IJuice is one of the best hardware upgrades to come along in a long time for the road warrior. I must admit I get tired of hauling around 2-3 different power supplies. This is a partial solution to that problem. [IJuice]
It seems that down in Mexico City some government offices were moved to quieter locations. The RIAA fired off a letter stating that it was due to the rampant pirating of music. Have they lost there minds since when does city street noise in central Mexico city have anything to do with Music Pirates. [Wired]
A firm hired by Microsoft to do a study on file swapping has come to the conclusion that the file swappers have already won and that the recording industries only recourse is to price CD's reasonably. [BBC News]
43,000 music tracks available for consumers to download via a variety of retail outlets and music Web sites. 99 cents per track or $10 per album. [www.umusic.com]
A reader sent this in. I am releasing a program and wonder if you could mention it. Subhash VCDPlayer is a general-purpose media player with special support for Video CD playback. [SubHash VCD Player]
Imagine your walking down the street wearing your shades and watching TV or better yet taking a college exam and having your PDA in your pocket feeding you formulas and text files of info for a exam. Sounds like some James Bond type tools. Well it seems they are available today. [PC Mag]
I have employed server side filters and have a software solution on my desktop and yet I received 234 e-mails today and there were 52 valid e-mails. The rest was junk junk junk. So I have decided to retire the e-mail address that is getting the most junk. So I have sent e-mails to the 100's of legitimate people and
Microsoft has been accused of banning Xbox's that have mod chips inside. It seems they are not to happy about those that are exercising there rights to mod there boxes. What is even a bigger crock is that they are banning the box for life. Apparently some that have been banned removed there mod chips and found they were still
I had the privilege to spend quite a bit of time in Silicon Valley over the past 3-4 years for business and had many discussions with a company executives who during the early boom years were having a hard time holding on to seasoned employees. They were leaving in droves for the .com companies. I visit this company recently and
If you are not familiar with Dovebid you need to check there service out. I have purchased bulk items from them before. They do a lot of liquidation sales and if you have extra cash you can score some impressive equipment. Now if you really want to score you can have a piece of Napster as DoveBid sells everything in
I have a lot of experience on this subject and you know if you are at all aware of the RF Spectrum well folks there is a lot of shit out there. The FCC does their best but there is only so much physical spectrum available. For the technically non-inclined current physics and current technology will limit expansion of personal