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The latest version of Firefox web browser was released today, version 1.5. I'm a fan of Firefox yet am not a user. I like it because it keeps Microsoft honest. Internet Explorer is way too entrenched to ever be dethroned as the web browser of choice. I would love to use Firefox yet it is still weak compared...
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My favorite software just got a major upgrade. That would be Snapstream's BeyondTV . It gives you the ability along with a tv tuner card to record tv shows and play them back, rewind live tv. It's a drop in replacement for Tivo without the monthly fees. Very sweet deal if you like to watch TV without...
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Apple recently announced they are coming out with an iPod that will play videos . Very cool and a long time coming. Once again Apple will lead the way. I know there were pocket video players already in the market but was anyone buying them? Overpriced junk mostly. Apple also announced a new version iTunes...
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I ran into an interesting yet scary opinion today. We all know the media companies are running around screaming the sky is falling since people are filesharing them into the ground. They've tried shutting down the sharing sites, suing individuals yet the filesharing community continues to grow. The p2p...
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I've been watching an internet series of videos from a site called Welcome to the Scene. They produce one 15-30 minute segment every month. It's a story about a group of hackers who have a group that distribute pirated movies. They communicate via IM and IRC. They each have a role from the source who...
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I've been looking for a long time for an ebook reader that had the bells and whistles at the right price. I think I may have found it finally. It's called the eBookwise 1150 eBook Reading Device . Actually it's the old Rocket reader from several years ago. Back then it was overpriced and not very functional...
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For us dotnetters, the big announcement came this week that the next version of Visual Studio 2005 will be release on November 7. Cool beans, I've a lot of good stuff about it and .Net 2.0 framework. On a VS 2003 note I'm going to include this in my blog for future reference. When you are using VS 2003...
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Ok I've implemented a captcha control with my blog. There is no time out issues with this and only requires one character to type in. Simple to use and hopefully will get rid of all the comment spam I've been getting.
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I don't know what other people think, but with every release of the Adobe's pdf reader, they add more plugins so that it takes just that much longer to load it just to view a pdf document. In the splash screen you see all of the zillions of apis getting loaded. I found a workaround! Take all of the files...
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... so we can run geeky software like this - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
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This guy took a 1979 Toyota Corolla radiator and hooked it up to his water cooled overclocked cpu so he could frag his gaming buddies faster -- http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6594
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I saw this on slashdot today. I didn't bother reading the comments, I'm sure the geeks had a field day claiming one or all of the following: Why do you need a visual IDE when you can do everything using command line scripts, VIM or Emacs You can do more with Java, Mono, Python or other such uber geek...
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I submitted this article to a few days ago. I'm not sure if they'll use it or not, I know they get tons of articles every month. Anyway I'll stick it here in case anyone runs into some of the same crap I did and would like a possible solution -- Introduction The new .NET technologies, Remoting and Web...
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I follow this guy's blog for the rant humor. One the latest hits home with me, how 90% of the computer books out there are completely worthless. Check it out -- http://caustictech.typepad.com/caustictech/2004/07/learn_blitherin.html Sort of reminds me of George Carlin's Book Club
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Just a quick note, I finally finished my PVR project. Cost ran around $600, about what I expected. It's really nice to be able to eliminate commercials and easily record what you want to remotely. Anyway I created a web page detailing it -- Building a Windows based PVR Here's a link to an earlier post...