Royalty fees killing most Internet radio stations
USATODAY is Reporting "More than 200 Internet-based radio stations have shut down because of a royalty fee that takes effect in September, and more are closing daily."
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2002
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TiVo In the News
Great story about TiVo on MSNBC today. I think I am going to get me one of these boxes so when I am traveling I can come home and get caught up on my favorite shows. [Source MSNBC]
Great MAC Laugh
This is pretty funny MAC media presentation that all of us that have MAC fanatics at work or sleeping beside you. Too Funny!
Hollywood heads up Anti Piracy Charge
Peer to Peer the fight continues. Being Hollyweird has some deep pockets, they are going to throw cash at the politicians and have their lobbyist pass out their write ups and legal speak of what the next rounds of laws shall entail. According to Cnet News they are going to try to get the peer to peer software abolished. I
Norton Ghost
I have always used Norton Ghost here and it has never failed me but for newbies and people that are to timid to mess with there systems I have found a tutorial that is pretty decent. [Source BitBendersForum.com]
Mini Vacation
It has been a about 15 months since I have been able to re-charge my batteries and today was day 1 of that re-charge. I plan on keeping the site updated with news and information but that's about it.
Reason we were Offline
Geek News Central was offline last night due to our hosting provider having suffered a severe attack on their facilities. They took services offline in order to protect the integrity of all of there customers data. It is sad when people feel propelled to do this type of activity.
10yrs ago the word E-mail was foreign to most
An article about a book on Salon today made me reflect were we have been and where we are headed. I have been involved with the on-line world before the Internet and the WWW exploded. I had a dial-up BBS back in the days of 2400 baud modems. So I have had a form of e-mail since 1987. So when
Mac Lovers not getting a Speed bump any time soon.
I arrived back in Hawaii about a week ago and when I went back to work one of my co-workers who has been a long time PC user had a New MAC sitting on his desk. After I picked my jaw off the floor and we got done swapping typical MAC/PC insults I asked him why he had made the
Geek Toys for Geek Dads
My daughter has reached the age that she has started playing on a girl's softball team and these young women that pitch are amazing. I saw a gentelman actually clocking the speed of these pitches with a small radar gun. I asked him about it and decided I had to have one. Did some net searching and found it at
Do you want to be a film director
I have about a 100 8mm digital video recordings ranging from travels around the world to taking the video's of the kids at the zoo. I have a monumental task in converting all these films PC ready movies. I will be editing clipping and enhancing. I just wish I lived in New York as there is a pretty cool high
California Radio Station Stops Webcast’s
The hatchet has dropped and many many more will follow. Enjoy those radio webcast while you can. The idiots of the RIAA probably already have destroyed Net Radio unless something dramatic happens most webasting net radio stations will be extinct before the end of the year. [Source Yahoo] The best weblog article I have seen on this today is over
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