 2007." + +[5]: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070211005079&newsLang=en "Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets" + +* Vista is barely out the door and Microsoft is already [talking about a follow up][1] as early as 2009. The new system will reportedly bring some the features rumored to have been included in Vista, but which didn't make the cut. + +[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070209/tc_pcworld/128888 "Microsoft: Vista Follow-up Likely in 2009" + +* The Associated Press is [partnering with you][2], well actually a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires. Citizens start your Blackberries. + +[2]: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/004043.php "AP partners with citizen journalism site" + +* Firefox 3 will apparently [support offline applications][3], which means you'll be able to use web apps, like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, etc, in the browser even when offline. This is exactly what the whole software-as-a-service industry has been waiting for -- eliminating the offline issues of web based applications. + +[3]: http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/02/03/firefox3-web-apps-game-changer/ "Firefox3: Web Apps Game changer" + +* A new European law that will go into effect later this year will make fake blogs, reviews and other false promotional schemes illegal. Companies that post glowing reviews of themselves under false identities [could face criminal prosecution][4]. No word on how the Europeans plan to enforce the new law. + +[4]: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1361968.ece "Fake bloggers soon to be named and shamed" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..663d545 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vista-lock.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vista-lock.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3d510c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vista-lock.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vistadrm.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vistadrm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0441012 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vistadrm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<img alt="Vistalock" title="Vistalock" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/vistalock.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Despite some software snafu's, notably [iTunes][6] and [Camera Raw data mangling][5], we've been cautiously optimistic about Windows Vista. However there is one white elephant in the room that we haven't addressed -- DRM. As it ships Windows Vista has support for DRM built into very low-level areas of the OS. + +The question is, are consumers concerned about Vista's DRM mechanisms enough to hold off on upgrading? One one hand Vista offers compelling new features, added security and performance gains, but at the same time these benefits come with the cost of DRM. + +Vista only allows, what Microsoft docs on the subject refer to as "Premium Content," to be played back through interfaces that have DRM mechanisms built in. But what is "Premium Content?" The most common example and on that's most likely to effect consumers in the immediate future are HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs, which both feature various DRM controls. Here's a real world example: if you have a high end video card that doesn't offer DRM support you would have to disable that card before playing back a new Blu-Ray disc. + +Many have excused Microsoft's decision to build DRM controls into Vista by arguing that Microsoft is bowing to Hollywood pressure -- which is the same argument Steve Jobs has used to explain iTunes DRM -- but as security guru Bruce Schneier [rightly points out][1]: + +>It's all complete nonsense. Microsoft could have easily told the entertainment industry that it was not going to deliberately cripple its operating system, take it or leave it. With 95% of the operating system market, where else would Hollywood go? + + +An article posted earlier this month by Peter Gutmann provides a thorough, geeky and technical, [breakdown of Vista's DRM controls][2]. Gutmann claims that Vista's DRM protection "incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost." + +Microsoft responded by posting a twenty questions [article on the Windows Vista Blog][4] that attempted to allay consumer concerns. Microsoft points out that many of these features already exist in XP and even on other consumer devices like DVD players. But even within the detailed explanations, Microsoft admits that Windows Vista's content protection features will increase CPU resource consumption. + +There's also a couple of market-speak twists of logic in Microsoft's defense of DRM, including the notion that because the hardware requirement specs are available there will be no difficulty in writing open source drivers, which neatly sidesteps the point that open source drivers that don't implement Vista's DRM simply won't work for premium content. + +Clearly DRM is something to think about if you're planning to upgrade and it raises the question: is Microsoft trying to create a new monopoly on content distribution? The music labels are already realizing that iTunes DRM ties them to Apple and Schneier seems to think Vista's DRM will do the same for Hollywood content producers. + +Schneier thinks that Microsoft is aiming to create a lock-in not just for Hollywood content producers but also peripheral manufacturers. "It's another war for control of the computer market," he writes. + +However with Steve Jobs publicly decrying DRM and some major labels contemplating DRM free downloads, it seems possible that Vista's DRM could end up being a hinderance to Microsoft. What happens when major studios decide to deliver non-DRM downloads? + +For all those that dismiss Vista entirely and vow to stick to their XP/Mac/Linux machines, consider this tidbit from Gutmann's aforementioned *Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection*: + +>These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). + +I'm curious how many of you are putting off upgrading to Vista because of DRM concerns? Is this just something the paranoid are concerned about or are general consumers concerned about DRM lock-in? Do the benefits of Vista outweigh DRM concerns? Let us know what you think. + +[photo credit][3] + +[<b>Update:</b> This post was heavily re-written after I first published it to give a more detailed explaination of Vista DRM.] + +[1]: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html "DRM in Windows Vista" +[2]: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" +[3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordcuauhtli/218948748/ "Lock and key" +[4]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/20/windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx "Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions" +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_issues_fo.html "Vista Issues For Pro Photographers" +[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_day_three.html "Vista Day Three: What's Broken?"
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In fact the only one interested in having OOXML declared an ISO standard is, predictably, Microsoft. + +IBM has refused to comment on the Microsoft letter saying they've addressed the same issues enough in the past. + +Ironically, while attempting to point out the benefits of OOXML, Microsoft blows its own cover in the first sentence: "Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up efforts to identify and meet the interoperability needs of **our customers**" (emphasis mine). The debate is not about what's best for users at large but rather the important thing is that Microsoft retain its customer base -- even when sowing FUD Microsoft can't hide its real agenda. + +What follows that telling opening sentence is less an impassioned appeal than a whining plea. Former Microsoft Business Development Manager [turned blogger][1], Stephen Walli, calls Microsoft's letter "professionally embarrassing." + +The doublespeak and hypocrisy is thick over at Redmond. Microsoft seems to have already forgotten the anti-ODF smear campaign it launched back when Massachusetts introduced a bill to mandate ODF for government documents. + +First there was the Wiki editing snafu and now this, just how much lower is Microsoft going to sink in its misguided attempt to ramrod OOXML through the ISO process? + +It's a shame Microsoft has chosen the low road because Office 2007 is a great product, its functionality and ease-of-use blow OpenOffice out of the water. What would be ideal would be for Microsoft to embrace the existing standard, ODF, and compete in the market on the the merits of their software rather than the entrapment-through-format approach they seem to be dedicated to today. + + +[1]: http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/02/microsoft_whini.html "Microsoft Whining for Sympathy about OOXML" +[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/letters/choice.mspx "Interoperability, Choice and Open XML" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/ecma_approves_o.html "Ecma Approves OpenXML Standard" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/more_questons_s.html "More Questions Surround Microsoft's OOXML Format" +[5]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=rss "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1fd951 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Poor Ted Stevens should really think about retiring. The infamous senator-that-thinks-the-internet-is-a-series-of-tubes is now, according to Computer World, [calling on Congress][1] to "ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries." The things is that's not quite true, Stevens is supporting a bill whose wording is so poor that it could end up banning Wikipedia, but it doesn't directly go after Wikipedia. However, you can expect every headline on this story to be something along the lines of "Stevens to Ban Wikipedia," since most of the press doesn't really understand the internet any better than Stevens. + +[1]: http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/4598 " U.S. senator: It's time to ban Wikipedia in schools, libraries" + +* Speaking MySpace, a U.S. District Court judge has [dismissed a lawsuit][3] brought against the site by the parents of a girl who was sexually assaulted by someone she met on MySpace. The parents plan to appeal the decision. + +[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-15T043644Z_01_WEN4320_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWSCORP-LAWSUIT.xml&src=rss "MySpace teen suit dismissed by Texas court" + +* The Drug company [Eli Lilly has failed][4] in its attempt to stop other websites from linking to copies of the documents that are damaging to its image. The case, which was seen as test of online free speech, was hailed a victory by the EFF. + +[4]: http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=7769 "Wiki can link to controversial documents, says US judge" + + +* Map geeks rejoice, all those KML files you've been creating are now [searchable in Google Earth][2]. From the Google Maps Blog: "users can now search through all of the world's Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files, making the millions of Google Earth layers on the Web instantly accessible for geobrowsing and exploration." + +[2]: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/02/search-for-kml-in-google-earth.html " Search for KML in Google Earth"
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Me neither, but now you can thanks to a really fun little app by the name of [Sound of Traffic][1]. + +Sound of Traffic is a lightweight Java program that converts TCP/IP header information into midi notes via the Java Synthesizer. Ostensibly the the purpose is to listen in on network traffic, as the website puts it, "in ordered time, via a tempo, rather than realtime, which could be more chaotic." + +Sound of Traffic is fairly sophisticated in its setup, you can assign particular instruments to a particular port, which allows you a fairly fine grained control over the output. + +The results are not unlike some of the compositions on the [Early Gurus of Electronic Music][2] compilation that came out a few years back. Alternately annoying and eerily musical, Sound of Traffic's appeal will probably depend somewhat on whether or not you're a fan of experimental music. + +I found that playing William Basinski's Disintegration Loops in the background and browsing through Flickr with Sound of Traffic turned on produced some great sounds and textures. I'd be curious to see what at DOS attack sounds like, but I don't have a home server to launch one against. + +While not particularly useful, Sound of Traffic is definitely the most fun I've had with an application in some time. Here's a [sample audio file][3] with William Basinski's Disintegration loop in the background, with the exception of the pulsing background sound, everything is TCP/IP traffic as rendered by Sound Of Traffic. + +Sound of Traffic is available for Mac, Windows and *nix. + +[1]: http://www.smokinggun.com/projects/soundoftraffic/ "Sound of Traffic" + +[2]: http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/ohm/ "OHM- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default-thumb.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default-thumb.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4aee4f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default-thumb.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..82b8476 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Thu/vista default.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/crook.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/crook.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f6b657 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/crook.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/cuban b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/cuban new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a50440a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Tue/cuban @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Internet trends and computing paradigms are notoriously difficult to predict, but if you've been following them lately you've likely noticed two things that seem to gaining some traction: first is the notion that the PC is migrating to the living room, not new, but undoubtedly persistent. The second trend we've noticed is an increasing interest in virtual machines. + +Never one to shy from outlandish statements, Marc Cuban, HDNet chairman and dot-com billionaire, recently [posted an interesting vision of the future of home computing][1]. Cuban sees computing moving to game consoles for heavy duty apps that need processing power and the remaining casual apps, email, internet browsing, etc, will be done via internet-VM thin clients -- sans dedicated OS. + +The thin client notion has been around almost since Turing, but Cuban turns the age old debate on its head a bit by suggesting that the thin client will remain on the PC and the rest of our apps will move to the living room game console. He writes: + +>Gaming consoles are already serving as hosts for DVD , HD DVD and Blu Ray players, along with hard drive and USB support for video and pictures. Which leads to the question. Will gaming consoles replace PCs in the home, not just for gaming as they have done already, but also as the primary home device for all things graphical? + +It's certainly not that big of a stretch, clearly Microsoft is already moving in this direction with XBox movie downloads and bigger hard drives with every revision. Storage is not a problem, processor power is also not a problem. + +The big problem is that software for gaming consoles largely doesn't exist save those hobbyists who've got Linux running on various machines. Apple has long held to the dictum that to be a truly great maker of software you much also make the hardware, and with the Xbox Microsoft is clearly positioned to be able to just that. + +But Cuban thinks that there's another player better positioned to take advantage of this transition -- Google. "Google is in a unique position with their datacenters and infrastructure to dominate thin client computing and everything they are doing seems to point in that direction," Cuban writes. + +But Cuban has a slightly different vision of "thin-clients" than the one you might expect. He sees virtual machines as the future of thin clients. + +>VMs are more ideally suited for applications that don't chew up a lot of bandwidth, which is why the separation of multimedia applications to consoles is critical to VMs becoming popular. + +>If the heavy bandwidth apps are on gaming consoles, then why wouldn't consumers just connect to the net and use Google Office apps, or Microsoft Live Office Apps, or any other provider of online apps ? + +There are of course a number of obstacles to this scenario, the big one is the lack of bandwidth. As even Cuban admits, the lack of available bandwidth means that this "ain't gonna happen the way things stand today." + +However I've seen a couple of interesting details lately that Cuban doesn't mention that also support his theory. + +For one thing the next version of Firefox will [support working with online content offline][2]. This means that office documents from online service providers like Google Docs or Zoho can be edited in the browser even when the machine is offline. + +The other thing that Cuban seems to ignore is the drive to mobile devices. It seems more plausible to me that mobile devices as thin clients will replace the traditional PC. The small memory footprint (relatively speaking) of VM thin clients seems to make them ideal for the mobile platform. + +Of course, as with any predictive tract, there are some big holes in Cuban's vision, but it's not entirely far-fetched. I do have trouble picturing people editing photoshop files via the XBox or PS3, but the VM-based web apps as a replacement for desktop software seems almost a given. + +As Cuban writes: + +>Which is a better development platform for app developers of the future, Vista or a Google Virtual Machine ? + +>Which is a better consumer platform, using any low end PC to run all your non-multimedia apps, or worrying about upgrading to VIsta ? Buying the latest Office apps or running them for free online ? + +[via Epicenter][3] + +[1]: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/02/11/the-future-of-personal-computing/ "The Future of Personal Computing?" +[2]: http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/02/03/firefox3-web-apps-game-changer/ "Firefox3: Web Apps Game changer" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/02/mark_cuban_is_s.html "Mark Cuban is smarter than you think"
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Utilizing my training as a certified Apple repair technician I was able to successfully remove the screen and trackpad from one iBook and place them in the other to create a fulling working, good as new iBook. + +Okay that's a lie. I'm not a certified Apple technician, but I was able to convert my two half-broken iBooks into two completely broken iBooks. Read on to find out how I did it. + +A word of warning for the casual reader: What follows is a graphic depiction of carelessness, stupidity and total disregard for the structural integrity of pricey electronic equipment and human life. Sickness bags may be found in the seat back in front of you. + +I'm told there are some instructions out there on the internets about how to disassemble your iBook and replace the hard drive, cd drive etc. Some of them are supposedly quite good and helpful, but I'm not a RTFM kind of guy so screw that noise. + +Here's the Monkeybite's rule of thumb for disassembling your iBook: if you see a screw, remove it, if it isn't coming apart, apply more pressure, it's just plastic, it'll break at some point. + +Now before we get started, a word about tools. Some people would have you head to the hardware store and pick up a nice set of jewelers screwdrivers, but I recommend a regular screw driver because it is far more likely to completely strip the screws and render them useless which makes reassembly much easier -- if none of your screws work anymore, you don't have to put them back. + +There's also these handy blunt objects for prying things apart, but I find a sturdy steak knife works just as well. You may want to keep a hammer near by, just in case. If nothing else it makes spectators nervous and unlikely to offer any annoyingly helpful advice. + +Some people also recommend the use of an anti-static wrist strap, but I found it far more convenient and cheaper to discharge any accumulated static electricity on the earlobes of spectators. + +Also, lots of hardware tinkering types have a nice workbench or at the very least clear off the kitchen table. Wussies. Get on your knees. On the floor. Preferably hardwood. Ideally you shouldn't be able to stand by the time you're done, and walking should be out of the question for the better part of the weekend. + +Okay, we're ready. Remove the keyboard. Turn the iBook over and use an Allen wrench to pull out the three main screws. Pry off the little rubber feet and remove the screws hidden beneath them. + +Look over the top and bottom of the laptop and if you see a screw -- remove it. + +At some point the overall structure of the iBook should begin to weaken, now is the time to start prying at plastic. Look for any sort of grooved plastic joints, structural weaknesses, the seam between the top and bottom of the iBook is a good place to start. Jab a sharp blunt object into these creases and pry them apart, a screwdriver might work, but if not then steak knives are recommended. + +Remember, if it isn't coming apart just use more force. + +Once you've separated the top and bottom of your iBook you'll be left with a whole bunch of silly metal heat-shield-like coverings. These are held in with screws and I suppose you could unscrew them if you're a Proustian-type momma's boy, but really this stuff if no thicker than aluminum foil so I just ripped it off. If John Glenn can make it back from the moon without a heat shield then your ultra modern portable can too. + +Okay now you're staring at the guts -- a mass of circuit boards that bear an eerie resemblance to aerial views of the machine city in the Matrix. If you notice any fields of human embryos be sure not to mess them up, just because you're destroying an iBook is no reason to mess with the universe as we know it. + +Near the top of your iBook you'll find the central processing unit. Poke it it with a knife. See if any keys move or the screen changes. If you're the cautious type and you turned off your laptop and unplugged it before we started you're going to miss out on the real fun. Just off the main CPU is the logic board. poke it with a screwdriver. Try pulling off a couple of the wires that run up to the screen so that your display begins to resemble what Steve and Woz saw in their garage in the late seventies when that bad blotter stuff was making the rounds. + +Okay now you can unplug it. Unscrew and remove the CPU. I don't know why, because it's there. Stop asking so many questions. + +Now it's time to scavenge useful parts, that hard drive could go in its own enclosure so go ahead and remove it. There's a thin metal mounting frame you can optionally remove or simply force your steak knife underneath the drive and pry upward. Bonus points for remembering to detach the connection wires before inserting steak knife. + +Now would be a good time to yell "Nurse, ball-peen hammer please." Yes some things are stubborn and may necessitate more radical solutions, like that F'ing CD ROM drive which for the life of me I couldn't get out. + +Now that you've retrieved the hard drive and CPU and have a healthy collection of well-stripped phillips head screws scatter across the floor, it's time to put the thing back together. Good luck with that. + +[Note: All the the above is incredibly stupid and should not actually be done. Especially the part about plugging in the laptop and poking it with screw drivers. You could really really hurt and possibly even kill yourself doing that. 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Tools like the [Map Search Wizard][2] and the [News Bar Wizard][3] make it easy to generate cut-and-paste code that you can drop into your site. + +Earlier today I ran across a new wizard called the [Book Search wizard][4]. Google bills the Book Search Wizard as a means to show off books that interest you on your blog. While there's no click through revenue to be made since the links just lead to Google Books, it's an easy way to help others discover books you've enjoyed or found helpful. + +To use the Book Wizard (or any other wizard) you'll need to have a free Google Search API key. Once you've got your API key all you need to do is select some book topics and enter your blog URL. You can also choose between vertical or horizontal layout. The wizard will do the rest. + +The resulting code can then be dropped anywhere on your page and you'll see something like this: + + +In this case I enter Python, Javascript and Perl, though after hitting refresh a few times this resulting books seem heavily weighted to the first entry -- python. + +In this case a fair number of the results are O'Reilly books which is nice for viewers since the fulltext of O'Reilly books are viewable in Google books (most of the time, some sections are occasionally not included). Depending on your search terms and the results they generate the books may or may not be fully searchable. + + + +[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/wizards.html "Google AJAX Search API Wizards" +[2]: http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/mapsearch.html "Map Search Wizard" +[3]: http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/newsbar.html?uds_o=0 "News Bar Wizard" +[4]: http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/bookbar.html "Book Bar Wizard"
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One industry rep even likened YouTube's policy to a "mafia shakedown." According to Reuters, "YouTube claims the process of identifying copyrighted material is not an automated process and required the cooperation of media company partners." + +[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070219/tc_cmp/197006987 "YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Policy Draws Fire" + +* PCWorld [reports][4] that your credit card could be broadcasting information to anyone with an RFID scanner including personal data and credit card number. Don't you just love RFID? + +[4]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129096-pg,1/article.html "New Credit Cards May Leak Personal Information" + +* The [MPAA has apparently been stealing code][1] to run its website. The movie industry site was caught using linkware-licensed software created by an English web developer, but had removed all links back and did not credit developer in any way. Good enough to fit an Alanis Morissette song, provided you think hypocrisy is a form of irony. + +[1]: http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-steals-code-violates-linkware-license/ "MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License" + +* Dr. Robert Adler, inventor of the television remote control and modern American culture, [passed away yesterday][2]. + +[2]: http://sev.prnewswire.com/television/20070216/CGF02016022007-1.html "Robert Adler, 1913-2007 -- TV Remote Control Co-Inventor" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/screen.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/screen.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9803f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/screen.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/sillymetal.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/sillymetal.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..53b7f25 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/sillymetal.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tools.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tools.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..027ddd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tools.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tophinge.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tophinge.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4009ed3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/tophinge.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/trackpad.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/trackpad.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d7f5f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Mon/trackpad.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6337f72 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc7a0ef --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Thu/codeide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Online apps are the way of the future they tell me, and if you needed more proof there's now an online IDE for programmers called [CodeIDE][1]. CodeIDE is an in-browser development environment that mixes a text field for writing code with debug panel, command line input and other tools. + +So far CodeIDE supports Basic, Pascal, C++, Perl, Javascript, HTML. MATH and LISP. Registered users get chat tools which can be used to solicit help and advice from other users. If you sign up for an account you'll also get access to organizational tool like projects and files. + +While the text field-based text editor has some impressive features like syntax highlighting, line numbering and search and replace capabilities, I doubt it's going to replace emacs or Vi for the serious coder. + +But aside from the limited text editor feature, CodeIDE is an impressive setup and when used in conjunction with a real text editor the debug features are just a cut-and-paste away. Where applicable (HTML mainly) the debug window auto updates so you can see your markup as you enter it. + +While it isn't all that useful, there's a nice little AJAXy widget that show live debug results from other users which is kind of fun to watch. + +There's also a [forum][2] and [wiki][3], though both are a bit short on content since the site just went live a couple of days ago. + +[found via [Kottke][4]] + +[1]: http://www.codeide.com/ "CodeIDE.com" +[2]: http://www.codeide.com/forum/ "CodeIDE Forum" +[3]: http://www.codeide.com/wiki.cgi "CodeIDE Wiki" +[4]: http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/02/12835.html "Kottke.org: CodeIDE"
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Microsoft says that the Certified label means that the technical requirements have been met in "four core areas: reliability, security, compatibility with Windows Vista and future operating systems, and installation and removal." + +According the Microsoft docs the "Works with Vista" category is intended for software which has been tested to "make sure that the applications meet the program's guidelines." + +I think that means the Certified apps have been more thoroughly tested. + +If you'd like to check specific apps there's also a link on the page to the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0, which will help you test your applications against Vista's requirements. + +The lists themselves are quite interesting, for instance I noticed a total absence of Adobe apps on either list, but some other big names qualify as "Works with Vista," including AutoCAD, Quickbooks and Corel Painter. + +Microsoft cautions that the guide isn't 100 percent comprehensive yet, but it will updated frequently. + +[1]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933305 "Applications that have earned the Certified for Windows Vista logo or the Works with Windows Vista logo" + + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Tue/__new_unused.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Tue/__new_unused.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..005945b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.19.07/Tue/__new_unused.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ + + + + * * * * * + + +We quit the farm years ago, just before the garlic should have broken the trampled black soil. It was near daylight by the time we settled on a price for the boat. + +She smoked Dunhills and drank whiskey like the tide water rising to cover the sulfer smell of the marsh reeds, cattails, egrets and cranes, like ghosts in the water where the dead swim and teenagers throw bottles to watch them sink. + +The north pole migrated, summering in Siberia, but our compasses held true and in inky blackness we slipped away from shore, wind filling the sails. + +The buttons of her blouse fumbled with my fingers, her ankle jewelry chimed the wind and kicked up sand along the beaches while I lay awake dreaming of a sleep I used to know when the best water I had ever tasted came from a 7-11 in Singapore. I went to porthole and yes the sea was still there, vast and unmoving on the map above the bed. + +I thought of the funeral pyre we watched from the statium benches with the swirling pigeons caught in flight. Like the first breathe after a nightmare the heat draws the eyes open the minute the fire licks the feet, the smoke and leaves curl the skin tight like a snaredrum until it breaks and dissolves in bubbling fizzles. + +She had photographs of pigeons in a white room made of crushed eggshells with shelves stuffed full of telescoping Russian dolls. She learned of sailors and seafaring ways and dressed as a boy took to the far cities, prisoner to her dream of white light and burnt sandelwood like crumbling teak altars turned to ash. + +I bought the nightgown you were wearing when we met and it was better when you wore it. I tried to hold the water in my hands but it slipped through the stone and into the fountain bathing the pigeons in squeals of children. + +And when the strangers settled in it seemed all right for a time + + + * * * * * + +She left just before the blindfish turned up. The limestone was rough and I only had three more shells for the carbine. I still had half a box of smaller shells, but the pistola was rusty and of questionable use. My feet were bleeding. + +I am not sure that I have killed. It may be that I have. I have only three shells, but it maybe that I have always only had three shells. The Pistola appears to have been retrieved from the creek though I do not remember taking it myself. She may have done that before she left. There are no empty casings in the streambed, though it is difficult to see with the murkiness. It may be that I have not killed at all. In any case, not recently. And I have no plans to do so in the future. Though I am keeping the carbine in my hand and shells in my pocket. + +We left the truck at the bottom of the road where it slipped and disppeared, broken slabs of concrete crumbling to dusty stone, rebar from a long departed bridge poked out between waterworn rocks, little red flags, markers, still tied on the ends like rotting silk, hung limp and still. Weeds and thin vines of honeysuckle poked up between ragged conrete, coiling around each other into snarls impossible to cut through. Closer to the river we dodged sumac and milkweed, stepping carefully over the body of a dog, bloated, fur picked clean, skin swollen and split. The dead stillness of tropical heat, the buzz of flies, the crinkling sound of maggots seething through the rotting flesh, the buzz of locusts, beatles testing their harped wings in lengthening light. No birdsong. + +The air hung heavy; closer to the river wafts of cool, ephemeral air. The bank was steep but cannelured with footholds. We moved downstream, watching garbage and leaf detritus collect in edgewater pools drawn inexorible down. + +The sharpness of the karst cut my calloused heels, neat lateral incissons that would soon turn to lesions in the tropical heat. I sat to fashion sandles out of heavy leaves from an overhanging rubber tree. When I stood up she was gone. I made my way down to the cave, limping and watching the frothy white sap flow from the thin strips of rubber tree flesh tied over my feet. The milky liquid begin to mix with blood and pool on the curled edges of leaf, resembling a mixture of blod and semen. There was no one at the cave. I was about to turn around when I saw the blind fish clucking its gills; it swirled its tail in the muddy water and disappeared into the darkness leaving behind curious cryptic characters etched in the sandy bottom of the pool. The flickering of sunlight moving in ripples through the leaden weight of water made it impossible to decipher the runes. + +The depths of the river in the cave are uncharted, some say deeper than time itself, most certainly harboring the the murky doom of uncertainty. The unfathomed depths were said to have dried up in an earthquake that swallowed the river whole leaving behind flopping helpless fish, eels, crabs and something of which none of the villagers would speak. Upstream. If she went down into those depths all hope is lost. I tossed the pistola in gurgling black shadows as an offering and studied to stream flowing inward, the yawning mouth of the cave seemed ready to crack, dry fossil scarabs and trilobytes dropping like teeth falling from the depths of dream. I had not expected this. The going out, the letting up, the water moves inward, we outward like beggard peasants, interlocutors trawling through encampments of the damned. I loaded the carbine, sliding the shells in and ramming them home with a solid click that echoed back from the mouth of the cave. I stepped slowly into the water and moved toward the center of the stream, the cabine raised about my head. River jetsamn banged against my ankles, I felt something slick and biting darting at the spaces between my toes. The river sucked and swallowed, I could feel the bottom open up and then the rush of night. + + + * * * * * +merging to some blurred unaccountable shape and then the crunch of the Falcon's tires sliding into the parking lot. The slamming doors, the bouncer's extended a hand, Jimmy grabbed it and reached around clapping the back of the leather jacket, Claire deigned a kiss on the bouncer's stubble cheek, the smell of leather, smiles. + + + +In the distance a group of balloons set alight into the afternoon air. + +Like a + +Earlier, when the sunlight dragged the shadow puppets of cottonwood and telephone poles across the wall, Jimmy had spoken ardently, pacing the room like a caged cat, gesturing, gesticulating, gestating and hatching forth the most marvelous of thoughts, anything that floated by in the ether of his consciousness. He had a natural energy Claire envied, but when the light faded something in him seemed to temporarily collapse, though she knew it would return again later, when night had riped to total darkness, it was here in the rheumy dusk that he stuggled and fell to empty ramblings, here in the borderlands, where Claire felt most at home, he stuggled to find something to hold on to. + + + +Outside a dying dust devil made a last dash across the parking lot, grabbing small flotsam of paper and dry leaves as it moved, slowly testing its way until it reached the side of the West Rider Hospital where it dropped down the stairwell and collapsed, falling against the green door which read Staff. Two leaves and a small scrap of paper edged up and flapped against the door which was propped open a couple inches by a rolled issue of *Boys Life* magazine, purloined from a waiting room two floors up where schoolboys distracted themselves from the looming dread with stories of lost mountains inhabited by goblins and hunch-backed terrors. A last wisp of winter air worked its way around the tattered cover dragging one of the leaves and a bit of paper in with it. The ratty pages of *Boy's Life* gave way and the door eased shut behind the wind. The paper swirled inward drawn by the backdraft of the closing door, skating down the cold linoleum tiles, beneath the buzzing hum of half-burned-out florescent lights, swirling bits of dust and lint traced an echo of movement, the ghosts of nothing. + + + +To some people the desert is a hot wind at the gas station, something passing through and to be passed through. Others see a sunny retreat from cold wind billowing off northern lakes. Some see it as an endless playground of sunshine, golf and hotel pools. Some are just born into it and forget to leave. Claire did not think she looked nervous or worried. She suspected that her older and more malicious nephew had put the younger up to this sort of thing. She felt she had composed herself rather well throughout the evening, dealt admirably with the blistering afternoon heat and then amicably with the barely known relative and extended family that stopped by to wish her well. It alarmed her that she could so completely separate the words coming out of her mouth from the ones forming in her mind. When will they slip over, some sort of damn break loose and everything comes tumbling out. She thought of the sea gulls leaping into the air, they hunched slightly coiling up to spring of the ground and then their wings lifted them into the wind.
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With Joost set to announce a deal with Viacom today, we thought it was time to take a look at the new Mac beta test client. + +Before Mac users get to excited, bear in mind that the Mac client is not a universal binary and works only on new Intel-based Macs. It's also worth noting that there were some problems with the initial OS X program and Joost [pulled it from the site yesterday][4]. There's a new version available now and if you downloaded the Mac client over the weekend, you should update your copy. + +For those of you who've been living under a rock, Joost is a peer-to-peer video service that streams rather than downloads videos. Joost's somewhat lofty goal is to replace television as you know it. According to the founders in this [Wired Mag interview][1], user-generated content isn't part of the goal, but the Joost website says it may be an option in the future. + +Joost's whole interface paradigm mirrors that of television. There are video stream by channel, such as offering from National Geographic or very limited MTV content. Channels the way joost thinks of them are actually closer to playlists of videos at this point, though with the addition of Viacom content that may change to something more like television. + +The interface in the Mac client defaults to full screen mode with is slightly annoying if you happen to doing something else when open Joost, but it's possible to change this behavior in the preferences. The navigation menus are translucent overlays that make it easy to move from one program to the next even while the current one is still playing. For the mouse-o-phobes there's the option to navigate through channels and videos using the arrow keys. + +For those that were wondering, yes Joost is free and no extra points for guessing how it supports itself. Yup, in-stream ads. And you can't skip the ads, but thankfully there are a lot less of them than on TV. + +So far Joost's biggest downfall is that there isn't much content available, but the Viacom deal expected later today will change that (at the moment none of those channels are available yet). + +Overall Joost is provides a nice experience, the interface is intuitive and well thought out, though there are some quirks and bugs in the new Mac client (see screenshot). Video streams are smooth with little or no stuttering or playback problems. + +Regrettably video quality is not good enough at the moment to replace TV. Playback in fullscreen mode on my Macbook was somewhat fuzzy and would likely look horrible on a big plasma screen TV. In other words, Joost has incredible potential, but TiVo probably isn't too concerned yet. However, none of the telecom companies were concerned with Skype in the beginning either. + +Joost is currently in private beta trials and hopefully these issues will be worked out by the time it hits the mainstream. I'm not a big television watcher myself and in some ways I think Joost is aimed at people like myself, those of us that have dreamed of a la carte cable or the like. I would love for Joost to get to the point that I could login, watch The Daily Show or catch a rerun of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, without having to deal with an entire monthly cable package, but at the moment Joost doesn't have much in the way of compelling content. + +One thing to keep in mind with Joost is that downstream traffic is arriving as UDP packets, which may be blocked by default by some firewalls and occasionally even ISPs so if you're having problems getting Joost to work, check your settings or call your ISP. + +Unfortunately I have no invite tokens left, but if I ever get anymore, I'll be sure to give them away to loyal Monkeybites readers so stay tuned. + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,72506-0.html?tw=rss.index "Why Joost Is Good for TV" +[2]: https://www.joost.com/ "Joost" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/the_morning_reb_12.html "The morning Reboot" +[4]: https://www.joost.com/blog/2007/02/mac-build-pulled.html "Joost: Mac build pulled"
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The [new version][4] includes several changes that make the licenses better for international users and those who want derivative works to be compatibly licensed. + +The "generic" license offered by Creative Commons now comes in two flavors, one, the CC US license and two a slightly modified version known as the "unported" license, which will work better for international users. + +Other changes affecting international users include changes to the way CC licenses handle royalty collection agencies. The Creative Commons site explains: + +>Elsewhere, collecting societies take either an assignment of copyright ownership or an exclusive license to a work of the rights that they represent (which tends to include all of the works an artist creates). This means, for the most part, that an artist cannot directly license their works online, including via CC licenses. The consequence of this is that artists who use CC licenses cannot receive voluntary royalties collected by a society because they are not able to become a member of the society. + +Essentially this meant that artists who were members of some royalty collection agencies could not use Creative Commons licenses in conjunction with a traditional all rights reserved license. The best example of this is the Non-Commercial clause in which non-commercial entities are free to use a work however they please, but commercial uses of the same work would be eligible for royalty collection. + +Version 3.0 solves this clash of interests by allowing the licensor to waive the compulsory collection where possible and "reserve the right to collect these royalties in those jurisdictions in which this cannot be waived." + +The other big change in version 3.0 involves a disambiguation of the language surrounding attributions so that attribution does not imply endorsement or even knowledge of the new work by the original artist. That there was no association or relationship between the licensor and new works was always implied, but in the interests of further clarification, the lack of relationship is now spelled out in both the legal code and the Commons Deed. + +Other changes include steps toward better compatibility with other "open" licenses. Many have long said that adding the "ShareAlike" (SA) component to your CC license was as restrictive as copyright since it forces the derivative work to use the same license. In many cases the artist may not wish to force CC licenses on derivatives. Version 3.0 of the CC licenses allows SA licensed works to be relicensed under a "Creative Commons Compatible License." + +Of particular concern is the clash between licenses like the [GNU Free Documentation License][3] which governs Wikipedia and CC making a mashup of say, Wikipedia, with CC content from Flickr impossible. The new plan aims to fix that problem. + +So far no approved license are [listed on the site][2], but the page promises that more compatible license information is on the way. + + + + + +[1]: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7249 "Creative Commons: Version 3.0 Launched" +[2]: http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses "Compatible Licenses" +[3]: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html "GNU Free Documentation License" +[4]: http://creativecommons.org/license/ "License your work"
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Lightning is a available now as a public beta for Windows (Vista and XP) and will apparently be free even when it hits the 1.0 mark. + +Corel is trumpeting Lightning as a "missing link" organizer for office suite users looking for a quick, lightweight way to organize, collaborate and create documents incorporating both text and images. + +If you're a WordPerfect user Lightning offers tight integration with Corel's flagship product, but for anyone else Lighning may leave you wanting more. + +Lightning is extremely lightweight, coming in at only 20MB and as its name implies it's fast. + +The main interface is a Windows Explorer-like tree view that can be organized using folders and projects. + +In addition to the main window, Lightning has a Viewer mode and a Notes tool. + +The Notes tool is where you can paste together text snippets and images to create and organize your thoughts. Creating new notes is one button simple and from there you can paste and format text to your liking. + +The Viewer mode handles outside documents that you'd like to group with your Lightning created Notes. + +In my testing was Lightning's PDF support was much faster than Adobe's Acrobat Reader, but in the processes of installing the app Lightning decided to set itself as the default app for PDF documents without asking, which I consider downright malicious. + +In addition to PDFs Lightning can also preview a number of other office suite formats such as Microsoft Word's .doc files. Unfortunately the new .docx format is not yet supported, but Corel says thy hope to include .docx support in the near future. + +The downside to Lightning is that you can't actually edit anything in the Viewer application (probably why the call it Viewer) and there's no easy way to open a .doc file in another application. The cursor will nevertheless blink and tease you into thinking you can edit the document. The best you can hope for is to highlight the document text and send it to a new note, but be prepared to lose any complex formating. + +Lightning also supports online syncing and sharing. The web storage is hosted by Joyant and a free account gets you 200MB of storage, a calendar and the ability to share documents with one other free user. For more serious collaboration you'll need to pony up for the $15/month subscription fee. + +Syncing with Lightning is a simple one button process, but the simplicity comes with a price -- lack of control. You can either sync to or from your web documents, but there doesn't seem to be a way to synchronize individual files while leaving others untouched. + +Frankly Lightning's features are wanting even for a free public beta. Lightning is too obviously an up-sell tool for WordPerfect and Joyant's server storage to be a truly compelling piece of software. + +[1]: http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1171405162003 "Corel WordPerfect Lightning"
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But before I do I wanted to share this genius exchange I overheard on my last morning at the conference. + +There were several large flatscreen monitors at SXSW that displayed Twitter messages floating by and there were times when the hustle and bustle of the conference could be overwhelming so I adopted a morning ritual of standing glass-eyed and hung over in front of the Twitter board for a few minutes before diving into the day's panels. + +The last morning I was standing there watching what mostly amounted to industry gossip float by when two guys next to me started talking about Twitter. Just before I walked away, one of them said: + +* [ConFonz][1] needs to put on some swim trunks and jump over this TV... + +[1]: http://techcrunch.valleywag.com/tech/confonz/ "Valleywag ConFonz" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Fri/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Fri/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f620f3d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Fri/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* The Google Talk widget can now be [added to your personalized homepage][1]. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that brings the Talk functionality in GMail to your Google personalized homepage -- letting you see your friends and chat with them. + +[1]: http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=googletalk.xml "Google Talk Gadget" + +* Wordpress, the popular blogging platform, has rolled out the [Wordpress Plugins Directory][2], where plugins can be browsed, rated, commented on and downloaded. Previously plugins were largely scattered around at personal sites and lacked a centralized repository other than a [developer's Subversion-based site][3] which many casual users found difficult to figure out. + +[2]: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ "Wordpress Plugins Directory" +[3]: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ "Word Press Plugins Wiki" + +* The word "wiki" has [officially made it into the English language][4]. The word, which comes from Hawaiian and means roughly "quick" in its native language, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary with the definition: a type of Web page designed so that its contents can be edited by anyone who accesses it. + +[4]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070315/wr_nm/britain_dictionary_wiki_dc "Wiki wins a place in Oxford English Dictionary" + +* The web loves phone rumors. Ever since the iPhone turned out to be a real product (and perhaps even before that) rumors have swirled about a Google Phone. Now, [according to Engadget][5], a Google exec has confirmed the existence of R & D project phone. + +[5]: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/google-exec-confirms-phone-in-the-labs/ "Google exec confirms phone in the labs" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ea0ea5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +It sounded like the panel-most-likely-to-start-a-real-life-flame-war, so I dropped in on the Flash versus Javascript talk this afternoon to try and gain a sense of where web developers stand on the issue these days. + +The panel had a lone moderator, Jonathon Boutelle of [uzanto.com][1]. Boutelle's angle was that to create truly compelling sites developers need to take advantage of both AJAX and Flash technologies. + +A quick audience survey showed that the room was pretty evenly split between AJAX and Flash developers, which played well with Boutelle's messages that you don't have to choose between the two. As Boutelle quipped, "Flash doesn't kill people, people kill people." + +That said, Boutelle's first slide was entitled "Keep Flash on a Leash," which seems to be the general direction of online apps these days -- Flash as a kind of "nugget," to use Boutelle's term. In this case Boutelle described using Flash to embed fonts and vector graphics which is difficult to do in other languages. + +So rather than the competitive environment I was expecting Boutelle spoke of a programming environment in which developers will increasingly become AJAX-Flash crossover programmers comfortable in both and aware of the strengths and weakness of each. + +Speaking of flame wars, I've noticed a pretty healthy mix of Mac and Windows OS (overwhelmingly still XP on the Windows boxes) among conference attendees, glancing around the panels usually puts things at about 50/50. I've yet to see anyone using Linux, though I have no doubt many are. + +[1]: http://www.uzanto.com/ "Uzanto"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d39fdb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The Future of the Online Magazine panel proved to be by far the most entertaining session I've attended here at SXSW. Sean Mills from [The Onion][2] joined Ricky Van Veen of [College Humor][1], Laurel Touby of [Media Bistro][3], and Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief at [Salon][4]. Van Veen and Mills quickly descended into a friendly and totally hilarious sparring match of wits about their competing sites. + +But amid the ribbing and jokes, serious issues were broached as well. The general consensus among the panelists seemed to be that online magazines will replace printed content at some point, though Mills pointed out the the print version of the Onion belies that somewhat and has continued to expand into new markets. + +Salon of course defended the paid premium content model with Walsh claiming that nearly 25 percent of Salon's revenue comes from membership purchases. Most of the others seemed to think that freeing up the content and generating revenue via ads is the way of the future -- so very web 2.0 of them. + +Unsurprisingly everyone agreed that Flash-based "magazines" which try to imitate the reading experience of a magazine are a very bad idea. The magazine as website is obviously a more user-friendly model and the general consensus was that audience participation and blogs were the burgeoning areas of growth on magazine sites. + +None of the panelists seemed particularly keen on a Digg-like approach to audience participation and no one seemed to think that was what their readers wanted. After all if you're seeking unedited writings there's always blogs. What distinguishes most magazine sites from a run of the mill blog is precisely that editorial oversight that readers have come to value. + +At one point the panel took a highly surreal turn when an audience member (who was I believe part of the collegehumor staff) stepped up to the mic and launched into a very Andy Kaufmanesque question/tirade. Definitely the liveliest panel I've sat through. + + +[1]: http://collegehumor.com/ "College Humor" +[2]: http://www.theonion.com/content/ "The Onion" +[3]: http://www.mediabistro.com/ "Media Bistro" +[4]: http://www.salon.com/ "Salon"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd8ad73 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + + +AUSTIN, Texas -- The burgeoning city of Austin blows open its doors on Friday for its annual media convergence megafest. Over the next 10 days, this vibrant cultural blip in the heart of Texas will host tens of thousands in the first carbon-neutral incarnation of the 21-year-old South by Southwest. Yee-haw. + +The three-pronged music, film and interactive components of the festival offer an endless panoply of panels, performances and parties that even New York and Los Angeles would be hard pressed to match. There are more than 150 panels, 200 films and 1,400 music acts at some 60 venues. + +This year, SXSW is taking advantage of the growing trends of user-generated content. Conference organizers literally turned over panel selection to the community: Visitors to the SXSW website could vote on event topics and suggest speakers through an automated tool. + +Interactive Festival event director Hugh Forrest, says SXSW "received incredible panel ideas" from the crowd. So much that "the bulk of programming for the 2007 event" came to them from website votes. + +Of course, music is the big ticket at the event, and the Austin Convention Center, parking lots, parks and venues will be jam-packed with acts ranging from new sensations like Amy Winehouse and Cloud Cult to old standbys like the Buzzcocks and David Byrne. + +But don't forget the interactive and film festivals, which attracts plenty of digital creatives and technology entrepreneurs, along with its share of geek celebs, from comedian and web designer Ze Frank to Sims creator Will Wright and Worldchanging's Alex Steffen. Google will host a panel about why XSLT is sexy, and Bruce Sterling gets to rant on stage about SXSW. + +"SXSW is an interesting show for web developers since it brings the geeks out of the pure-geek conference circuit, and mixes them in with designers, filmmakers and musicians," says Marc Hedlund, founder of the internet banking site Wesabe and a panelist on "Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps." + +Normal fans -- who can't afford the A&R vacation lifestyle of many of the attendees or are otherwise unable to travel to south-central Texas -- can get a good dose of the festival online and through DIRECTV's eight hours of daily showcase programming (available on channel 101) during the music portion of the festival, running March 14 through 18. Independent television station ME TV (channel 15) offers impressive insight into the local music culture and will be streaming online content throughout SXSW. + +Similarly, radio station KUT (90.5 FM) is the go-to source to hear the many local bands, and will be reporting extensively throughout. SXSW's web site offers a toolbox of useful online and mobile apps, best of which is a free 3.1-GB bitorrent download with singles from most of the participating bands. + +Plus, SXSW Film Festival producer and wunderkind programmer Matt Dentler blogs daily with the deep inside. + +Stay tuned for daily news from the festival, in Listening|Post. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab5d619 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +geotags as a microformat + +hcards, + +Microformats were born at SXSW four years ago and while they remain somewhat of a geek-only tool, judging by the packed house at the Growth and Evolution of Microformats panel, the communitiy's interest is piqued. By far the largest panel I've attended, moderator Tantek Çelik creator of Microformats kicking things off with a history of microformats through t-shirts. Using a number of different company promotional tees Çelik slowly hurmously stripped his way through the birth and history of microformats. + +For those that aren't familiar with microformats, they are essentially just name spaces within html that tell machines how to handle information. The classic example is the hcard syntax which mirrors the common vcard syntax, but wraps it in HTML. + +It might sound complicated and indeed describing microformats is often much harder than using them. In fact there's a good chance you already have some microformat data on the web. If you use popular sites like Flickr or Upcoming much of that data is in microformats. + +But creating microformats isn't the point, the point is using them and to that end panel member Michael Kaply showed off his Firefox plugin, Operator, which makes it easy to use microformats. Once installed Operator auto-detects various microformats and can then do useful things with them. For instance all of the panel and event data on the SXSW site has microformat info on the page. Attendees with Operator (or similar) installed in their browser can auto add panelists contact info to their address book and send event schedules directly to Google or Yahoo calendar services. + +Combine that with some SMS notification from your calendar services and you've discovered how the uber-geeks always knows what's happening and where. + +Glenn Jones of Magdex then showed some web app prototypes that integrate microformats into social networking sites, including a way to aggregate online profiles and import then into a single repository. Unfortunately those tools aren't available yet, but anyone with numerous online profiles will probably appreiciate such services when they arrive. + +Other highlights included a rundown of microformat search engines and a list of popular sites that are using microformats. As I mentioned above, if you're using Flickr you already have an hcard available for the world to use. + +One demostration from a Technorati employee (unfortunately I didn't catch his name) showed how the Firefox plugin lkadsfj can be used to discover say and hcard with contact data and then send that data via bluetooth to your cellphone. sweet. + +Microformats are unique in that usually when someone is creating a format or outlining code for something totally new whereas with microformats are dealing with information that already exists on the web, but could be organized better + +Microformats search engines: edgeio uses hlisting to aggregate craig's list type of data. + +Technorati kitchen: + +Tantik said something that cuts to heart of why many geeks hate MySpace, the content is trapped at the URL there's no way to use that data across the web + +hcard and openid openid2.0 may contain a way to exchange profiles and hopefully rather than reinventing the wheel, the openid folks will adopt vcard or hcard. + +Microformats are actually quite simple to use, for instance here is mine. + +GRDDL has come up twice now. + +Eventful one of the early adoptors of microformats + +Frances Berriman Volume +Michael Kaply IBM +Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex +Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ca5fd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot does not mess with Texas: + +* Earlier this week Google [rolled out a new version of its Picasa Web Albums service][1]. The update adds search functionality and easier sharing via e-mails, IMs and websites. Storage space has also been increased to 1GB with available paid storage options for up to 250GB. + +[1]: http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_US/web/whatsnew.html "Picasa Upgrade" + +* Turkey [lifted][2] its [YouTube ban][3] yesterday. + +[2]: http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Turkey-Lifts-YouTube-Ban-After-Two-Days/2007/03/10/1173166996611.html "Turkey Lifts YouTube Ban After 2 Days" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/turkey_vs_youtu.html "Turkey vs. YouTube" + +* Last week the RIAA announced that that instead of filing lawsuits against student downloaders, it would give them the option to pay a flat fee. At the time details were slim, but now 50 students from Ohio University are being told to [pay $3,000 or else face a lawsuit][4]. + +[4]: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/08/20070308-C3-00.html "50 students at OU asked to pay $3,000 each in pirating case" + +* More bad news for Yahoo. AT&T [reportedly][5] wants to renegotiate its longstanding deal with Yahoo. The telecom giant has been selling broadband DSL service under the joint AT&T-Yahoo brand name for five years. + +[5]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17538030/ "Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aed7493 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +I just sat in on a panel entitled "Bridging The Online cultural Divide" which addressed issues of race and gender within the social networking sphere. [Jason Toney][1] of negroplease.com fame [Lynne D Johnson][2] of Fast company and [Samhita Mukhopadhyay][3] of feministing.com. + +In this case social networking was defined as not just as the obvious sites like Facebook or Flickr, but also more generally as blogs and interaction with readers through comments. One of the salient points of nearly everyone on the panel raised at some point was that software tools used to build communities often fall short when it comes to moderating and policing communities. + +The panelists response to how much policing is necessary varied from Johnson who does absolutely no moderation on her site, to Mukhopadhyay who said that feministing will delete deliberately off-topic and "hateful" speech. + +The software developers creating social networks often have very high-minded ideas about community and how community members will interact with one another, but then, as Jason Toney put it, "people show up." As anyone who writes a blog can tell you, things can quickly get messy. + +The panel also broached the question of how online reputations can be effected by comments and reader feedback and while none of the panelists felt their own careers have been effected certainly the existence of [ReputationDefender][4] and its ilk indicate that some people are concerned about not just those drunken pictures, but also what others are saying about them. + +Lynne Johnson raised an interesting point: in some ways the online world closely mirrors the real world in that a fifty year old white male is probably not spending much time on Blogher or feministing -- if people aren't connecting offline they probably won't connect online. + +One of the things that didn't come up and the Q & A ended before I could ask is how sites like Digg, which often expose small communities to a much larger audience, effect the dialogue and interaction within the community. Oh well, maybe next year. + +[1]: http://www.jasontoney.com/ "Jason Toney" +[2]: http://www.lynnedjohnson.com/ "Lynne D Johnson" +[3]: http://www.feministing.com/ "feministing" +[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72063-0.html "Wired: Delete Your Bad Web Rep"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/xslt.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/xslt.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1fd25a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/xslt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +There's nothing quite as geeky as a panel entitled "Why XSLT is Sexy", which was naturally the first place I headed this morning. Joe Orr of NYCircuits and Lindsey Simon of Google moderated a panel about XSLT and what, well, makes it sexy. + +Of course, for the most part there's nothing particularly glamorous about XSLT, but it is useful and some of the applications that were demoed do qualify as, if not sexy, then at least compelling. + +Some of the examples were still in the eye candy stage, but with the growth of both semantic web and Microformats I think XSLT usage will be increasing in the near future. + +The most interesting demo was the closed beta of something called MyTimes from the New York Times which looks a bit like the Google News page, but emphasizes New York Times data widgets and can be customized much like Google's implementation. + +The MyTimes service won't be public until later this year, but according to Orr, a framework will be available for developers to create their own widgets. + +MyTimes widgets can contain other widgets which makes it possible to create some very complex, data rich homepage implementations and, thanks to XSLT on the back end, it's relatively simple for developers to pull in outside data -- for instance you could create a widgets to grab your GMail and display it on your Times feed. + +Also some of the widgets that are currently only available in the Times Reader app (Windows), such as the slideshow functionality, will be coming to the web. + +If you're interested in XSLT there's some online examples you can play with [here][1] and [here][2]. + +[1]: http://www.commoner.com/lsimon/XSLDataGrid/test/Dynamic.php "XSLDataGrid Dynamic test" +[2]: http://www.screenbooks.com/sxsw ""
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Thu/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Thu/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..188d2bc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Thu/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* In a move that I find downright shocking, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has [announced][1] that it is putting Microsoft's Open XML format -- used for Office 2007 documents -- on the fast track to become a full ISO standard. Of course having OOXML on the fast track does not mean it will be accepted, that is still up to the voting countries come ballet time. + +[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070313-microsoft-office-xml-gets-fast-tracked-to-iso-standard.html "Microsoft Office XML gets fast-tracked to ISO standard" + +* Today is the last day for old school Flickr users to switch over to a Yahoo account and to make things perhaps a bit less painful, Flickr [announced a new feature yesterday][2] called "collection." Collections are essentially another top level organization tool that allows you to make sets of sets. Collections are available to Flickr Pro users only. + +[2]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/03/today_we_launch.html "Flickr Blog: Collections" + + +* Google is reversing its long standing policy of storing user search data indefinitely. Our own Ryan Singel has an in depth [look at what the decision means][4] over at 27B Stroke 6: "by the end of the year [Google] will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 months to two years, depending on the country the servers are located in." + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/google_to_anony.html "Google To Anonymize Data" + +* Interesting copyright news: author Jonathan Lethem has [announced he will give away the film option rights for his new novel][3] (taking payment in royalties) so long as the filmmaker agrees to release all the materials and rights into the public domain after five years. It seems to me that this is exactly what it will take to raise the level of dialogue about copyright -- for the public to see actual authors/musicians/artist embrace alternative structures. Kudos to Lethem. + +[3]: http://jonathanlethem.com/freelove.html "free option & ancillary-rights give-away"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Tue/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Tue/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5df405a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Tue/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Forget viruses and worms, it would seem Microsoft's own Live OneCare security software can [delete your data][1] just as easily. Over the weekend Microsoft quietly issued a patch to address the problem. OneCare auto-updates when connected to the internet so if you're using OneCare the problem should be fixed by now. + +[1]: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/_Microsoft_s_antivirus_deletes_users_e_mails/0,130061733,339274163,00.htm "Microsoft's antivirus deletes users' e-mails" + +* Malaysia is [added piracy sniffing dogs][2] to the increasingly bizarre world of copyright protection. Malaysia, which is on the U.S. watchlist on piracy, is the first country to try using animals to hunt for illegal recordings hidden in cargo. No word on the difference in smell between legal and illegal disks. + +[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-03-13T105630Z_01_KLR293175_RTRUKOC_0_US-MALAYSIA-PIRACY.xml "Malaysia uses sniffer dogs to fight movie pirates" + +* Viacom is [suing Google and YouTube][3] for more than $1 billion over unauthorized use of its programming online. Viacom accuses YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement." Viacom is reportedly unhappy with the measures YouTube has taken to curb the uploading of copyrighted content -- perhaps Google can use some dogs to sniff out the illegal clips. + +[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-03-13T134200Z_01_WEN5351_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIACOM-YOUTUBE.xml&src=rss "Viacom in $1 bln copyright suit vs Google, YouTube" + +* A study by George Washington University claims that, ten years after Congress enacted the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA), [only one in five federal agencies actually complies with the law][5]. Check out 27B Stroke 6's coverage [here][4]. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/most_government.html "Most Government Sites Fall Short of FOIA Requirements" +[5]: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB216/index.htm "Agencies Violate Law On Online Information"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Wed/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Wed/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2387f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Wed/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot, on the road again: + +* Regarding yesterday's $1 billion Viacom lawsuit against YouTube and Google, Google [remains unfazed][1] (nearly limitless capital can do that for you) and claims that it is protected under current copyright law. + +[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-03-14T020357Z_01_N13164116_RTRUKOC_0_US-VIACOM-YOUTUBE-GOOGLE-LAWYERS1.xml&src=rss "Google confident digital liability law protects it" + +* Apple [released a significant new update for OS X][2] users yesterday. The update brings the system to version 10.4.9 and addresses a number of security updates including patches for a number of security flaws in third party products like the Adobe Flash plugin. Fire up Software Update to get the fixes. + +[2]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304821 "OS X 10.4.9" + +* Our own Michael Calore has the inside scoop, including leaked photos of a test site, on the [rumored MySpace Digg-clone][3]. Yes it is real Virginia. + +[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72960-0.html?tw=wn_index_10 "Exclusive: MySpace News Pics" + +* And finally, Gadget Lab one of the [coolest iPod screenhacks][4] ever. Bound to be a hit at SXSW. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/ipod_hack_of_th.html "iPod Hack of the Year"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Fri/elsewhere.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Fri/elsewhere.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f4f1b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Fri/elsewhere.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<img border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/23/gun.jpg" title="Gun" alt="Gun" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />Elsewhere on Wired: + +* Table of Malcontents just opened up a strange set of memories I didn't know I had as Annalee Newitz looks at the [retro meme of Cal Worthington and His Dog Spot][1]. Anyone who grew up in Southern California in the late 70s and early 80s will no doubt remember these ads -- goofy, lamely funny and somehow classic. See Annalee's post for some links to online versions. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/03/retro_meme_cal_.html "Cal Worthington and His Dog Spot" + +* Eliot Van Buskirk at Listening Post has sad news: The Online Guitar Archive, or (OLGA), has been [served with a cease and desist letter and site is gone][2]. OLGA was, as Eliot describes it, "a guitar tablature repository where guitarists who had picked their way through a song would post charts in order to teach each other how to play the guitar parts from popular recordings." It was without a doubt one of the best resources on the net for aspiring guitarists. + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/music_publisher.html "Music Publishers Crack Down on Guitar Tabs" + +* Kevin Poulsen of 27B Stroke 6 has the text of [one of the "hit man" advance-fee e-mails][3] the FBI warned about last month. The basic scam is that an assassin claims to have been hired to kill you but is willing to negotiate, if you give more money than the person who supposedly took out the contract, you get to live. The actual text of the email is hilarious: "The reason why they want you Dead is not disclosed to me as i was not allowed to know, but you are now not better that the dead ok. " + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/phisher_threate.html "Scammer Threatens Lives, English Language" + +* Sex Drive Daily brings news that [porn star legend Ron Jeremy has taken a new job as a tech product reviewer for Heavy.com][4]. I mean, why not right? At least we know he's not in it for the chicks. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/03/porn_legend_ron.html "Porn Legend Ron Jeremy Now a Gear Geek"
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Apollo aims to bridge the gap between the growing functionality of web applications and traditional desktop applications. + +Apollo is designed to help rich internet application developers create on and offline web applications that behave like desktop application. Essentially, Apollo allows web developers to build desktop application without having to learn complex compiled languages Java or C++. + +Apollo applications can be written in HTML and Javascript, Flash, Flex or any combination of the three, and then be deployed on Mac OS X, Windows and (eventually) Linux. + +Using Apollo, online apps can offer a downloadable application installer that will put all the functionality of the website on the user's desktop. Apollo apps look and behave just like traditional desktop apps, complete with icons in the user's applications folder and dock (or system tray on Windows). + +But with the current trend moving in the opposite direction -- tasks traditionally handled by desktop apps are now online services -- why is Adobe touting desktop applications? Probably for the same reason Mozilla is planning to support offline components in the next version of Firefox, because the world of ubiquitous internet access remains illusory. + +Using technologies like Apollo, rich internet application designers can bridge the one shortcoming of online apps -- what to do when the internet isn't available? Need to edit a document mid-flight? Want to post your photos from the subway? Currently you're out of luck, but with Apollo-based apps you could perform your edits and then sync the next time you connect. + +Of course the road to cross-operating system, online/offline apps is littered with failed attempts, but, despite my initial skepticism, Apollo looks great. + +Imagine for instance the entire online component of Flickr's organizational and editing tools wrapped in a desktop app that you can use offline to organize your photos and then, when you connect, updates the data in the background. + +True, in Flickr's case there is already a cottage industry of apps that can do this sort of thing, but functionality and user experience varies widely. Using Apollo, it would be relatively easy for Flickr developers to simply repackage their online tools as an integrated on/offline application. + +[Apollo is free download][3] broken into two separate components, a software development kit for programmers and then the runtime software which allows users to run Apollo applications on Mac or Windows machines. + +Once Apollo hits 1.0 the runtime portion will feature an end user installation process somewhat like that of Adobe's Flash Player Plugin. Version 1.0 will also see the release of a Linux version of the runtime environment. + +The second development release of Apollo will be a beta and is due sometime this summer. Version 1.0 is planned for the second half of the year. + +While there is no specific IDE for developing applications, the initial alpha release of Apollo is squarely aimed at Flex developers while future releases with bring in more of the HTML/Ajax and Flash tools. + +Adobe's upcoming Creative Suite 3, which is schedule for release later this month, will integrate with Apollo and allow users to generate Apollo content via apps like Dreamweaver. + +So what is Apollo? In its current incarnation, Apollo is really a set of filesystem APIs combined with network APIs. The best way to understand what Apollo is capable of is to check out one of the [sample applications available through Adobe Labs][5] (note that you'll need to have the runtime software installed to use the samples). + +Unfortunately because Apollo is a software development kit and runtime application, there's really no way to demonstrate Apollo. If you'd like to watch a demo before committing to an install, here's a clip of Adobe's Mike Downey showing off a prototype Ebay Apollo app at the Demo conference earlier this year. + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RurAaFUjpvE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RurAaFUjpvE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + + + +The problem facing Apollo is whether or not users will download and install the runtime component. Historically web plugins have not faired well and runtime environments even worse. Still, Apollo has remarkable potential if it can achieve the necessary critical mass. + +If you're a web app developer wanting to see what Apollo can do for your applications, Lynda.com has has a series of instructional videos narrated by Adobe's Mike Chambers [available for download][4] that walk you through creating and deploying a simple Apollo application in Flex. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/the_morning_reb_9.html "The Morning Reboot: Monday March 19" +[2]: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200703/031907ApolloLabs.html "Public Alpha of Apollo Debuts on Adobe Labs" +[3]: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Fapollo "Adobe Labs: Developing with Apollo" + +[4]: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=378 "Apollo Alpha Preview" +[5]: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Applications:Samples "Adobe Labs: Apollo Sample Apps"
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[According to Luke O'Brien][2]: "Senior officials at the FBI alerted the bureau beginning in 2004 to legal problems with national security letters, but the bureau ignored or downplayed the warnings and continued to spy on Americans using methods of questionable legality, according to reports coming to light throughout the media yesterday and today." + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/fbi_knew_spying.html "FBI Knew Spying Was Illegal in 2004, Did Nothing" + +* Table of Malcontent's John Brownlee [digs deeper into John Hargrave's claim][3] that he pranked Super Bowl. What happens when you build it and nobody notices? + +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/03/was_the_super_b.html "Was The Super Bowl Pranked?" + +* Regina Lynn at Sex Drive Daily [reports][4] on an article about the future of sex in which one James Hughes argues: "the two most important developments in the technological control of sex are both already occurring; first separating sex from physical contact, and then establishing our control over our sexual feelings altogether..." Regina politely refuses to dismiss the good Dr Hughes outright which is where I step in, that hypothesis Doctor, is a load of crap. Next. + +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/sex/2007/03/bleak_outlook_f.html "Bleak Outlook for Sex, Predicts Bioethicist/Sociologist" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/fcp.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/fcp.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7539787 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/fcp.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/jailcell.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/jailcell.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b819e4c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/jailcell.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/nightly.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/nightly.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02d33d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Mon/nightly.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The Nightly Build: + +* Netvibes, the personalized homepage site, [has released a new version][1] -- nicknamed the "Coriander Edition" -- featuring a new RSS reader with multimedia capabilities, improved sharing features, and a beta preview of a mobile edition. The changes has been discussed for some time on the Netvibes blog, but today marks the official launch. + +[1]: http://blog.netvibes.com/?2007/03/19/126-coriander-launch-second-and-final-step "Coriander launch: second step" + +* ILounge notes something I missed when upgrading software the other day, [Apple has updated QuickTime][2], adding an "Export to Apple TV" command. The new export options is capable of creating HD videos viewable via an Apple TV with resolution support up to 1280 by 720 videos + +[2]: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/quicktime-gains-720p-apple-tv-high-definition-export-mode/9658 "720P Apple TV high-definition export mode" + +* The New York Times [reports][3] that researchers at Microsoft have discovered that splogs and other web pages menaces are generated "by a small group of shadowy operators apparently with the acquiescence of some major advertisers, Web page hosts and advertising syndicators." The Times (in hyperbole mode) goes on to claim that "the finding is striking because it hints at the possibility of curbing the practice." Yeah just like all those Microsoft strategies to stop Windows piracy have worked so well. The Microsoft report can be [seen here][4] (PDF). + +[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/technology/19spam.html?ex=1331956800&en=44a8402e53db4153&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages" + +[4]: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hchen/paper/www07.pdf + +* China has [jailed an online editor for six years][5] for "inciting subversion" by publishing anti-government essays. According to Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, China is the world's leading jailer of journalists, with at least 32 in custody, and another 50 Internet publishers in prison. + +[5]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-03-19T153239Z_01_PEK136875_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-SUBVERSION.xml&src=rss "China jails online editor for subversion" + +strategies
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Backus was 82. + +Backus led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran in the late 1950s, which was the first widely used programming language and in many ways can be credited with starting programming as we know it today. + +At the time it was developed, there weren't many programming languages that were easily read and understood by humans. Machine readable code was the rule of the day, but Backus was convinced there had to be a better way. + +In his quest to ease the pains of programmers, Backus and his team developed Fortran and in doing so, helped usher in the era of human readable programming languages. + +Though many might argue about just how readable Fortran actually is, it is nevertheless considered the first successful high-level programming language. + +Fortran, which is roughly short for **For**mula **Tran**slator, was designed for scientists and engineers and is particularly adept at numerically intensive programs. Because of that background, Fortran still dominates computationally intensive fields such as climate modeling, fluid dynamics, physics, and chemistry. + +Monkey Bites salutes Mr. Backus and offer our condolences to his family. + +[Photo from the [New York Times][1]] + +[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html?ex=1332043200&en=31f321141420c56d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies" + +[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran "Wikipedia: Fortran" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/osxstartup.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/osxstartup.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..da25c88 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/osxstartup.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5575f5b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.19.07/Tue/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* YourMinis has [added a new blog directory][1] to highlight widgets for specific blogs. The widgets themselves aren't new, but the new section makes it easier to find a widget for your favorite blog. That said, the "featured" blog widgets happen to mainly be tech review sites (which are likely to reviewing the new feature) which I find a bit tacky. + +[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/blogs "Yourminis: Blog Widgets" + +* Google inked a deal yesterday to [provide software for students and government workers in Rwanda and Kenya][2]. The move represents Google's increasing interest in working with developed countries, which may not be internet hotbeds at the moment, but are headed in direction. The students and government workers will have access to the Google Apps set of free communications tools, including e-mail, shared calendars, instant messaging and word processing. + +[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-03-20T023810Z_01_N19292941_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-AFRICA.xml&src=rss "Google signs software deals in two African nations" + + +* Wired's own Jeanette Borzo has an interesting piece on NetVibes which includes an [interview with Tariq Krim][4], the man behind Netvibes and Krim's plans to revamp online advertising. + +[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72999-0.html?tw=rss.index "Latest Twist: Useful Online Ads" + +* Symantec has [released a new study][3] which claims "the current Internet threat environment is characterized by an increase in data theft, data leakage, and the creation of targeted, malicious code for the purpose of stealing confidential information that can be used for financial gain." In other news, the world is apparently "round." + +[3]: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20070319_01 "Symantec Reports Rise in Data Theft, Data Leakage, and Targeted Attacks Leading to Hackers’ Financial Gain" + + +* And finally, of interest to science nerds: Discover magazine has [opened its online archives to everyone][5], you no longer need to be a subscribe to access older articles. + +[5]: http://discovermagazine.com/2007 "Discover Magazine"
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Papers requires OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher. + +Papers features an all-in-one PDF organizer which can download, archive, and organize your .pdfs and allows you read in fullscreen mode, add notes and email files (leveraging Apple's Mail program) to friends and colleagues. + +While much of the functionality of Papers is aimed at the research and scientific communities, the program is so well done that even casual pdf readers may prefer it to Apple's Preview application. + +To get started you'll want to import some files. I used the import dialogue to search for the .pdf extension on my drive and then dumped everything I had into Papers. Papers took maybe a minute to import about 10,000 pages worth of pdf files. + +Once you've got your files added to the library it's easy to filter, search, flag and annotate your .pdfs. + +The main window in Papers is divided into three panels (sometimes four depending on your selection). On the right you have a very Mail/iPhoto like top-level panel where you can browse through your library, store saved searches, browse journals and dump files to the trash. + +The center panel is the meat of the application. Depending on your source selection, you'll see various lists of files in the center panel. For instance when browsing your library you'll see a list of local files. When searching the journals list you'll get a list of available journals and in the lower half of the pane a list recent articles. + +Anytime you select a file in the center pane, an abstract or preview appears in the right pane -- depending on the files type. + +Papers also features search integration with [PubMed][3] and even includes predefined search terms to make browsing PubMed easier. + +Papers also handles a number of other file types besides PDF, most of which the average person probably doesn't encounter much such as BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan RIS and some others. There are a couple of other BibTeX readers for OS X, but Papers is by far the slickest interface I've used. + +One of the best features in Papers is the fullscreen reading mode. Apple's Preview is somewhat cumbersome for prolonged reading and longer articles are much easier to browse in Paper's fullscreen mode. + +It would be nice if the fullscreen mode supported more keyboard shortcuts and hopefully that's something the Papers folks will be adding before the app hits 1.0. In the mean time there is a very iPhoto-like navigation toolstrip at the bottom of the screen that shows and hides itself as needed. Fullscreen mode also supports zoom and annotation notes, just like the normal view. + +Papers is a beta and not without bugs, particularly in fullscreen mode, for instance when making notes in fullscreen mode and switching apps with cmd-tab the notes continue to overlay the screen. But in spite of a few bugs here and there Papers never crashed or mangled any files and I would feel comfortable using it even in production work. Of course YMMV. + +While primarily of interest to scientists and scholars (particularly the emphasis on PubMed with is unlikely to be of interest to most), Papers is easy to use and the slick interface and fullscreen mode make it useful for even the casual user. + +For the time being Papers is a free beta, once the app reaches the 1.0 stage mekentosj.com plans to charge $15 for a single seat license. + +[1]: http://mekentosj.com/papers/ "OS X PDF Viewer: Papers" +[2]: http://mekentosj.com/enzymex/ "Enzymex" +[3]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed "PubMed"
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If you haven't updated Apple recommends using the Eject iPod command in iTunes to unmount your iPod rather than the Vista Safely Remove Hardware taskbar tool. + +Other patches in the Vista update include one that [keeps Vista from corrupting Camera RAW images][3] taken with Canon EOS-1D or EOS-1Ds cameras. We wrote about [the Camera RAW issues in Vista][2] last month and while this patch doesn't solve all the problems, it is at least a step in the right direction. + +So far as I can tell, the metadata corruption issues we covered last month appear to still be a problem and the Nikon codec problems also remain unsolved (if you know of an update for the Nikon RAW codecs in Vista be sure to let us know in the comments below. + +Other Vista bug fixes include one that solves a video quality issue when Vista is connected to a TV, one that [stops Vista from abruptly going to sleep][4] when a dial-up PPP connection is active, and one that [updates Microsoft's Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program][5]. + + + +[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AE02A107-EBC8-4B67-A597-80349631C395&displaylang=en "Update for Windows Vista" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_issues_fo.html "Vista Issues For Pro Photographers" +[3]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D413A8E9-5B51-4C39-8842-209D65DFE069&displaylang=en "Update for Windows Vista" +[4]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5754C17D-91A0-4DCA-AB86-16E09A5C717B&displaylang=en "Update for Windows Vista" +[5]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3f1b3917-3eda-4bf9-bb00-3de33f6f22fe&displaylang=en&tm "Update for Windows Vista" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Fri/xxxdomain.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Fri/xxxdomain.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1bf32e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Fri/xxxdomain.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/del.icio.us.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/del.icio.us.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49ed6c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/del.icio.us.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +While researching my [earlier post on Popuri.us][1] I ran across a cool del.icio.us feature I wasn't familiar with. The [del.icio.us url feature][2] lets you track when people bookmark your sites. Moreover, it lets you see what other people are saying about your site through the tags they use and (possibly) the descriptions they write. + +You can see this information by pointing your browser to delicious.com/url and type in the page you'd like to track. Even better, at the bottom of the page there's a link to an RSS feed that will send results to the RSS reader of your choice. + +If you'd like to skip the visit to del.icio.us, here's the base url for the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/url?url=http://yoursite.com/. Just replace yoursite.com with the page you'd like to track. + +Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to track a whole domain so if you enter the base URL for your site you'll only see those people that have bookmarked your homepage, not the people that have bookmarked your permalinks for instance. + +Because I prefer [ma.gnolia][4] to del.icio.us I dug around the ma.gnolia site for bit looking for similar functionality, but came up empty. Ma.gnolia does offer a nice Javascript bookmarklet called "[Roots][5]" which provides the same functionality as delicious.com/url, but thanks to Ajax, you can view the results from any page. + +Stripping out the Javascript aspect, if you just point your browser to http://ma.gnolia.com/meta/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com you'll get the results of Roots. Unfortunately there's no RSS feed to subscribe to, which limits the usefulness of the feature. + + +found via [Digital Inspiration][3] + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/popuri_website_.html "Popuri: Website Statistics At A Glance" +[2]: http://del.icio.us/url/ "del.icio.us url" +[3]: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/03/know-when-people-bookmark-you-on.html "Know When People Bookmark You on Del.icio.us" +[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "ma.gnolia.com" +[5]: http://ma.gnolia.com/meta/roots "ma.gnolia Roots"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69fb2fd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot: + +* Apple Insider [reports][5] that [Amazon has leaked pricing and package details][6] for Adobe's Creative Suite 3 software packages. Adobe's official announcement is expected tomorrow, but the Amazon page lists the basic specs now. The only real surprise is that most apps are not universal binaries, instead you'll have to choose between Intel and PowerPC versions (according the Amazon anyway). + +[5]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2600 "Amazon leaks Adobe CS3 pricing, availability dates, code split" +[6]: http://www.amazon.ca/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Adobe&rh=n%3A3234171%2Ck%3AAdobe%2Cp%5F3%3A%24100%20or%20more&page=4 "Amazon Adobe CS3" + +* Flickr has [introduced some new filter technology][7] designed to give users more options when marking images as objectionable. While many will no doubt appreciate the fine-grained control and ability to specify exactly why an image is potentially objectionable, the cynical among us might note that these filters have coincidentally popped up just before the launch of the new Chinese version of the site -- and what would a Chinese site be without some serious censorship? + +[7]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/03/introducing_fil.html "Flickr Blog: Introducing Filters" + + + +* [Zimbra][1], the online web office suite, has announced [Zimbra Desktop][2], which enables offline access to Zimbra's Ajax-powered suite of office apps. Add Zimbra to the growing number of online services offering offline components -- Adobe's recent [launch of Apollo][3], [Firefox 3][4]'s purported offline support and more. + +[1]: http://www.zimbra.com/ "Zimbra" +[2]: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html "Zimbra Desktop" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/adobe_launches_.html "Adobe Launches Apollo" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/firefox_3_alpha.html "Firefox 3 Alpha 2" + + +* Just a quick note, since we did the same for Windows a while back, Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of Mac OS X. Seems like a bit longer than that, but that could probably be the amount of effort I've put in to suppressing all my memories of Mac OS 9. Shudder. + + +* And finally, Bruce Lehman, architect of the DMCA, has admitted what everyone else already knows -- [the DMCA is a failure][8]. Speaking at a conference on music and copyright reform hosted by McGill University, Lehman reported said, ""our Clinton administration policies didn't work out very well" and "our attempts at copyright control have not been successful." Kudos to Lehman for acknowledging the obvious -- now fix your mistake buddy. + +[8]: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1826/125/ "DMCA Architect Acknowledges Need For A New Approach"
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Everything worked as advertised, including the iSight support which was the main thing missing from my previous installation. + +Other nice bits include a new system tray icon that will bring up a Boot Camp help center with troubleshooting tips and how-to hints for new Windows users. The keyboard driver support is now Vista compatible giving me backspace for the delete key and fn-delete for delete. + +I can't necessarily say it didn't previously work because I never tried, but I was also able to connect to my Razr via Bluetooth (which I still can't do in OS X). + +Check out the screenshots below and also see [Cult of Mac's coverage][2] for a complete list of driver upgrades and more. + +[1]: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ "Boot Camp 1.2" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/03/boot_camp_updat.html "Boot Camp Updated to Version 1.2 with Vista Compatibility" + +installing the new drivers + + +system tray icon + + +help center + + +iSight camera working (still not sure what software you use to capture video, but at least I know Vista can connect to it). + +Bluetooth successfully connected to Razr. + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/darthpost.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/darthpost.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9eab731 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/darthpost.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/gpl.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/gpl.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e7a490 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/gpl.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +The Free Software Foundation has [release the third discussion draft of GPL v3][1]. The new draft incorporates from the general public as well as international discussion committees. The revised GPL v3 includes several significant changes and addresses many of the concerns that caused a fair amount of public outcry when the original draft was released. + +The changes in today's draft include the following new or changed provisions: + +* First-time violators can have their license automatically restored if they remedy the problem within thirty days. +* License compatibility terms have been simplified, with the goal of making them easier to understand and administer. +* Manufacturers who include the software in consumer products must also provide installation information for the software along with the source. This change provides more narrow focus for requirements that were proposed in previous drafts. +* New patent requirements have been added to prevent distributors from colluding with patent holders to provide discriminatory protection from patents. + +The current draft will be available for discussion for 60 days. After that there will be one more public "last call" draft before the foundation's board of directors votes to approve the final text of GPL v3. + +The FSF says that the GNU components in the GNU system will be released under GPL version 3, once it is finalized. The other major chunk of GPL licensed software, the Linux kernel, may opt to adopt the new license, but Linus Torvalds hasn't committed to it just yet. + +In an [interview with CNet][2], Torvalds says, "the current draft makes me think it's at least a possibility in theory, but whether it's practical and worth it is a totally different thing," + +For many the major sticking points in earlier drafts was the language surrounding DRM and patent concerns brought to light by the recent Microsoft-Novell partnership. + +Richard Stallman, president of the FSF and principal author of the GNU GPL, said in a press release yesterday, that one of the GPL's goals was to stop companies like Microsoft and Novell from "undermining" the user's freedoms. + +"These freedoms allow you to run the program as you see fit, study and adapt it for your own purposes, redistribute copies to help your neighbor, and release your improvements to the public," writes Stallman. + +Language in the GPL v3 preamble confirms that sentiment saying, "we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free." + +However one of the main issues for many people is how the actual legal language in the GPL handles the goals of the preamble. Originally the GPL v3 contained so very specific requirements restricting what hardware manufacturers could include in their products, but those provisions have largely been removed. + +If you'd like to comment on the current draft, [head over to the FSF's site][3] and read through the license. + +[1]: http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3dd3-released "FSF releases third draft of GPLv3 for discussion" +[2]: http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6171300.html "Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft" +[3]: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-3.html#all "GPL v# comments"
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Hyman refers to MOG TV "what MTV should have become," and having just thumbed through the service for twenty minutes I'd have to agree with that statement. + +Be sure to check out the rest of Eliot's [coverage on Listening Post][3]. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/mog.html "MOG: Discover New Music" +[2]: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-29-2007/0004555742&EDATE= "MOG Comes Out of Beta" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/mog_20s_youtube.html "MOG 2.0's YouTube Mash-up: "What MTV Should Have Become"" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tray.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tray.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b780a6b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tray.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako-screen.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako-screen.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a10ecaf --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako-screen.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4a3ce0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..742da03 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Thu/tweako.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Tweako is a new social news aimed at programmers that just launched a couple of hours ago. Tweako bears a certain similarity to Digg, but instead of news headlines the user submitted content is geared toward tutorials, guides, resources and services. + +I wouldn't go so far as to call it a Digg clone, but even if you did, a Digg clone for tutorials and the like is a good idea. + +In addition to submitting links, registered users can post tutorials and the like directly on Tweako. All the submitted content can be tagged, commented on and voted for by other users. + +Registering at Tweako is free and creating the account lets you set up a profile that can track your voting and submission history. There are also tools for sending private messages and initiating a chats with fellow users in you "buddy" list. In addition to a site-wide feed there are also topic and user based RSS feeds. + +The site is broken into fourteen broad categories ranging from tips for Mac or Windows users to Rails tutorials. And for something that just went public there's a decent amount of content on the site. + +The layout and design of Tweako is quite slick with all the Ajax widgets we've come to expect from sites like this. At the moment there are a couple of Google text ads, but not the overwhelming onslaught of ads that many tutorial sites sites throw at you. + +Also worth noting is that Tweako was designed and created by a 19 year-old programmer, named Michael Stefanello, which is a heck of a lot more than I accomplished at that age. + +As with an social site that's just launched, Tweako is looking for content so if you have a tutorial you'd like to tell people about head on over and submit it to Tweako.
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Using what amounts to a widget platform, Zenzui aims to make web browsing through mobile devices a more user-friendly experience. + +Instead of navigating through a traditional web browsing experience, which pretty much anyone will admit sucks on a mobile phone, the ZenZui system creates pages of clickable tiles. Clicking on a tile then zooms to that page, feed or other service. + +It's somewhat difficult to explain clearly so I've embedded a demo movie of ZenZui in action (complete with an awful soundtrack) after the jump. + +However, to say that ZenZui let's you browse the web from your phone is something of an exaggeration. The truth is that ZenZui lets you browse a subset of the web. The Zenzui site is currently down, but when it comes back there's a [chart showing the ZenZui content partners][2] which is extent of ZenZui's interpretation of the web. + +The first thing most people will notice in the demo video below is that ZenZui bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple's iPhone interface, but ZenZui doesn't necessarily use a touchcreen interface, there's keypad navigation as well. + +And ZenZui isn't so much a platform as a series of widget-like elements strung together by a unifying interface -- zoomable widgets from specific service partners are not the web. + +However ZenZui is offering to split ad revenue with widget developers as a means of encouraging developers to build widgets for ZenZui. High-minded developers can also release ad-free widgets which will display promotional messages non-profits. + +Still I can't help agreeing with Techcrunch's Nick Gonzalez who [writes][3] that, while ZenZui is a step in the right direction since it removes more content control from mobile service providers, it still leaves much to be desired. "mobile phone platforms should move in the direction of open standards, which have benefited desktop computing platforms so much." + +As it is ZenZui fails to do that and remains little more than yet another advert-laden widget service for your mobile device. + + + + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r12eUXJNbl8"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r12eUXJNbl8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://www.zenzui.com/ "ZenZui" +[2]: http://www.zenzui.com/images/contentProductsDiagram.png "ZenZui widget chart" +[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/zenzui-on-mobile-browsing-the-microsoft-way/ "Techcrunch on ZenZui"
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Alpha's default modules include searches of other Yahoo offerings like Flickr, Yahoo News and Yahoo Answers as well as YouTube and Wikipedia. + +If you login to a Yahoo account, Alpha can be customized to use any search module you'd like to create. I tried to create a Wired search module but I couldn't get it to work. However, Alpha had no trouble creating modules to search the BBC and NPR. + +All the module results are displayed in collapsable panes on the right side of the results page. By default all the panes are collapsed, but once you open one, Alpha remembers the setting and keeps it open on subsequent searches. + +Surprisingly, even sponsored results are relegated to a side pane and thus collapsed and out of view by default. It's a nice touch for users wanting to avoid ads, but seems unlikely to do much for Yahoo's revenue stream. + +While Alpha looks and functions nearly identically to Searchmash, I found the user interface to be slightly better looking, which might be the first time I've ever preferred a Yahoo UI design to one from Google. + +One small detail that Searchmash lacks which makes the Yahoo offer superior in my view, is the ability to thumb through auxiliary results without reloading the page. + +In the case of Searchmash, by default you get six image results and to see more you need to click a link that will reload the page with the image results in the main column. + +Yahoo's Alpha on the other hand provides a nice link to keep paging through the image pane without reloading the page -- Ajax the way it should be. And similar links exist for all the auxiliary search panes. + +While Searchmash is somewhat faster at returning results, Alpha is by no means slow. + +As with Searchmash there's no telling whether these features will ever make it to Yahoo's main search page, but in the mean time if you're a heavy user of Yahoo's search tools you'll definitely want to check out Alpha. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/searchmash_a_ne.html "Searchmash: A New Google Search UI" +[2]: http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Alpha" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha1.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha1.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2d2915 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha1.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha2.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..519e840 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/alpha2.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd3952f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e20ac30 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/appletv.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Rob Beschizza of Gadget Labs has an interesting article on Wired News today about how [hackers have transformed the AppleTV][1] from a simple media server device to a full fledged low-budget Mac OS X machine. + +The remarkable thing is that all the hacks and transformations have been found in just over two weeks -- imagine what the tinkerers will have discovered by this time next year. + +Earlier this week Apple dispelled rumors that it might shut down these hacks via backdoor access. [Engadget reports][3] that Apple says it is not using any backdoors to shutdown the Apple TV hacks. + +Rumors to that effect began to surface after a couple of hacks stopped working, however it appears that the failures would be problems with the hacks. They are after all, *hacks*." + +As someone who's been contemplating the purchase of a Mac Mini for use as a media server, I must say that Apple TV is looking increasingly like the way to go. I've decided to hold off on any purchases for at least a little while. I'm waiting to see if anyone can get AppleTV to recognize an external drive since the paltry 40 gig isn't going to work for me. + +I'm aware of the instructions for replacing the drive with a larger one, but even 160 gigs (currently the largest 2.5 drive available) isn't going to help if you're serious about serving movies via the AppleTV. And so far, while some have been able to boot from an external drive, I haven't seen a plug-and-play solution. + +Check out Rob's article for more [details on the various hacks][1] and be sure to stay tuned both here and at [Gadget Lab][2] for continuing coverage. + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2007/04/appletvhacks_0406 "Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Gadget Lab" +[3]: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/apple-not-fighting-back-against-apple-tv-hacks/ "Apple's not fighting back against Apple TV hacks"
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Enhancements include integration of all your bookmarks via a new sidebar, the ability to you can sort and search your bookmarks, view tag intersections, and even modify your bookmarks all within the browser. + +The toolbar buttons remain the same as in previous versions and allow you to tag and view bookmarks, but unlike previous version you can now leave the functionality of Firefox's bookmarks intact, allowing you to use the best of both worlds. + +The updated del.icio.us add-on also boast significant speed gains and bookmark syncing is smooth and painless. Having experimented with both the official toolbar and some third party offerings in the past, I can safely say that, if you're a del.icio.us user, the new version is the complete bookmark replacement tool you've been wanting. + +The tag intersections features is particularly nice and allows you to quickly tunnel into your tags and find the bookmarks you're looking for. Tag bundles and keywords are also supported which means that the toolbar now mimics the functionality of the website. + +The search box in the new del.icio.us Firefox add-on also supports a limited set of operators, for instance to get bookmarks that are tagged with both "compiler" and "monkeybites," just use the + operator (a normal search will return results tagged with either. + +For del.icio.us power users the updated add-on is a must have and if you've never used del.icio.us before but would like to give social bookmarking a try the new features should make the transition smooth and painless. Now if only there were a [ma.gnolia][2] equivalent. + +[1]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us" +[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com "ma.gnolia.com" +[3]: http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2007/04/making_firefox_.html "making Firefox more del.icio.us" + +The del.icio.us toolbar now offers two ways to access your info, using the drop down menu as seen above... + + +...or by using the sidebar seen here. 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MediaMaster is competing with the likes of [MP3tunes][3] and others offering online jukebox services, but MediaMaster currently has no limits on storage space. + +To set up a free account you'll just need to pick a username and password. The MediaMaster interface is very simple and intuitive making it easy to upload and listen to your tunes (see screenshots and demo video after the jump). The MediaMaster interface is built with Flash so you'll need to have the Adobe Flash Player installed. + +There are two methods for uploading your MP3s. The first is a simple select menu useful for adding a track or two, while the second is really simple drag-and-drop uploader. Just find the folder you'd like to upload on your hard drive and drag it over to the MediaMaster uploader and it will automatically parse the tracks. + +When uploading MediaMaster checks to see if the file already exists in which case it will skip it. Watch out when uploading live tracks as they may appear to be duplicates from MediaMaster's perspective. + +Once your tracks are uploaded you'll see a screen with album covers for all your music. In a very nice UI touch, when you don't have all the tracks on an album MediaMaster displays the cover art with a bite out of it. + +Creating and managing playlists is handled through drag-and-drop. Users can also rate songs and share music with embeddable widgets for blogs and popular social networking sites like Facebook. + +To skirt copyright restriction the sharing widgets do not actually give others copies of your music, instead they can stream it. There is also no way to download your files once they're uploaded, they can be deleted, but that's it, which means MediaMaster is not for those seeking backup system. + +Free accounts supposedly have an unlimited storage space but [according to Webware][1], MediaMaster plans to cap off user accounts at 4GB. + +For now only non-protected files can be uploaded which means your iTunes purchases won't work, but MediaMaster claims they are hoping to deliver iPod support and other features in the near future. + +Demo video from the founders of MediaMaster: + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XRVCO1mti9s"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XRVCO1mti9s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9699994-2.html "MediaMaster takes your music library online" +[2]: http://mediamaster.com/ "MediaMaster" +[3]: http://www.mp3tunes.com/ "MP3tunes" + +Main screen with default Classical Album (the Tom of MediaMaster I guess. + +Main upload screen.
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Taylor thinks that Microsoft is trying to apply the old adage if you can't make it, fake it. + +"One of the lessons Microsoft has been trying to learn from open source is that -- but they have to fake it." Taylor argues that if there were actually any grassroots support of the OOXML petition it would have been created "ages ago." + +OOXML has been [criticized][2] since its inception and with [more and more U.S. states][3] moving toward the existing OpenDocument Format over OOXML, Microsoft is facing an increasingly uphill battle with OOXML. + +An earlier attempt at posting an open letter to the open source community [backfired][4] with most critics dismissing it as whining while one former Microsoft employee went so far as to call the letter "professionally embarrassing." + +Thus far the online petition is receiving pretty much the same reaction. + +Marino Marcich of the [OpenDocument Format Alliance][9] told Compiler earlier this month that with over twenty countries objecting to the OOXML proposal, "the road ahead for OOXML will by no means be easy." + +Taylor also suggested to ZDNet that Microsoft was "in major trouble trying to get Open XML pushed through" and the petition "shows their worry." + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_ooxm.html "Microsoft's OOXML Format Receives More Setbacks" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/more_on_microso.html "More On Microsoft's OOXML Format" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/california_eyes.html "California Eyes Move Towards ODF, Away from OOXML" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_open.html "Microsoft's Open Letter Whine" +[5]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/01/72403 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs" + +[6]: http://microsoft.co.uk/openxml/ "OOXML petition" +[7]: http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/ "Open Source Consortium" +[8]: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286647,00.htm "Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition" +[9]: http://www.odfalliance.org/ "OpenDocument Format Alliance" + +Microsoft Petition A Desperate Bid to Gain OOMXL Support + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/ooxmlpic.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/ooxmlpic.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7ef699 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/ooxmlpic.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewind.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewind.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9852255 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewind.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewinder.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewinder.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1415df6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/rewinder.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +The Rewinder, this week on Compiler: + +* We [mourned the death of Telnet][5]. Windows Vista is the first Microsoft OS to ship without support for the old network protocol. Next we're hoping to mourn the passing of FTP (in favor of SFTP of course). + +* Michael continued living the [Google Life][4] and found [Google Notebook][3] to be, well, noteworthy. "Google Notebook, plain and simple, is a way to extend your memory while you're surfing around the web. It's like keeping a Moleskine in your browser's back pocket." + +* Microsoft [announced][7] and then [actually released][8] a patch to fix a major security exploit in Windows. With numerous nefarious websites already exploiting the animated cursor vulnerability, its best to upgrade now -- even Vista users. + + +* Google released a [mashup tool to go with Google Maps][2], which should be easy enough that even your mom can use it to map out all the neighborhoods she doesn't want you walking home through late at night. + +* µTorrent [released a new public beta][9] adding full support for Windows Vista and a few other goodies. The fearless and brave have already upgraded. + +* Google had a big week now that I look back at it. We also took the new [Google Desktop for Mac on a test drive][6] and found it to be a worthy compliment to Apple's Spotlight. Still can't get the GMail integration to work though. + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/new_delicious_f.html "New Del.icio.us Firefox Tool" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/googles_new_my_.html "Google Maps Adds User Mashups" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/note_to_self_go.html "Note to Self: Google Notebook is Pretty Cool" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/thegooglelife/index.html "The Google Life" +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/the_death_of_te.html "The Death of Telnet" +[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/first_look_goog.html "First Look: Google Desktop For Mac" +[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/microsoft_to_pa.html "Microsoft To Patch Vista Vulnerability" +[8]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/microsoft_relea.html "Microsoft Releases Windows Security Patch" +[9]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/new_torrent_bet.html "µTorrent Beta Adds Vista Support"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/thecoop.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/thecoop.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..889f504 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/thecoop.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Earlier this week Mozilla unveiled an experimental social networking add-on for Firefox called [The Coop][1]. A limited proof-of-concept add-on can be [downloaded from the Firefox Add-ons site][5] (note that the link seems to have been taken down) but currently requires a Facebook account to be useful. + +For some background on The Coop check out our [earlier coverage][3]. To get a better idea of where Mozilla plans to go with The Coop, I spoke with Chris Beard, Mozilla's Vice President of products, yesterday (transcript after the jump). + + +**Wired News**: What made Mozilla want to get involved in the social networking trend? + +**Chris Beard**: We get most of our ideas from the community. We looked at what people were doing on the web... two years ago searching was the dominate task, so with Firefox 1.0 we added the search box in the toolbar and of course made it possible to use different search engines. Looking at the web today, tons of people are working with social networks so we decided to see how the social networking experience might fit in the browser. + + +**WN**: There is obviously some overlap between [Flock][2] and The Coop, was Flock an inspiration? + +**CB**: Flock is certainly developing a browser for social networks, but this is not a reaction to Flock. + +Our project is of course open source. [Mozilla Labs] is really about being open and collaborative and encouraging wide levels of participation from the community. + +At Mozilla Labs anyone is welcome to participate. We provide forms for public feedback and discussion. + +**WN**: So The Coop is not involved with Flock? + +Flock has not contributed to this project in anyway, no. + +**WN**: Is this something that will make its way into Firefox 3? + +**CB**: AT this point there are no specific features planned for Firefox 3. There's still room for features, but nothing definite at this point. + +This is just one of the projects under the Mozilla Labs umbrella, but we don't know where this, or any of the others, are going yet. + + +**WN**: Some of our readers have expressed concern that rolling this into the browser would lead to feature bloat and sluggish performance, do you think this will end up as part of the browser itself or stay separate as an add-on? + +**CB**: We put together this initial prototype very quickly, it only took us a couple of weeks. So we really haven't even thought about where this thing goes from here. + +But we definitely want to make sure that the interface of Firefox remains clean and focused on browsing. We don't want to get in some kind of feature war -- that never helps the browser or the user. + +We want to get some debate and discussion about the possibilities and see where that leads. + + +If you'd like to contribute your opinions and ideas, head over to the [Mozilla Labs forum][4] and join in the discussion. + +[1]: http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/04/keep-track-of-your-friends-with-the-coop/ "Mozilla Labs: The Coop" +[2]: http://www.flock.com/ "Flock" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/mozilla_propose.html "Mozilla Proposes Social Networking Features For Firefox" +[4]: https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html "Mozilla Labs Forum: The Coop" +[5]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4746 "The Coop"
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My Maps adds the ability to create and share maps within the Google Maps interface. The new tools are under a tab on the left side of the map interface and allow even non-technical users to easily annotate and share maps. + +Google says that My Maps is aimed at providing non-technical users with the mashup capabilities that have long been available to developers via the application programming interface (API). Unlike the APIs though, My Maps is a drag and drop interface that that lets users easily create a map, add markers, notes, photos, audio and videos as well as draw lines and shapes (screenshots after the jump). + +To get started you'll need to login to a Google Account and then head to the new My Maps tab in the Google Maps interface. From there you can drag-and-drop placeholders onto your map. Each time you add a marker, Google Maps will bring up an editing interface for adding titles, notes, photos, links and more. + +Once your maps is looking the way you want, you'll have the option to make it public or private. In the case of public maps, Google will index the information and include the results in the Local Search feature. Private maps, which are tagged "unlisted," are only available to people you choose to share them with. Sharing is done via email or a generated link. + +My Maps is dead simple to use and should help Google increase the amount of data available for its mapping service. Eventually the user-generated content could give Google Maps the edge over longtime rivals like Map Quest. + +As examples of what you can do with Google Maps, Google has some featured maps on the start page which were apparently put together by Google employees. The top result when I logged in was a nice map recounting a cross-country journey on Route 66. + +I haven't been able to confirm it, but if the My Maps features can be embedded along with the rest of Google Maps on, say, a popular travel site, this would be a great way for travelers to show where they've been. + +Even if the tools can't be embedded outside of Google Maps, each map will have a unique url on the maps.google.com domain, so it would be easy to link to your map from your blog. + +In addition to My Maps, Google also announced that it has added millions of KML files to the Maps search engine, including geo-indexed web pages. Web pages are geo indexed using Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files and Google says the additional data will help users in areas that do not currently have a Local Search option. + +With over 800,000 KML files on the web, Google has added a significant chunk of new data to Google Maps. The geo-indexed results are displayed below the Yellow Pages data in Local Search and should drive developers to start taking more seriously. + +[1]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Thu/utorrent.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Thu/utorrent.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e379a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Thu/utorrent.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Popular torrent client µTorrent [released a new public beta][1] earlier today. The beta is an early build of µTorrent version 1.7 and the most significant new feature is full support of Windows Vista. + +Having used the previous version µTorrent on Vista, I can vouch for its bugginess, but with the new beta most of the issues I had seem to have disappeared. In particular I the app no longer hangs and crashes on quitting. + +While the main news with the beta release is the Vista support, there are some other new features along with an extensive list of bug fixes. For a full list of beta features and bug fixes check out the µTorrent forum post. + +Among the significant new features are Auto uplink throttling, which adds traffic shaping capabilities -- µTorrent periodically checks upload speeds and automatically adjust your upload rate limit. + +Other noteworthy items include secondary column sorting in all list views, listing the number of downloaded piece in the general tab, and a fix for a bug where stopped or paused torrents would cause they auto shutdown to hang. + +This is a beta so naturally the usual warnings apply. I should also note that some users in the forum have report problems with µTorrent, Vista and Linksys routers not working properly together. + +[1]: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=21979 "µTorrent 1.7 beta 1065"
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The search and launcher tool is designed to integrate with Apple's Spotlight, the built in search tool that ships with Mac OS X. + +With Spotlight already built in to the Mac OS, Google Desktop for Mac is not quite the must have application that it is for Windows XP users. Still, Google Desktop for Mac is not just a port of the Windows version, it integrates nicely with the Mac user interface and offers some compelling options not found in Spotlight. + +Currently Google Desktop for Mac is limited to search functionality with no toolbar or gadgets support as in the Windows version. However, Google says that such features will be added at a later date. + +Installing Google Desktop is simple, just [download the Google Desktop][2] and double click the installer. As with Spotlight, expect the Google Desktop to eat up a fair bit of system resources while it performs its initial index. + +In a particularly nice touch, the Google Desktop respects your Spotlight privacy settings and will not index the folders you've told Spotlight to ignore. + +Once installed, you can begin using Google Desktop by invoking the default hotkey -- cmd + cmd (the cmd key twice). This will bring up a bezel-type window with a search box. Customization of the Google Desktop is handled through a pane in the System Preferences application. Using the pane you can change the keyboard shortcuts, control how many documents are listed in the results and even integrate searching with your GMail account. + +By default the Google Desktop lists the last ten items in a drop down menu. To get a full search results listing, there's a link at the bottom of the drop-down list. Clicking the link will open a Google search results page in your default browser and list all the apps, documents and files that match your search criteria, paginated out like normal Google web search. + +The GMail integration appears to be limited to one account and so far I can't get it to work. Google Desktop does a nice job of indexing and integrating with Apple's Mail.app but no GMail entries have thus far showed up in my search results. + +As with most Google search tools you can use operators like <code>filetype:</code> and other selectors to narrow your search results. There are also some Google Desktop specific search operators, see the [Google Desktop site for more info][3]. + +Naturally the first thing most Mac users will want to know is how the Google Desktop compares to Spotlight. But before I get into that I should say that I'm not a heavy Spotlight user so I may be missing some Spotlight tricks in which case please educate me (and everyone else) in the comments below. + +The first thing you'll notice about Google Desktop versus Spotlight is that Spotlight's results are much better organized. Google Desktop lacks the nice separation of document types and clean layout. On the other hand Google Desktop gives slightly more useful feedback including the first bits of text in files, similar to the extra line of data in a Google search. + +Of course if you hit return in a Spotlight search you can get the same sort of preview from the spotlight window, but with the Google Desktop Search there no extra step. + +In terms of speed I found Google Desktop to be significantly faster on a Macbook for pulling up the initial search results. Desktop manages to do this without putting a heavy load on my machine is equally impressive. Once it finished indexing Google Desktop uses no CPU time in the background and grabs a mere 11 MB of RAM. + +The most significant and immediately obvious advantage of Google Desktop is that it maintains a cache of deleted documents which means you can search and find things you've deleted whereas with Spotlight, when they're gone they're gone. + +Note for the tinfoil hat brigade: Google says they aren't tracking any of this data, but fortunately if the cache feature bothers you, you can turn it off. Unfortunately there's no fine grained options for the cache -- for instance it might be nice to cache certain types of documents but skip others -- perhaps in version 2. + +As with the PC version of Google Desktop, when you head to Google's online search page you'll notice a new option -- Desktop -- has been added to usual list of Web, Images, News and Maps. The Desktop option allows you to quickly move between local and web searches without ever leaving your browser. + +Ultimately Google Desktop compliments Spotlight more than attempting to replace it. If you're a heavy user of Google services or find yourself on Google.com all the time anyway, you'll likely enjoy Google Desktop For Mac. + +[1]: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-desktop-for-mac_04.html "Google Desktop for Mac" +[2]: http://desktop.google.com/mac/ "Google Desktop" + +[3]: http://desktop.google.com/features.html#advancedsearch "Desktop Advanced Search"
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The top ten finalists in the contest will all receive prizes, but the grand prize winner will walk away with a Falcon Northwest gaming PC, the full catalog of EA PC games, and the Adobe CS3 Master Collection. + +Every time I get excited about an API some of my less nerdy Wired colleagues starting rolling their eyes. And while agree that relatively few users will ever use an API, those that do will build tools for those that don't. + +More than any other aspect of a site, the success of an API almost guarantees the success the site in the long run. And the opposite is equally true, which is one of the main reasons I see Facebook outlasting MySpace. + +From a company's perspective an API is way to gain free publicity, which is exactly why web 2.0 sites like Flickr and now Digg have embraced the API. Flickr may not be the biggest photo sharing site on the net, but it is one of the most visible because Flickr offers a great API which allows users to pull photos into their own webpages. + +And now users can develop similar tools to pull in data from Digg. + +Nearly all the data on Digg has been exposed in the API, including story categories, comments, user detail and more. The new Digg API accepts REST requests and returns responses in either XML, JSON, Javascript, or serialized PHP. + +There is even a [PEAR module][2] available for PHP developers. + +The main downside to Digg's API is that now landing a site on the front door of Digg will be even more valuable and could result in more attempts to game the system. + +Full Disclosure: Wired Digital owns both Wired News and Reddit, a Digg competitor. + +[1]: http://blog.digg.com/?p=72 "Digg API, Flash Application Toolkit, and Contest Announced!" +[2]: http://apidoc.digg.com/ToolkitsServicesDigg "PEAR: Digg" +[3]: http://apidoc.digg.com/ "Digg API" +[4]: http://apidoc.digg.com/Toolkits "Flash Development Kit" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a94d27b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..450f55a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/mailplane.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +The debate between web-based e-mail services and desktop clients came up again recently with the launch of Thunderbird 2.0. An article on Thunderbird earlier this week generated a fair bit of discussion about the pros and cons of both, but yesterday I stumbled across a curious hybrid application that might be the best of both worlds. + +[Mailplane][1] is a Mac OS X application that provides desktop and OS integration integration for your GMail experience. Mailplane is, in a nutshell, a dedicated browser for GMail, but before you dismiss it as *just* that consider a few things. + +Those that would argue that Mailplane has nothing on Mail should consider that when you move and file messages in Mail.app, those changes aren't reflected in your GMail account. Using Mailplane, you get the integration of Mail (iPhoto, Address Book, etc) and the filing and filtering power of GMail. + +Others might wonder why anyone would want to use GMail outside of the browser. I'll admit that's a pretty good question, but if you miss the iLife integration that comes with Apple's Mail.app, then Mailplane can bridge that gap. + +Some standout features of Mailplane include: + +* Drag-and-drop attachments +* Send images direct from iPhoto +* Store Passwords in Keychain +* Growl support +* OS X-style keyboard shortcuts + + +Now most of those features can be had in your browser, but they require tracking down extensions, only work in certain browsers and, so far as I know, there's no way to integrate GMail with the iLife suite. + +The one thing missing from Mailplane, which I should note is still a private beta, that would really give it the edge over even the most extension rich Firefox setup, is offline support. Obviously the developer is probably aware that offline support would be a killer feature, but so far there's no roadmap available. + +Right now Mailplane is in private beta, but you can join by [signing up][2] and waiting your turn in the invite queue. While the beta versions will be free, eventually Mailplane will be released as a shareware app with an as yet undetermined price tag. + +[1]: http://mailplaneapp.com/index.html "Mailplane" +[2]: http://mailplaneapp.com/beta/index.html "Sign up for Mailplane beta"
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Today the social bookmarking and random browsing leader released a new feature dubbed [StumbleThru][1], which allows for site specific "stumbling," letting users to randomly browse Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and other popular sites. + +Given yesterday's announcement from Google, who is now offering similar accidental search capabilities, StumbleUpon is likely looking to steal a bit of Google's thunder. And StumbleThru will probably do just that. The new domain-specific options give users another reason to stick with the original stumbling service. + +So far StumbleUpon has not made any major announcement regarding the new service, however, the release notes for the latest version of the StumbleUpon toolbar tout the new features. + +To get started with StumbleThru you'll need to have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed and login to your account. + +From there head to the StumbleThru page and select a domain to begin stumbling in. Clicking any of the featured domains will add the site icon next to the "Stumble!" button on the toolbar. + +In my brief testing the new features worked without any glitches and I expect this will be popular with users, especially the Flickr and Wikipedia options since both of those sites lend themselves to random, accidental discoveries. + +In fact, browsing through Flickr via StumbleUpon is better than most of the navigation tools that Flickr offers. + + +[via [Mashable][4]] + +[1]: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumblethru.php "StumbleThru" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/04/stumbleupon_mee.html "StumbleUpon Meets Its Maker?" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/google_introduc.html "Google Introduces StumbleUpon-Style Search Options" +[4]: http://mashable.com/2007/04/19/stumblethru/ "Breaking: StumbleUpon Launches StumbleThru - Stumble on Flickr, MySpace, YouTube" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e858ecc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d42ee7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Fri/sudan.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Earlier this week I posted a short piece asking for readers to help investigate the mysterious [blocking of Google Earth downloads within Sudan][2]. The rumor was that the Sudanese government might have been blocking downloads, but as it turns out that wasn't the case. + +It turns out Google was/is blocking the downloads, but they were only doing so in compliance with United States export laws. One of the unintended consequences of the U.S. sanctions on Sudan is that it is illegal to download Google Earth within Sudan. + +While Google is doing the right thing in accordance with the law, it is of course highly ironic that a project designed to help raise awareness of the genocide in Sudan can't be downloaded within its borders. + +Fortunately software like [Tor][1] exists for exactly these situations. Using Tor's proxy servers, aide workers in Sudan and the Sudanese themselves can download Google Earth by tricking the Google Earth server with fake proxies. Is it legal? No. But, in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, I think it's the right thing to do. + +For some more background and an in depth look at the specificities of the legal codes involved, be sure to check out the [coverage on Ogle Earth][3]. + +[1]: http://tor.eff.org/ "Tor" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/rumor_sudan_blo.html "Rumor: Sudan Blocking Downloads Of Google Earth" +[3]: http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/04/oh_the_irony_go.html "Oh the irony: Google Earth ban in Sudan is due to US export restrictions"
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FeedFetcher retrieves feeds from most sites less than once every hour. + +Some more technical details: + +* Data can be passed using either JSON or XML + +* The AJAX Feed API only provides access to publicly accessible feeds + +* Just about every RSS format is supported, including Atom feeds. + +If you've used other Google Ajax APIs you'll recognize some familiar patterns and it should be too difficult to get up to speed. Newcomers and others looking to take the plunge, should check out the reasonably [thorough documentation][1]. + +[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/ "Google AJAX Feed API Developer Guide" +[2]: http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2007/04/announcing-google-ajax-feed-api.html " Announcing the Google AJAX Feed API" +[3]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/signup.html "Sign up for the Google AJAX Feed API" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlebone.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlebone.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4c5994 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlebone.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlestumble.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlestumble.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d13bdbf --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.16.07/Thu/googlestumble.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Users of Google's toolbar and/or personalized search features have [a new way to browse the web][2]. The new features dubbed, uh, well, certainly not StumbleUpon since that's taken, are available to anyone using the Search History tools available through the Google Toolbar. + +The Google Blog post on the new features says "today we're releasing two features that reduce the need for you to type in specific queries to get the information you want." Or to paraphrase [GigaOm][1] and stick the words in Google's mouth: today we're pissed we missed out on acquiring Stumbleupon so we're copping some of its features. + +The chief difference between the two services is that where StumbleUpon relies on a user community of submitted sites, Google's new features suggest sites based on your preferences and search history. + +A difference somewhat akin to the difference between cuddling up with a new puppy versus your shiny new Sony [AIBO][4]. + +In truth though I don't think this is a StumbleUpon competitor, or at least it isn't a very good one. Part of the fun of StumbleUpon is that it can be entirely random and it can lead you to pages outside your normal web surfing bubble. + +Google's offering on the other hand is more what I always thought the "I'm feeling lucky" option should have been. In other words Google knows your search history, so, based on that, it can pull up some sites that are very similar to what you might be looking for, however, it's anything but random. + +The most interesting part of the new search tool is that Google will tell you why it chose the recommendations it did, and even offers more links to things you've searched for previously. + +Almost like [radical transparency][3] from a search engine. + +[1]: http://gigaom.com/2007/04/18/google-releases-stumbleupon-competitor/ "Google releases StumbleUpon competitor" +[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/searching-without-query.html "Searching without a query" +[3]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "What would radical transparency mean for Wired?" +[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIBO "Wikipedia: AIBO"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Fri/decrapifyer.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Fri/decrapifyer.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e9becc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Fri/decrapifyer.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + + +So, you're the proud owner of a new PC. You anxiously open the box, dumping out the contents, casting the instructions aside. You feverishly push your old PC off the desk and get the new one set up. On the floor lies a pile of plastic wrap and twist ties. Your brand spanking new PC boots up only to greet you with a plethora of pop up advertisements pestering you to pay for anti-virus software or sign up for a music service. Your desktop is littered with website links for 'special offers.' The system tray is already full of programs that continuously use your internet connection to make sure that you're 'up to date.' + +"When did I ask for this?" you ask. Well, you didn't and that's where the PC Decrapifier comes in. The PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your PC that you never asked for or wanted. To manually remove all of this stuff by hand can take at least an hour (depending on the severity of the infestation.) The PC Decrapifier will detect the 'crap' on your system, you choose what to uninstall, then sit back and let the PC Decrapifier work its magic. + +All of this stuff is placed on your new PC because the big companies like Dell, HP and others sell advertising space on your PC to put more money in their pockets at the expense of your time and frustration. + +The PC Decrapifier is a program free for personal use to help the average computer user combat this problem. It is also available for PC technicians at a small fee to use as a tool in their everyday business to save a tremendous amount of time.
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As with the previous alpha releases, Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is intended primarily for the developer community and is not yet ready for prime-time. + +Alpha 4 brings a number of new enhancements to Firefox 3, which we [outlined yesterday][1]. While most of the new feautres are behind-the-scenes improvments which are not immediately obvious to the casual user, there is one exception -- speed. + +Alpha 4 is the fastest version of Firefox yet, though how much of that is a result of running the browser with no extensions, versus actual speed increase is open to debate. + +Behind the scenes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine does bring speed boosts in page load time and disabling the extensions in Firefox 2 still didn't match the speed of Gran Paradiso. In my testing (done using a Macbook 2 GHz, 1 G RAM, running OS X and Windows with cable internet connection) pages snapped up with almost no lag at all. + +Mac users will probably see the biggest speed gains in the coming Firefox 3 since all the interface elements in next version will use Cocoa widgets. However, there seems to be some confusion as to what this means. + +For the record, "native Cocoa widgets" refers to things like scrollbars, buttons in the various panels, and other browser UI elements. It **does not mean** that form elements on the page will use OS X-style buttons and lists. + +In fact the newly native Cocoa widgets look no different than the Carbon widgets (see screenshots below) used in Firefox 2; the difference is they render faster, providing Mac users with a much needed speed boost. + +Other than speed gains, the most noticeable new feature is a completely redesigned Page Info panel. The Page Info panel has been condensed and re-organized, as well as adding some new features like the ability to set cookie and security permissions on a per page basis (which is possible in Firefox 2, but only via add-ons). + +Previous the Get Info panel was subdivided into "forms," "links," and "media" tabs, but those three have now been condensed into one tab, "media" which allows quick and easy access to all the image assets on a page. + +Interestingly, external stylesheets, Javascript and other files previously listed in the "links" tab appear to no longer be available. + +Alpha 4 also introduces a new crash reporting mechanism named Breakpad that should help Firefox developers get better feedback. On the Mac side, it's also worth noting that Breakpad can peacefully co-exist with OS X' built in crash reporter. + +Two new features we were really looking forward to, didn't end up making the final build of Alpha 4. Growl notifications were disabled at the last minute since they still have too many bugs, and Places, a new History and Bookmarks manager, is only partially included. + +For the daring, the Mozilla wiki has instructions on how to [create a build of Alpha 4 with Places fully enabled][2]. + +As with any alpha build there are still [a number of known issues][3] and Gran Paradiso is not recommended for daily use. Still, the new milestone shows Firefox 3 is making steady progress toward a final release. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/firefox_3_alpha.html "Firefox 3 Alpha 4 Arrives, New Roadmap Details Emerge" +[2]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places#Builds "Places Builds" +[3]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a4/releasenotes/#issues "Alpha 4 Known Issues"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Thu/quicktimepatch.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Thu/quicktimepatch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..570af9f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.30.07/Thu/quicktimepatch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +<img alt="Quicktime" title="Quicktime" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/25/quicktime.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Just days after its discovery during a [hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference][4], Apple has released Quicktime update that patches a serious zero day flaw. The Quicktime update is recommended for both Windows and Mac users and can be [downloaded from the Apple site][1]. + +The Apple [security note][2] credits Dino Dai Zovi, the hacker who recently discovered the flaw, as well as TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative for the discovery of the flaw. + +It would seem that everybody wins in this scenario, Zovi took home the $10,000 prize and Apple patched the flaw giving Quicktime users a more secure platform, but security analysts Gartner industries is still unhappy. + +A [note on the Gartner site][3] reads: + +>Public vulnerability research and "hacking contests" are risky endeavors, and can run contrary to responsible disclosure practices, whereby vendors are given an opportunity to develop patches or remediation before any public announcements. Vulnerability research is an extremely valuable endeavor for ensuring more secure IT. However, conducting vulnerability research in a public venue is risky and could potentially lead to mishandling or treating too lightly these vulnerabilities -- which can turn a well-intentioned action into a more ambiguous one, or inadvertently provide assistance to attackers. + +While there is some merit to what Gartner is saying, the fact is the flaws exist, and security through secrecy is nearly always a flawed approach. To argue that vender notification trumps user notification means that Gartner believes users are better off left in dark while the vender attempts to fix the problem. + +In fact, notifying users that a problem exists alerts them to potential vulnerabilities. In this case once users were aware that the flaw existed they could exercise greater caution in downloading untrusted Quicktime Media. + +It's also worth noting that Gartner has a vested interest in maintaining insider knowledge of attacks, something they lose in public hacking contests. + +[1]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime716formac.html "QuickTime 7.1.6 for Mac" +[2]: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305446 "About the security content of QuickTime 7.1.6" +[3]: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=148455 "QuickTime Vulnerability Exposed by Contest Poses Wide Risk" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/mac_hack_affect.html "Mac Hack Affects Windows As Well"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Thu/yahooauctions.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Thu/yahooauctions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a65c46b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Thu/yahooauctions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Yahoo is sending yet another service out to pasture. Later this year Yahoo plans to retire its auction site, Yahoo Auctions. [Auctions][3] is the second service to be closed this week, following on the heals of an announcement that Yahoo Photos would be discontinued. + +However, unlike the [closing of Yahoo Photos][2], which is attempting to migrate moving users to Yahoo's other photo site, Flickr, there is no alternative for Yahoo Auction users. + +As with the demise of Yahoo Photos, there was initially [no explicit announcement][2] on the Yahoo site, rather the information was quietly released to the media. There is now an announcement on the Yahoo Auctions site informing users that the last day to list your items is June 3 and the last day to bid/buy is June 16. + +Given that Yahoo Auctions held only .2 percent of the online auction market (according to traffic measures from comScore) the closing isn't really a surprise. As with Google's decision to [shut down Google Answers][4] last year, Yahoo knows defeat when it sees it. + +For those currently relying on Yahoo Auctions, might we suggest a little site called EBay which currently accounts for more the 94 percent of all online auctions traffic. Sell your stuff were the people are, that's a logic even Yahoo can't dispute. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/yahoo_shutters_.html "Yahoo Shutters Photos In Favor Of Flickr" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/hey_yahoo_whats.html "Hey, Yahoo -- What's Gonna Happen To My Photos?" +[3]: http://auctions.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Auctions closing" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/google_answers_.html "Google Answers Rides into the Sunset"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/photobucket.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/photobucket.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6111c53 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/photobucket.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +MySpace has announced it will acquire Photobucket for $250 million, officially bringing the photo sharing site into the MySpace fold. Photobucket has been looking for a buyer for several months and after a dispute last month which led to [MySpace blocking Photobucket images and video][3], the two companies apparently hashed out a deal. + +For more coverage of the business angles, check out Epicenter which [covered the rumors][1] that surfaced yesterday regarding the buyout. + +At the risk of being alarmist, Photobucket as a MySpace property doesn't bode well for users who aren't fans of Rubert Murdoch's underage playground. + +Techcrunch [reports][4] that roughly 1.8 million of Photobucket’s visitors don't currently visit MySpace, and for them the deal could ruin sharing on non-MySpace properties. While no plans have yet been announced, it seems likely that Photobucket could morph into a MySpace-only property. + +For those Photobucket users thinking it might be time to do more with your photos, have a look at our [Flickr coverage of late][2]. + +While Photobucket is primarily about hosting your images, Flickr offers a number of options that go far beyond image hosting, enabling you to share your images with the internet at large. + + + + + + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/rumor_control_m.html "Rumor Control: MySpace Takes Photobucket?" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/yahoo_photos_us.html "Here Are 4 Reasons You'll Love Flickr" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/myspace_is_bloc.html "MySpace Is Blocking Photobucket Videos" +[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/07/myspacephotobucket-user-overlap-is-nearly-100/ "MySpace/Photobucket: User Overlap Is Nearly 100%"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/piratebay.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/piratebay.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dfd692 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Tue/piratebay.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Is the Pirate Bay a front for right wing extremists in Sweden? Yesterday our [Epicenter blog][1], linked to an interesting YouTube video in which Tobias Andersson of The Pirate Bay if asked to defend the site against charges that Carl Lundstrom, former CEO of Rix Telecom and "well-known right-wing extremist in Sweden," funded the early development of the site. [video after the jump] + +Interesting, it turns out that Pirate Bay did take money for bandwidth and servers from Lundstrom, who, as Epicenter says, is probably going to end up being an MPAA/RIAA target at some point. + +Since the Pirate Bay recently launched a music download site, [playble.com][2], it seems fairly obvious what Lundstrom's interests are -- the Pirate Bay as a viable business. + +But given the amount of credibility the Pirate Bay has among many internet users for its supposedly "anarchist" and populist leanings, will this mean that users and supporters start to question their loyalty to the site? + +What's more, why take money from a known right wing extremist in the first place? Andersson never does answer that question in the video. If you're Pirate Bay user, how do you feel about these revelations? + +Let us know in the comments below. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/swedish_journal.html "Swedish Journalist Exposes Pirate Bay Big Business Links" +[2]: http://playble.com/ "Playble.com"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Wed/analytics.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Wed/analytics.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4fab3f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.07.07/Wed/analytics.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<img alt="Googleanalytics" title="Googleanalytics" src="http://wiredblogs.typepad.com/monkeybites/intro_small.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Google has announced some new features and a major interface overhaul for Google Analytics, the popular website traffic analyzer. The changes are aimed at making Google Analytics data easier to sort and understand. + +New features include a redesigned the reporting interface, customized reports with options for email delivery, and a clearer, plain language approach to data. + +Perhaps the most welcome change, for those not SEO savvy, is that the new version will present data more clearly and in context, making it easier to understand your site's traffic patterns. + +The Google Analytics blog, breaks down the additional changes: + +* Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format. +* Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others. +* Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends. +* Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report. + +The revamped Analytics interface will be rolled out over the next month. Analytics users will receive an email notifying them when their account has been moved to the new system. For the first month, both the old and the new versions will be available to ease the transition. + +If you'd like to preview the changes, have a look at the [demo video][2]. + +[1]: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-version-of-google-analytics.html "New Version of Google Analytics" +[2]: http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-US.html "demo movie"
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None of the additional information is anything you can't access by some other means, but the simplified navigation makes it easier to do so. + +The left-hand search navigation bumps the traditional search results column over to make room for links to various related searches as well as context sensitive alternative searches like Images, Blogs and more. + +The right-hand search navigation is a slightly less feature rich version of the left-hand navigation, but, obviously, on the right hand side of the page. + +The main difference between the two is that the right-hand version lacks a "more" option and displays fewer "related" search options. + +Neither of these interface tweaks are radical, but if you frequently find yourself doing related searches or moving between the various Google search categories, these links will make that task a bit quicker. + +Be sure to see our previous coverage of the new [Maps and Timeline searches][2] and the [keyboard navigation][1] options. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_experime_1.html "Google Experimental: Keyboard Navigation For Search Results" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_experime.html "Google Experimental: Maps View Adds Geo Context To Searches" +[3]: http://www.google.com/experimental/ "Google Experimental" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gright-hand.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gright-hand.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..19c3b36 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gright-hand.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..124ffca --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2fc227 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Thu/gshortcuts.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Next up in our continuing look at the new features available via [Google Experimental][2] is the keyboard navigation experiment. The beta version of [keyboard navigation][1] adds GMail-like keyboard shortcuts to the Google Search results page. + +When using the new shortcuts page you'll see an arrow icon to left of the active result and you can scroll up and down through the results, as well as jump in and out of the search box and open links all without leaving the keyboard (screenshots after the jump). + +The keyboard shortcut navigation options are summarized in the table below. + +<table style="text-align:left; padding: 5px;" border="0"> +<thead> +<th>Key</th><th>Action</th> +</thead> +<tbody> +<tr><td><code>J</code> </td><td> Selects the next result.</td></tr> +<tr><td><code>K</code> </td><td> Selects the previous result.</td></tr> +<tr><td><code>O</code> </td><td> Opens the selected result.</td></tr> +<tr><td><code>Enter</code> </td><td> Opens the selected result.</td></tr> +<tr><td><code>/</code> </td><td> Puts the cursor in the search box.</td></tr> +<tr><td><code>Esc</code> </td><td> Removes the cursor from the search box.</td></tr> +</tbody> +</table> + +Unfortunately this feature isn't as easy to get to as the [Timeline and Maps tools][3] with their operator shortcuts. In order to land on the keyboard beta page you'll have to go through the Google Experimental page or append the param <code>&esrch=BetaShortcuts</code> to the end of your search URL. + +So far I haven't been able to locate one, but this seems like the perfect place for a new Google Search plugin for Firefox. + +All that's necessary is to take the existing Firefox Google Search tool and modify it so that it appends the above param to the URL. If you run across such a thing be sure to let us know. + +The biggest downfall to the new shortcuts is that they don't seem to follow the preference setting to open results in a new window. A quick glance at the code shows that the links carry a <code>target=nw</code> which means at least some of the page is aware of the new window setting. Unless someone can explain otherwise I would call that a bug. + +Still, for keyboard junkies like myself, the new options are a godsend. Hopefully Google will sort out a way for the open command to respect the new window setting in the near future. + +Be sure to check out the previous Google Experimental coverage of [Maps and Timelines][3]. + +[1]: http://www.google.com/webhp?esrch=BetaShortcuts&hl=en&newwindow=1&btnG=Search "keyboard Shortcuts" +[2]: http://www.google.com/experimental/ "Google Experimental" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_experime.html "Google Experimental: Maps View Adds Geo Context To Searches"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Thu/dellupdate.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Thu/dellupdate.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2a451f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Thu/dellupdate.txt @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +Well perhaps Dell isn't so bad after all. Based on a post at Direct2Dell, I suggested that the new Ubuntu laptops were [a bit of a rip off][2] since they we're much cheaper than the Windows versions. + +Shorty thereafter I received an email from Anne Camden at Dell Corporate Communications, who writes: + +>Scott: + +>The Dell XPS 410n with Ubuntu factory installed will have a starting price of $849. On average, comparably configured Ubuntu systems will be about $50 less. + +The original Direct2Dell post has been [updated][1] to list the correct price. + +Still not as much of a discount as seems fitting, but I am willing to concede that Dell probably recoups quite a bit of money on all the junkware that gets packaged with Windows installations -- AOL specials, etc. + +Arguably, not having to remove all the junkware is itself a significant savings, if not of money, than at least the time spent removing it all. + +[1]: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/24/15994.aspx "Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/ubuntu_on_dells.html "Ubuntu On A Dell: Dude You're Getting Ripped Off" + +Here's the offical specs and pricing information from Dell's press release: + +<p class="p6"><b>Recommended Configurations and Pricing</b></p> +<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1"> + <tbody> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>Inspiron E1505n</b></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>Dimension E520n<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>XPS 410n</b></p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">15.4-inch TrueLife WXGA display</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">17-inch flat panel display</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">19-inch flat panel display</p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">Intel Pentium® Dual Core T2080</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">Intel Core 2 Duo E4300</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">Intel Core 2 Duo E4300</p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">512MB shared memory<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">1GB shared<sup>1</sup> memory<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">1GB shared<sup>1</sup> memory<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">80GB hard drive<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">250GB hard drive<sup>2</sup><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">250GB hard drive<sup>2</sup></p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">CDRW/DVD ROM</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">CDRW/DVD ROM<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">DVD+/- RW</p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">Intel<sup>®</sup> Media Accelerator 950 Graphics</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">256MB<sup> </sup>nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">256MB<sup> </sup>nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache<sup>4</sup></p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">Intel PRO Wireless 3945<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">10/100 Ethernet</p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p7">10/100 Ethernet</p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>Starting at $599</b></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>Starting at $599</b></p> + </td> + <td valign="top" class="td1"> + <p class="p1"><b>Starting at $849</b></p> + </td> + </tr> + </tbody> +</table>
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The founder of LinuxQuestions.org claims that a Dell employee sent him a leaked email which says the new Ubuntu machines will [go on sale Thursday][2]. + +Although Dell has not made any official announcement yet, John Hull, Dell's Manager of Linux OS Technologies, has published a short overview of what customers can expect on their new Ubuntu PCs when they are released. + +"Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering," Hull writes in his post. He goes on to say that "the default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications." + +Hull says Dell will configure and install open-source hardware drivers whenever possible, but will use "partial open-source or closed-source drivers where there is no equivalent open-source driver." The main source of non-open drivers will be Intel wireless cards and Conexant modems. + +Interestingly, Hull also notes that "at this time, we are not including any support for proprietary audio or video codecs that are not already distributed with Ubuntu 7.04." + +Due to patent law restrictions the default version of Ubuntu does not ship with support for formats like MPEG, WMA, DVD, QuickTime, and other proprietary codecs, however, it's not hard for users to install support for those formats. + +According to the leaked email, the initial Dell PCs to offer Ubuntu will include the Inspiron E1505 laptop ($700 to $1100), the Dimension E520 desktop (starts at $370 sans monitor) and the somewhat nicer XPS 410 desktop ($900 to $2500). + + +[1]: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/21/15563.aspx "Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details" +[2]: http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2007/05/18/dell-announces-the-models-for-ubuntu/ "Dell announces the models for Ubuntu" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/macrovirus.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/macrovirus.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b4ad7a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/macrovirus.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +A post on the [virus blog VirusList][3] is warning users about a macro virus that affects the OpenOffice and StarOffice suites. No doubt a number of engineers in Redmond are cackling with delight, but in fact the virus technically isn't a virus at all and poses little or no threat to users. + +As with any macro system, a script written in StarBasic -- the macro scripting language of the OpenOffice suite -- can execute any arbitrary code that a user allows it to execute. + +In the case of this new proof-of-concept macro, the code is embedded in a Draw file named badbunny.odg. + +The macro in question will ask users if they would like to execute the script. Should the user be foolish enough to agree, the script will attempt to download and display a bit of porn -- an image of a man wearing a bunny suit performing a sex act in the woods. Yes, you did read that right. + +Because StarBasic macros run on any platform that OpenOffice does, the "virus" can affect Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The results vary somewhat according to your system. [According to APC][1], the macro will do the following depending on the system it runs on: + +>* Windows: The worm drops a file called drop.bad which is then moved to system.ini in your mIRC folder (if you have one) and also drops and executes badbunny.js which is a JavaScript virus that replicates to other files in the folder. +* MacOS: The worm drops one of two Ruby script viruses (in files called badbunny.rb or badbunnya.rb). +* Linux: The worm drops badbunny.py as an XChat script and also drops badbunny.pl which is a tiny Perl virus infecting other Perl files. + +The makers of OpenOffice are understandably somewhat annoyed at this bit of code being called a virus since it doesn't execute arbitrary code without user permission and can't self-replicate. + +A short [announcement sent to an OpenOffice mailing list][2] reads: + +>The OpenOffice.org engineers take the security of the software very seriously, and will react promptly to any new issues. This "proof of concept" virus is not new information, and does not require a software patch. Technically, it is not even a virus, as it is not "self-replicating" - with OpenOffice.org's default settings, it cannot spread without user intervention. + +As with anything, never trust a file from unknown sources. As long as users are smart enough to follow that timeless advice they should be in no danger whatsoever. + +[Photo from [APC][1]] + +[1]: http://apcmag.com/6162/first_openoffice_virus_emerges "First OpenOffice virus emerges" +[2]: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=287 "proof-of-concept macro virus" +[3]: http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=187738337 "Stardust -- a macro curiosity"
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As zero day exploits go this one is pretty complicated and so far as anyone knows hasn't been used in the wild. + +However, given the growing popularity of apps that bridge the online/offline gap, it's likely that such attacks will become more common. + +In the case of Google Desktop Hansen outlines the steps involved: + +>* User goes to Google and performs a search. +* Man in the middle detects the action and proceeds to inject their own content. +* The attacker injects a piece of JavaScript that creates an iframe to the target URL as well as makes the iframe follow the mouse (typically this would be invisible to the user, but for demonstration purposes I made it visible). +* He then frames another search query to correctly position the content inside the follow mouse script. +* As the evil search query loads, he injects a meta refresh to reload the same page forcing Google Desktop to load. In the example video below I am launching hyperterm, but you could make it any program already installed on the victim machine that is indexed by Google Desktop. +* User inadvertently clicks on evil Google Desktop query which actually runs the associated program. + +Obviously there are easier ways to attack a PC and it doesn't appear that an attacker can install any unauthorized software, but the attack does show the sorts of exploits that become possible with the merging of web-based and desktop software. + +So far Google has not commented on the issue. + +Earlier this week Christopher Soghoian (of [boarding pass exploit fame][3]) showed vulnerability in Firefox add-ons that allow for a similar "man-in-the-middle" type of attack which *could* be used to install malicious software. + +A video of Hansen demonstrating the attack is embedded below. + + +<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=2726113702646327649&hl=en" flashvars=""> </embed> + +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/google_yahoo_fa.html "Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of Firefox Users At Risk -- Updated" +[3]: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/72023 "Boarding Pass Hacker Under Fire" +[1]: http://ha.ckers.org/google-desktop-0day/ "Google Desktop 0day"
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WLM also works on Windows XP where it is intended to replace Outlook Express. + +The new e-mail client handles POP, IMAP and Windows Live Hotmail accounts. + +Microsoft is pushing WLM's integration with other Live services, particularly Windows Live Messenger, Spaces (the little know and little used blogging host and Windows Live Contacts as reasons for users to upgrade. + +At the moment Windows Live Mail is beta software and there have been [reports of problems][2] on the Microsoft discussion boards, including installation crashes and the need for multiple reboots. Should you encounter problems you can always revert back to your old e-mail client since WLM won't delete any existing programs. + +If you're feeling brave, you can [grab the new beta][1] from the Microsoft site. + +[1]: http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas "Windows Live Mail Beta" +[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop&cat=en_US_0405EAE1-3A5E-559F-59E6-B48513D5B57E&lang=en&cr=US "Discussions in Windows Live Mail Desktop" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/hotmail_joins_w.html "Hotmail Joins Web 2.0 World" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p0.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p0.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bad879 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p0.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p1.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p1.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..29d2935 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p1.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p2.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4de0a65 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/p2.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/parallels.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/parallels.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c968ef --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/parallels.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Parallels has announced the release candidate for the next version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. The final version of Parallels 3.0 is expected to arrive in the next few weeks and will bring support for 3-D graphics as well as two major new features -- SmartSelect and Snapshots. + +The graphics support should be welcome news for gamers as Parallels 3 will offer support for both DirectX and OpenGL graphics in the virtual machine. At the moment Vista's Aero interface is still not supported, though the Parallels site says it's in the works. + +Of the two major new features the most interesting is SmartSelect which allows users to map files on the Mac desktop so that they automatically open in Windows apps. For instance you can set all your .doc files to open in Microsoft Word 2007 and the virtual machine will launch whenever you double clicking a Word document. + +Having to manually launch Windows apps and then open files was the main reason I abandoned Parallels a while back, so I'm look forward to testing the new version when it officially arrives. + +The other noteworthy new feature is Snapshots, which offers the ability to save the state of a virtual machine and roll back to the saved state whenever you get a virus, er, need to. + +There are an additional 50 or so new features in the new release, as well as about a 100 bug fixes, which you can peruse in the release notes. + +If the announcement alone has sold you, Parallels is offering version 3 at the discount upgrade price of $40 until June 6. After that it'll be $50 to upgrade and $80 for a brand new copy. We'll be sure to give the full rundown when the public release arrives. + +screenshots from the Parallels site: + +[1]: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/upgrade "Parallels 3 release notes" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/someecards.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/someecards.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15672b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.29.07/Fri/someecards.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +If all this amazing mapping technology we've seen his week has your head spinning (and your tin foil hat just isn't assuaging the increasing paranoia), it's time to [head over to someecards.com][1] and bombard your friends with hilarious, albeit often insulting, ecards to lighten the mood. + +For the record I really dislike e-cards and had never sent one until I stumbled across someecards.com a couple weeks back. Something about the combination of snarky wit and hilarious illustrations won me over. (I should probably point out that some of the cards may qualify as NSFW or, at the bare minimim, offensive) + +The site appears to be relatively new and in the two weeks since I discovered it the number of cards has more than doubled. The site founders claim "new cards, categories, and features will be frequently added until everyone involved with the site dies." + +With graduations in full swing and Father's day just around the corner why not add a bit of humor to the mix? Or alienate your family and friends, as the case may be. + +My personal favorite is the one at the top of the post, but here's a couple more: + +[1]: http://www.someecards.com/ "someecards"
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"I expect to see our Alpha applications updated shorty as well as, now that AIR has enhanced Ajax support, to see that huge community begin to experiment with AIR as well." + +Jesse James Garrett, president of Adaptive Path, who coined the phrase AJAX, believes that AIR may end up freeing AJAX from the contraints of the browser. Historically the problem for HTML developers has been the fact that there's no way to port their code to the desktop environment. + +"I think that AJAX developers have kind of been running up against the constrainst of the browser for a while now -- there's a lot of code from your browser application that you'd have to throw out for the offline portion of your app." Says Garrett. + +More code means more work for developers, but AIR is changing that by offering a platform which allows programmers to reuse their AJAX code. "The advantage of AIR is the reusability of that code outside the browser." + + + +Hedlund says that Flash and AJAX both have strengths and weaknesses. "Why wasn't Google Maps done in Flash? Because Javascript was free and they could get it to do what they wanted." Conversely Hedland Conversely, why was YouTube developed in Flash? Because there's no way to get Javascript to do video, and Flash is the most widely-adopted technology that also fulfills the need." + +But for many the debate comes down to open source. Hedland's company +" + + + +The appeal of AJAX historically has been the wide level of browser compatibility + + + +If you want an application that works both in the browser and somewhere else, generally you'd have to rewrite a lot of your interface code because historically the browser is the only place AJAX code worked, but that's starting to change now with things like AIR. + + + + +work elsewhere + + +says that the AJAX/HTMl has been "part of the overall scheme and intention from the beginning," but concedes that it took longer to add the functionality because of cross platform issues. + +"it wasn't that it was never considered [HTML] to be a first class citizen" + +"but we had additional work to on the HTML and Javascript side." + +"What we expect to see developer's targeting... + + +Especially data-intensive or multimedia applications stand to benefit in situations where local wireless connections fail, for example, Turner said. These capabilities allow programmers to create simple-to-use "drag-and-drop" software that runs both online and offline. + + +Silverlight is fundamentally an environment for browser-based applications + + + + + + +Obviously, I think the individual technologies will start from their respective ecosystems. Apollo will appeal to Flash/etc developers, JavaFX to Swing/etc devs, Silverlight to .NET folks, and so on. And to be clear, those respective ecosystems are nothing to sneeze at; they’re very sizable in their own right. Each technology, in effect, has a built in opportunity in front of it to leverage. + +The question will be, in my mind, to what extent each can grow beyond its own developer base. Can they, in other words, begin to poach some of the developers that today are developing pure web applications. Can they persuade these independent developers that a.) there’s a volume audience waiting for the type of internet application that cannot be delivered using today’s pure web technologies, and b.) that their respective infrastructures are the right path now and going forward. + + +and will include a beta version of this runtime along with Ajax and HTML support. Previously, you could only build an Apollo application using Flash, but Adobe is now making it more appealing to a wider range of HTML developers - who may not use Adobe Flash. So included in this announcement is an extension that allows Apollo apps to be created directly from Dreamweaver, and PDF support to leverage the PDF platform in Apollo applications. The release also includes a SQLite database, just like Google Gears, so developers can go between the two easily. + + + + + +has revealed the true name of its Apollo project, which up until now has been the code name for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). See here for initial review of Apollo launch. + +The cross-operating runtime developed by Adobe enables developers to create rich interface applications for users’ desktops, but even this key aspect of AIR has been improved upon for this latest update: AIR can now be utilized by HTML developers, meaning that Flash is no longer a necessity for using the platform. This broadens the scope for what AIR can be used for, and the range of developers that can use it, as AIR applications can be created directly from Dreamweaver and PDF. This new development benefits end users and developers alike, and further integrates AIR with Adobe’s other products. + +AIR is expected to be released sometime towards the end of the year, and a free AIR software development kit is expected to be released Monday, giving developers a head start on creating new apps. Adobe is also expected to release the beta for its Flex 3 software development tool for creating AIR applications. In related news, Adobe is working to some extent with Google on Gears, and Adobe’s recent acquisition of Scene7 will be integrated with Apollo as well. + + + + + Adobe Systems Inc. is releasing new design tools that further blur the divide between software that runs offline on computer desktops and programs that work on the Web, the company said on Sunday. + +Adobe, a leading independent maker of software programming tools, is allowing the newest generation of Internet software, nicknamed "Web 2.0," to run both online, in Web browsers, and offline, on desktop computers, without rewriting the code. + +On Monday, the company is introducing a public test version of its software, code-named Apollo, that helps programmers to write advanced programs called Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for desktop computers, even when not connected to the Web. +Reuters Pictures +Photo + +Editors Choice: Best pictures +from the last 24 hours. +View Slideshow + +"Apollo is for when developers want to take online applications and make them work offline on a computer," Michele Turner, Adobe's vice president of platforms, said in a phone interview. "We don't think the browser is going to go away." + +Consumers stand to benefit from a more flexible generation of Web software that works both online and offline and comes from a wide range of independent software makers. + +Especially data-intensive or multimedia applications stand to benefit in situations where local wireless connections fail, for example, Turner said. These capabilities allow programmers to create simple-to-use "drag-and-drop" software that runs both online and offline. + +Among the early customers is online auction giant eBay Inc., which plans to announce this week at a conference in Boston that it is using the Apollo programming language to create notification services for its sellers to manage auctions outside of an Internet browser. Sellers also can upload photos or pricing data without constantly being connected to the Web. + +Adobe is working with financial-services companies seeking to make it easier for clients to fill out mortgage loan forms when only periodic Web access is available, and with Finetune, an online music store that works offline, too, Turner sai + + +Adobe Systems Inc. released beta versions today of its Apollo application runtime to allow developers to build rich Internet applications that run on the desktop and its Flex 3 technology aimed at building RIAs for the Web. + +The beta version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly called Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime to allow developers to use HTML, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Adobe Flash or Adobe Flex to build RIAs for the desktop. Adobe is part of a growing group of vendors, including Google Inc., that has announced plans to take RIAs back to the desktop. They were originally aimed at infusing the rich, interactive features of a desktop application to the Web. + +"This is the first major public release of the AIR runtime," said Mike Downey, Adobe's group manager for evangelism of platform technologies. "This one is very close to having all the features enabled in it. We've focused on a variety of feature areas and very heavily on improvements to the HTML engine." + +In addition, this release will be major for AJAX developers, he said, noting that the alpha code released in March "was fairly incomplete if you were doing a purely AJAX implementation." Developers building AIR applications now can use any AJAX framework, he added. + +Additional new features in the Adobe Air beta include an embedded SQLite open-source local database, support for PDF and deeper integration with Flex, Adobe said. Users will be able to view and interact with PDF documents within Adobe Air applications similar to how they interact with a PDF in the browser, the company added. + +Meanwhile, eBay Inc. is scheduled to unveil today an Adobe AIR application project called San Dimas, which can deliver notifications and updates in real time to eBay users' desktops without them having to open a browser. + +A final version of AIR is slated to ship before the end of the year. + +Adobe also announced the beta release of its Adobe Flex 3 software, its free open-source tool for building RIAs. The beta versions of the Flex Builder 3 and the Flex 3 SDK will be available for download today. + + + +Adobe has just unveiled the official name of its much talked about Adobe Apollo product: Adobe Integrated Runtime, or Adobe AIR for short. Adobe is also announcing a beta version of the runtime, which will include Ajax and HTML support. This means developers can create an Apollo application entirely based on HTML, without using Flash at all. + +For those who may not know, Adobe Apollo was the code name for the cross-operating runtime developed by Adobe that allows developers to create Rich Internet Applications for the desktop. There's a myriad of possible use cases for this technology, from productivity applications that work both online and offline, to music players such as Finetune that can be accessed via the desktop. + +Adobe AIR is expected to be released at the end of the year, and will include a beta version of this runtime along with Ajax and HTML support. Previously, you could only build an Apollo application using Flash, but Adobe is now making it more appealing to a wider range of HTML developers - who may not use Adobe Flash. So included in this announcement is an extension that allows Apollo apps to be created directly from Dreamweaver, and PDF support to leverage the PDF platform in Apollo applications. The release also includes a SQLite database, just like Google Gears, so developers can go between the two easily. + +Adobe is attempting to streamline the process of building Apollo applications, in the hope it increases adoption rates. The challenge in introducing a web development platform is making it simple enough for developers to test drive, yet valuable enough for the end user. Adobe competitor Dekoh (see our profile here), is using an open-source model and community to increase adoption. In many ways, the Adobe strategy is similar to that of Facebook, which recently opened up the Facebook platform. Most web teams can easily develop a Facebook app in a weekend, as it is simple for the development team to create apps for that platform. In turn, the Facebook team hopes that it's valuable enough to the end user, which then encourages more application building and innovation from developers at other websites. + +Although not exactly identical situations, Adobe is making it easier for all the developers out there to play around with the platform - and opening it up to HTML developers seems like a smart move. Backed by a $100 million venture fund and tons of corporate investment, Adobe needs to also do a better job of showcasing successful implementations of Apollo; and convince end users why they need to have online and offline support. That is probably the major goal behind the Adobe Bus Tour, also announced today, in which Adobe is traveling to 18 cities to perform demos and spread the word on the platform.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/austin sarner interview.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/austin sarner interview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6eafda2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/austin sarner interview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Continuing the conversation with Mac developers about the [Core Animation features][1] in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), here's Austin Sarner of [MadeBySofa][2]. + +MadeBySofa is perhaps best know for its application [Disco][3], which is a disc burning utility with some spectacular eye candy -- it smokes while it burns discs and if you blow into your computer's microphone, the smoke blows across your desktop. + +Also be sure to check out the other interviews with [Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster][4] and [Cabel Sasser of Panic Software][5]. + +--------------------- + +**Wired News:** First off, do you think developers are going to embrace Core animation (given that doing so would possibly break the backwards compatibility)? I know the TextMate developers have said they plan to drop support for 10.4 in the next version to take advantage of CA (well the text rendering portion anyway, any plans for your software? + +**Austin Sarner:** Overall I do think that developers will be embracing Core Animation over time. Like you said, deciding to do so will make your application Leopard only, so I see it being something that will happen after the bulk of the shareware audience migrates. As for me, there isn't any specific feature in any of my apps that could rely on Core Animation for a drastic upgrade. However, once a bulk of my user base has migrated I will consider enhancing existing animations and other graphics with it. + +**WN:** Is core animation more than just eyecandy? In other words does it provide a way to improve the user experience, whether through better UIs or speed boosts etc? + +**AS:** Core Animation is definitely more than eye candy. Animation in general creates continuity and more direct feedback to a user experience. For instance, when you select an item in the AppleTV, your selection glides into place as opposed to immediately snapping to the next item. Midway through the split second animation, you can neatly cancel out and go in the other direction. In addition to obvious graphical speed boosts, the elegance it can add to a UI is pretty substantial in my opinion. + +**WN:** From the demo video available on the Apple site it would seem that the new tools enable an almost windowless environment, is that true? + +**AS:** While I can't really comment on the actual inner workings of the framework, it seems that with Front Row and Time Machine Apple has opened up to the idea of completely modal experiences when used correctly. + +**WN:** Do you think Apple plans to move away from windows as a metaphor for the workspace? + +**AS:** Definitely not. I think that in some cases a windowless environment makes sense -- when changing the content of all windows on screen (Time Machine) or browsing through a media library from a distance (Front Row), for instance. + +**WN:** And as an extension of the last question, with Apple moving into more devices which run largely windowless UIs (i.e. Apple TV, iPhone) is the windowed application a thing of the past? + +**AS:** I think that windows still have a place in the desktop environment, while more focused devices like those require modal user experiences. + +**WN:** Jobs talked briefly last night at D about the various iPhone UI limitations: no mouse, no pull-down menus and so forth. While those are constraints in the case of the iPhone do you think Apple might be looking to turn them into strengths on the desktop platform? + +**AS:** Again, I do think that the reason a minimal UI like that works on a device like the iPhone is because of the device itself. It's relatively small and when you open it up you generally will want to either make a call, check your email, or do another very specific task. The desktop environment, on the other hand, is entirely about multi tasking. + +**WN:** Is there a new UI paradigm on the horizon and if so what do you think it would look like? + +**AS:** I wouldn't be surprised to see an evolution in consumer software that stresses a more real world style for applications. Garageband, for instance, is a great example of an app that takes the standard interface to the next level by creating a more innovative experience through the UI. + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim?currentPage=all "Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS" +[2]: http://www.madebysofa.com/ "MadeBySofa" +[3]: http://www.discoapp.com/ "Disco" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/mac_app_designe.html "Mac App Designers On Leopard: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster" +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/mac_app_designe_1.html "Mac App Designers On Leopard: Cabel Sasser Of Panic Software"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/shipley interview.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/shipley interview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b004589 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/shipley interview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +As part of today's articles on [Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)][1] and the upcoming WWDC, I spoke to a number of Mac developers to see what the developer community thinks of Leopard, specifically the [Core Animation features][2] which give programmers a new tool to easily create 3-D animation and interface enhancements. + +Wil Shipley of [Delicious Monster][3], Cabel Sasser of [Panic Software][4] and Austin Sarner of [MadeBySofa][5] gave far longer responses than could fit in the limited space of the article so I thought I'd post the entire interview transcripts here. + +The interview with Shipley is after the jump, Cabel Sasser's responses can be found here and Austin Sarner here. + +--------------------- + +Wil Shipley is the brains behind Delicious Library, a Mac media cataloging program, for more info check out the [Delicious Monster][3] site. + +**Wired News:** First off, do you think developers are going to embrace Core animation (given that doing so would possibly break the backwards compatibility)? I know the TextMate developers have said they plan to drop support for 10.4 in the next version to take advantage of CA, any plans for Delicious Monster? + +**Wil Shipley:** Yes, Delicious Library 2 is based entirely around Core Animation and other key Leopard technologies, so our customers are going to have to upgrade their OS if they want to upgrade our program. We had originally planned to make DL2 10.4-based, and worked for a year and a half on that version, but in August of '06 we learned more about Leopard and where it is going, and we simply couldn't say no any longer. We realized any app we released based on Tiger was going to look really pathetic when Leopard came out. + +**WN**Is core animation more than just eye candy? In other words does it provide a way to improve the user experience, whether through better UIs or speed boosts etc? + +**WS:** Absolutely... every time you give developers a chance to do better graphics with less code, you're going to see another revolution in user experience. The revolution coming with Core Animation is akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984 -- the Mac said "here's a relatively easy way to add graphics to your user interface" and Core Animation says, "Here's a very easy way to add composited layers and motion to your interface." + +**WN:** The Core animation changes are quite significant and open up some interface possibilities that would have previously been a lot of work... Time Machine for instance has a pretty amazing interface which, from what I understand, is made possible by the new Core animation tools. + +**WS:**I can't speculate on how Time Machine was written, but it's true that we're going to see a whole new world of user interface metaphors with Core Animation. For me, the original Cocoa was about making it really easy to me to construct an interface with sliders and textfields and buttons -- standard widgets. So we saw a whole generation of applications (for NeXTstep, and then later for Mac OS X) that had pretty decent interfaces, because they all used the same widgets and the widgets were pretty and functional. + +What we'll see with Core Animation is a move away from widgets and into direct manipulation. In Delicious Library 2, we're conveying much more information directly on our bookshelf view, instead of using textfields and the like, and similarly we're allowing the user to interact more directly with the books on the shelf, instead of just looking at them and then pressing buttons on another part of a screen to change them. + +Sure, we'll see some pure "eyecandy" applications that kind of abuse Core Animation, but we'll also see more of what are coming to be called the "Delicious Generation" of applications (not a term I coined!), where the entire application is designed from the start to be beautiful and fun while solving whatever problem it solves. + +**WN:** From the demo video available on the Apple site it would seem that the new tools enable an almost windowless environment, is that true? + +**WS:** One thing to remember about Core Animation, or any 'enabling' technology, is that any developer could do all the same effects herself, given enough time and motivation. It's not that Core Animation taps into some magic graphics processor that we didn't know about before, it just makes it extremely easy to use the existing graphics processor in the most efficient way. Which means we get to spend more time making cool interfaces because we are spending less time trying to get, like, anything to draw at all. + +**WN:** Do you think Apple plans to move away from windows as a metaphor for the workspace? + +I am very, very hesitant to speculate on future directions, because people often assume developers have some secret "red phone" where Steve calls us and says, "Hey, Wil, we're going to dump windows as a metaphor in two years, you down with that? Oh, also, did you get those iPhones I sent you?" + +In truth, we wait for the same announcements as everyone else... and I have to wait for my damn iPhone. Which, believe me, is cruelty itself. + +**WN:** As an extension of the last question, with Apple moving into more devices which run largely windowless UIs (i.e. Apple TV, iPhone) is the windowed application a thing of the past? + +I personally think that full-screen applications are becoming more important (especially for Apple) as we see more special-purpose devices -- the Apple TV is supposed to a neat way to watch your shows, the iPhone is too damn small to support windows -- but there will always be a need for windowed applications. Humans are inherently multi-tasking creatures. + +I'm old enough to remember a lot of the early experiments with graphical user interfaces, before the world standardized on the Macintosh model. It's funny to remember all the varieties of metaphors that were attempted back then (e.g. the Andrew Window System from CMU had a "tiled" interface, where windows never could overlap, but instead automatically resized themselves to perfectly fill the screen, and Microsoft Windows used to have windows inside of windows for applications), but I think they all died out for good reasons. + +**WN:** Jobs talked briefly last night at D (The recent All Things Digital conference) about the various iPhone UI limitations: no mouse, no pull-down menus and so forth. While those are constraints in the case of the iPhone do you think Apple might be looking to turn them into strengths on the desktop platform? + +**WS:** Fundamentally it hurts my arms to hold them up to the screen, and I have enough trouble keeping my screen clean as it is, so I don't think I really want a touch-screen computer. I haven't seen the iPhone up-close, but I absolutely think some of the creative solutions Apple has come up with in terms of directly manipulating items on the screen (instead of using widgets) are going to carry over and inspire the Delicious Generation of applications. + +**WN:** Is there a new UI paradigm on the horizon and if so what do you think it would look like? + +**WS:** I think the paradigm is direct manipulation -- just grab your document and "throw" it upwards to get it to scroll, for example, instead of fumbling about for the scroller. + +**WN:** Do you think users are ready to abandon the dominant metaphor of desktop UIs? + +**WS:** I don't think we'll abandon the old way as much as supplement our armory with a whole new arsenal of tools. It's an awesome time to be a Mac developer, and, by extension, a Mac user. + +[2]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim?currentPage=all "Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS" +[1]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/leopard_preview?currentPage=all "Apple to Show Off Leopard's Claws at WWDC" +[3]: http://www.delicious-monster.com/ "Delicious Library" +[4]: http://www.panic.com/ "Panic Software" +[5]: http://www.madebysofa.com/ "MadeBySofa"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/webmonkeysasser interview.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/webmonkeysasser interview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b19462 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Fri/webmonkeysasser interview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Continuing the conversation with Mac developers about the [Core Animation features][2] in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), here's Cabel Sasser of [Panic Software][4]. + +Sasser is the co-counder of Panic whose software includes the popular FTP client, Transmit as well as the newly-released Coda, which we [reviewed last month][5]. + +Also be sure to check out the other interviews with [Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster][3] and Austin Sarner of MadeBySofa. + +--------------------- + + + +**Wired News:** First off, do you think developers are going to embrace Core animation (given that doing so would possibly break the backwards compatibility)? I know the TextMate developers have said they plan to drop support for 10.4 in the next version to take advantage of CA (well the text rendering portion anyway) any plans for Panic? + +**Cabel Sasser:** I've no doubt that developers will embrace Core Animation -- providing a fast, Apple-maintained way to do the kind of animations we now rely on heavily is a brilliant, and well-welcome idea. + +Ironically, before Core Animation existed, we had created our own set of animation routines, many of which are eerily similar to the work Apple did in Core Animation! Great minds, etc.! So in our case, we'll probably branch to allow our software to be 10.4 compatible -- if you're running 10.5, you'll get the Core Animation version of our transitions, and if you use 10.4, you'll get our custom version. The Core Animation version will probably be much better and smoother. + +**WN:** Is core animation more than just eye candy? In other words does it provide a way to improve the user experience, whether through better UIs or speed boosts etc? + +**CS:** There are innumerable little animations that the user probably never even thinks of -- things like preference pane transitions, or simple sliding panels -- that will all be easier, and possibly better, with Core Animation. + +**WN:** From the demo video available on the Apple site it would seem that the new tools enable an almost windowless environment, is that true? Do you think Apple plans to move away from windows as a metaphor for the workspace? And as an extension of those ideas, with Apple moving into more devices which run largely windowless UIs (i.e. Apple TV, iPhone) is the windowed application a thing of the past? + +**CS:** These are tough questions to answer. I really don't think that the desktop will ever become "windowless" -- windows present a very familiar and natural way to work and multitask, and to radically change it might just mean desktop suicide. You don't multitask on an Apple TV, and you probably don't do a ton of multitasking on an iPhone, but on a desktop you simply need to be able to do many things at once, and for that, you need windows. + +That said, I suspect we'll know more very soon. Sorry I don't have too much conjecture here. + +**WN:** Jobs talked briefly last night at D about the various iPhone UI limitations: no mouse, no pull-down menus and so forth. While those are constraints in the case of the iPhone do you think Apple might be looking to turn them into strengths on the desktop platform? + +**CS:** I personally doubt it. A hand-held phone is a vastly different user experience than a mouse and a keyboard. I really applaud Apple's tenacity to sit down and say "You know what? This is a phone, and it needs to work differently", instead of trying to shoehorn a desktop UI into a mobile form factor. That's why every phone in the world sucks, and why I couldn't be more excited about the iPhone. I have faith that Apple will give each platform the best possible experience -- tailored to that platform. + +**WN:** Is there a new UI paradigm on the horizen and if so what do you think it would look like? + +**CS:** I've joked about having a fixed "sidebar" in future versions of Mac OS X, since virtually every application now has its own little blue landing strip on the left side of the window -- think of the window space you can regain! -- but once I started to actually think about it, I realized that it's an awful idea. ;) + +[2]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/06/core_anim?currentPage=all "Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/mac_app_designe.html "Mac App Designers On Leopard: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster" +[4]: http://www.panic.com/ "Panic Software" +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/coda_release_no.html "Coda: An All-In-One Web Developer Tool"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Mon/Firefoxinterface.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Mon/Firefoxinterface.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b6eebb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.04.07/Mon/Firefoxinterface.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday bringing with it the first looks at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick. + +Alex Faaborg who's one of the interface designers for Firefox 3 recently posted an overview and some screenshots of what the changes might look like (screenshots after the jump). + +None of these are guaranteed to end up in Firefox 3, they're merely a glimpse of what *might* end up in the final version. Also, Faaborg cautions that the screenshots below may not be what the final versions actually look like, but they do provide a rough sketch of possible implementations. + +The features Faaborg outlines include: + +>* Places bookmark management system which includes support for: + * Web Page Tagging + * Smart Folders + * Saved searches + + +* Content Handling. Firefox currently has different dialog boxes for dealing with content depending on if it has a MIME type, is a protocol, is being delivered through RSS, or is an application being downloaded. The user will have a consistent UI for selecting the actions they would like associated with content, regardless of if the content is a file being download or is a microformat embedded in a Web page. + + +* Microformat Detection. + +* Changes to the Location Bar. We are considering removing the favicon from the location bar, and changing the location bar so that everything except "Public Suffix + 2" is greyed out. This will prevent malicious sites from placing visual cues in the location bar (like using a lock as a favicon), and the change in text color will help users identify the web site domain. + +* Private Browsing. Put Firefox into a temporary state where no information about the user's browsing session is stored locally + +The two standout features in my opinion are the tagging capabilities in the bookmark manager and the microformats detection, but there's also a few nice little features that will smooth over certain aspects of the interface. + +One of the things I really like in the screenshots below is the bookmark feedback window hanging off the URL bar, particularly the ability to delete the bookmark without opening the manager. Because CRTL-D (default keystroke for a new bookmark) is right next to CRTL-S and I'm a bit clumsy with the keyboard I frequently end up bookmarking things I meant to save. + +It's not an earth shattering feature, but it's a great example of well-thought-out interface design (provided it actually works the way I'm assuming from the screenshot). + +Another subtle, but potentially very useful feature is the highlighted primary site in the URL bar. So long as the whole URL bar is still easily selectable, the proposed feature would make it easier to actually see what site you're on. + +Other proposed features that thus far don't have UI mockups include: + +>* Offline Web applications +* Improvements to the password manager +* A graphical keyboard-based UI similar to Quicksilver and Enso for searching the Web, bookmarking and tagging pages, navigating recent history, and switching between tabs. Note: this feature isn't in the Firefox 3 PRD, and it will probably be released as an experimental extension through Mozilla Labs before it gets considered for inclusion into Firefox.
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Xandros will partner with Microsoft to deliver value-added heterogeneous management capabilities that will work with the next generation of Microsoft® System Center and Xandros Systems Management products, which provide end-to-end service management. Xandros will also join Microsoft and other management vendors in implementing the WS-Management set of protocols in Xandros BridgeWays cross-platform management products and in various systems management standardization efforts. +• + +Server interoperability. Xandros will license a broad set of Microsoft server communications protocols. Xandros will develop enhancements to Xandros Server, allowing it to interoperate more smoothly with Windows Server® in a network setting. +• + +Office document compatibility. Xandros and Microsoft share the view that competing office productivity applications should, by design, make it easy for customers to exchange files with one another. To that end, Xandros will join Microsoft and other companies that are building open source translators fostering interoperability between documents stored in Open XML and Open Document Format. Xandros will ship the translators in upcoming releases of its Xandros Desktop offering. +• + +Intellectual property assurance. Through the agreement, Microsoft will make available patent covenants for Xandros customers. These covenants will provide customers with confidence that the Xandros technologies they use and deploy in their environments are compliant with Microsoft’s intellectual property. By putting a framework in place to share intellectual property, Xandros and Microsoft can speed the development of interoperable solutions. +• + +Microsoft sales and marketing support. The companies are committing to a set of sales and marketing efforts to promote the output of their technical efforts. As part of this effort, Microsoft will now endorse Xandros Server and Desktop as a preferred Linux distribution due to Xandros’ efforts to establish rich interoperability and deliver IP assurance to its customers. In addition, a specialized team of Microsoft staff will be trained on the value propositions of this collaboration to customers and channel partners. Xandros will also become a member of the Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance. + +About Xandros + + +Microsoft has announced a new deal with Linux outfit Xandros that is similar to the Microsoft-Novell tie-up of last year coming complete with Intellectual property assurance. + +The “broad collaboration agreement” covers a range of technical, business, marketing and intellectual property commitments. Microsoft said that the commitments will provide customers with enhanced interoperability, more effective systems management solutions and intellectual property assurances “all of which extend a bridge between open source and commercial software and deliver customers real value in mixed systems environments”. + +For Xandros and its customers, it’s a get out of jail free card if and when Microsoft starts the open source equivalent to World War 3 by taking legal action against Linux over alleged patent violations. + +The deal includes: + +Systems management interoperability: “value-added heterogeneous management capabilities” which in English translates to co-operative interoperability development between Xandros and Microsoft. + +Server interoperability: Xandros will license a broad set of Microsoft server communications protocols allowing it to interoperate more smoothly with Windows Server + +Office document compatibility: Xandros will join Microsoft and other companies in building open source translators fostering interoperability between documents stored in Open XML and Open Document Format. + +Microsoft sales and marketing support: Microsoft will now endorse Xandros Server and Desktop as a preferred Linux distribution + +Intellectual property assurance: Microsoft will make available patent covenants for Xandros customers that will provide customers with confidence that the Xandros technologies they use and deploy in their environments “are compliant with Microsoft’s intellectual property”. + +There was a lot of surprise following Microsoft’s announcement of a deal with Novell last year, and although the Xandros deal follows Novell, there is still bound to be surprise considering many thought the Microsoft-Novell agreement may have been a one off. The extension of intellectual property assurance to another Linux distro will no doubt cause a flurry of discussion in the open source community. My only question: who will be the next Linux deal in Microsoft’s continued efforts to strength the anyone but Red Hat Linux marketplace.
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That said, the new version is really nice and the additional features are great, particularly if you're a fan of Netscape's Digg-clone news site. + +[Netscape Navigator 9][1] features a host of new stuff including a visual makeover as well as new features like automatic URL correction, several new sidebar options, including a really nice one dubbed "Linkpad." There's also a bunch of social web style features including in-browser voting (for sites listed on netscape.com). + +Netscape Navigator 9 also [features][2] full compatibility with Firefox 2 extensions. Themes on the other hand must be built specifically for Navigator 9. + +The sharing aspects of the new navigator feature some interesting additions to the URL bar, including a link to submit the site to Netscape.com if no one has yet, and, in cases where the URL is already submitted, voting buttons are included. + +There's also a new sidebar option dubbed the "Friends' Activity Sidebar" which lets you track what your Netscape.com contacts have marked. The Activity sidebar will show your friends' votes, comments they've written, and story submissions. + +The standout among the new features is Linkpad, a sort of temporary storage mechanism for pages you want to investigate later, but don't necessarily want to bookmark. Linkpad lives in the sidebar and pages can be added by dragging the URL (or tab) and dropping it in the sidebar. + +Linkpad will remember your temporary bookmarks between sessions and when you click a saved link it will automatically be removed from the linkpad. Netscape touts that last feature as saving you hassle of deleting the link from Linkpad, but frankly there should be an option to control that behavior in the preferences. + +Another sidebar addition is the News Tracker which adds Netscape.com news headlines to your sidebar (via RSS). + +Finally, perhaps it's a personal tick, but I was excited to see that Netscape has combined the stop and reload buttons, which is one of those UI decisions that just makes sense, but for some reason requires an extension in Firefox. The fact is, you never need both buttons at the same time, why waste the space? + +Since it now has full compatibility with Firefox 2 (I should note that of the half dozen extensions I tested, one, CookieSafe did not work -- YMMV), fans of Netscape.com can have their cake and eat it too. + +As someone who doesn't actually use Netscape.com, the sharing features are of limited use, but Linkpad is a particularly nice feature I'd love to hear if anyone knows of a Firefox extension that does something similar. + +Current users should note that the auto-update feature of Netscape 8 will not upgrade them to version 9 (presumably because it's still a beta). To get the latest version [head over to the download site][3]. + +[1]: http://browser.netscape.com/ "Netscape Navigator" +[2]: http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/ "What’s New in Netscape Navigator 9" +[3]: http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/ "Download Netscape Navigator 9"
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Previously code-named Apollo in the developer preview releases, Adobe is calling the first open beta "[Adobe AIR][1]" with AIR standing for Adobe Integrated Runtime. The final version of Adobe AIR will be released toward the end of the year. + +More than just a formal release to new Adobe AIR is also significantly different than the developer preview version in that it can run HTML/Javascript applications rather than just Flash. The enlarged scope of AIR pits it directly against Microsoft's [Silverlight][4] offering as well as, to a certain extent, the recently released [Google Gears][5]. + +Today's beta is designed to give developers a head start creating applications with AIR and includes some other new features beyond the HTML support. Adobe has also announced a new [Dreamweaver extension][2] to help HTML developers build AIR applications. + +Today's AIR beta also sees the inclusion of PDF support and, like Google Gears, includes a SQLite database allowing developers to easily store data on the client side. + +The AIR runtime environment is a 8MB download from the Adobe site and note that when the final version ships the runtime will not be a requirement. Adobe says that developers will be able to package applications as standalone executable files (which presumably contain the runtime environment much the way Flash movies can also be packaged as executables). + +If you previously the alpha runtime you'll need to delete that before you install the beta, though Adobe says that step won't be necessary with subsequent beta release. Unfortunately Adobe doesn't provide any information on how to go about uninstalling the alpha. + +So far there isn't much in the way of [demo apps][3]. The Adobe site lists an AIR version of its [Kuler color picker app][6], as well as some mapping applications and an RSS reader. EBay is expected to release an AIR-based application in the near future, but for the moment AIR remains largely a developer release. + +[1]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ "Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)" +[2]: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Dreamweaver_CS3_Extension "AIR Dreamweaver CS 3 extension" +[3]: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Applications:Samples "AIR sample applications" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/silverlight_mic.html "Silverlight: Microsoft Launches Flash Competitor" +[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_gears_br.html "Google Gears Brings Offline Functionality To Web Apps" +[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/kuler_rulers.html "Kuler Rulers!"
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June's release contains 6 new bulletins, 4 of which are listed as critical. + +Together [the six patches][1] fix fifteen vulnerabilities found in a variety of Windows programs including Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Vista. + +While previous patches have been issued for Vista, yesterday's release marks the first time Microsoft has had to patch a flaw introduced by code in Vista. Pervious Vista patches applied to problems with legacy code. The [MS07-032 update][2] applies to Vista systems only and addresses a vulnerability in setting Access Control Lists, which could allow "information disclosure," as the Microsoft advisory puts it. + +Perhaps the most serious flaw in June's batch of patches is a fix for a critical flaw in the SSL libraries used by Windows, which can be exploited via IE. The SSL vulnerability also affect non-Microsoft browsers like Firefox and Opera which call the SSL libraries included in the OS. + +To update your system turn on the automatic update feature or head to the Microsoft Update site and downloading the patches by hand. + + + +[1]: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/06/12/june-2007-monthly-security-bulletin-release.aspx "June 2007 Monthly Security Bulletin Release" +[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-032.mspx "Vulnerability in Windows Vista Could Allow Information Disclosure" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho-logo.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho-logo.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e605b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho-logo.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b68897d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.11.07/Wed/zoho.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Zoho just rolled out a significant upgrade to its database tool, Zoho Creator, which features a much improved interface complete with drag-and-drop functionality and a new script building tool that allows users to create complex queries without learning the Deluge script language. + +[Creator 2.0][1], as the company calls the new version, is aimed at providing MS Access-like database functionality to users who may not understand all the intricacies of relational database management. + +The new point-and-click and drag-and-drop actions do indeed make creating forms for data input fairly easy, though Zoho's claims about the new drag-and-drop script editor may be slightly exaggerated. + +Yes it's easy to add code to process your form data and perform other actions, but it still helps to have a general understanding of Zoho's Deluge scripting language. + +Luckily Zoho has some nice online help materials and tutorials. + +And don't think that just because Zoho Creator 2.0 has added a pretty new interface that the application lacks flexibility, there's still plenty of power under the hood and you can always write scripts by hand to accomplish more complex tasks. + +Zoho Creator 2.0 also adds some additional new features that bring it up to speed with other apps in the Zoho suite, like the ability to share applications with other Zoho users, new ways embed applications in your website and the ability to export your data in multiple formats. + +To mark the release Zoho has posted the following video which gives users an overview of the new features and demonstrates how to get started using the app: + +<embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=210220" quality="best" scale="exactfit" width="400" height="300" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> + + +Setting up a new form: + +Adding new fields to your database input form is drag-and-drop simple: + +Once form elements are added, users can edit the elements values, attach scripts and more + +The new script editing interface, also with drag-and-drop functionality. + +Interface for editing script elements. + +Scripting in "free-flow" mode allows you to write your own scripts if you're familiar with the language already. + +[1]: http://creator.zoho.com/index.jsp?targetURL=%2Fhome.do "Zoho Creator" + +[3]: http://creator.zoho.com/collateral/script_builder/Deluge-Script.html "Intro to Deluge scripting"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.18.07/Tue/youtube.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.18.07/Tue/youtube.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84de832 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.18.07/Tue/youtube.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +YouTube goes international + +YouTube has launched nine country-specific versions of the site. Local versions of YouTube are now available for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. + +The [localized editions of YouTube][1] feature fully translated content and at some point in the future will track country-specific popular content. + +The new sites can be round at their country specific addresses such as [youtube.fr][5] or [youtube.jp][6] (note that all those URLs work, they actually redirect to fr.youtube.com, etc.). + +YouTube rather conspicuously has left Germany out of the initial launch of its international sites. Epicenter [posits][3] that it might have something to do with the age-verification restriction in place in Germany. + +Flickr, which also [recently went international][4], [upset users in some countries][2] (including Germany) by censoring content. Though it took them two whole days to explain themselves, Flickr says the censorship is due to stringent German age-verification laws. If that statement is correct then YouTube's decision to skip Germany for the time being makes sense. + +YouTube plans to roll out more country-specific versions of the site in the coming weeks and has already announced plans for a Chinese version. + +[1]: http://br.youtube.com/blog?entry=ktewBXNbyTw "YouTube Speaks Your Language" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/06/german_users_in.html "German Users In Revolt Over Flickr Image Restrictions" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/06/youtube_goes_in.html "YouTube Goes International...Sans Germany" +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/flickr_speaking.html "Flickr Speaking In Tongues: Photo Sharing Site Adds Additional Language Support" +[5]: http://fr.youtube.com/ +[6]: http://jp.youtube.com/
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But to learn more about the re-design and Google's thinking behind some of the design choices I recently spoke with Ken Norton, Product Manager at Google and Sam Schillace, Engineering Director and cofounder of Writely which Google acquired to create Google Docs & Spreadsheets. + +While many of the the quibbles in [our review][2] were small points, they were also shared by many users as evidenced in this [Google Groups post][1]. + +But rest assured users, Google is listening. + +In fact one of the primary critiques from many users was Google's decision to remove the handy "last edited by" function has been restored to its former function. + +Here's a transcript of my conversation with Ken Norton and Sam Schillace: + +**Wired News**: What brought about the re-design? + +**Ken Norton**: We started to realize the limitations of the old user interface -- it was great and helpful when you had eight documents, but suddenly you have a hundred documents and you're collaborating with fifty people and it started to become unwieldy. People started asking for better organizational tools -- the ability to filter documents based on who it was shared with, the ability to organize them into folders. + +And that prompted a discussion for us internally because while we felt folders were a familiar organizational metaphor, it was something people were used to, but there were many advantages to tags or labels. One of the biggest advantages of labels or tags was the ability to add multiple tags to each document as opposed to folders that kind of live in one place. + +So what we did is introduced folders as the UI metaphor, but kept the advantages of tags behind the scenes. So a document can live in multiple folders, which something you normally don't get with folders. + +**WN**: What about some of the other changes? + +**Ken Norton**: We also added the ability to organize documents by type, the ability to filter by who they're shared with and we took away some of the behavior of the document list that was confusing to some people... we gave the user a lot more control over how their documents are organized. And most of this was a result of user feedback. + +And this certainly isn't a point in the sand.... One of the advantages of web-based software is that we can be very responsive to the feedback that we're getting. + +**WN**: Why not have both folders and labels? + +We talked about it. I think the reason is to keep the UI simple. As people realize that folders have all the advantages of labels, their reason for wanting them goes away. It'll take a little while for people to understand what's going on, that it still works like labels. + +But the advantage for new users who may not be familiar with labels or expecting folders is pretty substantial in this case. Especially in the Google Apps arena with business users may be more familiar with folders to start with. + +**WN**: Why was the "last edited" functionality buried in the redesign? + +**Sam Schillace**: We just felt that it wasn't as valuable in terms of UI and there's some problems with the way it works that need to get fixed -- if people just view the document, that field gets updated, which is bug in the spec. + +But with that particular feature I think we just didn't think it was that useful and we thought it would be better if we took it so we did. And we were wrong. So we put it back. + +**WN**: What about the look and feel -- many users have complained that interface lacks the traditional Google minimalism... + +**Sam Schillace**: Any time you make a change people complain about it, but this is the result of a lot of UI usability research.... We felt that the UI design need to be stronger and a bit clearer. You can consider it an experiment, nothing is carved in stone, we just wanted it to be a better UI. + +Both Sam and Ken also said that they've welcomed user feedback (both positive and negative) so if you've got something to say, [let them know][1]. + +[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/Suggestions-and-Ideas-Writely/browse_thread/thread/c0d1654371f61ed8/5f7c6db33f088703 "So...how do you like our new Docs list?" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/a-dissapointing.html "A Disappointing Redesign For Google Docs And Spreadsheets" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..58ddc8e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83db3ab --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Fri/gmaps.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Google recently added an "[avoid highways][3]" option to Google Maps and now [Google Maps][2] expands on that idea to allow for drag and drop route building. After creating a route users can now grab any segment of the plotted route and drag-and-drop it to reroute their directions. + +Not only does this make plotting multi-stop trips and custom routes much easier, when coupled with the "traffic" maps it can help users find faster, less congested routes. + +Although the [Google Lat Long blog post][1] on the subject doesn't mention it, if these new features worked with the iPhone Google Maps on the iPhone could be a must have for those living in congested cities. And of course any other mobile device that can handle Google Maps. + +It might not sound like much given its dead simple interface, but the results are jaw-dropping -- and very useful. + +And these features work in nearly all areas and handle things like ferries, bridges, toll roads and other elements seamlessly. + +Naturally the printable driving instruction are updated along with the graphical elements and there's even an option to add destinations mid route by searching for the address and then dragging it into the route. + +Here's the video Google released demonstrating the new features: + +[1]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/06/its-click-drag-situation.html "It's a click & drag situation" +[2]: http://maps.google.com/ "Google Maps" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_maps_the.html "Google Maps The Road Less Traveled"
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[Plaxo 3.0][1], as the company calls the updates, boasts a number of synchronization improvements and aims to be your one-stop address book and contact manager. + +New features include find-as-you-type search and click to call buttons in the contact portion of Plaxo as well as a new calendar section that integrates Yahoo weather along side your schedule. + +Also new is a content sharing system which allows you subscribe to friends content feeds as well as create your own feeds by pulling in data from popular web services. At the moment those services are limited to Flickr photos, Amazon wish lists and blog feeds, but Plaxo says support for more web services will be coming in the following months. + +While the bells and whistles are nice the real news are the changes to core of Plaxo's synchronization options. + +Having used Plaxo off and on for about a year, I was never that impressed with its functionality. Importers often choked and the desktop client was more intrusive than helpful, but I'm happy to report that the new version solves those issues. + +Plaxo now offers an online "Sync Dashboard," which brings together multiple "sync points," such as Google Calendar, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mac OS X, AOL, Thunderbird, LinkedIn and even your mobile phone in one handy location. + +And in my testing the synchronization worked perfectly, provided you give it time, since it's certainly no speed demon. + +While the new Plaxo Dashboard provides an easy way to update contact info across various platforms (GMail is currently not supported, but Plaxo says it will be added soon), perhaps even more useful is the calendar synchronization. + +I've never found an easy way to sync between Google Calendar and Apple's iCal, but Plaxo handles the two quite well and every change I made from either end was quickly reflected at the other end (and of course on Plaxo's own Calendar in the middle). + +Other new features in the Plaxo desktop client for Mac include improved support for Mail.app. Plaxo now injects a small drop down menu at the top of each mail message to show whether or not the sender is in your address book. The menu then gives you options to add that person to your address book if they aren't already in it or, if they are, Plaxo will show their contact card. + +Since the same thing can be accomplished by using Mail's built-in connections with Apple's Address Book, the Mail feature isn't totally necessary and can be turned off in the Plaxo system preference pane, but the contact card preview can come in handy. + +Plaxo also support similar features in Thunderbird, but I haven't tested them. + +But for all its strong points, Plaxo 3.0 has some serious drawbacks as well. I found the web interface buggy and slow in Firefox 2.0 (it was better in IE, Safari is not yet supported). + +The Sync Dashboard frequently timed out or threw infinite loop redirect warnings and even when it did work, syncing was unacceptably slow. I have a meager 31 contacts in my address book and Plaxo took around five to seven minutes to update them, depending on which client I used to sync. + +Also the links which should appear at the bottom of the main page for adding additional sync points didn't show up in Firefox (this seems to have been fixed as of 3:30pm). + +However, once Plaxo works out the kinks (the service is officially still a public beta) they will indeed have the killer app for online contact info management especially for those that rely on a variety of different web services since Plaxo manages to make synchronization seamless. + +In the meantime, if you'd like to check out Plaxo without having to sign up there's a nice demo video below from Plaxo. + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-yXudmFowE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n-yXudmFowE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://www.plaxo.com/info/corp/learn_more?t=1&f=landing "Plaxo 3.0" diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7457a08 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo1.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a46f02 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo2.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad73405 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/plaxo3.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccdd9cd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/safecache.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Browsers hemorrhage information. Cookies, auto-fill information, search history and more can be accessed by websites, and while sometimes this information is gather for benign reasons, sometimes it's not. + +With more and more people refusing to accept cookies in their browsers (almost every modern browser contains a preference for controlling cookie settings) marketers and others that would like to know what you do on the internet have turned to other means. + +One sneaky way of grabbing information uses the browsers cache as a means of tracking user behavior. + +Which brings us to [SafeCache][1], a Firefox plug-in developed by Stanford university that protects your privacy by defending against cache-based tracking techniques. + +SafeCache allows embedded content to be cached, but segments the cache according to the domain of the originating page. + +To install SafeCache, just head over to the site and hit "install." Once you restart Firefox open up the preferences and under the "Privacy" tab you should see a new option to turn SafeCache on and off. Regrettably there isn't a way to set per-site permissions, but it's still better than nothing at all. + +The same folks at Stanford that developed SafeCache also have another Firefox add-on named [SafeHistory][2] which attempts to defend against visited-link-based tracking techniques. + +And for an excellent write up on various other ways you can make Firefox more secure have a look at Security Hack's "[Firefox: 10 tips to bolster your privacy][3]." + +[via [Lifehacker][4]] + +[1]: http://www.safecache.com/ "SafeCache" +[2]: http://www.safehistory.com/ +[3]: http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/06/08/firefox-10-tips-to-bolster-your-privacy "Firefox: 10 tips to bolster your privacy" +[4]: http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-firefox-extension/prevent-cache+based-tracking-with-safecache-270366.php
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f94878 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Mon/symantec.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +<img alt="Symantec" title="Symantec" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/05/22/symantec.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />A while back we told you about Symantec accidentally [crippling upwards of 50,000 Chinese Windows machines][1] when the anti-virus software deleted two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP which left those systems inoperable. + +In an [attempt to return to its users good graces][3] Symantec is offering affected users a free copy of Norton Save & Restore 2.0 backup software (enterprise users can get Symantec Ghost Solution Suite) along with a 12 month extension to the Norton Anti-Virus subscription services. + +Symantec calls the offer a "gesture of goodwill," however given that Norton is in fact the source of the original problem, many users may think twice about installing it again. Or as the Register so [drolly puts it][2]: "cockroach in your salad, sir? Have some free salad." + +Symantec had previously hinted that was considering a compensation package of some kind for affected users, but an extension of the same service that caused the problem is dubious at best; especially given that some Chinese enterprise companies are rumored to be demanding up to $130,000 for lost productivity. + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/symantec_hoses_.html "Symantec Hoses Chinese Windows Users" +[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/symantec_compensation/ "Symantec showers free software on bug-afflicted Chinese" +[3]: http://www.symantec.com/zh/cn/home_homeoffice/theme.jsp?themeid=goodwill
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Thu/footnote.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Thu/footnote.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..82446cb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Thu/footnote.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +A while back we mentioned that Footnote.com had reached an agreement with the National Archives to digitize selected historical documents. Today Footnote has announced a new [history nerd social networking site][2] where users can download and dig through historical documents and create pages to share their findings with the community. + +As part of the launch, Footnote is offering some of their millions of Revolutionary War documents for free. But if you're interested, you need to hurry, they'll be locked behind a paywall at the end of July. Footnote membership is $8/month or $60/year. + +For the time being you can grab a limited time trial membership to see if the network is worth your money. + +Roger Bell, president of Footnote says in a statement regarding the new documents, "Many people may know the high level details of American history; however, information about specific events and the heroic individuals involved are often overlooked." + +Footnote's documents aim to fill that gap. The documents on Footnote range from secret journals to purloined letters to correspondences between the founding fathers. + +While the Footnote offerings are impressive I can't help thinking that the historical data nerd market isn't all that big to start with, how much money can Footnote possibly hope to raise? Why not just throw up some ads and give it away? + +In fairness to Footnote, I should point out that large portions of the site can be accessed for free and there's no charge to use the social networking features such as building a family history page. + +[via [9:01 AM][1]] + +[1]: http://www.901am.com/2007/footnotecom-launches-reveals-accounts-of-the-birth-of-america.html "Footnote.com launches, reveals accounts of the birth of America" +[2]: http://www.footnote.com/ "Footnote"
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Label (or tag if you prefer) support has been dropped in the new Google Docs. + +Existing users will note that all their tags have been converted to folders which work more or less like labels, but include drag-and-drop support. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to re-order the folder list hierarchy other than with creative naming conventions. + +But the real problem with the new folders is their inconsistent behavior. Files can be be placed in multiple folders, but rather confusingly this only works from the main list. + +If you drag a document from the main list to a any number of folders it will be added to those folders. + +However, if you are inside a folder and drag a document to a different folder it will be removed from the first folder, which makes for a rather confusing user experience. + +People have been clamoring for folders in various Google Apps for some time, however, this implementation may leave many questioning their wishes. + +Given that Google is aiming Docs and Spreadsheets at the business crowd, the move to folders makes sense, folders are a much more familiar organizational metaphor and have a somewhat more "professional" feel about them, but in terms of functionality the new folders differ from labels largely in semantics. + +I always thought of folders and labels as complimentary, so ditching labels in favor of folders seems, well, kind of pointless. Now everyone is going to clamor for the old labels -- why not support both? + +And the labels to folders move isn't the only letdown in the redesign. Those using the collaborative features will likely miss the "last edited by" function, which appears to have gone the way of the Dodo (if you know where it went, let me know). + +Also, while it's a minor point, I can't help thinking that interface has a very un-Google feel to it, I don't mind the re-design, but it looks more like something Yahoo or AOL would come up with. + +But the redesign isn't a total letdown. There are a couple of truly useful features in the new Docs and Spreadsheets. The live search suggestions tool with dynamic results pulled from your document list as you type (think Google Suggest or Apple Spotlight) is a great time saver and the ability to sort documents by collaborator is also quite handy. + +Since there doesn't appear to be a way to revert to the old version, the Google Docs redesign, for better or worse appears to be here to stay. + +[1]: http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/2007/06/entirely-new-way-to-stay-organized.html "An entirely new way to stay organized" +[2]: https://docs.google.com/ "Google Docs and Spreadsheets" + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Wed/iphone.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Wed/iphone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93b0d6c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/06.25.07/Wed/iphone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +The initial real world reviews of iPhones are starting to trickle in and for the most part it would seem that Apple has a winner on its hands. Sure there's some things that could be improved, but by and large the reviews are positive. + +Here's a roundup: + +<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118289311361649057.html">The iPhone is Breakthrough Handheld Computer</a> (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal)</p> +<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/technology/circuits/27pogue.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin">The iPhone Matches Most of its Hype</a> (David Pogue, NY Times)</p> + +<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19444948/site/newsweek/page/0/">At Last, the iPhone</a> (Steven Levy, Newsweek)</p> +<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2007-06-26-iphone-review_N.htm">Apple’s iPhone isn’t perfect, but it’s worthy of the hype</a> (Ed Baig, USA Today)</p> + +Perhaps the most interesting thing all these reviews mention is the lack of scratches on the screen -- even when the iPhone is tossed in a pocket with keys, loose change and whatnot. + +But of course these mainstream journalists have overlooked the obvious satanic witchcraft overtones of the iPhone which Wired's Lore Sjöberg, master of the dark arts, details in his latest column: [Beware the Magical IPhone][2]. + +And just because it's the first and only time this will happen, I'd like to say that I actually agree with John Dvorak, who recently wrote an article entitled: [Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!][1]. + +Still, despite the fact that I'm thoroughly sick of hearing about the thing (David Pogue claims the "iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google"), I do plan to purchase one, and probably on Friday, but only out of a sense of obligation to you my dear readers, definitely not because I actually want it. + + + +[1]: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2150870,00.asp "Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!" +[2]: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/06/alttext_0627 "Beware the Magical IPhone"
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If you're using XP Home Edition, you'll need to grab your original install CD. + +Pop in the XP Home install CD and at the "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP" screen, click "Perform Additional Tasks." In the resulting window click "Browse this CD." This should put you in Windows Explorer where you'll need to double-click the "ValueAdd" folder, followed by "Msft" and then "Ntbackup." + +Then just open Ntbackup.msi to begin installing the Backup utility. + +Once you have everything installed click the Start menu and navigate to All Programs>>Accessories>>System Tools>>Backup to launch the backup wizard. + +In the Wizard you'll need to click through the opening page and choose "Back up files and settings" on the second page. + +On the following page you'll be asked what you want to back up. + +For most people, backing up the My Documents folder and settings is probably suffient (unless you have multiple users in which case you'll want to select the "Everyone" option). + +From there you can select which folders (if any) to exclude, choose a kind of backup, the location and even set up a schedule for future back ups. To set up the schedule, don't click "Finish" on the last page of the Wizard. Instead hit the "Advanced" button and chose "Later" and set up a future date. + +For Vista users the process is very similar, but there are two different back up programs depending on the version of Vista that your using. Automatic File Backup is available in almost all editions of Windows Vista (except Starter and it has only basic functionality in Home Basic). + +Windows Complete PC Backup is available in the Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions, and performs a complete, image-based backup of the entire computer. + +Note that neither of Vista's offerings support tape drives. + +Third Party Offerings + +If you'd like to make a clone of your drive, <a href="http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html">SyncBackSE</a> offers some nice options for a reasonable price ($30). There's also a 30-day trial available. + +SyncBackSE features some nice fine grained controls and can even back up to an FTP server with compressed files, allows for set commands to run before and after backups and will e-mail you in the event of a backup failure. + +<a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html">Acronis True Image Home</a> ($50) is another popular solution and features Vista support. With Acronis you can clone your drive and recover particular files in archives just like in Windows Explorer or restore the whole system. + +Another option is <a href="http://www.novastor.com/pcbackup/backup/n_backup.html">NovaBACKUP</a> ($50) which supports Windows Vista and offers backups to nearly any storage format, scheduling and file integrity verification. NovaBAKCUP can also create a Disaster Recovery CD that can be used to boot an unresponsive system, but note that it does not currently support Windows Vista. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3e7e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/how-to encrypt email.txt @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +Do you think of e-mail as a digital postcard or a signed and sealed letter? If you're not using an encryption tool to send your e-mail, regardless of how you answered that question, your e-mail is essentially a postcard transmitted in plain text and available for anyone on the internet to read. + +If you'd like to keep your e-mail, or at least some of your e-mail, from prying eyes, you need to use some sort of encryption. There is a protocol for sending messages in secure format, but since almost no e-mail hosts support it, it isn't yet a very good solution. + +At the moment the best solution is to use either PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) a similar, but free and open source, encryption scheme. + +PGP and GPG both rely on shared keys which means that once you send an encrypted e-mail only those recipients with your shared key can read it. + +What you'll need: + +<a href="http://www.pgp.com/index.html">PGP</a> or <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GPG</a>. Both will work, but PGP is not free or open source. + +A plug-in for your e-mail client. + +Solutions by client + +Apple Mail (OS X 10.4, earlier versions require additional steps) + +There's a <a href="http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html#Download">plug-in available</a> for Apple Mail that utilizes Mail's unofficial plug-in architecture to add GPG/PGP features. + +You'll need three components installed: <a href="http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/">GPG</a>, <a href="http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/">GPG KeyChain Access</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/English.lproj/GPGMail.html#Download">GPG Mail.app plugin</a>. GPG and the Mail plug-in are available as package installers with instructions GPG KeyChain Access is pre-compiled and can be easily dragged to your application folder. + +Open GPG Keychain Access and create a private key. This is yours alone, don't share it or your GPG messages will be compromised. + +In creating the private key, keychain Assistant also sets up your public key which you can export and share with your friends and associates so they can decrypt your messages. + +Now that your Keys are set up, it's time to open Mail.app. Create a new message and you should see a small toolbar just above the message body with options to encrypt and what key to use. + +Congratulations, no more postcards for you. + +Thunderbird + +Thunderbird on all platforms has a plug-in very similar to that of Mail.app. <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html">Enigmail</a> requires Thunderbird 2.0 and GPG 1.4.7 or later. + +For Mac users the installation and GPG set mirrors that of Mail.app. For Windows users the process is roughly the same and <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html">Mozilla has a step-by-step guide</a> that walks you through the process. + +Outlook + +There is a <a href="http://www3.gdata.de/gpg/">plug-in for Outlook</a> that supports GPG, but unfortunately it's currently limited to a German version. The developers claim an english version is in the works. + +Network Associates, the corporation behind PGP, offers a <a href="http://na.pgpstore.com/product.aspx?sku=3118545&section_id=58&culture=en-US">plug-in package solution</a>, but it will set you back a hefty $200. + +GMail + +If you aren't concerned about encrypting your e-mail messages, consider that most web providers like Yahoo and Google don't just send plain text messages, they actively scan your messages to deliver targeted ads — paranoid yet? + +Unfortunately, due to the limitations of web-based interfaces, encrypting messages in GMail is no easy task. + +But don't dispair, an industrious Greasemonkey hacker has done the hard work for you. The Greasemonkey script <a href="http://www.langenhoven.com/code/emailencrypt/gmailencrypt.php">GMail Encrypt</a> will work with any browser that supports Greasemonkey to encrypt all your outgoing GMail messages, though as the author admits: + +<blockquote> + Due to the fact that Javascript can not handle stupendously large numbers in a timely fashion, even with the BigInt functionality, this encryption is not bulletproof. This routine will conveniently encrypt your emails well enough to prevent your coworker and probably your employer from reading your emails. However, if you decide to annoy somebody working for the NSA then DO NOT be surprised if some bulky guys pull up at your front door in a black SUV. +</blockquote> + +The rest + +There are a lot more e-mail clients out there than these three and many offer GPG solutions. OpenPGP maintains a <a href="http://openpgp.vie-privee.org/courrier_en.html">list of clients that support GPG</a>. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..69481d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphone4.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a198c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/iphoneapp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +A hacker by the name of Nightwatch has successfully compiled and launched and first third-party iPhone application. Nightwatch's program is a simple "hello world" app and end-user apps are still a ways off, but this definitely opens the door for others to create applications that run on the iPhone. + +Although the iPhone Dev Wiki is at pains to point out the site is a community effort, the progress report specifically says that Nightwatch has apparently pulled off the app on his/her own. + +The "hello world" app was accomplished using the ARM/Mach-O Toolchain, which is also the main brains behind the "jailbreak" app which is a key element of some other hacks, such as the custom ringtone hack we [detailed earlier this week][2]. + +Nightwatch and the iPhone Dev Wiki team have put together a pre-alpha ARM/Mach-O Toolchain for other hackers looking to compile applications. + +And naturally it remains to be seen whether Apple will continue the hands-off approach to hacks that have characterized the company's handling of AppleTV, the iPod and other products. + +Note that I've omitted a direct link in keeping with the iPhone Dev Wiki's requests to minimalize traffic to the site, but a Google search for ["iPhone hello world"][1] will give you some more information. + +[1]: http://www.google.com/search?q=Hello+World+on+the+iPhone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/iphone-hacks-ad.html
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/vistasp1.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/vistasp1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c767586 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Fri/vistasp1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +It would seem that yesterday's rumors of a possible Vista service pack in coming weeks are unfounded. Microsoft has taken the relatively unprecedented step of issuing a press release that attempts to dispel the rumors and asks the public to stop spreading the misinformation. + +While our post was [clearly labeled as a rumor][3], it seems appropriate to follow up and say that the e-mail which fueled the rumors was indeed, according to Microsoft, a typo. + +The announcement quoted on Windows Connected reads: + +>There will be a Windows Vista service pack and our current expectation is that a beta will be made available sometime this year. Service packs are part of the traditional software lifecycle — they're something we do for all Microsoft products as part of our commitment to continuous improvement, and providing early test builds is a standard practice that helps us incorporate customer feedback and improve the overall quality of the product. + + +As longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet points out, the company seems to being following a strategy that has worked well for Apple (well until the iPhone anyway): [under-promise, over-deliver][1]. + +But Apple has long been an underdog and to this day has only a marginal market share on the desktop, Microsoft on the other hand has vast legions of corporate and consumer users who unwilling to upgrade to Vista until an SP1 release sees the light of day. + +But it would appear that that day won't be coming for some time. Although Microsoft hasn't explicitly said so, it would seem that if the beta will arrive late this year, the final release won't happen until next year. + + +[1]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559 +[2]: http://www.windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2007/07/19/no-public-windows-vista-sp1-this-week.aspx +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/rumor-windows-v.html
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/gcookie.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/gcookie.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3a198a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/gcookie.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +In an attempt to appease privacy advocates critical of the search giant's data retention policies Google announced a near meaningless change to its cookie policy yesterday. Starting later this year Google's search cookies will expire after two years rather than the current policy which stores cookies until 2038. + +Of course, given that Google sets a new cookie each time you search, the new expiration date only rolls around if you haven't been to the site for two years. Since most of us use Google somewhat more frequently than once every two years to move, while welcome, really doesn't change anything. + +The [announcement posted to the Official Google Blog yesterday][1] claims the company is seeking a balance between privacy concerns and customer ease-of-use. + +>After listening to feedback from our users and from privacy advocates, we've concluded that it would be a good thing for privacy to significantly shorten the lifetime of our cookies — as long as we could find a way to do so without artificially forcing users to re-enter their basic preferences at arbitrary points in time. + +However, in practice, for heavy Google users the change means almost nothing since the cookies will auto-renew each time you search. + +Of course if you're really concerned about the cookies Google uses to track your search queries you can always set your browser to reject all cookies from the Google homepage, just head to your browser's preferences panel and look for the privacy/cookie policy settings. + +[photo [credit][2]] + +[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/cookies-expiring-sooner-to-improve.html "http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/cookies-expiring-sooner-to-improve.html" +[2]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/massless/8182590/
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/hacktheiphone.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/hacktheiphone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44b744d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/hacktheiphone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +It's long, it's complicated and it's not for the faint of heart, but Hacktheiphone.com has posted [instructions on how to add your own custom ringtones][1] to the iPhone from your Intel Mac (Windows iPhone users, [check out this hack][2]). Despite the technical hurdles, this should be welcome news for users since this was the top pick in our [reader poll of missing iPhone features][3] last month. + +The hack requires the iPhone software restore file from Apple as well as the "jailbreak" program and the iPhoneInterface hack and the instructions top out at nearly 20 steps, but users report that it works and even in the event of failure it's still possible to restore your phone via iTunes. + +That said, proceed at your own risk since there is the, however small, chance that you could end up with the $600 paper weight. + +Also keep in mind that the hack could cease to work at any time, should Apple decide to update the iPhone's firmware. + +Given that you're basically recompiling the iPhone's OS you'll want to make sure you have all the ringtones you want to add all ready to go before you start -- in other words this isn't a drag-and-drop, add-them-as-you-go sort of solution. + +I haven't tested it yet because it requires the dock connector and I'm out of town at the moment, sans docking base, but if you decide to give it try be sure to let us know your experiences in the comments below. + +Here's a teaser video of an iPhone with custom ringtones installed: + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_IcnbqPOao"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F_IcnbqPOao" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://hacktheiphone.com/iphone_ringtone_installation.html "How to add custom ringtones/system sounds (for intel Mac users)" +[2]: http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/custom-ringtones--sounds-on-your-iphone-using-windows "Custom ringtones / sounds on your iPhone using Windows" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/hackers-start-y.html "It's Up To Users To Solve The IPhone's Shortcomings -- Hackers Start Your Engines"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/ibm.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/ibm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b88c7ec --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/ibm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Last week IBM announced that it would be [releasing a public beta of AIX 6.1][2], the next upgrade to the company's Unix-based server OS. The open beta for AIX 6 can be downloaded [directly from IBM][1]. + +The public beta is part of IBM's attempt to bring the open source philosophy to the OS level and, presumably, drum up a little publicity and possible developer interest in the little used AIX OS. + +While the beta is free and available to anyone who accepts the license terms, IBM will not be offering support for the pre-release versions of AIX 6.1. Instead a note on the site directs users to a web forum where they can [discuss issues and possible solutions][3] with fellow users. + +New features in AIX 6 include security and virtualization enhancements. Notable items listed on the IBM page include: + +>* Workload Partitions -- software based, virtualization designed to reduce the number of operating system images that have to be managed when consolidating workloads. +* Role Based Access Control -- improved security and manageability by giving admins greater flexibility when granting user authorization and access controls. +* System Director Console for AIX -- new tool for accessing the System Management Interface via a browser with no web server required. + + +[1]: https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/ibm/aix6beta/ "AIX beta download" +[2]: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/6/beta.html +[3]: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/dw_forum.jsp?forum=1123&cat=72 + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f025ed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0a6d64 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Mon/inviteshare.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Tired of being locked out of the coolest new startup service that everyone is buzzing about? Not the [coolest person at the party][1] anymore? Never fear, [InviteShare][2] is here to help. The new service is community based around sharing private beta invites. + +New startups typically launch in some sort of limited beta invite phase -- they seed out a few invites to friends and then each invite can pass on a few more. That's where InviteShare comes in. + +If you can't get an invite to your favorite beta site, you can register for an account at InviteShare and then browse the site to find various private betas that are being offered. If you need an invite you can add your name to the list. + +If you're one of the beautiful people and you have invites to hand out you can invite the people at the top of each list by clicking on their name. + +While it remains to be seen how the developers working on beta sites feel about this sort of thing, since, cheekiness aside, private betas are often private for a reason -- startups often lack server bandwidth and code may not be stable yet -- at least the early adopter crowd has a resource all their own. + +The site was working fine earlier this morning when I tested it, but I just tried to login and it threw a few server errors, but a couple refreshes got me in. Since InviteShare was Techcrunch and some others presumably the server is a little overwhelmed, just keep trying and it should eventually work. + +[1]: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34917 "Guy At House Party Must Be At Least 32" +[2]: http://www.inviteshare.com/ "InviteShare"
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We've looked and Democracy Player a [couple][2] of [times][3] in the past and come away impressed and the new Miro release continues to build on the solid past of Democracy Player. + +Along with a visual makeover, some new icons and a new channel browsing interface, the first release of Miro features improved keyboard shortcuts for easier use with remote controls as well as a number of bug and stability fixes. + +For a complete list of changes, check out the [Miro blog][1], here's few of the highlights: + + +* Keyboard shortcuts on all platforms. This should allow remote controls to be configured to control Miro. +* Improved system tray functionality on Windows, including a context menu. +* Added a new ‘report a bug’ menu item. +* Adds Veoh.com as a search engine. + +Overall the new Miro continues to build on what Democracy Player started and trumps Joost, at least in terms of application and desktop interface, though Joost does offer more "premium" content if that's your thing. + +Miro is well on its way to becoming my favorite way to grab web-based television content. + +I'm also happy to report that the [issue with hidden .DS_store files][3] showing up in your watched folders on the Mac has been solved. + + + +[1]: http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2007/07/whats-new-in-miro-public-preview-1/ +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/democracy_gets_.html +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/new_watched_fol.html diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro1.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro1.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a68c37 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro1.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro2.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a82951 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/miro2.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/osxworm.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/osxworm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fbb796 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Wed/osxworm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +An anonymous hacker claims to have created a worm that targets Intel versions of Mac OS X. An unidentified researcher, using the moniker [Information Security Sellout][1] claims that s/he has developed the framework of a worm that [exploits a vulnerability in mDNSResponder][2], which is part of Apple's Bonjour network configuring service. + +Apple recently patched mDNSResponder in a security update but InfoSec Sellout claims the patch did not address the flaw that this particular worm is targeting. + +The worm, named Rape.osx by its author, is thus far unreleased and [the author tells ComputerWorld][3] that he will notify Apple of the vulnerability at some point. + +However, as with many others, the author is reportedly tired of claims that OS X is more secure than other operating systems. "I do believe in being responsible and working with vendors," the author tells ComputerWorld, "but I also feel that some vendors need to be treated like children and learn lessons the hard way." + +He goes on to add that "Apple has a very long way to go when dealing with security issues in their products." + +While that's true (and really, what vendor doesn't have a long way to go when it come to security?), given the manner of announcing the worm and lack of details available, the announcement smacks of a bit of Mac fan-boy baiting. + +Still, when and if the exploit is detailed and confirmed, it should serve as a wake-up call to Apple users who missed the last dozen or so wake-up calls -- no operating system is without flaws and vulnerabilities. + +[1]: http://infosecsellout.blogspot.com/ +[2]: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24924 +[3]: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9027216&source=rss_news50
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/iphoneflaw.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/iphoneflaw.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c44f898 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Mon/iphoneflaw.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Iphonebus" title="Iphonebus" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/17/iphonebus.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The New York Times reports that a security firm by the name of Independent Security Evaluators, has found a flaw in Apple's iPhone which allows malicious code to "take control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code." + +[According to the Times][1], this is not a theoretical proof-of-concept, but a working exploit that was demonstrated to the reporter: + +> Dr. Miller, a former employee of the National Security Agency who has a doctorate in computer science, demonstrated the hack to a reporter by using his iPhone’s Web browser to visit a Web site of his own design. + +>Once he was there, the site injected a bit of code into the iPhone that then took over the phone. The phone promptly followed instructions to transmit a set of files to the attacking computer that included recent text messages — including one that had been sent to the reporter's cellphone moments before — as well as telephone contacts and e-mail addresses. + +The exploit appears to take advantage of buffer overflow bug in Safari that has been previously reported to Apple. If the flaw is indeed on the Safari side, it highlights the downside to a phone with a semi-real browser installed on your phone -- it's vulnerable to attack like any other machine. + +There's no need to junk the iPhone, but users should play it safe until Apple offers a fix. Take the same precautions you would in a desktop environment such as only visiting sites you trust, only using WiFi networks you trust and avoid opening web links from e-mails. + +More details on the vulnerability can be found at [exploitingiphone.com][2] (which currently still redirects to another site, but should be live later today). Independent Security Evaluators says they have notified Apple and even proposed a fix. The exploit will be demonstrated at the upcoming BlackHat conference on Aug. 2nd. + + + +[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?ex=1342843200&en=36460b41095f0664&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss +[2]: http://www.exploitingiphone.com/
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Although it's bright green and white design screams looks like some demented cross between an early iMac and a Fisher Price toy, the machine boasts some impressive specs. + +The primary area in which in XO may change our expectations for even the most high-end computers is power consumption. + +Although I haven't personally used an XO, Jim Rapoza of eWeek recently sat down with one at the OLPC offices and came away impressed: + +>Put simply, the XO is one of the most revolutionary computer systems that I've seen in some time. The entire time I was looking at the XO, I was thinking, why can't my new expensive laptop do this? The technologies that the OLPC's XO are introducing could go a long way towards changing the face of future systems, especially in the area of power consumption. + +Typically, when idling, today's computers use around 14 watts of energy (that's the maximum allowed by the Energy Star requirements). The XO on the other hand uses just 1 watt when idling. + +To pull that off the OLPC team used a very low power display, which somehow still manages to be bright and full color and offers a black and white mode when used in direct sunlight. + +The battery life is also impressive. The XO can use two different batteries, the traditional nickel metal hydride or a newer design which relies on lithium iron phosphate. Because the XO uses an average of just 2 watts and the battery boasts a 20 watt hour charge, the XO can go for 10 hours on a single charge. + +A third standout area for the XO is another battery drainer -- wifi. But thanks to the "wireless mesh" technology (the "rabbit ear" antennas you've seen on the sides of the XO's screen) in the XO, the wireless connection draws just .8 watts of power. + +And then there's the software. The XO runs Sugar, a variant of Fedora Linux optimized for simple applications and learning games. + +While some aspects of the interface strike me as overly simplistic, even for children (in my experience kids are quite adept at learning to use computers and don't need a dumbed down interface with huge icons), there are some novel approaches as well. + +The most interesting of the applications mentioned in Rapoza's review is the "Journal" app, which essentially replaces your standard hierarchical file browser. Rather than folders, Journal allows for tag and even temporal organization and navigation. + +Journal tracks and tags your file and application habits based on time. And while it boast some standard stuff like tag-based navigation, it also allows for time-based navigation -- did you write something interesting on Tuesday, but don't remember where you saved it? Just jump back to the Tuesday group and there it is, ready to go. + +Intriguing to say the least. I highly recommend giving Rapoza's review a read and while it may seem an unlikely source given its emphasis on children, we'd love to hear your thoughts about ways the XO might change the game for laptops. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0e2fcd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..595eed3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.23.07/Wed/wesabe.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Wesabe, the personal finance tracking site has [launched a toolbar extension][2] for Firefox users. The Firefox extension makes adding and updating your Wesabe account much easier and will do background syncs any time you use Firefox and are logged in through the toolbar. + +We [looked at Wesabe][1] last year when it launched and came away fans of the money management site, in spite of our lack of money to manage. + +And the new [Firefox toolbar][3] makes the site even easier to use. Rather impressive are the options for getting your back account to send data to Wesabe. According the video below, Wesabe records and stores a small script to grab your bank data if you bank doesn't offer an easy way to export. + +Since the vast vast majority of banking sites are antiquated pieces of crap, this means you can effectively stop using them. For instance I have a credit card at a bank that insists I use Internet Explorer despite the fact the it isn't even offered on the OS I use. + +As for security, if you trust the site, the toolbar isn't adding anything to the mix that the site doesn't already do and if you're really curious, the toolbar is open source so you can peak at the code if you like. + +The demo video below gives a nice overview of the toolbars main features: + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/w7av7jUoCfU"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/w7av7jUoCfU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/wesabe_is_new_c.html +[2]: http://blog.wesabe.com/index.php/2007/07/25/the-wesabe-firefox-uploader/ +[3]: https://www.wesabe.com/page/firefox
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Unless they have a Facebook account, they can't see it. Your videos, pictures and all the other tidbits of your life are essentially stranded and cut off from the rest of the web. + +Some social networking companies are challenging the closed Facebook model by offering open platforms where data such as personal contacts, videos and photos can be exported and used elsewhere. + +On Monday, the contact management service Plaxo launched a new social network called Pulse. The service gives Plaxo users a way to manage their interpersonal relationships and show off their interests on a customizable profile page. + +In a sense, Pulse offers the same all-your-data-in-one-place approach of Facebook, but with one crucial difference: It's not walled off. Anything you input directly using Plaxo can be retrieved and used elsewhere as you see fit, and any data you make public is accessible to anyone, regardless of whether or not they have an account. The service is rather limited at the moment, but it's a step in the right direction. + +Also, Pulse is no panacea. What the internet needs is a way to take the features of the social network out of the social network and into the larger world. Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion potential viewers. It's time to take our data out of Mr. McGregor's little garden and put it back where it belongs -- growing free and open on the open web. + +An open platform for social networking is on the horizon. In fact, we're closer than ever before to being able to ditch the locked-in, closed network for good. + +With a little savvy, anyone can create a page that hosts all of the essential stuff one would find on a Facebook profile that can be set up with the same plug-and-play ease. You'll have to store all of your photos, videos, and contacts elsewhere, but at least you'll be able to get to your stuff. + +Start by setting up a blog. Say what's on your mind. Unlike your blog on Facebook or MySpace, everyone will be able to read it. + +From there, you can pull in your photos from Flickr or Zooomr, show off your impeccible musical tastes hosted at iLike or Last.fm, share your favorite web bookmarks from del.icio.us or ma.gnolia and put up a list of your most recent reads using Shelfari or LibraryThing. + +All of these servies have open APIs, making it easy for third-party developers to build widgets for displaying public data stored there. As a result, a dearth of such tools exist. + +Need to keep up to date with your friend's activities? Pull in a feed from their blog or from their Twitter page. The Upcoming event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a widget listing all of the events you plan to attend, as well as those your friends are interested in. Like to chat? Meebo offers an embeddable widget for AIM chatting, and Jaxtr does the same for SMS. You can even drop in a Skype button that lets your friends call you with one click. + +One of Facebook's unique features is the "everything in one place" feed, but you can build such a thing yourself. Just create an account at one of the many feed re-mixing sites like Yahoo Pipes, FeedShake or >FeedBlendr. Plug in all the feeds from the various sources you want to track and paste the resulting URL into a widget on your site. Voila. + +The free blogging software from WordPress has all of the functionality to let you embed these widgets and RSS streams. WordPress also has a thriving plug-in ecosystem, so it's likely a developer somewhere has done much of the dirty work for you. + +An even easier option is to use a sharable and customizable start page from Pageflakes or Protopage. Pageflakes in particular allows you to build a customized chunk of cyberspace that aggregates all of your desired content just like Facebook, which you can then publish publicly (Pageflakes calls this a "Pagecast"). And beyond a simple user registration, Pageflakes doesn't lock in any of your personal data. + +It's entirely possible to replicate most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into its black hole, but there's still something missing. This is where it gets tricky. + +At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet. The absence of this secret sauce -- an underlying framework that connects "friends" and establishes trust relationships between peers -- is what gave rise to social networks in the first place. While we've largely outgrown the limitations of closed platforms, no one has stepped forward with an open solution to managing your friends on internet at large. + +We would like to place an open call to the web programming community to solve this problem. We need a new framework based on open standards. Think of it as a structure to link individuals sites along familiar lines of friendship, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web. + +One possibility is the microformat XHTML Friends Network (XFN) which defines the relationship between the linker and the linkee. + +Some developers are beginning to offer easy-to-use tools which can create XFN code (WordPress and Movable Type both offer templating solutions), but use of XFN isn't yet widespread, and the data format doesn't offer any tools for managing friends. While a code snippet placed in a page can convey who you are and how you know who you know, the format doen't provide any way to utilize the information. + +Such a "mirco-network" standard may sound daunting or even impossible, but nearly all the tools we've mentioned so far started small. Blogging grew from a few people trying to easily publish web content on a daily basis. Del.icio.us started with one person looking for a way to manage his bookmarks from any machine. Even Facebook started with a few college friends trying to better plan their social lives. + +Eventually, an open network will emerge. Let's make it happen sooner rather than later. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28b34f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Plaxo is set to officially launch its new social networking tools, dubbed "Pulse," on Monday, August 6th. With Pulse Plaxo would appear to be gunning for Facebook's all-your-data-in-one-spot status. We looked at the beta version Pulse last month and [found it a bit unstable][1], but one thing Plaxo has going for it that Facebook lacks is openness. + +Plaxo will offer export options for all your data, contrasted with Facebook's so-called API, which really amounts to sending your data on a one-way trip over the event horizon. + +Other than the ability to export and use your data elsewhere, Plaxo's new networking features closely mirror those of Facebook -- you can add various data streams, such as blog posts, Flickr photos or Amazon Wishlists. Hopefully Plaxo will add more services before Monday's launch. + +Like Facebook you can then see your friends’ streams on the site and subscribe to their feeds. + +But despite its openness Plaxo's service is no panacea for those fed up with Facebook's walled garden; the company is still dogged by its reputation for annoying spamming users and many will likely shun the new network on that basis alone. + +There's a beta test version of Pulse up on Plaxo right now, but it has some issues and number of bugs (Google Calendar sync has been disabled), which will hopefully be worked out before Monday's launch. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/plaxo-one-pim-a.html
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/Google.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/Google.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7e42f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/Google.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Google could be rolling out some form of copyright detection for YouTube as early as next month. The release timeline comes from one of Google's attorney's who is defending the company against Viacom's $1 billion [copyright infringement lawsuit][2] against YouTube. + +In pretrial hearing Google's attorney told the judge that the company was working "very intensely" on a video recognition technology and hoped to release it sometime in September. + +The AP [reports][1] that the technology in question has been described as a means of fingerprinting digital files, supposedly as "sophisticated as fingerprint technology used by the FBI." + +However Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has previously said that the copyright protection technology for YouTube would **not** be designed to filter out and block pirated content, rather it would "somewhat automate" the process by which content owners can flag illegally copied videos. + +So has Google changed its plans for the filtering service? At this point no one outside Google knows for sure, but it certainly sound like what the lawyer described would be capable of blocking uploads. + +When asked for a comment, a Google spokesperson backed off the September release date saying, "we hope to have the testing completed and technology available by some time in the fall, but this is one of the most technologically complicated tasks that we have ever undertaken, and as always with cutting-edge technologies, it's difficult to forecast specific launch dates." + +[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/Google-plans-YouTube-antipiracy-tool-for-September_1.html +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/the_morning_reb_5.html
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/appletv.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/appletv.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5727b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Mon/appletv.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Amid all the hype over the iPhone, the AppleTV hasn't generated much press lately, but that doesn't mean the hackers haven't been busy. AppleTVHacks finally published a patch over the weekend that allows AppleTV users to hook up an external drive for storage. + +One of the chief complaints about the AppleTV was its lack of hard drive storage, originally the AppleTv shipped with a paltry 40 GB, though Apple has since added a built-to-order option with a 160 GB drive. + +Still, before the AppleTV becomes a viable option for HD movies and other large media files, it's going to need external storage options, and that's exactly what [the USB patch does][1]. There are of course some caveats, for one thing the patch only seems to work with the original software, rather than the newer Apple TV software version 1.1. + +To get things working you'll need: + + +<ul> +<li><em>An ssh-enabled Apple TV</em>. If you don’t have that enabled yet, you can refer to this <a href="http://appletvhacks.net/2007/03/24/enable-ssh-and-afp-on-your-apple-tv/">post</a> to get it enabled. For instructions on how to enable ssh without opening the case, refer to this <a href="http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Enable_SSH_Without_Opening_the_Apple_TV">wiki page</a>.</li> +<li><em>An Intel-Mac or Intel-based *nix</em>. This is needed to run the script to patch the kernel on the Apple TV remotely. It maybe possible to run the install script under Windows using <a href="http://cygwin.com">cygwin</a>. However, we have not tried this.</li> +<li><em>An installed version of Mac OS X 10.4 Intel</em>. Or a full copy of the contents of the “/System/Library/Extensions” folder from one.</li> +<li><em>An original, unmodified copy of the ‘mach_kernel.prelink’ file from the Apple TV</em>. If the kernel on your Apple TV has not been modified yet, you can just tell the script to get it from there. Otherwise, you can obtain the file from Apple TV Software 1.1 update available <a href="http://mesu.apple.com/data/OS/061-2988.20070620.bHy75/2Z694-5248-45.dmg">here</a>.</li> +<li><em>An external USB drive formatted using “Journaled HFS+”.</em> This is the format the Apple TV expects.</li> +</ul> + +For complete step-by-step instructions head over to AppleTVHacks. And if you'd like to help adapt and modify the patch to work with Apple TV software 1.1, the folks behind AppleTVHacks would [appreciate the helping hand][2]. + +[1]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/28/usb-patch-released-hallelujah/ +[2]: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/07/29/usb-patch-2-days-later/
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The result is a very nice Flash app that displays the status of each e-mail by the size, shape and velocity of microbes. + +The project is part of Horn's MFA thesis "Natural Metaphor For Information Visuzalization." Here's how she explains the project: + +>The emails are categorized in six person groups: family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, and spam. For example, all emails I have received from my advisors and fellow students are in the category school. These categories are represented by six species, which are different in color and form. For instance, all received emails from school are blue and look a bit like croissants. + +>How an animal looks and moves depends on the condition of the represented email. The age of an email (when it was received) is shown by the size and opacity of the animal. For instance, a new email is big and opaque, an old email small and transparent. The status of an email (unread, read, responded) is shown by two animal attributes: the number of hair/feet and velocity. An unread email is hairy and swims fast; a read email has less hair and does not swim so fast anymore; a responded email is hairless and barely moves. + +"An unread email is hairy and swims fast." Indeed. Which is why we recommend you [get a handle on your e-mail][2] before you end up in bed with some nasty bug. + +The project code was written by Florian Jenett and it's [available for download][4] if you'd like to play around with it. + +[via Waxy][3]] + +[3]: http://www.waxy.org/links/ +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tips-to-curb-yo.html +[1]: http://carohorn.de/anymails/ +[4]: http://carohorn.de/anymails/Anymails_010_20070801.zip + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadget.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadget.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb7bf26 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadget.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Gadget Lab is running a March Madness-style tournament to determine the "[Greatest Gadget of All Time][1]." The results won't be tallied until next week, and they've got a great little Flash-interface for the voting, head over and cast yours today. + +Some of the match-ups are bit lopsided (The Sony Walkman versus Mr. Coffee, I mean I like coffee and all, but come on) but it's fun anyway. I expect the iPod to come out on top in the end, or at least in the top three, but then again, it's up against some impressive stuff like the Fender Telecaster and the original Mac Plus -- without which there might not be much use for an iPod. + +Personal pick? The Bic Cristal Ballpoint Pen. + + + + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2007/gadget_tournament/ + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadgets.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadgets.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5dac3c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/gadgets.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/hdphoto.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/hdphoto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9697ca3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Thu/hdphoto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +The JPEG standards group announced today it will consider Microsoft's HD Photo format (also known as Windows Media Photo) as a possible successor to the JPEG standard. If the Microsoft format is approved, it will be renamed JPG XR. + +Geared toward the digital photography market, Microsoft's HD Photo offers a number of advantages over the existing JPEG format, including lossless compression, support for embedded color profiles and the ability to manipulate the compressed data directly. + +Another format, JPEG2000 is also under consideration, but Microsoft claims its format offers speed and size advantages over JPEG2000. + +As part of the submission, Microsoft has also said it will release royalty free versions of all the patents required by HD Photo, should it be approved. + +The JPEG standard committee will make its decision by the end October. Should it be approved HD Photo will probably be published as a completed standard within roughly a year. + +[via [Ars Technica][1]] + +[1]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070801-microsoft-hd-photo-considered-for-standardization-by-jpeg-committee.html
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And the new SkyDrive isn't just about the name change, there's also a revamped UI and some new features as well. Among the changes are support for drag-and-drop file uploads to ease batch transfers, the addition of a "Also on SkyDrive" which shows the folders of other Skydrive users that you've browsed and a new embed option for sharing files on your blog or website -- similar in function to Zoho's new Viewer, which we [reviewed yesterday][4]. + +But SkyDrive isn't really a Zoho Viewer competitor, rather it competes with the likes of Omnidrive, box.net, Google's [new paid options][3] and others in what is already a crowded market. + +As with similar services your account offers public and private folders for storing and sharing and you can also set read/write permissions for folders so other users can upload docs to your account. + +Microsoft describes the service as "a personal hard drive on the internet," but at 500 MB, hard drive isn't exactly the image that comes to mind. Which is too bad because otherwise the service is quite nice, easy-to-use and integrated with your Windows Live account. + +There's also the chance that, at some point, Microsoft will offer an option for Windows users to automatically backup key documents ala the .Mac services from Apple. + +However, until Microsoft adds some more compelling features to the mix, the current storage space limitations make SkyDrive a bit of a cripple in the field -- you're probably better off with other similar, more generous services. + +For more info on how SkyDrive works here's a demo video from Brandon LeBlanc at the Windows Vista Blog: + +<embed src="http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" quality="high" width="432" height="364" wmode="transparent" name="msn_soapbox" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="c=v&v=1e598918-03f0-4a3b-a2d4-a2adb33694f5"></embed> + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/microsoft-ramps.html +[2]: http://skydriveteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!977F793E846B3C96!124.entry +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/ +[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/zoho-viewer-spa.html + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a47f66 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imov.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9599f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Fri/imovie.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Apple's recently announced iMovie '08, part of the [new iLife suite][2], features a radical redesign of a very popular program. In fact, it's not so much a re-write as a completely different program. + +Naturally not everyone is going to be pleased with the new iMovie, which Apple seems to have anticipated. To avoid creating panic among users, the company has made the previous version of iMovie, iMovie 6 HD, [available as a free download][1]. + +In addition, when you install iLife '08, rather than overwriting your existing copy of iMovie, it will be moved to a folder named "iMovie (previous version)." + +Of course there will likely be little or no future for the old version of iMovie, but at least you can upgrade to '08 without fear of losing your existing app (note that this is not true for iDVD or iPhoto which will be overwritten by the update). + +As for what changed in iMovie, the main thing that may bother existing users is the absence of the traditional timeline for arranging clips. There are also major changes to how music and other auxiliary files and clips are edited. + +On the plus side iMovie '08 does have some nice new features including the ability to mix and match video formats and resolutions and support for the AVCHD format used by those hot new hard disk camcorders. + +And I should note that the iMovie 6 download is free to anyone, so even if you never upgraded from earlier version you can now grab it and take advantage of the HD support and other improvements over iMovie 5 and earlier. + +[1]: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/apple-debuts-il.html
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/facebookredux.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/facebookredux.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..894cd55 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/facebookredux.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +This morning's article on Facebook versus an open network has generated a fair bit of [discussion][3] [around the web][4] with some [good ideas][5] and [suggestions][6]. To follow up I thought I'd pull in a few comments and point out a couple misconceptions. + +First off, in suggesting that Facebook ought to open up its data to the world I did not mean to imply an either/or distinction. A number of commenters on Wired, [Slashdot][2] and elsewhere seem to think that we're arguing that all your data should be public. + +That's not the case. + +Rather, we think there needs to be an open way of managing friends on the web at large so that you can replicate the privacy controls of Facebook, on any public page. + +Given that Facebook only has three privacy settings, that doesn't seem like it would be hard to accomplish. The best ideas I've seen would involve some combination of OpenID, FOAF and perhaps microformats. + +One of the more thoughtful responses I've seen comes from Dare Obasanjo, a Program Manager at Microsoft, who [points out that "open" means different things to different people][1]. He then lists four things that those of us looking for an open social network typically complain about: + + +>* Content Hosted on the Site Not Viewable By the General Public and not Indexed by Search Engines: +* Inability to Export My Content from the Social Network: +* Full APIs for Extracting and Creating Content on the Social Network +* Being able to Interact with People from Different Social Networks from Your Preferred Social Network + +Building on Dare's ideas, here is what, to my thinking, ought to be goals of a true open social network protocol: + +>* Content access controls. The ability to make some content visible to everyone and at the same time reserve other parts of content only for those visitors I've designated as "friends." To some degree you could do this with OpenID, but OpenID still hasn't reached critical mass. +* Cross interaction for existing Social Networks. Got friends defined on MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and a ton of other sites? Any good solution to this problem will not require you to redefine your relationship, it will incorporate you existing data while providing a way to define new friends without resort to a social network. + + +The ability to export data or use an API are moot points because there would be no centralized site from which you need to grab your data. + +Also, there were a couple of things deemed too nerdy for the general Wired audience which I think might interest Compiler readers. First off, the how-to part glosses over the logistics of attempting to build a Facebook-like page on your own. + +Frameworks like Django and Ruby on Rails are both quite good for this sort of thing. I'll readily admit my ignorance to specifics of Rails, but I know a number of people are starting the release Django apps that are geared toward aggregating data from various social sites. + +One standout example of this is Jeff Croft's site, particularly his ["lifestream"][7] section (the name may be a little cheesy, but the functionality of it is impressive). Jeff pulls in data from Flickr, Ma.gnolia, Upcoming and some other services and integrates them into his site -- and if you read some of his blog entries you'll learn that he's got all the data in his own database. + +The missing link is of course a way for the site to recognize "friends" and show specific content to specific people. + +Perhaps some folks more familiar with Rails could chime in the comments with some suggestions for the DIYers. + +[1]: http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2007/08/06/SomeThoughtsOnOpenSocialNetworks.aspx +[2]: http://slashdot.org/articles/07/08/06/1427214.shtml +[3]: http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/08/give-it-time-facebook-will-open/ +[4]: http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/08/06/not-so-opened-social-networks/ +[5]: http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/mashable-supports-the-open-friends-format-off/ +[6]: http://www.centernetworks.com/open-your-social-network-or-face-wireds-wrath +[7]: http://www2.jeffcroft.com/stream/
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/trans.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/trans.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e4d273 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/trans.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<img alt="Transicon" title="Transicon" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/19/transicon.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The folks behind Transmission, an open source torrent client, have just released a new version. The [new version is available][1] for nearly all the platforms Transmission supports -- namely Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD. Transmission may well be the only torrent client in existence for the now abandoned BeOS, but the version is not part of the update. + +The new version of Transmission features some much requested features including the ability to selectively download and prioritize files within torrents and new torrent creation tools. Missing from this upgrade are encryption tools, but the rumors in the [Transmission forums][2] are that encryption will arrive with the next revision. + + +Other general fixes/improvements in this version include: + +>* Speed and CPU load improvements +* Fix to UPnP +* Rechecking torrents is now done one-at-a-time to avoid heavy disk load +* Better rechecking of torrents that have many files +* Many miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes +* Partial licensing change + +In addition to those there are also some changes specific to the Mac client: + +>* Overlay when dragging torrent files, URLs, and data files onto window +* Ability to set an amount of time to consider a transfer stalled +* More progress bar colors +* Various smaller interface improvements +* Italian, Korean, and Russian translations + +One word of caution for those looking to upgrade: **complete your existing downloads before upgrading or you will lose data**. + +Actually, I tested that all-caps warning for you and nothing of the sort happened to me. All my existing torrents reloaded just as they were, but considering the all-caps, bold warning on the download page, you might be better off heeding it. + +Transmission remains my favorite Mac torrent client and the new features are great -- particularly the selective download files which allows you to grab a torrent like the SXSW music sampler and only download the few songs your actually want. + +You can grab the update [straight from the Transmission site][3] or existing users will be prompted to upgrade from within the application. + +[1]: http://transmission.m0k.org/index.php +[2]: http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/ +[3]: http://transmission.m0k.org/download.php
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At the moment the site times out for most requests, probably due to the massive amount of press and inbound links the release has generated. + +With a bit of patience you might be able to get the site to load, or bookmark it for later because Spock already has the gushers gushing. + +Like Wink and other people-oriented search sites, Spock isn't so much interested in documents about people, as you would get when searching Google, but the actual people themselves. Spock's spiders attempt to crawl the net and then its algorithms aggregate all the data about you into one spot. + +The result, in those cases where Spock makes a correct match, are simultaneously impressive -- a complete portrait of your total web presence -- and thoroughly creepy. When Spock was first announced earlier this year a number of people snickered that *stalk* would be a better name. + +But the truth is, that's killing messenger. All the data Spock crawls is already out there, but you may be in for a shock the first time you see it all in one place. + +Pulling data from social networks -- MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others -- Spock then condenses and extracts what it considers the most important information about you -- namely your occupation and age, though depending on what you've listed on your various accounts, it may have even more details. + +From the search results profiles you can then click through to vote for whether or not the information is correct, click through the relevant page or add tags to people. Just about anyone can edit information on just about any entry. + +If you sign up for Spock, you can claim and manage your own entry or create one if Spock doesn't yet know about you. + +Aside from the slow servers, Spock looks as though it might be genuinely useful -- if nothing else it might serve as a wake call for those who don't realize how little privacy they have left themselves. + +[1]: http://www.spock.com/ diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5af282e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/streetviews.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51f2603 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Wed/zillafuzzy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Mozilla recently announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that it would [release a series of security tools][3], known as fuzzers, which have previously only been used internally, to the internet at large. + +The move is designed to give outside hackers easier ways to test for security flaws in Firefox and other web browsers. Fuzzers are tools that poke, prod and sometimes outright attack a piece of software to test its robustness and identify potential vulnerabilities. + +Mozilla has thus far released a [Javascript fuzzer][2] and already Claudio Santambrogio of Opera Software [reports][3] that, using the new tool, Opera was able to find four bugs "one of which might have some security implications." + +For those concerned that these tools might be used in the wrong way by some, Mozilla says that it has worked with Microsoft, Apple, and Opera to make sure they were okay with the release. "All of these browser vendors reviewed the tool and let us know that they were okay with the release," says the Mozilla blog. + +The truth is, the really nefarious crackers have their own fuzzers anyway and, as the Opera announcement testifies, these tools are far more likely to help end-users in the form of patches than cause problems. + +[1]: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2007/08/02/javascript-fuzzer-available/ +[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=jsfunfuzz +[3]: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2007/08/03/fun-with-the-fuzzer diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Fri/skype.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Fri/skype.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13fbf96 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.13.07/Fri/skype.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Yesterday, while testing the new Skype of Mac beta, we noticed that the service was experiencing some server problems and the Skype posted a note admitting as much and claiming the issue would be resolved in twenty-four hours. + +While Skype isn't completely back up for all users, it appears that a significant portion of the network is back up and running, though what went wrong is still a little unclear. + +Yesterday, George Ou at ZDNet posted a [message][4] from Valery Marchuk of SecurityLab.ru which claimed that a code exploit published by an anonymous user could have been the culprit in the Skype outage, a charge Skype denies. + +There's a new note up on the Skype "Heartbeat" page [which reads][2]: + +>Apologies for the delay, but we can now update you on the Skype sign-on issue. As we continue to work hard at resolving the problem, we wanted to dispel some of the concerns that you may have. The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen. This problem occurred because of a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software. This controls the interaction between the user’s own Skype client and the rest of the Skype network. + +Although Skype has [not responded][3] to most media inquires, Skype representatives [tell the New York Times][1]: "This problem occurred because of a deficiency in an algorithm within Skype networking software. This controls the interaction between the user's own Skype client and the rest of the Skype network." + +They also went on to say that the service may not be fully restored for a little while. "There is a chance this could go on beyond tomorrow, but it’s our hope that it’s going to be resolved," said Kurt Sauer, Skype’s chief security officer. + +Apparently Skype knows what the problem is, but can't seem to find a way to fix it. So far the outage has affected an estimated 220 million users. + +[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/business/17ebay.html?ex=1345003200&en=cccaa6da8a8347fb&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss +[2]: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/the_latest_on_the_skype_signon.html +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/skype-wont-comm.html +[4]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=683
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Will there be a link to "Google Health" at the top of the company's home page? According to the Times, the project is still an internal prototype and unlikely to be available even as a beta for some time. + +The article does, however, offer a tantalizing glimpse at what Google Health could look like: + +>A presentation of screen images from the prototype — which two people who received it showed to a reporter — then has 17 other Web pages including a "health profile" for medications, conditions and allergies; a personalized "health guide" for suggested treatments, drug interactions and diet and exercise regimens; pages for receiving reminder messages to get prescription refills or visit a doctor; and directories of nearby doctors. + +>Google executives would not comment on the prototype, other than to say the company plans to experiment and see what people want. "We'll make mistakes and it will be a long-range march," said Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering and leader of the health team. "But it's also true that some of what we're doing is expensive, and for Google it's not." + +Also worth noting in the Times piece is the way that the web has already changed how many of us approach health care. Of particular interest is the future-of-health-care portrait painted by John D. Halamka, a doctor and the chief information officer of the Harvard Medical School, who sees the future of health care on the web. + +With more and more people using [WebMD][1] or Google to research symptoms before they see a professional, Halamka tells the Times that "the doctor is becoming a knowledge navigator... in the future, health care will be a much more collaborative process between patients and doctors." + +And that image probably won't be limited to your symptoms, but may well extend to patient records. "Patients will ultimately be the stewards of their own information," says Halamka who believes that eventually we will control our records rather than the institutions that provide the care. + +Halamka's vision might be a bit utopian given the nature of the health care industry and it also raises some additional questions -- who hosts the records? And do you want Microsoft or Google in on the management of your health history? + +[via [Google Operating System][2]] + +[1]: http://www.webmd.com/ +[2]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-health-prototype.html
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Torvalds is never one to shy from bold statements, in fact in the interview he mentions that he like "making strong statements, because I find the discussion interesting." + +But surprisingly this interview is fairly tame, with the notable exception of the discussion around the GPL v3 which Linus doesn't seem to like, saying "in the absence of the GPLv2, I could see myself using the GPLv3. But since I have a better choice, why should I?" + +However, despite a shortage of fireworks, the interview is a nice peak behind the scenes of kernel development and the Linux community in general. Here's some brief excerpts of some more notable questions, though I would encourage readers to click through and read them in context as well. + +>Q: Linux is free of cost and secure; yet, it has failed to become popular among desktop users. What are the reasons behind this? And what are your suggestions to make Linux more popular among the masses? + +Linus: I think that's just mainly an issue of inertia. It's really hard to make people change their behavior, and you shouldn't expect it to happen overnight. Linux has made huge inroads over the years, and if I actually think back how things were ten years ago -- where we are today is just incredible. And I think that will continue, just because open source really ends up being good for everybody. + +So I think a lot of it ends up being about education, in the sense of making people aware of the choices, and while that won't necessarily make people change on its own, it means that eventually they, at least, won't be afraid of Linux (because they've heard of it), and they might try it. And no, not everybody will be ready to switch, but I think we've seen that a lot of people do end up enjoying the advantages of open source. + +>Q: Is having so many distros a good or bad idea? Choice is fine, but one does not need to be pampered with choices. Instead of so many man hours being spent in building hundreds of distros, wouldn't it be easier to get into the enterprise and take on the MS challenge if people could come together and support fewer distros (1 for each use maybe)? What's your view on that? + +Linus: I think having multiple distros is an inevitable part of open source. And can it be confusing? Sure. Can it be inefficient? Yes. But I'd just like to compare it to politics: 'democracy' has all those confusing choices, and often none of the choices is necessarily what you 'really' want either, and sometimes you might feel like things would be smoother and more efficient if you didn't have to worry about the whole confusion of voting, different parties, coalitions, etc. + +But in the end, choice may be inefficient, but it's also what keeps everybody involved at least 'somewhat' honest. We all probably wish our politicians were more honest than they are, and we all probably wish that the different distros sometimes made other choices than they do, but without that choice, we'd be worse off. + +Q: ''Is this what computers have become,'' is the famous question Nokia has started asking in its N-series campaign. Is there any technology roadmap to make Linux rule the market of the next wave of computing devices, i.e., handhelds and mobiles? + +Linus: I do think that if there is something that will displace the traditional desktop computer, it will be mobile computing. Whether it will be just laptops (still the same basic architecture, just mobile), or the smaller handheld that will take over, I don't know. + +But it's definitely an area where Linux has the undeniable advantage of scaling across a much wider spectrum than any other operating system (i.e., Linux is on about 75 per cent of the top-500 supercomputers at the same time as it's being used by Nokia and Motorola in a cell phone form factor). + + +Q: The soon to be released Windows Longhorn is touted to be Microsoft's answer to the Linux threat, as Windows NT was for Novell in the 90s. Are there any improvements planned in Linux, keeping the technology advancements of Longhorn in mind? + +Linus: I actually don't worry about MS at all. Their strength is in their marketing, and in the (obvious) market share they have. They've never been all that interesting from a 'technical' angle. And since all I personally care about is the technology, I don't end up being all that interested in what MS does. + + + +Q: What do you think about Microsoft's efforts to sign cross-licensing deals with Linux distros like Novell, Xandros and Linspire? How is this going to affect the development of the kernel? + +Linus: I don't really have a hugely strong opinion on it. Business is business, and I don't get involved with it; I worry about the technology. Yes, software patents are certainly worrisome, but I also tend to think that people just overreact a bit whenever MS is involved, and that some of the shrill reactions on the Internet have been a bit over the top. + +Let's see what happens. + + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Mon/skype.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Mon/skype.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f0174d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Mon/skype.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Skype is finally back online after a massive two-day outage which began on Thursday, August 16th and rendered the VoIP service useless for an estimated 220 million users. As we [reported on Friday][1], Skype has denied charges that the outage was the result of an attack, but the company delayed an official explanation until today. + +According to Skype the outage was caused by a massive number of users restarting their machines, which flooded the Skype network with login requests. Skype blames the restarts on Windows Update, presumably large numbers of users rebooting after installing this month's "Patch Tuesday" [Windows patches][2]. + +However, while the restarts may have triggered the problem, they were not in fact the problem. The issue that caused to outage was Skype's own software. According to a [statement on the Skype blog][3]: + +>The high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources. This caused a flood of log-in requests, which, combined with the lack of peer-to-peer network resources, prompted a chain reaction that had a critical impact. + +>Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly. Regrettably, as a result of this disruption, Skype was unavailable to the majority of its users for approximately two days. + +Skype has apologized for the outage, but it remains to be seen how the disruption will effect user's faith in the service. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/skype-outage-bl.html +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/patch-tuesday-m.html +[3]: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html
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Google Earth has [unveiled][4] a new feature dubbed Google Sky, that brings constellations, star maps, Hubble telescope imagery and more. + +The new layers can be found in the latest version of Google Earth where you'll see a new button "Switch between Sky and Earth" in the toolbar. + +Sky layers are listed in the left side menu and include options like, Constellations, Backyard Astronomy, Hubble Showcase, The Moon, The Planets, User's Guide to Galaxies and Life of a Star. There's even some animations of planetary orbits. + +All in all the new Google Sky in an astounding amount of data packed into an easy to navigate interface -- well worth upgrading the Google Earth 4.2. + +But Google Earth doesn't have its head entirely in the clouds, there's two other noteworthy new layers. The first is Google Books, which mines the Google Books project data for geographical references and overlays Google Earth with little book icons which bring up the quotes and citation information. + +The [Google Lat Long Blog][2] describes it thusly: + +>For example, let's say that you're interested in Detroit, Michigan. After flying there in Google Earth, you'll find that one of the book icons is for "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson." Clicking on the book icon brings up the pop-up balloon with the following text snippet: + +>"With respect to the unfor-tunate loss of Detroit and our army, I with pleasure see the animation it has inspired through our whole country, ..." + +Regrettably, due to an overlap in place-names between the U.S. in Europe many of the books included clearly aren't referring to the areas Google's algorithms think they are (see screenshot below). + +But wait, that's not all. There's also a new [live traffic overlay][5] which draw on the same data used in Google Maps [recently unveiled traffic features][1]. Once you’ve turned on the traffic overlays, you'll have links to real-time traffic and conditions in select cities. + +Both the books and traffic overlays are available in previous versions of Google Earth, but for the Google Sky features you'll need to upgrade to the latest version. + + + + +[2]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-book-search-in-google-earth.html +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/google_maps_add.html +[4]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/earthsky_20070822.html +[5]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/real-time-traffic-in-google-earth.html diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthbooks.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthbooks.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..75978d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthbooks.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthtraffic.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthtraffic.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..06f75ed --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gearthtraffic.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gmapsembed.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gmapsembed.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae8b11a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gmapsembed.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gsky.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gsky.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..404ed0f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/gsky.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iPhone.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iPhone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2aadd0b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iPhone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The iPhone has received another small update, which brings the current software up to version 1.0.2. The latest update includes in the illuminating words of Apple: "Bug Fixes." No further details are available. + +To update just connect your iPhone and fire up iTunes which will offer to download and install the new software. + +But keep in mind that, as with the previous update, v1.0.2 validates the current iPhone software, which means if you've installed any cool hacks you'll be forced to do a complete restore, wiping out the hacked functions. On the bright side all the hacks seem to still function, which means Apple isn't actively blocking them, at least so far. + +Another gotcha to watch out for -- make sure you download or otherwise back up any images you've taken with the iPhone's camera before you restore otherwise they'll be lost. + +As for what the update does, no one seems to have identified anything noteworthy, which may well be why Apple hasn't said anything. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iphoneupdate.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iphoneupdate.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b501e36 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/iphoneupdate.jpg diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/mapsembed.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/mapsembed.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3751895 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.20.07/Wed/mapsembed.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Google Maps is now offering some YouTube-style embed code which finally gives non-programmers an easy way to add maps to nearly any webpage. The [new code][1] can be found under the "Link to this page" option at the top of any map on the site. + +The resulting map is fully interactive with pan and zoom controls as well as map, satellite and hybrid view options. Each embedded map also contains a link back to the original Google Maps page. The embedded maps can be customized to any size and if you have markers on your map, they will show up in the embedded version as well. + +The only catch is that the Google Maps code uses an iFrame to load content which doesn't work on nearly as many sites as YouTube's Flash embed code. Many hosted pages -- like MySpace -- often don't allow content that use iframes, which means this new embed code isn't going to help you. + +Still, for many, this opens up a whole new way to use maps. Previously embedding Google maps in your page required some programming skills and you needed to register for an API key, which prevent casual users from embedding maps in blogs and other places. + +Interestingly, Yahoo, which uses Flash for the latest version of its mapping service, and could -- at least theoretically -- offer an embeddable Flash movie that would work anywhere, thus far hasn't offered anything of the kind. + +Here's an example of the the Google Maps embed code in action: + + +<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wired+San+Francisco&ie=UTF8&om=1&cid=37781066,-122395523,9473187990209702968&s=AARTsJrTuwtWb_DgPWxhe8cEbXUX5taOhA&ll=37.790727,-122.3913&spn=0.02374,0.036478&z=14&iwloc=A&output=embed"></iframe><br/><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wired+San+Francisco&ie=UTF8&om=1&cid=37781066,-122395523,9473187990209702968&ll=37.790727,-122.3913&spn=0.02374,0.036478&z=14&iwloc=A&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left;font-size:small">View Larger Map</a> + +[Sidenote for the nerds amoung us: if you look at the code below you'll see the URL that the iframe is pulling in, with a little cut-n-paste you can create a link to a pure map page [like this][2].] + +[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/embed_maps.html +[2]: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wired+San+Francisco&ie=UTF8&om=1&cid=37781066,-122395523,9473187990209702968&ll=37.790727,-122.3913&spn=0.02374,0.036478&z=14&iwloc=A&source=embed
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Google's vice president, thinks that television is dead and internet video delivery will soon be the norm. + +However, unlike many, Cerf doesn't think the bandwidth issues, frequently stated as a potential stumbling block for video over the web, will be a problem. Cerf thinks that a combination of faster connections, improved network technology and not "streaming" content will alleviate any issues. + +With every new IPTV type of service at least one broadband provider protests it saying their networks can't handle the strain (the latest are Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, all British ISPs that don't like the BBC's plan to stream content). + +But as Cerf points out streaming is only one small, and perhaps not even important, part of delivering video over the internet. In fact, and I would tend to agree, what most people want is a download now, watch later system, not streaming content. + +We want to download and store content just as we did with a TiVo, or, in the old days, a VCR. + +The chief problem with this scheme is that the current content distributers (networks) don't want you to download and store their content. But as Fake Steve Jobs recently [noted][1] in wake of the recent NBC Apple fallout, the days of networks are numbered: + +>It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers. + +Fake Steve or not, the argument is valid. So perhaps it's a question of who is more likely to come around to the idea of widespread video downloads -- the ISPs or the Networks? My bet is the former. + +Below is a video of Cerf speaking at a recent conference and [here's a link][2] to an interview with the Guardian where he talks specifically about the bandwidth issue. + + +<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/04sBy3_B3hE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/04sBy3_B3hE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> + +[1]: http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/09/boring-rant.html +[2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2007/sep/03/vint.cerf?gusrc=rss&feed=technology +[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinton_Cerf
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Perhaps they talk too long, perhaps they're simply phone-awkward. Whatever the case, Slydial, the phone service that allows you to go straight to voicemail, as rolled out a slew of mobile apps to make the task a bit easier. + +Previously you needed to call Slydial and then enter the destination phone number, but that extra step has been eliminated thanks to Slydial's new [iPhone app (also available for BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile platforms). + +Much like the Fring VOIP app we looked at earlier this year, the Slydial app is a separate keypad app that dials out through Slydial's web service. To use it just install the app, launch it and choose from your contacts list. your call will then go straight to that person's voicemail. + +Slydial notes that some modile carrier may show a missed call, but most simply pop up a voicemail, which lets you get to the point without having to wade through your friends' long-winded tales of vacation in Aruba (that's what blogging is for people, making the boring story optional). + +All the Slydial apps are free, you can grab them from the [Slydial site][3], and the iPhone version can be found here (App Store link). + +[via [Techcrunch][1]] + +[1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/slydial-makes-it-even-easier-to-avoid-awkward-human-interaction/ +[2]: http://www.slydial.com/ +[3]: http://www.slydial.com/apps.php + +<strong>See Also:</strong><br/> +<ul> +<li><a href=""></a></li> +<li><a href=""></a></li> + +<li><a href=""></a></li> + +<li><a href=""></a></li> +</ul>
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Well, if you're the DIY type, you can install one of the many Windows or Linux-based music servers, hook it into your wireless router and then configure some sort of wifi receiver to transfer the signal to your stereo. + +It isn't impossible, but it also requires some technical chops. + +Fortunately, if you don't mind paying a little money, there's a much easier way, Logictech's Squeezebox media player. + +The [http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html Squeezebox Classic] and the slightly newer [http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_duet.html Squeezebox Duet] remove the tedious details of software hacking and make it easy to stream music from your PC, Mac or dedicated server to any garden variety stereo receiver. + +Even better, [http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_features.html SqueezeCenter], the software that powers the Squeezebox should work with any software MP3 player and it supports MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and more, so you aren't format-limited like you are with iTunes. + +Today we'll take a look at what the Squeezebox does and walk you through setting up your own home audio network. + +== What you need == + +A Squeezebox or Duet, obviously. + +A wireless router. + +A PC, DAS or NAS device to store your music and run the SqueezeCenter software. Because The SqueezeCenter, which powers the Squeezebox and provides a web interface to control your Squeezebox, is just a bundled web server and collection of Perl scripts it doesn't require special hardware. Just about any reasonably powered network storage device will work and of course you can always use your PC. + +SqueezeCenter software (available for Win, Mac and Linux) + +== Set up == + +Once you have your new Squeezebox, just plug it in and hook it up to your stereo. The device will walk you through the necessary steps to connect to your home wifi network. If your router happens to be next to your stereo, skip the wifi and plug directly into the ethernet port for more speed. + +Once the Squeezebox is on your network, use the remote to select SqueezeNetwork. This will connect you to thousands of internet radio stations, music services like Pandora (free 90 trial for Squeezebox users) Rhapsody and more. Use your Squeezebox remote to explore all the internet radio options. + +I'm a big Pandora fan and spend most of time on the Squeezebox listening to my Pandora radio stations. + +To use Pandora through the Squeezebox you'll need to head to the [http://www.squeezenetwork.com/user/login Squeeze Network homepage] and create a free account. When you connect your account with your Pandora.com account (you'll do this from your account page at the Squeezenetwork website) Pandora will automatically upgrade you to a 90-day-free subscription -- no credit card required. Of course if you enjoy Pandora and want to keep using it you'll need to pay the $36/year fee once your 90 days are up. + +== Serving your own music == + +The internet radio and streaming features are all nice, but what about your own music collection? How do we get that into the Squeezebox? + +The answer is simple, just install the SqueezeCenter software on your PC, Mac or NAS device. If you use iTunes to manage your music, SqueezeCenter can even read the same library and import all your existing playlists. + +To get started head over to SqueezeCenter site and [http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html download the latest version] of the open source software. Just run the installer and then point SqueezeCenter to your music collection. If you use iTunes, don't for get to choose that option in the setup dialog. + +Once SqueezeCenter is running, head back over to your Squeezebox and choose "SqueezeCenter" and you'll have access to all your music, as well as the radio options we explored earlier. + + +== Plugins == + +Here's where SqueezeCenter gets really fun. There are [http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeCenter_Plugins hundreds of third party plugins available] for SqueezeCenter. Want to send your current track to last.fm? No problem, just use the last.fm plugin. Want to change the look of SqueezeCenter? Plenty of skins available. How about [http://www.mavit.org.uk/demuxtape/ streaming music from your friends' muxtape mixes]? + +Because the SqueezeCenter software is open source and there's a plugin SDK, the sky's the limit when it come to plugins. If you have ideas, head over to the [http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/PluginIdeas suggestions page and add them in, who knows, maybe someone will build what you're looking for. + +== Conclusion == + +The Squeezebox/SqueezeCenter may not be the cheapest option when it comes to streaming music through your house, but it's certainly one of the easiest. If you'd rather spend your time listening to music than upgrading software and fiddling with your network, then the Squeezebox is for you.
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Despite trying to keep the information under wraps until a patch could be released, the attack leaked out and venders scrambled to patch their servers. + +The DNS flaw that Kaminsky discovered allows a hacker to conduct a "cache poisoning attack" that could be accomplished in about ten seconds, allowing an attacker to fool a DNS server into redirecting web surfers to malicious web sites. + +The problem is, how do you know your ISP has applied the patch? There's really no way you can know, short of watching for an e-mail update or press release. But the news isn't something most venders would want to advertise -- uh, sorry, but it turns out our servers are insecure and might make you vulnerable to very simple attacks you'll never notice. + +Fortunately there is a solution -- just bypass your ISP's DNS server and use a service like OpenDNS, which was one of the few DNS venders [http://blog.OpenDNS.com/2008/07/08/OpenDNS-keeping-you-safe/ not affected by this latest bug]. Because OpenDNS uses a number of security enhancements above and beyond what your common ISP is likely to employ (like source port randomization) it wasn't affected by the bug Kaminsky discovered. + +Not only does OpenDNS offer a more secure setup, you get a host of advanced features and it just might be significantly faster as well. + +== Introducing OpenDNS == + +Put simply, OpenDNS is safer and faster DNS replacement. Set up is not much more difficult than setting up a POP e-mail account and you get quite a few extra features as an added bonus. + +OpenDNS provides niceties like spelling correction -- type wordpres.org when you meant, wordpress.org? OpenDNS automatically corrects and redirects. OpenDNS also caches IP addresses so it doesn't have to do a fresh look up every time you request a page, which results in faster load times. + +Other power user features include the ability to set network-wide keyboard shortcuts (always heading to the Webmonkey homepage? Set up a keyword shortcut and all you need to type is say, "m" and OpenDNS will take you straight to webmonkey.com), phishing blacklists to keep you out of trouble and IP blocking to prevent users from accessing sites you don't want them visiting. + +== Getting Started == + +There are two main ways to set up OpenDNS. First off you can set it up for just a single computer -- if you've only got one PC plugged directly into your cable/DSL modem this would be the way to go. + +However, these days most of us probably have some sort of router between the modem and our PCs. Let's take a look at how to set up OpenDNS with a router. + +The first step is to sign up with OpenDNS -- don't worry, it's painless and free. Once you have an account you need to configure your router to use the OpenDNS DNS servers rather than the defaults your ISP provides. + +Most routers have some kind of web-based configuration panel, for instance, Linksys routers can be accessed at [http://192.168.1.1 http://192.168.1.1]. Check your router's documentation to see where the config screen lives, or consult the OpenDNS site which provides [https://www.OpenDNS.com/start specific instructions] for about a dozen different routers. + +Once you've logged into your router's config panel, the settings you want to look for are the Static DNS Server settings. Chances are those fields are currently blank, but if not write down your current DNS settings before switching them over OpenDNS, in case you want to return to your old settings for any reason. + +Now just plug in OpenDNS's addresses, which are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. If your router has space for more than two addresses just leave the extra spaces blank. + +Now save your settings. Your router will most likely reboot and once it's done you should head to the [http://www.OpenDNS.com/welcome/ OpenDNS test page] and make sure that you are in fact using the OpenDNS servers. + +And that's it, you're done. + +== Advanced options == + +Now you're safe from the DNS bug and you can login to your OpenDNS account to configure some advanced options (just click the Dashboard link at the top of the site). + +The OpenDNS dashboard has links to all the cool features -- setup keyword shortcuts, block domains, see network statistics and even enable dynamic IP updating. + +You maybe wondering how OpenDNS makes any money giving all this stuff away. The answer is that every time you encounter a DNS error, in other words the site doesn't exist, OpenDNS dumps you on a custom error page complete with, you guessed it, Google ads (and a customized Google search page which can be used to search for whatever site you're looking for). + +If you like you can customize that error page with your company's logo or any other branding you want. There are also controls for customizing blocked site messages, phishing block pages and more. + +== Custom router setups == + +While OpenDNS is pretty easy to set up and the site has great instructions for most stock routers, what if you're using a custom router firmware like [http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato Tomato] or [http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.php DD-WRT]? In that case setup can be a little more difficult. With the DD-WRT firmware in particular you may have a little trouble getting it to play nice with OpenDNS. + +Fortunately there are some [http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/OpenDNS DD-WRT forum posts] on the subject and a couple of tips on [http://www.OpenDNS.com/support/article/120 the OpenDNS site] as well. The solution depends on what version of DD-WRT you're using so be sure to have that info on hand before you start searching. + +== Conclusion == + +OpenDNS provides an easy way to sidestep the latest DNS bug. Of course there's no guarantee that there won't at some point be a flaw in even the DNS setup that OpenDNS uses, but at least you'll know about since you control most of your DNS settings. + +And the fact that you get spelling corrections, phishing protection, IP black/whitelists and a faster browsing experience, well, that's just the icing on the cake.
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Whether you need to automate some part of you desktop workflow, create a website or build a full-fledged desktop application, Python will fit the bill. + +While both powerful and flexible, Python has the advantage of being much simpler than other scripting languages like Perl and results in far cleaner, more maintainable code than PHP. + +Python embraces object-oriented programming and offers an easy syntax for packaging, distributing and importing code, which makes it easy to take advantage of all the great open source python projects that are free available on the web. + +And, because it's a high-level language, Python has high-level data types built in -- arrays, dictionaries and many more. Python also supports all the operators you're likely familiar with from other language like if/else, while and for loops (though Python's for loops may be slightly different than what you've used elsewhere). + +##Python - What is it?## + +So, what is this whole Python business all about? + +Python was created by Guido van Rossum (who now works for Google, which uses Python extensively in its various web services). The name comes from Monty Python's Flying Circus, not the reptile, which is why many Python tutorials, this one included, feature shameless Monty Python puns. + +Python is a compiled application that can be installed in a variety of environments -- your desktop, a web server, embedded devices like your phone and more. Python can run on all the major platforms and comes pre-installed on Mac OS X and most Linux distros. + +There are two main ways to use Python, either by starting it directly from the command line or by calling an external script. Obviously the later method is much more flexible unless you're just doing a quick one-time program. + +If you're running Python on a web server there are a variety of ways to serve the scripts, from a cgi-bin folder just as you would with a Perl script, to faster more robust options like mod_python or mod_wsgi, two Apache modules that call on the Python interpreter to process your pages. + +Before we dig in, you should know about a site called [http://www.python.org/ Python.org]. Python is an open-source language, and Python.org is its control center, with [http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html extensive reference material], additional tutorials and [http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html a complete library] of all the elements available in Python. + +##Installing Python## + +Python code can be written as scripts and saved in text files with the .py extension, however there's also a shell interpreter that makes it very easy to get started just by typing <code>python</code> in your shell prompt. For now that's what we'll be using to show some of the basic language principles. + +Go ahead and fire up a terminal window and type <code>python</code>. If you have Python installed, you'll get a message like this: + +<pre> +Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 18 2006, 10:34:39) +[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin +Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. +>>> +</pre> + +The three angle brackets are the standard Python command prompt which lets you know you're now using the Python interpreter. Any time you see code snippets written with the >>> you know the author is referring to the Python shell. + +If typing <code>python</code> in your shell didn't load the interpreter, you'll need to install Python. You can [http://www.python.org/download/ download the source] from the Python website or use one of the many package installers available for most platforms. + +As of this writing the latest version of Python is 2.5.2. Mac OS X and most Linux distros ship with Python 2.5. Windows users may need to install the latest version. + +Although Python 2.5 offers some nice new features over previous versions, for backwards compatibility reasons we'll stick to concept and tools that will work with Python 2.3 and greater. + +##Python Differences## + +For the most part Python behaves much like PHP, Perl, Ruby and other language you may be familiar with, however, there are some important and noteworthy differences. + +Perhaps the most obvious (and Python aficionados would argue, important) is that line breaks and indentions in your code have meaning in Python. Whereas PHP and others use a semicolon or other mark to designate the end of a line, Python sees all new lines as, well, new lines. + +Also where PHP and others use angle brackets to enclose code blocks, Python merely wants the code indented. + +Python forces you to properly indent code blocks and eschews end-of-line punctuation like PHP's semicolons in favor of simple line breaks. + +This has some import consequences. First and foremost, it makes Python code much easier to read. The structure of a Python script is a snap to figure out at first glance. Even if you have no idea what the code is doing, you can tell how it does it just by glancing at it. + +Python forces neat, well structured code, but it also forces you pay more attention to how you write your code. Consider the following two code snippets, which do very different things: + +def myfunction(): + if x == y: + return True + +def myfunction(): + if x == y: + return true; + +In the first code block our return statement is indented, and therefore within the if statement. In the second code block we didn't indent the return statement so that function always returns true, regardless of our if test (technically that second function would generate an error because Python expects an indented block after the colon). + +###Spaces versus Tabs### + +As the joke goes, the most popular way to write Python code is to indent with spaces. The second most popular way to write Python is with tabs. Most good text editors have an "entab/detab" function which can convert tabs to spaces and vice versa. + +The important thing is to be consistent. <b>Don't mix tab and space indenting in the same script!</b> Doing so will cause Python to throw an error and your code won't execute. + + +##Getting Started## + +Assuming you've got Python installed, fire up a shell window and type <code>python</code> to start the interpreter. Here's a simple script, just type <code>print 'hello world'</code> and hit return. + +<pre> +>>> print 'hello world' +hello world +>>> +</pre> + +Any time you want feedback from Python, use the <code>print</code> statement. As with any language, Python has built-in tools for doing common things, like in this case, print something out. + +Let's create some variable assignments and play around with some of Python's built-in types. We'll start by creating a string and playing around with it: + +<pre> +>>> x = 'spam' +>>> x[0] +'s' +>>> x[:1] +'s' +>>> x[1:] +'pam' +</pre> + +The first line just assigns x the value of "spam." Python is dynamically typed language, that is, there's no need to tell Python that x is going to be a string, it will figure that out at run time. + +It's also worth noting that Python is a strongly typed language, which means that "types" are always enforced. If you try to treat x as a number after you've already assigned it a string value Python will throw an error. In order to do that you'd have the explicitly recast x as a number. + +The next line <code>x[0]</code> shows how Python's treats strings -- much like a list (array) with each letter being like an element of the list. The <code>x[:1]</code> is an example of Python's slicing methods. The basic syntax is <code>variable[start:end]</code>. Slice indices always start with 0 and by default, omitting first index defaults that value to zero, while omitting second index defaults to the size of the string/list. + +here's few more operators: + +<code> +>>> x = 'spam' +>>> len(x) +4 +>>> y = x +>>> x = 'knights' +>>> y +'spam' +>>> +</code> + +Note that last sequence, we set a new variable y to the value of x and then change the value of x, but y stays the same. In other words y doesn't become a reference to x, it's a new variable with the value of x. Just because x changes doesn't mean y will as well. + +##More Strings, Formatting and Comments## + +We already know that line endings and indentions matter in Python, but what about within Python strings? For instance: + +>>> long_string = "Python is the best language ever, but I will\n\ +... keep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot.\n\ +... Just because\n\ +... I think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to" +>>> long_string +"Python is the best language ever, but I will\nkeep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot.\nJust because\n\tI think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to" +>>> print long_string +Python is the best language ever, but I will +keep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot. +Just because + I think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to +>>> + +So what's going on here? How did we write multiple lines if line breaks mean the end of a line? The trick is the <code>\</code> which tells Python to ignore the end of the line. Also note the difference between calling our variable directly and printing it using the <code>print</code> statement. + +Escaping line breaks with a backslash also works within normal Python code blocks as well, not just within strings. In some cases it can help make your code more readable. + +The other Python concept that might look a bit funny to those coming from other languages is the string formatting tools. In other languages the common way to add data to a string is to just concatenate the string like this: + +"the beginning of a sentence" + variable_data + "the end of a sentence" + +While this will work in Python as well, there is a far more elegant way to write it using the <code>%s</code> operator. + +>>> b = 'beginning of a sentence' +>>> e = 'end of a sentence' +>>> v = 'variable data' +>>> '%s, %s, %s' %(b, v, e) +'beginning of a sentence, variable data, end of a sentence' + +The other nice thing about using <code>%s</code> is that it will force the value to a string, whereas straight concatenation won't. [note that there is a similar <code>%f</code> for inserting numbers into a string]. + +One last note on strings: to create comments in Python you have several options. Like Perl the hash mark can be used for inline comments, like so: + + x = 'spam' #initial value + +The other way to comment your code is with triple quotes. In other words: + +<code> +def superfunction(params): + """ The super function can do things you've only dreamed of""" + print 'Spam!' +</code> + +As it happens, this particular use of comment as the beginning of a function definition is special type in Python known as a doc string and you can even access it in your code. + +##List Dictionaries and Tuples## + +Arrays are one of the most useful constructs in a language, they allow you store and manipulate compound data. Python has three distinct objects for handling compound data types: lists, dictionaries and tuples. + +Perhaps the most useful is the list, which pretty straightforward, it's a list of data: +<code> +>> l = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> l +['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> l[0] +'spam' +</code> +As you can see, we construct a list using square brackets and assign it to the variable <code>l</code>. From there we can get the whole list by calling it directly, or access individual list members using a zero-based index, just like we did earlier with the strings. + +Also note that lists can mix together any data-type you want, here we used both number and strings, but you could add anything you want, even other lists. Lists have some other neat tricks up their sleeve. For instance let's try replacing some items: + +<code> +>>> l[0] = 'monkey' +>>> l +['monkey', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> # slightly more complex replace method: +>>> l[0:2] = ['banana', 18] +>>> l +['banana', 18, 314, 23] +>>> # we can even insert the list itself: +>>> l[:0] = l +>>> l +['banana', 18, 314, 23, 'banana', 18, 314, 23] +</code> + +As you can see lists are mutable, you can do pretty much anything you want with them. As you start getting more comfortable with Python you'll find yourself using lists all the time. Be sure to check out the Python docs for [http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq-mutable.html a complete list of list methods]. + + +###Dictionaries### + +Another useful compound data-type is the dictionary. A Python dictionary is created using curly brackets, like so: +<code> +>>> d = {"monkey":"banana", "spam":"eggs"} +>>> d +{'monkey': 'banana', 'spam': 'eggs'} +</code> +The name:value pairs are the dictionaries keys and values. To access dictionary data you just call the key using the square bracket syntax like lists, but instead of a number you'll use a key: +<code> +>>> d['monkey'] +'banana' +>>> #try to call something that doesn't exist and you'll get a KeyError. +>>> #this means that you can't get keys from values: +>>> d['banana'] +Traceback (most recent call last): + File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? +KeyError: 'webmonkey' +</code> +Like lists, dictionaries are mutable, which means you can add key:value pairs whenever you want. Just keep in mind two things: you can't have duplicate keys, the second will overwrite the first, and key names are case sensitive. + +>>> #Start with an empty dictionary +>>> d = {} +>>> # add two key:value pairs +>>> d['monkey'] = 'banana' +>>> d['spam'] = 'eggs' +>>> d +{'monkey': 'banana', 'spam': 'eggs'} +>>> #try to add another monkey key +>>> d['monkey'] = 'wrench' +>>> # oops, we overwrought the original value: +>>> d +{'monkey': 'wrench', 'spam': 'eggs'} +Example 3.2. Modifying a Dictionary + +As with lists dictionaries can store any type of data your want. Even dictionary keys can be a variety of data-types, so long as the data-type is immutable (i.e. strings, integers, tuples, etc). And you can mix and match data-types within the same dictionary. + +For more details on what sort of manipulations you can perform with dictionaries, check out [http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html the Python documentation page]. + +###Tuples### + +What the #$@# is a Tuple? Tuple is an immutable list. Once you stick data in a Tuple you can never change it. Since you can't change anything about them, it wouldn't make much sense to have any methods for Tuples so there aren't any. + +Tuples are created using parentheses and you can access data in a Tuple just as we did with a lists, but beyond that there isn't a lot to tell. + +>>> t = ('spam', 'ham', 314, 23) +>>> t +('spam', 'ham', 314, 23) +>>> t[0] +'spam' +>>> t[0] = 'eggs' +Traceback (most recent call last): + File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? +TypeError: object does not support item assignment + + +So you might be wondering, what's the point of a Tuple if it behaves like a crippled list? The answer is that Tuples are much much faster than lists. If you have data that you know isn't going to change, put it in a Tuple. + +Tuples are also handy for data that should not need to be changed, like in a private class method or the like. Using a tuple instead of a list prevents outside tampering. + +##Assigning multiple values at once## + +One of the cool tricks in Python is ability to assign multiple variables values at the same time. For instance: + +>>> m,s = 'monkey','spam' +>>> m +'monkey' +>>> s +'spam' + +But this gets much more powerful with more complex data. For instance we can also do this: + +>>> a = ('b','c','d') +>>> (x, y, z) = a +>>> x +'b' + +Another variation on this theme is the built-in range function. Consider this: + +>>> range(7) +[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] +>>> (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) = range(7) +>>> Sunday +0 + +##The Python <code>for</code> loop## + +Of all the things that will give you pause when learning Python, the <code>for</code> loop is probably the most obvious difference from other language. Rather than iterating over a progression of numbers, or allowing you to define both the iteration step and halting condition (as in C), Python's for statement iterates over the items of any sequence (a list or a string), in the order that they appear in the sequence. + +The best way to understand how it works is to look at an example. In this case we'll create a list and then loop through the values. + +>>> a = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> for b in a: +... print b +... +spam +ham +314 +23 + +Note that the variable <code>b</code> is totally arbitrary, you can name the iterator whatever you would like (preferably what makes sense, for instance, if your list holds a punch of urls, you might write <code>for url in urls:</code>) + +We'd use the exact same technique to loop through a tuple, a string and other data-types, but what about dictionaries? That's a little bit different, but we can borrow some of the multiple values techniques we mentioned above to help out. + +>>> dict = {'guido':'python','larry':'perl','rasmus':'php'} +>>> for key in dict: +... print key, 'created', dict[key] +... +larry created perl +rasmus created php +guido created python + +It's worth noting that while Python's for loops are just as capable as those in other language, chances are you won't use them as much. Part of the reason is that Python offers something called a list comprehension which does something similar to what you might need a for loop for in other language. + +For instance suppose you have list of numbers and you want to perform some multiplication function on them. You might be tempted to do something like this: + +>>> li = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5] +>>> for num in li: +... new_num = num * 2 +... new_list = [new_num] +etc + +But in Python it's much easier to just use a list comprehension. Here's the same function in one line: + +>>> li = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5] +>>> [2*num for num in li] +[0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 10] +>>> # or if you want to store the results: +>>> new_li = [2*num for num in li] +>>> new_li +[0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 10] + +It may take a while to wrap your head around, but list comprehensions are very very powerful and well worth spending some time with so you understand not just how they work, but when and where to use them. + +Have a look at the [http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node7.html#SECTION007140000000000000000 official Python tutorial] for more information.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Python/python_intro3.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Python/python_intro3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..277fcbd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Python/python_intro3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,402 @@ + +Get Started with Python + +The scripting language Python takes after its reptilian namesake -- it's simple by design, yet flexible and powerful. It can't exactly swallow large rodents whole, but it can be used for a wide variety of applications. Whether you need to automate some part of you desktop workflow, create a website or build a full-fledged desktop application, Python is a strong candidate for the job. + +''This tutorial is a '''wiki'''. Got extra advice? Log in and add it.'' + + +==What Is Python?== + +Python was created by Guido van Rossum, who now works for Google. As a result, the company uses Python extensively in its various web services, most recently [http://code.google.com/appengine/ App Engine]. Even though we joked around about Python exhibiting some likeness to its slithering namesake, the language takes its name from Monty Python's Flying Circus, which is why many Python tutorials feature shameless Monty Python puns. This one is no exception. + + +===Advantages=== + +Python has advantages over other object-oriented languages. Devotees will tell you it's simpler than Perl, and it results in cleaner, more maintainable code than PHP. + +It also has high-level data types built in -- arrays, dictionaries and many more. Python supports all the operators you're likely familiar with from other language like if/else, while and for loops (though Python's for loops may be slightly different than what you've used elsewhere). + +Finally, Python offers an easy syntax for packaging, distributing and importing code, making it easy to take advantage of all the great open source Python projects freely available on the web. + + +===Uses=== + +Python is a compiled application that can be installed in a variety of environments -- your desktop, a web server or embedded devices like your phone. Python can run on all the major platforms and comes pre-installed on Mac OS X and most Linux distros. + +There are two main ways to use Python -- either by starting it directly from the command line or by calling an external script. Obviously, the later method is much more flexible unless you're just doing a quick one-time program. + +If you're running Python on a web server, you can serve your scripts from a cgi-bin folder just as you would with a Perl script. There are also faster, more robust options like mod_python or mod_wsgi, two Apache modules that call on the Python interpreter to process your pages. + +Before we dig in, you should know about a site called [http://www.python.org/ Python.org]. Python is an open-source language, and Python.org is its control center, with [http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html extensive reference material], additional tutorials and [http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html a complete library] of all the elements available in Python. + + +==Installing Python== + +Python code can be written as scripts and saved in text files with the .py extension. There's also a shell interpreter that makes it very easy to get started just by typing <code>python</code> into your shell prompt. For now, that's what we'll be using to show some of the basic language principles. + +Go ahead and fire up a terminal window and type <code>python</code>. If you have Python installed, you'll get a message like this: + +<pre> +Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 18 2006, 10:34:39) +[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin +Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. +>>> +</pre> + +'''Tip:''' The three angle brackets are the standard Python command prompt which lets you know you're now using the Python interpreter. Any time you see code snippets written with the >>> you know the author is referring to the Python shell. + +If typing <code>python</code> in your shell didn't load the interpreter, you'll need to install Python. You can [http://www.python.org/download/ download the source] from the Python website or use one of the many package installers available for most platforms. + +As of this writing, the latest version of Python is 2.5.2. Mac OS X and most Linux distros ship with Python 2.5. Windows users may need to install the latest version. + +Although Python 2.5 offers some nice new features over previous versions, for backwards compatibility reasons we'll stick to concepts and tools that will work with Python 2.3 and greater. + + +==Python Differences== + +For the most part, Python behaves much like PHP, Perl, Ruby and other languages you may be familiar with. However, there are some important and noteworthy differences. + +Perhaps the most obvious (and Python aficionados would argue, important) is that line breaks and indentions in your code have meaning in Python. Whereas PHP and others use a semicolon or other mark to designate the end of a line, Python sees all new lines as, well, new lines. + +Also where PHP and others use angle brackets to enclose code blocks, Python merely wants the code indented. + +Python forces you to properly indent code blocks and eschews end-of-line punctuation like PHP's semicolons in favor of simple line breaks. + +This has some import consequences. First and foremost, it makes Python code much easier to read. The structure of a Python script is a snap to figure out at first glance. Even if you have no idea what the code is doing, you can tell how it does it just by glancing at it. + +Python forces neat, well structured code, but it also forces you pay more attention to how you write your code. Consider the following two code snippets, which do very different things: + +<pre> +def myfunction(): + if x == y: + return True +</pre> + +<pre> +def myfunction(): + if x == y: + return true; +</pre> + +In the first code block our return statement is indented, and therefore within the if statement. In the second code block we didn't indent the return statement so that function always returns true, regardless of our if test. Technically, that second function would generate an error because Python expects an indented block after the colon. + + +===Spaces versus Tabs=== + +As the joke goes, the most popular way to write Python code is to indent with spaces. The second most popular way to write Python is with tabs. Most good text editors have an "entab/detab" function which can convert tabs to spaces and vice versa. + +The important thing is to be consistent. '''Don't mix tab and space indenting in the same script!''' Doing so will cause Python to throw an error and your code won't execute. + + +==Getting Started== + +Assuming you've got Python installed, fire up a shell window and type <code>python</code> to start the interpreter. Here's a simple script. Just type <code>print 'hello world'</code> and hit return. + +<pre> +>>> print 'hello world' +hello world +>>> +</pre> + +Any time you want feedback from Python, use the <code>print</code> statement. As with any language, Python has built-in tools for doing common things, like in this case, printing something out. + +Let's create some variable assignments and play around with some of Python's built-in types. We'll start by creating a string and playing around with it: + +<pre> +>>> x = 'spam' +>>> x[0] +'s' +>>> x[:1] +'s' +>>> x[1:] +'pam' +</pre> + +The first line just assigns x the value of "spam." Python is dynamically typed language, that is, there's no need to tell Python that x is going to be a string, it will figure that out at run time. + +It's also worth noting that Python is a strongly typed language, which means that "types" are always enforced. If you try to treat x as a number after you've already assigned it a string value, Python will throw an error. In order to use x as a number, you'd have the explicitly recast x as a number first. + +The next line <code>x[0]</code> shows how Python's treats strings -- much like a list (array) with each letter being like an element of the list. The <code>x[:1]</code> is an example of Python's slicing methods. The basic syntax is <code>variable[start:end]</code>. Slice indices always start with 0 and by default, omitting first index defaults that value to zero, while omitting second index defaults to the size of the string/list. + +Here are few more operators: + +<pre> +>>> x = 'spam' +>>> len(x) +4 +>>> y = x +>>> x = 'knights' +>>> y +'spam' +>>> +</code> + +Note that last sequence, we set a new variable y to the value of x and then change the value of x, but y stays the same. In other words, y doesn't become a reference to x, it's a new variable with the value of x. Just because x changes doesn't mean y will as well. + + +==More Strings, Formatting and Comments== + +We already know that line endings and indentions matter in Python, but what about within Python strings? For instance: + +<pre> +>>> long_string = "Python is the best language ever, but I will\n\ +... keep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot.\n\ +... Just because\n\ +... I think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to" +>>> long_string +"Python is the best language ever, but I will\nkeep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot.\nJust because\n\tI think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to" +>>> print long_string +Python is the best language ever, but I will +keep that to myself and not start flame wars on Slashdot. +Just because + I think it's the best doesn't mean everyone needs to +>>> +</pre> + +So what's going on here? How did we write multiple lines if line breaks mean the end of a line? The trick is the <code>\</code> which tells Python to ignore the end of the line. Also note the difference between calling our variable directly and printing it using the <code>print</code> statement. + +Escaping line breaks with a backslash also works within normal Python code blocks as well, not just within strings. In some cases it can help make your code more readable. + +The other Python concept that might look a bit funny to those coming from other languages is the string formatting tools. In other languages the common way to add data to a string is to just concatenate the string like this: + +<pre> +"the beginning of a sentence" + variable_data + "the end of a sentence" +</pre> + + +While this will work in Python as well, there is a far more elegant way to write it using the <code>%s</code> operator. + +>>> b = 'beginning of a sentence' +>>> e = 'end of a sentence' +>>> v = 'variable data' +>>> '%s, %s, %s' %(b, v, e) +'beginning of a sentence, variable data, end of a sentence' + +The other nice thing about using <code>%s</code> is that it will force the value to a string, whereas straight concatenation won't. + +'''Note:''' There is a similar <code>%f</code> for inserting numbers into a string. + +One last thing about strings (aside from them being super-absorbant and perfect for doing away with floods and tidal waves). + +To create comments in Python you have several options. Like Perl, the hash mark can be used for inline comments, like so: + +<pre> + x = 'spam' #initial value +</pre> + +The other way to comment your code is with triple quotes: + +<code> +def superfunction(params): + """ The super function can do things you've only dreamed of""" + print 'Spam!' +</code> + +As it happens, this particular use of a comment as the beginning of a function definition is special type in Python known as a doc string. You can even access it in your code! + + +==Lists, Dictionaries and Tuples== + +Arrays are one of the most useful constructs in a language. They allow you to store and manipulate compound data. Python has three distinct objects for handling compound data types: lists, dictionaries and tuples. + +===Lists=== + +Perhaps the most useful is the list, which pretty straightforward, it's a list of data: + +<pre> +>> l = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> l +['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> l[0] +'spam' +</pre> + +As you can see, we construct a list using square brackets and assign it to the variable <code>l</code>. From there, we can get the whole list by calling it directly or access individual list members using a zero-based index, just like we did earlier with the strings. + +Also note that lists can mix together any data-type you want. Here, we used both numbers and strings, but you could add anything you want -- even other lists. + +Lists can do some other neat tricks. For instance, let's try replacing some items: + +<pre> +>>> l[0] = 'monkey' +>>> l +['monkey', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> # slightly more complex replace method: +>>> l[0:2] = ['banana', 18] +>>> l +['banana', 18, 314, 23] +>>> # we can even insert the list itself: +>>> l[:0] = l +>>> l +['banana', 18, 314, 23, 'banana', 18, 314, 23] +</pre> + +As you can see, lists are mutable. You can do pretty much anything you want with them. As you start getting more comfortable with Python, you'll find yourself using lists all the time. Be sure to check out the Python docs for [http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq-mutable.html a complete list of list methods]. + + +===Dictionaries=== + +Another useful compound data-type is the dictionary. A Python dictionary is created using curly brackets, like so: + +<pre> +>>> d = {"monkey":"banana", "spam":"eggs"} +>>> d +{'monkey': 'banana', 'spam': 'eggs'} +</code> +The name:value pairs are the dictionaries keys and values. To access dictionary data you just call the key using the square bracket syntax like lists, but instead of a number you'll use a key: +<code> +>>> d['monkey'] +'banana' +>>> #try to call something that doesn't exist and you'll get a KeyError. +>>> #this means that you can't get keys from values: +>>> d['banana'] +Traceback (most recent call last): + File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? +KeyError: 'monkey' +</pre> + +Like lists, dictionaries are mutable, which means you can add key:value pairs whenever you want. Just keep in mind two things: you can't have duplicate keys, as the second will overwrite the first, and key names are case sensitive. + +<pre> +>>> #Start with an empty dictionary +>>> d = {} +>>> # add two key:value pairs +>>> d['monkey'] = 'banana' +>>> d['spam'] = 'eggs' +>>> d +{'monkey': 'banana', 'spam': 'eggs'} +>>> #try to add another monkey key +>>> d['monkey'] = 'wrench' +>>> # oops, we overwrote the original value: +>>> d +{'monkey': 'wrench', 'spam': 'eggs'} +</pre> + + +As with lists, dictionaries can store any type of data you want. Even dictionary keys can be a variety of data-types, so long as the data-type is immutable (i.e. strings, integers, tuples, et cetera). And you can mix and match data-types within the same dictionary. + +For more details on what sort of manipulations you can perform with dictionaries, check out [http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesmapping.html the Python documentation page]. + +===Tuples=== + +What the heck is a tuple? It's got a funny name, but it's just an immutable list. Once you stick data in a tuple you can never change it. Since you can't change anything about tuples, it wouldn't make much sense to have any methods for tuples. So, um, there aren't any. + +Tuples are created using parentheses, and data in a tuple can be accessed just as we did with a list. Beyond that, there isn't a lot to tell. + +<pre> +>>> t = ('spam', 'ham', 314, 23) +>>> t +('spam', 'ham', 314, 23) +>>> t[0] +'spam' +>>> t[0] = 'eggs' +Traceback (most recent call last): + File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? +TypeError: object does not support item assignment +</pre> + +So you might be wondering, what's the point of a tuple if it behaves like a crippled list? The answer is that tuples are much much faster than lists. If you have data that you know isn't going to change, put it in a tuple. + +Tuples are also handy for data that should not need to be changed, like in a private class method. Using a tuple instead of a list prevents outside tampering. + + +==Assigning Multiple Values at Once== + +One of the cool tricks in Python is ability to assign multiple variables values at the same time. For instance: + +<pre> +>>> m,s = 'monkey','spam' +>>> m +'monkey' +>>> s +'spam' +</pre> + + +But this gets much more powerful with more complex data. For instance we can also do this: + +<pre> +>>> a = ('b','c','d') +>>> (x, y, z) = a +>>> x +'b' +</pre> + +Another variation on this theme is the built-in range function. Consider this: + +<pre> +>>> range(7) +[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] +>>> (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) = range(7) +>>> Sunday +0 +</pre> + + +==The Python <tt>for</tt> Loop== + +Of all the things that will have you scratching your head while learning Python, the <tt>for</tt> loop is probably the most obvious difference from other languages. Rather than iterating over a progression of numbers, or allowing you to define both the iteration step and halting condition (as in C), Python's <tt>for</tt> statement iterates over the items of any sequence (a list or a string), in the order that they appear in the sequence. + +The best way to understand how it works is to look at an example. In this case, we'll create a list and then loop through the values. + +<pre> +>>> a = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] +>>> for b in a: +... print b +... +spam +ham +314 +23 +</pre> + +Note that the variable <tt>b</tt> is totally arbitrary. You can name the iterator whatever you would like, preferably picking whatever makes the most sense. For instance, if your list holds a bunch of URLs, you might write <tt>for url in urls:</tt>. + +We'd use the exact same technique to loop through a tuple, a string and other data-types. But what about a dictionary? That's a little bit different, but we can borrow some of the multiple values techniques we mentioned above to help out. + +<pre> +>>> dict = {'guido':'python','larry':'perl','rasmus':'php'} +>>> for key in dict: +... print key, 'created', dict[key] +... +larry created perl +rasmus created php +guido created python +</pre> + +It's worth noting that while Python's for loops are just as capable as those in other language, chances are you won't use them as much. Part of the reason is that Python offers something called a list comprehension which does something similar to what you might need a for loop for in other language. + +For instance suppose you have list of numbers and you want to perform some multiplication function on them. You might be tempted to do something like this: + +<pre> +>>> li = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5] +>>> for num in li: +... new_num = num * 2 +... new_list = [new_num] +etc +</pre> + +But in Python, it's much easier to just use a list comprehension. Here's the same function in one line: + +<pre> +>>> li = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5] +>>> [2*num for num in li] +[0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 10] +>>> # or if you want to store the results: +>>> new_li = [2*num for num in li] +>>> new_li +[0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 10] +</pre> + +It may take a while to wrap your head around, but list comprehensions are very very powerful and well worth spending some time with so you understand not just how they work, but when and where to use them. + +Have a look at the [http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node7.html#SECTION007140000000000000000 official Python tutorial] for more information. + +==Conclusion== + +So now you know how to say "nee!" and perform some basic operations using Python. If you'd like some more practice head over to the [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ "cheese shop"] (we did warn you that the Monty Python puns were thick in the Python community), a site dedicated to Python scripts, and try downloading some things that look useful. + +Also worth reading through is Mark Pilgrim's seminal [http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html Dive into Python] which covers some of the same ground we went over here, but also hits on some other areas of interest like parsing XML with Python's powerful DOM tools and attempting to demystify Unicode text handling in Python. + +Next up we'll take a look at how to write a script you can run from the command line and how to open and read data from a web service. In the mean time we're off to return this parrot which seems almost like it's, um, dead.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/backup_webserver.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/backup_webserver.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b031480 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/backup_webserver.txt @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +So you're a good little monkey and you have a backup strategy for all your local PCs, rsync, Time Machine or similar backup software mirrors your files to external drives on a regular basis, but what about your remote web server? + +Today we'll take a look at ways you can back up your HTML files, stylesheets, application files and even databases on your remote web host. + +The only thing you'll need is a remote web hosting service that allows SSH connections to the remote shell. + +Ready for backup Nirvana? Okay let's dive in. + +== The Backup Tools == + +We're going to assume your web host uses a Linux machine. If you're host provides Solaris, there are equivalents to all the Linux apps we're going to use. + +Have a Windows web hosting service, feel free to add in the equivalent tools for Windows users. + +The first thing we'll do is use tar and bzip2, two command lines tools for making compressed file copies, to back up any flat HTML, CSS, Javascript or what have you files. Let's say your web host stores all your public files in a directory named www. In that case we're going to do something like this: + +<pre> +tar -cf `date +%F`.tar /path/to/html_folder +</pre> + +and then + +<pre> +bzip2 `date +%F`.tar +</pre> + +That's all good and well, but we don't want to type those commands in the shell all the time so let's make a shell script. Login to your web server via SSH and enter this command: + +emacs backup.sh + +Substitute the editor of your choice or, if you're more comfortable with the GUI, just login via FTP and create the file that way. + +Now paste this code into your backup.sh file, adjusting the file paths to work with your setup: + +<pre> +#!/bin/bash +DATE=`date +%F` +TARFILE=$DATE.tar +tar -cf $TARFILE /path/to/html_folder +bzip2 $TARFILE +</pre> + +The first line is just the standard bash script header, if you're using tsch adjust accordingly. From there we grab the date and then create a tarfile using the date and appending the directory name to the end. Technically this could all be one line, but I split it up for readability. + +Then we just create the actual .tar archive and compress it with bzip2 (feel free to use gzip or any other compression tool you like). + +So now we have a backup of our flat files, but what about the database? Most shared web hosts have decent database redundancy setups, but I still prefer to have flat file back up. Here's another bash script to backup a PostgreSQL database using <code>pg_dump</code>. Copy this text into a new file named backup_db.sh: + +<pre> +#!/bin/bash +/path/to/pg_dump -x -D -Uusername -f path/to/`date +%F`.sql +</pre> + +This just calls pg_dump and outputs the database (including insert statements) to a file named today's date.sql in whatever directory you specify. For those using MySQL, <code>mysql_dump</code> can do roughly the same thing. And note that you can dump compressed files using either tool. + +One potential gotcha here, invoking pg_dump without entering a password won't work unless your password is stored somewhere. For Postgres that would be the ~/.pgpass file. See the manual for more info on the [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html format and permission of .pgpass]. + +The last step is to make our shell scripts executable so just make sure to change the permissions so that cron can execute them. In most shells that looks something like this: + +<pre> +chmod u+x filename +</pre> +== Automation == + +Now that's all well and good we have a couple of bash scripts that we can invoke from our terminal prompt and backup out files. Bu that who wants to do that? Let's set them up to run automatically once a day. + +From the terminal open up your crontab using this command: +<pre> +crontab -e +</pre> +Now add these lines: +<pre> +0 1 * * * path/to/backup.sh > /path/to/log_files/backup.out 2>&1 +30 1 * * * /path/to/backup_db.sh > /path/to/log_files/backup_db.out 2>&1 +</pre> + +Hit save and we're done: automated backups. The crontab above will run your backup scripts once a day at 1 AM for flat files script and 1:30 AM for the database script. If there are any problems or the scripts aren't running, check the output in the .out files. + +== Fancier Automatic Backups == + +Want to get really fancy and have your home machine automatically login to your server and download those backup files for safe, off site keeping? + +It's not to hard to do. The first step is to write the script. Create a new text file wherever you'd like and name it grab_backup.sh or something similar. Now copy and paste this code adjusting the setting to match the location of the backup files we created in the last step. + +<pre> +#!/bin/bash +DATE=`date +%F` +FILE1=$DATE.tar.bz2 +FILE2=$DATE.sql + +# we'll connect with SCP to copy the files +scp username@example.com:path/to/$FILE1 ~/web/backup/folder +scp username@example.com:path/to/$FILE2 ~/web/backup/folder + +# if you want to delete the backup files from the server just uncomment these lines: +#ssh username@example.com rm -f path/to/$FILE1 +#ssh username@example.com rm -f path/to/$FILE2 +</pre> + +We need to make this script executable so go ahead and chmod it the same way we did above. Give it a test run from the command line and once you enter your remote login password, <code>scp</code> should start downloading the files. + +'''Note''': if you get a message like <code>scp: .: not a regular file</code>, a fairly common error, make sure there's no spaces between the colon at the end of the login info and the file you're trying to copy. + +=== What to do about the password === + +Astute readers are probably wondering how we're going to automate a script that needs a password before it can do it's job. + +Well, there's actually two way to handle that and both of them involve using SSH public/private key authentication. Essentially we need to create a key pair and then add the public key on our remote server's list of authorized keys. + +But that doesn't entirely sidestep the password problem since SSH keys themselves require a password. + +There's two ways a round that, one is a really bad idea, but it works and the other is a bit more complex, but much more secure. + +Let's walk through the first method -- creating a password-less SSH key-pair -- and then we'll talk about why that's a bad idea. + +First create an SSH key like so: + +<pre> +ssh-keygen -t rsa +</pre> + +When prompted for a password just hit enter and leave it blank. + +When ssh is done you should see a message like: +<pre> +Your identification has been saved in /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa. +Your public key has been saved in /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. +</pre> + +We need to add the public key (id_rsa.pub) to our web server. You can either do that using FTP and cut and paste the info into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, or since your still in the shell, try this line, substituting your login info: + +cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh username@server.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' + +That will add the SSH key we just generated to your webserver's list of authorized keys, which means you can now login to your remote server from your home machine without needing to enter a password -- perfect for an automated script. + +However it's not so perfect from a security stand point. The way things stand now if an attacker gets ahold of your home machine they have unlimited access to your remote machine as well (because your private key is compromised and there's no password to protect it). + +We can limit potential damage somewhat by adding restrictions to what we can do with our remote login. Open up the file .ssh/authorized_keys on your web server and you should see something like: + +<pre> +ssh-dss AAAAB3Nza[..huge string of gibberish..] = user@localhost +</pre> + +Just before the ssh-dss bit add this: + +<pre> +from="0.0.0.0",command="/home/user/path/to/backup_folder" +</pre> + +Just change the "from" IP Address to the IP of your home network or computer and make sure to change the path to match wherever you're storing the backup files that are being created by our earlier cron script. Also chop off the = user@localhost bit at the end of the line. + +That's a little better, but still not good enough for many. In any security scenario there is always a weakness, if you use a password that's the weakness. In our case the private SSH key is the weakness. If you're confident that you can keep your private key secure then what we've done may satisfy you. + +If you think the whole set of instructions above is insane (and generally speaking it is), there is a far more secure option. The trick is use ssh-agent, which is complex enough that it warranted its own tutorial. Don't worry, despite being complex in theory, ssh-agent actually isn't all that hard to use, have a read through [our tutorial] and once you're up and running jump back over here and we'll hook up our script. + +== Finishing Touches == + +Now you should have a shell script set up and a way to login to your remote server sans password (whether by the insecure method above or the ssh-agent method). The last step in our automation process is create a cron job on our local machine. + +Open up a shell windows and repeat the steps above like so: + +<pre> +crontab -e +</pre> +Now add these lines: +<pre> +0 2 * * * /path/to/grab_backup.sh > /path/to/log_files/grab_backup.out 2>&1 +</pre> + +Now we have a cron job on our local machine that will reach out to our remote server and grab a copy of all our backup files and dump them on our local machine. In our case the dump will happen at 2 AM, though you can adjust that to pick a good time for your setup (note that for this to work, obviously, your local machine needs to be running). + +That pretty much covers it. You've now got two database and flat-file backups, one local, one remote. Now make sure you back up that local copy on another drive along with the rest of the files. And then back that drive up to one in blast vault that can withstand a nuclear hit and you should be able to keep your website running smoothly throughout the apocalypse.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/movable_type_intro.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/movable_type_intro.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2466ee --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/movable_type_intro.txt @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +So you've decided that hosted blogging is for the birds and you want more control over your blog setup. One popular option is the Movable Type publishing system from Six Apart. Movable Type contains pretty much everything you need to get your own site up and running and, with a little creativity and some community-created plugins, you can power much more than just a blog. + +This tutorial will walk you through the process of setting up Movable Type, customizing the look and feel of your new site and get you started with some custom features by installing some plugins. + +==Which Version to Use== + +Movable Type is essentially a collection of Perl scripts that make it easy to create and publish blog entries. Luckily you don't need to know any Perl as most of the programming aspects are hidden from the casual user. + +Movable type will run on just about any server, the only requirements are a database and the ability to run CGI scripts. + +There are currently two separate distributions of Movable Type, the [http://www.movabletype.com/ commercial version] (still free for individual users) and the [http://www.movabletype.org/ open source version]. Deciding which on to use depends what you need and what you're willing to pay for. The personal version of the commercial software can be used so long as your blog is not for-profit. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates fees, PayPal tip jars, or other similar programs which aren't the main purpose of the site are permitted under the Personal license. The commercial versions run from $300 - $1000 depending on the number of users your installation needs. + +The open source version of Movable Type is free and of course you're free to tinker with the source code and can apply patches, hacks and other improvements that the community comes up. Were it not for the fact that thus far the open source version has lagged behind the release schedule of the commercial version, we'd recommend it. If being a little behind the latest-and-greatest feature curve doesn't bother you, the open source version is an excellent choice. + +==Getting Up and Running== + +Assuming you've selected a web host that meets the Movable Type requirements (pretty much anywhere that offers a MySQL database will work) you're ready to install Movable Type. + +Installation isn't a terribly difficult process. Essentially you're going to download the MT package, unzip it and then upload it to your server. Then it's just a matter of configuring a few settings, like telling MT where to find your database and how to connect. + +Instructions on how to install are widely available on the web so we won't rehash them here. Check out [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/installation/ the official guide] and also worth a mention is the [http://www.superxm.com/2007/08/movable-type-4-installation-step-by-step-with-screenshots.html MT installation guide over at SuperMX.com] which walks you through all the necessary steps and includes screenshots. + +Once you've got everything working properly it's time to set up your blog. + +Login to your new Movable Type admin and in the main menu select "Create New Blog." Give your blog a name, set up the necessary paths to your media files (like stylesheets or images), setup the URLs (or go with the example http://www.yoursite.com/blog/) and select a time zone. + +Save your changes and if you head to the URL you entered you should see a rather basic looking page with very little content -- congratulations you've now got a Movable Type powered blog. + +Add a little content so you have something to see while we customize the look in feel in the next section. Go ahead and create some new posts and save them. Just click the "Write Entry" button in the main menu, or choose Create > Entry in the main menu. This will display the Create Entry screen where you can enter your first blog post. + +==Customizing Your Site's Appearance== + +The stock Movable Type look isn't going to impress your visitors. Luckily it isn't hard to customize your Movable Type site. But before we start doing that let's step back and take a look at how Movable Type works. + +===How Movable Type Works=== + +In order to get MT behaving the way you want it's important to understand how it works. Movable Type has two main components, the back administration interface where you can manage your blogs, post new entries, moderate comments and more, and the front-facing public website. + +For the most part Movable Type publishes static html files. When you post an entry, Movable Type adds the entry to the database and then uses a template to create the HTML file that your visitors will see. It also updates any other pages that are affected by the changes (for instance if you have a sidebar that shows recent entries, MT will update the sidebar whenever you publish something new). + +This process is known as static publishing. That is, the page your visitors see is a static file sitting on your server rather being generated-on-the-fly like other systems such as WordPress. Actually Movable Type does offer some dynamic template features, but for this introduction we'll stick to the static publishing. + +The key elements here, from a user point of view, are the templates. By default Movable Type gives you some basic templates that control how your generated pages will look. To customize the look and feel of your site you'll want to dive into the templates. + +===The Movable Type Template Language=== + +Movable Type templates have their own language that looks at times like HTMl and times more like PHP. The basic idea is that you have a bunch of variables from the MT back-end that you can use to plug content into your pages. + +As with programming languages you can create if/else statements, for loops and other tools to display the content you want, where you want it. + +The template language is actually quite robust (some might say complex), so to give you an idea of how it works we'll dive in with a quick example. + +<code> +<h2>Recent Entries</h2> +<ul> + <MTEntries lastn="5"> + <li><$MTEntryTitle$> <br /> + <$MTEntryEntryExcerpt$></li> + </MTEntries> +</code> + +This chunk of code is similar to what you might use to generate a list of recent entries in your sidebar. The key to this is the <code><MTEntries></code> tag, which is known as a container tag. <code><MTEntries></code> essentially creates a loop of recently published entries. The <code>lastn</code> parameter tells Movable Type how many entries to grab, in this case five. + +Then we move inside the <MTEntries> container and we have access to all the Entries tags. For a complete list of tags related to entries, see the Movable Type manual. For this simple case I've used <code><$MTEntryTitle$></code> to print out the title and <code><$MTEntryEntryExcerpt$></code> to give a short summary. The <code><$MTEntryEntryExcerpt$></code> tag will automatically create an Excerpt if your entry doesn't have one. + +Let's look at another useful container tag, the MTEntryCategories tag. Here's a little snippet of code: + +<code> +<p>category: <MTIfNonEmpty tag="MTEntryCategory"><MTEntryCategories glue=", "> +<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a> +</MTEntryCategories> +<MTElse>none</MTElse> +</MTIfNonEmpty></p> +</code> + +So what does that mess do? Well the goal is display all the categories you've assigned to a post. So the first thing we do is check to see if the post actually has any categories. The easiest way to do that is with the <code>MTIfNonEmpty</code> tag. This tag takes another tag as a parameter, in this case the <code>MTEntryCategory</code> tag, and checks to see if the value exists. + +If in fact our post has one or more categories assigned to it, then we proceed to the <code>MTEntryCategories</code> container tag. This tag sets up a loop that moves through all the categories assigned to an entry. + +Once inside the categories loop we print out a link to the category archive page and the name of the category. That way any visitor to the site who likes your article about bananas can quickly find all your articles in the banana category. + +The other thing to note in this loop is that just about any MT tag that uses an IF statement can include an Else tag to print out something when the if fails. In this case, if there is no category assigned to a post it will just print "none." + +Whew. What a mouthful of template tags. And we've barely even scratched the surface. For more in depth info on MT template tags read through [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/ the template tag documentation]. For those who'd like a somewhat easier to navigate list of tags, check out [http://www.mttags.com/ MTTags.com], which offers a very nice interface for navigating through and quickly finding definitions of the myriad of available template tags. + +If you've used older version of Movable Type, check out the overview of [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/whats-new.html new template tag features in MT 4.+], including the very powerful new ability to assign multiple values to an attribute. + +===Put template language to Use=== + +So where do you put your template code? Well, MT includes the ability to edit your templates right in the admin interface. Just select Design > Templates from Movable Type's main menu. This will display the Blog Templates screen. + +To edit one of your index templates, just click on the template name to open the Edit Template screen. Once you're here the sky's the limit, you can customize the layout and look of you site to fit whatever your heart desires. + +This screen is also home to the Includes and Widgets that have been referenced in the template you are editing. For example, by default the Main Index template references a Header, Entry Summary and Footer modules. This allows you to quickly edit and make site-wide changes to say your header template. Whenever you find yourself wanting to include a chunk of code in multiple templates, break that code out to an Includes template so that when you want to change it again you only need to do so in one spot. + +==Widgets and Plugins== + +The whole point of using a publishing tool like Movable Type is to take advantage of the many cool tools that users have developed -- that's where plugins come in handy. + +Movable Type has been around for some time and third party developers have built a small ecosystem of plugin and widgets to enhance your MT blog. + +For a fairly complete list of what's available check out the [http://plugins.movabletype.org/ Movable Type plugin directory]. Here's a few of our favorites: + +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/bookmarks/ Bookmarks] - adds a "Bookmarks" menu to Movable Type 4.0's menuing system, allowing quick access to your favorite and most frequently accessed pages within the application. +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/fckeditor/ FCKeditor] - swap out the default Movable Type Rich Text Editor for the more feature-rich FCKeditor (requires MT 4.1) +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/flickrphotos/ Flickr Photos] - pull your most recent photos on Flickr into your Movable Type blog. +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/dashboar/ Dashboard Twitter] - see your friends timeline and post your Twitter status update from within the MT4 dashboard. +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/action-streams/ Action Streams] - aggregate, control, and share your actions around the web as well as a list of your profiles on various services. +# [http://plugins.movabletype.org/gravatar/ Gravatar] - Add some personality to your comments by including thumbnail images. Uses Gravatar's global recognized avatar system to output the correct gravatar image URL based on the commenters email address. + +So how do you install plugins? Well it depends on the plugin since the functionality of the plugin determines how much there is to install. In the simplest case you just drag the plugin to your plugins folder in the Movable Type folder you installed at the beginning of this tutorial. + +More complex plugins may require some additional files to be placed in other folders and, in some cases, a line or two needs to be added to the mt-config file. Fortunately most plugins listed in the official repository have reasonably clear instructions. + +==Happy Blogging == + +Though we've really just scratched the surface of what you can do with Movable Type, hopefully this will get you up and running. For additional tutorials and help solving common problems, be sure to sign up for the [http://forums.sixapart.com/ Movable Type forum] and [wiki http://wiki.movabletype.org/Main_Page where you'll find like-minded people who can help you out with any bumps you encounter on the way to Movable Type nirvana. + diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/wordpress_intro.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/wordpress_intro.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a75cc0a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/blogcms/wordpress_intro.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +Back when blogging was just catching on a small PHP-based publishing system was quietly released and quickly took the blogging community by storm. WordPress, as the system was known, was an instant hit thanks to its simplicity and open source license which allowed interested developers to extend and improve the system. + +Today WordPress powers everything from huge sites like [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ CNN's Political Tracker] to thousands of personal blogs. Thanks to its easy step up process and the widespread availability of web hosts that offer one-click WordPress installs, you can get up and blogging in a snap. + +In this tutorial we'll assume that your web host doesn't have a one-click installer, but fear not, getting WordPress working on your domain won't take but a few minutes. Once you're up and running we'll take a look at different ways you can customize and extend your blog. + +==Installation== + +Much of WordPress's popularity stems from its dead simple installation process. All you need to get started with WordPress is a web host to serve the site, a MySQL database for WordPress to talk to and of course [http://wordpress.org/download/ the WordPress software itself]. + +Unzip the WordPress download and rename the <code>wp-config-sample.php</code> file to <code>wp-config.php</code>. Now fire up that file in your favorite text editor and fill in the details about your database so WordPress can connect to it. + +Now you just need to upload WordPress using an FTP program. Upload all the files to where ever you'd like you new blog to live. For instance, if you want your blog to be the root of your domain, upload all the files to your root web directory. If you want your blog to be at say <code>mysite.com/blog</code>, just upload all the WordPress files to a "blog" directory under the web root. + +Now you just need to run the install script by pointing your browser to http://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php (just adjust that URL to fit wherever you placed WordPress. + +The install script will walk you through naming your blog and creating a username and password for accessing the administration panel. + +Once that's done login to WordPress and you're ready to roll. If you run into any problems, have a look at the [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install official WordPress installation guide], which covers some common issues. + +==Digging In== + +When you login to WordPress for the first time you'll encounter what's known as the Dashboard. The Dashboard tracks your recent activity and lets you know about and manage comments your visitors have left and tracks any incoming links from other sites. + +In order to have some content for when we start customizing our installation, go ahead and click the "Write a new Post" link and, well, write a quick post or two. + +Once you have a couple of posts done click the "Write a new page" button. Now what's a "page" versus a "post" you ask? Well, a post is an entry on your blog whereas a page represents something static like a contact page or an about me page. Go ahead and create a couple pages so you can see how they work in the next section. + +The other section that might catch your eye is "Links." Older versions of WordPress referred to this section as the Blogroll, but the name change reflects the more general purpose usefulness of Links. While you can still use Links to generate a blogroll linking to your friends' sites, you can also do other things like create an entire site navigation system for your sidebar. + +If you click the "visit site" button from any of the Admin pages, WordPress will dump you onto your live site so you can see what your changes look like. + +==Customizing the Look of WordPress== + +The default look for WordPress is a blue header above a two column layout -- you might even recognize it since many sites don't bother to customize. It's okay for a default layout, but if you want to personalize your WordPress site a bit, read on. + +Customizing WordPress's look happens through "themes." If you login to your WordPress admin and select the Design tab you'll see the main themes panel. Now you could head over to the Header Image and Color tab which features a very nice inline theme editor with color pickers and other tools that make it easy to customize the default theme. + +But frankly one of the advantages of WordPress is the number and variety of custom themes that members of the community have created. The official repository of themes is the [http://themes.wordpress.net/ WordPress Theme Viewer], so browser through that list, find something you like and download it. + +Then just unzip and upload the theme to the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. Then just head over to the Design tab inside the WordPress admin and select your new theme. + +From there you can customize and tweak the theme to fit your whims. Different themes offer different levels of customization so what you can and cannot do will depend on the theme you're working with. In general you should be able to change the header image, layout options and colors on any theme. + +Also note that themes don't have to be site-wide. If you happen to blog about both cupcakes and software, you can assign your archive pages for cupcakes to use one theme and the software posts to use another. + +If you'd like to create your own theme it isn't too difficult, though it is more complex than just throwing together some HTML and CSS in a template. It helps to have a decent knowledge of PHP. If you'd like to get started using PHP check out our tutorial. + +==Plugins - tap the Power of the Community== + +One of the chief appeals to powering your blog with WordPress rather than building your own system is that you can take advantage all of the cool tools that other people have developed. The WordPress plugin universe offers something for everyone, whether you just want to add some photos or turn your blog into a proto-social network using the plugins from the [http://code.google.com/p/diso/ DiSo project]. + +To get you started, here's a few of our favorites: + +# WP-Cache - Caches your pages for much faster loads. An absolute must, this should be part of WordPress by default. It works by caching WordPress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database. Your site will thank you when Digg and Slashdot readers start pouring in. + +# [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-flickr-manager/ WordPress Flickr Manager] - post images from your Flickrstream with ease. + +# [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/ Google Analytics for WordPress] - track stats and more using Google Analytics. + +# [http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress Twitter Tools] - enable you to integrate your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress. + +# [http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/ WordPress Database Backup] - creates backups of your core WordPress database tables. Backups are a must. + +# [http://www.ejump.co.uk/wordpress/easytube-plugin-for-wordpress/ EasyTube] - post YouTube videos using just the URL. This plugin takes the URL and uses it to embed the actual video. + +== Batten Down the Hatches== + +While WordPress is open-source and constantly updating to fix known vulnerabilities, it still behooves you to take a few steps to protect yourself against attacks. + +The first thing to do is makes sure that your WordPress installation is using the most current version available. To stay abreast of new releases consider subscribing to the [http://wordpress.org/development/ Developer Blog's RSS feed]. + +Beyond making sure that you have the latest security updates, there are few things in your server setup that can make WordPress more secure. + +One big thing you can do is limit access to your wp-admin directory. There are two approaches here, if you have a static IP and you're only likely to update your blog from a few locations you can actually deny access to all other IPs. The following instructions will work with any Apache server, for Microsoft Servers, consult the Microsoft documentation. + +To do that log into your web server via ftp and navigate to the wp-admin directory. Create a new file named <code>.htaccess</code> and enter the following lines: + +Order Deny,Allow +Deny from all +Allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX + +Just replace the Xs with your home IP address. You can allow multiple IPs, just enter one per line. Now only requests from your IP addresses will be able to get to your WordPress login page. + +If your internet service provider frequently changes your IP, the above solution isn't practical. In that case you can still add some password protection to the wp-admin directory. To do so move up out of your publically accessable directories and create a folder that's only accessable from FTP or the shell. + +With most webhosts what would be the directory you see when you first login with you FTP client. Now create a file named <code>.htpasswd</code> and add the line <code>username:password</code> in that format with the username and password of your choice. + +Now go back to the <code>.htaccess</code> file in the wp-admin directory and add these lines: + +AuthUserFile path/to/.htpasswd +AuthGroupFile /dev/null +AuthName EnterPassword +AuthType Basic + +require user XXXX + +Replace the Xs above with the username you created in the .htpasswd file. Now if you navigate to your WordPress Admin pages you should be forced to enter a username and password before you even get to the WordPress login page. + +Neither of the solutions is totally foolproof, but they're generally enough to convince the script kiddies to move on to easier prey. + +== Conclusion == + +So there you have it, you should now have a working WordPress installation with a custom theme and some useful plugins. Happy blogging and be sure to check out our more advanced WordPress tutorial on creating custom themes and more.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropdowns.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropdowns.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cef1ec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropdowns.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +There's nothing that strikes fear in the heart of CSS coders like a design mock up that includes drop down menu items. While many will argue that drop down menus are a poor design choice to begin with, sometimes there's just no getting around it -- the client gets what the client wants.
Fortunately creating drop down menus isn't as hard as it used to be. In fact, you can even create them using just HTML and CSS with a tiny bit of Javascript to ensure that good old standards confused IE shares in the drop down fun.
How to do it? Well grab a cup of coffee and let's get to work.
== Getting started, the HTML ==
We're going to design a horizontal menu with three items that list sub-items in drop down menus and a fourth that's just a top level element. Here's what the HTML looks like:
<pre>
<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="">Web</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Browser</a></li>
<li><a href="">Search</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Monkey</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Eating Banana</a></li>
<li><a href="">Throwing Poop</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Contact</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Via Web</a></li>
<li><a href="">Via Phone</a></li>
<li><a href="">Via tin can and string</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</pre>
As you can see it's a pretty basic HTML list, with some nested lists for our sub elements. I've given it an id of "nav" since we'll need that to employ a little JavaScript here in a bit. But first let's add a little style.
== Polishing with CSS ==
Paste this code into some style tags in the head of your HTML page (or in a separate, linked stylesheet if you prefer:
<pre>
ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
ul li {
position: relative;
float: left;
}
li ul {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
display: none;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 20px;
color: #000;
padding: 5px;
background: #CC0;
margin: 0 2px;
}
ul li a:hover { background: #66F; }
li:hover ul, li.over ul { display: block; }
</pre>
Okay, so what's going on here? Well first we set up our list by getting rid of any styling along with any margins and padding.
Then we move on to the <code>li</code> elements positioning them relatively and floating them to the left. If you're looking to build a horizontal menu, don't float the <code>li</code> elements. Notice we've also given them a width of 100 pixels. You can adjust this to suit your menu items, but do apply a width otherwise your drop down elements will be a bit wonky.
next up are the nested lists which get an absolute positions 30 pixels from the top of their parent element. Why 30? Well that leads us to the next item, our link styles. Notice we have a line-height of 20 pixels and 5 pixels of padding on all sides. So, 20px + 5px top padding + 5px bottom padding, gives our menu a total height of 30px. The positioning on the nested lists ensures that they appear just below the top level menu items.
The last item in our styles definition is the guts of the operation. We use the <code>:hover</code> pseudo class to display our previously hidden drop-down elements. Now you may be wondering, what's up with that <code>.over</code> class in there? There's no <code>.over</code> class in our HTML... true, but there will be in minute, read on.
The rest of the styles on the a elements are just some garish colors to ensure that you can see the results. Obviously you can come up with a better color scheme for your own work.
Test your page in the browser and it should work. Well, unless you happen to have IE 6. But hey, who cares about IE 6? Those people are living in the dark anyway. It's the mantra of many a designer, but let's face it skipping IE 6 leaves out upwards of 50 percent of your visitors so we should probably do something for them.
== Compensating for IE 6 ==
In order to get IE to understand this fancy W3C standards compliant code we've written, we're going to need a little JavaScript function. There are number of ways to do this, but I'm fond of a very oldie but goodie that we'll borrow from A List Apart's famous, [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ Suckerfish Drop Down technique].
Here's what the code looks like:
<pre>
startList = function() {
if (document.all&&document.getElementById) {
navRoot = document.getElementById("nav");
for (i=0; i<navRoot.childNodes.length; i++) {
node = navRoot.childNodes[i];
if (node.nodeName=="LI") {
node.onmouseover=function() {
this.className+=" over";
}
node.onmouseout=function() {
this.className=this.className.replace(" over", "");
}
}
}
}
}
window.onload=startList;
</pre>
Essentially what this does is grab our top level "nav" id and then use it to parse through and temporarily insert a class "over" to all our second level <code>li</code> elements. That will allow IE 6 to recognize our menus.
== Conclusion ==
And there you have it, standards compliant drop down menus that work across browsers (note that IE 5 will choke on this menu, if you really need to support IE 5, you're going to have to use some conditional comments).
Obviously our example is pretty ugly, but we're confident you can come up with functional and nice looking drop down menu using the basic outline here.
If you want to get really fancy, try adding this code to your link definition:
<pre>
ul li a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 20px;
color: #000;
padding: 5px;
background: #CC0;
margin: 0 2px;
display: block;
-webkit-transition-property: background-color;
-webkit-transition-duration: 1s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in;
}
</pre>
That'll leverage some experiment CSS 3 transition effects to give your rollovers a gradual fade in/fade out transitions. Of course it will only affect Apple's Safari web browser.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropshadows.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropshadows.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcf4e35 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/css-dropshadows.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Drop shadows, love 'em or hate 'em they're a reality for most web designers. Luckily adding drop shadows to most elements on a web page isn't too difficult. The most common trick is to use an oversized shadow image and apply that as a background to a wrapper tag.
Yes, that's right, drop shadows will require a little bit of non-semantic markup, if that bothers you then drop shadows aren't for you. If you're okay with a few wrapper tags, then read on and we'll show you how it's done.
== Wrapping an image ==
The most common use of drop shadows seems to be images. The shadow helps set images apart from the page much the way a frame helps do the same on a wall (the first person who says it makes the image "really pop" will be slapped).
To create a drop shadow that can be applied to every image on your site you need to create a shadow image that's bigger than the largest image you'll apply it to. For most situations an 800 pixel square image should do the trick, though if you're sure you can get by with something smaller, definitely do so since this image will slow down page loads.
So how do you make the image? There are a number of ways you can do it, depending on your image editor. Our favorite is to simply create a new 800 pixel image and simple make an empty selection on top the background and apply a shadow to it. Adjust the light angle and spread to your liking and save the image as shadow.png For this browsers that can't handle .png files with transperancy files we'll need a second image. This time make the background layer the same color as that of your site and save the file as shadow.gif.
The HTML markup can take a variety of forms but here's a fairly common method:
<pre>
<div class="shadow">
<img class="shadowed" src="/mygreatimage.jpg" alt="my great image" />
</div>
</pre>
The last step is bringing it all together with some CSS rules. Here's the code:
<pre>
.shadow {
float:left;
background: url(/path/to/shadow.png) no-repeat bottom right;
}
.shadowed {
display: block;
position: relative;
background-color: #fff;
margin: -6px 6px 6px -6px;
}
</pre>
So what's going on here? Well, first off we apply a float to our container element so that the background won't span the whole width of whatever our <code>.shadow</code> div's parent may be. Then we apply the image as the background.
So far so good, but our shadow graphic is hidden by the actual photo so what we need to do is shift the photo a bit. But first we make sure the photo is displayed as a block element and is positioned relative to its parent (the <code>.shadow</code> div). Then we simply add negative margins to the top and left sides of the photo. This has the effect of pulling the image back to reveal the shadow beneath it.
Awesome. We have a drop shadow. unless of course you're using IE, which wouldn't know a transparent .png file from Bill Gate's underwear and chokes on both. To fix that we'll use the ever-popular (and proprietary) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532969.aspx AlphaImageLoader Filter].
So, in a separate stylesheet that only gets served to IE (conditional comments are your IE friend), we need to add this line:
<pre>
.shadow {
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='img/shadow2.png',sizingMethod='crop');
background: none;
</pre>
And there you have it, a drop shadow for your images. Now the very obsessive among us may be bothered by the fact that the left and top edges of our shadow are "hard," that is, they don't gracefully fade in on the edge where they begin.
There is a way to fix that, though we think it's more work than it's worth. However, if you're incredibly anal-retentive about your shadows, it is possible to get soft edges.
This trick comes from an old [http://alistapart.com/articles/cssdrop2/ A List Apart tutorial] and requires yet another container div so that the HTML would look like this:
<pre>
<div class="shadow">
<div>
<img class="shadowed" src="/mygreatimage.jpg" alt="my great image" />
</div>
</div>
</pre>
Now what we need to do is create a reverse shadow, that is an image that's the same color as the page background, but fades inward from 100 opacity to 0. once you have that image, just apply it as a background to the inner div tag. That way it overlays the shadow and softens the left and top edges for a more realistic shadow effect. See the ALA post for all the details.
The above technique will work just fine on basically any element in most browsers (so if you want drop shadows on say a colored div, just use the wrapper tags.
Okay, so we have a way to put drop shadows on our big blocks of content, but what if you want to drop shadow some text?
== Drop Shadow Text ==
If you've ever used Apple's Safari web browser you may have noticed some sites have drop shadowed text. Safari is about the only browser that supports the <code>text-shadow</code> CSS rule (though Firefox 3.1 will support it as well).
The question is, can we mimic the <code>text-shadow</code> effect across all browsers? The answer is sort of. Most of them don't render quite a nicely as Safari, but it is possible to get at least some sort of shadow.
Obviously, for Safari we just need to add the text-shadow rule like this:
<pre>
p.shadowed { text-shadow: #999 5px 5px 5px; }
</pre>
It turns out that Internet Explorer has it's own proprietary method of adding shadows, so fire up those conditional comment stylesheets and add this line:
<pre>
p.shadowed {
height: 1em;
filter: Shadow(Color=#999, Direction=135, Strength=5);
}
</pre>
What about Firefox and Gecko-based browsers? Well, there is a way to do it, however it's ugly and it kills accessibility since it repeats your text. In fact, we recommend skipping this one and just waiting for Firefox 3.1 to support <code>text-shadow</code>. But if you just can't be dissuaded, here's what you need to do:
<pre>
p.shadowed {
line-height: 1em;
white-space: nowrap;
}
p.shadowed:before {
display: block;
margin: 0 0 2px 2px;
color: #999;
}
p#shadowed_text:before { content: 'Look, ma, Shadows!'; }
</pre>
The key here is the <code>:before</code> pseudo-element which causes Firefox to take whatever text is in the element and duplicate it, offset to the right and down a little bit. It will also automatically be set to light gray, though I've explicitly set it to match our other efforts.
The only thing we need to do is give our paragraph an id of <code>#shadowed_text</code> and then set the content to match whatever is in the p tag.
The problem this introduces is that Safari also understands the <code>:before</code> rule (naturally IE does not) so Safari applies the text shadow ''and'' the <code>:before</code> hack which ends up looking strange.
Designer Neil Crosby, who came up with the this technique, uses the [http://www.giantisland.com/Resources/LitePacificHackforSafariAndIE7.aspx Stokely Safari Hack] to hide the <code>:before</code> element. The hack is somewhat complex and we recommend reading up on it at the link above and also check out [http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/css/cross-browser-drop-shadows how Crosby uses it in his guide].
So, ugly hacks all, we have some cross browser text shadows.
== Conclusion ==
If you've made it this far you're clearly a drop shadow obsessive and you'll be happy to know that there is some light on the horizon. Drop shadows using pure CSS have been theoretically possible since the CSS 2.1 spec was adopted. Unfortunately browsers have been slow to adopt support for it, but that appears to slowly changing.
There's also some hopein the form of the CSS 3 spec. As we saw above Safari and Firefox 3.1 support the text-shadow element and both also support the <code>box-shadow</code> element which is set to arrive in CSS 3. The <code>box-shadow</code> rule makes adding a shadow to an element as simple as this (which would work in Safari):
<pre>
-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #999;
</pre>]
Sounds pretty good after wrestling with background images and pseudo elements doesn't it? Just don't hold your breath waiting for IE 8 to catch up.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/css_dropdowndemo.html b/old/published/Webmonkey/css_dropdowndemo.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b934cc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/css_dropdowndemo.html @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
}
ul li {
position: relative;
float: left;
width: 100px;
}
li ul {
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
opacity: 0;
}
ul li a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 20px;
color: #777;
padding: 5px;
background: #CC0;
margin: 0 2px;
display: block;
-webkit-transition-property: background-color, color, text-shadow;
-webkit-transition-duration: .5s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function: ease-in;
}
ul li a:hover { background: #66F; }
li:hover ul { opacity: 1;
-webkit-transition: opacity 4s linear;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="">Web</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Browser</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Search</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Monkey</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Eating Banana</a></li>
<li><a href="">Throwing Poop</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="">Contact</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="">Via Web</a></li>
<li><a href="">Via Phone</a></li>
<li><a href="">Via tin can and string</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/cssbrowserhacks.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/cssbrowserhacks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acadb8a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/cssbrowserhacks.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Browser-specific CSS hacks have become a taboo among standards-aware web designers, and for good reason -- theoretically you shouldn't need them. However, as long as Internet 6 continues to hold significant market share there will likely remain some cases where you need to target CCS rules to just IE.
There are also times when you might need to target other browsers as well, which is why we've put together this comprehensive list of ways target specific browsers.
Because these hacks clutter your stylesheet and greatly complicate the process of maintaining your code, we strongly recommend that only use these techniques as a last resort. There's also a good chance that many of the hacks will stop working at some point since several of them exploit bugs in the browsers.
Still, for the times you need them, here is our list of browser-specific hacks.
== Internet Explorer ==
The easiest and best way to target CSS rules to only Internet Explorer is to use conditional comments to load an extra IE-specific stylesheet. That way all your IE-specific rules are in one file and separate from your standards compliant CSS rules.
To target IE using conditional comments, just add this line to the headtags of your HTML file:
<pre>
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mysite.com/path/to/ie6.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://mysite.com/path/to/ie7.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]-->
</pre>
The conditional comment will be ignored by every other browser so only IE 6 and IE 7 respectively will load these stylesheets. Now all you need to do is create the files on your server and override whatever CSS rules are messing with IE's head.
In fact this method works so well we aren't even going to mention the star-html hack or other older methods because there's just no reason to use them any more.
== Firefox ==
Firefox does a pretty good job of rendering web pages the way they are supposed to look, but every once in a while you'll find that some of the older versions do something a bit wonky.
To target a rule at Firefox 1.5 and 2, use this hack:
<pre>
body:empty #my-id {
/* Firefox-specific rules go here */
}
</pre>
The trick to this hack is the proposed CSS 3 <code>:empty</code> pseudo-class. The purpose of the <code>:empty</code> pseudo class is to allow you target any element that has no child elements. However, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 (and others based on those versions of Gecko) select the body even when the body has content. In other words this hack exploits a bug (that was fixed in Firefox 3).
The big downside to using this hack is that it's invalid CSS 2 (and may not even make CSS 3) so your stylesheets won't validate.
What if you need to target all versions of Firefox? To do that you can use a trick borrowed from Firefox extensions:
<pre>
@-moz-document url-prefix() {
#my-id { font-size: 100%; }
}
</pre>
The -moz prefix (which is also used for some of the cutting edge CSS support in Firefox 3 link to that tutorial about CSS 3) is combined with the -document url-prefix() selector which is how Firefox add-ons define their styles.
The result is a rule the only Firefox will apply.
If you're looking to target only Firefox 3, you're out of luck. As of this time we are not aware of any hacks that target only Firefox 3. If you know of a way to do that, be sure to add it.
== Safari ==
As with Firefox 3, we're not aware of any hacks to target specific versions of Safari, but there is a very ugly trick you can use to apply rules to only Safari 1 and 2:
<pre>
#my-id { color:red; }
#my-id { color:black;# }
</pre>
The first rule will set the font to red in all browsers. The second rule will set the font to black in every browser except Safari 1 & 2. This hack works because the first two releases of Safari had a bug where a hash mark after the semicolon caused Safari to choke.
This is probably the ugliest hack in this tutorial so use it sparingly, if at all. Also note that Safari v1 and v2 will choke on ''every'' rule after the "#" so put these at the bottom of your stylesheet.
If you need to target Safari in general (regardless of which version) using the same prefix trick we used above with Firefox.
In Safari's case (or any other webkit browser), the rule looks like this:
<pre>
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
#my-id { height: 100%; }
}
</pre>
The downside to this hack is that it also applies to Opera 9+. However you can retain the Safari-only aspect by combining it with the Opera-only rule below to achieve a kind of Safari-only targeting.
== Opera ==
Generally speaking Opera doesn't require many CSS hack since it's perhaps the most standards compliant of all the browsers. In fact, if you find something is rendering poorly in Opera, there's a good chance the error is on your end, not the browser's.
But, should you ever need to target Opera we have a way. This one comes courtesy of [http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.asp?pid=20 Neal Grosskopf] (who also has a comprehensive list of browser hack, including some conditional comment hacks we try to avoid, but if you need them, Grosskopf has the details).
To target Opera, use this rule:
<pre>
@media all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:10000), not all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
#my-id { clear:right; }
}
</pre>
As Gosskopf notes in his write up, this is one of the weakest hacks since it isn't really targeting Opera, it's targeting all browsers that support -min-device-pixel-ratio that aren't webkit. At the moment that means Opera, but eventually Firefox will likely add support for -min-device-pixel-ratio which means it too will be affected by this hack.
== Conclusion ==
CSS hacks are just that -- hacks. In general you should make every effort to avoid using them (except for the IE conditional comment hack which is pretty safe).
But for those times when you've tried everything and already pulled all the hair out of your head, hack away.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/cssframeworks.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/cssframeworks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3246ff --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/cssframeworks.txt @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +Working with Cascading Style Sheets is no easy feat. Between browser differences, varying site design requirements and client whims, writing reusable CSS can quickly become a frustrating process. CSS frameworks are one attempt to solve these and other common problems, but they are not without their own controversies. + +Purists and those hyper-concerned about semantically valid markup often decry the class names and arbitrary div tags that frameworks seem to encourage. + +But for many working in the web design trenches the ability to go from Photoshop comp to working demo site much faster far outweighs the semantic arguments. + +There's no question that frameworks can be very helpful, and even if you just use them for prototyping and quick, early drafts they can dramatically speed up your development process. + +Sound good? Well here's a quick overview of some of the more popular and helpful frameworks, along with any potential drawbacks. + +== General guidelines == + +When using a framework the easiest method is to include the files using and import statement in your HTML headtags. To ensure that your framework remains easy to maintain, update and change, make sure you don't change any of the framework files directly. + +Instead, just import a second stylesheet and make you changes there. For instance this code will import a local copy of the BluePrint framework and then a second CSS file which contains all the site-specific rules and overrides: + +<pre> + <link rel="stylesheet" + href="http://media.mysite.com/css/blueprint/screen.css" + type="text/css" + media="screen" + charset="utf-8"> + + <link rel="stylesheet" + href="http://media.mysite.com/css/base.css" + type="text/css" + media="screen" + charset="utf-8"> + +</pre> + +== BluePrintCSS == + +One of the first major frameworks to emerge from the CSS soup, [http://www.blueprintcss.org/ BluePrint] is perhaps best known for its amazing grid layout tools. BluePrint uses class names like <code>span-12</code> to make creating a grid layout much easier. So what would that <code>span-12</code> class do? Consider this HTML: + +<pre> +<div class="container"> + <div id="header" class="span-24"> + Header + </div> + <div class="span-18"> + Main content + </div> + <div class="span-6 last"> + Sidebar + </div> +</div> + +</pre> + + + +By default, BluePrint uses a grid layout that's 950px wide, with 24 columns spanning 30px, and a 10px margin between columns. So we define that overall space with the <code>container</code> class. Everything inside container will now be 950px wide. Now the header gets a <code>span-24</code> class to make sure that it goes all the way across all 24 columns. + +Then below that we want to have two columns, our content on the left and our sidebar on the right. So we add the appropriate <code>span-n</code> class names. If you wanted a wider sidebar and narrower main content, you'd just change those class names. Remember, the number in the class name translates to the number of 30px columns that that div will occupy (plus the 10px margins). + +The only thing that might be non-obvious is the <code>last</code> class, which simply stops BluePrint from adding the 10px margin to the last column in our layout (since that's the edge of the container anyway, we don't need the margin. + +Now what if your layout isn't 950px wide? That's fine, you can adjust the layout width in the file lib/compress.rb. You'll also notice a few other options in that file -- read through the comments to see what else it can do. + +Another popular way to change the container size, or adjust the number of columns is to use the [http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/ BluePrint CSS Grid Generator], which can output all the necessary changed files you need. + +If the class names bother you (they are arguably an example of mixing content and design together, which is not necessarily a good thing), check out the [http://dblogit.com/examples/bpa/ BluePrint CSS Architect] which will parse your XHMTL and generate a BluePrint-like grid using your existing IDs instead of class names. + +There's a good bit more to BluePrint including some very nice typography tools, as well as a number of[http://github.com/joshuaclayton/blueprint-css/wikis/plugins plugins] to extend the framework and tailor it to your site. + +== Tripoli == + +[http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/ Tripoli] is not technically, as the main page adamantly points out, a CSS framework. However, while Tripoli may eschew certain aspects of other CSS frameworks, for our purposes we'll just refer to as a framework. + +Tripoli started off primarily concerned with fonts and typography. While it has since added some layout tools, we still like it primarily for the gorgeous typography it produces. It also happens to offer full support for just about every browser known to man, including the ancient, seldom seen Internet Explorer 5. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to get great cross-browser font rendering, Tripoli delivers. + +The easiest way to get started with Tripoli is to just use the two simple ready-to-go CSS files [http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/tripoli.simple.css tripoli.simple.css] and [http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/tripoli.simple.ie.css tripoli.simple.ie.css]. Both are compressed to save on bandwidth and can be included in your HTML just like you would any other stylesheet: + + +<pre> +<link href="tripoli.simple.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> +<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tripoli.simple.ie.css"><![endif]--> +</pre> + +Now you can build your site using your own markup and layout in a third file, but let Tripoli handle the font rendering and some other default tasks like the ever-popular stylesheet reset. + +If you'd like more control when you're developing, download the entire suite and import the raw CSS files into a master style sheet. That way, you can always look into the components and localize conflicts quickly, if necessary. + +The main drawback to Tripoli's font handling is that overriding it requires some pretty specific CSS rules. For instance, you may be used to simply declaring a class on a list (call it <code>list</code>) and then styling it with declaration like this: <code>.list {}</code>. + +That won't work to override Tripoli's defaults. Instead you need to be more specific to avoid conflicts. In this case you'd want to use: <code>ul.list {}</code> + +Using a layout plugin, Tripoli also offers some basic grid options. You won't find anything as flexible as BluePrint, but it does offer a few different basic layouts. The Tripoli [http://devkick.com/lab/tripoli/layout.php layout demo] allows you to play with the possibilities and you can check the source code on that page to see how it works. + + +== BlueTrip == + +If you're thinking that it would be pretty cool to combine the grid system of BluePrint with the typography of Tripoli, you're not alone. In fact that's exactly what [http://bluetrip.org/ BlueTrip] does (hence the name). + +Since BlueTrip is just a modified version of both frameworks discussed above, using it is pretty much exactly the same. Just include the package and the typography elements of Tripoli will be applied and all the grid tools of BluePrint are available. + +While BlueTrip is a nice framework in its own right, one of the things we really like about it is that it exemplifies the best way to use CSS frameworks -- take the elements that prove helpful and ditch the rest. + +In this case BlueTrip takes the grid layout tools of BluePrint and the typography tools of Tripoli and ignores the rest. + +== YUI == + +By far the most complex of the CSS frameworks, Yahoo's system encompasses three main elements, a reset stylesheet, a grid layout tool, similar to BluePrint and a font definitions stylesheet. + +Getting started with YUI works much the same as with the others; include the framework base and (optionally) your override stylesheet: + +<pre> +<!-- Combo-handled YUI CSS files: --> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.6.0/build/reset-fonts-grids/reset-fonts-grids.css"> +</pre> + +Note that if you're using other YUI tools, like the various JavaScript widgets, there a very handy [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/?grids#configure YUI Dependency Configurator] for figuring out the optimum way to load files and which files you need. + +Okay, so now we have the framework loaded it's time to pick a layout scheme. Yahoo's system of layouts isn't quite as flexible as BluePrint's, there are no <code>span-n</code> tags (if you're worried about bulking up your HTML, that's a good thing). + +Instead Yahoo has some predetermined layouts you can choose from using the [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ YUI Grid Builder]. Select from standard widths like 750px, 950px, 974px or the more flexible 100%, which would necessitate some wrapper tags. + +You can then add left or right sidebars in standard layouts like 160px or 300px and customize a number of other elements. + +Once you have the demo page looking the way you'd like, Just hit the Show Code button and Yahoo will spit out some nicely formatted HTML that can serve as the basis of your page. For more information on YUI's grids, be sure to check out the [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/#start Grids Overview]. + +Once the grid elements are set, you can move on to fonts. The [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/ YUI Fonts CSS] offers some standardized fonts that work well with all of what Yahoo calls A grade browsers. The A grade ranking applies to all modern, standards-aware browsers, though if you need to support older, less capable browsers there is also a C grade, but unfortunately the font styles don't work with all of those browsers. + +Arial is the default font-family for all text (except pre and code) when you use Fonts CSS. All font declarations are in percentages, so if you need to override something, keep that in mind. Yahoo has a [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/#using handy chart] showing the percentage equivalent for common pixel sizes. + +In some way YUI is bit hard to work with, but once you wrap your head around it, it's every bit as useful and flexible as the others. + + +== Conclusion == + +As we've seen CSS frameworks can offer a solid foundation on which to build your sites. Even if you just use them to create faster prototypes for clients, there's generally something in frameworks that proves useful to just about everyone. + +But don't get the idea that you need to use every element of a framework. It may ruin some of the reuse and upgrading advantages, but feel free to rip out elements of these tools and just take what you need. + +In the end you might end up creating your own framework. If you do, and you release into the wild, be sure to add it to this page.
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The quick turnaround time between Firefox 3.5 and the new 3.6 means that Firefox 3.6 doesn't have quite as many new features as 3.5 offered, but there's still plenty of good stuff in the the new version. + +The open-source browser is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux. + + + +Although the turnaround time for Firefox 3.6 was faster than its predecessor, Mozilla was still plauged by delays and released an unprecedented five beta test versions before today's final release. + +However, while there were more betas than previous releases, according to Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's TK, the overall development time was actually shorter. Beltzner tells us that cranking out more betas at a faster pace made development smoother and allowed for more community feedback. + +Quote: +---- + +Mike Beltzner: + + +While this is the first time we've ever had a milestone that's been numbered as "Beta 5," we're doing something very different with betas this time around, and this has been one of the shortest beta periods in terms of calendar time that a Firefox release has ever had. Instead of spending 3-4 weeks making changes and releasing a beta, for Firefox 3.6 we decided to create a beta version that would be updated every 1 or 2 weeks with the latest changes. Last week we shipped the latest one of these "revisions" to the beta version of Firefox 3.6. This has made our beta period far more efficient, as we're able to quickly get feedback from our 600,000 user strong beta evaluation group. +----- + + + + +Firefox 3.6, released TK, brings significant performance boosts and a number of new features like support for Personas, fullscreen support for native web video and Web Open Font Format support for developers looking to use new fonts on their sites. + +On the surface, Firefox 3.6 looks like an incremental performance upgrade from the current version, Firefox 3.5, which was released in June 2009. But anyone spending a great deal of time in JavaScript-heavy web apps -- which these days is most of us -- will notice faster page loads thanks to improvements to the browser's rendering engine. + +Much of the added speed is due to improvements in TraceMonkey, Mozilla's JavaScript rendering engine. The good news is that not only does the tweaked TraceMonkey speed up webpage rendering, it's now available to speed up Firefox UI elements written in JavaScript. + +That change means the Firefox interface is snappier, and, when combined with the new version of Gecko, Firefox's core rendering engine, there's a noticeable improvement in Firefox 3.6's overall performance. + +In our testing, JavaScript-heavy sites like FriendFeed, Facebook and Gmail loaded faster, and the browser's initial start-up time was much better than with Firefox 3.5 (especially if you're reopening a large number of tabs). + +Also new under the hood is the new <code>about:support</code> page which offers a simple place to look up all the [pertinent information about the current Firefox installation][7], including a list off installed extensions, any user-modified preference setting, links to installed plug-ins and other configuration details. + +###Personas### + +Firefox 3.6 brings built-in support for lightweight themes, which Mozilla calls [Personas][1]. Personas has been around for a while ([you can even sync them through Weave][2]), but previously installing Personas required a separate extension to manage them. + +Now Personas can be installed right out of the box, allowing you to tweak and theme Firefox as you'd like. Although Personas don't offer quite the options of a full fledged theme, they're much easier to create and install. If you'd like to try out some custom themes, head over to the [Persona site][1]. + +###Fullscreen HTML5 Video### + +Firefox 3.6 now supports [fullscreen video playback][6] through native HTML5 video embeds. Just right click a video embedded using the HTML5 video tag and you'll see a new menu item for full screen playback. + +Currently video on the web is generally embedded using proprietary technologies like Adobe's Flash Player or Microsoft's Silverlight plugin. + +Native HTML5 video will give users a way to watch movies online without the need of third-party plugins. + +Firefox previously supported HTML5 native video but lacked the ability to play those videos in fullscreen mode, an oversight that Firefox 3.6 corrects, putting open source video on largely equal footing with proprietary technologies like Flash or Silverlight. + + + + + +###Security Enhancements### + +Firefox 3.6 includes the ability to check for out of date plugins and will point you to the offending plugin's website to download the latest version. + +The primary target here is the Flash Plugin, which previously had no update mechanism in Firefox and could leave Firefox users vulnerable to attack even if the browser itself were up-to-date. + +Mozilla has also changed the way third-party add-ons integrate with Firefox. The Firefox components directory is now off limits to third-party tools like Firefox add-ons. The move is mainly designed to make Firefox more stable by preventing add-ons from accessing lower level tools that could cause crashes. + +According to the Mozilla, there are no features to be gained from accessing the components directory, so your favorite add-ons should not be adversely affected by the change. + +###More Web Standards Support### + +Web developers will be happy to hear that quite a few new features in CSS 3 have made their way into Firefox 3.6. Firefox now supports the <code>background-size</code> property as well as some cool tricks for handling background images with CSS. Designers can [specify the size of background images][4] on web pages, stretching them by dictating what percentage of the browser window's width they take up. + +There are also some new methods for [applying gradients to page backgrounds][5], enabling designers to create more interesting, colorful backgrounds without using images at all, just by defining a few colors in their HTML. + +Firefox 3.6 also supports the [Web Open Font Format (WOFF)][3] which allows developers to use server-side fonts to build better typography into their designs. + +###Conclusion### + +Firefox 3.6 is not the radical overhaul that Firefox 3.5 offered, but the latest version is a worthy upgrade nonetheless. The welcome speed improvements combined with the UI changes and expanded HTML5 support make Firefox 3.6 a must-have upgrade. + +We're already looking forward to the next version of Firefox, tentatively listed as Firefox 3.7, which, with any luck will bring isolated tabs for application crashes (ala Google Chrome), integration of the Ubiquity add-on into the Awesome bar and of course, even more enhancements for HTML 5. + + +[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/personas/ +[2]: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Weave_Adds_Personas_to_its_Bag_of_Firefox_Syncing_Tricks +[3]: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Mozilla_Throws_Its_Weight_Behind_Improving_Web_Type__Adopts_WOFF_for_Firefox +[4]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-background-size +[5]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Gradients +[6]: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_3DOT6_Aims_to_Bring_Fullscreen__Open_Source_Video_to_the_Web +[7]: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Troubleshooting_Firefox_Gets_Easier_With_New__About:Support__Page + +<strong>See Also:</strong><br/> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_3DOT6_Beta_1_Arrives:_More_Speed__Better_Video__New_Tab_Tricks">Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Arrives: More Speed, Better Video, New Tab Tricks</a></li> +<li><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Mozilla_Throws_Its_Weight_Behind_Improving_Web_Type__Adopts_WOFF_for_Firefox">Mozilla Throws Its Weight Behind Improving Web Type, Adopts WOFF for Firefox</a></li> + +<li><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_3DOT6_Aims_to_Bring_Fullscreen__Open_Source_Video_to_the_Web">Firefox 3.6 Aims to Bring Fullscreen, Open Source Video to the Web</a></li> + +<li><a href=""></a></li> +</ul>
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/howto-html5-semantic-tags.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/howto-html5-semantic-tags.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec64e6c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/howto-html5-semantic-tags.txt @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +In our last tutorial we looked at some of the new structural markup tags in HTML 5 that are designed to reduce the "<code><div></code>-soup" of HTML 4 and add semantic meaning to your page's layout. + +But not every new tag in HTML is strictly structural, there are other tags that also add valuable semantic meaning to your pages in non-structural ways. Today we'll take a look at how to use them and what they can do for your content. + +===The <code><time></code> tag=== + +They're have been a couple of cases recently where old news has been republished as if it were new; sometimes through human error, sometimes through news search crawler error. In some cases the damage was worse than just making the perpetrators look bad, it actually sent a few stocks into a tailspin. + +While there's not much HTML 5 can do to help human error, the [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element <code><time%gt;</code> tag] could have saved the search engine spiders. + +Despite the timelessness of the web, most things published carry some sort of date/time stamp and that's exactly what the time tag is intended to convey. The most basic usage looks something like this: + +<pre> +<code>Published <time>12/20/2009</time></code> +</pre> + +However the time tag also has an attribute <code>datetime</code> that makes it even more useful because it allows you to give your human readers a nice date format inside the tag, but also provide search engines spider with something more useful to them. Let's amend the above code slightly: + +<pre> +<code>Published <time datetime="2009-12-20T17:22:28-05:00">Thursday, December 20, 2009 at 10:28PM EST</time></code> +</pre> + +Now you might be thinking that the terribly unreadable attribute syntax (also know as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ISO 8601] date format] in our example is way more pain than it's worth. Indeed if you're hand coding it probably is, but any good content management system should be able to output this format for you. For example, to make this work in WordPress you would simple add this bit of HTML 5 to your template: + +<pre> +<code>Published <time datetime="<?php the_time('c'); ?>"><?php the_time('l, F j, Y +'); ?></time></code> +</pre> + +A couple of things to note. According to the spec if you omit the datetime attribute than the tag must contain a valid date string. The valid part means it must be in the format: year, month, day. Also worth mentioning: when you use the datetime attribute the tag itself can be empty. While both of these variants are okay according to the spec, we suggest you use both a machine readable datetime for the attribute and human-readable format inside the actual tag. + +===The <code><figure></code> tag=== + +The figure tag was designed to make image embedding more descriptive and easier to recognize. The figure tag isn't limited to images though, it can also be used for diagrams, code snippets and more. + +But figure isn't intended for every image. The key phrase in the spec is any illustrative element "that could, without affecting the flow of the document, be moved away from that primary content, e.g. to the side of the page, to dedicated pages, or to an appendix." + +The most common use case is an image that you refer to in the body of an article. To use figure you simply wrap your image tag and add a legend like this: + +<pre> +<code> +<figure> + <img src="/images/tcpreport.jpg" + alt="TCP Report, July 2009"> + <legend>July 2009 TCP Reports</legend> +</figure> +</code> +</pre> + +The figure tag can also be used for code snippets, for example to markup the code snippet in the previous example you'd have something like this:: + +<pre> +<code> +<figure> + <legend>Using the HTML 5 Figure tag</legend> + <pre><code> + <figure> + <img src="/images/tcpreport.jpg" + alt="TCP Report, July 2009"> + <legend>July 2009 TCP Reports</legend> +</figure> + </code></pre> +</figure> +</code> +</pre> + +The most important thing to remember about the <code><figure></code> tag is that you don't need to use it for every image you want to embed in a page -- just those cases where you refer to the image in question to illustrate a point or use as an example in your article. + +===The <code><dialog></code> tag=== + +The [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-dialog-element dialog element] is for marking up conversations -- a chat transcripts, an interview, a dialog in a screenplay and so on. The <code><dialog></code> tag works pretty much like a definition list, but specifically denotes dialog, for example the famous Abbot and Costello Who's on First routine: + +<pre> +<code> +<dialog> + <dt> Costello </dt> + <dd> Look, you gotta first baseman? </dd> + <dt> Abbott </dt> + <dd> Certainly. </dd> + <dt> Costello </dt> + <dd> Who's playing first? </dd> + <dt> Abbott </dt> + <dd> That's right. </dd> +</dialog> +</code> +</pre> + +You could also use dialog for something like a blog's comment section since comments are, generally speaking, a conversation with speakers and then what they said. Something like this: + +<pre> +<code> +<dialog> + <dt id="comment_1">Commenter Name</dt> + <dd>HEllo. I really likes your site. want to buy some WOW gold?</dd> +</dialog> +</code> +</pre> + +===Revisiting the <code><aside></code> tag=== + +Last time we looked at the <code><aside></code> tag as way to markup a sidebar or other structural content. But <code><aside></code> can also be used in less structural ways; for example as a way to highlight a quote within an article. + +Here's one of the official examples (also note the use of the <code><q></code> tag, a little-used HTML 4 element): + +<pre> +<code> +<p>He later joined a large company, continuing on the same work. +<q>I love my job. People ask me what I do for fun when I'm not at +work. But I'm paid to do my hobby, so I never know what to +answer. Some people wonder what they would do if they didn't have to +work... but I know what I would do, because I was unemployed for a +year, and I filled that time doing exactly what I do +now.</q></p> + +<aside> + <q> People ask me what I do for fun when I'm not at work. But I'm + paid to do my hobby, so I never know what to answer. </q> +</aside> + +<p>Of course his work — or should that be hobby? — +isn't his only passion. He also enjoys other pleasures.</p> + +</code> +</pre> + +This is essentially what newspapers and magazines refer to as a "pull-quote," an excerpt from an article that's been "pulled out" and typeset separately (usually a larger font). Other examples include the traditional, Hamlet-style aside, but not, according to the spec, parenthetical asides that fit the normal flow of the document. + +Who knew HTML 5 would require a linguistics degree? Like we said in the first tutorial, the spec isn't perfect. + +===The <code><mark></code> tag=== + +The mark tag is intended to denote text that is particularly relevant. It's a bit like <code><strong></code> but instead of denoting the importance of its contents, it denotes relevance. + +The <code><mark></code> tag isn't one that you'll probably use very often, but it does have one particularly handy use case: highlighting search terms that brought a visitor to your site. You've probably seen sites that do this, somewhat like the way Google highlights your search terms when you access a cached page rather than the like site. That's the perfect time to use the <code><mark></code> tag. + +===Conclusion=== + +That about does it for the rest of the semantic tags in HTML 5, next time around we'll start playing with the API related tags like <code><audio></code>, <code><video></code> and <code><canvas></code>.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/html5audiovideo.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/html5audiovideo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ea3468 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/html5audiovideo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +In the previous two HTML 5 tutorials we looked at some structural tags to help eliminate "div-soup," and some other semantic tags to help give your pages easy-to-parse dates, captioned images and more. + +Now it's time to take a look at what might be the most hyped part of the HTML 5 spec -- the audio and video tags. + +Currently the only reliable way to embed video on a webpage so that all users, regardless of browser or OS, can see them, is the Flash plugin and a combination of the <code><object></code>and <code><embed></code> tags. + +The idea behind the new <code><video></code> tag is to provide a way to embed (and interact with) video without needing a proprietary plugin like Flash. + +Unfortunately video isn't that simple. Not only does the browser need to understand the <code><video></code> tag, it also needs to have the codec necessary to play the video. The obvious solution would be for the HTML 5 spec to name a video codec that every browser could then implement. + +And that's where the fur started flying. The debate over various codecs is rather complex (our sister site, Ars Technica, has a nice [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/07/decoding-the-html-5-video-codec-debate.ars in-depth look at the debate]), but the short story is that browser makers couldn't agree on a video codec. Apple doesn't like the proposed Ogg Theora codec and Opera and Mozilla don't want to pay to license the H.264 codec. Google is implimenting both and Microsoft stayed largely out of the fray since it currently has no plans to implement the HTML 5 video element at all. + +Faced with a standoff among the browser makers, HTML 5's benevolent dictator, Ian Hickson, effectively threw up his hands and said screw it -- there's no video codec named in the HTML 5 spec. + +Does that mean the video tag is useless? No, it just means that widespread adoption of a video codec is still a ways off. + +In the mean time, let's take a look at how you would use the video tag, and how you can use it today with some fallback code for the browsers that can't handle it. + +===TK=== + +Lest you think that what we're about to wade through is ultimately an exercise in futility if there is no agreed upon standard, consider this -- Google is chomping at the bit to use the video tag for YouTube. In fact there's already [http://www.youtube.com/html5 a mockup of what YouTube would look like in HTML 5]. While the company hasn't announced a timeline to convert YouTube to use the HTML 5 <code><video></code> tag, you can bet that when they do the rest of the web will follow suit. + +So how does video work? Well, are you ready? Here's the code to embed a video in HTML 5: + +<pre> +<code> +<video src="/myvideo.mp4"></video> +</code> +</pre> + +Pretty simple right? Well, ideally you would do something more like this (which is what the aforementioned YouTube demo does): + +<pre> +<code> +<video width="640" height="360" src="/demo/google_main.mp4?2" autobuffer> + <div class="fallback"> + <p>You must have an HTML5 capable browser.</p> + </div> +</video> +</code> +</pre> + +There are also a number of useful attributes for the <code><video></code> tag, including autoplay controls, a "poster" attribute that points to an image file to display before the video is loaded, and a boolean attribute for play/pause controls. The full list of video tag attributes can be found on the [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5_video.asp W3C schools site]. + +The <code><video></code> tag also has a whole host of events you can hook into with JavaScript, allowing you to play movies inside movies and set up complex user interactions via mouse and keyboard events. Here's an example that uses the video tag in conjunction with the Canvas tag and Web Workers (we'll cover those in the future) to [http://htmlfive.appspot.com/static/tracker1.html create a motion tracking system] for web video. + +Okay, that's all well and good but since not every browser can play MP4 videos and very few of them understand the video tag, what can you do today? Well, the unfortunate answer is that you'll need multiple videos. Hardly ideal, but if you want to push the HTML boundaries, you can embed your video using the <code><video></code> tag for browsers that support HTML 5 and fallback on Flash for those that don't. + +Something like this would do the trick: + +<pre> +<code> +<video src="video.mp4" controls> + <object data="player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> + <param value="player.swf" name="movie"/> + ...etc... + </object> +</video> +</code> +</pre> + +Obviously all we've really done is wrap the same old <code><object></code> and <code><embed></code> tags with the new <code><video></code> tag -- hardly a great leap for the web. + +How about we get rid of the fallback code, keep our HTML limited to the video tag and use a little JavaScript to handle the Flash embedding behind the scenes? + +Drupal developer Henrik Sjökvist has an [http://henriksjokvist.net/archive/2009/2/using-the-html5-video-tag-with-a-flash-fallback example of how to do that using the following HTML 5 code]: + +<pre> +<code> +<video controls> + <source src="video.m4v" type="video/mp4" /> <!-- MPEG4 for Safari --> + <source src="video.ogg" type="video/ogg" /> <!-- Ogg Theora for Firefox 3.1b2 --> +</video> +</code> +</pre> + +Sjökvist's Flash solution requires a little JavaScript to sniff out the browsers capabilities and then offer Flash if the browser can't understand HTML 5 (note that the code uses the [http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ swfobject library] to handle the actual embed). We prefer this method since it keeps the actual HTML code cleaner and when video tag support is ubiquitous, all you need to do is drop the JavaScript, no rewriting your actual pages. + +Another possible solution would be to simply load the MP4 movie into a Flash container file. As of Flash Player 10, Flash supports dynamically loaded MP4 files, so all you would need is to use Sjökvist's JavaScript detection code, but rather than feeding your player swf a separate .flv video file, you could just load the same mp4 file. + +If you need a refresher course on how to dynamically load videos into a Flash file, check out [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840213/how-do-i-load-a-mov-file-into-flash-9 this Stack Overflow page] which has a quick overview and some basic sample code. + +Using that scenario you've got a solution where every visitor can see your video and you only need to offer two actual files: OGG for Firefox and MP4 for everyone else. + +===Audio=== + +The audio tag is more or less a duplicate of the video tag. The same codec limitations apply -- Mozilla only supports ogg files, while Safari can handle pretty much anything Quicktime can. + +The code looks very similar to <code><video></code>: + +<pre> +<code> +<audio src="/music/myaudio.ogg" autoplay> + Sorry, your browser does not support the <code>audio</code> element. +</audio> +</code> +</pre> + +And as with the <code><video></code> tag, the same Flash-based workarounds would give you near universal support for today's crop of browsers. + +=== Conclusion === + +As you can see the audio and video landscape in HTML 5 has some issues -- namely the inability for browser makers to come to any sort of codec consensus. But bear in mind that the good old <code><img></code> tag also lacks a specific format and we've managed to make that work over time. + +Ideally all the browsers would support both Ogg and H.264, giving developers even more options. + +There's also the possibility that Google will open source the codecs it is trying to acquire from On2. On2's VP3 codec is the basis for Ogg Theora and if Google open source VP6, VP7 or VP8 there's another possible solution for open source video on the web.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/html5howto.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/html5howto.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..408905c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/html5howto.txt @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +Depending on who you ask, HTML 5 is either the next important step toward creating a more semantic web, or a disaster that's going to trap the web in yet another set of incomplete tags and markup soup. + +The problem with both sides of the argument is that almost no one is using HTML 5 in the wild so its theoretical problems and solutions remain largely untested. That said, it isn't hard to see both benefits and potential problems with the next generation of web markup tools. + +First off, what do we mean by HTML 5? Well, ideally we mean the whole thing, new semantic structural tags, API specs like canvas or offline storage and even some new inline semantic tags. However, for practical reasons -- read: browser support issues -- we're going to limit this intro to just the structural tags. As cool as Canvas, offline storage, native video or the geolocation APIs are, most browsers don't yet support them. + +But wait, most browsers don't support the new structural elements either... That's true, but the vast majority of them will happily accept any tag you want to make up. Even IE 6 can deal with the new elements, though if you want to apply styles using CSS you'll need a little JavaScript help. + +The one thing to keep in mind when you're applying styles to the new tags is that unknown tags have no default style in most browsers. They're also treated as inline elements. However, because most of the new HTML 5 tags are structural, we'll want them be behave like block elements. The solution is make sure that you include <code>display:block;</code> in your CSS styles. + +To help make some sense of what's new in HTML 5 today we're going to dive right in and start using some of the new structural elements. + +###Finally, a doctype anyone can remember + +The first thing we need to do to create an HTML 5 document is use the new doctype. Now if you've actually memorized the HTML 4 or XHTML 1.x doctypes you're better monkeys than us. Whenever we start a new page we have to bring up an old one and cut and paste the doctype definition over. + +It's a pain, which is why we love the new HTML 5 doctype. Are you ready? Here it is: + +<pre> +<code><!DOCTYPE html> +</code> +</pre> + +Shouldn't be too hard to commit that to memory. Simple and obvious. The idea is to stop versioning HTML so that backwards compatibility is easier. Whether or not that pans out in the long run is a whole other story, but at least it saves you some typing in the mean time. + +###Semantic Structure at Last + +Okay, we have our page defined as an HTML 5 document. So far so good, now what are these new tags you speak of? + +Well, before we dive into the new tags consider the structure of your average web page, which (generally) looks something like this: + +<pre> +<code> +<html> + <head> + ...stuff... + </head> + <body> + <div id="header"> + <h1>My Site</h1> + </div> + <div id="nav"> + <ul> + <li>Home</li> + <li>About</li> + <li>Contact</li> + </ul> + </div> + <div id=content> + <h1>My Article</h1> + <p>...</p> + </div> + <div id="footer"> + <p>...</p> + </div> + </body> +</html> +</code> +</pre> + +That's fine and dandy for display purposes, but what if we want to know something about what the page elements contain? + +In this example we've added IDs to all our structural divs -- a fairly common practice among savvy designers. The purpose is two-fold, first, the IDs provide hooks which can be used to apply styles to specific sections of the page and, second, the IDs serve as a primitive, pseudo-semantic structure. Smart parsers will look at the ID attributes on a tag and try to guess what they mean, but it's hard when ID names are different on every site. + +And that's where the new structural tags come in. + +Recognizing that these IDs were common practice, the authors of HTML 5 have gone a step further and made some of these elements into their own tags. Here's a quick overview of the new structural tags available in HTML 5: + +####<code><header></code> + +The header tag is intended as a container for introductory information about a section or an entire webpage. The <code><header></code> tag can include anything from your typical logo/slogan that sits atop most pages, to a headline and lede that introduces a section. If you've been using <code><div id="header"></code> in your pages, that would be the tag to replace with <code><header></code>. + +####<code><nav></code> + +The nav element is pretty self-explanatory -- navigation goes here. Of course what constitutes navigation is somewhat debatable -- there's primary site navigation, but in some cases there may also be page navigation elements as well. The WHATWG, creators of HTML 5, recently amended the explanation of <code><nav></code> to show how it could be used twice on the same page. For more on nav and a lively debate about HTML 5, see Zeldman's article on the nav element. + +The short story is that if you've been using a <code><div id="nav"></code> tag to hold your page navigation, you can replace it with a simple <code><nav></code> tag. + +####<code><section></code> + +Section is probably the most nebulous of the new tags. According the HTML 5 spec, a section is a thematic grouping of content, typically preceded by a header tag, and followed by a footer tag. But sections can also be nested inside of each other, if needed. + +In our example above the div "content" would be a good candidate to become a section. Then within that section, depending on the content, we might have additional sections. + +####<code><article></code> + +According the WHATWG notes, the article element should wrap "a section of content that forms an independent part of a document or site; for example, a magazine or newspaper article, or a blog entry." + +####<code><aside></code> + +Another fairly nebulous tag, the aside element is for content that is "tangentially related to the content that forms the main textual flow of a document." That means a parenthetical remark, inline footnotes, pull quotes, annotations or the more typical sidebar content like you see to the right of this article. + +According to the WHATWG's notes it seems like <code><aside></code> would work in all those cases, despite the fact that there's considerable difference between a pull quote and tag cloud in your sidebar. Hey, no one said HTML 5 was perfect. + +####<code><footer></code> + +Footer should also be self-explanatory, except perhaps that you can have more than one. In other words sections can have footers in addition to the main footer generally found at the bottom of most pages. + + + +###Putting it all Together + +Okay, let's rewrite our original example using the new tags: + +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> + <head> + ...stuff... + </head> + <body> + <header> + <h1>My Site</h1> + </header> + <nav> + <ul> + <li>Home</li> + <li>About</li> + <li>Contact</li> + </ul> + </nav> + <section> + <h1>My Article</h1> + <article> + <p>...</p> + </article> + </section> + <footer> + <p>...</p> + </footer> + </body> +</html> + +Much cleaner and easier to understand. A couple of notes: we could have wrapped our <h1>My Article</h1> headline in header tags. I opted not to since the h1 element already conveys the heading, but if you also had a pub date, byline or other data atop your post, the collective group of tags would be a good candidate for adding a header container tag. + +Also note that we could add a second footer element below the article element to contain things like next/prev navigation, related posts or other content. + +###Styling the new tags + +In most browsers all you need to do is simply define your styles as you normally would, but make sure to add the display:block; rule to every element (for now anyway, in time, as browsers begin adding the new elements that won't be necessary). + +For example let's apply some styles to our header: + +header { + display: block; + font-size: 36px; + font-weight: bold; +} + +Keep in mind that you can still added class and ID attributes to these tags so if you wanted to style one navigation section separately you'd simple add a class or ID to the tag like so: <code><nav class="main-menu"></code>. Then you can apply a style like so: + +nav.main-menu { + font-size: 18px; +} + +But wait, what about IE? None of these styles are working in IE 6. If you still need to support legacy browsers like IE there is a fix. IE 6 parses and displays these tags just fine, but it won't apply an CSS to them. The fix is to use a bit a JavaScript. + +All we need to do to get IE to style our HTML 5 tags is use the <code>createElement</code> method so IE 6 becomes aware of the new tags. Add this bit to the head of your HTML 5 file, or alternatively you can save it in a separate file and include it that way. + +<pre> +<code> +<script> + document.createElement('header'); + document.createElement('nav'); + document.createElement('section'); + document.createElement('article'); + document.createElement('aside'); + document.createElement('footer'); +</script> +</code> +</pre> + +I know what you're thinking, hey, you didn't specify a MIME type for that script tag. You don't need to in HTML 5. In HTML 5 all scripts are assumed to be type="text/javascript" so there's no need it clutter up your script tags with attributes anymore (unless your script is something other than JavaScript). + +That fixes the IE problems, but we're not out of the woods just yet. It turns out that there's a bug in the Gecko rendering engine that causes Firefox 2 and some versions of Camino to choke on these tags as well. + +There are two ways to work around this bug, neither of which are ideal. For more details check out the HTML5doctor site (the same article also has a handy script with all the HTML 5 elements already to go). Bear in mind though that Firefox 2 usage stats are quickly falling below 10 percent of all web traffic, so simply ignoring this bug might be a possibility depending on your site's audience. + +###Okay, now you can use HTML5, should you? + +The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that it depends on the site. If you're revamping your blog we say go ahead (there are some WordPress plugins that can help if you're using WordPress). If you're charged with recreating the CNN homepage, well, you might want to hold off for a bit until browser support improves. + +However, if IE's shortcoming are holding you back, consider this: even Google is using the HTML 5 doctype on their main search page. Even if you don't use all the new structural tags you can at least take advantage of things like shorter script declarations, and some of the non-structural semantic tags that we'll cover next time around. + +Stay tuned!
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/htmlforms.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/htmlforms.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e52fe3a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/htmlforms.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Web forms are one of the uglier elements on most pages -- they're often blocky and look awkward and out of place in the overall design of the page. There's a good reason for that, styling forms is challenging.
The problem is complicated by the myriad of ways to mark up a form using HTML. Since the markup often changes from site to site it's difficult to create a clean, reusable code base you can move from one website to the next.
However, while web forms are one of the more complex things you'll find yourself working with, they're also one of the things that separates the good web designer from the friend of a friend who once read some book on HTML.
To help you out, we're going to break down the elements of web forms and talk about how to handle them in your stylesheets.
== Understand the HTML ==
There are a number of tags available for form and not all of them are necessary, but here's an overview of some of the tools at your disposal:
# '''form''' -- hopefully obvious, this is the container tag
# '''fieldset''' -- often overlooked the <code>fieldset</code> tag is a handy way of grouping related from elements.
# '''legend''' -- used in conjunction with <code>fieldset</code>, legend allows you to add a caption to each fieldset. Think of it as a title for your fieldsets.
# '''label''' -- the label has two purposes, first it tells the user what sort of data the input requires and it also creates a code-level link between the data being collected and the control element.
# '''input''' -- the meat of your form, this is the tag that actually collects the user data and passes it on.
As an example of how you might use these elements to markup you're form, let's take a look at one of the most common forms on the web -- the comment form. Here's what your HTML might look like:
<pre>
<form action="#" class="myform">
<fieldset>
<legend>Leave a Comment</legend>
<ul>
<li>
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input id="name" />
</li>
<li>
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input id="email" />
</li>
<li>
<label for="comment">Comments:</label>
<textarea id="comments" rows="7" cols="25"></textarea>
</li>
<li>
<label for="remember">Remember Me:</label>
<input type="radio" name="remember" value="true" />Yes
<input type="radio" name="remember" value="false" checked/>No
</li>
</ul>
</fieldset>
<p><input type="submit" value="Leave comment" /></p>
</form>
</pre>
Let's break this down and see what's going on. First off we have the form container tag. Obviously you'd want to switch out the "#" for the path to your form processing script. Next we use a <code>fieldset</code> tag to group together all our form elements (except for the button at the bottom which we've wrapped in paragraph tags).
Next up we add a legend tag so that people will know this is the comment form. Then we use an unordered list to group our form elements. Why? Well, for one thing it makes it easy to style -- each <code>li</code> tag acts as a container for a row in our form with the label and input conveniently grouped together. The other reason is semantic, a form is gathering a list of data. Now you could make the argument that a definition list might be the more semantically valid choice, but it makes styling a bit more complicated so, for simplicity's sake, we'll stick with the unordered list.
== Adding some style ==
Okay, now that we have the HTML elements in place let's add some CSS styles to make our form look better.
<pre>
form.myform {
margin-left: 155px;
width: 300px;
}
form.myform fieldset {
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: -155px;
}
form.myform legend {
padding: 0 2px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1.6em;
}
form.myform fieldset ul {
margin: 0 0 0 155px;
padding: 0;
}
form.myform fieldset li {
list-style: none;
padding: 10px;
margin: 0;
clear: both;
}
form.myform label {
font-weight: bold;
float: left;
text-align:right;
margin-left: -155px;
width: 150px;
}
form.myform p{
margin-left: 155px;
}
</pre>
What we've done here is just add some basic margin and padding so that all our elements nicely spaced and then remove the default list element styles (note that if you're using a reset stylesheet to fix these issues, then you can skip them here).
The only thing slightly tricky in this CSS is that we're adding a left margin to the whole form and then pulling the fieldset and label tags back with a negative left margin. This has the effect of creating a two column look to our form -- the left side holds all the labels, the right side all of the inputs.
Here's roughly what your form should now look like (screenshot taken in Firefox 3.0):
forms-shot1.jpg
It's a bit spartan, but a good starting point. Before we move on we should point out that, while it doesn't affect our form, the Internet Explorer 6 "3 pixel bug" often pops up when start styling multi-line forms. It can make things like inline checkboxes very difficult to deal with. Fortunately there's a solution that isn't too hard to implement. Check out [http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html Position is Everything] for more details.
== Making to Prettier ==
Now that we have a nice structure to our form there are countless possibilities for styling the various elements. Here's one take that we whipped up. This code will create a nice pale blue form with shaded text inputs and highlighting for the active text box. Paste the following code into the style definition, below what we used above:
<pre>
form.myform input, form.myform textarea {
border: solid 1px #85b1de;
background: #fff url('formbg.gif') repeat-x;
background-position: top;
}
form.myform input:focus, form.myform textarea:focus {
background-image: none;
background-color: #ffffff;
border: solid 1px #fded7f;
}
</pre>
This adds a nice blue border around all our input areas and includes an image with a slight gradient to shade the text areas. To round out the bluish look, add a background the fieldset tag like so:
<pre>
form.myform fieldset {
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: -155px;
background: #d0d9fd;
}
</pre>
Your form should now look like this screenshot, which shows the new blue look with the yellow highlight to let users know what field is currently selected (note that the yellow highlight CSS won't work in IE 6, to accomplish something similar in a way that IE 6 can handle you'll need to resort to JavaScript).
forms-shot1.jpg
(screenshot in Safari on a Mac.)
One thing to note about styling the background using the fieldset element -- IE 6 will apply the background beyond the fieldset border, causing a bit of spillover. The problem is that IE 6 applies the background color to the legend tag as well. The solution is to position the legend tag outside the usual document flow by using <code>position:absolute;</code>. Check out [http://www.mattheerema.com/web-design/2006/04/getting-fieldset-backgrounds-and-legends-to-behave-in-ie/ Matt Heerema's blog for more details] on how to handle the IE 6 workaround.
== Conclusion ==
As we've seen, styling forms is not the easiest thing in the world, but once you understand the basic tags and the options available it isn't too terribly difficult and well styled forms can go a long way to making your site that much more usable and attractive.
If the whole thing seems just too much for you, have a look at the JavaScript library [http://www.emblematiq.com/projects/niceforms/ Niceforms] which can handle some of the heavy lifting for you. Note though that Niceforms doesn't degrade well in all situations.
Other good resources for styling forms include A List Apart's [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms Pretty Accessible Forms] and Eric Meyer's [http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/15/formal-weirdness/ Formal Weirdness] which covers some of the cross-browser issues you might encounter.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/iUI/iui.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/iUI/iui.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8968a6a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/iUI/iui.txt @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +The iPhone may not yet have a majority share in the smartphone world, but it's well on its way. And that means creating a version of your website tailored to the look and feel of the iPhone is all but mandatory for today's web apps. + +It might seem like a pain to completely recreate your website just for the iPhone, but luckily doing so isn't all that tough. The secret is to use the JavaScript toolset developed by [http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/introducing_iui.php Joe Hewitt]. Hewitt's script, known as [http://code.google.com/p/iui/ iUI], takes care of all the heavy lifting for you. + +So long as your site is using valid (X)HTML, it's not hard at all to sequester off a domain for your iPhone users and apply the iUI tools to generate your iPhone-friendly site. Even better, you don't need to be a JavaScript guru to get a basic site up and running. + +==Detecting Vs Destination== + +You might be thinking of using some JavaScript to sniff out mobile Safari and serve up your iPhone site whenever your detect Apple's mobile web browser. + +Don't do that. + +Just because you're offering iPhone users a dedicated interface, doesn't mean you should force them to use it. Many of them may want to access your normal site and if you're using a browser detection script to redirect Mobile Safari, they won't be able to get to the main site. + +A far better plan is create a sub domain or other specific iPhone-friendly URL. That way those that like your iPhone interface can get it and those that want access to the regular site can site enjoy that as well. + +==Getting started== + +The first thing to do is set up your sub domain or other URL. For example: i.mysite.com. When you're doing this keep in mind that the iPhone isn't the easiest thing to type on so the shorter the URL the better. + +Now you just need to generate some HTML for that sub domain. If you're using a database and template publishing system, it's not too tough. Just call the same data you'd get for your main site and structure it in a manner that suits the iPhone. + +This is where it helps if you actually have an iPhone, but if you don't here's a tip to get you started: lists, lots of lists. + +The iUI library has some very nice set of tools that will turn your lists into a sideways-sliding navigation interface that works very well with the iPhone's finger gestures. + +For instance, let's say you have a number of categories on your site and you want iPhone users to be able to navigate through all your content by category. One sound strategy would be to generate markup like this: + +<pre> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<title>iUI Barrel of Monkeys Demo</title> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/> +<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import "../iui/iui.css";</style> +<script type="application/x-javascript" src="../iui/iui.js"></script> +</head> +<body> + <div class="toolbar"> + <h1 id="pageTitle">Barrel of Monkeys</h1> + <a id="backButton" class="button" href="#"></a> + <a class="button" href="#searchForm">Search</a> + </div> + <ul id="home" title="Categories" selected="true"> + <li class="group">B</li> + <li><a href="#Bananas">Bananas</a></li> + <li><a href="#Barrels">Barrels</a></li> + <li class="group">M</li> + <li><a href="#Monkeys">Monkeys</a></li> + <li class="group">P</li> + <li><a href="#PointySticks">Pointy Sticks</a></li> + </ul> +</body> +</html> + +</pre> + +With this markup we've embedded the iUI scripts and CSS. Then we've told iUI to create an iPhone styled list (iui1.jpg). If you look at the screenshot you'll notice that iUI automatically uses the class attribute "group" to build iPhone-style list dividers and styles all our links as horizontal sliding elements. + +If you'll look at the actual HTML you'll notice none of our links actually lead to other pages. Depending on the complexity of your site this may not work for every page. However, for the most part, even though your users will feel like they're paging through you site, you don't actually need to load a new page. + +So let's add some more content, paste this code in just below the list code: + +<pre> + <ul id="Monkeys" title="Monkeys"> + <li><a href="#howler">Howler</a></li> + <li><a href="#spider">Spider</a></li> + <li><a href="#rhesus">Rhesus</a></li> + <li><a href="#barbaryape">Barbary Ape</a></li> + </ul> + <p id="howler">Howler Monkeys love to howl.</p> +</pre> + +Now if you head to your page using a iPhone (or an [http://www.testiphone.com/ emulator]) and tap/click on the monkeys the page will slide to the right and display our new list. Click on the Howler Monkey link and you'll slide over to a blank page with our paragraph text. + +==Beyond Lists== + +Obviously not everything you're going to want to show on the iPhone is going to be a list. But don't worry, iUI can help out with other stuff too. There's are some HTML classes to handle common input elements like modal dialogs, preference panels, on/off switches and loads more. + +It also neatly solves a common iPhone design issue -- long lists. Apple's apps get around the problem of long lists by including a "load X more" link at the bottom of a short list. And that's exactly what iUI allows you to do as well. Just create a link with target="_replace" and iUI will load the URL it and replace the <code><a></code> with the contents of the URL. + +Of course you'll probably find some of your content falls outside the bounds of iUI and in the end you may have to write some CSS yourself. But for handling common cases on the iPhone iUI is an indispensable resource. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/icons_tutorial.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/icons_tutorial.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ae3c15 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/icons_tutorial.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Favicons, the little icons you see in the browser toolbar, are an often overlooked element of web design, but they're yet another opportunity to help develop your site's brand. To a certain degree the favicon flies below most visitor's radar, and yet we tend to recognize favicons. + +Like other subtle forms of advertising, favicons have a way of creeping into the your consciousness without your consent. Which is exactly why your site needs one -- how often do you get brand recognition in a 16 pixel square? + +And as long as we're building favicons, why not trick out your site with a iPhone/iPod Touch icon? True, most people probably won't use it, but the few who do will appreciate the effort. + +== Favicons == + +The term favicon is simply a mashup of "favorites icon" since originally they were intended to make your browser bookmarks easier to navigate. Favicons use an obscure, legacy Windows icon resource file format. A .ico file is a 16×16 bitmap that dates back to early versions of Windows. + +Today modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera and more recent version of Internet Explorer can handle other image formats like .gif or .png, but for the broadest possible cross-browser compatibility, .ico is still you best option. Thanks to metatags it's not hard to serve multiple favicons though, so the file format is up to you. + +It used to be that creating a favicon required Photoshop or the GIMP together with some plug-ins and command line tools. Thankfully that's not the case anymore, there are a multitude of online services that can convert an ordinary image into a favicon. + +Most such service use ImageMagick, which comes with many Linux distros. If you're familiar with ImageMagick you can create the file yourself, if not just use an online service like [http://www.favicon.cc/ Favicon.cc]. + +== Creating Favicons == + +The quality of the image generated by ImageMagick depends on the quality of image you feed into it. For best results start with a lossless format like .png. When you're creating your favicon, keep the graphics simple. Your logo might look clean and simple at full size, but by the time you get it down to a 16 x16 pixels, it may well be a muddled mess. + +Try to isolate the dominate element of your brand -- for instance Google's favicon is just a "g," Flickr uses uses simple pink and blue dots and Facebook opts for the ubiquitous "F" on a blue background. + +The point is simplify, but feel free to make your initial graphic a bit bigger. I tend to start with a 32x32 pixel image, bearing in mind that the finished product will inevitably lose some detail. + +== Using Favicons == + +Once you've got your 16 x 16 pixel image and are happy with the look, upload the file to the root directory of your web server. It's true that modern browsers can find a favicon just about anywhere you put it, but older versions may have trouble. If supporting older browsers isn't a priority feel free to stick the file where evr you want. + +Now we just need to ad a metatag to our HTML documents so the browser will know where to find it (note that this isn't always necessary, some browsers look for favicon.ico even if you don't tell them too, which is why you may have noticed error messages in your server logs. + +The head tag looks like this: + +<pre> +<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> +</pre> + +And that's all you need to do. Note that you may need to clear your browser's cache to get the new favicon to show up. + +If you'd like to serve a different image format to more modern browsers, say .png, just add this line below the last one: + +<pre> +<link rel="icon" href="http://yoursite.com/favicon.png" type="image/x-icon"> +</pre> + + +== iPhone icons == + +As long as we're messing with tiny icons, why not drop in an iPhone icon in case users want to bookmark your page on their iPhone menu? It's just about as easy as creating a favicon and the head tag looks nearly identical. + +Apple used to have instructions on their site, but as of this writing [http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/designingcontent.html the page is gone] (perhaps changes are afoot?). Luckily we have you covered. + +Apple recommends using a 57x57 pixel icon, however [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/custom-webclip-icon-on-the-iphoneipod-touch curious designers] who've played with the format [http://playgroundblues.com/posts/2008/jan/15/iphone-bookmark-iconage/ discovered] that best results seem to come from 60x60 pixel icons at 72dpi. The iPhone will automatically downscale the image, so the size will still be 57 pixels, but you'll get a little bit sharper image starting with the larger dimensions. + +Once you've created your 60x60 pixel iPhone icon, upload it to the root directory on your website, just as we did with the favicon file. + +The iPhone may discover your image without you needing to tell it where it is, but just to be on the safe side, add this tag to your HTML documents, somewhere in the <code><head></code> tag: + +<pre> +<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/whatever.jpg"/> +</pre> + +And there you have it all the tiny icons you can eat.
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To do that, we'll turn to Develop Module, which is the real workhorse of Lightroom.
Select a RAW image from your library and click on the Develop module to start editing.
== Overview ==
Before we actually make any changes, let's take a quick tour of the Develop Module. In the left hand panel you'll notice that organizational tools of the Library module have been replace by a different set of options.
screenshot: lightroom-develop-left.jpg The navigator windows remains the same, but now you have three new sub-panels: Presets, Snapshots and History. The Presets options holds a set of Lightroom defined presets for various effects as well as any presets you define.
Presets allow you to quickly and easily apply a set of effects to multiple photos. If, for instance, you have a whole series of photos of the beach, you might adjust one, save your settings as a preset, and then apply them to the whole lot.
To save your current adjustments as a preset, just click the plus button at the top of the sub-panel. That will bring up a dialog that allows you to save some, or all of the adjustments you've made to the current file.
Below Presets is the Snapshots list. Like its cousin in Photoshop, snapshots are a way to save your photo at various stages of development. However, it's not quite as useful here as it is in Photoshop because your entire history panel is persistent. In Photoshop the history palette starts afresh each time you open an image, not so with Lightroom.
Which brings us the the last sub-panel, the History list. In Lightroom any adjustments you make to an image are always infinitely undoable. That's one of the reasons it's called non-destructive editing -- you can always go back to any stage along the way with a single click.
And that holds true even when you quite the application. If, ten years from now you decided to undo an adjustment you made today, it won't be any harder than it is right now. Provided you're still using Lightroom that is.
Now that we're in the Develop module and all our disk browsing panels are gone how to you jump from image to image? The answer is the film strip at the bottom of the window. The film strip will automatically hold the currently selected library folder and right-clicking on the top part of it will bring up a list of recently visited folders. Just select the one you want and those photos will load in the flimstrip.
So those are the left hand panel options. As we said in the overview the left hand panel of the Develop module is essentially to past tense -- it holds all the things you've already done to an image.
== Developing ==
The real work of developing happens in the right hand panel of the Develop module. This is where you apply your adjustments and tweak your image to suit your liking.
screenshot: lightroom-develop-right.jpg You'll notice from the screenshot that there are quite a few sub-panels in the right hand panel of the Develop module. Here's a quick overview of what each one does:
# Histogram - Shows a map of the tonal/temperature range of your image. You can actually make adjusts by clicking and dragging within the histogram window, but it's a bit awkward and hard to control.
# Toolbar - The toolbar just below the histogram has five tools: Crop, Spot, Red Eye, Graduated Filter and the Adjustment Brush. We'll go over these in more detail in just a minute
# Basic - The workhorse panel of the Develop module, this is where you can adjust your global image settings -- everything from white balance to contrast.
# Tone Curve - As you might suspect, this is very similar to the Curves tool in Photoshop, allowing you to adjust to tones in your image with either the graph or a set of adjustment sliders.
# HSL / Color / Grayscale - Adjust the global image Hue, Saturation and Luminance of an image, as well as individual color ranges. This can also convert an image to Grayscale and adjust the tones used in the conversion.
# Split toning - Useful for coloring greyscale images
# Detail - provides a nice zoom window that's useful on its own, but the main adjustments here are sharpening, noise reduction and chromatic aberration.
# Vignettes - Used to control image vignetting. Note that Lightroom 2.0 enable a "post crop" vignette option so that even if you crop away from the actual edges of the image, you can still apply an even vignette.
# Camera Calibration - Adjust the default profile and color temperatures for your particular camera. If you images are all leaning toward purple for instance, this would be the place to change the camera profile to something more accurate.
Obviously there's a lot in here and we aren't going to cover all of it in detail, but here are the main things you'll probably want to tweak.
=== Basic Panel ===
screenshot: lightroom-basic-panel.jpg The place to start (generally speaking) is with the "basic" panel. Find a white balance that works for your image, adjust the exposure, fill light, black point, brightness, contrast and so on. All the settings can be controlled with the adjustment sliders, or, to pull out a certain area of the image, just use the eyedropper tool.
And remember, feel free to experiment -- all your changes are non-destructive. If you get a little crazy the first time through and then when you reopen your images you're horrified at what you've done, don't worry -- just jump over to history panel and go back to the last sane adjustment you made.
Handy tip: Keyboard junkies will want to learn a couple of shortcuts here. The plus/minus keys can be used to increase/decrease the adjustments and to move between the various adjustment types, use the comma key to go up and the period key to go down. The currently selected tool will appear in white, while the rest are a ligher gray color.
=== Tone Curve Panel ===
screenshot: lightroom-tonecurve-panel.jpg Moving down the line, the Tone Curve sub-panel is probably the next logical step for most images. Here you can adjust the tonal range of your image to open up shadows, tone down highlights and more.
To focus on a specific region of the image, click the little point icon at the top of this panel and then move your cursor over the image. The tonal region of what's under your cursor will be highlighted on the graph allowing you to see which part of the graph to adjust.
The other sub-panels should be fairly self explanatory, so we're going to jump over to what's probably the most powerful feature in Lightroom -- local adjustments.
== Local Adjustments ==
So far all the editing we've done effects the entire image, but what if we want to just lighten a certain part, say something hidden in shadow, without affecting the rest of the image?
Well, if you've got Lightrom 1.x, it's off to Photoshop for you, but Lightroom 2.0 added a new tool to apply adjustments to only one portion of an image -- the magical "adjustment brush."
If you've ever used masks in Photoshop, this will sound familiar, but if not, don't worry, we'll walk you through the basics.
To make local adjustments head back up to the toolbar section of the right hand side panel. It's just underneath the histogram. Now click the brush icon. You'll notice that new set of options appears below it. What this brush does is allow you to take most of the same adjustments we just covered, but only apply them to selected areas.
Just use the drop-down menu to select which adjustment you want to apply and then paint that adjustment onto the image using the brush.
If you use the auto-mask option, Lightroom will constrain your mask based on edges -- obviously it's not going to work in every case, but it's actually pretty smart about guessing where you want to mask and where to avoid.
If, however, you mess up, just switch the brush to erase mode and pain over the area where you want to remove the effect.
As with any brush tool in an Adobe app, there are sliders to set the size, feather and fill of your brush.
Once you have the area masked off, you can start playing the amount and other adjstment sliders to control the strength of the effect. Remember, everything in Lightroom is non-destructive and the adjustment brush is no exception so if you overdo it, just click the little pin on your image and back off using the Amount slider.
Hints: To show and hide the pin markers, hit "h". to see the actual mask, hover over a pin with your cursor and Lightroom will display the masked area in red.
Also note that if you've applied multiple adjustments to a single brush stroke, you can adjust both the individual adjustments and the overall effect of all of them.
The other very nice tool in this section is the graduated filter tool. The graduated filter works much like the real world filters you might own, a graduated neutral density filter for example. The difference is that in Lightroom your can choose what effect to apply to your graduated filter.
The graduated filter covers the same set of effects and adjustments as the adjustment brush, it just applies them as a gradient mask rather than a brush.
If you're thinking your can do the same thing by hand using the brush tool, you're right, it's just going to take a lot longer.
screenshot: lightroom-before-after.jpg
caption: A before and after view of an image with both global and local adjustments. The adjustment brush tool was used to brighten the exposure on the underside of the bell and darken the sky slightly.
== Conclusion ==
Obviously there's no way we can cover everything the Develop module allows you to do in this brief tutorial, there are in fact some really thick books on Lightroom that spend most of their time discussing the develop module. But hopefully this overview has helped you understand how to get started.
Keep in mind that Lightroom's non-destructive editing means that you can feel free to get as wild and crazy as you want with adjustments -- you'll always be able to roll your images back later. So if you have Photoshop-induced phobia of radical image effects, try to let it go a little when you're in Lightroom.
Once you've got an image adjusted just the way you want it, head over to part four of our series where we'll take a look at the various export and print module options.
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However, Camera RAW images make for a much more complicated workflow. There's no more plugging your camera into a printer and presto -- you images are on paper.
Given the increased complexity of Camera RAW images, it's not surprising that whole new crop of images editors have come around to help you deal with the workflow requirements.
Adobe Lightroom 2 is the company's latest answer to the Camera RAW workflow problem and offers just about everything you need, from organization, tagging, metadata capture and more to editing, printing and exporting to the web.
But Lightroom is also unlike any image editor you've likely used before and it can take a little while to adjust to this new, RAW, way of working. To ease the transition we'll walk you through the basics of the Lightroom interface and explain how the software works.
So pop the cork on a fresh jug of moonshine and let's get started.
== Overview ==
So what does Lightroom offer that Adobe's other photo-oriented apps, Photoshop and Bridge, don't? The basic premise is that Lightroom is a complete package -- rather than storing your images one place (Bridge) and editing them in another (Photoshop), both those tasks are handled within Lightroom.
While we admit that this goes against the tried-and-true philosophy of software -- do one thing and do it well -- in this case it works and it makes sense.
The problem with the Bridge/Photoshop combo is that every time you want to open a RAW image you need to use the Camera Raw dialogue in Photoshop. Since the Camera Raw dialogue is essentially a standalone app stuck inside Photoshop, you really aren't opening your images in Photoshop.
So Lightroom was born. Think of it as Bridge with Camera Raw baked in. Is it a replacement for Photoshop? Not at all. You'll still want Photoshop around to handle fine-grain adjustments and tweaks to your final output image.
However, while you made need to make some fine-grained tweaks in Photoshop, for the most part Lightroom is where your average Camera RAW fan lives (well, unless they've opted for Apple's Aperture software, which is Lightroom's main competitor).
Now when we say that Lightroom is "Bridge with Camera Raw baked in," we mean that literally -- Lightroom uses the same camera RAW engine that you'll find in Photoshop, which means when you do need to jump over to Photoshop, all your Lightroom adjustments will come with you.
== The Lightroom Database ==
Lightroom is not just an RAW Image editor, it also handles the task of organizing, sorting and searching your images.
To do so Lightroom uses a database that holds all of your image metadata, and by metadata we mean everything -- from images edits to camera profiles, tags and keywords to web export settings -- everything is self-contained within your Lightroom catalog.
Naturally you can have multiple catalogs if you like and you can store your images wherever you want (including external drives), the Lightroom database just uses a pointer to the image file.
In fact, in Lightroom 2 the catalog is essentially just a disk browser inside Lightroom, making it simple to manage your images both from within Lightroom and from outside programs.
And the best part about Lightroom's database is that it means all your editing is non-destructive. Rather than writing your changes to the actual image file, Lightroom simply stores the information about the adjustments you've made in it's database.
If you want to go revert an image, it's trivially easy to step backward in time, whether that means undoing the last adjustment, or heading all the way back to your original RAW file, all the history states are always preserved.
Now you may be thinking -- what happens if something better comes along and I decide I want to switch to another Camera RAW software? Well, we'll be honest, the process is a bit bumpy, but Lightroom can export all your RAW files along with XMP files (which holds the metadata and adjustments) and ''most'' other RAW software can then import the data.
== The Lightroom Interface ==
When you first open Lightroom you'll be greeted by dark, subdued interface that looks -- regardless of what platform you're running it on -- like it came from the moon. It takes a bit of getting used to, but the black chrome isn't random, it's designed to help you focus on and get a better look at the color in your images.
=== Lightroom Modules ===
Lightroom 2 is divided into what Adobe calls modules. The five module mirror the basics of your workflow: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web.
The first two are the meat of Lightroom and the last three help you get your photos to where ever you want them, be it a slideshow, prints or a web sharing site like Flickr.
You can switch between the modules using the menu links at the top left of the screen. (screenshot: lightroom-modules.jpg)
=== The filmstrip ===
Along the bottom you'll see the filmstrip which holds all the images you're currently interested in -- that could be just one folder's worth, or it could be several, it could also be a quick collection you've put together on the fly.
screenshot: lightroom-filmstrip.jpg
The main point of the film strip is to provide quick access between images without needing to jump back to the Library view. In other words, the filmstrip is how you move images through the various modules in the Lightroom workflow.
The film strip acts as the source for all the actions in each module -- click an image on the filmstrip in the Develop module and you'll be about the edit it. Do the same in the Web module and you'll be able to export it, and so on.
=== The Panels ===
Above the filmstrip, occupying the bulk of the interface, you'll find Lightroom's main center pane as well as the two side panels. What you see in each of these panes depends on which module you're using.
The side panels contain all the actions that apply to that module.
screenshot: lightroom-panels.jpg
For instance, say you're in the library module, the center pane will show your current images, the left pane your folders, keywords, search box and other filtering tools. The right pane holds some quick editing tools, as well as panels to apply new organizational info -- like keywords.
In general the left pane shows you what you've done and right pane is where you do new stuff. The action happens in the middle.
Each of the sections that make up a panel can be expanded and collapsed by clicking the section header so it's easy to show only the elements you actually need.
== Keyboard options ==
The other nice feature of the Lightroom 2 interface are the many very handy keyboard shortcuts. Lightroom is chock full of keyboard shortcuts, but here's the primary ones that are worth memorizing:
#Tab - Shows and hides the side panels. Great way to focus on an image without distractions.
#Shift-Tab - Hides and show all panels, including the filmstrip
#Shift-f - toggles full-screen mode
#Shift-l - Adobe calls this "dimming the lights." There are actually two modes, hit the shortcut once and everything but the currently selected image will be blacked out. hit it again and everything will be slightly dimmed out, and hit it a third time and you're back to normal.
#Command / - show a complete list of module-specific shortcuts
The last one in that list is worth special mention -- it'll pull up a list of all the available shortcuts for whatever module you happen to be in. It makes a great way to quickly view your shortcut options and is an invaluable reference for memorizing some more shortcuts.
Also note that many of these settings -- like how much the "lights out" feature dims -- can be set in the Preferences, just head to the Interface tab of the Preferences window.
== Conclusion ==
Now that you know the basics of the Lightroom 2 interface, it's time to get started actually using it. Head on over to our next tutorial, where we'll walk your through the basics of the Library module and show you different ways to store, sort and catalog your images.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_export.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_export.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a8c64a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_export.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Now that you know the basics of organizing and editing your RAW image files using Adobe Lightroom 2.0, it's time to actually do something with them. For that we'll look at the three remaining Lightroom modules -- Slideshow, Print and Web.
As the names suggest, these modules help you export you images out of Lightroom and into various formats for sharing with friends and family, posting online and more.
Before we dive into the individual modules, let's cover a couple of interface themes common to all three. In all of these modules the left hand side panel is devoted to the templates for the individual module and your photo collections.
There isn't a way to browse your drive listings directly, but if you want to, for instance, create a slideshow out of a folder of images, just select the folder in the Library module and then move to the Slideshow module where all the selected images will be available from the filmstrip at the bottom of the screen.
The other common element is the right hand side panel, which will contain all the customization options for your export format. The exact options vary by module, so let's dive in a see what each has to offer.
== Slideshow ==
The simplest of the export modules is the Slideshow option, which, you guessed it, allows you to create slideshows. All the options you would expect are available in Lightroom's Slideshow module -- templates, custom layouts, text overlays, metadata and more.
The easiest way to create a slideshow is to use one of the provided templates, which range from simple photo-and-caption to more sophisticated auto-cropping and resizing layouts.
If you're looking to build something customized to your whims, you can start from scratch, but you can also start from one of the included templates and then tweak it to suit your needs. Once you have a layout you like you can save it as a custom template and reuse it again in the future.
Naturally there are also transition controls, shading and host of other tools for getting your slideshow just the way you want it.
lightroom-slideshow-gallery.jpg
Once you're happy with the look and feel of your slideshow you can export it as a collection of JPGs or PDF files for displaying on PCs that don't have Lightroom installed.
We know what you're thinking, why the hell would I want to put a slideshow in PDF format? You want to export straight to DVD so you can pop it up on the HDTV to regal guests with fascinating travel narratives.
This much-requested, but still missing, feature is currently Lightroom's biggest downfall -- there is no way to export a slideshow to DVD.
Of course there are ways to do this, but they would require you to export the images (losing your nice templates) and then create the slideshow in another program like iPhoto or Adobe Premiere.
Hopefully Adobe will someday realize that it's the only one still using PDF files for images and correct this oversight. But in the mean time, we're sorry to report that you're out of luck when it comes to creating DVD slideshows in Lightroom.
== Print ==
If you've decided to spare your dinner guests the torture of a slideshow in favor of the less intrusive print on the wall, Lightroom has you covered. The Print module is a very powerful tool with options to control everything from page layout (putting multiple photos on a page to save on paper costs) to post-production sharpening to make sure the details in your photos are nice and crisp.
As with the Slideshow module, the Print Module comes with a number of preset templates for printing in common formats -- contact sheets, picture packages with multiple size images per page and more are all available out of the box.
lightroom-picture-package.jpg
And once again the customization options are robust. If you've, for instance, cropped some images to odd sizes you can always resort to drag and drop placement to get the maximum per-page layout.
You can also customize borders, control bleed regions and other standard photo printing options.
There's also some limited ability to handle color management options directly in Lightroom, though how well this works depends on the quality of your printer (my cheapo Canon can't seem to make sense of Adobe's print options and I get far better resorts letting the printer handle the color management tasks).
== Web ==
While the web may be the professional photographer's least favorite export option (it's hard to get quality, high resolution images on the web), for the non-professional, this where you'll likely do the bulk of your exporting.
The web module offers some very simple ways to create both Flash and HTML galleries which are exported in one, nice, tidy folder that you can then upload to your site using an FTP application.
The HTML export options don't generate the best HTML code you've ever seen, but they get the job done and are a godsend for those who aren't comfortable writing their own HTML code. Of course you won't get fancy options like some of the very nice Javascript-based "lightbox" slideshows you often see these days, but in terms of speed and ease-of-use, Lightroom's Web export module is touch to beat.
lightroom-photo-gallery.jpg
The Flash option is somewhat more primitive and less satisfying. The included templates end up making an okay slideshow with a scrollable panel the thumbnails on the left and the main image on the right. You can control the timing of crossfades and customize all the background colors and navigation elements to match the look and feel of your site.
However, if you've ever used the [http://slideshowpro.net/ SlideShowPro photo gallery system], Lightroom's options look primitive in comparison. Fortunately for those of you who do use SlideShowPro there's a very cool [http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro/slideshowpro_for_lightroom plugin available for Lightroom] which allows you to go from Lightroom to SlideShowPro gallery in one quick and easy step. See the SlideShowPro website for more details.
And then of course there's Flickr. Lightroom 2.0 doesn't offer a direct-to-Flickr export option out of the box, but Lightroom fan Jeffrey Friedl has created a very nice plugin that makes it dead simple to [http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr/ upload your images to Flickr straight out of Lightroom]. The best part is it's free. Just download the latest version and then head to Lightroom's Plugin Manager (File >> Plugin Manager) and add the new Flickr plugin.
Then you'll need to head to the Flickr site and give the plugin permission to access you account. Once everything is setup, just select the photos to upload and head to export. Use the drop down menu at the top of the export dialog to select the new Flickr exporter. From there you can pick and choose through all the options -- decide on image titles, include Lightroom tags, metadata and much more.
Lightroom-flickr-plugin.jpg
== Conclusion ==
Well, that concludes our Lightroom overview. Hoepfully you've learned out to use the somewhat complex, but powerful tools that Lightroom offers. And remember, the is a wiki, so as you dig deeper into Lightroom, be sure to add your own finds and suggestions to this series.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_library.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_library.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6337cf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/lightroom_library.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +So you've followed our Lightroom walk-through and have a general idea of how the interface works, now it's time to get down and dirty with the individual "modules."
We're going to start with Library module, where you import, organize and sort your images. The Library is Lightroom's brain -- this is where you can tag your images, sort them, group them in folders, create collections, smart collections and more.
While there are some quick-editing tools that allow you adjust your images in the Library module, for the time being we're going to ignore them and focus on the organizational tools that make up the bulk of the Library.
== Folders ==
Earlier versions of Lightroom were not very smart in the way they handled folders on your hard drive. Fortunately that's one of the many things Adobe changed in Lightroom 2.0, so be aware that everything that follows is written with 2.0+ in mind.
lightroom-folder.jpg If you look at the left hand panel in the library module, you'll notice a "Folders" heading with a triangle next to it. Click the triangle to expand that header if it isn't already. That will reveal a list of available hard drives (probably just one, unless you've already told Lightroom about others) and then any folders you've told Lightroom to import.
In the case of the screenshot you can see I have a drive 'luxagraf' and a top-level folder "Negatives" with some date-based folders below that and then location folders below that. That happens to be my organizational preference, not something Lightroom imposes.
You can store and organize your photos on you disk however you would like. In fact, you can rearrange your photos outside Lightroom and all you need to do is select the folder, right-click it and choose "synchronize folder." That will tell Lightroom to update the list of images in that folder.
Want to add a folder? No problem, just right-click the folder you'd like to server as a parent and choose "Create folder inside...." If you want to add a new top level folder just use the plus button there at the top of the Folders panel.
Okay, you say, that's all well and good, but I added a folder and that folder actually has a parent folder that I've decided needs to be included as well, how do I do that? Simple, just right-click the child folder in Lightroom and you'll see an option that says "Add Parent folder." Just select that and presto, Lightroom is now aware of the parent and the original child folder.
Also note that in the screenshot I've chosen to have Lightroom display the number of photos it's aware next to my drive listing. By default this display actually shows the amount of hard drive space used and the amount available. To change that just right-click on the text and select one of the other options.
== Collections ==
Folders are a nice way to mirror the structure you're already using to organize photos on your drive. But folders alone would be a bit limiting -- after all what happens if you want to have the same photo be in two places are once? If you're using folders alone to organize things you'd end up with duplicate files, which isn't very smart.
That's where collections come in. Collections are essentially like an iTunes playlist -- they're groups of images that are wholly independent of where the actual files live.
In other words, collections are a way to organize, group and sort photos without actually moving them anywhere.
There are two types of collections, ordinary and smart. Again the comparison to iTunes playlists works well. Normal collections are static, to create them just click the plus button and choose "create collection." You can then manually add photos to your collection by dragging and dropping.
lightroom-collections.jpg While Collections are static, Smart Collections are dynamic and work just like smart playlists in media players. You define a set of criteria -- say, all your five star photos -- and the Smart Collection will show all those images. Later when you add some new photos to your library and give a couple of them five star ratings, head back to your Smart Collection and your new photos are automatically added.
In the screenshot above, you can see that I have the default Lightroom Smart Collections folder and then a normal collection called "top" which happens to hold some of my personal favorites from my library.
Smart Collections can be as complicated or intricately filtered as you'd like, just hit the plus button to keep adding criteria to the filter.
lightroom-smart-collections.jpg
But the collections fun doesn't stop there, you can also create Collection Sets, which are essentially folders to hold your various collections
== Adding Keywords ==
Okay, so now we know how folders work and we can define smart collections to display, for example, all our images that have the keyword "monkey." But how do we add such metadata, like keywords, to our photos?
For that we need to jump over to the right-hand library panel and open the Keywording sub-panel. This is the interface for adding keywords to your images.
Note that by keywords I mean tags. Adobe chooses to call them keywords, so I'll stick with that terminology to avoid confusion, but if "keyword" doesn't make sense to you, try reading this section with the word "tags" instead of "keywords" -- same concept.
lightroom-keywords.jpg In the screenshot you'll notice that the selected image has the keywords "2006", "city", "Laos", "market" and "round the world trip" applied to it. To add more keywords you can click that dark grey box and type them in directly using commas to separate them. However, the better option it use the box below that where it says "Click hear to add keywords."
Here's a tip: The nice thing about using the smaller box is that it will stay selected when you move between photos using the shortcut CMD-right/left arrow (CTRL-right/left arrow on Windows). It makes for a nice quick way to add keywords to multiple photos without ever taking your fingers off the keys.
Now below the keywords box you'll see the Keyword Suggestions area. Adobe touted this quite heavily when Lightroom 2.0 launched, claiming that it would be really smart at suggesting related keywords based on a whole series of criteria.
If by smart they really meant "the single worst keyword suggestion tool you've ever used," then I'd be inclined to agree. Maybe your luck will be better, but in all the time I've been using Lightroom 2.0 it has yet to suggest a keyword that made sense to me.
However, just below Keyword Suggestions is another tool that actually is very useful -- Keywords Sets. The idea behind keyword Sets is that you probably want to apply the same keywords to different photos quite frequently, so why not save them as a reusable set that can be applied with a single click?
That's exactly what Keyword Sets allow you to do. There are some default options, like Outdoor Photography, which has some common keywords you might want to use on your landscape images. But the real power here is in defining your own sets and then applying them to your images. Any time you've assigned keywords to an image you can always save them as a set.
Of course the simplest and quickest way to keyword your photos is when you import them. The trick is to apply the more general tags -- location names for instance -- at this stage and then apply more fine-grained keywords, like say "sunset" or "beach" to your individual images.
== Filtering Images ==
Okay, so you have all your photos imported, organized the way you want and tagged, er, keyworded, now what? Well, now we're going to look at the main library view to see how we can use all that data to find the images we want.
First, let's take a quick tour of the Library module's two views -- Grid, pictured below, and Loupe, which allows you zoom in on your images. To change what's displayed in either view, just right-click on an image and select "View Options..." That will give you a preference pane that you can use to customize the Library module just about any way you like.
Also note that to quickly jump to grid view you can use the keyboard shortcut G and for Loupe view it's E (no we don't know why it's E either, but it is).
lightroom-grid-view.jpg
Now notice the filter bar across the top of the screenshot, this is where our keywording and other metadata filtering happens. To enable a filter, just click it, to disable it click it again.
Between the three types of filters, Text, Attribute and Metadata, you should be able to see just about every possible combination of images you can imagine. Of particular note is the metadata browser, which allows you to filter on every criteria your camera records.
Now that's all fine and well, but I don't want to jump through the hoops of filtering every time I want to find a particular image. Well, that's why there's the custom filter tool over to the right hand side of the filter bar. Use the custom filter tool to save your filter criteria so you can quickly jump back to it whenever you want.
The other element of note in the main Library Module is the toolbar along the bottom of the Grid view. This is where you can change settings like the sort order, switch between views (including two we haven't covered yet: Compare and Survey), adjust the thumbnail size and even apply keywords and metadata using the painter tool.
== Odds and Ends ==
Other things we haven't covered include the keyword browser, which lives in the right side panel. The keyword browser has the same effect as typing a keyword into the text filter in the filter bar, but in this case you see all your keywords so you don't have to try to remember a specific term you used two years ago.
In the left panel we also ignored the catalog sub-panel, probably most notable for providing quick access to your last import, and the Navigator sub-panel, which is useful in loupe view since it shows you at a glance, where you are in your zoomed view.
== Conclusion ==
Adobe likes to provide more than one way of doing most things in its software. The result is that Lightroom 2.0 is very flexible, but also somewhat daunting. Hopefully this tutorial has given you some insight into how the Library module can help organize your images.
So go ahead and try out some of the things we've covered -- import some images, move them around, create collections, add some keywords, sort by metadata and so on until you're comfortable.
Then jump on over to our next lesson where we'll walk through the basics of the Develop Module.
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You'll also want to get up to speed on the Media Wiki formatting syntax (don't worry it's pretty simple). There are some handy links on our [http://www.webmonkey.com/services/FAQ FAQ page]. + + +==What Should Your Write About?== + +There's something of a misconception that in order to write a tutorial you need to be a guru or standout expert in the field. In fact you don't need to be anything of the sort, you just need to have the answer to a common problem we're all likely to face. + +For instance, even if you don't know every tiny detail of PHP, you might know enough to teach us all how to build a WordPress extension. Or, while you might not know how to compile Apache from source, you know how to set up virtual hosts, so teach us how to do that. + +In other words, write what you know and don't worry about what you don't know. 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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/old webmonkey_articles.zip b/old/published/Webmonkey/old webmonkey_articles.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..76c0cdc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/old webmonkey_articles.zip diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/photos/lightroom_intro.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/photos/lightroom_intro.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1588d3c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/photos/lightroom_intro.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Making the leap from shooting JPG files to shoot in camera RAW is a revelation, all of sudden you can effectively go back to the scene, readjusting exposures, changing color tempatures and more. As they say, once you go RAW, you don't go back.
However, Camera RAW images make for a much more complicated workflow. There's no more plugging your camera into a printer and presto -- you images are on paper.
Given the increased complexity of camera RAW images, it's not surprising that whole new crop of images editors have come around to help you deal with the workflow requirements.
Adobe lightroom 2 is the company's latest answer to the Camera RAW workflow problem and offers just about everything you need, from organization, tagging, metadata capture and more to editting, printing and exporting to the web.
So pop the cork on a fresh jug of moonshine and let's get started.
== Overview ==
So what does Lightroom offer that Adobe Photoshop and Bridge don't? The basic premise is that Lightroom is a complete package. Yes you made need to make some fine-grained tweaks in Photoshop, but for the most part Lightroom is where you'll live.
Lightroom also uses the same camera RAW engine that you'll find in Photoshop, which means when you do need to jump over to Photoshop, all your Lightroom adjustments will come with you.
Lightroom uses a database to store all your metadata, and by metadata we mean everything -- from images edits to camera profile, tags and keywords to web export settings -- everything is self-contained within your Lightroom catalog. Natrually you can have multiple catalogs if you like and you can store your images wherever you want (including external drives), the Lightroom database just uses a pointer to the image file.
And the best part is that all your editing is non-destructive. At any point you want it's trivially easy to step backward in time, whether that means undoing the last adjustmment, or heading all the wway back to your oriiginal RAW file, all the history states are always preserved.
== The Lightroom Interface ==
When you first open Lightroom you'll be greated by dark, subdued interface that looks -- regardless of what platform you're running it on -- like it came from the moon. It takes a bit of getting used to, but the black chrome isn't random, it's designed to help youu focus on and get a better look at the color in your images.
Lightroom 2 is divided into what Adobe calls modules. You can swtich between then using the menu links at the top left of the screen. The options mirror the basics of your workflow: Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web.
The first two are the meat of Lightroom and the last three help you get your photos to where ever you want them, be it a slideshow, prints or a web sharing site like Flickr.
The interface itself has four major components -- along the bottom you'll see the filmstrip with holds all the images you're currently interested in -- that could be just one folder's worth, or it could be several, it could also be a quick collection you've put together on the fly.
The main point of the film strip is provide quick access between images without needing to jump back to the Library view.
Above the filmstrip, occupying the bulk of the interface, you'll find Lightroom's main center pane as well as the two side panels. What you see in each of these panes depends on which "module you're using." The sidebars then contain all the actions that apply to that module.
For instance, say you're in the library module, the center pane will show your current images, the left pane your folders, keywords, search box and other filtering tools. The left pane holds some quick editing tools, as well as panels to apply new organizational info -- like keywords.
In general the left pane shows you what you've done and right pane is where you do new stuff. The action happens in the middle.
== Conclusion ==
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/robotstxt.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/robotstxt.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fd0e12 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/robotstxt.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Have you ever wondered why your server logs show 404 errors for a file named robots.txt when you've never linked to or created any such file? The answer is that all well trained web crawlers always look for a file named robots.txt that will ostensibly tell them what to index and what to live alone.
If you've got 404 errors, that means your site is missing a robots.txt file and the bots are just winging it. Why not help them out and gain a little control over what gets indexed in the process?
A robots.txt fil helps direct the bots to the content you want them to know about and prevents them from indexing pages (like your admin section for instance) that you don't want them to crawl. When used in conjunction with a sitemap it might even help improve your search engine ranking.
== What it is ==
As the name implies, robots.txt is simply a flat textfile with a few simple directions that tell all robots, or even just specific crawlers, what parts of your site to index.
To get started, let's use a simple example. Imagine you have a site at http://mysite.com and you use WordPress, which you access at the URL: http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/. Now you don't want the robots to index your admin login page because it's private, so create a new file, robots.txt, at the root level of your site and add these lines:
<pre>
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin
</pre>
That tells all bots (the * is a wildcard that will match any user agent) to ignore the <code>wp-admin</code> directory and everything below it.
The basic format for all robots.txt rules is:
<pre>
User-Agent: [Bot name]
Disallow: [Directory or File Name]
</pre>
So let's modify the above example so that only the Google Bot is excluded (there's no good reason to do that in this case, but for the sake of example):
<pre>
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /wp-admin
</pre>
Here's a more practical example that will prevent the Google image scraping bot from indexing your images folder:
<pre>
User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images
</pre>
Let's say you really hate the Lycos web crawler, well, just disallow your whole site:
<pre>
User-Agent: T-Rex
Disallow: /
</pre>
Obviously the Lycos user agent is "T-Rex," which raises the question: where do you find out the name of all the various crawlers and their user agent signatures?
The answer is to head over to Robotstxt website and check out the [http://www.robotstxt.org/db.html list of bots in the wild]. You'll note that there are over 300 different bots listed there, most of which you've probably never heard of -- don't worry neither have we.
In most cases you can get by with rules that just use the * wildcard, but should you ever need to target a specific bot, now you know how.
== More complex scenarios ==
So far we've just created very basic rules, but you can actually get quite complex. Let's say for example that we want all bots to ignore our WordPress admin and then we want all of them except the GoogleBot to ignore our images directory.
Here's what that would look like:
<pre>
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /images
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /wp-admin
</pre>
First we address all bots and tell them to ignore both of the directories we want to keep hidden. Then we specifically address the Google Image bot and tell it to ignore the wp-admin directory. But because the specific rule overrides the general one, the Google Image bot will go ahead and crawl the images directory because we haven't told it not to.
== Caveats ==
Most well behaved bots will obey your robots.txt rules, however, it's important to note that this isn't a security method. Just because you tell the bots to ignore your private files, doesn't mean a) that they will (there are badly behaved bots out there) or b) that anyone else will.
Robots.txt files are merely guides, not a way to make sure no one sees your pages. If you're looking to secure your files, use something like a password protected directory. That way you'll stop the bots and the humans.
== Conclusion ==
That's really all there is to robots.txt. If you'd like to learn more about robots and see some other examples, head over to the [http://www.robotstxt.org/ Robotstxt website] which the web's most comprehensive source for all things related to web crawlers.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/roundedcornerscss.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/roundedcornerscss.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff4b8bf --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/roundedcornerscss.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +While you'd be hard pressed to come up with any single design tic that defines a "web 2.0 look," nothing screams web 2.0 quite like rounded corners. We're not sure how the trend started, but even now that rounded corners have most likely jumped the shark, clients still clamor for them.
It's no surprise then that there are literally dozens, if not hundreds of ways to create the rounded corner look. Your options range from the very primative (just create static backrounds in photoshop and apply them on a per-element basis) to the very progressive -- CSS 3 can do rounded corners with just one line of code.
Unfortunately not all browsers support CSS 3, which means, unless you're doing a fun site for yourself, you're probably going to have to resort to some workarounds.
We decided to dig through the many options for creating rounded corner elements and came up with a few winners that stand ouut from the bunch. These methods offer the best balance between simplicity and semantically valid markup (for the most part) while keeping the images to a minimum (read, faster page loads).
The options here range from pure CSS to JavaScript-based solutions, hopefully offering something for everyone.
== The pure CSS method ==
There are a couple of ways to do rounded corners using just CSS and a background image. The trick is to use one or several images larger than the largest element you want a box around and then position them using the <code>background-image</code> property.
Our favorite method, created by designer Scott Schiller, is known by the sexy moniker, [http://www.schillmania.com/content/projects/even-more-rounded-corners/ Even More Rounded Corners With CSS]. It allows for fluid rounded corner dialogs and supports borders, alpha transparency, gradients and patterns.
Here's what the most basic HTML looks like:
<pre>
<div class="dialog">
<div class="content">
<div class="t"></div>
<!-- Your content goes here -->
</div>
<div class="b">
<div></div>
</div>
</div>
</pre>
Then you can apply styles like this (pay particular attention to Schiller's inline comments which highlight some of the trickier parts):
<pre>
.dialog {
position:relative;
margin:0px auto;
min-width:8em;
max-width:760px; /* based on image dimensions */
color:#fff;
z-index:1;
margin-left:12px; /* default, width of left corner */
margin-bottom:0.5em; /* spacing under dialog */
}
.dialog .content,
.dialog .t,
.dialog .b,
.dialog .b div {
background:transparent url(my-image.png) no-repeat top right;
_background-image:url(dialog2-blue.gif);
}
.dialog .content {
position:relative;
zoom:1;
_overflow-y:hidden;
padding:0px 12px 0px 0px;
}
.dialog .t {
/* top+left vertical slice */
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:0px;
width:12px; /* top slice width */
margin-left:-12px;
height:100%;
_height:1600px; /* arbitrary long height, IE 6 */
background-position:top left;
}
.dialog .b {
/* bottom */
position:relative;
width:100%;
}
.dialog .b,
.dialog .b div {
height:30px; /* height of bottom cap/shade */
font-size:1px;
}
.dialog .b {
background-position:bottom right;
}
.dialog .b div {
position:relative;
width:12px; /* bottom corner width */
margin-left:-12px;
background-position:bottom left;
}
.dialog .hd,
.dialog .bd,
.dialog .ft {
position:relative;
}
.dialog .wrapper {
/* extra content protector - preventing vertical overflow (past background) */
position:static;
max-height:1000px;
overflow:auto; /* note that overflow:auto causes a rather annoying redraw "lag" in Firefox 2, and may degrade performance. Might be worth trying without if you aren't worried about height/overflow issues. */
}
.dialog h1,
.dialog p {
margin:0px; /* margins will blow out backgrounds, leaving whitespace. */
padding:0.5em 0px 0.5em 0px;
}
.dialog h1 {
padding-bottom:0px;
}
</pre>
As you can see the CSS is far from simple, but if you're looking for a solution that allows complex stuff like alpha transperancy and gradient images, the CSS is naturally going to get a bit tricky. Have look at Schiller's [http://www.schillmania.com/projects/dialog2/ example page] to see these techniques in action.
The main downside to this particular method is that you end up with a bit of non-semantic markup -- specifically the three divs that, in a perfect world, shouldn't be there. If that bothers you there are other, though somewhat less robust methods to achieve rounded corners using just CSS.
Some other methods we've used include [http://www.spiffycorners.com/ SpiffyCorners], though it too uses a bit of semantically questionable markup. There's also the ever popular [http://modxcms.com/simple-rounded-corner-css-boxes.html "ThrashBox"] method with is more semantic, but uses more images to achieve it's effects.
== JavaScript ==
There are quite a few very nice JavaScript libraries that can handle the rounded corners dilemma. It was hard to pick just one, but we settled on curvyCorners because it's relatively lightweight, requires almost no effort on your part and has a very slick [http://blue-anvil.com/archives/anti-aliased-rounded-corners-with-jquery JQuery plugin].
To use curvyCorners just head over to the site and [http://www.curvycorners.net/downloads.php download the latest version]. Then upload that file to your site and include the script in your page's head tags:
<pre>
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="rounded_corners.js"></script>
</pre>
Once you've got curvyCorners loading, it will automatically round any specified div tags; the only thing you need to do is call the script and set a few options. Here's some sample code:
<pre>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
window.onload = function()
{
settings = {
tl: { radius: 10 },
tr: { radius: 10 },
bl: { radius: 10 },
br: { radius: 10 },
antiAlias: true,
autoPad: false
}
var divObj = document.getElementById("myDiv");
var cornersObj = new curvyCorners(settings, divObj);
cornersObj.applyCornersToAll();
}
</script>
</pre>
Notice that we've set the round radius to 10 pixels and applied it the a div with the id "myDiv." Just replace myDiv with the names of the divs you want to round and you're all set. For more details and some examples be sure to check out the [http://www.curvycorners.net/examples.php curvyCorners site].
CurvyCorners gives you rounded corners with very little effort and doesn't rely on large images with tricky CSS. It does, however, require JavaScript and falls apart for users that have it turned off.
== CSS 3, rounded corners revolution ==
As you have probably figured out right now, creating rounded corners requires some amount of compromise -- either in bulky HTML or by using JavaScript as a workaround. But the future is looking quite bright. CSS 3 makes creating rounded corners dead simple, only one line of code necessary:
<pre>
border-radius: 10px;
</pre>
Of course only a handful of browsers currently support border radius (see our guide, [http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Get_Started_with_CSS_3 Get Started with CSS 3], for more details on how to create rounded corners and more using CSS 3), which means for most sites it isn't a viable option.
But isn't it nice to know that someday, in a galaxy far, far away rounded corners will be easy? Of course by then they'll just look "so 2006."
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/sitemaps.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/sitemaps.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78992bc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/sitemaps.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Ever wonder why Google and other search engines are ignoring portions of your website? It could be that the big search engines just don't like you, but simpler answer more likely -- they don't know where all your pages are.
And if search engines can't find your site's pages, then there's no way for them to be indexed, which means you miss out on money-earning traffic. That's no good, so how can you explicitly tell a search engine spider where you pages are?
The answer is using a sitemap.
== What is a Sitemap? ==
A sitemap is essentially a table of contents for your website. But the sitemaps we're talking about here are not designed for human viewing -- like the sitemaps you might offer visitors looking for a quick way to navigate your site -- instead sitemap.xml files serve the same information in a format that search engine spiders can easily understand.
A sitemap is a simple XML file (named, fittingly, sitemap.xml) that gives the location, last-modified date and some other metadata for every page in your site.
When a search engine bot comes to your site and finds a sitemap, it will follow all the specified URLs, indexing the content and including whatever metadata your sitemap specifies.
== The Sitemap Protocol ==
The sitemap protocol is pretty simple, the basic format looks like this:
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://webmonkey.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-10-13T04:20:36Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>always</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://webmonkey.com/new-post/</loc>
<lastmod>2008-10-13T20:20:36Z</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
</pre>
As you can see, we start with a basic xml declaration -- make sure you specify the UTF-8 encoding, Google requires that sitemaps be UTF-8 encoded or it will ignore them. The next line opens our <code>urlset</code> tag which is the container tag that will hold all our URLs.
Note that we're pointing to the schema defined on [http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php sitemaps.org]. As of this writing version 0.9 is latest official schema.
The next tag is the <code>url</code> tag which is just a container for all the bits of information we can tell the search engines about for each page on our site. Those options are:
# '''loc''' (required) -- the URL of the page. This URL must begin with the protocol (generally http) and end with a trailing slash, if your web server requires it.
# '''lastmod''' (optional) -- date of last time you modified the page. Should be in [http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime W3C Datetime format], but you can omit the time portion.
# '''changefreq''' (optional) -- How often the page is likely to change. Ostensibly this helps search engines figure out how often to crawl the page, but just because you put "hourly" don't expect the Google bot to stop by that often. The possible values are: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and never. Note that you'll probably only want to use "never" for permalink archive pages.
# '''priority''' (optional) -- The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. In other words, how important is this particular URL in the grand scheme of your site? Possible values range from 0.0 - 1.0. If you don't specify a priority, the url will receive a default value of 0.5.
Two things to keep in mind: first only the <code>loc</code> node is actually required, those, as we'll see below, most out-of-the-box sitemap creators make it easy to give out more info than just the URL.
The other thing to keep in mind is that most of the time search engine bots expect your sitemap to live at <code>http://mysite.com/sitemap.xml</code> -- the root level of the site.
Of course that doesn't mean you can't have a simple pointer file at the root level and then the actual sitemaps file somewhere else. In fact, since your sitemaps.xml file cannot exceed 10 megabytes in size, and should have no more than 50,000 URLs per file, if you've got a very large site, you'll need to use a pointer and several separate sitemap.xml files.
To do that create a root sitemaps.xml file with content like this:
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<sitemap>
<loc>http://mysite/sitemap1.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2008-10-13T18:23:17+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>http://mysite.com/sitemap2.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>
</pre>
Then at the URLs sitemap1.xml and sitemap2.xml you'd define the different parts of your sitemap using the same scheme we saw above.
== Creating a Sitemap ==
Okay now that you know what a sitemap file is, how do you go about creating one? Well the thing about sitemaps is that they need to be dynamic, that is, whenever you add a new post or URL to your site, you need to update the sitemap.
For small sites, hand coding might be an option, but even the simplest of sites gets pretty complex pretty quickly.
Fortunately there are some tools that can make the task easier. For instance, you can use the [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html Google Sitemap Generator], which is a Python script that can create a sitemap for you. The sitemap generator even comes with instructions on how to [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#recur set up a cronjob] so that your sitemap stays up to date.
But even using cron isn't ideal in most cases -- especially if you have a site that adds dozens of new pages everyday. Luckily, most the the major publishing systems and web frameworks offer ways to create dynamically updated sitemaps. Here's a few links to get your started:
# '''Movable Type''': Movable Type allows you create as many templates as you'd like, so just create a new sitemaps template and make sure it gets served at the urls: http://mysite.com. To help you get started, check out Niall Kennedy's somewhat dated, but still helpful, tutorial on [http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/06/google-sitemaps.html Sitemaps in Movable Type]. Also check out the Movable Type wiki which has some more [http://wiki.movabletype.org/Canonical_Google_Sitemap_template sitemap examples].
# '''WordPress''': To generate sitemaps in WordPress just install the [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ Google XML Sitemaps] plugin. It will handle all the dirty work, automatically updating your sitemap every time you edit or create a post.
# '''Django''': The Django web development framework ships with a built-in sitemap generator. For more details read through [http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/sitemaps/ the official documentation].
# '''Drupal''': Like Django, Drupal ships with a sitemap tool, head over to the [http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap official documentation] for more details.
== Conclusion ==
Sitemaps aren't particularly difficult to use and they can work wonders for search engine ranking. They're no substitute for quality content and inbound links, but if Google and rest see your site is a black hole on the web, sending out an invite and offering up a sitemap is one of the best ways to make friends with search engine spiders.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/ssh_agent.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/ssh_agent.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2bcac3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/ssh_agent.txt @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +When it comes to remote logins SSH is a wonderful tool, not only is it secure, it supports public/private key logins meaning that even if someone gets your password, without you private key it won't do them any good (and vice versa). + +However, if you've ever wanted to automate a remote login, for instance, to copy some files for [linktobackuptutorial backup purposes], you know that it's not easy to do an SSH login without a password. + +The easy option -- creating a key pair with no password -- is one of the worst ideas you could implement. It effectively destroys one of the primary benefits of using SSH since taking control of the local machine would give an attacker instant and easy access to your remote machine as well -- two for the price of one. + +The far better option is to use ssh-agent, which is far more secure an doesn't require you to abandon the added protection of using a password with your SSH keys. + +Unfortunately ssh-agent can be intimidating for newcomers and using it varies somewhat according to what operating system you use. + +But fear not my fellow monkeys, roll up your sleeves, grab a strong cup of coffee and we'll wade through ssh-agent. Bear in mind that we'll be using OpenSSH 2.0. If you're stuck with a host that uses v1, you'll need to make some adjustments. + +== What is SSH-Agent == + +OpenSSH, which ships with Mac OS X, most Linux distros and can even be had on Windows via the [http://www.cygwin.org/ CygWin toolset], has a number of lesser known helper components like ssh-agent. + +Ssh-agent acts as a broker which can store and manage private keys on your PC and, most importantly, responding to requests from remote systems to verify your keys. Whenever you login to your machine, you enter your password, which gives ssh-agent permission to store your keys. + +For that point on ssh-agent can handle the authentication requests from remote public keys without requiring you to unlock them each time with a password. It's important to understand that, behind the scenes, private keys never leave the agent. In other words they can't be snatched out by attackers. + +So to start the ssh-agent, just run it from the command line like so: + +<pre> +$ ssh-agent +SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-GCYVyDA3sj/agent.9551; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; +SSH_AGENT_PID=9552; export SSH_AGENT_PID; +echo Agent pid 9552; +</pre> + +Okay so we know how to access it, but how do we use it for secure, password-less remote logins? + +== Create Your SSH Key Pair == + +The first step to using ssh-agent is to create an SSH key pair. To do that just run this command: + +<pre> +ssh-keygen -t rsa +</pre> + +When prompted for a password enter something decently long and secure. + +When SSH is done you should see a message like: +<pre> +Your identification has been saved in /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa. +Your public key has been saved in /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. +</pre> + +Now we need to add the public key (id_rsa.pub) to our web server. You can either do that using FTP and cut and paste the info into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, or since your still in the shell, try this line, substituting your login info: + +cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh username@server.com 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys' + +That will add the SSH key we just generated to your webserver's list of authorized keys, which means you can now login to your remote server from your home machine using the key pair rather than just a password. + +'''Note:''' If your remote server is running an older version of ssh, you may have to use the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file. + +Try connecting to your remote server and you should see a message like this: + +<pre> +Enter passphrase for RSA key 'you@example.com': +</pre> + +If not, check with your hosting company and see if there's something peculiar about their setup and adjust your setup accordingly. + +== Starting SSH-Agent == + +So I know what you're thinking, I just told you we'd bypass the password login, but we just added a password to our key pair -- what's up with that? + +This is where ssh-agent comes to our aid. + +The first thing you'll want to do is make sure that ssh-agent starts up whenever you login to your PC. As it turns out, this is one of the trickiest parts. + +=== Linux === + +Most Debian Linux variants (like Ubuntu) start ssh-agent automatically at login, but if not don't worry, you just need to add a line to your .xsession file (if you're not a gnome user, just substitute the windows manager of your choice): +<pre> +ssh-agent gnome-session +</pre> + +If Debian isn't your bag, check out the [http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ssh-agent_the_easy_way ssh-agent tutorial on the Gentoo wiki]. + +=== Mac OS X === + +On Mac OS X there are two graphical programs which can handle the task for you (as well as some additional key management tasks). Check out [http://www.phil.uu.nl/~xges/ssh/ SSH Agent] or [http://www.sshkeychain.org/ SSHKeychain]. + +=== Windows === + +For Windows users the situation is more complex. The most popular method seems to use [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ PuTTY]. If you have some experience be sure to add it here. + +=== Custom Scripts === + +Each of these methods should get ssh-agent up and running in graphical environments. In case you need to access ssh-agent without logging into to window system, you can manually set two environment variables: SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID. + +To do that we'll use a shell script that we'll add to our shell login script. there are several ways you can do this, but script I use comes from Mark A. Hershberger, who has three variations available in his [http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh tutorial on ssh-agent]. + +Here's the outline of the script, you may need to adjust the paths depending on your setup. + +<pre> +#!/bin/sh +SSHAGENT=/usr/bin/ssh-agent +SSHAGENTARGS="-s" +if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then + eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS` + trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0 +fi +</pre> + +Just add that script to your ~./profile startup script and you'll have ssh-agent access even without a graphical login. + +== Adding the Keys to SSH-Agent == + +Now we just need to add the keys we created earlier to ssh-agent. Thankfully that's a one liner: + +<pre> +ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa +</pre> + +Type your password for the last time and now you should be able to perform remote logins without a password. + +Test it out: + +<pre> +ssh username@example.com +</pre> + +Assuming that works you're good to go. The only thing to remember is that if you restart your machine you'll need to enter your password once to get the ssh-agent session started. + +'''Tip:''' if you're running some cron scripts that do remote logins (one of the main points of ssh-agent) consider creating a separate key pair for those logins. It adds another layer of security and you can use the additional <code>command</code> argument in your authorized_keys file to limit what those logins can do (see [tutorial on remote backups] for more info on limiting script access. + +== Conclusion == + +So now we've securely overcome the old password problem for remote logins. If you're having trouble or want to learn more about ssh-agent, check out [http://mah.everybody.org/docs/ssh Mark Hershberger's tutorial] and be sure to read Steve Friedl's [http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding] for more on how SSH and ssh-agent work. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/tutorial_list.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/tutorial_list.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3e0f50 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/tutorial_list.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Webmonkey + +Django part 5 integrating delicious +django part 6 wrap up + +Python part 2 (continuing the first one, about half written) +Intro to XMPP (not written, but I've noticed it's the hot shit lately) +Python tips and tricks (some things I wish I had known when I started +with Python, time savers etc, half done) +Machine Tags + +How To: + +Get Started With BitTorrent +Control Your Torrents Remotely +Automate Your Torrent Downloads (timing/bandwidth optimization) +Back Up Your Bookmarks Online Privately
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The Acer also sports what's become a pretty well-established standard of Chromebook ports, namely a USB 3.0 port and an SD card reader, located on the left side of the device and a headphone/microphone combo jack on the right. The Acer deviates from the norm by putting the second USB 3 port and HDMI port in a somewhat unusual spot -- the back, which I find annoyingly inconvenient. + +The keyboard is also the standard layout for a Chromebook, though the wider body of the 13 inch models feature the slightly more spread out, roomier keyboard. The Acer keys are lightly textured and sit quite high which takes a little getting used. The touchpad is likewise nice and big and works well, including multi-touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom. + +This model is available in white plastic, which often ends up looking cheap. Somehow though Acer manages to pull this off and ends up with a machine that looks more sleek and minimalist than cheap white plastic. This is also one of the more solid Chromebooks I've tested, the frame is stiff with almost no flex to it and, frankly, feels more like an ultrabook than a cheap Chromebook. + +But of course this is not an ultrabook and expecting it to be one is a recipe for disappointment. If you're not totally sold on the minimally-powered, cloud-based, Google-centric world of Chromebooks, the Acer is not the machine for you. + +What sets the Acer apart from other Chromebooks is the bigger 13 inch screen (1,920 x 1,080) and the Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. The Tegra K1 allows Acer to get away with not including a fan and it's supposed to perform on par with the Intel Celerons found in most other Chromebooks. That's the theory anyway. + +The reality differs considerably from the theory unfortunately. Since this is a Chromebook, meant to be used primarily for web-based tasks, common tasks like opening a new tab should not have the half second or so hesitation you get with this Acer. Likewise, streaming music while editing documents in Google Docs should not cause periodic stuttering of sound. These aren't occasional occurrences either, they happen consistently across network connections (in other words Rdio isn't stuttering because the network is slow). + +The performance is disappointing in part because everything else about this Chromebook is great. The fanless design means it's always silent and the Tegra K1 certainly sips power -- I routinely got over ten hours out of the battery with no screen dimming or other power conserving tricks at all. The Tegra lives up to the hype when it comes to staying cool, the Chromebook 13 barely gets warm to the touch even without a fan. + +I have seen some users mention that a few games in the Chrome Store don't work with the Tegra chip because it doesn't support Google Chrome's Native Client implementation. The only game I found that had this problem is [Bastion](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bastion/oohphhdkahjlioohbalmicpokoefkgid), but be aware that apps which haven't updated recently may have some problems with the non-Intel chip. + +It's tempting to say that if Acer simply swapped out the Tegra K1 chip for the Intel i3 found in its other recent Chromebook you'd have the perfect Chromebook. But of course you'd lose some battery life and need a fan to avoid overheating it. Once again the compromises necessary in the world of Chromebooks means you end up with a really nice laptop that just doesn't live up to the hype. + +Still, if your priorities are battery life and the peacefulness of fanless silence, this makes a great Chromebook. If you plan to be multitasking, gaming or pushing the performance limits look elsewhere. + +Wired: Thin, solid design with minimalist lines makes this a great looking Chromebook. The high resolution screen, fanless design and long battery are all best in class. + +Tired: The great looks and long battery life don't make up for poor performance. The occasionally incompatible app makes this a slightly crippled machine even by Chrome OS standards. diff --git a/old/published/acer15review.txt b/old/published/acer15review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcb0464 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/acer15review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +The Acer Chromebook 15 is a monster. Acer has thrown out the small, light and cheap approach that has defined this category from the start and created something that's pretty much the opposite. This thing is big, chunky and heavy -- though still relatively cheap -- but it does have by far the nicest screen you're likely to find in a Chromebook. + +How well you like the results of Acer's redefined Chromebook will depend a lot on how you think of Chromebooks. If you see Chromebooks as the successors to the netbook throne, then the Acer 15 will confound your expectations and disappoint. If, on the other hand, you see the Chromebook as a genuine alternative to the traditional PC laptop then this Acer deserves a closer look. + +There are a couple of models available, the one I tested had a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron 3205U processor, 4 GB of RAM and a giant 15.6-inch screen with full HD (1,920-by-1,080 pixel) resolution. The screen isn't just big and HD though, it's also an IPS panel, which makes it significantly brighter and sharper than most Chromebooks I've tested. That said, this is not the same quality HD display you'll find in high-end Mac laptops or Windows ultrabooks. On the plus side is it a matte display and has almost no glare even in direct sunlight. + +The 15.6-inch screen necessitates a large chassis, which is just over 15 inches wide, nearly 10 inches deep and almost an inch thick. That size, combined with the weight -- 4.85 pounds -- make this the biggest, heaviest, least portable Chromebook on the market. Suffice to say that if you prize featherweight portability this is not the Chromebook for you. + +That massive size does get you a couple of nice extras beyond the big screen though. Despite not being "tuned by Skullcandy" like [some competitors](http://www.wired.com/2015/01/review-toshiba-chromebook-2/), these are the biggest, best sounding speakers you'll find in a Chromebook. In fact, to my ears, they sound better than the speaker in my Macbook Pro -- even at full volume there's almost no distortion. + +The larger size also means there's plenty of room for the keyboard, which mirrors the chiclet style common in this form factor (it is in fact identical to the [Acer Chromebook 13](http://www.wired.com/2015/03/review-acer-chromebook-13/) I looked previously). The large trackpad has plenty of room as well and supports Chrome gestures like two-finger scrolling and three-finger swiping. + +Despite the large chassis, Acer has opted to stick with what has become a kind default port configuration in Chromebooks: an SD card slot, a USB 2.0 port, a Kensington lock slot and then on the left an HDMI output, a USB 3.0 port, and a headphone-and-mic jack. + +I tested the 32 GB model, which is one of the larger hard drives available in a Chromebook even if it sounds paltry by today's storage standards. This is, of course, a Chromebook so Google would prefer that you use its cloud storage options. Specials vary by region but most Chromebooks come with at least 12 months of free Google Drive storage space (100 GB). That said, I cracked the case on the Acer and found a removable mSATA SSD, so if you don't mind voiding your warranty you certainly could upgrade the hard drive. + +The biggest disappointment about my time with the Acer 15 was the battery life. Given how obnoxiously big and heavy it is, I had high hopes for a powerful, long lasting battery. Alas, that was not to be. The Acer routinely hit the 8 hour mark if I kept things simple (i.e. not streaming large video files), but often fell below that when I would stress it by playing a movie or two. Acer claims 9 hours for the Chromebook 15, which you can probably get if you make an effort to conserve energy, but even 9 hours is several hours short of the best in the Chromebook world. At the same time, complaining about "only" 8 hours of battery is a nice reminder of just how great Chromebook battery life is in general. + +Performance was good enough that I never noticed any problems in my use. Even streaming music while working with a dozen other tabs open didn't slow this thing down, which was a nice change from what I've found with many Chromebooks. + +The model I tested retails for $350, which feels like a fair price for what you get given the rest of the Chromebook market. It's worth noting though that there is a cheaper model available: $250 will get you the same body, but without the HD screen. However, given that the screen is the main selling point here it's hard to take the cheaper model with its 1366 x 768 pixel display seriously. + +Wired: Glorious HD screen makes you temporarily forget you're using a $350 Chromebook. Combine that with some great sound from the speakers and you have the best movie watching experience the Chromebook world has to offer. + +Tired: It's big and heavy. This thing has more in common with budget laptops than most Chromebooks. The battery life could be better. diff --git a/old/published/adobe.txt b/old/published/adobe.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d18ee2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/adobe.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +John Nack
filters wriitten for fl work with photosop cs4
the core principles of photoshop haven't changed
polish n unlooking the power of bridge...
bridge now offers web gals etc, no need to open photoshop
bridge gets many of the sort of half editing features that lightroom has - quick sharpening, etc
list view, improved sorting
review mode -- craosell mode with shortcuts to mark out photos and narrow your selections
more than just a filbrowser now
search taps spotlight and windows search
new output module -- flash or html gals, pdf export
no output to ps express or flickr, ftp export, one of the thing we're thinking about
camera raw is an application unto itself
dng profiles work
xcamera raw support for multiple pofiles in same image ala lr stacking
new interface -- consistancy across all apps
application frame
the interface -- we try to weigh needs
there' something to be said
i want people to know that its not as simple as it seems
64 bit photoshop -- win only apple dropped carbon64
gpu optimization -- laying the foundations, card isnt setup to do multig
pixel grid overlay toggle
roation -- canvas rotation
flash filters -- much easier to write filters, similar to apples core image. ad labs will have plugin
new pabels - adjustments and masks
clone stamp history tool have live preview
smart objects improvements
Fall 2008
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Browser incapability is the scourge of the web. Websites that work well in one browser don't work well in others, costing companies extra money and causing confusing for consumers. Adobe is hoping to lead the way to better Web 2.0.
Flickr, YouTube and other big web 2.0 companies rely on technologies like AJAX and Flash to provide their services. Adobe's open-source code will enable web 2.0 developers to further innovation and provide users with an improved internet experience.
"We believe that in the long term this will help spur even more innovation in web 2.0 applications," says Pam Deziel, director of product marketing at Adobe.
Prior to Adobe's announcement, each browser manufacturer has relied on their own script rendering engines and differences between them make development difficult for web 2.0 companies.
With so many companies concurrently developing similar tools, Adobe felt it was time to unify the community's efforts. "We hope this will benefit the entire developer community by providing a more uniform language for apps," Deziel says.
Bruce Chizen, chief executive officer at Adobe, adds, "This being open source, we're hoping that developers will be able to give users exactly the same experience in all the browsers."
Although the project will be hosted by the Mozilla Foundation, the code is open-source which means other browsers like Opera, Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, can incorporate the code into their projects.
The eight hundred pound gorilla not in the room is Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Deziel says Adobe "would love to work with Microsoft... having a uniform language across FireFox, Internet Explorer and Flash would be a positive thing." Microsoft has yet to comment on Adobe's announcement.
Adobe's release of the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM), does not mean that the popular Adobe Flash Player is open source. The Flash Player, used extensively by popular sites like YouTube, remains a proprietary Adobe product.
The code that runs Flash applications, called ActionScript, has long been based on an standard known as ECMASCript. ECMAScript is also the basis of Sun's Javascript, the primary tool of AJAX developers.
As a result of Adobe's ASV release, Javascript can now take advantage of the same scripting engine which will provide a huge performance increase for Ajax applications. Adobe claims their script engine is up to ten times faster than the one currently used by FIrefox.
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"Adobe's work on the new virtual machine is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception," said Brendan Eich, chief technology officer, Mozilla Corporation, and creator of JavaScript. According to Eich, web developers now have access to "a high-performance, open source virtual machine for building and deploying interactive applications across both Adobe Flash Player and the Firefox web browser."
The Mozilla Foundation plans to release a version of Firefox incorporating the new ActionScript VM code sometime in 2008.
Applications that could benefit from Adobe's code are not limited to just traditional web browsers. The biggest outcome of Adobe's announcement may well be in the mobile sector. YouTube is rumored to be in talks with Verizon about a mobile version of the popular video sharing site which would likely benefit from performance improvements. A unified delivery platform with greatly improved performance could open even more doors for the still largely untapped mobile and handheld markets.
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Browser incompatibility -- a long-running problem for web developers which has led to a slowing down of the web's advancement -- may soon become a thing of the past.
Earlier this week, Adobe Systems announced a partnership with the Mozilla Foundation that both companies hope will lead the way to a better web.
Adobe has agreed to release the script engine behind the company's popular Flash Player under an open source license. Mozilla will host the new project, dubbed Tamarin, which makes the code for Adobe's ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) freely available.
"We believe that, in the long term, this will help spur even more innovation in Web 2.0 applications," says Pam Deziel, director of product marketing at Adobe.
ActionScript, the code that runs interactive Flash applications, has long been based on an standard known as ECMASCript. ECMAScript is also the basis of JavaScript, the primary tool of Ajax developers. Web 2.0 companies such as Flickr, YouTube and Google rely on scripted technologies like Ajax and Flash to provide their services.
With Tamarin, both Adobe and Mozilla hope to accelerate the development of a standards-based platform for creating faster and more engaging web software. Adobe claims that its script engine can render code up to ten times faster than the engine currently used by Firefox.
Prior to Adobe's announcement, each browser manufacturer has been forced to rely on its own script rendering engine. Differences between the various technologies and the resulting anomalies in browser behavior make software development difficult for Web 2.0 companies. In fact, developers often spend countless hours before a site launch testing their application's behavior on different browsers.
With so many browser manufacturers concurrently developing similar tools, Adobe felt it was time to unify the community's efforts.
"We hope this will benefit the entire developer community by providing a more uniform language for applications," Deziel says.
"This being open source, we're hoping that developers will be able to give users exactly the same experience in all the browsers," Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
"Adobe's work on the new virtual machine is the largest contribution to the Mozilla Foundation since its inception," said Brendan Eich, chief technology officer of the Mozilla Corporation in a press statement.
The Mozilla Foundation has announced that it plans to release a version of the Firefox browser with the new ActionScript VM code built in sometime in 2008. Adobe's popular Flash Player, which is used extensively by popular sites like YouTube and MySpace, will remain a proprietary Adobe product.
Although the Tamarin project will be hosted by the Mozilla Foundation, the code is available under the same Mozilla open source license as the browser code, meaning that other browsers like Opera, Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer can incorporate the scripting engine into their projects.
Microsoft did not have an immediate comment on the release of Tamarin, but a Microsoft spokesperson did say, "Microsoft welcomes competition because it drives innovation which benefits customers."
Reaction in the developer community has been mixed. Flash developers won't see any immediate benefit to the release since they have long has access to the scripting engine through Adobe's Flash Player.
Unless Tamarin is adopted by all the browsers the long term benefits for developers may be minimal. Mark Belanger of the Flash-based development shop Fluid.com, points out, "There are still going to be at least three major JavaScript interpreters (IE, Firefox, Safari)."
Because of significant bugs and inconsistencies between scripting engines, Belanger says Fluid "will stick with the Flash runtime for our application development."
Indeed the biggest win for Adobe may be the number of developers frustrated with AJAX inconsistencies who decided to further investigate the rendering possibilities of Adobe's proprietary Flash Player.
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Microsoft quote:
Microsoft welcomes competition because it drives innovation which benefits customers. That's a good thing. Ultimately, customers will choose the browser that best meets their needs, and we are confident that most will continue to use Internet Explorer and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 when they evaluate factors such as end-user functionality, site and application compatibility, developer extensibility, enterprise manageability, and security backed by the processes and engineering discipline employed by Microsoft.
Please attribute this information to "a Microsoft spokesperson." Feel free to contact me if I can be of further assistance.
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Belanger Quotes
It's a fascinating development and one I'm still quite frankly digesting. Macromedia, now Adobe, has been actively and aggressively courting the web development community for years now, but in the Spring made a significant statement to that effect by offering the Flex 2 SDK for free. This new move seems to be backing up that statement in a major way and will undoubtedly earn them more credibility in that community.
That said, I'm not sure there's that much more to this story to get excited about. Here's who wins:
0) Mozilla gets a huge donation of important code. Their already solid JavaScript renderer will get that much better.
1) Adobe gains more credibility within the open source community, but it's important to remember that only the interpreter is being open sourced, not the runtime. Developers who have rejected Flash as a development platform because it's proprietary will continue to do so.
2) Adobe may gain the ability to shunt objections to the proprietary nature of their platform by pointing to the fact that eventually both the Flash AS2 engine and Mozilla's JavaScript engine will be identical, but no pragmatic engineer would buy such an argument.
3) Adobe should gain more influence in the standards setting of ECMAScript.
*yawn*
Unless I'm missing something major, this isn't going to change our development at all in the near-term. AJAX, while much improved, is still not ready for prime-time and still has too many characteristics of the "death by a thousand cuts" development nightmare that we all experienced during the original browser war. Taramin, unless magically adopted by Microsoft and Apple, won't solve that issue at all. There are still going to be at least three major JavaScript interpreters (IE, Firefox, Safari) we're going to still have to develop against, not saying anything about the various rendering engines and their myriad of bugs and inconsistencies. Been there, done that, so we'll stick with the Flash runtime for our application development.
Ultimately, the last point above may be the most significant impact from this move. I'd imagine that by now Adobe must realize they can only get so far with the Flash runtime as an application development platform in the minds of developers. At this point, Adobe has provided the development community with:
- The most widely distributed application platform on Internet, at
least 10 points higher than IE.
- A highly performant runtime in Flash 9.
- Seemingly bit for bit compatible operation across Windows and OS X
and soon even Linux.
- A clean and powerful development language combination in MXML and
ActionScript.
- An enterprise grade IDE in the Eclipse-based Flex Builder or a *zero
cost* tool set to develop with.
And yet, the development community still falls all over itself hyperventilating about truly lousy AJAX technologies while Flash/Flex development is relatively ignored. What more can Adobe possibly do? That's got to be disillusioning.
Likely Flash's proprietary nature or perhaps even a lingering distasteful memory of the Skip Intro/Dancing Banana past of Flash seems to have permanently alienated a whole class of developer that insists on only HTML-based development. Given how similar the XHTML <-> JavaScript development model is to Adobe Flex's MXML <-> ActionScript, I could see this move as a major hedge to ensure that Flex Builder-like solutions for AJAX are a top of class solution. Adobe would be well positioned to continue to own the client-side web development market.
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/androidopensource.txt b/old/published/androidopensource.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..068a658 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/androidopensource.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Is Android Open Source? + +Steve Jobs stirred up a hornets nest of angry Android developers and application creators when he suggested, during a rather lengthy diatribe against Android, that the operating system was not really "open." + +Andy Rubin, Google's Senior Director of Mobile Platforms, who oversees the Android project responded by creating a Twitter account and posting the code necessary to download the Android source and compile it on your PC -- something Rubin calls "the definition of open." + +Google is famous in programming circles for redefining words to suit its ideas -- take beta for example, which used to mean pre-lease software, but which Google says means "regular updates and constant feature refinement." Rubin's definition of "open" is a similar linguistic shuffling since compiling code alone does not make a piece of software "open." + +Bruce Perens, who coined the term "open source" and has been working on its behalf ever since, defines "open" around three core traits: a license that insures the code can be modified, reused and distributed; a community development approach and, most importantly, ensuring that the user has total freedom over the device and software + +"The fact that you can check something out and compile it," says Perens, "doesn't mean you have the right to use it!" + +The Android OS is, in strictly legal terms, open source. Android is released under the Apache 2.0 software license which allows anyone to use, modify and redistribute the code. But while it might meet the letter of the law, it falls somewhat short of what might be called the spirit of the open source. + +It's the lack of community-based development that Android's critics say makes it no more "open" than Apple's locked down, decidedly not-open iOS model. As Perens says, "most Open Source projects [include] instant access to changes as they are made... and an open door for anyone to participate." + +Unlike major open source projects like Firefox or the Linux kernel, you can't see what's happening behind the scenes with Android, nor can small developers contribute to the project in any meaningful way. Google releases major updates to Android, typically at press conferences not unlike those Apple uses to show off new iPhone features. + +Once the code is release Android developers can download it and do what they want with it, but they have no way of seeing what's happening behind the scenes every day. If you want to know how Firefox changed last night -- however esoteric those changes may be -- you see the changes on the Mozilla site. The same is true of the Linux kernel, Open Office and virtually every other open source project with a website. + +It's not true of Android. While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source it utterly fails at the far more important transparency and community. + +Facebook's Joe Hewitt, who is rumored to be working on a Facebook-branded OS based on Android, says that the lack of transparency in the Android development process makes it "no different than iOS to me." Hewitt goes on to add that "open source means sharing control with the community, not show and tell." + +Android is basically an "accept what Google gives you" or fork the entire codebase proposition. Other than the ability to fork Android off and develop your own OS based on it, Android is really no different than iOS, which works on a similar "take what Apple gives you" model. + +Unfortunately, even if Google were to develop Android in the open, as the Mozilla foundation does with Firefox, it probably wouldn't help Android be any more open. While Google's approach may be a disengious use of the word open -- as Hewitt says, Google is doing "bare minimum to meet the definition of open" -- there is another problem, the phone carriers. + +Perens believes "the problem is the wireless carriers first, and Google second because Google enables the carriers to close the Android platform from the user's perspective." In other words, while you might be able to copy and paste the cod from Rubins' tweet and take a look at Android yourself, what arrives with actual phone is every bit as tightly controlled as iOS. + +Just as there are Jailbreaking hacks for the iPhone, there are rooting hacks for Android that attempt to give the end user some control back. That Android is less controlled by its Google parent in other ways -- the Android Market for instance is not tightly regulated like Apple's App Store counterpart -- is a secondary benefit. Neither device is open in the sense that the end user can modify it as they see fit -- customize it perhaps, but adding a new theme and downloading whatever apps you like are not the goals of open software. + +The real goal of open software, as Perens and others have help define it over the years, is to ensure that you can do whatever you want with it. As anyone with an iPhone or and Android phone can tell you that's not the current state of affairs nearly every phone is tightly locked to carrier specs. + +The carriers argue that open phones would threaten the network (Steve Jobs argues that an open phone would threaten the user experience). AT&T used to argue both of the same things when it still maintained total control (what Jobs likes to call an "integrated" system) over land lines -- you rented phones from AT&T or you didn't have one . Several massive anti-trust lawsuits and the breakup of Ma Bell later we've ended up back in the exact same spot. So even if there were a truly open source OS for your phone it's unlikely it would ever truly be open by the time it arrived in your hand.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/androidopensourcenotes.txt b/old/published/androidopensourcenotes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02f65b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/androidopensourcenotes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +Is Android Open Source? + +Steve Jobs stirred up a hornets nest of angry Android developers and application creators when he suggested, during a rather lengthy diatribe against Android, that the operating system was not really "open." + +Andy Rubin, Google's Senior Director of Mobile Platforms, who oversees the Android project responded by creating a Twitter account and posting the code necessary to download the Android source and compile it on your PC -- something Rubin calls "the definition of open." + +Google is famous in programming circles for redefining words to suit its ideas -- take beta for example, which used to mean pre-lease software, but which Google says means "regular updates and constant feature refinement." Rubin's definition of "open" is a similar linguistic shuffling since compiling code alone does not make a piece of software "open." + +Bruce Perens, who coined the term "open source" and has been working on its behalf ever since, defines "open" around three core traits: a license that insures the code can be modified, reused and distributed; a community development approach and, most importantly, ensuring that the user has total freedom over the device and software + +"The fact that you can check something out and compile it," says Perens, "doesn't mean you have the right to use it!" + +The Android OS is, in strictly legal terms, open source. Android is released under the Apache 2.0 software license which allows anyone to use, modify and redistribute the code. But while it might meet the letter of the law, it falls somewhat short of what might be called the spirit of the open source. + +It's the lack of community-based development that Android's critics say makes it no more "open" than Apple's locked down, decidedly not-open iOS model. As Perens says, "most Open Source projects [include] instant access to changes as they are made... and an open door for anyone to participate." + +Unlike major open source projects like Firefox or the Linux kernel, you can't see what's happening behind the scenes with Android, nor can small developers contribute to the project in any meaningful way. Google releases major updates to Android, typically at press conferences not unlike those Apple uses to show off new iPhone features. + +Once the code is release Android developers can download it and do what they want with it, but they have no way of seeing what's happening behind the scenes every day. If you want to know how Firefox changed last night -- however esoteric those changes may be -- you see the changes on the Mozilla site. The same is true of the Linux kernel, Open Office and virtually every other open source project with a website. + +It's not true of Android. While Android may have the legal licensing to qualify as open source it utterly fails at the far more important transparency and community. + +Facebook's Joe Hewitt, who is rumored to be working on a Facebook-branded OS based on Android, says that the lack of transparency in the Android development process makes it "no different than iOS to me." Hewitt goes on to add that "open source means sharing control with the community, not show and tell." + +Android is basically an "accept what Google gives you" or fork the entire codebase proposition. Other than the ability to fork Android off and develop your own OS based on it, Android is really no different than iOS, which works on a similar "take what Apple gives you" model. + +Unfortunately, even if Google were to develop Android in the open, as the Mozilla foundation does with Firefox, it probably wouldn't help Android be any more open. While Google's approach may be a disengious use of the word open -- as Hewitt says, Google is doing "bare minimum to meet the definition of open" -- there is another problem, the phone carriers. + +Perens believes "the problem is the wireless carriers first, and Google second because Google enables the carriers to close the Android platform from the user's perspective." In other words, while you might be able to copy and paste the cod from Rubins' tweet and take a look at Android yourself, what arrives with actual phone is every bit as tightly controlled as iOS. + +Just as there are Jailbreaking hacks for the iPhone, there are rooting hacks for Android that attempt to give the end user some control back. That Android is less controlled by its Google parent in other ways -- the Android Market for instance is not tightly regulated like Apple's App Store counterpart -- is a secondary benefit. Neither device is open in the sense that the end user can modify it as they see fit -- customize it perhaps, but adding a new theme and downloading whatever apps you like are not the goals of open software. + +The real goal of open software, as Perens and others have help define it over the years, is to ensure that you can do whatever you want with it. As anyone with an iPhone or and Android phone can tell you that's not the current state of affairs nearly every phone is tightly locked to carrier specs. + +The carriers argue that open phones would threaten the network (Steve Jobs argues that an open phone would threaten the user experience). AT&T used to argue both of the same things when it still maintained total control (what Jobs likes to call an "integrated" system) over land lines -- you rented phones from AT&T or you didn't have one . Several massive anti-trust lawsuits and the breakup of Ma Bell later we've ended up back in the exact same spot. So even if there were a truly open source OS for your phone it's unlikely it would ever truly be open by the time it arrived in your hand. + + +but again, that's not unusual either. + +A: Technically yes. It's licensed under the Apache 2.0 license which +is oscon approved. + +Longer Answer: Still yes, but it's different than what many people +think of as open source. Google pushes out updates and works on it +primarily on its own, in the dark. There is no real way to make +contributions unless you're part of the Android team and there is no +way to see what's going on in the trunk. But then again the Linux +kernel, I believe Firefox and quite a few others (Django) work in much +the same way, except for the working in the dark bit. All of the +others allow outside contributions, but only approved people can +actually check in code, that's pretty standard. What I think irks +some open source folks is that Android is basically an "accept what +Google gives you" or fork the entire codebase proposition, but again, +that's not unusual either. The work happens behind closed doors and +that is a bit unusual in the open source world, but even the FSF +people, as far as I can tell, don't really give a shit how you create +your code, just what the license says you can do with it when it's +released. In other words, to be open source doesn't mean you have to +be transparent while you're in the process of coding. + +That said, whether or not Android is truly, technically "open" doesn't +really have any impact on the end user or the applications developer, +which is where Hewitt's tweets come in. What Hewitt is pissed about is +that neither platform gives you any hint of what's coming until the +controlling party decides to unveil it. Whether or not being able to +contribute back and having outside maintainers would really give you +any hint of what's coming is probably debatable, but his point is +valid. (Might even be interesting to hear what HTC or Motorola's devs +think about the release-and-wait approach that Google uses, but I +suspect they wouldn't talk). Also, there's something called a +Contributor License Grant, which is part of the process that would +allow people outside Google to contribute, and may, for all we know, +be how Motorola, HTC et al give code back to Google, but obviously the +process is a little more complex, legally and technically, than clone +a github project, which seems to be the working definition of open +source in a lot of people's minds. + +So in the end, the only people really effected by Android's licensing +and "openness" are OEMs like Motorola or HTC (and perhaps Facebook if +Hewitt really is working on a Facebook phone OS). They take Android, +make their customizations (possible because it's open source) and ship +whatever. Hence the fragmentation that Jobs rails on about. Really +though, if Google didn't use the major release model it uses the +fragmentation would probably be worse. Instead of three releases you'd +have countless releases -- e.g. Cupcake -r124934, Cupcake -r58349 and +so on approaching infinity. + +But from an application developer's point of view Android is really +just like iOS. What's more "open" in Android's case (and more relevant +to app devs) is its application store. But if Apple got rid of its +approval process and let anything and everything into the App Store +then really, from an app developer point of view, the two would be +pretty much the same thing, in other words Android really isn't (on a +purely practical level) all that open, iOS is just very, very closed. + +In that sense I think Jobs' argument that thinking of the difference +in terms of integrated and distributed models is actually not that +much of a reality distortion. Which works better is something for the +consumer to decide. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +> +> Correct me if I'm wrong, but Android is the only project I've ever +> seen in the open source world that restricts checkouts to official +> Google releases. There seems to be a way for outsiders to contribute +> provided they sign the right papers, but it's a very unusual way of +> working. So in the end what's more important -- the license used or +> the level of transparency the project gives? +> +There are three important parts of "open". + + "Open Source" means a particular set of rights that allow redistribution, modification, and use without discrimination, and available source code. + + "Community Development" is a part of most Open Source projects, and includes instant access to changes as they are made, a relatively "flat" organization run as a meritocracy, and an open door for anyone to participate. + + "User Freedom", is whether the user owns and controls the device or the device controls the user. When Steve Jobs says you can't have Flash on the iPhone, or you can't have a particular application in the app store, the device is controlling the user rather than the other way around. This has some sinister implications, for example the fact that mobile devices are becoming the gateway for information that influences our vote, and someone else is controlling what information we can read and hear through that path. This is one reason that so many iPhone users are concerned with jailbreaking. Just from the sound of that it's clear that some people understand the magnitude of the problem. And of course the problem exists on Android phones as well, unless you buy a special developer version that many cellular carriers won't accommodate. + +> I don't know if you saw Andy Rubin's tweet, but he basically said the definition of open is the ability to check out the code and compile it. +That's way insufficient, because the fact that you can check something out and compile it doesn't mean you have the right to use it! That's why we're so concerned with the license on Open Source software. + +> But you and many others seem to be saying that there's more to +> open source than that... could you outline some of the thing you +> believe are necessary for something to truly be open source? And what +> specifically could Google do if it wanted to make Android more of an +> open source project. +> +I think the problem is the wireless carriers first, and Google second because Google enables the carriers to close the Android platform from the user's perspective. The carriers really should only be selling us a network connection, but they have too much control over what the device will do for the customer. This is because the carriers have a subsidy model for the sale of phones, and thus the device comes from the carrier and is prepared to the carrier's specification. And of course the carrier advertises how functional its chosen devices are, but they have a lot more trouble with openness. So most people have phones that are thoroughly locked down to the carriers rule-set and not really in the user's control. + +Now, it happens that one of the networks that I know of will let you buy your own phone without the subsidy, and will charge you $20 less per month. So, I have a Nokia n900 that I control entirely, I paid about $500 up front and at the end of the two years a contract would usually last I will come out a few bucks ahead. I can develop right on the phone, if I want to, it doesn't require a desktop. Anyone with that phone model can run my software. + +>> 2. That the post-processing by the carrier isn't open at all. +>> +> That's true, but, according to the Apache license, perfectly legit (at +> least as I understand it). So, assuming that there were a true open +> source mobile os (say mobile linux, meego perhaps), wouldn't, assuming +> carriers do the same post processing, be in the same boat as Android? +> +As long as the customer is ignorant of what is happening to them. Now, some iPhone folks understand jailbreaking, if only to put their iPhone on a different cellular carrier. But we need to teach them more. +> Basically it seems like Google recognized that the carriers were never going to touch something GPLd +That's not true at all. The Linux in Android and the Linux running the cellular tower are still under the GPL, and have other GPL components on top of them. There is a Java environment in Android that isn't under the GPL and that's what is getting Google sued by Oracle, not anything GPL. + +> Do you see a way around that or will carriers always be a roadblock to a true open source mobile os? +> +I wish this were just an issue of whether mobile operating systems are open or not. It's an issue of the cellular carrier having too much control over the user. We need to regulate the carriers better than we are today, so that they are a data transport service and no more. + +>> 3. That the result uses free software to lock users down in various ways, +>> making them slaves of their tools just as the iPhone does, exactly the +>> antithesis of Open Source. +>> +> So in the end, license aside, the difference between the so-called +> open source and the obviously closed iOS for uses is nil? +> +I think that so far we have failed to teach the consumer how important it is that they have full control over the path by which they receive information. This has been a problem in the U.S. before - first it was a handful of companies controlling radio and then TV stations, and thus those companies had too much influence over the vote and much else about people's lives. The internet was supposed to be a fix for that. Now we're backsliding, and we depend on publications like yours to bring this to the people. + +> Part of Steve Jobs' remarks (which sort of inspired this piece) +> centered around trying redefine the iOS vs Android debate in terms of +> an integrated vs distributed model (rather than open vs closed), which +> actually seems fairly accurate given the end result for users. Would +> you agree with that characterization of differences the two? +> +Steve is really addressing a different issue. Steve has ridden atop a period of consolidation in mobile devices, to achieve something like a monopoly for a time with one device over which Steve holds ultimate control. Having worked for Steve for 12 years, at Pixar, I'm loath to let him have that much influence over how people vote or lead their lives. But Steve knows full well that consolidation comes in swings, and that we're now entering another period of diversification. Steve's arguments about maintaining his total control of the system echo ATT's arguments in the '70s about why the U.S. telephone network had to remain under control of one company. Back then, the phone company said you couldn't have your own telephone devices, and sued Carterphone when they made one! They told us that they couldn't maintain the operation of the network if we had more control, and that our user experience would suffer. ATT's loss of the Carterphone suit and their eventual breakup ushered in the wireless age that we all benefit from now. Let's not let Steve, Google, and wireless carriers hold up the next revolution. + +You're welcome, and do write if there's anything else I can help with.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/ask3.txt b/old/published/ask3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f130aa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/ask3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +When it comes to the appearance of your default search-results page, the times they are a changin'. + +Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, launched a new design of its search page Tuesday called Ask3D. It finds multimedia content like images, videos and music and presents those alongside traditional text-based results in a three-paned web interface. + +"Design innovation is a big part of the direction we're taking," says Ask.com's vice president of products and user experience Daniel Read. "Users are desiring a more sophisticated search interface." + +The redesign points to a new paradigm for web search as the major engines move away from the traditional results page design -- a single column of text-based results -- in favor of a richer experience that incorporates a wider range of content. + +"For a long time, search engines seemed to feel that they couldn't alter their basic design without alienating searchers," says Search Engine Land editor in chief Danny Sullivan. "Search engines are finally feeling confident to make use of different designs." + +The new Ask search-results page is divided into three sections -- hence, "Ask3D." The large center section contains traditional text results from web pages. New page previews in this section provide information like whether a page requires plug-ins or if it contains popup windows. Ask will also display the size and download time of a results page. Right now, the download time is based on a 56-K modem connection, but Read says Ask will soon incorporate a connection-speed sniffer to provide an accurate estimate for download times. + +A column on the left contains a search box and links that expand or narrow results. The right-hand column features a range of context-sensitive multimedia results that vary, based on the search terms. For instance, a search for pop star Gwen Stefani brings in multimedia content such as images, videos and music files. A similar search for presidential hopeful Barack Obama returns different auxiliary content, such as news stories, Wikipedia entries and videos. + +Ask's new approach is comparable to those taken by other players currently stretching the boundaries of search. For example, Clusty and Google-owned SearchMash use different ranking algorithms or integrate multimedia into results pages to enhance the traditional web-search experience. + +In May, Google debuted similar "media integrated" search results in its new Universal Search product, which combines text-based search results with videos and images, along with results from news and books searches onto one page. Universal Search returns a wider range of content than a standard text-based engine, but the results pages still look a whole lot like Google's traditional results pages. + +Read says his company opted for a more disruptive approach. + +"Ask3D is a much more significant leap forward in terms of interface design," he says. "I don't think users are going to notice the changes in Google because the interface remains the same as it was seven years ago." + +Rebecca Lieb, editor in chief of the ClickZ network, which includes the popular Search Engine Watch blog, believes that Ask's underdog status may work to its advantage. + +Google currently leads the search market by leaps and bounds. According to ComScore Media Metrix data, Google had 107 million unique visitors in April. Yahoo search followed with 74.4 million. Microsoft Live Search and Ask.com were neck and neck with 48.7 million and 47.9 million respectively. + +"Ask can really afford to go out on a limb and take some chances that you can't afford to do when you're number one," Lieb says.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/bbshistory.txt b/old/published/bbshistory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1560266 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/bbshistory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dial-up Bulletin Board System. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the World Wide Web, countless online messaging systems and, arguably, Twitter. + +It will be several decades before the hardware or the network catch up to Christensen and Suess' imaginations, but all the basic seeds of today's online communities are in place when the two launch the first bulletin board, dubbed CBBS, in 1978. Later that year the two developers announce their creation to the world in the November issue of Byte magazine. + +The article creates a stir among hobbyists and hackers and it isn't long before others begin building clones of CBBS. By the mid-1980s BBSs support an active community with no less than three magazines devoted to covering the latest in the proto online world. + +Reportedly conceived when Christensen was trapped in his Chicago home during the Great Blizzard of 1978, BBS takes its basic premise (and name) from the community bulletin boards that once adorned the entrance of public places like libraries, schools and supermarkets. + +The notion of digital meeting place in mind, Christensen and Suess set out to create the software and managed to go from idea to working bulletin board in just a month. In fact, some evidence suggests it actually takes them even less time -- a mere two weeks -- and Christensen and Suess extend the timeframe to make the results sound more impressive. + +Whatever the case, the results are definitely impressive. The original home brewed internet, BBS is primitive but quickly proves revolutionary. + +Sure, connecting to someone on BBS means dialing into a phone line through your Trash-80 PC, typing a message in your monochromatic terminal and waiting days -- sometimes even weeks -- before you repeat the process to (hopefully) find a reply, but holy cow, look! we've got digital friends. + +Unlike today's web, BBS uses traditional phone lines to login to remote computers, meaning that if you wanted to dial in to a BBS out of your area, you'd be looking at long distance charges from the phone company. Consequently, early BBSs were very locally-oriented systems, but before too the limitations gave birth to phone phreaking and other hacks. + +Because of the complexity, limitations and slowness of BBS, the early system is largely populated by computer enthusiasts willing to shell out big bucks for fastest modems. Given the audience it's hardly surprising that -- like the early web that would come after it -- early BBSs often consist of very technical postings, software downloads and primitive online games. + +But you can also thank the BBS for some of the world's first flame wars, as enthusiasts trade barbs battling over the superiority of Ataris to Amigas. + +Eventually the early World Wide Web supplants the BBSs, but even today the humble BBS isn't completely gone. In fact, BBSs thrive in Taiwan where it's an extremely popular form of communication for Taiwanese youth. + +Thanks to projects like Jason Scott's <a href="http://textfiles.com/">textfiles.com</a> -- which seeks to preserve and chronicle those early BBSs -- many of the remnants of the BBSs themselves are available as well. Also worth seeing for an even more in depth look at the history of the BBS is Scott's documentary film, <a href="http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/">BBS The Documentary</a>. diff --git a/old/published/belkinkeyboardcasereview.txt b/old/published/belkinkeyboardcasereview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5e72aa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/belkinkeyboardcasereview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +If you've every wanted to turn your iPad into a kind of iOS-based MacBook Air, Belkin's new Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad is the iPad case you've been looking for. Though the result will be slightly thicker than the 11 inch air, the weight and dimensions are otherwise pretty much spot on. + +When the iPad is closed up in the Ultimate Keyboard Case, the case measures around 0.75-inch thick and the whole thing weighs just under 2.5 pounds. For comparison Apple lists the newest 11-inch Air at .68-inch thick and 2.38 pounds. + +Unlike most of the [ultrathin keyboards we've looked at recently][1] the Ultimate Keyboard Case is both an ultrathin keyboard and a protective case, which is the only real drawback to what's an otherwise fantastic iPad setup -- there's no way to use just the case or just the keyboard. + +Essentially Belkin has taken a nice keyboard, very similar to the Logitech Ultrathin keyboard, and fused it with a nice plastic-framed folio-style iPad cover. So long as that fusing -- you can't have one without the other -- doesn't bother you then this is one sleek setup with some nice attention to detail. + +As you would expect the keyboard cover also acts as an on off switch and there are magnetic anchors that offer three different viewing angles. There isn't a huge difference between the three angles, but it's enough that you should be able to avoid glare in most situations. + +The case is a sturdy plastic shell with a flexible leatherish center that covers most of the back of the iPad with cutaways for the headphone port, microphone, Sleep/Wake button, camera, charger and volume controls. Belkin has gone further than just the basics we've come to expect though, adding some nice touches like a little built-in channel in the case that helps redirect the iPad's rear-facing speakers so that audio is a bit louder. Belkin calls it "SoundFlow design", which makes it sound more sophisticated than it is. It doesn't improve audio quality at all, but it works better than just say, reflecting and sound off the flat surface of an iPad smart cover. + +Many a nice iPad accessory has been marred by a poorly thought out keyboard, but thankfully that's not the case here. Belkin's keyboard isn't an exact copy of Logitech's Ultrathin keyboard (which remains, to my mind anyway, the gold standard in thin iPad keyboards), but it doesn't deviate much. The keys are roughly the same size, though more squared off, and the layout is essentially the same, although there are no dedicated single button keys for common actions like copy and paste. Instead you'll need to hit the fn button and the corresponding function key. It's not quite as convenient as the Logitech approach, but it won't slow you down too much. + +Typing on the Ultimate Keyboard Case's keyboard feels nice, the keys themselves have a decent amount of travel for a small chiclet-style keyboard. I also found that, despite the fact that Belkin's keyboard doesn't offer a cutaway around the spacebar (a huge [problem with the Archos keyboard][1]) it wasn't a problem because the actual keys are raised enough that you can hit the spacebar with ease. In short, although Logitech's Ultrathin is still the best keyboard I've used with an iPad, the Belkin is a close second. + +If you're looking for a complete keyboard and case solution the Belkin makes a great choice. In an ideal world the keyboard and case would be detachable and you could use the keyboard around the house and then throw on the case only when you're headed out. Unfortunately that's not the, ahem, case, here and, personally, most of the time I don't need the case portion of the Ultimate Keyboard Case so I'm sticking with the Logitech keyboard, but if you need both Belkin has you covered. + +Wired: Study case and a great keyboard that can prop up your iPad at a variety of angles. If you need a keyboard and a case this is one of the best. + +Tired: You can't have one without the other. There's no single-press solution for copy and paste. + +Rating: 7 + + + + +[1]: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2013/05/archos-ipad-keyboard/ +[2]: +[3]: +[4]: diff --git a/old/published/bittorrentv2.txt b/old/published/bittorrentv2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..466ab25 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/bittorrentv2.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +NEWS ANALYSIS--If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping software, available on your cable set-top box to download high definition movies from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, you're not alone.
In an email interview with Wired News, HDNet chairman Mark Cuban effectively dismissed the notion as a pipe dream, along with the surprise deal <a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/bittorrent_inc_.html">announced</a> Thursday that's supposed to make this purported future a reality. "Non event," Cuban wrote of BitTorrent's acquisition of µTorrent (pronounced "micro torrent"), the lightweight client that presumably can fit anywhere--and take BitTorrent everywhere.
"I think P2P is great for corporate and controlled apps, but not for open distribution," he continued. "P2P has content distibution capabilities, (but) mass distribution of content isn't one of them."
Skepticism is understandable given the sweeping change that would follow if BitTorrent actually pulls this off. Imagine Comcast distributing HD programming on demand over its cable system via peer-to-peer file sharing. Or Verizon powering V Cast using peer-to-peer technology.
In fact, there are good reasons for Comcast and Verizon to want BitTorrent succeed, and while the technology may need work, it is promising enough to take very seriously indeed.
This week, BitTorrent rival Azureus announced that it had partnered with several media companies to stream HD movies over BitTorrent networks. The Azureus client, while robust, uses a much larger codebase, making it more difficult to run on smaller devices like hand helds or mobile phones.
Azureus declined to comment on the BitTorrent acquisition.
The slim µTorrent client, which is only 173KB in size, has the small footprint required to run on a greater range of devices. And--this is the interesting part--the content distributors on these devices are in desperate need of exactly the kind of bandwidth efficiency that only BitTorrent can provide.
As consumers start to clamor for on-demand HD programming, cable companies are going to feel the pinch of sharply increased delivery costs. Same goes for mobile video providers. As demand kicks up, their networks will strain to keep up, making them more susceptible to BitTorrent's pitch.
"BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community," said BitTorrent CEO Bram Cohen and µTorrent creator Ludvig Strigeus in the joint statement. "Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client."
The company announced that it had acquired the competing software client on a <a href="http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=17279">forum post</a> at µTorrent's website. µTorrent (pronounced "micro torrent") is renowned among its userbase for its exceptionally small size and its ability to transfer large files without straining a computer's resources.
BitTorrent's own client and the µTorrent client both use the BitTorrent protocol to enable the rapid sharing of large files on peer to peer networks.
Now that the streamlined, lightweight µTorrent client is a part of BitTorrent Inc's toolbox, the company will soon be able to begin delivering movies to devices with less processing power and less memory than a standard PC.
"We will continue to develop µTorrent and will be using the codebase in other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell phones, and other non-PC platforms," said Strigeus on Thursday's forum post.
Distributing movies directly to a customer's cable box has been one of BitTorrent's goals since signing deals with several major Hollywood studios including 20th Century Fox, Lion's Gate Films and MTV Networks.
"We're working on making BitTorrent come preinstalled on many embedded devices, as one of the basic services they support in the same class as web browsers," Cohen told Wired News in an interview last week.
According Cohen's and Strigeus's post, µTorrent's future includes the release of Mac and Linux versions of the popular software, a development which will certainly enlarge BitTorrent's user community.
<em>Michael Calore contributed to this report.</em>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/browser review.txt b/old/published/browser review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0902e84 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/browser review.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Like a good Hollywood blockbuster franchise, the browsers wars will never end, the sequels just keep coming. Most people probably think the browser wars ended almost a decade ago and while today's browsers may not be slinging mud like in the days of yore, 2006 was nevertheless a big year for browsers.
Everybody's favorite browser underdog, the rebel alliance of the browser franchise, Firefox went 2.0 this year amid a PR push George Lucas would've envied. Firefox 2.0 saw massive release parties and even television commercials which might make it the only browser to reach prime time.
The verdict on 2.0 was mixed however with many users complaining of stability issues and frequent crashes. Mozilla has since released and update to address those problems.
Never one to rest on its laurels, the open source brain child of Blake Ross has already released an early alpha build of Firefox 3.0. The new version won't be consumer ready until next year, but the buzz has already started.
Not to be outdone, the sleeping behemoth up in Redmond updated itself for the first time in five years, promptly breaking the web.
Yes that's right, Microsoft's Internet Explorer reached version 7.0 leading some to speculate that IE is progressing in dog, rather than human years.
Web designers everywhere scrambled to find lost FTP passwords to update all the things IE7 broke in their code. A laundry list of CSS and javascript hacks were rendered useless by IE7 forcing designers back to the drawing boards.
Still unable to comprehend the W3C's specs for the "box model," IE7 was not the standards compliant offering many had hoped for, but it did bring some exciting new features.
Well, exciting if you've been in a coma for the last half decade.
IE 7 claims to introduce its user to the exciting new worlds of RSS and tabbed browsing, never mind that nearly every other browser has considered such "features" standard faire for the four years.
Showing signs that they may be drinking too much of their own Kool Aid, Microsoft even filed a patent application of this cool new -- er, decade-old, as the case may be -- technology, RSS.
The Empire marches forward.
With the big two stealing all the headlines it might be easy to overlook the startling achievements of Opera. Opera may not have much in the way of desktop market share, but don't count Opera out yet, the browsing-via-game-console realm is just opening up and Opera is well positioned to be a major player.
Opera released version 9.0 of it's desktop browser this year but they also debuted Opera Mini, Opera mobile, Opera embedded on the Wii, the Sony mylo, and the Nintendo DS.
Opera never seems to run out of new places to explore -- heck we have a top secret version of Opera running on our toaster here at the office.
Opera would get our Han and Chewy award for innovation and hair-brained experimental goodness, were we to have such an award.
The "social browser" Flock wins our Bart and Lisa Simpson "are we there yet, are we there yet" award for failing to make 1.0 once again. It also made our vapor ware list. Flock, which is based on Firefox, claims they're more interested in features and stability than arbitrary release dates. It sounds good in press releases, but seriously -- where the hell is 1.0?
Clock is in danger of becoming the Jar Jar Binks of the the browser franchise.
Apple's Safari was relatively quiet this year releasing only minor updates to it's streamlined self. Safari is not perfect by any means, but it's close enough that doesn't seem to need massive upgrades. We think of it as the Millennium Falcon of browsers.
Then there's a darn near endless list of niche players in the browser market. Camino, a mac browser based on the Gecko rendering engine, hit 1.0 in February. Camino users swear by it and it's still the best choice for GMail and AJAX apps on old Mac hardware.
Rodney Dangerfield shouldn't be part of the browsers-as-Star-Wars-franchise metaphor and yet how else can you characterize Browzar? Browzar was released in early Summer to favorable reviews in the blogosphere, but was outed a week later as a lousy piece of adware. Silly bloggers.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfur.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfur.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dd402c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfur.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +unef + +un in geneva. it's quite easy actually to do this. + +There was meeting last week in cambridge 30 scientist nasa whirlwind for envirenomental issue + +What michael is trying to promote + +Everything was done very fast afterward, but there was + +people didn't realize what was happening + +The us government handed all the data to google and said pcodes are unique identifiers + +The idea of this pilot was to show the humanitarian community what was possible. This + +teachers can use tools like this + +There's lots of data and not enough people using it.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfur2.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfur2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1c4688 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfur2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +Google recently announced a joint effort with the U.S. Holocaust Museum to add layers to Google Earth showing high resolution imagery of the Darfur as well as images, stories and more collected by aide groups working the region. + +The project, which was designed to raise awareness of the genocide in Sudan, by tying eyewitness accounts, photographs and videos together with precision mapping tools, also highlights the efforts of ordinary users who are constantly expanding and customizing Google Earth in ways that even Google hadn't previously considered. + + +The Darfur multimedia project is the brainchild of Michael Graham, now head of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative. + +"When Google Earth came out in June 2005 we had an 'aha!' moment at the Museum," Graham recalls. " we siezed upon the concept of Google Earth as a way to bring together multiple layers of information." + +But despite the initial enthusiasm at the Holocaust Museum, in the beginning the bulk of the work involved on the Darfur project was carried out by a small group of volunteers, helmed by Graham. + +"An independent volunteer group was formed in December of 2005 and we immediately set out to create a proof of concept," says Graham. + +The group, known as [BrightEarth][1], set out to collect and annotate disparate data from sources like the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, as well as photographers and journalists working in the region. + +While most of the data in the Darfur project was previously available, it was spread out in a variety of formats stored around the web. One the BrightEarth's early goals was to bring it together in one place. + +"Google Earth allows you take data from lots of different sources and mix them together easily, anybody can make these files," says Declan Butler, a senior writer at Nature and one of the early volunteers in the BrightEarth Project. + +"Google Earth is really like a browser and adding layers is like making a webpage," says Butler. + +Google Earth has been downloaded over 200 million times and following similar trends in online communities, a growing number of those users are turning from consumers of data, to producers. + +Butler has previously created maps to trace the Avian Bird flu epidemic and was also involved in relief efforts after the earthquake in Pakistan. + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now," says Paul Currion akjflkajdfs. "However we haven't yet realised the full potential that this technology has, particularly in terms of deeper analysis of the situation on the ground." + +One potential use that goes beyond Google Earth's simple beginnings is collecting imagery for use as a legal tool. "Many attrocities take place in anonymity, and we are slowly whittling away at that," says Lars Bromley of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. + +"I would love to see a repeat of Bashir's interview a couple months ago with NBC nightly news, but this time have the host zoom down to the burned out remains of hundreds of villages and ask him to explain how these remains of villages the audience is seeing with their own eyes have actually not been attacked and destroyed." - Michael Graham. + +The initial goals for the project were to develop a way for humanitarian groups to use google Earth. "Why should organizations like the UN or aid organizations have to spend days creating and disseminating individual maps whenever they want to contribute to the 'situational picture'?" + + + +The Darfur Project is a sort of pilot venture designed not just to educated and adsklfj Google Earth's estimated 200 million users about Darfur, but also show humanitarian organizations how Google Earth can help collect and make data viewable and searchable from a single folder within Google Earth -- making access as simple as possible. + + + + +Since its launch two years ago Google Earth has grown from a fun toy for mapping nerds to useful tool for scientists and a large cadre of amatuer enthusiasts who are taking the software byond the realm of simple mapping. + +Google Earth has potential far beyond just the satellite images it contains. Through the use of layers which allow additional data to visually overlay the images, it's possible to bring together images, video, text and more -- a potentially huge boon to humanitariam organizations. + + + + + +The results are the Darfur Project overlays which add features to the Google-provided high resolution images of Darfur. + +Icons showing red flames lead to destroyed villages while yellow flames highlight partitally raized areas. Other icons include links to videos, photographs and eyewitness accounts of each damaged and destroyed village. + +"what it's really about is the people of Darfur, and how we might relieve their suffering." + + + + + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now. I started working in this area in 1999; we've used remote sensing imagery in every deployment of the UN Humanitarian Information Centres, and a number of UN agencies and NGOs have included it in their GIS development. However we haven't yet realised the full potential that this technology has, particularly in terms of deeper analysis of the situation on the ground." paul currion + + + + + +As envisioned, the platform/partnership would have two broad goals: +public education about global human rights issues including genocide, +conflict, poverty, health, etc; and secondly, information-sharing for the +professional foreign policy community, which would involve using GE as +a focal point to help humanitarian actors share both their open and +more sensitive geospatial information quickly and easily with all layers +viewable and searchable from a single folder within GE, making access +as simple as possible. Public layers would be hosted by Google itself +and instantly accessible to anyone who downloads the program, and +sensitive ones available through a secure server. + + + +[1]: http://www.brightearthproject.org/ "The Bright Earth Project" + +cuts: + +Earlier this year last year teams of volunteers around the internet used Amazon's Mechanical Turk service to search for Microsoft programmer Jim Gray who's yacht went missing off the coast of California. Volunteers continued to search through satellite images even after the Coast Guard called off its official search. + +"That is a hard thing to do with traditional web-based awareness approaches." Michael Graham. + + +Much of the impact of Al Gore's Oscar winning file <cite>And Inconvenient Truth</cite> makes use of Google Earth-style maps and graphics to humanize abstract data. + + +Butler has previously created google Earth layers to maps outbreaks Avian flu and was also involved in relief efforts after the earthquake in Pakistan. + + diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfur3.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfur3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0058852 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfur3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Google recently announced a joint effort with the [U.S. Holocaust Museum][2] to add layers to Google Earth which will combine high resolution images of Darfur with images, stories and more collected by aide groups working in Sudan. + +The project, which was designed to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur by tying eyewitness accounts, photographs and videos together with precision mapping tools, also highlights the efforts of ordinary users who increasingly turn to, not the web, but Google Earth to get their message out. + +If the team behind the Darfur project had any doubts about the effectiveness of their message, aide workers in Sudan report that the government is now blocking downloads of Google Earth. "those of us who had already downloaded it can access it but those who haven't are unable to view it," said one worker who wished to remain anonymous due to safety concerns. + +Outside of Sudan Google Earth has been downloaded over 200 million times and following similar trends in online communities, a growing number of those users are turning from consumers of data, to producers. + +While the Darfur Project was eventually picked up and supported by both the Holocaust Museum and Google, it began, not with an army of programmers, but as the pet project of enthusiastic users who recognized the potential usefulness of Google Earth as a humanitarian tool. + +The Darfur multimedia project is the brainchild of Michael Graham, now head of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative. + +"When Google Earth came out in June 2005 we had an 'aha!' moment at the Museum," Graham recalls. "We seized upon the concept of Google Earth as a way to bring together multiple layers of information." + +But despite the initial enthusiasm at the Holocaust Museum, in the beginning, the bulk of the work involved on the Darfur project was carried out by a small group of volunteers, helmed by Graham. + +"An independent volunteer group was formed in December of 2005," says Graham. + +The group, known as [BrightEarth][1], set out to collect disparate data from sources like the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, as well as photographers and journalists working in the region, and turn it into interactive Google Earth layers. + +While most of the data in the Darfur project was previously available, it was spread out in a variety of formats stored around the web. One the BrightEarth's early goals was to bring it together in one place -- Google Earth. + +"One of the problems is that there's a tremendous amount of data out there, but most of it doesn't interact very well," says Declan Butler, a senior writer at Nature and one of the early volunteers in the BrightEarth Project. "In that sense Google Earth becomes a vector and brings it all together." + +"Google Earth allows you take data from lots of different sources and mix them together easily, anybody can make these files," adds Butler. + +"Google Earth is really like a browser and adding layers is like making a webpage." + +Another of BrightEarth's goals was to create a proof of concept, not just for the Holocaust Museum, which became actively involved shortly after seeing the initial GE layers, but also for humanitarian groups -- many of whom have yet to tap into Google Earth's potential. + +"Why should organizations like the UN or aid organizations have to spend days creating and disseminating individual maps whenever they want to contribute to the 'situational picture'?" Asks Graham. + +One of BrightEarth's goals was to show humanitarian organizations how Google Earth can help collect and make data viewable and searchable from a single folder within Google Earth -- making access as simple as possible. + +While much of the data and imagery in the Darfur Project is a couple of years old, even aide groups responding to crisis events like the earthquake in Pakistan or hurricane Katrina are eyeing Google Earth as a potential tool. + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now," says Paul Currion founder of [Sahana][3], a tool to help manage large-scale relief efforts. "However we haven't yet realized the full potential that this technology has, particularly in terms of deeper analysis of the situation on the ground." + +One potential use that of that deeper analysis is collecting imagery for use as a legal tool. "Many atrocities take place in anonymity, and we are slowly whittling away at that," says Lars Bromley of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. + +Graham likes to imagine what would have happened if the the host of NBC Nightly News had opened up the Darfur project in Google Earth during a recent interview with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. "I would love to see the host zoom down to the burned out remains of hundreds of villages and ask him to explain how these remains of villages the audience is seeing with their own eyes have actually not been attacked and destroyed." + +What audiences in Graham's hypothetical confrontation would have seen is high resolution imagery that gives a bird's eye zoom across Sudan and into the Darfur where a sea of red flame icons show destroyed villages and yellow and red flame icons highlight partially razed areas. Other icons include links to videos, photographs and eyewitness accounts of each damaged and destroyed village. + +It would be the sort of display that reminds viewers that while the technology behind it is remarkable and the Darfur project may prove to be watershed moment for the intersection of Google Earth and humanitarian effort, as Currion says, "what it's really about is the people of Darfur, and how we might relieve their suffering." + +[1]: http://www.brightearthproject.org/ "BrightEarth Project" +[2]: http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/ "Holocaust Museum, Darfur Project" +[3]: http://www.sahana.lk/ "Sahana: Open Source Disaster Management system"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfur4.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfur4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c30acb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfur4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Google Earth continues to find an audience far beyond mapping enthusiasts and may well be on its way to become the browser of the future. + +As more and more small groups and non-profit organizations turn to the popular visual mapping tool as a way to raise awareness of their causes, Google has decided to formalize their efforts into a new Google Earth Outreach program. + +Google recently announced the launch of Google Earth Outreach through which the company hopes to promote the layers created by non-profit and public benefit groups. + +One of the featured layers in the new Google Earth Outreach program is the Darfur project, a joint effort with the [U.S. Holocaust Museum][2] to add layers to Google Earth which combine high resolution images of Darfur with images, stories and more collected by aide groups working in Sudan. + +The project, which was designed to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur by tying eyewitness accounts, photographs and videos together with precision mapping tools, was eventually picked up and supported by both the Holocaust Museum and Google. + +But it didn't start with a dramatic launch, rather it began as the pet project of a few enthusiastic users who recognized the potential usefulness of Google Earth as a humanitarian tool. + +And it is precisely the efforts of such developers that the new Outreach Project seeks to highlight. + +In the case of the Darfur project, the initial concept was the brainchild of Michael Graham, now head of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative. + +"When Google Earth came out in June 2005 we had an 'aha!' moment at the Museum," Graham recalls. "We seized upon the concept of Google Earth as a way to bring together multiple layers of information." + +But despite the initial enthusiasm at the Holocaust Museum, in the beginning, the bulk of the work involved on the Darfur project was carried out by a small group of volunteers, helmed by Graham. + +"An independent volunteer group was formed in December of 2005," says Graham. + +The group, known as [BrightEarth][1], set out to collect disparate data from sources like the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, as well as photographers and journalists working in the region, and turn it into interactive Google Earth layers. + +While most of the data in the Darfur project was previously available, it was spread out in a variety of formats stored around the web. One the BrightEarth's early goals was to bring it together in one place -- Google Earth. + +"One of the problems is that there's a tremendous amount of data out there, but most of it doesn't interact very well," says Declan Butler, a senior writer at Nature and one of the early volunteers in the BrightEarth Project. "In that sense Google Earth becomes a vector and brings it all together." + +"Google Earth allows you take data from lots of different sources and mix them together easily, anybody can make these files," adds Butler. + +"Google Earth is really like a browser and adding layers is like making a webpage." + +Another of BrightEarth's goals was to create a proof of concept, not just for the Holocaust Museum, which became actively involved shortly after seeing the initial GE layers, but also for humanitarian groups -- many of whom have yet to tap into Google Earth's potential. + +And while it isn't the sole source of inspiration for the new Outreach program, the culmination of projects like the Darfur initiative certainly demonstrated the non-profit community's interest in Google Earth. + +"Why should organizations like the UN or aid organizations have to spend days creating and disseminating individual maps whenever they want to contribute to the 'situational picture'?" Asks Graham. + +One of BrightEarth's goals was to show humanitarian organizations how Google Earth can help collect and make data viewable and searchable from a single folder within Google Earth -- making access as simple as possible. + +While much of the data and imagery in the Darfur Project is a couple of years old, even aide groups responding to crisis events like the earthquake in Pakistan or hurricane Katrina are eyeing Google Earth as a potential tool. + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now," says Paul Currion founder of [Sahana][3], a tool to help manage large-scale relief efforts. "However we haven't yet realized the full potential that this technology has, particularly in terms of deeper analysis of the situation on the ground." + + + +[1]: http://www.brightearthproject.org/ "BrightEarth Project" +[2]: http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/ "Holocaust Museum, Darfur Project" +[3]: http://www.sahana.lk/ "Sahana: Open Source Disaster Management system"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfur5.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfur5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9c7467 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfur5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ + + + +Google Earth continues to find an audience far beyond mapping enthusiasts and may well be on its way to become the browser of the future. + +As more and more small groups and non-profit organizations turn to the popular visual mapping tool as a way to raise awareness of their causes, Google has decided to formalize their efforts into a new Google Earth Outreach program. + +Google recently announced the launch of Google Earth Outreach through which the company hopes to promote the layers created by non-profit and public benefit groups. + +"We were incredibly impressed with the various compelling layers being created organically by organizations such as the Sierra Club and a couple of people on the Google Earth team decided to spend their 20% time looking into ways we could support these groups," says ATTR. + +One of the featured layers in the new Google Earth Outreach program is the Darfur project, a joint effort with the [U.S. Holocaust Museum][2] to add layers to Google Earth which combine high resolution images of Darfur with images, stories and more collected by aide groups working in Sudan. + +The project, which was designed to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur by tying eyewitness accounts, photographs and videos together with precision mapping tools, was eventually picked up and supported by both the Holocaust Museum and Google. + +But it didn't start with a dramatic launch, rather it began as the pet project of a few enthusiastic users who recognized the potential usefulness of Google Earth as a humanitarian tool. + +And it is precisely the efforts of such developers that the new Outreach Project seeks to highlight. + +ATTR says that the Google Earth Outreach program's aim is to "help any organization -- from small grassroots start-ups to established global philanthropies -- will quickly and easily be able to use Google Earth to educate, illustrate, and advocate for their cause" + +In the case of the Darfur project, the initial concept was the brainchild of Michael Graham, now head of the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative. + +"When Google Earth came out in June 2005 we had an 'aha!' moment at the Museum," Graham recalls. "We seized upon the concept of Google Earth as a way to bring together multiple layers of information." + +But despite the initial enthusiasm at the Holocaust Museum, in the beginning, the bulk of the work involved on the Darfur project was carried out by a small group of volunteers, helmed by Graham. + +"An independent volunteer group was formed in December of 2005," says Graham. + +The group, known as [BrightEarth][1], set out to collect disparate data from sources like the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, as well as photographers and journalists working in the region, and turn it into interactive Google Earth layers. + +While most of the data in the Darfur project was previously available, it was spread out in a variety of formats stored around the web. One the BrightEarth's early goals was to bring it together in one place -- Google Earth. + +"One of the problems is that there's a tremendous amount of data out there, but most of it doesn't interact very well," says Declan Butler, a senior writer at Nature and one of the early volunteers in the BrightEarth Project. "In that sense Google Earth becomes a vector and brings it all together." + +"Google Earth allows you take data from lots of different sources and mix them together easily, anybody can make these files," adds Butler. + +"Google Earth is really like a browser and adding layers is like making a webpage." + +Another of BrightEarth's goals was to create a proof of concept, not just for the Holocaust Museum, which became actively involved shortly after seeing the initial GE layers, but also for humanitarian groups -- many of whom have yet to tap into Google Earth's potential. + +And while it isn't the sole source of inspiration for the new Outreach program, the culmination of projects like the Darfur initiative certainly demonstrated the non-profit community's interest in Google Earth. + +"Why should organizations like the UN or aid organizations have to spend days creating and disseminating individual maps whenever they want to contribute to the 'situational picture'?" Asks Graham. + +One of BrightEarth's goals was to show humanitarian organizations how Google Earth can help collect and make data viewable and searchable from a single folder within Google Earth -- making access as simple as possible. + +While much of the data and imagery in the Darfur Project is a couple of years old, even aide groups responding to crisis events like the earthquake in Pakistan or hurricane Katrina are eyeing Google Earth as a potential tool. + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now," says Paul Currion founder of [Sahana][3], a tool to help manage large-scale relief efforts. However, he went on to say that the non-profit community "hasn't yet realized the full potential of this technology," which is something the Google Earth Outreach program hopes to change. + + + +[1]: http://www.brightearthproject.org/ "BrightEarth Project" +[2]: http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/ "Holocaust Museum, Darfur Project" +[3]: http://www.sahana.lk/ "Sahana: Open Source Disaster Management system" + + diff --git a/old/published/darfur/darfurfinal.txt b/old/published/darfur/darfurfinal.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77c5067 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/darfurfinal.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +What began as the pet project of a few enthusiastic users has grown into a corporate-backed initiative demonstrating Google Earth's potential as a live-saving humanitarian tool. + +The Crisis in Darfur project is a downloadable set of layers for Google Earth which combines high-resolution satellite images of Darfur with photographs and first-hand accounts of the genocide currently underway in the region. Users of Google's 3-D world atlas can zoom in on burned-out Sudanese villages, read the stories of the victims and see stunning arial shots of massive refugee camps in Eastern Chad. + +While the data in the Crisis in Darfur project was available before the project's birth, it was spread out in a variety of formats and stored different places the web. + +"There's a tremendous amount of data out there, but most of it doesn't interact very well," says Declan Butler, a senior writer at Nature and one of the early volunteers in the The BrightEarth Project which developed the download package. + +Butler worked with a team of volunteers to bring together disparate data from the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International and photographers and journalists working in the region, turning it into interactive layers for the free program. + +"Google Earth allows you take data from lots of different sources and mix them together easily -- anybody can make these files," adds Butler. "Google Earth is really like a browser and adding layers is like making a webpage." + +The initial concept was the brainchild of Michael Graham, now head of the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Graham says his team had an "aha!" moment when Google Earth was released in June 2005. He quickly saw the software's potential to help humanitarian teams spread information about evolving crises more rapidly. + +"Why should organizations like the U.N. or aid organizations have to spend days creating and disseminating individual maps whenever they want to contribute to the 'situational picture'?" asks Graham. He cites the ability to quickly build new maps from layers of information as one of the program's strongest features. + +In creating the Crisis in Darfur project, Bright Earth and the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative hope to demonstrate the usefulness of Google Earth for use in non-profit aid work. In fact, as more groups turn to the popular visual-mapping tool as a way to raise awareness of their causes, Google has decided to formalize their efforts into a new Google Earth Outreach program. The company will use the program's website, which launched Tuesday, to promote the layers created by non-profit and public-benefit groups. + +Now, aid groups responding to crisis events in remote areas, such as the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, are eyeing Google Earth as a potential life-saving tool. + +"Satellite imagery and other remote sensing material has been used in relief efforts for a while now," says Paul Currion, creator of Sahana, an open-source software tool used to manage large-scale relief efforts. + +However, he says, the non-profit community "hasn't yet realized the full potential of this technology."
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt b/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc3a5c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/darfur/db-journalism.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The abundance of information on the Web - its storage, management, multiple use and the unlimited possibilities to recombine and feed into content to different systems and data formats - are challenging journalism regarding its own processes of rationalizing information. There is some degree of ambivalence to these developments. This is due in part to the reduction of work required to sample content to a mere administration of databases on the one hand and the possibility of new fields of activity and ways of working on the other hand [24]. + +Due to this fact the term 'database-journalism' is about to be redefined in a far-reaching sense. It would not only mean material selection from databases and online news research (Garrison, 2001) but also supplying databases with raw material - articles, photos and other content - by using medium-agnostic publishing systems and then making it available for different devices. This would turn databases into 'hubs' in newsrooms which in turn will affect news values and the generation of media coverage. + +The structural differentiation of journalism with the rise of the Web will not lead to a deterioration of journalistic traditions. Structural differentiation will lead to a functional increase or decrease of performance and output. This would be the case if traditional journalistic functions are taken over by other systems or if the professional standards would be re-defined due to economic or political influences.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/deliciouslib.txt b/old/published/deliciouslib.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..652f31e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/deliciouslib.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Apple reports that it sold 2 million copies of OS X 10.5 Leopard in the first weekend it was release. With so many Mac users embracing the new operating system developers now have to tools to turn up the dazzle. We decided to check in with the application that started the trend toward flashy visual design on the Mac -- Delicious Library. + +Will Shipley and crew are currently hard at work on version 2 of Delicious Monster, which he says will "arrive in time for the holiday season," but we got a sneak peak at the latest build. + +Delicious 2.0 leverages Leopard's Core Animation goodness to offer up eye popping visual transitions -- shelves slide and shuffle as you change sort options, deleting an entry burns the book and info windows slide and rotate according to your preference. + +But this isn't a cosmetic release, Delicious 2.0 uses an SQLite database and is blazing fast compared to it's predecessors. It also packs in Applescript support, html templates for printing and exporting, as well as live browsing of your friend's libraries within the Delicious interface. + +delicious1.jpg + +cap: +The first thing you're likely to notice is the absence of the sidebar with book detail information. Instead that same info has been rolled into a overlaid window that automatically picks the best location, though clicking on the black triangle allows you to move it around where ever you would like. + +delicious2.jpg + +cap: +The item information panel contains the same information that used to live in the sidebar, but adds some new features like an option to add related items to your library. You'll harding notice it, but it'll save you some scanning time. + +delicious3.jpg + +cap: +Delete an item from your library and slick new flame graphic will eat it up. + +delicious4.jpg + +cap: +Your library contains a multitude of sort options and switching between them brings Core Animation to the fore as your library items slide and shuffle into the new ordering. + + +delicious5.jpg + +cap: + +New export options allow you upload pre-formatted templates with all your library data to .Mac, iWeb sites, a local folder or any FTP account your might have (Transmit users will be happy to note that Delicious Library 2.0 automatically grabs your Transmit FTP bookmarks) + +delicious6.jpg + +cap: +Delicious isn't just for physical media any more. Version 2.0 integrates with iTunes and automatically pulls in music, including album details and track listings, as well as movies and audiobooks stored in iTunes.. + + +delicious7.jpg + +cap: +Delicious 2.0 Pro will ship with a number of new export options including XML, Excel database, and tab-delimited files, as well as BibTex and Bibliography formated files for the scholarly among us. There will also be advanced import options as well. + +delicious8.jpg + +cap: +The sort options extend to smart shelves as well, which means you can do advanced sort or just plain fun ones like sorting by cover color. + +delicious9.jpg + +cap: +Delicious 2.0 can automatically find and add your friends libraries to your own, or you can specify a url and the Delicious uses Google in the background to lookup delicious libraries on the web and help narrow it down to the person you're looking for. diff --git a/old/published/dell13review.txt b/old/published/dell13review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7487f3c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/dell13review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +After using close to a dozen different Chromebooks, I've come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as the perfect Chromebook. There is always something missing, always something that could be better. Even when there isn't, as in the case of Dell's new 13 inch Chromebook, you'll pay as much as you would for a low end PC laptop that's capable of a lot more than a Chromebook. + +Perfection is not something you'll find in a Chromebook; buying the one that's right for you consists of finding the right set of compromises. That said, if money is no object for you, the Dell Chromebook 13 is pretty close to perfect. + +Billed as "business class", the Dell Chromebook 13 comes in a wide variety of configurations ranging from low end Celeron models (like the one I tested), to higher end models with up to 8GB of RAM, an Intel i5 processor and touch screen. Prices range accordingly, from $400 all the way up to $900. Yes, Dell has joined Google in making it easy to drop nearly as much on a Chromebook as a low end ultrabook. + +The first thing you'll notice about the Chromebook 13 is that it feels like a "real" laptop. The carbon fiber exterior and magnesium alloy chassis give it a look and build quality that has more in common with ultrabooks that the typical, all plastic construction of Chromebooks. It also has the sharpest, nicest IPS screen (1920×1080 matte) this side of [the Toshiba Chromebook 2](http://www.wired.com/2015/01/review-toshiba-chromebook-2/). While the display is sharp and clear, the model I tested did have some noticeable light leaks on two edges. I haven't seen other reviewers mention anything of the sort though, so it could be just the model I tested. + +The keyboard is backlit and well constructed with none of the sponginess that plagues some Chromebooks. The trackpad is similarly nice and I rarely had any trouble with errant taps while typing. The port setup is typical of Chromebooks in general with a USB 2.0 port on the right and a USB 3.0 port, HDMI port, microSD card slot and combo headphone/mic jack on the left. + +One thing that hasn't really changed in over a year of Chromebook reviews is Chrome OS itself. Google pushes out regular updates, but it's more or less the same it was when it launched. While I still dislike the Google-centric universe that Chrome OS lives in, I've come around on the actual experience of using it. Chrome OS, while limited to browser-based tasks (the list of which gets longer everyday) is more secure and much easier for most people to figure out that something like Windows 10. + +Hopefully Google won't mess up Chrome's strong points -- security, simplicity, discoverability, ease-of-use, etc -- in the merger with its "other" OS, Android, which at this point feels more like a complicated way to deliver malware than an operating system anyone wants to use (yes, I use it, no, there's nothing better yet, that doesn't make it good though). + +Dell has worked with Google to add something to Chrome OS that makes it moderately more "business class" -- Citrix-based virtualization for Chrome OS. This makes it possible to access your Windows desktop remotely through Chrome. Of course you can already do this with using Chrome Remote Desktop, but the Citrix version adds some security features (SonicWall VPN for instance). How useful this is will depend on whether or not your employer uses the various protocols and tools. + +Dell's latest offering could be one of the speediest Chromebooks out there if you opt for the i5 chip and 8GB RAM. That will set you back $900 though, making it the second most expensive Chromebook out there. At the other end of the price spectrum is the Intel Celeron 3205U processor, 2GB of RAM, which will run you $399. + +The model Dell sent Wired was the next one up from the bottom, which has the same processor and hard drive but adds 2GB of RAM for a total of 4GB. This model sells for $449. Performance on this lower end machine was fine for everyday tasks, though if you do want to log in to your Windows machine and have a dozen tabs open at the same time you might want to spend a bit more for one of the more powerful models. + +Battery life may well be even more important than raw power with Chromebooks and on that score the Dell is hard to beat. Dell claims up to 12 hours and in my testing that's pretty close to accurate. If you go on a Mr. Robot bender and stream hours of video you probably won't get to 12 hours, but for everyday use -- email, news reading, web browsing, streaming music -- the Dell has very impressive battery life. + +The Dell comes closest to the ideal Chromebook of anything I've tested. The catch is that you'll pay for it. It's probably best compared directly to the only Chromebook that's more powerful and pricier -- the Pixel. If you want a high end Chromebook and don't mind spending $900 for it, the Dell bests the Pixel in many ways, including battery life. + +Wired +Light, solid construction and excellent battery life. High res screen is bright with great viewing angles. The variety of configurations means you can tailor the Dell to suit your needs. + +Tired +Extra "business" features are useless if your business doesn't use them. High end models cost as much or more than more capable Windows notebooks. diff --git a/old/published/dellvenuereview.txt b/old/published/dellvenuereview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a423ab3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/dellvenuereview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Dell Venue, $500 unlocked for AT&T or T-Mobile. + +On heels of its Windows counterpart comes the Android-based Dell Venue, which, like the Windows version, is neither svelte nor lightweight but does pack a punch. The Android variant of the Venue lacks the physical keyboard found in it's Windows cousin, but beneath the glass lurks an Android soul (version 2.2) wrapped in Dell's Stage software for managing apps and media. + +The Venue is available unlocked for use with either AT&T or T-Mobile, though there are two different models so make sure you get the right one for your carrier. + +The Venue features a large and chromatically rich 4.1-inch, 800 x 480 AMOLED touchscreen. The Venue's all-black-and-chrome looks are rather austere and conservative. It's the Ford Crown Vic of Android phones, more likely to show up in the hand of an MBA than a tween. Everything else on the handset is efficient and understated -- from the flush volume rocker to the succinct Back, Home and Search capacitive buttons. The dedicated camera button is also a welcome touch, though it requires a good bit of precisely applied force to work properly. + +Although the nice rounded edges, textured back and glossy screen make the Venue a pleasure to hold, it is unquestionably a large phone. The width and height aren't too far off other phones in the same range, but the thickness makes the Venue feel like a bit of clunker in your pocket. On the bright side the Gorilla glass screen held up well against keys, a money clip and the loose change rattling about in my pockets. + +The Dell Venue packs 1GHz QSD 8250 processor under the hood, and can potentially carry up to 32GB of data via an extendable microUSB card. The Venue handled Android 2.2, Froyo, without any freezes, stutters or other hiccups, though it's not quite as fast when it comes to rendering web pages. Despite the solid specs, similarly-priced dual-core devices are already beginning to arrive on the market, which may soon leave the Venue feeling like a bit of a laggard. + +The Venue ships with Android 2.2 Froyo, which is the most common Android release at the moment, though the Nexus S offers Gingerbread (Android 2.3). Unfortunately Dell doesn’t have a great track record with Android upgrades (some Dell Streak users have only recently made the jump to the nearly year old Froyo) so the upgrade future of the Venue is uncertain. + +All of Dell's phones come with the Dell "Stage" Android skin that offers some custom apps like Dell Video Stage for managing and downloading movies, and Dell Sync for syncing multimedia content between your PC and phone. The movie syncing options in Dell Video Stage work well enough, but you'll need to have the desktop app installed on your PC. + +Other than the two applications and few visual tweaks, Dell's Android install is pretty close to stock. Out of the box, the major difference between the Venu and stock Android install is several screens of custom widgets. The widgets work well enough, but they're a bit oversized and not the most attractive thing to look at. Fortunately they're easy to get rid of. The phone ships with a nice compliment of Android apps, including favorites like the Kindle app, Evernote and the official Android Twitter client, as well as some useless junk like the Zinio magazine reader and the Dell Welcome app. + +The Venue's 8-megapixel camera is a mixed bag. Dell has done a good job of packing the camera app full of settings -- white balance, flash, exposure, multiple focus modes and color effects all make the Venue's camera one of the most full featured phone cameras around. In bright lighting the results were excellent (both video and still images), but bring it indoors or use it in the evening and the noise levels go up dramatically. Not enough to ruin your Flickr posts, but a long way from images you'd want to print out. + +We did our standard battery run-down test — playing a video on a loop with the brightness cranked and all the radios on — and the Venue lasted a little under four hours. Just making calls, browsing the web, using apps and talking to some Bluetooth speakers, the Venue has no trouble making it through the day. + +The Venue isn't going to lure anyone away from higher end Android phones, but for those that like the brand and want something that's good enough, the Venue delivers. Unfortunately the high price -- yes it's unlocked, but still -- means you're probably better off spending your money elsewhere unless having an unlocked phone is your top priority. + +WIRED Unlocked. Tough Gorilla Glass screen takes all kinds of abuse. Huge screen is great for those with man hands. Did we mention it's unlocked? + +TIRED Android 2.2. Poor camera performance in low-light settings. Dell's skin on top of Android isn't terrible, but most applications are better replaced with third-party offerings.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/dellxpsreview.txt b/old/published/dellxpsreview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bce2582 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/dellxpsreview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Dell has long been one of the most Linux-friendly PC manufacturers, but the company has really embraced Linux in a way that no other PC maker has with its project Sputnik. Sputnik is Dell's first Linux-based laptop -- the XPS 13 Developer Edition, a sleek ultrabook that runs Ubuntu out of the box. + +If the idea of running Linux full time is foreign or novel to you this is not the laptop for you. Likewise if you're of the opinion that Linux on the desktop just isn't ready for prime time then this is not the laptop for you. It's also not the laptop for the Linux geek who scoffs at everything but Arch and loves to search out obscure hardware drivers. + +The XPS 13 Developer Edition is aimed squarely at people already working in Linux, already comfortable with the platform, but who'd rather not spend time fiddling to get a working system. Dell is trying to create a platform where everything just works -- Linux without the tedious process of getting all your hardware working perfectly. + +And I'm happy to say that Dell has pulled off that part of the equation. Out of the box Ubuntu 12.04 does indeed just work. *Everything* just works -- trackpad, keyboard backlight, function keys and all the other little bits that sometimes require extra tweaks, even in Ubuntu. + +That said, there are some hardware shortcomings that may give you pause. + +The Ubuntu-based developer edition of the XPS features hardware from the higher end of the XPS line -- 8GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD, Intel HD Graphics 4000 and a Intel i7-3537U CPU that clocks in at 2.00Gz. Following Apple's lead, none of that hardware is upgradeable and while the specs are respectable, many developers may want more RAM and perhaps a larger hard drive, neither of which are currently available in the developer edition. The screen is also glossy Gorilla glass which makes it strong, but prone to glare. There is no matte option. + +The real hardware disappointment though is the lack of ports -- just two USB ports, a DisplayPort and a headphone jack. There's no SD slot. A $5 USB SD card reader fixes that, but it eats up a precious USB port and frankly, at this price point, there should be a third USB port. Even my Asus netbook manages to pack in 3 USB ports. + +The other major issue in my testing was wifi. Dell's Wifi card works just fine in Ubuntu, but reception was terrible. Where my MacBook Pro, Asus netbook and iPad would all pull four bars, the Dell never managed to top 2. Worse, when the others had only 2 bars the XPS failed to connect at all. A bit of research revealed that this is an issue across the XPS line, likely a result of construction materials and antenna location rather a problem with Ubuntu, but it's definitely something to keep in mind. If you travel a lot and frequently have to connect to weak wifi signals the XPS is probably not the best choice. + +On the plus side battery life was good. During casual use -- web surfing, half a dozen tmux sessions and a virtual machine running -- the XPS will last about five to five and half hours, provided you dim the screen a bit (and you can dim the screen to about 50 percent brightness and still see everything just fine). More intensive tasks like compiling software will obviously eat up battery life much faster. Suffice to say that battery life is pretty good for a Linux machine and if you're willing to dive deep into the power management config files you can probably coax even more out of it. + +If you're not put off by the lack of USB ports and, not being a hardware developer I wasn't, and you can get past the weak wifi card the XPS starts to look much better. As with nearly every company that works with Ubuntu, Dell is sticking with Canonical's Long Term Support releases, which lag a bit behind the Ubuntu mainline. + +The first thing I did when the XPS arrived was upgrade Ubuntu, first to 12.10 and then to the just released 13.04. Most of Dell's customizations (more on that in a minute) have since made it into the Linux kernel proper so all the XPS's hardware worked just fine with Ubuntu 13.04, but personally I found nothing particularly compelling about the latest release so I restored to the more stable 12.04 release using the built-in 4GB recovery partition (which made the process fast and painless). + +I also managed to install Mint Linux 15 (based on Ubuntu) and while the function buttons never worked for me, everything else seemed to be fine. But it's worth bearing in mind that if Ubuntu isn't your distro of choice then the XPS 13 DE isn't necessarily any better than any other piece of hardware -- you'll likely still be wrestling with drivers. + +If you wipe away Ubuntu you'll also miss out on much of what makes the Developer Edition great. Of course how helpful Dell's developer tools are will depend somewhat on the tools you need and how you work. I work primarily with Python, sometimes Ruby, building both web applications and the occasional desktop app. As with most developers I meet these days, I don't use a monolithic IDE like Eclipse. Instead I rely on tmux to split my fullscreen terminal window into a variety of panes and tabs that run Python interpreters, vim, mutt and other command line tools I rely on for work. For testing on other platforms I use VirtualBox. + +Dell has never announced exactly what sort of developers the Developer Edition is geared toward, but most of the included extra packages were tools I would have installed anyway. While installing software in Ubuntu with apt-get is a fast, painless process it's still nice to find that many of your must-have apps -- like tmux, VirtualBox, Python, Ruby and loads of extra tools for both languages -- are already part of Dell's stock Ubuntu build. You'll find a [complete list of developer-oriented packages][1] over on Dell's site. + +Many developers probably have a script to install and setup the packages they need, but it's still a nice effort on Dell's part to include many of the more popular developer tools out of the box. But that's really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Dell's developer tools, the far more useful and sophisticated effort is something you'll still need to install yourself -- Dell's [Profile Tool][3]. The Profile tool is basically a way to clone and replicate a particular development environment and share it with others. + +For example let's say you have set up and configured the perfect Android dev environment with all the packages you need and now you want everyone on your team to have access to the same tools. With Profile you can bundle your environment up into an executable script you can then share with rest of your team (or upload to an Ubuntu server or use when you move to a new machine). + +The Profile Tool is still a work in progress (check out the [GitHub page][4] for more details), but eventually Dell's Linux devs hope to offer a "signature series" of profiles which will allow developers to clone their environments and share them with others. + +The other major benefit of the XPS is actual support for a Linux-based machine. The XPS 13 DE comes with a year of Dell's "ProSupport" service, which gets you 24/7 tech support (North American-based even) and next-business-day on-site servicing if you need it. For $250 more you can extend that to three years. + +While Dell's support line may be something of a running joke among nerds, support for the XPS 13 DE was, in my brief testing, just fine. Granted I didn't have an actual hardware failure nor could I test the on-site service, but in three separate calls I never spent the legendary hours on the phone in "Dell Hell" and the support staff was knowledgeable about Linux and the XPS 13 DE. + +The XPS 13's SSD and 8GB of RAM make for one of the fastest Ubuntu laptops I've tested. Cold booting took about 14 seconds (curiously, waking from sleep still takes about 10) and VirtualBox machines were fast enough to feel native when running fullscreen. Sure, more RAM would be nice, but more RAM would always be nice. + +Speaking of fullscreen the XPS offers a full HD 1920x1080 resolution on a 13.3 in screen, which works out to about 165 PPI -- not quite up to what Apple offers in its "retina" laptops, but still plenty sharp. I did find text to be painfully small at times, especially on the web where, more often than not, I had to zoom if I was doing any extended reading. Small text was also something of a problem in some apps where the interface becomes difficult to read (for example the otherwise awesome [Darktable][2]). + +I experimented with changing the resolution via a config file, but found that resulted in blurry text in Firefox so I reverted to the default resolution and used [Ubuntu Tweak][r] to up the text scaling to 1.1 and cranked the default font up in Firefox. Suffice to say that if your eyes aren't the best you may find yourself squinting a lot or messing with font settings, but the XPS is hardly alone in packing this many pixels on a 13.3 screen. + +Despite a few hardware shortcomings I found the XPS a pleasure to use and would have no problem recommending it were it $1300. However, Dell is currently charging $1650 ($1550 with rebate) which makes the XPS slightly overpriced next to similarly spec'ed offerings from competitors. The brand new 13in MacBook Air with 256 GB drive and 8GB RAM runs $1400; the Asus UX32VD can be had for around $1400 (with 10GB RAM, though only a 24GB SSD and 500 GB traditional drive) and offers upgradeable hardware. Similarly priced offerings are available from Samsung, Lenovo and others as well. + +The XPS is a great Ubuntu laptop, but not great enough to justify the extra $300. + + + +Wired: Linux without hardware issues, blazing fast performance and some welcome devops extras. + +Tired: Poor wifi performance, only 2 USB ports and no way to upgrade the hardware. + +Rating: 6 + +[1]: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/3687.software-dell-xps-13-laptop-developer-edition.aspx +[2]: http://www.darktable.org/ +[3]: http://bartongeorge.net/2012/11/06/project-sputnik-profile-tool-update/ +[4]: https://github.com/sputnik/sputnik-profile +[5]: http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ diff --git a/old/published/drone-article.txt b/old/published/drone-article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2d3126 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/drone-article.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Amazon and Google are planning to use drones for deliveries in the surprisingly near future. If that still sounds like science fiction to you, consider this -- aside from regulatory permission -- there's nothing stopping anyone else from doing the same. + +Which is to say that the startlingly fast technological progression of consumer drones has already very nearly made it possible for your local coffee shop to send a drone to drop a latte off on your third floor windowsill. + +As we [predicted](http://www.wired.com/2015/01/autopilot-tech-total-game-changer-drones/), the last year has seen an explosion of automation tools and software upgrades for all kinds of drones, most centered around automating various aspects of drone flight. We've seen waypoint and point-of-interest based navigation from DJI, which allow [Phantom]() owners to program flight paths with the flick of a finger across a map. Figure out how to attach a latte payload and you're not far off a drone deliver coffee shop. + +Other drone makers like Yuneec have been busy creating both software and hardware aimed at making it easy to have a drone tag along behind you, which means we're probably not far off Justin.tv, the drone edition. I had the opportunity to play around with Yuneec's Typhoon Wizard -- basically a remote control for "follow me" flights that ditches the more complicated video interface for a control that's considerably slimmer and less conspicuous -- and found that it isn't that hard to wander around with a drone 350 feet above you recording your every move. + +At this point there are two obstacles to both drone delivery services and ubiquitous clouds of drones in the skies above us -- battery life and the risk of collisions. + +As good as some of the waypoints tools and following software is, from what I've tested none of it is capable of replacing the pilot just yet. That drone headed for your windowsill is far more likely to smash your window than gracefully set down a cup of hot coffee. Still, just a few years ago it was impossible to get your hands on a drone, let alone program one to fly where you want it. + +While the dream of a delivery drone for every business will likely be crushed by government regulations, if the current pace of innovation continues, the technology will be there very soon. + +That's great news for professionals working with drones. Frank Kivo, a videographer with [Concierge Auctions](http://www.conciergeauctions.com/), which frequently uses drones for real estate photography and video, tells Wired that "these automated and new system implementations are extremely helpful and useful, depending on the industry you're working in". Kivo's work sometimes involves filming large parcels of land, which can be automated by programing in waypoints ahead of time. Waypoints can also be useful for even larger scale land surveys such as scouting oil rig locations, data transfer (like retrieving images from a remote wildlife cam) and even search and rescue efforts. + +Others are less sold on the automation. Mike Lord of [Barrelman Productions](http://www.barrelmanproductions.com/) tells Wired that, for photography at least, "nothing is ever going to be able to tell you what things looks like when you're up there, so you don't know what the interesting shot is going to be until you're actually flying." + +That's something Kivo echoes, saying, "The one downside of automation is you cannot teach automation emotion... there is no way to teach a waypoint system to capture the beautiful sun flares that come into the camera for that split second." + +"You need to know," he adds, "when to break out of the automated flight system." + +Lord praised some of DJI's new automated systems for striking the right balance between automating and leaving the pilot in control, like the new point-of-interest feature and the course lock feature, which holds the current flight path. With the point-of-interest feature Lord says it's easy to "fly up and away while circling and shooting photos, which previously would have required a second person to do well." + +Both Kivo and Lord were most enthusiastic about the various avoidance detection systems being developed. "I can't stress enough how much avoidance detection is a huge plus," says Kivo who had the opportunity to test the collision avoidance system in Monster-X's heavyweight drone in the Bahamas. "With a tropical storm forming, we were constantly getting blown around and with a common consumer drone, we would have lost it, I'm sure." + +While lightweight Phantoms may never hold up in tropical storm winds, a collision avoidance system would at least keep them away from the palm trees. As it stands, most automation still requires the oversight of a skilled pilot. + +For Lord, that's the way it should be. "the fun is flying ... and you're always going to be more adaptive and smarter than a series of waypoints." + +Indeed for many, perhaps even most, the main appeal of drones is the actual flying. It does take practice to get good, and collision detection systems could help take some of the potential bank-breaking risk out of learning, but ultimately flying a drone is fun and trying to automate it all away is solving a problem that doesn't exist. As Lord told me, "I want things that give me more control and make the drone more responsive to my input, I don't want to just send a robot up in the sky." + diff --git a/old/published/drone-notes.txt b/old/published/drone-notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a97955 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/drone-notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ + + + + + +In a parallel universe there's a version of this piece that uses pot delivery as it's example. + + +When I was kid we had to go to people's houses to buy our drugs. Like animals. + +has the same idea. Prices are dropping and more and more variety of models are coming onto the market. Drones that fit in your palm? Check. With cameras? Check. Drones that follow you down the slopes? Check. Drones that can fly circle interesting things + + + +Mike Lord quotes: +It depends on what you're trying to do... flying is an important part of composing shots + + + +waypoints -- set waypoints and then go back, smoother flying between points, + +allows you to pan the camera while the drone does the flying (course lock -- point the drone in a direction and it stays in that direction, gives you the ability to have a continues tracking shot, while you manipulate the camera to keep an object in the center, i.e. flying by a property) + +I don't feel comfortable having so little control. As a photographer I don't see any advantage to not being able to see what you're doing. All of this just trying to cut corners when you're trying to learn to fly a drone. Just go out and practice and learn how to fly your drone. + +Point of interest stuff is cool, you can fly up and away while circling. + +To get the highest quality shots you're always going to want one pilot and one photographer. + +Solving problems that don't exist. + +The course line and course lock allow me to do things that I could not do before. + +evolve the follow me feature, something with a wristband perhaps. If you're snowboarding you don't want to carry anything. + +Collision avoidance and situational self awareness. Avoiding crashing is still the hardest part of flying and none of the automation so far addresses that. One of the most fun parts is flying it and you;re always going to be more adaptive and smarter than a series of waypoints. + + +---- + +Frank Kivo quotes + + + +I actually had a chance to get out with Lance Knowles and George Mosko of Monster-X to try out their new avoidance detection system in the Bahamas. It was so helpful. With a tropical storm forming, we were constantly getting blown around and with a common consumer drone, we would have lost it, I'm sure. + + + +Waypoint automation is extremely helpful for covering large parcels of land. When we take on properties of 300-600 acres, it would be a blessing to plan a flight path ahead of time. This would help us get our survey shots in and also use these to plan our more intimate shots, which we will either gather on the ground, or with tighter flying with a drone. + +I think these automated and new system implementations are extremely helpful and useful, depending on the industry you’re working in. I know that many folks in the oil and energies industries have hired full-time drone operators to survey and secure large pieces of land they may have a well on. These operators solely rely on waypoints and geographical data to make their surveys. + +The follow me system, to me, is sort of a biography tool; only useful in high octane sport activities or for an overkill "selfie." In a professional filmmaker tool kit, it doesn't make sense. We stay behind the camera, we don't have it follow us. + +The one downside of automation is you cannot teach automation emotion. There is no way to teach a waypoint system to capture the beautiful sun flares that come into camera for that split second. You need to be able to know when to break out of the automated flight system, capture what you need, and then have the ability to resume your flight path. That would be a very cool feature implementation. + +----- + +I asked about sending the drone back, and she comes at me with this. What +do you think? It is interesting, or do you just want it out of your life? + +If you do want to look at it, I don't think there's necessarily a review +in it. But maybe a trend story? Something about how much easier flying is, +where you just press a button? I dunno, maybe that's old news. But with +Parrot's push-button take-off/landing, 3DR Solo's "follow me," and now +this feature, it seems like this is all moving quickly toward total +automation. It might be pushing it to try to make a news story out of it. +But I dunno, you know all this stuff better than me. Is that old news? + +You can also say yes to the add-on, try it out and use it for your +business, then I tell them that you don't want to write about it. + +But maybe it won't fit in the hippie-van. + + + +Great, I'll ask her to ship it to Holman Ave. + +Maybe that's the trend story: the next big step in drone tech is obstacle +detection. You just need 2 or 3 interviews with people who have skin in +the game, and you can write a tidy story about the challenges the experts +are dealing with. + +I know it's not the type of thing you were super-stoked on before you +started just doing reviews, but it's an easy one. We did this in January, +but maybe there's new news and we could provide an update: +http://www.wired.com/2015/01/autopilot-tech-total-game-changer-drones/ + +Anyway, I bet you'll think of better ideas after you fly this! diff --git a/old/published/encryption.txt b/old/published/encryption.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fa7e00 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/encryption.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Ask most people about encryption and you're likely to hear about James Bond, but protecting data isn't just something for super spies. In fact, with the tools available today, protecting your data is so simple there's no reason to not to. + +As it is, it seems like very time you turn around there's another story about a data breach through a stolen laptop or a break-in where the thieves are after servers chock full of personal data. + +Both of these increasingly common scenarios can be easily avoided by encrypting your hard drive. You might still be out of a machine, but your sensitive data won't be exposed. + + +### How Encryption Works ### + +The term "encryption" refers to the process of turning the ordinary text you're written into unreadable gibberish. Decryption is the process of rendering the gibberish back into readable text. The software that handles the those processes is know as encryption software + +There are three basic ways that encryption software can protect your data: + +# by encrypting your entire hard drive. +# by partition on your hard drive and encrypted just those sections +# by creating an encrypted disk image which you can mount when you need it and ignore when you don't + +While all of these are acceptable solutions, by far the most secure is to encrypt your entire hard drive. With the whole disk encrypted thieves will be confronted by a password screen when they boot the stolen computer, and even moving the disk to another machine will still keep them locked out. + +### Windows Vista BitLocker ### + +Windows Vista includes a new tool known as [http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/58358421-a7f5-4c97-ab41-2bcc61a58a701033.mspx?mfr=true BitLocker]. BitLocker can encrypt your whole disk or just a single partition. + +Unfortunately BitLocker is tied to Microsoft's controversial Trusted Platform Module which includes some other things you may not want like DRM. BitLocker also requires either the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. + +### OS X File Vault ### + +Apple's OS X operating system also ships with some encryption tools by the name of FileVault. FileVault's chief disadvantage is that it won't encrypt your entire drive. Instead FileVault locks down your user folder. + +For casual users that may be enough, but if you're looking for more flexibility FileVault will leave you wanting. + +### TrueCrypt ### + +[http://www.truecrypt.org/ TrueCrypt] is a free, open-source disk encryption program that will work with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. TrueCrypt offers the ability to encrypt your whole hard drive, select volumes or encrypt disk images. + +The software is simple to install and there's no need tweak the default settings, though there are two gotchas to watch out for. + +TrueCrypt will offer to remember passwords when mounting an encrypted volume and it will also let you auto start the program when you boot. While both of those things are convenient they also defeat the purpose — if it automatically remembers the password for you it'll remember it for a thief too. If you're serious about protecting your data make sure both of these options are turned off. + +For those worried about performance, TrueCrypt is surprisingly light on the processor.Despite the fact that TrueCrypt encrypts and decrypts on the fly, opening files is very nearly as fast as a system without any encryption. + +### Other Options ### + +There are several commercial products available that offer varying degrees of encryption. [http://www.pgp.com/ PGP] offers whole disk encryption software ($150) and [http://www.jetico.com/bcrypt8.htm Best Crypt] is another option for Windows and Linux users. + diff --git a/old/published/facebook.txt b/old/published/facebook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dfb4c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/facebook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +Facebook, MySpace and Friendster took the web by storm because they filled a gap in how people wanted to interact over the web. + +The internet lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people and can not easily help people connect with each other. + +This lack is what gave rise to social networks in the first place, but while the networks continue to exist, we've outgrown the limitations of closed platforms. + +Facebook is a black hole and every time you post something, your data disappears over the event horizon. + +What happens when the next Facebook comes along? How will you migrate your data? Facebook offers no export options -- you, and your data, are bound up with the services and limitations of Facebook. + +In order to overcome this and other limitations, you'll have to create your own platform. + +In the old days this meant learning some programming languages, but today, with tools like Wordpress or Movable Type that's no longer necessary. And while Wordpress and MT may have started as blogging tools, they're much more than that now. + +Wordpress especially, with its massive community of plug-in developers is perfectly suited to rolling your own social networking platform capable of storing your entire online existance in one place -- just like your Facebook page. + +Even Facebook recognizes that this all-in-one Platform is its strength, which is why they too have created a platform. And while the blogosphere may gush over the new Facebook platform, all it really does is pull in data from other services, where other services offer an Application Programming Interface, Facebook created an Application Programming Vortex -- data can be pushed in, but nothing ever gets pulled out. + +Since 90 percent of the new little widgets for Facebook draw data that is already out there on the web, why tie your all-in-one place platform to Facebook when you can build your own and control your data forever regardless of what the next big thing is? + +Phase two of social networking is here, the DIY solution has arrived. Here's how to roll your own. + +First off you'll need a domain name, then you need some sort of content management service -- Wordpress is a great choice for its extendability. And while web hosting isn't necessarily free, it's pretty cheap and there's even a number of hosts that offer Wordpress pre-installed. + +Let's look at Facebook's main feature set. There's the "wall," which is essentially a blog/comments thread folded into one confusing list. No need to fret here, the blogging capabilities and builtin comment system of Wordpress more than cover your bases here. + +So now you have your own domain and anyone can see your content even if they still believe Facebook is actually a book with pictures of incoming freshmen. + +Want to know what your friends are up to? The wildly popular Upcoming event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a "Badge" listing all your public events as well as those from any groups you belong to (groups on Upcoming are the equivalent of networks on Facebook). + +Then there's Twitter, the micro-blogging and status update service for keeping track of what your friends are doing right now. Twitter also offers badges and widgets for displaying your twitters to the non-twittering world, or pulling in those from your friends so you can keep track of them. + +There are also a number of third party apps which use the Twitter API to offer more options. There's even a ready-to-go plugin for Wordpress. + +Need somewhere to store your photos? Flickr, Picasa, Zooomr and more offer all Facebook's photo functionality and loads more. + +Not only can you retrieve your images from these services and display them anywhere you want, in the process of uploading and sharing them with the local site community you just might make even more friends. + +And there are far more web service outside Facebook than in. Share links on your site with del.icio.us or ma.gnolia, list your music at iLike or Last.fm and post about your favorite book at Shelfari or LibraryThing -- all of these services offer cut-n-paste simple ways to draw data out and display it on your new, customized network page. + +So far so good. We've replicated most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into the black hole, but what about the concept of "friends" and "networks"? What can you do until the magic formula arrives? + +Well here's where it gets a bit tricky. The internet lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people. This absence is what gave rise to social networks in the first place, but while the networks continue to exist, we've outgrown the limitations + +Microformats define ways of creating links to define the relationship between the linker and the linkee, but while these convey the information they don't provide any way to utilize the information. The also require hand-coding any changes and updates. + +Which is why we'd like to propose a humble idea, the next big leap in social connectivity is going to be an open, free way of defining and connecting with people that isn't locked inside a particular domain or service. + +Think of it as a language or structural way to link individuals sites along friendship lines, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web. + +Ideally this micro-network, or microwork, would be open and discoverable there would be ways of defining multi-tiered relationship and creating links between individuals and their sites. + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Already a new crop of social networking services have sprung up to allow you to create a custom social network for any topic. These services offer the option of hosting your network, but some also allow you to host it yourself on your own server. + +Here's how you can go about replicating nearly all the features of Facebook, without getting a poke in the eye. + + + + + + +There are a number of canned DIY social network services available -- Ning, vibEngine and PeopleAggregator are three of the more successful. + +Ning, which was founded by Marc Andreessen of Netscape comes the closest to an open DIY network, but it still requires others to actively join in networks you've created rather than automating the discovery process. + +Ning, while it offers many advantages over Facebook or MySpace, still isn't a truly open solution. + + +That's the future, but what about right now? Want to shed the chains of Facebook and MySpace right now, but still keep your social networks in tack? It's possible, but it might take a little work. diff --git a/old/published/facebook2.txt b/old/published/facebook2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3656fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/facebook2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Facebook, MySpace and Friendster took the web by storm because they filled a gap in how people wanted to interact over the web -- they offer a way to keep all your data in one place. + +Facebook especially recognizes "all-your-stuff-in-one-place" approach is one of +its greatest strengths, which is why they too have created a platform to allow outside developers to feed their data into Facebook. + +But, where other services offer an Application Programming Interface (API), Facebook created an Application Programming Wormhole -- your data goes in, but nothing ever gets pulled out. + +What happens when the next Facebook comes along? How will you migrate your data? Facebook offers no export options -- you, and your data, are bound up with the services and limitations of Facebook. + +So why tie all of your personal data to Facebook's platform when you can build your own and control your data forever even after Facebook goes the way of Friendster?" + +Phase two of social networking is here, the DIY solution has arrived. Here's how to roll your own. + +This used to mean learning some programming languages to build a website, but today, with tools like Wordpress or Movable Type that's no longer necessary. And while Wordpress and MT may have started as blogging tools, they're much more than that now -- in fact they're all you need to develop your own data aggragating platfrom. + +Wordpress especially, with its massive community of plug-in developers is perfectly suited to rolling your own social networking platform capable of storing your entire online existance in one place -- just like your Facebook page. + +First off you'll need a domain name, then you need some sort of content management service -- Wordpress is a great choice for its extendability. And while web hosting isn't necessarily free, it's pretty cheap and there's even a number of hosts that offer Wordpress pre-installed. + +What we're going to do is pull in same data Facebook is pulling in, but what are we really gaining? Are we trading one big black hole for a series of smaller ones? As it turns out no, all of the services below offer some sort of way to retrieve your data, whether through an API or a bulk exporter. + +The drawback to badges and widgets is that they just display your data, the don't actually save it anywhere. So if these services disappear will your data go with them? Yes, but it will be just a small portion of your overall web existance. + +If you know what you're doing, it's a far better idea to stash your data in your own database, but since that's beyond the scope of the average web user we'll stick with the cut and past solutions. + +Now let's look at Facebook's main feature set. There's the "wall," which is essentially a blog/comments thread folded into one confusing list. No need to fret here, the blogging capabilities and built-in comment system of Wordpress more than cover your bases here. + +So now you have your own domain and anyone can see your content even if they still believe Facebook is actually a book with pictures of incoming freshmen. + +Want to know what your friends are up to? The wildly popular Upcoming event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a "Badge" listing all your public events as well as those from any groups you belong to (groups on Upcoming are the equivalent of networks on Facebook). + +Then there's Twitter, the micro-blogging and status update service for keeping track of what your friends are doing right now. Twitter also offers badges and widgets for displaying your twitters to the non-twittering world, or pulling in those from your friends so you can keep track of them. + +There are also a number of third party apps which use the Twitter API to offer more options. There's even a ready-to-go plugin for Wordpress. + +Other potential friend management tools include Plaxo for contact information, MyBlogLog for including snippets from your friend's sites and any number of RSS badges which can pull information from just about any feed source. + +Need somewhere to store your photos? Flickr, Picasa, Zooomr and more offer all Facebook's photo functionality and loads more. + +Not only can you retrieve your images from these services and display them anywhere you want, in the process of uploading and sharing them with the local site community you just might make even more friends. + +And there are far more web service outside Facebook than in. Share links on your site with del.icio.us or ma.gnolia, list your music at iLike or Last.fm and post about your favorite book at Shelfari or LibraryThing -- all of these services offer cut-n-paste simple ways to draw data out and display it on your new, customized platform site. + +So far so good. We've replicated most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into the black hole, but what about the concept of "friends" and "networks"? + +Well here's where it gets a bit tricky. We can pull in info from friends, but we don't have an easy way to manage friends or to define the relationship between our site and theirs. + +The internet lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people. This absence is what gave rise to social networks in the first place, and while we've outgrown the limitations of social site, no one has stepped forward with an open solution to managing your friends on internet at large. + +One possibility is the microformat XHTML Friends Network (XFN) which provides ways of defining the relationship between the linker and the linkee, but while these convey the information they don't provide any way to utilize the information. + +Some developers are beginning to offer easy-to-use tools which can create XFN code (Wordpress and Movable type both offer some templating solutions), but use of XFN isn't yet widespread enough and doesn't offer any tools for managing friends. + +Which is why we'd like to propose a humble idea, the next big leap in social connectivity is going to be an open, free way of defining and connecting with people that isn't locked inside a particular domain or service. + +Think of it as a language or structural way to link individuals sites along friendship lines, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web. + +Ideally this micro-network, or microwork, would be open and discoverable. There would be ways of defining multi-tiered relationship and creating links between individuals and their sites. + + diff --git a/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat.txt b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58e5373 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Firefox has a become the sacred cow of the digerati. Criticizing Firefox is socially on par with calling Earth Day a ___________________. But just as one day of awareness does nothing for the planet, glossing over Firefox's flaws doesn't make them go away. + +Yet the way many fan-boys rush to defend even the most egregious of Firefox problems can resemble a screening of <cite>An Inconvenient Truth</cite> at an ostrich farm. + +Of course the same kid gloves are almost never accorded to other browsers. When problems are found in Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser inevitably takes a bruising, diatribe filled round through the blogosphere. + +And Firefox is not without problems. Memory leaks, feature creep and bloat are threatening to weigh down the browser that once enticed users by promising to help them "take back the web." + +Firefox's popularity with the techno elite is a direct result of its extensibility. The browser itself is not much different than IE, Safari or any other, but the fact that Firefox is infinite customizability has long appealed to internet power users. + +However with each new version of Firefox, more of the features that were once specialty add-ons are making it into the core code leading some to worry about bloat. + +Firefox 1.5 was a 41.5 megabyte application, while Firefox 2.0 is 49.5 megabytes. Compare that to Safari’s paltry 16.8 MBs and Opera 9’s 24.5. + +Hard drive space is cheap, does size matter? Consider that from 1.5 to 2.0 Firefox grew in size by almost 25%. If that rate continues Firefox 6 will have a file size on par with Photoshop. + +The real question though is what you get for your bloat. Firefox 2.0 saw the addition of an inline spell checker, an RSS reader and a new search engine manager. All three of those features were previously available as extensions -- users that wanted them could use them, those that didn't still had a lightweight streamline browser. + +As Firefox continues to integrate add-ons into the core code, the same feature creep that once bogged down Mozilla's swiss army knife browser/email client/FTP solution may come back to haunt Firefox. + +Mozilla was even reportedly considering including social networking features, borrowed from the Firefox-based Flock browser, into the next version of Firefox. While many users welcome such features, others have rightly suggested that the "Coop" as the new features all called, ought to remain a plug-in. + +But plug-ins have their own problems. + +Firefox is a big fat RAM hog, frequently gobbling up nearly everything available and forcing users to restart the browser periodically just to keep from bringing their machines grinding halt. + +Part of Firefox's memory footprint can be attributed to faulty add-ons, but some of it can't. The Mozilla forums are filled with reports from users and Firefox 2 plugged over a dozen memory leaks that plagued earlier versions, but problems remain. + +So what do you get for your RAM? Much Firefox's memory usage comes from cached pages that live on after you leave them. Firefox implements a cache to retain up to 8 rendered pages in memory for faster back-browsing But this can be a lot of data -- meaning faster performance as you navigate the web -- but less RAM for other apps to use. + +Add-ons are not however, something casual user seems interested in. Mozilla reports that roughly __% of Firefox users have some sort of add-on installed, which means that for most the browser itself is the appeal. + +Mozilla recognizes that Firefox is far from perfect, even if the community is unwilling to. Firefox programmers recently put out a call for input from perhaps the most vocal Firefox abusers -- the Mac community. + +Mac users have long had a serious bone to pick with Firefox -- Firefox doesn't look like a Mac application. Firefox eschews OS X interface elements in favor of its own, decidedly un-Mac equivalents, which makes the browser look out of place on the otherwise homogenous Mac platform. + +Mac users being the finicky bunch that they are, often reject Firefox on that basis alone. + +Camino, a Mac-only browser based on Firefox, looks more Mac like and enjoys widespread support in the community but it lacks Firefox's add-on capabilities. + diff --git a/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat2.txt b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d274687 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ + + + +The alpha's you're looking at represent almost two years of development with major performance enhancements. + +Mozilla recognizes that Firefox is far from perfect, even if the community is unwilling to. Firefox programmers recently put out a call for input from perhaps the most vocal Firefox abusers -- the Mac community. + + + + +But Perens believes that the bloat isn't just the fault of the browser. "I think the real cause of web bloat and feature creep is the rich content offered on the web these days, which goes so far beyond vanilla HTML in its performance demands." + +Indeed there are already several projects based on the Gecko engine with the goal for providing a stripped-down browser. Minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> is a browser designed for mobile devices and Galeon <http://galeon.sourceforge.net/> runs on Linux computers, but neither have yet acchieved widespread consumer support. + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/adobe_releases_.html "Adobe Releases Tamarin" + +Peren's assessment is particularly telling given that shortly after the explosion of social networking sites the Firefox team built The Coop, a set of social networking features borrowed from the Firefox-based Flock browser. At the moment the Coop exists as an add-on but Mozilla has reportedly considered including in a future version of Firefox. + + +"There have been many stripped-down browsers using the Mozilla Gecko HTML rendering engine - which is really the key component, and is built to be used in multiple projects. Mozilla provides good instructions on how to build a new browser with Gecko here <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/>. For example, we have Minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> for cell phones, which was funded by Nokia, Galeon <http://galeon.sourceforge.net/> on Linux, and many others. But I don't think any of these have hit the right mark for the non-power-user who just wants to browse the web. +" -- perens + + +Add-ons are not something the casual user seems interested in. Mozilla reports that roughly __% of Firefox users have some sort of add-on installed, which means that for most, the browser itself is the appeal. diff --git a/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat3.txt b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72abf91 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +As Firefox continues to integrate add-ons into the core code, the same feature creep that once bogged down Mozilla's swiss army knife browser/email client/FTP solution may come back to haunt Firefox. + +Memory leaks, feature creep and bloat are threatening to weigh down the browser that once enticed users by promising to help them "take back the web." + +When Blake Ross first started writing the code that would eventually become Firefox, one of the goals was to produce a lightweight alternative by moving none essential functionality into a user-customizable extensions framework, which remains arguably Firefox's greatest strength. + +But today many things that started out as extensions are now part of the Firefox core feature set and yet many problems remain. + +Firefox 2.0 saw the addition of an inline spell checker, an RSS reader and a new search engine manager -- all previously available as add-ons -- and at the same time many problems that have plagued the browser since the beginning remain. + +Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla, says that "one of our goals with new features is to hit that 90% use case." + +Meaning that if a feature is useful to 90 percent of users, than it can make the cut, otherwise "if power users want something richer than that they can turn to extensions." + +A representative from Flock, the specialized social networking browser built on top of Firefox, points out that extensions have their own issues. For one thing they often aren't compatible with each other. "A combination of extensions may serve some very specific purposes, but does not create an integrated experience that's built for the end user." + +Schroepfer says that feature bloat is always a concern, but the main focus for new features is that they enhance without a performance hit. "The general philosophy, and one of the reasons it takes so long to get features in the browser, is that any new features should not affect the startup time or performance the browser." + + +By Mozilla's test Firefox 2.0 remains the fastest version yet, but Schroepfer concedes that "memory usage is its dependent on the environment -- other software, add-ons, extensions and other things can impact performance." + +For some Firefox is a big fat RAM hog, frequently gobbling up nearly everything available and forcing users to restart the browser periodically just to keep from bringing their machines grinding halt. + + +Much Firefox's memory usage comes from a cache mechanism introduced in version 1.5. In Firefox, the last 8 pages that live on after you leave them (provided you have a gigabyte of RAM -- if you have less it stores less). + +Caching pages in memory allows faster back-browsing, but this can be a lot of data -- meaning faster performance as you navigate the web -- but less RAM for other apps to use. + +Memory leaks and bugs are nothing new in Firefox. As Chris Pirillo points out, "the issue isn't really about cluttering Firefox with more features that could slow it down and make it more unstable -- the issue is in not fixing outstanding, documented, replicable bugs before adding more features to the core." + +But Bruce Perens, an open source advocate and observer, believes that the bloat isn't just the fault of the browser. "I think the real cause of web bloat and feature creep is the rich content offered on the web these days, which goes so far beyond vanilla HTML in its performance demands." + +Schroepfer claims that, according to Mozilla's figures, Firefox has "actually seen a significant drop in memory usage." + +But as he admits, "everyone's mileage varies a little bit." + +The advent of more sophisticated web pages and applications has driven the Firefox developers to a major rewrite of Gecko the engine that renders pages in Firefox. + +Firefox 3 will use Gecko 1.9 which offers significant performance boosts even in the early alpha builds available today. Firefox 4 is also scheduled to include [Tamarin][1], a new Javascript rendering engine donated to Mozilla by Adobe. + +"In general we're psyched about the way people are pushing the limits of the web," Schroepfer says. "And we're excited about incorporating Tamarin into Firefox 4 which should significantly improve Javascript performance." + +Bruce Perens, a open source advocate and observer, believes that whatever Firefox's problems, the community can repair them. + +"If customers want a stripped-down version of Firefox, someone in the open source world will make one that they like." + +"The beauty of open source," says Schroepfer, is that "it's open to what people want -- the success of Seamonkey demonstrates that some people still actually like the integrated approach." + +"If someone has a better idea and they can go off and run with it and if the idea is successful they will find an audience." + + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/adobe_releases_.html "Adobe Releases Tamarin" + + + diff --git a/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat4.txt b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d956b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ + + + + +Firefox 1.5 saw the addition of a page cache mechanism that could be responsible for Firefox's memory woes. The browser stores the last 8 pages you viewed in your computer's RAM (if you have less than a gigabyte of RAM, it stores less). + +Caching pages in memory allows faster back-browsing -- meaning better performance as you navigate the web -- but this can be a lot of data and less RAM for other apps to use. + +Given the rising popularity of web-based applications which require greater amounts of system resources, could it be that the web is simply getting too heavy for a svelte browser to handle? + + + + + +Of course the flip side + + + + + + +points out, + +Otherwise, you're having to run a browser with a zillion +plugins - and none of them aware that other plugins might be running. +You have a more stable program if said items are actually integrated +into the base. + + + +Many of Firefox's memory usage woes come from a page cache mechanism introduced in version 1.5, the last major revision before the current version. The browser stores the last 8 pages you viewed in your computer's RAM (if you have less than a gigabyte of RAM, it stores less). + +Caching pages in memory allows faster back-browsing -- meaning better performance as you navigate the web -- but this can be a lot of data and less RAM for other apps to use. + +Given the rising popularity of web-based applications which require greater amounts of system resources, could it be that the web is simply getting too heavy for a svelte browser to handle? + + + +But as Chris Pirillo points out, "the issue isn't really about cluttering Firefox with more features that could slow it down and make it more unstable -- the issue is in not fixing outstanding, documented, replicable bugs before adding more features to the core." + + + + + + + +But today many things that started out as extensions are now part of the Firefox core feature set and yet many problems remain. + + + + + + + + + + +Bruce Perens, a open source advocate and observer, believes that whatever Firefox's problems, the community can repair them. + +"If customers want a stripped-down version of Firefox, someone in the open source world will make one that they like." + +Pirillo thinks Firefox may not keep up. "Some people love the simplistic nature of Firefox, but I'm one who believes that minimalism is a gigantic weakness." + + + + + + + +The advent of more sophisticated web pages and applications has driven the Firefox developers to a major rewrite of Gecko the engine that renders pages in Firefox. + +Firefox 3 will use Gecko 1.9 which offers significant performance boosts even in the early alpha builds available today. Firefox 4 is also scheduled to include [Tamarin][1], a new Javascript rendering engine donated to Mozilla by Adobe. + +"In general we're psyched about the way people are pushing the limits of the web," Schroepfer says. "And we're excited about incorporating Tamarin into Firefox 4 which should significantly improve Javascript performance." + + diff --git a/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat5.txt b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1da89ce --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefox bloat/firefoxbloat5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Firefox is no longer a fringe browser. With xx% of the browser market Firefox has made it to prime time, but the browser is still no panacea for your web woes, issues remain. + +Because of Firefox's open-source origins, the browser has remained somewhat sheltered from the harshest performance criticisms. However, as Firefox's adoption rate grows and it continues to gain market share against main competitor Internet Explorer, we can no longer turn a blind eye to its biggest flaws. + +In fact, problems arising from poor memory handling and feature creep make Firefox start to look like the very beast it was originally meant to replace -- a slow, bloated and over-stuffed piece of software. + +The appeal of a browser is after all, as Chris Pirillo say, "not just about standards compliance -- it's about raw speed." + +And when it comes to speed, Firefox just might be bogging down your internet experience. + +In a recent Wired survey, users rated Firefox's memory gobbling problems as their number one gripe about the browser. + +Even Mozilla's Vice President of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer concedes that performace can be an issue. "Memory usage is its dependent on the environment -- other software, add-ons, extensions and other things can impact performance." + +So what gives? What's making Firefox slow and heavy? + +It could be the add-ons. + +When Blake Ross first started writing the code that would eventually become Firefox, one of his goals was to slim the browser down by moving any non-essential functionality into a user-customizable extensions framework. To this day, Firefox's customizable nature remains arguably its greatest strength. + +But those extensions can also be the source of many Firefox woes -- including speed issues. Memory leaks are not uncommon, and often extensions conflict with one another. + +_________ _________ of Flock, a social networking browser built on top of Firefox, argues that extensions often aren't ready for prime time. "A combination of extensions may serve some very specific purposes, but does not create an integrated experience that's built for the end user." + +Pirillo agrees and thinks that "to compete further, I do believe that Firefox must contain more "awesome" functionality out of the box." + +"Otherwise," he says, "you're having to run a browser with a zillion plugins - and none of them aware that other plugins might be running." + +But the question is what add-ons make the grade? + +Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla, says that "one of our goals with new features is to hit that 90% use case." + +Meaning that if a feature is useful to 90 percent of users, than it can make the cut, otherwise "if power users want something richer than that they can turn to extensions." + +Firefox 2.0 saw the addition of an inline spell checker, an RSS reader and a new search engine manager -- all previously available as add-ons, but now much faster thanks to their inclusion in the core code. + +However not all users are happy with the added features, some say the dreaded feature creep is threatening to weigh down Firefox. + +Schroepfer admits that feature bloat is always a concern, but the main focus for new features is that they enhance without a performance hit. "The general philosophy, and one of the reasons it takes so long to get features in the browser, is that any new features should not affect the startup time or performance the browser." + +Chris Pirillo argues that feature creep could be inevitable. "How many millions of people use Firefox? Can you imagine if each one of them wanted to see something different in their core browser?" + +Is Firefox caught between a rock and hard place? + +Bruce Perens, an open-source advocate and observer, believes that the blame for bloat can't be levied entirely upon Firefox. + +"The real cause of web bloat and feature creep is the rich content offered on the web these days," he says, "which goes so far beyond vanilla HTML in its performance demands." + +But browsers such as Opera and Apple's Safari manage to handle rich webapps as well as Firefox with far less code. Not only that, but both of those lighter browsers pass the ACID 2 test, a test against the World Wide Web Consortium's recommended web standards that Firefox fails. + + + diff --git a/old/published/firefoxbeta1.txt b/old/published/firefoxbeta1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90a4131 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefoxbeta1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +The Firefox team has dropped the first official beta for the upcoming Firefox 3. Although still primarily meant for developers, Firefox 3 beta 1 showcase some of the changes in store for the final release due sometime later this year. + +Once the only real alternative to Internet Explorer 6, the final release of Firefox 3 will see a significantly changed browser market. With recent versions of Opera available for free, the much improved IE7 installed by default in Vista and Apple's svelte Safari 3 all entering the browser fray, Firefox 3 will have its work cut out for it for it. + +Though Firefox remains popular, many users have criticized the perceived bloat and massive memory use of Firefox 2. Mozilla hopes to change that perception with Firefox 3 and the first beta is indeed slimmer and sleeker than its predecessors. + +Although it isn't intended to be used by the general public, the first beta of Firefox 3 is an important milestone for Mozilla and shows that, though it may be a bit behind schedule, Firefox 3 remains on track both in reducing memory usage and bring some new features to the table. + +In my informal testing of beta 1, the browser never consumed more than 60MB of memory and when running in the background it disappeared from my CPU usage monitor entirely, something Firefox 2 has never managed to do. Of course, I've been running it sans extensions and it's entirely possible that my experiences with memory leaks come from extensions. + +To that end Mozilla has said in the past that it will be stepping up efforts to help add-on creators track and eliminate bugs in popular extensions. + +Firefox 3 beta 1 is noticeably snappier than its predecessors, page loads are quicker and AJAX style refreshes like GMail happen almost without you noticing them. + +While the speed alone is likely to convince many people to upgrade, Firefox 3 has some nice new features as well. Not everything planned for the final release has made it into beta 1, but there's plenty of new features, especially if you haven't followed all the alpha releases very closely. + +Beta 1 features a new bookmarks management system dubbed Places, which aims to help you keep your bookmarks organized and easy to find. Recent alpha builds included Places, but were incomplete in implementing all the planned features. Even now Places doesn't look completely baked, but it's close enough to be very useful. Places supports bookmarking tools borrowed from social sites like del.icio.us or ma.gnolia, including tags and starring to classify, organize and prioritize your favorites. + +The new features aren't relegated to the Places panel either, you'll find them right in the main location bar on the right hand side where you'll notice a new star icon. Press the icon once and page is starred, press it again and small panel pops up allow you to edit your bookmark without having to open the Places panel. + +screen1 + +Unfortunately I encountered a bug with this, although clicking the star claimed to create a bookmark in the folder "all bookmarks" when I opened up the Places panel, the bookmark was nowhere to be found. Changing the folder to anything else worked without issue. + +The new star icon isn't the only change for the location bar. In fact the Location bar isn't just a location bar anymore, it's also a full text search bar for finding bookmarks or pages stored in your browsing history. Rather than just searching for page titles and URLs the way Firefox 2 does, the new version looks for keywords within the page text itself, making it much easier to find what you're looking for even when you don't know where you saw it. The feature is still somewhat temperamental in beta 1. + +Other changes in the URL bar include dropping the age old padlock symbol for secure sites. Mozilla has pointed out that using the lock symbol to show encryption can be a false cue since you can be securely connected to a scam site. Rather than the simple lock, Firefox 3 beta 1 features a clickable favicon which displays a panel reporting the page's connection status. An additional link will open a panel that displays even more information like whether or not the site is bookmarked, how often you've visited the page and any saved passwords you might have stored. + +screen2 + +Some early mockups of Firefox 3 showed much of that additional information in the favicon drop-down, but for the beta 1 at least, you'll need to click through to see the extra info. + +Other changes include many streamlined user interface elements, like the revamped add-ons manager. The add-on manager now features a tab for managing plug-ins like the Flash player or Quicktime, including the ability to disable them as well as links to find any additional plugins you might need. The add-ons panel also features an always displayed "restart Firefox" button for quickly enabling and disabling extensions, themes and plugins. Previously this button only showed up when you installed new plugins. + +screen3 + +The downloads panel has also been improved, adding a new info icon that tell you not only where the download is on your hard drive, but also where it came from originally. There's also a small search bar at the bottom of the panel for finding those needles in the haystack of your downloads. + +Although beta 1 is far from a finished products and some interesting changes, like platform specific skins, are still in store before the final release, if you don't mind losing your add-ons the speed and memory solutions in beta 1 just might make it worth the upgrade. + diff --git a/old/published/firefoxbeta1_markup.txt b/old/published/firefoxbeta1_markup.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b043655 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/firefoxbeta1_markup.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<p>The Firefox team has dropped the first official beta for the upcoming Firefox 3. Although still primarily meant for developers, Firefox 3 beta 1 showcase some of the changes in store for the final release due sometime later this year.</p> + +<p>Once the only real alternative to Internet Explorer 6, the final release of Firefox 3 will see a significantly changed browser market. With recent versions of Opera available for free, the much improved IE7 installed by default in Vista and Apple's svelte Safari 3 all entering the browser fray, Firefox 3 will have its work cut out for it for it. </p> + +<p>Though Firefox remains popular, many users have criticized the perceived bloat and massive memory use of Firefox 2. Mozilla hopes to change that perception with Firefox 3 and the first beta is indeed slimmer and sleeker than its predecessors.</p> + +<p>Although it isn't intended to be used by the general public, the first beta of Firefox 3 is an important milestone for Mozilla and shows that, though it may be a bit behind schedule, Firefox 3 remains on track both in reducing memory usage and bring some new features to the table.</p> + +<p>In my informal testing of beta 1, the browser never consumed more than 60MB of memory and when running in the background it disappeared from my CPU usage monitor entirely, something Firefox 2 has never managed to do. Of course, I've been running it sans extensions and it's entirely possible that my experiences with memory leaks come from extensions.</p> + +<p>To that end Mozilla has said in the past that it will be stepping up efforts to help add-on creators track and eliminate bugs in popular extensions.</p> + +<p>Firefox 3 beta 1 is noticeably snappier than its predecessors, page loads are quicker and AJAX style refreshes like GMail happen almost without you noticing them.</p> + +<p>While the speed alone is likely to convince many people to upgrade, Firefox 3 has some nice new features as well. Not everything planned for the final release has made it into beta 1, but there's plenty of new features, especially if you haven't followed all the alpha releases very closely.</p> + +<p>Beta 1 features a new bookmarks management system dubbed Places, which aims to help you keep your bookmarks organized and easy to find. Recent alpha builds included Places, but were incomplete in implementing all the planned features. Even now Places doesn't look completely baked, but it's close enough to be very useful. Places supports bookmarking tools borrowed from social sites like del.icio.us or ma.gnolia, including tags and starring to classify, organize and prioritize your favorites. </p> + +<p>The new features aren't relegated to the Places panel either, you'll find them right in the main location bar on the right hand side where you'll notice a new star icon. Press the icon once and page is starred, press it again and small panel pops up allow you to edit your bookmark without having to open the Places panel.</p> + +<p>screen1</p> + +<p>Unfortunately I encountered a bug with this, although clicking the star claimed to create a bookmark in the folder "all bookmarks" when I opened up the Places panel, the bookmark was nowhere to be found. Changing the folder to anything else worked without issue.</p> + +<p>The new star icon isn't the only change for the location bar. In fact the Location bar isn't just a location bar anymore, it's also a full text search bar for finding bookmarks or pages stored in your browsing history. Rather than just searching for page titles and URLs the way Firefox 2 does, the new version looks for keywords within the page text itself, making it much easier to find what you're looking for even when you don't know where you saw it. The feature is still somewhat temperamental in beta 1.</p> + +<p>Other changes in the URL bar include dropping the age old padlock symbol for secure sites. Mozilla has pointed out that using the lock symbol to show encryption can be a false cue since you can be securely connected to a scam site. Rather than the simple lock, Firefox 3 beta 1 features a clickable favicon which displays a panel reporting the page's connection status. An additional link will open a panel that displays even more information like whether or not the site is bookmarked, how often you've visited the page and any saved passwords you might have stored.</p> + +<p>screen2</p> + +<p>Some early mockups of Firefox 3 showed much of that additional information in the favicon drop-down, but for the beta 1 at least, you'll need to click through to see the extra info.</p> + +<p>Other changes include many streamlined user interface elements, like the revamped add-ons manager. The add-on manager now features a tab for managing plug-ins like the Flash player or Quicktime, including the ability to disable them as well as links to find any additional plugins you might need. The add-ons panel also features an always displayed "restart Firefox" button for quickly enabling and disabling extensions, themes and plugins. Previously this button only showed up when you installed new plugins.</p> + +<p>screen3</p> + +<p>The downloads panel has also been improved, adding a new info icon that tell you not only where the download is on your hard drive, but also where it came from originally. There's also a small search bar at the bottom of the panel for finding those needles in the haystack of your downloads.</p> + +<p>Although beta 1 is far from a finished products and some interesting changes, like platform specific skins, are still in store before the final release, if you don't mind losing your add-ons the speed and memory solutions in beta 1 just might make it worth the upgrade.</p> diff --git a/old/published/fuji-xpro2-review.txt b/old/published/fuji-xpro2-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a430924 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/fuji-xpro2-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +It's been barely five years since Fuji plunged into the consumer camera market with the fixed lens X100, and a mere four years since the company's flagship X-Pro1 hit the market. This relatively short time in the market is notable because Fuji's new X-Pro2 may well be one of the most fully realized visions of what a camera should be to hit the market in years. + +If Fuji's vision of what a camera should be happens to align with your own, the X-Pro2 can feel, if you'll pardon the over-used word, magical. The understated look -- from the front there's no logo or even camera name -- and rangefinder-style design combine to create something that feels pulled out of an entirely different era of photography. In my case I can say that not since I sold my Nikon F3 have I picked up a camera and headed out the door for the sole purpose of taking photos. This is a camera that demands to be used. + +The X-Pro2 is not revolutionary. Fuji is not trying to break fresh ground here. Instead it takes everything that makes the X line appealing and improves all of it. + +There's better image quality thanks to the new 24MP X-Trans CMOS III sensor, autofocus is faster, buttons have been moved to better locations, menus have been rearranged and are now easy to customize, and there's a new film simulation mode based on Fujifilm's Neopan ACROS black-and-white film. Even video, which has previously been a weak point in Fuji systems, has been drastically improved in the X-Pro2. + +The X-Pro2 is also very deliberate about what it *doesn't* have. There's no articulated screen, no touchscreen and no 4K video. This is an opinionated machine designed for a specific type of photographer. + +Judging by comments from Fuji execs, the X-Pro2 sensor is probably capable of 4K video, but it won't be coming, not even via one of the company's famously feature-adding firmware updates. If 4K video is important to you this is not the camera for you -- end of story (the rumored XT-2 will likely have 4K video). + +The X-Pro2 is also not a "full frame" sensor, though its output is on par with most full frame systems I've used. The X-Trans III is an impressive new sensor; Fuji has managed to improve the pixel count considerably without sacrificing anything. The infamous waxy skin tone problem at high ISO has also been eliminated. Speaking of high ISO, the X-Trans III can go all the way to 25600, though to my eye anything above 6400 starts to get noisy. + +From the front the X-Pro2 is nearly identical to its predecessor. There's a slightly larger grip, but otherwise most of the changes are on the back, specifically the button layout. The buttons themselves are largely unchanged, but new layout means you can access nearly everything with your right thumb without ever taking your eye off the viewfinder. + +The one new button is the focus joystick, a little nib that allows you to move the area of focus around. The autofocus system itself has been improved with a total of 273 AF points across the frame. To navigate between points you can use the nib joystick. + +As someone who's used to doing a half-press of the shutter to lock focus and then recompose, the genius of the nib was not immediately apparent. Once you have the nib though you start to realize that the half-press and recompose method is really a hack around a shortcoming of most cameras -- the AF lock button is never where you want it. This is true with even the X-Pro2, though you can swap the AE and AF lock buttons, which will put FL right under your thumb. However, by the time I figured this out I'd already become fluent with the nib. And now, having returned the X-Pro2 I am ruined; constantly feeling for a nib on my camera that's not there. Suffice to say, the nib is brilliant -- except for fast moving subjects, in which case I revert to half-pressing the shutter release -- and as an added bonus it frees up the arrow keys to handle other shortcuts. + +Other shortcuts abound and Fuji's customization options allow you to more or less create the button layout you want. Just head into the menu and set each button to do whatever you'd like. In the X-Pro2 this customization has been extended to the onscreen menus as well. When you press the menu key, the first menu that comes up is a user customizable screen. Given the number of hardware controls on the X-Pro 2 I could never find more than two things to put on the custom menu -- my custom film simulation presets and the timer function -- but there's plenty more room if you need it. + +Any camera system though is only as good as its lenses and Fuji lens are every bit as good as they're hyped to be. The all metal construction makes even some of my nicest Nikon lenses feel like the cheap plastic they are. Fujinon sent the new 35mm f2 (50mm full frame equivalent), which in addition to being an ideal for the optical viewfinder, can take advantage of the X-Pro2's much improved autofocus speed. + +Autofocus has been a weak spot in the Fuji X system as a whole, but particularly with the X-Pro1. The X-Pro2 is much faster. Autofocus single shot mode is DSLR fast. Continuous mode, not so much. It's getting there, but if you shoot sports this is still not going to cut it. Again, this camera is designed for specific types of photographers, sport photographers are not one of them. + +The hybrid viewfinder in the X-Pro2 gets a welcome update. Alongside the optical and pure EVF modes is a new hybrid mode that uses the optical viewfinder, but adds a tiny thumbnail EVF view in the lower right quarter of the screen. Personally I used the optical viewfinder almost exclusively, though the hybrid mode is useful in manual focus mode since it becomes a zoomed in view of details. The X-Pro2's EVF remains thoroughly okay. It's nowhere near the gorgeously bright EVF of the XT-1, but it works and is useful when you're using lenses that don't work well with the OVF. That said, the whole reason to buy the X-Pro2 over a DSLR-style camera is for the rangefinder feel, of which the OVF is a big part. + +Other welcome new features in the X-Pro2 include dual memory card slots. That's welcome news for anyone shooting high stakes gigs like weddings, but there's also an option to use one card for JPG and one for RAW. That means you can take advantage of Fuji's many film simulation modes, but also record an unadulterated RAW file if you change your mind later. + +RAW aficionados will be glad to hear that Fuji has introduced an option to use losslessly compressed RAW files. The compression drops file size from approximately 50MB per image uncompressed to approximately 20MB per image, though be sure that your favorite RAW software editor supports the new compression. At the time of writing only [Silkypix](https://silkypix.isl.co.jp/en/) and the latest version of [Lightroom](https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html) support it. + +The X-Pro2's weakest point is battery life, which is really bad, especially if pre-focusing is turned on (which it is by default). Battery life is bad enough that you should get at least one spare battery, probably two or three if you're a pro shooting multi-hour events. I typically got about 150-180 shots out of a battery depending on the settings (pre-focus especially kills battery life). + +The X-Pro2 is not a perfect camera. There's no such thing, but if there were the X-Pro2 would be damn close. It's not for everyone, but it has a certain Je ne sais qua, that will make it perfect for the right kind of photographer. As I said at the beginning, the X-Pro2 demands to be used and that alone will do more for your photography than faster autofocus or larger sensors. Just remember to grab an extra battery on your way out the door. + + +rating: 9/10 + +Wired: +A photographer's camera, the understated X-Pro2 is the most fully realized camera in Fuji's X series. Improved autofocus system and new sensor. Hybrid viewfinder. New Acros film simulation mode. + +Tired: +The X-Pro2's weakest point is battery life -- it sucks. Buy two or three extra. The EVF is okay, but not not as vibrant as the XT-1. diff --git a/old/published/fujix70review.txt b/old/published/fujix70review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd74953 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/fujix70review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Fuji's new X70 compact was announced alongside the larger and more powerful X-Pro2, but in many ways the X70 is the more interesting camera. It's the company's smallest camera yet, so small it slips easily into a pocket, but the size is deceptive. + +This is a powerful camera with the same 16.3MP APS-C sized X-Trans CMOS II sensor you'll find in the rest of Fuji's X series. Having experimented with most of the micro four thirds compacts and the newer offerings like Panasonic's LX100, I can say without hesitation that the X70 delivers the highest quality image in the smallest package of anything in this size range. + +At $700, with an APS-C sensor that fits in your in your pocket, you'd be hard pressed to go wrong with the X70. + +At first glance the X70 might appear like a slightly stripped down version of the company's popular X100 series cameras, but dig a little deeper and you'll discover the X70 is an impressive beast in its own right. It is missing the optical viewfinder of the X100, but it blows the X100 out of the water in two very important ways -- autofocus speed and image buffering. + +The X70 is extremely fast for its diminutive size, it borrows the AF system from the larger X-T10. It's not DSLR fast, but try shoving the Nikon D800 in your pocket. Trade-offs are always necessary. + +The X70's single point focus mode offers a 49-point focusing system while the Zone and Wide/Tracking modes use a 77-point area to capture moving subjects. Both work well and when coupled with the impressively fast shooting speed and you'll rarely miss a shot due to the blackout on the LCD screen. + +What the X70 does have is three manual focus modes designed to handle a variety of situations. To switch to manual you just flip the focus switch to manual and use the lens control ring to set the focal distance. The LCD display automatically zooms to help you judge the focus. In bright, backlit situations this can be tricky, but for street photographers who pre-focus at a fixed distance it works just fine. There's also a handy (optional) depth of field scale along the bottom of the LCD. + +The second method of manual focusing is Focus Peak Highlight mode, which outlines the subject in focus, much like what Sony pioneered with the NEX line. The third focus mode in the X70 is split screen mode, which taps the old manual focusing methods of SLRs in the 80s (somewhat ironic considering the X70's rangefinder-inspired design, but never mind that). + +In all three modes the manual focus ring is exceedingly clever -- turn it fast and the distance changes quickly, turn it slower and it gets more sensitive, moving through the distance scale much more slowly. + +The attention to detail in manual focusing possibilities reveals what seems to be one of the X70's target markets -- street photographers (who don't care about a viewfinder). Indeed more than a smaller X100, the X70 feels like Fuji's answer to the Ricoh GR II, which has nearly identical specs, but lacks something key in the X70 -- the articulating touchscreen. The X70's screen can flip up 180 degrees (selfies, yeah) and down 90 degrees, which makes it even easier to shoot discreetly from the hip. + +This is also the first touchscreen for Fuji. It's a nice bright screen, 3" with 1.04 million dots and three modes for shooting -- off, touch to focus and touch to shoot. All three work as advertised though I happen to prefer off. Actually the touch to focus mode is handy for moving the focus point around quickly. It's not as nice as the X-Pro2's "nib" focus point controller, but given the space constraints of the X70 it's the next best thing. The touch features also extend to playback mode where it can be used to flip through images and pinch to zoom. + +The X70 differentiates itself further from the X100 series in the choice of lens. The X70 comes with an 18.5mm f/2.8 lens (28mm in 35mm-speak). That's a bit wider and slower than the X100, which uses a 35mm f/2 lens. That X70 does offer some digital crop modes for 35mm and 50mm equivalent images, which saves you post-production work. I've always found 28mm an awkward length, it's not quite the landscape-friendly 24mm, but wider than the street-friendly 35mm. That said, it's a compromise lens that makes sense for the X70. It might be less well suited for any one thing, but it's a good general length when you might be shooting a little bit of everything. + +The ergonomics of the X70 are quite good in spite of its tiny size. The body is all metal and feels quite solid without being heavy. There are the usual slew of manual controls Fuji is known for, including an exposure compensation dial that covers 3 stops in either direction, a shutter speed dial and an aperture ring on the lens (the latter can be assigned to other functions as well). My main complaint is that all of the buttons are relatively flat and can sometimes be difficult to push. The dedicated video button is the worst, it's nearly impossible to press. + +Fortunately Fuji offers the ability to assign pretty much any function to any button so I just swapped the Wifi and video buttons. As with other Fuji cameras I've tested, video with the X70 is good, but not great. The X70 can record in 1080p movies at up to 60fps. The biggest drawback is that a fair bit of lens focus noise often ends up in your videos. This isn't just an X70 problem, it's fairly common in compacts, but it's definitely annoying and can only really be solved by using an external microphone. + +The X70 sports the usual compliment of Fuji film modes, though the very nice Acros mode that debuted with the X-Pro2 is not present (it apparently requires the more powerful processor in the X-Pro2). The JPGs straight out of the camera are excellent, though I still ended up shooting primarily RAW (now that Google has made the [Nik filter suite](https://www.google.com/nikcollection/) free, Fuji's film modes save less time than they used to). + +tk rest of features. + +The X70 has both a mechanical shutter and an electronic shutter for shutter speeds up to 1/32,000 sec. The ISO range extends from 100-51,200, though after 6400 you'll be shooting JPGs only. There's very little noise, even in JPGs, up to 6400, after that you'll start to detect a bit of noise. + +The X70 also features all the bells and whistles you've come to expect from today's cameras, including built-in wi-fi connectivity for quick transfers to your mobile device, a time-lapse recording mode, as well as support for all of Fuji's various bracketing options (AE, Film Simulation, Dynamic Range, ISO and White Balance). + +The X70 is among the best image quality you're going to find in this compact of a form factor making it an excellent all-around travel camera, street photography camera or as a pocket camera for times when anything more would be overkill. + + +Rating: 7/maybe 8 up to you. + +Wired: Small, light and amazing image quality make the X70 an excellent travel camera. Powerful manual focus modes and the articulated touch LCD screen make the X70 a great street photography camera as well. At $700 the X70 offers a lot of camera for not a lot of dough. + +Tired: Physical buttons are difficult to push, video recording is often marred by lens noises. The 28mm lens, while compact, is not for everyone. diff --git a/old/published/gf7-review.txt b/old/published/gf7-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..477321e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/gf7-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Panasonic's Lumix DMC-GF7 continues the company's line of compact, mirrorless designs aimed at straddling the line between lightweight and simple point-and-shoot and more powerful micro 4/3 features like interchangeable lens and full manual controls. + +The GF7's is a little different than recent GF offerings with a blocky style that has more in common with Panasonic's GM line of ultra compact m4/3s than with recent GF offerings. The GF7 eschews the anonymous black body with round corners of its predecessors in favor of a cleaner, almost retro look that's reminiscent of one of my all time favorite cameras, the original GF1. + +However, where the GF1 was very much a photo enthusiast camera, aimed at those who wanted DSLR features in a more portable body, the GF7 is targeted at those looking to step up from point-and-shoot and cellphone cameras. + +The design is retro and quite handsome, but the blocky, solid-looking design you see in the image above makes it easy to overlook what a diminutive thing the GF7 is -- it fits in my palm with room to spare. It is slightly larger than the GM5, which remains the smallest 4/3 body out there, but not by much. It's so tiny that if you swap the kit lens for a telephoto like Panasonic's 45-200mm things start to look comical. + +The tiny footprint is nice with compact lenses -- especially Panasonic's 20mm 4/3 lens, which remains my favorite prime in the 4/3 range -- but the GF7 gets tough to hold when you put something larger on the front. That's not to say you can't, just that it's undeniably awkward both physically and aesthetically. + +To be fair Panasonic is positioning the GF7 as a social-media friendly step up from smart phones. A way to step out of the vast point-and-shoot sea to something more serious. In other words the target audience Panasonic has in mind is unlikely to strapping a giant zoom on the front right off the bat. + +Instead they'll be taking advantage of the selfie-friendly vertical rotating screen and face detection software, both of which perform admirably. + +In terms of image quality the GF7 sports a 16MP Four Thirds sensor that's roughly equal to what you'll find in the GX7 and GM5, which is to say it delivers great results for everyone except those who still hang around photo forums arguing about megapixels and sensor sizes. The GF7 can shoot in 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and the Instagram-friendly 1:1 image ratio. The GF7 can shoot 5.8 frames per second, but lacks the Depth from Defocus technology that makes higher-end models like GH4 much faster. + +The retro style body offers quite a few physical dials including a couple you can customize --though sadly, not the very handy thumb wheel you'll find on the GM5 or GF1 -- as well as a touch screen interface. + +The touchscreen components can also be used in compose mode. Touching to focus is sometimes awkward, but gets interesting in conjunction with Panasonic's Intelligent Auto setting (which can be toggled with a dedicated button). In iA mode the GF7 will change scene modes based on touch. For example, it will automatically select portrait mode when touch a face on the screen or switch to macro when you tap a frame-filling flower. Even as someone who generally frowns on automatic composition tools, I have to admit this one was handy in situations where I didn't have time to set everything up the way I wanted. Sure you can probably compose something better than the algorithms, but can you do it before the subject moves or the light disappears? + +There's also a couple of scene modes aimed at selfies, the "Face" and "Buddy" modes. The Buddy mode will automatically snap an image when it detects two faces in the viewfinder. + +In short the GF7 has a ton of tools aimed at making sure you get the shot you want every time even if and when you don't want to (or have) a lot of time to get it right on your own. It retains all the beginner-friendly features found in point-and-shoots, but offers all the manual controls photographers will be looking for. + +I'll confess to pitching this review primarily because I've been itching to upgrade my GF1. From that angle the GF7 is indeed a worthy upgrade provided the size works for you. I strongly suggest visiting your local camera shop to hold it before laying down your hard earned cash. + +The GF7 stacks up well against the GX7, which is another option for those looking for a solid micro 4/3 body. In fact the two are so close I had to pull out the spec sheets to figure out how the GF7 differed from the GX7. It's also worth considering the (albeit much more expensive) GX8 which just arrived and seems positioned as the bulkier heir to the GF1, freeing the GF7 to become the lightweight, point-and-shoot friendly option for those looking to take their selfies to the next level. + +Wired: +Small light design with included lens makes the GF7 a suitable replacement for point-and-shoot cameras. Intelligent auto and other scene modes make it simple to use for beginners. Bright, crisp display makes composing easy even in direct sunlight. + +Tired: +Small light design can be awkward with larger lenses (or if you have large hands). Tiny size means a small battery, buy an extra if you plan to shoot all day. Encourages selfies. diff --git a/old/published/gx85.txt b/old/published/gx85.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98ee97c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/gx85.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +While testing Panasonic GX8 last year I found myself thinking, if this were just about 25 percent smaller it would be the perfect micro four thirds camera. Apparently someone at Panasonic must have had the same thought, or at least recognized that there was a market of people who loved the rangefinder style, but wanted a more compact body, because not too long after the GX8 came out the company announced the smaller GX85. + +There's some confusion around the name, in Europe it goes by the GX80, in the U.S. it's the GX85 and in Japan it goes by the most revealing name, the GX7 Mark II. Much more so than its larger sibling, the GX85 is the successor to the much-loved GX7. It takes virtually the same body design as the GX7 but pulls in many of the feature improvements found in the GX8, making it, in most ways, the best of both worlds. + +The GX85 does not use the very nice 20MP sensor that the GX8 has, instead opting for the more familiar 16MP micro four thirds sensor. However it's the first Panasonic camera to drop the anti-aliasing filter, which means it produces slightly sharper images, though there is a tendency for filterless sensors to show some moiré. Panasonic says that the new Venus Engine image processor in the GX85 has been specially tweaked to cut down on moiré and for the most part I found this to be true. + +While the GX85 doesn't get the GX8's larger sensor it does get almost all of its arguably more important features like Dual I.S. (with supported lenses), 4K photo mode, Post Focus, Depth from Defocus AF, and a redesigned shutter mechanism that's been designed to reduce shutter-induced blur, the so-called shutter shock that plagued the GX8. The GX85 doesn't suffer from shutter shock at all. To be fair I never noticed the problem with the GX8 either, but the internet is filled with disappointed users who did so rest assured, with the GX85's electromagnetic shutter you will not suffer the same fate. + +It's also worth nothing that Panasonic released a firmware update for the GX85 which adds the Focus Stacking feature which the company announced at Photokina in September. Post Focus uses 4K video to grab a number of images, focusing across the frame as it goes. It then offers the ability to select the areas of focus on the camera's touchscreen and spits out the results as a JPEG. To be honest I've yet to encounter a situation that called for it, what I find far more encouraging than the feature itself is that Panasonic is actually issuing firmware updates, something it hasn't done as much in the past. + +Compared to the GX7, the GX85 gains all the features above and also adds a much-improved 49 point AF system and a slightly higher burst rate (8fps vs 5fps). On the other hand it loses the tilting EVF, is capable of fewer shots per full battery (290 vs 320 in the GX7) and gains a little weight (a mere 20g, but it is heavier). The front grip is also a bit smaller, which I happen to prefer though this is very subjective and I would suggest handling the camera yourself to see how comfortable it is in your hand. + +As with every camera in the micro four thirds market these days the GX85 checks all the standard feature list boxes including built-in wireless, NFC support, an articulating touchscreen, 4K video, 22 "creative filters" panoramic image tools, a multiple exposure tool, as well as stop motion animation and time-lapse video support. There's not a lot this thing can't do. + +Which brings us to image quality. The GX8's 20MP sensor is arguably "better" but putting RAW files side by side from my earlier testing I had to really look for places where the 16MP sensor of the GX85 failed compared to the 20MP. It did, occasionally, where you would expect -- high ISO shots in dim light -- but it did so rarely enough that I would call the two effectively equal in terms of RAW image quality. + +JPGs are a different story. I found the GX85's JPGs to be generally washed out, though this tends to be par for the course with Panasonic. The more disappointing problem is that as the ISO increases the noise reduction gets noticeably more aggressive, to the point that detail is often lost. If you're primarily a JPG shooter and don't mind the extra weight, the GX8 definitely produces better results. + +I should also note that the kit lens that comes with the GX85 is perhaps the crappiest piece of plastic I've ever come across. It feels like it must have cost $2 to make. Though it does manage to turn out halfway decent images, I primarily tested the camera with my own mix of Panasonic and Olympus lenses. Thankfully the GX85 is now available without a lens, which was not the case when it was released earlier this year. + +The main annoyance of shooting with the GX85 is the EVF. It's a field-sequential LCD panel, which means it's susceptible to some very distracting color "tearing". In fact, it appears to be the same EVF that was in 2013's GX7. Simply put the GX85's EVF sucks compared to what you'll get in the GX8 or for that matter the Olympus PEN-F or really any other EVF on the market today. And while the 16:9 aspect ratio is fine when you're shooting video, if you want to frame your image at 4:3 for stills the image in the already-small EVF gets even smaller. + +Still, I would not call the EVF a deal breaker necessarily, especially considering how much camera you're getting for the GX85's $700 price tag (body only). + +In fact the GX85, despite a couple shortcomings, is the best micro four thirds camera I've used this year. Its compact design make it a perfect choice for travel and street photography. With its (relatively) low price point it also makes a good all-round option for anyone new to the micro four thirds format. + +Wired: Comfortable, smaller design feels more like a micro four thirds camera. The absence of an anti-aliasing filter means more detail is squeezed out of the same sensor, RAW performance is on par with larger sensors. + +Tired: The aging EVF is one of the worst on the market, over-aggressive noise reduction can mean lost detail in high ISO JPGs, kit lens isn't worth the money, no mic input jack makes it less useful to videographers. + +7? 6? diff --git a/old/published/html5flash.txt b/old/published/html5flash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7e8d1c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/html5flash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Adobe's Flash plugin, the source of much rich media, audio, video and animation on the web, has taken a beating in recent years. First the iPhone ignored it. Then Google announced a (beta) version of YouTube that uses HTML5's new video tags instead of Flash. Other video sites have announced similar programs it looks as though Flash's days are numbered. + +One of the goals of HTML5 is make sure that the web has built-in tools that don't rely on vender specific plugins like Flash. Thanks to HTML5 support in modern browsers, publishers no longer need to turn to Flash to display rich media, video or animations. HTML5 offers both audio and video tags, was well as the new canvas tag for animation. + +Most modern browsers already support these new elements and some are also stepping up their SVG support, giving developers another way to animate. Yet we're a long way from a Flash-free web. The main YouTube site still uses Flash and anyone with an iPhone or iPad can tell you how annoying it is to see the broken plugin icon where Flash content should be. + +So what will it take for HTML5 and its newfound capabilities to truly supplant Flash? + +There are three main areas where Flash is the dominate tool on the web: video, audio and animation. To truly supplant Flash, web browsers will need to improve their HTML5 support, publishers need to begin publishing their content in HTML5 native code by default. + +TK quote + +###Video + +By far the furthest along, HTML5 video is well on its way to supplanting Flash as the dominate means of embedding video on the web. However, there is a major stumbling block -- video codecs. + +In order for your browser to display video natively using the HTML5 video tag the browser needs to know which codec to use to decode and play the video. Because the W3C, the web's governing standards body, declined to specify a standard video codec to go along with new video element, the choice of codecs to support lies with each web browser. + +Browser manufacturers are split into two camps, those that support the free, open Ogg Theora codec (Chrome, Firefox and Opera) and those that support the proprietary H.264 codec (Chrome, IE9, Safari and Safari Mobile). + +If HTML5 is going to truly supplant Flash, either browsers need to pick a single codec or publishers need to publish video in multiple codecs. + +At the moment, YouTube's HTML5 video support is limited to web browsers that support the H.264 video codec -- namely Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari and Mobile Safari. That means Firefox and Opera won't work. One solution would be for YouTube and others to offer a second video encoded in OGG format, however, the other solution would be to simply fall back to Flash. + +Unfortunately, because Flash can already play H.264 video, the code to fall back straight from HTML5 video to Flash is significantly less effort than re-encoding the millions of videos on YouTube. + +At least for now browsers remain divided and most publishers are opting to use one or the other (Wikipedia only publishes OGG), falling back to Flash for browsers that don't use the other, which means Flash video isn't going anywhere any time soon. + + + +But the pace of the web is far faster than standards bodies are equipped to deal with. As CSS 2 began to catch on Flash shifted from something used to create whole sites, to something that filled the gaps in HTML, namely video players, interactive charts and graphs and animation. + +Now standards are once again catching up with the web and Flash's current niches can now be filled without Flash. + +The main problem with Flash in the eyes of its detractors is that it isn't a free and open technology. While roughly 70 percent of the Flash stack -- from elements of the player to the tools use to build Flash files -- have been released as open source, it is still at the end of the day, a technology produced and largely controlled by a single entity -- Adobe. + +But just as Flash filled niches that standards couldn't fill, even with the new standards, Flash will still likely have a role on the web for some time. + +Things HTML5 can't do: + + + +3) SVG and animation + + +4) Flash innovations that HTML5 can't compete with + - the new RTMFP protocol for decentralized chat apps, web conferences, P2P radio, possible voip in the browser, etc. + - the slow speed of standards development vs the fairly fast speed or Adobe
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/htmldraft.txt b/old/published/htmldraft.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7a580a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/htmldraft.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ + + + +"It's tenuous certainly, but it's driven by a real market, with fits and spurts, and moments of genius and ingenuity, rather than by artificial forces that trend towards +stagnation and denovation -- because enterprises, like the government, are incented to avoid change and evolution." + +That's largely the way it works, there's a feedback both ways. + +When browsers work differently its natural to get frustrated, it's a largeer ballgame "the scale of everything has gone up." + + +In other words, web development ought to be pushing the boundaries of what's available rather than stopping at the limits of what's in the W3C specs. + + +But there are problems with simply setting browser manufacturers loose and one need look no further than the W3C's CSS working group to see them. Microsoft has reportedly been stalling regarding new web fonts and yet at the same time Microsoft's Silverlight essentially allows the use of any TrueType Font, which has led some, including Russell, to see this as Microsoft's bid to keep Silverlight ahead of standard HTML when it comes to font rendering. + + +No one wants a return to the painful 1996 web with sites that only work in one browser, a problem largely solved by the creation of W3C an the specs it developed. After all they argue, we have all these great standards-based tools, why not stop and smell the HTML 4 for a while? + +But the question is how long? QuoteTK HTML 5 progress. HTML 5 Ian Hickson estimated these are the major things we expect to add. 2009. + +I think it would be useful to take the parts that are more complete and break them out 2009 2010. + +I would like to think that the spec limitations + + +segue + + +And Bennett isn't worried about Microsoft. Citing some examples of how IE7 was in fact largely a result of Microsoft being forced to play catchup with Firefox, Opera and Safari, Bennett concludes that "Microsoft really isn't relevant to the future of web standards." + +What's more, he argues, "any compelling new development that comes from the rest of the industry will be just another form of fire and motion, and Microsoft will have no choice but to keep pace, regardless of whether they participated in the process." + + +There's millions of people spending eight hours a day working on it, the html working group has a lot more layers to the onion than it used to. + + +I like this quote but I don't know what to do with it: + +HTML working group is open, CSS working group happens behind closed doors, but there's increased transparency. "I think it has been a real problem, but more of it is happening in the open now and I think thats a good thing. + +I'd like to thank everybody that's put a lot of energy into htnl5 and I d think that we're
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/htmldraft2.txt b/old/published/htmldraft2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28e840a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/htmldraft2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +There's a movement afoot in the web development community that says it's time to move beyond standards and take the web to a new levels. Unhappy with the pace of innovation at the W3C, many developers are calling on browser manufacturers to go beyond supporting official W3C specifications and develop tools to support new features. + +Before the standardistas among us cry foul, keep in mind that no one is suggesting that we throw away existing standards. Standards have given us a much improved web that's cross platform to a degree unimaginable a decade ago. Instead the argument is that for innovation on the web to speed up, it might take some non-standard tools to jump start the process. + +One of the more outspoken critics, Alex Russell, one of the developers of the Dojo Ajax toolkit, thinks that it's time to abandon the W3C as a source of web guidance. "Web developers in the 90's were looking forward, not backward, writes Russell on his blog, "I remember being excited about getting the chance to use new features and not caring who gave them to us" + +Jeff Croft, an HTML designer at Blue Flavor and longtime standards supporter, echos Russell's frustrations saying, "we've completely lost the innovative, experimental, lets-try-something-crazy attitude of web designers in the 90s, because we're too damn concerned about making things that are compliant." Perhaps more to the point he suggests that "once in a while, we should be saying fuck standards and trying something out of the box." + +Croft qualifies his statement saying that the big corporate site you're working isn't probably isn't a good place to do so, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be pushing the boundaries from time to time, perhaps using non-standard tools. In other words, web development ought to be exciting and push the limits of what's available rather than stopping at the limitations of what's in the W3C specs. + +Indeed many of the tools that have produced innovative new technologies on the web have come from sources outside the W3C. XMLHttpRequest, the backbone of Ajax technologies, was originally developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer and later implimented by other browsers back when IE led the pack. XMLHttpRequest was then taken up by the W3C and is now overseen by the Web API working group. + +However, supporters of W3C argue that running out ahead of established web standards could see a result in what Chris Messina, who's worked with Mozilla and others, calls a "privileged web" run with proprietary tools like Flash or Silverlight and an "unprivileged web" still using standard open tools. Obviously that's a situation neither users nor developers want to see happen. + +No one wants a return to the painful 1996 web with sites that only work in one browser, a problem largely solved by the creation of W3C an the specs it developed. After all they argue, we have all these great standards-based tools, why not stop and smell the HTML 4 for a while? + +James Bennett has a thoughtful response to the debate on his blog where he argues that the choices so far on the table -- stay with web standards and learn to live with their development pace, or abandon them altogether in favor of the enthusiastic mob — are a false dilemma. + +"The first thing we need to do," says Bennet, "is throw that out and recognize that there's actually a fairly broad continuum of options in between these two extremes; in other words, what we should be looking for is a balance between the input of people who use and develop for the Web, and people who develop browsers and attendant technologies." + +Of course much of the talk about web standards often comes down to how well the next version of Internet Explorer will implement them. But Bennett doesn't think that's true any more. Citing Joel Splosky's memorable Fire and Motion analogy and some examples of how IE7 was really Microsoft being forced to play catchup with Firefox, Opera and Safari, Bennett concludes that "Microsoft really isn't relevant to the future of web standards." + +What's more, he argues, "any compelling new development that comes from the rest of the industry will be just another form of fire and motion, and Microsoft will have no choice but to keep pace, regardless of whether they participated in the process." + +With Opera suing Microsoft over IE's failure to implement web standards and the resulting fallout, which includes Andy Clarke's call to disband the CSS Working Group, because both Opera and Microsoft site on the committee, the future of the web may well end up a return to the browser wars and non-standard innovations. + + + + + + + +The problem with moving ahead without the W3C, in Messina's view, is the potential to create a "privileged web" run with proprietary tools like Flash or Silverlight and an "unprivileged web" still using standard open tools. Obviously that's a situation neither users nor developers want to see happen. + + +Chris Messina, who has worked with Mozilla and others, is a bit more cautious, arguing that "the job of folks who have grown disillusioned with the web standards path should [be to] begin to develop 'community conventions' that can be implemented today, using what leading browsers support." + +Indeed many aspects of today's standards began life just as Messina describes -- as various kinds of agreed upon conventions. + +The problem with moving ahead without the W3C, in Messina's view, is the potential to create a "privileged web" run with proprietary tools like Flash or Silverlight and an "unprivileged web" still using standard open tools. Obviously that's a situation neither users nor developers want to see happen. + diff --git a/old/published/htmlstandards.txt b/old/published/htmlstandards.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6de13c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/htmlstandards.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +<p>Many prominent web designers are beginning to think that the internet's most venerable standards body might be hurting the web more than it's helping.</p> + +<p>Long the gold standard of approval, in the past few years the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3C) has produced little in the way of tangible advances and some who look the W3C as a steward of the web are beginning to lose faith.</p> + +<p>Speeding things, they argue, just might require some as-yet unsanctioned tools.</p> + +<p>More importantly it might require designers to stop imposing limitations on themselves. Jeff Croft, an HTML designer at Blue Flavor and longtime standards supporter, nevertheless <a href="http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2007/dec/16/do-we-need-return-browser-wars/">believes</a>, "we've completely lost the innovative, experimental, lets-try-something-crazy attitude of web designers in the 90s, because we're too damn concerned about making things that are compliant." </p> + +------- +This is a hella hard nut to write. i know it needs to get tighter, but I can't figure out what to cut. + +<p>Without the W3C the open web we know would not exist. In the mid 1990s Microsoft and Netscape continually one-upped each other with new unique features in their respective browsers. Developers often had to make a choice, a website either worked in Internet Explorer or Netscape, seldom both. The W3C was formed to eliminate the friction of the early web and paved the way for today's open, standardized web.</p> + +<p>But what started a a set of guidelines have quickly turned to dogma at the expense of innovation critics argue.</p> + +----------- + +<p>One of the more outspoken critics, Alex Russell, creator of the Dojo Ajax toolkit, thinks that it's time to abandon the W3C as a source of web guidance. "Web developers in the 90's were looking forward, not backward, writes Russell on <a href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=642">his blog</a>, "I remember being excited about getting the chance to use new features and not caring who gave them to us."</p> + +<p>Both Croft and Russell feel that, while the existing standards are good, they should not serve as a limitation. As Russell says, "developers put their faith in the W3C to the extent that the introduction of new things by browser vendors without standards-body blessing causes gnashing of teeth."</p> + +<p>Yet, according to Dan Conley, co-chair of the HTML working group and longtime member of the W3C's Technical Staff, many elements of the HTML 5 specification now being created "come from alpha implementations in a browser." And that's a good thing argues Croft who thinks that, "one way to encourage [browser vendors] is to actually <em>use</em> said features."</p> + +<p>Janet Daly, Global Communications Officer at the W3C, is quick to point out that there's nothing stopping developers, "the web's greatest gift is that everybody gets to call it their own."</p> + +<p>Indeed many of the tools that have produced innovative new technologies on the web have come from sources outside the W3C. XMLHttpRequest, the backbone of Ajax technologies, was originally developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer and later implemented by other browsers. XMLHttpRequest was then taken up by the W3C and is now overseen by the Web API working group.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately not every vendor advance works out as well as XMLHttpRequest and supporters of W3C and strict adherence to web standards argue that running out ahead of could set back the web as a whole.</p> + +<p>Chris Messina, who's worked with Mozilla and others, fears that using browser-unique features and other proprietary technologies will lead to a "privileged web" leveraging the latest and greatest for only a few and an "unprivileged web" that relies on tried and true open tools.</p> + +<p>Even those critical of the W3C don't want to see a return to the painful world of 1995 with sites that only work in one browser. </p> + +<p>One of the problems and a main source of the W3C's slow pace is that, as Conley says, "it's a larger ball game, the scale of everything has gone up." Unlike the web of 1995 when the W3C was born, billions of dollars change hands through web technologies. "This isn't just 20 geeks hammering out a code in the corner anymore," says Conley.</p> + +<p>Messina argues that in many way that's exactly the problem. "Enterprises, like the government, have an incentive to avoid change and evolution."</p> + +<p>Messina thinks its time for another approach and points to "community convention" projects like Microformats, <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a> and <a href="http://oauth.net/">OAuth</a>, which have all evolved quickly and dynamically without the blessing of the W3C. "These projects to me represent the way the web needs to evolve," says Messina. </p> + +<p>James Bennett, a web developer involved with the popular Django framework, has a thoughtful response to the debate on <a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/dec/17/standards/">his blog</a> in which he argues that the choices so far on the table — stay with web standards and learn to live with their development pace, or abandon them altogether in favor of the enthusiastic mob — are a false dilemma.</p> + +<p>"The first thing we need to do," says Bennett, "is throw that out and recognize that there's actually a fairly broad continuum of options." Bennett believes balance is the key, "We should be looking for a balance between the input of people who use and develop for the Web, and people who develop browsers." </p> + +<p>Russell too believes that standards still have a roll. Browser makers should encourages to innovate he says, but they should also come "back to the bargaining table to standardize things." As Bennett and the others see it the ball is in the browser maker's court, they have a chance to reshape it, then the designers see how it plays and the W3C steps in last to make sure everyone gets to use the same ball.</p> diff --git a/old/published/iPhone alternatives.txt b/old/published/iPhone alternatives.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac4b91d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/iPhone alternatives.txt @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +After what must be the most hyped product launch ever, the iPhone has arrived, but there's no need to drop 500 hard earned dollars on the latest gadget if the features are all you're after. In fact, if features are your goal, you may be better off with an alternative device. + +While there are certainly some aspects of the iPhone that are unique to it, many of its so called revolutionary features are already available in other phones, some of which sell for about half the price and can be unlocked and used on any network anywhere in the world -- good luck doing that with your iPhone. + +You may not have the coolness factor or be the envy of your friends, but if you just want awesome functionality, here's our guide to capturing the usefulness of the iPhone without standing in line. + +##User Interface: + +The first thing iPhone owners love to brag about is the clean sleek UI and while it is considerably easier to navigate the iPhone than say a Windows Mobile device, that doesn't mean users can't duplicate the interface on other platforms. + +The iPhone's sleek icons can be replicated on your Windows mobile device thanks to some clever skins from a [determined Windows Mobile user][3]. + +The iPhone skin for Windows mobile re-creates to iPhone's main interface window with icons that provide shortcuts to the equivalent apps on Windows Mobile. + +But the fun doesn't stop there, the screensaver allows you to replicate the whisk of a finger to unlock the phone, and the scrolling mimics the finger scrolling on the iPhone -- albeit with a stylus. + +##Voicemail Features: + +Apple might hail the "visual voicemail" features of the iPhone as "revolutionary" but savvy users know they can get the same features, and considerably more, from [GrandCentral][4]. + +Once you've set up a GrandCentral account you can login to your mailbox via the company's mobile site where you'll see a list of your message and, unlike the iPhone, which from the visual preview requires you to dial in to hear you message, with GrandCentral you can listen to your voicemail without leaving the page. + +GrandCentral also offers a number of features on many peoples' iPhone wishlist like call recording, call transfers (switch seamlessly between home and mobile phones), customized voicemail greetings on a per caller basis and lots more. + +The main downside is that you'll need to propagate your new GrandCentral phone number to all your contacts. + +##Customization + +The number one gripe about the iPhone is its lack of support for third party apps. + +No SDK for the iPhone means you're stuck with whatever Apple thinks you need. For power users this is simply unacceptable, but fear not if you're looking for the ultimate in customization you can turn where you always turn when you want to roll your own -- Linux. + +The popular Ubuntu Linux distro will be releasing a [mobile version][7] in October with the goal of making it easy to install Linux on any mobile phone and there's even a number of phone set to ship with Linux pre-installed. + +Of particular interest is FIC's Neo1973, a GPS-equipped quad-band phone which should be available this quarter for $350 or less. The Neo1973 will available with the [OpenMoko platform][1], a mobile Linux distro made up solely of open-source software. + +And yes, OpenMoko has an SDK so developers can bring whatever useful goodness strikes their fancy straight to your mobile. + + +##Third Party Apps + +The lack of an iPhone SDK means all those talented Mac developers are unable to develop applications. Apple argues that web-based apps can fill the gap, but yet none of the provided apps are web-based. + +This is where your non-iPhone shines. The iPhone has no chat client, but not only are there chat clients for just about every other mobile platform, there's even [Agile Messenger][2] which supports all the popular IM platforms in one client app. With Agile Messenger installed your can chat with buddies on MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ and GoogleTalk where ever you are. + +##A full fledged browser + +Need a full-fledged browser on your smartphone? Head over to Opera and grab Opera mini 4 beta which offers everything Safari for iPhone does and quite a bit more, like full screen mode, keypad short cuts and easy image downloads. Unfortunately, as with Safari, there's still no support for Flash. + +##Multimedia content. + +YouTube recently launched a mobile version of the site which let any phone enjoy the same access that's built in to the iPhone and if you'd really like to turbo-charge your multimedia content, check out the [SlingPlayer Mobile client][6]. + +If you're a Slingbox owner the SlingPlayer Mobile client, which supports Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Pocket PC, allows you to stream content from your slingbox to your phone. Watch the latest shows and movies you've time shifted to your slingbox without having to wait for them to show up on iTunes. + +Don't have a Slingbox? No need to fret, there's other options out there. One such application, which just launched recent is [RemoTV][5]. Compatible with a wide range of mobile devices, RemoTV allows users to link up with their desktop computers in order to access multimedia files. + +To get started with RemoTV you'll need to install an application on your PC and importing your media to it. From there you create 'channels' which can then be streamed to your mobile phone and even shared with friends. + +The service is free though data charges from your wireless provider will apply. + + +##Touchscreen Features: + +This is one area the iPhone is tough to duplicate. The innovative touch screen interface, with it's pinch to zoom and finger flicking page movements is bit difficult to find in alternative phones at the moment. + +And then there's a rotating screen that adjusts to either landscape or portrait orientation just by tilting the phone. + +But for the patient, several handset models due to launch in the coming months will reportedly features similar controls. + +The options for non-iPhone users are much more extensive than those for the iPhone and while the iPhone may be sleek and undoubtedly is the must have gadget of the moment, as this list shows it's certainly not a necessity and in many cases could even be called a handicap. + + +[1]: http://www.openmoko.org/ "OpenMoko" +[2]: http://www.agilemobile.com/downloads.html "Agile Mobile" +[3]: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/iphone/ "Iphone skins for Windows Mobile" +[4]: http://www.grandcentral.com/ "Grand Central" +[5]: http://www.remotv.com/ "Remotv.com" +[6]: http://us.slingmedia.com/ "Sling Media" +[7]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded "Ubuntu Mobile Edition" diff --git a/old/published/iPhoneapps.txt b/old/published/iPhoneapps.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..650e02f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/iPhoneapps.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +Everyone knows that developer's wanted an SDK for the iPhone, and most were disappointed whein Apple told them to use the web instead. But not all is lost, there's already some cool web-based apps for the iPhone and more are popping up everyday. + +Here's a roundup of iPhone optimized apps to get the functionality Apple isn't offering. + +##Widgets + +Given the small screen size, the iPhone is ideal for widgets, small apps that do one thing and one thing well. + +First up is <a href="http://m.widgetop.com/">Widgetop</a>, a slick web-app that replicates Apple's Dashboard interface on your iPhone. Handy widgets give you quick access to Wikipedia searches, RSS feeds and a much better looking sticky notes application with customizable fonts and colors. + +Some of the apps in Widgetop duplicate features already on the iPhone, but there's some unique offerings as well. The widget directory also includes dozens of customized apps ranging from webcams to quote-of-the-day widgets. + +Signing up at the site will allow you to create a customized widget layout and save your content. + +It would nice to see some widgets that allowed two-way sync for popular web services like del.icio.us or Flickr, but so far there isn't. + +Another entry in the widget space is <a href="http://www.kudit.com/">Kudit.com</a>, but regrettably the services aren't free. There's some nice fun apps, but the listings are nowhere near as extensive as Widgetop and really, who wants to pay $2 for a magic eight-ball app? + +##Games + +Rather surprisingly, since even the iPod has a few, the iPhone doesn't ship with any cool time-wasting games to help you through those boring commutes. + +But never fear, the web delivers. So long as you have a decent Wifi connection, there's <a href="">Sudoku</a> for the iPhone as well as <a href="">Chess</a> and <a href="http://www.hahanotsofunny.com/iphonegames/tictactoe/">Tic Tac Toe</a>. + +Okay, so it's not Halo, but Diamenty is a very addicting bejeweled-like game made for the iPhone. + +There are also dozens of other small games available through Widgetop's interface. + +##Chat Services + +iChat for iPhone is web-based solution of users looking for those missing IM features. IChat for iPhone is written in JavaScript and allows for web-based chats on the AIM network. While it's ideal with a wireless connection, it's not too bad even over EDGE. + +The source is available and can be hosted on your own server for better security, but if you'd like to take it for a spin, point your iPhone to <a href="http://www.publictivity.com/iPhoneChat/">Publictivity</a> which is hosting a demo version. You're limited to a ten minute session and the site warns that service may be intermittent, but I haven't had any problems. + +What if you're not an AIM user? No need to worry, iPhone ships with a "full-fledge" browser. Just fire up Safari and head over to <a href="http://wwwm.meebo.com/">Meebo.com</a>. It may not be optimized for the iPhone (yet), but it works just fine and supports all the major chat networks including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and more. + +##Office Applications + +Even before the iPhone was released the developers over at Zoho had hacked together an iPhone optimized version of the site. + +<a href="http://mini.zoho.com/">IZoho</a>, as the iPhone optimized version is called, offers access to Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show and Creator, though only Writer has read and write support thus far. The Zoho Team reports they're working on read/write support for the others as well, but for the time being you'll have to settle for reading your documents. + +IZoho performed admirably in our testing, but it's definitely one for Wifi, it took the better part of ten minutes to fully load the Writer editing interface over AT&T's EDGE network. + +##RSS + +On the eve of the iPhone's release curious snoopers discovered a page on Apple's site that seemed to indicate there would an <a href="http://reader.mac.com/">iPhone optimized RSS application</a> in the works. That speculation may be correct, but for now the page simply advertises Safari's built in RSS reader capabilities. + +However, a number of small widgets for collecting news feeds on your iPhone have already sprung up. Widgetop offers a feed reader, but of course Google Reader is probably the best known web-based RSS reader. + +While Google Reader offers a mobile version of the app, David Cann has developed a very nice <a href="http://davidcann.com/iPhonify/GoogleReader/">skin for Google Reader</a> which aims to make for easier browsing on the iPhone. + +Because Cann's Google Reader skin is actually a Javascript bookmarklet you'll need to drag the link up to the tool bar in Safari and then sync that link with your iPhone via iTunes. + +From there, just navigate to the Google Reader homepage (the standard version, not the mobile version), open your bookmarks and hint the bookmarklet for the skin. This will cause Google Reader to reload and display your subscriptions as a narrow list which you can navigate by tunneling in horizontally. + +The interface is well done and works much better than the default mobile version Google offers, but a word of warning -- this one has crashed my iPhone version of safari a couple times. + +##Lists + +The iPhone's portability makes it an ideal place to store your to-do lists, which makes Apple's decision not to offer syncing capabilities all the more curious (speculation contends this decision has to do with the upcoming system wide list tools in Leopard). + +That's okay though, by far the simplest app in this list and, perhaps not coincidentally the most useful is <a href="http://onetrip.org/apps/desktop.php?onetrip">OneTrip</a>, an ingenious interface for quickly organizing and building a shopping list on your phone. So far as we know this was the first third party app for the iPhone. + +OneTrip is easy to use, just point your phone to the site and you can build a shopping list in no time. Then, when you're at the store, just check off items as you find them. + +Thanks to cookies OneTrip will remember what you still need to get next time you visit the site. + +##Misc + +How about accessing your del.icio.us account through the iPhone? Yup, there's an <a href="http://gobekdeligi.com/idelicious/">iPhonified version of del.icio.us</a> available. + +Other nice apps include <a href="http://showtimes.optimalconnection.net/">Showtimes<a/>, a quicker way to find nearby movie listings by zip code, <a href="http://www.chandlerkent.com/iphlickr/">iPhlickr</a> makes it easy to browser the photo sharing site via the iPhone and <a href="http://www.widgetinfo.net/iphone/">iActu</a> is very nice looking news browsing site optimized for the small screen. + diff --git a/old/published/ipod-circumventors.txt b/old/published/ipod-circumventors.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dca027c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/ipod-circumventors.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The great charm of the iPod is its ease of use. Getting music onto an iPod is automatic or at most a simple simple one click process, whether you use iTunes or any number of alternatives.
But what about getting music off your iPod? That’s not so simple. In fact, using only the tools provided by Apple, it isn't really possible.
Well okay, you could put your iPod in disk mode and enable hidden folders and rummage around the hard drive negotiating a maze of meaningless file names and strange folder structures, but who wants to do that?
Apple doesn't let you get music off your iPod because it needs to keep the record companies happy. If the RIAA is to be believed, you and I are criminals foaming at the mouth in illegal MP3 trading lust. But, believe it or not, there are in fact a number of legitimate reasons you might need to transfer songs from an iPod to your hard drive.
For instance, suppose your hard drive crashes taking all your MP3's with it? Back up my music you say? But isn't that what my iPod is? Why should I back up my music *twice*? What if the capacity of your iPod is larger than your computer's hard drive and, as you load music onto your iPod, you delete it off your hard drive to conserve space?
In short there are potentially dozens of reasons you might want to transfer music off your iPod and Apple has left you with no appealing options, but they did leave the back door open so to speak.
There are no hardware or firmware restrictions that stop you from transferring music off an iPod, and so a number of non-Apple, third party developers have released tools to help you get your tunes off your iPod and put them wherever you like.
For the last week we've been reviewing such software on the Monkey Bites blog. What follows is our take on the best of the bunch.
**Senuti (Mac)**
Senuti is free and open source Mac-only application that allows you to recover songs, photos and movies from you iPod. Senuti features drag and drop transfer of songs and playlists. Senuti also allows you to copy songs from a Windows formatted iPod.
The main downside to Senuti is that it doesn't recognize duplicate tracks. If you have a playlist with ten songs on your iPod and the same playlist already exists in itunes, Senuti will added the same ten songs again.
You can stop Senuti from duplicating the actual song files by choosing "overwrite songs" in the preferences, but there doesn't seem to be a way to stop the duplication of songs within playlists.
**Good:** Senuti is easy to use and the interface will be familiar to iTunes users. Senuti can copy songs from Windows or Mac formatted iPods, something few of the others can do.
**Bad:** There is no one-click sync of iPod to iTunes in Senuti (though this is listed in the roadmap). The biggest downside to Senuti is there's no way to avoid duplicates when copying playlists. And of course it's for Mac OS X only.
Wired News rating: 6
**iPodRip (Mac & Windows)**
IPodRip is shareware and costs $14.95. The unlicensed version is not crippled, but will expire after 10 uses, which means if you just need to recover from a hard drive failure or similar one-time problem, iPodRip can do it for free.
IPodRip features, drag-and-drop support for moving songs off your iPod directly into iTunes, as well as one-click importing to restore everything.
IPodRip also features a number of nice extras not found elsewhere, such as a database integrity check for your iPod DB, an option to export your library information to HTML or XML formats, and sync metadata between your iPod and iTunes.
**Good:** IPodRip can sync iTunes to iPod with one click. Though we only tested the Mac version, there is a Windows version as well. IPodRip offers a host of additional features if you're looking for something more than simple iPod-to-computer transfer.
**Bad:** On the downside iPodRip doesn't have any features to transfer music or videos and of course it isn't free (though it can be used 10 times with no limitations).
Wired News rating: 7
**iPod Access (Mac & Windows)**
Another cross-platform offering, we tested iPod Access on both Windows and Mac with very similar results.
Copying songs with iPod Access is simple, just highlight the songs you want to copy and click "Add to iTunes." The trial version only allows you transfer five songs at a time, but I had no problems copying songs within the limit.
When it comes to handling song transfers, IPod Access gives you more options than the other programs reviewed, including the option to rename the songs in a variety of formats. Ipod Access also offers the option to only overwrite existing files if the iPod copy is newer.
**Good:** iPod Access did a great job of not duplicating tracks and offers the ability to sync iTunes to iPod with one click. There is a "Clone Playlist" feature, but it's disabled in the trial version so we weren't able to test it.
**Bad:** iPod Access doesn't have the most appealing GUI of the bunch, some will love it's simplicity, others may find it lacking. There's no support for drag-and-drop transfers in iPod Access and at $19.99 it's the second most expensive of the bunch.
Wired News rating: 5
**Anapod Explorer (Windows)**
Anapod Explorer raises the bar somewhat compared to the other programs we looked at. AE is not just a way of recovering files, it also features a whole bunch of other stuff as well. The downside to the additional features is accompanying price increase. A full version of Anapod Explorer is $30 and available for Windows Only.
AE includes a separate program, Anapod Xtreamer, which allows you to browse your iPod via any standard browser. Xtreamer makes it easy to transfer files, not just from your iPod to the connected computer, but to any computer on the network.
There are about a dozen more features I haven't touched on, but since most of them go far beyond our review goals (get music off your iPod) I'll leave them for you to discover.
**Good:** Anapod Explorer can sync iTunes to iPod with one click and does a good job of avoiding duplicate songs. Anapod Explorer's additional features but it in a class of its own.
**Bad:** Anapod Explorer is not free and may be overkill if all you want is a one-time restore of your iPod library.
Wired News rating: 7
**Podworks (Mac)**
Podworks, another Mac-only program, has a number of ways to recover your music from an iPod. Podworks can send the songs straight into iTunes by using the "Send All to iTunes" or transfer songs to any other location on your hard drive.
Podworks lacks the drag and drop features of others but it does avoid duplicating songs.
Podworks is shareware and costs $8. There is 30 day trail version which is limited to 250 song transfers.
**Good:** Podworks doesn't duplicate tracks when transferring songs and offers an option to sync iTunes to iPod with one click. The interface is easy to use and at $8 it's the cheapest of the non-free programs.
**Bad:** Podworks is Mac only and the lack of Universal binary makes it a bit slower on Intel machines than other Mac programs. Also there's no way to view your iTunes Library along side your iPod and no drag-and-drop transfers.
Wired News rating: 6
**Yamipod (Mac & Windows & amp; Linux)**
Yamipod is the only tool out of the bunch that supports all three major operating system. It's also free. Yamipod can transfer songs to and from our iPod and offers a good range of options for how to handle duplicates.
Yamipod also offer some extra features not found in the other programs including the ability to create playlists, send information to last.fm, growl notifications and add lyrics to your iPod.
**Good:** Yamipod's OS support is unmatched and the price can't be beat. The extra features will appeal to those looking for more than just iPod recovery.
**Bad:** There are some issues using Yamipod the most recently released video iPods and iTunes 7, check out the Yamipod forums for more information.
Wired News Rating: 8
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/jetjatreview.txt b/old/published/jetjatreview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3069eb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/jetjatreview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +At a mere 22mm square, the new Jetjat Nano quadcopter from Mota is not what most of us think of when we think of a drone. This tiny quadcopter is a drone though, it's just really small. + +The JetJat's appeal doesn't lie with its size -- though its diminutive size does make it the best cat-annoying device since the laser pointer -- it lies with its price: $40. For $40 you can get a drone. You can actually get one for even less if you go with one of the many nearly identical models available around the web. I ended up with this particular model because it's highly rated on Amazon, made by a U.S. company and the controller doubles as a carrying case. More on that in a minute. + +Sure, it's tiny and lacks even a camera, but it's a whole lot of fun to fly. And if you can fly the JetJat you can fly a big drone as well, which is why I got one. + +Drone flying has a steep learning curve, why try to work your way through it with a $1600+ drone when you can get a feel for how it all works with something like the Nano? + +True, flight doesn't translate one-to-one between small and large, but the basics of quadcopter flight are the same regardless of the size. As an added bonus, from my experience anyway, the Nano and its ilk like Proto's Proto-X, are actually harder to fly than the larger offerings from [DJI](http://www.wired.com/2015/06/review-dji-phantom-3-professional-drone/) or [Yuneec](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/review-yuneec-typhoon-q500-4k/). + +Because it's harder, and because you want to torment your cat, not actually hurt it, be sure to practice for a while before unleashing the Nano around unsuspecting pets or friends and family. + +In fact, get ready to spend quite a while practicing before you really figure out how to control the Nano. And sadly, while flying little drones will give you valuable practice for flying larger ones, the opposite is almost completely untrue. Despite having considerable experience flying large drones, it's taken hours of practice for me to really get the hang of little ones. The difference is that the little ones have no stabilization, without your input they drift with every draft of air and twitch of your thumbs. + +On the bright side, the Nano is dead simple to get started. I tore open the package, popped the drone out of the remote slash carrying case (a very nice touch, that makes carrying the Nano a snap, its all in one handy package that easily fits in your pocket, something the Proto-X can't do) and had it flying across the living room in less than 30 seconds -- for less than ten seconds, at which point I lost control and crashed into the rug. A fast, if not auspicious start. + +Still, there's no props to assemble, no GPS satellites to connect to, no wifi to pair, no apps to download. Just flip a switch on the drone, another on the remote, wait for the beep and you're good to go. + +Mota calls the Nano's controls "pro-grade" and touts the "ultra-high power-to-weight ratio" which I think is marketspeak for "this thing is fun, but hard as hell to fly". The controller handles throttle, which controls altitude, and then the second joystick makes turns (mirroring what you'll find in bigger drones, hence the main reason the Nano is handy for practicing). + +Perhaps the most challenging thing about flying is the lack of altitude stabilization. Unlike the big drones, when you ease off the Nano's throttle it doesn't hover; you crash. That's part of why it makes you a better drone pilot -- it forces you to think about everything until you internalize it and it becomes natural. And contrary to popular opinion, I promise it won't take 10,000 hours. A week should be sufficient. + +Half the reason it will take you that long is that the Nano only has the battery life to stay airborne for about 8 minutes at best (Mota claims 8, my testing put it at more like 6-7 depending on what you're doing). That sounds bad until you consider that the entire body of the craft is about the size of your thumbnail. Given the size constraints the Nano's flight time actually seems pretty impressive. It also charges quickly via a special (provided) USB cable. + +The Nano has a 75 foot range, which is a about as far as I'd be comfortable letting it get, the lights (blue for front, red for back) are basically impossible to see beyond about 50 feet. The body is bright red so it's usually not too hard to spot when it crashes, but I still lost it for a while in some autumn leaves. + +If you're looking for a way to become a better drone pilot without slamming your $1600 drone into a pine tree (been there) the Nano makes a great way to practice. It's also just plain old fun to fly. + +Wired: The Nano is simple to use and the all-in-one carrying case design, decent battery life and low price make it great way to practice flying quadcopters without the stress. + +Tired: It's so small it can be hard to find if you crash outdoors, lights are not as large or easy to see as some competitors, would be nice to have more than the 4 spare rotors included. diff --git a/old/published/lenovo-chromebook-review.txt b/old/published/lenovo-chromebook-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4681847 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/lenovo-chromebook-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Chromebook competitors are continually attempting to one-up each other, which makes Chromebooks one of the more interesting and lively areas of hardware at the moment. It doesn't hurt that Chromebooks are also some of the most affordable machines on the market right now, with many available for less than $200. + +Lenovo recently launched an update to its Chromebook offerings, the n20 and n20p. I tested the latter, which features a touch screen. + +I'll assume you're probably familiar with Chrome OS. It is what it is and you're either comfortable drinking the Google Kool-Aid and living with your life in Google Services or you're not. If you're not, stop reading now. + +Chrome OS itself will be the same on nearly every Chromebook you'll ever pick up -- arguably its greatest strength -- so when trying to answer the question which Crhomebook should I buy most of the answer comes down to hardware. + +The specs on the Lenovo include a 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 touch screen, a quad-core Intel Celeron processor (two models are available, I tested the 2.16GHz model), 16GB of eMMC storage, and 2GB of DDR3 RAM. + +Lenovo uses a proprietary power adapter and you'll probably need the power cable to more than you'd like. The company claims 8 hours of battery life for the n20p, I found it was more like 6, sometimes 7 if you avoid video and dim the screen considerably. That's not bad, but considerably less than the 10 hours offered by some competitors. + +The n20p comes in a single color, slate gray, and weighs in at just under three pounds. + +These specs are pretty much the current standard in low-end Chromebooks, the exception being the touch screen, which is not widely available. Unfortunately Chrome OS isn't all that great as a touch screen OS -- touch targets are often very small, making it difficult to navigate with any precision. + +The screen itself is also not an IPS display so you get all the washed out color and limited viewing angles that come with older, TN panel displays. On the plus side, the 300 degree rotation feature, which puts it in "stand mode", is great for watching movies. It also makes you wonder why Lenovo didn't extend the hinge rotation another 60 degrees for a Chrome OS tablet (the company is reportedly working on such a device, though it will be a more expensive, so-called mid-range Chromebook at $500+) + +Lenovo is well known for nice keyboards and for a Chromebook this is no exception. The chiclet keys are comfortable and have a nice "feel" to them, though the keyboard does turn a little spongy toward the center. + +Performance is where the n20p's higher price falls apart. It's sad to say this, but apparently today's web really needs 4GB or more of RAM. The n20p is fine to start up -- which takes a snappy 7 seconds -- and continues to be okay for the first 10 or so tabs/app you open. Then it starts to lag, noticeably, especially if you have several tabs with video open the background. + +There are a couple ways around this, for example, using a browser add-on that suspends your tabs after a certain period of inactivity, but that doesn't work for things you want to have open all the time, like Gmail or Google Docs. Considering this is one of the more expensive of the low-end Chromebooks on the market, there's really no excuse for the paltry amount of RAM. + +Low amount of RAM will be an even bigger concern as Google has started to make it possible to run Android app on Chrome OS. I installed and tested the Evernote app, which worked just fine -- though it would not go fullscreen -- but it exacerbated the lack of RAM problem. Still not convinced your need more than 2GB of RAM? How about [Adobe Creative Suite](http://chrome.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/adobe-joins-chromebook-party-starting.html) for Chromebooks? As any long time Adobe product user can tell you, 2GB of RAM just makes Photoshop laugh. + +Currently the best low-end Chromebook is a kind of Frankenbook combining one element from half a dozen models. Since that's not possible, where does the Lenovo fit? + +If a touch screen is important to you then the n20p fits the bill (though you might also want to check out the Acer c720p). + +If the touch screen is not a priority the Lenovo n20p becomes a bit pricey for the hardware Lenovo is delivering here. At $330 you should really should be getting 4GB of RAM and an IPS display. + +Wired: +* "10-point" touch screen +* Nice 300 degree "stand mode" +* Best in class keyboard + +Tired: +* 2GB of RAM. Really Lenovo? Really? +* TN display tarnishes the usefulness of "stand mode" by presenting movies in washed out color +* Pricey compared to other options at these specs + diff --git a/old/published/leopard preview/leopard preview2 b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard preview2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72ff7e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard preview2 @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +Although Apple's new operating system, Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard, won't be released until October, Steve Jobs is bound to give a sneak peek at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer's Conference on June 11. + +He's promised some top secret features, but here's what we know so far. + +Leopard's New Apps + +Time Machine One of Leopard's most anticipated new features is Time Machine, a data archiving system that makes periodic automated hard drive backups. Unlike most backup solutions which restore a hard disk to a fixed state, Time Machine can be used to pick and choose specific files to restore. + +Time Machine is essentially a dressed up version control system, something programmers have long relied on for tracking changes to files. However, thanks to Apple's penchant for visual flair, it looks totally unique. Time Machine has a stunning 3-D interface that lets users move forward and backward through time visually. The effect of travelling through a virtual "time tunnel" is straight out of a Doctor Who title sequence. + +Spaces Another brand new feature for Leopard is Spaces, Apple's take on virtual desktops. With Spaces, users can swap between dedicated virtual workspaces. You can keep your web browser, e-mail client and iTunes on one desktop, then flip to a work desktop containing Photoshop and Illustrator documents. As with Time Machine, Spaces' animated navigation is pure eye-candy. + +These new apps showcase Apple's Core Animation, a new Leopard feature. The graphics rendering engine enables software developers to build animated 3-D user interfaces for their applications. Expect the apps built with Core Animation' eye-popping graphics power to cause the biggest splash. + +But the move to Core Animation will also require developers to drop support for earlier version of OS X, so the transition may take time. **90% sure that's true, but we should confirm, I'll ask some of the developers** + +Austin Sarner, a mac developer with Madebysofa, an interface design and software company, says the new features are more than just eye candy. "Animation in general creates continuity and more direct feedback to a user experience." + +As an example he points to the navigation interface in AppleTV, "your selection glides into place as opposed to immediately snapping to the next item. Midway through the split second animation, you can neatly cancel out and go in the other direction." + +Wil Shipley, the developer behind Delicious Library, says the next version of his cataloguing app will require Leopard so that it can take advantage of the Core Animation features. "Delicious Library 2 is based entirely around Core Animation and other key Leopard technologies, so our customers are going to have to upgrade their OS if they want to upgrade our program." + +Shipley believes that not only will developers embrace Core Animation, but that it will revolutionize the user experience as we know it. "The revolution coming with Core Animation is akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984 -- Apple said 'here's a relatively easy way to add graphics to your user interface' and Core Animation says, 'Here's a very easy way to add composited layers and motion to your interface.'" + +"We're going to see a whole new world of user interface metaphors with Core Animation" + +There is already speculation that interfaces like that of Time Machine, which relies heavily on the Core Animation features, may lead to the end of the traditional "window" metaphor for desktop applications. + +Already small screen devices like the iPhone have forced designers to abandon traditional UI elements associated with the window metaphor, such as pull-down menus, in favor of more innovative designs. + +But will that translate back to the desktop as a whole new UI paradigm? + +Shipley thinks some things will change. "I think the (new) paradigm is direct manipulation -- just grab your document and 'throw' it upwards to get it to scroll, for example, instead of fumbling about for the scroller." + +However he also believes that the old forms will remain. "I don't think we'll abandon the old way as much as supplement our armory with a whole new arsenal of tools." + +After all, even experimental interfaces like the iPhone revert back to a windowed application when it comes to traditional tasks like browsing the web. + +And while Core Animation may end up revolutionizing the way you interact with your Mac, Apple isn't abandoning the traditional Windowed application just yet. + +In fact many of the most anticipated enhancements in Leopard are improvements to existing Apple applications. + +Tidy Up Around the Office + +Apple's desktop Mail program will be greatly enhanced by the addition of Notes, To-do lists, an RSS reader and new templates for sending e- mail with embedded images. + +While Apple claims the revamped Mail has "breakthrough new features that have never been seen before in a Mail application," that's really stretching it. Nearly everything "new" in Apple Mail is already available to Outlook and Entourage users, and to users of specialty applications like EverNote. But Mail users should be happy that their favorite client is now up to speed with the competition. + +The Notes feature allows users to store personal reminders in the form of text, graphics, photos, web clippings and attachments. According to Apple, Notes can be stored in mailboxes accessible from any computer, but the company hasn't provided any details about how that connectivity will work. It may be limited only to users with .Mac accounts. + +To-dos can be created on the fly from Notes or in an e-mail. Newly created lists automatically sync with Apple's iCal calendar app. Lists will also be accessible system-wide, much like Mac Address Book data. They will theoretically be available to any app that wishes to leverage them, a boon for third party developers. + +Mail for Leopard will ship with rich HTML templates for e-mail and newsletters called "Stationary." Mail will also get its own embedded media browser for quick access to iPhoto libraries, making it easy for users to drag snapshots into e-mails. + +The last new feature for Mail in Leopard is a built-in RSS feed reader. Apple's Safari browser already handles RSS feeds, and so far Apple hasn't given any hint as to how the two will work together, if at all. + +OMG! New iChat! + +The video and sharing features in Apple's iChat instant messenger client will get a boost when Leopard is released. While video chatting, users will be able to add custom background images or tweak the feed with effects like Photo Booth's ever-popular "funhouse mirror" treatment. Additionally, iChat users will be able to stream videos, photo slideshows and Keynote presentations to each other. There's also a new collaboration feature that lets users give each other remote desktop access during chats. Turn it on and let your friend at the other end of the line "take the wheel" to show you how to perform a specific task on your machine. + +Browsable Widgets + +Mac OS X's Dashboard widget manager is rumored to be receiving a major overhaul, but details remain largely unknown. The only official new feature Apple has revealed is Web Clip, a Dashboard tool that allows users to clip any part of a Web page and turn it into a "live widget" -- really just a browser window embedded on the Mac OS X Dashboard. + +More Power Under the Hood + +Leopard will be the first version of OS X to fully support 64-bit systems. For the time being, this will really only help users with the latest Intel hardware -- namely the XServe, Mac Pro and the most recent Core 2 Duo notebooks. + +Spotlight gets more powerful, too. Apple's system-wide search mechanism will gain the ability to show previews of documents inside searches. Spotlight will also support common Boolean search operators like NOT and OR. + + +One More Thing... + +Steve Jobs has promised that Leopard has a few more tricks up its sleeve, and the Apple rumor mills continue to speculate wildly. While no one knows for sure which rumors are true, some developments do seem more likely than others. + +One notable rumor is that Apple's Bootcamp (which will ship with Leopard) may include some virtualization features and will offer full support for running Windows Vista on Intel-based Mac hardware. If true, this will be a tough blow to current virtualization offerings from VMWare and Parallels. + +Others claim that Safari and Mail will gain phishing protection and greater Ajax support for webapps like Gmail. This is likely, as these features are already available in nightly builds of WebKit, Apple's open-source code base for web-enabled applications. + +Finally, media-hoarding geeks are abuzz about Leopard's rumored support for Sun Microsystems' Zettabyte File system (ZFS) which eliminates file size limits and improves hard drive reliability. + +Whatever Jobs ends up revealing at the WWDC, one thing is for sure, as Wil Shipley says, "It's an awesome time to be a Mac developer, and, by extension, a Mac user." + diff --git a/old/published/leopard preview/leopard-CA.txt b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard-CA.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16fd2d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard-CA.txt @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +Ever tried browsing your hard drive in 3-D? + +How about shuffling your open applications like a deck of cards, or "throwing" your files with your mouse to open them? + +It may sound like some "desktop of the future" dreamed up by a Hollywood special effects crew, but such a scenario will soon be within reach of anyone with a Mac. The key to making this fantasy a reality is Core Animation, the user interface graphics engine included in the next version of Apple's operating system, <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/">Mac OS X 10.5</a>. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to highlight the new-found graphical might of the next Mac OS X (nicknamed Leopard) during his keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference on June 11 in San Francisco. + +Leopard's October release will bring with it an entirely new visual language for designing desktop user interfaces. The traditional desktop will become a multi-layered, three-dimensional environment where windows flip around or zoom in and out. Double-clicks and keystrokes will give way to mouse gestures and other forms of complex user input. + +"We're going to see a whole new world of user interface metaphors with Core Animation," says Wil Shipley, developer of the personal media cataloging application <a href="http://www.delicious-monster.com/">Delicious Library</a>. + +Core Animation is primarily an enabling technology that allows programmers to access the Mac's graphics processor more efficiently than before. By giving developers tools to easily add animation and greater interactivity to their applications, Leopard's graphics engine will fuel a revolution in user interface design akin to the one that followed the introduction of the original Macintosh computer. + +"In 1984 Apple said, 'Here's a relatively easy way to add graphics to your user interface'" and Core Animation says, 'Here's a very easy way to add composited layers and motion to your interface,'" says Shipley. + +Shipley's initial release of Delicious, with its glossy, highly refined interface, gave birth to a new breed of application often dubbed the "Delicious generation." For these often younger Mac developers interface experimentation is one of the appeals of the platform. + +Applications of Delicious generation, like <a href="http://www.appzapper.com/">AppZapper</a>, have taken traditional tasks (deleting application files) and added a fun layer of animation to the mix -- this isn't your father's rm command. + +But creating animations like those in AppZapper or <a href="http://discoapp.com/">Disco</a>, a disc burning program which features smoke animation that reacts to sound -- blow into the mic, and the smoke blows away -- is a complex and difficult task under the current version of OS X. + +Leopard's Core Animation will change that, giving the Delicious generation of developers a set of tools that will allow them to easily create new, non-standard, fluid, moving, interactive interfaces. + +The shift toward non-standard interfaces isn't necessarily new, Kai Power Tools, a set of plugins for Adobe Photoshop, featured what was at the time a revolutionary interface for editing image files. But Kai was too far ahead of its time -- the majority of Mac users disliked the novel interface which broke with conventions and ignored Apple's official Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). + +However with the rise of the "widget," both online and in Apple's Dashboard environment, users have come to accept novel interfaces and often expect the sort of highly-graphical interaction that Apple's new Core Animation enables. + +With many developers already moving toward smaller, single-task applications, the addition of Core Animation tools may signal a revolution in Mac application design: lightweight, heavily-animated, widget-like applications are the future of the platform. + +And while some long time Mac developers have decried the Delicious generation of apps, Apple seems to be embracing the changes. + +Apple is ignoring its own HIGs in upcoming Leopard applications like <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html">Time Machine</a>. + +Functionality-wise Time Machine is a banal program -- a content version control system that makes periodic, automated backups of a computer's hard drive. + +But Apple's take on the age old task of incremental backups features a 3-D visual browser which allows users to move forward and backward through time using a virtual "time tunnel" reminiscent of a Doctor Who title sequence and completely unlike any interface currently used in Mac OS X. + +<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spaces.html">Spaces</a>, also new to Leopard, lets users manage several virtual workspaces and flip between them using a navigation system that's pure eye-candy. + +Austin Sarner, an interface designer and engineer at software company <a href="http://www.madebysofa.com/">MadeBySofa</a>, says that the new style of Apple apps isn't just about glossy effects -- there's a usability payoff as well. + +"Animation in general creates continuity and more direct feedback to a user experience. In addition to obvious graphical speed boosts, the elegance (animation) can add to a UI is pretty substantial," he says. + +Sarner points to the AppleTV as an example of how animation is making interface navigation more intuitive. + +"Your selection glides into place, as opposed to immediately snapping to the next item. Midway through the split second animation, you can neatly cancel out and go in the other direction." + +Shipley predicts the new user interface paradigm will also include the direct manipulation of documents -- instead of fumbling for a scrollbar, users will be able to grab a document and "throw" it upwards with their mouse in order to scroll down. + +Upcoming small screen devices like the iPhone will force designers to further abandon traditional elements associated with the window metaphor, such as pull-down menus and scrollbars, in favor of more innovative designs emphasizing mouse gestures and click-and-drag actions. + +Core Animation will only make it easier to translate these new ways of thinking onto the desktop. + +Mac developer and <a href="http://www.panic.com/">Panic Software</a> co-founder Cabel Sasser has no doubt that developers will embrace Core Animation. + +"A fast, Apple-maintained way to do the kind of animations we now rely on heavily is a brilliant and well-welcome idea," he says. + +In order to run applications that utilize Core Animation, users will need to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5, as the graphics engine will only be available in the new OS. Apple has created a pair of applications to show off Leopard's 3-D interface abilities. + +While it seems logical to speculate that interfaces like that of Time Machine and Spaces will lead to the end of the familiar "window" framework for desktop applications altogether, many Mac developers predict that the most basic elements of the current user interface forms won't disappear entirely. + +Flying desktops and animated scrolling actions can enhance a user interface in many instances, but applications that like browsing the web and writing an e-mail will still require a traditional environment. + +"I really don't think that the desktop will ever become 'windowless,'" says Panic's Sasser. "Windows present a very familiar and natural way to work and multitask, and to radically change it might just mean desktop suicide." + +Even though we're still tied to the traditional computer desktop, Shipley agrees that the limitations of what that desktop can do are eroding. + +"I don't think we'll abandon the old way as much as supplement our armory with a whole new arsenal of tools," Shipley says. "It's an awesome time to be a Mac developer, and, by extension, a Mac user."
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/leopard preview/leopard.txt b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80d97e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/leopard preview/leopard.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +When Steve Jobs takes the stage at the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference next week he's expected to give a feature complete preview of Apple's much anticipated new operating system, OS X 10.5, nicknamed Leopard. + +While Apple has previously acknowledged that Leopard will be delayed until October of this year, Jobs has traditionally used the WWDC as a place to show off new features. + +Although no one knows for sure what Jobs will unveil, here's what we know so far. + +###New Features + +The much vaunted new Time Machine is an archival system that makes periodic backups of your hard drive, allowing you to recover those accidentally deleted files. + +The wow factor comes from the amazing 3-D interface that lets you visually move forward and backward through time, as it were. + +In addition to the visuals, Time Machine can be used to pick and choose which files to restore rather than restoring a fixed state as most current backup solutions do. + +From the information available it appears that Time Machine is essentially a dressed up remake of version control, something programmers have long relied on for tracking document changes. + +Another brand new feature for Leopard is Spaces, Apple's take on virtual desktops. Spaces allows you to group similar apps on virtual desktops and change from say your web browser and email client desktop to your work desktop with Photoshop and Illustrator. + +###Revamped Applications + +Leopard will see a new focus on productivity applications with Mail, iChat and Spotlight all receiving significant upgrades. + +Apple's Mail program will see a major overhaul in Leopard with the addition of notes, todo lists, stationary and an RSS reader. + +The notes feature allows user to write reminders and can include graphics, text and attachments. Notes can be stored in folders or smart mailboxes and according to Apple, behave just like traditional mailboxes meaning you can view your notes from any computer. +***(presumably with IMAP?? I actually don't see how that could possibly by true otherwise, perhaps that's limited to .Mac)*** + +ToDo lists are actually a system wide tool, featured in Mail and iCal, but theoretically available to any app that wishes to leverage them, similar to the way Address Book data is handled. + +Leopard Mail will ship with stationary templates for HTML mail and newsletters. Judging by Apple's demo video, the feature is very similar to the template handling of Keynote and Pages and will see Mail gain a media browser for quick and easy access to iPhoto and other media management programs. + +Leopard will also see the addition of RSS capabilities in Mail. Safari already handles RSS and so far Apple hasn't given any hint as to how the two will work together. + +While Apple's press release claims the revamped Mail has "breakthrough new features that have never been seen before in a Mail application," that just isn't true. Nearly everything new in Apple Mail is already available to Outlook and Entourage users, but Mail users should be happy that their favorite client is now up to speed with competitors. + +Also due to be significantly revamped is iChat, Apple's internet messenger client. + +Leopard's iChat will include access to special effects similar to those in Photo Booth as well as live presentations of iPhoto slideshows, Keynote presentations and videos through a feature called "iChat Theater." + +Other new features in iChat include a screen sharing feature that gives users remote desktop capabilities for sharing and collaboration during chat sessions. + +With 2007 already being dubbed the year of the widget, its no surprise tha Apple has big plans for OS X's widget manager, Dashboard. + +Dashboard is rumored to be receiving a major overhaul, but details remain largely unknown. The only official new feature Apple has revealed is Web Clip, a Dashboard tool that allows users to clip any part of a Web page and turn it into a "live widget." + +Judging by Apple's information the "live widget" is really just a browser window on your Dashboard. Users can resize the window to zero in on the portion of the page they wish to track. + +Spotlight, Apple's system-wide search mechanism has a new feature in Leopard named Quick Look, which allows users to preview documents without opening an application. + +Spotlight will also gain support for Boolean operators such as NOT and OR in searches. + +###Behind the Scenes + +Not all of the changes in Leopard are in the bundled applications, there are also some significant under-the-hood overhauls designed to speed up performance. + +Leopard will be the first version of OS X to fully support 64-bit systems. + +While various parts of the Tiger, Apple's current shipping version of OS X, support 64-bit systems, the changes in Leopard will extend the 64 bit support to all graphical applications. + +For the time being this really only helps users of the latest Intel hardware -- those running on the 64-bit processors, namely the XServer, Mac Pro and the most recent Core 2 Duo notebooks. + +While details of Dashboard's revamped widget system remain largely unknown, developers will be happy to know that that Leopard brings a new development environment, dubbed Dashcode, which should make it easier to create Dashboard Widgets. + +###More To Come + +Steve Jobs has promised that Leopard has a few more tricks up its sleeve and the Apple rumor mills are churning out speculations every week. No one knows for sure, but some things do seem more likely than others. + +Notable rumors include the notion that Bootcamp (which will ship with Leopard) might include some virtualization features and full support for Windows Vista. + +Others claim that Safari and Mail will gain phishing protection and greater Ajax support for applications like GMail (these features are already available via nightly builds of WebKit). Leopard may also support Sun's Zettabyte File system (ZFS) which eliminates file size limits and improves hard drive reliability. + + + + diff --git a/old/published/leopard preview/leopardinterviews.txt b/old/published/leopard preview/leopardinterviews.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c945cff --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/leopard preview/leopardinterviews.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +austinsarner@mac.com + + + + +First off, do you think developers are going to embrace Core animation (given that doing so would possibly break the backwards compatibility)? I know the TextMate developers have said they plan to drop support for 10.4 in the next version to take advantage of CA (well the text rendering portion anyway, any plans for your software? + +Overall I do think that developers will be embracing Core Animation over time. Like you said, deciding to do so will make your application Leopard only, so I see it being something that will happen after the bulk of the shareware audience migrates. As for me, there isn't any specific feature in any of my apps that could rely on Core Animation for a drastic upgrade. However, once a bulk of my user base has migrated I will consider enhancing existing animations and other graphics with it. + +Is core animation more than just eyecandy? In other words does it provide a way to improve the user experience, whether through better UIs or speed boosts etc? + +Core Animation is definitely more than eye candy. Animation in general creates continuity and more direct feedback to a user experience. For instance, when you select an item in the AppleTV, your selection glides into place as opposed to immediately snapping to the next item. Midway through the split second animation, you can neatly cancel out and go in the other direction. In addition to obvious graphical speed boosts, the elegance it can add to a UI is pretty substantial in my opinion. + +From the demo video available on the Apple site it would seem that the new tools enable an almost windowless environment, is that true? + +While I can't really comment on the actual inner workings of the framework, it seems that with Front Row and Time Machine Apple has opened up to the idea of completely modal experiences when used correctly. + +Do you think Apple plans to move away from windows as a metaphor for the workspace? + +Definitely not. I think that in some cases a windowless environment makes sense -- when changing the content of all windows on screen (Time Machine) or browsing through a media library from a distance (Front Row), for instance. + +And as an extension of the last question, with Apple moving into more devices which run largely windowless UIs (i.e. Apple TV, iPhone) is the windowed application a thing of the past? + +I think that windows still have a place in the desktop environment, while more focused devices like those require modal user experiences. + +Jobs talked briefly last night at D about the various iPhone UI limitations: no mouse, no pull-down menus and so forth. While those are constraints in the case of the iPhone do you think Apple might be looking to turn them into strengths on the desktop platform? + +Again, I do think that the reason a minimal UI like that works on a device like the iPhone is because of the device itself. It's relatively small and when you open it up you generally will want to either make a call, check your email, or do another very specific task. The desktop environment, on the other hand, is entirely about multi tasking. + +Is there a new UI paradigm on the horizen and if so what do you think it would look like? + +I wouldn't be surprised to see an evolution in consumer software that stresses a more real world style for applications. Garageband, for instance, is a great example of an app that takes the standard interface to the next level by creating a more innovative experience through the UI. + +Regards +Sofa: Design, Interfaces and Software - madebysofa.com +Rozengracht 241-1 1016 SX Amsterdam + + +---------------------------------- + +Wil Shippley + +----- + +First off, do you think developers are going to embrace Core animation (given that doing so would possibly break the backwards compatibility)? I know the TextMate developers have said they plan to drop support for 10.4 in the next version to take advantage of CA, any plans for Delicious Monster? + +Yes, Delicious Library 2 is based entirely around CoreAnimation and other key Leopard technologies, so our customers are going to have to upgrade their OS if they want to upgrade our program. We had originally planned to make DL2 10.4-based, and worked for a year and a half on that version, but in August of '06 we learned more about Leopard and where it is going, and we simply couldn't say no any longer. We realized any app we released based on Tiger was going to look really pathetic when Leopard came out. + +Is core animation more than just eyecandy? In other words does it provide a way to improve the user experience, whether through better UIs or speed boosts etc? + +Absolutely... every time you give developers a chance to do better graphics with less code, you're going to see another revolution in user experience. The revolution coming with CoreAnimation is akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984 -- the Mac said "here's a relatively easy way to add graphics to your user interface" and CoreAnimation says, "Here's a very easy way to add composited layers and motion to your interface." + +The Core animation changes are quite significant and open up some interface possibilities that would have previously been a lot of work... Time Machine for instance has a pretty amazing interface which, from what I understand, is made possible by the new Core animation tools. + +I can't speculate on how Time Machine was written, but it's true that we're going to see a whole new world of user interface metaphors with CoreAnimation. For me, the original Cocoa was about making it really easy to me to construct an interface with sliders and textfields and buttons -- standard widgets. So we saw a whole generation of applications (for NeXTstep, and then later for Mac OS X) that had pretty decent interfaces, because they all used the same widgets and the widgets were pretty and functional. + +What we'll see with CoreAnimation is a move away from widgets and into direct manipulation. In Delicious Library 2, we're conveying much more information directly on our bookshelf view, instead of using textfields and the like, and similarly we're allowing the user to interact more directly with the books on the shelf, instead of just looking at them and then pressing buttons on another part of a screen to change them. + +Sure, we'll see some pure "eyecandy" applications that kind of abuse CoreAnimation, but we'll also see more of what are coming to be called the "Delicious Generation" of applications (not a term I coined!), where the entire application is designed from the start to be beautiful and fun while solving whatever problem it solves. + +From the demo video available on the Apple site it would seem that the new tools enable an almost windowless environment, is that true? + +One thing to remember about CoreAnimation, or any 'enabling' technology, is that any developer could do all the same effects herself, given enough time and motivation. It's not that CoreAnimation taps into some magic graphics processor that we didn't know about before, it just makes it extremely easy to use the existing graphics processor in the most efficient way. Which means we get to spend more time making cool interfaces because we are spending less time trying to get, like, anything to draw at all. + +Do you think Apple plans to move away from windows as a metaphor for the workspace? + +I am very, very hesitant to speculate on future directions, because people often assume developers have some secret "red phone" where Steve calls us and says, "Hey, Wil, we're going to dump windows as a metaphor in two years, you down with that? Oh, also, did you get those iPhones I sent you?" + +In truth, we wait for the same announcements as everyone else... and I have to wait for my damn iPhone. Which, believe me, is cruelty itself. + +And as an extension of the last question, with Apple moving into more devices which run largely windowless UIs (i.e. Apple TV, iPhone) is the windowed application a thing of the past? + +I personally think that full-screen applications are becoming more important (especially for Apple) as we see more special-purpose devices -- the Apple TV is supposed to a neat way to watch your shows, the iPhone is too damn small to support windows -- but there will always be a need for windowed applications. Humans are inherently multi-tasking creatures. + +I'm old enough to remember a lot of the early experiments with graphical user interfaces, before the world standardized on the Macintosh model. It's funny to remember all the varieties of metaphors that were attempted back then (eg, the Andrew Window System from CMU had a "tiled" interface, where windows never could overlap, but instead automatically resized themselves to perfectly fill the screen, and Microsoft Windows used to have windows inside of windows for applications), but I think they all died out for good reasons. + +Jobs talked briefly last night at D about the various iPhone UI limitations: no mouse, no pull-down menus and so forth. While those are constraints in the case of the iPhone do you think Apple might be looking to turn them into strengths on the desktop platform? + +Fundamentally it hurts my arms to hold them up to the screen, and I have enough trouble keeping my screen clean as it is, so I don't think I really want a touch-screen computer. I haven't seen the iPhone up-close, but I absolutely think some of the creative solutions Apple has come up with in terms of directly manipulating items on the screen (instead of using widgets) are going to carry over and inspire the Delicious Generation of applications. + +Is there a new UI paradigm on the horizon and if so what do you think it would look like? + +I think the paradigm is direct manipulation -- just grab your document and "throw" it upwards to get it to scroll, for example, instead of fumbling about for the scroller. + +Do you think users are ready to abandon the dominant metaphor of desktop UIs? + +I don't think we'll abandon the old way as much as supplement our armory with a whole new arsenal of tools. It's an awesome time to be a Mac developer, and, by extension, a Mac user. + + diff --git a/old/published/leopardwalk.txt b/old/published/leopardwalk.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f97904c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/leopardwalk.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Apple dropped the Computer from its name this year and released the iPhone and a slew of revamped iPods. But while its hardware has been in the spotlight, Apple has quietly been working on the next version of OS X. The iPhone may grab headlines, but Leopard could well be the most revolutionary thing Apple puts out this year. + +Many have criticized Leopard for being light on new features compared to previous releases, but Leopard isn't necessarily about groundbreaking new features, it's about enhancements and refinements that turn ordinary users into power users. + +Leopard does have some standout features -- Time Machine, Spaces and Quick Look -- but the real advance in Leopard is in the painstaking attention to detail. Many of the smaller, sometimes neglected features of previous versions of OS X have had new life breathed into them with Leopard. + +Take for instance features like Coverflow, once limited to iTunes, which Apple has expanded and modified to fit in the new Finder, giving the feature a new life in a new context. + +In its Finder incarnation, Coverflow allows you to visually browse through your files. But where Coverflow in iTunes is simply a browsing alternative, Leopard adds Quick Look, the ability to preview your files without opening an application. It's this kind of well-though out incremental advance that give Leopard its real appeal. + +Finder also borrows it's revamped sidebar feature from the iTunes sidebar -- items are grouped into categories and there are predefined date-based file searches just as iTunes offers for your music library. + +Power users will argue that it was possible to do this prior to Leopard by tweaking your custom searches and adding elements to the sidebar, but that's exactly the point -- Apple has gone to the trouble of reducing even three step customizations and made them the default view. + +Apple's love affair with the iTunes interface makes other appearances in Leopard like the iLife Media Browser which is integrated into the system-wide Open panel or the new "unified" look of windows, which eschew the former brushed metal look just as iTunes first did several versions ago. + +But Apple isn't just turning OS X into iTunes, Leopard's refinements go beyond the jukebox app. Consider Spotlight which now includes the ability to search network drives as well as lookup dictionary entries and perform mathematical calculations directly in the Spotlight bar, without opening any additional applications, + +Longtime users will also appreciate some of the smaller refinements in Leopard, which may not drop your jaw, but will simplify your experience -- like a revamped Wifi menu that helpfully divides open networks from password protected networks, making it easier to find the right public networks or the new direct access to wikipedia from within Apple's Dictionary application. + +While none of these smaller integrations and features are perhaps as revolutionary as the original release of Spotlight or new features like Time Machine, they showcase the kind refinements that make Leopard a worthy successor to past version of OS X. + +Another change in Leopard that may not be grabbing headlines, but goes a long way toward protecting your Mac from the increasing threat of attacks, is the inclusion of memory randomization. Apple refers to the feature as "Library Randomization," protects against the all too common buffer overflow attack by which hackers can inject malicious code into your system. + +Other protections against intruders include application sandboxing, which tightens controls over applications so hackers can’t exploit them, and application signing, which provides a way for both Apple and third party apps to verify themselves. + +Leopard is also the first version of Mac OS X to be fully POSIX compliant Unix and features native support for standards like OASIS Open Document Format (ODF). + +The main downside to upgrading is that in the rush to get Leopard out the door Apple has given third party developers precious little time to ensure their applications work on the final version. Mozilla has warned the Firefox still has a few issues under Leopard and Adobe says it hasn't fully tested its Creative Suite 3 on the new OS. Many other smaller developers report that they still aren't sure how their applications will perform. + +Still, that won't stop the rush of early adopters and for good reason, not only is Leopard fully of eye candy it's perhaps the most thoroughly thought out release Apple has pushed out yet. + + diff --git a/old/published/macheist.txt b/old/published/macheist.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ef25e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/macheist.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Last week, the Macintosh community site MacHeist offered a bundle of 10 Mac shareware apps for the bargain price of $49. Purchased separately, the total cost of all the apps would have been more than $350.
Consumers recognized the fact that the MacHeist bundle was an excellent deal, and the reaction was massive. MacHeist sold 16,821 bundles -- quite possibly the largest, most successful commercial distribution of Mac shareware ever -- and raked in an estimated $800,000.
But the promotion is causing some Mac bloggers to cry foul: MacHeist stands accused of heisting the shareware programmers and making a massive profit for the promoters.
MacHeist is the brainchild of Phill Ryu, an eighteen-year-old web programmer who previously created and hosted My Dream App, and John Casasanta, developer of iClip, an application included in the bundle.
"We weren't expecting the kind of sales we ended up with," says Ryu. "We told the developers we were expecting somewhere around 5,000 sales."
The six-week promotion closed at the end of last week: the final numbers put MacHeist sales at more than triple the initial forecast.
"John came to me with the idea of a bundle sale, something similar to MacZot," says Ryu, referencing the popular shareware distribution site. "We started brainstorming about how to make it more fun than just another Mac bundle sale."
The great public interest may have been fueled by MacHeist's promise to donate 25 percent of the profits to charities, including United Way and the World Wildlife Fund. But Ryu concedes that some of the sales may also have come about because of controversy surrounding the event.
How does a sales event that triples its expectations and donates an estimated $200,000 to charity become controversial? The promotion was wildly profitable for Ryu and his partners, but shafted the developers, who were paid relatively low fees for participating.
According to several sources, the shareware developers were paid a flat fee ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 for their shareware apps -- approximately $100,000 total -- leaving an estimated $400,000 to $500,000 for Ryu and his partners after costs.
Ryu declined to give exact figures or comment on the estimates. He said only that MacHeist offered customers discounts on volume purchases, which may skew the numbers.
John Gruber, a prominent blogger, criticized the project on his site, Daring Fireball, in a post entitled: "The Iniquities of the Selfish."
"Respectable agents or managers take no more than a 15 percent cut of their clients' revenue, and usually not more than 10 percent," Gruber wrote. "That's true in sports, it's true for authors, and it's true for entertainers."
However, Ryu says that developer feedback has been positive, with nine of the ten developers saying they are "very happy" with the bundled sale. The tenth developer, who did not want to be identified, said he was disappointed the project focused on the charities and the low price of the bundle rather than the quality of the shareware.
"I feel like (MacHeist) brought a lot of focus to Mac shareware." Ryu counters. "We had a lot of feedback from customers who said they had never even heard of shareware, let alone bought it."
Because sales wildly exceeded expectations, Ryu says MacHeist paid bonuses to all the developers.
"We've given pretty substantial bonuses, which work out to about double the money of the original agreements," he says.
"MacHeist made a killing," said Wil Shipley, creator of the MacHeist app Delicious Library. "The bundle was enormously successful, more than any of us had ever thought. I guess I could whine about this, but such is the nature of gambles -- they assumed more of the risk, and as such they got the bigger payoff when the jackpot hit. Plus, MacHeist actually decided to double what they are paying us developers after it hit so big."
"I don't care how much money the MacHeist guys make," Oliver Breidenbach, who licensed FotoMagico to MacHeist, wrote on an O'ReillyNet blog post, "I care about how much my company makes and how the Heist brings us forward towards our goals."
If you missed out on the bundle, don't fret. Though he wouldn't give a date, Ryu says that MacHeist will be offering another shareware app bundle sometime in 2007.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/macworldsoftware.txt b/old/published/macworldsoftware.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e73710d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/macworldsoftware.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +#Office for Mac + +Perhaps the most anticipated release at MacWorld will be the arrival of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. The new Office for Mac 2008 is the first update in nearly four years, and has native support for Intel-based Mac hardware. The update brings a number of enhancements and new features to the Mac version, and improves on features found in Office 2007, the latest Windows release. + +The interface has also seen a significant overhaul in Office 2008 with the new Elements Gallery providing easy, visual access to frequently used menu items in all the various Office suite components. + +Office for Mac 2008 features including a library of Automator actions to streamline common tasks, a MyDay application for improved scheduling and better support of Exchange Server synchronization. + +Apple's own suite of Office apps, iWork, continues to garner high marks from users, but for those still married to Microsoft the new Office for Mac 2008 is a must have. + +#MacHeist + +Although it kicked off well before MacWorld, this year's MacHeist Shareware Bundle promises to deliver some big deals while the conference is in full swing. Last year's MacHeist offered a bundle of 10 Mac shareware apps last week for the bargain price of $49. Purchased separately, the total cost of all the apps would have been more than $350. + +Consumers recognized the fact that the MacHeist bundle was an excellent deal, and the reaction was massive. MacHeist sold 16,821 bundles -- quite possibly the largest, most successful commercial distribution of Mac shareware ever -- and raked in an estimated $800,000. + +This year's bundle features AppZapper, Snapz Pro, Awaken, CSSEdit and six other popular shareware applications. As with the previous incarnation, this year's MacHeist features challenges (or "heists" as they're known) whereby curious participants can collect clues for discounts on the software bundle as well as free licensed copies of various Mac shareware apps that aren't part of the actual bundle. + +But there's no need to traipse around the web solving Mac-related missions to get a good deal, the bundle goes on sale beginning today and will available through Jan 23rd. + +#core animation + +Apple's release of its new Leopard operating system saw the introduction of a brand New Core Animation, a new set of tools for building program interfaces. Wil Shipley, developer of the personal media-cataloging application Delicious Library, hearlds the new tools as an interface revolution "akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984." + +Shipley's initial release of Delicious Library, with its glossy, highly refined interface, gave birth to a new breed of developers dubbed the "Delicious generation." For these Mac developers, interface experimentation is one of the big appeals of programming. + +However, despite promises of a new era of interface design, very few applications leveraging Core Animation have actually made it to the Mac desktop. + +MacWorld could mark the beginnings of a that new era though. Bento, a personal database application from Filemaker utilizes Core Animation heavily and may well see an official launch at this year's conference. + +Other anticipated Core Animation heavy apps that could see release at MacWorld include Flow, and FTP program which touts itself as "the BMW of Mac file transfer clients," Cookbook, a recipe organizer and Versions a slick grappical frontend for Subversion file management. diff --git a/old/published/mini-drone.txt b/old/published/mini-drone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01e340c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/mini-drone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +The wild west days of flying drones came to end earlier this year when the FAA began requiring that the pilots of, as the FAA so formally calls them, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, register with the FAA. If you want to use your UAS for anything remotely commercial you'll need to go a step further and pass a test. + +The registration is not particularly onerous, though there is a processing fee. The whole registration process starts to feel a bit Kafkaesque when you get to the end and realize that you can "display" your registeration number by writing it on the battery and then tucking that inside the aircraft. WAT? + +It's also unclear how the regulations will be enforced, particularity given the range of newer models which can be nearly two miles from their operator. On the whole the FAA registration is like the sheriff showed up, laid down the law and then promptly rode off into the sunset never to be seen again. + +Whether you agree or disagree with the FAA registration, it does put something of damper on flying a drone. + +There is, however, a loophole in those FAA regulations -- weight. The FAA does not regulate drones that weigh less than .55 lbs. Cue the rise of the mini drone. + +I first played around with a mini drone for a review last year in wired. The [JetJat Nano](http://www.wired.com/2015/12/review-mota-jetjat-nano/) is so small it fits inside it's own controller. It might seem like a toy -- and it is -- but it's also a lot of fun. And, as I mentioned in my review, it's a great way to practice flying without worry about crashing your $1500 baby. + +Since I started playing with the Nano similar drones have started popping up everywhere you turn. And each new mini drone manages to feel a little less toy-like. Today's mini drones still lack the stabilization and advanced flight features of their larger, regulated brethren, but several of them are very nearly as capable on the two fronts that have the most appeal -- fun and photography. + +Mota, the creators of the JetJat Nano, have since released the JetJat Ultra, which picks up where the Nano left off, adding hovering capabilities, a camera with live streaming and an app-based controller. The flight control system has also been significantly overhauled and is much better than the Nano. All this still managed to fit in a package very nearly the same as the Nano -- the Ultra weighs just 8 grams and manages to fly up to 130 feet away. That might not sound all that impressive next to DJI machine, but consider that the JetJat Ultra fits in the palm of your hand with room to spare. + +The JetJat Ultra is the smallest of the mini drones I've tested, but it's also one of the most fun and it delivers passable quality video. It won't make HD movies and the quality is closely related to how well you fly, but it is possible to get usable footage. + +Another contender for the small drone title is the Aerix Black Talon. It's considerably bigger -- about the size of four Ultras joined together -- but still well under the FAA weight limit at tk lbs. The Aerix is slightly more expensive, $140 to the Ultra's $130 (still only a pre-order), but for the extra money you get a much stabler flying experience and a 720p camera. + +The larger size gets you more than just stability though; the Black Talon can also stay in the air for 25 minutes according to Aerix. In my testing it was more like 20 minutes and it depends a bit on how you fly, but either way that's quite a bit longer than the Ultra's 6 minutes. In fact it's long enough to blur the line between mini drone and full size. + +The Black Talon also has an interesting feature dubbed altitude hold, which eliminates the need for manually maintaining altitude. Get the craft where you want it, activate the altitude hold and you are free to focus on side to side, front and back, and rotational movement. It's a really nice feature for creating decent video as well since you can lock the altitude and fly forward for a nice smooth approaching shot. + +The Aerix skips the smart phone in favor of an included LCD monitor, but it's also compatible with the company's FPV goggles if you want have a more immersive flying experience. Unlike larger drones though I almost never used the display unless I was hovering. Because these drone are never as high (and therefore clear of obstructions) as you'd be with larger models, it's far easier (for me anyway) to fly by watching the aircraft than to try to fly in first-person point of view. + +The Black Talon will save your live stream video to a micro SD card built in the side the body, but it was here that it shows its low price most painfully -- the cheap plastic body has its shortcomings. The SD card slot sits atop the main card and it's possible to accidentally insert the SD card into the actual body of the device if you miss the narrow slot. The card that shipped with mine disappeared forever into the body, though, in the Black Talon's favor, it has not thus far hampered performance in any way. Suffice to say, be careful inserting the SD card. + +If none of the smaller models have grabbed your FAA-dodging fancy yet there is a slightly larger class of drone out there that still manages to fall under the FAA weight limit. RC Toy maker Swann has cranked out several drones like the company's Xtreem Gravity Pursuit model which is very nearly as large as the Phantom 4 but weighs just a fraction of DJI's model. Comparing the two would be ridiculous, the Phantom 4 could quite literally fly circles around the Gravity Pursuit, but the Gravity Pursuit is still plenty of fun and it can shoot 1080p video. + +As with the rest of these lightweight drone there's no real gimbal or stabilization which means your video is as good as your flying. But you don't buy one of these drones because you want high quality imagery, you buy them because you like flying. These are first and foremost, RC quadcopters. Were it not so frequently used in a derogatory way I'd call them toys, because they are toys and they're a lot of fun for not much money. And or course the FAA man won't keep you down with that pesky registration thing. Viva la revolución. + diff --git a/old/published/mozilla_interviewnotes.txt b/old/published/mozilla_interviewnotes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7ca5db --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/mozilla_interviewnotes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +As pages get bigger and more complicated + +our general philosophy and one of the reasons it takes so long to get features in the browser is because one of our rules of thumb is that new features should not affect load time, not increase RAM and not + +its a strong tenet in the browser + +We've actully seen a significant drop in memory usage. + +It's always a conscern when you add new features but we try to make sure that Firefox + +The tough thing about memory usage is its dependnt on the environment... other software, add-ons and other things can impact performance. Everyone's mileage varies a little bit. + + +In general we're syced about the way people are pushing Tamarind. things we didn't see on the web four or five years ago. Firefox 4 will use tamarind. + +The alpha's you're looking at represent almost two years of development with major performance enhancements. + +We've got more people dedicated to mac than windows right now. there's a big interest improving . The mac is a big focus. We've got three full time. There's differently room for improvement in terms of the look and feel i can't promise but maybe firefox 3. + +1600 people contributed to the release of Firefox 2. The UI is well controlled by a smaller group of experts who make decisions about UI and feature improvements. You don't build a great UI by concensuse. + +the beauty of open source is that its open to what people want.Seamonkey demostrates that some people actually like the integrated approach. + +If someone has a better idea and they can go off and run with it and if the idea is successful they will find and audience. + +Everyone we talk to + +How do we find features that hit the 90% use case. If its a smaller set of people than that. + +WE're looking for the features that help everyone and if you want something richer that that you can download an extension.
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Microsoft Office 2007 has a radically redesigned interface, dubbed Ribbon, as well as some compelling new features. Here are some of the highlights and new features in Office 2007.
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The Ribbon interface in Microsoft Word. Each Ribbon element has a small icon in the corner, clicking the icon will bring up the old-style dialog box, hovering on the element shows the dialog box preview and, when applicable, provides links to the relevant help page.
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Ribbon interface in hidden mode. Moving the mouse over any of the tabs will reveal the Ribbon, but when you don't need it it stays out of the way providing the cleanest workspace of any Office version yet. The top menu can be customized to hold all your frequent menu items.
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In this shot the document has a default style applied, but the mouse hovers over the "Title" style so that the selected text automatically previews the changes without having to apply them. Clicking the style will apply it, mousing off will leave it as it was.
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This is Word in the "blogging mode." Ribbon elements are contextual, in this case, because a picture is selected, the picture tools become available. Deselecting the picture would cause those tool to hide themselves. As you might imagine the HTML output of blogging mode is somewhat bloated with inline styles, but on the brighter side, the output of this simple example was at least standards compliant.
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Excel got a serious makeover as well, this shot shows the new conditional formatting tools and, as with the previews in Word, hovering over a format style gives you a preview without having to commit to it. The blue bars on the sample graph are being applied by the conditional format rule that the mouse is hovering over.
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Another new Excel feature, the top half shows the table header as it looks when opened, in the bottom section you can see that as you scroll down the table header labels jump into the cell header so you can keep track of your columns.
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Outlook doesn't have the Ribbon bar in the explorer pane, but it is used when composing new messages. New Outlook features include a live preview for other Office documents which means you can read Word Excel and other files inline rather than having to open them separately. Microsoft has published the live preview specs so others, like Adobe PDF files, may be available at some point. Also note the To-Do bar, in this case showing the calendar view.
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Outlook also has an improved calendar view which includes an overlay feature. Multiple calendars can be viewed on top of each other which makes it easy to see where schedules overlap and conflict.
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Powerpoint uses Ribbon and sports enough new themes to keep Al Gore happy. As with the rest of the Ribbon apps, there are live previews of formatting changes.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/msoffice2007/office-documentsV2.txt b/old/published/msoffice2007/office-documentsV2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7333770 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/msoffice2007/office-documentsV2.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Last week Microsoft's OpenXML, the default format for MS Office 2007 documents, was approved by the standard body Ecma International, but if the thought of Microsoft creating an open, international standard for the good of consumers makes you laugh, you're not alone.
The Ecma approval was not unanimous, IBM cast a strong no vote and IBM vice-president for open source and standards, Bob Sutor, writes on his blog, "what the world needs today...is a real open standard versus a vendor-dictated spec that documents proprietary products via XML."
There is already an international standard for office documents. The format, known as Open Document Format (ODF), is XML-based and uses industry standard tools like SVG and MathML to render complex graphics and equations. Sutor says of the IBM vote, "ODF is about the future, OpenXML is about the past."
In spite of what its name might imply, Microsoft's OpenXML is not an open source spec like ODF. OpenXML will be licensed for free, but given the size of the spec (over 6000 pages) and the fact that it eschews industry standard tools in favor of proprietary Microsoft options, it can hardly be called "open."
Microsoft's move is a "me too" response to ODF. Only when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put forth the proposal last year to change its default file format for state agencies to ODF, did Microsoft to submit Open XML as an alternative standard.
Microsoft's Alan Yates, General Manager of the Information Worker Division claims "the ODF format, however, is limited to the features of OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft Office customers today."
But Sam Hiser, Vice President and Director of Business Affairs at the OpenDocument Foundation, says "Microsoft is about 2 years behind ODF in its implementation of XML."
Microsoft's attempt to repackage the proprietary Word document format with XML trimmings has so far seen a cold reception in the marketplace. As John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org' Marketing Project Lead says, "The market told OpenOffice.org it needed a standard - the last thing it wants is two."
Competing standards have already wrecked havoc in the graphics field where competing SVG formats, one open source and one from Adobe, have left the marketplace with no complete implementations of Abode's SVG standard outside of Adobe Illustrator.
As McCreesh points out, "public administrations and regulated businesses were worried about meeting Freedom of Information requirements if documents were stored in a long-extinct proprietary data format."
The existence of two standards means double the work for Microsoft's competitors. Raju Vegesna of Zoho.com, a popular online office suite, says, "While we support standards, we also have to look at practicality." With Microsoft pushing OpenXML as a standard, Vegesna says Zoho will "have to support both formats and will do it going forward." At the same time, like most vendors, Zoho would prefer ODF, "if we were to choose a format, we will pick ODF" says Vegesna.
Novell, another office suite vendor, has announced that its version of OpenOffice.org will support Microsoft’s proprietary document format. Novell also plans to release the code to the open source community so that all versions of OpenOffice.org could support the MS format if they want.
OpenOffice.org's McCreesh says, "Novell have an excellent track record for feeding their enhancements to OpenOffice.org back to the community for the benefit of all users." He goes one to add that, "OpenOffice.org already supports a plethora of Microsoft proprietary file formats so adding one more for OpenXML would be no big deal."
In the end the marketplace may be the deciding factor. Hiser says "If one day we have two ISO standards that do roughly the same things, then the marketplace will decide between basically a very expensive solution set where most of the costs are hidden and a relatively inexpensive set which will have much more confidence associated with users' access."
***these numbers come from an ITwire article which I can't verify yet, but I'm looking into it.
Massachusetts's state officials have said the decision to go with ODF was based in part on a cost analysis that put Office 2007 upgrades at four times the price of an Open Office solution.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Quotes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Zoho:
Yes, we do plan to support both formats. While we support standards, we also have to look at practicality right? Microsoft has more than 80% (90%?) of the Office market share and they will push Microsoft OpenXML Doc format to be the standard. We will have to support both formats and will do it going forward. If we were to choose a format, we will pick ODF, but we will (have to) support both.
MS:
>>>>>>>> We support giving our customers more choice. The promise of XML
based formats as the ideal technology for data interoperability and
archiving is a vision we share with the proponents of the OpenDocument
Format (ODF). The ODF format, however, is limited to the features of
OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft
Office customers today. Yet, we do support interoperability with ODF
through the Open XML-ODF Translator project and did not oppose its
standardization or use by any organization. The richness of competitive
choices in the market is good for our customers and for the industry as
a whole.
Sam Hiser:
http://samhiser.blogspot.com/2005/12/ecma-rubber-stamps-ms-xml-proposal.html
I wrote this over a YEAR ago. Surprisingly, it's still germane.
The Ecma vote last week was expected and indicative of an ossified
coin-operated standards organization. A travesty of common sense, but one we
shrug off as par for the course.
Just having this discussion reflects the increased level of competition.
Microsoft's legacy formats give them a great ramp into whatever next thing
they are selling. Even if it's herring.
Any reasonable man on the street who reads the 6,000 page Ecma specification
would HAVE TO CONCLUDE that Microsoft has dumped their existing format
design into a just-add-water standards process. They were surprised and are
pretending to satisfy customer requirements (Massachusetts & EU). There's an
old Sicilian expression: Watch the hand, not the mouth.
Do you think OpenXML has a realistic chance at ISO approval? If it
does get approval do you think Microsoft's power in the industry will
allow it to position OpenXML as an alternative to ODF inspite of the
proprietary aspects of OpenXML?
>>>>>>>>John McCreesh
OpenOffice.org started down the road to open-standard file formats in
response to market pressure. For example, public administrations and
regulated businesses were worried about meeting Freedon of Information
requirements if documents were stored in a long-extinct proprietary data
format. To meet these market demands, OpenOffice.org believes:
* a specification must be owned and maintained by a recognised standards
body which is truly vendor neutral
* a specification must be capable of being adopted by any software vendor
without restrictions
* contributors must issue an irrevocable covenant not to enforce any of
their patents against any implementation of the specification
With these requirements in mind, OpenOffice.org helped steer the
OpenDocument Format first through OASIS and then to the OSI - the most
respected standards body - for ratification. OpenOffice.org software now
supports OpenDocument / ISO 26300 as its native file format.
OpenOffice.org encourages everyone (including Microsoft) to rally to this
standard. Naturally, OpenOffice.org was disappointed to see Microsoft
trying to play "me-too" with OpenXML (can we finally kill off the old
allegation that open-source projects are not innovators?). However,
OpenXML fails to pass the tests of being multi-vendor and free of
intellectual property encumbrances. Microsoft is a company with enormous
powers of influence, but it would be a sad day for users of office
software if this extended to persuading ISO to ratify a competing
'standard'. The market told OpenOffice.org it needed a standard - the last
thing it wants is two.
Novell has said they'll be adding OpenXML support to their version of
OO, does the main OO community have any plans to roll that code into
the OO.org version or are you opposed to multiple document formats?
(or would the MS licensing terms be a problem?)
Novell have an excellent track record for feeding their enhancements to
OpenOffice.org back to the community for the benefit of all users.
OpenOffice.org already supports a plethora of Microsoft proprietary file
formats so adding one more for OpenXML would be no big deal.
If ISO members define the purpose of MS Office Open XML as being different
than ODF, there's quite a good chance it will pass -- though you have to get
by that fastidious Japanese ISO team.
If it passes, MS Office OpenXML would get added to the procurement menus in
government. It would therefore be harder for CIOs to keep Vista and Office
2007 out of their agencies; although the cost of a full stack of eight
different Microsoft products, all of which are needed to get full XML
capabilities, would make the same CIO faint.
IT acquisition executives will need to earn their pay and make an educated
choice. Microsoft is about 2 years behind ODF in its implementation of XML.
Total cost will matter. ODF remains a hard-sell, but where were we a year
ago...no one had heard of us. I expect us to continue to outperform
expectations. There's no denying common sense.
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The Ribbon interface in Microsoft Word. Each Ribbon element has a small icon in the corner, clicking the icon will bring up the old-style dialog box, hovering on the element shows the dialog box and, when applicaple, provides links to the relevant help page.
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Ribbon interface in hidden mode. Moving the mouse over any of the tabs will reveal the ribbon, but when you don't need it it stays out of the way providing the cleanest workspace of any office version yet. The top menu can be customized to hold all your frequent items.
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In this shot the document has a default style applied, but I've selected the first sentence and moused over the title style so that the selected text automatically shows a preview without having to apply it. Clicking the style will apply it, mousing off will leave it as it was.
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This is Word in the "blogging mode." The Ribbon elements are contextual, in this case because a picture is selected the picture tools become available. Deselecting the picture would cause those tool to hide themselves. As you might imagine the HTML output of blogging mode is somewhat bloated with inline styles, but on the brighter side the output of this simple example was at least HTML 4.0 compliant.
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Excel got a serious makeover as well, this shot shows the new conditional formatting tools and as with the previews in word, hovering over a format style give you a preview without having to commit to it. The blue bars on the sample graph are deing applied by the conditional coramt rule that the mouse is hovering over.
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Another new Excel feature, the top half shows the table header as it looks when opened, in the bottom section you can see that as you scroll down the header jumps into the cell header so you can keep track of your columns.
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Outlook doesn't have the Ribbon bar in the explorer pane, though it is used when composing new messages. New Outlook features include a live preview for other office documents which means you can read Word Excel and other files inline rather than having to open them separately. Also note the To-Do bar, in this case showing the calendar view.
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Outlook also has an improved calendar view which includes an overlay feature. Multiple calendars can be viewed on top of each other which makes it easy to see where schedules overlap and conflict.
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Powerpoint uses Ribbon and sports a number of new themes to keep Al Gore busy. As with the rest of the Ribbon apps there are live previews of formatting changes.
Outlook in three pane mode
Outlook calendar overlay
One Note
WORD
What is the official status of PDF support in Word?
We worked with Adobe and decided
OUTLOOK:
Why didn't outlook get the ribbon interface?
Outlook is a very different beast, it's more of an explorere that helps you get to your information. The menus weren't under the same constraints and there wasn't the "ui" crunch
Outlook's
The explorer view doesn't use a ribbon but most of the document creation tools do, for instance creating a new email will give you a window with a ribbon.
Inline previewer spec has been published so
It comes full circle you blog in word and consume in Outlook.
GENERAL:
Why did you drop outlook from the student teacher edition?
The home and student audience tends to use web-based email so we opted for onenone over outlook
The office offering "calenders can be published on the web, we feel that al lot of the editting and rich tasks, the client side experience is still the best for our users
Groove is a way for people working a project to collaberate
We tried hard to do as much integration as possible
the search integration in outlook is superior when used in vista
vista explorer will show document text in the preview pane.
very similar.
What percentage of MS revenue is from Office?
what are microsoft's goals with Office 2007?
Unlocking the power of the user interface and helping users create professional looking content.
What are you calling the "toolbar"?
Paul Coleman, Senior Marketing Manager.
Ribbon represents
we felt that windows and toolbars were no longer working for us. Office 2003 has 1500 features and we sort of ran out of space to add new features
2003 left users in an impossible situation for trying to discover new features.
9 out of 10 feature requests we got were already in the product, people just couldn't find them.
we wanted something that was browseable the ribbon has tabs composed of groups and inside each group is a set of commands
Live preview
500 million users office
Excel has a new page layout view that
many of the dialogue features have been changed to be more graphical as opposed to answering questions
All the office 2003 keyboard shortcuts still work, but there's a new feature called keytips
help content has ben integrated into tooltips, often with sample graphics and direct link to help entries
We did some studies that showed that the number of features core was 23 for 2003 and whith the new ribbon interface that number has climbed to 60 or 70.
There a collapsed ribbon mode view hides the subpanes
Word: Blogging features puts word in special bloggin mode
word supports most popular blogging tools
contextual spell check
23 60 and 70 core features
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The Office franchise is Microsoft's second-biggest cash cow behind Window and with the increasing popularity of open source alternatives to Office and growing web-based office tools, Microsoft has a lot riding on both of these releases.
Office 2007 introduces a new default document format (OOXML story link) and features a radically overhauled interface dubbed Ribbon. Ribbon replaces the toolbar menu features of previous versions with tabbed window bar that provides easier access to features that used to hide in a labyrinth of submenus.
Paul Coleman, Senior Marketing Manager says one of the goals for Office 2007 was "unlocking the power of the user interface and helping users create professional looking content." He goes on to add that "9 out of 10 feature requests we got for 2007 were already in the 2003 product, people just couldn't find them."
Office 2003 had 1500 items buried in menus, "we sort of ran out of space to add new features," Coleman notes.
Ribbon will likely introduce many users to previously buried features they might never have found. Some might argue that Ribbon isn't all that different from the style pallets that existed in previous version of Office, but the old pallets were mainly limited to styling tools whereas Ribbon exposes nearly every menu feature.
Coleman says that usability studies "showed that average user of Office 2003 regularly accesses about 23 core features, but with the new Ribbon interface that number has climbed to 60 or 70."
The old style question and answer dialogues still exist for power users, but casual and non-technical users will likely welcome the more visual, icon-oriented tools.
###Word
Probably the best known of the many applications that comprise the Office suite, Word 2007 has a number of significant enhancements. The Ribbon toolbar, though it takes some getting used to, really does make it easier to access frequently used tools. Ribbon also provides some nice enhancements to existing tool such as style previews. When you select text and hover your mouse over a style setting, Word 2007 does a live preview of what the changes will look like when you apply them.
Highlights of Words new features include a document comparison tool that divides the Word window into a three pane workspace and lets you see differences between documents, and a new blogging mode which can connect to most popular blog hosting services.
##Outlook
After Word the next most used program in Office is undoubtedly Outlook, which has also received a massive overhaul. Outlook's main interface doesn't utilize Ribbon, as Coleman says, "Outlook is more of a 'explorer' that helps you get to your information, there wasn't the UI crunch that exists in other programs."
Still Outlook 2007 does use ribbon in compose mode and other viewing modes where menu options exist. New features in Outlook include a new To-Do panel, and RSS reader and auto account set up. The To-Do replaces and improves upon what was called "daily view" in previous versions, and data in the new To-Do panel is fully editable. The RSS reader in Outlook uses the same back-end data as the Internet Explorer RSS reader which means the two will always be in sync.
The auto account set-up is a much-touted attempt to auto-magically configure your Exchange Server, IMAP, or POP3 email accounts when you enter your user name and password. As you might expect it works best with Exchange accounts, but it was also able to auto configure my GMail account. However it failed to discover my IMAP info, but for those cases where it doesn't work, it's easy to slip into advanced mode and fill in the information yourself.
##conclusion
We tested Office on both Windows XP and the new Vista and found that it performed well on both versions of Windows. Using Vista with Aero Glass enabled, the Office apps get a glassy, shiny look, and the Vista Explorer will show Office document text in the preview pane, but for the most part there's no need to upgrade your system to take advantage of the new Office interface.
Oh yeah and the best reason to upgrade -- that stupid paperclip is gone.
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 was announced yesterday at Macworld and will include new versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage. The new version will be a universal binary, supporting both new Intel-based Macs and older legacy machines and will feature full support for Microsoft's new Open Office XML file format.
***Quote about Converters***
Mac BU officials at Macworld also announced plans to release file format converters that will allow the current version of Office of Mac 2004 to open, edit and save files created using the Open Office XML format.
Beta versions of the file format converters will arrive in Spring while the final versions are expected to ship six to eight weeks after Office for Mac 2008 makes its debut in the second half of the year.
Like it's Windows sibling, the new Office for Mac 2008 introduces an overhaul to the user interface; the two programs share a new graphics engine called Office Art 2.0. Microsoft says the shared graphics engine will help the new Office for Mac suite provide pixel-for-pixel compatibility with Windows Office documents.
However instead of using the new Window's UI, dubbed Ribbon, Office for Mac will feature what Microsoft calls Elements Gallery, a new taskbar designed to improve usability while retaining a Mac look and feel. So, while the two programs share features and graphics engines the user interface design remains unique to the respective platform.
***Quote about the new UI would be good here***
Office for Mac 2008 promises Mac-first, Mac-only features like a Publishing Layout View for layout-rich documents like newsletters, Ledger Sheets, a tool to make working with Excel spreadsheets easier, and My Day, a stand-alone application that offers schedule and task viewing without launching Entourage.
Elements Gallery automates common, complex tasks such as adding a table of contents or headers and footers. Elements Gallery also provides easy access to a another new feature called Document Parts which are templates that support themes and styles.
Many of the new features, Publishing Layout View and Ledger Sheets especially, add more layout tools to Office for Mac 2008 than previous versions and mirror similar features in Apple's own iWork software. Although Apple has never represented the iWork suite as an alternative to Office for Mac, many see iWork as a potential competitor to Office for Mac.
The Mac BU team denies that the two software packages are competing,
*** A quote about iWork would be nice here, here's one from Microsoft's Sheridan Jones via ZDnet:
"We think that iWork represents an interesting solution for some customers," Jones said. "We have a different customer set and we have a very robust productivity suite. iWork is interesting for people who don't need as robust a set of capabilities."
So far Microsoft has not announced prices for the new Office for Mac 2008. The current version, Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, is $399, and $149 for the Student and Teacher edition.
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Eric Wilfrid Product Unit Manager for Mac Business Unit
The elsements gallery in the heart of the new UI. It helps serface features and it's a great way for us to present some new mac-only features.
Elements gallery fits in with older 2004 formats, we still have the formatting pallettes
Can you describe elements gallery? it's like a taskbar... does that replace some of the functionality that is in the pallets on office 2004?
Is it still mac like?
The new "mac only" features seem heavily geared toward more layout and graphic design tasks is that a response to iWork (which is less a word processor and more of a page layout program)?
There's need there to let mac users create stunning documents
customers who want to get going quickly are going to find the new
How does microsoft see Office for Mac fitting in with apple's iWork suite?
We love competition it's get for the market. One big difference between iWork and Office 2008 is compatibility, we natively support the same file formats as Windows users and our customers are looking for that cross platform support. iWork is a good sulotion for customer who need a limited set of functionality but office goes quite bit beyond,.
I haven't seen any pricing announcements...
Can you explain the reasoning behind My Day? Does it integrate with address book or iCal?
The ledger sheets are excel templates...?
Can you outline any specific enhancements to Entourage?
there's system wide short cut to launch My Days control space... you can do simple manipulations, prioritize tasks amd more with out distracting yourself from what you're working on.
Leopard reportedly features OOXML compatibility, why is it taking so long to get the converters into MS's own products?
Which versions of Office for Mac will have converters? 2004? v.X?
beta 2004. We are also doing converts for office v.X and
Office apps are increasingly moving toward online collaboration and storage... does the new Office 2008 have any sharing features? Does the Mac BU have any plans to add such features in the future?
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But the search for new music is easier and cheaper than ever. With internet radio and social music sites, there's now a whole realm of friends older brothers just a click away.
A while back I tested out iLike for the Monkey Bites blog and I'm hooked. ILike is a actually a whole social networking site, but I haven't been back since I downloaded the iLike iTunes plugin. I always wanted to know what my friend's older brother was listening to, but I never really wanted to spend time with him.
What makes iLike great for finding new music is its integration with iTunes. ILike adds a sidebar to iTunes and provides music recommendations based on what you’re listening to at the time. The sidebar also syncs to and updates your iLife profile so others can see your listening tastes.
There are two categories of recommendations from the iLike sidebar: established artists and new, unsigned artists. When you’re listening to a song and you see an iLike recommendation you like, just click the arrow beside the name and iLike pauses your iTunes playback and streams the new song from its host site. For the established artists you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song (from the iTunes Music Store).
Music for unsigned artists comes from iLike’s partner site, GarageBand, and you can listen to the whole song. If you decide you like the song there’s a link that will open your web browser and download the file. It would be nice if iLike could somehow just download the song in the background and automatically add it to your library, but that currently isn’t possible. It would also be nice if iLike supported other music players and the company claims to be working on that, but for the time being if you aren't an iTunes user, iLife probably isn't for you.
Last.fm is another popular site that's been helping me discover new music. Last.fm is essentially a web-based, user-generated radio station. Like iLike, Last.fm offers a downloadable program that integrates with iTunes and other popular services.
Last.fm's software doesn't directly attach itself to iTunes, it runs as a standalone program that streams music from Last.fm. Last.fm's software parses your iTunes library and tracks what you've been listening to so it can display the information on your public page. Last.fm refers to this process as "audio scrobbling."
There is an older, unsupported plugin that does integrate with iTunes, but I haven't tried it. Last.fm also has another program available that can track what you're playing on your iPod if you use that more than your computer.
If downloading additional software isn't your bag, Last.fm recently added a Flash-based music player which lets you listen to music streams in your browser window.
There are a number of other sites out there as well. I've had good luck with Pandora, a fairly new service from the creators of the Music Genome Project. Pandora is dead simple to use, just type in a band you like and Pandora will build and begin streaming a playlist of music similar to the band or artist you entered.
Pandora is limited to your browser window, but offers some nice features like the ability to bookmarks songs and artists and an explanation of why it thinks you will like the song it has picked. You can also email your stations to friends. Pandora recently added a new search feature called backstage that lets you search fro more information the artists you've discovers. The search results include bios, discography and further recommendations.
Qloud is another popular site, though I've had less luck with it, the javascript-heavy interface may turn some users off. There are some nice features like search auto-complete and live search results, but these fancy features come at the expense of your back button. Qloud requires Windows Media Player for the samples it offers.
As for the recommendations, well they vary somewhat. To test each service I searched for bands similar to Neutral Milk Hotel, Talib Kweli and Justin Timberlake. In all three cases none of the sites suggested the same music though they did often overlap on one or two songs or artists. Oddly the results for Neutral Milk Hotel, which is arguably the most obscure of the three, were almost universally better. In my experience the more mainstream an artist is, the less precise your results are likely to be.
For my own tastes, Pandora returned to best similar artist and also managed to pull in an interesting selection of similar, but different results.
I can't really say any of these sites is necessarily better than the other, they all work slightly differently and for the true music nut, one will never be enough.
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It starts when you're young -- a friend's older brother hands you a Fugazi tape and all of a sudden, you're hooked on that buzz you get from hearing something totally new.
At first, the reach of the web made discovering new music easier, but with the constant flood of new artists and bands popping up on the internet, finding something you might actually get excited about became more of a chore.
The emergence of social networks and music recommendation services have made finding new music easy again. Thanks to tools such as iLike, Last.fm, Pandora and Qloud, a vast realm of friends' older brothers with excellent taste are just a click away.
The process of generating recommendations works by finding users who like some of the same artists as you and then assuming that their other favorites may also appeal to you. This process of "taste matching" is far from perfect, but better than a simple Google search.
So how good are the actual recommendations of these services? Well, they vary somewhat. To test each service, I searched for bands similar to Neutral Milk Hotel, Talib Kweli and Justin Timberlake. None of the sites suggested the same artists for each recommendation, but Pandora gave me the most enjoyable set of results.
Oddly, the results for recommended artists similar to Neutral Milk Hotel, which is arguably the most obscure pick of the three, were almost universally better. In my experience, the more mainstream an artist is, the less precise your results are likely to be.
I first encountered iLike when I reviewed it on the Monkey Bites blog, and I've since become an avid fan. The site is actually a full-featured social networking site centered around music, but its integration with your computer's iTunes playlists is what turns it into a powerful music discovery tool.
ILike adds a sidebar to Apple's iTunes player and tracks what your listening habits. The service then matches your tastes with those of other users and recommends similar artists from others' playlists that you may enjoy. The sidebar also automatically posts your playlists to your iLike profile at the website so others can study your listening tastes.
When you're listening to a song in iTunes and you see an iLike recommendation in the sidebar, clicking the arrow beside the name pauses your iTunes playback and streams the recommended song.
The iLike sidebar passes along recommendations from two categories: established artists and new, unsigned artists. For the artists who are already part of the record label machine, you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song from the iTunes Music Store. Songs by unsigned artists are streamed from GarageBand.com, iLike's partner site, and you get to listen to the whole song. If the artist allows it, you can even download it.
ILike only supports the iTunes player, though the company claims it's working on support for other players. If you aren't an iTunes user, iLike probably isn't for you.
Pandora, a site from the creators of the Music Genome Project, is a music recommendation service that's dead simple to use. Just type in a band you like, and Pandora will immediately begin streaming a playlist of music similar to the band or artist you entered. The service will even give you explanations of why it thinks you'll like the songs it picks for you.
The streaming playlists offered by Pandora can only be played in a browser window, but the stations can be emailed to friends or shared on personal websites. Pandora's service also has some helpful features, like the ability to bookmark songs for later review and a search tool called Backstage that tells you more -- biographies, discographies and further recommendations -- about the artists you encounter.
When recommending music to match with my own tastes, Pandora was the best at guessing similar artists. It also managed to pull in an interesting selection of results that I wouldn't have expected.
Last.fm, another popular site that's geared towards helping users discover new music, is essentially a web-based, user-programmed radio station. Last.fm studies your tastes through a desktop applet called an "audio scrobbler." The tiny application runs in the background, tracking your playlists in iTunes and other popular players. It then streams a playlist made up of songs by artists similar to the ones you like based on similar tastes of other Last.fm users.
If downloading desktop software isn't your bag, Last.fm recently added a Flash-based music player which lets you listen to streams of user-recommended music in your browser window.
Qloud is another popular site, though the JavaScript-heavy interface may turn some users off. Features like auto-complete search suggestions are fancy, but they come at the expense of your browser's back button. Also, Qloud requires Windows Media Player to play its song samples.
If you're a true music nut, one thing is certain: When it comes to deciding how to spend your hard earned cash at the record store, one service will not be enough.
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Fugazi tape and all of a sudden, you're hearing a sound that's totally
new.
Your friend's older brother has since been replaced by the web.
There's more great music that you've never heard out there than ever
before, but the veritable flood of material from artists of all
stripes has made finding those choice nuggets of bliss that much
harder.
Several websites offer a reprieve from this overabundance of noise
with a collaborative filtering process best described as "taste
matching." Sites such as Pandora, iLike, Last.fm and Qloud recommend
artists you might enjoy by comparing your favorite bands with those of
other users.
These sites assume that if you have a favorite band in common with
another user, then other artists on their list of favorites will most
likely also appeal to you. The results are far from perfect, but it
beats digging for audio gold at Google.
I tested all the sites in the same way, searching for bands similar to
Neutral Milk Hotel, Talib Kweli and Justin Timberlake.
Oddly, I found the more mainstream an artist is, the less precise your
results are likely to be. The recommended artists similar to Neutral
Milk Hotel, which is arguably the most left-field pick of the three,
were almost universally more accurate across all four services.
Pandora
The most enjoyable set of results came from Pandora, a service built
by the creators of the Music Genome Project.
Pandora is dead simple -- just type in a band you like, and it will
immediately begin streaming a playlist of music similar to the band or
artist you entered. The service explains why it recommends the songs
it picks for you.
You can only play the streaming playlists Pandora offers in a browser
window, but you can e-mail the stations to friends or share them on
personal websites. Pandora's service also has some helpful features,
like the ability to bookmark songs for later review and a search tool
called Backstage that tells you more -- biographies, discographies and
further recommendations -- about the artists you encounter.
iLike
I first encountered iLike when I reviewed it on the Monkey Bites blog.
The site is actually a full-featured social networking site centered
around music, but its integration with your computer's iTunes
playlists is what turns it into a powerful music discovery tool.
ILike adds a sidebar to Apple Computer's iTunes player and tracks your
listening habits. The service then matches your tastes with those of
other users and recommends similar artists from others' playlists that
you may enjoy. You can listen to streaming samples of the recommended
tracks and, in many cases, purchase them from the iTunes Music Store.
Songs by independent and unsigned artists can be streamed or
downloaded from GarageBand.com, iLike's partner site.
ITunes is the only media player supported by iLike, though the company
claims it's working on support for other players.
Last.fm
Last.fm is essentially a web-based, user-programmed radio station. It
studies your tastes through a desktop applet called Audioscrobbler.
The tiny application runs in the background, tracking your playlists
in iTunes and other popular players. It then streams a playlist made
up of songs by artists similar to the ones you like based on similar
tastes of other Last.fm users.
You can also listen to streams of user-recommended music in your
browser window using Last.fm's recently added, Flash-based player if
downloading desktop software isn't your bag.
Qloud
Qloud returned some good recommendations. However, the
JavaScript-heavy interface may turn some users off -- the fancy
features like auto-complete search suggestions come at the expense of
your browser's back button. Also, Qloud requires Windows Media Player
to play its song samples.
Summing Up
All these services give you new ground to explore, and your best bet
might be to use the one or two that offer the best suggestions within
your favorite genres. After all, when it comes to deciding how to
spend your hard-earned cash at the record store, recommendations come
in handy.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/never published/microformats4.txt b/old/published/never published/microformats4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8e9b6c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/never published/microformats4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Tiny Tags Power the Semantic Web + +Yesterday's promise of the semantic web remains largely unfulfilled -- machines still aren't very good at understanding the code they're rendering. Microformats want to change that and the next version of Firefox aims to lead the way. + +Alex Faaborg believes microformats are next leap in the evolution of hypertext. Unlike the web we know today where a contact link automatically opens your mail client, microformat data has no predetermined association. In the third stage says Faabord, "the user has control over the associations." Which should music to the ears of webmail users tired of accidentally opening an email client they don't use. + +<a href="http://microformats.org/">Microformats</a> are tiny pieces of code which add contextual meaning to HTML tags. They give browsers and other web software tools easy signposts to help understand what data is being read and rendered. + +Specific pieces of web content like dates, addresses, product reviews and resumes can be tagged with simple microformat codes. For instance, whenever an author places an event listing on a web page, he can append it with the appropriate piece of code. For every phone number or street address, the microformatted code can tell the browser, "this is somebody's contact information." + +Tantek Çelik, CTO of Technorati and creator of microformats, describes their purpose as a way of "making web pages both more useful and more usable to the average person." Currently to use microformats you'd need to know HTML, but Firefox 3 is hoping to change that. + +Alex Faaborg of the Firefox team believes that the browser should be responsible for parsing microformated content, "then the user won't have to worry about microformats." + +Çelik agrees and says the future of microformats lies with browsers. "I think it is an essential step -- it makes it much easier for both users and content/site publishers." + +While microformats are easy for HTML authors to use, for the average web user microformats remain a an untapped mystery. The developers behind Firefox would like microformats to become as familiar as RSS. + +"If the browser provides a consistent way of displaying microformatted content, then the user doesn't have to worry about a chaotic UI where every type of information is displayed differently," Faaborg says. + +The Firefox 3 developers have not settled on an implementation yet, but they are committed to including them in the popular browser. + +According to Faaborg, "we are still figuring out how we are going to allocate developer resources, and if we will need to rely on open source contributers for some parts of the microformat detection implementation." + +For now Mozilla is watching two extensions for Firefox evolve: <a href-"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106">Operator</a.> by Michael Kaply and <a href="http://webcards.whymicroformats.com/">WebCards</a> by Andy Mitchell. But Mozilla would like to eventually role microformats support into the browser. + +One idea Faaborg has proposed is to include a toolbar icon to notify users when a page contains microformatted data. Still he believes that "it would be considerably easier for users to apply actions to microformatted content (like adding an event to their calendar) if they could directly click on the information, instead of finding it in a menu in the browser UI." + +Faaborg has blogged extensively about microformats and found his favorite idea in user comments on his site. Two users suggested changing the mouse cursor to show the associated application when you hover over a piece of microformatted content. + +"So if you moved the mouse over an address, a small icon for Google Earth (or Yahoo maps, or what ever application you choose to associate with addresses) would appear to the side of the mouse cursor." + +Clicking the link would then take you to whatever page or program you decide to associate with that type of data. Addresses lead to your favorite mapping service, event listings to your online calendar and so on. + +But Faaborg doesn't think Firefox should stop at detecting and handling microformats, he's like to see creation tools as well. "If it takes 30 seconds to put information in the right structure to add it to a calendar, then the single person who created the information should spend that 30 seconds, not each of the 100 or 1000 people who want to add the information to their various different calendar applications." + +Faaborg thinks that if the browser takes care of the full life cycle of structured information, from creating it to detecting it, "we could improve the functionality of the web by simply releasing a new version of Firefox."
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/never published/songbird.txt b/old/published/never published/songbird.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86872e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/never published/songbird.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +The verdict is in. The RIAA has won its first jury case and is already gloating about having struck fear in the hearts of file sharing music lovers everywhere. But it doesn't matter. When an industry reaches the point it must sue its customers to maintain its business model the industry is already dead. + +For many that have come up in the era of web-based music there's a certain glee in watching the old guard fall. But there's no need to dance on the music industry's grave. Its final collapse won't be pretty -- people will lose their jobs, companies will go bankrupt. + +But something new will be born. As any anthropologist can tell you there was music before the recording industry and there will be music long after it is gone. Rather than debate the finer points of the industry's inevitable collapse, I want to tell you about the future. + +The future of music will look something like the Songbird application. Songbird is essentially a music player -- playlists, libraries, all the things you'll also find in iTunes and similar applications. + +But where iTunes is still representative of the old guard -- every recent revision has primarily been about offering new ways to sell you music -- Songbird incorporates the old and gives direction to the new. + +The future is free. The future is on the web and its primary model is not selling you music, but helping you discover it. And that's why Songbird features a built in web browser that enables you to seamlessly browse and listen to music from MP3 blogs, radio stations like Pandora and music history and culture on sites like wikipedia and last.fm. + +With MySpace currently boasting far more bands than any record label can offer, is it any wonder that we turn to the web for music? + +With Songbird you browse the web looking for music and, provided the site is properly coded Songbird will discover all the linked MP3s and put them in a playlist just below the browser window. You can pause and play tracks as if they were already part of your music collection. + +Find a track you like on the web and drag it to your library -- it's yours now. Songbird doesn't support DRM files and hopefully it never will. + +As Michael Arrington recently wrote, the whole digital music industry is making an inexorable move toward free. In part this is driven by the relatively low cost of today's recording equipment, but it's also a nature result of the online market. + +Earlier this year the going rate for a DRM free track on iTunes was $1.29, but now, Amazon has jumped into to compete and the price there has already fallen to just $.89 in many cases. Sites like Amie street offer music at whatever price the demand for a song will bear. Radiohead recently skipped its record company and decided to offer its new album online for whatever you'd like to pay. Prince is giving away his music with the Sunday paper. + +At the moment these are isolated case, but Arrington is right, an epidemic of free is not far off. + +And Songbird anticipates this with it's web features. Sure, it can still manage your iPod and music collection, but more than anything Songbird encourages you not to listen to the same tracks you already know, but to explore and discover new music. + +Songbird is often called the Firefox of jukebox applications, in part because it falls loosely under the Mozilla umbrella, but also because Songbird makes music exciting again in the same way that Firefox made the web fun again. + +At the moment Songbird is still a developer release, not really meant for the public, but in the two weeks I've been using it, it's been just as solid and considerably snappier than iTunes, which is currently sitting at version 7. + +So if the recent RIAA case has you down, a bit disappointed perhaps that the companies in charge of supplying you music are in fact more interested in policing how you use it, head over to the Songbird site and give it a try, you just might discover what the future of online music looks like. + +As someone who grew up hanging out at the local record store, chatting with clerks and watching bands play in-store performances will I miss the old record industry and its accruements? Yes, for a while, but it was always about the music, and the music will always continue.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/never published/tech-histories.txt b/old/published/never published/tech-histories.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2da29dd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/never published/tech-histories.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +###IRC- (no idea what the first words were and definitely not funny) + +Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a multi-user chat system, where people talk on "channels" in groups, or privately, was born in the summer of 1988 When a Finnish engineering student by the name of Jarkko Oikarinen sat down to improve the BBS (Bulletin Board System) in use at the University of Oulu, Finland. + +IRC was intended to be a real time BBS, but in the end Oikarinen decided that there were too many features in the BBS, so he threw out that portion, leaving only the real-time chat that we have today. + +The results were spread to some of Oikarinen's friends and eventually the internet at large, but IRC remained largely in the academic realm (by 1998 there were some 40 servers worldwide) until history stepped in to give it a kick in the pants. + +Depending on who you ask it was either the attempted Soviet Coup of 1991 or the first Gulf war that brought IRC more mainstream attention. During both events IRC was used to circumvent media blackouts and stream up-to-the-minute news out of the region to the world at large. + + + +###ListServ (got the who, when and where, but again, no funny) + +Listserv was developed to allow bulk messages to be sent on the BITNET network. In the early days if you wanted to be added to a mailing list you sent a message to INFO@BITNIC. Contrary to automated Listserv of today, back then, INFO@BITNIC was a person who manually added your address to the mailing list in question. + +As the number of messages increased it often took weeks or even months to get your e-mail address added to a mailing list. + +Recognizing that this was sub-optimal, Eric Thomas decided to improve the software and in 1986 released Revised Listserv, which not only automated a number of process, it decentralized the the process in favor of a distributed model which shared the network load between several machines. + +Although it started as a personal project to speed up his own workflow, the impending doom of the IBM mainframe on which revised Listserv ran forced Thomas to found L-Soft to raise the money need to port ListServ over to Unix and other platforms. + +Eventually L-Soft released version of ListServ for nearly every mainstream OS. + +###IM (cluster fuck really, very hard to tell when it started or who created it) - + +IM in limited form dates from around 1965 when Tom Van Vleck and others wrote a program for the Multics shell, which included, among other features, a user interface that allowed users to send messages to other logged in users. + +By the 1970s the most popular messaging program was called "talk." To say talk was primitive would be something of an understatement -- in early versions, talk did not separate text from each user, meaning that if users typed simultaneously, characters from each user were intermingled in the display. + +When talk arrived on Unix, it was vastly improved and eventually partially supplanted by ytalk which allowed conversations between more than two users. + +Up until the advent of ICQ and AOL instant messenger in the mid 1990s, IM remained primarily a terminal-based experience. But ICQ, and then later AOL, sparked the GUI trend and the rest as they say, is history. + +Of course history in this case is still something of a jumbled mess, there are some 20 protocols for IM, nearly all are proprietary and most can't interact with each other. It's also worth noting that "instant messenger" is a trademark of AOL.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/newiPod.txt b/old/published/newiPod.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b68d98a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/newiPod.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Apple recent announcement of the iPod Touch, which mimics the interface and design of the iPhone, opens up a whole new world for developers and hackers looking to more with both devices. + +Although Apple didn't announce the developer SDK that many were hoping for, most developers believe that the new iPod Touch runs on the same variant of OS X that is used in the iPhone, which means the iPod Touch will likely be as hackable as the iPhone. + +However the Mac development community has seen a whole new breed of developers pop up around the iPhone — namely web-developers — who are creating apps that work not just on the iPhone (and now the iPod Touch) but potentially any touch screen device, which gives them a potential market that's much larger than just Apple devices. + +While many developers would still like to see an official SDK, so far Apple is sticking to its guns and touting web-based apps for both devices. + +Joe Hewitt, whose <a href="http://www.joehewitt.com/iui/">iUI web development kit</a> enables developers and designers to quickly convert existing sites into iPhone-optimized sites, thinks the web is the way to go. And Steve Jobs seems to agree, in his demo of the new iPod Touch he showed off the iPhone-optimized version of Facebook, which Hewitt helped develop. + +"The web is where it's at," says Hewitt, "I am much more interested in seeing Apple expose new web-based APIs that allow us to exploit the touch screen, camera, accelerometer, and local storage." + +The promise of replacing desktop apps with web-based equivalents has been a slow process, but it just might end up with the mobile market, and Apple specifically, leading the way. Many of the native applications for the iPhone have web-based equivalents and for the average user, accessing apps via the web is much easier than installing hacked apps. + +Of course web-based apps aren't as fast native apps, which is one of the reasons developers have gone ahead and created native apps even without Apple's support and that trend is likely to continue and probably grow with the new iPod Touch. + +In fact, since the iPod Touch is free of AT&T, and thus developer's don't need to worry about supporting the archaic EDGE network, it could pave the way for even more native applications. + +Alex Schaefer, part of the team behind <a href="http://code.google.com/p/apolloim/">ApolloIM</a>, a native iPhone application that adds instant messaging features, says the group has already begun changing their code to make the EDGE components optional. + +But just because the iPod Touch is free of the AT&T network restrictions, doesn't mean Apple is opening up to outside developers. Schaefer doesn't think Apple will ever open the devices to the outside world, "as a developer, I would love to see that happen, but I don't think it will." + +Schaefer isn't just speculating, he and others have spent a lot of time looking at the internals of the iPhone and has concluded that "it's pretty clear that Apple never intended for the 'hackers' to break in and poke around as they have." + +Of course what Apple intends and what its users actually do are two different things. As Schaefer points out, a hacker by the name of Nightwatch and the rest of the team at the iPhone Dev Wiki have "created a working SDK for a platform that wasn't intended to have one," no small accomplishment to be sure. + +And with the iPhone merged with the iPod in the form of the iPod Touch, other Mac developers are beginning to look at the Apple's new mobile platform with increasing interest. Buzz Anderson, who develops <a href="http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks/">PodWorks</a>, an OS X application for retrieving songs off your iPod, thinks the iPod touch will open up the iPod platform on a whole new level. + +The opportunities to develop for [the iPod] have, until now, been very limited," says Anderson, "the idea of being able to develop applications that actually run on an iPod, and to be able to leverage my existing Mac programming expertise to do so, is +incredibly enticing." + +And the lack of an official development platform from Apple isn't likely to discourage Mac developers. Anderson says, "you can bet that, Apple SDK or no, I will be working on apps for the iPhone in the coming months." diff --git a/old/published/newipods.txt b/old/published/newipods.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bcf953 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/newipods.txt @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ + + +But there is some division in the developer community about which development platform is the best route -- the official Apple sanctioned option of web-based apps or the unofficial, but so far stable hacks that enable third party apps to run directly on the device. + + +Joe Hewitt, + + + +Joe Hewitt (iUI) + +Hi Scott, + +I just got back from Moscone, as Apple was nice enough to invite me to see my Facebook site used in the iPod demo. As a developer, I'm just over the moon about the price drop and the iPod web browser. Obviously that means a huge number of new users for mobile touch screen apps, like the Facebook iPhone site (which is now in need of a new name). I think this move really justifies the investment many of us have made in developing for this new web form factor. + +I remain fairly indiffeerent about Apple opening up the iPhone/iPod to OS X development. The web is where it's at, as far as I'm concerned, and I am much more interested in seeing Apple expose new web-based APIs that allow us to exploit the touch screen, camera, accelerometer, and local storage. This would cause a much more significant revolution, in my opinion, than allowing developers to install native apps written in Objective C or whatever. + +- Joe + +----------------------------------- + + +Scott - first off, I love wired magazine and am a bit awestruck right +now, but I'll try and save the adoration for later. It has been +something of a fantasy to make it into the magazine, and so by all +means in the future feel free to contact me. + +As for thoughts, the second I saw on the apple-news sites this morning +that Apple was releasing an iPhone without the phone I got into our +code and started making the EDGE components optional for the build. +The hacking community as a whole is thrilled at this development - and +we're all getting ready to buy one the second it comes out in order to +get our app working for it. + +The real question thought is whether or not Apple will ever open the +iPhone platform - and as a developer, I would love to see that happen, +but I don't think it will. Looking at the internals of the iPhone +it's pretty clear that Apple never intended for the "hackers" to break +in and poke around as they have. We've discovered the lack of GDB +support in the debugger, found "todo's" occasionally, etc etc. What +we've really done is something remarkable - Nightwatch and crew over +at http://iphone.fiveforty.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page have created a +working SDK for a platform that wasn't intended to have one - and +we've taken that and we've run with it. + +This much larger platform excites the hell out of us - we're looking +at a PDA that's missing critical PDA functionality. For example - who +builds a mobile platform without Instant Messaging support? Well, +Apple did, and looking immediately at the screenshots available with +the iPod touch, it looks like it's running the very same OS. Of +corse, we'll have to see how long it will take the dev teams to break +it open, but the code for Apollo and things like Installer.app will +without a doubt have versions out that same day ready for it. + +Personally, I think iPhone optimized sites are a complete waste of +time. Safari is a great browser, but by in large, Web 2.0 doesn't yet +provide the same functionality as a real program written in a real +programming language. Nobody wants to use Beejive, but they're forced +to - and we're happy to be working on support for libPurple in +ApolloIM so that we can have the exact same versatility as programs +like Adium and iChat. The thing with the iPhone-sites that makes them +so useless is the very existance of this amazing OS they've built and +the devotion of hackers like ourselves and others to the Unix +landscape. They're dumbing down functionality, and well, we're not +going to stand for it. + +My theory is that the current methods for Jailbreak will work on the +iPod touch. The bugs exploitable in the iPhone are done so at the +"Recovery Mode" level - so if Apple is going to release an iPod with +that recovery mode, we're going to get in. I'd wager the same day +it's released it'll be hacked and ready for us to get inside. While +Steve Jobs didn't say anything about it using the iPhone's same OS - +the functionality looks exactly like that of the iPhone and it +personally wouldn't make any sense to build a new "iTunes Wifi Store" +for two platforms when they can have one single version working on +their entire mobile platform. + +The development of Apollo shifts drastically - with our latest release +we got Edge keep alive support working great (so you can basically go +around all day with an IM app on using your iPhone's wireless +internet), but now we're looking into better ways to keep Wifi alive +when the phone enters sleep. It doesn't change much beyond that point +- we're gunning for Gtalk, Jabber, MSN, yahoo, et al. and with that +kind of support yields such bigger options. Behind the scenes we've +been eagerly playing with Celestial (the iPhone media framework) and +see just how feasible sending voice from it over the internet is - and +the phone is more than powerful to do so. + +In the near future, the iPhone is going to have VOIP clients, and that +will be it's next big revolution. Until then, we're working on the +little things. One of the big drawbacks of an undocumented API on a +closed platform is the fact we're winging it - but that's half the fun +of getting into a new platform anyhow. + +The iPhone represents this new Apple that's a little more cautious +than it's predecessors - the Newton in particular. We're looking at +the dawn of a cheap mobile appliance ($300-$400) that breaks the +borders of what people think is possible to do with data - and +everyone knows it. Google's jumping on that bandwagon, and the same +community breaking into this new iPod and iPhone will be there as +well- legally or illegally- as the circumstances dictate. The impact +these devices make isn't like that of previous endeavors into breaking +into the earlier iPods or writing neat little toys for your new Razr, +it's that of improving the quality and expediency of your life. Look +at MobileMoney (mobilemoney.googlecode.com) - this is more or less a +Quicken in the palm of your hand. + +We're improving the quality of life and expanding our ability to keep +information at our fingertips, and well, I've never been more excited +to write code in my life. If I could only get hired to do this kind +of stuff - well - then I'm afraid I'd never look back. + +Scott, if there's any more questions about the iPhone hacking +community or anything about our application at all, my number is +720-346-4431, and don't hesitate to call. It's a real honor. + +--Alex C. Schaefer + +----------------- + +PodWorks + + +> Do you see Apple ever opening up the iPhone? + + +I personally think it'll be difficult for them to ignore the overwhelming +demand, both from developers and from users, for a proper iPhone SDK. I +mean, the fact that hackers have so thoroughly and quickly +reverse-engineered the current closed platform suggests that developers are +extremely motivated to produce third party iPhone apps. And since +installing these apps is now very easy, even for non-technical end users, I +think users are going to get more and more attached to them and annoyed that +Apple doesn't provide proper support for them. + +That said, my personal theory is that Apple has always intended to open it +up eventually, but were planning on taking their time to do so. Even though +the iPhone is based on OS X, it is still essentially a brand new platform, +and I think they probably are waiting until they can devote the time to +really designing the public APIs and infrastructure necessary for full-blown +third party support. I'm sure they had their hands full just getting the +thing out the door, let alone worrying about how people are going to develop +for it. + + + +What does it mean for you as a developer to have a much bigger platform +potential to play with (are you personally interested in application +hacks that leverage to new possibilities in the iPod Touch?) + + +I have been thinking about that literally since the moment the iPhone was +officially announced. As someone who develops a application (PodWorks) that +is tied to the iPod, I can speak to what a large and fanatical market that +device has. But, as much success as I owe to the iPod bandwagon, the +opportunities to develop for it have, till now, been very limited. The idea +of being able to develop applications that actually run on an iPod, and to +be able to leverage my existing Mac programming expertise to do so, is +incredibly enticing. You can bet that, Apple SDK or no, I will be working +on apps for the iPhone in the coming months. + +Also do you think this will give iPhone optimized sites a bigger push? + + +I think so--there is a staggering number of iPods out there, and the iPhone +platform is definitely the future of the iPod. I could even imagine the +ubiquity of the iPod turning the iPhone-optimized site into a sort of +industry standard for mobile browsing. + +It certainly looks like the new iPod Touch is running OS X (though I +don't believe Jobs said one way or the other), Do you think it will make +it easier for outside apps to hack their way in? Does this have any +impact on the development of podWorks? + + +When you have a device running something like OS X, instead of some arcane +embedded software like Pixo-based iPods of yore, the hacking opportunities +open up tremendously. Having access to a UNIX-based system is a lot like +Archimedes' lever: give a geek a terminal and he'll move the world :-). + +It probably won't affect the development of PodWorks so much (most of the +hacking for that takes place on the Mac side of things, not the iPhone/iPod +side), but it definitely opens up the possibilities for lots of interesting +new applications that would never have been possible on traditional iPods. + +Hope that helps!
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/office4mac-gallery.txt b/old/published/office4mac-gallery.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21483f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/office4mac-gallery.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +The long wait is over, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac arrives on shelves January 13. The new version is the first universal binary for the venerable office program and brings a number of enhancements and new features. It even has some improvements not found in the Windows release of Office 2007. + +With Apple gaining in market share and so many of us dividing our time between several operting systems, the differences between the Windows and Mac version of Office might leave you scratching your head. While overall the feature sets of the two are basically identical, the layout and user interfaces are significantly different. Just because you're an ace with one doesn't mean you'll be able to swtich to the other without a few hiccups. + +Here's our rundown of some of main differences between the new Office for Mac 2008 and Office 2007 for Windows. + + +Screenshots: + +om1.jpg + +The Elements Gallery mimics the functionality of Office 2007's much touted Ribbon Interface -- putting common tasks in an easily accessible space -- but the interface and design is significantly different. If you use Office 2007 at work and 2008 at home the transition won't be seamless + +om2.jpg + +The Ribbon Interface for Windows Office 2007 is somewhat more full featured than the Mac's Elements Gallery, but also a much more radical departure from past UI designs. Ribbon attempts to replace the old Office menus, whereas Elements Gallery complements them. + +om3.jpg + +The traditional palette from past versions of Office for Mac remains, but features additional tools like online access to the Encarta Encyclopedia, dictionary and the thesaurus lookups as well as formating tools and more. + +om4.jpg + +The Windows version of Office doesn't have a strict companion to the tools palette in the Mac version, but instead has those features and tools rolled into the Ribbon interface. To accomplish the same tasks in Windows that you might from the Mac palette you'll need to switch through a couple of different Ribbon-based menus. + +om5.jpg + +Entourage is the hub for the new Office managing projects, syncing schedules, retrieving your mail and more. There's no support for popular online calendars like Google or Yahoo, but Entourage remains the best bet for those that need to sync with an Exchange Server.* + +*I'm not entirely sure about the lack of calendar subscription options but I could never find a way to do it. + +om6.jpg + +Outlook remains a somewhat more robust program than Entourage and offers an extensions layer which allows outside tools -- like those from Plaxo and others -- to integrate into Outlook. + +om7.jpg + +MyDay is the at-a-glance scheduling app for the new Office for Mac suite that tracks your appointments, todo lists and more. My Day can also update Entourage on the fly, even if it isn't running. MyDay is designed to give you access to the primary features of Entourage's calendar and scheduling tools without the need to open Entourage. MyDay also includes an option to run in the Mac menubar for quick access. + +om8.jpg + +The Mac version of Excel is very close to its Windows counterpart, but here the Elements Gallery becomes even more useful allowing quick, visual access to complex charting tools, graphical aides and more. + +om9.jpg + +Excel on Windows offers similar quick access and visual menus, though most the items are submenus which require a bit of tunneling to find the same elements. + +om10.jpg + +The new Mac Powerpoint 2008 is very similar to its Windows sibling offering the same functionality in a slightly different wrapper. While Powerpoint uses the Elements Gallery and palette navigation screen, many users may find it less intuitive than Keynote, Apple's presentation software. + +om11.jpg + +Powerpoint 2007 served up a bevy of improvements over previous versions and, as with Excel, the Ribbon interface makes it much simplier to try out different themes and apply global formating changes with the click of a button. diff --git a/old/published/old poker.txt b/old/published/old poker.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5d8085 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/old poker.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Software routinely beats humans at Chess, but what about less mathematically precise games like Poker? For the time being, humans have the edge, but not by much. Just as early attempts by software designers to defeat Kaperov in Chess ended in failure, the first human-computer poker match goes to the humans. + +But don't get your hopes up. Just as software can generally beat the pants off humans in backgammon, checkers and chess, the average poker player is unlikely to defeat the current crop of software and more sophisticated programs are expected to take down even the best poker players within a decade. + +Last week's contest pitted poker champion Phil Laak and fellow pro Ali Eslami against a piece of software designed by researchers at The University of Alberta Computer Poker Research Group. The machine, known as Polaris took an early lead, but in the end Laak and Eslami managed to come out ahead 2-1. + +To eliminate the luck of the draw, the Alberta researchers came up with an ingenious tournament design: Laak and Ali Eslami played in separate rooms, and their games were mirror images of one another, Eslami drew the cards that the computer received in its hands against Laak, and vice versa. + +This contest was unique in that Texas Hold 'Em is different than other games in which computers has mastered humans. In chess, checkers and backgammon, the playing field starts at the same point and then branches out into an enormous, but still finite set of possible moves. + +In order to be successful the software simply need to map out all possible future moves and choose the one that leads to the win -- while that's a complex sceneario and requires serious processing power, it's obviously still possible (Big Blue could see around 20 moves ahead when it played Kasperov). + +But Texas Hold 'Em is considerably more complex. Not only are there a myriad of possibilities but there's another element that computers typically stumble upon -- uncertainty. + +And in the case of Poker, there are two uncertainies the software must deal with -- what cards does the opponent hold and how will s/he play them? + +To overcome the uncertainties of opponents, the programmers that developed Polaris couldn't use the look-ahead approach of Big Blue, instead they relied on , appropriately enough, game-theory. + +Game Theory, a branch of mathematics founded by John von Neumann and formalized by John Nash, whose life inspired the movie "A Brilliant Mind," says that in certain games there will always be a set of strategies such that + + +there is a set of strategies such that every player's return is maximized and no player would benefit from switching to a different strategy. + +In the simple game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," for example, the best strategy is to randomly select each of the options an equal proportion of the time. If any player diverted from that strategy by following a pattern or favoring one option over, the others would soon notice and adapt their own play to take advantage of it. + +Texas Hold 'em is a little more complicated than "Rock, Paper, Scissors," but Nash's math still applies. With game theory, computers know to vary their play so an opponent has a hard time figuring out whether they are bluffing or employing some other strategy. + +But game theory has inherent limits. In Nash equilibrium terms, success doesn't mean winning - it means not losing. + +"You basically compute a formula that can at least break even in the long run, no matter what your opponent does," Billings said. + +That's about where the best poker programs are today. Though the best game theory-based programs can usually hold their own against world-class human poker players, they aren't good enough to win big consistently. + +Squeezing that extra bit of performance out of a computer requires combining the sheer mathematical power of game theory with the ability to observe an opponent's play and adapt to it. Many legendary poker players do that by being experts of human nature. They quickly learn the tics, gestures and other "tells" that reveal exactly what another player is up to. + +A computer can't detect those, but it can keep track of how an opponent plays the game. It can observe how often an opponent tries to bluff with a weak hand, and how often she folds. Then the computer can take that information and incorporate it into the calculations that guide its own game. + +"The notion of forming some sort of model of what another player is like ... is a really important problem," Nau said. + +Computer scientists are only just beginning to incorporate that ability into their programs; days before their contest with Laak and Eslami, the University of Alberta researchers are still trying to tweak their program's adaptive elements. Billings will say only this about what the humans have in store: "They will be guaranteed to be seeing a lot of different styles." + +Even so, Laak and Eslami are top-notch players with a deep understanding of poker's mathematical fundamentals. They should be able to keep up with the computer - this time.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/opendatav3.txt b/old/published/opendatav3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e4c055 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/opendatav3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ + +This week's [Gov 2.0 summit][9] in Washington D.C. saw several promising new announcements which will help government agencies share code and best practices for making public data available to developers. + +The idea behind new projects like [Challenge.gov][8], the [FCC's new developer tools][6] and the [Civic Commons][7] is that by giving developers access to data previously stored in dusty filing cabinets, they can create tools to give ordinary citizens greater access to that data. + +Unfortunately, not everything open data project leads to good things. It is critical that if open data is made available on the web, it must be accompanied by some effort to ensure everyone can access it. + +We've seen an explosion in creative hacks that use this newly available data to provide excellent online resources. Public data sites like [EveryBlock][5], or the Sunlight Foundation's [Design for America][4] contest have highlighted some of the amazing ways open data can make our lives better. Whether it's finding out what's happening in your neighborhood, or visualizing how the government is spending your tax dollars, open data and what you can do with it is the current hotness among web developers. + +Most of the benefits are close to home -- in the U.S., just about everyone has access to online government resources thanks to web-enabled computers in free public libraries. + +But extend that argument to the rest of the world and the number of people that really have access to the data drops significantly. If you don't have an easy way to get online, you can't benefit from open data. + +Michael Gurstein, Executive Director of the Centre for Community Informatics Research, recently highlighted some of the [problems with open data accessibility][3]. + +Gurstein points out a number of assumptions about open data that are often overlooked by those most enthusiastic about making such data publicly available. + +Worse, such data can be used against you. + +Gurstein's example of the dark side of open data is Bangalore, India's digitization of land records, which gives every citizen a way to see who owns what in Bangalgore. On the surface, it seems like a good thing, but the upper classes and corporations have been using the land records data to gain ownership of land from the unknowing poor. + +The data, writes Gurstein, allowed the well-to-do to instruct surveyors and lawyers how to most effectively "challenge titles, exploit gaps in title, take advantage of mistakes in documentation, identify opportunities and targets for bribery" among other things. Details are in [this PDF]. + +It isn't necessary to go all the way to India to find examples of open data leading to unintended consequences. In an e-mail exchange with Wired, Gurstein told me of a similar case in Nova Scotia where efforts to make titles, deeds and other land data led to very same situation -- companies pouring over 19th century deeds, ancient maps and other newly available data, finding oversights, misfiled papers and other means to sieze land from owners. + +Of course unintended consequences aren't a reason to stop making data available. For Gurstein, the solution is to make sure that open data isn't just thrown onto the web, but that universal accessibility is built in so it can really benefit everyone. + +How that is done will vary considerably by location and the type of data in question, but without such efforts Gurstein worries that "the outcome of 'open data' may be quite the opposite to that which is anticipated (and presumably desired) by its strongest proponents." + +It might come as a shock to some of the more enthusiastic open data proponents, but there is more to open data than just dredging it out of the Indiana Jones-style warehouses where it currently gathers dust. Putting it online for "anyone" access and just walking away isn't necessarily a recipe for good things. + +In a [follow-up post][10], Gurstein offers some possible solutions that would help ensure that what has happened in Nova Scotia and Bangalore doesn't happen elsewhere. Among the things he believes governments and other data providers need to take into account are: + +* Advocacy -- Perhaps the most important of Gurstein's guidelines is to ensure that everyone knows the data is available, making sure that a community's resources are sufficient for turning the data into some kind of project with local benefits. + +* Internet access -- Especially a concern in rural areas, the level of internet access is the cornerstone to open data. Just because data is on the web does not mean everyone can get to it. And if not everyone has access, then your data isn't "open." + +* Content and formatting -- If the data just a raw GIS database that most people won't understand, then even internet access doesn't matter because only those with specific skills (or the money to hire them) will be able to do anything with the data. + +* Computer/software skills -- Similar to content and formatting issues is having access to GIS tools and other specialty software. As Gurstein says "techies know how to do the visualization stuff, university and professional types know how to use the analytical software but ordinary community people might not know how to do either." + +It's also worth pointing out that Gurstein has several examples of open data being used in constructive ways. He isn't arguing that we shouldn't put government and other data online, just that we should keep in mind that the data isn't necessarily useful to everyone in its most raw forms. + +As Tim O'Reilly [notes][2] in conjunction with Gurstein's post, "we need to think deeply about the future" -- to consider all the consequences of open data, not just the ones we'd like to see. + +[1]: http://casumm.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/bhoomi-e-governance.pdf +[2]: https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/23179898934 +[3]: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowered-or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/ +[4]: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/sunlight-labs-offering-5k-for-best-government-data-mashups/ +[5]: http://www.webmonkey.com/2008/01/everyblock_launches_hyper-local_news_service_for_big_cities/ +[6]: http://reboot.fcc.gov/developer/ +[7]: http://civiccommons.com/2010/09/introducing-civic-commons/ +[8]: http://challenge.gov/ +[9]: http://www.gov2summit.com/gov2010 +[10]: http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/open-data-2-effective-data-use/ + +<strong>See Also:</strong><br/> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/sunlight-labs-offering-5k-for-best-government-data-mashups/">Sunlight Labs Offering $5K for Best Government Data Mashups</a></li> +<li><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/2008/01/everyblock_launches_hyper-local_news_service_for_big_cities/">EveryBlock Launches Hyper-local News Service for Big Cities</a></li> +</ul>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/optimusgproreview.txt b/old/published/optimusgproreview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcd4368 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/optimusgproreview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Remember when cell phones looked like military-grade tools and required a satchel-size battery cases? It's easy to scoff at those over-sized devices these days, but LG, Samsung and other Android handset makers seem hellbent on returning us to those days, or at least the updated equivalent of those days. They may not require the extra satchel, but clearly Samsung, LG and others think that bigger is better. + +The latest entry comes from LG, which has released the gargantuan Optimus G Pro, the company's answer to the very nearly equally gargantuan Samsung Galaxy Note II. In fact the Optimus G Pro looks so much like the Note II it's difficult to tell them apart when they're side by side. LG has even copied hardware features like the single home button, which pulses white light whenever you have a new message. + +There's much to love about the Optimus G Pro -- a gorgeous hi-res IPS screen, impressive, all-day battery life and some genuinely nice tweaks to stock Android -- but in order to love this phone you're going to have to first make peace with the sheer, pocket-hogging size of the thing. It does, for the record, fit in most pants pockets, but with little room to spare and you're never going to not notice that it's in your pocket. + +The other significant downside to the size of the G Pro is that it's nearly impossible to use one-handed (unless you have very large hands). It's not too hard to *hold* one handed, but stretching your thumb all the way across the screen is awkward at best and will be, for many users, just plain impossible. LG has a couple of features designed to help -- like the ability to dock a down-sized version of the dialpad to one side of the screen -- but for the most part this is a two-handed phone. + +In exchange for dealing with the size of the G Pro you do get some impressive specs, most significantly the gorgeous 5.5-inch 1080p HD IPS LCD screen which is quite simply the best screen I've seen on a mobile device. The G Pro's screen handily blows the Note II's screen out the of the water. + +The G Pro's screen is sharp, bright (too bright by default, dimming it will save considerable juice and still look just as good) and so big you can use it more like a tablet, or even a laptop, than phone. In fact, comically large though it may seem at first, the G Pro may be my favorite device to have when I'm out and about because the screen is big enough to multi-task and get real work done, but still small enough to fit in a pocket. + +To help you take advantage of the massive screen LG offers some Android customizations, like the company's "QSlide apps". The "apps" are widgets that sit above the currently open app and offer access to a note taking app, calendar, calculator and video player. For example, you can have the GMail app open and view your calendar at the same time, take notes while you chat with co-workers or check your email while watching a video. + +The downside of the QSlide apps is that they're part of LG's horribly cluttered notifications panel. LG's Android customizations are pretty minimal (my main phone is a Samsung Galaxy Nexus so I'm most familiar with stock Android), but the company makes a mess of Android's handy notification screen. LG has tried to cram several dozen features into the panel, which ends up making it near useless for actual notifications. + +The Pro G also has a QSlide button on the upper left side of the phone which allows you to quickly activate the app of your choice. By default this is the notes and annotations app, though I quickly tired of accidentally activating it so I mapped the button to the camera app (which also enables it as the shutter button). + +The LG's 13 MP camera takes perfectly acceptable photos, though the results are not significantly better than what you'd get from the 8MP cameras found in most previous generation phones. + +The Optimus Pro G runs Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and, given LG's update track record you can pretty much expect that to remain unchanged for the duration of the phone's life cycle. I tested two different models of the Optimus G Pro, the international version and the AT&T version. AT&T clutters up the app list with half a dozen AT&T-branded apps that are just bad clones of other Android apps. Luckily AT&T's apps are easily deleted. + +The Optimus Pro G is blazing fast, flying through app screens and popping opening applications in the blink of an eye. Even HD games are smooth, with no discernible lags or stuttering. + +The speed comes from Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, which clocks in at 1.7GHz. There's also 2GB of RAM and 32 GB of built-in storage (expandable via an SD card slot). In addition to the aforementioned 13MP rear camera you also get a 2.1MP front-facing camera for video chats. As with the Samsung Note II, you can record video on both cameras simultaneously. The international model also came with a handy dock and even handier second battery. + +The second battery in the international version initially struck me as an ominous sign, especially given the bright display and powerful processor, but I was pleasantly surprised by the battery life. The Optimus G Pro handily made it through a normal work day for me, which typically includes several hours of talking, Skype-based meetings and of course many hours browsing the web. + +The international version also included a little antenna which, in Korea, lets you watch live over-the-air TV. The U.S. version has no such capability, though there is the handy QRemote app, which uses IR to control your TV. + +My initial reaction when I unboxed the G Pro was to laugh and I still feel self conscious holding it to my ear in public, but at the end of the day the over-sized screen is just so damn useful that I'm a convert. For me the upsides of a big phone outweigh the down and, so long as you're in the same boat, the Optimus G Pro is a great phone well worth the $200 (subsidized) price tag. + + +Wired: Awesome screen, good battery life and a nice set of widgets that make it possible to multitask with ease. + +Tired: The camera is passable at best, sub-par AT&T apps and of course it's big, too big for easy one-handed operation. If you don't want a big phone, this is not the phone for you. + +Rating: 7 diff --git a/old/published/panasonic-gx8-review.txt b/old/published/panasonic-gx8-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eeb0c92 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/panasonic-gx8-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +The micro four-thirds camera format debuted in 2008 and was immediately a hit. These compact machines have interchangeable lenses, giving them much of the versatility of pro-level DSLRs, but in more diminutive and portable bodies. While the smaller micro four-thirds sensor means the image quality suffers a bit, most photographers were willing to forego the extra megapixels for a lightweight camera they could take anywhere. Even as the micro four thirds standard has matured and these cameras' capabilities have blossomed, that travel-friendly portability has remained one of the main selling points. + +[wiredtired wired="The new 20-megapixel sensor offers 4K video support and improved dynamic range over the GX7, the previous model. Solid, well-constructed body is comfortable to shoot with. Dual image stabilization system, fast autofocus, and improved high ISO performance make this camera's low light capabilities among the best you'll find in this class." tired="Loses the lightweight, highly-portable advantage that makes micro four thirds so appealing. Image quality gains aren't as large as the jump in sensor resolution would lead one to assume. The dual IS feature requires a compatible Panasonic lens."] + +Which is why Panasonic's GX8 micro four thirds shooter represents something of a challenge. If you love micro fourth-thirds format for its photographic versatility and the ability to capture stunning video, then you'll love the GX8. But it's not terribly small when compared to other MFT cameras, so if you're drawn to the category primarily for its petiteness, the GX8 may not be what you want. + + +The GX8 is the sequel to Panasonic's GX7, a powerful and sublimely designed compact camera that arrived three years ago. But this new camera has less in common with that GX7 and much more in common with Panasonic's larger, video-centric GH4. In fact, if you took the GH4, shrunk it slightly, then upped the still image resolution a bit, you'd have the GX8. + +Like its predecessor, the GX8 features a magnesium alloy frame, but unlike the GX7, the GX8 doesn't use too much plastic and keeps the body mostly metal. The result is the sturdiest, most well-built micro four thirds camera I've tested. But the trade off is that the GX8 has gained a bit of weight, tipping the scale at over 17 ounces (nearly 20 percent heavier than the GX7). The GX8 is also wider, taller and thicker than the GX7. It's no DSLR behemoth, but it is a substantial camera. + +The GX8 still manages to fit nicely in the palm, and it's not so heavy that I ever felt the need to carry it in a bag. It's comfortable to wear at the ends of a strap. I found the grip on the right side a bit large, but the level of comfort will largely correspond to the size of your hands. + +<h3>Take Control</h3> + +The rangefinder-style layout adds some retro appeal, but aside from the eye piece being on the far left there is no functional difference between the GX8 and, well, any of Panasonic's SLR models. I went in thinking the rangefinder-style design was a bit gimmicky, but after a few weeks of use, I came out a convert. Then again, I used to shoot film rangefinders all the time, and I still prefer them to SLRs. I also shoot with my right eye pressed to the viewfinder, which allows me to keep my left eye on the scene. If you shoot with the left eye, the rangefinder layout becomes less appealing. + +[pullquote quote="The GX8's 20-megapixel sensor makes it the highest resolution micro four thirds camera currently on the market."]The GX8's retro vibe extends to the physical knobs and switches for selecting shooting mode and focus mode, and the exposure dial. There's also a dedicated AF/AE lock button and the usual assortment of four-way control pad, function and Q buttons. As with most cameras in Panasonic's fleet, many of these controls are customizable. As somebody raised in the ancient days of film, it's a pleasure to see more features emerging from the depths of touchscreen menus and landing back on the camera body. + +That said, Panasonic has some of the most well designed menus in the camera world and, as noted, you can assign pretty much any menu function to any button you'd like. The end result is a highly customizable set of controls that are easy to tweak to fit with how you shoot. + +The electronic viewfinder is big, bright, and one of the best I've used. It's on par with what FujiFilm packs into its new XPro 2. The GX8's EVF has a nice feature that allows you to rotate it up so that you can look straight down into the camera, which gives you that momentary sense of nostalgia for that old Rolleiflex, but also turns out to be very useful when shooting video. That said, using an EVF is an acquired taste---one I haven't fully acquired yet. But I have no major complaints. + +<h3>Lookin' Sharp</h3> + +The GX8 has a new 20-megapixel sensor, which replaces the 16-megapixel sensor in the GX7. It's not a huge difference, but it does make the GX8 the highest resolution micro four thirds camera currently on the market. In terms of image quality, I could not tell a huge difference between sample images taken with the GX8 and those from the GX7. If you're planning to print for billboards, you'll likely see a difference. Otherwise, the change is not as dramatic as I had hoped. Image quality isn't all a new sensor brings though, and I did feel like the dynamic range I got from the GX8 trumped what I've seen from the GX7. + +The GX8 also gains some higher ISO capabilities. The GX8 will let you shoot all the way up to ISO 25,600. As you would expect with very high ISO, there's quite a bit of noise at the top of the camera's range. If you're posting images to Instagram, you can probably get away with using 6400 ISO. If you plan to make prints, I would consider 1600 the upper limit, though in some situations you might be able to use images at 6400. The maximum shutter speed is 1/8000s, or can go up to 1/16000s if the electronic shutter is used instead. + +One place the GX8 trumps its predecessor is with the autofocus system. It's fast and accurate. The in-body image stabilizer works to keep things sharp too. And even better, there's a new dual IS system which takes advantage of both the in-body image stabiliser and the lens's optical image stabiliser. + +For testing, Panasonic sent along the Leica DG Summilux, 15mm f/1.7 lens, which supports the new dual IS system and, while I wasn't expecting to be bowled over by it, I was. I was able to routinely hand-hold shots of durations lasting as long as one second, bracing the camera against my face, and get an image with no visible blur. This significantly improves low-light performance and makes the 1600 ISO limit mentioned earlier less of a problem. In fact, I never encountered a low-light situation the GX8 couldn't handle. Of course to get the dual IS you'll need a newer lens that supports it (Panasonic has been rolling out firmware updates for some older lenses as well). + +There's a new 4K Photo mode that uses the camera's 4K video engine to capture short burst of footage from which you can pull 8MP still images. It sounds gimmicky, but it actually works pretty well in situation you know that the 10fps is going to let you down. The images are not nearly the quality of what you get otherwise, but they're good enough to get some images of the kids' soccer match on Instagram. The GX8 also has a host of features one would expect on a new camera: stop-motion video; time lapse, panorama, and HDR modes; Wi-Fi connectivity, and support for NFC pairing. It's thoroughly of the times. It's even a touch ahead of the time with support for Panasonic's much touted "<a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/11/panasonic-cameras-get-a-shoot-now-and-focus-later-feature/">post focus</a>" feature. + +<h3>Moving Pictures</h3> + +Finally, a word about video: The GX8 could be the best micro four thirds camera out there right now for video---at least in terms of image quality. Two things keep it from besting Panasonic's video superstar, the GH4. First, there's no way to output video over HDMI at all while recording, and second, instead of the industry standard 1/8-inch microphone jack, the GX8 uses 2.5mm microphone socket. This means you'll need an adapter for just about any microphone you hope to use. Despite those quibbles (which will give the professional filmmaker pause, but probably don't matter for most of us) the actual video output is amazing. And yes, it shoots 4K video, too. + +The GX8 ends up being a very capable performer and probably my top pick in the current Panasonic micro four thirds line up. That said, if you prize portability above all else, I strongly suggest laying your hands on one of these cameras before you commit. It's bigger than you might think. + diff --git a/old/published/parrot2.txt b/old/published/parrot2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e04ea6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/parrot2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +The original Parrot AR drones help kick start the ubiquitousness of the personal drone today. Unfortunately for Parrot, defining a genre of quadcopter does not automatically translate to fame and fortune. Today DJI holds the drone crown, but Parrot continues to turn out interesting, sleek, if somewhat flawed drones. + +The latest is the Parrot Bebop 2, the sequel to the [original Bebop](http://www.wired.com/2015/06/review-parrot-bebop/). Like its predecessor, the Bebop 2 features a slender design, no moving parts besides the propellers, and the very same 180 fisheye camera. + +In fact the Bebop 2 is in nearly every meaningful way exactly like the Bebop 1. The camera is still 14 MP and still attempts to compensate for its lack of a gimbal with the software based 3-axis video stabilization. It also still has 8GB of internal storage and it's still controlled with an iOS/Android flight control app or sold-separately "SkyContoller". The flight control app now offers a "flight plan" feature if you'd like to plot out your route ahead of time, but it'll set you back another $20 as an in-app purchase. + +The primary difference between the Parrot Bebop 2 and its predecessor is the flight time. The first generation could manage only about 11 minutes of flying time. Thankfully that's more than doubled in the second generation. Parrot claims 25 minutes of flight time, though beware that that's a very idealized number. I consistently got more like 20 minutes when filming continuously, which is on par or just slightly less than what you'll find in competitors like the [Phantom 3](http://www.wired.com/2015/06/review-dji-phantom-3-professional-drone/) or [Typhoon](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/review-yuneec-typhoon-q500-4k/). + +The physically larger battery does make the Bebop a bit heavier (100 grams heavier to be precise), but it's still very compact and lightweight. In fact one of its more appealing aspects is the fact that it easily fits into a backpack -- especially if you're flying with just a phone. + +Now comes the part of the article I didn't want to write. See, I wanted to love the Bebop 2. A quadcopter that's small enough to fit in a backpack and doesn't even need a dedicated controller? What's not to love about that? Indeed, on paper the Bebop 2 is amazing. + +Flying the Bebop on the other hand is, well, it depends. + +Like corporate rock, the software based controller still sucks. Which is to say that while it works, it lacks the tactile feedback and potential for muscle memory that you get with the joystick controller. It's also nearly impossible to maintain situational awareness and keep your eyes on the Bebop when you're continually glancing down at your thumbs to make sure they're where they should be. And trust me, they never will be. Suffice to say that using the digital controller is not, at the end of day, fun. And that is massively disappointing. + +Worse, the app itself is incredibly ill-conceived. The layout on both Android and iOS is reminiscent of Windows 8, with big colored squares as menu items, which looks out of place on, well, every mobile platform save the one where it doesn't actually run. That's perhaps a minor complaint, but there are some more serious ones. For example, you've connected your device to the Bebop's wifi network as you need to to control it. But then you decide to look something up in the help menu... Nope, sorry, that's only available online and you're currently connected to a network that is not online. And why is the largest item in the menu by default a space hogging video preview of a drone you already own? It's almost like the app was completely designed by the marketing department and no one at Parrot has ever even used it. + +The range is also pretty pathetic. I was routinely dropped from the Bebop's network and had to go chasing after it to avoid having it start its auto return feature (which, it's worth noting, works very well). The Bebop proudly claims a 37mph top speed, but in my experience you'll lose contact long before it gets anywhere near that speed. + +However, this is where the real potential of the Bebop lies -- lightweight with a controller that's already in your pocket. As it stands the implementation is well behind the concept, but if Parrot can eventually bring reality closer to its conception of the ideal software controller the Bebop 3 (or whatever) might return the company to its former standing at the top of drone innovation. + +In the mean time there's the other means of flying the Bebop -- the [SkyController](http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/skycontroller/), which will set you back $400. Here things get considerably better. It's big and awkward, but it greatly increases the range and of course has all the advantages of tactile feedback and a very nice, comfortable design. In fact I liked it much better than the controllers I've used with DJI or Yuneec craft. But big and awkward ruin much of the appeal of the Bebop. In fact the controller is considerably larger than the actual craft and while it will fit in a backpack, you won't be fitting much else with it. Still, it does eliminate all the flight problems I experienced using the software controller. + +Finally there's Bebop's biggest disappointment -- the camera. It's the same camera as the first model, which means 14 MP and 1080p video. There's no 4K video, but I can live with that, what's disappointing is the quality of video: colors are washed out and there's very obvious tearing and artifacts. There's also still no option for removable storage, you're stuck with 8GB of memory, which fills up pretty quickly when you you're shooting 1080 video. You can store footage directly from the Bebop to your phone via wifi, but that will cost you in battery life. + +In the end the Bebop is a theoretically great drone that fails to live up to its lofty aspirations. It barely distinguishes itself from its predecessor. In fact there's so little here that's different from the original model I'm not sure why Parrot didn't just release a bigger battery pack for the first one. It feels rushed, like Parrot was trying to meet a deadline at any cost. + +These shortcomings are frustrating because if the Bebop 2 were able to perform the way Parrot clearly wants it to it would be a fantastic drone. As it stands, this is, sadly, not the drone you're looking for. + +Wired: Small form factor and light weight makes it easy to carry, software controller cuts down on bulk and improved flight times are welcome + +Tired: Software controller is difficult to use, wifi drops consistently, 8GB of storage max, SkyController, while nice, ruins the "light and simple" appeal diff --git a/old/published/penf.txt b/old/published/penf.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a72495a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/penf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +The original Olympus PEN-F arrived on the scene in 1963 and quickly gained something of a cult following thanks to its solid design and unusual half-frame file format (which let it pack in 70 images in a single roll of film). + +The new digital PEN-F takes that legacy of simple, compact design and wraps it around a best-in-class 20MP Micro Four Thirds sensor with 5-axis image stabilization and a very nice, bright, 2.36 million dot OLED electronic viewfinder. + +Other notable specs of the new PEN-F include 10fps continuous shooting (20fps with electronic shutter), 1080/60p video (yet another Olympus camera with no 4K video) and a very cool, if somewhat limited 50MP "High resolution image" mode. More on that in a minute. The PEN-F also checks all the standard boxes you'd expect with a fully articulating 3" touchscreen, wifi, nine different auto focus modes, and a nice, very customizable, set of buttons and controls. + +However, thanks to the PEN-F's retro design, which features an aluminum and magnesium body with no visible screws anywhere, and a ton of dials and knobs, I very rarely needed to head into the menu system at all. The PEN-F is the most film-like camera I've used since I sold off my Nikon F3 and went pure digital. It even comes with the nicest faux-leather strap I've seen come with a camera. Even more useful is the included articulated flash attachment, which is much nicer than the fixed pop variety common in this camera class. + +If that sounds like something that's going to add up a pricey camera you're absolutely right. At $1200 the PEN-F is a wonderful camera that simply costs too much. + +Outwardly the PEN F actually looks more like a Fujifilm X100 series body than its namesake. There's no optical viewfinder like the X100 offers, but the EVF is in more or less and same position. The EVF is wonderfully bright, though the diopter did not agree with my eyes. I'm honestly not sure what the difference is or if perhaps there was something wrong with my review model, but I could not get the EVF to look sharp for my eyes. If you wear corrective lenses it might be worth getting your hands on a PEN-F to check how it does for you before you commit. + +Honestly though I didn't really miss the EVF. With Micro Four Thirds cameras I've long since become accustomed to using the rear LCD screen for composing images. + +Much has been written of Olympus's included image effects, which get a dedicated knob on the front of the PEN-F. As others have noted they are fun for about an hour and then I generally ignored them. I prefer to shoot RAW and add any effects when I'm processing images, but if you want straight out of the camera JPGs, Olympus has an impressive set of customizable options available. They are not on the level of Fujifilm's offerings (the sharpening can be a bit harsh), but they're a close second. + +Part of the reason the filters had little appeal for me is that the images coming out of the PEN-F are so good to begin with, particularly the RAW files which offer perhaps the best dynamic range I've seen in Micro Four Thirds (it's very likely that the PEN-F uses the same sensor as the Panasonic GX8, but to my eye it produces better results). The images are still Micro Four Thirds images to be sure, but they're definitely best in class. + +Many of the PEN-F's features are similar to what you'll find in other recent offerings from Olympus, but slightly better. For example the multi-shot high-res mode of the PEN-F is capable of 80MP (RAW, JPG is limited to 50MP) which is up from the OM-D E-M5 II's 64MP files. That said, high-res only works with a tripod and a really still subject. Even landscapes I tried were generally marred by wind-induced blurs in leaves. It would probably do just fine in the treeless deserts of Utah though. + +In terms of handling the PEN-F is very comfortable. If you have larger hands you might find the grip a little skimpy, but that's a common complaint with the smaller bodies of Micro Four Thirds in general. If it were any larger people would complain it's oversized (see the Panasonic GX8). I found the PEN-F to be just about perfect in terms of weight and camera balance. I tested it with two lenses Olympus provided, a 17mm (35mm 35mm equivalent) and a 25mm (50mm 35mm equivalent) both of which felt well balanced on the body. Even a larger Panasonic zoom that I own, though front-heavy, was certainly more comfortable to hold than it is on the GF1 it's usually attached to. + +The PEN-F's dials and knobs strike that perfect balance Olympus is justifiably noted for and they won't rotate on their own in your bag. + +In the end using the PEN-F was a joy, enough so that every time I remembered I was holding $1200 camera I got a little disappointed. Price this thing at $800 and you'd have a best in class camera I wouldn't hesitate to recommend. Still, when the Fujifilm X-E2S can be had for $700, which gets you an APS-C sensor, it's tough to justify the PEN-F's price tag. Still, the PEN-F is an excellent camera and if you want something that looks good while it produces the wonderful images it does, then you might not have a problem with the fashion tax Olympus is imposing on the PEN-F. + +Wired: Great sensor that produces some of the best images you'll get from Micro Four Thirds, nice extras like a decent flash and highly customizable creative filters. + +Tired: Pricey for Micro Four Thirds, no 4K video. diff --git a/old/published/phantom-3-review.txt b/old/published/phantom-3-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d5dcd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/phantom-3-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +It wasn't the first, but DJI's Phantom series of drones are well on their way to ruling the skies. Stop to talk with a drone pilot at your local park and there's a really good chance they'll be using one of DJI's Phantom quadcopters. + +There's a good reason for the Phantom's popularity, they're relatively cheap, simple to operate and produce great images and videos. And that's never been more true than with the recently launched Phantom 3. + +The Phantom 3 doesn't look much different than its predecessor, but while outward appearances may be the same, make no mistake, this is not a minor update, this is a game changer. + +On the surface the Phantom 3's specs don't look like a major update. There are two versions available -- the Phantom 3 Professional, which can do 4K video, and the Phantom 3 Advanced, which only offers 1080p video, but is otherwise the same. I went with the 4K model, but aside from the comments about video quality, everything below applies to the Advanced as well. + +The Phantom 3 Professional's 4K video shoots at either 23, 24 or 30 fps, which eliminates the advantage of using a GoPro in most cases. That means you can have your live view and your 4K video. There are also a few new tricks in the camera, like streaming 720p video direct to YouTube -- which could have a huge impact on how journalists cover events and breaking news. The camera also no longer uses a fisheye lens, which means that live streaming video will actually be watchable without nearly as much editing. Did I mention the range has been improved? Those journalists (or rescue workers) can now be over a mile from the scene and still flying comfortably. + +The Phantom 3 is also much quicker to get set up and in the air. The lightbridge makes the tedious task of connecting to wifi obsolete. You do still have to calibrate the compass, but once that's done you're good to go. + +Those updates and some of the other small things -- especially the lightbridge connector instead of wifi, which means you get an HD live view on your device -- are all welcome, but none of them hold a candle to the real reason the Phantom 3 blows earlier models out of the water: improved flight stabilization. + +While drones are fun to fly on their own, let's face it, they're really flying cameras and nothing kills that perfect swooping beach video like some jittery, jerky, nausea-inducing footage as the drone pilot struggles with the controls. Just search YouTube for copious examples. The jitteriness is understandable of course. As anyone who's flown a Phantom can attest, there's a learning curve to flying drones. + +The new flight stabilizations tools in the Phantom 3 radically simplify that curve though. The increased power and more precise control makes flying the Phantom 3 an entirely different experience -- it's easier to fly, more responsive to controls and, thanks to the HD live feed, you won't be squinting at pixelated images trying to figure out where you are. + +The stabilization features are a huge help when shooting that new 4K video as well. Flying still takes practice, but those smooth, floating shots are easier than ever to get. The Phantom 3 is capable of producing the quality of videos normally associated with far more expensive drones with DSLRs mounted. + +At a few hundred feet up the stabilization is nice and will help your video results, but where it really shines is low to the ground and indoors. + +Which is not to say the Phantom 3 is perfect. While the stabilization is radically better than the Phantom 2, flying indoors in cramped quarters is still difficult. The ground sensors make indoor flight possible, but in my testing the Phantom 3 still often drifts a few feet and if you're in a small space that might well mean flying into a wall. The problem is that the props produce a lot of wind, so it has to fight its own air currents. The larger the space the less of a factor this will be. Auditoriums and larger spaces like concert halls or wedding chapels (all likely candidates for professional photographers, once the FAA updates its regulations regarding commercial use of drones) will be much easier to film than the tight quarters inside the average house.. + +Still, you *can* fly it inside and that's a step up from the Phantom 2, which was very, very difficult to control indoors. + +The flight controller has been completely overhauled and may actually be the best thing about the Phantom 3 (and no, regrettably it won't work with your Phantom 2, nor will the batteries). + +The dual joysticks remain unchanged, but there are now dedicated buttons for taking images and video, tilting the camera and even calling the Phantom 3 home all without moving your fingers from the flight controls. There's also a dial to control camera settings, a switch to change flight modes, a playback button for checking out your images and video and two customizable buttons you can assign a variety of functions. + +It's no longer necessary to look down at the app screen and tap just to take a picture or start recording video. Though if you do prefer to fly from first person point of view you'll not only love the HD video feed, you'll also be happy to learn that there's a brand new DJI flight app for Android and iOS. The new app is much nicer and, when combined with the camera setting dial, much easier to adjust your settings while in flight. + +Unfortunately, as nice as the camera in the Professional version is, it's still tied to the drone. You won't be throwing out your GoPro in favor of an all in one, which seems a little short-sighted. If the rumors are to be believed, GoPro is looking to get into the drone business. For now at least DJI seems to have no interest in getting into the camera business. + +Still, despite a few quibbles, there's much to love here and most of what was off-putting about the previous versions -- lack of stabilization, sharp learning curve and missing 4K video -- have been solved here. + +Wired: Much easier to fly, produces higher quality, stabler video results. Improved controller makes flying and shooting easier. + +Tired: Indoor flight is still difficult, camera gimbal doesn't swivel and the camera still isn't removable/stand alone. diff --git a/old/published/phantom4review.txt b/old/published/phantom4review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b7b250 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/phantom4review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +DJI’s Phantom series of drones didn't define the consumer drone category, but they all but rule it now. Chat with a drone pilot at your local park and chances are they’re flying a Phantom. And with DJI's latest offering, the Phantom 4, they might even be able to talk to you while the drone flies itself around. + +The DJI Phantom 4 continues to refine the features of its predecessor, with a particular emphasis on automated flight and collision avoidance. It's not yet a fully autonomous drone to do you bidding with nothing more than the flick of a finger, but it might stop you from flying head-on into a tree. Even better, the new TapFly feature might help you get through tight spots you're not comfortable flying though by yourself. + +The Phantom 4 looks similar to the Phantom 3 though the props have changed. The entire motor now sits outside the arm, which makes the Phantom 4 look a bit sleeker. It also means that there's nowhere to attach prop guards, which I occasionally missed (especially flying indoors around people, but you should not do that anyway). + +The biggest news in the Phantom 4 is the new collision detection feature. The pitch is that the Phantom 4 will stop you from flying into trees and somehow miraculously make it possible for anyone to fly. The truth is more prosaic. The collision detection features only work when you're flying forward. They will never warn you about obstacles when you're flying in any other direction. Want to hit a tree? Just back up. Or go left. Or right. Or slightly off center. + +That's not to say the collision detection isn't useful. It is, but it isn't enough for you stop worrying about flying into things. It works best on large dark objects, I flew it right at a volunteer subject and it stopped about four feet in front of him and refused to get closer. It was however happy to fly straight into his raised arms, which where not sufficiently big enough to detect. It was also happy to fly into bushes (again, the bushes were likely not dense enough to detect). The Phantom 4 will also not detect what might be a drone's greatest enemy -- power lines. + +Still this is the first release of the collision detection system and it's not hard to imagine future releases adding more cameras around the body of the Phantom to make collision detection possible on all sides. It will also be interesting to see what sort of software upgrades DJI might offer to the collision detection system. + +The collision detection is at its best when combined with what might be the best new feature in the Phantom 4 -- TapFly. TapFly allows you to use your touch screen device to simply tap anywhere on the screen and have the Phantom fly toward it. There's a horizon line you can use to control the altitude of your automated flight and the collision detection will avoid most solid objects. + +I used TapFly to fly gaps between trees that I would never have attempted on my own and that alone makes the Phantom 4 worth the upgrade. Again, it's also not hard to see how this might be improved with future releases -- for example, adding a way to slow down and speed up the drone at specific points in the flight path. + +The other new automated flight control system is an object tracker, which works well for tracking people in relatively open settings. The software sometimes gets confused if someone of similar appearance crosses paths with your subject, but barring big city crowds, this should work well. Well enough to be moderately creepy. Especially if the Phantom is at max range straight up, which I did not test because that would be against FAA regulations. + +Luckily for the paranoid, while the Phantom's camera has been improved, it still isn't going to pick out individuals for tracking from a half mile up. Don't worry, the police have military drone for that. The Phantom 4's camera improvements are subtle, but when looking at footage from a Phantom 3 next to the 4 you'll notice the latter has considerably less chromatic aberration, less noise and slightly less distortion. + +The new sport mode is one of the highlights of the Phantom 4. The Phantom line was already the nimblest of the half dozen drones I've tested, but the sport mode puts it in a class all its own. With a top speed of 45 miles an hour, an ascent rate of 20 feet per second, and the ability to turn so fast the craft nearly flips over, sport mode is not necessarily the best way to shoot incredible video (at top speed the props will be in your shot and there will be some vibration in the video you shoot) but it sure is fun to fly. Shooting forward while flying backward looks good well above normal mode speeds (though again, not at 45 MPH), which will enable professional film makers to better track high speed sequences like chase scenes or races. + +Sport mode does come with a price though, battery life is significantly less than normal mode.The downside to sport mode is that you can't use any of the automated flight controls or collision detection features. Sport mode is very clearly aimed at experienced pilots and if you happen to be one it's a lot of fun. + +DJI claims the Phantom 4 is five times more stable than previous models and while I have not empirical way to test this, it sounds about right. When watching footage where the Phantom 4 was just hovering I frequently found myself thinking I had accidentally paused playback because the video shot did not change or shake at all. Even in moderate wind the Phantom 4 managed to hold its position with hardly a waver. + +Much of that stability comes from the Phantom 4 expanded array of downward cameras and sonar sensors. The Phantom 4 has double the number of downward facing cameras compared to the Phantom 3. This comes in handy indoors, which is one place the Phantom 4 is nothing short of incredible. Flying a drone indoors is a nerve wracking experience, even with the relatively stable Phantom 3. The Phantom 4 however maintained its same stability even inside when I tested it over an unused ice hockey rink. It was actually enjoyable to fly inside, though the lack of prop guards made me reluctant to get it too close to the walls. + +The Phantom 4 is DJI's best Phantom offering yet and while the automated flight features might not entirely live up to the hype, they do make possible things that would have previously been very difficult or even impossible. They also pave the way for even more automation in future releases. + +Wired: Insanely fast sport mode is a ton of fun, camera improvements make for better video and automated flight features make it possible to do things previous models cannot. + +Tired: The batteries have changed shape again, which means if you're upgrading you'll need buy new batteries again too. Collision detection could be better. + +Rating: 8/10 diff --git a/old/published/plaxo notes.txt b/old/published/plaxo notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5d88bb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/plaxo notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +In general plaxo is trying to figure out how we can put control back in the hands of users... how can they use this data, adding friends to new sites etc, so that the data can follow them and just work. + +One of those building blocks toward that vision is being able to tell website which services you use. There's nothing that binds together all those sites -- i don't care what site their on, I just want to know what they're up to. + +There are already existing open standards XFN, it has the ability to + +What's required then is some tool to crawl that data and link it together. + +You can choose which pages to make public. + +There are a lot of new services ... we've seen a lot of excitement around the idea + +Plaxo intends to be an openid provider. + +There is a real social graph in the world and then there is the digital equiv, what we see is that for a lot of people the main ways they're doing that are e-mail and address books -- that's the primary source. + +If social network is taken to mean -- a way of + +john "The line between social network and network address book is blurring." + +One of the ways we differ a bit from BF is we see a dsitnct between data that public and data that's portable. You want to be able to compartmentalize -- share with some and not others -- and still maintain that portability. + +Obviously a lot of people are interested in open vs walled garden -- but peole have the mistaken notion that by open we mean public which isn't true, when we say open users should have control owner ship and their data not necesssarly that it's all public. + +being able to catagorize friendships is essential + +it's going to be a first step to get these sites to dhare info at all, but eventually hopefully more fine-grained control + +THe trend is very much toward open. + +There's a scism just like there was in the early days of the web, but there's + +we don't conflate open with public. + +The reason there's so much momentum behind open is because -- except for the entrenched folks at the top -- by making it easier to discover and use the sites everyone is going to use them more. + +We never spammed anybody, it was always users sending info to members in their address books and it started with the best intentions -- we were one of the few people who let you give out info without joining -- but we under estimated how much old info people keep in their addressbook. There was always this tension between wanting to make it easy and just too much info. We tried to do everything we could to throttle it, but in January of last year we suspended all the e-mailing stuff and apologized. While there's a little bit of residue of that, but hopefully the + +If you go back to the beginnings of plaxo, plaxo is fundamentally about how do you stay in contact with your friends and loved ones and that's what social networking is really about so this is really a natural progression. + +The core vision that led us to start plaxo was that theres this proliferation of technology, but the sheer number of tools and the fact that people are constantly changing tools makes it harder to stay in touch. And even in 2002 the proliferation of e-mail providers IM providers led to plaxo and today that problem is, if anything more overwhelming. + +We've always been in an interesting central position the switzerland of social information. + +Walled gardens create friction and ought not to stay in + +There's so many + +steady drumbeat of releases and code -- openid provider friends list portability, and open up pulse some more. + +This is a very exciting time in the industry, accerla
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/poker interview.mp3 b/old/published/poker interview.mp3 Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..87e9f1b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker interview.mp3 diff --git a/old/published/poker-interview-shacfer.txt b/old/published/poker-interview-shacfer.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eaf3b0d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker-interview-shacfer.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ + + +Schafer + +turned over the + +organized the event michael bolling + +Poker + +Th difference betwwen games + +there is no randomness in chess and checkers + +CCB are perfect information, when you look at the board you know everything you need to know, poker is an imperfect info, you don't know the person's cards. + +luck and randomness: + +Even I could beat the world champion if I got the right cards. + +It's an algorythem, but completely different than for say a chess program. + +Poker is a harder problem than chess because + +The winning recipe for chess, depended on speed + +The problem with poker is that we don't have a winning recipe. There are currently five or six recipes, but none of them are the obvious winning stradegy for building + +AI + +Nash equilibrum programs these are the strongest that we have right now. They don't learn. + +eb: + +rock paper sciccers: The nash e l stradegy, is garenteed to never lose. Int he long run stastically you win. I win and we tie 1/3 + +garenteed not to loose. + +oblivious to the opponent + +if you have obvious tells, the program is incapable of taking advantage of that and exploiting it. It will play strong poker, but it won't addapt to your playing. + +The future is with programs that learn. Exploitive programs. + +It's a very heard problem to solve. We're still looking for the magic recipes. + +Some of the programs that applied in Vancover + diff --git a/old/published/poker-old.txt b/old/published/poker-old.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df9a6a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker-old.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ + + + + + +Not only are there a myriad of possibilities but there's another element that computers typically stumble upon -- uncertainty. + +And in the case of Poker, there are two uncertainies the software must deal with -- what cards does the opponent hold and how will s/he play them? + +To overcome the uncertainties of opponents, the programmers that developed Polaris couldn't use the look-ahead approach of Big Blue, instead they relied on , appropriately enough, game-theory. + + + +there is a set of strategies such that every player's return is maximized and no player would benefit from switching to a different strategy. + +Texas Hold 'em is a little more complicated than "Rock, Paper, Scissors," but Nash's math still applies. With game theory, computers know to vary their play so an opponent has a hard time figuring out whether they are bluffing or employing some other strategy. + +But game theory has inherent limits. In Nash equilibrium terms, success doesn't mean winning - it means not losing. + +"You basically compute a formula that can at least break even in the long run, no matter what your opponent does," Billings said. diff --git a/old/published/poker.txt b/old/published/poker.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aee002f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker.txt @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +If the machine takeover hypothesized in the Matrix plays out like a game of chess, we're doomed. If it's more like Texas Hold 'Em we could still have a chance. However now might be good time to start thinking about scorching the sky, because software poker applications are gaining fast on human players. + +But it's not there yet. The biggest problem facing game-solving software programmers is uncertainty -- what they call imperfect information. "Almost every problem you'd want to address in the real world is one of imperfect information," says Michael Bowling, a computing science professor at the University of Alberta where much of today's cutting edge poker software is being developed + +IBM's Deep Blue settled the human-computer chess contest long ago when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, but other games, like poker, are more mysterious. The problems of chance and randomness still have computer programmers stumped. + +"It's a very heard problem to solve. We're still looking for the magic recipes," says Jonathan Schaeffer who founded the Alberta research program. + +There are two reasons poker is different than chess. The one reason is chance -- there are unknown cards that come out, but the biggest with poker is that there's imperfect information -- the players don't have all the information about the game. + +The missing information must be guessed at using all the tricks of the trade that professional poker players know -- a difficult task for computers to replicate. + +Last month the Alberta team pitted their software against Poker champion Phil Laak and fellow pro Ali Eslami, who narrowly eked out a 2-1 win. + +The Alberta team sees the recent match as a victory though. + +QuoteTK + +So how does the software do it? + +John Nash, whose life inspired the movie "A Brilliant Mind," helped develop Game Theory which says that in certain games there are a set of strategies where every player's return is maximized. + +For instance, in the children's game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," the best strategy is randomness -- to win you should select each of the options an equal proportion of the time in no particular order or pattern. + +This is known as equilibrium -- statistically each player should win one-third of the time, lose on third of the time and tie on third of the time. But Texas Hold 'Em is a lot more complex than Rock, Paper Scissors and Nash's theories aren't going to make you a World Champion Poker player. They simply ensure that you're likely to have some gas money for the ride home. + +"Nash equilibrum programs these are the strongest that we have right now, but they don't learn." + +"if you have obvious tells, the program is incapable of taking advantage of that and exploiting it. It will play strong poker, but it won't adapt to your playing." + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +But if or when a computer is able to master human opponents in poker, it will have far reaching applications for the field of artificial intelligence. + +- + +- "There are two reasons poker is different than chess. The one reason +is chance -- there are unknown cards that come out, but the biggest +problem with poker is that there's imperfect information -- the player +to act doesn't have all the information" + +- poker-playing experiment last month shows how much of a challenge this is + +- maybe end with a quote from a poker playing expert who says it's a +problem with humans, too. even if you're doing everything +strategically correct, you can still lose. + + + + +As it turns out, poker makes an excellent model for the kinds of real world scenarios AI researchers face, and the key to intelligent machines could well lie in the very thing that makes poker fun for human players -- uncertainty. + +In order for software to be successful in poker it must learn from its opponent's behavior and adapt. Michael Bowling, a computing science professor at the University of Alberta who has helped develop some of today's cutting edge poker software, says "almost every problem you'd want to address in the real world is one of imperfect information." + +In order for software to be successful in chess it simply needs to map out all possible future moves and choose the one that leads to the fastest win. While that's a complex scenario and requires serious processing power, it's still possible (Kasparov tied Deep Junior, which was capable of processing three million positions a second, in 2003 ). + +Chess represents what Game Theory mathematicians refer to as "perfect information," when you look at the board you know everything there is to know about the game. + +But Poker does not offer such information. "There are two reasons poker is different than chess," says Bowling. "The one reason is chance -- there are unknown cards that come out, but the biggest problem with poker is that there's imperfect information -- the player to act doesn't have all the information" + +The missing information must be guessed at using all the tricks of the trade that professional poker players know. Lacking eyesight, computer's aren't yet at a point where they'll pick up on your tells. For the moment software developers are focused learning how you bet and trying to guess when you're bluffing -- and they're getting pretty good at it. + +Just ask Poker champion Phil Laak and fellow pro Ali Eslami who recently went head to head with Polarius, the program developed at the University of Alberta, and only narrow eked out 2-1 victory. + +How does the software do it? + +Game Theory, a branch of mathematics founded by John von Neumann and further expanded by John Nash, whose life inspired the movie "A Brilliant Mind," says that in certain games there will always be a set of strategies such that very player's return is maximized. + +For instance, in the children's game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," the optimized strategy is randomness -- a successful player will select each of the options an equal proportion of the time in no particular order or pattern. + +This state of game play is called equilibrium, there is no better strategy an statistically each player should win one-third of the time, lose on third of the time and tie on third of the time. + +But Nash's theories aren't going to make you a World Champion Poker player, they simply ensure that you're likely to have some gas money for the ride home. + +But if a player deviates from the randomness and begins to use a pattern, other players may recognize the pattern and exploit it to their advantage. This is essentially what computer software must learn to do -- learn other player's patterns while randomizing it's own play, making it difficult for other's to guess what it will do next. + +And Texas Hold 'Em is a lot more complex than Rock, Paper Scissors.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/poker2.txt b/old/published/poker2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41a9a16 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +If the machine takeover hypothesized in the Matrix plays out like a game of chess, we're doomed. If it's more like Texas Hold 'Em we could still have a chance. However now might be good time to start thinking about scorching the sky, because software poker applications are gaining fast on human players. + +But it's not there yet. The biggest problem facing game-solving software programmers is uncertainty -- what they call imperfect information. "Almost every problem you'd want to address in the real world is one of imperfect information," says Michael Bowling, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta where much of today's cutting edge poker software is being developed + +IBM's Deep Blue settled the human-computer chess contest long ago when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, but other games, like poker, are more mysterious. The problems of chance and randomness still have computer programmers stumped. + +"It's a very heard problem to solve. We're still looking for the magic recipes," says Jonathan Schaeffer who founded the Alberta research program. + +There are two reasons poker is different than chess. The one reason is chance -- there are unknown cards that come out, but the biggest with poker is that there's imperfect information -- the players don't have all the information about the game. + +The missing information must be guessed at using all the tricks of the trade that professional poker players know -- a difficult task for computers to replicate. + +Last month the Alberta team pitted their software in two heads up games against Poker champion Phil Laak and fellow pro Ali Eslami. While Laak and Eslami were able to eked out a 2-1 win, the Alberta team sees the recent match as a victory. + +"We think this was a great success," says Bowling, "I think you need to go no further than the players to know how close we are to humans -- they were definitely scared of the program." + +So how does the software do it? + +John Nash, whose life inspired the movie "A Brilliant Mind," helped develop Game Theory which says that in certain games there are a set of strategies where every player's return is maximized. + +For instance, in the children's game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," the best strategy is randomness -- to win you should select each of the options an equal proportion of the time in no particular order or pattern. + +This is known as equilibrium -- statistically each player should win one-third of the time, lose on third of the time and tie on third of the time. + +But Nash's theories aren't going to make you a World Champion Poker player because an equilibrium program isn't designed to win, it's designed to not lose. And Texas Hold 'Em is a lot more complex than Rock, Paper Scissors. + +"Nash equilibrium programs these are the strongest that we have right now, but they don't learn," says Schaeffer. + +"if you have obvious tells, the program is incapable of taking advantage of that and exploiting it. It will play strong poker, but it won't adapt to your playing." + +One of the reasons the human players won the recent match-up is they recognized this could and were able to adapt their playing to exploit the computer. + +If the program was capable of learning, it would soon have humans on the run. "It would become a cat-and-mouse game of changing strategies," says Bowling, who goes on to add that "I suspect the computer would be more on the cat side of that equation." + +In the mean time the team is refining its equilibrium program and Bowling says a rematch is in works.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/poker3.txt b/old/published/poker3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..144b299 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/poker3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + + +The Luck of the Draw Still Has Computers Stumped or Poker-Playing Computers Still Can't Seduce Lady Luck + +by Scott Gilbertson + + +If the rise of the machines hypothesized in The Matrix plays out like a game of chess, we're totally doomed. However, if it plays out more like a game of Texas Hold 'Em, we could still have a chance. + +Computers have long been able to outsmart humans at a number of games of strategy. Most famously, chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov squared off against IBM's Deep Blue 10 years ago and lost. In April of 2007, computer scientists at the University of Alberta completed a program capable of beating human players at checkers. + +But when the same team put its poker-playing application to the test against human opponents last month, it came up bust. + +The biggest challenge facing programmers trying to solve poker is one of uncertainty -- the players don't have all the information about the game. Unlike Chess, where everything you need to know is on the board, poker players must grapple with not knowing their opponent's hand, something computer programmers call imperfect information. + +"Almost every problem you'd want to address in the real world is one of imperfect information," says Michael Bowling, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, where much of today's cutting edge game-playing software is being developed. + +Last month, the Alberta team pitted their software in two heads-up limit games against Poker champion Phil Laak and fellow pro Ali Eslami. While Laak and Eslami were able to eke out a 2-1 win, the Alberta team sees the recent match as a victory. + +"We think this was a great success," says Bowling, "I think you need to go no further than the players to know how close we are to humans -- they were definitely scared of the program." + +Perhaps our best advantage over software is our adaptability -- we make do with imperfect information. While computers need massive amounts of processing power to sort through information and make decisions, the best poker players can reach the same conclusions with far less data. + +Professional poker players rely on a variety of information sources to figure out what cards an opponent holds. In both live and online games, betting patterns can be a good way to guess at the missing information. But so far the software is unable to learn from a player's betting habits. + +The Alberta team has yet to tackle the more subtle aspects of poker like so-called "tells" -- facial tics, vocal abnormalities and other changes in a human's behavior. + +Tells are often less important than many players believe, in fact they mean little if you aren't good at the other aspects of the game. Still poker pro Greg Raymer says, "tells are one of the biggest differentiators between a good player and a truly world class player." + +So long as computers are unable to learn, they will be just that -- good, but not great poker players. + +According to Jonathan Schaeffer, founder of the Alberta research program, that's the most difficult task for computers to replicate -- learning. "The program will play strong poker, but it won't adapt to your playing," he says. + +Raymer isn't worried about losing to poker software. Raymer, who won the World Series of Poker in 2004, says, "I don't think computer software will ever outperform humans in a live game because of it's inability to take advantage of tells." + +Indeed the human players in last month's match recognized the computer's inability to learn and were able to adapt their playing strategies to exploit the computer. If the program was capable of learning, however, it might soon have humans on the run. + +"Nash equilibrium programs these are the strongest that we have right now, but they don't learn," says Schaeffer. + +Schaeffer is referring to programs based on the work of John Nash, the mathematician whose life inspired the movie <em>A Brilliant Mind</em>. Nash helped develop Game Theory, which hypothesizes that a set of strategies exist in certain games where every player's return is maximized. + +For instance, in the game Rock, Paper, Scissors, the best strategy is randomness. To win, you should select each of the options an equal proportion of the time in no particular order or pattern. This is known as equilibrium -- statistically, each player should win one-third of the time, lose on third of the time and tie one third of the time. + +But Nash's theories aren't going to make you a World Champion Poker player. An equilibrium program isn't designed to win, it's designed to avoid losing. And, since it can't learn, it can't adapt to gain an advantage. + +"It's a very hard problem to solve. We're still looking for the magic recipes," says Bowling. + +In the mean time, the team is refining its equilibrium program. And Bowling promises a rematch is in works. + diff --git a/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop.txt b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1224a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +Earlier today Adobe released a new version of Photoshop, the flagship photo editing tool in Creative Suite 3. While Photoshop CS3 boast some impressive new features like non-destructive filters, greatly enhanced selection tools and tighter integration with other Adobe applications, for the burgeoning world of amatuer photographers storming the net on sites like Flickr and Photobucket, the new Photoshop may not be as essential as it once was. + +Five years ago if you wanted to do anything more than dodge out some red eye and resize your images, Photoshop was the only answer. But with the declining price of digital cameras and the rise in online photo sharing as a photo destination, Photoshop's dominance has slipped. + +Today's shutterbug isn't sending their output to printers that require high resolution and complicated color matching, they're posting their images online and in some cases even editing them online. + +What was once the sole domain of Photoshop is now available to many users through online tools like Phixer and Adobe's own recently announced Photoshop online. Others rely on free desktop apps like Apple's iPhoto and Google's Picasa. + +These days, says consumate shutterbug Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, "the average person is using something like iPhoto or Picasa or even the software that came with their camera." + +Still for the professional photographer Photoshop remains the tool of choice. Noah Kaline, whose everyday photo montage video is one of the most viewed items on YouTube, says "if you weren't a professional, and cost was of concern, Photoshop might not be the best choice, +but to me it is the only choice." + +Professionals will upgrade and for the vetearn user Photoshop CS3 has a myrid of new features as well as being the first version to run natively on Intel Macs. Kaline, who's been using the public beta version says the update delivers. "Bridge is much faster and the Camera RAW conversion is much better." + + +Once owning photoshop was a digital photographers sign of seriousness much like owning a Lieca, but just as point and shoot cameras have become more powerful so have the cheaper and even free image editing tools. + +But this fact is not entirely lost on Adobe indeed many of the nicer features in the new Photoshop are geared toward the sort of revision mentality of the Flcikr user. Filters for instance have become non-destructive, easily applied and then removed when your fellow Flickr users reject your late night inspiration. + + +"A lot of photographers are going to come to spend the bulk of their time, in terms of selecting images and also editing them, in Lightroom." "But there are plenty of cases where people really want to fine tune and image and that's where photoshop really shines." + +"I could see if you weren't a professional, and cost was of concern, photoshop might not be the best choice but to me it is the only choice + + + +Indeed the world of photography has seen a rise of the middle class, photographers who may not make a living selling their images, but who are serious enough to buy top end cameras + +Digital camera makers call these prosumers, people who + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +"We've been evloving in this direction for years, the introduction of the file browser and Camera Raw and then Bridge as a means to work with both of those. + +But where Bridge is "meant to serve a lot of different masters," as akldsfj puts it, programs like Adobe Lightroom. + +We've recognized for a long time that we need to evolve in the direction of being much more multip image savvy + +"Photoshop is geared towards people that are serious about photography" + +"We don't have plans to make Lightroom into Photoshop, we think that they are complimentary tool. + + + +Photoshop is geared toward serious photographers though there are of course more hobby up. Photoshop 7 was the introduction of a file browser + +A lot of photographers are going to come to spend the bulk of their time in organzational tools but then there are times when they'll want to go + +It's a complimentary tools Photoshop. + +loupe tool in bridge, side by side comparisons + +The same processing tools for raw are in photoshop and lightroom + +the healing brush is now available in camera raw. The batch processing tools for amatuers + +we can share the best technology between the two packages + +CS3 features enhanced selection tools -- refine edge with live preview + +filters feature better non destructive filtering the filter none has a convert for smart filters + +filters are now layer addons + +one of the things we're seen is that print makers have really started focusing on black and white and + +layer alignment -- photo stitching using image->auto align + +We see the applications as very complimentary. people are investing in cameras that have very high resolution but then sharing it ont he web you're loosing 80-90 percent of the image data. What we've come up with is an auto export to zoomify + +combining the best of macromedia flash technology with + +bridge has an extendable backend + +we like what the macromedia studio apps were doing and so when the companies got together it worked out beautifully. Photoshop, flash, illustrator and indesign. + +Dreamweaver - photoshop integration --- pixel based cut and paste, edit in photoshop + +415 333 3199 + +I think that the average person is using something like iPhoto Picasa everyone has a digital camera. Where is there entry level it is faster for things like resizing and saving for web. It saves me alot of time. Flickr export plugin. Photoshop There's no need for it, unless you're doing a tremdous amount of post processing. + +Thomas Hawk + diff --git a/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop2.txt b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..097a639 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Earlier today Adobe released a new version of Photoshop, the flagship photo editing tool in Creative Suite 3. While Photoshop CS3 boast some impressive new features like non-destructive filters, greatly enhanced selection tools and tighter integration with other Adobe applications, for the burgeoning world of amateur photographers storming the net on sites like Flickr and Photobucket, the new Photoshop may not be as essential as it once was. + +Five years ago if you wanted to do anything more than dodge out some red eye and resize your images, Photoshop was the only answer. But with the declining price of digital cameras and the rise in online photo sharing websites as the primary output, Photoshop's dominance has slipped. + +Today's shutterbug isn't sending their output to printers that require high resolution and complicated color matching, they're posting their images online and in some cases even editing them online. + +What was once the sole domain of Photoshop is now available to many users through online tools like Phixer and Adobe's own recently announced Photoshop online. Others rely on free desktop apps like Apple's iPhoto and Google's Picasa. + +These days, says consummate shutterbug Scott Beale of Laughing Squid, "the average person is using something like iPhoto or Picasa or even the software that came with their camera." + +For many the size and complexity of Photoshop have always made it a daunting prospect, but this fact is not lost on Adobe. Photoshop CS3 is the first Intel native version of the app to run on the Macintosh platform and performance improvements are dramatic. + +Startup times are greatly reduced and complex rendering tasks such as applying filters now much faster. + +In addition to speed and performance gains, many of the new features in Photoshop CS3 address some of the concerns of those who have previously found the complexity of the app overwhelming. + +The entire palette system has been streamlined and shrunk down, palettes are now collapsed by default and leave a much larger workspace for image files. + +Many of the design changes reflect Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia. + +John Nack, senior product manager for Photoshop, says Adobe was already in the process of redesigning Photoshop's palettes when the company bought Macromedia. "We liked what the Macromedia Studio apps were doing with palettes, so when the companies got together it worked out beautifully." + +In addition to streamlining the interface and making it easier to use, Adobe has continued to improve the non-destructive editing capabilities in Photoshop CS3. Filters, for instance, have become non-destructive, easily applied as layer add-ons and then removed if you change your mind. + +While probably not the direct inspiration for the increased non-destructive editing tools, photo sharing sites certainly encourage experimentation and revision based on public feedback. The new filters-as-layers workflow makes it easier to go back and correct images when your fellow Flickr users reject your late night inspiration. + +Online sites like Flickr have also given rise to a new market of Photoshop users. While the application remains perhaps too expensive and complex for the casual user, it continues to grow in popularity among users who previously might have been content to go straight to a professional photo lab. + +The rise of the "middle class photographer," the photographer who may not make a living selling their images, but who are serious enough to buy top end cameras and editing programs has created a new and largely untapped market, what camera manufacturers call the "prosumer." + +Jan Kabili, author of seven Photoshop books, who frequently teaches photoshop seminars says, "now when I teach I get a new breed, semi-pros, people who might to shoot their friends' weddings or local soccer games... these people who in the past might have built their own darkrooms, now turn to Photoshop." + +But the middle class photographer has different goals and tends not to spend so much time on any one photograph, but focuses instead on batch processing. More and more of these photographers are turning to software like Apple's Aperture which allows for general editing and batch processing rather than the fine grained image adjustments of Photoshop. + +Adobe has recognized this shift. Nask says, "we've recognized for a long time that we need to evolve in the direction of being much more multiple image savvy." + +To that end Adobe recently launched Lightroom, its Aperture competitor. Adobe's Nack, concedes that "a lot of photographers are going to come to spend the bulk of their time, in terms of selecting images and also editing them, in Lightroom." + +But Photoshop CS3 ships with a new version Bridge which incorporates most of the tools found in Lightroom and introduces a few nice touches Lightroom lacks, including a magnifying loupe for inspecting image details in place. + +The chief difference between Lightroom and Bridge is that Lightroom only handles image files and includes database driven sorting and organizing tools not found in Bridge. + +Noah Kaline, a professional photographer whose everyday photo montage video is one of the most viewed items on YouTube, says that the number one reason to upgrade has nothing to do with Photoshop. "The real improvement is Bridge -- it's much faster and the Camera RAW conversion is much better." + +Another pro photographer, Lane Hartwell, echos Kaline's opinion, "Photoshop has been an essential part of my workflow, but actually I use less of it now that I have been using Bridge to work with my RAW files. I can do most everything I want there without opening Photoshop." + +Beale says he works almost entirely in Aperture, "It saves me a lot of time, I can process my images and upload directly to the web with the Flickr export plugin." + +Many were surprised that neither Bridge nor Photoshop ships with an built in online sharing tools. There is, however, a revamped and improved plugin architecture in Bridge that will allow outside developers to build tools that leverage online services -- much like the Flickr plugin for Aperture. + +Adobe sees the apps as complimentary. Bridge handles basic edits, batch processing and organizational tasks, while Photoshop is the more refined editing program for those that want to go further with their images. "There are plenty of cases where people really want to fine tune an image and that's where Photoshop really shines," Nack says + +Still, Beale finds "there's no need for Photoshop -- unless you're doing a tremendous amount of post processing." + +Indeed post processing is where Photoshop has always shined and the new version is no exception. Standout new features include sophisticated new selection tools, photo stitching abilities that work to adjust exposure discrepancies and a new black and white conversion tool with live previews. + +Adobe has also recognized that there is growing market of scientific and medical uses for Photoshop and CS3 sees the introduction of a new, Extended version of Photoshop that includes an analysis menu packed with tools designed to help researchers analyze images. + +For the professional photographer Photoshop remains the tool of choice. Noah Kaline says "if you weren't a professional, and cost was a concern, Photoshop might not be the best choice, but to me it is the only choice." + +links for quotes: + +noah kaline: http://noahkalina.com/ +Jan Kabili : http://photoshoponline.tv +Lane Hartwell: http://www.fetching.net/ diff --git a/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop_newfeatures.txt b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop_newfeatures.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..142d948 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshop_newfeatures.txt @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +Photoshop CS3 represents on the most significant overhauls of Adobe's flagship product in some time. The new version, which ships [DATE], features a significantly improved interface, greatly streamlined menus, more live preview tools and + +"For this release we've focused on polishing and streamlining the features that Photoshop has long been known for," says Photoshop senior product manager John Nack. According to Nack, Photoshop CS3 "is about taking the Photoshop you know and love and making it more flexible and faster." + +Photoshop CS3 is the first Intel native version of the app to run on the Macintosh platform and performance improvements are dramatic. Startup times are greatly reduced and complex rendering tasks such as applying filters are now much faster. + +[I'm getting confirmation from Adobe on this, but it would seem that the app is not a universal binary, users have choose either intel or powerpc versions when purchasing the app. If that's true I'd like to add this sentence: + +Unfortunately Adobe has opted to release two version of the app which means customers will have to choose between Intel or PowerPC version of Photoshop.] + +In addition to speed and performance gains, many of the new features in Photoshop CS3 address some of the concerns of those who have previously found the complexity of the app overwhelming. + +The entire palette system has been streamlined and shrunk down, palettes are now collapsable which leaves a much larger workspace for image files. + +Many of the design changes reflect Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia. Nack says Adobe was already in the process of redesigning Photoshop's palettes when the company bought Macromedia. + +"We liked what the Macromedia Studio apps were doing with palettes," he says, "so when the companies got together, it worked out beautifully." + +Additionally, many things that once required a separate dialogue window have been reworked and now feature edit-in-place functionality. + +For instance complex selections are now much easier thanks to the Quick Select tool, which allows users selection parts of an image by simply painting over them. + +The selection tools also include a new button called Refine Selection which allows you to see your selection matted against various solid backgrounds, as well as expand or contract the selection visually and control the softness of the edges. + +Like many of Photoshop CS3's improvements these features were previously available but required multiple, complex steps. "We've taken a lot of the core things Photoshop has done for a long time and made them smarter and more interactive with live previews and better behind-the-scenes image processing," says Nack. + +Other examples of ease-of-use improvements include a new and improved clone tool that now features the ability to overlay the clone source as you retouch. Instead of guessing, the clone source can be viewed right on top of an image. There are also now options for changing the scale, rotation, and offset of the clone target. + +Adobe has continued to improve the non-destructive editing capabilities in Photoshop CS3. Filters, for instance, have become non-destructive, easily applied as layer add-ons and then removed if you change your mind. Each smart filter layer gets the traditional Photoshop "eyeball" icon in the layers palette and can be toggle on and off to see the effects of the applied filter. + +Smart filters can also be applied as layer masks which makes it easy to target specific areas of your image. + +"You always want to have the ability to go back and change your mind," says Nack, "and now you always have that flexibility." + +CS3 also brings some changes to the apps that have traditionally shipped with Photoshop -- ImageReady and Bridge. ImageReady is no longer a standalone program, but most its functionality has been incorporated into Photoshop's Save For Web command. + +Bridge, the standalone file browser tool that ships with Photoshop has also seen numerous improvements, including a magnifying loupe for inspecting image details and new side-by-side image comparison tools. + +Camera RAW support is also greatly improved in the new release. The Healing Brush, a stable for retouching images in Photoshop, has made its way to the Camera Raw tool, which means that it's now possible to make batch corrections to dust and scratches in your images. + +It's now possible to use many of the tools in Camera Raw to not just RAW images, but JPEG and other formats as well. + +While the functionality and features of the final version Photoshop will not radically differ from the public beta, Nack suggested that Camera Raw may see further upgrades before the final release, including support for new camera models. + +Adobe has also recognized that there is growing market of scientific and medical uses for Photoshop and CS3 sees the introduction of a new, Extended version of Photoshop that includes an analysis menu packed with tools designed to help researchers analyze images. + +The Extended version also features a number of tools for users working with video and 3D rendering tools. + +As you would expect, Photoshop CS3 also features numerous integration improvements with many of the apps Adobe acquired from Macromedia. A new export option utilizes Flash to create a movie file capable of displaying high resolution images on the web. There's also now roundtrip editing functionality in Dreamweaver as well as pixel based cut and paste and an Edit in Photoshop command within Dreamweaver. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Post processing is where Photoshop has always shined and the new version is no exception. Standout new features include sophisticated new selection tools, photo stitching abilities that work to adjust exposure discrepancies and a new black and white conversion tool with live previews. + + +While probably not the direct inspiration for the increased non-destructive editing tools, photo sharing sites certainly encourage experimentation and revision based on public feedback. The new filters-as-layers workflow makes it easier to go back and correct images when your fellow Flickr users reject your late night inspiration. + + + diff --git a/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshopcs3.txt b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshopcs3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccb8ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/pshop cs3/photoshopcs3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +everybody is on the web + +everybody has a better camera + +2044815 + +002573501-2594053 + diff --git a/old/published/pshop cs3/pshop_sidebar.txt b/old/published/pshop cs3/pshop_sidebar.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9499235 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/pshop cs3/pshop_sidebar.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +While Photoshop remains perhaps too expensive and complex for the casual user, it continues to grow in popularity among the "middle class photographer," the photobug who may not make a living selling his images, but who's serious enough to buy top end cameras and editing programs. + +Jan Kabili, author of seven Photoshop books, who frequently teaches Photoshop seminars says, "now when I teach I get a new breed, semi-pros, people who might to shoot their friends' weddings or local soccer games... these people who in the past might have built their own darkrooms, now turn to Photoshop." + +The darkroom builder of yesteryear has swapped the fishing vest stuffed with lens filters and film rolls for the same functionality in Photoshop. Anyone willing to invest in Photoshop can reach new shutterbug heights without the fashion faux pas.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-article.txt b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-article.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c47660d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-article.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +It used to be that those embarrassing photos from the company Christmas party got pinned up by the water cooler for a few hours, you found them and you threw them away. Nowadays those photos find themselves on Flickr and can get a million page views in an hour. How are our future leaders going to lie about college drug use when we have the pictures available on Facebook?
In an age where mistakes can live forever in the spinning disks of an internet server there is, it appears, a need for someone to clean up after us. That is precisely the goal of a new start up, Reputation Defender.
Originally conceived as a way for parents to protect their children from potentially career damaging postings to MySpace or Facebook, the people behind Reputation Defender quickly realized it had a broader appeal. Michael Fertik, one of the founders of Reputation Defender, says, "I don't like the idea that kids and teenagers might suffer lifelong harm because of momentary mistakes. So I started the company. Then it seemed natural that adults might want the service, too. We all make honest mistakes, and there's no reason the Internet should make those mistakes eternally hurtful to ourselves and others."
Fertik has a point, afterall even bankruptcy
Reputation Defender breaks its services into three categories, "My Reputation," "My Child," and "My Privacy." My reputation is aimed at adults and helps to track down and eliminate those momentary lapses of reason that haunt you. My Child is aimed at parents who want to protect their children from the errors of youth coming back to haunt them later in life. The last of these, "My Privacy," is not yet publicly available but according to the copy on the website promises to do something about the "hundreds of online phonebooks and data brokering websites... (which) offer revealing information, including social security numbers, driver's license numbers, home address history, income, marriage and divorce records, email addresses, tax liens, and phone numbers."
Before you dismiss Reputation Defender as just another startup pipe dream consider that Fertik is a graduate of Harvard Law, another boardmember is a former presidential campaign speech writer, and the advisory board includes a Law Professor at Harvard and some MIT graduates. This is not just a clever concept from some teenagers.
For those that dismiss the need for such a service consider that according to CareerBuilder.com, twenty-six percent of hiring managers say they have used Internet search engines to research potential employees.
Using both site scraping robots and good old-fashioned human detective skills, Reputation Defender promises to scour the internet, particularly social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga, Flickr and others, for materials that could be damaging to your career, your children's chances of getting into college and yes, even your chances of getting elected to public office.
As for the removal process, Fertik remained vague about the exact means of removing content. He offered instead, "I can say we have codified a series of procedures (that we are continually refining) that are specific to the source, location and nature of the content we are asked to destroy."
But what about me? I posted those pictures of you at the Christmas party because they are funny, it is you, and you *did* do it. Should I be bullied into removing them just because you consider it a mistake? Libel laws certainly apply if I post something about you that is knowingly false, but if the material in question happens to be a photograph does libel still apply? Generally speaking, no. Under the United States law, a statement cannot be held to be libellous if it is true and libel has historically been difficult to prove.
According to Mr. Fertik, "it should go without saying that there are certain types of content that are extremely difficult--and sometimes impossible--for us to get removed. Some clients and prospective clients would like us to get news articles in major publications or court records removed from the Internet. We've had to tell them that these requests are extremely difficult to fulfill and sometimes impossible. Moreover, we consider ourselves sensitive to First Amendment issues, and we are not too keen on the idea of squelching genuinely newsworthy speech." In such cases Reputation Defender offers its clients a full refund.
The line between free speech and libel has long been a contentious debate both in courtrooms and out. But in the end it may not be that serious. Fertik makes an analogy between Reputation Defender and credit reports. "It's useful to have your credit monitored and to be on top of your credit score before there is ever a problem. It's the same way with personal reputation. In the Internet era, everyone needs to know what's being said about him or her (or his or her child) before it's too late."
Celebrities have long employed various companies to track and monitor what is said about them in the press (you didn't really think it was Britney Spears herself suing US Weekly did you?), now you and I have the same option. The sad part is we may need it.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV2.txt b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..767c39b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV2.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The internet is a place where mistakes can live forever -- so publicly that one may feel the occasional need for somebody to clean up after them. A new startup called Reputation Defender aims to do just that.
Embarrassing office party photos, listserv emails outlining casual drug use and blog posts filled with vicious name-calling often threaten the good social standing of the web's 1 billion citizens. Worse yet, such material, posted by a student in a fit of youthful indiscretion, could threaten the author's employability once he reaches the professional world and its army of Google-savvy hiring managers.
"I don't like the idea that kids and teenagers might suffer lifelong harm because of momentary mistakes," says Michael Fertik, one of the founders of Reputation Defender. Fertik and his partners originally conceived of the service as a way for parents to protect their children from potentially damaging postings to social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook. However, Fertik quickly realized that Reputation Defender had a broader appeal.
"It seemed natural that adults might want the service, too. We all make honest mistakes, and there's no reason the Internet should make those mistakes eternally hurtful to ourselves and others."
According to CareerBuilder.com, twenty-six percent of hiring managers say they have used Internet search engines to research potential employees, and one in ten has looked on a social networking website.
Reputation Defender breaks its services into three categories: "My Reputation," which is aimed at adults hoping to track down and eliminate those momentary lapses of reason; "My Child," for parents who want to protect their children from errors of youth that may come back to haunt them later in life; and "My Privacy," which helps to remove a client's data from the web's various data brokering websites that store private information such as social security and drivers license numbers, home addresses and phone numbers.
The first two services are offered on the company's site now, but My Privacy is not yet publicly available.
Using both site scraping robots and good old-fashioned human detective skills, Reputation Defender promises to scour the internet -- particularly social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga and Flickr -- for materials that could be damaging to your career, your children's chances of getting into college and even your chances of getting elected to public office.
Reputation Defender's advisory board includes a former presidential campaign speech writer, a Law Professor at Harvard and an MIT graduate.
Fertik, who himself is a graduate of Harvard Law school, concedes that there are some types of content which are close to impossible for his company to remove.
"Some clients and prospective clients would like us to get news articles in major publications or court records removed from the Internet," Fertik says. "We've had to tell them that these requests are extremely difficult to fulfill and sometimes impossible. Moreover, we consider ourselves sensitive to First Amendment issues, and we are not too keen on the idea of squelching genuinely newsworthy speech."
In such cases, Reputation Defender offers its clients a full refund.
Fertik declined to offer an exact description of the company's means of removing content. "I can say we have codified a series of procedures that we are continually refining," he said, "and that are specific to the source, location and nature of the content we are asked to destroy."
But what about the content owner? If I posted those pictures of you at the Christmas party because they are funny, it is you, and you *did* do it. Should I be bullied into removing them just because you consider it a mistake?
As Susan Crawford, Associate Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School and specialist in cyberlaw and telecommunications law, points out, "most people will take materials down just to avoid the hassle of dealing with possible litigation."
Most content owners might buckle under the pressure of threatening letters or imminent lawsuits, however professor Crawford went on to point out that if a content publisher feels sufficiently threatened he or she could bring their own lawsuit "seeking a declaration that what they posted wasn't unlawful."
The line between free speech and libel has long been a contentious debate both in courtrooms and out. But in the end it may not be that serious. Fertik makes an analogy between Reputation Defender and credit reports. "It's useful to have your credit monitored and to be on top of your credit score before there is ever a problem. It's the same way with personal reputation. In the Internet era, everyone needs to know what's being said about him or her (or his or her child) before it's too late." However keep in mind that sometimes doing something can have just as negative an effect as doing nothing. As Crawford says, "trying to shut lawful speech down often has negative reputational effects itself."
Celebrities have long employed various companies to track and monitor what is said about them in the press (you didn't really think it was Britney Spears herself suing US Weekly did you?), now you and I have the same option. The sad part is we may need it.
Interesting. It's like a press clippings service with a twist.
It's likely that most people will take materials down just to avoid the
hassle of dealing with possible litigation. This kind of practice
(writing nasty letters threatening suit) has substantial chilling
effects but isn't itself illegal. If the letter is sufficiently
threatening the threaten-ee could (in the US, at least) bring his or her
own lawsuit seeking a declaration that what they posted wasn't unlawful.
But, again, most people will just buckle rather than fight back.
One of the great things about the internet is that it gives each of us a
chance to respond to statements we believe are libelous. Libel law was
designed for an era in which very few actors could be publishers --
because of the enormous costs of distributing information. Libel law
online makes much less sense. This new business is taking a retrogade
approach that may well be popular. But trying to shut lawful speech
down often has negative reputational effects itself, as people keep
finding out.
Susan
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV3.txt b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f363f69 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleV3.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The internet is a place where mistakes can live forever -- so publicly that one may feel the occasional need for somebody to clean up after them. A new startup aims to do just that.
Reputation Defender will contact data hosting services and request the removal of any materials -- from embarrassing office party photos to blog posts outlining casual drug use -- which threaten the good social standing of any web citizen willing to pay the company's monthly service fee. Reputation Defender charges between $9.95 and $15.95 per month for their services, depending on the length of the contract.
Michael Fertik and his partners originally conceived of Reputation Defender as a way for parents to protect their children from potentially damaging postings to social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook. Furthermore, such material, posted by a student in a fit of youthful indiscretion, could threaten the author's employability once he reaches the professional world and its army of Google-savvy hiring managers.
"I don't like the idea that kids and teenagers might suffer lifelong harm because of momentary mistakes," says Fertik. According to CareerBuilder.com, twenty-six percent of hiring managers say they have used Internet search engines to research potential employees, and one in ten has looked on a social networking website.
Using both site scraping robots and good old-fashioned human detective skills, Reputation Defender promises to scour the internet -- particularly social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga and Flickr -- for materials that could be damaging your childrens' futures.
However, Fertik quickly realized that Reputation Defender had a broader appeal.
"It seemed natural that adults might want the service, too," he says. "We all make honest mistakes, and there's no reason the Internet should make those mistakes eternally hurtful to ourselves and others."
Fertik draws an analogy between Reputation Defender and consumer credit reports. "It's useful to have your credit monitored and to be on top of your credit score before there's ever a problem," he says. "It's the same way with personal reputation. In the internet era, everyone needs to know what's being said about him or her (or his or her child) before it's too late."
Reputation Defender breaks its services into three categories: "My Reputation," which is aimed at adults hoping to track down and eliminate those momentary lapses of reason; "My Child," for parents who want to protect their children from errors of youth that may come back to haunt them later in life; and "My Privacy," which helps to remove a client's data from the web's various data brokering websites that store private information such as social security and drivers license numbers, home addresses and phone numbers.
The first two services are offered on the company's site now, but My Privacy is not yet publicly available.
Reputation Defender's advisory board includes a former presidential campaign speech writer, a Law Professor at Harvard and an MIT graduate. Fertik, who himself is a graduate of Harvard Law school, concedes that there are some types of content which are close to impossible for his company to remove.
"Some clients and prospective clients would like us to get news articles in major publications or court records removed from the Internet," Fertik says. "We've had to tell them that these requests are extremely difficult to fulfill and sometimes impossible."
In such cases, Reputation Defender offers its clients a full refund.
Fertik declined to offer an exact description of his company's means of removing content. "I can say we have codified a series of procedures that we are continually refining," he said, "and that are specific to the source, location and nature of the content we are asked to destroy."
If you're a website owner and Reputation Defender knocks on your door, you are technically not legally bound to remove any photos or posts unless they could be considered libelous.
"Most people will take materials down just to avoid the hassle of dealing with possible litigation," says Susan Crawford, an associate professor of law at Cardozo Law School who specializes in cyberlaw and telecommunications law.
"If the letter is sufficiently threatening," says Crawford, "the threaten-ee could bring his or her own lawsuit seeking a declaration that what they posted wasn't unlawful. But, again, most people will just buckle rather than fight back."
Fertik says that his company considers itself sensitive to First Amendment issues, so there is a line that the company will not cross when asking websites to remove material its clients consider damaging.
"We are not too keen on the idea of squelching genuinely newsworthy speech," he says.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleVfinal.txt b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleVfinal.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df5d464 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/repdef/reputation-defender-articleVfinal.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The mistakes you make on the internet can live forever -- unless you hire somebody to clean up after you.
A new startup, Reputation Defender, will act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials which threaten your good social standing. Any web citizen willing to pay Reputation Defender's modest service fees can ask the company to seek and destroy embarrassing office party photos, blog posts detailing casual drug use or saucy comments on social networking profiles.
The company produces monthly reports on its clients' online identities for a cost of $9.95 to $15.95 per month depending on the length of the contract. The client can request the removal of any material on the report for a charge of $29.95 per instance.
Michael Fertik and his partners originally conceived of Reputation Defender as a way for parents to protect their children from potentially damaging postings to social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook.
"I don't like the idea that kids and teenagers might suffer lifelong harm because of momentary mistakes," says Fertik.
Using both site scraping robots and good old-fashioned human detective skills, Reputation Defender promises to scour the internet -- particularly social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga and Flickr -- for materials that could threaten the author's employability once he reaches the professional world and its army of Google-savvy hiring managers.
According to CareerBuilder.com, twenty-six percent of hiring managers say they have used Internet search engines to research potential employees, and one in ten has looked on a social networking website.
After launching the site, Fertik quickly realized that Reputation Defender would appeal to a broader market than just minors and students.
"It seemed natural that adults might want the service, too," he says. "We all make honest mistakes, and there's no reason the internet should make those mistakes eternally hurtful to ourselves and others."
Fertik draws an analogy between Reputation Defender and consumer credit reports. "It's useful to have your credit monitored and to be on top of your credit score before there's ever a problem," he says. "It's the same way with personal reputation. In the internet era, everyone needs to know what's being said about him or her -- or his or her child -- before it's too late."
Reputation Defender breaks its services into three categories: "My Reputation," which is aimed at adults hoping to track down and eliminate those momentary lapses of reason; "My Child," for parents who want to protect their children from errors of youth that may come back to haunt them later in life; and "My Privacy," which helps to remove a client's data from the web's various data brokering websites that store private information such as social security and drivers license numbers, home addresses and phone numbers.
The first two services are offered on the company's site now, but My Privacy is not yet publicly available.
Reputation Defender's advisory board includes a former presidential campaign speech writer, a Law Professor at Harvard and an MIT graduate. Fertik, who himself is a graduate of Harvard Law school, concedes that there are some types of content which are close to impossible for his company to remove.
"Some clients and prospective clients would like us to get news articles in major publications or court records removed from the Internet," Fertik says. "We've had to tell them that these requests are extremely difficult to fulfill and sometimes impossible."
In such cases, Reputation Defender offers its clients a full refund.
Fertik declined to offer an exact description of his company's means of removing content. "I can say we have codified a series of procedures that we are continually refining," he said, "and that are specific to the source, location and nature of the content we are asked to destroy."
If you're a website owner and Reputation Defender knocks on your door, you are not legally bound to remove anything until a judge orders you to -- a scenario that most website owners are keen to avoid.
"Most people will take materials down just to avoid the hassle of dealing with possible litigation," says Susan Crawford, an associate professor at Cardozo Law School who specializes in cyberlaw and telecommunications law.
"If the letter is sufficiently threatening," says Crawford, "the threaten-ee could bring his or her own lawsuit seeking a declaration that what they posted wasn't unlawful. But, again, most people will just buckle rather than fight back."
Fertik says that Reputation Defender is sensitive to First Amendment issues, so there is a line that the company will not cross when asking websites to remove material its clients consider damaging.
"We are not too keen on the idea of squelching genuinely newsworthy speech," he says.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/samsung-chromebook-review.txt b/old/published/samsung-chromebook-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4107f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/samsung-chromebook-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Samsung recently announced it would dramatically cut back its Windows laptop production and even gutted its European Chromebook output. Here in the States though we're still getting Chromebooks from Samsung -- and pretty nice ones at that. + +The latest in the Samsung Chromebook line is the Samsung Chromebook 2. I tested the XE500C12-K01US model, which features a 2.16GHz Intel Bay Trail chip, a regrettably paltry 2GB of RAM, a 16GB hard drive and a 1366 x 768 pixel 11.6 inch display. + +The hardware does not put this in the top caliber of Chromebooks, but on the plus side that power sipping Bay Trail chip does give this Chromebook very nearly the 9 hours of battery life Samsung claims. + +The other main selling point here is the low price. Samsung is offering the Chromebook 2 for just $250, which is a good deal given the new chip and impressive battery life. + +The ports on the Samsung are close to what you'll find on other Chromebooks -- a USB 2.0 and headphone jack to the right, and then a USB 3.0 port, a full HDMI port, and a microSD card slot to left. The latter is somewhat unusual as most Chromebooks offer full SD card support. The micro means you'll likely need a USB-based SD card adapter to dump photos from your camera card. + +On the plus side, the microSD slot has a nice cover and the card disappears into it, making it easy to slap a 128GB microSD card in there to act as a semi-permanent second hard drive. + +Samsung has done a nice job of making this thing feel solid. There's a somewhat cheesy faux-leather textured surface on the top (complete with fake sticking) but underneath that is a well reinforced frame that gives this model a sturdy feel often missing in Chromebooks. + +That solid feel helps make the keyboard a bit nicer as well, there's none of the mushiness at the center that often plagues keyboards in all plastic cases. The chiclet style keys here have a nice feel that's on par with the industry-leading keyboard on the Lenovo I [reviewed earlier this year](http://www.wired.com/2014/10/lenovo-n20p-chromebook/). + +The big downside to this Samsung is the 2 GB of RAM, which is sufficient for light use, that is for checking your email, browsing the web, editing documents and so on, but will feel limited if you're going to be using the web-based version of Photoshop or installing Android applications (of which there are, currently, few, but which looks to be a way of extending Chrome OS in the future). + +Another potential downside is the display. Yes, 1366 x 768 packed into 11.6 inches is technically HD, but it still looks pixelated next to your phone. It's also not an IPS display so you get all the washed out color and limited viewing angles that come with older, TN panel displays. The display makes sense at this price point, but it would be nice if Samsung had a more expensive model with a higher resolution IPS display (and more RAM). + +In general Chrome OS is what it is, you're either comfortable with that or stopped reading at the headline. Hopefully. That said, there is one new bit in here or at least new to me, the coming Chrome Help app. + +The Chrome Help app is still technically a beta, but Samsung has included it anyway. It connects you to a live help and troubleshooting chat system. There's even video chat available which lets you activate remote access and share your screen for troubleshooting purposes. That might be a selling point for those who want some tech support for their new Chromebook, but screen sharing with unknown parties ranks high on my list of supposedly fun things I'll never do. + +If your top priorities in a Chromebook are speed and battery life, this is the Chromebook for you. + +The 2GB of RAM could be better, but for the general use case -- basic web browsing, document editing, email checking and so on -- it will suffice. + +Wired: +* A solid, well-built chassis give this Chromebook a more serious feel (faux leather, not so much). +* Impressive battery life means you can leave the cord at home. +* The price is right. + +Tired: +* 2GB of RAM. Really Samsung? Really? +* TN display just barely qualifies as HD +* Lack of standard SD Card slot means you'll need an USB adapter. + diff --git a/old/published/samsung13chromebook-review.txt b/old/published/samsung13chromebook-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/samsung13chromebook-review.txt diff --git a/old/published/shaver interview.txt b/old/published/shaver interview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2e6860 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/shaver interview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +there are two things that keep html5 from fulfilling its promise, one is the gaps around a standardized codecs and the feature adoption rate by browsers. + +there's a technical standards + +we haven't seen existing standards + +the market waits for stability in the spec, but + +I think we're in great shape... the market has never needed a completed, perfect spec, they need something that meets their needs. + +we work hard towards a web toward a standardized platform... in looking at our statistics we identified a + +We share the same goal -- having users updated to the latest version. + +(buildign with html) makes sense to the degree that you're committed to the future of the web + +the threshold for a giving developer + +index database +web sockets +offline + +hardware accelerated in the alphas + +there's no reason the web shouldn't take advantage of all the power on your computer. + +the best thing that could happen to html5 right now is for internet explorer to support the rest of it + +Othereise it's going to be continuing to have these great conversations + +we're going to see the chicken and the egg 40% of the web can take advantage of HTML5. + +There's a ton of momentum behind it and it's well justified momentum. + +flash runs in firefox mobile. + +the future of the web is the web, betting against the web is a bad idea. + diff --git a/old/published/social shopping/social-shopping.txt b/old/published/social shopping/social-shopping.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06e58a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/social shopping/social-shopping.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Pundits have long accused the internet of being little more than an oversized shopping mall and with the Holiday season in full swing more and more of us are using it as one. The rise of so-called web 2.0 has given birth to a new range of shopping sites that aim to improve internet shopping and raise it to a level of sophistication and ease that the Mall of America can only dream about.
Everyone knows about Amazon, Froogle, Ebay and the other big name players, but searching for a product, whether you know specifically what you want, or you're just browsing for Christmas ideas, is just about as time consuming as wandering through the real mall. Of course you do avoid the crowds and the musak, but it's still far from perfect.
However, there's a whole crop of new shopping sites that can make your experience quicker and more enjoyable. Most of these sites don't sell anything at all, rather they help to distill, condense, search, recommend and otherwise scour the web in search of the best deal on whatever your heart desires. Instead of browsing for what you want, these sites can deliver it to your door.
The most sophisticated of these new sites is Offertrax, an innovative online shopping service that combines the best features of social bookmarking tools with RSS feeds to help you track your online shopping.
Offertrax allows you to create what it calls "tracks." Tracks are containers for bookmarks of products you interested in. When you find something you like on another site, click the bookmarklet that Offertrax provides and give the bookmark a title, description and a choice of images to represent the product. You can then add the bookmark to any of your existing tracks, or create a new track.
In addition to bookmarks Offertrax lets you add reviews, notes and control whether or not your tracks are public or private.
So far it sounds pretty much like del.icio.us or other bookmarking sites, but here's the difference: Offertrax gives you an RSS feed and will send you announcements whenever prices change or special offers are available.
Offertrax sends out bots once an hour to check all the bookmarks in your tracks. If they find a change you'll be notified in your RSS reader, or when you visit the site if RSS feeds aren't your bag.
While Offertrax lets you add reviews, the reviews are intended to be you doing the reviewing, what would be nice is a way collect other reviews from around the web. I'd like to see is a way to bookmark existing reviews and add then to my tracks. For instance, if I'm shopping for a new camera, I'd like to have all my camera bookmarks be joined with bookmarks to reviews on site like dpreview.com in the same track container. That way I could see my research and track products all in one interface. As it is the track feature is the only dynamic off-site feature.
This would probably be the time to note that Offertrax is thus far a beta product and I'm sure that they'll be adding new features in the future.
Stylefeeder is a shopping community site that also borrows some ideas from the social bookmarking sites. To say Stylefeeder is just a social bookmarking site focused on shopping is not entirely accurate. It is that, but because the bookmarks are products and because the community is public, Stylefeeder is actually a shopping site in its own right.
Rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, Stylefeeder allows you to condense everything in one place. Stylefeeder offers a nice bookmarklet for your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed.
The bookmarklet features a nice piece of Javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It's so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.
Stylefeeder has all the features you'd expect from a social bookmarking site such as tags, ratings, RSS feeds and groups. Unfortunately Stylefeeder doesn't offer RSS price updates like Offertrax, but the community around the site is definitely larger so there are more reviews and tips.
Online shopping site Mpire is another big player in the new world of online shopping. Mpire is a destination site in its own right, but for consumers the real draw may well be the recently release Firefox plugin.
Rather than trying to track prices from the site (which you can also do if you like), the plugin allows you to take the power of Mpire's price comparison tools to any site you visit. The plugin essentially put the MPire site data just a click away from nearly any shopping site.
Once installed, clicking the Mpire plugin tool will pop up a small bar at the bottom of your screen that compares prices, offers review links and other tools for the item on the page you're browsing. Similar to Farecast, the airline price comparison site, there are predictive graphs in the Mpire plugin indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales.
Unfortunately, right now the Plugin is only available for Firefox, but hopefully we'll see something similar for Internet Explorer and other Browsers in the near future.
Boddit is another new bargain shopping site that's one part search engine, one part price tracker.
Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big internet discount trackers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually, Boddit lets you search them all at once.
Boddit also offers what they call "web search, Boddit-style" which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit’s was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.
For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.
Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions and even Craig’s List.
All these sites and other like them offer you tools to improve your internet shopping experience and in the end none is really better than the other, simply different. Your best bet might be to combine them all and create your own ultimate shopping experience. After all, when it comes to deciding how to spend your hard-earned cash you can use all the tricks you can find.
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maybe needs something more descriptive at the top (i put in a marker) along the lines of "tell it what you're shopping for and it tells you where you can find the best deal. ask it to keep you updated and it will send you text messages, emails, smoke signals whenever the price goes down at any of the web's biggest e-tailers."
that's probably necessary even if you end up turning it into a "news" story. but the quotes about how this is totally going to change online shopping for everyone belong above that description if you get some good ones.
try to de-personalize it. change you --> users throughout. i did this in some sections that i edited, but i left other sections untouched, so read it through.
also, if it's re-written as a news story, you might have to cut one. which one would you cut?
With the holiday season in full swing, more and more of us are using the web as an oversized shopping mall. Thankfully, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies has given birth to a new breed of shopping site that can search and scour the web for the best deals.
Sites like Offertrax, Stylefeeder, Mpire and Boddit don't sell anything at all. Rather, they aim to improve our web purchasing intelligence by doing our bargain hunting for us and telling us when to swoop in for the kill.
_descripto here_
The most sophisticated of these new sites is Offertrax, an innovative online shopping service that combines the familiar features of social bookmarking tools with RSS feeds to help users track potential online purchases.
_or here_
Offertrax users create "tracks," or simple collections of bookmarks pointing to products found on the web.
On the suface, Offertrax has the same functionality as del.icio.us or other social bookmarking sites. However, the site also provides notifications via RSS whenever prices change or special offers are available.
Offertrax checks all of its customer's tracks every hour, sending out price change notifications whenever it encounters them. If a shopper doesn't use an RSS reader, the notifications are available on the company's website.
In addition to bookmarks Offertrax, lets users add reviews, notes and control whether or a track is public or private. Offertrax's price tracking service is currently still in beta.
Stylefeeder is a shopping community site that also borrows some ideas from the world of social bookmarking sites. Unlike Offertrax, which tracks a user's items privately, Stylefeeder hosts a searchable public community for shoppers.
Rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, Stylefeeder allows you to condense everything in one place.
Stylefeeder offers a nice bookmarklet for your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed. Images and descriptions can be assigned to each item in a user's Stylefeed.
Stylefeeder doesn't offer RSS price updates like Offertrax, but the community around the site has built a searchable database full of reviews and tips.
Mpire, another big player online shopping. Mpire is a destination site in its own right, but for consumers the real draw may well be the recently released Firefox plugin.
Rather than trying to track prices from the site (which you can also do if you like), the plugin allows you to take the power of Mpire's price comparison tools to any site you visit. The plugin essentially put the MPire site data just a click away from nearly any shopping site.
Once installed, clicking the Mpire plugin tool will pop up a small bar at the bottom of your screen that compares prices, offers review links and other tools for the item on the page you're browsing. Similar to Farecast, the airline price comparison site, there are predictive graphs in the Mpire plugin indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales.
Unfortunately, right now the Plugin is only available for Firefox, but hopefully we'll see something similar for Internet Explorer and other Browsers in the near future.
Boddit is another new bargain shopping site that's one part search engine, one part price tracker.
Boddit works by pulling in prices from a number of big internet discount trackers like Dealnews, Slickdeals, Fatwallet and many more. Rather than searching all those sites individually, Boddit lets you search them all at once.
Boddit also offers what they call "web search, Boddit-style" which amounts to creating a frame with a toolbar on the left of your browser window and performing searches of other sites in another frame. Normally I hate anything that creates frames in my browser, but Boddit’s was actually helpful and made searching multiple sites much quicker.
For instance with a single click I was able to jump from searching Pricegrabber to Froogle to Yahoo! Shopping and more. Unfortunately because Boddit apparently sends the search info as POST data, you back button will warn you about resubmitting a form, which is annoying, but worth the trade off in my opinion.
Boddit will also search and browse auctions on Ebay, Half.com and Yahoo! Auctions and even Craig’s List.
All these sites and other like them offer you tools to improve your internet shopping experience and in the end none is really better than the other, simply different. Your best bet might be to combine them all and create your own ultimate shopping experience. After all, when it comes to deciding how to spend your hard-earned cash you can use all the tricks you can find.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv3.txt b/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8290544 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv3.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +With the holiday season in full swing, more and more of us are using the web as an oversized shopping mall. Thankfully, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies has given birth to a new breed of shopping site that can search and scour the web for the best deals.
Sites like Offertrax, Stylefeeder and Mpire don't sell anything at all. Rather, they aim to improve our web purchasing intelligence by doing our bargain hunting for us and telling us when to swoop in for the kill.
Instead of simply a storefront through which you browse just as might the aisles of a department store this new breed of shopping sites brings the store to you. Tell a site like Stylefeeder what you're shopping for and it will help you find the best deal by aggragating prices and delivering them to you via email or RSS feed.
The most sophisticated of these new sites is Offertrax, an innovative online shopping service that combines the familiar features of social bookmarking tools with RSS feeds to help users track potential online purchases.
Ben Carcio, co-founder of Offertrax, says, "gone are the days where customers simply land on merchant page and expect to only see a "Buy Now" button. As customers grow more sophisticated so must the sites that server them. Carcio believes users new expect, "trustworthy product buying guides, detailed user reviews, rich media, price alerts, and access to exclusive offers without spam."
As Carcio points out, email has been so badly abused by spammers that "emergent user controlled technologies like RSS and blogs will be the most effective way for sellers to reach out to interested buyers."
To take advantage of the opt-in, spamless offering of RSS, Offertrax users create "tracks," or simple collections of bookmarks pointing to products found on the web.
On the surface, Offertrax has the same functionality as del.icio.us or other social bookmarking sites. However, the site also provides notifications via RSS whenever prices change or special offers are available.
Offertrax checks all of its customer's tracks every hour, sending out price change notifications whenever it encounters them. If a shopper doesn't use an RSS reader, the notifications are available on the company's website.
In addition to bookmarks, Offertrax lets users add reviews, notes and control whether or a track is public or private. Offertrax's price tracking service is currently still in beta.
Another big trend in online shopping is toward predictive pricing. Using past data as a map, predictive pricing attempts to tell consumers whether a price is likely to go up or down.
Predictive pricing is yet another way in which the consumers now have access to more data than retailers. In fact Carcio sees a future where, "merchants will have to come to grips with the fact that the majority of product conversations will occur outside of their sites." He also adds that "merchants need to assist customers in getting smarter about product purchases."
Until merchants themselves catch up, if they ever do, bargain hunters might want to look at Mpire, another big player in the new breed of online shopping. Mpire makes use of predictive pricing and offers a Firefox-only plugin which essentially puts the MPire site data just a click away from nearly any shopping site.
Once installed, clicking the Mpire plugin tool will pop up a small bar at the bottom of your screen that compares prices, offers review links and other tools for the item on the page you're browsing. Similar to Farecast, the airline price comparison site, there are predictive graphs in the Mpire plugin indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales.
The problem with predictive pricing though is that unlike something fairly static like airline prices, retail goods come and go, stock level fluctuate and concerns other than prices come into to play.
As Jupiter analyist Patti Freeman Evans says, "People aren't necessarily that patient." The question isn't just is the price going to drop, but as Evans says, "prices have to drop in the time frame in which a customer is interested."
Both Mpire and Offertrax also offer some social networking aspects to their services but neither is as extensive at the popular shopping community Stylefeeder. Stylefeeder borrows some ideas from the world of social bookmarking sites and unlike Offertrax, which tracks a user's items privately, Stylefeeder hosts a searchable public community for shoppers.
Stylefeeder offers a nice bookmarklet for your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed. By browsing the site and comparing your wishlists with other users you can find similar products, read reviews and find out about discounts.
Stylefeeder doesn't offer RSS price updates like Offertrax, but the community around the site has built a searchable database full of reviews and tips.
Jupiter analyist Patti Freeman Evans is cautiously optimistic about the future of online retail. She says these new sites "are a great opportunity for consumers to get into the game and get information themselves rather than relying of the retailer for that information."
"We're still looking at what the effect of these new sites will be," she adds, "The degree to which people will participate in this is still uncertain."
***wrap up
>>>>>>>>>>this is where I'd like to put some nice punchy quotes from Jupiter if possible
All these sites and other like them offer you tools to improve your internet shopping experience and in the end none is really better than the other, simply different. Your best bet might be to combine them all and create your own ultimate shopping experience. After all, when it comes to deciding how to spend your hard-earned cash you can use all the tricks you can find.
Full reviews (Monkey Bites links)
Offertrax: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in.html
Mpire: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/online_shopping.html
Stylefeeder: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stylefeeder.html
Quotes:
- Merchants will have to come to grips with the fact that the majority of
product conversations will occur outside of their sites. They also can't
expect customers to simply volunteer to provide reviews on their site.
- The microscopic conversion rate of merchants (<3%) is masked by the fact
that industry grows at almost 100% per year, but this growth is bound to
slow and competition will increase. So, merchants need to assist customers
in getting smarter about product purchases. This can be done by providing
effective buying guides and user product reviews, but merchants have to see
that alot of conversation is occouring outside of their sites on blogs,
MySpace, Friendster, etc. So the ones that will survive are the ones that
see that they need add value on their site, while allowing for customers to
take their data and aggregate it on services such as Offertrax.
- As we collect data it makes sense to show some price forecasting. We would
likely partner with a group to provide this.
So, the Offertrax beta is now four weeks old. But, unlike most companies in
"beta", its a "real" BETA, so we're busy watching and polling our users as
we set to launch the next set of refinements. Some parts of how I answer
your questions will be rolling out over the next three months or so, but
feel free to mention any of it in your article.
Offertrax is changing (or will change) the way people shop online and if so
how?
Offertrax creates an exciting new way to shop by allowing individuals to
create their own personal shopping guides. These guides can be personal or
shared with other shoppers. The shared guides create groupings of shoppers
interested in the same products. Merchants can then push exclusive offers to
these groups of interested consumers. To push these offers a merchant is
charged a fee set by the creator of the guide, Offertrax takes a commission
and pays the guide. The customer benefits from trusted information and
exclusive offers, sellers benefit from being able to directly target
extremely interested customers, and the guide creator can benefit from
making some money for their time.
What do you see as the future of online retail from a consumer's
point-of-view?
Well, gone are the days where customers simply land on merchant page and
expect to only see a "Buy Now" button. Customers seek trustworthy product
buying guides, detailed user reviews, rich media, price alerts, and access
to exclusive offers without spam. Merchants have abused email so badly that
emergent user controlled technologies like RSS and blogs will be the most
effective way for sellers to reach out to interested buyers
... the RSS bit is what I see as the focus, does Offertrax see it that way
as well? Do you have any additional thoughts about that?
We are incredibly charged up about how RSS can change the relationship
between buyer and seller, but we don't want to oversell RSS simply as a
technology for technology sake. Customers care little of how we do it, and
more how we make them smarter about buying. That said, the great revolution
of RSS is that it is pure opt-in messaging tool. It's opt-in nature is what
makes it so powerful and if implemented correctly give that power back to
the customer. People are realizing that when they give their email address
to a merchant they have effectively lost control. Although most sites adhere
to an opt-in policy, there are clever workarounds, and in some cases illegal
violations of privacy policies. So email marketing is broken and spam reins
supreme. Enter Offertrax. We see Offertrax as a trusted intermediary
between the buyer and the seller, and the only way to provide this is to
base our solution around RSS and other user controlled technologies.
What are Offertrax's long term goals?
Our long term goal is to create the premier user controlled community for
shopping guides and buying information. We view it as an effective
destination for sellers and buyers to collaborate on the process of buying a
product, where they can feel safe that we won't abuse their privacy and
provide them will relevant information.
Who do you see as your direct competitors?
We see two groups as competitors, the existing shopping comparison sites,
and the emerging shopping list tools. The shopping comparison sites offer
many of the same tools we provide, but with critical differences. For one,
we ask the customer to take control of the guide, this allows for more
customer control, and hopefully these guides will touch on topics not
normally covered by the likes of CNet or shopping.com. To use a buzz word,
Offertrax provides users the ability to create "long-tail" product guides.
In addition, the Offertrax price tracking tool allows customers to track any
product, while most shopping comparison engines only cover a small
percentage of the total shopping sites in existence. The second group is the
shopping list tools, such as Kaboodle, Wists, MyPickList, StyleFeeder. These
are simple tools that allow people to list product they want. Offertrax can
function this way, but we look for deeper interaction such as user reviews,
notes, price comparisons, and customer endorsements. In addition, the seller
has no direct way to participate and are force to work with more passive
affiliate or advertising systems. Essentially the seller is kept out of the
conversation.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv4.txt b/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..782bd86 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/social shopping/social-shoppingv4.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +With the holiday season in full swing, more and more of us are using the web as an oversized shopping mall. Thankfully, the rise of Web 2.0 technologies has given birth to a new breed of shopping site that can search and scour the web for the best deals.
Sites like Offertrax, Stylefeeder and Mpire don't sell anything at all. Rather, they aim to improve our web purchasing intelligence by doing our bargain hunting for us and telling us when to swoop in for the kill.
Instead of simply a storefront through which you browse just as might the aisles of a department store this new breed of shopping sites brings the store to you. Tell a site like Offertrax what you're shopping for and it will help you find the best deal by aggregating prices and delivering them to you via email or RSS feed.
Ben Carcio, co-founder of Offertrax, says, "gone are the days where customers simply land on a merchant page and expect to only see a "Buy Now" button. As customers grow more sophisticated so must the sites that server them." Carcio believes users now expect, "trustworthy product buying guides, detailed user reviews, rich media, price alerts, and access to exclusive offers without spam."
As Carcio points out, email has been so badly abused by spammers that "emergent user controlled technologies like RSS and blogs will be the most effective way for sellers to reach out to interested buyers."
To take advantage of the opt-in, spamless offering of RSS, Offertrax users create "tracks," or simple collections of bookmarks pointing to products found on the web.
Offertrax checks all of its customer's tracks every hour, sending out price change notifications via RSS whenever it encounters them. If a shopper doesn't use an RSS reader, the notifications are available on the company's website. In addition to bookmarks, Offertrax lets users add reviews, notes and control whether or a track is public or private. Offertrax's price tracking service is currently still in beta.
Another big trend in online shopping is toward predictive pricing. Using past data as a map, predictive pricing attempts to tell consumers whether a price is likely to go up or down.
Mpire, an online shopping community site is currently testing the predictive pricing waters. One of the more popular features on Mpire is the Firefox plugin which essentially puts the MPire site data just a click away from nearly any shopping site. If you're browsing on Amazon and want to know the price at another retailer, the plugin can tell you as well as make guesses about future price trends.
As Jupiter analyst Patti Freeman Evans says, "People aren't necessarily that patient." The question isn't just is the price going to drop, but also, as Evans says, "prices have to drop in the timeframe in which a customer is interested."
Predictive pricing has proved a strong draw for the airline price search site Farecast. The problem with predictive pricing in traditional retail is that, unlike the fairly static realm of airline routes, retail goods come and go, stock levels fluctuate and concerns other than price influence consumers.
Mpire founder and chief marketing director Dave Cotter points out, "the higher dollar value the more value there is in the predictive price." So far Mpire has focused on predictive pricing for internet auctions on sites like Ebay and Craig's List. "The thing our users like the most is to able to see new and auction based prices in a single view," says Cotter.
Both Mpire and Offertrax also offer some social networking aspects to their services but neither is quite as extensive as the popular shopping site Stylefeeder, which hosts a searchable community for shoppers.
So will consumer driven sites like Stylefeeder change the way we shop? Evans says it depends, "I think that destination retail websites will be with us for a long time."
What social sites like Stylefeeder offer is new and more targeted way to get to the traditional online retailers.
"The biggest opportunity may be in niche areas with passionate consumers," Evans adds.
Evans is cautiously optimistic about the future of online retail. She says these new sites "are a great opportunity for consumers to get into the game and get information themselves rather than relying of the retailer for that information."
"We're still looking at what the effect of these new sites will be," she adds, "The degree to which people will participate in this is still uncertain."
All these sites and others like them offer you tools to improve your internet shopping experience and in the end none is really better than the other, simply different. Your best bet might be to combine them all and create your own ultimate shopping experience. After all, when it comes to deciding how to spend your hard-earned cash you can use all the tricks you can find.
Full reviews (Monkey Bites links)
Offertrax: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in.html
Mpire: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/online_shopping.html
Stylefeeder: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/stylefeeder.html
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/social-bookmarking-articleV1.txt b/old/published/social-bookmarking-articleV1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78f308b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/social-bookmarking-articleV1.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Everyone knows that storing your bookmarks online just makes sense, and being able to share your bookmarks and search through other people's bookmarks is great way to discover new sites. But the phenomenon of "social bookmarking" has exploded in the last year and with so many sites out there offering their services, which one should you chose?
There is no one site that has it all. Some sites focus more on sharing and discovery, while others offer more options for sorting and organizing.
Last week we set out to review some of the more popular social bookmarking websites on the Monkey Bites blog. We discovered that almost all these sites have the same basic features, browser bookmarklets for easily saving pages, RSS feeds, good support for tagging, and various ways of sharing your bookmarks with the world.
Where each of these sites differ is what features they offer on top of the basic feature set. What works best for you will depend somewhat on what advanced features you're looking for.
Here's our list of the best places to store and share your bookmarks while searching and discovering new sites from other users.
**del.icio.us**
Del.icio.us is the social bookmarking site that started the whole trend and it remains one of the most popular. Thanks to its handy search and sharing features, del.icio.us is also an interesting site to explore even if you don't use it for storage.
**Good:** del.icio.us is simple and easy to use, has excellent sharing features, and has a nice, if poorly documented, backend API which means there are lots of tools like browser toolbars, Firefox plugins and more.
**Bad:** There aren't a lot of organizational options in del.icio.us, you can tag entries, but there's no folders or other storage mechanisms that newcomers may expect. The other downside to del.icio.us is it doesn't take screen captures of your page nor does it cache the bookmarked page. If the page disappears, so does the usefulness of your bookmark.
**Overall:** Ease of use and number of add-ons will appeal to newcomers and del.icio.us is probably the most widely used, thus offering a large pool of potential search results.
Wired News rating: 6
**Wink**
Wink is a relative newcomer, but it already has a strong following thanks to it's amazing search capabilities. In addition to the bookmarks users submit and store, Wink also scrapes tags from del.icio.us, Yahoo MyWeb, Flickr and offers a feature that it calls "PeopleRank." PeopleRank allows anyone to rate the quality of search results with a simple five-star system.
**Good:** Wink offers roughly the same storage features as del.icio.us, but adds a fantastic search engine on top. Wink also makes it easy to (manually) sync with del.icio.us so you can use both in conjunction.
**Bad:** Wink's features are not well documented and new users may be overwhelmed. Unlike some of the other sites reviewed, Wink does not offer page cache feature.
**Overall:** The great search features make Wink worth a visit even if you don't end up using the site.
Wired News rating: 5
**Furl**
LookSmart's Furl sets itself apart with excellent export formats and a plethora of metadata options. Furl caches bookmarked pages for you which means you can view the content even if the original page disappears. Furl also allows you to export your archives, cached pages and all, to a zip file for easy backup, something none of the other services offer.
**Good:** Furl has an excellent wide range of export options, including the ability to create BibTeX endnotes, handy for students and other researchers. The option to leave comments on other's bookmarks is very nice for "if you liked this..." type suggestions.
**Bad:** The organizational options on Furl are limited to tags and there are no thumbnail screen captures.
**Overall:** Furl has a very nice feature set and excellent export options.
Wired News rating: 7
**StumbleUpon**
StumbleUpon is the most unique of the bookmarking sites we looked at. As its name implies, StumbleUpon takes social bookmarking into the realm of randomness -- instead of searching, you stumble. Of course you can search too, but StumbleUpon makes it easy and fun to randomly jump around the web. The biggest downside to StumbleUpon is that it requires the installation of a toolbar which is only available for IE and Mozilla browsers.
**Good:** StumbleUpon is an addictive, fun way to browse the web and store your bookmarks. It also has some good bookmark organization options not seen on other sites.
**Bad:** StumbleUpon loses points for requiring the installation of a toolbar. As with some others, there are no thumbnails and no page caching.
**Overall:** StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site, but it's also much more. Recommended for those who've been spending all their time in an RSS reader and those with time to kill.
Wired News rating: 6
**BlinkList**
Started in June of last year, BlinkList has already gained quite a following and will likely appeal to people looking for a way to display link or tags on their blog, MySpace and other pages. BlinkList will give you Javascript widgets to show both links and tags, just cut-and-paste the provided code into your page.
**Good:** All these sites offer one-click bookmarking, but only BlinkList will autofill the description field with whatever text you highlight on the bookmarked page. BlinkList can also import bookmarks from a number of competing sites and offers thumbnails for all your pages.
**Bad:** BlinkList offers no backend API and has limited export options.
**Overall** BlinkList has come a long way in a short time and if it continues to add features and gain new users, it could well overtake del.icio.us.
Wired News rating: 7
**Ma.gnolia**
Ma.gnolia works very similar to del.icio.us and offers almost all the same basic features but it adds a few more. Like some of the others, Ma.gnolia allows you to rate your bookmarks using a 5 star rating system (very similar to NetFlix). Ma.gnolia also recently added a feature they call "roots." Roots is a javascript bookmarklet that you can save in your browser and when you're on a page, just click the bookmarklet and a javascript window will overlay the page and display how many ma.gnolia users have linked to that site and give their ratings and descriptions of the site.
**Good:** Ma.gnolia is essentially del.icio.us with a better design and handful of additional features. It offers screen captures and page caches for all bookmarks and has the most robust backend API of the bunch. It even offers an API that mirrors that of del.icio.us so add-on tools that work with del.icio.us can work with ma.gnolia as well.
**Bad:** Your organizational options are limited to tags and groups in ma.gnolia and while the interface design is easy on the eye, some may find it slower than del.icio.us.
**Overall:** Ma.gnolia seems to be popular with those looking to do more with their bookmarks like pull them into a blog or other page.
Wired News rating: 8
**OnlyWire**
Finally, for those that can't make up their mind, Monkey Bites readers suggested OnlyWire. OnlyWire doesn't store any bookmarks, instead it provides a bookmarklet for saving bookmarks and then it takes your page and whatever descriptive info you fill in and submits it to up to seventeen other bookmarking sites.
Just provide your sign in name and password for all your social bookmark sites and you can simultaneously maintain bookmarks on seventeen sites. And if that's not enough you can send OnlyWire a note asking them to add your favorite site.
The main downside to the OnlyWire method is you can only submit the information that is common to all sites, namely, a url, title, description and tags.
Wired News rating: 7
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/superbowlpartyplanner.txt b/old/published/superbowlpartyplanner.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ea7a81 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/superbowlpartyplanner.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +The Super Bowl Party is an American institution that outpaces all other parties, even New Year's Eve. Americans spent 5.6 billion dollars on Super Bowl party planning, supplies and cleanup last year. Chances are, even if you're only in it for Janet Jackson's nipple, you'll still find yourself in front of someone's television come February 4th.
Hallmark estimates that the attendance for Super Bowl shindigs hovers around 17 arcana-wielding, thirsty, snack-craving football fans who are libel to riot if your beer supply runs dry in the third quarter.
But fear not party planners, the web is here to help. Whether it's sending out invitations, coordinating chips and dip, or cleaning up after the masses, Wired's got you covered.
For planning and invitations many will turn to the old standby, [Evite][1], but there's some new web 2.0 sites on the block that are trying to move beyond simple invitations. [Renkoo][2], [Skobee][3], and [MyPunchBowl][4] set themselves apart from the pack by incorporating pre-evite event planning tools and in the later case, post-party memory sharing.
MyPunchbowl, which launched just in time for the Super Bowl, offers a suite of party planning tools that aim to make your life easier. Using MyPunchBowl is simple, just create an account, create a party and add your friends to the list. MyPunchBowl will import your address book from most popular online e-mail providers.
Once you have everything set up you can send out your announcement (for events farther in the future you can send out a "save the date" message to announce a party you haven't fully planned yet). Before you send the announcement MyPunchBowl makes it possible to put a personalized message for each recipient at the top of your general email.
When your friends receive the message they can RSVP and there's no need for them to sign up to respond. There's also a forum-like tool included with each party page so people can ask questions and you can answer them. Unlike some services, MyPunchBowl offers you the option to show or hide your guest list from other invitees.
Wired party planning tip: Go with the public option and be sure to set up something like scarlett_johansson@gmail.com and include it on your invite list.
Any time you want to nag your friends who haven't committed to bringing the beer or chips you can use MyPunchBowl to send out personalized, taunting messages to the slackers.
Once you have the party planning basics covered it's time to get to the finer points of competitive sports -- online betting. Having your team win is nice, but having your team earn you a bunch of your friends' money is even better. Is it legal? Not in the U.S. and most betting sites are offshore so proceed at your own risk.
Gottabet is a British site rises above the crowd and allows you to bet on nearly anything using real money or, more legally, a site currency dubbed "peanuts." Gottabet functions like a typical social networking site, create an account and profile and you can invite your friends to join. Once you create a bet you can restrict it to private or by invitation only.
Settlement of bets involving real money is done by credit and debit cards and Gottabet takes a 5% fee off the top of your pot. It's also possible send a portion of the proceeds to charity.
So what happens after the party is over, everyone has gone home and you find yourself alone faced with cleaning up? For the lazy there's always the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner, but depending on how closely your friends mirror the eating habits of barnyard animals, you may want something stronger.
Gadget Lab recently [reviewed][5] the Dyson Root 6 handheld vacuum and found it devoured everything from rocks to bobby pins. It doesn't have much battery life but the suction power is unmatched and by most accounts it's loud enough to wake up any passed out stragglers languishing in the dark corners of your domicile. Plus it looks like something from a Terry Gilliam film.
But there's more to the after party than clean up, it's time to share memories. So far as I know, Hallmark doesn't have any good sarcastic sorry-my-team-whooped-your-team's-butt cards to send out on monday morning while gloating to your friends, but you could always create your own with [MyCardMaker][6].
If you used MyPunchBowl to plan your party, you can upload your photos to Flickr and display the sets for others to browse through on your MyPunchBowl party page. Once your photos are on Flickr, just enter your Flickr username in MyPunchBowl and you'll see all your photos. Send out your photo announcement and your party guests can see your pictures and add their own as well.
With these web tools at your disposal you should able to tame the Super Bowl Party beast. Have fun and may the best team win. Go Patriots! Wait, what? Oh.
[1]: http://www.evite.com/ "evite"
[2]: http://renkoo.com/ "Renkoo.com"
[3]: http://www.skobee.com/ "Skobee.com"
[4]: http://www.mypunchbowl.com/ "MyPunchBowl"
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/review_dyson_ro.html "Gadget Lab: Dyson Root 6 handheld vacuum"
[6]: http://www.mycardmaker.com/ "MyCardMaker"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/system76review.txt b/old/published/system76review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7502cc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/system76review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +The day of the Linux desktop might never arrive, but Linux users are getting some increasingly impressive hardware tailored to their needs thanks to Linux-devoted hardware makers like [ZaReason](https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/), [Purism](https://puri.sm/) and [System76](https://system76.com/). + +Why would even the biggest of Linux fans need dedicated Linux hardware? Well, aside from getting rid of that pesky Windows key, the big draw is that, to borrow a catch phrase from System76, you can stop fighting your hardware and just run Linux. There's no need to wrestle with obscure drivers, risk having an unsupported screen resolution or any of the other problems Linux users face when re-purposing Windows machines. + +After using System76's recently revamped Lemur laptop for over a month now I am happy to report that yes, it is rather nice to not ever need to think about drivers or hardware at all. In fact it reminds me of Apple hardware of seven years ago -- everything just works. Except for Skype, but that's not surprising given its current owner (and my problems appear to have been the result of a [bug in Ubuntu](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/1078068), not System76 hardware). + +The Lemur is ostensibly System76's low end laptop. It's certainly the cheapest at the base configuration, but that's not really the whole story -- the Lemur is highly configurable depending on your needs. The low end starts at $700 and gets you an Intel i3 chip at 2.3GHz, along with 4GB of RAM and 500GB 7200 drive. From there you can run all the way up to $2250, which will upgrade the processor to an i7-6500Ui, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB M.2 SSD and another 2TB SSD. + +All models feature a very nice 14.1″ 1920×1080 matte IPS display, Intel 520 graphics card, multitouch touchpad, a chiclet-style keyboard, HDMI and VGA ports, a 720p webcam and a removable 4 Cell battery. Yes, a removable battery. You can even buy a few extra. All of that comes in metal-framed, understated gray plastic package that weighs 3.6 pounds. + +The particular model System76 sent me features the i7 processor, 8 GB RAM and 120GB M.2 SSD, putting it pretty squarely in the middle of the Lemur lineup. The model I tested retails for $977. + +Like all System76 machines it came preloaded with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (and features the Ubuntu logo on the "Windows" key). If you're already a Linux user there are no surprises here. If Ubuntu is not to your liking, System76 machines work just fine with all the version of Linux I loaded up (Mint, Debian and Fedora). Official support is limited to Ubuntu, but unofficially the System76 folks I talked to said they would always do what they could for users who opt for a different distro. + +And this is precisely the advantage of System76 machines over, for example, Dell's Precision and Latitude models -- which are optimized for Ubuntu. In a word: support. While Dell's support has been, in my experience with the first round of [XPS 13 Developer Edition](http://www.wired.com/2013/07/dell-xps-linux/), hit or miss, with an emphasis on the latter. + +System76 on the other hand has been nothing short of amazing. It might help that System76's Linux support isn't a goodwill effort for a small group of developers, but is in fact its sole business. Which is to say that the support is better and won't disappear on you. + +That said, everything here just works so you may not even need the support. + +The Lemur is not the most powerful rig out there (If you want something with more power, check out the [Oryx Pro](https://system76.com/laptops/oryx), which can pack in up to 64GB of RAM and 5 TB of solid state storage). While the Lemur isn't the most powerful laptop out there it was able to handle everything I do on a regular basis, even the more intensive stuff like editing a reasonably large photo library in [Darktable](http://darktable.org/) (about 30,000 images) and editing 4K video (using [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/)) without too much trouble (rendering video did take quite a while, but that's true on my 2012 Macbook Pro as well). + +Where the Lemur falls on its face is battery life. System76 claims the battery will last through a flight across the country, which is an interestingly vague metric, but assuming that means 4.5 hours, then I'd agree. + +I was able to get almost 5 hours of battery life when I stuck to basic web browsing and text editing. That's okay for a $700 laptop, but pretty bad if you spend $2000+ on one of the higher end models. On the plus side that is a removable battery so you can always pick up a second one (and I suggest you do if you plan to be away from power source all day). + +Despite the dismal battery life the Lemur is a solid laptop, the first I've tested that I wish I could keep. The design is simple and well thought out, the hardware works flawlessly with Linux and at the mid to upper end of the configuration spectrum, it's plenty powerful enough for the average Linux user. + +Wired: Hardware problems are a thing of the past for Linux users, nice matte display and plenty of power in the mid to high end configurations. + +Tired: Battery life leaves much to be desired, official support is limited to Ubuntu Linux and RAM maxes out at 16GB. diff --git a/old/published/tantektranscript.txt b/old/published/tantektranscript.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e2238d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/tantektranscript.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +12:04:10 PM luxagraf: tantek- +12:04:33 PM luxagraf: hello this is scott gilbertson from wired news. i met you at SXSW at the microformats panel... +12:04:33 PM tantekc: greetings +12:05:12 PM luxagraf: I'm working on an article/how-to sort of piece for wired on microformats and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions. +12:05:56 PM tantekc: hi scott, yes, absolutely, but can it wait until 10:30am? i have a couple of meetings this morning +12:06:10 PM luxagraf: sure that's fine. +1:54:02 PM luxagraf: okay. First off how would you describe microformats? +1:54:15 PM luxagraf: Alex Faaborg writes that microformats are "adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable." Would you say that's a fair description of your goals for microformats? +1:56:45 PM tantekc: not really +1:57:03 PM tantekc: i'm not even sure what that means to a normal/average person, or even a normal/average tech-reader +1:59:11 PM luxagraf: well I take it to mean that instead of just parsing the code that machine can recognize that there's something meaningful in the code that can be manipulated. but that is admittedly a bit obscure. +2:00:02 PM tantekc: http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformats has good summaries +2:01:46 PM luxagraf: so the emphasis is more on easy of reading/writing... +2:01:53 PM luxagraf: by the average person +2:08:16 PM tantekc: and frankly, making even average web pages both more useful and more usable to the average person +2:08:32 PM tantekc: a simple example is the contact/about page for a company +2:09:20 PM tantekc: before microformats, you had to select/copy/switch-to-addressbook/click-in-field/paste the company name, address, phone number, fax, email etc. +2:09:37 PM tantekc: if you do the math, that's like 5 steps per field +2:10:07 PM tantekc: if you assume 5 fields (which is being conservative, given that address alone is typically street, city, state, zip) +2:10:28 PM tantekc: then that's like 25 steps/actions! just to copy contact info to your address book from a web page! +2:11:36 PM tantekc: OTOH if you go to today's hCard microformatted contact info pages, e.g.: http://technorati.com/about/contact.html +2:11:46 PM tantekc: and click the "Add to Address Book" link +2:12:12 PM tantekc: with a single click you are able to add contact info as one logical "chunk" of information to your addressbook. presto. +2:12:19 PM tantekc: making existing common things more usable. +2:13:05 PM tantekc: similarly for events on web pages (where you have to copy paste the date, title, location etc.) and hCalendar +2:13:15 PM tantekc: which enables one click add to calendar +2:13:57 PM luxagraf: provided you have operator installed right? or does that work regardless of browser? +2:14:10 PM tantekc: in that URL I gave you - regardless of browser +2:14:21 PM tantekc: because the page has a "Add to Address Book" link +2:14:30 PM luxagraf: right, but for the hCalendar +2:14:42 PM tantekc: which does the address book transformation for you +2:14:42 PM tantekc: for hCalendar, same thing +2:14:46 PM tantekc: see http://barcamp.org/ for an example +2:15:23 PM luxagraf: ah. okay. I didn't know that. +2:16:05 PM tantekc: individuals can do it too, for the events they are attending or speaking at +2:16:20 PM tantekc: e.g the "Subscribe..." link on the left side of my blog near the events: http://tantek.com/ +2:18:12 PM luxagraf: one of the things that I've noticed about microformats is that as more and more sites start to use them, they almost take the place of an API... the data that you might be trying to aggregate or pull in is right in the page and can be parsed out without using a formal API (in simple cases anyway). Do you see that as something microformats will be used for more in the future? +2:18:30 PM tantekc: precisely! +2:18:39 PM tantekc: and here's the key to that +2:18:43 PM luxagraf: For instance edgeio is scraping hListing data +2:18:44 PM tantekc: *any* HTML author can add microformats +2:18:47 PM tantekc: you don't need to be a programmer +2:18:50 PM tantekc: as opposed to an API +2:18:55 PM luxagraf: right +2:19:01 PM tantekc: which requires someone who at least has some backend programming skills +2:19:11 PM tantekc: and microformats sometimes even do a *better* job +2:19:19 PM tantekc: because they reflect the *actual data* visible on the page +2:19:23 PM tantekc: which is often what people want anyway +2:19:30 PM tantekc: rather than some random abstraction that a programmer came up with +2:19:44 PM tantekc: microformats can handle 80/20 of API needs on typical sites like that +2:19:59 PM tantekc: and will scale more easily to more sites +2:20:26 PM tantekc: since there are 100x if not 1000x more people that can edit a little simple HTML, rather than code some indecipherable Perl/Python etc. +2:20:41 PM tantekc: lower barriers to entry for publishing are key +2:20:49 PM tantekc: imagine if every site could be mashed up +2:24:22 PM luxagraf: right and it also takes some burden off the site developers as well, they don't have to design an api +2:25:04 PM tantekc: yes, or rather the easy ones +2:27:59 PM luxagraf: so there's really two levels here, the user interaction through the page and then the mashup between sites for those that know a little bit of html +2:31:31 PM tantekc: and then there's the search level too +2:32:11 PM tantekc: just as today's SEO folks are slowly discovering that valid semantic XHTML that uses <h1> for top level headings and other such proper semantic tags work well on today's well established search engines +2:33:06 PM tantekc: by marking up contacts with hCard, events with hCalendar, reviews with hReview, listings with hListing, search engines will be (and are) able to find that information on those sites better +2:33:50 PM tantekc: in fact some microformats are already being parsed and handled by the big search engines +2:34:15 PM tantekc: e.g. rel-license, the microformat for license links, is parsed and supported by Google and Yahoo's license/CC search +2:36:33 PM tantekc: rel-tag is supported by Technorati and others for browsing tagged blog posts +2:37:04 PM tantekc: Technorati has a technology preview of contacts/events/reviews search on http://kitchen.technorati.com/ +2:37:13 PM tantekc: Alexa has a prototype hCard search from data from their crawls +2:37:34 PM tantekc: And of course edgeio.com already incorporates hListing support in the search *and* results. +2:41:22 PM luxagraf: how do feel about Firefox adding microformat support, do you think that browser support is necessary or is it sort on a nice, but non essential aspect? +2:41:49 PM tantekc: I think it is an essential step +2:42:01 PM tantekc: it makes it that much easier for both users and content/site publishers +2:42:24 PM tantekc: There is a lot of potential as demonstrated by plugins like Operator +2:42:43 PM tantekc: the way it uses microformats to seamlessly let you move around big logical chunks of information +2:42:46 PM tantekc: among various sites you use +2:42:58 PM tantekc: it makes all of those sites more useful +Changed status to Offline (2:44:03 PM) +Changed status to Online (2:53:28 PM) +2:57:35 PM luxagraf: tantek- thanks for your time. I think I have enough stuff for the article. my editor wanted me to ask if there was a photo of you on flickr or the like that he could use for the story... +2:58:21 PM tantekc: something microformats related perhaps? +2:58:27 PM tantekc: let me check... +2:59:22 PM luxagraf: I guess so. he said if it's easier he can come by your office and take one, I guess you're just around the corner from wired. +3:02:19 PM tantekc: this is a good one: http://flickr.com/photos/kk/389322202/ - i think kk would give permission if you simply attributed the photo to him. +3:08:22 PM luxagraf: okya that'll work. Thanks again +3:21:07 PM tantekc: great! let me know if i can be of further assistance. KK's email is kk@kriskrug.com BTW if you want to email him to ask permission to use the photo. +3:21:34 PM luxagraf: cool. thank you. +Changed status to Idle (3:34:50 PM) diff --git a/old/published/thunderbird.txt b/old/published/thunderbird.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd5db23 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/thunderbird.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Mozilla is set to release the final build of its popular email client, Thunderbird, and the public release will follow roughly a month after that. Mozilla claims Thunderbird, which is built on the same technology as the Firefox browser, has 80 million users worldwide and the community of developers who support it have translated it into over 35 languages. + +But with GMail gaining users everyday and Yahoo Mail's recently announced unlimited email storage offer, does anyone need a desktop email client anymore? + +To find out where Mozilla stands on web apps, desktop clients and the future of your email I recently say down with Scott MacGregor, lead engineer Thunderbird at Mozilla. + + + +Thunderbird is an open source email client built on the same technology as Firefox + +Thunderbird has support for vista and in available over 35 languages + +With thunderbird we're trying to focus on a few key ears, people still get too much mail so we've focused on ways to better manage your inbox. We've really seen an explosive growth of people and companies building addons for Thunderbird and we've tried to make it easier for those developers + +Focus on tagging. We get most of our feature suggestions from user feed back and with the popularity of tagging on popular websites like Flickr led people to overwhelming want to apply that to email. + +labels vs tags Thunderbird no longer has labels tags are just more flexible labels. + +Another thing that came out from the web is the back and forward buttons, a lot of users wanted to have that functionality in the email client. It makes it really easy to + + +Mail alerts. are mac only. + +find as you type. + +Why is open source security better than a proprietary solution? + +Phishing protection -- when you look at a message thunderbird analyzes all the urls in a message and if they come from known + +one of the great things about open source is that you have the entire community of thousands of users looking to find vulnerabilities. We have what I call the security swat team, people who are always watching for reports of vulnerabilities and it allows us to find problems faster, correct them faster and get them out in update form. + + +One of the advantages of the mozilla platform is its extensibility and we've tried to make the architecture even better to allow developers to make even more powerful extensions. + + +Everything is moving online why are you building a desktop client? + +Thunderwird can aggregate your webmail accounts in one place. It's also comforting to know that I have backup of my mail. + +A lot of users don't know all that information and we wanted to GMail integration through email address. All the user has to do is enter an email address and Thunderbird will figure out the server details for them. + +We're planning to add more webmail services and even ISP providers in future releases. It's also possible to write extensions for other popular web email providers. + + + +What advantages does Thunderbird offer that a web-based solution like Gmail doesn't? + + + + +Plans for the future? + +We'll start collecting feedback from users once the new version is released and then we'll sit down as a community and figure out what we're going to do. + +Addressbook integration? + +We're very close to having support and that will be part of the next release + +Microformats support? + +I think that's a really interesting thing for us to look at for the next release. Say you get a message that says let's eat at this restuarant at this date and then to be able to extract that out to claendars and contact information. that would be huge. In some way I think that microformats in mail would be even more powerful in mail because its tailored especially for you whereas on a web page it may not be. + +What's up with Eudora version? + +Penelope we're all working on the same code base going forward. + +Have many developer's updated their add-ons at this point or should the average user wait a little while? + +It will take a while to propagate out. Most of them wait until the RC1 when they know the code won't be changing much. + +Vista integration after beta 2.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/thunderbird2.txt b/old/published/thunderbird2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e94b0b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/thunderbird2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +Mozilla is set to release the final build of its popular email client, Thunderbird, and the public release will follow roughly a month after that. Mozilla claims Thunderbird, which is built on the same technology as the Firefox browser, has 80 million users worldwide and the community of developers who support it have translated it into over 35 languages. + +But with GMail gaining users everyday and Yahoo Mail's recently announced unlimited email storage offer, does anyone need a desktop email client anymore? + +To find out where Mozilla stands on web apps, desktop clients and the future of your email I recently spoke with Scott MacGregor, lead engineer Thunderbird at Mozilla. + +Wired News: With seemingly every aspect of our data moving toward online apps rather than the traditional desktop model, why is Mozilla still interested in a desktop email client? + +Scott MacGregor: + +****[I have a response to this, but it wasn't quite accurate (he said something about GMail that wasn't true) so I asked him for a better response which I want to integrate here and lead to the GMail/webmail integration question] + + +One of the advantages of the mozilla platform is its extensibility and we've tried to make the architecture even better to allow developers to make even more powerful extensions. + + +Everything is moving online why are you building a desktop client? + +Thunderwird can aggregate your webmail accounts in one place. It's also comforting to know that I have backup of my mail. + + +WN: How does the webmail integration work? + +A lot of users want to check their webmail accounts using a desktop client, but they don't know all the information necessary to connect. For instance with GMail you need to know the server names in addition to your login information. We wanted to make the process easier for users so we've provided GMail integration using just an email address. All the user has to do is enter their email address and password and Thunderbird will figure out the server details for them. + +For the Mac version we've provided the same one step integration with .Mac. We're planning to add more webmail services and even ISP providers in future releases. In the mean time it's possible for developers to write extensions for other popular web email providers. + + +WN: Mozilla touts the "open source security" model, why is open source security better than a proprietary solution? + +SM: One of the great things about open source is that you have the entire community, thousands of users, looking to find in Thunderbird. And when they do, we have what I call the security swat team, people who are always watching for reports of vulnerabilities and helping to patch them. The open source model allows us to find problems faster, correct them faster and get updates out to users. + +We've built a number of security features into Thunderbird like hishing protection -- when you view at a message Thunderbird analyzes all the urls in it to see if they might be trying to trick the user. Thunderbird displays a warning at the top of the message when it thinks something malicious is going on. If the user clicks the links anyway Thunderbird then pops up a warning dialog. If you're using Firefox as your browser, you really have two lines of defense since Firefox also has built in phishing protection. + +WN: What are some of the key features in the new version of Thunderbird? + +SM: With Thunderbird 2.0 we're trying to focus on a few key features. People still get too much email to easily sort it, so we've focused on ways to better manage your inbox. The new mail alerts feature makes it easy to see new mail without having to stop what you're doing and change applications. [NW note: This feature is only available in Windows and Linux version of Thunderbird] + +We get most of our feature suggestions from user feedback and with the popularity of tagging on popular websites like Flickr led people to overwhelming want to apply that to email. So tagging support is one of the key new features. + +Another thing that came out from the web is the back and forward buttons. A lot of users wanted to have that functionality in the email client. It makes it really easy to jump back and forth between recent messages. + +We've also added full support for Windows Vista. + +And we've really seen an explosive growth of people and companies building add-ons for Thunderbird so we've tried to make it easier for those developers by improving the add-on framework. + + +WN: Have many developer's updated their add-ons at this point or should the average user wait a little while? + +SM: It will take a while for Thunderbird 2.0 to propagate out. Most of the add-on developers wait until the RC1 when they know the code won't be changing much and then they update their add-ons. + + +WN: Firefox is planning to support microformats in the next version, any plans for microformats in Thunderbird? + +SM: I think that's a really interesting thing for us to look at for the next release. In some way I think that microformats would be even more powerful in a mail app because the data is tailored especially for you, whereas on a web page it may not be. For instance, say you get a message that says let's eat at this restuarant at this date etc, to then to be able to extract that out to calendars and contact managers would be really nice for users. + +WN: Speaking of address books, Mac users have been clamoring for support for the Address Book app in OS X, is that part of the Thunderbird roadmap? + +SM: We're very close to having integration support for Address Book and that will be part of the next release. + +WN: What are Thunderbird's plans for the future? + +We'll start collecting feedback from users once the new version is released and then we'll sit down as a community and figure out what we're going to do. + + + + diff --git a/old/published/torrent-how-to.txt b/old/published/torrent-how-to.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d488d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/torrent-how-to.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +BitTorrent has been around for 6 years now and its no longer just for nerds, but for newcomers used to Kaaza or Limewire, the hottest file sharing ticket on the internet can be a little bewildering. + +Background + +Bittorrent is not a program. In fact it's just a protocol that enables you to download files via a distributed peer-to-peer network. Rather than grabbing a single file from a single user, as is the case with Limewire and other programs, with bittorrent you grab little pieces of the file from a multitude of users. + +While it's not any more complex that Limewire, Bittorrent is a bit different -- and loads faster. + +What You'll Need + +The download process involves two separate parts. First you need a Bittorrent client to handle the actual downloads. We recommend <a href="http://www.uTorrent.com/">µTorrent</a> (Windows) or <a href="http://transmission.m0k.org/">Transmission</a> (Mac), but there are many others out there. + +The second part of the download process involves finding the bittorrent files themselves. These files (which end in the extension .torrent) connect your client to others who have the content you want to download. + +Some of the more popular torrent trackers with search engines include <a href="http://www.mininova.org/">Mininova</a>, <a href="http://thepiratebay.org/">The Pirate Bay</a>, <a href="http://isohunt.com/">isoHunt</a> and <a href="http://torrentspy.com/">TorrentSpy</a>. All of these are public trackers. More exclusive, private sites also exist, but you'll need to register to use them. + +Once you download a .torrent file from the tracker, open it up in your client and you should start to connect to "peers." + +The torrent file you just opened does not contain the actual files you want. Instead, it has all the information client needs to find peers who are also sharing and/or downloading the file. + +Advanced Topics + +The above information should help you get started, but once you're comfortable with the process you may want to look into some ways you can optimize your bittorrent experience. + +Most good torrent clients feature a way to selectively download only some files from a torrent (both clients listed above have this feature). This comes in handy when you're downloading, say a large mix of music, but you only want one song. Both µTorrent and Transmission offer an "inspect torrent" panel that will let you pick and choose which files to download and even prioritize the order in which they download. + +Once you're cranking down the torrents like an old pro, you'll notice that BitTorrent downloads and uploads suck up a lot of bandwidth. + +But any decent client will let you control how much bandwidth a torrent is allowed to use. In both Transmission and µTorrent you can access these options in the Preferences panes. Both programs also offer schedulers which can throttle your bandwidth during the day and open it up at night when you aren't using your machine. + + +A word on etiquette. + +Since other users are giving you the files via their own bandwidth, it's considered good form to make sure you "seed" torrents even after you're done downloading them. + +Most clients include ratio, which tells you how much you've downloaded versus uploaded. The magic number is 1/1. In fact, many sites, especially the private ones we mentioned earlier, will ban you if you don't keep your ratio above a certain point. + +So how to make sure you're contributing back to the community? Rather than obsessively checking your torrent ratios, use the "Queuing" features in your client. For µTorrent you'll find this under "Seed While" section. Transmission offer the same controls under the Preferences pane. + +Using a queue you can set your client to seed torrents until you reach a certain ratio and then stop to conserve bandwidth. + +Privacy + +While bittorrent downloads are more difficult to track than single source downloads like Limewire, torrents aren't automatically protected. Snoops from the RIAA and elsewhere can and do watch torrent traffic. + +To avoid snoops there's a Windows-only privacy program named <a href="http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/">PeerGuardian2</a> which tracks a list of blacklisted IP addresses and prevents them from connecting to your computer. Unfortunately nothing similar exists on the Mac. + +Many torrent clients now support encryption, µTorrent does, which makes it difficult for snoops to see what you're downloading, even though they'll still know you're downloading something. At the moment Transmission doesn't support encryption, though rumor has it it will be included in the next release.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/typhoonHreview.txt b/old/published/typhoonHreview.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8c1e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/typhoonHreview.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +For most consumers Yuneec's line of consumer drones lives in the shadow of DJI, which continues to dominate the market with its Phantom line. Yuneec's latest offering, the Typhoon H, may well change that. Yuneec finally has something that's not just significantly different than the latest DJI release, the Phantom 4, but is, in many ways, far more powerful than anything else in its price range. + +The first thing that sets the Typhoon H apart from most other consumer drones on the market is that it's a hexacopter (six rotors) rather than the more popular quadcopter design. What's more the Typhoon H only needs five of those rotors to stay in the air, making it even more robust. It also features retractable rotor arms, which cuts down on the size of the case and makes it roughly the same size as a typical quadcopter when stowed. + +Most drones on the market with more than four rotors, like DJI's Matrice 600 and others, are aimed at professional filmmakers, which typically means no integrated camera/flight system, and are built to fly with two operators -- one to fly and one to film. + +The Typhoon H is much more consumer-friendly. It bundles a very nice 4K video camera (shooting 30fps or 60fps in 1080p and featuring 12MP stills) and flies just fine with only one person at the controls. It can also be paired with a second controller though, which opens up the possibility of separate pilot and camera, something not easily done with any other similarly-priced drone on the market. + +This alone puts the Typhoon H well above and beyond what you'll find in DJI's Phantom line. The Typhoon H's impressive feature set doesn't stop there though. There's also the 3-axis gimbal the camera is mounted on, which allows for 360 degree pans, retractable landing gear, sonar based object avoidance and, like the recent Phantom 4, plenty of autonomous flight modes. + +The result is a very impressive, rock solid aerial photography platform. + +The Typhoon H is the first hexacopter I've flown, so I can't compare to the professional models out there, but I can say its significantly more stable and much, much faster than the older [Typhoon Q500 4K](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/review-yuneec-typhoon-q500-4k/). It felt every bit as snappy as the Phantom 4 and was capable of holding steady in similarly windy test conditions. + +The camera is likewise an entirely different beast than you're accustomed to if you've primarily flown fixed landing gear quadcopters like the Typhoon or Phantom lines. The Typhoon H can tract its landing gear with the touch of a button and rotate its camera in a complete circle. The good news is that you can use the camera just as you would with a quadcopter, that is, you can turn the drone to pan. Or you can raise the landing gear and start panning the camera as you're flying in a completely different direction. + +It's a lot to control at once, and I suggest getting comfortable with flying the Typhoon H before you try it. Fortunately there are some automated modes for both the camera and the drone that help you get the shots you want even if you aren't the best pilot around. You can, for example, set the camera to pan around while you continue flying forward, or you can put the Typhoon H in one of its autonomous modes and focus on panning the camera. + +The Typhoon H has five auto flight modes, including Journey mode, which automatically takes off and then fires off a selfie, Orbit Me, which tracks the controller steadily orbiting you while it does, Point of Interest mode which orbits a subject you select, the confusingly named Curve Cable Cam, which flies along pre-set coordinates, and, by far the most exciting, Team mode. + +Team mode allows the Typhoon H to "bind" to an additional (included, for a limited time) Wizard remote so that one person can fly with the Wizard while the other operates the camera. + +The ST16 transmitter which is also included is a step or two up from the controller that comes with older Typhoons. There's still the same Android-based display, but it's now up to 720p and is much brighter and easier to use in direct sunlight. There's also a helpful sun shade included right out of the box. + +There are two downsides to the Typhoon H. The first is the construction, which while sturdy enough to withstand a rough landing, is still a bit flimsy. I managed to pop off the gimbal just trying to get it out of the box (to be fair, the gimbals on older DJI models were also prone to popping off. A small twist tie can solve this issue). + +The other drawback is the battery recharge time, which clocks in at well over two hours. The flight time itself is on par with quadcopters, Yuneec claims 24 minutes, I averaged 22 in my testing, but of course much of that will depend on what you do and what the conditions are on any given day. Still, with a two hour recharge time you're definitely going to want an extra a battery or two. + +The Typhoon H can be a lot of drone to control at first, but once you get the hang of it, it manages to be something far more sophisticated than anything else on the market at this price. Spend the time to master its full capabilities and you'll never want to go back to quadcopters again. + +Rating: 7 + +Wired: Hexacopter design offers added stability in flight, 360 degree camera with optional Team mode makes possible shots you won't be able to get with quadcopters, automated flight modes and integrated control mean a single pilot can still do everything themselves. + +Tired: Battery recharge time is significantly slower than the competition, contruction feels less sturdy than the Phantom line. + diff --git a/old/published/ubuntu710.txt b/old/published/ubuntu710.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc22b22 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/ubuntu710.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Canonical's latest revision to Ubuntu, version 7.10, dubbed "Gutsy Gibbon" proves that Linux can compete with and, in some cases, trump Windows as a desktop system. It's ease of use that's put Ubuntu near the top of Linux popularity and Gutsy Gibbon brings yet another round of improvements and advances. + +Gutsy Gibbon's ease of use shows why Ubuntu remains the target in desktop Linux competition. While there are still some snags, like DVD playback, for the most part, Gutsy Gibbon is easier to install and set up than WIndows Vista and is very close to matching Apple's OS X when it comes to making things "just work" -- wifi, printing, iPod and digital camera support all worked out of box, no drivers or other software needed. + +Oh yeah, did we mention it's free? + +As with previous versions, Gutsy ships as a live CD, which means you can boot from your CD/DVD drive and run Ubuntu without fear of harming your existing system. If you like what you see, installing Ubuntu is just a matter of clicking "install." From there Ubuntu will lead you through the process of choosing a partition or disk and installing the OS. + +If you choose to dual boot with Windows, you can tell Ubuntu to import in all your settings and files. Installation took under twenty minutes. + +Once Ubuntu was installed and rebooted it immediately recognized my Wifi card and automatically joined the network. It even defaulted to WPA encryption something that required additional configuration in previous versions. + +Historically Linux has been more popular with programmers and the tech elite, making it weak when it comes to multimedia support, but that's changed in recent years and playing your favorite music and movies in the new Ubuntu is every bit a simple as it is in OS X or Windows. + +Managing music with the built in Rhythmbox player was easy, though I did have to install additional codecs to get MP3 and WMA support. However, the process was relatively easy. The only gotcha was enabling the "restricted" repositories in the Synaptic package manager. Rhythmbox easily imported all my music from a Windows XP partition without issues and had no trouble browsing and uploading music to my iPod Shuffle. + +DVD playback was a slightly different story. The Totem Media player, Ubuntu's default DVD player, lacked the necessary codecs out of the box, but helpfully offered to fetch them. Unfortunately, even after the codecs were installed, I was unable to get any of my Netflix DVDs to play. + +Unfortunately this isn't a new experience, I was never able to get DVDs to playback under either of the previous two version of Ubuntu using Totem. Luckily, installing the more robust MPlayer DVD player through the Add/Remove programs panel is easy and DVD playback in MPlayer worked without a hitch. Other options include VLC and gxine. + +When it comes to finding and installing applications, the Add/Remove Programs feature in Ubuntu trumps both Windows and Mac OS X. + +Whereas Windows and Mac users need to hunt the web for popular applications for their newly installed systems, Linux users simple turn to the package management program, which makes it easy to browse and install software without scouring Google. + +Open up Install/Remove Applications and you'll see all the available software listed in one easy to browse panel and installation is a simple as click a button. Even better Ubuntu will inform you any time there's updates available -- something that just isn't possible on Windows or Mac. If you don't see what you want, there's a virtually endless list of repositiories you can add by hand. + +Other notable changes in and new Ubuntu 7.10 are the latest Gnome Desktop, which provides much improved drag and drop support, and you'll also find that the whiz-band 3D desktop effects package Compiz is enabled by default. You can change Compiz settings in the system preferences. + +Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon features new fast user switching, which mimics the same feature in OS X and makes it easy to switch between user accounts. You'll also find a much improved Apple Spotlight-like applet designed to speed searching and act as an application launcher. + +Ubuntu has put considerable effort into improving the user interface for many of Linux's under-the-hood options. A new graphical interface makes it much easier to make adjustments to monitor settings. A single panel allows you to set the default monitor resolution, change the monitor's refresh rate and set up a dual monitor workstation -- all of which previously required using the command line. + +Firefox, the default web browser in Ubuntu, has a new extensions repository that uses the Ubuntu application installer making the process of installing Firefox add-ons just like adding other software to Ubuntu -- which means updates happen just as easily too. The traditional Firefox add-on install can of course still be used. + +Printing in Ubuntu has also been overhauled, and now features a default virtual "PDF printer" which allows any application to output PDF files, something Mac OS X users will recognize. + +My testing was done on a Toshiba laptop using the final release candidate for Gutsy Gibbon, but Canonical says that, if all goes well, there will be no changes between the candidate and final release due October 18th.
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/w3chtml.txt b/old/published/w3chtml.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e74aef --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/w3chtml.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +There's a movement afoot in the web development community that says it's time to move beyond standards and take the web to a new levels. Unhappy with the pace of innovation at the W3C, many developers are calling on browser manufacturers to go beyond supporting official W3C specifications and develop tools to support new features. + +Before the standardistas among us cry foul, keep in mind that no one is suggesting that we throw away existing standards. Standards have given us a much improved web that's cross platform to a degree unimaginable a decade ago. Instead the argument is that for innovation on the web to speed up, it might take some non-standard tools to jump start the process. + +One of the more outspoken critics, Alex Russell, creator of the Dojo Ajax toolkit, thinks that it's time to abandon the W3C as a source of web guidance. "Web developers in the 90's were looking forward, not backward, writes Russell on his blog, "I remember being excited about getting the chance to use new features and not caring who gave them to us." + +In a followup reponse to Wired News, Russell adds he thinks the browser manufacturers already know that the web needs new features, but that "a strange side-effect of the standards +evangelism process has caused developers to put their faith in the W3C to the extent that the introduction of new things by browser vendors without standards-body blessing causes gnashing of teeth." + +Jeff Croft, an HTML designer at Blue Flavor and longtime standards supporter, echos Russell's frustrations saying, "we've completely lost the innovative, experimental, lets-try-something-crazy attitude of web designers in the 90s, because we're too damn concerned about making things that are compliant." + +Which of course isn't to say that we should stop making things compliant. As Croft writes in a comment on the Wired Blog Compiler, "I'm suggesting that we should be encouraging browser developers to continue innovating with new features alongside their standards implementations, with the idea that these new features can be standardized if they prove useful." And, as Croft points out, "one way to encourage that is to actually *use* said features." + +In other words, web development ought to be pushing the boundaries of what's available rather than stopping at the limits of what's in the W3C specs. + +Indeed many of the tools that have produced innovative new technologies on the web have come from sources outside the W3C. XMLHttpRequest, the backbone of Ajax technologies, was originally developed by Microsoft for Internet Explorer and later implimented by other browsers back when IE led the pack. XMLHttpRequest was then taken up by the W3C and is now overseen by the Web API working group. + +But there are problems with simply setting browser manaufacturers loose and one need look no further than the W3C's CSS working group to see them. Microsoft has reportedly been stalling regarding new web fonts and yet at the same time Microsoft's Silverlight essentially allows the use of any TrueType Font, which as let some, including Russell to see this as Microsoft's bid to keep Silverlight ahead of standard HTML when it comes to font rendering. + +Supporters of W3C argue that running out ahead of established web standards could see a result in what Chris Messina, who's worked with Mozilla and others, calls a "privileged web" run with proprietary tools like Silverlight and an "unprivileged web" still using standard open tools. Obviously that's a situation neither users nor developers want to see happen. + +No one wants a return to the painful 1996 web with sites that only work in one browser, a problem largely solved by the creation of W3C an the specs it developed. After all they argue, we have all these great standards-based tools, why not stop and smell the HTML 4 for a while? + +But the question is how long? QuoteTK HTML 5 progress. + +segue + +James Bennett has a thoughtful response to the debate on his blog where he argues that the choices so far on the table -- stay with web standards and learn to live with their development pace, or abandon them altogether in favor of the enthusiastic mob — are a false dilemma. + +"The first thing we need to do," says Bennett, "is throw that out and recognize that there's actually a fairly broad continuum of options in between these two extremes; in other words, what we should be looking for is a balance between the input of people who use and develop for the Web, and people who develop browsers and attendant technologies." + +And Bennett isn't worried about Microsoft. Citing some examples of how IE7 was in fact largely a result of Microsoft being forced to play catchup with Firefox, Opera and Safari, Bennett concludes that "Microsoft really isn't relevant to the future of web standards." + +What's more, he argues, "any compelling new development that comes from the rest of the industry will be just another form of fire and motion, and Microsoft will have no choice but to keep pace, regardless of whether they participated in the process." + +Chris Messina likewise has another approach and points to "community convention" projects like Microformats, OpenID and OAuth, which have all evolved quickly and dynamically without the blessing of the W3C. "These projects to me represent the way the web needs to, says Messina. "It's tenuous certainly, but it's driven by a real market, with fits and spurts, and moments of genius and ingenuity, rather than by artificial forces that trend towards +stagnation and denovation — because enterprises, like the government, are incented to avoid change and evolution." + + + + +I like this quote but I don't know what to do with it: Janet Daly, W3C Global Communications Officer, says, "the web's greatest gift is that everybody gets to call it their own." + + diff --git a/old/published/whattododrone-v2.txt b/old/published/whattododrone-v2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fdf3ec --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/whattododrone-v2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +So you're one of the more than one million lucky souls the [FAA estimated][1] would get a drone this Christmas. Congratulations. Now What? + +With most consumer drones these days you could head straight out the door and have your new toy in the air in a matter of minutes. And your new toy would probably be in the air *only* a matter of minutes. If you'd prefer your first time flying a drone not to include close up shots of bark and large amounts of cursing we suggest taking a deep breath, slowing down and doing a few things before you send your drone up for the first time. + +First and foremost, rip into that plastic bag full of manuals, pull them out and actually Read The Manual. Seriously. Pay special attention to two items. First, memorize the button or sequence of buttons that initiates the drone's "return home" feature. This varies between manufacturers and models, but newer versions tend to have some kind of single button "oh crap" feature that will send the drone back to where it started. When you're first learning this will be your most used flight control. This is also a good place to suggest your consider joining the [Academy of Model Aeronautics][2] ($75), which, in addition to a magazine subscription, will get you some basic insurance coverage should you crash. + +The second most import part of the manual is the startup procedure. Some drones need the controller turned on first, some the drone. Whatever the case with your model, make sure you know the sequence so that your drone can acquire satellites for GPS features and connect to whatever wifi or flight control system it uses. + +Now that you know the basics the next step we recommend is updating the firmware. Even new drones often leave the factory without the latest updates. Depending on your make and model this might mean you get some new features. In most cases updating the firmware is just a matter of plugging the drone into your PC via a USB cable. Since the process varies by drone, check the manual or manufacturer's website for the precise firmware update method. + +Now you're ready for your first flight. Launch in an open, treeless area and head up a hundred feet or so right away. On most drones this means pushing the left control stick up for a few seconds. Then release and just sit there for a minute, keeping your eye on the drone. At this elevation you should be clear of any obstacles and still be able to keep a close eye on your drone. + +The first thing I would suggest is to work on getting a feel for the basic flight maneuvers: up, down, left and right. Pay special attention to how much the drone dips when you accelerate, with most models you'll likely find you want a bit of acceleration as you head forward to maintain a constant altitude. Try flying some basic maneuvers like a circling around in box, circle and figure 8. This will help you understand how fast your drone responds to your input. Every drone in different, but the common thread in my experience with half a dozen different models is that gentle, slow movements are the best, safest way to fly. + +At first your instinct will be to over-correct every time your drone is headed somewhere you don't want it to go. Unfortunately, over correcting is often as bad or worse than doing nothing at all. Take a deep breath and gently correct your flight errors rather than slamming the control in the opposite direction. + +Another key to safe, happy drone flying is to make sure you know where and how you can fly your new drone. + +Drone pilots do not have a stellar track record. It seems like hardly a day goes by without someone doing something stupid with a drone -- [interfering with firefighters][3], [buzzing][4] the Macy's Thanksgiving parade or [flying near aircraft][5]. + +It's no surprise restrictions on drones are tightening up. The FAA has [announced a plan to register and regulate drones][6], but local governments have already started to enact their own rules. + +One of the best places to learn how to fly is a large, open, tree-less area away from crowds. In most places that's usually a park or field of some kind. But many parks are starting to take a dim view of drones. For example, the parks and rec department where I live recently banned all use of drones in public parks. You best bet is to call your local parks department and ask, but here's a good rule of thumb for everything to do with flying a drone: when it doubt, don't do it. + +At the time of writing the FAA has announced that it will require drones to be registered, but it has not yet set up a system for registration. Still, it's worth at least looking over the FAA [guidelines for hobby craft][7]. The FAA's rules are hardly draconian and primarily reinforce what is hopefully common sense: don't interfere with other aircraft, don't fly near crowds of people, don't go over 400ft up, don't be reckless and so on. + +Drone makers have you covered on a couple of FAA rules, like the weight limit (no consumer drones weight anywhere near the 55lb max) and not flying near airports (most drones will not allow you to fly around airports). + +One FAA rule deserves extra attention: keep an eye on your drone at all times. Not only is this a rule, it's also the secret to avoiding that closeup of tree bark. + +When you first start out flying there's a lot to keep track of -- there's the drone's POV coming in on your controller, there's your fingers on the flight controls, the controls for starting video and taking pictures and of course there's your drone, actually up there in the air somewhere. Despite all these things going on, try to keep in mind that the most important part of controlling your drone is knowing where it is at all times. Keep your head on a swivel and never lose positional awareness. + +The last thing to remember when your drone is in the air is to relax. Remember: small corrections, slow movements and a cool head go a long way to making your drone a lot more fun. + + +[1]: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/news/a17535/the-faa-is-terrified-that-1-million-drones-will-be-sold-this-christmas/ +[2]: http://www.modelaircraft.org/ +[3]: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/07/02/drone-flying-too-close-to-wildfire-grounds-forest-service-planes/ +[4]: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/custody-flying-drone-macy-parade-article-1.2447782 +[5]: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pilot-spots-drone-lax-20151015-story.html +[6]: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-feds-want-a-national-drone-registry-by-christmas/ +[7]: https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/ diff --git a/old/published/wired-toshiba-chromebook.txt b/old/published/wired-toshiba-chromebook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2cecd0a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/wired-toshiba-chromebook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Buying a Chromebook is an exercise in compromising. Want a solid construction and a rotating display panel? The Lenovo n21p fits the bill. But what if you want great battery life? Well, there's the Samsung Chromebook 2. Or, perhaps you want a bigger screen? Other models in the Samsung Chromebook 2 series offer a 13 inch 1080p screen, alas the price is significantly higher. All compromises, where's the perfect Chromebook? + +The new Toshiba Chromebook 2 manages to do what the similarly named Samsung could not -- deliver a really nice 13 inch 1080p screen while keeping the price down. Finally a Chromebook you wouldn't mind watching a movie on. If you've been waiting for a decent screen to arrive before you test the Chromebook waters, this is the machine for you. + +I tested the Toshiba CB35-B3340, which features a 2.58 GHz Intel Celeron N2840 processor, 4GB of RAM, 16GB SSD (with 2 years of a 100GB Google Drive account also included for free). There's also one USB 2 port, one USB 3 port, an HDMI port and a pretty decent gesture-enabled touchpad. Those are quite solid specs for the price and backed by two outstanding features -- the 1080p display and the Skull Candy audio. The Toshiba Chromebook 2 retails for $330. + +The result of all that is that the Toshiba makes an excellent way to watch movies on the go. The sound is great -- well, great within the obvious limitations, this is still a laptop -- and the screen is bright and clear, with vivid colors, nice deep blacks and the wider viewing angles you'd expect from an IPS display. It is still a glossy screen though, so bright sunlight is not your friend. + +I should note that Toshiba also offers a 1366x768 model for $250, if you just don't want to pay for the HD screen. And note that while the resolution is lower, it's still an IPS display and should be considerably nicer than the washed out TN displays in many Chromebooks (for further proof of this, check out the Lenovo Yoga 11e Chromebook, which has the lower res display, but also uses an IPS panel). Still, if you can afford it, the better resolution is well worth the money. + +The sound is also noteworthy having been, according to Toshiba, "tuned" by Skullcandy, which, if nothing else, got Skullcandy's logo slapped very prominently just below the keyboard. Whatever "tuned" may mean, the result is really great audio output that's not at all tinny or flat the way laptop speakers typically are. If you really crank it up you can actually feel the bass through the keyboard. + +The keyboard itself is the standard Chromebook layout and chiclet keys. It's on par with pretty much every other Chromebook I've used -- nothing special, but no real annoyances either. The same is true of the trackpad -- it works, but probably won't draw any accolades. + +Overall though the build quality of the Toshiba is excellent. The case is sturdy and doesn't flex at all when being carried with one hand. In fact, if someone handed me the case with all logos removed I would never guess it was a Chromebook. It has the look and feel of a much higher end Toshiba. The 13 inch screen does of course make this a bit bigger and heavier than the more common 11.6 inch Chromebooks. Again, it's a trade off. For my money the slight increase in size and weight are well worth it for the vastly better display. + +Despite my enthusiasm for the display and speakers, the Toshiba is not without its downsides, namely performance. The 4GB of RAM is a nice step up from the typical 2GB that ship with other lower end Chromebooks, but the Bay Trail processor doesn't have the power of Haswell-based devices like the Acer C720. + +In real world terms that means flipping between tabs when you have quite a few open can lag a bit. I also noticed a bit of stuttering in some WebGL demos. Suffice to say that if online gaming is your primary use for a Chromebook you may run into some problems. On the bright side the Bay Trail chip means you'll consistently get more than 8 hours out of the battery. + +So is this the perfect Chromebook? Almost. As with the previous reviews I still think the best Chromebook is an amalgamation of several -- for example the Toshiba would be greatly improved by adding the screen flipping capabilities in the Lenovo, especially since movies are actually watchable on the Toshiba, unlike the Lenovo. That said, based on what's actually available today, the Toshiba comes the closest to Chromebook nirvana. + +Wired: The gorgeous 1080p IPS display with vivid, rich colors combined with great sound make the Toshiba Chromebook 2 one of the best Chromebooks around. + +Tired: A display of this caliber deserves better than the somewhat pokey Bay Trail processor diff --git a/old/published/yuneec-typhoon.txt b/old/published/yuneec-typhoon.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..900128b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/yuneec-typhoon.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +When it comes to consumer-level drones, DJI's Phantom line (most recently the [Phantom 3](http://www.wired.com/2015/06/review-dji-phantom-3-professional-drone/)) rules the skies. + +It's taken a while but erstwhile competitors are finally starting to emerge. One of the newest entries comes from Chinese aircraft maker, Yuneec, which recently released its Phantom competitor, the Typhoon Q500 4K. + +Though similar in size, weight and prices, the Typhoon is no Phantom knockoff. It's not a Phantom killer either. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and which is best depends a little on what you plan to do with it. + +The Typhoon looks a bit more aggressive than DJI's shining happy drones, with sleeker lines and a back end that resembles the head of the creatures in Alien. It's also a larger drone than the more familiar Phantoms. + +The Typhoon -- particularly the landing gear -- is much flimsier plastic than I'm used to coming from the Phantoms. That's partly due to the fact that the Typhoon landing gear (and gimbal) can be snapped off with no special tools and stored in a much flatter package than DJI craft. + +## Specs and Controls + +The Typhoon comes in a variety of models, including the one I tested which is the Typhoon Q500 4K. As the name implies it's capable of shooting 4K video and it comes with the CGO Steadygrip, so you can use the camera and gimbal on the ground as well. The Steadygrip worked well enough, but it's more of the same, somewhat flimsy plastic that might or might not last through more adventurous uses than chasing my kids around the yard. It also requires eight AA rechargeable batteries. + +Unlike DJI's offerings the Typhoon's base controller ships with a built-in screen in the form of a small Android device sporting 480p resolution. On one hand it's nice not have to so many different parts to keep track of, but on the other hand there's no way to add a bigger, clearer screen when, for example, a new iPad mini is released (currently what I use with the Phantom 3). + +The screen is bright, though flying in direct sunlight is still difficult. To be fair that's true of every screen I've ever used to fly a drone. Yuneec helpfully includes a sunshade that awkwardly attaches to the controller with suction cups. It doesn't completely solve the problem, but it does help. + +The controller itself is similar enough to others I've used that here was essentially no learning curve. The Typhoon's video and still image capture buttons are chunkier than anything I've used in the past, but on the plus side that makes them easier to find without looking down at your hands. + +The included app is intuitive enough that I never cracked the manual. The touch screen is responsive as well, which is good because some of the menus and buttons are really tiny. + +The Typhoon's flight control system is great overall, it makes flying dead simple and trumps everything I've used save the new controller for the Phantom 3. My only complaint is that you're locked in. Two years from now when there's a dozen 7 inch 4K tablets for under $200, you'll still be stuck with a 5 inch, 480p screen. + + +## Flight + +It's dead simple to get started. I pulled it out of the case, turned everything on, waited for the wifi to connect the base station and aircraft and was in the air within 2 minutes. There was no calibrating anything and no apps to download. I read through the quick start guide, set it in the middle of field and lifted off. + +That simplicity continues in the air as well. Being primarily accustomed to flying DJI's phantom line, the Typhoon was immediately different. I started out in "Smart Mode" which make the drone fly relative to what you see on the screen in front of you. That is, if you want to go up you push the left hand joystick up and the drone goes up. If you want to go side to side you push it left or right. There's no need to worry about where the front and back of the drone are, the control translates everything in terms of the display on the screen. + +Flying drones is intimidating. They're expensive and often very complicated to control. The result is that, unless you're so rich you don't care, you spend most of your learning time in a nervous sweat. At least that was my experience with Phantoms. The Typhoon however, manages to get around this and is a pleasure to fly right from the start. + +Even after many hours of practice I still don't feel as confident with a Phantom as I did after ten minutes with the Typhoon. The Phantom 3 comes closest to this ease of use, but is still more nerve wracking to control in my experience. + +But drone flight isn't all good or all bad; it's a series of trade offs. While I can without hesitation say that the Typhoon is easier to fly than any of the Phantoms I've used, that doesn't necessarily make it better. That ease of use comes with a big trade off -- it's far more sluggish in the air. It takes longer to respond to input from the controller and it was not capable of the tight turns or the top speed of the Phantom 3. Its max flight range is also considerably less. + +If you're just learning to fly, that "sluggishness" is a plus. It makes for a more forgiving aircraft that you're less likely to fly into a tree. If you're already comfortable flying drones the Typhoon will likely feel like a step backward. To get some aerial shots of the Typhoon I enlisted [Barrelman Productions](http://www.barrelmanproductions.com) pilot Mike Lord who was able to literally fly circles around the Typhoon with his Phantom 3. + +The other place the Typhoon lags well behind the Phantom 3 is range. The Phantom 3 can not only out pace, but out distance the Typhoon. And the Phantom 3's ability to send back live 720p feed at over a mile blows the Typhoon out of the water. + +## Image and Video Quality + +The Typhoon Q500 I tested was the 4K video model. There's also the 500+ model, which shoots 1080p and the 500, which is more or less the same but doesn't come with the Steadygrip. On paper that sounds good, but part of what makes or breaks images (and video) from drones is not resolution, but stabilization. In that regard the gimbal on the Typhon is on par with the field, which is to say that it does a good job of holding the camera still, though at times it felt a bit slower at panning. + +The images it produces are 12MP with pretty good clarity though there is noticeable falloff in sharpness toward the edges. That's not unexpected for extreme wide angle lenses, but it's significantly more noticeable than the cameras on the Phantom 3. Whether its an optics problem or a shortcoming of the distortion correction Yuneec is applying is hard to say, but unfortunately it extends to the 4K video as well. + +Rating: 7 + +Wired: Great set up experience. Easy to fly even for those who've never laid eyes on a drone before. Controller includes a nice, if a little small, Android display, no need for phones or battery-draining mobile apps. + +Tired: Big, heavy and slow. What makes it great for beginners makes it less great for those used to the nimbleness of Phantoms. The range is limited compared to similarly specced models from other manufacturers. diff --git a/old/published/zaptourists.txt b/old/published/zaptourists.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acbd2cc --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/zaptourists.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Part of the romance of travel is the notion that you're visiting remote, isolated wonders. The trouble is, when you arrive somewhere like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat or the Pyramids at Gaza, you find you're not alone -- the places are crawling with hordes of poorly dressed tourists that muck up your dreams of pristine photographs. + +We can't help you get rid of tourists at the actual sites, but we'll show you how to zap them out of your photos, offering friends and family the illusion that you had the place to yourself. + + +On site. + +When you're headed to someplace you know will be packed with tourists consider going in the off parts of day. Sometimes that means early morning or late evening, both which also offer better light for your photos. Other times, like in our experience of Angkor Wat, the middle of day is so painfully hot most tourists retreat to their air-conditioned hotel rooms, making it an ideal time to visit the temples. + +Even if there's just no avoiding the crowds there's still hope, you just need to plan ahead and take multiple exposures of the same scene. + +Find a shot you like and don't worry if there's a few tourists in it, we'll get rid of them later. Now, without moving your camera too much (preferably not at all), wait until the people have moved and take another shot. Take as many as you think you'll need to ensure that you've recorded everything in the scene without anyone blocking the scenery. + +In software + +Once you get home dump your shots onto you computer and open up your favorite editing software. There are several applications that will work for this, ranging from the expensive, like Photoshop, to the free, like [http://www.gimp.org/ the GIMP]. The only real requirement is that the program offers a way to add layers to an image. + +Open your collection of photos and copy and paste the contents of each as a separate layer in a new image. If you're shooting RAW images make sure that your settings (white balance, exposure, etc) are the same for all the photos. + +Let's say you have three images stacked on three layers. Start by making the top layer invisible. Now select the second layer and create a mask for that layer (in Photoshop choose Layer >> Layer Mask >> Hide All. Your mask should now be black and the entire layer will be hidden. + +Select the mask portion of the layer and switch to the brush tool, picking a brush with a feathered edge. Set your foreground color to white and start painting into the mask in the places where the tourists are standing. + +Viola! Tourists disappear. + +Once you have removed as many people as you can by painting on that layer, make the top layer visible again and repeat the masking processes. Paint out the rest of the tourists. If you have more than three photos, just keep repeating the process -- mask and the erase -- until you've gotten rid of all the tourists. + +If there are slight exposure differences between layers try adding a levels or curves layer to correct them. If the images are slightly offset you can nedge them into alignment with the Transform tool. + +What's left should be the scene as the travel brochure advertised -- isolated, remote and beautiful, making your friends and family green with envy. + +Automated approaches + +If you aren't the DIY type or don't have the time, there are a couple of services that will basically do this for you. Snapmania offers a [http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/index.html Tourist Remover] which will composite your photos and take care of the masking steps for you. Another approach is to use Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/ Group Shot] software which allows you to paint over the portions of an image you'd like to use and overlay those on a second image. Group Shot isn't necessarily geared specifically to the task of zapping tourists, but it will work in some instances. + diff --git a/pitches.txt b/pitches.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75abae4 --- /dev/null +++ b/pitches.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +metal detectors +kitchen ware: + pans + knives + pressure cookers + juicers +coffee grinders +flashlights +ultralight tents +camp stoves + + +guides: + +Everything you need to find treasure on the beach +how to have a great camping trip sort of thing +How to have a great +Cook great meals outdoors +Sleep in your car +Everything You Need to Turn Your Kitchen into a Cafe +Engineer the ultimate night's sleep +Low cost ways to keep your kid entertained on long car trips +Pro Photo/Video on the Go diff --git a/plastic-alternatives.txt b/plastic-alternatives.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ff37b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/plastic-alternatives.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Plastic is bad on ten different levels + +There are hundreds of ways to reduce plastic. Since everyone's household runs differently, the best place to start reducing single use plastics in your life is to start noticing where you use them. There are some common cases that are easy to solve. Bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store, avoid beverages in plastic containers, and other things you already know. + +There's + +Other alternatives are less well known + + +2124152765 + +You might already bring your own grocery bag to the supermarket, but chances are slim that you bring your own produce bags along for the ride, too. This kit gives you three different reusable produce bags, each one specifically made for a different kind of food, from carrots and onions to bulk bin nuts. When you’re not using them, roll them up and put them in a pouch shaped like an apple. + + +produce bags -> mesh reusable +freezer bags -> silicon reusable +water bottles -> metal/BPA-free +straws -> metal/paper +plastic wrap -> beeswax +low tech storage: mason jars, wax paper +contain microfibers: http://guppyfriend.com/en/ diff --git a/posts-export-by-search-referrals-Nov-01-2019-Nov-26-2019-wired-com-gear.xlsx b/posts-export-by-search-referrals-Nov-01-2019-Nov-26-2019-wired-com-gear.xlsx Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6c7aa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts-export-by-search-referrals-Nov-01-2019-Nov-26-2019-wired-com-gear.xlsx diff --git a/published/acer swift 7 review.txt b/published/acer swift 7 review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..101588f --- /dev/null +++ b/published/acer swift 7 review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Acer's latest high end ultrabook, the Swift 7, is incredibly thin. As Derek Zoolander might [say](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHEcmZtJvY), it's really, really, really, ridiculously thin. + +At a mere .39 inches thick, 14 inches wide, and weighing under two pounds, the Swift 7 is a commuter's dream. It fits easily in your bag and even after lugging it around all day you'll hardly notice it's there. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +## Really, Really, Really Thin + +Unboxing the Swift 7 I honestly thought that the little black package inside was the instruction manual. But no, it turned out to be the actual laptop. It really is that thin. + +And Acer didn't cheat on the thinness -- there's no conspicuous hinge bulge like you find in some thin laptops. In fact the hinge is so flush it's difficult to even see, which is step up over the previous version. The overall design is understated. The Swift 7 features a matte black case with a single LED to indicate battery status. The case is a blend of magnesium-lithium and magnesium-aluminum alloys that make the Swift 7 feel more solid than plastic, but less solid than a (albeit heavier) aluminium case on something like the Macbook Air. + +Somehow Acer has managed to cram this tiny package with a 14-inch 1080p screen, a 1.5-Ghz Core i7 (i7-8500Y), 16 gigabytes of RAM, and a 512 gigabyte hard drive. Perhaps even more impressive there's two USB-C ports in addition to a headphone jack. Take that Apple. Not only is the Swift thinner than the Macbook Air, it manages to include two USB-C ports. Acer also helpfully includes a three-port dongle adapter with USB-A, another USB-C, and an HDMI port. + +While it's plenty powerful enough for business use, none of the Acer's specs are earth shattering. The i7 Y-series chips are down stepped to 1.5-GHz to improve battery life and keep temperatures down, which is important in a machine this thin. What makes the Swift special isn't its power, but its relative power squeezed into an impossibly thin, light package. The Swift 7 weighs in at 1.96 pounds and is small enough to fit in most shoulder bags or even a large purse. Did I mention it's small and light? + +Once you get past the thin factor the other standout in the Swift 7 is the very nearly edge-to-edge display. The display is a touchscreen 1080p IPS panel protected by Gorilla Glass. Acer is very proud of the very thin bezel, and spends quite a bit of time on it in press releases. It is maybe marginally smaller than bezels on the Dell XPS 13 I normally use, but I fail to see how a thin bezel really improves the experience in any significant way. + +The Swift 7's touchscreen panel isn't the highest resolution. In fact when Acer announced the Swift 7 the universal reaction at WIRED was too bad about the low resolution screen. It turns out that 1080p at this size isn't as bad as you'd think. The IPS display isn't 4K nice, but it's plenty bright and sharp. The default Windows 10 zoom level was set too high for my tastes, but a quick trip into the settings will fix that and get you level of sharpness that's better than the 1080p screen on my Lenovo x250, but not quite as good as the 4K screen of the Dell XPS 13. Still, I'd trade a few millimeters of extended bezel for a 4K screen. + +As for the touch experience, the Gorilla Glass definitely has a different tactile experience, but is no less responsive. It's nice to know too that the sort of minor bumps and jostling of everyday carrying shouldn't crack your screen. + +As expected, the down-stepped CPU did not perform quite as well in benchmarks, though I did not notice sluggish performance in real world use. Browsing the web, working with large image documents, even playing back 4K video clips didn't faze the Swift. The only time I noticed the Swift struggling was rendering a 4K video, which took a bit longer than it did on my Dell. + +The upside to the Swift 7's chip is that you get all day battery life. In normal use--web browsing, document editing, Slack messaging--I routinely got ten hours out of the battery. Looping a video with Wifi off brought that down to nine hours and benchmark battery tests got me eight and one half hours. + +While the chip isn't the speediest the Swift 7 has impressive specs in the rest of its hardware. With 16 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabyte NVMe SSD you're unlikely to be wanting in storage space or memory. + +## Achilles' Nose Cam + +To get that ultra thin screen bezel Acer has moved the built-in webcam down into the body of the laptop in a clever little pop-up housing. On the bright side, the camera is blocked when not in use, meaning you don't have to resort to covering it with black tape. But, while the hinged camera is clever, it introduces the dreaded nose-cam effect. + +Video chatting with a camera pointed more or less directly up your nose is disconcerting for all parties involved. As with the Dell XPS 13, which recently, finally, eliminated a similarly positioned webcam, if you do a lot of video chatting you'll want to invest in a separate webcam. + +The other main problem with the latest Swift 7 is the keyboard. It's comfortable to type on. The keys are well spaced and provide good tactile feedback despite how flush they are, but the key arrangement is, most charitably called, curious. The Caps Lock key is half size to make room for the backtick key. I know, I know, who uses Caps Lock? Me. I remap it to be a Control key. In two weeks of using the Swift 7 my muscle memory still has not adjusted to losing half the Caps Lock key. The delete key is to the left of the Backspace key, which I also find odd, though less annoying on a practical level. + +The other worry I had for this laptop was that something so thin would be difficult to open, but thankfully that's not the case. The Swift 7 has a tiny, but helpful protrusion on the top edge that helps pry the laptop open without requiring Howard Hughes fingernails. It is definitely a two-handed operation, but that's par for the course with laptops this thin. + +These complaints are minor, but worth considering. In the end the Swift 7 is a very capable, very portable machine well suited to everyday tasks. It's not a video editor, it's not gaming powerful. It's a tiny little work machine you'll hardly notice in your bag. Did I mention how thin and light it is? + + +*(The [Acer Swift 7 costs $1699 from Acer](https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.H98AA.001){: rel=nofollow} (also available in [White](https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.HB4AA.001){: rel=nofollow}, [B&H Photo Video](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=8612&fct=fct_brand_name|fujifilm%2bfct_camera-model_6331|fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay&N=4288586279&){: rel=nofollow}, [Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=Fujiflim+LiPlay&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys){: rel=nofollow}, and [Adorama](https://www.adorama.com/l/?searchinfo=fujifilm+instax+mini+liplay){: rel=nofollow}.)* diff --git a/published/amazon-device-deals-pd.txt b/published/amazon-device-deals-pd.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc00585 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/amazon-device-deals-pd.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Fire Tablets and Echo speakers aren't terribly expensive. They're built to be affordable, and some of them are especially cheap for Prime Day. Kindles are another story, they're more expensive and go on sale less often. We've compiled every decent deal on Amazon-branded devices happening on Prime Day. Amazon has a [Device Deals page](https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=11851273011&ref_=sv_devicesubnav_6){: rel=nofollow} with many of its best deals, but we have them all organized below. + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +*** +###WIRED's Prime Day Coverage + +- [Absolute Best Amazon Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) + +- *Amazon Device Deals* + +- *Live at 7am ET:* [Home, Kitchen, and Outdoors Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-home-deals-2019/) + +- *Live at 12pm ET:* [Rival Deals from Walmart, Best Buy, and Other Stores](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-alternative-deals/) + +- [Google's Best Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-nest-devices-on-sale-july-2019/) + +- [Prime Day Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/early-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) and [How Amazon Works](https://www.wired.com/gallery/amazon-prime-day-prep-stories/) + +- **[1-Year WIRED Digital + Print Subscription for $5 ($5 off)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub)** +(Amazon Pay accepted. Please support our work!) +*** + +###Echo Speaker Deals + +[#image: /photos/5d0d3acb8cdbaf33a4772256]|||||| + +Read our WIRED [Best Echo & Alexa Speakers guide](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-echo/) for recommendations on which Amazon Echos we think are worth your money. The short version is the Plus for music, the Dot for Voice, and the Show for a screen. Our [Best Smart Speakers guide](https://www.wired.com/story/best-smart-speakers/) has even more options if you're still deciding which to buy. + +- **[Echo Plus for $110 ($40 off)](https://amzn.to/2lgRpgO){: rel=nofollow}:** The Echo Plus is the best-sounding Echo. It has a tweeter and subwoofer with impressive enough sound to justify its price compared to other Echos. Consider pairing it with an [Echo Sub](https://amzn.to/2li0jus){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[Echo Dot for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/2XzyfQE){: rel=nofollow}:** This hockey puck-shaped Echo handles spoken audio well and the new version sounds better with music, but it still lacks the quality you'll find in larger speakers. Still, if you want to add Alexa to more rooms in your house, the Dot is a cheap and easy way to do it. + +- **[Echo Show for $160 ($70 off)](https://amzn.to/2xOqGLC){: rel=nofollow}:** At first, it seems odd to have an Alexa speaker with a display. But after using it you'll understand the appeal. When you ask it for the weather, it tells you *and* shows you thanks to the 10-inch display and rear speakers. + +- **[Echo Dot Kids Edition for $45 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/2l97Ift){: rel=nofollow}:** The extra cost of the Kids Edition covers the padded foam case and a year's subscription to Amazon's [FreeTime Unlimited](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-FreeTime-Unlimited-Monthly-Subscription/dp/B01I499BNA?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. We found the [Echo Dot Kid's Edition wanting](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-echo-dot-kids-edition/), but it's more appealing at this price point. + +- **[Echo Show 5 for $50 ($40 off)](https://amzn.to/2li4Tc9){: rel=nofollow}:** It’s the Echo Show! Just smaller and more adorable. And it has a physical shutter that covers the front-facing camera. Be sure to read WIRED's [Echo Show 5 review](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-echo-show-5/) for more details. + +- **[Echo Auto for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/2XNdYr5){: rel=nofollow}:**: About the size and shape of a cassette, the Echo Auto sits on your dashboard and brings Alexa into your car. At the moment, you must request an invitation to buy it. + +###Fire Tablet Deals + +[#image: /photos/5d12d3bbb669a00009409c63]|||||| + +Amazon's tablets are so cheap it's almost suspicious. We do have some reservations, but overall they're a good deal. Be sure to check out our updated guide to deciphering [which Amazon Fire tablet is best for you](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/). + +- **[Fire HD 10 for $100 ($50 off)](https://amzn.to/2JxY5Rs){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 10 is a much more capable tablet than the 8. It’s faster, has more storage, and the 10-inch HD screen looks much nicer. + +- **[Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/32qCJfW){: rel=nofollow}:** While the 10 is nicer, the Fire HD 8 is a very capable tablet for the price. The even better deal really, is to grab two of these for $80 ($80 off). Just add a second one to your cart and the price should update before you check out. + +- **[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet for $80 ($50 off)](https://amzn.to/2XHWYT2){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is our top pick for kids under 7. + +- **[2-Pack of Fire 7 Kids Edition Tablets for $100 ($100 off)](https://amzn.to/2jPRyaC){: rel=nofollow}:** The 7-inch Kids Edition is a step down from the 8-inch version, but for perfect for littler kids with smaller hands, it may do just fine. + +###Fire TV Deals + +[#image: /photos/5b1850bb6968231764fb009c]|||||| + +Amazon's Fire TV platform is great if you subscribe to Amazon Prime or buy Amazon Instant Videos. It emphasizes Amazon content above Netflix and other providers, but it does have most of the major streaming apps. With [Google and Amazon done feuding](https://blog.google/products/chromecast/prime-video-chromecast-android-tv-youtube-fire-tv/){: rel=nofollow}, you can once again get YouTube on FireTV. At these Prime Day deal prices, even the Fire TV Cube is mighty appealing. + +- **[Fire TV Stick 4K for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/30q9R5M){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire Stick 4K is the best of Amazon's Fire TV devices. All things considered, we [prefer Roku devices for streaming](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-4k-streaming-devices/), but if you're a heavy Prime Video user or have a 4K screen this works great. Much like the Fire tablets, you'll get used to the interface. + +- **[Fire TV Stick for $15 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/30q9R5M){: rel=nofollow}:** We encourage you to just buy the Fire Stick with 4K, but if you do not own a 4K TV and want to save that extra $10, knock yourself out. + +- **[Fire TV Cube for $70 ($50 off)](https://amzn.to/32leEHw){: rel=nofollow}:** The Fire TV Cube [isn't our favorite](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-tv-cube/) mainly because it wants you to talk to Alexa to use it and that gets old fast. Still, if you love Prime Video and don't mind yelling at your TV, the Cube is considerably more appealing at this price. You can also just use its remote if you get tired of talking. + + +###Kindle Deals + +[#image: /photos/5cad2feea02acc53947a8d30]|||||| + +Amazon's Kindle pretty much owns the ebook market and for good reason. The companies book readers offer more than a month of battery life per charge, the ability to hold thousands of titles, and unlimited book subscriptions. You can even get free books from your local library. Check out our [guide to the Best Amazon Kindle](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle/). + +- **[Kindle for $60 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/2xItPfJ){: rel=nofollow}:** The basic Kindle remains a solid offering and the latest model includes a backlight for the 6-inch E Ink touchscreen, meaning you can read in the dark. it comes with three free months of Kindle Unlimited, which gives you access to a massive library of ebooks. After the three months is up, Kindle Unlimited is $10 per month. + +- **[Kindle Paperwhite for $85 ($45 off)](https://amzn.to/2XKmqay){: rel=nofollow}:** The Paperwhite is a Kindle upgrade worth considering. For a couple extra Jacksons over the plain Kindle, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, beach, and bathtub without fear. The display is flush and the device is rated IPX8, meaning it can sit in 2 meters of water for two hours. + +- **[Kindle Oasis for $200 ($80 off)](https://amzn.to/2XKmqay){: rel=nofollow}:** The Oasis is the luxury car of Kindles. It's not necessary, but it sure is nice. The processor is faster for smoother page turns, it's easier to hold with one hand and the screen automatically adjusts the brightness. This version also comes with 32 gigabytes of storage, which is enough to hold tens of thousands of books. + +###Ring Smart Doorbell Deals + +[#image: /photos/5c0ad0dac54cad3ea224d6a1]|||||| + +Ring is owned by Amazon. Read our [review of the original Ring](https://www.wired.com/2015/02/review-ring-video-doorbell/) and our [roundup of smart doorbells](https://www.wired.com/story/top-3-video-doorbells-for-capturing-whos-there/) to learn more about what they do. + +- **[Ring Video Doorbell for $70 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/2l7vb0H){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Ring Video Doorbell + Echo Dot 3rd Gen. for $75 ($75 off)](https://amzn.to/2l7Jnqo){: rel=nofollow}** + +###Eero Home Wi-Fi Router Deal + +[#image: /photos/5c6211658f783a3110bd4736]|||||| + +- **[Eero Pro and 1 Beacon for $150 ($150 off)](https://amzn.to/2xItPfJ){: rel=nofollow}:** A recent [Amazon acquisition](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-eero-smart-home/), the Eero is the mesh router Apple would have made if it had bothered. It comes as both a base station and a smaller, plug-into-the-wall Beacon model, though the latter does not work as a stand-alone, only in conjunction with the base station. Eero's app has some nice features like the ability to pause the internet on particular devices. At this price, our major complaint about the Eero—that it's expensive for a router—is solved. + +*Check our [Amazon Prime Day Page](https://www.wired.com/tag/amazon-prime-day/) for more coverage and deals.* + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* The hard-luck Texas town that [bet on bitcoin—and lost](https://www.wired.com/story/hard-luck-texas-town-bet-bitcoin-lost/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1) +* Tim Wu explains why [Facebook should be broken up](https://www.wired.com/story/tim-wu-explains-why-facebook-broken-up/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1) +* Apollo 11: [Mission (out of) control](https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1) +* The simple way Apple and Google [let abusers stalk victims](https://www.wired.com/story/common-apps-domestic-abusers-stalk-victims/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1) +* Notifications are stressing us out. [How did we get here](https://www.wired.com/story/history-of-notifications/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_1)? +* 🏃🏽♀️ Want the best tools to get healthy? Check out our Gear team’s picks for the [best fitness trackers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-fitness-tracker/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [running gear](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-running-gear/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) (including [shoes](https://wired.com/gallery/best-trail-running-shoes-round-up/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) and [socks](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-running-socks/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories)), and [best headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphones-under-100/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories). +* 📩 Get even more of our inside scoops with our weekly [Backchannel newsletter](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=backchannel&sourceCode=BottomStories) diff --git a/published/aug08-deals.txt b/published/aug08-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..583bdce --- /dev/null +++ b/published/aug08-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +The relentless heat and humidity of summer continues, sending us outside in search of cold water, cool forests and high mountain passes. If you're also planning to escape the heat of the lowlands for the high country, but sure to take advantage of the ongoing [Backcountry.com sale](https://www.wired.com/story/deals-backcountry-semiannual-sale-2019/) to grab any last minute gear you need. + +If you prefer to wait out the heat indoors, check out some of our favorite electronics deals for the weekend, there's plenty in there to keep you busy and entertained until cooler weather returns. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +### Our Favorite Outdoor Deals + +- **[Haglofs Helios VX Backpack for $150 ($60 off)](https://fave.co/2ZJnyNs){: rel=nofollow}:** This versatile pack is water-resistant and made from light, durable ripstop. It has a laptop sleeve and roll-top for additional rain protection. + +- **[Silky Ono Professional Hatchet for $82.46 ($27 off)](https://www.backcountry.com/silky-ono-professional-hatchet?skid=SKY000A-ONECOL-ONESIZ&ti=UExQIFJ1bGUgQmFzZWQ6U2hvcCBBbGwgU2FsZSA6MzoxMjo=){: rel=nofollow}:** This wonderfully crafted steel hatchet is a must-have for serious wood chopping in the outdoors. It is sharp and potentially dangerous though so be sure to use safely and store it in the included bag for safe transport. + +- **[Sea To Summit X-Seal & Go Bowl for $13 ($11 off)](https://www.backcountry.com/sea-to-summit-x-seal-go?skid=STS004X-RD-XL&ti=UExQIFJ1bGUgQmFzZWQ6U2hvcCBBbGwgU2FsZSA6MzozNjo=){: rel=nofollow}:** This collapsible bowl works just as well in the office as on the trail, making it perfect for backed lunches no matter where you are. When you're done, give it a quick rinse and collapse it down for easy packing. + +- **[Petzl Tikkina Headlamp for $16 ($4 off)](https://www.backcountry.com/petzl-tikkina-2-headlamp-ptz006m?skid=PTZ006M-RD-ONESIZ&ti=UExQIFJ1bGUgQmFzZWQ6U2hvcCBBbGwgU2FsZSA6MTozMTo=){: rel=nofollow}:** The Tikkina strikes a good balance between price, weight and luminosity. It doesn't have a red light, but it does offer two mode, one optimized for brightness, one for battery life. + +- **[Black Diamond Cams for $58-$85 ($10-$45 off)](https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-camalot-c4s-bld0839?skid=BLD0839-S60-ONSI&ti=UExQIFJ1bGUgQmFzZWQ6U2hvcCBBbGwgU2FsZSA6MTo5Og==){: rel=nofollow}:** Black Diamond's Camelot series of camming devices remain some of the best you can buy. They don't end up on sale much either. + + +### Our Favorite Electronics Deals + + +- **[Apple AirPods 2 with Wireless Charging Case for $159 ($40 off)](https://express.google.com/u/0/product/13565179086288644032_0_137083102){: rel=nofollow}:** AirPods are definitely meant to be used with Apple products, but if you've got some Apple gear and want (or need) to go wireless, these fit the bill. Be sure to use the code WBHYGT to get the full deal. + +- **[Anker Soundcore Liberty Neo Bluetooth Earbuds for $40 ($20 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MCGZK3B){: rel=nofollow}:** If you don't have Apple gear, fear not these Anker Bluetooth earbuds will work with anything and won't set you back quite as much cash. + +- **[Bose SoundSport in-ear headphones for Apple Devices for $40 ($60 off)](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0117RFZHC/){: rel=nofollow}:** If your Apple device has a headphone jack, these Bose headphones make a nice upgrade. There's an inline mic and remote for switch between music and calls. + +- **[SanDisk 128GB MicroSDXC Memory Card for $15 ($53 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-128gb-microsdxc-memory-card-for-nintendo-switch/6103002.p?skuId=6103002){: rel=nofollow}:** There's never a bad time to pick up some memory. This card offers up to 90-megabytes per second write speeds and 100-megabyte read speeds. + +- **[Western Digital 5TB External USB 3.0 Portable Drive for $100 ($70 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-5tb-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-black/6356880.p?skuId=6356880){: rel=nofollow}:** Need even more space? This massive massive 5-terabyte drive can backup all your data and fit comfortably in your bag. + +- **[Dell G5 15 Gaming Laptop for $1,149 ($250 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-G5-15-Gaming-Laptop-5590-15-6-Intel-Core-i7-9750H-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-2060-128-GB-SSD-16GB-RAM-G5590-7503WHT-PUS/476374933){: rel=nofollow}:** This is a powerhouse of the laptop for the price, the only thing that's not to love is the small hard drive, but if you grab the 5TB drive above you'll have plenty of external storage. + +- **[Logitech Harmony Smart Control Remote and Hub for $50 ($20 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-harmony-smart-control-remote-control-and-smart-hub-black/8574049.p?skuId=8574049){: rel=nofollow}:** Control all things with one thing. This hub and remote center is compatible with iOS 5.0 or later and Android 2.3 or later. + +- **[Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 Instant Camera Bundle for $50 ($30 off)](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1409270-REG/fujifilm_600020093_instax_mini_9_ice.html){: rel=nofollow}:** Instant cameras are fun, but the images aren't good enough to justify the price tag sometimes, that's why we like this deal, everything you need for $50. + +- **[Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4 Digital Download) for $16 ($24 off)](){: rel=nofollow}:** Spiderman for the PS4 [wasn't our favorite](https://www.wired.com/story/marvels-spider-man-game-review/), but is still incredible fun, especially if you're a fan of the character. + + +*As always, a [1-year unlimited WIRED digital and print subscription is only $10](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub). Subscribing directly supports the reviews and original reporting we do every day. We're biased, but we think it's a bargain!* diff --git a/published/best-instant-cameras.txt b/published/best-instant-cameras.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4aacc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/best-instant-cameras.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Sure, smartphone cameras are great, but there’s nothing like watching a freshly snapped photo print and develop in front of your eyes. Instant photography, like the Polaroid pictures of old, is back. There’s a wealth of printing cameras on the market from manufacturers like Fujifilm, Polaroid Originals, Lomography, and even Leica. We've snapped pics with most of them, and these are our favorites. + +And if you're hunting around, we have guides to the [best compact cams](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/) and some of the best [mirrorless cameras](https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorless-cameras-buying-guide/). + +*Updated for November 2019: We've added the Fujifilm Instax Mini Link as a great option for parties.* + +### Best Overall + +Fujifilm's latest Instax offering, the [Mini LiPlay (8/10 WIRED Recommends)](https://www.wired.com/review/fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay/){: rel=nofollow}, works as a camera and a printer. The pocketable form factor makes it easy to tote around and enjoy the immediate gratification of an instant camera. As a bonus, if you want to print a photo from your phone, you can do that too with the mobile app. The LiPlay has a nice glass lens, a mirror for selfies, and the ability to review images before committing them to paper. We found the embedded QR codes for audio gimmicky, but many users enjoy it. + +### Best Photo Quality + +If you're aiming for the best photo quality, this Fujifilm camera is the best instant camera the company makes. Compared to some of the other Instax Mini cameras, the Mini 90 Neo Classic is compact, comes with a long-lasting rechargeable battery, and gives you more creative control with a push-button close-up lens and a double exposure mode. We like its dual shutter buttons, which make it super easy to take a selfie from just about any angle. It often sells for around $120, so check prices often. + +### Best on a Budget + +For penny-pinchers or parents shopping for tweens, the Instax Mini 9 is the best camera to buy. It’s by far the cheapest, which is its main virtue. Because the Mini 9 is so affordable, you don’t have to feel quite so bad if your son breaks it or your daughter goes through packs of film like sticks of chewing gum. Unlike past low-end Mini cameras, the Mini 9 now has a high-key exposure feature and a standard selfie mirror up front. It's the best value in instant photography and [comes in several colors](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fujifilm%20Instax%20Mini%209&i=electronics&rh=n:172282,n:291227,p_6:ATVPDKIKX0DER,p_89:Fujifilm,p_n_condition-type:2224371011&dc&qid=1565124959&rnid=2224369011&ref=sr_nr_p_n_condition-type_1){: rel=nofollow}. + +### For Extra Abilities + +If you have an artistic flair, try Lomo’s latest camera on for size. This Instax Mini-compatible cam is great on its own, taking sharp shots (especially if you opt for the [glass-lensed, wide-angle Magellan](https://www.wired.com/2017/09/review-lomography-lomoinstant-automat-glass-magellan/) edition) and including features many Fuji-made cameras omit. Long exposures, multiple exposures, and some exposure compensation abilities let you further express yourself. If you spring for this Automat’s [bundles](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HV2KJRO/?tag=w050b-20), you’ll get macro, fish-eye, and wide attachments, along with the fantastic lens-covering Splitzer, which divides the frame up into sections that you can expose individually for a collage effect. + +### For Square Prints + +Fuji’s first [square film camera](https://www.wired.com/2017/08/review-fujifilm-instax-square-sq10/) was kind of a dud, but this one is not. Its reasonable price and easy-to-use design make it a great choice if you just gotta have the classic, 1:1 aspect ratio, Polaroid-style shots you remember from days gone by (and from Instagram). The Instax SQ6 ([7/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/review-fujifilm-instax-square-sq6/)) has plenty of modes, from basic to double exposure. Even if you don’t plan on experimenting, it's dead easy to use. It’s not our favorite Instax Square camera, but it’s incredibly simple. + +### For Luxe Square Prints + +If the idea of Instax Square has you intrigued, but you find the above SQ6 a little ... square, then this is what you should buy. Lomo has applied its excellent Automat tech to the [Lomo’Instant Square](https://www.wired.com/review/review-lomography-lomoinstant-square/), making it the funky, fun, creative pick for Instax Square shooters. From its unique folding design to its excellent optional attachments and built-in infrared remote, it makes its higher price feel totally justified. And, if you need to save a buck on film, an adapter lets you shoot cheaper and smaller Instax Mini instead of Instax Square. + +### For Polaroid Purists + +If you want to relive the glory of vintage Polaroids, the OneStep Plus is best choice. It's competitively priced and very easy to shoot with. It has a USB-rechargeable battery, two built-in focal lengths, and a great companion app that lets you control the camera’s settings with a smartphone. Compared to the OneStep 2, the OneStep Plus is simply a more capable camera for the money. *A note though: we've had some bad batches of film, and buyers have complained about this, as well.* But when you get a good batch, the OneStep Plus is the closest you'll get to that vintage Polaroid of yesteryear. + +If you want the Polaroid look, but not the bulk camera, consider the [Polaroid Lab ($130)](https://www.amazon.com/Polaroid-Lab-Digital-Analog-Printer/dp/B07WHMKXQB/){: rel=nofollow}. The Lab makes Polaroid images from images on your phone. It actually takes a photo of your phone screen and therefore the better phone you have, the nicer the results. + +### For Extra Wide Prints + +If you want to shoot with Fujifilm’s wider film, you have to buy a larger-size camera to shoot it. The Instax Wide 300 is the only first-party camera to shoot said Instax Wide film, and it’s not our favorite. Sure, it has the right features, but its huge, plasticky body isn't portable compared to a Polaroid-compatible shooter or an Instax Mini camera. Its biggest drawback is that the viewfinder can make framing close-up shots challenging. But if you want to go wide and don't mind the bulk, it's decent. + +### For Parties + +Fujifilm's Mini Link is very close to our top pick, the LiPlay, but ditches the camera functionality. Instead the Mini Link prints images from your phone. Fujifilm's new mobile app is much better than its past efforts. I'd recommend this over the older SP-2 printer ([7/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/2017/08/review-fujifilm-instax-share-sp-2-printer/)) for that reason alone since otherwise, this results are very similar. + +What makes the new app more fun are what Fujifilm calls Fun Modes. Party Print creates collages from multiple phone while Match Test takes images of two people (or two images of one person) and prints a combined image. It'll also tell your how "compatible" it thinks the two are. It's gimmicky, but what party doesn't lighten up with a little gimmickry? + + +### For Portability + +For those of us who value portability, Fujifilm offers the Instax Mini 70. This tiny camera can go anywhere with you, and it doesn’t skimp on things like the valuable selfie mirror. There are two wrinkles that make the Mini 70 less desirable than either the Instax Mini 9 or Instax Mini 90: It’s more expensive than the Mini 9, and it requires the less common [CR2 batteries](https://www.amazon.com/Duracell-Lithium-Battery-lasting-battery/dp/B00005T3DX/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. But you can usually find it sold at a discount just about anywhere. + +### For Leica Lovers + +This stylish but expensive camera is fantastic—just not for everyone. Unless you value eye-catching design and the signature Leica red dot more than you value getting what you’ve paid for, the Sofort has little extra to offer. I enjoyed shooting with it but routinely questioned why it costs more than twice as much as the incredibly similar Fuji Instax Mini 90. Its aesthetic loveliness can't be denied, but unless you’re a dedicated Leica fan, just get the Fujifilm version. + +### Best Instant Printer + +Okay, it's not a camera, but your phone already has a camera, so why carry another one around? If you just want to print existing images, this printer is the way to go. The Fujifilm app for your phone can be a little fiddly, but the printer itself is simple to set up and use. If you want to edit photos first, skip Fujifilm's app and use a dedicated photo editing app to save the results, then print. We prefer the square format of the SP-3, but if you want the rectangular prints, the [Instax Share SP-2 printer ($88)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GTKG5Z8/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} is another, cheaper option. The price fluctuates a little on this, but don't pay more than $100. diff --git a/published/best-smart-displays.txt b/published/best-smart-displays.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e80917 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/best-smart-displays.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +arrive Early afternoon Sunday for CES. + +Smart displays are the tech world's latest fetish. Put Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa into a [smart speaker](https://www.wired.com/story/best-smart-speakers/) with a tablet-sized screen and you get a fun way to see the weather, album art, TV shows, video calls, and other (mostly) useful stuff. With [Facebook](https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-portal-smart-home-device/) and [Google](https://www.wired.com/story/google-home-hub-smart-display/) each jumping into the fray with their own displays, it's a good time to step back and examine the LCD-filled terrain. Below are the major smart displays, and the best use-case for each. + +*Updated November 2019: We've included all the latest models and added the Echo Show 8, and some hands-on thoughts about the Facebook Portal.* + +### Best for Music + +If you want a speaker with a screen, which is to say you want good sound above all else, JBL's Link View ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/jbl-link-view-google-smart-display/)) is an early frontrunner. It has the best speakers of any display we've tried, and its 8-inch screen is almost ideal—small enough that it doesn't take up your whole countertop, but big enough for squint-free Google Duo video chats. Plus, it has a built-in privacy cover over its webcam to ensure no one is snooping on you unless you allow it. + +### Best for the Kitchen + +Lenovo's Smart Display ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-lenovo-smart-display/)) can't pump out the jams as well as JBL's Link View, but it has a stylish design that's kitchen friendly. Google Assistant's step-by-step recipe directions work perfectly on it. You can prop it up vertically for Google Duo calls or keep it widescreen, and it comes in two sizes: [8-inch](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=bestsmartdisplays&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FLenovo-Smart-Display-8%2F599801301){: rel=nofollow} or [10-inch](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=bestsmartdisplays&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FLenovo-Smart-Display-10-with-the-Google-Assistant%2F552189414){: rel=nofollow}. The 10-inch may be too large for some, but we loved the bamboo wood grain design touches on the back. And, like the Link View, this also has a privacy shutter so you can keep the camera covered. + +### The Amazon Show + +Amazon's [2nd Echo Show](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-echo-show-future-of-tv/) has a larger 10-inch screen and enhanced, rearward-firing speakers. It has a more high-end look and can now play NBC and Hulu videos. Amazon has even added step-by-step recipes to Alexa to combat what Google cooked up for its displays. Frankly, it's still not as good as Google Assistant in this regard, but Amazon invented this category and the latest Echo Show is a promising evolution of the smart screen concept. + +There's also the [Echo Show 5 ($90](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZLHPKP/){: rel=nofollow}, with a much smaller screen that makes it more at home on a bedside table then anywhere else. This year Amazon added the [Echo Show 8 $130](https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Show-8/dp/B07PF1Y28C/){: rel=nofollow}, the middle child you might say. We haven't laid hands on one yet, but with the same pixel density of the 10.1 inch model in a smaller form factor, the Echo Show 8 will likely offer the best screen quality of the Echo show family. + +### The Creepy Clock + +The Echo Spot is the smallest Alexa smart display, and it creeped us out at first (we gave it a [6/10](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-echo-spot/) when we reviewed it). Amazon positioned it as a smart alarm clock of sorts, but it has a camera without a privacy shutter—giving you the uneasy feeling that it watches you sleep. The round 2.5-inch screen is also too small for watching Netflix or video calling, even if it's fine for at-a-glance info. But if you have some electrical tape handy and want to wake up to Alexa in the morning, it's a fun little device. + +### Tablet Transformer + +Amazon's new Show Dock recharges one of its 8-inch or [10-inch Fire HD](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DDDPWML/){: rel=nofollow} tablets and turns it into a very nice Echo display, complete with voice commands. The microphones won't pick up your voice quite as well, but using a tablet adds portability to the smart display experience. If you want apps, but tend to place your Fire HD back in the same spot each night, a Show Dock might be right for you. One thing to note, your Fire will only stay active for 30 minutes at a time. + +### Facebook Has One Too +Adrienne So + +Facebook wants in on the hardware market. The [10-inch Portal and 16-inch Portal Plus](https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-portal-smart-home-device/) are its answer. WIRED senior writer Andrienne So, liked using the portal ([6/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/facebook-portal-2019/)), but found the portal "difficult to separate this family of devices from the social network that makes them." And therein lies the rub. To add to the creepiness the Portal can rotate, with a camera that follows your movements. Other than video chatting, Amazon's Alexa runs the show. It should operate similarly to the Echo Show and pull off most of Alexa's usual abilities without trouble. Facebook also stresses that calls are encrypted and the camera can be disabled or blocked with the included camera cover. + +### Google's First Display + +There are a growing number of smart displays with Google Home, and finally Google makes one of its own. The Google Nest Hub Max has an unobtrusive design, 10-inch touch screen display, some pretty good speakers, and a camera for video calls over Google Duo. There's also the slightly smaller [Google Nest Hub](https://store.google.com/config/google_nest_hub){: rel=nofollow} with a 7-inch screen. This ends up a slightly odd size, too small to be useful in places like the kitchen, but a little large for the bedside. It also doesn't have a camera. It can do voice calls, but Google opted out of the growing concerns over the amount of cameras in our lives. + +### Go Screenless + +If you don't feel the need for a screen, a smart speaker offers the power of an assistant and often much better sound to boot. We like the JBL Link 20 ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-jbl-link-speakers-with-google-assistant/)) which strikes a great balance between price, size, and sound quality. If you want the best sound you can get from a smart speaker, the [Sonos One](https://www.amazon.com/Sonos-One-Gen-Controlled-Built/dp/B07NJPXRBC/){: rel=nofollow} is a good choice ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/story/review-sonos-one/)). Be sure to read our [guide to choosing the right Sonos speaker setup](https://www.wired.com/story/best-sonos-speakers-buying-guide/). diff --git a/published/best-tablets.txt b/published/best-tablets.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d074b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/best-tablets.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Tablets have yet to make themselves essential, but that doesn't mean they aren't nice to have around. A good tablet can be a portable TV screen around the house, or a great way to enjoy apps and games on the go. + +The iPad's ease of use and best-in-breed software still make it the obvious choice for most people, but if you don't want an iPad, there are options. Android tablets have become useful enough to consider, and Amazon's incredibly affordable tablets are also worth it if your needs are light. Finally, if you mostly need a laptop that can stand in for a tablet, a Windows 2-in-1 might be your best bet. Be sure to check out all of [WIRED's Buying Guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/). + +*Updated November 2019: We've added the new iPad, the Galaxy Tab S6, and removed some older tablets that are no longer available.* + +### Best For Most People + +We haven't had a chance to test Apple's 2019 update to the base model iPad, but we're confident that it's going to be best buy for most people. It's mostly the same as the 2018 model, which topped previous versions of this list. It even, somewhat disappointingly, has the same A10 Fusion processor as the 2018 model. It's plenty powerful enough for most use cases, but if you're planning a lot of photo editing, you may want to look into the iPad Pro models. + +We like the small .5-inch bump in screen size, which makes this latest model half an inch taller, and the Smart Connector hookup that lets you use an Apple Keyboard (Amazon). + +Our only real gripe remains the same as last year's model -- the larger air gap (space between glass and screen) than what you get with the iPad Air, Mini, and Pro. For this reason, it isn't our top choice if you're planning to make heavy use of the Pencil, though it is compatible and does work just fine. + +### A Good Upgrade. + +The 2019 iPad Air uses the faster A12 Bionic processor in the chassis of the 10.5-inch iPad Pro that came out in 2017. It's the same size as most every iPad you've ever held, but with slightly more screen space than the 10.2-inch default iPad above. + +The Air still has a home button and fingerprint sensor, which we like. The display is also better for writing and drawing with the [Apple Pencil](https://apple.sjv.io/ebGaX){: rel=nofollow} (also [$99 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MK0C2AM-A-Apple-Pencil/dp/B016NY7784/){: rel=nofollow}), because it's laminated more tightly (there's less distance between the glass and pixels). It's also compatible with [Apple's Smart Keyboard](https://apple.sjv.io/qB9qN){: rel=nofollow}. + +### The Ultimate Tablet + +The [iPad Pro](https://www.wired.com/review/review-ipad-pro-2018/) is a cut above the rest. It ditches the home button in favor of a larger display (either 11 or 13 inches) and Face ID. The 13-inch model is about the size of a magazine and wonderful for drawing, but the 11-incher is more than enough tablet for most. + +If you want to draw or write, spend extra to get the new [$129 Apple Pencil](https://apple.sjv.io/XKjqb){: rel=nofollow} ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MU8F2AM-A-Pencil-Generation/dp/B07K1WWBJK/){: rel=nofollow}). It's the best stylus around, and it magnetically clings to the side, auto-pairing and charging. The [Smart Keyboard is a good keyboard](https://apple.sjv.io/V0WgM){: rel=nofollow} ([both](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Smart-Keyboard-11-inch-English/dp/B07JZYSTNR/){: rel=nofollow} [sizes](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Keyboard-12-9-inch-Generation-English/dp/B07JZYSWPY/){: rel=nofollow} are also at Amazon)—just know that it's still a challenge to accomplish many laptop tasks on an iPad. It's also available at [Amazon for $799 or less](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K344J3N/){: rel=nofollow}. + +### Best 8-Inch Tablet + +After more than three years, Apple finally took the time to update the iPad Mini 4 and, predictably, we love it ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-ipad-mini-2019/)). It's faster than the old model and now compatible with the [Apple Pencil](https://apple.sjv.io/ebGaX){: rel=nofollow} ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MK0C2AM-A-Apple-Pencil/dp/B016NY7784/){: rel=nofollow}) and other Bluetooth styli. Mostly, the only good reason to buy this tablet is because you like the portability. Kids have an easier time using it, and it's fantastic for travel. You may want to invest in a [stand-up case](https://apple.sjv.io/KWmmy){: rel=nofollow} ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PTMPCLN/){: rel=nofollow}). You can also purchase the tablet at [Amazon for $399](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-Mini-Wi-Fi-64GB/dp/B07PRD48RS/){: rel=nofollow}. + +### Best Tablet Under $200 + +Amazon's tablets aren't for everyone. They *really* push Amazon Prime services and apps, and they're best for more passive tasks like playing games and watching movies. But for $150, it's hard to beat the Fire HD 10, which is our [favorite Fire Tablet](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/). It has hands-free Alexa and a specifically designed optional [standing case](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSPQ4TL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} accessory. I've used an HD 10 interchangeably with an iPad for more than a year now. It's not as speedy, but it gets the job done. Make sure to [also get a standing case](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NHH3V7H/){: rel=nofollow}. + +### Best Tablet Under $100 + +At $80, the Fire HD 8 is our favorite value-priced tablet. It's a completely functional 8-inch device that's great for travel and reading. The only downside might be the sub-par screen, which does have visible pixels at its 1,280 x 800 resolution, though it's honestly [not that bad](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-2018/), and neither is the tablet's slight sluggishness. The latest version has hands-free Alexa. You may want to pair it with a [standing case](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N44JBS4/){: rel=nofollow} or [Echo Dock](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BNXZDJ3/){: rel=nofollow}. Keep an eye out for sales on this one, we've seen it dip as low as $50 several times. + +### Best Android Tablet + +The Galaxy Tab S5e is Samsung's latest answer to the iPad. The battery life isn't as good, and there's no headphone jack, something you'll sorely miss unless you've gone all wireless already. Still, the S5e is about as good as an Android tablet can get right now. Imagine a Samsung phone blown up to a 10.2 screen size and you've got the idea. + +We think the S5e is a better buy for most people than the more expensive (albeit slightly more powerful) Galaxy Tab S6. The only exception is if you need the stylus, which the S5e does not support. Really though, if you're planning to do a lot of drawing, the iPad Air is worth the money. + +### Also a Good Galaxy Tab + +The Galaxy Tab S4 was Samsung's answer to the iPad Pro. It isn't as good as an iPad Pro (iPads just have better apps and last longer), but it's still powerful and useful if you want a tablet primarily for media, or browsing the web on the couch. It comes with an S Pen stylus, and Samsung sells its own keyboard as well. Like Apple's keyboard, it has its ups and downs—it adds a lot of bulk to the tablet. + +### Excellent Android Tablet + +Huawei's [MediaPad M5 10.8](https://www.wired.com/review/review-huawei-mediapad-m5-tablets/) is a simple, good Android tablet. It has great fit and finish, and it's about as powerful as a smartphone from a few years ago—which is normal for a tablet. At around $300 (plus [$10 for a case](https://www.amazon.com/MoKo-Huawei-MediaPad-10-8-Case/dp/B07BBLYK43/){: rel=nofollow}), it's relatively affordable, and its wide display is better suited for movies or TV shows. The lack of a headphone jack may bug you, even though it includes a USB-C adapter in the box. + +### Most Powerful 2-in-1 + +If the Surface Pro is half tablet and half laptop, the Surface Book 2 ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-book-2/))is more like 90 percent laptop, 10 percent tablet. It runs Windows 10 and has a glorious keyboard with a 13-inch or 15-inch detachable tablet screen, though you probably won't detach it often. You might twist it around the keyboard 360 degrees to draw or take notes, though. Mostly, this is a powerhouse. The 15-inch version can pack a Nvidia GeForce 1060, which makes it powerful enough for gaming and even VR. diff --git a/published/bf-article-links.txt b/published/bf-article-links.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24d03e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-article-links.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +###WIRED's Black Friday Coverage + +- [Absolute Best Black Friday Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-deals-2019/) +- [Google Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-google-deals-2019/) +- [Amazon Device Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-amazon-device-deals-2019/) +- [Best Laptop and Tablet Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-laptop-tablet-pc-deals-2019/) +- [Best Cameras, Drones, and Photo Gear](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/) +- [Black Friday Tips and Tricks](https://www.wired.com/story/black-friday-tips-and-tricks/) +- [Best Outdoor Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/early-black-friday-outdoor-deals/) +- [Best Video Game Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-videogame-deals-2019/) +- [Best TV and Home Theater Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-tv-home-theater-deals-2019/) +- [Best Smartphone and Gadget Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-phone-gadget-deals-2019/) +- [Best Home, Kitchen, and Box Mattress Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-home-kitchen-deals-2019/) +- [All WIRED Holiday Buying Guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/) +- **[1-Year WIRED Digital + Print Subscription for $5 ($5 off)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub)** diff --git a/published/bf-best-picks.txt b/published/bf-best-picks.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..586ddcb --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-best-picks.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +####Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch, 16GB RAM, 256GB $1999 ($400 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RZWHHHP/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +This mid-range MacBook Pro is incredibly powerful next to pretty much everything but higher end MacBook Pros. It's got a ninth-generation 6-Core Intel i7 processor, 16-gigabytes of RAM, a 256-gigabyte drive, and Radeon Pro 555x Graphics with 4GB of video memory. This model does have the butterfly keyboard though, so be forewarned that some have had issues. + +The top end model, which gets you an i9 processor, a 512 GB drive, and a Radeon Pro 560x graphics card is also [on sale for $2349.00 ($450 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07S58MHXF?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +####Surface Pro 7 i5, 8GB 128GB $799 ($230 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmicrosoft-surface-pro-7-12-3-touch-screen-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-128gb-ssd-with-black-type-cover-latest-model-platinum%2F6374987.p%3FskuId%3D6374987&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Pro 7 is one of our favorite laptop-tablet hybrids ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-pro-7-2019/)). There are cheaper Surfaces (and we hate them), but this is a good price on premium hardware. Be sure to grab the pen. + +####Dell XPS 13 Laptop for $1050 ($250 off) + +*[Dell](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/3bsw){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Dell XPS 13 ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dell-xps-13-2019/)) is one of our favorite highly portable laptops. For this 2019 model Dell finally moved the webcam to the top of the screen so your video chat partner isn't staring up your nose. + +####Lenovo Thinkpad X1 i5, 256 GB for $999 ($200 off) + +*[Lenovo](https://lenovo.vzew.net/c/1305164/218864/3808?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lenovo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Flaptops%2Fthinkpad%2Fthinkpad-x%2FX1-Carbon-Gen-7%2Fp%2F20QD001TUS&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +I'm a Thinkpad fan and the X1 is definitely the sleekest of the bunch ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2017/04/review-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon/)). This configuration uses the Intel Core i5, offers 8-gigabytes of RAM, a 256-gigabyte SSD, and Windows 10 Pro. The 14-inch IPS (1920 x 1080) display is bright and helps cut power use. If you can afford it, I suggest upgrading to the 10th Generation i7 chip and 16-gigabytes of RAM for a machine that's going to last much longer. + +####Lenovo ThinkPad T470 i5, 256 GB for $549 ($300 off) + +*[Lenovo](https://lenovo.vzew.net/c/1305164/218864/3808?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lenovo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Flaptops%2Fthinkpad%2Fthinkpad-t-series%2FThinkPad-T470%2Fp%2F20JMS0Q000&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +The T470 is roughly the opposite of an ultrabook. It's not heavy, but it's definitely thicker and offers ports galore -- HDMI, Ethernet, SD card, Micro sim, they're all here. This is workhorse of a laptop and boasts good battery life as well. diff --git a/published/bf-deal-links.xls b/published/bf-deal-links.xls Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0fbb01 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-deal-links.xls diff --git a/published/bf-ipad.txt b/published/bf-ipad.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36604b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-ipad.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +*Updated December 1: This morning only Target still has this deal. Check all colors. If it's at $249, that is still a great price we don't see very often.* + +Apple's newest iPad isn't radically different over its predecessors, but it's still the best tablet for most people. It's already fairly affordable at its original $329, but thanks to Black Friday, the 2019 model is down to $229 through Cyber Monday (or until it sells out). Usually, the lowest we see an iPad is $249, so this price is particularly good (for an Apple product). + +The 2019 iPad is perfect for the usual iPad activities, like streaming music, browsing the web on the couch, and watching Netflix in bed. It supports the first-generation Apple Pencil (also [on sale for $79](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016NY7784){: rel=nofollow}, $20 off) and works with Apple's Smart Keyboard. There are certainly more powerful iPads in Apple's lineup, but they're much more expensive. Read our recently-updated *[guide to buying the right iPad](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/)* for more details on the differences between models, but the short story is this iPad is powerful enough for most people. + +**Right now, you can buy the 2019 iPad at [Target ($229)](https://fave.co/2LaiE6C){: rel=nofollow}, [Amazon ($249)](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-10-2-Inch-Wi-Fi-32GB/dp/B07XL7G4HH/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, [Walmart ($249)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-10-2-inch-iPad-7th-Gen-Wi-Fi-32GB/216119597&subid1=blackfridayipaddeal2019){: rel=nofollow}, and [Best Buy ($249)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fapple-ipad-latest-model-with-wi-fi-32gb-gold%2F5985612.p%3FskuId%3D5985612&subid1=blackfridayipaddeal2019){: rel=nofollow}, a full $100 off the regular $329 price tag.** + + + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Cyber Week Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +###Is the iPad for You? + +**WIRED:** It would have been nice if Apple had bumped the processing power a little for the 2019 release (it still uses the A10 Fusion processor), but we do like the small 0.5-inch bump in screen size from 9.7 inches to 10.2 (this one is half an inch taller). That increased size makes room for the Smart Connector hookup so you can use an [Apple Keyboard](https://apple.sjv.io/c/1305164/435031/7613?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fshop%2Fproduct%2FMPTL2LL%2FA%2Fsmart-keyboard-for-ipad-7th-generation-and-ipad-air-3rd-generation-us-english&subid1=blackfridayipaddeal2019){: rel=nofollow}. + +**TIRED:** The only real downside is that this model has a slightly larger air gap (space between glass and screen) than the iPad Air, Mini, and Pro, so it isn't our top choice for drawing with the Pencil, though it is compatible and works just fine. + +It's also worth bearing in mind that this is not a good choice for more processor-intensive tasks like editing photos, making movies, or recording with GarageBand. While you can do all that on this iPad, the [MacBook Air](https://apple.sjv.io/c/1305164/435031/7613?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fshop%2Fbuy-ipad%2Fipad-air&subid1=blackfridayipaddeal2019){: rel=nofollow} and [MacBook Pro](https://apple.sjv.io/c/1305164/435031/7613?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fshop%2Fbuy-ipad%2Fipad-pro&subid1=blackfridayipaddeal2019){: rel=nofollow} will offer a much faster, smoother experience. For example, if editing photos in Lightroom is your primary use case you're better off spending the extra money on an iPad Pro. + +###WIRED's Black Friday and Cyber Monday Coverage +- **[Absolute Best Black Friday Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-deals-2019/)** +- [Deals for $50 or Less](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-deals-under-50-2019) +- [TV and Soundbar Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-tv-home-theater-deals-2019/) +- [Headphone and Speaker Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-headphone-speaker-audio-deals-2019/) +- [Smartphone and Gadget Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-phone-gadget-deals-2019/) +- [Laptop and Tablet Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-laptop-tablet-pc-deals-2019/) +- [Home and Kitchen Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-home-kitchen-deals-2019/) +- [Cameras and Drone Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/) +- [Outdoor and Fitness Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/early-black-friday-outdoor-deals/) +- [Videogame and Console Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-videogame-deals-2019/) +- [Deals That Make Great Gifts](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-black-friday-deals-for-gifting-2019) +- [Google Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-google-deals-2019/) and [Amazon Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-amazon-device-deals-2019/) +- [OLED TV Deal](https://www.wired.com/story/lg-black-friday-cyber-monday-oled-deals-2019/) and [Wirefree Earbuds Deal](https://www.wired.com/story/1more-stylish-black-friday-cyber-monday-deal-2019/) +- [All Our Black Friday Articles](https://www.wired.com/tag/black-friday/), [Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/black-friday-tips-and-tricks/), and [Holiday Guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/) + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* The tech-obsessed, hyper-experimental [restaurant of the future](https://www.wired.com/story/eric-rivera/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* Why the Tesla Cybertruck [looks so weird](https://www.wired.com/story/why-tesla-cybertruck-looks-weird/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* Starlings fly in flocks so dense [they look like sculptures](https://www.wired.com/story/starlings-murmurations/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* A journey to Galaxy's Edge, [the nerdiest place on earth](https://www.wired.com/story/star-wars-disneyland-galaxys-edge/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* Burglars really do use Bluetooth scanners [to find laptops and phones](https://www.wired.com/story/bluetooth-scanner-car-thefts/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* 👁 A safer way to [protect your data](https://www.wired.com/story/dawn-song-oasis-labs-data-privacy-wired25/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2); plus, the [latest news on AI](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* ✨ Optimize your home life with our Gear team’s best picks, from [robot vacuums](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-robot-vacuums/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) to [affordable mattresses](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-mattresses/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) to [smart speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-google-speakers-buying-guide/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories). diff --git a/published/bf-laptop-tablet-deals.txt b/published/bf-laptop-tablet-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa7de3b --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-laptop-tablet-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,240 @@ +This Black Friday proved to be a great time to score a deal on a tablet or laptop. Apple's iPad hit an all-time low price, and there were plenty of great deals on laptops, hard drives, and memory. + +Now that Cyber Monday sales are underway, we've gone back through the listings, comparing specs, and finding the best deals for every budget. Whether you're in the market for a tricked-out, all-powerful gaming rig or want a new tablet for browsing the web in bed, there's a PC deal out there for everyone. Below are the best deals we've found on laptops and tablets. + +Note: We will update this post with new deals as we find them. If an item is no longer at its deal price or sold out, we ~~cross it out~~. Deal prices sometimes return and items come back in stock faster than we can update, so it never hurts to check for yourself. + +*Update December 2: We've added a few new deals from HP, a deal on the Apple Pencil, and a few things that have come back in stock for Cyber Monday.* + +###WIRED's Cyber Monday Coverage +- **[Absolute Best Cyber Monday Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-deals-2019/)** +- [Camera and Drone Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-photography-deals-2019/) +- *Laptop and Tablet Deals (You are here!)* +- [TV and Soundbar Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-tv-home-theater-deals-2019/) +- [Videogame and Console Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-videogame-deals-2019/) +- [Headphone and Speaker Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-headphone-speaker-audio-deals-2019/) +- [Smartphone and Gadget Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-phone-gadget-deals-2019/) +- [Outdoor and Fitness Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-outdoors-fitness-deals-2019/) +- [Deals Under $50](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-deals-under-50-2019/) +- [Home, Kitchen, and Mattress Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-home-kitchen-deals-2019/) +- [Deals That Make Great Gifts](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-cyber-monday-deals-for-gifting-2019/) +- [Google Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-google-deals-2019/) and [Amazon Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-amazon-device-deals-2019/) +- Deals: [OLED TV](https://www.wired.com/story/lg-black-friday-cyber-monday-oled-deals-2019/), [Wirefree Earbuds](https://www.wired.com/story/1more-stylish-black-friday-cyber-monday-deal-2019/), [iPad 10.2](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ipad-cyber-monday-2019-deal/) +- [All Our Cyber Monday Articles](https://www.wired.com/tag/cyber-monday/), [Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/black-friday-tips-and-tricks/), and [Holiday Guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/) + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Cyber Week Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +##Laptop Deals + +[#image: /photos/5db1fd4e3226bb000a1e5cf7]||| +||| + +Be sure to read our guide to the [best laptops](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-laptops/), [best MacBooks](https://www.wired.com/story/which-macbook-should-you-buy/), and [best Surface PCs](https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surface-buying-guide/) for more recommendations. + +####Surface Laptop 3 13-inch for $899 ($300 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/34oDyGU){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Laptop is a premium piece of Windows hardware ([7/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-laptop-3-15-inch/)). The all-aluminum construction makes for a lightweight machine, and the 3:2 ratio screen affords plenty of room for working on documents. Note that we tested the 15-inch model, and this sale is for the 13-inch, but aside from size they're very similar. + +####HP Pavilion 15-Inch Laptop 15Z Touch—Ryzen 5, 16 GB RAM—for $450 ($850 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252FConfigureView%253FlangId%253D-1%2526storeId%253D10151%2526catalogId%253D10051%2526catEntryId%253D3074457345619203818%2526urlLangId%253D%2526quantity%253D1%2526color%253Dmineral%252Bsilver%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is a suspiciously awesome deal on a laptop that should do just about anything short of heavy video editing or serious gaming. This AMD Ryzen processor is a good mid-range chip. It comes with 256 GB of SSD file storage. + +####Microsoft Surface Go for $299 ($100 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/34oEafG){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Go is a quirky little machine, but we like it ([7/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-go/)). It's an accessible size and very well designed. Its screen is nice and sharp, and there's a MicroSD slot for storage expansion. The cover is surprisingly nice to type on and has a good trackpad. The only downside is that Go can be a little on the slow side, and if want to do any drawing, you'll want the Surface Pen (not included). + +####Surface Pro 7—i5, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB—With Type Cover for $799 ($230 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/33kho7q){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Pro 7 is one of our favorite laptop-tablet hybrids from this year ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-pro-7-2019/)). There are cheaper Surfaces, but this is a good price on the best hybrid model. Be sure to grab the pen if you want to use tablet mode for notes or drawing. + +####Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon—i5, 256 GB—for $999 ($1,150 off) + +*[Lenovo](https://lenovo.vzew.net/c/1305164/218864/3808?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lenovo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Flaptops%2Fthinkpad%2Fthinkpad-x%2FX1-Carbon-Gen-7%2Fp%2F20QD001TUS&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +I'm a ThinkPad fan and the X1 is definitely the sleekest of the bunch ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2017/04/review-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon/)). This configuration uses the Intel Core i5, offers 8 gigabytes of RAM, a 256-gigabyte SSD, and Windows 10 Pro. The 14-inch IPS (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) display is bright and helps cut power use. If you can afford it, I suggest upgrading to the 10th Generation i7 chip and 16 gigabytes of RAM for a machine that's going to last much longer. + +####Lenovo IdeaPad 330S for $299 ($149 off) + +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FLenovo-Ideapad-330s-15-6-Laptop-Windows-10-AMD-Ryzen-5-2500U-Quad-Core-Processor-8GB-Memory-256GB-Storage-Platinum-Grey-81FB00HKUS%2F273186587){: rel=nofollow}* + +Lenovo's 15-inch IdeaPad offers a good value for your money. At this price you aren't going to be editing video, but you will get a solid laptop capable of the tasks most people use laptops for: browsing the web, handling email, and streaming media. This model has an AMD Ryzen 5 quad-core processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and a 256-gigabyte hard drive, all in a 4-pound package. + +####Acer Chromebook 715—15-inch Touchscreen—for $299 ($100 off) + +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FAcer-Chromebook-715-15-6-Full-HD-Touchscreen-Intel-Core-i3-8130U-4GB-DDR4-128GB-eMMC%2F435795966&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is one of the best Chromebooks I've used. It's plenty powerful, with an Intel Core i3, and you get a 128 GB drive for storing files offline. The 15-inch screen isn't the sharpest, but the touch features work well. It also has great battery life; about 13 hours. + +####MSI GL Series Gaming Laptop for $1,249 ($150 off) + +*[Newegg](https://fave.co/34jbWmE){: rel=nofollow}* + +(You also get a $100 rebate card.) This MSI laptop is a great option for portable gaming. It's got a ninth-generation i7 chip and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. With 16 gigabytes of RAM and a large 512-GB SSD drive you'll have room for all your images and videos too. You can even get the per-key RGB backlight version to tailor your keyboard to your games. There are quite a few [other configurations](https://fave.co/37ywI3u){: rel=nofollow} on sale as well. + +####HP Spectre x360 i7 for $950 ($450 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-spectre-x360-laptop-13t-touch-7fq48av-1%253F%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +The 13-inch HP Spectre x360 is one of our favorite high-end laptops ([9/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-spectre-x360-2019/)). The base model offers an eighth-generation Intel i7 chip with 8-gigabytes of RAM and a 512-gigabyte SSD. The 15-inch version, with a newer i7 chip and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4GB) graphics card is also [on sale for $1,250 ($400 off)](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-spectre-laptop-13t-4fj31av-1%253Fjumpid%253Dma_black-friday-sale_product-tile_top-deals_10_4fj31av-1_hp-spectre-x360-lapt%2526dl%253Dtrue%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}. + +####HP Envy 13 Laptop for $650 ($350 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-envy-laptop-13t-6vc06av-1%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +We have not tried this exact model, but we did find the convertible, AMD-based version to be a solid value ([6/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-envy-x360-13-inch-ryzen/)), although the battery life is nothing to rave about. If you start with this deal and add a 4K screen, and a 512-gigabyte drive, you'll have get a much better machine for only $250 more. The 15-inch version of the Envy is also on sale, [starting at $630 ($420 off)](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-envy-x360-laptop-15t-touch-8dx23av-1%253Fjumpid%253Dma_black-friday-sale_product-tile_top-deals_22_8dx23av-1_hp-envy-x360-laptop-%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}. + +####HP Omen Gaming Laptop for $700 ($300 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fomen-laptop-15t-6cm24av-1%253Fjumpid%253Dma_black-friday-sale_product-tile_laptops_20_6cm24av-1_omen-laptop---15t%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +The 15-inch Omen is HP's gaming-style laptop, which starts with a ninth-generation i5 processor (we suggest upgrading to an i7 for better performance, though it will add $280 to the price), and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card with 4 gigabytes of video memory. The 8 gigabytes of RAM is adequate, but if you can swing it, 16 gigabytes will improve life considerably. + +##iPad and Tablet Deals + + +[#image: /photos/5d795a598827100009bfec0d]|||||| + +A tablet can't beat a truly excellent laptop, and getting work done on one can be challenging, but we still enjoy tablets for more casual computing tasks. Their stellar battery life makes them great for browsing the web from the couch, or watching TV in bed. Apple's iPads really set the standard here, with excellent battery life and a vast app ecosystem behind them, but the price of Amazon Fire HD devices is so low the software limitations may not bother you. + +Be sure to read our related guides, including, [which iPad you should actually buy](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/), the [best Amazon tablets](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/), and our master [guide to to the best tablets](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-tablets/). + + +####iPad 10.2-inch (2019) for $229 ($100 off) +*[Target ($229)](https://fave.co/2r7nrPr){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-10-2-Inch-Wi-Fi-32GB/dp/B07XQYPM2N/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apple-10-2-inch-iPad-7th-Gen-Wi-Fi-32GB/216119597&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-ipad-latest-model-with-wi-fi-32gb-space-gray/5985609.p?skuId=5985609&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=BM01&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1efi3K6L5gIVlsRkCh3PdA7OEAkYAiABEgKN6fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[B&H Photo ($289)](https://fave.co/2L13bWt){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you're [shopping for an iPad](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/), Apple's latest update is a great pick. This deal is one of our favorites this weekend, for more info, [read our full writeup on this deal](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ipad-cyber-monday-2019-deal/). As of Cyber Monday, only Target still has the $229 deal, but even $249 is a good price. + +####Apple iPad—2018 Version With LTE—for $329 ($120 off) + +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FApple-iPad-6th-Gen-32GB-Wi-Fi-Cellular-Gold%2F371098880&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you want an iPad on the cheap, this is a good, bare-bones option. It's the previous generation model, and it only has 32 GB of storage, but Apple didn't change much with the 2019 model—it even has the same processor. This one is plenty fast enough to use as a streaming media player, or for web surfing on the couch. The real benefit is LTE, which usually costs more. + +####Apple Pencil for $80 ($20 off) +[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016NY7784/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} + +Apple's stylus works with nearly all iPads and offers a much nicer experience when using the iPad as a drawing surface. Be sure to check out our [guide to the best drawing apps](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-ipad-drawing-apps/) to unlock your inner iPad artist. + +####Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 for $550 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-128GB-Tablet-Mountain/dp/B07VGJH29F){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Galaxy Tab S6 is getting tantalizingly close to being a laptop replacement. In some cases you may be able to do it. Suffice to say that if you want an Android tablet that does more than playing games and watching movies, the Tab S6 delivers. + +####Samsung Galaxy S4 Tablet 64 GB for $449 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-SM-T830NZKAXAR-Galaxy-Black/dp/B07FNZHWH2/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Samsung](https://fave.co/35ryUrH){: rel=nofollow}*, *~~[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsamsung-galaxy-tab-s4-10-5-64gb-black%2F6267302.p%3FskuId%3D6267302&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}~~* + +The Galaxy S4 is not as powerful as an iPad Pro, but it's still great for media consumption or browsing the web on the couch. It comes with an S Pen stylus, which the newer, more powerful S5E lacks. It's hovered around $550 for a few months (it was $650 before that), so this is a good price. + +####Amazon Fire HD 10 for $100 ($50 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1RZWMC/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is as cheap as the 10-inch Fire HDs ever seem to get. For $100, it's hard to beat it. This is definitely the nicest of the Fire family. I have not had a chance to do a full review yet, but I have played with and enjoyed the new model. It's a bit faster and had longer battery life than the previous model ([7/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/2017/10/review-amazon-fire-hd-10-2017/)). Just keep in mind that Amazon tablets feature Fire OS, which is, well, not for everyone. It *really* pushes Amazon services and products. + +####Amazon Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Fire-Tablet-Display-Black/dp/B0794RHPZD/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +Even at full price, the Fire HD 8 is our favorite value-priced tablet ([6/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-hd-8-2018/)). It's a completely functional 8-inch device that's great for travel and reading. The screen could be better, but that's true of all Amazon Fire tablets, and really, it's not that bad considering the price. The real drawback here is FireOS, Amazon's crippled version of Android, but so long as you know that going in this is a great deal on a nice little tablet. It can still stream Netflix and do basic tasks. It doesn't seem to get cheaper than $50, which is its discount price during deal events like Cyber Monday. + +####Standard Light-Up Kindle (2019 Model) for $60 ($30 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-now-with-a-built-in-front-light/dp/B07DLPWYB7/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you want to buy a Kindle for yourself or someone else, this is the smartest choice (read our [best Kindles guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle/)). This year's version has something older Kindles lacked: a light-up screen. It gets a month of battery life on a charge, and looks about as good as the Paperwhite below. Just don't dunk it in your tub—it's not waterproof. + +####Kindle Paperwhite $85 ($45 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage-Special/dp/B07PS737QQ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +With a crisp, waterproof display that sits flush with the e-reader's body, the Paperwhite is a great travel reading device ([9/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-kindle-paperwhite-2018/)). The battery can last nearly month and the reading experience is top notch. + +####Amazon Kindle Oasis (2017, 9th gen) for $150 ($150 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2OEc1vJ){: rel=nofollow}* + +Amazon has ended its discount on the newest Kindle Oasis, but the previous generation model is still on sale. There isn’t too much of a difference between the 2019 Kindle Oasis and the 2017 version; there’s a blue-light filter on the latest that you’ll miss on this one. It’s still water resistant, and page-turn buttons make it easier to flip the page. + +*There are plenty of other deals on Amazon devices, be sure to check out our full coverage of all the rest of [Amazon's Cyber Monday deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-amazon-device-deals-2019/).* + + + + +##Storage and Accessories Deals + + +[#image: /photos/5ddc3db730ef2c0008e9e318]|||||| + +####Western Digital 1 TB Hard Drive for $38 ($71 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-1TB-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +This 7,200 RPM internal hard drive is a good choice for adding storage to your desktop system, or filling out a NAS device. There are larger sizes available as well, but the steepest discount is on this one-terabyte model. + +####Seagate 2 TB Portable Hard Drive for $55 ($25 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-External-Drive-Portable/dp/B07MY44GDG/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy ($60)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus-slim-2tb-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-black/6335606.p?skuId=6335606&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you store all your photos on Google or Apple cloud services, or on your computer, an external hard drive is a good way to have an extra backup of those memories. Two terabytes (or 1,000-ish gigabytes) of storage should be more than enough to fit your collection of files, but if you need more space, there are larger drives listed below. + +####Western Digital 4 TB Portable Hard Drive for $90 ($50 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0030BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +Western Digital's portable external drives are a good way to make sure your data is backed up (always have multiple backups of your data). This is the lowest price we've seen since Cyber Monday last year. + +####Western Digital 4 TB Hard Drive for $80 ($50 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00ODEGWN8/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you don't need the portability these desktop drives are a bit cheaper (this price started last week, but it's still a good deal.) + +####Mophie Portable Battery for $15 ($30 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmophie-powerstation-6000-mah-portable-charger-for-usb-devices-gray%2F5507888.p%3FskuId%3D5507888&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If your charging needs are limited to phones, tablets, and other, smaller devices (not laptops) this Mophie charger is one of my favorites. It's got enough power to charge several phones (or one phone several times), but doesn't feel like you added a brick to your bag. + +####RAM (price varies by size) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsearchpage.jsp%3F_dyncharset%3DUTF-8%26id%3Dpcat17071%26iht%3Dy%26keys%3Dkeys%26ks%3D960%26list%3Dn%26qp%3Dbrand_facet%253DBrand~CORSAIR%26sc%3DGlobal%26st%3DRAM%26type%3Dpage%26usc%3DAll%2520Categories&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +There are lots of good deals on RAM this year, but you'll need the specific RAM module that fits your PC. Be sure to check—and then double check—to make sure what you're buying fits the machine you own. + +###Cyber Monday Retailer Sales Pages +We've sifted through most of these major sales for you. But if you prefer to browse for more deals, here are some retailers to check. + +- [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Monday/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} +- [Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fcp%2Fwalmart-cyber-monday-deals-2019%2F546840&subid1=cybermonday2019bottomlinks){: rel=nofollow} +- [Target](https://fave.co/2r1itUk){: rel=nofollow} +- [Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmisc%2Fcyber-monday%2Fpcmcat309500050010.c%3Fid%3Dpcmcat309500050010&subid1=cybermonday2019bottomlinks){: rel=nofollow} +- [B&H Photo Audio](https://fave.co/2XHEL9M){: rel=nofollow} +- [Adorama](https://fave.co/34HkW4U){: rel=nofollow} +- [Microsoft Store](https://fave.co/2rGJD2U){: rel=nofollow} +- [Newegg](https://fave.co/34HWu3u){: rel=nofollow} +- [eBay](https://fave.co/33AcLGb){: rel=nofollow} +- [Dell](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/sid/cybermonday2019bottomlinks/https://deals.dell.com/en-us){: rel=nofollow} +- [Kohl's](https://fave.co/2OGWj2Z){: rel=nofollow} +- [Home Depot](https://fave.co/37R1ZyZ){: rel=nofollow} +- [Lowes](https://fave.co/2OCAbqf){: rel=nofollow} +- [GameStop](https://fave.co/34DBDyj){: rel=nofollow} +- [Cyber Monday Coupons](https://www.wired.com/coupons/campaigns/cyber-monday-deals) + + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* What we get wrong [about “people of color](https://www.wired.com/story/rethinking-phrase-people-of-color/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4)” +* Every tech company wants to be a bank—[someday, at least](https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-banks/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* How earnest research [into gay genetics went wrong](https://www.wired.com/story/how-earnest-research-into-gay-genetics-went-wrong/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* The Real ID is nearly here, [and you can’t fly home without it](https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-id-is-nearly-here-and-you-cant-fly-home-without-it/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* Empathy is [tearing us apart](https://www.wired.com/story/empathy-is-tearing-us-apart/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* 👁 A safer way to [protect your data](https://www.wired.com/story/dawn-song-oasis-labs-data-privacy-wired25/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4); plus, the [latest news on AI](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* 📱 Torn between the latest phones? Never fear—check out our [iPhone buying guide](https://wired.com/gallery/iphone-buying-guide/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) and [favorite Android phones](https://wired.com/gallery/best-android-phones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) diff --git a/published/bf-osmo-action.txt b/published/bf-osmo-action.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6b2a20 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-osmo-action.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +GoPro defined the action camera genre, and it continues to dominate the market, but I've always preferred DJI's Osmo Action camera for its full color front screen. + +The Osmo Action's front screen makes it much easier to reliably get yourself in the shot, something that can be tricky otherwise, even with the super-wide angle view of action camera. + +There are some other tricks in the Osmo Action that make it a compelling GoPro alternative, including a Dewarp option that removes the fish-eye aspect from the lens, even in 4K video shot at 60 fps. I also find the menu system more intuitive than the Hero 7 (the Hero 8 vastly improved it's menu system, but it's $100 more than this deal). + +**Right now, you can buy the DJI Osmo Action at [Amazon ($254)](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Digital-Displays-Waterproof-HDR-Video/dp/B07RJMK2GV/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, [Best Buy ($279)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-action-camera-gray%2F6348647.p%3FskuId%3D6348647&subid1=blackfridayosmodeal2019){: rel=nofollow}, [B&H Photo ($279)](https://fave.co/2P9ujUq){: rel=nofollow}, and [Adorama ($279)](https://fave.co/35YEQsB){: rel=nofollow}, a full $125 off the regular $379 price tag.** + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Cyber Week Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +###Is the Osmo Action Right For You? + +**WIRED**: The front screen offers more flexibility when you want to put yourself in the shot. It can be a little hard to any details when you're holding it at the end of a selfie stick, but it's clear enough to make sure you frame the shot correcting. It also has excellent image stabilization that's on par with the GoPro Hero 7 (I have not had a chance to compare it to the Hero 8). The HDR video option opens up shadows in difficult, backlit shots and does so even when panning into a scene. The Osmo Action is compatible with most mounts and accessories designed for the GoPro, the exception are lens filters, which are screw-mount filters on the Osmo Action. + +**TIRED**: The Osmo Action does have an Achilles's heal: no GPS support. Unlike the GoPro Hero 8,you won't be able to pair your photos up with the GPS track. There's also no integrated support for sharing your shots and videos on social media. To me both of those pale next to the other downside, the use of blue text in menus, which is very hard to see in bright sunlight. + +####OtterBox Defender iPhone case for $30 ($20 off) +[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/OtterBox-Defender-Case-iPhone-Plus/dp/B01K6PAS50/tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} + +OtterBox cases are big, bulky, and bombproof. If you're a phone klutz like me, leaving a string of broken phones in your wake this case is well worth the money. There are [quite a few cases on sale](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=otterbox&tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, not just the iPhone case. + +https://www.amazon.com/OtterBox-Defender-Case-iPhone-Plus/dp/B01K6PAS50/ diff --git a/published/bf-photo-deals.txt b/published/bf-photo-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f55e149 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-photo-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,254 @@ +Black Friday is behind us, but now the Cyber Monday floodgates have opened and there are some new deals on cameras of all shapes and sizes—not mention lenses, SD cards, tripods, and back-up hard drives. + +Whether you'd looking for a nice, pocketable point-and-shoot, a full-frame, 4K video-capable mirrorless system, or an action camera that can go anywhere and record anything, there are deals for every skill level, aspiration, and budget. We've sifted through the craziness and curated this collection of deals we think are worth checking out. + +Note: We will update this post with new deals as we find them. If an item is no longer at its deal price or sold out, we ~~cross it out~~. Deal prices sometimes return and items come back in stock faster than we can update, so it never hurts to check for yourself. + +*Update December 2: We've added a few new deals on some Panasonic Lumix cameras and a few things that have come back in stock for Cyber Monday.* + +###WIRED's Cyber Monday Coverage +- **[Absolute Best Cyber Monday Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-deals-2019/)** +- [Laptop and Tablet Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-laptop-tablet-pc-deals-2019/) +- [TV and Soundbar Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-tv-home-theater-deals-2019/) +- [Videogame and Console Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-videogame-deals-2019/) +- *Camera and Drone Deals (You are here!)* +- [Headphone and Speaker Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-headphone-speaker-audio-deals-2019/) +- [Smartphone and Gadget Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-phone-gadget-deals-2019/) +- [Outdoor and Fitness Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-outdoors-fitness-deals-2019/) +- [Deals Under $50](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-deals-under-50-2019/) +- [Home, Kitchen, and Mattress Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-home-kitchen-deals-2019/) +- [Deals That Make Great Gifts](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-black-friday-deals-for-gifting-2019/) +- [Google Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-google-deals-2019/) and [Amazon Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-amazon-device-deals-2019/) +- Deals: [OLED TV](https://www.wired.com/story/lg-black-friday-cyber-monday-oled-deals-2019/), [Wirefree Earbuds](https://www.wired.com/story/1more-stylish-black-friday-cyber-monday-deal-2019/), [iPad 10.2](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ipad-cyber-monday-2019-deal/) +- [All Our Cyber Monday Articles](https://www.wired.com/tag/cyber-monday/), [Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/black-friday-tips-and-tricks/), and [Holiday Guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/) + + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Cyber Week Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +##Compact, Instant, and Action Cam Deals + +[#image: /photos/5d1d374f42b8320008c20b03]|||||| + +We recently overhauled our guides to the [best compact cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/) and [best action cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-action-cameras/). Check them out to learn more. + +####Panasonic Lumix ZS100 for $398 ($300 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/PANASONIC-Megapixel-VARIO-ELMARIT-Stabilization-DMC-ZS100K/dp/B010NU5AX8/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2OR0bNK){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you want telephoto reach in a compact package, Panasonic's Lumix ZS100 delivers. Rather than the 3X or 4X optical zoom found in most competitors, this camera has a lens with 10X. The camera's 1-inch sensor is on par with some of the best compact cameras. Standard 4K video and Wi-Fi, along with a great touchscreen interface, make this camera feature-full and easy-to-use. + +####Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II for $399 ($80 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2OhsMfT){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/33uXab9){: rel=nofollow}* + +This little Canon hits the sweet spot for price, features, and image quality ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-canon-powershot-g7-x-mark-ii/)). It's compact, the tilting touchscreen is a standout feature in this class, and the autofocus is surprisingly speedy. + + +####GoPro Hero 8 Black $349 ($50 off) + +*[Amazon (with SD card)](https://www.amazon.com/GoPro-HERO8-Elite-X-microSDHC-Bundle/dp/B07Y13ZWQQ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoPro-HERO8-Black%2F769593864&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgopro-hero8-black-4k-waterproof-action-camera-black%2F6365359.p%3FskuId%3D6365359&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019)* + +The GoPro Hero 8 Black ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/go-pro-hero-8-black/)) brings some major changes to the Hero line. You no longer have to deal with a mounting cage, and some new add-ons make for easier vlogging. But the real highlight is the new customizable menu system, which simplifies using the camera in extreme conditions. + +####Olympus Tough TG-6 Waterproof Camera for $349 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Tough-TG-6-Waterproof-Camera/dp/B07RC8HPHL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2q3O0Vm){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Olympus TG-6 is a tough little camera that soars where smartphones crash ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/olympus-tough-tg-6/)). It offers excellent image quality for a small camera (complete with support for RAW images), and it's nearly indestructible. If you want a camera that's a GoPro-style, go-anywhere machine but retains the lens and sensor quality of a point-and-shoot, the TG-6 is your best bet. The only thing I don't like about it is the inscrutable menu system. Spend some time with the manual, and make sure you learn all the TG-6's tricks. + +####GoPro Hero 7 Black for $300 ($30 off) + +**$300 (No Accessories):** *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoPro-HERO7-Black%2F783437456&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgopro-hero7-black-4k-waterproof-action-camera-black%2F6283807.p%3FskuId%3D6283807&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +**$330 (With 2 Batteries and a MicroSD Card):** *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/GoPro-Batteries-Sandisk-Extreme-Polaroid/dp/B07P6Y2Y5G/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2rCImtS){: rel=nofollow}* + +A similar deal has been going on for a while now, but the price has dropped another $30 for Cyber Monday. The Hero 7 is a very capable action camera with 4K video ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/gopro-hero7-black-2018/)). It lacks the custom menu features of the Hero 8 Black, but the sensor and lens are the same. + +####DJI Osmo Action for $279 ($100 off) + +*[DJI](https://fave.co/2OGciwZ){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon ($254)](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Digital-Displays-Waterproof-HDR-Video/dp/B07RJMK2GV/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-action-camera-gray%2F6348647.p%3FskuId%3D6348647&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/34v4zZk){: rel=nofollow}* + +DJI's Osmo Action is my favorite action cam ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-action-camera/)), and at this price it's an even sweeter deal. The front screen makes shooting yourself easier, and the frame rates for video match what you get out of DJI's drones, saving you some headaches in postproduction if you're combining drone and handheld footage. + +####DJI Osmo Pocket for $309 ($90 off) + +*[DJI](https://fave.co/35BLFju){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon ($295)](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Stabilizer-integrated-Attachable-Smartphone/dp/B07KVV1W5S/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-pocket-4k-action-camera-matte-black%2F6335592.p%3FskuId%3D6335592&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2QZ5tcz){: rel=nofollow}* + +One part camera, one part gimbal, the Osmo Pocket put a stabilized, drone-style camera into a handheld grip ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-pocket/)). The result is an easy way to get super smooth video as you run, walk, ski, even skydive. The downside is that it's pricey, even on sale. If you have a mobile device capable of quality video, the DJI Osmo Mobile ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-mobile-3/)) is worth considering. (Unfortunately, it's not on sale.) + +####Fujifilm Instax Mini 90 Neo Classic for $120 ($30 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-Instax-Mini-Neo-Classic/dp/B00FR85IRK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2OokFOJ){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2sjf2sr){: rel=nofollow}* + +Fujifilm's Instax prints are a breath of fresh air in a digital world. The miniature Polaroid-style prints aren't the highest-quality images, but they sure are fun. The Instax Mini 90 is the best Instax camera the company makes. The Mini 90 Neo Classic is compact, comes with a long-lasting rechargeable battery, and gives you more creative control with a push-button close-up lens and a double exposure mode. It's also super easy to take a selfie from just about any angle. + +####Polaroid Originals Onestep 2 with film for $80 ($50 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fpolaroid-originals-onestep-2-vf-camera-and-film-bundle-graphite%2F6343645.p%3FskuId%3D6343645&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[B&H Photo ($99, no film)](https://fave.co/2Y3tWPo){: rel=nofollow}* + +There are [instant cameras we like better](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/), but if you want a Polaroid, and the larger prints you get with Polaroids, this is our top pick ([6/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/2017/09/review-polaroid-originals-onestep-2/)). + + +####Fujifilm Mini 9 Instant Camera with film for $50 ($35 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Ffujifilm-instax-mini-9-instant-film-camera-bundle-purple-pink%2F6362519.p%3FskuId%3D6362519&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +Fujifilm's Mini 9 is an affordable way into the instant camera world. It's a great gift for kids too since, at this price, you don’t have to feel quite so bad if your kids drop it or blaze through an entire pack of film in ten seconds. + +####Fujifilm Mini LiPlay Hybrid Instant Camera for $130 ($10 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2LaeiMQ){: rel=nofollow}*, *~~[Adorama](https://fave.co/2rC28FH){: rel=nofollow}~~* + +This elegant, pocketable camera is Fujifilm's latest Instax ([8/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay/)). As a fun bonus, you can also print out photos from your phone with an app. It's not the steepest discount, but it's a new camera and we haven't seen it on sale before now. + +##Mirrorless and DSLR Deals + +[#image: /photos/5cd4bbb8426f104d1f89dd87]|||||| + +Be sure to check out our guide to [mirrorless cameras](https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorless-cameras-buying-guide/) for some added context. + +####Sony Alpha A7 II Mirrorless Camera with 28-70mm lens for $998 ($600 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/34n3naq){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2qXhBA2){: rel=nofollow}* + +This Sony A7 II kit deal is one of the best I've seen this holiday. You get a great camera (albeit one that's a few years old) with one of the best kit lenses I've used. No, it's not a fast prime, but it's better than you think. If you've been looking to get into the full-frame mirrorless camera system, you'd be hard-pressed to find a cheaper way to do it. + +####Sony Alpha A7R III Camera Body for $2,498 ($300 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2OIMvUX){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2QZnwiK){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-alpha-a7r-iii-full-frame-mirrorless-camera-body-only-black/6154300.p?skuId=6154300&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2DstznW){: rel=nofollow}* + +Sony recently released the A7R IV, which we have not had a chance to play with yet, but honestly, it's hard to imagine what could top the previous version. The A7R III offers a 42-megapixel full-frame sensor with fantastic dynamic range and great clarity in the details. This camera is also no slouch when it comes to video. + +####Panasonic Lumix G9 Mirrorless Camera Body for $998 ($500 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/PANASONIC-Mirrorless-Megapixels-High-Resolution-DC-G9KBODY/dp/B0774KTV1X/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/37SzuRj){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Panasonic Lumix G9 features a 20.3-megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor, but can also do an in-camera JPEG or RAW composite image for a 80 megapixels combined image. You also get 5-axis dual image stabilization and 4K video at up to 60p. + +####Panasonic Lumix GH5 Camera Body for $1,298 ($700 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/PANASONIC-Digital-Camera-Megapixel-Mirrorless/dp/B01MZ3LQQ5/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/37TrcIX){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Panasonic GH5 is features a 20-megapixel Micro Four Thirds sensor with no low pass filter, and stabilized 4K 60P video capabilities. The slightly higher-end [GH5S is also on sale for 1,998 ($500 off)](https://www.amazon.com/PANASONIC-Digital-Megapixel-Mirrorless-High-Sensitivity/dp/B078J119BC/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. This model is *the* video camera to beat. + + +####Nikon Z50 with two lenses for $1,200 ($150 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fnikon-z50-mirrorless-camera-two-lens-kit-with-nikkor-z-dx-16-50mm-f-3-5-6-3-vr-and-nikkor-z-dx-50-250mm-f-4-5-6-3-vr-lenses-black%2F6385414.p%3FskuId%3D6385414&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2L2hGtf){: rel=nofollow}* + +Nikon's newest APS-C mirrorless camera uses Nikon's Z lens mount. Aimed at those looking to step up from the world of smartphone photography, the Z50 is still reasonably light and compact but gives you the power of a much larger sensor and interchangeable lenses. I've played with it a bit and like what I've captured so far, especially using the very compact 16-50mm lens. This deal also includes a 50-250mm, giving you a huge focal-length range in a small, two-lens setup. + +####Canon EOS 6D Mark II for $1,199 ($400 off) + +*[B&H Photo (with accessories)](https://fave.co/2QNn6vT){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Digital-Camera-Body/dp/B072MZCJKN/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2XVDJqy){: rel=nofollow}* + +Canon's long-awaited sequel to the 6D brings a much better 45-point autofocus system, a larger 26-megapixel sensor, and an articulating touchscreen. The 6D continues to be a great choice for the "prosumer"—someone who wants a great Canon but doesn't need the pro-oriented features of the more expensive 5D Mark IV, which is also [on sale at $2,500 ($1,600 off)](https://fave.co/2OlkxzF){: rel=nofollow}. + +####Nikon D750 DSLR Camera With Accessories for $997 ($700 off) + +*[B&H Photo (with accessories)](https://fave.co/37E5FnB){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D750-FX-format-Digital-Camera/dp/B0060MVJ1Q/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/34uT04k){: rel=nofollow}* + +Is it still worth buying this five-year-old camera? At this price? Definitely. It's capable of turning out fantastic images, the low-light performance is excellent, and the autofocus, while not on par with the current top of the line, is very good. The D750 is a great way to hop on the full-frame Nikon train. + +####Sony Alpha A6000 Mirrorless Cam with 16-50mm Lens and Accessories for $448 ($200 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2XNnKej){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon (no accessories)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I8BICB2/ref=twister_B077PSDB4X?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2L3ypME){: rel=nofollow}* + +Sony's A6000 was an underrated gem of a camera when it was first released, and even now, a couple years on, it's still a great option. It's light, compact, and delivers fantastic images. At this price you're getting a quality APS-C interchangeable lens system for the cost of a point-and-shoot. If you're not interested in the kit lens (and unlike the kit lens for the A7 II above, this one is just so-so), you can get the [A6000 body alone for $398 ($150 off)](https://fave.co/2KS16wb){: rel=nofollow}. + +####Panasonic Lumix GX85 Mirrorless Camera with two lenses for $448 + +*[Adorama](https://fave.co/2KYBDBd){: rel=nofollow}* + +The GX85 is a great rangerfinder-style Micro Four Thirds camera ([7/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/2016/11/review-panasonic-lumix-gx85/)). It's a couple years old, but the 20-megapixel sensor is very sharp even by today's standards. The only downside is the electronic viewfinder, which is not great. But this kit is well-suited for travel, with two lenses that cover a huge range of photo situations. + +####Deals on Lenses + +- [Adorama](https://fave.co/2OsJgC2){: rel=nofollow} and [B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2rECAaN){: rel=nofollow} have some great deals on lenses for just about every camera system. +- For Canon, there's a great deal on the [Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L $499 ($300 off)](https://fave.co/33xvrGC){: rel=nofollow}. I also love the [40mm f/2.8 STM pancake for $129 ($70 off)](https://fave.co/34tEw4A){: rel=nofollow}. +- [Fujifilm's 16mm F1.4 lens](https://fave.co/2P7c6XV){: rel=nofollow} is on sale for $899 ($100 off), and my favorite Micro Four Thirds lens, the Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 gets a minor [discount at $268 ($30 off)](https://fave.co/2stCXFR){: rel=nofollow} (it's a great deal at full price). +- [Moment's telephoto lenses](https://www.shopmoment.com/shop/tele-58-mm-lens) are now discounted ($90 ($30 off), for the loyal [phone photo enthusiasts](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/). +- [Olloclip's phone photography package](https://fave.co/35KQNSk){: rel=nofollow} is also on sale ($100 ($50 off) and includes a phone clip, two lenses, a Bluetooth shutter release, and a microfiber bag. + + +##Drones and Accessories Deals + +[#image: /photos/5bef72350e2d6f1524352fa3]|||||| + +####DJI Mavic 2 Pro for $1,379 ($350 off) + +*[DJI](https://fave.co/2OiATsJ){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-mavic-2-pro-quadcopter-with-remote-controller-gray%2F6262620.p%3FskuId%3D6262620&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/37Mc6F6){: rel=nofollow}* + +DJI's Mavic 2 Pro is one of the best drones you can buy ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-dji-mavic-2-pro/)). It's easy to fly, has tons of safety features—like omnidirectional obstacle avoidance—so you don't crash, and the camera is capable of some great 4K footage. There are two limitations to be aware of: Hyper-lapse video is limited to 1080p (HD), and the zoom only goes to 2X when shooting 4K. + +####Fujifilm Instax SP-3 Mobile Printer for $110 ($35 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/33lebEs){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-Instax-SP-3-Mobile-Printer/dp/B076D34QPS/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Instax SP-3 can turn your photos in to mini Polaroid-style prints. We print everything from not-so-great phone images to heavily processed images from a Sony full-frame camera. The SP-3 handles it all and spits out surprisingly nice prints you can pin up around the house. + +####SanDisk Extreme 128 GB MicroSD Card for $20 ($46 off) + +*[Amazon ($15)](https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-microSD-UHS-I-Adapter/dp/B07FCMBLV6/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsandisk-extreme-plus-128gb-microsdxc-uhs-i-memory-card%2F6282919.p%3FskuId%3D6282919&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/33vD54e){: rel=nofollow}* + +You can never have too many memory cards, and you should never pay full price for them. Deals like this one happen frequently, but if you're like me, you never remember to grab them when they're on sale. Get one now and have it ready to go when you need it. This one isn't the best for video, but it's plenty fast for photos. + +####DJI Ronin Gimbal for $479 ($80 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-CP-RN-00000033-01-Ronin-S-Essentials-Kit/dp/B07PCSS563/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Ronin Gimbal is our favorite way to get that Steadicam look on a budget. The Ronin is big enough for a mirrorless rig, like the Sony A7 cameras above, but is small enough that it's not a pain to tote to your shoot. + +####Western Digital 12 TB External Hard Drive for $180 ($100 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fwd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black%2F6364259.p%3FskuId%3D6364259&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +With 12 terabytes of storage, this monster of a drive should be able to keep up with even the most prolific of videographers. + +####SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable External SSD for $200 ($50 off) + +*~~[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Portable-External-SDSSDE60-2T00-G25/dp/B078T9SZ3K?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}~~* + +This solid-state drive doesn't drop in price often. This one-day deal matches the one we saw last Prime Day. The lack of moving internal parts means superfast transfer speeds, while the ruggedized enclosure can withstand rain, dust, and falls. This deal is part of a [larger one-day sale](https://www.amazon.com/deal/c636e46c?tag=w050b-20) on SanDisk and WD gear. + +####Manfrotto 61-inch Travel Tripod for $50 ($20) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Manfrotto-MKCOMPACTACN-BK-Compact-Action-Tripod/dp/B00L6F16L0/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmanfrotto-compact-action-smart-61-tripod-black%2F6244901.p%3FskuId%3D6244901&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +With a universal mount, and smartphone clip, this Manfrotto tripod can stabilize just about any camera. It's a little small and light for a giant DSLR with a huge telephoto lens, but I use it with a Sony A7ii with a 300mm lens all the time and it works great. I like that the leg extensions are clips rather than twist-style locks, which I find less sturdy. + + +####Joby GorillaPod Phone Tripod for $14 ($10 off)) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/JOBY-GorillaPod-325-Compact-Flexible/dp/B074WC6W5H/&tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +We're fond of this affordable, portable, and durable phone camera stand. + +###Cyber Monday Retailer Sales Pages +We've sifted through most of these major sales for you. But if you prefer to browse for more deals, here are some retailers to check. + +- [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-Monday/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} +- [Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fcp%2Fwalmart-cyber-monday-deals-2019%2F546840&subid1=cybermonday2019bottomlinks){: rel=nofollow} +- [Target](https://fave.co/2r1itUk){: rel=nofollow} +- [Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmisc%2Fcyber-monday%2Fpcmcat309500050010.c%3Fid%3Dpcmcat309500050010&subid1=cybermonday2019bottomlinks){: rel=nofollow} +- [B&H Photo Audio](https://fave.co/2XHEL9M){: rel=nofollow} +- [Adorama](https://fave.co/34HkW4U){: rel=nofollow} +- [Microsoft Store](https://fave.co/2rGJD2U){: rel=nofollow} +- [Newegg](https://fave.co/34HWu3u){: rel=nofollow} +- [eBay](https://fave.co/33AcLGb){: rel=nofollow} +- [Dell](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/sid/cybermonday2019bottomlinks/https://deals.dell.com/en-us){: rel=nofollow} +- [Kohl's](https://fave.co/2OGWj2Z){: rel=nofollow} +- [Home Depot](https://fave.co/37R1ZyZ){: rel=nofollow} +- [Lowes](https://fave.co/2OCAbqf){: rel=nofollow} +- [GameStop](https://fave.co/34DBDyj){: rel=nofollow} +- [Cyber Monday Coupons](https://www.wired.com/coupons/campaigns/cyber-monday-deals) + + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* Everybody loves Rey, [a Star Wars story](https://www.wired.com/story/star-wars-everybody-loves-rey/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 25 amazing [gift ideas under $25](https://www.wired.com/gallery/25-amazing-holiday-gift-ideas-under-25/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Drawing with drones [over the salt flats of Bolivia](https://www.wired.com/story/drones-salt-flats-bolivia-gallery/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* Here's the evidence that links [Russia’s most brazen cyberattacks](https://www.wired.com/story/sandworm-russia-cyberattack-links/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* How the dumb design of a WWII plane [led to the Macintosh](https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 👁 A safer way to [protect your data](https://www.wired.com/story/dawn-song-oasis-labs-data-privacy-wired25/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5); plus, the [latest news on AI](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* 🎧 Things not sounding right? Check out our favorite [wireless headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-headphones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [soundbars](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-soundbars/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), and [Bluetooth speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) diff --git a/published/bf-post-cm-deals.txt b/published/bf-post-cm-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec2537f --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bf-post-cm-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,436 @@ +Cyber Monday is officially over, but this year many of our favorite deals are still going. If you took an extended holiday from screens, or ignored the past few days of sale madness, fear not there are still quite a few great deals going. + +We combed through our many Cyber Monday guides and found everything that's still going. Our Cyber Monday camera sale guide is still worth perusing as camera deals are still going strong. We've gathered up the best of deals from the rest of our guides here. These deals tend to be volatile so we don't know how long they will last, but have a gander if you're still bargain hunting for the holidays. + +*When you buy something using the links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Here's how it works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/). You can also support our reporting and reviewing by purchasing a __[1-year print + digital WIRED subscription for $5 (Cyber Week Discount)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_AFFILIATE?source=HCL_WIR_EDIT_HARDCODED_0_COMMERCE_AFFILIATE_ZZ)__.* + +##Smartphone and Gadget Deals + +[#image: /photos/5dae0207c96358000859e5a9]|||||| + +####Google Pixel 3A for $299 ($100 off) +__Pixel 3A for $299:__ *[Google Store](https://store.google.com/us/config/pixel_3a){: rel=nofollow}* + +__Pixel 3A XL for $379 ($100 off):__ *[Google Store](https://store.google.com/us/config/pixel_3a){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is one of our [favorite phones of the year](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cheap-phones/). Google brought its considerable camera prowess down to the affordable phone market. It also has good battery life too, a sore point on the new Pixel 4, and its polycarbonate body won't shatter at the first drop. Because it's a Pixel phone, it will get software and security updates directly from Google (the maker of the Android operating system) for three years. + +####Google Pixel 4 for $599 ($200 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YMNLXL3/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Google Store](https://store.google.com/us/config/pixel_4){: rel=nofollow}* + +It's always a good idea to wait to buy Pixel phones as they're often discounted for Black Friday and Cyber Monday barely a month after their debut. The latest Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-4-and-pixel-4-xl/)) are some of our favorite Android phones because of their simple but smart software, excellent cameras, and Google's commitment to delivering timely updates. Their biggest flaw is battery life, which will barely get through a full day of use, if at all. We recommend going for the larger Pixel 4 XL, which is also on sale for $699 ([Amazon](https://amzn.to/2skOwz1){: rel=nofollow}, [Google Store](https://store.google.com/us/config/pixel_4){: rel=nofollow}). + +####Samsung Galaxy S10 with Galaxy Buds for $800 ($330 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2OCkL5n){: rel=nofollow}* + +Samsung’s Galaxy S10 is one of the best Android phones of 2019 ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-samsung-galaxy-s10/)), thanks to a gorgeous and futuristic all-screen display, great performance, and a versatile camera system. This bundle nets you $200 off the S10 and tosses in Samsung’s excellent wireless Galaxy Buds earbuds, for free. If you want the bigger Galaxy S10 Plus, you can also grab the [same bundle for $900](https://amzn.to/33GQEhk){: rel=nofollow}. + + +####23andMe DNA Testing Kit for $79 ($20 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/35QlPbF){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you’ve always wanted to learn a little bit more about your past, where your ancestors came from and the paths they traveled, 23andMe’s DNA service could potentially help. The basic service covers more than 1,500 geographic regions, the option to connect with people that have the same DNA as you, and access to trait reports that detail how your DNA influences particular features about you. Keep in mind that there are [some risks to using DNA kits](https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-urgently-needs-new-genetic-privacy-laws/). + + + +[#image: /photos/5b4d1daa0ea5ef37fa24f71e]||| +Google Home Mini +||| + + +####Google Home Mini Smart Speaker for $19 ($30 off) +*[Target (backordered)](https://fave.co/2QGsYa2){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoogle-Home-Mini-Chalk%2F159013183%3F){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy ($20)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgoogle-home-mini-1st-generation-smart-speaker-with-google-assistant-chalk%2F6082194.p%3FskuId%3D6082194){: rel=nofollow}* + +Google's answering call to the Echo Dot is this compact smart speaker. They share many of the same features, with the difference being that Google's packs Google Assistant rather than Alexa. As a team here at WIRED, we prefer Google Assistant to Alexa, especially for smart home stuff. Keep in mind, this is the first-gen Mini. The newer Nest Mini, which has improved sound and can be wall-mounted, is also [on sale for $29](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoogle-Nest-Mini-2nd-Generation-Chalk%2F751612012&subid1=cheapblackfridaydeals){: rel=nofollow} ($20 off). + +####Echo Dot Smart Speaker for $22 ($28 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dot-3rd-Gen-Sandstone/dp/B07PGL2N7J?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Target](https://fave.co/34bK2c9){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Famazon-echo-dot-3rd-gen-smart-speaker-with-alexa-charcoal%2F6287974.p%3FskuId%3D6287974&subid1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +This smart home building block from Amazon is handy and compact. You can place the speaker nearly anywhere. It sounds pretty good for its size, and this sale is the first time we've seen significant savings on the newly-released plum-colored version. + +####Echo Show 5 Smart Display for $50 ($40 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Echo-Show-Compact-Charcoal/dp/B07HZLHPKP?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Famazon-echo-show-5-smart-display-with-alexa-charcoal%2F6347249.p%3FskuId%3D6347249&subid1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +This device takes an Alexa speaker and adds a screen. Amazon makes two sizes; this one has the smaller 5-inch display, making it a good option for a nightstand as opposed to a kitchen counter. + +####JBL Clip 3 Portable Bluetooth Speaker for $30 ($40 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q8WH9TX?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The JBL Clip 3 is one of our favorite rugged [Bluetooth speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-bluetooth-speakers/). It's IPX7-rated, which means it can be immersed in water, and it's easy to attach to a backpack or bicycle. A full charge should keep the speaker going for about 10 hours. + +##Laptop Deals + +[#image: /photos/5db1fd4e3226bb000a1e5cf7]||| +||| + +Be sure to read our guide to the [best laptops](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-laptops/), [best MacBooks](https://www.wired.com/story/which-macbook-should-you-buy/), and [best Surface PCs](https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-surface-buying-guide/) for more recommendations. + +####Surface Laptop 3 13-inch for $999 ($200 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/34oDyGU){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Laptop is a premium piece of Windows hardware ([7/10, WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-laptop-3-15-inch/)). The all-aluminum construction makes for a lightweight machine, and the 3:2 ratio screen affords plenty of room for working on documents. Note that we tested the 15-inch model, and this sale is for the 13-inch, but aside from size they're very similar. + +####Microsoft Surface Go for $299 ($100 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/34oEafG){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Go is a quirky little machine, but we like it ([7/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-go/)). It's an accessible size and very well designed. Its screen is nice and sharp, and there's a MicroSD slot for storage expansion. The cover is surprisingly nice to type on and has a good trackpad. The only downside is that Go can be a little on the slow side, and if you want to do any drawing, you'll want the Surface Pen (not included). + +####Surface Pro 7—i5, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB—With Type Cover for $799 ($230 off) + +*[Microsoft](https://fave.co/33kho7q){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Surface Pro 7 is one of our favorite laptop-tablet hybrids from this year ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-pro-7-2019/)). There are cheaper Surfaces, but this is a good price on the best hybrid model. Be sure to grab the pen if you want to use tablet mode for notes or drawing. + +####Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon—i5, 256 GB—for $999 ($1,150 off) + +*[Lenovo](https://lenovo.vzew.net/c/1305164/218864/3808?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lenovo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Flaptops%2Fthinkpad%2Fthinkpad-x%2FX1-Carbon-Gen-7%2Fp%2F20QD001TUS&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +I'm a ThinkPad fan, and the X1 is definitely the sleekest of the bunch ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2017/04/review-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon/)). This configuration uses the Intel Core i5, offers 8 gigabytes of RAM, a 256-gigabyte SSD, and Windows 10 Pro. The 14-inch IPS (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) display is bright and helps cut power use. If you can afford it, I suggest upgrading to the 10th Generation i7 chip and 16 gigabytes of RAM for a machine that's going to last much longer. + +####HP Spectre x360 i7 for $1000 ($400 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-spectre-x360-laptop-13t-touch-7fq48av-1%253F%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +The 13-inch HP Spectre x360 is one of our favorite high-end laptops ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-spectre-x360-2019/)). The base model offers an eighth-generation Intel i7 chip with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 512-gigabyte SSD. The 15-inch version, with a newer i7 chip and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4 GB) graphics card is also [on sale for $1,250 ($400 off)](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fhp-spectre-laptop-13t-4fj31av-1%253Fjumpid%253Dma_black-friday-sale_product-tile_top-deals_10_4fj31av-1_hp-spectre-x360-lapt%2526dl%253Dtrue%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}. + +####HP Omen Gaming Laptop for $700 ($300 off) + +*[HP](https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=7168&awinaffid=632530&clickref=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fstore.hp.com%252Fus%252Fen%252Fpdp%252Fomen-laptop-15t-6cm24av-1%253Fjumpid%253Dma_black-friday-sale_product-tile_laptops_20_6cm24av-1_omen-laptop---15t%5D%5D){: rel=nofollow}* + +The 15-inch Omen is HP's gaming-style laptop, which starts with a ninth-generation i5 processor (we suggest upgrading to an i7 for better performance, though it will add $280 to the price) and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card with 4 gigabytes of video memory. The 8 gigabytes of RAM is adequate, but if you can swing it, 16 gigabytes will improve your life considerably. + +##iPad and Tablet Deals + + +[#image: /photos/5d795a598827100009bfec0d]|||||| + +A tablet can't beat a truly excellent laptop, and getting work done on one can be challenging, but we still enjoy tablets for more casual computing tasks. Their stellar battery life makes them great for browsing the web from the couch or watching TV in bed. Apple's iPads really set the standard here, with excellent battery life and a vast app ecosystem behind them, but the price of Amazon Fire HD devices is so low, the software limitations may not bother you. + +Be sure to read our related guides, including [which iPad you should actually buy](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/), the [best Amazon tablets](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/), and our master [guide to to the best tablets](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-tablets/). + +####Apple iPad—2018 Version With LTE—for $329 ($120 off) + +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FApple-iPad-6th-Gen-32GB-Wi-Fi-Cellular-Gold%2F371098880&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you want an iPad on the cheap, this is a good bare-bones option. It's the previous-generation model, and it only has 32 GB of storage, but Apple didn't change much with the 2019 model—it even has the same processor. This one is plenty fast enough to use as a streaming media player or for web surfing on the couch. The real benefit is LTE, which usually costs more, but you'll need to sign up for a monthly data plan. + +####Samsung Galaxy S4 Tablet 64 GB for $449 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-SM-T830NZKAXAR-Galaxy-Black/dp/B07FNZHWH2/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Samsung](https://fave.co/35ryUrH){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Galaxy S4 is not as powerful as an iPad Pro, but it's still great for media consumption or browsing the web on the couch. It comes with an S Pen stylus, which the newer, more powerful S5E lacks. It's hovered around $550 for a few months (it was $650 before that), so this is a good price. + + +##TV Deals + +[#image: /photos/5c01e2093128082d182ce077]|||||| + +If you're buying a TV, be sure to check out our list of Soundbar deals below. All TVs need a soundbar if you want quality audio. It makes a difference, trust us. + +####TCL 55-inch 5 Series 4K TV (2019) for $380 ($70 off) +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Ftcl-55-class-led-5-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr-roku-tv%2F6358918.p%3FskuId%3D6358918%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3USzTk1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3USzTk1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D482924%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Unyik1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Unyik1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D10078&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +With Dolby Vision support, gorgeous 4K resolution, and Roku's fantastic interface built in, TCL's 5-Series is **[our favorite affordable TV](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-tvs/)** you can buy this year. + +####Samsung 55-Inch Q60 Series TV (2019) for $698 ($500 off) +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsamsung-55-class-led-q60-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr%2F6331758.p%3FskuId%3D6331758%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Ui2Ck1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Ui2Ck1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D10078&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +Samsung's quantum dot-enabled QLED TVs have been some of the prettiest on the market for years now, and this high-end model gets a big discount, bringing the technology in the realm of possibility for many of us. It also has a 120 Hz refresh rate, which makes it great for gaming and sports. + +####Vizio 55-Inch M-Series Quantum 4K TV for $398 ($202 off) +*[Walmart ($398)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/VIZIO-55-Class-M-Series-Quantum-4K-Ultra-HD-2160p-HDR-Smart-TV-M556-G4-2019-Model/491927729&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy ($550)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fvizio-55-class-led-m-series-quantum-series-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr%2F6345457.p%3FskuId%3D6345457%26irclickid%3DUjpymy0doxyOUVR0UfQwQyYMUkn15X1cM1NG380%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DUjpymy0doxyOUVR0UfQwQyYMUkn15X1cM1NG380%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D159047%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Uiwrk1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Uiwrk1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D10078&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, + +This Vizio Smart TV comes with Chromecast and Apple Airplay built-in, which makes it extremely easy to share photos, music, or stream video from your smartphone. It's also a very pretty TV, with much of the same tech as its more expensive older sibling, the P-Series ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/vizio-p-series-quantum-tv-2019/)) + + +####55-Inch Sony A8G OLED for $1,500 ($300 off) +*[Best Buy](https://fave.co/2rhMNtI){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you're looking for the best possible picture, and you're willing to pay for it, Sony's OLED models (which also use LG OLED displays) are some of the most beautiful you'll find. Each pixel in the TV acts as its own backlight, making black levels as dark as they come, and colors pop on screen. + +####Toshiba 50-Inch 4K Smart TV $280 ($100 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/TOSHIBA-50LF711U20-50-inch-Ultra-Smart/dp/B07S8XNWWF?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Ftoshiba-50-class-led-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr-fire-tv-edition%2F6318196.p%3FskuId%3D6318196%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3UiSTk1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3UiSTk1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D10078&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +This 50-inch Toshiba TV isn't as nice as the other models on this list, but it does the job. It has Amazon's Fire TV ecosystem built-in, which makes it a great way to stream all of your favorite shows, movies, and YouTube tutorials—though Amazon prefers that you use its Prime video service. Plus, an Alexa-enabled voice remote makes finding your favorite movie easier than ever: Just ask. Best Buy’s offer includes a free Echo Dot. + + +##Streaming Deals + + +[#image: /photos/5b770cd3225a8e226a95d336]|||||| + + + +####Roku Streaming Stick Plus for $45 ($15 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Stick-HDR-Streaming-Long-range/dp/B075XLWML4?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy ($50)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/roku-streaming-stick-4k-streaming-media-player-with-voice-remote-with-tv-controls-black/5948005.p?skuId=5948005&ref=212&loc=1&extStoreId=1104&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Roku Streaming Stick Plus has 4K and HDR functionality, and it's nearly half price. We also have a guide to [picking the right Roku](https://www.wired.com/gallery/how-to-pick-the-right-roku/). These devices are pretty handy to have, but [be wary of the channels you use](https://www.wired.com/story/roku-fire-tv-channels-ad-tracking/)! + +####Google Chromecast Ultra for $49 ($20 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Google-Chromecast-Ultra-4K-Ultra-HD-Streaming/54742301&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/google-chromecast-ultra-4k-streaming-media-player-black/5578628.p?skuId=5578628&irclickid=Rnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Ulyik1cOUY0&irgwc=1&ref=198&loc=Rnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3Ulyik1cOUY0&acampID=614286&mpid=159047&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you like to stream things from your phone, we love Google's Chromecast device, which lets you easily send whatever you're watching to the big screen. This 4K-ready model is our favorite Chromecast, with support for HDR and all our favorite streaming apps. + +####Samsung Ultra HD Blu-Ray Player for $220 ($80 off) +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsamsung-streaming-4k-ultra-hd-audio-wi-fi-built-in-blu-ray-player-black%2F5855304.p%3FskuId%3D5855304%26irclickid%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3UEz6k1cOUY0%26irgwc%3D1%26ref%3D198%26loc%3DRnm2Vg0duxyORyU0RHQK3XRkUkn3UEz6k1cOUY0%26acampID%3D614286%26mpid%3D10078&subid1=blackfridaytvdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you want to watch your favorite content in the highest possible quality, you still need a disc. Ultra-HD Blu-Ray movies have much better bit rates and encoding than their streaming counterparts, and you'll get the most out of them with this Samsung player. Want to stream a movie you don't own on disc? This thing has Wi-Fi, so you can use it for that, too. + +####Yamaha RX-V685 A/V 7.2-Channel Reciever for $500 ($100 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BZZCHGN?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you're looking to get the best possible sound in your TV room, you still need to snag a good quality A/V reciever and some speakers. We like Yamaha models because they offer great price-to-performance ratios. This model features support for music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, and can pass through 4K signals, with support for Dolby Vision. + + +##Storage and Accessories Deals + +[#image: /photos/5ddc3db730ef2c0008e9e318]|||||| + +####Western Digital 4 TB Portable Hard Drive for $90 ($50 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0030BBK-WESN/dp/B0713WPGLL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +Western Digital's portable external drives are a good way to make sure your data is backed up (always have multiple backups of your data). This is the lowest price we've seen since Cyber Monday last year. + +####SanDisk Extreme 64 GB MicroSD Card for $15 ($46 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-microSD-UHS-I-Adapter/dp/B07FCMBLV6/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsandisk-extreme-plus-64gb-microsdxc-uhs-i-memory-card%2F6282920.p%3FskuId%3D6282920&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/33vD54e){: rel=nofollow}* + +You can never have too many memory cards, and you should never pay full price for them. Deals like this one happen frequently, but if you're like me, you never remember to grab them when they're on sale. Get one now and have it ready to go when you need it. This one isn't the best for video, but it's plenty fast for photos. + + +####Mophie Portable Battery for $15 ($30 off) + +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fmophie-powerstation-6000-mah-portable-charger-for-usb-devices-gray%2F5507888.p%3FskuId%3D5507888&subid1=blackfridaylaptopdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If your charging needs are limited to phones, tablets, and other small devices (not laptops) this Mophie charger is one of my favorites. It's got enough power to charge several phones (or one phone several times) but doesn't feel like you added a brick to your bag. + + +####Nimble Portable USB-C Charger for $49 ($30 off with coupon) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Nimble-Eco-Friendly-USB-Enabled-Sustainable-Bioplastics/dp/B07CSH8LXK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Nimble](https://www.gonimble.com/products/20k-portable-charger){: rel=nofollow}* + +The fast charge on Nimble's 20,000-mAh portable battery can get most devices to 80 percent in just 30 minutes. It can also juice up three devices at once. We love the magnetic cord holder and the eco-friendly construction and packaging. Other Nimble chargers are also on sale, be sure to use the coupon button on Amazon. + +##Compact, Instant, and Action Cam Deals + +[#image: /photos/5d1d374f42b8320008c20b03]|||||| + +We recently overhauled our guides to the [best compact cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/) and [best action cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-action-cameras/). Check them out to learn more. + + +[#image: /photos/5d0931b8b887268118f655b9]||| +Olympus Tough TG-6 +||| + +####Olympus Tough TG-6 Waterproof Camera for $349 ($100 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Tough-TG-6-Waterproof-Camera/dp/B07RC8HPHL/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2q3O0Vm){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Olympus TG-6 is a tough little camera that soars where smartphones crash ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/olympus-tough-tg-6/)). It offers excellent image quality for a small camera (complete with support for RAW images), and it's nearly indestructible. If you want a camera that's a GoPro-style, go-anywhere machine but retains the lens and sensor quality of a point-and-shoot, the TG-6 is your best bet. The only thing I don't like about it is the inscrutable menu system. Spend some time with the manual, and make sure you learn all the TG-6's tricks. + +####GoPro Hero 7 Black for $300 ($30 off) + +**$300 (No Accessories):** *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgopro-hero7-black-4k-waterproof-action-camera-black%2F6283807.p%3FskuId%3D6283807&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart ($319)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoPro-HERO7-Black%2F783437456&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +**$319 (With 2 Batteries and a MicroSD Card):** *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/GoPro-Batteries-Sandisk-Extreme-Polaroid/dp/B07P6Y2Y5G/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama ($329)](https://fave.co/2rCImtS){: rel=nofollow}* + +A similar deal has been going on for a while now, but the price has dropped another $30 for Cyber Monday. The Hero 7 is a very capable action camera with 4K video ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/gopro-hero7-black-2018/)). It lacks the custom menu features of the Hero 8 Black, but the sensor and lens are the same. + +[#image: /photos/5ceefb08dcbd4c8bbc06df6e]||| +DJI Osmo Action +||| + +####DJI Osmo Action for $249 ($130 off) + +*[Amazon ($254)](https://www.amazon.com/DJI-Digital-Displays-Waterproof-HDR-Video/dp/B07RJMK2GV/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[DJI $279](https://fave.co/2OGciwZ){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy ($280)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-action-camera-gray%2F6348647.p%3FskuId%3D6348647&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama ($279)](https://fave.co/34v4zZk){: rel=nofollow}* + +DJI's Osmo Action is my favorite action cam ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-action-camera/)), and at this price it's an even sweeter deal. The front screen makes shooting yourself easier, and the frame rates for video match what you get out of DJI's drones, saving you some headaches in postproduction if you're combining drone and handheld footage. + + +[#image: /photos/5afb7e34386af04fdfac624c]||| +Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 +||| + +####Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 Instant Camera with film for $50 ($35 off) + +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WWL4JD8/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +Fujifilm's Mini 9 is an affordable way into the instant camera world. It's a great gift for kids too, because at this price you won’t feel quite so bad if your kids drop it or blaze through an entire pack of film in 10 seconds. + + +####Canon EOS 6D Mark II for $1,199 ($400 off) + +*[B&H Photo (with accessories)](https://fave.co/2QNn6vT){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Mark-Digital-Camera-Body/dp/B072MZCJKN/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2XVDJqy){: rel=nofollow}* + +Canon's long-awaited sequel to the 6D brings a much better 45-point autofocus system, a larger 26-megapixel sensor, and an articulating touchscreen. The 6D continues to be a great choice for the "prosumer"—someone who wants a great Canon but doesn't need the pro-oriented features of the more expensive 5D Mark IV, which is also [on sale at $2,500 ($1,600 off)](https://fave.co/2OlkxzF){: rel=nofollow}. + +####Sony Alpha A6000 Mirrorless Cam with 16–50mm Lens and Accessories for $448 ($200 off) + +*[B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2XNnKej){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon (no accessories)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I8BICB2/ref=twister_B077PSDB4X?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/2L3ypME){: rel=nofollow}* + +Sony's A6000 was an underrated gem of a camera when it was first released, and even now, a couple of years on, it's still a great option. It's light, compact, and delivers fantastic images. At this price you're getting a quality APS-C interchangeable lens system for the cost of a point-and-shoot. If you're not interested in the kit lens (and unlike the kit lens for the A7 II above, this one is just so-so), you can get the [A6000 body alone for $398 ($150 off)](https://fave.co/2KS16wb){: rel=nofollow}. + + +[#image: /photos/5bef72350e2d6f1524352fa3]|||||| + +####DJI Mavic 2 Pro for $1,379 ($350 off) + +*[DJI](https://fave.co/2OiATsJ){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-mavic-2-pro-quadcopter-with-remote-controller-gray%2F6262620.p%3FskuId%3D6262620&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Adorama](https://fave.co/37Mc6F6){: rel=nofollow}* + +DJI's Mavic 2 Pro is one of the best drones you can buy ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-dji-mavic-2-pro/)). It's easy to fly, has tons of safety features—like omnidirectional obstacle avoidance—so you don't crash, and the camera is capable of some great 4K footage. There are two limitations to be aware of: Hyperlapse video is limited to 1080p (HD), and the zoom only goes to 2X when shooting 4K. + + +[#image: /photos/5dc348b5182de80009f7fed8]|||||| + +####Instant Pot Duo 6 Quart Pressure Cooker for $49 ($50 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FInstant-Pot-DUO60-6-Qt-7-in-1-Multi-Use-Programmable-Pressure-Cooker-Slow-Cooker-Rice-Cooker-Saut-Steamer-Yogurt-Maker-and-Warmer%2F45918917&subid1=blackfridaygamedeals2019)*, *[Target](https://fave.co/2R0ZqUN){: rel=nofollow}* + +Thanksgiving might be over, but an Instant Pot can still be of help in the kitchen year-round. The Duo combines seven appliances into one, is snappy at cooking, and has a 6-quart capacity so it's good for decent-sized groups. You can steam your veggies, cook rice, or whip up a nice stew without needing to pull out another appliance. The 8-quart version of the Instant Pot Duo, which can feed more people, is also [on sale at Amazon](https://amzn.to/2DDQ4q4){: rel=nofollow} for not too much more ($75 off). + +####Ooni Pro Oven for $479 ($120 off) +*[Ooni](https://fave.co/2P6kAOT){: rel=nofollow}* + +This unbelievably light and gorgeous [multi-fuel pizza oven](https://www.wired.com/review/review-uuni-pro/) was my (Adrienne's) pick for [the best pizza oven](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-pizza-ovens/). + +####Sphero 2 Ring Specdrums for $65 ($35 off) +*[Target](https://fave.co/37RyyMY){: rel=nofollow}* + +These tiny, pocketable rings turn the world around you into a musical instrument. They were one of [our favorite STEM toys](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-stem-toys-for-kids/) of 2019. + +####iRobot Roomba 960 for $399 ($300 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/iRobot-Roomba-960-Connectivity-Carpets/dp/B01ID8H6NO/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Bed Bath & Beyond](https://fave.co/2OUhihv){: rel=nofollow}* + +We love [a self-emptying bin](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-robot-vacuums/), but iRobot's Roomba still has a larger-than-usual dust bin capacity, a patented rubber carpet brush, and the best mapping tech on the market. + + +[#image: /photos/5b05ecbcca673e603300da98]|||||| + + +####iRobot Roomba 675 Robot Vacuum for $200 ($100 off) +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Firobot-roomba-675-app-controlled-robot-vacuum-black%2F6280532.p%3FskuId%3D6280532&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2R9b7Jm){: rel=nofollow}* + +If the above Roomba is a little out of your price range, check out the Roomba 675. It's more similar to the Roomba 690 [we reviewed](https://www.wired.com/review/review-irobot-roomba-690/) and liked, except it’s missing the virtual wall barrier that allows you to cordon off parts of your home. It has a 0.6-liter capacity for carrying dust, and the Dirt Detector sensors makes the robovac work harder in areas that see more dirt. It works with Google Assistant or Alexa. If you want the virtual wall barrier, [Target has the Roomba 690](https://fave.co/2P3OZgC){: rel=nofollow} discounted to $210 ($140 off). + +####Eufy BoostIQ RoboVac 11S for $160 ($80 off) +*[Amazon (apply coupon for 6 percent more)](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079QYYGF1/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +This Eufy is an even better deal than the 15C.If you don't need a robot vacuum that can map your house, the [Eufy 11S](https://www.wired.com/review/review-eufy-robovac-11s-max/) is a great bargain buy. Select Amazon customers may also see an on-page clip coupon offering an additional 6 percent off. + +####KitchenAid 6-Quart Bowl-Lift Mixer for $330 ($170 off) +*[KitchenAid](https://fave.co/2Dxq7IF){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KP26M1XOB-Professional-Bowl-Lift-Stand/dp/B000P9GWFS/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Home Depot](https://fave.co/2OllKqx){: rel=nofollow}, [Kohl's](https://fave.co/2pOCCfP){: rel=nofollow}* + +This is the stand mixer that allowed me (Adrienne) to prepare hundreds of pizza doughs to [test pizza ovens](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-pizza-ovens/) earlier this year. + +####Helix Sleep Midnight Luxe Hybrid Queen Size for $1,595 ($200 off)—Best Mattress +*[Helix Sleep](https://helix-sleep.tkjf.net/c/1305164/605588/9928?u=https://helixsleep.com/products/midnight-luxe?variant=queen&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +Use code __CYBER200__ at checkout for the discount, which includes two free memory-foam pillows. This is our review editor Jeffrey Van Camp's [favorite mattress](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-mattresses/). Helix's mattresses have a base of individually wrapped coils that offer support in different places depending on whether you're a back or side sleeper. + +##Headphone and Speaker Deals + +####Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones for $278 ($70 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2OKbEOU){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-wh-1000xm3-wireless-noise-canceling-over-the-ear-headphones-with-google-assistant-black/6280544.p?skuId=6280544&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +With fantastic sound, over 30 hours of battery life, and insane noise-canceling ability, the WH-1000XM3 are [our favorite wireless headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-headphones/), period. Their only weak point is that they aren't great at phone calls. + + +####1More Stylish Wirefree Earbuds for $65 ($35 off) +*[1More](https://fave.co/2rfJALe){: rel=nofollow} (Enter the discount code 'BFCM' at checkout)**,[Amazon ($70)](https://www.amazon.com/1MORE-Stylish-Wireless-Earbuds-Built/dp/B07M6LP3F9?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +With extremely comfortable ear tips, 6.5-hours of battery life, and great sound, the 1More Stylish are [our favorite wirefree earbuds](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wirefree-earbuds/) right now. They're a great value at $100, but at $65 they're an absolute steal. Read [our full write-up on this deal](https://www.wired.com/story/1more-stylish-black-friday-cyber-monday-deal-2019/). + + +####Bose QC35 II Wireless Noise-Canceling Headphones for $279 ($70 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756CYWWD?th=1?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bose-QuietComfort-35-Wireless-Noise-Cancelling-Bluetooth-Headphones-II-with-Google-Assistant/602445423&subid1=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +Bose's noise-reduction tech remains about the best in the business, and these hyper-comfortable QC35 II headphones ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2017/10/review-bose-qc35-ii/)) are still some of the best to travel with, offering a welcome reprieve from the sounds of the outside world. + + +##Outdoors and Fitness Deals + + +[#image: /photos/5c9298a18cbbe06e73ba0b41]||| +||| + +####Fitbit Versa Lite Smartwatch for $120 ($40 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Fitbit-Versa-Smart-Watch-included/dp/B07MFZ9MHM/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Versa Lite ([8/10, Wired Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-fitbit-versa-lite-edition/)) is one of [the best fitness trackers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-fitness-tracker/) you can get for your money. It works with both Android and iOS, can track everything from ovulation cycles to sleep, and unlike an Apple Watch, you don't have to charge it every day. + +####Arc'teryx Alpha AR Jacket for $431 ($144 off) +*[Backcountry (select colors/sizes)](https://fave.co/37PNY4g){: rel=nofollow}*, *[REI ($323 with code *CYBERDEAL19*)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https://www.rei.com/rei-garage/product/166483/arcteryx-alpha-ar-jacket-mens&ctc=bestblackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +*[Backcountry (select colors/sizes)](https://fave.co/2OTFrEP){: rel=nofollow}*, *[REI ($323 with code *CYBERDEAL19*)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https://www.rei.com/rei-garage/product/170117/arcteryx-alpha-ar-jacket-womens&ctc=blackfridayoutdoorsdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +Three-layer Gore-Tex Pro fabric blocks wind and water, whether you're climbing, hiking, or braving the weather to shop for groceries. The hood fits over a helmet, and the stiff brim deflects rain so it won't drip into your eyes on the heaviest downpours. + +####LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for $12 ($5 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QF3TW4?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}* + +At two ounces, LifeStraws are the lightest, cheapest water filters available. They filter out harmful microbes and bacteria. You can even use them to drink out of a puddle! + +####BioLite HeadLamp 330 for $40 ($10 off) +*[BioLite](https://fave.co/34oekIz){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Backcountry](https://fave.co/2R8IUC6){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Moosejaw](https://moosejaw.6wfgdb.net/c/1305164/185854/1676?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moosejaw.com%2Fproduct%2Fbiolite-headlamp_10428875%3F){: rel=nofollow}* + +This lightweight headlamp stays put while you move. It's one of our favorite [outdoor Cyber Monday deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cyber-monday-outdoors-fitness-deals-2019/). + +####Farm to Feet Cascade Locks Lightweight Technical Crew Socks for $16 ($7 off) +*[REI](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rei.com%2Fproduct%2F147912%2Ffarm-to-feet-cascade-locks-lightweight-technical-34-crew-socks&ctc=blackfridaycheapdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +These merino-blend lightweight socks have targeted cushioning and reinforcement zones, which means your feet will stay dry and comfortable. Other [Farm to Feet socks](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rei.com%2Fb%2Ffarm-to-feet%2Fc%2Fsocks%3Fr%3Db%253Bc%26ir%3Dbrand%253Afarm-to-feet%253Bcategory%253Asocks%26sort%3Dmax-price&ctc=blackfridaycheapdeals2019) are on sale for this price, too. + + +##Videogame Deals + + +[#image: /photos/592663a87034dc5f91beb3d0]|||||| + +####SteelSeries Arctis 7 for $117 ($33 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2OQYOyw){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Arctis Pro might be the best, but the Arctis 7 is a solid contender if you have a smaller budget, specifically for PC gamers. It comes with a 3.5-mm cable, the retractable mic lights up red when muted, and the SteelSeries Engine app lets you control features like mic monitoring. It helps that it's very comfortable to wear. + +####Nintendo Switch Bundle with 128 GB Sandisk Memory Card for $299 ($70 off) +*[Target](https://fave.co/2P7MM3K){: rel=nofollow}* + +Switch bundles are few and far between, and they come and go in a snap. This one bundles the Switch console with a 128-GB Sandisk memory card, which is handy, since the Switch’s internal storage is a measly 32 GB. Outside of the included JoyCons, you also get a third-party wired controller. + +####1 Year of PlayStation Plus for $45 ($15 off) +*[Amazon](https://amzn.to/2Dgf0nA){: rel=nofollow}* + +Want to play PS4 games with your friends online? You're going to need a PlayStation Plus subscription. The subscription comes with "free" games each month that you can play as long as you're a member, which helps balance out the subscription's asking price. + +####Xbox One S + *Sea of Thieves*, *Fortnite*, *Minecraft* for $150 ($100 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FMicrosoft-Xbox-One-S-All-Digital-Edition-V2-Console-Disc-free-Gaming-White-NJP-00050%2F339940120&subid1=blackfridaygamedeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +If you don't need to play Xbox games in the highest resolution possible (it also depends if you have a 4K TV), then the Xbox One S is the way to go. This "All Digital" edition doesn't have a disc drive, which means you can only play digital games. It comes with *Fortnite: Battle Royale*, *Sea of Thieves*, and *Minecraft* pre-loaded. + + +[#image: /photos/5d573027017c5c0008bdec3a]||| +Sega Genesis Mini +||| + +####Sega Genesis Mini Console for $50 ($30 off) +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsega-genesis-mini-console%2F6344945.p%3FskuId%3D6344945&subid1=blackfridaydeals2019){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FSega-Genesis-Mini-Sega%2F899023177){: rel=nofollow}* + +This pint-sized blast from the past comes preloaded with 40 games and two controllers. No difficult setup is required, either. Just plug it into your TV and start blasting. Maybe you could open it on Christmas Eve and spend the whole night gaming like you did when you were a kid. + +####Santorini Board Game for $15 ($15 off) +*[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Spin-Master-Games-6039848-Santorini/dp/B01MR7O8ER?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FSantorini-Strategy-Based-Board-Game%2F56091752){: rel=nofollow}* + +If your family plays board games during the holidays, you can add this one to your collection. The strategy-based game revolves around building a three-story structure, and whoever does it first wins. It can be played with two to four people at once. + +####Catan: 5th Edition for $25 ($25 off) +*[Walmart](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FCatan-Strategy-Board-Game-5th-Edition%2F49605951){: rel=nofollow}*, *[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Catan-Studios-cantan2017/dp/B00U26V4VQ){: rel=nofollow}* + +The Settlers of Catan is one of the most popular board games on the market. This is the newest edition of the game, which means a shortened name and revised packaging, but the gameplay is still just as addictive. Three to four players ages 10 and up can compete to strategically develop the island of Catan. It’s easy to learn, and there are several expansions ([some of which are on sale](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=catan+expansions&ref=nb_sb_noss_2& tag=w050b-20)) to keep gameplay interesting. Check out our favorite [tech-centric board games](https://www.wired.com/story/use-wisdom-to-win-in-these-tech-centric-board-games/) for more ideas. + +####Best Buy Game Deals +*[Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fvideo-games%2Fall-video-games%2Fpcmcat1487698928729.c%3Fid%3Dpcmcat1487698928729%26qp%3Dcurrentoffers_facet%253DCurrent%2520Deals~On%2520Sale%255Eplatform_facet%253DPlatform~Nintendo%2520Switch%255Eplatform_facet%253DPlatform~PlayStation%25204%255Eplatform_facet%253DPlatform~Xbox%2520One&subid1=blackfridaycheapdeals2019){: rel=nofollow}* + +The big-box retailer will have about a gajillion games on sale for $50 or less during Cyber Monday. Top hits like *The Last of Us: Remastered* will be just $10, and more titles, such as *Diablo III*, will be on sale for only $25. + + diff --git a/published/bfnotes.txt b/published/bfnotes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ffbdec --- /dev/null +++ b/published/bfnotes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +####Lenses + +[Adorama](https://fave.co/2OsJgC2){: rel=nofollow} and [B&H Photo](https://fave.co/2rECAaN){: rel=nofollow} have some great deals on lenses for just about every camera system. For Canon there's a great deal on the [Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L $499 ($300 off)](https://fave.co/33xvrGC){: rel=nofollow}. I also love the [40mm f/2.8 STM pancake for $129 ($70 off)](https://fave.co/34tEw4A){: rel=nofollow}. [Fujifilm's 16mm F1.4 lens](https://fave.co/2P7c6XV){: rel=nofollow} is on sale for $899 ($100 off), and my favorite Micro Four Thirds lens, the Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 gets a minor [discount at $268 ($30 off)](https://fave.co/2stCXFR){: rel=nofollow} (it's a great deal at full price). diff --git a/published/breakout-1.txt b/published/breakout-1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d387990 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/breakout-1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Amazon Prime Day is off and running. We've highlighted some of [the best deals in this year's Amazon Prime Day](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) and pointed out a few deals from [other retailers as well](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-alternative-deals/). Frankly, sometimes it’s a bit much. If you have reservations about all this consumer culture, believe me, we feel you, still a good deal is a good deal and right now the Amazon's price on Kindles is a good deal
+
+Say what you will about the rest of the company, Amazon makes a damn fine ebook reader. Kindles are the most eye-friendly way to read digital books, and the battery life is outstanding. Amazon's related services, like Kindle Unlimited and Audible audiobooks, pair well with the Kindle. Right now all three Kindle modes come with three months of Kindle Unlimited for free. After that a subscription to Kindle Unlimited is $10 a month.
+
+We like the Kindle so much we've made a [Kindle Buying Guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle/) to help you figure out which model is best for you. If you're looking to buy one, do it now: Amazon doesn't discount its Kindles as often as other devices, and it may be a few months before it's discounted again (and the Paperwhite is usually only $30 off).
+
+*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)*
+
+### [Standard Kindle for $60 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-now-with-a-built-in-front-light/dp/B07DLPWYB7/){: rel=nofollow}
+
+The new 2019 standard 6-inch Kindle ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-kindle-2019/) gives you the most bang for your buck. It's not waterproof and it has fewer pixels than other models, but you still get plenty. It comes with a light-up display, so you can finally save money without having to keep the light on when you read before bed. This deal also includes three months of Kindle Unlimited so you can curl up with your favorite books the minute you get your new Kindle. After the three months a Kindle Unlimited subscription is $10 a month.
+
+### [Kindle Paperwhite for $85 ($45 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CXG6C9W/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}
+
+If you don’t mind spending a bit extra, the Paperwhite make a great step up from the standard Kindle ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-kindle-paperwhite-2018/)). It has a more uniform light-up display than the standard Kindle, and right now it's discounted below the sticker price of the cheaper version. Other great features include more pixels for clearer text and a waterproof body for bathtub or poolside reading. If you intend to download a lot of Audible audiobooks and listen to them on headphones (there are no speakers on this reader), get the [32-gigabyte Paperwhite for $110 ($50 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage/dp/B07745PV5G/){: rel=nofollow}.
+
+### [Kindle Oasis for $175 ($75 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Oasis-now-with-adjustable-warm-light/dp/B07F7TLZF4/){: rel=nofollow}
+
+There's no practical reason to buy a [Kindle Oasis](https://www.wired.com/2017/11/review-kindle-oasis-2/), even at this price it's still more expensive than two on sale Kindle Paperwhites. That said, the Oasis is certainly a joy to use. Page turning is snappier thanks to a faster processor, and it has a larger 7-inch touchscreen with an aluminum design that has a bump on one edge, and physical buttons to turn the pages. These make it ideal for one-handed reading. The light-up display also looks a little more natural, and automatically adjusts its brightness. If you need extra space the [32-gigabyte model is $200 ($80)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Oasis-now-with-adjustable-warm-light/dp/B07GRSK3HC/){: rel=nofollow}.
+
+###How to Load Up on Ebooks
+
+We're not always fans of the growing subscription economy, but Kindle Unlimited gives unlimited access to 1 million books that you can read at your leisure, and some free Audible books, too (not a bad deal). If you grab a new Kindle today, you'll get three months free, after that [Kindle Unlimited costs $10 a month](https://amzn.to/2DXamvv){: rel=nofollow}.
+
+##Other Amazon Devices on Sale
+
+There are a few other Amazon devices we like on sale right now. We highlighted our favorites below, but you can see the full list in [our guide to the best Prime Day device deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-device-deals-prime-day-2019/).
+
+**[Fire HD 10 for $100 ($65 off)](https://amzn.to/2JxY5Rs){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire HD 10 is a much more capable tablet than the 8. It’s faster, has more storage, and the 10-inch HD screen looks much nicer.
+
+**[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet for $80 ($50 off)](https://amzn.to/2XHWYT2){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is our top pick for kids under 7. If your kid's hands are especially tiny, they'll appreciate the Fire 7's smaller size. It's [also on sale](https://amzn.to/30tdtnC){: rel=nofollow}.
+
+**[Fire TV Stick 4K for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/30q9R5M){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire Stick 4K is the best of Amazon's Fire TV devices. We [prefer the Roku](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-4k-streaming-devices/) all things considered, but if you're a heavy Prime Video user with a 4K screen this makes a good streaming device.
+
+**[Echo Dot for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/2XzyfQE){: rel=nofollow}**: This hockey puck-shaped Echo handles spoken audio well and the new version sounds better with music, but it still lacks the quality you'll find in larger speakers. Still, if you want to add Alexa to more rooms in your house, the Dot makes a cheap and easy way to do it.
+
+**[Echo Show for $160 ($70 off)](){: rel=nofollow}**: At first, it seems odd to have an Alexa speaker with a display. But after using it you'll understand the appeal. When you ask it for the weather, it tells you *and* shows you thanks to the 10-inch display and rear speakers.
diff --git a/published/coffee-lovers-gift-guide.txt b/published/coffee-lovers-gift-guide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d33f1c --- /dev/null +++ b/published/coffee-lovers-gift-guide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +I love coffee. I have strong opinions on coffee. I spend more time making coffee each morning than most people do making breakfast. It's not a habit, it's a ritual. It's a ceremony. It involves fire, water, air, earth and dare I say spirit. I make coffee, have a bite to eat, then I make an espresso. Espresso of course requires a bit of good mineral water with it, and maybe a corner of bittersweet chocolate. Once the espresso and water and chocolate are arrayed on my desk, then, and only then, life begins. + +If you know someone like me (or you are someone like me), I'm here to help you find the perfect gift. It's a tricky thing finding the right gift for the highly opinionated coffee lover. Chances are they already have their ceremony the way they like it, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved with a thoughtful gift. Here's my guide to buying the perfect gift for the coffee lover in your life. + +## Nanopresso + +If your coffee lover is suffering through drip coffee at the office, hook them up with one of these. The Nanopresso is my favorite portable espresso maker. It strikes the best balance between ease of use, portability, and taste. It extracts a nice espresso from almost any beans and the compact all-in-one design also means you can shove it in the smallest of bags and have excellent espresso anywhere you go. + +The Nanopresso has an expansion pack called the Barista Kit with a larger water tank and grounds basket for making a double espresso. The overall size of device becomes larger, and doesn't fit in the handy carrying case, but I'd trade the case for a double shot any day. + +Not every coffee fanatic loves espresso, so it's worth asking before you buy. If they don't like espresso, consider my next pick. + +## Aeropress Go + +The Aeropress Go is barely bigger than a coffee mug, incredibly lightweight, and makes one of the best cups of coffee you'll get on the go. It's everything the standard Aeropress is -- easy to use, great at minimizing bitterness, and capable of an excellent cup of coffee -- it's just smaller. + +The Aeropress is also very forgiving. While it can take a bit of experimenting to get the Aeropress to make coffee exactly the way you want, it's almost difficult to make a bad cup of coffee. That makes it a great gift for someone who isn't necessarily a coffee fanatic, yet. + +## Burr Grinder + +You know those swirling blade grinders you can get at any home store for less than ten buck? Those are great for grinding spices. They're terrible at grinding coffee though. And freshly grinding whole beans is first leg of the cauldron that is coffee brewing of greatness. + + +Best Gifts for the Coffee Lover + +burr grinder One manual, one motor +insulated mug (i like contigo, but going to add a couple others as well) +pour over set up (louryn) +coffee subscription +fun mugs (ThinkGeek type stuff) +small roaster +milk frother + + +There's more to coffee than a coffee pot on a timer. + diff --git a/published/deals-nl.txt b/published/deals-nl.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd7f4d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/deals-nl.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The wall of heat and humidity that hits every time we step outside is enough to drive even the most ardent nature enthusiast back in the house. Still, if you're undeterred, or want to pick up some gear for when fall finally arrives, be sure to check out [Backcountry's semiannual sale](https://fave.co/2MDNGFs){: rel=nofollow}. + +This week Reviewer Jess Gray sorted through a ton of cameras to bring you [The 5 best compact cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/) you can buy. Scott Gilbertson check out all the tools you need to [up your grilling game](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-grilling-accessories-tools/), and updated our guide to [the best instant cameras you can buy](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/). Senior reviewer Adrienne So enjoyed the [Onewheel Pint](https://www.wired.com/review/review-onewheel-pint/) and picked the [best of the Backcountry Sale](https://www.wired.com/story/deals-backcountry-semiannual-sale-2019/). + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Much like [subscribing to WIRED](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub), these contributions help fund the journalism we put out every day. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + diff --git a/published/deals.txt b/published/deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9debf0c --- /dev/null +++ b/published/deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +yeti: https://www.amazon.com/apb/page/?handlerName=OctopusDealLandingStream&deals=9c59b6e9&marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER + +sd card: https://www.amazon.com/apb/page/?handlerName=OctopusDealLandingStream&deals=40a164aa&marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER diff --git a/published/deals1010.txt b/published/deals1010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d91ad85 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/deals1010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +This weekend is WIRED25, our annual festival. If you're in the Bay Area, [come visit us at WIRED25](https://www.wired.com/story/come-hang-out-with-wired-at-our-2-day-festival/) this weekend, which will bring many of the people that we spoke to in [our November issue](https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/), like Eva Galperin and Chris Evans, to our offices in San Francisco. + +If you live nowhere near SF not to worry, we have great deals for everyone. Black Friday is getting closer and many stores have already started their sales. This weekend we've got ongoing sales at [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=gbps_ftr_m-8_1a0f_wht_502394?node=384082011){: rel=nofollow} and [Dell](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/https://deals.dell.com/en-us){: rel=nofollow}, plus we've highlighted our favorite deals from around the web. + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +###Cameras + +Fall is camera deals season. Whether you're looking to step up from your phone to a still-pocketable point-and-shoot, or want to go full-frame DSLR, there's deals for nearly everything. Be sure to have a look at our guides to [the best compact cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-compact-cameras/), [the best mirrorless cameras](https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorless-cameras-buying-guide/), and [the best instant cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/). + +- **[Sony RX100 III for $598 ($150 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Premium-Compact-F1-8-2-8-DSCRX100M3/dp/B00K7O2DJU/){: rel=nofollow}:** Sony updates the RX100 line so freqently it's almost comical. This model is over a year old, but still offers most of what you find in the latest RX100 IV ([7/10 WIRED Review](https://www.wired.com/review/sony-rx-100-vi/)) at half the price. You get top-tier 1-inch sensor, a very nice pop-up electronic viewfinder, a Zeiss 24-70mm F1.8-2.8 lens, and 1080 video (no 4K alas) in a very compact package. + +- **[Panasonic Lumix ZS100 for $448 ($50 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010NU5AX8/){: rel=nofollow}:** Panasonic's compact Lumix ZS100 gives you more zoom than the competition, going for a full 10x optical zoom lens. The camera's 1-inch sensor is on par with some of the best compact cameras and features 4K video, and a great touchscreen interface. The newer model, the [ZS200 ($698, $100 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079QYMWZX/){: rel=nofollow} is also on sale. + +- **[Fujifilm XT-3 Mirrorless Body Only $1300 ($200)](https://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-X-T3-Mirrorless-Digital-Body/dp/B07H3Y9CJY/){: rel=nofollow}:** Fujifilm's flagship DSLR is on sale right now. The XT-3 has a 26.1 megapixel APS-C sensor and shoots 4K video at 60p. It's big and heavy, but well-built and the analog dials give it the feel, and quick and easy functions, of an older film camera. + +- **[Nikon W300 Underwater Camera for $296 ($55 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Nikon-Waterproof-Underwater-Digital-Camera/dp/B071ZMDBKL/){: rel=nofollow}:** Nikon's rugged W300 is waterproof to 30 meters, shockproof to 8 foot drops, and will generally take a beating and not complain. It's not always easy to use underwater, but no camera is really. We like the extra features in this rugged point-and-shoot, like GPS tracking, altimeter, depth gauge, and more. + +###Electronics + +[#image: /photos/5d853260a500f60009b585d5]|||||| + +- **[Garmin Fenix 5X Sapphire for $300 ($300 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Fenix-5X-Sapphire-Slate/dp/B01MQX3306/){: rel=nofollow}:** This is a great deal on one the best multisport watches money can buy. The Garmin Fenix 5X ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2017/09/review-garmin-fenix-5x/)) brings performance tracking and GPS-based mapping to all your activities. It is big, but with that size comes great power. Also available at this price from [Best Buy](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/qq6zj){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[Apple Watch Series 3 for $199 ($80 off)](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=weekenddeal110919&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FApple-Watch-Series-3-GPS-Cellular-38mm-Sport-Band-Aluminum-Case-Silver-White%2F728936788){: rel=nofollow}:** The [Series 5](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-watch-series-5/) is Apple's current smartwatch, but the Watch Series 3 is still a [great fitness tracker](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-fitness-tracker/) (the Series 4 has been discontinued). + +- **[Dell XPS 13 8th Gen i7, 256 GB SSD, 8GB RAM for $1050 ($250 off)](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/3ac4){: rel=nofollow}:** Our favorite Dell ultrabook is on sale. The 13-inch XPS ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dell-xps-13-2019/)) has plenty of power, weighs under three pounds, and has a battery that lasts nearly all day (especially this model with the 1920 x 1080 display). Get an additional five percent off using the code DPASave5Nov. + +- **[Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 10th Gen i7, 256 GB SSD, 16GB RAM for $1480 ($170 off)](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/3bn0){: rel=nofollow}:** This folding version of the XPS features a newer, faster processor, 16-gigabytes of RAM, and a touch display that folds into tablet mode. Get an additional five percent off using the code DPASave5Nov. + +###More Deals + +- **[Lego Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V for $90 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071G3QMS2){: rel=nofollow}** For the serious Lego fan, this kit is a complete Saturn V three stage rocket that's over 39 inches tall when complete. + +- **[23andMe Health & Ancestry Kit for $99 ($100 off):](https://www.amazon.com/23andMe-DNA-Test-Ancestry-collection/dp/B01G7PYQTM){: rel=nofollow}** This deal matches the discount we saw on Prime Day. Unlike similar DNA testing kits, 23andMe doesn't try to upsell you on extra services. + +- **[SanDisk 128GB SDXC Memory Card for $20 ($48)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/330kK){: rel=nofollow}** This reasonably fast SD card can write at 70 megabytes per second, which is plenty fast for most digital cameras (if you have a full frame camera and want to record 4K or better footage, you may want to go with something faster like this [Sony SF-G UHS-II 64 GB card](https://www.amazon.com/Sony-SF-G64-T1-Performance-Blazing/dp/B06ZYNN6JP){: rel=nofollow}). + +- **[SanDisk 128 GB MicroSDXC Memory Card for $20 ($48)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/QgdjM){: rel=nofollow}** This fast MicroSD card is great for adding some extra disk space to your phone, or use it in a camera with the included adapter. + +- **[Western Digital 5TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive for $90 ($60 off)](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/oW6nb){: rel=nofollow}** Where are you going to put all those pictures when it's finally time to dump the images from that 128GB card? On this massive portable drive of course. + diff --git a/published/dji-osmo-mobile.txt b/published/dji-osmo-mobile.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31f40ef --- /dev/null +++ b/published/dji-osmo-mobile.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Some YouTube channels always have buttery smooth video, even when the person is walking around. Other people struggle to keep the camera steady even when sitting still. The difference between the two lies in a device called a gimbal—a tri-axis device that tilts and pans and pitches to compensate for movement of the camera, which helps keep footage stable and relatively free of jitters. + +DJI's revamped Osmo Mobile 3 brings that buttery smooth video to your phone. Slide your phone to the tension tray, activate DJI's Mimo app and you have—depending on the video quality of your phone—nearly as good of a setup as Alfred Hitchcock used. + +### Improvements + +As the name suggests, the Osmo Mobile 3 is DJI's third take on this gimbal and it's very much an iteration on the previous model, fixing most of the pain points while adding some nice new features to the software. + +While DJI is not the first phone gimbal to feature a folding design, it's the simplest I've used. Unlike some gimbals with lots of twists and latches, this is one piece. Extend it and you're ready to go. Fold it up—even with your device still attached—and it's ready to pack away. It's by far the simplest design I've tested. + +The foldable design makes the Osmo Mobile incredibly compact. If you opt for the slightly more expensive bundle ($139), the handy carrying case fits easily in a bag. The gimbal itself weighs just over 14 ounces and fits any phone between 62-88 millimeters wide. I tested it with an Motorola x4, Sony Xperia 1, and an iPhone 8, all of which fit, though I had to remove the case on the X4. + +Mounting your phone has also been simplified, there's no screws, just a spring-loaded tension grip. It's feel plenty secure and it can fit larger phones than the previous model, meaning those giant Galaxy S10's should do just fine. DJI says the new mount design decreases the chances of the mount pressing your phone's hardware buttons. I never had any trouble with this, but then I didn't using the previous model either. + +The attached phone also retains easy access to its charging port and headphone jack (if it has one that is). That means you could add an external microphone to your setup for improved sound quality, something vloggers will be happy to hear. + +The Osmo Mobile 3 brings back the front handle trigger mechanism which the first-gen model had, but which disappeared in the Mobile 2. The trigger is back and it now controls all sorts of things—locking the gimbal, re-centering, tracking, activating "sport" mode (more on that in a minute), and switching between front an back cameras. + +There are two other buttons and a joystick under your thumb. Between these and the trigger the Osmo Mobile can be operated almost entirely with one hand. While there's plenty about DJI's Mimo mobile app that requires two hands, when actually filming I almost never needed to use a second hand. + +DJI claims, and my testing backs up this claim, 15-hours of battery life. More useful though than the battery life, is a new full-size USB port that can charge devices from the Osmo. In my use I was happy to sacrifice hours of gimbal time, to keep my phone going since nothing drains your phone quite like shooting 4K video for hours. It's also worth nothing that the Osmo Mobile 3 support USB-C for fast-charging on devices that support it. + +My least favorite new feature is the easy of switching between vertical and horizontal orientation. All you need to do is tap the lower button twice and your phone will rotate into vertical mode. But seriously, don't do that. The world does not need more vertical-oriented video. + +### Software + +While the gimbal hardware is impressive, most of what I like about the Osmo Mobile comes down to software in the DJI Mimo app. The intelligent filming features like ActiveTrack, Hyperlapse and Motionlapse all make it easier to get great video results, even from a phone. + +ActiveTrack in particular works incredibly well. All you have to to is tap and drag a box over the object you want to track and the app will do the rest. In my testing it handled both in situations where you lock on a fixed object and move around it, and when you lock on a moving object and the gimbal tracks it with equal ease. + +I was able to track most things with ActiveTrack, the exception being my kids running and cartwheeling across the room, which was too fast for ActiveTrack. To capture that I switched to Sport Mode by pressing the trigger twice and then holding it. That speeds up the gimbal, so you can manually pan much faster, but you do lose the ActiveTrack auto-follow feature. Still, after you've developed some skill with the gimbal, Sport Mode is a huge asset. Also worth a mention is Hyperlapse mode, which can create time-lapse videos while you're in motion. + +The update app adds support for gesture control, especially useful when recording yourself. The Osmo Mobile bundle includes a small tripod, which means you can step out from behind the camera and use a hand gesture to take a photo or start recording video. The gimbal will then track your movement should move around. + +The app has a couple of other new features, including Story Mode, which helps you create videos quickly using pre-set shooting templates with matching music, and a panoramic photo mode which takes multiple images and stitches them in camera to create either a 180 degrees image, or 330 degree image depending on what you want. + +DJI has done more to bring what was once the sole province of professionals—especially the smooth-looking video only a gimbal can provide—to the masses than perhaps any other company and it continues to do so with the Osmo Mobile 3. My only real gripe is that currently shooting at 60 fps is limited to iPhones. + +Compared to other offerings in this price range though, the Osmo Mobile is more compact, easier to use, and has more features, both in hardware and software. + +You can buy the [Osmo Mobile 3 for $119 from DJI](https://store.dji.com/product/osmo-mobile-3?site=brandsite&from=buy_now_bar&vid=83691){: rel=nofollow} , [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RHJ7LWH/){: rel=nofollow}, [Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dji-osmo-mobile-3-3-axis-gimbal-stabilizer-for-mobile-phones-gray/6362960.p?skuId=6362960){: rel=nofollow}, and [B & H Photo](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1497924-REG/dji_cp_os_00000022_01_osmo_mobile_3_smartphone.html){: rel=nofollow} . If you can afford it we suggest upgrading to the [Combo bundle for $139](https://store.dji.com/product/osmo-mobile-3?site=brandsite&from=buy_now_bar&vid=83721){: rel=nofollow}, which adds a nice case and small tripod. You can also get the Combo bundle at [Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dji-osmo-mobile-3-combo-3-axis-gimbal-stabilizer-for-mobile-phones-gray/6362961.p?skuId=6362961){: rel=nofollow}, or [B & H Photo](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1497925-REG/dji_cp_os_00000040_01_osmo_mobile_3_smartphone.html){: rel=nofollow}. diff --git a/published/dji-robomaster-review.txt b/published/dji-robomaster-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab5ea0a --- /dev/null +++ b/published/dji-robomaster-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +DJI cut its teeth building drones. In the early days of consumer drones, if you said "drone" you probably meant the company's Phantom line. Since those early days the drone market has filled out and over time DJI has branched out. We recently looked at DJI's Osmo Action camera ([WIRED recommends 8/10](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-osmo-action-camera/)) and shortly after that DJI unveiled what it calls an "educational robot." Think of it as a drone that doesn't fly. + +DJI's Robomaster S1 robot grew out of the Robomaster robot competitions in China. It's a consumer version of the robots kids are building at your local STEM-friendly school. As such, it's not just a robot, it's a learning experience. You build it, you program it, you battle other robots with it. + +### Some Assembly Required + +The Robomaster arrives in 23 pieces with 101 screws and a reversible screwdriver to assemble it. It took my kids and I about three hours to put it together. + +The instructions contain line drawings and all the parts are labeled so you can figure out what goes where. That said, there's almost no text, just pictures. In some steps, particularly fitting together the wheels, a sentence or two would have saved some effort spent trying to decipher the line drawings. + +When you're done assembling you'll have a four-wheeled robot with a swiveling turret mounted on top of a shoebox-size chassis. The turret can either fire infrared light or small gel pellets. The S1 comes with a bottle of pellets, but you need to soak them for a couple hours until they grow to about the size of a small grape. They don't hurt when they hit you, but DJI has limited the turret's angle of fire to keep the focus on other robots and certain modes, like tracking a person, aren't available when pellets are in the S1. + +Everything about the S1 is extremely sturdy and well-built. It's mostly plastic, but it's heavy duty plastic and when you're done the S1 feels like a solid piece of equipment, even more so than one of DJI's drones (since weight is not much of a concern, the S1 can afford to be sturdier than a flying drone). The S1 is well balanced and very easy to control. Despite my best efforts I never managed to flip it over. + +One of the more striking things about operating the S1 is that it really doesn't turn, it moves sideways. This design is made possible by the [Mecanum wheels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel), a conventional wheel with a series of rollers attached at a 45 degree angle. The rollers rotate at 45 degrees to the rotation of the wheel, drawing the vehicle sideways. + +You control the S1 through the Robomaster mobile app for iOS and Android. As with DJI's drones there is a controller sold separately. The [RoboMaster S1 Gamepad ($79)](https://store.dji.com/product/robomaster-s1-gamepad){: rel=nofollow} offers a mounting area big enough to hold an iPad, and offers a physical joystick for much more precise control than you get with the virtual joystick in the app. If you plan to battle other S1 robots or just want better control I highly recommend upgrading to the Gamepad. + +After pairing your device with your Robomaster you get a view through the turret, with a joystick controller for moving around. There are three basic modes in the app, Solo, Battle and Lab. The first is where you can control S1 on its own, while Battle mode is for fighting with other S1s. Lab is where you can experiment and write programs to control the S1. + +The body of the S1 has 31 sensors arrayed around it to pick up on everything from infrared light to impact, as well as a camera that can record 1080p video. These inputs are how the S1 navigates and also how you can control it via the programming interface. Programs can be written in Scratch, a kid-friendly drag-and-drop programming interface, or Python. The Lab portion of the app has a series of training courses design to get kids started writing basic programs to control the S1. + +### Kids of All Ages + +Ostensibly the Robomaster is aimed at kids 14 and up though my four-year-old and seven-year-olds had a lot of fun helping me put it together. The reason for the 14 and up, is that for younger kids what you've really got a $500 remote controlled car. My kids had a lot of fun building the Robomaster and then driving around "my laser-shooting, remote controlled car" as my son calls it. It also shoots those water beads, which is pretty awesome for kids of any age, including me (note that is is much harder to hit things with the water beads). + +But none of that fun gets at the point here, nor is it enough to justify the S1's price tag. What makes the Robomaster more STEM project than laser-shooting remote controlled car is the programmability. The learning does not stop when you're done assembling the S1, in fact that's just when the learning starts. + +The courses available through the app and on DJI's site offer everything you need to get started writing programs in Scratch. The Python interface is less well documented, and, unfortunately, probably not a good way to learn Python thanks to the complexity of controlling the robot. Unless you're already familiar with Python, I would suggest Scratch for programming the S1, especially for kids. + +There's also a RoboAcademy section in the app which offers some behind-the-scenes looks at the technology in use on S1. For example, there's a deep dive into how [Mecanum wheels work](https://www.dji.com/robomaster-s1/video-courses) in the S1. + +The S1 was a ton of fun to test. It's very well made, and offers a well-thought-out introduction to robotics and programming. It's not cheap, but for kids who are old enough, and have an interest in STEM-oriented topics or programming, the S1 should make a good investment and serve as an introduction to the world of robotics. + + + + + diff --git a/published/espresso.txt b/published/espresso.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8047f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/espresso.txt @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +I take my espresso seriously. I put myself through college making espresso for others and I even married my favorite barista. It's been a while now since either my wife or I had access to the kind of expensive Italian-made espresso machines you find in nice coffee shops, but thanks to the world of portable espresso makers I've figured out how to make the perfect espresso no matter where I go. + +WIRED has looked at some of the [best latte and cappuccino machines](https://www.wired.com/story/best-latte-and-cappuccino-machines/) and [best cold brew makers](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cold-brew-coffee-makers/), but with the summer travel season well under way we wanted to share some ways to make great espresso on the road. + +Making a barista-worthy espresso is challenging. Doing it without electricity or a giant machine is even more daunting. Coffee fanatics will object that these devices use pressurized portafilters to achieve their crema, which is cheating, but real espresso machines don't fit in your carry-on. I will confess that I usually am one of those fanatics. To my surprise, though, I found that, with a little work, these portable espresso makers can turn out an espresso worthy of the name. + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +###1. Best Overall + +**[Nanopresso Portable Espresso Maker ($79)](https://www.amazon.com/Nanopresso-Portable-Espresso-Protective-Minipresso/dp/B0752XV66X/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5d12de63841dfc0008f1db84]|||||| + +The Nanopresso strikes the best balance between ease of use, portability and taste. It will extract a nice espresso from almost any beans. There's very little bitterness and it reliably produces a nice looking crema. The compact all-in-one design also means you can shove it in the smallest of bags and have excellent espresso anywhere you go. + +A couple notes to getting the best extraction: don’t grind your coffee too fine—think table salt rather than powder—and preheat the machine. To preheat, just pump hot water through with nothing in the basket and then make your actual shot. Espresso fanatics argue that you should pump no more than once per second, but I could not tell any difference. It takes a fair amount of pressure to pump the water, though. If you have Arthritis, RSI, or other source of joint pain in your hands, the Nanopresso is probably not the best choice. + +The Nanopresso has an expansion pack called the [Barista Kit](https://www.amazon.com/Nanopresso-Accessory-Portable-Espresso-Machine,Double/dp/B078GM6FFH/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} with a larger water tank and grounds basket for making a double espresso. I found the results with the Barista Kit mirrored the single, though it's more forgiving of poor grinds. If you don't fill the larger reservoir all the way, you can extract a bit stronger espresso with the double. The downside to the Barista Kit is that the device becomes considerably larger. + +**[Buy the Nanopresso for $79 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Nanopresso-Portable-Espresso-Protective-Minipresso/dp/B0752XV66X/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +###2. Very Close Runner Up + +**[Handpresso Wild Hybrid ($90)](https://www.amazon.com/Handpresso-HPWILDHYBRID-Coffee-Machine/dp/B007KG5IYK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5d12de9281b06b0008d0cb2f]|||||| + +The Nanopresso is lighter and easier to clean up, but the Handpresso Wild Hybrid makes an equally good shot of espresso, possibly better. + +The Handpresso Wild Hybrid was my introduction to hand pump espresso. Several years ago, when my family and I [moved into an RV](https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/04/april-fools) and away from conveniences like a neighborhood coffee shop or even a large kitchen counter, I invested in a Handpresso, hoping for good espresso on the road. I was not disappointed. I used it daily for two years before it eventually stopped pressurizing. + +It's more work than the Nanopresso, but produces a marginally deeper and richer espresso, though less of it—the water reservoir is 1.5 fluid ounces versus the 2.7 fluid ounce reservoir of the Nanopresso. The difference is in the pumping. With a Nanopresso, you build pressure by continually pumping the water through. With the Handpresso, you build up pressure and then release a valve to force the water through the grounds all at once. The Handpresso also pumps up like a bike pump, which is easier than the finger button on the Nanopresso. + +To get the best extraction you need to experiment with your grind. My favorite results came from a very fine grind and minimal tamping. The Handpresso also works with paper filtered [Easy Serving Espresso (ESE) pods](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=easy%20serving%20Espresso%20pods&i=grocery&rh=n:14978414011,p_72:1248897011&dc&qid=1563401722&rnid=1248895011&ref=sr_nr_p_72_1&tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +**[Buy the Handpresso Wild Hybrid for $90 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Handpresso-HPWILDHYBRID-Coffee-Machine/dp/B007KG5IYK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + + +###3. The Best Espresso + +**[Flair Signature Pro ($300)](https://www.flairespresso.com/product-page/flair-signature-pro){: rel=nofollow}** + +The Flair is the least portable of the devices reviewed here. It does break down to a roughly laptop-size case that's about two inches thick, but it's heavy. If you only travel a couple of times a year though, it does look great on a kitchen counter the rest of the time. And what you trade in portability is more than made up for in the quality of espresso you get. + +The Flair Signature Pro produces hands down the best extraction of any device here. + +The Flair is simple to use, you can see the process in the company's very helpful [video guide to brewing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzjaWtOZ9k). The solid stainless steel construction means the Flair is built like a tank. Set up is simple and clean up is just a matter of dumping the espresso and rinsing out the portafilter. + +As with any espresso maker, a bit of experimenting with various grinds is necessary to get the ideal extraction, and of course the fresher the coffee, the better the results. That said, you can even get excellent results with pre-ground espressos like [Medaglia D'Oro](https://www.amazon.com/Medaglia-DOro-Italian-Espresso-Coffee/dp/B004AH2IW2/){: rel=nofollow}. + +It's worth noting that Flair offers two other models, the Classic and the Signature. The primary difference is size and the materials of the brew heads. If you're willing forgo the all stainless steel construction, the other two work the same way and should produce the same results while saving you a bit of coin. The [Classic is $159 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Flair-Espresso-Maker-Manual-Press/dp/B06X916JM8/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} and the [Signature goes for $239](https://www.amazon.com/Flair-Signature-Espresso-Pressure-Chrome/dp/B07VRF5LCZ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +**[Buy the Flair Signature Pro for $299 at Flair](https://www.flairespresso.com/product-page/flair-signature-pro){: rel=nofollow}** + +###3. Best for Crema + +**[Uniterra Nomad ($300)](https://www.amazon.com/UniTerra-Nomad-Espresso-Machine/dp/B01G40YGSG/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5d12debfe847350008eb230f]|||||| + +The Uniterra Nomad is also not the most portable device -- it is smaller and lighter than the Flair though -- but it puts that added size and weight to good use by looking like a little piece of metal art sitting on your desk and cranking out an excellent, creamy espresso. + +The Nomad grew out of a Kickstarter campaign and is made mostly of solid metal, which gives it a sturdy feeling some of our other options lack. It's also the only one to include a proper, heavy, high-quality tamper to evenly press down your coffee. + +The company touts a bit of engineering in the Nomad called the True Crema Valve, which can help compensate for a bad grind or poor tamping. I tested this by using some pre-ground coffee from a large chain that shall remain nameless. The extraction from the poorly ground coffee with the True Crema valve was better than the extraction without it. + +Always use high quality beans, nothing will improve your espresso so much as good quality, freshly roasted beans, but if you mess up the grind, or don't tamp the grounds properly, the Nomad's True Crema Valve can save you from yourself. + +**[Buy the Uniterra Nomad for $300 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/UniTerra-Nomad-Espresso-Machine/dp/B01G40YGSG/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +###4. Best for Hiking and Cold Brew Espresso + +**[Cafflano Kompresso ($75)](https://www.amazon.com/Cafflano-Kompresso-Carry-Coffee-Maker/dp/B074TRBKW4/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5d12deff744d670009494568]|||||| + +The Cafflano Kompresso is the lightest and simplest portable espresso maker to clean, making it ideal for a backpacking trip. + +The Kompresso relies on a manual hydraulic compressor to force the water through and extract espresso. The results can be both the best or the worst cup of espresso of these picks. The Kompresso is the least forgiving device I tested. You need fresh, high quality beans and you need to spend some time experimenting to get the grind right. Grind too coarse and you'll end up with a watery mess. Grind too fine and you'll have to use your whole body weight to force the extraction. You can get a good 3/8 inch of crema and a deliciously smooth shot when you find that sweet spot. + +I'm struggling through a Texas summer right now. I don't want *anything* hot after 8 am. Luckily, unlike every other device, the Kompresso can make a good cold shot. The secret, which I found on the company's [Instagram account](https://www.instagram.com/cafflano.official/p/BbAZYX2lCac/), is to tamp extra hard and pre-soak for one minute. The results are amazing (again, assuming you have high quality beans and a good grind). + +**[Buy the Cafflano Kompresso for $75 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Cafflano-Kompresso-Carry-Coffee-Maker/dp/B074TRBKW4/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +###5. Best for Car Camping + +**[Handpresso 12V Auto Hybrid ($160)](https://www.amazon.com/Handpresso-127015-12V-Auto-Hybrid/dp/B00WZAAR92/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5d12df25acabd90008f0f413]|||||| + +Technically, I'm cheating with the Handpresso Auto Hybrid. It requires 12V power to operate. For that reason it's not the best option for every situation. But if you travel by vehicle and have access to a 12V socket (a cigarette lighter socket), the Handpresso Auto makes a quick espresso. The Auto Hybrid's extraction is very close to that of the Wild Hybrid, our Runner Up. + +Like its hand-pumped sibling, the Auto Hybrid can use either ESE pods or ground coffee. Put in your grind, tamp it down, and add an ounce of water. It takes about two minutes for the water to heat and you can watch the progress on the tiny display screen. It will beep three times when its ready. Turn it upside down and press the brew button to start the extraction. (For safety, the brew button won't do anything until you flip it over). + +There's one quirk to the auto-detection tech in the Auto Hybird: most bottled water won't work because the mineral content is too low. This may also apply to water from some filtration systems, though I did not have any problem using it with water that had been through a simple charcoal filter system. + +**[Buy the Handpresso 12V Auto Hybrid for $160 at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Handpresso-127015-12V-Auto-Hybrid/dp/B00WZAAR92/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** +###Why I Didn't Test the Aeropress + +Coffee must meet three requirements to qualify as espresso. + + - It must be brewed under pressure instead of infused. + +- It should have a very high brew ratio, usually two parts water to one part coffee; brewed coffee is more like 15 to one. + +- Espresso tends to be darker, heavier, and richer than infusion brewed coffee. As such, the beans are typically a darker roast, though I've noticed lighter roasts may be growing in popularity. + +For this review, I limited the options to pressurized brewers, which is why there's no Aeropress or moka pot, neither of which make espresso. (A moka pot is pressurized, but not enough to qualify as espresso.) We may review them in the future, but they weren't considered during this round of testing. + +###How to Make Great Portable Espresso + +There are also three basic, but vital espresso tips I'll leave you with. + +__Find Good, Fresh Beans:__ If you haven’t made espresso before, start with high quality beans. Quality beans can make even cheap brewing equipment shine. To get high quality beans, you need fresh beans. Find a local coffee roaster in your area. + +If you don't have a coffee roaster nearby, you can order beans online or try one of the pre-ground espresso blends at your local grocery store. I've tried most popular espresso blends like [Lavazza](https://www.amazon.com/Lavazza-Ground-Coffee-Caffe-Espresso/dp/B00HJNTII6/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, [Medaglia D'Oro](https://jet.com/product/product/c5c67ef234814bfba91267a668953296){: rel=nofollow}, and [Café Bustelo](https://www.amazon.com/Bustelo-Espresso-Ground-Coffee-Brick/dp/B004SV0MPA/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. Medaglia D'Oro has a smoother flavor than the others, but it's still more bitter than freshly roasted and ground whole beans. + +For testing purposes, I used beans from Jittery Joe's roasting company in Athens GA, specifically the [Wake-n-Bake](https://jitteryjoes.com/collections/blends/products/terrapin-wake-n-bake?variant=41287296589) blend. (Disclosure: I worked for Jittery Joe's for many years, so I grew to like its coffee.) I also used an espresso blend from [Fahrenheit Coffee Roaster](http://www.fahrenheitcoffee.com/) in Mancos, Colorado. The latter are the best beans I've purchased in the United States in two years of traveling. + +**Get a Quality Grinder:** Once you have good, freshly roasted beans you need to grind them. You'll want a burr grinder, which actually grinds your beans evenly rather than chopping them like a blade grinder. I use a well-loved [Hario Mini](https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Ceramic-Coffee-Mill-Mini-Slim/dp/B001804CLY/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} I've had for years, but if I were buying a new one I'd get a stainless steel grinder like this [Mueller Manual Coffee Grinder](https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Ultra-Grind-Strongest-Heaviest-Stainless/dp/B076BZYSGF/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +**Start Experimenting:** Pick one of these makers and start experimenting. At first, make sure you weigh out your beans and water using a good scale like this [Eravsow Digital Scale](https://www.amazon.com/ERAVSOW-Digital-Stainless-precision-Batteries/dp/B075YBD4YQ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, and take notes. It may sound like extreme nerdery, and it is, but after experimenting for a few days you'll likely find something you love and you'll know how to pull your perfect shot every time for espresso—no matter where you are. + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* When an online teaching job is [a window into child abuse](https://www.wired.com/story/when-online-teaching-job-becomes-window-child-abuse/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_3) +* The “manosphere” and [the challenge of quantifying hate](https://www.wired.com/story/misogyny-reddit-research/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_3) +* Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider [makes your helicopter look lazy](https://www.wired.com/story/sikorsky-s-97-raider/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_3) +* Photo gallery: [Vintage muscle cars take flight](https://www.wired.com/story/muscle-cars-flying-gallery/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_3) +* Fear, misinformation, and [measles spread in Brooklyn](https://www.wired.com/story/fear-misinformation-measles-spread-in-brooklyn/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_3) +* 💻 Upgrade your work game with our Gear team’s [favorite laptops](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-laptops/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [keyboards](https://www.wired.com/story/top-3-mechanical-keyboards/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), [typing alternatives](https://www.wired.com/story/best-keyboard-alternatives/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories), and [noise-canceling headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-noise-canceling-headphones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) +* 📩 Want more? [Sign up for our daily newsletter](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=daily&sourceCode=BottomStories) and never miss our latest and greatest stories diff --git a/published/google-nest-mini.txt b/published/google-nest-mini.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c28963 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/google-nest-mini.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Earlier this year, Google re-branded all its Home devices under the Nest name. What was once the Google Home Mini is now the Google Nest Mini and it's been updated for 2019. + +The Nest Mini is a step up over its predecessor, particularly when it comes to sound. The lows and mid-range tones are much clearer, with a level of separation in frequencies that didn't exist in in the Home Mini. I found this greatly improved with music, though in many cases podcasts still sounded muddy and washed out. + +Frankly, given the sound quality of the old Home Mini, there was nowhere to go but up. And I should caution that the Nest Mini still isn't a great speaker, but it sounds good enough to be useable as a speaker, which more than you could really say for the Home Mini. Given the entry level price of $49, it's a great way to see if the smart home is for you, or as a cheap way to extend your smart home into new rooms. + +### + +Outwardly the Nest Mini is very similar to the Home Mini. Google has changed fabric material to a fabric made recycled materials, but it looks and feels nearly the same. The Micro USB plug is gone, instead you get a round plug. It's not a big change, but it does mean that mean that any Home Mini accessories that used Micro USB plugs won't work with the Nest Mini. + +The big one here are wall mounts, but you won't need those anyway because the Nest Mini has a little notch for wall mounting built right into the back of it. And I highly recommend taking advantage of it. The re-designed sound system really shines when you mount the Nest Mini on the wall. Using the wall for added resonance, the Nest Mini is able to somewhat transcend its size and provide decent sounding music. It also makes any voice responses to your commands sound clearer. + +When Google announced the Nest Mini to touted an ability to adjust its sound to the room, tuning itself as more expensive speakers like the Sonos One ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/story/review-sonos-one/)) do. If it did this, it was subtle enough that I never noticed it. Again, the biggest sound improvement in my experience is going to hanging it on the wall. + +There's a new sensor under the fabric cover that detects when you're reaching for the Mini. It lights up the volume control buttons on the side of the speaker when it detects your hand nearby. When this works it's great, but this, more than any other feature on the Nest Mini, was inconsistent. + +Interacting with the Nest Mini is the same as it is for all of Google's smart speaker devices. You say "Hey Google" or "Ok Google" and the LEDs in the middle to Nest Mini light up to let you know it's listening to you. This time around Google has added a third microphone, which makes the Nest Mini better at picking up your commands. I tested this along side the previous model in large room and it was indeed much better not just at picking up my voice, but hearing it accurately. + +The other big new feature in this update is a dedicated machine learning chip. This allows the Mini to learn your voice better, and speeds up the response time since in many cases it will be processed locally rather than sent to Google's servers. You'll still need a Wi-Fi connection, and all of your voice recordings are still sent to Google. In my testing it was impossible to tell when things were processes locally, if they ever were, but there's a potential speed boast there, especially down the road. + +One thing Google has not made a lot of noise about is the ability to pair two Nest Mini's for a stereo setup. I only had one, so I could not test it, but Google has [long offered this](https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7559493?hl=en) on the more expensive Google Home Max speakers. Theoretically you could pair a left and right Nest Mini, and turn the two into a possibly not bad sound setup. + +Other new tricks for the Nest Mini include the ability to turn into an intercom broadcasting to other Google speakers throughout your house, support for calls through Google Duo, and it can become an alarm through Google's Nest Aware subscription plan. + +One of the nice things about Google's smart home devices is that they last. Google's updates are iterative and rarely revolutionary. To that end, if you already have a Google Home Mini, there's nothing here that screams upgrade now. By the same token, when the next Nest Mini arrives this one will likely continue working just fine. Because most of what you want out Google's device is Google Assistant, updates to that generally work on all devices. + +That's why, despite the fact that this is very capable speaker and well worth the money, I don't suggest tossing your older Home Mini. Yes the sound is better, but if you want to upgrade your sound, you're better off making a more substantial investment in a quality speaker like a JBL Link 20 ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-jbl-link-speakers-with-google-assistant/) or Sonos One. + +If on the other hand, you want to extend your existing Google Assistant-based smart home into new rooms, or you want to try out Google Assistant on the cheap, the new Nest Mini is a great place to start. + diff --git a/published/google-nest-wifi.txt b/published/google-nest-wifi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d0f65c --- /dev/null +++ b/published/google-nest-wifi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Google has rebranded its flagship WiFi device the Nest WiFi, but one word you rarely hear from Google in reference to its router is, well, the word router. Routers are big ugly things. There's usually made of cheap black plastic, festooned with antennae, and look most at home tucked away in a closet. + +The problem is that these devices are supposed to cover your house in a warm cozy blanket of Wi-Fi signal and a closet seriously hinders that. The Nest WiFi wants out of the closet, and to Google's credit, it looks good enough, or at least innocuous enough, to display. + +The Nest WiFi comes in three colors: Snow White, Mist Blue, or Sand Pink. It looks at home on a bookshelf or counter, which gives it a leg up on signal strength over that plastic spider lurking in the closet. + +The icing on the cake for fans of Google Assistant is that the mesh extension unit, called a Point, also doubles as the equivalent to a Nest Mini, with a built-in voice-activated speaker. + +### Wi-Fi Something Something hed + +I tested the Nest Wifi two-pack which consists of the router and one Point extender, which sells for $269. Google says this combo will cover 3,800 square feet and up to 200 connected devices. It certainly had no trouble covering my 1200 square foot home. There's also a three pack available that adds a second Point and extends the coverage to 5,400 square feet and 300 devices. + +Another option, if you don't need the Google Assistant-powered Point, or if you like Alexa better, is to pick up just the router, or even [two routers for $299](https://www.amazon.com/Google-Nest-WiFi-AC2200-Coverage/dp/B07YMJ57MB/){: rel=nofollow}. + +The Nest Wifi system does not function as a modem, so you'll still need your ISP's modem. To get started you plug your Nest into your modem, download the Google Home app to your phone, and then connect to the Nest to get everything set up. The Google Home app had no trouble negotiating the setup with the two modems I tested, though it's worth noting that the Nest does not work in "bridge" mode, which some ISP's suggest using (Verizon FiOS for example). You can still get the Nest to work in these cases, but there may be a bit of extra setup involved. + +Once you have the Nest WiFi setup with Google Home, things get a little confusing because to access some more advanced features you'll need to use Google's Wifi app (it has not yet been rebranded to Nest). This will help you find the best location for your point, set up and test the speaker, and test your network speeds, both between router and point and your actual home connection, as well as block sites. Some, but not all of this, can also be done in Google Home and eventually Google Home will handle everything, but for now you'll need both which adds a little complexity to what's otherwise a very simple system. + +The WiFi app is where you can do more advanced things like prioritize traffic from certain points at certain hours. For example, set the point in your living room to have priority traffic in the evening for streaming Netflix, and the point in your office during the day for work. + +One of my favorite features of the Nest WiFi is the ability to easily connect guests. Everyone who comes over wants on your network, but I have all sorts of drives and data connected to my network that I don't want anyone else accessing, so I use a guest network for everyone else. Any router can do that, but then I have to remember the password, which I never do. And my guest has to type it in. The Nest eliminates that. All I have to do is open up any connected Google device with a screen and I can get a QR code. My guest scans the QR code and they're connected. There's no typing in passwords, it just works. + +### Shortcomings + +For as simple as the Nest WiFi is most of the time, that simplicity has some costs, the biggest of which is that this is very much a Wi-Fi system. The router has one Ethernet port, which means if you want to wire much of anything you'll need an additional Ethernet switch. Worse, the point extender has no Ethernet port at all. It is the Nest WiFi after all, not the Nest Router. Google claims only about 5 percent of Nest users had devices plugged in so it shouldn't matter for most users. + +How Google knows that is also something worth considering. It knows that because it collects a lot of data about your network and what happens on it. To setup the Nest Wifi using Google Home you'll need a Google Account, which means giving up some degree of privacy at the router level. + +According to the various terms of service and privacy policy notices I encountered with setting up the Nest WiFi, Google's Nest cloud services will collect information about your home network, the devices on it, and any surrounding Wi-Fi networks. That's in addition to collecting stats based on usage. All the data collection can be opted out of, but given Google's history of recording data even when you opt out of being recorded it seem best to assume this data is being collected. If you're not okay with that, there are a lot of other routers on the market. + +Another reason you might want to pass on the Nest Wifi is if you plan to be an early adopter of Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 6, also know by the less-friendly name 802.11ax, promises to boost speeds, and connect more devices, especially the ever increasing number of IoT gadgets. Google opted to pass on Wifi 6 for now in order to keep prices down and because of the relatively few devices on the market that support Wifi 6. + +While that's a logical decision right now, Wifi 6 support is picking up speed. Dell's newest laptops support it, the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 smartphones are on board, and we expect even more devices with Wifi 6 support to arrive next year. Personally I don't update my router very often, my current router has served me well for over seven years now, and if I were looking to upgrade I'd want at least some Wi-Fi 6 support to future proof my purchase as much as possible. + +Still, it's hard to argue with the ease of use that the Google Nest Wifi provides. While I am comfortable flashing routers with open firmware's like [OpenWRT](https://openwrt.org/), most people are not. And for those who want a dead simple way to ensure good Wi-Fi speeds throughout the house with a minimum of fuss, the Nest WiFi system fits the bill. + +The most natural competitor for the Nest Wifi is Amazon's Eero mesh system, which behaves very similarly though it adds some nice features you won't find in the Nest Wifi like the ability to block ads at the home network level. Really though it comes down to which ecosystem you want to invest in: Google or Amazon? If the answer is Google, the Nest Wifi is what you want. + +The Nest WiFi is available as a single router ($169), the two-pack I tested with router and point ($269), a three pack with an additional mesh point ($349), and a router two-pack ($299). diff --git a/published/gopro-hero8.txt b/published/gopro-hero8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afee3fe --- /dev/null +++ b/published/gopro-hero8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Another Autumn, another GoPro. It's come to feel as regular as leaves turning colors and hideous sweaters coming out of storage. The GoPro Hero 8, announced today, is available for pre-order now and will ship October 15. + +This year the Hero 8 gets a new form factor with a shorter lens extension and built-in mounting rings. That's right, you can mount your GoPro on your helmet or handlebars without the cumbersome cage. It's the first major redesign the Hero has seen in quite a few releases. + +With the cage out of the way, GoPro has created a way to add accessories to trick out your camera. The new "Mods," as GoPro calls them, use a rubberized band wrapped around the camera body to attach accessories. GoPro has three accessories to go along with the launch of the Hero 8, but with two cold shoes available to add-ons, look for third-party accessory makers to jump on this quick, extending the action camera to new realms. + +### Breaking out of the Cage + +The new cageless mounting design consists of folding mount rings on the bottom of the camera which tuck away into recesses when not needed. It makes the overall experience of using a GoPro less cumbersome. There's nothing in the way of changing batteries or memory cards, both of which share space in the new, single side hatch. It's a tight fit, larger hands are going to have a hard time getting the MicroSD card in and out, but it's less cumbersome than taking off the cage every time you want to change the battery. + +The less welcome trade off is the loss of the HDMI port. You can get the HDMI port back with the Media Mod ($80), GoPro's basic add-on, which will also get you a 3.5mm mic port and two cold shoes (the "cold" in cold shoe means that the mount point does not provide power, as opposed to a hot shoe which does). + +The Hero 8 is marginally larger to accommodate the fold away mount rings, but not enough to make it much different in the hand. It's slightly larger than the Hero 7, but smaller than the Hero 7 with its mounting cage. + +The cageless design, even without the HDMI port, is a welcome change—one of those changes that makes you wonder why it wasn't this way all along—but I'm less convinced about the new lens and housing. + +The new lens design changes the shape of the lens housing (it's now square, your old filters will not fit), and the cover is no longer removable or replaceable. GoPro has beefed up the glass on the cover, it's now 2mm Gorilla glass, but this is a camera that typically lives a rough and tumble life and the removable lens of the Hero 7 was an insurance policy against damage that the Hero 8 lacks. + +GoPro does sell a tempered-glass protective cover for both the lens and the back, which I highly recommend if you're using your GoPro the way, well, the way you're supposed to. + +### Mod Madness + + +||||||Mods image here |||||| + +The big win of the cageless design for many will be the new "Mods" or accessories that can be added to the Hero 8. These start with what GoPro calls the Media Mod, which adds the aforementioned mic jack, cold shoes, HDMI port, and a shotgun mic. This is the base mount to which other accessories can be attached. Currently GoPro also offers a light and a flip up screen for previews and help framing those selfie shots. + +The new Hero 8 design and accessories make it feel like GoPro's target market is shifting from the strap-it-to-your-head-and-shred crowd to the vlogging crowd. It's a move that makes sense from a market size standpoint—YouTube has a lot more vlogging than shredding going on—but also it also speaks to how well GoPro has already solved the shredding side of the equation. + +And the Hero 8 does have some new features that will tempt those who put the action in action camera, notably the improved HyperSmooth stabilization and the wind-optimized microphone. The former is incrementally better, but the fact that it's not earth-shatteringly better speaks to how good the first version was. HyperSmooth 2 is available in all video modes. + +Almost all the software-based features of the GoPro have been updated and improved. HDR handling in SuperPhoto looks more natural and does a better job with moving subjects (which tend to be blurry when combining images for an HDR). TimeWarp and TimeLapse have both been updated, the former gains an auto mode that makes "time warp" style videos much easier to create. + +I was also happy to find that RAW images are available in all photo modes, including time lapse (RAW images still only work with the wide lens setting since all the other lens modes are software created). + +### Customize Everything + +While the new hardware design is slick, and the various in-camera software improvements make the Hero 8 even easier for non-pro users, the single best thing about the Hero 8 in my view is the new ability to customize menus. + +The GoPro's screen is tiny and not the best touch screen you've ever used. Tapping a tiny screen while treading water or standing in the icy winds atop a [cornice of snow](https://www.wired.com/story/tips-for-action-cameras-skiing-and-snowboarding/) is not anyone's idea of fun. The less you have to interact with the touchscreen that better and with the new menu customization I hardly touched it at all. + +In previous releases tapping the currently selected presets would open up the setting page and you could change what you needed to change. It was cumbersome and there was almost no customization possible. The Hero 8 swings the other way, allowing you to customize everything. Tap the currently selected preset and you'll get a list of all your presets, making it super simple to switch between video modes with all your favorite settings dialed in. + +You can even customize which options show up on the home screen for each preset. At first it's almost overwhelming, but once you spend some time setting up everything the way you want it, it makes day-to-day use so much easier. Again it feels like the way things should have always been. Quickly switching settings means less fiddling. + +Less fiddling feels like a running theme to the changes between the Hero 7 and the new Hero 8. GoPro has addressed the pain points in the Hero 7, improved the software, and with a nod to selfie-stick wielding video crowd, has turned out a camera that's better for action and vlogging alike. + diff --git a/published/grilling-accessories.txt b/published/grilling-accessories.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18c22cd --- /dev/null +++ b/published/grilling-accessories.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Up your grilling game with these tools for getting the perfect sear, smoke, roast, even pizza if you want to pull out all the stops. + +Grilling is the most elemental way to cook. There's the burning wood (or charcoal, or gas) producing heat and your food sizzling in that heat. But while it's a simple way to cook, it can be daunting. How do you know when your meat is done? How do you get those great grill marks? As with most things, having the right tools makes the job much easier. If our [guide to portable grills](https://www.wired.com/story/best-portable-grills/) got you started on the road to grilling mastery, consider this the follow up tips and tricks edition. Professional chefs may make it look easy to poke a bit of meat and pronounce it medium rare, but for the rest of us, these tools help take the guess work out of grilling. + +1. Thermometer + +It takes a lot of grilling practice to know the temperature of meat just by feeling it. This is an admittedly cool skill you can work toward, but really there's no need. You can grab a great instant read digital thermometer like the [Habor Foldable Instant Thermometer for $16](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RKZ4JVC/){: rel=nofollow}. The small foldable design is easy to palm so you can temp your food on the sly and then when friend are looking, poke it with your finger and say, "ah yes, medium rare." Fancy something fancier? The [MeatStick ($65)](https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Thermometer-Grill-Stove-Rotisserie/dp/B07GWC48CB/){: rel=nofollow} is a wireless thermometer you can leave in the meat and it'll broadcast the temperature to your phone. + +2. Fire/Heat Proof Gloves + +I'll confess I wasn't even planning to test these because I thought the idea was ridiculous, who needs gloves to grill? Then the folks at Grill Grates sent me a pair and I thought, what the heck. Turns out, heat resistant gloves are awesome. You can do everything with your hands. Later I got a pair of these [Grill Heat Aid gloves ($29)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RUBZNDQ/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, which can handle up to 932 degrees. A word of caution: these help, but they don't make you invulnerable. You're still dealing with very high temperatures when grilling, always be cautious. + +3. Tongs, Serious Tongs + +Cooking large pieces of meat means flipping large, heavy pieces of meat. Most kitchen tongs are not up the task. To avoid dropping your half cooked food, I recommend getting some heavy duty stainless steel tongs. I love these [Weber Tongs ($22) ](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-6645-Original-Portable-Stainless/dp/B005LR3BB2){: rel=nofollow} and the set includes a nice heavy spatula as well. + +4. Grill Grates + +The [gas](https://www.wired.com/2013/07/gas-grilling-is-objectively-scientifically-better-than-charcoal/) versus [charcoal](https://www.wired.com/2013/07/charcoal-grilling-is-objectively-scientifically-better-than-gas-2/) grilling debate will never die but you can skip it entirely with a set of Grill Grates. The extra flavor that you get from charcoal comes primarily from the rendered fat dripping off your food, hitting the coals below and becoming smoke, which then flavors your food. Grill Grates give you the same effect without the charcoal, trapping juice in its deep grooves where they burn off and flavor your food. The also prevent flare-ups, even when cooking normally flare-prone food like brautwurst. They can replace your existing grates or just cover them. Here's a set to fit the [Weber Jumbo Joe ($90)](https://www.amazon.com/GrillGrates-Weber-Kettle-Grill-Jumbo/dp/B00C2OC97O?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} and another for the [Weber Q1200 gas grill ($60)](https://www.amazon.com/GrillGrate-13-75-Interlocking-Grate-Tool/dp/B002MAHRAM/){: rel=nofollow}. + +5. Cleaning Brush + +Not one of the grilling manufacturers I talked to for this piece endorsed this, but I have been cleaning my stainless steel grill grates with wadded up aluminum foil for years. A stainless steel or brass wire brush can leave behind small bristles that get stuck in your grill and wind up in your food. It happens [more often](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0194599815627794) than you think. If you simply must have a brush, get one that's a single, continuous wire. I like this [Grill Art](https://www.amazon.com/GRILLART-Grill-Brush-Bristle-Free/dp/B07F731D86/){: rel=nofollow} brush or you can go for an [Earthstone grill cleaner (17) ](https://www.amazon.com/GrillStone-Cleaner-Starter-Handle-Blocks/dp/B00322Q0LG/){: rel=nofollow}, a pumice-like stone cleaner made from recycled glass. If you get the Grill Grates there a [cleaner for those as well ($20)](https://www.amazon.com/Grate-Valley-Bristle-Free-Double-Cleaning/dp/B019EF5DPS/){: rel=nofollow}. + +5. Charcoal baskets + +If you want to branch out from grilling (high heat) to indirect cooking, like smoking, do yourself a favor and grab a set of [charcoal baskets](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-7403-Char-Basket-Charcoal-Briquet/dp/B000WEMGM4/?tag=w050b-20). These make it easy to cluster your brickets to one side of grill so you can keep your indirect cooks on the other. Combine these with a hinged grill and you'll have an easy was to feed in fresh fuel as your smoke progresses. These [hinged grates](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-7433-Hinged-Cooking-Grate/dp/B01F5YHRZQ/){: rel=nofollow} fit the Jumbo Joe, [our top pick for portable charcoal grills](https://www.wired.com/story/best-portable-grills/). + +6. Veggie basket + +The veggie basket is not a necessity, but it sure is nice to have. It allows you to slice your veggies ahead of time, toss them in a little olive oil, and cook them without having half fall through the grates. It also makes clean up much easier. I like this [Weber basket ($15)](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-6481-Stainless-Vegetable-Basket/dp/B0071V7WOS/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, it's solid stainless steel with no rivets. My only gripe is that it's not big enough for a veggie-loving family of five. If you're cooking for a crowd, try [the 14-inch basket ($26)](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-6434-Professional-Grade-Vegetable-Basket/dp/B000WEIJUW/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +7. Pizza Stone + +It's not quite a wood-fired pizza—for that you'll want check out [our favorite pizza ovens](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-pizza-ovens/)—but you can make a pretty good pie with a pizza stone on your grill. I've used this [Weber stone](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-8836-Gourmet-System-Pizza/dp/B006WRLBNU/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} quite a bit, but be sure to check the fit for your particular grill. Want something larger? I didn't testing it, but this [stone](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-8829-Stone-Grill-Accessory/dp/B077JSMV8X/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} is 18-inches across, allowing for a proper large pizza. If rain drowns your barbecue, fear not, these pizza stone works just as well in the oven. + + +While you can buy fancy pizza oven attachments for your grill, or even grab a full on wood pizza oven, I've managed to get by with just a pizza stone. It's diff --git a/published/hasselblad-review.txt b/published/hasselblad-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fa8aaa --- /dev/null +++ b/published/hasselblad-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +A Hasselblad camera is like a Ducati motorcycle, almost no one needs one, but they sure are fun. + +The last time I spent much time with a Hasselblad was in college. The art school had a couple of Hasselblad 500Cs you could rent. The waiting list to get one was months long. At the time I was a large format purist, shooting mostly with an older Toyo 4×5 field camera I'd found sitting neglected in the back corner of the supply room. Still, I was curious what all the Hasselblad fuss was about so I finally snagged one for the weekend. It was nice, though fiddly. It was compact, though nowhere near 35mm portability. It struck me as a camera designed around a series of compromises made with a different kind of photographer in mind. + +Ironically, over twenty years later, I feel almost exactly the same way about the company's new X1D II. It's a wonderful camera that almost no one needs. + +## Medium Format Digital + +Like it's predecessor the X1D II is built around a 50-megapixel CMOS sensor. A sensor that measures 1.7 times larger than a 35mm sensor like you'd find in the Nikon 850D or Sony A7R IV. The sensor boasts a native ISO range of 100-25600, 14-stop dynamic range, and enough pixels to produce a really nice, rich tonality across scenes. + +Aside from the sensor and the overall design, most of the second X1D is new. There's a new much-improved rear 3.6 inch display with much higher resolution: 2.36 million dots compared to the original's paltry 920k dots. The result is a clear, bright display that makes it much easier to review images and navigate menus. + +The viewfinder resolution is also improved, with 3.69 million dots. Along with that you get a faster refresh rate of 60 fps. The result again is a much improved viewfinder experience. I found myself forgetting that it was in fact a digital viewfinder at all. Then the focus hinting would highlight edges in manual focus mode and I'd remember, ah, right, digital. + +Other updates include a USB-C connection port, which lets you download the large image files of that 50MP sensor quite a bit faster. Since most images are around 100-megabytes or more, USB-C is a huge benefit when you're trying to dump a full shoot from the X1D to your computer. + +The Hasselblad menu system hasn't changed much from previous versions and thanks to the huge screen I found it easy to navigate and, for the most part, completely logical in it's organization. For context, my primary camera is a Sony A7 II. I found the menu systems and iconography similar enough that I had no trouble finding my way around. + +The touchscreen display is responsive and even allows pinch to zoom in preview mode. It can also be used as a kind of touch pad to control focus while you look through the viewfinder. It takes a bit of experimenting to get this down, but once you do it works as well as joystick/wheel focus controls. Occasionally my cheek would accidentally redirect focus, but for the most part Hasselblad's touch screen works very smoothly and quickly to direct focus. That said, Fuji's joystick mechanism is still my favorite way to control the focus point. + +Using the X1D II felt just like using a DSLR, though there is a longer blackout time between shots and I found it do be, well, slow. This was a common gripe about the first model, which was, by most accounts, positively glacial. Hasselblad is heavily touting the speed improvements in this release, but coming from the Sony mirrorless world I was unimpressed with the performance of the X1D II. It wasn't so much that I wouldn't recommend this camera for action sports. I wouldn't, but I also missed ordinary shots like some Pelicans flying in front of the sunset because the blackout time was too long. + +Hasselblad's strength and background is in studio work and it shows in instances like this. You'll never miss a studio shot with the X1D. You're even unlikely to miss anything in an outdoor portrait shoot or painstakingly set up landscape. But anything where speed matters, this is not the camera you want. + +Hasselblad would really like the X1D to be the go-everywhere Hasselblad and, while it's nailed the portability aspect, performance still leaves much to be desired. + +Another thing that's missing here is video. The X1D II lacks support for 4K video. Actually it lacks support for *any* video recording at all. There is, however, a video option in the menu system. I asked Hasselblad about it and was told that "video will be coming up in a firmware update." No details were given. + +To go along with X1D II, Hasselblad has introduced a new version of its Phocus Mobile app for iPad. Phocus Mobile 2 can import and edit RAW files via USB or WiFi. It also supports tethered shooting and can act as a remote control for the camera. Due to time limitations with the camera I was not able to test the Phocus Mobile app. Note that there is no Android app available. + +## Leaf Shutter Possibilities + +Hasselblad has long used what's known as a leaf shutter and the X1D series is no different. At the risk of oversimplifying things, a leaf shutter is a shutter built into the lens, rather than the traditional mirror shutter found in body of a DSLR. Leaf shutters have pros and cons, but the big pro is that it can sync off-camera flash at nearly any shutter speed. + +A typical DSLR can achieve flash sync speeds up to the 1/250 of a second range. The X1D II's shutter system can sync all the way up to 1/2000. That makes it possible to shoot with wide apertures even in bright sunlight and still achieve shallow depth of field. + +This is useful for people who shoot outdoor portraits since you don't have to use large strobe lights to overcome the ambient light of the sun. Instead you can use a quick shutter and still increase your depth of field with a wide aperture. In short a leaf shutter opens up a range of possibilities that simply don't exist with a focal plane shutter. + +Couple this with the portability of the X1D—whatever your other thoughts may be, there's no denying this is the most portable Hasselblad setup to come along in years—and you have a camera system that can do things your DSLR can't. Whether or not you're interested in these things will determine how well the X1D II is going to work for you. + +At $5,750 plus lenses, which are also expensive thanks to the leaf shutter design, the Hasselblad is not a casual purchase. The 45mm lens I shot with will set you back another $2,695, bring the total outlay for body and one lens to nearly $8,445. On one hand that's less than the sticker price of the first X1D ($8,995). + +On the other hand, should you spend that much money on a camera? Probably not. + +Unless you're already a professional photographer making good money this is not the camera for you. Buy a $1000 Sony, and use the other $7,000 to backpack the world for a few months. Chance are you'll end up with a far more interesting portfolio than you get with the Hasselblad. + +If you are Chase Jarvis, or roughly the equivalent, then the new X1D II is at least a much better deal than its predecessor. The main competition is from the likes of Fuji's new medium format system, the Phase One system (also leaf shutter), and the pioneering, though somewhat out of date, Pentax system. + +There is no best in this case, there is simple best for you. None of these are bad cameras, the decision comes down to which system to you want to invest in for the future? It's worth bearing in mind that the leaf shutter means Hasselblad's lens are considerably more expensive, sometimes more the double the price of the Fuji equivalent. + +*(The Hasselblad X1D II is available for [$5,750 at Hasselblad's Store](https://store.hasselblad.com/products/x1d-ii-50c){: rel=nofollow}, [B&H Photo](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1487057-REG/hasselblad_x1d_ii_50c_medium.html/DFF/d10-v2-t1-xHAX1D50C2){: rel=nofollow}, and [Adorama](https://www.adorama.com/hsx1dii50c.html){: rel=nofollow}.)* diff --git a/published/how-to-sell-iphone.txt b/published/how-to-sell-iphone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e71c55 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/how-to-sell-iphone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +That new iPhone is so shiny you can see it glowing in your pocket. Don't just toss your old phone in a drawer though, it probably still has value, more than you might think. + +There are quite a few services that will give you cash or store credit for a used iPhone. We've gathered up and compared some popular services where you can trade in an old device for cash or store credit. Most of these services take Samsung and Google devices, and all of them take iPhones. + +Comparing prices on all these services highlights some tips for maximizing the resale value of your phone. First and foremost, take care of your phone. Get a good case, check out our recommendations. Also consider a screen protector. They have downsides (decreased touch responsiveness) but they'll keep your device looking new. To up the resale value make sure you buy an unlocked phone. There's no reason to lock yourself to one carrier. Those carrier-based deals are almost universally bad deals in the long run. + +The last thing before you run off to cash in your old phone is to make sure you backup all your data using iCloud or iTunes. One gotcha to watch out for: if you backup data using iTunes, not iCloud, make sure you back up your text messages, which sometimes including photos and videos that you haven't saved to your Camera Roll. Remember to unpair your Apple Watch, and [wipe your phone](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-wipe-your-phone-before-you-sell-it/) as well. + +### Swappa + +An eBay clone of sorts, [Swappa](https://swappa.com/){: rel=nofollow} seeks to eliminate some of the problems associated with eBay: high sellers fees, poor seller-buyer communication tools, and too many poor quality devices. To that end, you won't be able to sell your iPhone here unless it's in good shape, fully functional with no damage. + +So long as your phone meets Swappa's [listing criteria](https://swappa.com/faq/sell/listing_device_criteria){: rel=nofollow}, and you're willing to put in a little effort, this is where you'll get the most money for your old device. + +As you would on eBay, you'll need to put together a listing with photos. Be sure to take the case off your phone and be honest about the condition. Remember to factor in shipping when setting your sale price. + +Currently an iPhone 8 64-gigabyte model sells for $362, with the 256-gigabyte model going for $432. An iPhone XR sells for an average of $576 to $694, depending on the storage capacity. + + +### Decluttr + +If you don't want to spend the time and effort Swappa requires [Decluttr](https://www.decluttr.com){: rel=nofollow} can turn your old iPhone into cash fast, albeit slightly less cash. All you need to do is answer a few questions about the condition of your phone, storage capacity, and carrier lock if any. You can do that through the website, or using the Decluttr app. + +Once it knows about your phone, Decluttr will make you an offer. Should you accept you ship your device in and the company inspects. If need be Decluttr will revise its offer, but should your offer change you have the option to decline and get your phone back at no charge. + +Assuming you get an offer you like, and Decluttr is satisfied with the condition of your device, you should receive your money (PayPal is done same day, direct deposit and check take longer). Decluttr seems to pay a bit more than others of this ilk. Currently an unlocked iPhone 8 with 64 GB in good condition can get you $272 back and an iPhone XR with 64 GB in good condition will earn you $432. + + +### Gazelle + +[Gazelle](https://www.gazelle.com/trade-in){: rel=nofollow} is the old hand in the world of used phones, the company has been buying up phones since 2006 and it's pretty much got the process down at this point. And it is a simple process. Much like Decluttr, you fill out the online form, answer some questions about your device, whether it works, which carrier its tied to, and if there's any cosmetic damage. You'll then get an offer based on the answers you give. + +Like Decluttr, if you accept the offer Gazelle will send a box complete with shipping label, and you ship the phone in for inspection. Once the company has looked over your device, and assuming it's in the condition you said it was, you'll be paid -- usually in about seven to ten days. Payment can be in the form of a check, PayPal, or Amazon gift card. + +A factory-unlocked 64 GB iPhone 8 in good condition will get you $198. A 64 GB iPhone XR for Verizon will net you $264. Gazelle sometimes runs promos around new device launches so keep an eye out on the site for promotional offers. + +### uSell + +If your iPhone is damaged or the battery will no longer hold a charge, [uSell](https://www.usell.com/sell/iphone/){: rel=nofollow} will still buy it. Of the send-it-in-style services, uSell offered the most for damaged devices. We were offered $65 for an iPhone 8 that doesn't even power on. + +It's something of a hybrid service since you aren't actually selling your phone to uSell, but buyers it works with, but in practice it works more like Decluttr than Swappa. + +### Apple + +Apple's [Trade-In program](https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in){: rel=nofollow} doesn't always offer the best prices, but if you're buying a new iPhone it makes it simple to quickly apply your credit to the new phone. Beware that Apple will only pay top dollar for absolutely pristine phones. At the time of writing an iPhone 8 in good condition will get you $208. + +We don't recommend it, but if you're the sort of person that just can't stop themselves from upgrading to a new iPhone every year, you might save some money using Apple's [iPhone upgrade program](https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program){: rel=nofollow}. Essentially a leasing program, you can perpetually pay for your phone, but get a new one after 12 months, which makes it cheaper than buying a new unlocked phone every year. + +### Best Buy + +Best Buy will do trade-ins online or in [participating stores](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/services/best-buy-trade-in/pcmcat133600050011.c?id=pcmcat133600050011){: rel=nofollow}. They won't take damaged devices, and you won't get cash, just store credit, but if you need something from Best Buy anyway it's a relatively no-hassle option, especially if you go the in-store route. + +### Carrier Trade-Ins + +Your service provider probably has a buy-back program of some sort. [Verizon](https://www.verizonwireless.com/od/trade-in/#/){: rel=nofollow}, [AT&T](https://tradein.att.com/){: rel=nofollow}, [Sprint](https://secure.sprintbuyback.com/bbt/){: rel=nofollow} and [T-Mobile](https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/phone-trade-in){: rel=nofollow} will all buy back your device, though generally for far less than the other options in this list. + +### Other options + +There's always eBay. While personal experience has soured me on eBay lately -- the number of buyer scams seems to far outweigh the number of legitimate buyers -- it is still one of the most popular places to sell things online. There are also other device-centric swapping sites, like [NextWorth](https://www.nextworth.com/){: rel=nofollow} and [GadgetGone](https://www.gadgetgone.com/){: rel=nofollow}. [Walmart](https://walmart.cexchange.com/online/home/index.rails){: rel=nofollow}, and [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Trade-In/b?ie=UTF8&node=9187220011){: rel=nofollow}, also have device trade-in programs, but neither of them offered as good of a deal as the options above. diff --git a/published/instax-liplay.txt b/published/instax-liplay.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..487c570 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/instax-liplay.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Despite the naysayers print film refuses to die. Kodak resurrected one of it's most popular films, [Ektachrome](https://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/press_center/kodak_brings_back_a_classic_with_ektachrome_film/default.htm), and Fujifilm has announced it will bring back Acros 100, a popular black and white film. It's not just pros and artists that crave real world prints though, instant print cameras and printers have been piling up on our desk all year. + +The latest is Fujifilm's new Instax Mini LiPlay. Using the same credit card size Instax film as previous releases, like our [favorite Instax](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/), the Mini 90, the LiPlay offers a smaller, more pocketable form factor. It can also be used as a stand alone mini printer. + +The Mini LiPlay feels like the Instax answer to the increasing popularity of smaller [Zink cameras](https://www.wired.com/review/canon-ivy-cliq/) and printers. Instax might have revived the instant print camera, but Zink is nipping at its heels. + +The LiPlay is Fujifilm's attempt to up its instant photo game. The LiPlay definitely does that with some welcome features like a glass lens and the ability to print from your smartphone. The much-touted ability to embed audio in your images using a QR code is less impressive. + +###It's a Camera + +The LiPlay is a hybrid digital camera instant printer. Unlike most other Instax cameras, you can review your images on an LCD screen and decide whether or not to print them. This puts an end to wasting film on images where someone's eyes are closed. This alone could mean a considerable longterm savings over direct-to-print models like the Mini 90. + +That said, my favorite feature of the LCD isn't the ability to review so much as the animation that happens when you print: it scrolls your image up off the screen at almost exactly the same speed the actual print emerges from the camera. It's a nice touch that makes that digital-to-real-world transition more immediate and fun. + +The images the LiPlay printed out were impressively sharp, better than the results I got from the Mini 90. The LiPlay lacks some of the extra features found on Fujifilm's other Instax models. For example there's no double exposure or close-up mode. Thankfully, there's still a way to set exposure compensation. Instax prints have a tendency to crush blacks and wash out highlights, so I often use exposure compensation to lighten shadows or darken highlights, depending on the scene I'm shooting. + +The rounded body of the LiPlay is easy to hold and reasonably pocketable. It comes in black, white, and rose gold. + +The design is clean and simple. There's a power button on the side of the camera and next to it are three buttons that control which visual effects (if any) are applied to the image. The options range from hearts to antlers to a dozen or so other overlays. + +[[[[[image of back Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay Back SOURCE Fujifilm]]]] + +There's also a back button, review button, and print button beside the LCD screen on the back. A Set button inside a typical camera 4-way direction wheel rounds out the controls on the back. The wheel lets you navigate the menus to turn on and off Bluetooth, control various print settings, and toggle other settings. + +In front is a shutter release along with a selfie mirror, AF lamp, and the button to record audio. + +###It's an Audio Recorder (Sort of) + +Yes, the Instax Mini LiPlay records audio, which at first brush sounds really cool, conjuring up visions of photos out of Harry Potter. Unfortunately, in practice it involves scanning QR codes and installing smartphone apps. + +You take an image, record up to 10 seconds of audio and then print the image with a QR code. You then give that image to someone else and they can scan the code, and listen to your message. The process works, but it's definitely a cumbersome way add audio to prints. + +The new app doesn't just play QR code audio; It also controls the LiPlay. You can set the effects for the three shortcut buttons and trigger the shutter for group photos, complete with a live view. + +The app is leaps and bounds better than Fujifilm's existing app for Instax printers, which has always felt clunky. The new app has a much cleaner design, is more responsive, and never crashed on me. Unfortunately this app only works with LiPlay. + +###And It's a Printer + +The LiPlay can be used as a mini printer as well, grabbing images from your phone and sending them directly to the printer. If you're a long time Instax user you'll be happy to know that Fujifilm has developed a new app for the LiPlay that shows the company can actually make a good app if it puts its mind to it. + +The printer feature is called Direct Print and it is just that. Unlike the app for Instax printers, which allows you to lighten images, crop, add contrast and so on, this one offers nothing but a way to print the image as it is on your phone. If you want to edit, you'll need to do that in another app. Not having a built in editor isn't much of a drawback given how many good photo editing apps are available these days. Check out our [guide to getting better images from your phone](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-take-better-photos-with-your-phone/) for some ideas. + +I did miss the ability to rotate an image before printing. You can technically do this with your fingers in the app, but it rotates freehand which makes it tough to precisely align it. + +Still, the hybrid camera and printer makes one buying decision—Should I get an Instax camera or an Instax Printer?—considerably easier. You should get the LiPlay. The only scenario you'd still want the printer is for the larger, square format film of the SQ 10, [SQ 6](https://www.wired.com/review/review-fujifilm-instax-square-sq6/), or Instax SP3. Other than that, the LiPlay makes more sense since you get both a camera and a printer in a more compact package than any of Fujifilm's previous Instax offerings. + +###It's a Little Magical + +As a digital camera the LiPlay is nothing special. It takes pictures good enough for Instax prints, fits in your pocket, and is cheaper than a dedicated camera and printer. As with all instant cameras, the real story is not the features of the camera or even the quality of the resulting images, but the magic of the results: having actual, tangible, photographs in your hand almost immediately. + +This is not a camera for pixel-counting, digital-loving absolutists. It's a camera for people who want photographs that can be artifacts in their lives. + +This is doubly true if you have kids. There's something about watching a freshly-snapped instant photo develop in front of your eyes that captures the attention of children in way that ordinary prints to do not. I remember the fun of waiting for it to print and then develop when I was younger. The colors look faded and slightly off in that moment, and I love watching my own kids stare in amazement +today. The cameras are different, the film is a little different, but the experience remains timeless and still feels magical. + +*(The [Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay costs $159 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Instax-Liplay-Hybrid-Instant-Camera/dp/B07SH2S36Q/){: rel=nofollow} (also in [Black](https://www.amazon.com/Instax-Liplay-Hybrid-Instant-Camera/dp/B07SK3WXHC){: rel=nofollow} and [Rose Gold](https://www.amazon.com/Instax-Liplay-Hybrid-Instant-Camera/dp/B07SK2SX53){: rel=nofollow}), [B&H Photo Video](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=8612&fct=fct_brand_name|fujifilm%2bfct_camera-model_6331|fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay&N=4288586279&){: rel=nofollow}, [Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=Fujiflim+LiPlay&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys){: rel=nofollow}, and [Adorama](https://www.adorama.com/l/?searchinfo=fujifilm+instax+mini+liplay){: rel=nofollow}.)* diff --git a/published/iphone-guide.txt b/published/iphone-guide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7439186 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/iphone-guide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Apple's latest iPhones are here. There are three new iPhones to choose from -- the iPhone 11 Pro Max, the smaller iPhone 11 Pro, and the standard iPhone 11. If you're wondering which one is right for you and where to buy them, look no further. We've broken down all your options and parsed out everything you need to know along with all the pre-ordering information we've been able to dig up so far. + +If you need to enter the reality distortion field and hear all about Apple's latest pocket-size technological marvels, check out [our full recap of Apple's big event](https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-sept-2019/). + +||||||||iPhone 11 Image|||||||| + +There are a few key differences between the new iPhones. Apple has a side-by-side comparison you can look at [here](https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/){: rel=nofollow}, complete with all the specs if you're a spec-junky. + +Our quick take is that all three phones are impressive pieces of hardware. The form factor hasn't changed much beyond the new camera layout (more on that below). The main hardware improvement is the new A13 Bionic processor. + +Apple claims its A13 chip has the fastest-ever CPU and GPU in a smartphone. At its launch event the company touted some specs, claiming the A13 is capable of 1 trillion operations per second, and holds 8.5 billion transistors. That should translate to decent speed bump that keeps up with some of the more complex photo and video processing software in these phones. + +Perhaps more impressive is that the new chip is brings some added battery life. The iPhone 11 gains an extra hour of battery life, and the Pro models claim four more hours per charge compared to previous models. The Pro screen is nicer. It's higher resolution, brighter, and supports HDR. Going Pro also gets you greater water resistance, four meters for 30 minutes compared to the iPhone 11's two meters for 30 minutes. + +- **The iPhone 11 ($699) is the best phone for most people:** The iPhone 11 is very nearly as nice as its Pro siblings at a fraction of the cost. It has the same high-end chip and Neural Engine, very similar size screen, and all of the software improvements work just fine on the iPhone 11. It can shoot the same 4K video at 60fps, and sees some battery life improvements over the iPhone XR. What the iPhone 11 lacks is the brighter, sharper, HDR screen, the telephoto camera, and the added water proofing of the Pro models. Still, the iPhone 11 is a very capable phone. While it lacks the telephoto lens, it still has all the software upgrades like Night Mode, which reduces noise in low-light situations, the Portrait Mode improvements, and a new lighting effect called High Key Mono, which produces black and white images. You also get Smart HDR, Slo-mo selfies (no, we are not using that word), and all the rest of Apple's photo and video software upgrades. + +- **The iPhone 11 Pro ($999) has a nicer screen and third camera:** If you want a flagship piece of hardware and don't mind paying for it, this is your phone. The iPhone 11 Pro adds a third, telephoto camera with a 52mm f/2.0 lens. The Pro models get a 2x optical zoom in, along with a 10x digital zoom. Together these extras open up some additional photographic possibilities. Combine the extra camera with the brighter HDR screen, and 11 Pro feels more of a camera that happens to take calls than a phone that takes pictures. + + +- **The iPhone 11 Pro Max ($1099) is the over-the-top phablet:** The iPhone 11 Pro Max is mostly identical to the Pro, but larger. It's 6.5 inch Super Retina XDR display is notably bigger than the plain Pro's 5.8 inch display. Otherwise though, it's the same phone, just turned to 11. + +||||||||||another iPhone 11 image||||||||| + +### Accessorize + +No matter which phone you end up with, get a case. The iPhone 11 line is mostly glass. Sure Apple has ads showing the new iPhone dropping and bouncing off the ground in slo-mo, and the company claims it's the most scratch-resistant glass ever, but trust me, glass does shatter. + +Some people don't like the added bulk, but I prefer to protect my phone investment with a case. The [Speck Presidio Sport](https://fave.co/2UOGqJi){: rel=nofollow} provides good protection without being overly bulky, but if you want really bulletproof protection, go for an [OtterBox](https://fave.co/2UO5tvL){: rel=nofollow} case. + +### Get an Unlocked iPhone + +The easiest way to order is from Apple.com. We recommend you buy the phone unlocked. That way you'll be able to use it on any wireless carrier, should you ever decide to switch. When it comes time to upgrade in couple years, you'll get more money back for an unlocked phone. + +- **$699+ from Apple.com (Unlocked, up to $300 trade-in credit)** + + +### iPhone 'Deals' From Wireless Carriers + +While unlocked is really the way to go, since it frees you up to use any network or sell/gift your phone down the road, there are some carrier specific deals out there. If you're satisfied with your current wireless provider, here are the deals each of the major US networks are offering, along with some of the fine print that always accompanies these kinds of offers. + +- **[Verizon Pre-order](https://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/apple-iphone-11/){: rel=nofollow}:** Verizon has a couple deals. If you switch to Verizon and pony up for the unlimited plan you can get a free iPhone 11, or up to $700 off any new iPhone when you trade-in your smartphone).You'll get your $700 credit in the form of a $500 credit applied over 24 months, and a $200 prepaid card. If you've been planning to switch anyway, and want and unlimited plan, this isn't a bad deal. + +- **[AT&T Pre-order](https://www.att.com/buy/phones/apple-iphone-11-256gb-black.html){: rel=nofollow}:** TKTK + +- **[Sprint Pre-order](https://www.sprint.com/en/landings/apple/iphone-11.html){: rel=nofollow}:** TKTK + +- **[T-Mobile Pre-order](https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/apple-iphone-deals){: rel=nofollow}:** TKTK diff --git a/published/ivycliq.txt b/published/ivycliq.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..934cfb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/ivycliq.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Instant cameras are nothing new, Fujifilm's Instax cameras have been mining our nostalgia for years.Now there's a new crop of contenders hoping to snatch the Instax crown with a different kind of instant print. The latest effort to land on my desk is Canon's new Cliq instant camera. + +I'm a huge fan of physical pictures, especially when you can get them seconds after pressing the shutter. They enthrall children and have even found an audience with pros: "can I take your portrait," becomes considerably less creepy when you can hand over a copy of that portrait on the spot. + +Polaroids also have that nostalgic appeal for those of us of a certain age, but the newer crop of instant camera's and printers use a different technology. These are not the shake-'em-up, fade-in images of your youth. Using a technology called [Zink](https://zink.com){: rel=nofollow}, cameras like the Cliq produce more traditional prints, like what you'd get from a professional printer (but without the professional quality). + +In keeping with the legacy of Polaroids, Canon's Cliq is not going to churn out museum-quality, crystal-clear prints. Still it's undeniably fun to use and the results will likely be good enough for many people. If you're looking for an easy way to share those selfies or group portraits in the real world, the Cliq delivers. As a bonus, Zink images are also stickers. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +## Ready, Aim, Print + +While the images may not always be the best, the Cliq does nail the other element that made instant camera's so fun: it's super simple. Point and shoot, literally. There's no focusing, no worrying about exposure. You aim, you fire, you print. + +The Cliq comes in red, blue, or yellow. It's slightly thicker than a deck of cards and small enough to slide easily into most pockets. It'll be a little tight in the pocket of your jeans, but considering that it's a printer inside a camera, it's remarkably compact. + +The Cliq has no screen, no preview, not much in the way of options at all. There is a mirror next to lens to help you frame selfies. On the back there are just two buttons, one to choose your image dimensions, either 2 x 3 or 2 x 2, and one to reprint the last image, which is handy when you're sharing images with friends. + +Beyond the two back buttons though, there's not much to the Cliq. It's a very simple device, you press the shutter button and about thirty seconds later your image prints, end of story. + +## Simple, but Lackluster + +The Cliq holds ten Zink papers and the refill packs are small enough that you can throw a few in your pocket and you won't even notice them. + +The Cliq does optionally store your images to a microSD card (64 GB max) and you can later download them and edit using the desktop software of your choice. Keep in mind though that the Cliq has a 5-megapixel camera so don't expect to ever print much bigger than 2 x 3 inches. If you bought your phone in the last five years, chances are your phone captures better images than the Cliq. + +There's one big gotcha to be aware of with the Cliq: you can't take pictures without printing. The Cliq *requires* printing. I would not call this a deal breaker, but it's worth bearing in mind, especially if purchasing for your kids. + +Still, I would argue that the whole point of the Cliq is to print and share in the moment. For this reason I favor the Cliq over something like [HP's Sprocket](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-sprocket-photo-printer/) printer, which produces similar images, but lacks the instant satisfaction of the Cliq. + +Unfortunately I'm not bowled over by the image quality from Zink-based cameras and printers. While print quality in instant cameras is highly subjective--and none of them produce truly color accurate prints--to my eye Fujifilm's Instax prints produce more pleasing results than the Cliq. + +The Cliq has slightly better dynamic range, but colors, especially gradients of color, for example a sunset, tend to have harsh, jagged transitions between colors. Zink images do tend to show more detail in shadows, but it lacks the rich blacks Instax film is capable of rendering. Zink's printing method doesn't have an equivalent to black ink and it shows. Images have a very heavy midtone bias that makes them feel like something from another age, but not in a good way. + +At about 50 cents a print, Zink-based printing does have the price edge on Instax (70 cents). That makes it a little less painful when my daughter, accustomed to digital photography, fires off an entire roll of images in 5 minutes. + +There's also a [Cliq+ model](https://www.amazon.com/Canon-Instant-Camera-Printer-Bluetooth/dp/B07PMTDQNK/){: rel=nofollow}, which adds eight LED lights around the lens for better selfie lighting, shoots 8-megapixel images, and has built-in Bluetooth support so you can print images you've taken with your phone, making it something of a hybrid camera/printer. + +I didn't have a Cliq+ to test, but I did play around with companion Android app enough to say that this is another place Canon beats Fujifilm: the Mini Print app is light years ahead of Fujifilm's slow, buggy mobile application. + +While I personally prefer the aesthetics of prints from Fuji's Instax series, I think that the Canon's IVY Cliq is good choice if you prefer more traditional prints. The sticker prints look good enough for most people, and it succeeds in putting your photos back in the moment to share with the people around you. + +*(The [Canon Ivy Cliq costs $99 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Canon+Sticky-Back&i=electronics&rh=p_6%3AATVPDKIKX0DER&dc&qid=1559938392&rnid=303116011&ref=sr_nr_p_6_1){: rel=nofollow}, [B&H Photo Video](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?sts=ma&fct=fct_cameras-kits_7135%7ccameras-only&N=0&Ntt=Canon%20Ivy%20Cliq){: rel=nofollow}, and [Adorama](https://www.adorama.com/l/?sel=Model_Canon-Ivy-Cliq&searchinfo=canon%20ivy%20cliq){: rel=nofollow}. diff --git a/published/jun29-deals.txt b/published/jun29-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2e2adf --- /dev/null +++ b/published/jun29-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Our favorite source of nerdy gifts, ThinkGeek.com, is shutting down its website. You'll still be able to get some ThinkGeek stuff from parent company GameStop, but we suspect that things won't be quite the same. The good news is that until July 2, you have the opportunity to pick up anything at [ThinkGeek for 50 percent off](https://www.thinkgeek.com/){: rel=nofollow} with the code MOVINGDAY applied at checkout. To help you out we've hand picked a few of our nerdy favorites, along with some other deals from around the web. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +### Our Favorite ThinkGeek Deals + +ThinkGeek stuff is going fast -- our favorite [Mario mug](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kski/){: rel=nofollow} is already out of stock -- so if you see something you like, don't delay. + +- **[Jumping Super Mario Question Block Lamp for $17 ($17 off)](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kjrl/){: rel=nofollow}**: Add a little old school gaming light to your life with this Super Mario lamp. As far as we know no mushrooms come out the top, but it's still cool. + +- **[Twin Peaks Ceramic Pie Plate for $16 ($16 off)](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/klvj/){: rel=nofollow}**: Channel your inner Dale Cooper's love of pie using this Twin Peaks Pie plate. It's got the Double R Diner logo and Cooper's memorable line, "This must be where pies go when they die" + +- **[Binary Geek Knit Scarf for $10 ($10 off)](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kpkm/){: rel=nofollow}:**: Yes it's the middle of summer, but the programmer in your life will still appreciate this binary scarf (which spells "Geek" in binary) the next time it gets cold. + +- **[Chewbacca Tie Bar for $18 ($18 off)](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/khls/){: rel=nofollow}:**: We love the subtle nerdery this adds to your suit. Patterned after Chewbacca's bandolier, your fellow nerds will know you while everyone else will never notice. + +- **[Bob Ross's Happy Little Blanket for $17 ($17 off)](https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/juoq/){: rel=nofollow}**: Grab a warm cozy piece of art from possible the happiest artist to ever live. And remember, there are no mistakes, only happy accidents. + +### Our Favorite Outdoor Deals + +- **[Ozark Trail 8' x 8' Instant Sun Shade for $23 ($36 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-8-x-8-Instant-Sun-Shade/55208734){: rel=nofollow}**: The best way to avoid a sunburn is to, ahem, stay out of the sun. This sun shade will help keep the sun off during the heat of the day, your skin will thank you. + +- **[Coleman 100-Quart Heavy-Duty Cooler with Wheels for $50 ($30 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-100-Quart-Xtreme-5-Day-Heavy-Duty-Cooler-with-Wheels-Blue/5192860){: rel=nofollow}**: This Coleman cooler will keep those tasty beverages cool for your 4th of July celebrations. + +- **[REI Co-op Base Camp 4 Tent for $183 ($183 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/862432/rei-co-op-base-camp-4-tent){: rel=nofollow}**: If you need a new tent for your summer camping this 4-person REI tent offers some nice features like dual doors, color-coded poles for easy setup, and plenty of mesh for ventilation. + +- **[Biolite PowerLight Bundle for $60 ($30 off)](https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/powerlight-bundle){: rel=nofollow}**: BioLite's compact rechargeable lighting system is perfect for lighting up your campsite while you set up that new tent. + +- **[Helinox Beach Chair for $90 ($60 off):](https://www.rei.com/product/896337/helinox-beach-chair-2018-colors?cm_mmc=aff_AL-_-184309-_-234225-_-NA&avad=234225_b163bbe49){: rel=nofollow}:**: We highlighted the Helinox last week, but the price is still good and it'll make a great way to watch the fireworks this year. + +- **[Chaco Outcross Kids Shoes for $26 ($28 off)](https://www.rei.com/rei-garage/product/898154/chaco-outcross-kids){: rel=nofollow}**: If you want to get the kids out on the trail this summer they're going to need some good hiking shoes. These Chacos fit the bill and have a semi-collapsible heel, which means they're easy to get on and off. + +- **[BioLite BaseCamp Stove for $139 ($60 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/877671/biolite-basecamp-stove){: rel=nofollow}**: This is our [favorite electricity-generating wood stove](https://www.wired.com/2016/12/review-biolite-basecamp-pizzadome-bundle/) for car camping. Add the [Pizza Dome top](https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/pizzadome) ($59, regularly $69) and take your camp cooking to new heights. + + +### Our Favorite Electronics Deals + +- **[Kindle Oasis E-reader (9th Generation)](https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Amazon-Kindle-Oasis-8GB-Grey/dp/B06XD5YCKX/){: rel=nofollow}**: The just announced Kindle Oasis adds a warmer light, but the previous model is still a solid buy, especially now that it's a bit cheaper. + +- **[ASUS VivoBook S for $700 ($100 off)](https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-i7-8550U-GeForce-NanoEdge-Display/dp/B07B7VFTN9){: rel=nofollow}:** This is a good mid-range laptop with an Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics card, 8 GB of RAM, and a 256-GB solid state drive. + +- **[Google Home Mini for $25 ($25 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Google-Home-Mini-Chalk/159013183){: rel=nofollow}:** Google's smart speaker is great for those with a Home-enabled home. + +- **[Toshiba 43-inch HD TV, Fire TV Edition for $180 ($120 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-43LF421U19-43-inch-1080p-Smart/dp/B07FPSBZQB/){: rel=nofollow}:** This Toshiba offers a solid 1080p screen and built-in Fire TV. + +- **[Acer Swift 7 for $850 ($450 off)](https://www.adorama.com/acnxgn2aa001.html){: rel=nofollow}:** I just reviewed the brand new version of the [Acer Swift 7](https://www.wired.com/review/acer-swift-7-2019/) and it's a great,highly portable machine. But this previous version is still a solid laptop and it doesn't have the nose-cam issues of the new version. + +*As always, a [1-year unlimited WIRED digital and print subscription is only $10](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub). Subscribing directly supports the reviews and original reporting we do every day. We're biased, but we think it's a bargain!* diff --git a/published/kodak-smile-classic.txt b/published/kodak-smile-classic.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74299b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/kodak-smile-classic.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Photography has always been sold as a way to preserve memories. But for most of us that's probably no longer really true. Photography today is less now about saving memories and more about documenting the moment, moments that float by as we thumb through Instagram or Facebook. + +Photos as memories sometimes feels like an outdated concept. This may no longer be the goal of our photography, but it still has a place. And it's still incredibly popular: the instant print market was valued at $950 million last year. Score one for the world of tangible objects. + +Fujifilm's [Instax cameras](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/) and printers have long dominated the instant print world, but there is a competitor known as "Zink." + +Kodak's new Smile Classic vastly improves what Zink prints can produce. Unlike other [Zink cameras we've tested](), The Smile Classic produces larger prints, with a nice border, good tonal range, and richer contrast. These are prints that look good enough to trust with your memories. + +### Design Nostalgia + +The design of the Smile Classic echos the look and feel of the 1970s Polaroid OneStep, but shaves off some of the bulk to produce a camera that looks great, works with the simplicity of a Polaroid, but fits much more easily in your bag. + +The Smile Classic is the third Zink-based product in Kodak's Classic line, and the first hybrid, camera-printer, capable of taking decent photos in its own right, but also able to print any image on your phone. The latter option means you can document the moment and have the print later too. + +The power button is on the side of camera. Slide it to the front and the Smile Classic, pops up an viewfinder extension reminiscent of the OneStep's famous viewfinder. The shutter button is on the back of the camera, large and raised enough that it's easy to find by touch. Next to the shutter button there's a small 10 second timer button for group shots. + +Like Canon's Ivy Cliq (see our [full review](https://www.wired.com/review/canon-ivy-cliq/)), the Smile Classic keeps things simple. This is point and shoot at it's purest. You don't need to worry about exposure, you don't even need to focus. You just frame the shot, press the shutter and out comes your print. + +The camera sports a 27mm f/2.2 fixed-focus lens that captures square, 16-megapixel images. On the side of the camera body there's a USB-A charging port and a MicroSD card slot. That means, if you want to, you can save digital copies of the images you take with the Smile Classic. + +While I really like the simplicity of the Smile Classic, it is worth noting the one major drawback -- every image your shoot you print. There's no screen, no preview. That can make the Smile Classic a little more expensive over time since you're printing everything, not just the images you love. This also factors into battery life, which Kodak claims will print 35 images per charge. + +### Go Anywhere Printer + +||||||||||image of prints||||||||| + +The print you get from the Smile Classic isn't a Polaroid-style print with the puffy edges. Instead, cameras and printers like the Smile Classic are able to produce more traditional prints, like what you'd get from a professional printer (but without the professional quality). Using a technology called [Zink](https://zink.com){: rel=nofollow}, the Smile Classic churns out sticky-backed 3.25-inch x 4.5-inch images with a quarter inch white border. + +That's quite a bit larger than all the other Zink cameras and printers we've tested, which all printing smaller, rectangular 2 x 3 images. The larger image of the Smile Classic gives prints more life and the border makes them feel more like a proper photo than an instant print. + +That said, Zink isn't the highest quality printing. In fact it's nowhere near the quality of what you can get from printing machines at your local drugstore. But it's in your hand seconds after you press the shutter on the Smile Classic, something your local drugstore will never manage to do. + +And I did find the results of the Smile Classic to be the best of any Zink printer I've tested. The tonal range is good, colors render reasonably close to true. The noticeable improvement in the Smile Classic comes at the dark end of the tonal range, a place the Zink printing technology struggles. You still won't get a deep rich black, but to my eye these images are closer. I encountered some strong banding, or rough edges between similar colors. This happens sometimes in scenes like a sunset, where the line between red and orange is speckled rather than smoothly transitioning from one to the next. + +The Classic holds ten of the new larger Zink papers, and the refill packs are small enough that you can throw a few in your pocket and you'll hardly notice them. + +The Kodak Classic app for iOS and Android turns the Smile Classic into an instant printer. Connect your to the Classic via Bluetooth and you can print any image on your phone. For the sample images above I transfered edited photos from a full-frame DSLR to my phone and then printed them to Zink. + +The app has all the standard editing features you'd expect these days, crop, rotate, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and more. There's also plenty of filters and what Kodak calls "style", the ability to add text, doodles, stickers and borders to your image. + +There's also an augmented reality option which allows you to add videos and "face filters". At the time of writing the latter is not yet available, but the video feature embeds a 30-second video clip (with sound). When you print out the image, anyone with the app will be able to view the video by holding their smartphone over the picture. + +I still personally prefer the aesthetics of Instax prints, but that comes down to matter of taste -- I like darker, moodier images. That said, I think the Kodak Smile Classic is a great camera and printer. It's has clean design, is dead simple to use and would be my top pick for those who'd prefer more traditional prints. The sticker prints look good enough for most people, and the larger image size gives Zink a welcome look. + +*(The [Kodak Smile Classic costs $150 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/KODAK-Classic-Digital-Bluetooth-Pictures/dp/B07WHDV12K/){: rel=nofollow}.* + + + diff --git a/published/leica-SL2-review.txt b/published/leica-SL2-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06dc6ea --- /dev/null +++ b/published/leica-SL2-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Let's get something out of the way right from the start: Leica's are not cheap. Leica cameras and lenses live in a class of their own, and that includes price. Leica's are an investment and the new Leica full frame SL2 mirrorless camera is no exception. You want the red dot, you pay for it. + +The question is what do you get aside from the logo? + +In the case of SL2 the answer is a lot. You get a fantastic 47-megapixel full-frame sensor capable of incredibly sharp, wonderfully saturated images, and some of the best support for high end video you'll find in a mirrorless camera system. + +You'll also get support for nearly every lens Leica has ever made, some native, some adapted, but all with that legendary Leica quality. And that, finally, is why you buy a Leica—for the lenses. + +###Meet the SL2 + +The Leica SL2 is the successor to the SL, which arrived back in 2015. The SL2 is a full-frame mirrorless SLR-style camera, not a rangerfinder-style camera that Leica is perhaps best known for. The SL2 uses Leica's L mount lenses. Since the SL launched a few years ago, Leica, Panasonic, and Sigma have all released L mount lenses, giving you a wide selection of native lenses to chose from. There's also an M mount adapter for using other Leica lenses with the SL2. More on that in a minute. + +The first thing that jumps out at you when you pick up the SL2 is how solid it it is—it's downright heavy, but not in a bad way, rather in a solidly built way. It's a tank of a camera. It feels good in the hand though, and balanced nicely with the 90mm f/2 lens that Leica sent along for testing. + +It's definitely bigger and heavier than any of the Sony A7 series cameras I've used, possibly even heavier than the Panasonic S1R, a very similar camera body. + +Shooting with the Leica is an absolute pleasure. This is one of the best designed, ergonomically well-thought out cameras I've ever used. + +The body is made of machined magnesium, with machined aluminum top and bottom caps. There is no plastic anywhere to be found (there is a bit rubber in the flap that covers the ports, which feels a little out of place, but does it's job). The SL2 looks solid and it is solid. + +As you would expect from Leica, the attention to detail is fantastic. My favorite part about shooting with it is the slight scallop on the inside of the grip where your fingers wrap around and grab hold. It makes holding it much nicer than holding my Sony A7II. + +The rear of the camera strikes a nice balance between minimalist aesthetics and actually useful tools. There are three buttons near the LCD (the 3.2-inch LCD does not move, but does pack 2.1 million dots onto the screen for a very sharp display). Then there's a joystick style nub for navigating menus, changing focus point, and so on. I've been a huge fan of the nub since I first used it on a [Fujifilm X-Pro2](https://www.wired.com/2016/03/review-fujifilm-x-pro2/) and I wish more camera makers would use it. + +Another thing other camera makers could take from Leica is the wonderful menu system. Leica has put some serious thought into the menu system, especially the way Photo and Video-related features are separated out, yet both easy to access and change. Activate the menu and you'll see all the items for whichever mode you're in, and near the top of the screen buttons for "photo" and "video" to switch between settings. + +It rarely takes more than two taps to get where you want in this menu system. It's efficient and fast. To be fair, most of my experience is with Sony cameras, which have perhaps the labyrinthian menu systems out there, but even next to Panasonic's reasonably simple menus, the Leica SL2 really shines. This is the way menus should be done. + +The Leica has also taken a welcome agnostic approach to buttons. The understated styling does not have a ton of buttons, but nearly all the buttons it does have are unlabeled and fully customizable. There are eight buttons total and six of those can be customized to your liking. One thing I really like, for those familiar with the original SL, there are now two function buttons on the front of the camera and they're designed so you can tell them apart by feel. + +There's also a DSLR-style mini screen on top of the SL2 to see the current settings at a glance—shooting mode, ISO, shutter speed, battery status, and more. + +###The Results + +Nearly everything you would expect in a camera of this caliber is here. Reasonably fast autofocus, which is to say, autofocus is fast, though not stunningly so. There's phase detect focusing, face detect, and various ways to tweak and optimize the auto-focus defaults. Also present is 5-axis stabilization, which is a first for the SL line. There's also a very big, bright, sharp viewfinder, dual memory card slots, HDMI, USB-C, 3.5mm microphone, and 3.5mm headphone ports. + +All of that is nice, but what about the images? Well, with a 47-megapixel sensor, as you would expect, the Leica SL2 turns out some stunningly sharp, crisp images. The Leica shoots both JPG and DNG format RAW files. The use of DNG is noteworthy since it means you can edit the images with any piece of software (I like [Darktable](https://www.darktable.org/)), rather than waiting for your favorite app to add support for some proprietary RAW format. Kudos to Leica for going with the standard. + +The SL2 is one of the more capable video cameras you'll find in the full frame space. It can shoot 4K 60p full frame video, something no other camera I'm aware of can pull off (the Panasonic S1R can do 4K 60p, but it crops slightly). There's also quite a few log recording options videographers will appreciate. In fact, given the very high level of support for quality video, and the excellent results I got from the SL2, the fact that the rear LCD doesn't rotate is even more frustrating. Outside of that, the SL2 is a video powerhouse. + +As noted above, the SL2 is capable of shooting with legacy Leica glass, and while you can argue that the cameras are overpriced, very few would say the same of the lenses Leica has made over the years. Leica doesn't just adapt legacy lenses though, the sensor has been optimized to handle older Leica lenses. Specifically Leica has optimised the sensor design to improve image quality at the edges when using legacy Leica lenses from the M mount system. + +My one gripe with The SL2 is the bursts autofocus. The SL2 is can shoot at 20 frames per second with the electronic shutter and 10 frame per second with the mechanical shutter. That's quite good, but the catch is that in both cases that rate is with auto focus locked. If you want continuous focus and exposure, you'll need to drop down to the slower 6 frames per second burst rate. This is primarily of concern if you shoot things like sports or perhaps wildlife, though it did bite me once or twice trying to shoot my kids running around. + +Leica has updated its Fotos app for the SL2 and there's a new iPad version. If you pony up for a $50/year subscription you can integrate Fotos and Lightroom, as well as gain access to a few other extras. + +In the end the SL2 is an premium camera at a premium price. I have always resisted the lure of Leica, but the SL2 has a certain feel to it—there's something about the experience of using it that I really can't put into words well, except to say that maybe there is something to the magic of the red dot. diff --git a/published/mac-alternatives.txt b/published/mac-alternatives.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adfab10 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/mac-alternatives.txt @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Another WWDC has come and gone, leaving in its wake an impressively powerful piece of hardware: the [new Mac Pro](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-mac-pro-2019/). While the Mac Pro will make some creative professionals happy, it's $5,999 sticker price may send others looking for alternatives. + +Unfortunately, the while the Mac Pro leads the pack, many other Macs have been left behind by cheaper, better options on the Windows PC side of the fence. Consider for a moment that Apple sells the early 2017 Macbook for $1400 -- highway robbery from a pure performance perspective and you only get one USB-C port. Would you buy a car at its original MSRP even though it's been sitting on the lot for a couple years? I don't think so. + +With that in mind, I've put together a list of excellent Windows (and one Linux-based) alternatives to the most popular Mac models. From the [low-end](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-build-a-pc/) to beastly 32-core prosumer rigs, the PC world is [getting really exciting again](https://www.wired.com/story/computex-2018-new-chips-qualcomm-amd-intel/). + +Sure, macOS has its advantages, but Windows 10 is a mature, stable platform that's updated and improved on the regular. + +Switching to PCs means you'll be able to grab the latest and greatest computers at a wide array of prices from any number of PC manufacturers, without having to light prayer candles at a shrine dedicated to Steve Wozniak. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +##MacBook/MacBook Air + +[#image: /photos/5b206061714d3b70d9ed7ede]|||||| + +Apple's most portable notebooks are in an awkward spot. It's been a while since the [MacBook](https://www.wired.com/2016/04/review-apple-macbook-2/) saw an update and keyboard problems have filled the news for months. Apple recently extended its warranty program on those faulty keyboards, but the single USB-C port still feels limiting. The MacBook Air is in a little bit better spot, it was [updated in 2018](https://copilot.condenast.io/wrd/preview/article/5a78e59756f21920c2bf083b). Despite the update, the Air soldiers on with the same screen and chassis it's had for three years. + +The [**Microsoft Surface 2 Laptop**](https://www.wired.com/2017/06/review-microsoft-surface-laptop/) is a solid substitute for these slimmer Macs. You get newer chips, a brilliant 13-inch display, a wonderful keyboard, and an eye-catching design. Starting at $999, it's a premium notebook without the performance drawbacks of what Apple's offering right now. + +[**Shop for the Surface 2 Laptop ($999 and up)**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-laptop-2/8xqjkk3dd91b/jx8c){: rel=nofollow} + +Another worthy alternative is the [**Dell XPS 13 ($900 and up)**](https://www.wired.com/review/dell-xps-13-2018/). If you opt for the touch model you'll get a screen Apple's 13 inch models can't match, along with newer chips, and a solid keyboard, all in an ultra-slim package that still amanged to offer 3 USB-C ports. The XPS 13 recently saw a minor redesign that moved the much-maligned "nose cam" from the bottom of the screen, up to the top where it should have been all along. That eliminates our main gripe and makes the XPS 13 an excellent Macbook alternative. The XPS 13 starts at $899 and manages to outclass Apple's 13inch offerings. + +[**Shop for the Dell XPS 13 ($900 and up)**](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-laptop/spd/xps-13-9380-laptop){: rel=nofollow} + +##MacBook Pro + +[#image: /photos/5b205db2a928d042da61bd52]|||||| + +The 15-inch [MacBook Pro](https://www.wired.com/2016/11/review-apple-macbook-pro-touch-bar/) is arguably the only MacBook worthy of the professional branding, since it has the biggest screen, fastest graphics, and hottest processor of Apple's laptop lineup. Plus, you get Apple's Touch Bar, which, is of dubious value, but is a nice bonus. + +The best match for Apple's powerhouse Macbook Pro is the [Asus Zenbook Pro 15](https://store.asus.com/us/item/201901AM190000001). Since much of the use-case for this class of machine is video related, the Asus's color-accurate AdobeRGB 4K display is even better than what you get in a Macbook Pro. The rest of the specs match up well, including the touchscreen touchpad which is about as gimmicky as the Touch Bar -- though reportedly more useful. Where the Asus struggles is battery life. Great power requires great batteries and in this showdown, Apple wins. + +[**Shop for the Zenbook Pro ($2,300)**](https://store.asus.com/us/item/201901AM190000001){: rel=nofollow} + +Razer's flagship **Razer Blade** laptop is another contender for MacBook Pro replacement. With a six-core Intel processor and Nvidia 10-series graphics as the standard configuration, it's positioned to make the mightiest Mac notebook look downright antique. Peep that slim display bezel … gaze lovingly upon its traditional style RGB-backlit keyboard and humongous glass trackpad. It even has USB-A ports, Thunderbolt 3, and RAM that you can—*gasp*—upgrade! + +[**Shop for the Razer Blade ($1,899 and up)**](https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade){: rel=nofollow} + +##Mac Mini + +[#image: /photos/5b205edae330f44f585225ff]|||||| + +The Mac Mini is one of my all-time favorite computers. It was updated late in 2018 with Intel Coffee Lake processors and a slew of USC-C ports. + +If you love tiny-yet-powerful mini computers, might I recommend the **Intel NUC**? These computers are mini-er than Apple's Mini and feature newer seventh and eighth-generation chips that run rings around the li'lest Mac. You can buy them either as [complete models running Windows 10](https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Enthusiast-Windows-Gunmetal-BOXNUC7i7BNHXG/dp/B075VSBNQY), or as [barebones kits](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSZLO9P/){: rel=nofollow} where you add your own RAM, storage, and OS of choice. + +If you're a gamer or want to get into VR, there's even [the Hades Canyon model](https://www.wired.com/review/review-intel-hades-canyon-nuc/), with powerful AMD Radeon Vega graphics under the hood. And, whereas Apple charges you beaucoup bucks for a three-year AppleCare warranty, you'll get that standard with each NUC. + +[**Shop for the Intel NUC ($500 and up)**](https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Enthusiast-Windows-Gunmetal-BOXNUC7i7BNHXG/dp/B077BK34DN?th=1){: rel=nofollow} + +If you'd like something a touch more powerful than a NUC, there's the Asus VivoMini PC. AT just 5 inches square it's tiny enough to mount out of sight and still powerful enough to support up to 3 4K monitors. The Asus features the seventh generation Intel i7 chip, room for a M2 drive and a tradition 2.5 laptop drive as well as up to 16GB of memory (it ships with 8GB which you can upgrade to 16GB). + +To get this price point Asus has to sell this bare bones. You need to supply the hard drives and operating system, but even then you'll be coming in well under the Mac Mini's $799 price and have more processing power. + +[**Shop for the Asus VivoMini($590)**](https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Enthusiast-Windows-Gunmetal-BOXNUC7i7BNHXG/dp/B077BK34DN?th=1){: rel=nofollow} + +##iMac + +[#image: /photos/5b205e592b3a2d7b09334464]|||||| + +I'll be the first to admit that the [iMac](https://www.apple.com/imac/){: rel=nofollow} is a super-nice desktop computer. While many other PC makers try to ape this stylish, slim all-in-one, few truly match its appeal. It's also one of the models Apple's been the most consistent about keeping fresh; the current lineup runs on Intel's ninth generation chips and Radeon Vega graphic to boot. + +The machine I'd recommend checking out is HP's epic desktop, the **HP Envy Curved All-in-One**. With a wide 34-inch curved display, you get the real estate of two separate monitors in one contiguous LCD panel. But whether you're popping full apps next to one another with room to spare, or just blowing up a widescreen movie to take up this entire screen, HP's Envy stands apart. + +*[*Shop for the HP Envy 34-inch Curved All-in-One ($1,649 and up)*](https://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/desktops/envy-34-curved-all-in-one-344535--1#!&tab=vao){: rel=nofollow}* + +##Mac Pro + +[#image: /photos/5b2060bcba2c1651eb892856]|||||| + +The new Mac Pro starts at $5,999 for the 8-core model with 32 GB of RAM and a 256-GB solid-state drive. That can be configured up to a 28-core model with 1.5 terabytes of RAM. A new Pro Display XDR monitor—a new Apple product as well—to go along with your workstation will set you back another $4,999 for the base model, bringing the cost of a full setup to $11,000. And that's just the entry-level configuration. + +The bad news is that there are no other displays of this calibre at this price. You could get a reference display from Sony, but that'll set you back somewhere in the neighborhood of $18,000. Right now, the PC world cannot match the Pro Display XDR. Check back in a year. + +What about the Mac Pro itself? To get that kind of power in a PC you're probably best off buying the components and building it yourself. This is what, for example, film studios do to create powerful editing workstations, but it's complicated, expensive and time-consuming. + +The closest Windows option is the **Dell Precision 7820** which starts at $1,700 for a six-core Xeon-powered workstation and works its way up from there to a dual Xeon Platinum 8268 machine, but it's still not as powerful as the Mac Pro. + +[**Shop for the Dell Precision 7820 ($1,659 and up)**](http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/desktop-and-all-in-one-pcs/precision-7820-workstation/spd/precision-7820-workstation){: rel=nofollow} + +Another option would be to move to a Linux-based machine like System76's Thelio desktop. The Thelio is made in the USA and features a beautifully rounded wooden, sci-fi-inspired tower, that wrapped around AMD's Threadripper chip. The base model, Thelio Major, matches up well against the Mac Pro. As an added bonus, it will only set you back $2,814. + +At the high end the Thelio Massive can take on the maxed out Mac Pro as well, besting it in CPU cores and several other areas, but we've again entered the rarefied world of professionally-price machines. A Thelio Massive specced to match the top of the line Mac Pro will set you back $18,801 (a completely maxxed Thelio Massive goes for $63,168). At the time of writing the price of Apple's most powerful Mac Pro is unknown. + +While the Thelio is a powerful machine that can hold its own against the Mac Pro, it does lack the ProRes RAW accelerator card, which means it likely won't perform quite as well with high in video. The other gotcha for creative professionals is that Adobe's photo and video editing software does not support Linux, the operating system that ships with Thelio. + +[**Shop for the Thelio Major ($2,699 and up)**](https://system76.com/cart/configure/thelio-major-r1){: rel=nofollow} **[or the Thelio Massive ($2,999 and up)**](https://system76.com/cart/configure/thelio-massive-b1){: rel=nofollow} diff --git a/published/mac-pro.txt b/published/mac-pro.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a4c5d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/mac-pro.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Apple's WWDC developer's conference keynote finally delivered what the designers, photographers, video editors, and other pro-grade creatives who grew up on Apple have been waiting for -- multiple references to the band Rush. Unfortunately this was overshadowed slightly by the insanely powerful new Mac Pro, which will likely be better remembered. + +Pity the unfaithful who gave up on the neglected Mac Pro and bought the [recently upgraded iMac](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-imac-desktop-refresh/) because Apple has brought back the cheese grater and finally created Mac Pro worthy of the name. + +Apple's keynote usually shun specs, but the company pulled out all the stops for the new Mac Pro, touting the details of graphics cards and brightness nits in the monitor. These are exactly the kind of details high end users care about and Apple has clearly been listening to them. It was refreshing to see Apple getting excited about a high end machine few of us will ever be able to afford. + +Keynote theatrics aside, the new Mac Pro is a truly professional grade machine and it does have a truly professional grade price tag to match. They may be worth every penny -- we'll know for sure when they arrive this Fall -- but it's a lot of pennies. The new Mac Pro starts at $5,999 for the 8-core model with 32GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. That can be configured up to a 28 core model with 1.5TB of RAM. A new Pro Display XDR monitor to go along with your workstation will set you back another $4,999 for the base model, bring the cost of a full setup to $11,000. And that's just the base model. + +The new Mac Pro is all about processing power and graphics. There's an up to 28 core Xeon processor, up to 1.5 terabytes of RAM and an option for as many as 4 Radeon Pro Vega II graphics cards which will net you enough power to playback three simultaneous streams of 8K video, a feat Apple showed off during the WWDC keynote. + +What's perhaps most welcome is that Apple has bucked the trend it help start and provided a case that's easy to open up. Yes, it's a user upgradable Mac with up to eight PCI Express expansion slots. That's twice as many slots as the last Mac Pro. + +Apple is also touting a new hardware acceleration card it calls Afterburner. It's the magic behind the Mac Pro's ability to handle three simultaneous streams of 8K ProRes RAW footage, which is what you get from [RED](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/red-modular-camera-system/) and similar high end cameras. With the graphics card handling the video playback you can use all those primary processing cores to handle creative effects and other processing tasks. + +Even the most powerful video editing workstation is nothing without a display to match and for that Apple has delivered something that might be more impressive than the Mac Pro. + +The Pro Display XDR is 32-inch Retina 6K display. It boasts up to 1600 nits of brightness, sustaining 100 nits and features a contrast ration of one million to one, which puts it, in case you aren't an expert in monitors, in class of what's call reference displays. Reference displays are insanely expensive tools (think mid 5-digits), used primarily in high end production shops to whom the Pro Display XDR's $4,999 price tag probably sounds like a fire sale. + diff --git a/published/may31-deals.txt b/published/may31-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e63b7de --- /dev/null +++ b/published/may31-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Summer has arrived. The days are getting longer and warmer. We've got one eye on traffic reports, plotting our weekend escape, but before we go we've got some deals for you. Some of our favorite deals this week include pre-orders for Motorola's coming Moto Z4, Gramin's Fenix 5S GPS Watch, Amazon's Fire TV Cube, and some new headphones for your summer travels. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +### Our Favorite Home and Outdoor Deals + +- **[Pre-Order Moto Z4 ($500)](https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-z-gen-4-unlocked){: rel=nofollow}**: If you pre-order the coming Z4, Motorola will throw in a free [Moto Mod 360 camera](https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-mods/moto-360-camera){: rel=nofollow} (normally $200). + +- **[Garmin Fenix 5S GPS Watch for $350 ($150 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/121189/garmin-fenix-5s-gps-watch){: rel=nofollow}:**: Our favorite, [highly recommended](https://www.wired.com/review/review-garmin-fenix-5s/), multisport GPS watch. + +- **[Sennheiser PXC 550 Wireless Headphones for $230 ($50 off)](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E3XLNA0){: rel=nofollow}**: These over-the-ear, wireless, noise canceling headphones get high marks from travelers for their 30-hour battery life. + +### Our Favorite Laptop and Tablet Deals + +- **[Apple 12.9" iPad Pro (Mid 2017, 512GB, Wi-Fi Only, Silver) for $700 ($450 off)](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1342519-REG/apple_mpl02ll_a_12_9_ipad_pro_mid.html){: rel=nofollow}**: It's not the latest and greatest, but Apple's 2017 iPad Pro is still a very capable tablet. + +- **[Apple Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro for $80 ($80 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072MHN91T/){: rel=nofollow}:**: The perfect accessory for your new iPad Pro. + +- **[Razer Blade Stealth 13.3" Gaming Laptop for $300 ($150 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sharp-55-class-led-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr-roku-tv/5712157.p?skuId=5712157){: rel=nofollow}**: We loved this gaming powerhouse when [we reviewed it](https://www.wired.com/review/razer-blade-stealth-2019/). + +- **[ASUS ZenBook 13 UX 331 Laptop for $700 ($250 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sharp-55-class-led-2160p-smart-4k-uhd-tv-with-hdr-roku-tv/5712157.p?skuId=5712157){: rel=nofollow}**: The UX 331 wraps a 1080p screen, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB drive in a thin and stylish package. + +- **[Lenovo IdeaPad S340 Laptop for $500 ($450 off)](https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/3913847/Lenovo-IdeaPad-S340-Laptop-156-Screen/){: rel=nofollow}**: The S340 offers 15 inch Screen, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB Solid State Drive. + + +### Our Favorite Television and Gaming Deals + +- **[Fire TV Cube](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0791T9CV7){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire Cube's voice control [didn't wow us](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-fire-tv-cube/), but it's still got you covered when it comes to streaming video, including YouTube, which will soon return to Fire TV devices. + +- **[TCL 6 Series 65" LED Smart TV 4K UHD for $680 ($299 off)](https://express.google.com/u/0/product/404037217098328908_0_0){: rel=nofollow}:**: We haven't reviewed this model, but one of TCL's other offerings took top honors in our round-up of [boldest, most budget-friendly TVs](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-6-best-boldest-and-most-budget-friendly-tvs/). + +- **[Sony 65" Bravia X900F 4K Android TV for $1600 ($400 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sony-65-Class-BRAVIA-X900F-Series-4K-2160P-Ultra-HD-HDR-Dolby-Vision-Android-LED-TV-XBR65X900F/805161244){: rel=nofollow}**: If you're going to go big, go really big with Sony's 65 inch 4k monster. + +- **[Kingdom Hearts III - PS4 - for $29 ($31 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DBF81JS){: rel=nofollow}:**: This is a great deal on one of our [favorite games of the year](https://www.wired.com/story/difficult-gaming-modes/). + +- **[Fifa 19 for Switch for $15 ($45 off)](https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/fifa-19-switch/){: rel=nofollow}:**: Some call it the best football game for a Nintendo system -- here's your chance to find out if you agree. + +- **[Capcom Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection for $20 ($20 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Capcom-Street-Fighter-30th-Anniversary-Collection-NSW/390155651){: rel=nofollow}:**: Here's your chance to grab a classic for half price. + + diff --git a/published/memorial-day-deals.txt b/published/memorial-day-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3addf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/memorial-day-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Monday is Memorial Day, and while its a solemn day celebrating our fallen veterans, it also marks the unofficial beginning of summer and brings with it some of the season best sales. To get your summer started right we've rounded up some of our favorite deals from online retailers around the web and included the links to their sale pages. + + +which makes this weekend the unofficial kickoff of the summer season! To celebrate the occasion, some of the biggest brands in tech and home goods will participate in an annual slashing-of-prices ceremony, otherwise known as a *sale.* And they're not alone, below you'll find some of our favorite deals available this weekend, but among them is one of WIRED's own: you can pick up a [full year of WIRED Magazine and Web access for just $5](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub). + +###Apple Sales + + +This weekend is Memorial Day. Whether you're taking advantage of the long weekend to get out of town or just spending some time around the house we've rounded up some of our favorite deals from online retailers around the web and included the links to their sale pages. + +### Grills + +- **[Biolite FirePit Complete Kit (includes SolarCarry Cover, FireMat, FirePoker) for $242 ($87 off)](https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/firepit-complete-kit){: rel=nofollow}** The Firepit's rechargeable battery powers up 51 air jets for plenty of cooking and camp fire time without getting much smoke in your eyes. It's [our favorite](https://www.wired.com/review/review-biolite-firepit/) way to exercise our pyromanic tendencies while obeying campsite rules. This bundle includes the FirePit and all the extras. + +- **[Weber Spirit II E-310 for $450 ($50 off)](https://www.lowes.com/pd/Weber-Spirit-II-E-310-Black-3-Burner-Liquid-Propane-Gas-Grill/1000366153){: rel=nofollow}** Webers grills aren't the cheapest, but those extra dollars get you a high-quality grill that feels like it's built to last. The original Spirit was one of [our favorite entry-level grills](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/best-gas-grills/) and Weber grills rarely go on sale. + +- **[Kamado Charcoal Grill with Smoker for $768 ($432 off)](https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/lifesmart-kamado-charcoal-grill-with-smoker-lism1013.html){: rel=nofollow}** Both a grill and a smoker this ceramic cooker offers five cooking styles according to which accessories you use. It's huge to, capable of packing in 20 burgers. + +- **[Original Kettle 22" Charcoal Grill for $165 (12 percent off)](https://www.wayfair.com/outdoor/pdp/weber-original-kettle-premium-22-charcoal-grill-green-wbe1317.html){: rel=nofollow}** The legendary kettle grill is still our favorite way to cook on charcoal. As noted above, Weber does not often have sales, this one isn't huge, but we'll take it. + +### Appliances + +- **[Cuisinart 0.6 Cu. Ft. Air Fryer Toaster Oven for $160 ($205 off)](https://www.wayfair.com/kitchen-tabletop/pdp/cuisinart-06-cu-ft-air-fryer-toaster-oven-cui3490.html){: rel=nofollow}** Fried food without the greasy napkins. This model doubles as a 6-slice toaster. + +- **[DeLonghi Magnifica Espresso Machine for $645 (35 percent off)](https://www.wayfair.com/kitchen-tabletop/pdp/delonghi-magnifica-espresso-and-cappuccino-automatic-espresso-machine-dlg10007.html){: rel=nofollow}** At full price we deemed it too expensive for our espresso maker review, but at this price you can have your espresso and drink it too. + +- **[Cuisinart ICE-100 Compressor Ice Cream for $258 ($63 off)](https://www.sears.com/cuisinart-ice-100-compressor-ice-cream-and/p-SPM14687828124?plpSellerId=Edealszone%20LLC&prdNo=4&blockNo=4&blockType=G4){: rel=nofollow}** Forget the lines and ice cream melting on the car seats, make your favorite flavors -- even gelato -- without leaving the house. + +- **[Dyson Cyclone V10 Absolute for $540 ($160 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Cyclone-Absolute-Lightweight-Cordless/dp/B0798FVV6V){: rel=nofollow}** Our main gripe when we [reviewed the Cyclone V10](https://www.wired.com/review/dyson-cyclone-v10-absolute-cordless-vacuum/) was the price, here's a chance to grab all its sucking power at a good discount. Technically not a Memorial Day deal, but at this price we had to mention it. + +- **[Dyson V7 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner for $280 ($120 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dyson-V7-Animal-Cordless-Stick-Vacuum-Cleaner-Iron/828638140){: rel=nofollow}** If the Cyclone is too expensive even on sale, the V7 Animal makes a good, much cheaper, alternative. + +- **[Ecovacs Deebot 601 Robo Vac for $190 ($190 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079P1WN65/){: rel=nofollow}** We loved the cheaper [Deebot M81 Pro](https://www.wired.com/review/review-ecovacs-deebot-m81-pro/). + +- **[KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Mixer for $160 ($110 off)](https://express.google.com/product/6838237981317305555_9338905055680032745_105031661?oc=OgkxMDUwMzE2NjE&ved=0CC8QjsUCKAFqGAoTCN2BsZHsieICFY84YgodkQEGsxCeAQ){: rel=nofollow}** It's classic enough that we've [written odes to it](https://www.wired.com/2011/10/simple-gadget-love-the-kitchenaid-stand-mixer/), every house needs a basic, solid, dare I say classic, hand mixer. Leave the Avocado Green model where it belongs, in grandma's kitchen, and grab something more stylish like black, silver or red. Be sure to use the coupon code **RZTXUF** to get the additional $50 off. + +- **[Honeywell Portable Air Conditioner for $504 ($504 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Honeywell-Portable-Air-Conditioner-14000-BTU-Portable-Air-Conditioner/324613703){: rel=nofollow}** With this unit you can beat the summer heat and avoid some of the high costs of central air -- cool just the space you're actually in, not the whole house. It's easier on your wallet and the environment. + +- **[Weller WLC100 40-Watt Soldering Station for $34 ($22 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Weller-WLC100-40-Watt-Soldering-Station/dp/B000AS28UC){: rel=nofollow}** This unit is perfect for your DIY needs, simple, powerful enough for small electronics, and with a nice stand. + +### Memorial Day Sale Pages + +If you want to your own digging for deals, here's the best Memorial Day sales pages we've found. Happy hunting! + +- **[Amazon's Spring Event](https://www.amazon.com/b?node=18773784011){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Sears Memorial Day Appliance Sale (Up to 40% Off)](https://www.sears.com/appliances/b-1020003?adcell=hp_S1a_appliances){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Walmart Memorial Day Sale](https://www.walmart.com/cp/Memorial-Day/1104275){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Lowes Memorial Day Sale](https://www.lowes.com/pl/Save-Now/4294594589?int_cmp=Home:A:GlobalMessage:Corp:FW16_Memorial_Day_Sale){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Home Depot Memorial Day Sale](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Featured-Products-Memorial-Day/N-5yc1vZ1z18hyf){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Wayfair Home and Appliance Sale (Up to 70% Off)](https://www.wayfair.com/daily-sales/memorial-day){: rel=nofollow}** + + + diff --git a/published/ms-surface-review-final.txt b/published/ms-surface-review-final.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27428c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/ms-surface-review-final.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 wants to be great. *I* want the Surface Laptop to be great. I'd like to see the Microsoft AMD partnership produce something that sends other brands scurrying back to the drawing boards. + +Alas, that's not the case. Which is not to say that Surface Laptop 3 isn't worth considering. It's a very well-made laptop that has plenty of power for the average user, and a wonderfully large, 15-inch 3:2 ratio screen that's a joy to work on. Throw in a great trackpad, decent keyboard, and some nice extras like the facial recognition features in Windows 10 and you have solid, lightweight workhorse of a machine. + +###Going Big + +The 15-inch Surface Laptop is a new form factor for the Surface line. It joins the 13-inch model, which has also been updated. While I did not test the 13-inch model, this years update looks to be yet another incremental update of a solid laptop. You'll get a faster processor in roughly the same shell for the same price. + +To create the new 15-inch model it's almost as if Microsoft just hit the 13-inch model with some sort expanding ray gun. And there-in lies the rub in my view. + +If you're at all familiar with Microsoft's Surface line, the first thing that jumps out about this laptop is the all aluminium design. Yes, this is an Alcantara-free Surface. While the aluminum is fine, the Alcantara has defined the Surface family since it was released and its absence makes this feel less, well, Surface-y. + +Like the 13-inch, the 15-inch model is lightweight and has a very solid feel to it thank to the all-aluminum design. It also still has the 3:2 screen ratio of it's smaller sibling, making it really nice for editing documents and other tasks where a taller screen is welcome. + +The most disappointing thing about the Surface Laptop 3 is that Microsoft has not really done anything with the added space of a 15-inch chassis. For example, the keyboard is identical to the 13-inch model, which means there's considerable extra room on either side of it where there could be, well, have a gander at the 15-inch MacBook Pro and maybe add some bigger speakers. + +But no, the speakers in the 15-inch Surface are still right where they are in the smaller version, underneath. If better speakers aren't Microsoft's thing then maybe take a page from the Dell XPS 15 and pack in some extra USB ports and maybe a card reader too. But again, the Surface Laptop 3 sticks with the same single USB-A and USB-C ports found in the 13-inch model. Kudos to Microsoft for at least ditching the MiniDisplay in favor of a USB-C port, but charging still happens through the proprietary, magnetic Surface Connect port, which feels like a missed opportunity to pack in another USB-C port. + +And it's worth noting that the USB-C port you do get does **not** support Thunderbolt 3, which means you won't get the speed boost Thunderbolt 3 offers, nor can you use Thunderbolt 3 docking stations to expand your port options. Technically you can use it to charge the Surface Laptop, but I have no idea why you'd want to sacrifice your one USB-C port to charge. + +That's not to say the Surface 15-inch is all misses. There's some good stuff too. One high point for is the Windows Face Recognition login works great. You also get support for Microsoft’s Surface Pen, which is not included. + +Given it's place in the Surface universe as the beacon of light for those of us still clinging to trackpads and real keyboards that actually sit in your lap, it should be no surprise that both of these are very well done. The trackpad especially is first rate—the best non-Apple trackpad I've used. The keyboard lacks a certain snappiness I've come to appreciate from Lenovo's recent efforts, but it's still well-spaced and comfortable to type on. + +###AMD Inside + +The 15-inch form factor is the power users laptop. That's how Dell, Apple, Asus and others have positioned their offerings in this space. High end 15-inch laptops like the MacBook Pro and Dell XPS 15 offer six-core (or more) processors and features creative professionals need like color-tuned screens. Then there's 15-inch gaming laptops, which often sacrifice the sleek form factor, but pack in powerful graphics cards and plenty of ports. + +The Surface Laptop will make neither of these groups happy. As mentioned earlier this machine is really aimed at more casual users looking for a larger screen, but not needing the power of more expensive options. That's why the smart buy here is the low end model. + +The base model features AMD's new Ryzen 5 chip which Microsoft calls the Surface Edition Processor to indicate that it has been specifically tuned for the form factor of the Surface. The performance in my testing, using the PCMark 10 test suite pegged the processor at roughly the same performance as an eighth generation Intel i5. + +That's plenty of power for everyday tasks. I noticed no stutters or lags streaming 4K content, editing photos in Darktable, or working with some very large spreadsheets. That level of performance is not, however, going to be capable of editing high res video or compiling large pieces of software. Nor is it likely to impress gamers. There is an option to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 chip with a better graphics card as well, but even these fall short of similarly priced Apple and Dell models (at least on paper). + +One place the AMD chip did impress was battery life. Microsoft claims 11.5 hours. I was not able to get anywhere near that, but I did get a respectable 6.25 on the PCMark battery test and just a hair under 8 playing a looped video with the brightness at 50 percent. The good news is that the proprietary charging cord will get you from zero to 80 percent in just over an hour in my testing. + +The other notable thing, especially compared to some other 15-inch laptops I've used is that the Surface never gets hot in your lap and you hardly ever hear the fan. + +The Surface Laptop 3 15-inch base model is available in Platinum, and starts at $1,199 with a Ryzen 5 chip, 8-gigabytes of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. The unit I tested bumps the RAM to 16-gigabytes and the solid state drive to 256-gigabytes, which brings the price to $1,299. You can also get the higher specced models in black if you prefer. + +If you want a 15-inch laptop for the extra screen real estate it affords, and plan to use it to watch Netflix, edit documents, and browse the web, then the base model Surface Laptop 3 fits the bill. While there are cheaper, equally powerful options out there, none of them are quite as well designed, well-built, nor offer the battery life of the Surface. The base model is a solid buy if your needs are that of the casual user. + +If, on the other hand, you're looking for a 15-inch powerhouse that can handle everything from video editing to gaming, you're better off looking to the Dell XPS 15 or MacBook Pro, both of which offer better performance for roughly the same price as a maxed out Surface. + diff --git a/published/ms-surface-review.txt b/published/ms-surface-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27428c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/ms-surface-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 wants to be great. *I* want the Surface Laptop to be great. I'd like to see the Microsoft AMD partnership produce something that sends other brands scurrying back to the drawing boards. + +Alas, that's not the case. Which is not to say that Surface Laptop 3 isn't worth considering. It's a very well-made laptop that has plenty of power for the average user, and a wonderfully large, 15-inch 3:2 ratio screen that's a joy to work on. Throw in a great trackpad, decent keyboard, and some nice extras like the facial recognition features in Windows 10 and you have solid, lightweight workhorse of a machine. + +###Going Big + +The 15-inch Surface Laptop is a new form factor for the Surface line. It joins the 13-inch model, which has also been updated. While I did not test the 13-inch model, this years update looks to be yet another incremental update of a solid laptop. You'll get a faster processor in roughly the same shell for the same price. + +To create the new 15-inch model it's almost as if Microsoft just hit the 13-inch model with some sort expanding ray gun. And there-in lies the rub in my view. + +If you're at all familiar with Microsoft's Surface line, the first thing that jumps out about this laptop is the all aluminium design. Yes, this is an Alcantara-free Surface. While the aluminum is fine, the Alcantara has defined the Surface family since it was released and its absence makes this feel less, well, Surface-y. + +Like the 13-inch, the 15-inch model is lightweight and has a very solid feel to it thank to the all-aluminum design. It also still has the 3:2 screen ratio of it's smaller sibling, making it really nice for editing documents and other tasks where a taller screen is welcome. + +The most disappointing thing about the Surface Laptop 3 is that Microsoft has not really done anything with the added space of a 15-inch chassis. For example, the keyboard is identical to the 13-inch model, which means there's considerable extra room on either side of it where there could be, well, have a gander at the 15-inch MacBook Pro and maybe add some bigger speakers. + +But no, the speakers in the 15-inch Surface are still right where they are in the smaller version, underneath. If better speakers aren't Microsoft's thing then maybe take a page from the Dell XPS 15 and pack in some extra USB ports and maybe a card reader too. But again, the Surface Laptop 3 sticks with the same single USB-A and USB-C ports found in the 13-inch model. Kudos to Microsoft for at least ditching the MiniDisplay in favor of a USB-C port, but charging still happens through the proprietary, magnetic Surface Connect port, which feels like a missed opportunity to pack in another USB-C port. + +And it's worth noting that the USB-C port you do get does **not** support Thunderbolt 3, which means you won't get the speed boost Thunderbolt 3 offers, nor can you use Thunderbolt 3 docking stations to expand your port options. Technically you can use it to charge the Surface Laptop, but I have no idea why you'd want to sacrifice your one USB-C port to charge. + +That's not to say the Surface 15-inch is all misses. There's some good stuff too. One high point for is the Windows Face Recognition login works great. You also get support for Microsoft’s Surface Pen, which is not included. + +Given it's place in the Surface universe as the beacon of light for those of us still clinging to trackpads and real keyboards that actually sit in your lap, it should be no surprise that both of these are very well done. The trackpad especially is first rate—the best non-Apple trackpad I've used. The keyboard lacks a certain snappiness I've come to appreciate from Lenovo's recent efforts, but it's still well-spaced and comfortable to type on. + +###AMD Inside + +The 15-inch form factor is the power users laptop. That's how Dell, Apple, Asus and others have positioned their offerings in this space. High end 15-inch laptops like the MacBook Pro and Dell XPS 15 offer six-core (or more) processors and features creative professionals need like color-tuned screens. Then there's 15-inch gaming laptops, which often sacrifice the sleek form factor, but pack in powerful graphics cards and plenty of ports. + +The Surface Laptop will make neither of these groups happy. As mentioned earlier this machine is really aimed at more casual users looking for a larger screen, but not needing the power of more expensive options. That's why the smart buy here is the low end model. + +The base model features AMD's new Ryzen 5 chip which Microsoft calls the Surface Edition Processor to indicate that it has been specifically tuned for the form factor of the Surface. The performance in my testing, using the PCMark 10 test suite pegged the processor at roughly the same performance as an eighth generation Intel i5. + +That's plenty of power for everyday tasks. I noticed no stutters or lags streaming 4K content, editing photos in Darktable, or working with some very large spreadsheets. That level of performance is not, however, going to be capable of editing high res video or compiling large pieces of software. Nor is it likely to impress gamers. There is an option to upgrade to a Ryzen 7 chip with a better graphics card as well, but even these fall short of similarly priced Apple and Dell models (at least on paper). + +One place the AMD chip did impress was battery life. Microsoft claims 11.5 hours. I was not able to get anywhere near that, but I did get a respectable 6.25 on the PCMark battery test and just a hair under 8 playing a looped video with the brightness at 50 percent. The good news is that the proprietary charging cord will get you from zero to 80 percent in just over an hour in my testing. + +The other notable thing, especially compared to some other 15-inch laptops I've used is that the Surface never gets hot in your lap and you hardly ever hear the fan. + +The Surface Laptop 3 15-inch base model is available in Platinum, and starts at $1,199 with a Ryzen 5 chip, 8-gigabytes of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. The unit I tested bumps the RAM to 16-gigabytes and the solid state drive to 256-gigabytes, which brings the price to $1,299. You can also get the higher specced models in black if you prefer. + +If you want a 15-inch laptop for the extra screen real estate it affords, and plan to use it to watch Netflix, edit documents, and browse the web, then the base model Surface Laptop 3 fits the bill. While there are cheaper, equally powerful options out there, none of them are quite as well designed, well-built, nor offer the battery life of the Surface. The base model is a solid buy if your needs are that of the casual user. + +If, on the other hand, you're looking for a 15-inch powerhouse that can handle everything from video editing to gaming, you're better off looking to the Dell XPS 15 or MacBook Pro, both of which offer better performance for roughly the same price as a maxed out Surface. + diff --git a/published/osmo-action.txt b/published/osmo-action.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..724d131 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/osmo-action.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +GoPro's Hero series action cameras finally have some worthy competition. Others have tried in the past but none of the GoPro alternatives have been as compelling as DJI's new Osmo Action. + +The Action offers nearly everything that makes the GoPro popular and adds a few tricks of its own, including a front screen for effortless action selfies. + +Before I dive into what makes the DJI great and where it's lacking, what everyone wants to know is how it stacks up against last year's [GoPro Hero7](https://www.wired.com/review/gopro-hero7-black-2018/). DJI clearly took a page from GoPro's playbook. The basic features are nearly identical. Both can capture 12-megapixel stills in both RAW and JPG, record 4K video at up to 60 frames per second, offer video effects like 8X slow motion and excellent electronic stabilization, and both are waterproof right out of the box (the Action claims 36 feet, GoPro 33 feet). + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +###Seeing Double + +The Osmo Action's headlining difference, and what sets it apart from other action cams we've tested, is its 1.4-inch front screen. It's tiny, but it offers a full-color display and it's incredibly handy for selfie videos. The front screen is just large enough that you can easily tell where you are in the Action's sweeping 145 degree field of view. The selfie-friendliness alone will make it a compelling buy for anyone primarily shooting from a stick. + +There are two ways to switch between the Action's dualing screens, either use a touch gesture -- a two-finger double tap on the rear LCD -- or a long press of the QS (Quick Switch) button. Either way you're in and out of selfie mode nearly instantaneously. + +In the hand, the Action isn't an exact clone of a GoPro, but the form factor is very similar. DJI tweaked the basic action camera design enough to squeak in a nice, bright 2.25 inch LCD with true 16:9 aspect ratio -- no letterboxed video playback like you'll find in the Hero series. It makes the Action slightly wider than a GoPro, but it still felt comfortable enough in my hand, as comfortable as any tiny camera can feel anyway. + +You probably aren't going to be holding this thing anyway, you're going to mount it. DJI has wisely included a case and mounting system that mirrors the GoPro, which means most of the mounts that fit the GoPro would work here as well. + +The Osmo Action is water proof out of the box to 36 feet, just be sure you seal the flap that covers the USB-C port and Micro-SD card slot before you dive in. Notice that I did not say USB-C and HDMI port, because there is no HDMI port on the Action -- no real-time monitoring from the comfort of your director's chair. This is an action camera after all, it's meant to be on your helmet or handlebars recording the, ahem, action. + +Technically there is a way to monitor footage if you really need to; you can use DJI's mobile app on your phone. Not a huge screen, but bigger than what the Osmo Action offers anyway. + +The Action is fronted by an F2.8 lens that's covered with a screw-in clear filter. My test unit also included four Neutral Density (ND) filters to reduce incoming light in the bright situations action cameras often find themselves, for example, skiing on a sunny day. Letting less light through the lens means you can select aperture and exposure settings that would otherwise produce overexposed images. I found the included ND 16 filter perfect for bright days at the pool. The ND filters are sold separately and there will no doubt be plenty of third party filters available soon -- think Polarizering filters or Color Correction filters for underwater photography. + +The Action uses the same sensor as the [DJI Mavic Air](https://www.wired.com/review/dji-mavic-air-2018/), and supports the same frame rates and video options, which is handy if you're mixing footage from the air and ground. + +###Rock Steady + +DJI may be new to action cameras, but it has quite a bit of experience stabilizing tiny cameras. The company calls the Action's image stabilization system "RockSteady", which might be mocking the GoPro's equally silly, "HyperSmooth" system. Whatever the case, what took GoPro seven iterations to get right DJI has nailed in its first go. + +There are some situations in which I like the results of GoPro's stabilization a little better, for example sudden jouncing smooths out better, but for the most part it's difficult to tell the difference between the two. + +###Custom Menus + +Given their size, and general lack of buttons -- the Action has just three buttons, Power, QS and Record -- menu systems on Action cameras often have to get creative. DJI has copied GoPro's approach here, menus are accessible by swiping in from the sides. Swipe from the left to see your images, from the top to get to the main settings panel, and from the right to get to exposure settings, de-warp toggle and image format settings. Swipe up from the bottom to get to the aspect ratio (either 4:3 or 16:9 and the countdown timer. + +The menus work well enough though they were sometimes unresponsive when I had wet fingers. The good news is that there's an easy way to custom program settings and quickly switch between them using the QS button. Out of the box press QS brings up a menu of shooting modes -- Video, Photo, HDR video, Timelapse, and so on. This menu can be customized though, most importantly with customized modes. + +I created several custom modes, setting, for example, a 4K video with stabilization mode and one without stabilization. Then I went into the QS menu and uncheck everything else from the QS menu except your custom modes. That way I had a quick way to toggle stabilization without having to even look at the screen. + +The De-warp option mentioned above removes the fisheye aspect from the lens. There is a tiny bit of cropping involved and the finished look will be familiar to anyone whose used a DJI drone. This is one place DJI manages to surpass the GoPro, the Action can remove fisheye from all resolutions and frame rates, even 4K at 60fps. The Hero 7's fisheye removal is limited to 2.7K at 60fps. + +Another nice touch is the HDR video mode, which applies a very slight HDR effect to open up shadows and give scenes a slightly more vivid look. It's no match for what you can do in post production, but if you're going straight to the web it can save some otherwise high contrast scenes. The only gotcha is that you can't use both HDR and image stabilization at the same time. + +While most of the emphasis on action cams if video related, the Action packs a decent still camera as well capable of capturing 12MP Raw (DNG), JPEG or both in either 16:9 or 4:3 image ratios. The ISO sensitivity range covers 100-3200, though the high end of the spectrum gets pretty noisy. I ended up setting the max ISO at 800 when shooting indoors. There's also a burst mode capable of three, five or seven fps, and a self-timer of either three or ten seconds. + +Battery life on action cams is nothing to rave about, the small form factor severely limits battery size. Battery life varies considerably according to the video quality you're recording, but I was able to get almost an hour of 4K footage at 60fps on a fully charged battery. Dropping the frame rate to 30fps bumped the run time up to 90 minutes. The lower quality video you shoot, the longer your battery will last. + +The Osmo boots very quickly, hit the Power button and it'll be on and ready to shoot in about three seconds. Even better, you can start it up by tapping the record button and it will start up and immediately and begin recording using the mode and settings you had the last time you started it. + +There's much to love about the Action, but it's not perfect. There's no support for GPS, which seems like a huge oversight given the market DJI is going for here. There's also not much support for instantly uploading footage and no support for livestreaming. You can upload relatively easily using DJI's mobile apps, but it's not nearly as simple as what the GoPro Hero 7 offers. The missing livestreaming is odd given that other DJI products are capable of it. My other major gripe is the use of blue text in menus, which is very hard to see in bright sunlight. + +Slight nitpicks aside, this is a very solid action camera. DJI may be new to the action camera market, but it's been making tiny cameras for years and it shows. The lack of GPS support is something of an Achilles heel on an otherwise very solid camera, but for many the front facing monitor will more than make up for it. diff --git a/published/parrot-anafi-review.txt b/published/parrot-anafi-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5389dd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/parrot-anafi-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +DJI drones have long dominated the skies, but there are plenty of other drone options out there. Parrot, which has long made some very fun toy-like drones, stepped up its game last year with the 4K-capable Anafi. + +The company is back with a slightly new take on the Anafi, the Anafi FPV (first person view), which adds FPV goggles, a convenient backpack, and still manages to keep the price at $800. Compare that with DJI's Mavic Air with goggles, which would set you back $tk. + +DJI's Mavic and goggles combo does offer a laundry list of features you won't find in the Anafi, but Parrot is betting there's a class of pilots out there who want the FPV experience, but don't want to shell out the big bucks to get it. + +### Same Same But Different + +Parrot released the Anafi earlier this year (see our [full review](https://www.wired.com/review/parrot-anafi-4k-hdr-drone/)) and it's largely unchanged in this release. The design is compact and lightweight, with arms that fold in making it easy to fit in your bag. Speaking of bags, one of my favorite parts of the FPV release is the included backpack, which neatly squares away all the components and is firm enough to double as a launch pad if there's no flat ground around. + +The camera is unchanged in this release, it still offers 4K video at up to 30 fps, and takes 21-megapixel still images (including RAW), but the camera unfortunately doesn't produce as good of an image as I would think given the specs. The RAW files are fine, but the JPGs straight out of the camera were a little flat to my eye. + +The Anafi has a top speed of 34 mph and manages a range of over two miles, though out of the box it's much more tightly geo-fenced. You'll need to go into the settings and tweak the geo fence to extend the range to its full potential. Parrot is now claiming 26 minutes flying time from on a single charge, that's up one minute from the original release. + +### Goggle Me Goose + +Small tweaks to the Anafi aside, the main point of this release is the first person view goggle headset. + +Parrot has opted for what you could call a goggle holster, a relatively comfortable harness that straps to your head and holds a phone in front of your eyes. It's simple to set up, just lock your phone in place, adjust the straps, and you're ready to go. Parrot has a [list of supported devices](){: rel=nofollow}, though in my testing, so long as you can run the app and your phone fits, you'll be fine. + +Tapping your phone to provide the screen allows Parrot to keep costs down, but it's not without some trade offs. There's less hardware to access controls and navigating your way through menus is definitely more difficult. There are two hardware buttons, one of which calls up a menu which you then navigate with the joysticks while the Anafi hovers in place. The other button toggles your phone display between the app and your rear camera, which is useful if you want to take a quick look around without removing the headset. + +The buttons in the headset are actually just levers which tap a spot on the phone's screen. There's something wonderfully low tech about this approach that I really like, and it eliminates the need for batteries in the headset, which keeps things lightweight and relatively comfortable. It's still not the most comfortable thing to wear though. I found the lack of focusing options (there are zero) made it difficult for my aging eyes to focus well on the screen for long periods of time. I was still able to fly without any trouble, but I never wanted to keep it on for too long. + +I should probably also confess that my bias is toward the drone as a flying camera, rather than as a racing copter. I understand the appeal of FPV for racing and some other scenarios, but it's not my control method of choice. That said, I did have a lot of fun flying the Anafi in Arcade mode, which makes the flight path follow the camera. This felt the most natural to me using the goggle headset. Pan the camera and the drone follows. + +The other main flight mode I enjoyed in FPV was Cinematic mode, which locks the camera’s horizon to the drone's horizon. More than anything this felt like an easier version of the old PC flight simulator games I played (or tried to play) as a kid. + +There's also a racing preset, which is what anyone with any experience and love of pure drone flying will want to use. I found the responsiveness of the Anafi in this mode to be impressive and on par with DJI's equivalent settings. + +The faster, more responsive modes highlight why I don't find FPV all that useful in the more general case, that is, outside of closely controlled situations. -- the lack of situational awareness. That is, you have tunnel vision and no awareness of anything happening outside the camera's field of view. + +That's fine for racing on a controlled course, or flying in an area with no obstructions like trees or buildings, but if you're flying at your local park, you can easily bank into a tree if you're not careful. Parrot has wisely defaulted the Anafi to what it calls "film" mode, which gives beginners a nice slow, gentle place to start flying. I'd also like to see Parrot include some object detection and collision avoidance features though. These have been standard issue for DJI drones for years now, but the Anafi offers nothing of the sort. + +The Anafi FPV does cost considerably less than a similar drone and google combo from DJI though. The trade off is, you'll lose a lot of features, some potentially drone-saving features, found in DJI's offering. + + + + +https://www.amazon.com/Parrot-Anafi-Lightweight-Cockpitglasses-Comprehensive/dp/B07WHDGR2R/ + +[B & H Photo Video](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1497566-REG/parrot_pf728050_anafi_fpv_portable_drone.html){: rel=nofollow}, [Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/parrot-anafi-fpv-drone-with-skycontroller-dark-gray/6366141.p?skuId=6366141){: rel=nofollow} diff --git a/published/password-managers-mag.txt b/published/password-managers-mag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fbf910 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/password-managers-mag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Your brain has better things to do than store secure passwords. Even your web browser isn't the best choice, it too has better things to do than secure your passwords. We offload the job to dedicated password managers like these which will keep your data synced and secure across all your devices. + +BitWarden: Best Overall + +Bitwarden is open source and subject to regular security audits making it the most transparently secure of the bunch. Bitwarden is free, making it the best choice for most people. The service's mobile apps for Android and iOS are easy to use and all your passwords seamlessly sync across devices. There are desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and browser extensions for popular web browsers. You can even host Bitwarden on your own server. The free account has no limitations, but premium accounts ($10/year) offer extras like password security checks, two-factor authentication, and priority customer support. + +1Password: Best for Apple fans. + +1Password's user interface is easy to understand and it's apps are well-integrated with your devices. This is especially true on iOS, where autofill "just works" better than the others. Extra features like "Travel Mode", which deletes sensitive data from devices before you travel, and "Watchtower" which identifies weak or reused passwords, help justify the higher prices: $36/year for one user, $60/year for a family account. + +Dashlane: Best for Newbies + +Dashlane's sign up and comprehensive set up process make it the best choice for password manager newcomers. Dashlane will get your password out of your browser and into its secure services. Extra features like "Site Breach Alerts" keep tabs on the dark parts of the web, making sure your personal data isn't being swapped by data thieves. If it is Dashlane will alert you and help you change any leaked passwords and protect your data. + +Lastpass: Best for tk + +LastPass made it's name with its free account, but we suggest you upgrade to the paid option ($36/ year individual, $48/year family) for the extra sharing features. Lastpass's emergency access feature allows someone you trust to easily access your account in an emergency, but the security check features are less polished than what you get with 1Password. + + + diff --git a/published/password-managers.txt b/published/password-managers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0501aa9 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/password-managers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +More: + +https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-password-managers,review-3785.html +Roboform +https://www.avira.com/en/prime + + +Password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they're good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the [password equivalent of junk food](https://www.wired.com/story/7-steps-to-password-perfection/). For seven years running that's been "123456" and "password"—the two [most commonly used passwords](https://www.wired.com/2016/01/worst-passwords-list/) on the web. + +The problem is, most of us don't know what makes a good password and aren't about to remember hundreds of them every day. + +If you can memorize strong passwords for hundreds of sites, by all means do it. Assuming you're using [secure passwords](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/password-tips-experts/)—which is, first and foremost, shorthand for *long* passwords—this is the most secure, if slightly insane, way to store passwords. It might work for [Memory Grandmaster Ed Cooke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Cooke_(author)), but most of us are not ready for that. We need to offload that work to password managers, which offer secure vaults that can stand in for our faulty, overworked memories. + +A password manager offers convenience and, more importantly, helps you create better passwords, which makes your online existence less vulnerable to password-based attacks. + +*Updated September 2019: We added a few new services to the list, including Bitwarden, Remember, and Myki. We also added a section to help you keep calm and carry on should your password manager turn out to have a security flaw.* + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +###Why Not Use Your Browser? + +Most web browsers offer at least a rudimentary password manager. (This where your passwords are stored when Chrome or Firefox ask if you'd like to save a password.) This is better than reusing the same password everywhere, but [browser-based password managers are limited](https://www.wired.com/2016/08/browser-password-manager-probably-isnt-enough/). + +The reason security experts recommend you use a dedicated password manager comes down to focus. Web browsers have other priorities that haven't left much time for improving their password manager. For instance, most of them won't generate strong passwords for you, leaving you right back at "123456." Dedicated password managers have a singular goal and have been adding helpful features for years now. Ideally, this leads to better security. + +###Best Overall + +**[1Password](https://1password.com/sign-up/){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5ce876e11dc26e34f63b885c]|||||| + +1Password began life as a Apple-centric password solution, but it has since broadened its offerings to include iOS, Android, Windows, and ChromeOS. There's even a command line tool that will work anywhere. There are plugins for your favorite web browser too, which makes it easy to generate and edit new passwords on the fly. + +What sets 1Password apart from the rest is the number of extras it offers. In addition to managing passwords, it can [act as an authentication app](https://www.wired.com/story/two-factor-authentication-apps-authy-google-authenticator/) like Google Authenticator and, for added security, it creates a secret key to the encryption key it uses, meaning no one can decrypt your passwords without that key. (The downside is that if you lose this key, no one, not even 1Password, can decrypt your passwords.) + +Another reason 1Password offers the best experience is its tight integration with other mobile apps. Rather than needing to copy/paste passwords between your password manager and other apps, 1Password is integrated with many apps and can autofill. This is more noticeable on iOS, where inter-app communication is more restricted. + +The other reason I like [1Password is "Travel Mode,"](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/clever-new-way-protect-data-border-also-add-risk/) which allows you to delete any sensitive data from your devices before you travel and then restore it with a click after you've crossed the border. This prevents anyone, even law enforcement at international borders, from accessing your complete password vault. + +1Password is $3 per month ($36 per year) for one person and $5 per month ($60 per year) for a family of up to five people. There's a 30-day free trial for either plan so you can test it out before committing. + +**[1Password costs $3 per month ($36 per year)](https://1password.com/sign-up/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*After signing up, [download the app](https://1password.com/downloads/){: rel=nofollow} for Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, or Linux. There are also browser extensions for [Firefox, Chrome, and Edge](https://1password.com/downloads/#browsers){: rel=nofollow}.* + +###Best Free Option + +**[Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/){: rel=nofollow}** + +Bitwarden has become a popular choice among open source software advocates, and after using it for a few months I can see why. It's free with no limits, and it's every bit as polished and user-friendly as our top pick. Did I mention it's open source? + +The code that powers Bitwarden is freely available for anyone to inspect, find flaws, and fix them. In theory, the more eyes on the code, the more secure it becomes. Bitwarden has also been audited by a third party to ensure it's secure. Bitwarden can also be installed on your own server, for easy self-hosting if you prefer to run your own cloud. + +There are apps for Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Linux, as well as browser extensions for all major web browsers, plus less common options like Opera, Brave, and [Vivaldi](https://www.wired.com/story/try-vivaldi-browser-android-chrome/) (which all support Chrome extensions). + +Another thing I like is BitWarden's semi-automated password fill-in tool. If you visit a site that you've saved credentials for, Bitwarden's browser icon shows the number of saved credentials from that site. Click the icon and it will ask which account you want to use and then automatically fill in the login form. This makes it easy to switch between usernames and avoids the pitfalls of autofill we mention at the bottom of this guide. If you simply must have your fully automated form filling, Bitwarden does support that as well. + +Bitwarden offers a paid upgrade account. The cheapest of the bunch, Bitwarden Premium is $10/year, which gets you 1 GB of encrypted file storage, two-factor authentication with devices like YubiKey, FIDO U2F, and Duo, and a password hygiene and vault health report. Paying also gets you priority customer support. + +**[Bitwarden is free](https://bitwarden.com/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*After signing up, [download the app](https://bitwarden.com/#download){: rel=nofollow} for Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, or Linux. There are also browser extensions for [Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave](https://bitwarden.com/#download){: rel=nofollow}.* + +###Best Full-Featured Manager + +**[Dashlane](https://www.dashlane.com/plans){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5ce876fe3c2fcc042d070e80]|||||| + +I first encountered Dashlane several years ago. Back then it was the same as its competitors, but recent updates, especially Dashlane 6, have added several features not found elsewhere. One of the best features of Dashlane is what it calls Site Breach Alerts. Dashlane actively monitors the darker corners of the web, looking for leaked or stolen personal data, and then alerts you if your information is found. + +The desktop client is easy to navigate and the mobile apps make getting your data everywhere a cinch, though there is no syncing between devices without buying the Premium version ([$5 per month](https://www.dashlane.com/getpremium?plan=premium){: rel=nofollow}). Still, it's simple to set up and uses a secret key to encrypt your passwords, much like 1Password's set up process. + +We also like the option not to store any password data on Dashlane's servers. If you use this feature, you are responsible for managing and syncing your password vault between devices. It's less convenient, but your passwords stay with you. This isn't possible with 1Password or LastPass. The Premium plan has other nice extras you won't find with other services, like a free VPN. + +Dashlane Premium costs $5 per month ($60 per year). There's also Premium Plus, which costs $10 per month ($120 per year) and includes some identity theft and recovery tools. There's a 30-day free trial for either plan, so you can test it out before committing. + +**[Dashlane Premium (recommended) costs $5 per month ($60 per year)](https://www.dashlane.com/plans){: rel=nofollow}** + +*After signing up, [grab the app](https://www.dashlane.com/download){: rel=nofollow} for Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, or Linux. There are also browser extensions for [Firefox, Chrome, and Edge](https://www.dashlane.com/download){: rel=nofollow}.* + +###Best DIY Option (Self Hosted) + +**[KeepassXC](https://keepassxc.org/download/){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5ce8771de2751d04edfcf520]|||||| + +Want to retain more control over your data in the cloud? Try using a desktop application like KeePassXC. It stores encrypted versions of all your passwords into an encrypted digital vault that you secure with a master password, a key file, or both. The difference is that instead of a hosted service like 1Password syncing it for you, you sync that database file yourself using a file-syncing service like [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/){: rel=nofollow} or Edward Snowden's [recommended service](https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/edward-snowden-new-yorker-festival/): [SpiderOak](https://spideroak.com/){: rel=nofollow}. Once your file is in the cloud you can access it on any device that has a KeePassXC client. + +Why do it yourself? In a word: transparency. Of all the solutions on this list, only KeepassXC is open source, which means its code can, and has, been inspected for critical flaws. + +**[KeePassXC is free to use](https://keepassxc.org/download/){: rel=nofollow}** + +*Download the [desktop app](https://keepassxc.org/download/) for Windows, MacOS, or Linux and create your vault. There are also extensions for [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepassxc-browser/){: rel=nofollow} and [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keepassxc-browser/oboonakemofpalcgghocfoadofidjkkk){: rel=nofollow}, but not Edge. It does not have official apps for your phone. Instead, the project recommends [Keepass2Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android){: rel=nofollow} or [Strongbox for iPhone](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/strongbox-password-safe/id897283731){: rel=nofollow}.* + +###Best Cloudless, Phone-Based Solution + +**[Myki](https://myki.com/){: rel=nofollow}** + +Myki takes a very different approach to password management, using your device to sync instead of a cloud-based server. Everything starts on your phone. You set up your account via your device and then that syncs your passwords with Myki's browser extensions running on your desktop. The sync happens through Myki's relay servers, but no data is actually stored, it just passes through en route from your phone to the browser extension. + +On the device, Myki eschews a master password, opting instead for a six-digit PIN or fingerprint to access the mobile app. All other approvals (like pair with your browser on a laptop) are approved through the mobile app. That means the only real way to compromise Myki is for an attacker to get your phone, unlock the phone, and then unlock your Myki with your fingerprint, which is pretty unlikely. + +The downside side to storing everything on your phone is that if you lose your phone, you're in real trouble. Even if no one else can access your data, you can't either. For that reason you'll want to regularly make an encrypted backup of your passwords, which you can do in the browser extensions. + +Myki started out aimed at the enterprise market and that initial focus on teams of users shows in features like the password sharing. Of all the apps tested, Myki is the easiest to share login info between accounts. The one flaw is when the user you've shared with uses that password in the browser extension. Because that relies on JavaScript, the person you've shared the password with could intercept the JavaScript and see your password. The company says it's working on a solution, but frankly, it's hard to see what that could be, since every service listed does the same thing. + +**[Myki is free to use (with optional paid plans)](https://myki.com/pricing){: rel=nofollow}** + +###Honorary Mentions + + +[#image: /photos/5ce87750b2569847a06b2c11]|||||| + +- **[LastPass](https://www.lastpass.com/pricing){: rel=nofollow}:** LastPass is one of the most popular and well-known password managers out there. It works on nearly every platform and device available. The main drawback is its mixed security track record. LastPass has had a number of [high-profile, critical bugs](https://www.wired.com/2015/06/hack-brief-password-manager-lastpass-got-breached-hard/) and some data breaches. Overall though, LastPass remains a good choice for those on a tight budget. + +- **[RememBear](https://www.remembear.com/){: rel=nofollow}:** RememBear does everything you'd expect of a password manager and it has bears. Password managers are possibly the most boring software on your device, plus just the idea of them is stressful to some people. RememBear counters this by entertaining with bear puns and smoothing out anxiety with its friendly, lovable bear mascot. + +The downside to RememBear is that it's missing a few features advanced users might want, notably two-factor authentication (RememBear support 2FA for logging into sites, but not the app itself), and a password strength checker. For beginners though, RememBear has everything you need and a clever, approachable user interface. There's a free trial that will let you test the app, but the free plan doesn't sync. A premium account will set you back $36/year, and includes syncing with end-to-end encryption, secure backups, and priority customer service. Regrettably, premium does not include an actual bear. + +- **[NordPass](https://nordpass.com/){: rel=nofollow}:** is a brand new password manager from the well-known VPN provider, [NordVPN](https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordpass-password-manager/){: rel=nofollow}. NordPass is in fact so new it doesn't exist yet, but given NordVPN's success, we're keeping a close eye on this one. We'll update this guide when it launches and we have a chance to test it.. + +###Password Manager Basics + +A good password manager stores, generates, and updates passwords for you with the press of a button. If you're willing to spend a few dollars a month, a password manager can sync your passwords across all your devices. Here's how they work. + +__Only One Password to Remember:__ To access all your passwords you only have to remember one password, which the password manager uses to unlock the vault containing your all your actual passwords. Only needing to remember one password is great, but it means there's a lot riding on that one password. Make sure it's a good one. + +If you're having trouble coming up with that one password to rule them all, check out our guide to [better password security](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/password-tips-experts/). You might also consider using the [Diceware](http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html) method to generate a strong master password. + +__Apps and Extensions:__ Most password managers are systems rather than a single thing. They consist of apps or browser extensions for each of your devices (Windows, Mac, Android phones, iPhone, and tablets), which have tools to help you create secure passwords, safely store them, and evaluate the security your existing passwords. All that information is then sent to a central server where your passwords are encrypted, stored, and shared between devices. + +__Fixing Compromised Passwords:__ While password managers can help you create more secure passwords and keep them safe from prying eyes, they can't protect your password if [the website itself is breached](https://www.wired.com/story/collection-one-breach-email-accounts-passwords/). That doesn't mean they don't help in this scenario though. All three of the cloud-based password managers below offer tools to alert you to potentially compromised passwords. Password managers also make it easier to quickly change a compromised password and search through your passwords to ensure you didn't reuse any compromised codes. + +__You Should Disable Auto Form Filling:__ Some password managers will automatically fill in and even submit web forms for you. This is super convenient, but for additional security we suggest you disable this feature. Automatically filling forms in the browser has made password managers [vulnerable to attack](https://www.wired.com/story/password-manager-autofill-ad-tech-privacy/) in the past. For this reason our favorite password manager, [1Password](https://1password.com/sign-up/){: rel=nofollow}, requires you to opt-in to this feature. We suggest you do not. + +__Don't Panic:__ Software has bugs, even your password manager. The question is not what do you do *if* your password manager discovers a flaw, but what do you do *when* your password manager discovers a flaw. The answer is, first, don't panic. Normally bugs are [found](https://www.wired.com/story/a-password-exposing-bug-was-purged-from-lastpass/), reported, and fixed before they're exploited in the wild. Even if someone does manage to gain access to your password manager's servers, you should still be fine. All of the services below only store encrypted data and none of them store your encryption key, meaning all an attacker gets from compromising their servers is encrypted data. + +Correction on May 28: Edited to clarify that two-factor authentication is part of all Lastpass options. + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* An exclusive look inside [Apple’s A13 bionic chip](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-a13-bionic-chip-iphone/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* WIRED's 13 [must-read books for fall](https://www.wired.com/story/2019-fall-book-list/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers [aimed for physical destruction](https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ukraine-cyberattack-power-grid-blackout-destruction/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* The unbuilt streets of [California's ghost metropolis](https://www.wired.com/story/california-ghost-metropolis-gallery/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) +* One scientist's quest to bring [DNA sequencing](https://www.wired.com/story/one-scientists-quest-to-bring-dna-sequencing-to-every-sick-kid/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5) to every sick kid +* 👁 [How do machines learn](https://www.wired.com/story/how-we-learn-machine-learning-human-teachers/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_5)? 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Prime Day has those and more—be sure to see out [our top picks](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/)—but it also has plenty of less glamorous, but still-great deals. + +We all need more memory for our devices, you can never have too many charging cables, and most of us have wrestled with slow hotel Wi-Fi enough to appreciate the value of an Ethernet dongle. Here's our picks for the best of the rest of Prime Day. + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +*** +###WIRED's Prime Day Coverage + +- [Absolute Best Amazon Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) + +- *Amazon Device Deals* + +- *Live at 7am ET:* [Home, Kitchen, and Outdoors Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-home-deals-2019/) + +- *Live at 12pm ET:* [Rival Deals from Walmart, Best Buy, and Other Stores](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-alternative-deals/) + +- [Google's Best Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-nest-devices-on-sale-july-2019/) + +- [Prime Day Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/early-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) and [How Amazon Works](https://www.wired.com/gallery/amazon-prime-day-prep-stories/) + +- **[1-Year WIRED Digital + Print Subscription for $5 ($5 off)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub)** +(Amazon Pay accepted. Please support our work!) +*** + +###Moar Memory* + +Memory isn't all that exciting, but admit it, you can never have enough. This year's Prime Day has some smokin' deals on SD cards of all shapes and sizes, hard drives, and dual USB sticks. Expand the storage capacity of your phone, Twitch, or other device with these deals. + +- __[SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSD Card for $9.50 ($43 off)](https://amzn.to/2lkexuQ){: rel=nofollow}:__ Offering up to 100-megabytes per second read speeds and 60 megabytes per second write speeds, this SanDisk is speedy enough for most things. With 400-gigabytes your device should have all the room you need for storing games, photos and apps. + +- __[SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSD Card for $14 ($47 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljCpyH){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you prefer speed to space, this smaller microSD card will get you up to 160MB/s read speeds and 90 MB/s write. The extra speed is nice for cameras and phones where faster write times mean fewer missed photos. + +- __[SanDisk 128GB Dual USB-C/USB 3.1 for $18 ($10 off)](https://amzn.to/2jSpdjN){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you're like us you've probably got some devices with USB-3.1 and some older ones with USB-C. This SanDisk drive bridges that gap with connectors for both. + +- __[SanDisk 256GB iXpand iPhone/iPad Flash Drive for $22 ($52 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljDvKP){: rel=nofollow}:__ This double ended memory stick has both USB 3.0 and Apple Lightning connectors, making it easy to transfer and back up data from your iPhone or iPad. + +- __[LaCie Rugged Portable 2TB External Hard Drive for $66 ($44 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljs71x){: rel=nofollow}:__ This double ended memory stick has both USB 3.0 and Apple Lightning connectors, making it easy to transfer and back up data from your iPhone or iPad. + +### Chargers, Cables and Smart Plugs + +You know what's even more boring than memory? Cables. You know what you're always needing more of? Cables. You always need them, you never have them. Might as well stock up while they're cheap. + +- __[Anker External Battery Pack for $38 ($12 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljzhmu){: rel=nofollow}:__ This high capacity power bank can put out 4.8 Amps, which is more than enough portable power to recharge most phones at least four times and it can top off your tablet as well. It weighs about 12 ounces so you can throw it in your bag and forget about it until you need it. + +- __[Anker PowerCore II Battery Pack for $31 ($28 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you don't need the tablet charging power of the other, this one can easily handle your phone and is a bit lighter at 6.8 ounces. + +- __[AmazonBasics Double Braided 1-foot Nylon USB-C for $1.35 ($4 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljw2eO){: rel=nofollow}:__ The 1-foot version is good to keep around for connecting devices to your PC. If you need something longer for charging there's a [3-foot version for $3.50 ($5.50 off)](https://amzn.to/2lj2Bth){: rel=nofollow}. + +- __[TP-Link Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug for $5 ($12 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljXEAu){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you’re just dipping your toes in the smart home waters this plug makes a low-cost, low-stakes entry point. Just plug it in and you can control whatever’s plugged into it with a yelp. + + +### Road Warrior Must-Haves + +If summer travels send you out on the road, make sure you grab these essentials before you leave. + +- __[AmazonBasics Softside Spinner Luggage Suitcase for $28 ($38 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ It's a little too large for a carry-on, but this 25-inch soft-sided spinning wheel suitcase is perfect when you need to check a bag anyway. + +- __[Trtl Neck Support Travel Pillow for $20 ($10 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ Catch some sleep on the plane with this lightweight, foldable travel pillow. WIRED Senior Associate Editor Arielle Pardes won't travel without one of these. + +- __[TP-Link USB-3 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for $9 ($14 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ The next time you try to use hotel Wi-Fi you'll be glad you bought this adapter. Yes, wireless is everywhere, but *fast* wireless is not. + +- __[LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for $9 ($14 off)](https://amzn.to/2l77rd0){: rel=nofollow}:__ Whether you're camping, hiking, or traveling internationally, a light, small, portable, and packable water filter can save your life (or at least save you from a night or two of terrible tummy trouble). This is a great price for a water filter that doesn't require any batteries and won't make your water taste weird.. + +*Check our [Amazon Prime Day Page](https://www.wired.com/tag/amazon-prime-day/) for more coverage and deals.* diff --git a/published/pd-big-deals-little-stuff.txt_ b/published/pd-big-deals-little-stuff.txt_ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f82fb19 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/pd-big-deals-little-stuff.txt_ @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Everyone loves a flashy deal: [a Kindle for $60](https://amzn.to/2xItPfJ){: rel=nofollow}, a [Lenovo Chromebook](https://amzn.to/2l4m0xX){: rel=nofollow} nearly half off, or an epic [27-Inch 4K IPS Monitor for $300](https://amzn.to/2l6bpTc){: rel=nofollow}. Prime Day has those and more—be sure to see out [our top picks](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/)—but it also has plenty of less glamorous, but still-great deals. + +We all need more memory for our devices, you can never have too many charging cables, and most of us have wrestled with slow hotel Wi-Fi enough to appreciate the value of an Ethernet dongle. Here's our picks for the best of the rest of Prime Day. + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +*** +###WIRED's Prime Day Coverage + +- [Absolute Best Amazon Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) + +- *Amazon Device Deals* + +- *Live at 7am ET:* [Home, Kitchen, and Outdoors Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-home-deals-2019/) + +- *Live at 12pm ET:* [Rival Deals from Walmart, Best Buy, and Other Stores](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-alternative-deals/) + +- [Google's Best Prime Day Deals](https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-nest-devices-on-sale-july-2019/) + +- [Prime Day Tips](https://www.wired.com/story/early-amazon-prime-day-deals-2019/) and [How Amazon Works](https://www.wired.com/gallery/amazon-prime-day-prep-stories/) + +- **[1-Year WIRED Digital + Print Subscription for $5 ($5 off)](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub)** +(Amazon Pay accepted. Please support our work!) +*** + +###Moar Memory* + +Memory isn't all that exciting, but admit it, you can never have enough. This year's Prime Day has some smokin' deals on SD cards of all shapes and sizes, hard drives, and dual USB sticks. Expand the storage capacity of your phone, Twitch, or other device with these deals. + +- __[SanDisk Ultra 400GB microSD Card for $9.50 ($43 off)](https://amzn.to/2lkexuQ){: rel=nofollow}:__ Offering up to 100-megabytes per second read speeds and 60 megabytes per second write speeds, this SanDisk is speedy enough for most things. With 400-gigabytes your device should have all the room you need for storing games, photos and apps. + +- __[SanDisk Extreme 256GB microSD Card for $14 ($47 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljCpyH){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you prefer speed to space, this smaller microSD card will get you up to 160MB/s read speeds and 90 MB/s write. The extra speed is nice for cameras and phones where faster write times mean fewer missed photos. + +- __[SanDisk 128GB Dual USB-C/USB 3.1 for $18 ($10 off)](https://amzn.to/2jSpdjN){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you're like us you've probably got some devices with USB-3.1 and some older ones with USB-C. This SanDisk drive bridges that gap with connectors for both. + +- __[SanDisk 256GB iXpand iPhone/iPad Flash Drive for $22 ($52 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljDvKP){: rel=nofollow}:__ This double ended memory stick has both USB 3.0 and Apple Lightning connectors, making it easy to transfer and back up data from your iPhone or iPad. + +- __[LaCie Rugged Portable 2TB External Hard Drive for $66 ($44 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljs71x){: rel=nofollow}:__ This double ended memory stick has both USB 3.0 and Apple Lightning connectors, making it easy to transfer and back up data from your iPhone or iPad. + +### Chargers, Cables and Smart Plugs + +You know what's even more boring than memory? Cables. You know what you're always needing more of? Cables. You always need them, you never have them. Might as well stock up while they're cheap. + +- __[Anker External Battery Pack for $38 ($12 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljzhmu){: rel=nofollow}:__ This high capacity power bank can put out 4.8 Amps, which is more than enough portable power to recharge most phones at least four times and it can top off your tablet as well. It weighs about 12 ounces so you can throw it in your bag and forget about it until you need it. + +- __[Anker PowerCore II Battery Pack for $31 ($28 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you don't need the tablet charging power of the other, this one can easily handle your phone and is a bit lighter at 6.8 ounces. + +- __[AmazonBasics Double Braided 1-foot Nylon USB-C for $1.35 ($4 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljw2eO){: rel=nofollow}:__ The 1-foot version is good to keep around for connecting devices to your PC. If you need something longer for charging there's a [3-foot version for $3.50 ($5.50 off)](https://amzn.to/2lj2Bth){: rel=nofollow}. + +- __[TP-Link Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug for $5 ($12 off)](https://amzn.to/2ljXEAu){: rel=nofollow}:__ If you’re just dipping your toes in the smart home waters this plug makes a low-cost, low-stakes entry point. Just plug it in and you can control whatever’s plugged into it with a yelp. + + +### Road Warrior Must-Haves + +If summer travels send you out on the road, make sure you grab these essentials before you leave. + +- __[AmazonBasics Softside Spinner Luggage Suitcase for $28 ($38 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ It's a little too large for a carry-on, but this 25-inch soft-sided spinning wheel suitcase is perfect when you need to check a bag anyway. + +- __[Trtl Neck Support Travel Pillow for $20 ($10 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ Catch some sleep on the plane with this lightweight, foldable travel pillow. WIRED Senior Associate Editor Arielle Pardes won't travel without one of these. + +- __[TP-Link USB-3 to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for $9 ($14 off)](https://amzn.to/2jTGnxF){: rel=nofollow}:__ The next time you try to use hotel Wi-Fi you'll be glad you bought this adapter. Yes, wireless is everywhere, but *fast* wireless is not. + +- __[LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for $9 ($14 off)](https://amzn.to/2l77rd0){: rel=nofollow}:__ Whether you're camping, hiking, or traveling internationally, a light, small, portable, and packable water filter can save your life (or at least save you from a night or two of terrible tummy trouble). This is a great price for a water filter that doesn't require any batteries and won't make your water taste weird.. + +*Check our [Amazon Prime Day Page](https://www.wired.com/tag/amazon-prime-day/) for more coverage and deals.* diff --git a/published/pd-newsletter.txt b/published/pd-newsletter.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fb8bc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/pd-newsletter.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +__Amazon Prime Day continues__. The deals madness run though midnight Pacific Time tonight, the accompanying [strikes and protests](https://www.wired.com/story/robots-alone-cant-solve-amazons-labor-woes/) may last longer. + +We've spent the past weeks combing through the deals until our eyes bleed and pulled together our master list of the [47 best tech deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-prime-day-deals-2019/). Some of our favorites include Amazon's various devices—the [Kindles are a particularly good deal this year](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-kindle-deals-2019/)—and all the [home and outdoor gear on sale](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-home-deals-2019/). + +We've also gather up [our favorite Google and Nest devices](https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-nest-devices-on-sale-july-2019/) that are on sale right now. This year, some of the best deals aren't even on Amazon so we put together a whole list of [great deals happening at other retailers](). + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Much like [subscribing to WIRED for $5](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub), these contributions help fund the journalism we put out every day. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + + diff --git a/published/pd-newsletter.txt_ b/published/pd-newsletter.txt_ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fb8bc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/pd-newsletter.txt_ @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +__Amazon Prime Day continues__. The deals madness run though midnight Pacific Time tonight, the accompanying [strikes and protests](https://www.wired.com/story/robots-alone-cant-solve-amazons-labor-woes/) may last longer. + +We've spent the past weeks combing through the deals until our eyes bleed and pulled together our master list of the [47 best tech deals](https://www.wired.com/story/best-prime-day-deals-2019/). Some of our favorites include Amazon's various devices—the [Kindles are a particularly good deal this year](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-kindle-deals-2019/)—and all the [home and outdoor gear on sale](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-prime-day-home-deals-2019/). + +We've also gather up [our favorite Google and Nest devices](https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-nest-devices-on-sale-july-2019/) that are on sale right now. This year, some of the best deals aren't even on Amazon so we put together a whole list of [great deals happening at other retailers](). + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Much like [subscribing to WIRED for $5](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub), these contributions help fund the journalism we put out every day. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + + diff --git a/published/pixel-buying-guide.txt b/published/pixel-buying-guide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d3eb78 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/pixel-buying-guide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +[#image: /photos/5da5ed0501e4a40008261467]|||||| + + +Apple's latest iPhones are here. There are three new iPhones to choose from: the iPhone 11 Pro Max, the smaller iPhone 11 Pro, and the standard iPhone 11. If you're wondering which one is right for you and where to buy them, look no further. We've broken down all your options and parsed out everything you need to know. + +If you need to enter the reality distortion field and hear all about Apple's latest pocket-size technological marvels, check out [our full recap of Apple's big event](https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-sept-2019/). + +*Updated September 20, 2019: We've added some more iPhone deals and updated our links. The iPhone 11 models went on sale at 8 am Eastern/5 am Pacific time on September 20.* + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Read more about [how this works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/).* + +###Picking the Right iPhone 11 for You + +There are a few key differences between the new iPhones. Apple has a side-by-side comparison you can look at [here](https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/){: rel=nofollow}, complete with all the specs if you're a spec junkie. You can also read [our iPhone Buying Guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/iphone-buying-guide/) to learn why you should consider an iPhone XR. + +Our quick take is that all three phones are impressive pieces of hardware. The form factor hasn't changed much beyond the new camera layout (more on that below). The main hardware improvement is the new A13 Bionic processor. Apple claims its A13 chip has the fastest-ever CPU and GPU in a smartphone, and you can [read all about it here](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-a13-bionic-chip-iphone/). + +All models also start at 64 GB of storage. If you can swing it, go for 128 GB. If not, backing your photos up to iCloud can clear up a lot of space. + +- **The [iPhone 11 ($699)](https://apple.sjv.io/Jddmq){: rel=nofollow} is the best phone for most people:** The iPhone 11 ([8/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/apple-iphone-11/)) is very nearly as nice as its Pro siblings at a fraction of the cost. It has the same high-end chip set and a very similar size screen, and all of the software improvements work just fine on the iPhone 11. It can shoot the same 4K video at 60 fps, and Apple claims it gets an extra hour of battery life compared to the iPhone XR. What the iPhone 11 lacks is the brighter, sharper, HDR screen and the telephoto (2x zoom) camera of the Pro models. The 11 still has all the software upgrades like Night mode, which reduces noise in low-light situations, Portrait mode improvements, and a new lighting effect called High Key Mono, which produces black and white images. You also get Smart HDR, Slo-mo selfies, and all the rest of Apple's photo and video software upgrades. + +- **The [iPhone 11 Pro ($999)](https://apple.sjv.io/Qd52a){: rel=nofollow} has a nicer screen and third camera:** If you want a flagship piece of hardware and don't mind paying for it, this is your phone. The iPhone 11 Pro ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/apple-iphone-11-pro/)) adds a third, telephoto camera (2x zoom) with a 52mm f/2.0 lens. The Pro models get a 2x optical zoom-in, along with a 10x digital zoom. Together these extras open up some additional photographic possibilities. Combine the extra camera with the brighter HDR screen, and the 11 Pro feels more like a camera that happens to take calls than a phone that takes pictures. It gets 4 hours more battery life than the XS and is waterproof up to 4 meters, instead of 2 meters like the 11. + +- **The [iPhone 11 Pro Max ($1,099)](https://apple.sjv.io/Qd52a){: rel=nofollow} is the over-the-top phablet:** The iPhone 11 Pro Max ([9/10, WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/apple-iphone-11-pro/)) is mostly identical to the Pro, but larger. Its 6.5-inch Super Retina XDR display is notably bigger than the plain Pro's 5.8-inch display. Otherwise, though, it's the same phone, just turned to 11. It gets 5 hours more battery life than an XS Max from last year, according to Apple. + +###Accessorize (and Buy a Case) + +No matter which phone you end up with, get a case. The iPhone 11 line is mostly glass. Sure, Apple has ads showing the new iPhone dropping and bouncing off the ground in slo-mo, and the company claims it's the most scratch-resistant glass ever, but trust me, glass does shatter. + +Some people don't like the added bulk, but I prefer to protect my phone investment with a case. The [Speck Presidio Sport](https://fave.co/2UOGqJi){: rel=nofollow} provides good protection without being overly bulky, but if you want really bulletproof protection, go for an [OtterBox case](https://fave.co/2UO5tvL){: rel=nofollow}. + +###Buy It Unlocked + + +[#image: /photos/5d77f386933a7300086dc3a7]||| +iPhone 11 Pro +||| + + +The easiest way to order is from Apple.com. We recommend you buy the phone unlocked. That way you'll be able to use it on any wireless carrier, should you ever decide to switch. When it comes time to upgrade in a couple of years, you'll get more money back for an unlocked phone. And again, we recommend a 128 GB model if you go for a Pro. + +- **[iPhone 11 for $699+ at the Apple Store](https://apple.sjv.io/Jddmq){: rel=nofollow}:** Buy it unlocked. Apple offers up to a $300 trade-in credit. + +- **[iPhone 11 Pro (both models) for $999+ at the Apple Store](https://apple.sjv.io/Qd52a){: rel=nofollow}:** Buy it unlocked. Apple offers up to a $400 trade-in credit. + +###More iPhone 11 Deals + +Below are some major retailer offers, which should all sell unlocked versions of the phone (recommended). Again, unlocked is really the way to go, since it frees you up to use any network or sell/gift your phone down the road. Having said that, there are some carrier specific deals out there. They're worth a look if you're not planning to [sell your phone](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-trade-in-or-sell-your-iphone/) in the future or switch wireless networks. We've linked to the standard iPhone 11 pages. + +- **[Walmart offers $50 off](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=iphone11deals&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https://www.walmart.com/cp/9922722){: rel=nofollow}:** At the moment, Walmart has the best deal going. You can get $50 off all three iPhone 11 models if you order at Walmart. We linked to the standard iPhone 11, but you can also order the [iPhone 11 Pro](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=iphone11deals&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https://www.walmart.com/cp/7927648){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[Verizon offers $700 off to new unlimited subscribers](https://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/apple-iphone-11/){: rel=nofollow}:** Verizon has a couple deals. If you switch to Verizon and pony up for the unlimited plan, you can get a free iPhone 11, or up to $700 off any new iPhone when you trade in your smartphone. You'll get your $700 credit in the form of a $500 credit applied over 24 months and a $200 prepaid card. If you've been planning to switch anyway, and want an unlimited plan, this isn't a bad deal. Here's a link to the [iPhone 11 Pro page](https://www.verizonwireless.com/wireless-devices/smartphones/iphone-11-pro/){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[AT&T also offers $700 off your second iPhone 11](https://www.att.com/buy/phones/apple-iphone-11-256gb-black.html){: rel=nofollow}:** If you buy one iPhone 11 and start a $100 per month new line of service, AT&T will give you a second iPhone 11. The [iPhone 11 Pro](https://www.att.com/buy/phones/apple-iphone-11-pro-256gb-midnight-green.html){: rel=nofollow} and [iPhone 11 Pro Max](https://www.att.com/buy/phones/apple-iphone-11-pro-max-256gb-midnight-green.html){: rel=nofollow} are listed separately on its site. + +- **[Sprint sort of has a deal](https://www.sprint.com/en/landings/apple/iphone-11.html){: rel=nofollow}:** Sprint is offering a $0 a month iPhone 11 with a new line and trade-in of qualifying phone (iPhone 7 or better, as well as newer Android phones). The [iPhone 11 Pro](https://www.sprint.com/en/landings/apple/iphone.html){: rel=nofollow} is slightly more per month ($12.50) and listed separately. + +- **[T-Mobile order page](https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/apple-iphone-deals){: rel=nofollow}:** T-Mobile is offering the iPhone 11 at 50 percent off ($350) provided you have an "equitable" device to trade in. For example, trade in an iPhone 7 and get half off the iPhone 11. Or trade in iPhone XS Max for half off the iPhone 11 Pro Max. + +- **[Best Buy order page](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/iphone/shop-iphone-11-iphone-11-pro-and-iphone-11-pro-max/pcmcat1568147641595.c?id=pcmcat1568147641595){: rel=nofollow}:** You can get all three phones from Best Buy, which also has trade-in offers. + +- **[Target order page](https://www.target.com/p/apple-iphone-11/-/A-78052843){: rel=nofollow}:** Target also has the [iPhone 11 Pro](https://www.target.com/p/apple-iphone-11-pro/-/A-78052805){: rel=nofollow} and [iPhone 11 Pro Max](https://www.target.com/p/apple-iphone-11-pro-max/-/A-78052840){: rel=nofollow} listed separately. + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* Watch [how to solve a Rubik's cube](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-solve-a-rubiks-cube-step-by-step/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4), step by step +* Why the [Porsche Taycan's two-speed gearbox](https://www.wired.com/story/electric-car-two-speed-transmission-gearbox/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) is such a big deal +* Elon Musk: Humanity is a kind of [“biological boot loader” for AI](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-humanity-biological-boot-loader-ai/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* You are already [having sex with robots](https://www.wired.com/story/you-are-already-having-sex-with-robots/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* The ethics of [hiding your data from the machines](https://www.wired.com/story/ethics-hiding-your-data-from-machines/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* 👁 [How do machines learn](https://www.wired.com/story/how-we-learn-machine-learning-human-teachers/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4)? Plus, read the [latest news on artificial intelligence](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_4) +* 📱 Torn between the latest phones? Never fear—check out our [iPhone buying guide](https://wired.com/gallery/iphone-buying-guide/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) and [favorite Android phones](https://wired.com/gallery/best-android-phones/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) diff --git a/published/pixel4rewrite.txt b/published/pixel4rewrite.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc63490 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/pixel4rewrite.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +Google's [Pixel 4](https://www.wired.com/story/google-pixel-4-pixel-4-xl/) phones are here. There are two new models to choose from: the Pixel 4 and the larger Pixel 4 XL. If you're trying to decide which one to get and where to buy it, look no further. We've broken down all the ordering options and found the best places to snag a new Pixel 4 before it ships on October 24. + +If you'd like to see what else Google announced, including other new devices like the Pixel Buds earphones, Pixelbook Go laptop, and Nest Mini speaker with Google Assistant, check out [our full coverage of Google's fall hardware event](https://www.wired.com/story/everything-google-announced-pixel-4-event/). + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Read more about [how this works](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/).* + +###Picking the Right Pixel for You + +Google's latest flagship handset comes in two sizes: the 5.7-inch Pixel 4 and the 6.3-inch Pixel 4 XL. Aside from the screen, the hardware is each version is identical. + +Both Phones have OLED displays with the same resolution as last year's Pixel 3. Google has added HDR support, so this year's screens can better represent lights and darks. The new display is UHDA certified, which means it meets the industry standard for showing high dynamic range content. The bigger screen news in this update is the 90-megahertz refresh rate, which should make scrolling through webpages and apps feel even more smooth. + +[#cneembed: script/video/5da6107ebcdfff04c588071f.js?autoplay=0]|||||| + +Also new is the dual camera system. Google has plopped a 16-megapixel telephoto lens alongside the more familiar 12-megapixel wide angle lens. The Pixel 4 camera system still relies heavily on Google's [computational photography](https://www.wired.com/story/google-pixel-3-camera-features/) for many of its features, but the new lens allows for even more camera cleverness. + +The Pixel 4 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip with 6 gigabytes of RAM. Both versions of the Pixel 4 are available with two storage capacity options; one with 64 GB of storage and one with 128 GB. If you can swing it, go for 128 GB. If you can only afford the smaller capacity, learn to use the [cloud backup features in Google Photos](https://www.wired.com/story/how-tame-your-smartphone-pic-overload-google-photos/), which can clear up a lot of space. + +Aside from the specs, the Pixel 4 also looks significantly different from last year's model—at least, as much as a rectangular smartphone handset can. The characteristic dual-tone back panel that defined the first three generations is gone. Instead the Pixel 4 adopts a more uniform look on the back that's similar to its high-end competitors like the Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy. The Pixel 4 even has a glossy-backed option. Also gone is the rear fingerprint sensor—the Pixel 4 instead relies on face recognition to quickly unlock the phone. + +Here's our quick take on the new Pixel 4: + +- **The [Pixel 4 ($799)](https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Just-Black-Unlocked/dp/B07YMNLXL3/){: rel=nofollow} is the best phone for most people:** The 5.7-inch display of the Pixel 4 is going to provide more than enough screen real estate for most users, and with all other factors being equal, the base model Pixel 4 gives you the most bang for your buck. + +- **Grab the [Pixel 4 XL ($899)](https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Just-Black-Unlocked/dp/B07YMG37J4/){: rel=nofollow} if you want better battery life:** The Pixel 4 XL isn't really that huge relative to other hugephones, but the extra bulk does get you a larger battery. With the more power-intensive 90-Hz refresh rate on the display, frankly, you're probably going to want some extra battery power. The Pixel 4 XL has a larger, 3,700mAh battery, which is still on the small size for a phone of this size, but at least bigger than the plain Pixel 4's 2,800mAh battery. + +- **The [Pixel 3A (currently $349)](https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Memory-Phone-Unlocked/dp/B07R7DY911/){: rel=nofollow} is still the best deal on an Android Phone:** Google did not announce a successor to the Pixel 3A and likely won't until next May, but [Google's Pixel 3A (9/10, WIRED Recommends)](https://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-3a-and-pixel-3a-xl://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-3a-and-pixel-3a-xl/) is still a great phone. You get a fantastic camera, the still-fast Snapdragon 670 processor, 64 gigabytes of storage, and 4 GB of RAM. It's not going to be anywhere near as fast or smooth as the Pixel 4, or even the Pixel 3, but it's half the price, and often on sale. It's also fast enough that you probably won't notice a huge difference between this model and its more expensive cousins. + +###Buy a Case + +No matter which phone you end up with, get a case. The Pixel 4 has glass on the front and the back, and it's worth protecting your investment with a case. + +If you don't like the extra size and weight of a case, but still want one, the [Spigen Neo Hybrid](https://www.amazon.com/Spigen-Hybrid-Designed-Google-Pixel/dp/B07TCR26NT/){: rel=nofollow} provides good protection without being overly bulky. If you want really bulletproof protection though, go for an [OtterBox case](https://fave.co/2VKnuLW){: rel=nofollow}. + +###Where to Buy the Pixel 4 Unlocked + +The easiest way to order a Pixel 4 or Pixel 4 XL is from Google. We recommend you *buy your Pixel 4 unlocked* from Google, Amazon, or other retailers. That way you'll be able to use it on any wireless carrier, should you ever decide to switch. When it comes time to upgrade in a couple of years, you'll get more money back for an unlocked phone. + +- **[Google offers a $100 accessories credit with Pixel 4 orders](https://store.google.com/product/pixel_4){: rel=nofollow}:** Buy it unlocked. Google offers up to a $100 credit toward accessories. + +- **[Amazon offers a $100 gift card](https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Just-Black-Unlocked/dp/B07YMNLXL3/){: rel=nofollow}:** You can get a $100 Amazon gift card with purchase of a Pixel 4 or XL. + +- **[Best Buy offers a $100 gift card](https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/b9nbM){: rel=nofollow}:** Best Buy will give you a $150 Best Buy gift card with the purchase and activation of a Pixel 4 or 4 XL on Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. You can also get a $100 Best Buy gift card if you choose not to activate it. + +- **[Walmart also offers a $100 gift card](https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?subId1=pixel4guide&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fbrowse%2Fpixel%2FYnJhbmQ6UGl4ZWwie%3Fcat_id%3D0%26facet%3Dbrand%3APixel%257C%257Cretailer%3AWalmart.com){: rel=nofollow}:** It's tough to find proper info about Walmart's sale, but supposedly you will get a $100 gift card if you order a Pixel 4. + +- **[Pixel 4 from B&H](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1507476-REG/google_ga01188_us_pixel_4_64gb_smartphone.html){: rel=nofollow}:** B&H has no deals, but it is selling the Pixel 4. + +###Deals From Wireless Carriers + +Below are some major retailer offers, which should all sell unlocked versions of the phone. Again, unlocked is really the way to go, since it frees you up to use any network or sell/gift your phone down the road. Having said that, there are some carrier specific deals out there. They're worth a look if you're not planning to [sell your phone](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-trade-in-or-sell-your-iphone/) in the future or switch wireless networks. We've linked to the standard Pixel 4 pages. + +- **[Verizon offers a buy-one-get-one deal for new unlimited subscribers](https://fave.co/2VOr2wS){: rel=nofollow}:** Verizon has a couple deals. New and existing customers can trade in an eligible smartphone and save up to $450 on a Pixel 4 (depending on the trade-in value). If you switch to Verizon and pony up for the unlimited plan, and pick up a full price Pixel 4, you can get a second 64 GB Pixel 4 free of charge. Here's a link to the [Pixel 4 page](https://fave.co/2VOr2wS){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[T-Mobile offers a free Pixel 4 with Pixel trade-in](https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/google-pixel-4){: rel=nofollow}:** You'll need to add a new line and have either a Pixel 2 or 3 to trade in. The original Pixel will get you $500 off. Unfortunately T-Mobile does not currently offer the 128 GB model. + +- **[AT&T offers $700 off with an eligible trade-in](https://fave.co/2nPCknW){: rel=nofollow}:** The catch is that you'll need an AT&T unlimited plan, and you'll need to begin paying off your new Pixel 4 or 4 XL on a "qualifying installment plan" before you start seeing the benefits of the discount. The plan in question means AT&T will begin charging you $28 per month on a 30-month plan, so you'll be charged a total of $840 for your new Pixel. However, after your first three payments, AT&T will start applying a monthly credit for whatever amount it determined you're getting based on your old phone's trade-in value. That credit can add up to as much as $700 total over the 30 months, meaning your phone will cost you as little as $140 in the end. This isn't the best deal since it plays out over two years, but if you want to be on AT&T's network, it's a way to get a cheap Pixel 4. + +- **[Sprint sort of has a deal](https://fave.co/2VLG86p){: rel=nofollow}:** The carrier is offering a leasing deal. Lease a Pixel 4 or Pixel 4 XL and get a second one for $0 per month when you either switch to Sprint or add a new line to your existing account. Sprint is the only vendor allowing you to choose either the 4 or the 4 XL for each of the two lines. + +*** +### More Great WIRED Stories +* The first [smartphone war](https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-smartphone-war/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* 7 cybersecurity threats [that can sneak up on you](https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-threats-that-can-sneak-up-on-you/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* “Forever chemicals” are in your popcorn—[and your blood](https://www.wired.com/story/pfas-forever-chemicals-are-in-your-popcornand-your-blood/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* EVs fire up pyroswitches to [cut risk of shock after a crash](https://www.wired.com/story/evs-fire-pyroswitches-cut-risk-shock-crash/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* The spellbinding allure of [Seoul's fake urban mountains](https://www.wired.com/story/seoul-fake-mountains-gallery/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* 👁 Prepare for the [deepfake era of video](https://www.wired.com/story/prepare-deepfake-era-web-video/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2); plus, check out the [latest news on AI](https://www.wired.com/category/business/artificial-intelligence/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2) +* ✨ Optimize your home life with our Gear team’s best picks, from [robot vacuums](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-robot-vacuums/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) to [affordable mattresses](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-mattresses/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories) to [smart speakers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-google-speakers-buying-guide/?itm_campaign=BottomRelatedStories). diff --git a/published/podcasts.txt b/published/podcasts.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..981448d --- /dev/null +++ b/published/podcasts.txt @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +Nothing says summer vacation quite like that small voice coming from the backseat, "Are we there yet?" As every parent knows, it starts out as a question, but quickly turns to more of a demand. + +While there are limits to how long any child can stand riding in car seat, with some good entertainment those limits can be extended. + +Living in an RV and traveling the country for two years, my children have put in some serious miles, most of it with surprisingly few complaints. And no, we didn't just turn on the movies and drive. My wife and I wanted the kids to see the land we were driving through, so we skipped the screen and instead turned to modern radio, AKA the podcast. + +Here are our top podcasts for kids. If you're a podcast listen yourself you might be thinking that radio will never entertain your kids. The best kids podcasts are more than just people talking, they're more like radio plays, incorporating music, sound effects and multiple voices to tell absorbing stories your kids will love. + +I won't go so far as to guarantee you a smoother drive this summer -- every child is different after all -- but when you've tired of songs, endless games of I Spy, the license plate game, and before you resort to 99 bottles of anything on the wall, give these podcasts a try. + +### Stories Podcast + +This is the first podcast our kids ever listened too and still their favorite. It's also my favorite, and it is important to like these since you'll sitting through them on a long car ride too. + +[Stories Podcast](http://storiespodcast.com/) performs a new story every week, drawing from a variety of sources is a variety of styles. There are re-tellings of classics like Snow White, some folk tales and myths from around the world, as well as original stories. Episodes range from 10 to 20 minutes, with most tending toward the longer side. + +Stories Podcast has a good mix of one-off episodes and long running series, which makes it easy to find something appropriate for your child's attention span. Our kids are big fans of the folk tales and the story series Mick Munter Monster Hunter + +Everything here is G rated and safe for all ages. + +### Circle Round + +[Circle Round](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/532788972/circle-round) is another creative story podcast that focuses on folktales from around the world. Episodes range from 10 to 20 minutes. Lately Circle Round has been pulling some other podcast episodes as well, so you might find an episode in Brains On (listed below) or other kids podcasts along side its own creations. + +Circle Round is a bit more overt in its value teaching than some of the others in this list. It routinely delivers some kind of message, something about kindness, generosity or other shared American cultural values. While that is one of the main purposes of folk tales, to teach, I find it a little heavy handed at times. + +### Fierce Girls + +[Fierce Girls](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/fierce-girls/) is an Australian podcast devoted to showcasing true stories of Australian women. There's stories about everything here from athletes to to spies, with the unifying theme of adventurous girls, "guts and spirit." + +While these are all appropriate for kids and not graphic, they don't shy away from telling stories as they happen. In some cases you might want to listen first to make sure a story is appropriate for you children's maturity level. That said, our seven-year-olds love them. + +### Rebel Girls + +It started as book, but now Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls has taken over the world. Well, there's [a podcast](https://www.rebelgirls.co/pages/podcast) anyway. Like Fierce Girls, the Rebel Girls podcast tells the stories of notable women through history and beyond. + +Episodes ranger from 15 to 20 minutes and feature some of the stories from the book, as well as some that are not in the book. + + + +### Earth Rangers + +The [Earth Rangers](https://www.earthrangers.com/wildwire/podcast/) podcast has a biology slant, but makes a good listen for any kids interested in digging in the dirt, learning about animals, or listening to tales of the ecosystems in far off lands. There are episode on the jungle, the Arctic and nearly everything between. + +Episode are generally about 15 minutes and usually tackle a single animal or environment. As with the next one, Earth Ranger is probably best suited to kids who are a little more mature. + + + +### Brains On + +[Brains On](https://www.brainson.org/) is science podcast, aimed at kids, though I'll be honest, I've learned plenty from it as well. It is educational, just don't tell your kids that. They'll love driving around America learning how insects walk on walls, how to find your way without a compass, even where poo and pee goes when you flush the toilet. + +There's a series called Smash Boom Best in which two things are pitted against each other and your kid can pick their favorite. For example, [Loki was recently pitted against Athena](https://www.brainson.org/shows/2019/06/26/loki-vs-athena). + +This one is probably best suited to slightly older kids. + + +### Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl + +Long before our kids got into storytelling podcasts, they loved this one. [Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl](https://saturdaycerealbowl.podbean.com/) is a weekly two-hour music show released every, ahem, Saturday. And I know what you're thinking, kids music. But it's really not kid's music, it's just music kids will enjoy. + +Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl is also a great way to discover music your kids love that won't drive you crazy. Did you know Walkman frontman Walter Martin has [a fantastic album for children](https://www.amazon.com/Were-Young-Together-Walter-Martin/dp/B00IQASDQE){: rel=nofollow}? How about [The Verve Pipe](https://www.amazon.com/Family-Album-Verve-Pipe/dp/B004JP10HY){: rel=nofollow}? [Johnny Cash](https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Cash-Childrens-Album/dp/B00IP3JWBM){: rel=nofollow}? All these and more I have discovered through Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl. + +Between Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl and the various [Putumayo collections](https://www.putumayo.com/putumayo-kids) our family has a good collection of music that we all enjoy. No fighting over the stereo, no disappearing into the isolationist bubble of headphones. + +### Molly of Denali + +A very recent, and somewhat limited, podcast, [Molly of Denali](https://www.npr.org/podcasts/727663819/molly-of-denali) sets the backstory for a coming PBS cartoon of the same name. It's an eight episode show, but, at the time of writing, only six have been released. + +Each episode is about 10 minutes long and they're sequential, telling the backstory of Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl growing up with her parents, family and friends in Alaska. + diff --git a/published/polaroid-lab.txt b/published/polaroid-lab.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a83513c --- /dev/null +++ b/published/polaroid-lab.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +The physical world will probably forever retain an emotional primacy digital lacks. I suspect that millions of evolutionary years without screens has primed us to enjoy a Polaroid taped to a bathroom mirror over Instagram any day of the week. + +At least that's what Polaroid is hoping. + +Polaroid Originals' new Lab printer takes images from your phone and turns them into Polaroids. Yes, actual Polaroids just like Dad's (Granddad's?) Polaroid used to spit out in the 1970s. The result is a fun, if pricey way to bring your digital snaps into the real world. + +### Photo Lab in Box + +The new Polaroid Lab is the second iteration of Impossibles [Instant Lab](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-instant-lab-turn-iphone-images-into-rea). Polaroid acquired Impossible in 2017 and rebranded it Polaroid Originals. As a result there's no more trademark issues to worry about so Instant Lab has be renamed Polaroid Lab. + +Unlike all [other instant camera and printers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/) we've looked at, the Polaroid Lab does not simply grab an image from your phone using Bluetooth and print it out. Instead you pull up the image on your phone using the Polaroid Originals app and then you lay your phone face down on the Lab. The Lab then takes a picture of the picture on your phone, optimizes the color for printing and then spits out a Polaroid which, like the Polaroids of old, takes about 15 minutes to full develop. + +While the focus of the Lab is analog, it does offer the ability to "embed" a video with your print. Fujifilm recently did something similar with audio in it's [Mini LiPlay camera/printer](https://www.wired.com/review/fujifilm-instax-mini-liplay/) and in both cases it feels very awkward and gimmicky. The problem is that nothing is embedded anywhere, it's just stored a server and anyone who wants to see the video has to install the Polaroid Originals' app. And it's worth noting that anyone with the app installed can view the video, which has some potentially awful privacy consequences that I'd be more worried about if the feature wasn't so utterly useless anyway. I wish the instant camera world would just drop this idea. + +Aside from the video gimmickry, the Lab is dead simple to use. The Polaroids Originals app can select any media file on your phone, and you can edit the image a little with in the app (I suggest increasing brightness). The one quirk of the app is when you edit, there's no preview, the slider covers the image which is, quite frankly, crazy. Since I started testing before the app was publicly released, I assumed this was a beta software bug. However, the final app is out and the lack of preview remains. + +Honestly, while this is a ridiculous design decision, it really didn't bother me much since all I was doing was increasing brightness about 20 percent for every photo. I arrived at this value after some experimenting and a lot of overly-dark prints. + +###Outside the Lab + +The finished prints from the Lab approximate the vibe of old school Polaroids in many ways: washed out colors and soft edges (and I mean that in the best way possible). The Lab got enough right to trigger my nostalgic love of Polaroids, image quality be damned. But in some other ways the look of images from the Lab just didn't work for me. I found some colors, particularly bright greens and blues to be over-saturated in ways that old school Polaroid images never are. They gave certain scenes a garish look that's not really fun, just unpleasant. + +The Lab also introduced considerable vignetting (where the corners become darker) that was not in the original images. I am guess this is due to either the design of the case or light leaking around the phone when it's place atop the Lab. + +Fortunately the best results I had were with images of people, and really that's what most people will probably want from the Lab. It was fun, and a touch disconcerting, to turn snaps of my kids taken yesterday into images that look like they were made in 1983. + +What's missing though is the spontaneity of old Polaroid cameras, which were as much about producing an artifact in the moment as the artifact itself. Separating the fun of making the image -- now the job of your phone -- and the fun of getting it makes getting it somehow less exciting. Or maybe it's the fact that seeing your image on the phone creates a set of expectations that no instant printer can reproduce. + +It's too bad because Polaroid co-founder Edward Land very clear saw the world of ubiquitous cameras coming long before most of us even considered the idea. In a [video made for Polaroid shareholder in 1970](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=727&v=zbmq9R0dtVg) Land says that one day we'll be taking photos using "something like a wallet." He then reaches in his pocket and pulls out a black object that could easily be mistaken for a smartphone. He goes on to say that "we're still a long way from... a camera that would be, oh, like the telephone, something you use all day long." + +Land's vision is here, but Land, and the modern-day Polaroid, now Polaroid Originals, are not the makers of the camera that's the size of a wallet and as ever-present as a telephone. Instead Polaroid Originals is on the outside, trying to get back in with efforts like the new Lab. And while the Lab is definitely in the spirit of the old Polaroids, and it undoubtedly fun, in the end it feels pricey for the results it produces. + +Fujifilm's SP-3 printer produces better quality images, without the strangely over-saturated blue and greens of the Lab. This is somewhat subjective, but to my eye nearly all the Instax-based options in our [guide to instant cameras and printers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-instant-cameras/) produce better images the Lab, including the Polaroid OneStep. On the other hand I like the Lab's images better than most of cameras and printers in our [guide to Zink-based printers](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-zero-ink-instant-cameras-and-printers-zink/). And the Lab does print larger images than either the Zink or Instax options, so if it's full size Polaroids you're after, the Lab is your best bet. diff --git a/published/portable-coffee.txt b/published/portable-coffee.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5574e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/portable-coffee.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Moka pot mine + - The old standby. I've tried dozens of ways to make coffee and after the novelty wears off, this is what I return to. +Standard Moka pot https://www.amazon.com/Primula-Stovetop-Espresso-Coffee-Maker/dp/B001J1L59E/ +pour over from cafflano + - Clean up isn't too bad, all in one design is nice if you want to buy beans on the road. +aeropress +Double Shot with Brü-Stop (french press) +drip kit dispsable +Espro Travel Coffee Press +Collapsible Javadrip (on the way) +Primula Single Serve Coffee Brew Buddy + diff --git a/published/portable-grills.txt b/published/portable-grills.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30c4f54 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/portable-grills.txt @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +Nothing says summer quite like cooking over an open flame. Whether it's the salty sweetness on that lightly charred freshly grilled corn or the rich smoothness of smoked meat summer begs us to get outside and light a fire. + +Sure, the true grilling enthusiast is outdoors checking the temp on their smoker even when the wind chill is in the single digits. For most of us though, the grilling season starts on Memorial Day, we really hit our stride around the Fourth of July, and after those final Labor Day hot dogs are gone, the grill goes rolling back into the garage. + +We've looked at full size [gas](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/best-gas-grills/) and [charcoal grills](https://www.wired.com/2016/05/best-charcoal-grills/) in the past, but with the summer travel season in full swing we wanted to find the best ways to get your grill on wherever you go. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +### Best Overall Charcoal + +Of the charcoal grills I tested, the [Weber Jumbo Joe](https://www.weber.com/US/en/grills/portable-grills/jumbo-joe-series/1211001.html){: rel=nofollow} strikes the best balance of affordability, features, and ease of use. It's big enough (18.5 inches in diameter) to handle meals for six people, but small enough that you'll still have room in the trunk for a cooler and camping supplies. + +It's one of the most versatile grills I tested, grilling, barbecuing and smoking with ease. Thanks to its dual vent system (one at the bottom, one at the top), you get the same fine-grained level of temperature control you'll find in Weber's full size kettles. + +The Jumbo Joe offers 240 inches of cooking space. That's enough room to smoke two racks of ribs, or fit burgers and corn for six people (admittedly, this was crowded). It weighs 22 pounds and features a handle with a bar that fits over the top and keeps the kettle and lid together for easy carrying. I tossed mine in the back of our car from trips to the lake and the park and it never tipped over. The ash catcher at the bottom makes cleaning less of a hassle by allowing you to dump the excess without removing the grill grates. + +As much as I like the Jumbo Joe, it's not perfect. If you want to do any indirect heat cooking, you'll want to buy the [hinged grill grate for $25](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-7436-Replacement-Hinged-Cooking/dp/B000WEPHKW/){: rel=nofollow} so you can feed in fresh fuel without removing the top grill. To my mind the hinged grate should be included by default, as should a thermometer, but neither are. The other drawback is that, inexplicably, Weber does not make a cover for the Jumbo Joe. + +While there's no cover, there are quite a few accessories available for the Jumbo Joe, both from Weber and third-parties. Some of these cost many times more than the grill itself—like the [Kettle Pizza Kit for $115](https://www.amazon.com/Kettle-Pizza-KPB-18-2-Inch-Grills/dp/B005V95DMA){: rel=nofollow}—but the one I highly recommend for slow cooks, aside from the hinged grill grate, is a [charcoal basket for $17](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-7403-Char-Basket-Charcoal-Briquet/dp/B000WEMGM4/){: rel=nofollow}. + +The Jumbo Joe has a considerable following on the internet. Fans have hacked their grills to [add thermometers](http://olddavespo-farm.blogspot.com/search/label/Weber%20Jumbo%20Joe%20Review), knobs to make it easier to open and close vents, add [hanging ash cans](http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/jumbo-joe-mods/), as well as creative ways to cook taller fare, like [beer can chicken](https://www.bbqdryrubs.com/weber-jumbo-joe-beer-can-chicken/). + +**[Buy the Weber Jumbo Joe for $70 from Weber](https://www.weber.com/US/en/grills/portable-grills/jumbo-joe-series/1211001.html){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-1211001-Jumbo-18-Inch-Portable/dp/B0098HR0RC/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +***Smaller Alternative**: The [Smokey Joe Premium for $45](https://www.weber.com/US/en/grills/portable-grills/smokey-joe-series/40020.html){: rel=nofollow} (on [Walmart](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Weber-40020-Smokey-Joe-Premium-14-Inch-Portable-Grill/178598853){: rel=nofollow}, [Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Weber-Smokey-Joe-Premium-Portable-Charcoal-Grill-in-Black-40020/100401878){: rel=nofollow}) is Weber's 14-inch grill and would be our top pick for anyone who doesn't need the larger Jumbo Joe (and spring for the Premium, which features the same lid closure as the Jumbo, trust us, it's worth the $10). The big downside to the Smokey Joe is you lose the lower vent of the Jumbo Joe, which means less control over temperature. If you're not slow cooking that's not a huge deal, but worth knowing. The Smokey Joe was also somewhat more difficult to clean out. Still, if you want a smaller kettle this is a good way to go.* + +### Best Overall Propane + +I would argue that charcoal is superior to propane if flavor is your only criteria. In an ideal world flavor would be the only criteria, but we live in a world where grilling sometimes happens after hours in Friday traffic and while you're also trying to set up a tent, inflate a mattress, and wrangle hungry children. Sometimes the convenience of propane trumps charcoal. + +For those times your best bet is the Weber 1200 Q grill. The Weber strikes the best balance between ease of use, cooking performance and minimizing flare ups. To test the latter I marinated some chicken in lemon juice and olive oil and laid it on the grills. Every grill here flared somewhat, but the 1200 Q (and the Coleman below) have heavy enameled cast iron grates that are closed over the actual burners, which helps keep the flaring under control. + +With 186 inches of cook space the 1200 Q is big enough for a family for four. It has a thermometer and some side tables to put your plates and tongs. It's also a champ at keeping a constant, even heat in pretty much any condition. One afternoon a storm blew in, but kept I grilling despite the high wind and rain. The 1200 Q just kept on cooking. + +The main downside is the weight. For the cooking space it offers, the 1200 Q is big and heavy. It may be totally unfazed by weather, but it isn't the easiest to carry. If you're planning to bring it with you everywhere you go it's worth investing in the [wheeled stand for $80](https://www.weber.com/US/en/accessories/merchandise-and-outdoor-lifestyle/carts/6557.html){: rel=nofollow} (which also serves to save some space on the picnic table). + +As with its charcoal cousin, there are plenty of accessories for the 1200 Q, including a [griddle for $45](https://www.weber.com/US/en/accessories/cooking/griddles-and-planchas/6558.html){: rel=nofollow} and a nice [cover for $16](https://www.weber.com/US/en/accessories/care/covers-and-carry-bags/7110.html){: nofollow} to protect it from the elements.. + +**[Buy the Weber 1200 Q for $209 from Weber](https://www.weber.com/US/en/grills/gas-grills/q-series/51010001.html){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RFXS1Z6/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +***Even Smaller Alternative**: The [Weber 1000 Q for $179](https://www.weber.com/US/en/grills/gas-grills/q-series/50060001.html){: rel=nofollow} ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Weber-50060001-Q1000-Liquid-Propane/dp/B00FDOONEC/){: rel=nofollow} or [Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Weber-Q-1000-1-Burner-Portable-Propane-Gas-Grill-in-Titanium-50060001/204612517){: rel=nofollow}) is nearly identical to Weber's 1200 Q, but loses the thermometer and side tables. The result is a more compact, though still pretty heavy, grill. If you don't need the tables and want to save a few dollars this is a good way to go.* + +### Best for a Couple (Propane) + +As noted above, the best smaller charcoal option is the Weber Smokey Joe Premium. For couple and small families looking for the convenience of propane, I suggest the Coleman Roadtrip 225 Portable. It most of what the Weber 1200 Q has, but is slightly smaller and lighter. + +The Coleman also gives you the option to use only one burner to grill just a couple burgers without draining your propane tank. Variable controls also mean you can sear veggies on one side while cooking meat a bit slower on the other side. + +There's a grease pan to catch drips while cooking, and it's removable for easy cleaning. You also get push button ignition and 11,000 BTUs of propane grilling power. What the Coleman lacks is a thermometer. The other problem is the lack of latch on the lid. It's not enough to stop me from recommending it, but it's worth considering that carrying the Coleman requires two hands. + +Coleman, probably best known for its stoves, has made some accessories that allow you to use half the stove as a griddle or even a regular stove burner so you can simmer beans while the hot dogs are grilling. We didn't test the accessories, but the [Griddle](https://www.coleman.com/roadtrip-swaptop-cast-iron-griddle/2000019874.html){: rel=nofollow} and [Stove Grate](https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-RoadTrip-Swaptop-Steel-Stove/dp/B00S57U6KY/){: rel=nofollow} both get high marks in other reviews around the web. + +**[Buy the Coleman Roadtrip 225 Portable for $160 from Coleman](https://www.coleman.com/grills/coleman-roadtrip-225-portable-tabletop-propane-grill/Roadtrip225TableTop.html){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BLHCHX6/ref=twister_B07CV6WCJ2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1){: rel=nofollow}.** + +### Best When Smoking for a Crowd + +While our top charcoal pick, the Weber Jumbo Joe, is a capable smoker, it's not large enough to squeeze in more than two racks of ribs, and even those will need to be cut in half. While Oklahoma Joe's Rambler is technically smaller at 218 inches of grilling space, its rectangular design lends itself to longer cuts of meat like ribs. + +Oklahoma Joe's is well known for its full size smokers, but the Rambler is a relatively new effort to bring the power of the full size smoker to the table top. The result is mostly successful. It has a built-in thermometer, large dampers to control temperature, and is by far the most solidly constructed of all the grills here. + +Getting the Rambler ready for your first cook takes a bit more work, it has the most complex assembly of this bunch, and you'll need to season the case iron grill grates, but the results are worth it. I barbecued and smoked up some wonderful results with this grill, including some really nice smoked cauliflower I wasn't able to duplicate on the others. + +The downside to the Rambler is that it's heavy. If you're just going from car to picnic table that's not a big deal, but if you've got a decent walk, say down the bluffs to the beach, the Rambler gets heavy and is awkward to carry alone. If you want your smoke and your secluded spot that's a good walk from the car, grab a friend and carry the Rambler one on each side. + +**[Buy the Rambler for $149 from Oklahoma Joe's](https://www.oklahomajoes.com/rambler-tabletop-charcoal-grill){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-Joes-19402088-Portable-Charcoal/dp/B07JZ7YRVR){: rel=nofollow}.** + +### Best for Last Minute Grilling Emergencies + +If you've never cooked over infrared heat it's worth studying up a little before you dive in. Cooking over extremely high heat of infrared is very different than typical grilling. It took me a few failures—neither or which I can attribute to the grills—before I got the hang of it. The theory is simple: heat a ceramic element with flame and then let the radiant heat from the element do the actual cooking. + +When you're in a hurry to get dinner on the table, infrared cooking, even more so than regular propane, is your friend. Fire it up, let the heating element get to temp (about five minutes) and you have a grill capable of 500-600 degree searing. Veggies need 30 seconds a side and have beautiful grill marks. Thin steaks like flank or skirt take a mere minute or two per side and turn out incredibly juicy and flavorful. + +The best infrared option I tested with the Char-Broil X200. Char-Broil calls its infrared "TRU Infrared" and claims that it eliminates flare-ups, which is almost true. It flares less than I would have expected, and the flares don't last long, but get something good and juicy on there, marinated chicken or brats for instance, and it'll flare. + +Like the Weber 1200 Q, the X200 is very well built. It's sturdy, yet only weighs 20 pounds, and the lid locks tightly. + +The downside to the X200 is that it can get too hot. It's difficult to do anything but sear. Turning it down means the flame, which is tiny to begin with, tends to get blown out by the slightest breeze. This is appears to be a problem with infrared in general though, not just the X200 as I had the same problem with the Solaire option mentioned below. + +Still, despite that flaw infrared will spoil you. Decide you want to grill some veggies five minutes for dinner is supposed to be done? With the X200 that's no problem. + +**[Char-Broil X200 for $88.79 from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BFPMLI8){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-Joes-19402088-Portable-Charcoal/dp/B07JZ7YRVR){: rel=nofollow}.** + + +**Alternative: The [Solaire Anywhere for $389](https://besthot.store/anywhere/){: rel=nofollow} (or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Solaire-Anywhere-Portable-Infrared-Stainless/dp/B002VLYAVQ){: rel=nofollow}) is another possibility. While I enjoyed this grill and its ceramic heating surface works much better than the X200's metal surface, it is even more of a fair weather grill. I had nothing but problems with it in even the slightest breeze. The design means that wind coming from the front can easily blow out the burners. Worse, because infrared flame is so small to begin with, you might not notice that your flame is gone right away. I liked everything else about the Solaire, and the company is well-known for its full size backyard infrared options, but at this price, with this flaw, the Anywhere is a tough sell. + +### Testing Methods + +Terms "grilling" and "barbecue" are often used interchangeably, which is fine, but if you get serious about cooking over flame you'll want to learn the distinction often used by enthusiasts: "grilling" usually means cooking directly over high heat, while "barbecue" typically refers to cooking over indirect heat for longer periods of time. You grill steak. You barbecue ribs. + +To test the grills I used both methods, grilling everything from steak to salmon to corn, even kale. In fact [this recipe for grilled kale](https://www.marksdailyapple.com/sweet-and-spicy-grilled-kale-with-ginger-steak/){: rel=nofollow} is my go-to for testing how hard it is to clean a grill. It makes delicious kale, but it's very messy. + +For the charcoal options I also barbecued ribs and pulled pork. I have not tried brisket yet but I do believe it would be possible to do a smaller piece on the Jumbo Joe or the Oklahoma Joe. + +In the end all of these grills preformed well and you really can't go wrong with any of them (there definitely are some grills where you can go wrong, but I have not included any of those here). In the end, to get the best grill you need to first figure out how you cook when you're camping or out and about. + +### Stop using Propane Bottles + +The ubiquitous disposable green propane bottle is convenient, but a [huge source of pollution](https://www.refuelyourfun.org/). It's illegal in many jurisdictions to throw them in the trash, though that doesn't stop many people it seems, given how many of these turn up in landfills every year. Don't be that person though. There are re-fillable [bottles available](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F9LCYRT){: rel=nofollow}, which we suggest using if you must have the smaller size canister. + +If you have room the far better, and even cheaper, way to go is a small re-fillable [propane cylinder for $55](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KOLF1IQ/){: rel=nofollow}. I find, cooking outdoors over both stove and grill three meals a day, that this tank will last about two weeks. It's small and light enough to not be any more difficult to cart around than the four to six one pound bottles it replaces. +### Other Grills to consider + +PARTY PAIL CHARCOAL GRILL +https://www.coleman.com/party-pail-charcoal-grill/2000023831.html?cgid=coleman-stovesandgrills-grills#start=14 + +Old Smokey: https://www.oldsmokey.com/products/14-old-smokey-charcoal-grill?variant=378333031 + +Suggestions, kill this and redirect to new one: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/best-portable-grills/ diff --git a/published/prime-day-early-deals.txt b/published/prime-day-early-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..123c793 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/prime-day-early-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Like winter in *Game of Thrones*, Amazon's fifth annual Prime Day Sale is coming. + +Prime Day began back in 2015. It was a day-long sale celebrating Amazon's 20th anniversary, a chance for Amazon's millions of Prime subscribers to score some sweet deals. That first Prime Day was so successful that Amazon made it an annual event. It's been growing, Hydra-headed, ever since. + +Last year, Prime "Day" stretched to 36 straight hours, this year it's become Prime Days, running for a full 48 hours. This year's sale will likely feature more deals then ever: Amazon Fresh is in on the action, as is Twitch Prime, along with some new offerings like the just-launched [Happy School Year store](https://www.amazon.com/gcx/Happy-School-Year/gfhz/events/?categoryId=happy-school-year&scrollState=eyJpdGVtSW5kZXgiOjAsInNjcm9sbE9mZnNldCI6MTg0My43MTg3NX0%3D§ionManagerState=bnVsbA%3D%3D){: rel=nofollow}, aimed at students, parents and educators looking to stock up on back to school supplies. + +There's been some effort to rebrand Prime Day "Black Friday in July" since dozens of other retailers have their own competing sales going. As distasteful as that phrase is, it's worth bearing in mind that Amazon isn't the only place to score deals on Prime Day. + +### When Prime Day Starts + +- __Starts:__ Prime Day kicks off on Monday, July 15 at 12 a.m. PT. + +- __Ends:__ 36 hours later on Tuesday, July 16 at 11:59 p.m. PT. + +That's not all, though. You can expect bursts of pre-Prime Day deals all the way to kickoff. Amazon already has a bunch of deals on its own devices, which we've highlighted below, and more are on the way. + +### Shop Smart + +As the name indicates, the deals of Prime Day are only available to Prime members. You can **[sign up for Amazon Prime here](http://amazon.com/primeday?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}**. There is a 1-month free trial, and students can get 6 months free (and a discount), but odds are you're already onboard. + +If not, you should know that Prime is about $10 a month (if you subscribe annually) and offers free 2-day shipping on many items and access to the Prime Video service. There are other perks, like free Kindle books, and you can [read them all here](https://www.amazon.com/primereading){: rel=nofollow}. If it's not for you, after the sale is over, you can cancel your membership before the 30-day period is up and you won't be billed. Just don't forget to cancel. + +There are deals on almost everything on Prime Day, but not all of them are great. To figure what's a good deal and what's not it pays to do some research. + +**Set Up Deal Alerts for Particular Products**: If you're hoping a particular item will go on sale, there are ways to keep an eye on it. First, install the [Amazon Shopping app for iPhone](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-shopping-made-easy/id297606951?mt=8){: rel=nofollow} or [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping&hl=en_US){: rel=nofollow} so you can get instant notifications. Then add the items to your Amazon Cart (You can "Save for Later"). Amazon should notify you if the price changes. + +That works great if you know what you're looking for ahead of time, but what if you find something on Prime Day and you want to know if it's a good deal or not? For that we love [CamelCamelCamel.com](https://camelcamelcamel.com/). It lets you search up the price history of any product on Amazon and track them at a click. Better yet, if you sign up (free), it can import and track prices on your entire Amazon Wish List. (You can easily make wish lists on Amazon by clicking on the "Add to List" button on every product page.) + +**Track Upcoming Lightning Deals**: [Lightning Deals](https://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} can be super stressful. It's so easy to miss them, but if you have the time to browse through deals in the morning, you can track upcoming Lightning Deals using the Amazon Shopping app. Click on the hamburger icon in the upper left, then *Today's Deals > Upcoming*. You can click the "Watch this Deal" button on any deal that's more than 10 minutes away to add it to your "Watching" list. The app should then notify you the moment Lightning strikes. + +**Set up an Echo for Alexa Exclusive Deals**: If you own an Echo device, you can set up voice purchasing. In the Alexa app on your phone, head to *Settings > Accounts* and select "Purchase by Voice." Once you're set up, just ask, "Alexa, what are my Prime Day deals?" + +For more smart shopping tips be sure to check out our other Amazon stories, including [tips for shopping safe on Amazon](https://www.wired.com/story/how-shop-safe-amazon/), [what Amazon's star ratings mean](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/){: rel=nofollow}, and what it means when something is ["Amazon's Choice"](https://www.wired.com/story/what-does-amazons-choice-mean/){: rel=nofollow}. Also be aware that scammers are trying to get in on the act as well, with [a new phishing scam](https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-prime-day-phishing-campaign/). Luckily there's nothing unique about this scam, the usual rules for [protecting yourself from email scams](https://www.wired.com/story/resist-phishing-attacks/) apply and, hopefully, are old hat at this point. + +### Early Deals + +**[Kindle with 3-months Kindle Unlimited for $60 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/2xItPfJ){: rel=nofollow}**: The basic Kindle remains a solid offering and this latest model includes a backlight for the 6-inch E Ink touchscreen, meaning you can read in the dark. The Kindle Unlimited subscription gives you access to a massive library of e-books. + +**[Kindle Paperwhite with 3-months Kindle Unlimited for $85 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/2XKmqay){: rel=nofollow}**: The Paperwhite is a Kindle upgrade worth considering. For a couple extra Jacksons over the plain Kindle, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, beach, and bathtub without fear. The display is flush and the device is rated IPX8, meaning it can sit in 2 meters of water for two hours. + +**[Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/32qCJfW){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire HD 8 is a very capable tablet for the price. Be sure to check out our updated guide to deciphering [which Amazon Fire tablet is best for you](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/). + +**[Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet for $80 ($50 off)](https://amzn.to/2XHWYT2){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire HD 8 Kids Edition is our top pick for kids under 7. If your kid's hands are especially tiny, they'll appreciate the Fire 7's smaller size. It's [also on sale](https://amzn.to/30tdtnC){: rel=nofollow}. + +**[Fire HD 10 for $100 ($65 off)](https://amzn.to/2JxY5Rs){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire HD 10 is a much more capable tablet than the 8. It’s faster, has more storage, and the 10-inch HD screen looks much nicer. + +**[Fire TV Stick 4K for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/30q9R5M){: rel=nofollow}**: The Fire Stick 4K is the best of Amazon's Fire TV devices. We [prefer the Roku](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-4k-streaming-devices/) all things considered, but if you're a heavy Prime Video user with a 4K screen this makes a good streaming device. + +**[Fire TV Recast for $129 ($100 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J6A6H74/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}**: It's not much to look at, but this plain black box can handle all your DVR needs, recording and streaming your over-the-air broadcasts to a FireTV-friendly device. If you need more, you can also get the [4-tuner model with 1TB of storage for $179](https://amzn.to/2xIfKPo){: rel=nofollow} (also $100 off). + +**[Ring Video Doorbell with Echo Dot](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J6A6H74/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}**: We liked the [Ring Video Doorbell](https://www.wired.com/2015/02/review-ring-video-doorbell/) and pairing it with an Echo means you don't have to search for your phone every time someone's at the door. + +**[Echo Dot 3rd Gen for $25 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/2JAAOwT){: rel=nofollow}**: If you want an Alexa speaker, but don't plan on rocking out with it, the Echo Dot is for you. It’s a hockey puck-shaped speaker that puts out decent spoken audio and can add voice control to your smart home gadgets + +**[Echo Show for $160 ($70 off)](https://amzn.to/2XFq7OA){: rel=nofollow}**: At first, it seems odd to have an Alexa speaker with a display. But after using it you'll understand the appeal. When you ask it for the weather, it tells you *and* shows you thanks to the 10-inch display and rear speakers. + +**[Echo Dot Kids Edition for $45 ($25 off)](https://amzn.to/30tW66b){: rel=nofollow}**: The extra cost of the Kids Edition covers the padded foam case and a year's subscription to Amazon's [FreeTime Unlimited](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-FreeTime-Unlimited-Monthly-Subscription/dp/B01I499BNA?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. We found the [Echo Dot Kid's Edition wanting](https://www.wired.com/review/review-amazon-echo-dot-kids-edition/), but it's more appealing at this price point. + +**[Echo Show 5 for $50 ($30 off)](https://amzn.to/2xJOYpM){: rel=nofollow}**: It's the Echo Show! Just smaller and more adorable. And it has a physical shutter that covers the front-facing camera. Be sure to read WIRED's [Echo Show 5 review](https://www.wired.com/review/amazon-echo-show-5/) for more details. + +**[Echo Auto for $35 ($15 off)](https://amzn.to/2xIuNsn){: rel=nofollow}**: About the size and shape of a cassette, the Echo Auto sits on your dashboard and brings Alexa into your car. + +### Subscription Deals + +**[Kindle Unlimited Three Months Free](https://amzn.to/2XYnk7n){: rel=nofollow}** If you haven't already signed up for Kindle Unlimited, you can score your first three months of unlimited reading for free. After that it's $10 per month and it will auto-renew so set a calendar reminder if you plan to cancel. + +**[Audible Subscription for $119.50 and get a free Echo Dot](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QPPWMQC?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}**: Amazon has been running this deal for a few weeks, but it's still good. Prime members can sign up for a full year of Audible for $119.50 and get a voucher to by an Echo Dot for a buck. If you don't want to commit to a full year there's also an option to [get three months of Audible at $4.95 a month](https://www.audible.com/subscription/confirmation?membershipAsin=B07C662DLS&pf_rd_p=67eb733d-5ba9-468a-9cc9-04157a3d1397&pf_rd_r=T0HFHAPDHEZV5AHESRRN&ref=a_hp_c2_member_cta&tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}, but no Echo Dot. + +**[Twitch Prime](https://twitch.amazon.com/tp/prime-day){: rel=nofollow}** Amazon is offering the ability to unlock exclusive Legend and weapon skins for Apex Legends and some in-game content for multiple EA SPORTS titles, including FIFA Ultimate Team. + +**[AmazonFresh](https://amzn.to/2xNbKNL){: rel=nofollow}**: Amazon is offering $15 off your first AmazonFresh order (minimum $35 order). Provided AmazonFresh is offered in your area you can use the code FRESH15 to get the deal. + + +### Great Deals Elsewhere + +Amazon isn't the only one with Prime Day sale, it's just the only one calling them Prime Day. Historically, retailers like Walmart and Best Buy have gotten pretty worked up about Amazon Prime Day and offered their own defensive sales to try and steal some of Amazon's thunder. This year we've heard that around 250 retailers will be joining the fray. Below are a few stores likely to start having sales right around Prime Day and before. + + +- __[Walmart's Current Deals](http://linksynergy.walmart.com/deeplink?id=*v1CWzR20JI&mid=2149&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fcp%2F6322244%3Fu1%3D58287X1561406Xcdeec003b2a93ae4a2998a34b56e5dfb%26oid%3D574325.1){: rel=nofollow}__ + +- __[Best Buy's Current Deals](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/clp/sale-page/pcmcat185700050011.c?id=pcmcat185700050011){: rel=nofollow}__ + +- __[Microsoft Store's Current Deals](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/sale){: rel=nofollow}__ + +- __[eBay's Current Deals](https://www.ebay.com/deals/tech){: rel=nofollow}__ diff --git a/published/prime-day-nl.txt b/published/prime-day-nl.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1b2337 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/prime-day-nl.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +__Amazon's Prime Day is nearly here__ The mega store's annual mega sale starts tonight at midnight Pacific Time and ends at midnight on Tuesday. The deals have already started coming in, especially on Amazon's own devices. We've put together [a list of early deals]() and will be bringing you a guide to the best things we've found once the sale goes live. Keep an eye on WIRED's Gear page throughout the day for more guides and round ups of the best Prime Day deals. + +Featured Deals diff --git a/published/raspberry-pi-4.txt b/published/raspberry-pi-4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4931e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/raspberry-pi-4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +The Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized computer that costs less than a few drinks out in San Francisco has already proven there's still a market for cheap tiny computers aimed at do-it-yourselfers. Now, with the Raspberry Pi 4, the little board that could wants to have a try at becoming your $100 desktop replacement. + +The Raspberry Pi 4 changes things somewhat. Gone is the one-size-fits all approach of previous releases. The Raspberry Pi 4 is available with either one, two, or four gigabytes of RAM. Not only are there options, this is the first time it's been possible to get a Pi with more than 1 GB of RAM. + +The extra RAM opens a new world of possible uses for the Pi and the Raspberry Pi Foundation calls the Pi 4 good enough to be a "complete desktop computer." For most of us that probably isn't quite the case, but that doesn't stop the Raspberry Pi 4 from being the same great, little DIY machine. + +### The Tinkerer's Toy Grows Up + +The Raspberry Pi began life as a hacker's dream: a cheap, low-power, high-extendable, hackable PC that shipped as a bare circuit board. Intended as one part educational device, one part tinkering tool, the Pi became a hobbiest phenomenon and has been used to power everything from scaled down Mars rovers to millions of science and hackday experiments in schools around the world. + +Along the way the Raspberry Pi spawned countless imitators and today's would-be tinkerers have a wealth of options to choose from. That said, the Raspberry Pi remains the most popular and best known. It also has the largest community around it, which makes it particularly appealing for those just starting out in the world of tiny PCs. + +With the Pi4 though bare circuit boards are not the only option. I tested the new "Desktop Kit, which features the 4 GB Pi 4 board, a nice white and red plastic case, keyboard, mouse, two micro HDMI to Standard HDMI cables, a USB-C power supply, and a 16GB MicroSD card with Raspbian Linux installed. As the name implies, in this package the Pi feels more like it's trying to be a desktop computer than a board for tinkering. + +As always, the base model, bare board Raspberry Pi is $35, which gets you the board with 1 GB RAM. That part of the Pi 4 remains, remarkably, unchanged. For $10 more you can get the 2GB version, or you can pick up the 4 GB version for $55. + +### Desktop Replacement. Or Not. + +It might have started with curious tinkerers, but there are bigger ambitions at work here. With two micro HDMI ports, capable in theory of powering two 4K monitors, the Pi 4 is angling to be your $100 desktop PC. + +If your computing needs are roughly on par with chip speeds from around 2012 then it might be capable of replacing your desktop. Chips of 2012 is not an arbitrary number, in fact that's roughly analogous to the benchmarks I got testing the Pi 4. I took the results and compared them to other PCs using [Open Benchmark](https://openbenchmarking.org/s/raspberry%20pi%204), the closest x86 match ends up being roughly Intel core chips from around 2012. + +While 2012 may not sound that long ago, it's going to feel like it when you're waiting for Chromium to boot or rendering video. Just kidding, you aren't going to be rendering video. I could not even get that benchmark to run on the Pi 4. Even without throwing video in the mix though, in everyday use, for most WIRED readers, the reality is the Raspberry Pi 4 is not going to work as a daily driver. It's too slow compared to, well, everything else you've used lately. + +The Raspberry Pi 4 is something of an odd duck in this regard. It wants to be a desktop machine, but it's just not there yet. But it's also become more powerful than you need for many of its traditional uses like as a [media server](https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_on_Raspberry_Pi), [network wide ad-blocker](https://pi-hole.net/), [fully automated coffee brewer](http://moccapi.blogspot.com/), or [micro brewing mastermind](https://www.wired.com/2013/02/raspbeery-pi/). + +The good news for bare board fans is that this model is much more powerful than the Raspberry Pi 3. The new 1.5 GHz 4-core ARM chip is more than three times faster than the Pi 3. The other big news in this release is true Gigabit Ethernet. Previous Pi models used a single USB 2.0 bridge to handle Ethernet, which hampered network speeds. The Pi 4 ditches that set up for a dedicated link that provides "full throughput," in the words of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. What that means is connecting to the Pi 4 on LAN is going to be much, much faster. Also new in the Pi 4 is USB-C for power. + +Among the things that haven't changed much are the ports. You get the Ethernet, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 2 USB 3 ports and the usual MicroSD card slot for storage. It's an impressive package, especially when you consider that the board alone still sells for $35. + +With added computing power comes the need for slightly more electric power. The Raspberry PI 4 needs a 5 volt charger with 3 amps instead of the 2.5 amp of previous models. It's not a huge increase, but it is worth noting, especially considering the Pi made its name as a very low-power way to run an always-on machine. + +After about a week of using the Pi 4 as a desktop, I unhooked everything, put the monitor and keyboard away, and connected it directly to my router. I went back to connecting to the Pi via SSH in a terminal. Perhaps I am too much of a Raspberry Pi traditionalist, but I much prefer—and think the Pi 4 excels at—this use case. + +Connected to the network, sipping power, staying out of the way until you need it is what a Pi 4 still seems best designed to do. Will the Raspberry Pi 5 be up to replacing your desktop? Perhaps, but in my experience the reason you should get a Raspberry Pi is to tinker, not replace your existing system. + +One thing worth mentioning here is the case and board of the 4 GB model. Running benchmarks, which is admittedly designed to stress the board, the provided case became quite hot and filled the room with an unpleasant plastic smell. This never happened otherwise, but if you're going to pick up a Pi 4, my suggestion would be to get a bare board and third-party case like the excellent [Flirc Raspberry Pi 4 Case](https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case){: rel=nofollow}, which doubles as a heat sink and keeps the Pi from overheating. + +I also want to point out what I consider one of the best parts of the Raspberry Pi, the included beginners guide. This is not the flimsy stapled together paper guide, but a nicely bound, full-color, lavishly-illustrated 250 page guide to the Raspberry Pi. It covers everything from setting up your Pi, to using the Raspian operating system (which is based on Debian Linux), to programming your Pi, and even goes through a number of projects. It's the nicest documentation I've seen with any hardware, well, ever. + +If you've been thinking of diving into the Raspberry Pi world, the Raspberry Pi 4 is a great time to do it. The faster chip and larger RAM options open up a new world of possibilities that the community is just beginning to tinker with. Indeed the greatest challenge about the Raspberry Pi 4 right now is just finding one. To say there's a market for the Raspberry Pi 4 would be a significant understatement. The 4 GB Desktop Kit has been consistently sold out since it went on sale a month ago. + +Currently CanaKit appears to be about the only store with the [Desktop Kit ($119)](https://www.canakit.com/official-raspberry-pi-4-desktop-kit.html){: rel=nofollow} in stock. If you don't need the extra RAM or the Desktop Kit there are more purchasing options. You can pick up, what I would call the best option for most uses, the [2 GB board and USB-C power charger for $55](https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-4-model-b-2gb/){: rel=nofollow} at PiShop. diff --git a/published/reisale.txt b/published/reisale.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1dade86 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/reisale.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +**[Petzl Tikka Headlamp for $18 ($12 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/109856/petzl-tikka-headlamp-2018){: rel=nofollow}:** I love the Tikka, nice and bright, lightweight and a separate red mode if you want to save your night vision. + +**[REI Co-op Trail 40 Pack for $60 ($60 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/136586/rei-co-op-trail-40-pack-mens){: rel=nofollow}:** This comfortable daypack is well made and holds everything you need for day hikes, travel, even overnight backpacking trips if you go ultra lightweight. It's comfortable and has tons of pockets and storage. + +**[REI Brand Stuff Sacks for $6-$8 ($6-$8 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/118510/rei-co-op-lightweight-stuff-sack){: rel=nofollow}:** You can never have too many stuff sacks to keep gear organized, might as well grab some while they're cheap. Organize by different colors so you can find what you want at glance. + +**[REI Co-op Grand Hut 4 Tent for $199 ($100 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/128687/rei-co-op-grand-hut-4-tent){: rel=nofollow}:** With room to fit folks up to 6'2", and steep side walls that maximize living space, the Grand Hut 4 makes a good family tent. We haven't tested it, but the very similar REI Kingdom 6 tent served us well for years. + +**[Deuter Kid Comfort Child Carrier for $217 ($72 off)](https://www.rei.com/product/147417/deuter-kid-comfort-child-carrier){: rel=nofollow}:** This Deuter Child Carrier pack is comfortable for both child and parent. It's stable on your back, doesn't sway when stumbling over rocky trails and stands up on its own when set down. When my children were younger this was the seat from which they saw the world. diff --git a/published/sept22-deals.txt b/published/sept22-deals.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9050115 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/sept22-deals.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Yesterday marked the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere, and for once the weather is cooperating, we pulled out jeans for the first time since spring. + +This time also marks the giddy lead-up to the holidays, when the biggest device makers trot out their latest updates. Apple got things started last week with the new iPhone 11, which went on sale yesterday. We've got an [explainer and preorder guide](https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-11-and-iphone-11-pro-deals/) that we've updated with all the latest deals, as well as a complete breakdown of the differences between models. + +Amazon is next up, the company is planning to announce new products next week. Amazon Kindles are on sale this week for Prime members, discounted as steeply as we've seen them since Prime Day. Are new models on the way? Seems likely, but if you can get by with the current model now is a good time to save some money on a Kindle. + +*(Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.)* + +### Amazon Kindle and Fire Tablet Deals + +|||||||Paperwhite image|||||||| + +Kindles are our favorite way to read digital books. They're easy on the eyes and the battery life is outstanding (about a month per charge). We have a [Kindle Buying Guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-kindle/) to help you figure out which model is best for you. There will probably be new models announced next week, so if you're the type that must have the latest and greatest, then don't buy now. But if you're satisfied with the features of the current Kindle, now is good time to buy. Outside of Prime Day, Kindles are rarely this cheap. + +Like Prime Day, these deals are for Amazon Prime members only. You can **[sign up for Amazon Prime here](https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime){: rel=nofollow}**. There is a 1-month free trial, and students can get 6 months free (and a discount). Prime is about $10 a month (if you subscribe annually) and offers free 2-day shipping on many items and access to the Prime Video service. If it's not for you, after you get your Kindle, you can cancel your membership before the 30-day period is up and you won't be billed. Just don't forget to cancel. + +- **[Kindle for $65 ($25 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-now-with-a-built-in-front-light/dp/B07DLPWYB7/){: rel=nofollow}:** The basic Kindle remains a solid offering and the latest model includes a backlight for the 6-inch E-Ink touchscreen, meaning you can read in the dark. + +- **[Kindle Paperwhite for $90 ($40 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage/dp/B07CXG6C9W/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Paperwhite is a Kindle upgrade worth considering. For a couple extra Jacksons over the plain Kindle, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, beach, and bathtub without fear. The display is flush and the device is rated IPX8, meaning it can sit in 2 meters of water for two hours. + +- **[Fire HD 8 for $50 ($30 off)](https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Fire-Tablet-Display-Black/dp/B0794RHPZD/){: rel=nofollow}:** While the 10 is nicer, the Fire HD 8 is a very capable tablet for the price. If you're unsure which one to get, have a look at our guide to [which Fire tablet is best for you](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/). + +### Phone, Tablet, and Laptop Deals + +Apple's new iPhone 11 is all the news, and other phone makers are joining in the fray, cutting prices and offering discounts to try to entice unsure upgraders. Here's some of our favorite phone deals. + +- **[Google Pixel 3 - Factory Unlocked, Black, 64GB for $450 ($350 off)](https://fave.co/309zoUo){: rel=nofollow}:** The Pixel 3 is an awesome phone and this is a serious discount. The Pixel 3 gets updates faster than almost any other phone, and it's still well worth this kind of money. We listed the Pixel 3A as [our favorite Android phone](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-android-phones/), and this device is faster than it. + +- **[Huawei P30 Pro 128 GB Unlocked for $535 ($215 off)](https://www.amazon.com/ELE-L29-Factory-Unlocked-Smartphone-International/dp/B07Q2X19LG/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you want a three-camera phone, but don't want an iPhone Pro, Huawei's flagship, the P30 Pro, is on sale. Note that this phone only works on the AT&T and T-Mobile networks. + +- **[Apple iPad Pro (11-inch, Wi-Fi, 64GB) for $675 ($125 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-11-inch-Wi-Fi-64GB/dp/B07K344J3N/){: rel=nofollow}:** The 11-inch iPad Pro hits a sweet spot in terms of size, specs and price, especially with this deal. If you're considering an iPad, have a look at our guide to [which iPad you should buy](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/), to figure out the right model for you. + +- **[Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch for $1550 ($250 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-13-inch-2-4GHz-quad-core/dp/B07S1YPSGT/){: rel=nofollow}:** This MacBook Pro has a 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, 8-gigabytes of RAM, and a 256-gigabyte SSD. Our guide to [choosing the right MacBook](https://www.wired.com/story/which-macbook-should-you-buy/) can help you sort out which ones to consider and which to skip. + +- **[Lenovo Y540 Gaming Laptop starting at $1,199 ($400 off)](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-y-series/Lenovo-Legion-Y540-17IRH/p/81Q40008US){: rel=nofollow}:** While Razor's 17-inch gaming monster, the Blade Pro, is one of [our favorites](https://www.wired.com/review/razer-blade-pro-17-2019/), this Lenovo is no slouch. With a 9th Generation i7 chip, NVIDIA graphics, up to 32-gigabytes of RAM and a 1-terabyte SSD, the Y540 should have no trouble running your favorite games. If you're looking for a new gaming laptop, be sure to read through WIRED reviewer Jess Gray's entertaining look at [the best gaming laptops For every kind of player](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-gaming-laptops/). + + +### Accessories + +- **[Anker Wireless Charger for $14 ($8 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Wireless-Qi-Certified-Compatible-PowerPort/dp/B0753Z4PGC/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you picked up a new iPhone, here's a deal on a wireless charger for it. No fussing with cords, just drop your phone on the stand. We're fans of Anker's battery packs and this wireless charger works with the iPhone 8 and better, Galaxy S10, Note 10 and many others. + +- **[Lexar 512GB SDXC Memory Card $79 ($20 off)](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1186714-REG/lexar_lsd512cbnl633_512gb_professional_uhs_i_sdxc.html){: rel=nofollow}:** It's hard to believe you can get 512-gigabyte SD cards, let alone at this price, but you can and if you never want to think about SD card storage again, then you should. + +- **[USB Type C to USB 3.0 Adapter $7 ($3 off)](https://www.amazon.com/nonda-Adapter-Thunderbolt-Aluminum-Indicator/dp/B015Z7XE0A/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you have a laptop with only USB-C ports, a MacBook Air, a Dell XPS, you understand the value of this little gizmo. It'd be nice if we lived in the all USB-C future, but we don't which is why we still need things like this. + + diff --git a/published/sony-xperia.txt b/published/sony-xperia.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80c478a --- /dev/null +++ b/published/sony-xperia.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Sony's new flagship Xperia 1 is a skyscraper of a phone. Thanks to the 21:9 screen aspect ratio, the Xperia 1 seems like it towers over other phones. In truth it's not much taller than many of its rivals, but because it's so narrow it ends up looking even taller. + +The Xperia 1 is Sony's attempt to reboot the Xperia line, something the company seems to do every few years. This time the focus in on not just movie watchers, but movie makers. Unfortunately for Sony, I'm not sure phone-wielding movie makers is quite the demographic Sony thinks it is. Even if by some chance it is, I'm pretty sure the Xperia 1 isn't the movie making device they're going to want. + +## The Long and Thin of it + +The Xperia 1 is a smooth, waterproof, nearly fingerprint-proof slab of glass just over 8mm thick. At the base you'll find a USB-C port, and running down the right side from top to bottom are the volume rocker, fingerprint sensor, power button and camera button. + +The first thing that hits you when you pick it up is how long and thin it is. The tall thin body reflects Sony's notion that this phone is a great way to watch movies. David Lynch of course, [would disagree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0), but at times a movie on your phone can be nice. Perhaps you're stuck on a long plane flight, or unlucky enough to have a commute that's summer blockbuster length. In these scenarios a movie sounds good, but do you want the phone you use every day to be optimized for situations you're in only occasionally? + +Sony's definition of "movie" is also preposterously narrow. In the Xperia 1's world a movie is anything in 21:9 format. While roughly two-thirds of Netflix content is formatted 21:9, and it looks great on this phone, all of YouTube, nearly every television show ever made, and most Android games, all end up with black bars on the Xperia 1. In fact, you've got a statistically better chance of seeing black bars alongside your video content on the Xperia 1 than on a traditional phone. + +What you end up with is a very long screen that's both useful at times—you can do a split view to multitask a little easier—and less useful at other times. Gmail with fifteen messages showing somehow just seemed more overwhelming, ditto notifications. + +The Xperia 1 is not as awkward to use one handed as I assumed it would be. It can be hard at times, but there's a one-handed mode you can activate to make it easier. There's also a side-activated menu that makes it easy to get to your most popular apps without contorting your fingers like a metal guitarist. + +In the end, while it's not as cumbersome to use as it looks, the longer thin screen offers no real advantage for all the things you do on your phone that aren't watching or making movies. + +## Your Movie Awaits + +If you do end up making movies with this you can at least rest easy knowing that the speedy Snapdragon 855 chipset with its 8-core processor is up to the task. There's no lag, and Sony's lightly customized Android 9.0 Pie is very snappy. The phone does heat up considerably shooting 4K video, especially if you're out in the heat, but it never froze up or stopped recording on me. + +As with other Sony phones we've looked at recently, there’s no notch for the front camera. Instead the Xperia 1 has the usual bezel with a notification light, front facing camera and speaker. + +The 3,330mAh battery is, frankly, a little disappointing for a phone that seems geared toward some movie binge watching. In my testing, streaming video from Netflix over Wifi, one film dropped the battery about 23 percent. It's enough to get you through a coast-to-coast flight, but your battery will be in poor shape by the time you get to Paris to start that shot-on-a-phone remake of *L’Atalante* that you've been plotting. The good news is that with 30 minutes of charging you can get the Xperia battery back up to about 50 percent. + +The cameras at your remake's disposal are also pretty good, though not necessarily Truffaut-inspiring great. Like most flagship phones in this range, the Xperia 1 has three rear cameras. There's the main lens, a fisheye-style wide angle, and a telephoto. All three shoot 12MP images. + +While not quite wide enough to call a true fisheye, the wide angle has some of the effects of a fisheye, with significant distortion that is not corrected by the phone. You can still make good images with it, but you do have to watch your angles and horizons or else learn to love the bug-eyed view of the world that it offers. + +The telephoto offers up to 2X zoom, which is good, though not great. By far my favorite of the bunch is the primary lens. The results are sharp, colors look true and details hold up well. It's also excellent at depth of field in portraits and macro-style shots. One thing you won't find here is night mode, though there is a scene mode that will lighten nighttime shots. Unfortunately the results are not the best. + +## Fingerprints and sound + +The Xperia 1's power button and volume toggles are both on the right side, as is the fingerprint reader. I found the fingerprint reader to be hit or miss. When it works it's great and does exactly what you want and it's in the comfortable spot while you're holding the phone. Unfortunately, at least a third of the time it didn't respond at all. But hey, at least that Gorilla Glass coating doesn't pick up fingerprints as you wildly stab at the side of your phone. + +Much more reliable is the dedicated camera button, which not only works as advertised, will even work when the phone is asleep, immediately springing to life and snapping an image with a single press. I found this to be the single best part of the Xperia 1. + +One surprise was the speakers, which are actually pretty good. Of course they really better be in a phone chasing a cinematic experience. And no, they aren't *that good*. If you're serious about your movies, you'll want to pair this phone with a decent set of headphones, in which case movie watching becomes fairly immersive, David Lynch not withstanding. At least until your vibrating phone interrupts things. + +As with some other phones, Sony has released recently you get the "Dynamic Vibration" feature, which vibrates the phone with the song (or movie). Who wants this is unclear to me and like WIRED editor Jeffery Van Camp said in his review of the [Xperia XZ2](https://www.wired.com/review/review-sony-xperia-xz2/), it's a ridiculous gimmick. It has the oppposite of the intended experience, pulling you out of the experience and reminding you that there's a phone in your hand. Hopefully this feature will soon go the way of the Memory Stick. + +What you won't get for your $950 is a headphone jack. Ironically Sony includes a pair of headphones—albeit some of the worst sounding headphones I've ever used—but no jack. Instead you get a USB-C headphone adapter, because life did not have enough dongles already. If you end up getting the Xperia 1, grab yourself a pair of [Bluetooth headphones](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-wireless-headphones/) to go with it. + +In general though it's tough to recommend this phone. On one hand, there's really nothing wrong with the Xperia 1, but it also isn't the best at anything. What you're left with is a phone that's fun to test, great if you get one as a gift, but just too expensive to justify buying. If you really want to create a cinematic masterpiece, skip the Sony phone, grab a [Pixel 3A](https://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-3a-and-pixel-3a-xl/){: rel=nofollow} and put the money you save toward the [Sony Alpha 7S](https://www.amazon.com/Sony-Alpha-Mirrorless-Digital-Camera/dp/B00JIWXTXG?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. diff --git a/published/tg-6-review.txt b/published/tg-6-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d714645 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/tg-6-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +For most of us smartphones have replaced the need for point and shoot cameras. There is, however, one category of point and shoot that's still going strong: the rugged, waterproof, shock-proof take-it-anywhere camera. + +Want a selfie next to a waterfall? How about *in* a waterfall? Or maybe you just want some shots of the kids playing the pool this summer? Your smartphone camera, nice as it is, isn't going to live to tell the tale. + +These situations are exactly where Olympus's new TG-6 tough camera thrives. + +## Familiar Favorites + +Olympus is no stranger to rugged cameras and we've been using and abusing [various](https://www.wired.com/2014/03/olympus-tough-tg-3/) [models](https://www.wired.com/2013/06/spring-camp-rafting-gallery/) from the TG line for years now. The latest is the TG-6, which makes some welcome, but incremental, updates to an already very successful camera, the TG-5. + +The TG-6 looks nearly identical to TG-5. It fits well in both pocket and hand, though the buttons are on the small side. More important for this type of camera the TG-6 offers the same indestructible body. While there are limits, the TG-6 is generally freeze proof, crush proof, dust proof and shockproof (from 7 ft). + +To achieve this leveled of everything-proof, sealed-off serenity Olympus uses an all metal body and dual locks on the two hatches. The double latches makes changing the battery or connecting a cable a little fiddly, but inspires more confidence that the hatch won't pop open when you accidentally bang the TG-6 on the hull of that wreck you're diving. + +The same body design also means the TG-6 will work with all the existing TG-5 housings and accessories (on the flip side, this means the TG-5 should work with the new accessories as well, more on those in a moment). + +The TG-6 uses the same fast f/2.0 lens with 4X-optical-zoom (25mm to 100mm) as the TG-5. It also sports the same 12 MP sensor, which produces very high quality images for the point and shoot. What the TG-6 adds to this already winning combo is an anti-reflective coating on the glass surrounding the sensor, which will help reduce flare and ghosting. + +The biggest and most welcome change in the TG-6 is the vastly improved resolution of the rear LCD panel. The screen jumps from the 460K dots on the TG-5 to over a million on the TG-6. The extra sharpness makes it much easier to see when reviewing images underwater. Unfortunately Olympus has not improved the protective glass that covers the LCD, it still scratches quite easily, a problem that has plagued this otherwise tough camera for several revisions now. + +If you're using the TG-6 underwater there are some new white balance modes that will help capture better colors. The new modes help for snapshots, but if you're serious about underwater photography you'll want to get the full [waterproof enclosure](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1477203-REG/olympus_v6300680w000_pt_059_underwater_housing.html){: rel=nofollow} (which ups the TG-6's depth rating from 30 meters to 75 meters) and the [external flash](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1079589-REG/olympus_v6320120u000_ufl_3_underwater_flash.html){: rel=nofollow}. + +The TG line has always boasted impressive macro capabilities for a compact camera. The TG-6 builds on that foundation by bringing macro controls to the program and aperture priority modes. This is one thing that may tempt TG-5 owners to upgrade. + +The TG-6 employs the same focus stacking you'll find in other Olympus models, which is handy for macro photography. Focus stacking refers to taking multiple exposures at slightly different focus points and then combining them to increase the depth of field, which tends to be very thin in macro shots. If you've ever seen a close up of an insect and the entire body was in focus, there's a good chance focus stacking made that possible. + +The TG-6 has some features you won't find elsewhere, like a built-in compass, thermometer, manometer (pressure), and accelerometer. The camera tracks location and associates all the data from the other sensors with your images via an app. That way not only can you know where that reef shot is from, but what the water temperature was like, how deep you were, and more. + +## Quality and Confusion + +The quality of images coming out of the TG-6 are quite good for the small sensor inside it (the TG-6's sensor is about the same as what you'll find in top smartphones). Colors are nicely balanced and images are sharp. I think Olympus uses too much noise reduction in its JPGs by default, but you tone that down in the settings (or shooting RAW and reduce noise in a photo editor). + +The TG-6 can do 4K/30p video, and 1080 at up to 60 frames per second. Still with no mic or headphone sockets video capture is always going to be limited. + +The trickiest thing about the Olympus is figuring out how to use it. The menu system is fine, but it's not immediately obvious how you access some menus. The only way I found to change the shooting format to RAW was by simultaneously pushing Menu and OK, which brings up a menu to choose format and capture mode. And no, I didn't figure that out on my own. First I spent nearly an hour reading the manual and fiddling with the menus and modes. When that didn't turn up what I was look for I turned to the internet and finally found the answer in forum post from equally frustrated users. + +That's not to say that the TG-6 is difficult to use, it's not. The problem is that Olympus doesn't do a good job of documenting what the camera is capable of doing and how to go about doing it. If you want to get the most out of the TG-6, it pays to do a little research on your own. + +## Accessorize + +The Underwater Case, which extends the depth to 45 meters, is new and there's a new fisheye converter that fits with that case. There's also a new silicon jacket if you don't want the full case. + +The TG line has long had extra lens options like a fisheye lens, which fits over the front of the lens and extends the field of view to 105 degrees. Not as wide as a GoPro, but useful underwater where the natural magnification of shooting through water effectively narrows your field of view. If you want to go the other way, there's also a telephoto lens attachment that extends the zoom to 170mm (35mm equivalent). + +All the accessories make the TG-6 considerably more than just a rugged point-and-shoot. Costs can add up if you want a full kit, but it's still much cheaper than leaping into the DSLR world. If you want beautiful underwater images without the stick shock of a DSLR, the TG-6 will not disappoint. diff --git a/published/two-burner-stoves.txt b/published/two-burner-stoves.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7663e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/two-burner-stoves.txt @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +Monday is Labor Day, a day to relax and, thanks to some great sales, make the fruits of your labor go a little bit further. This weekend also serves as the unofficial end of summer. To drown our sorrows we're stocking up on camping gear for next year, and some of the biggest brands in tech and home goods will be slashing prices. + +Below you'll find some of our favorite deals available this weekend. Among them is one of WIRED's own: you can pick up a [full year of WIRED Magazine and unlimited web access for just $5](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub). + +We've listed some highlights below, but be sure to check out our favorite camping gear and the best summer outdoor deals from [REI's Huge Labor Day Sale](https://www.wired.com/story/rei-labor-day-sale-outdoor-deals-2019/). + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Read more about how this works.* + +### Apple Deals + +[#image: /photos/5ce715745577983ec691af6c]|||||| + +- **[MacBook Air 13-inch with 512 GB Flash Storage for $1150 ($649 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-macbook-air-13-3-retina-display-intel-core-i5-16gb-memory-512gb-flash-storage-silver/6363052.p?skuId=6363052){: rel=nofollow}:** The latest MacBook Air is one of our favorite laptops right now. This is a killer deal for a capable and durable little machine. The 128-gigabyte model is also [on sale for $899 ($200 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-macbook-air-13-3-laptop-with-touch-id-intel-core-i5-8gb-memory-128gb-solid-state-drive-latest-model-space-gray/6356906.p?skuId=6356906){: rel=nofollow}. + +- **[Apple iPad 9.7-inch (128 GB) for $329 ($100 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-Wi-Fi-128GB-Latest/dp/B07BTS6H4W/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}:** Be sure to check out our [iPad Guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/) to see which iPad is best for you, but the 9.7-inch model is one of our favorites. The model with only 32-gigabytes of RAM is also [on sale for $249 ($80 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BTS2KWK/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} + +- **[iPad Pro 11-inch, 64 GB for $674 ($125 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K344J3N/){: rel=nofollow}:** It's not a huge discount, but the iPad Pro is one of the best tablets on the market today and less than a year old. + +- **[Apple Watch Series 4 for $379 ($50 off)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K344J3N/){: rel=nofollow}:** Apple's series 4 Watch ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-apple-watch-series-4/)) has a larger screen and more medical features. Best Buy also has some other [deals on different Apple Watch models](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/wearables-apple-watch-s4){: rel=nofollow}, most are about $50 off. + + +### Laptop, Gaming and Phone Sales + +- **[Surface Pro 6 with Black Keyboard for $786 ($272 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Intel-Core-128GB/dp/B07QTMGP8Z/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}:** The Surface Pro 6 has great battery life and solid performance in a light, tablet-style package ([8/10 WIRED recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-pro-6-2018/)). This model has an Intel Core i5 with 8 GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. + +- **[Dell XPS 13 $1200 ($250 off)](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/sid/labordaysales2019/https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/2yn0){: rel=nofollow}:** The Dell XPS 13 is our favorite ultrabook ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/dell-xps-13-2019/)). This deal features the Core i7 model with 16 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. + +- **[HP Envy x360 15-inch Laptop for $700 ($329 off)](https://prf.hn/l/7ABwMXr){: rel=nofollow}:** The battery life isn't the best, but for the price performance is unparalleled in this HP laptop (see [WIRED's full review](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-envy-x360-13-inch-ryzen/)). This deal gets you an 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256 GB of SSD storage. + +- **[Lenovo Yoga C930 14-inch Laptop for $1650 ($310 off)](https://Lenovo.vzew.net/aG1DW){: rel=nofollow}:** This Lenovo 2-in-1 was one of our favorites ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/review-lenovo-yoga-c930/)). This deal features and Intel Core i7, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and a HiDPI (3840 x 2160) IPS, glossy, multi-touch screen. + +- **[Razer Lancehead Wireless Optical Gaming Mouse for $48 ($31 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Razer-Lancehead-Ambidextrous-Gaming-Mouse/dp/B06XH15HD9/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Razer Lancehead is a great mouse for anyone, but especially left-handed players. Unlike some of its competitors, the Lancehead is designed with an ambidextrous chassis that easily fits in your right or left hand. + +- **[Motorola Moto G7 for $240 ($50 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Moto-G7-Alexa-Hands-Free-Unlocked/dp/B07N92347B/){: rel=nofollow}:** The Moto G7 is one of our favorite phones ([9/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/review/motorola-moto-g7-all-3-models/)). It's an outstanding performer for the price and offers plenty of RAM and storage. If the G7 doesn't entice you, Motorola has [plenty of other deals going](https://www.motorola.com/us/specials?utm_source=motoemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ECOMM_NA_US_EN_EMAIL_OFFER_BACKTOSCHOOL2019&utm_content=REMINDER&utm_term=shop_deals&ceid=e8a964501b6408ac83534693ac6ccc406af19d12b455a35e7655367b0e56a06c){: rel=nofollow} + +Many of the big computer makers have Labor Day sales running: [HP](https://store.hp.com/app/slp/labor-day-sale?jumpid=ma_labor-day-sale_vp_na_1_190825){: rel=nofollow}, [Lenovo](https://Lenovo.vzew.net/1d5zR/), and [Dell](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/sid/labordaysales2019/https://deals.dell.com/en-us){: rel=nofollow}, + +### Home And Appliance Sales + +- **[Echo Dot for $30 ($2o off)](https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dot-3rd-Gen-Sandstone/dp/B07PGL2N7J/){: rel=nofollow}:** This hockey puck-shaped Echo handles spoken audio well and the new version sounds better with music, but it still lacks the quality you'll find in larger speakers. Still, if you want to add Alexa to more rooms in your house, the Dot is a cheap and easy way to do it. + +- **[Google Home Mini for $29 ($20 off)](http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/8984107/type/dlg/sid/labordaysales2019/https://express.google.com/product/Google-Home-Mini-Smart-Speaker-Wireless-Charcoal/4126248198962386013_1481650130354835418_125181302?oc=OgkxMjUxODEzMDI&ved=0CCUQ0FUoEmoYChMImsWgoaml5AIVPfHjBx3x9Q9REMYB){: rel=nofollow}:** Google's smart speaker is great for those with a Home-enabled home. + +- **[Google Nest Hub for $79 ($70 off)](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Google-Nest-Hub-Charcoal/473535403){: rel=nofollow}:** This used to be called the Google Home Hub. It's basically like a Google Assistant speaker with a display—a small display. We [like](https://www.wired.com/review/google-home-hub/) that it has no camera, and its 7-inch screen makes it small enough to put at your bedside. + +- **[Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 930 for $400 ($300 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ecovacs-robotics-deebot-ozmo-930-app-controlled-self-charging-robot-vacuum-mop-black/6215304.p?skuId=6215304){: rel=nofollow}:** This speedy robot vac is one of Senior Writer Adrienne So's favorites. At this price, you can't go wrong. + +- **[Botvac D4 Connected for $450 ($80 off)](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/neato-robotics-neato-botvac-d4-connected-app-controlled-robot-vacuum-black-with-honeycomb-pattern/6277900.p?skuId=6277900){: rel=nofollow}:** Neato's D4 Connected is another of our favorite robot vacs. Like the more expensive Botvac D7, the D4 Connected creates a floor map and lets you install virtual no-go boundaries. + +- **[Dyson V8 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner for $300 ($200 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Animal-Cordless-Vacuum-Cleaner/dp/B06XG7WKKL/){: rel=nofollow}:** It's not the latest and greatest but Dyson's V8 is still a powerful, relatively quiet way to keep the house clean. + +- **[Dyson V10 Animal Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner for $500 ($100 off)](https://www.amazon.com/Dyson-Animal-Cordless-Vacuum-Cleaner/dp/B06XG7WKKL/){: rel=nofollow}:** If you do want the the latest and greatest, which features a larger bin than the V8, this is a good deal on what WIRED Editor Michael Calore calls [the absolute best (but expensive) cordless vac](https://www.wired.com/review/dyson-cyclone-v10-absolute-cordless-vacuum/). + + +### Outdoor Deals + +This year, REI's annual Labor Day sale starts on August 23 and continues through September 2. In addition to 40 percent off sale items, members can also get 20 percent off full-price REI Outlet items with code __LABORDAY19__. Some of our favorite deals are below, but be sure to check out our post on [the best outdoor deals from REI's huge Labor Day sale](https://www.wired.com/story/rei-labor-day-sale-outdoor-deals-2019/) for more. Backcountry's [semi-annual sale](){: rel=nofollow} is still going as well, see [our recommendations](https://www.wired.com/story/deals-backcountry-semiannual-sale-2019/). + +- **[REI Co-Op Half Dome 2 Plus Tent for $160 ($69 off)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https://www.rei.com/product/128692/rei-co-op-half-dome-2-plus-tent&ctc=REILaborDaySale){: rel=nofollow}:** There are a lot of Nemo and Marmot tents on sale, but it's hard to beat the value of REI Co-op's in-house brand. Senior Gear reviewer Adrienne So and I both also have older versions of [REI's stand-up 4-person tent](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https://www.rei.com/product/128687/rei-co-op-grand-hut-4-tent&ctc=REILaborDaySale){: rel=nofollow}, which is also on sale. + +- **[Katadyn Water Filtration System for $52 ($18 off)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https://www.rei.com/product/139666/katadyn-gravity-befree-water-filtration-system-3-liters&ctc=REILaborDaySale){: rel=nofollow}:** Why pump filtered water when you can hang a bag and get all the drinkable water you need? + +- **[Deuter Kid Comfort Child Carrier for $217 ($72 off)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rei.com%2Fproduct%2F147417%2Fdeuter-kid-comfort-child-carrier&ctc=REILaborDaySale){: rel=nofollow}:** This Deuter Child Carrier pack is comfortable for both child and parent. It's stable on your back, doesn't sway when stumbling over rocky trails, and stands up on its own when set down. When my children were younger, this was the seat from which they saw the world. + +- **[REI Co-Op Trail 40 Pack for $60 ($60 off)](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rei.com%2Fproduct%2F136586%2Frei-co-op-trail-40-pack-mens&ctc=REILaborDaySale){: rel=nofollow}:** This comfortable day pack, which holds everything you need for day hikes, travel, even overnight backpacking trips if you go ultra lightweight. It's comfortable and has tons of pockets and storage. + +- **[Biolite Energy Bundle+](https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/biolite-energy-bundle-plus?avad=55097_c16dfffbd&utm_campaign=affiliate&utm_source=avantlink&utm_medium=40661){: rel=nofollow}:** REI isn't the only outdoor gear sale happening. The folks at BioLite have a few discounts right now, including this Energy Bundle+ which combines a stove, USB-charging solar panel, and lighting system to keep all your devices charged while camping. Use the code __LABOR15__ to get the full discount price. + +### Sales + +There are far more deals out there than just the ones we've highlighted here. If you've got a shopping list here's a list of some more Labor Day Sales for you: + +- **[Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/appliances-sale){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[REI Labor Day Sale](http://www.avantlink.com/click.php?tt=cl&merchant_id=e295c418-295a-447c-b265-734e25f82503&website_id=6493f360-f0c1-48d6-8bf9-fd48d95e7616&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rei.com%2Fh%2Flabor-day-sale&ctc=labordaysales2019){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[New Egg](https://www.newegg.com/Labor-Day-Sale/EventSaleStore/ID-163){: rel=nofollow}** + + +- **[Walmart](https://www.walmart.com/m/savings-center){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Home Depot](https://www.homedepot.com/c/labor_day_savings){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Lowes](https://www.lowes.com/l/appliance-sales.html?int_cmp=Home%3AA%3AMajorAppliances%3APct_Off%3AFW29_Up_To_40_Off){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Sears](https://www.sears.com/appliances/b-1020003?adcell=hp_LD_S1_appliances){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[Wayfair](https://www.wayfair.com/daily-sales/labor-day-sale){: rel=nofollow}** + +- **[eBay](https://www.ebay.com/deals?_trkparms=pageci%3A1f4ef556-ca55-11e9-91f2-74dbd1802241|parentrq%3Add4310dd16c0ac3d5d18f902ffd8dd2d|iid%3A0){: rel=nofollow}** + diff --git a/published/waffles.txt b/published/waffles.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16bf8b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/waffles.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Everyone has some useless kitchen device they love. My parents love their mango peeler, I have a friend who swears one of those multi-edge brownie pans is the bomb. There's even an all-in-one breakfast sandwich device which, if Amazon [reviews](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C95O3DY/) are to be believed, is loved by many. + +Our version of this is the waffle iron. Except that The waffle iron is not the one trick pony you think it is. It's capable of making everything from burgers to hash browns to chocolate chip cookies. And of course, [chocolate](/jrnl/2017/07/happy-5th-birthday) [waffle](/jrnl/2018/07/six) [cake](/jrnl/2019/07/seven). + +<img src="images/2019/2017-05-22_150233_huntsville-tx.jpg" id="image-2058" class="picwide" /> + + +### Origins + +My first encounter with non-standard things in a waffle iron came at a campground. My family and I had recently moved into our [1969 Dodge Travco motorhome](/1969-dodge-travco-motorhome) to live full time on the road. I gutted and restored the RV, but one thing I never got around to fixing was the oven. It was on my list of things to do, but honestly, living in a vintage RV, that's a perpetually long list and things like brakes tend to take precedence. + +One day in a New Orleans campground some fellow travelers, Taylor and Beth, [had us over for dinner](https://live.luxagraf.net/jrnl/2017/05/new-orleans-instrumental-number-2). It was too hot to run an oven in you RV, so they served up cornbread waffles. I'm pretty sure if you'd been there you could have actually heard the ding that went off in my head when I saw the cornbread waffle. If you can make cornbread in a waffle iron, what else could you make? + +Traditionally, the waffle was a leavened bread-like thing, made from a dough rather than the runny batter we're used to now. It seems to have [grown out of a Greek tradition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle) of cakes cooked between two pressed together hot plates. From there, the idea of pressing batter between plates spread through Europe. Europeans started adding yeast to make a leavened dough, and eventually the hot plates found their modern grid pattern. The French were early waffle pioneers, though the Dutch soon dominated. Now, the word "waffle" is often preceded by the word "Belgian." + +We were not waffle traditionalists though, just a family without an oven looking for a good way to make cakes and cookies. After that first encounter with cornbread in a grid, we grabbed the cheapest waffle iron we could find and began to experiment. + +### Waffle Mastery + +We started with what we knew, replicating the cornbread waffles. We tinkered with the recipe until it was just right and then moved on. Our first homegrown success was chocolate waffle cake. The brilliance of cake as a waffle is that all those dents fill up with frosting. To this day, even when we have access to ovens, like in Mexico, my kids want chocolate waffle cake for their birthdays. + +After the cake success I was more or less satisfied. Corrinne however, has continued to experiment and come up all sorts of things. Banana bread (excellent). Chocolate chip banana bread (even better). Chocolate chip cookies (still searching for perfection here). Later she tried hash browns (tricky, but can be good), and became slightly obsessed with trying just about everything in a waffle iron. Remarkably, nearly all of it all has worked. Or possible two years of ovenless life makes your palette more forgiving. + +We quickly discovered that we were not the first waffle iron lovers. There was a blog, Wafflizer.com, now known as [Will it Waffle](https://willitwaffle.com/), which spawned a cookbook of the same name. There were other cookbooks, though we haven't tried any of them because experimenting -- especially with kids eager to learn to cook -- is more fun. + +Often we discovered that companies themselves had recipes adjusted to work in waffle iron. We found a cornbread mix that mentioned that the secret to better cornbread waffles was more oil (this is actually true in a broad sense, though you don't want to get carried away). + +When I sat down to write this for WIRED I realized there's a whole internet world of waffling enthusiasts. Daniel Shumski, author of Will it Waffle, includes recipes for things as exotic as Miso-maple glazed salmon, waffled tamali pie, and even filet mignon. Honestly, we haven't tried any of those, though the tamali pie strikes me a potentially awesome. + +You probably have an oven, so why bother waffling? It's fun. Kids love the experimental, bending of the rules aspect to it. That said, if we had an oven we'd probably use it. Still, odds are you have a waffle iron tucked away somewhere in your kitchen, neglected and sad in the darkness of a far cabinet. Pull it out and put on the counter with pride. Try waffling something unexpected. diff --git a/published/waffles.txt_ b/published/waffles.txt_ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d53ed71 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/waffles.txt_ @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Everyone has a slightly bizarre cooking tool they secretly love, whether it's a mango peeler, a multi-edge brownie pan, or an all-in-one egg sandwich device. Yup, [that's a thing](https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-25477-Breakfast-Electric/dp/B00C95O3DY/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. My guilty pleasure is the waffle iron. + +I firmly believe a waffle maker can cook almost anything. That's why National Waffle Day, August 24, is my favorite made-up holiday. There's no way waffles actually need a holiday, but it's as good a time as any to tell you how I feel about my waffle iron. You'd be surprised what waffles. It can make everything from burgers to hash browns to chocolate chip cookies, and that's just the beginning. + +###My Waffling Origin Story + +My first encounter with non-standard things in a waffle iron came at a campground. My family and I had recently moved into our 1969 Dodge Travco motorhome to live full time on the road. I gutted and restored the RV, but one thing I never got around to fixing was the oven. + +We were in a New Orleans campground one day and a few fellow [#VanLife](https://twitter.com/hashtag/vanlife) travelers had us over for dinner. They also lacked a working oven, so they served us cornbread waffles instead. If you'd have been there you could have audibly heard the ding that went off in my head when I tried my cornbread waffle. Waffles .... cornbread? What kind of sorcery was this? If they made cornbread in a waffle iron, what else could we make? + +[[[[[may cut this]]]] +Traditionally, the waffle was a leavened bread-like thing, meaning it was made from a dough, rather than the runny batter we're used to now. It seems to have grown out of a Greek tradition cakes cooked between two pressed together hot plates. From there, the idea of pressing batter between plates spread through Europe. Europeans started adding yeast to make a leavened dough, and eventually the hot plates found their modern grid pattern. The French were early waffle pioneers, though the Dutch ended up running with the idea until the word waffle was most off preceded by the word Belgium. + +###Waffle Time + +We were not waffle traditionalists—just a family without an oven, desperate for new ways to heat food. After that first encounter with gridded cornbread, we grabbed the cheapest waffle iron we could find and began to experiment. + +We started by replicating the cornbread waffles. After some tinkering, we had the recipe down. Our first homegrown success was chocolate waffle cake. The brilliance of cake as a waffle is that all those dents fill up with frosting. To this day, despite access to ovens, my kids want chocolate waffle cake for their birthdays. + +After the cake success, we tried banana bread, and it was excellent. Then we made chocolate chip banana bread (even better). Then chocolate chip cookies—they remain difficult to perfect. Later, we started making hash browns, and became slightly obsessed with trying just about everything in a waffle iron. + +Remarkably, nearly all of it all has worked, though it's also possible that two years of ovenless van life made our palettes more forgiving. + +Not long into our waffling days, we discovered that we were not the first family to worship the waffle iron. There was a blog, Wafflizer.com, now known as [Will It Waffle?](https://willitwaffle.com/), which [spawned a waffling cookbook](https://www.amazon.com/Will-Waffle-Irresistible-Unexpected-Recipes-ebook/dp/B00K8H307U/){: rel=nofollow} of the same name. There were other cookbooks, though I haven't read them. Experimenting—especially with kids eager to learn to cook—is more fun. + +We also discovered that, quite often, companies themselves had recipes adjusted to work in waffle iron. Info on the box of a cornbread mix mentioned that the secret to better cornbread waffles was more oil. (This is actually true in a broad sense as long as you don't get carried away.) + +As we explored the growing world of waffling online, we came to realize that there's very little a waffle iron can't do. Daniel Shumski, author of Will It Waffle, includes recipes for things as exotic as Miso-maple glazed salmon, waffled tamali pie, and even filet mignon. + +###The Tools You Need for Waffle Mastery + +You probably have a waffle iron tucked away somewhere in your kitchen, neglected and sad in the darkness of a far cabinet. I say, pull it out and put on the counter with pride! + +If you don't have a waffle iron, this [Black and Decker Waffle Iron ($23)](https://www.amazon.com/BD-Waffle-Iron-Morning-Station/dp/B07D7DTFM5/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow} is a good starter model. It has some extras my waffle maker (which is no longer sold) does not, including different plates for sandwiches or grilling. That might be cheating, but I won't tell if you don't. + +If you want to upgrade your waffling experience, Shumski likes the very fancy [Breville BWM620XL Waffle Maker ($199)](https://www.amazon.com/Breville-BWM620XL-Smart-Waffle-Silver/dp/B00F5C1Q5Q/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. Personally, I've felt no need to upgrade, though I can see where precise temperature controls like those on the Breville could potentially open up a new world of waffle iron possibilities. There are also flipping waffle irons, which claim to spread your batter more evenly. They tend to be the much deeper Belgium-style waffles, which I do not recommend for all around waffling (though if your waffle desires are limited to visions of tasty strawberry smothered Belgium waffles, these irons are a great way to make them). I also recommend a high-heat cleaning brush, like [this one ($15)](https://www.amazon.com/Carlisle-4011400-Waffle-Brush-Teflon/dp/B000ORE0DW/){: rel=nofollow} for clearing your waffle iron between waffles. + +If you want to skip the dry cornbread and exploding chocolate chip cookies that ooze like lava across the counter experimental stage, grab a dedicated waffle iron cookbook. I've enjoyed Shumski's [Will It Waffle](https://www.amazon.com/Will-It-Waffle-Irresistible-Unexpected/dp/0761176462/?tag=w050b-20){: rel=nofollow}. + +biscuits + + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + diff --git a/published/which-macbook.txt b/published/which-macbook.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..243b921 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/which-macbook.txt @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +Well, we've now used that new MacBook and the new OS. Can button up the Best MacBooks guide for the holidays here. Is there any advice around which ones might run iPad apps best, or anything like that? Seems like a new reason to avoid older units. Looks like some of the prices/links are broken or off now too. + +So if you can give it a thorough read through and think about any ways we can serve readers more/ update info, that seems good since it's a high profile guide + + + +Apple's laptops have long been held up as a gold standard for portable computers. MacBooks were the first to bring technologies like aluminum unibody construction, super-sharp IPS screens, backlit keyboards, and multitouch trackpads to the mainstream. The problem with Apple's current lineup is that the company has a variety of models with different capabilities, making it difficult to find the one that's best for you. + +Which Mac portable should you spend your hard-earned money on? Given that you'll likely pay more for a MacBook than a competing model from [HP](https://www.wired.com/review/hp-spectre-x360-convertible-laptop-2018/), [Dell](https://www.wired.com/review/dell-xps-13-2019/), or even [Microsoft](https://www.wired.com/review/microsoft-surface-laptop-2-2018/), it's important to weigh your options. + +*Updated October 2019: Apple released [MacOS Catalina](https://www.wired.com/story/macos-1015-catalina-review/) with some new features, like Sidecar which turns a compatible iPad into a second monitor, so we've updated our picks, pricing, and recommendations. Be sure to also check out our [latest buying guides](https://www.wired.com/tag/buying-guides/), especially our picks for [Best iPhone](https://www.wired.com/gallery/iphone-buying-guide/), [Best iPad](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/), and [Best Laptops](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-laptops/).* + +*Note: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + + +###The Best All-Arounder + +**[Apple MacBook Air (13-inch)](https://apple.sjv.io/4qMY3){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5a7ba5c1bc5bd27505947dc0]|||||| + +The MacBook Air remains the Mac to get. Apple [upgraded the MacBook Air](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-goes-all-in-on-touch-bar-for-macbook-pro/) earlier this year, adding the company's True Tone tech to the Retina display and dropping the price to $1,099. + +The new Air is a lot like the new MacBook Pro models, with a sharp, 13-inch Retina display, a responsive trackpad, an improved butterfly keyboard (with a dust shield), surprisingly potent speakers, and two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports for charging and hooking up peripherals. It comes in gold, if that's your jam. + +On the inside is a 1.6 GHz dual-core eighth-generation Intel Core i5 processor, a 128-gigabyte solid state drive, along with up to 16 GB of RAM. Having only two USB-C ports can feel limiting. You'll need to buy multi-port [adapters like this one](https://amzn.to/2LEIlgS){: rel=nofollow} to plug stuff in and stay charged at the same time. + +There are a few things you might miss from higher-end MacBook Pros. Those pricier machines get extra USB-C ports, and faster insides. + +**[MacBook Air costs $1,099 from Apple](https://apple.sjv.io/4qMY3){: rel=nofollow} or [$1,100 from Amazon](https://amzn.to/2LSZnYT){: rel=nofollow}** + +*Small Upgrades: If you have a lot of local photos or files, get the [256 GB MacBook Air for $200 more](https://apple.sjv.io/4qMY3){: rel=nofollow} ([$1,250-$1,350 from Amazon](https://amzn.to/2JDjesb){: rel=nofollow}).* + +###The Best For Power Users + +**[Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch with Touch Bar)](https://apple.sjv.io/7Q9yO){: rel=nofollow}** + +[#image: /photos/5a7ba57a4430bd3783b464de]|||||| + +The only high-end laptop Apple makes is the [15-inch MacBook Pro](https://www.wired.com/review/apple-macbook-pro-2018/). There are two options here: the six-core, eighth-generation Intel Core i7 processor, with 16 GB RAM, and the even more powerful version with an eight-core, ninth-generation Intel Core i9 processor, up to 32 GB RAM, and AMD Radeon graphics. The latter option has the fastest internals and biggest, highest-resolution display of all the MacBooks, making it well suited to everything from 4K video editing to massive Lightroom batch exports. Its big screen is also a major boon to productivity, making side-by-side document editing and web browsing a cinch. + +MacOS 10.15 Catalina adds a feature called Sidecar, which allows you to use an iPad as a second monitor or, using the Apple Pencil, as a drawing device (much like a [Wacom tablet](https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuos){: rel=nofollow}). If you don't already have an iPad, Catalina might convince you to get one (see our [iPad buying guide](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/)). Pairing the MacBook Pro with an iPad is the closest you're likely to get to a portable dual-monitor setup. + +Four Thunderbolt 3 ports mean you'll have plenty of ports for the rest of your devices, too. If you handle big files on the regular, you might need a larger SSD than the stock 256 GB configuration offers, but Apple will gladly upgrade this MacBook Pro all the way to 4 terabytes, if you can pony up the $2,700 upgrade fee. + +All MacBook Pro's also feature Apple's Touch Bar. This small display above the keyboard is touch-sensitive and plays host to a row of customizable, interactive controls. It can be handy, at least in theory, but many apps have yet to truly take advantage of this skinny touch interface. + +**[MacBook Pro (15-inch) costs $2,249+ from Apple](https://apple.sjv.io/7Q9yO){: rel=nofollow} or [$2,200-$2,400+ from Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-Retina-2-2GHz-6-Core/dp/B07FK9H65N){: rel=nofollow}** + +*Smaller Screen: If 15 inches is too big, you can get a [13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for $1,699](https://apple.sjv.io/7Q9yO){: rel=nofollow} ([$1,650 at Amazon](https://amzn.to/2LEIzoe){: rel=nofollow}). You can also deck it out with 16 GB RAM and an Intel Core i7 for $1,799+ (at Apple's Store).* + +###The GoldilocksBook + +[#image: /photos/5d24c40daed87c00094fb4a8]|||||| + +**[Apple MacBook Pro (13-Inch)](https://apple.sjv.io/7Q9yO){: rel=nofollow}** + +If the new MacBook Air isn't powerful enough for your needs, but the 15 inch MacBook Pro is too much, consider the 13-inch MacBook Pro. It might be just right. + +In July 2019, Apple canceled the 12-inch MacBook (one of our previous favorite) and effectively replaced it with the new MacBook Air. That leaves the 13-inch MacBook Pro straddling the power and weight divide between the new Air and 15-inch MacBook Pro. + +Offering powerful quad-core processors and all-day battery life in a reasonably portable 3-pound package, the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro will be the best of both worlds for many people. You get the Touch Bar and a faster chip than the Air, but avoid the extra weight and bulk of the 15-inch model. + +Catalina's Sidebar feature works a treat here too, pairing your iPad for an extra screen or drawing pad on the go. + +The entry level model sports a 1.4 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, with up to 16-gigabytes of RAM, and a 128 GB solid state drive (configurable to 2 terabytes). + +**[MacBook Pro (13-inch, 128 GB) costs $1,299 from Apple](https://apple.sjv.io/7Q9yO){: rel=nofollow}** + +###Quirks and Issues to Be Aware of + +[#image: /photos/5b50da71c4622c0b58ac8bdc]|||||| + +Unlike previous generations of MacBook, there are eccentricities and problems with Apple's laptops that you should know about before you buy. + +__Bland Touch Bar:__ When Apple debuted the Touch Bar in late 2016, it touted the thin touchscreen strip above the keyboard as the [next-generation of user input](https://www.wired.com/2016/11/apple-goes-part-time-on-touch/). Unfortunately, this hasn't panned out. There seems to be little interest from third-party software designers in doing anything innovative with the tiny display. Those Touch Bar-packing laptops have Touch ID, which lets you log in and access sensitive data with your fingerprint, but what's been swapped out for that is something you'll miss: a physical Esc key. To get around this you can always map CapsLock to Esc. + +__Palmy Trackpad:__ Apple's trackpads are among the best in the computer business, but with the newest MacBooks, these input devices have been blown up to unbelievable proportions and crammed right up against the bottom of the keyboard, right where you rest your palms while typing. Although there's supposed to be intelligent palm rejection software at work, the trackpads are susceptible to accidental input. Your mileage may vary. + +__Keyboard Killer:__ The flat style of Apple's 3rd-generation "butterfly switch" keyboards might not be to everyone's liking, but widespread stories of non-responsive keys are worrying. Perhaps the most famous screed on the subject is Casey Johnston's post [detailing her keyboard woes for The Outline](https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is-ruining-my-life). WIRED editor Jeffrey Van Camp also has had multiple issues with his 2017 Pro keyboard. Apple now [replaces the keyboards for free](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-will-fix-broken-macbook-keyboards/) and has added [extra dust guards](https://www.wired.com/story/ifixit-teardown-new-macbook-pro-keyboard/) in the newer models. Apple has [detailed instructions on how to clean the keyboard](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205662){: rel=nofollow} if yours gets flaky, which is a decent first line of defense against busted keys. Apple also recently [extended its keyboard repair program](https://www.wired.com/story/apple-macbook-pro-2019-speed-bump/) to cover repairs on all Macs that have been purchased within the past four years, regardless of warranty status. + +__Parched for Ports:__ Then there's the port situation. All of Apple's current MacBooks feature one port type: USB-C. It's a newer port that might not work with the devices you own. You'll want to invest in a few adapters ([like this Aukey adapter](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072Q1SKZR/){: rel=nofollow}) if you plan on hooking your computer up to a projector, or want to use things like USB keys or SD cards. Plan to buy some dongles. + +###MacBooks to Avoid + +[#image: /photos/5c5e2243efd7aa546734e945]|||||| + +**The Old MacBook Air:** This slim laptop was groundbreaking when it debuted in 2010. Unfortunately, the MacBook Air didn't [change much](https://www.wired.com/2013/06/apple-macbook-air-2013/) until 2018. It sports a dowdy-looking non-Retina screen and weak Intel chips that are years old. It might not require the dongles that a newer MacBook might necessitate, but the newer laptops will undoubtedly feel faster for longer. Don't let its price tag tempt you—there are [way better laptops](https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-laptops/) you can nab for that kind of cash. *How to spot it:* The older Air has a thick silver border (bezel) around its screen, instead of black glass like the new models. + +**The Old MacBook Pro:** This time-tested design seems like it'd be a great buy ... until you see the $2,000 price tag. It's still rocking an impossibly old, 2014-era Intel chip inside, and despite its appealing array of USB and Thunderbolt 2 ports, this 15-inch model is a poor value for money. *How to spot it:* It has standard USB ports and it's much thicker. The new models only have a few USB-C ports. + +**12-Inch MacBook:** This model was canceled in July 2019. If you find one of the final models and get a good bargain (well under $1,000), it may be worth a look, but we generally recommend you opt for a current model for longevity and better customer support. This one will not work with Sidecar. + +###Is It a Good Time to Buy? + +Probably, but it depends which model you're going to get. Apple updated the processor option for its top of the line MacBook Pro in May 2019 and refreshed the Air in July. Apple may end up announcing a minor processor upgrade for the MacBook Pro 13-inch model before the end of the year, but we suspect it will be a very minor update if it happens at all. + +###Get AppleCare+ + +None of Apple's MacBooks are cheap, and replacement parts are nightmarishly expensive. Since the entire computer is fully integrated into Apple's tightly-designed aluminum chassis, you're one coffee spill away from a shockingly large repair bill. This is why [Apple's AppleCare+](https://www.apple.com/us/search/AppleCare-for-MacBook?src=serp){: rel=nofollow} is worth it—starting at $249, AppleCare extends your factory warranty to three years, gives you matching telephone support, and throws in two accidental damage repairs as well. A minimum $99 service fee later and whatever you did to kill your shiny new Mac is undone and you're back to hammering away on your keyboard. + +**[Shop for AppleCare+](https://mysupport.apple.com/add-coverage?productTypeId=SG001){: rel=nofollow}** + +*Want more news and reviews you can use? [Sign up for our free Gadget Lab newsletter](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=gadget-lab&source=ArticleLink). You can also get 12-months of our print magazine and [ad-free WIRED browsing for $10](https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=deal_guides_sub). The money helps support WIRED and the journalism we do.* diff --git a/published/which-surface-final.txt b/published/which-surface-final.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21699dc --- /dev/null +++ b/published/which-surface-final.txt @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +Microsoft's Surface brand offers some of the best Windows hardware on the market. Best know for the innovative, tablet-like hardware designs, the software started off a bit rough. In the beginning most of the Surface line ran a stripped down version of Windows that proved unpopular. + +Eight years later, things have changed. Not only is do most Surface devices run Windows Home edition, but it's also become clear that Microsoft was an early innovator in mobile-friendly hybrid PC hardware. It's hard to find a PC-maker today that doesn't ape Surface's kickstand-packing, detachable-keyboard-rocking design. + +Since launching the first Surface ultraportables, Microsoft has expanded the Surface line to include a full family of computers, from a standard laptop to a giant desktop. If you need a portable Windows PC, it's hard to find a nicer physical experience than what Surface offers. The problem is one of choice: with such a diverse family of premium computers, which is best for your needs? Not to worry—we're on this like a Type Cover on a Surface Pro. + +*Updated in Oct. 2019: We've updated our guide with the Surface 3 series hardware.* + +##The Best All-Arounder + +[#image: /photos/5aa84ed1f156f371db608ecf]|||||| + +**[Surface Laptop 3 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $999](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow}** + +This device isn't as swish as the transforming, flexible computers that made the Surface brand famous, but if you need a laptop, you *need* a laptop. Kickstands and clicky magnetic keyboard covers don't work well in every situation, so we're going with the Surface Laptop 3 as the best pick for most shoppers. No, it's not a tablet, but the Surface Laptop is a *killer* notebook computer. + +Featuring a gorgeous, 13.5-inch high-resolution display, a lovely-feeling keyboard, a stellar glass trackpad, and a slim case, the Surface Laptop is well-built and easy to handle. Ports are one place the Surfaces skimps, but in 2019 you now get a USB-C port along with your good, old-fashioned USB-A port. The old DisplayPort has been removed to make room for that USB-C. It also has a magnetic charging port. If you're a klutz who trips over your power cord all the time, this can be a lifesaver. It severs the connection between the wall plug and the computer before the laptop goes flying across the room like a Frisbee. + +In 2019 Microsoft added a 15-inch model to its Surface Laptop line (see [our full review]()). The 15-inch model uses an AMD Ryzen chip rather than the usual Intel variety. Microsoft says it worked closely with AMD to tune the chip for the best possible performance. It's not going to edit your next 4K feature film, but it's plenty powerful enough for most of us. + +Microsoft also gives users some great tech standards, like a Windows Hello IR camera that lets you log in to Windows with your face lickety-split. Once you get used that, it's hard to go back to typing in your password like some sort of paleolithic protohuman. When we [tried the original Surface Laptop in 2017](https://www.wired.com/2017/06/review-microsoft-surface-laptop/), we gave it our WIRED Recommends seal of approval and a score of 8/10 and we anticipate liking the sequel as well. + +**Buy the 13-inch Surface Laptop 3 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YNKGWMT/){: rel=nofollow}. The 15-inch model (AMD, 8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) is also available from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow} in the base config and [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/New-Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Touch-Screen/dp/B07YNLKTW9/){: rel=nofollow} stocks the slightly more expensive model (AMD, 16GB RAM, 256 GB SSD).** + + +##The Best 2-in-1 + +[#image: /photos/5aa850bcf156f371db608ed1]|||||| + +**[Surface Pro 7 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $1,199](https://fave.co/2qCTG8x){: rel=nofollow}** + +The original Surface design, with its kickstand and keyboard cover, is still a joy all these years later. The upcoming Surface Pro 6 is a mobile device that bridges the gap between laptop and tablet pretty well. + +No matter which configuration you land on, each Pro has more performant 10th-generation Intel chips, and an improved 12.3-inch high-res touchscreen with a document-friendly 3:2 aspect ratio. You also get a USB-A port, a magnetic charging port, a Windows Hello-compatible webcam, and a MicroSD slot for expanding the onboard storage. The Pro 7 update adds a long-overdue USB-C port, but it does not support Thunderbolt 3. + +If you want your Pro purchase to last as long as possible, spring for the $1,199 configuration which will get you a faster i5 chip and a larger hard drive. + +**Buy the Surface Pro 6 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2qCTG8x){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/NEW-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-Touch-Screen/dp/B07YNJ6BQL/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +*There's a slight catch. If you want the full Surface tablet experience, you'll need to buy one of Microsoft's Type Cover keyboards. This accessory is essential, but not included. Tack on an additional [$129 for a simple black cover](https://fave.co/2PfAicb){: rel=nofollow}, or [$159 for a fancier, Alcantara-covered](https://fave.co/2MJTuwR){: rel=nofollow} version.* + +##The Best for Students + +[#image: /photos/5bc4dfd32ba3661093860d44]|||||| + +**[Surface Go (Pentium 4415Y, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD), $549](https://fave.co/2NA4quc){: rel=nofollow}** + +The most affordable, smallest member of the Surface lineup is the 10-inch Surface Go. Not only is it a smaller Surface tablet, it’s significantly cheaper than the Pro. If your needs are minimal, or you prefer tiny computers, this is what you should buy—despite its slower Intel chips, we enjoyed using it, and gave it a [7/10 when we reviewed it](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-go/) in 2018. + +Because of its excellent Surface Pen compatibility, Go is awesome for notetaking, and with a Type Cover attached, it's a surprisingly good, if tiny, laptop. It might not be able to take on the [iPad Pro](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/) in terms of sheer computing power or battery life, but Surface Go is nicely priced and good enough for college students, or anyone for a second machine to take with them. + +The tantalizingly-priced $399 version might not be a great pick if you need Surface Go to serve as your main computer. Its smaller, slower storage drive and limited RAM might make multitasking and demanding apps feel slower. If you can, spring for the $549 config instead. Like Surface Pro, Go does not include a [$100 Type Cover keyboard](https://fave.co/2NAeOCb){: rel=nofollow} or [Surface Pen](https://fave.co/2OfeXAe){: rel=nofollow}, so remember to pick those up with your tablet purchase. + +**Buy the Surface Go (Pentium 4415Y, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2NA4quc){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Go-Intel-Pentium/dp/B07FDKZQTY/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +##The Best for Power Users + + +[#image: /photos/5aa84df82ba43111d1213e28]|||||| + + +**[Surface Book 2 15-inch (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $2,499](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C/BHHZ?cid=surfacebook2interstitial){: rel=nofollow}** + +This transforming powerhouse is the only Surface device with an optional graphics chip that'll boost core performance, speeding up everything from Adobe Premiere to SolidWorks. The screen undocks from the keyboard, so you can use the display as a tablet for brief stints when watching movies or annotating documents with the Surface Pen. When our team [reviewed this laptop](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-book-2/), we gave it our WIRED Recommends seal of approval and a score of 8/10. + +Available in versions with 13.5 and 15.6-inch screens, Surface Book 2 is the closest analog to Apple's MacBook Pro series. Thanks to standard quad-core Intel processors and an optional discrete Nvidia 10-series graphics chip inside the keyboard dock, you'll get amazing performance for a portable. Plus you get the expected suite of Surface goodies—Windows Hello, a gorgeous high-res screen, a luxurious backlit keyboard, and a big, silky-smooth glass trackpad. + +Because the Surface Book 2 hasn't been refreshed as of October 2019, keep an eye out for deals. We've see the 15-inch model (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) going for as low as $1800 ($700 off) on Amazon. + +**Buy the Surface Book 2 15-inch (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/32KLeCz){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Book-Intel-256GB/dp/B076HZCQY9/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +*If you have cash to burn on a *really* nice Windows laptop, the 15-inch version has the fastest Nvidia 1060 graphics chip and the biggest, highest-res screen available on a portable Surface. The 13-inch is great, too, but the cheapest version is poorly equipped, going without Nvidia graphics, and has a measly 128 GB SSD—not enough space for your Lightroom library, much less all your go-to pro apps.* + +###Caveats + +Even though the Surface lineup has never been as diverse as it is now, there are still some imperfections that may impact your enjoyment of a shiny new Microsoft computer. The first annoyances begin when you add a device to your cart. If you're grabbing a Surface hoping to use the famous, [fabulous Surface Pen](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface/8ZL5C82QMG6B/){: rel=nofollow} with it, you'll need to buy it separately. In years past, Surface Pro and Surface Book included the pen, but no longer. + +Ports are another mixed bag for Surface. The October 2019 refresh finally added USB-C ports to the Surface Pro, X and Laptop models, though there's still no support for Thunderbolt 3. You get the connector support, but not the full speed. + +Despite the USB-C ports, Microsoft stuck with its magnetic Surface Connect charger (confusingly, you *can* charge with USB-C as well). If you miss Apple's MagSafe era this isn't a bad thing, but if you're looking forward to a one-connector future, Microsoft hasn't delivered on that yet. + +If you're a little short on cash but still want to pick up a Surface, check out the [Surface All Access program](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/surface-all-access){: rel=nofollow}. Microsoft lets you buy a new Surface on an installment plan, for as little as $25 per month, and packs in Office 365 for the entire two years you’re paying off your device. Surface Pro and Go also get a Type Cover out of the deal. Unfortunately, Surface All Access is only available in Microsoft’s physical retail locations, and not online. + +##Reasons to Wait + +The lineup has been refreshed for the fall of 2019, so it’s a great time to buy. We don’t expect updates to the Surface family until 2020. + +##Get Microsoft Complete + +If you're rough on your gadgets, plan on buying the [Microsoft Complete extended warranty](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/microsoft-complete){: rel=nofollow}. Starting at $149, this gives you additional warranty coverage and accidental damage protection. You get two accidental damage claims, with only a $49 deductible, whether you take your device to the local Microsoft Store or ship it in for repairs. Given how much a Surface costs, it's worth the peace of mind to add this protection to your new device. + +**Shop for [Microsoft Complete](https://fave.co/33TnHPQ){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** +[#iframe: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4736898/WIRED-Holiday-Gifts-Survey](533x430) + +*** +###More WIRED Buying Guides + + - Which [MacBook Pro Should You Buy?](https://www.wired.com/story/which-macbook-should-you-buy/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + - The Best [Amazon Fire Tablet](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + - Our Favorite [Affordable Smartphones Under $500](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cheap-phones/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + +*** +*When you buy something using the retail links in our product reviews, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +Want more news and reviews you can use? [Sign up for the Gadget Lab newsletter.](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=gadget-lab&source=ArticleLink) diff --git a/published/which-surface.txt b/published/which-surface.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21699dc --- /dev/null +++ b/published/which-surface.txt @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +Microsoft's Surface brand offers some of the best Windows hardware on the market. Best know for the innovative, tablet-like hardware designs, the software started off a bit rough. In the beginning most of the Surface line ran a stripped down version of Windows that proved unpopular. + +Eight years later, things have changed. Not only is do most Surface devices run Windows Home edition, but it's also become clear that Microsoft was an early innovator in mobile-friendly hybrid PC hardware. It's hard to find a PC-maker today that doesn't ape Surface's kickstand-packing, detachable-keyboard-rocking design. + +Since launching the first Surface ultraportables, Microsoft has expanded the Surface line to include a full family of computers, from a standard laptop to a giant desktop. If you need a portable Windows PC, it's hard to find a nicer physical experience than what Surface offers. The problem is one of choice: with such a diverse family of premium computers, which is best for your needs? Not to worry—we're on this like a Type Cover on a Surface Pro. + +*Updated in Oct. 2019: We've updated our guide with the Surface 3 series hardware.* + +##The Best All-Arounder + +[#image: /photos/5aa84ed1f156f371db608ecf]|||||| + +**[Surface Laptop 3 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $999](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow}** + +This device isn't as swish as the transforming, flexible computers that made the Surface brand famous, but if you need a laptop, you *need* a laptop. Kickstands and clicky magnetic keyboard covers don't work well in every situation, so we're going with the Surface Laptop 3 as the best pick for most shoppers. No, it's not a tablet, but the Surface Laptop is a *killer* notebook computer. + +Featuring a gorgeous, 13.5-inch high-resolution display, a lovely-feeling keyboard, a stellar glass trackpad, and a slim case, the Surface Laptop is well-built and easy to handle. Ports are one place the Surfaces skimps, but in 2019 you now get a USB-C port along with your good, old-fashioned USB-A port. The old DisplayPort has been removed to make room for that USB-C. It also has a magnetic charging port. If you're a klutz who trips over your power cord all the time, this can be a lifesaver. It severs the connection between the wall plug and the computer before the laptop goes flying across the room like a Frisbee. + +In 2019 Microsoft added a 15-inch model to its Surface Laptop line (see [our full review]()). The 15-inch model uses an AMD Ryzen chip rather than the usual Intel variety. Microsoft says it worked closely with AMD to tune the chip for the best possible performance. It's not going to edit your next 4K feature film, but it's plenty powerful enough for most of us. + +Microsoft also gives users some great tech standards, like a Windows Hello IR camera that lets you log in to Windows with your face lickety-split. Once you get used that, it's hard to go back to typing in your password like some sort of paleolithic protohuman. When we [tried the original Surface Laptop in 2017](https://www.wired.com/2017/06/review-microsoft-surface-laptop/), we gave it our WIRED Recommends seal of approval and a score of 8/10 and we anticipate liking the sequel as well. + +**Buy the 13-inch Surface Laptop 3 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YNKGWMT/){: rel=nofollow}. The 15-inch model (AMD, 8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) is also available from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2pPXIdg){: rel=nofollow} in the base config and [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/New-Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Touch-Screen/dp/B07YNLKTW9/){: rel=nofollow} stocks the slightly more expensive model (AMD, 16GB RAM, 256 GB SSD).** + + +##The Best 2-in-1 + +[#image: /photos/5aa850bcf156f371db608ed1]|||||| + +**[Surface Pro 7 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $1,199](https://fave.co/2qCTG8x){: rel=nofollow}** + +The original Surface design, with its kickstand and keyboard cover, is still a joy all these years later. The upcoming Surface Pro 6 is a mobile device that bridges the gap between laptop and tablet pretty well. + +No matter which configuration you land on, each Pro has more performant 10th-generation Intel chips, and an improved 12.3-inch high-res touchscreen with a document-friendly 3:2 aspect ratio. You also get a USB-A port, a magnetic charging port, a Windows Hello-compatible webcam, and a MicroSD slot for expanding the onboard storage. The Pro 7 update adds a long-overdue USB-C port, but it does not support Thunderbolt 3. + +If you want your Pro purchase to last as long as possible, spring for the $1,199 configuration which will get you a faster i5 chip and a larger hard drive. + +**Buy the Surface Pro 6 (i5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2qCTG8x){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/NEW-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-Touch-Screen/dp/B07YNJ6BQL/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +*There's a slight catch. If you want the full Surface tablet experience, you'll need to buy one of Microsoft's Type Cover keyboards. This accessory is essential, but not included. Tack on an additional [$129 for a simple black cover](https://fave.co/2PfAicb){: rel=nofollow}, or [$159 for a fancier, Alcantara-covered](https://fave.co/2MJTuwR){: rel=nofollow} version.* + +##The Best for Students + +[#image: /photos/5bc4dfd32ba3661093860d44]|||||| + +**[Surface Go (Pentium 4415Y, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD), $549](https://fave.co/2NA4quc){: rel=nofollow}** + +The most affordable, smallest member of the Surface lineup is the 10-inch Surface Go. Not only is it a smaller Surface tablet, it’s significantly cheaper than the Pro. If your needs are minimal, or you prefer tiny computers, this is what you should buy—despite its slower Intel chips, we enjoyed using it, and gave it a [7/10 when we reviewed it](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-go/) in 2018. + +Because of its excellent Surface Pen compatibility, Go is awesome for notetaking, and with a Type Cover attached, it's a surprisingly good, if tiny, laptop. It might not be able to take on the [iPad Pro](https://www.wired.com/gallery/the-best-ipad/) in terms of sheer computing power or battery life, but Surface Go is nicely priced and good enough for college students, or anyone for a second machine to take with them. + +The tantalizingly-priced $399 version might not be a great pick if you need Surface Go to serve as your main computer. Its smaller, slower storage drive and limited RAM might make multitasking and demanding apps feel slower. If you can, spring for the $549 config instead. Like Surface Pro, Go does not include a [$100 Type Cover keyboard](https://fave.co/2NAeOCb){: rel=nofollow} or [Surface Pen](https://fave.co/2OfeXAe){: rel=nofollow}, so remember to pick those up with your tablet purchase. + +**Buy the Surface Go (Pentium 4415Y, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/2NA4quc){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Go-Intel-Pentium/dp/B07FDKZQTY/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +##The Best for Power Users + + +[#image: /photos/5aa84df82ba43111d1213e28]|||||| + + +**[Surface Book 2 15-inch (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), $2,499](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C/BHHZ?cid=surfacebook2interstitial){: rel=nofollow}** + +This transforming powerhouse is the only Surface device with an optional graphics chip that'll boost core performance, speeding up everything from Adobe Premiere to SolidWorks. The screen undocks from the keyboard, so you can use the display as a tablet for brief stints when watching movies or annotating documents with the Surface Pen. When our team [reviewed this laptop](https://www.wired.com/review/review-microsoft-surface-book-2/), we gave it our WIRED Recommends seal of approval and a score of 8/10. + +Available in versions with 13.5 and 15.6-inch screens, Surface Book 2 is the closest analog to Apple's MacBook Pro series. Thanks to standard quad-core Intel processors and an optional discrete Nvidia 10-series graphics chip inside the keyboard dock, you'll get amazing performance for a portable. Plus you get the expected suite of Surface goodies—Windows Hello, a gorgeous high-res screen, a luxurious backlit keyboard, and a big, silky-smooth glass trackpad. + +Because the Surface Book 2 hasn't been refreshed as of October 2019, keep an eye out for deals. We've see the 15-inch model (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) going for as low as $1800 ($700 off) on Amazon. + +**Buy the Surface Book 2 15-inch (i7, Nvidia dGPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) from [Microsoft](https://fave.co/32KLeCz){: rel=nofollow} or [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Surface-Book-Intel-256GB/dp/B076HZCQY9/){: rel=nofollow}.** + +*If you have cash to burn on a *really* nice Windows laptop, the 15-inch version has the fastest Nvidia 1060 graphics chip and the biggest, highest-res screen available on a portable Surface. The 13-inch is great, too, but the cheapest version is poorly equipped, going without Nvidia graphics, and has a measly 128 GB SSD—not enough space for your Lightroom library, much less all your go-to pro apps.* + +###Caveats + +Even though the Surface lineup has never been as diverse as it is now, there are still some imperfections that may impact your enjoyment of a shiny new Microsoft computer. The first annoyances begin when you add a device to your cart. If you're grabbing a Surface hoping to use the famous, [fabulous Surface Pen](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface/8ZL5C82QMG6B/){: rel=nofollow} with it, you'll need to buy it separately. In years past, Surface Pro and Surface Book included the pen, but no longer. + +Ports are another mixed bag for Surface. The October 2019 refresh finally added USB-C ports to the Surface Pro, X and Laptop models, though there's still no support for Thunderbolt 3. You get the connector support, but not the full speed. + +Despite the USB-C ports, Microsoft stuck with its magnetic Surface Connect charger (confusingly, you *can* charge with USB-C as well). If you miss Apple's MagSafe era this isn't a bad thing, but if you're looking forward to a one-connector future, Microsoft hasn't delivered on that yet. + +If you're a little short on cash but still want to pick up a Surface, check out the [Surface All Access program](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/surface-all-access){: rel=nofollow}. Microsoft lets you buy a new Surface on an installment plan, for as little as $25 per month, and packs in Office 365 for the entire two years you’re paying off your device. Surface Pro and Go also get a Type Cover out of the deal. Unfortunately, Surface All Access is only available in Microsoft’s physical retail locations, and not online. + +##Reasons to Wait + +The lineup has been refreshed for the fall of 2019, so it’s a great time to buy. We don’t expect updates to the Surface family until 2020. + +##Get Microsoft Complete + +If you're rough on your gadgets, plan on buying the [Microsoft Complete extended warranty](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/microsoft-complete){: rel=nofollow}. Starting at $149, this gives you additional warranty coverage and accidental damage protection. You get two accidental damage claims, with only a $49 deductible, whether you take your device to the local Microsoft Store or ship it in for repairs. Given how much a Surface costs, it's worth the peace of mind to add this protection to your new device. + +**Shop for [Microsoft Complete](https://fave.co/33TnHPQ){: rel=nofollow}** + +*** +[#iframe: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4736898/WIRED-Holiday-Gifts-Survey](533x430) + +*** +###More WIRED Buying Guides + + - Which [MacBook Pro Should You Buy?](https://www.wired.com/story/which-macbook-should-you-buy/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + - The Best [Amazon Fire Tablet](https://www.wired.com/story/best-amazon-fire-tablet/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + - Our Favorite [Affordable Smartphones Under $500](https://www.wired.com/story/best-cheap-phones/?mbid=BottomRelatedStories) + + +*** +*When you buy something using the retail links in our product reviews, we may earn a small affiliate commission. [Read more](https://www.wired.com/2015/11/affiliate-link-policy/) about how this works.* + +Want more news and reviews you can use? [Sign up for the Gadget Lab newsletter.](https://www.wired.com/newsletter/?name=gadget-lab&source=ArticleLink) diff --git a/published/xps13-review.txt b/published/xps13-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0172e05 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/xps13-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +WIRED +No more nose cam. Great performance in a very compact package. Gorgeous display (4K model). Good battery life. + +TIRED +Trackpad can be finicky about right-clicks. 4K display is power hungry. Integrated graphics. Backlit keys on the white model are difficult to read in some circumstances. + +Dell's latest XPS 13 has achieved something near Nirvana. It's not perfect, but it's about as close as an ultraportable laptop is going get. + +Last year's model was a portable, svelte, powerhouse but the presence of the dreaded nose cam—previously the web cam on the XPS 13 was at the bottom of the screen, giving anyone you were video chatting with a great view up your nose—has long kept us from really recommending it. + +The latest (2019) model has finally moved the camera to the top of the screen, where it belongs. No more nose cam. + +## Slim Shady + +At 2.7 pounds and 19mm thick, the XPS 13 isn't the thinnest nor the lightest machine on the market, but it's small enough to slip into any carry-on, and light enough to not strain your shoulders toting it around for the day. + +The 2019 XPS 13 looks nearly identical to my 2018 model (which is now the last of the nose cam models, sigh). The top bezel is a few millimeters thicker to accommodate the new camera, the camera which for years Dell claimed just wouldn't fit. To be fair, to get a camera in there Dell had to make the smallest 720p webcam on the market. The resulting slightly thicker bezel at the top is barely noticeable. The new model also features a quad microphone array for better sound during calls, and better results when you yell Cortana commands from across the room. + +The performance is solid, though not industry leading by any means. All the XPS 13s use eighth-generation Core CPUs, depending on how much you want to spend you can get an i3, i5, or i7. There's support for up to 16-gigabytes of RAM and you can max out the drive with a 2TB SSD. So far so good, but the best the graphics get is Intel's integrated UHD 620. It's not, in other words, the gaming laptop you're seeking (that's probably the Asus ZenBook S13, which we haven't tested yet, but offers NVIDIA's MX150 GPU and looks excellent spec-wise). + +The review model XPS 13 I tested was gray and white with i7-8565U CPU and 16GB of RAM, which is the top end configuration available. It had no trouble handling my basic workload of web browser, Slack, terminal, Zoom, streaming Pandora to a Bluetooth speaker, and a little photo editing on the side. I also ran it through the PC Mark 10 benchmarking suite and found performance to good enough for most use cases and just above average for an ultraportable laptop. + +In my battery testing (looping an HD video until the laptop dies) the Dell XPS 13 gets just over 12 hours on a charge. That's good enough for all day use, or a long cross country flight, and matches roughly what you'd get from a Macbook. It's also nearly two hours more battery life than I got when running the same test on my 2018 XPS 13. I noticed that maxing out the CPU produces considerably less heat in your lap than the 2018 XPS 13. + +Another nice new feature in this iteration of the XPS 13 is the 4K screen, which now supports HDR video via Dolby Vision. In a nutshell that means brighter highlights and darker, richer blacks in shadows. There's not a ton of content out there broadcasted in HDR yet, though YouTube had enough that I was able to test and notice the difference. Dolby Vision is still relatively new and mostly used in TVs, though as the XPS 13 demonstrates, it's making its way to the PC world as well. + +Also notable in this update, there's a 1080p touch screen available if you want touch, but don't want the 4K screen. + +The keyboard and trackpad appear identical to the previous model and while I like the keyboard, the trackpad still doesn't pick up right clicks as well as I'd like, a problem I've noticed for several iterations. This is easy to solve, just use two-fingered clicks, but mars what's an otherwise very good trackpad. + +The ports remain the same in this model as well. Like the previous generation there's three USB-C ports, one of which is for power and two of which handle Thunderbolt 3. You also get a microSD card reader and a headphone jack. The former is a nice way to expand the storage capabilities of the the lower end XPS 13 models, though the card does stick out from the body just slightly. In a nod to those of us who keep our accessories for as long as we can, Dell includes a USB-C to USB-A dongle. + +The Dell XPS 13 starts at an impressively affordable $899, but if you can afford it I strong suggest upgrading from there. That model offers only a Core i3, a mere 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Spend a bit more and you step up to a machine with a core i5, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB drive, which will set you back $1209. I would highly recommend the top end model I tested here, which costs $1430. For an extra $600 you can add a 2TB SSD. + +Buy the top end Dell XPS 13 from [Dell for $1430](https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-touch-laptop/spd/xps-13-9380-laptop/xnita3ws707h?view=configurations&configurationid=db458b97-be15-4b72-830f-a8dbeb141634){: rel=nofollow}. diff --git a/published/zink-camera-printers.txt b/published/zink-camera-printers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c76bc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/published/zink-camera-printers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Film may have largely disappeared, but the photographic print appears here to stay. We've covered the best options based around Fujifilm's Instax printing, which produce Polaroid-style instant prints, but there's another option: Zink printing. + +Zink is short for "zero ink." Zink eliminates the annoying need for (and running out of) ink cartridges in your printer. Instead Zink prints hold layers of ink in the paper itself. When the image prints a pressure-based process then mixes the ink to produce the image. Zink and Instax are sufficiently different that there's room for both. + +That said, Zink produces more traditional prints, like what you'd get from a professional printer (but without the professional quality), instead of the Polaroidesque results of Instax. Zink printers are slower to spit your images than Instax, but they're done the minute they emerge. They're also sticky-backed. Zink prints tend to have better dynamic range—meaning there is a broader range of color and tone in the image—compared to Instax prints, but Zink often struggles to produce the rich blacks you'll find in Instax prints. It's also worth noting that Zink is generally cheaper, both in terms of upfront cost and buying paper in the future. + +Here's our favorite Zink-based camera and printers. + diff --git a/result.txt b/result.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 --- /dev/null +++ b/result.txt diff --git a/scratch.txt b/scratch.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cc66de --- /dev/null +++ b/scratch.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +highest resolution in M lineup 40MP from 24 +without RGB filter gets more sensative iso 160 on the low end, 100000 on high + +luminence only pixels give better micro-contrast + +emotions and aesthetics + +all mono exterior, no leica logo + + + + diff --git a/subid-links.txt b/subid-links.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7e1d5b --- /dev/null +++ b/subid-links.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FGoPro-HERO7-Black%2F783437456&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fgopro-hero7-black-4k-waterproof-action-camera-black%2F6283807.p%3FskuId%3D6283807&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-action-camera-gray%2F6348647.p%3FskuId%3D6348647&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-osmo-pocket-4k-action-camera-matte-black%2F6335592.p%3FskuId%3D6335592&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fdji-mavic-2-pro-quadcopter-with-remote-controller-gray%2F6262620.p%3FskuId%3D6262620&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsandisk-extreme-plus-64gb-microsdxc-uhs-i-memory-card%2F6282920.p%3FskuId%3D6282920&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/c/1305164/614286/10014?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fsandisk-extreme-plus-128gb-microsdxc-uhs-i-memory-card%2F6282919.p%3FskuId%3D6282919&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 +https://www.wired.com/story/best-black-friday-photography-deals-2019/,,blackfridayphotodeals2019,Impact,https://goto.walmart.com/c/1305164/565706/9383?u=https://www.walmart.com/cp/walmart-black-friday-2019/1076614&subid1=blackfridayphotodeals2019 diff --git a/used.txt b/used.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c543979 --- /dev/null +++ b/used.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +The post-holiday season is a great time to buy used electronics. Everyone has just pulled the wrapping off this year's model and is ready to get rid of last year's model. Whether you want to save things from the landfill or just want to score a deal, buying used is a great alternative. + +There are deals to be found out there in the used market, but unfortunately there are plenty of scams as well, and telling the difference can be difficult. We've put together this guide to help you navigate the sometimes confusing waters of buying used electronics online. + +If you're feeling hesitant about buying used, that's okay. Don't rush in blindly, buying the first thing that seems like a deal. It's good to do some research. And remember the old adage: if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. + +Still, if your budget is tight and you want the most bang for your buck, the used market it worth considering. Here's how to navigate it and, hopefully, come out ahead. + +###Know What You Want and What It's Worth + +Making smart decisions on used gear starts with knowing exactly what you want, specifically the options available and how those options affect the price. For example, let's say you want to buy an iPad. First find out how much a brand new iPad costs. It never ceases to amaze me how often I see used things listed on eBay at higher prices than the same item costs brand new from the manufacturer. + +Currently the 10.2 inch Apple iPad costs $329. That's for the 32-gigabyte model, WiFi-only model. If you want more memory or a cellular antenna the price goes up. You need to know all the prices for all the models so you can make a smart used buy. + +The same goes for other types of devices. If you're looking phones or laptops, know the specs for each configuration and make sure that items listed match what you want. Don't be afraid to message sellers and ask specific questions. + +Now that you have a list of models, configuration options, and prices from Apple, it's time to do the same things in the used marketplace. I am going to use eBay as an example for this, because it's the largest and best known of the many auction sites out there. That said, there are some other sites worth exploring, particularly for mobile devices. Be sure to check out our [guide to selling your old phone](https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-trade-in-or-sell-your-iphone/) which has a good overview of different auction sites that specialize in phones. + +Now that we know what we want, search eBay for that exact model. Now scroll down and check the option to only show "sold listings". Take the five most recent sales, add up the price and divide by five. That's the average price of your configuration, don't pay more than that under any circumstances. Also be sure to note the lowest price, that's your awesome deal. + +Depending on the item, how old it is, how sought after it is, you may have to adjust this a little bit. For example there's a camp stove I've been wanting for years, but listings only come up once or twice a year and they sell very fast for pretty much whatever the seller asks, which makes my average and lowest formula less useful. That's an edge case though, in most situations this is how I figure out the best deal and what I'm willing to pay. + +Now uncheck the sold listing option and see what's currently listed that fits your criteria and has a price between the lowest price and that average price. Those are the deals worth considering. + +Remember to check the shipping price. You'll run into a lot of people who list an item at 20 percent below everyone else, but then charge big money for shipping and the total cost to you ends up being more. Avoid those sellers, they're con artists. + +Which brings me to the next important point: price is not the only thing to consider when buying used. + +###Know The Seller + +We don't just want the lowest price, we want the best quality item at the lowest price. I've found that, unfortunately, photos aren't a good indicator of product quality. I've purchased many items with terrible photos that have turned out to be in excellent shape, and I've purchased things with excellent photos that turned out to be junk (I returned them). + +A much better metric to judge the quality of an item is the seller's feedback rating. A good seller—who is most likely selling a high quality item in good condition—will have a feedback rating of 99.8 percent or better. I very rarely buy from a seller with a feedback rating of 99.6 percent or less. + +That leaves a gray zone—sellers with a 99.7 percent rating. In those cases click the "detailed feedback" link and read through the recent feedback. It could be there was only one negative rating and it was several months ago. Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes low rating come from things that weren't really the seller's fault, like a package being lost in the mail, so it pays to read through actual reviews and see what's up. + +If the seller has a rating of 99.6 or below, I personally don't care what the price is, I don't bid. + +I have purchased dozens of laptops, phones, cameras, camera lenses, cast iron cookware, musical equipment, and even prepaid cell phone plans off auction sites. In all that time have only been ripped off once. But even that time I ended up getting my money back. I didn't get the item I was after, but I didn't lose anything either. + +That said, it probably bears repeating: if a deal sounds to good to be true, it is. + +###How to Bid + +Once you've found an item that you want, and you know how much you want to pay it's time to... wait. I strongly suggest you bid only at the last second. And I mean that nearly literally. I only bid when there's about 10 to 20 seconds left. I wait until the auction is ending, then I look it up on my phone, because I think eBay's app has a better interface for actual bidding (it's terrible for browsing), and in those last few seconds I enter the maximum amount I'm willing to pay. + +The reason you don't want to bid earlier is it gives your competitor a chance to react. If you go ahead and outbid someone days, or even hours, before an auction ends they're going to come back and outbid you. Often my guess is they will come back and outbid you even if you drove them over their original max bids. You don't want to give other people time to get into the emotional experience of bidding on eBay. Only auctioneers want to whip bidders into auction fever. We want them to never see us coming. + +Once it's down to those last 20 or so seconds, then you enter your max bid. At that point a kind of automated bidding war begins. This one is not emotional though, it's pure machine-based cold hard logic. + +EBay takes your max bid and holds it, but all it puts into the actual auction is a bid that's 50 cents more than whatever the current highest bid is. But then that other high bidder may have entered a higher total bid than was shown, so eBay bumps their price up. Then your eBay robot responds, and so on, going back and forth until someone hits their max bid. If it's the other bidder, you win. And because you bid at the last second the other bidder didn't have time to reconsider and possibly up their max bid. + +The downside to this strategy is that if the other bidder has a higher max bid than you, they will win. That's okay though because that was your max bid. To go higher would mean you were paying more than you know you should. So this last minute method also saves you from yourself. And honestly, I always bid this way and I rarely end up losing. + +###Other Tips + +I very rarely buy things using the Buy It Now button (which means there's a fixed price, no bidding). Typically people who sell this way are resellers (they have a large stock of the item and sell it all the time) and while they may offer an okay deal, it's typically not a really good one. The big exception here for me is phones. Almost all the phones I've purchased were Buy It Now items. + +The other big advice I have about avoiding being scammed is don't pay with anything other than PayPal. I don't necessarily mean you have to use a PayPal account, but make sure the transaction is processed through PayPal. If someone wants a Money Order or check, that's a scam. I also avoid local pickup items in most cases (vehicles and appliances are the only thing I'd consider for local pickup). + +Perhaps the best advice I can give is the most difficult to follow: try to remove your emotions from the equation. When buying used, think of your heart and brain as the two voices whispering in your ears. Your heart may be set on a new (to you) laptop, but you brain is better at sniffing out scams, won't get sucked into auction fever, and it's what you should listen to when you find yourself thinking, that's almost too good to be true. + + + diff --git a/xpro3-review.txt b/xpro3-review.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b80041e --- /dev/null +++ b/xpro3-review.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +The Fujifilm X-Pro3 is a highly opinionated camera. In a market where it's hard to tell cameras apart, the design decisions behind the new X-Pro3 set it well apart from its competitors. From hiding away the main LCD screen, to the film-era box-top style LCD screen on the back, this is not your run of the mill APS-C camera. + +After using the X-Pro3 for a few weeks it became very clear to me that this is a specialist camera best suited to a very specific type of photographer. It's not for everyone, but is it for you? + +Provided you share Fujifilm's vision of what a rangefinder camera can and should be, the X-Pro3 is going to make you very happy. + +### Less is More + +The X-Pro 3 is the successor to the three and a half year old X-Pro 2 ([8/10 WIRED Recommends](https://www.wired.com/2016/03/review-fujifilm-x-pro2/), which is still one of my favorite cameras. As I said in that review though, from the rangefinder body design, to the hybrid viewfinder, this a camera design of bold choices. + +One thing that has not changed in my experience is that the third-iteration of the X-Pro line retails the je ne sais qua of previous models. I don't know what it is about this camera, but it makes you want to pick it up and walk out the door to make photos. It demands to be used in way that other cameras simply don't. + +While the intangibles remain the same there are plenty of changes in the X-Pro3. The first thing most people will say when seeing an X-Pro3 for the first time is: what happened to the rear LCD? + +Yes, the X-Pro3 has deepened its connection to vintage film cameras by hiding the main LCD screen from view. Instead the rear of the camera now has a tiny LCD screen that mimics the old film box top holder in your ancient film SLR. This small screen will tell you which film emulation mode is active (mimicking the look of various old Fujifilm boxes), the current ISO, and white balance. + +To get to the main LCD where you can navigate settings and review images you flip the rear panel down, revealing the screen. + +In addition to being the only way to "chimp" your photos, it (perhaps inadvertently) enables waist-level shooting, something that wasn't possible in previous version and will likely appear to street photographers, one of the groups to whom the X-Pro3 appeals. + +I will confess I almost never use the rear LCD on any of my cameras so tucking it away did not bother me, but a significant portion of the internet does not like this move. I disagree with the haters though, I like to see Fujifilm drawing a line in the sand: if you want an easy to access LCD, this is not the camera for you. + +I found that reviewing images in the hybrid viewfinder was good enough for me to confirm I had the shot I wanted. And thanks to plenty of customizable buttons, I rarely had a reason to flip down the screen and dive into the settings once I spent an hour or so setting up everything the way I wanted it. + +There is one big drawback to the drop down LCD screen to be aware of: it may not fold down very far on some tripods. This will depend on the design of your tripod, but the two I had a chance to test with both interfered with the ability to extend past about 100 degrees. I don't think this will matter to potential X-Pro3 users, as the X-Pro3 is just not the sort of camera you put on a tripod, but it is disappointing that you just can't do it and see the LCD screen. + +Another thing you won't find on the X-Pro3 is the traditional four-button circle for navigating menus and activating features. There's enough other buttons that I did not miss the D-pad, and with the touch screen LCD there's no need to navigate menus. I missed this one so little I didn't even notice it was gone until I looked up my X-Pro2 review and noticed there was a D-pad. + +### What's New + +The X-Pro3 has a new X-Trans 4 APS-C sensor with a slight resolution bump to 26 Megapixels (up from 24), but the real news is the phase-detect autofocus system that now works across the entire frame. Fujifilm says the autofocus is accurate in levels as low as -6EV if you've got a fast (f1.4) lens. This was largely borne out in my testing. Suffice to say that autofocus system in low light is better than my eyes in low light. + +Fujifilm's already very good build quality has been improved for the X-Pro3, which now features titanium top and bottom panels. The build quality of the eyepiece is also much improved, it's heavier duty rubber and no longer feels like it's going to tear off on the first thing that snags it. Fujifilm has also made the diopter adjustment wheel more deeply recessed and less prone to accidental turning. + +The main reason to buy the X-Pro3 in my view is for the viewfinder. The new version is slightly larger than the old, but still features three ways of view the scene: straight optical, straight EVF, and the very clever hybrid which manages to give you the best of both worlds in most cases. The three modes are toggle by quickly flipping a lever on the front of the camera. + +What's gone is the dual magnification in the optical viewfinder. The X-Pro2 could alternate between 0.35 and 0.60 magnifications, the X-Pro3 has only one set magnification of 0.52. The electronic viewfinder is much-improved, but I did miss the dual OVF. + +Fujifilm is well known for its JPG film emulation modes and the new X-Pro3 adds a new one dubbed Classic Negative Simulation. I was less wowwed by this one than Acros and some of the other film emulations. What I did find amazing is that Fujifilm has included an in-camera curves tool and clarity setting. Between these two, and the existing JPG settings tools you can really dial in certain looks. The X-Pro cameras are still the only cameras I use where I rarely use the RAW images. The customization options and quality of the JPG output gives me what I want so consistently I rarely bother post-processing. + +The X-Pro3 has a smaller audience than Fujifilm's other cameras, but it's an audience that Fujifilm clearly remains devoted to. The changes in this update are well worth the money. The X-Pro3, like its predecessors, is a camera that makes you want to get out and shoot. It will help your forget about fiddling with settings, forget about post-processing, and just focus on capturing your vision of the world. |