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MIcrosoft Web Feeds
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 19,2005The next version of Internet Explorer will include a built-in RSS reader (like Firefox and Safari already do). Microsoft raised a bit of a stink the other day when it annnounced that it would not call them RSS feeds, opting instead for the term “Web Feeds”.
This actually seems like a smart move to me. Although […]
XBox360 Backward Compatibility
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005Ever since the XBox360 was announced, the issue of backward compatibility has gone from full compatibility to only certain games having it. Here is yet another log to throw on the fire.
Apparently according to a translation of the French site Jeux-France MS also announced that all previous XBox games would be backward compatible with the […]
iPodderX For Windows
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005The Windows version of iPodderX is now in public beta.
iPodderX features an integrated Podcast Directory, Keyword filtering, SmartSpace file management, NewsCaster text-to-speech newsreader, and much, much more!
The Richmond iBook Massacre
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005This was announced a few weeks back, and it seems to have just gained all kinds of steam.
Henrico County Schools had the brilliant idea of selling $50 iBook laptops on a first come first served policy, which had many repercussions. All hell broke loose when the Richmond International Raceway gates opened. At first glance, pictures […]
GDrive 1.0.7 Released
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop […]
Interactive 3-D Display
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005IO2 Technology has just completed the production unit and provided the details behind the revolutionary HelioDisplay which produces interactive 3D dsiplays in thin air (via lasers) from common sources.
This looks really cool.
gVisit: Mapping Visitors
Author: jeremy | Published: Aug 18,2005This is a pretty cool use of Google Maps. You tell it the URL of your site, and it gives you a small piece of Javascript code. You stick that in the <head> section of your site, and it will plot where your site visitors are on a Google Map. Here is the map for […]
WordPress Backup to Gmail
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 18,2005Lifehut has the coolest solution to semi-automating backups of WordPress, a popular blogging/cms application using Gmail, and some great plugins.
The idea behind this posting is to show you how to use a WordPress Plugin that can do database backups of your website/blog and have the backup automatically emailed to a specified email address, your Gmail […]
Smart Homes, Dumb Ideas
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 18,2005Techdirt brings up a great point as home automation rises in popularity, and integrated devices are pushed into every home, the stupid ideas increase as well.
Where I work, I pass a fridge every day that has a 13″ LCD display on one of the doors. What for? Well, to watch T.V. I guess… I […]
DVD Shrink Dead?
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 17,2005It looks like DVD Shrink has died. The website, dvdshrink.org, has a notice saying that DVD Shrink is no more.
There are a few places you can still get the software from, and you might want to before it is taken down around the web.
Alternate places to download DVD Shrink as of today:
DVDR-Digest.com
Doom9.net
MrBass.org
Anyone with any […]
Xbox 360 Price Released
Author: Macgyver | Published: Aug 17,2005We finally know how much the Xbox is going to cost! This is about what I expected.
Xbox 360 will cost £279.99 or EUR 399.99 in Europe, Microsoft has just told an audience at the Games Convention event in Leipzig. That is the main package, including 20GB hard disk, wireless controller, headset, Ethernet cable, high-definition […]
Cool and Convenient Lists to Have
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 16,2005Something came across my screen, and really struck me as interesting and worth writing about. The David Allen Company has a posting about lists that a person should keep. I currently keep lists on what I want to have and want to do, but I should make some other lists to organize my life and […]
PSPMame 0.4 Released
Author: Griffith | Published: Aug 16,2005Any self respecting Arcade fan certainly knows what the Mame emulator is, but in case you don’t know, Mame stands for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator. In other words, you can pretty much run most of the ROMs from the old arcade machines you used to play like Street Fighter, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, RType and etc.
So […]
MMORPG’s Changing the World?
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 16,2005I was reading my newsfeeds for the day and stumbed across a great site that has a post about how MMORPG’s could change our world over the coming years.
With over 10 million players in various games, and growing, they are becoming their own micro-society.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games have an amazing appeal to them […]
Amazon Associates $10 Cap Removed
Author: Dave | Published: Aug 15,2005Thanks to Kottke.org for the information.
It looks like Amazon has removed its cap for Associates, so that only computers are capped at $25 a purchase.
Previously, the most you could earn if a referral was $10, even if the item cost $3000 and the referral rate was 5%. Sometime in the last month and a half, […]
NYC2123 - A graphic novel for the PSP
Author: Griffith | Published: Aug 15,2005A new first for the PSP has been released: A graphic novel, specifically aimed at the PSP with a futuristic cyber punk theme. With illustrations by Paco Allen that clearly have influences from Frank Miller’s Sin City comics. The way Chad Allen writes the story also reminded me a bit of Ghost in the Shell, […]
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