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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/TweakVista.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/TweakVista.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d9a17e --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/TweakVista.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +For those of you that have already taken the Vista plunge but are feeling a bit lost in Microsoft's new operating system, [TweekVista][1] may have a few tip and tricks you can use to customize your set up. + +TweakVista is similar to [last week's Vista For Beginners][2], but geared more toward advanced users looking to tweak hidden Vista settings and discover time-saving shortcuts. TweakVista also features software reviews and security tips. + +Standout articles include some tips on [enabling Vista's built-in firewall][3] and nice trick for [altering the color][4] of your Aero Glass windows. The later tutorial even has a built in tool for converting ARGB colors to the hex string that Vista's registry requires for Aero values. Note that hacking the registry is of course somewhat risky -- YMMV. + +There's also a number of handy tips for speeding up Vista including ways to disable the window transparency. + +[1]: http://www.tweakvista.com/ "TweakVista" +[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_month_win.html "Windows Vista For Beginners" +[3]: http://www.tweakvista.com/article39081.aspx "Turn on outbound filtering" +[4]: http://www.tweakvista.com/article39028.aspx "Change color of glass with regedit"
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/adobe flash lite.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/adobe flash lite.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be96681 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/adobe flash lite.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +As we mentioned in [The Morning Reboot][0], Adobe [announced Flash Lite 3.0][1] earlier today at the ongoing 3GSM World Congress. Flash Lite 3.0 will feature support for the same video formats used by Adobe Flash Player, namely .flv, which is used by YouTube and MySpace. The new Flash Lite will also support streaming video from Adobe's Flash Media Server. Flash Lite runs on almost all the major mobile OSes including Symbian and MS Mobile. + +The press release is somewhat vague, but it seems to indicated that Flash Lite 3 will support the higher quality Flash 8 video codec which means content providers can deliver better quality videos and still support mobile devices. Adobe's Flash Player is currently powers the video capabilities of many social networking sites such as YouTube and MySpace. + +However the real news may well turn out to be Flash Lite's support for video streaming from Flash Media Server since many content providers prefer to deliver streaming video rather than downloadable content. On mobile devices streaming makes sense because most handhelds don't have the memory capacity to make regular downloading and saving video files practical -- at least for now. + +Of course the primary question for many interested consumers is: can I watch YouTube videos on my phone? + +For the time being, not with Flash Lite 3. + +Phones running Flash Lite 3 won't be able to view YouTube videos since, as I understand it, the Flash Media Server can't detect mobile screen sizes and reformat video to fit. Adobe spokesman Stefan Offerman [tells PC magazine][2], that Adobe wanted to release the client software first because of the amount of time required to develop and release new cell phones. By contrast the new server capabilities can be implemented quickly, Offerman claims. + +Adobe plans to deliver Flash Lite 3 in the first half of 2007. + +Interestingly, Nokia also announced some video news this morning at the 3GSM conference. [According to the press release][3], Nokia will be delivering YouTube videos to the Nokia N series via the "Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map." Nokia's service will access videos via YouTube Mobile. + + +[0]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/the_morning_reb_6.html "The Morning Reboot Monday February 12" +[1]: 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" +[2]: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2093422,00.asp "Adobe Brings Flash Video to Phones " +[3]: http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1104222 "Nokia unveils new mobile internet video experience "
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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/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..663d545 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/tweakvista.jpg diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vista-lock.jpg b/wired/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/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vista-lock.jpg diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vistadrm.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/02.12.06/Mon/vistadrm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0441012 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/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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