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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 0242fc2..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amapedia.jpg +++ /dev/null diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9baf817..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/01.22.07/Fri/amazon.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Amazon has become quite the fan of wikis lately, first came the investment in Wikia and now there's a [new service called Amapedia][1]. Amapedia allows users to create and tag their own product articles. The articles are directly linked from their Amazon product pages.
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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