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My MP3 collection is a mess. I have a bunch that are missing information on song name and which albums they belong to. Thanks to Joi Ito for the link to the following new service. I will see if this service helps clean that up. A blurb directly from their site. "MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to
I have covered this information before but wanted to review for those that may have joined us in the last month or so. Picture phones are starting to roll out in the United States and they are so small and unobtrusive people need to start paying attention when people are pointing a phone at them or under them as many
The RIAA obviously does not know technology with the shell game they have been playing with there web site. I suppose for a very very large finders fee I could hook them up with a professional web hosting company. ;) But seeing their actions over the past several months it just makes me laugh. [The Register]
Not sure how long this site is going to be up. I am sure Google will be all over them on how they have de-faced the Google logo. They have done something very interesting that with the Google API in which you can search for RSS feeds. I plan on playing with it tonight and see what it comes up
A great read about what the Internet is and what it isn't. [www.worldofends.com]
Would you like to know when someone on the web posts information about you? There is a nice little service called www.googlert.com which you can setup account to track up to 5 phrases and up to 100 search items. I have found it quite useful in finding sites that are talking about Geek News Central. With the government getting into
Ever worry that your browser is leaving electronic droppings all over the net where people are coming in behind and looking at where you have been. Worse yet you have security settings turned off. Well this is the first site I have ever found that actually test your browser for 22 known security issues. Fixed Link:[Browser Security Test]
I travel a great deal in Japan and understand there culture well. I have spent several months in Japan every year for the pas 20 years thus this story is very interesting. Believe me Japanese can be very discreet and this story really makes me wonder what they are hiding. [Japan Times On-line]
I have spent the last few days talking to staff members at Groove for a project I am working on for my regular Job. I have been getting educated on the product to ensure it will do what we need it to do. Groove is group collaboration software that allows you to collaborate on projects and information. The program is
It takes a lot to shock me but you have got to be kidding 1 BBBBBBBBillion spam messages blocked in 24hrs. Something needs to be done about this like yesterday. Absolutely unbelievable a billion shocking. [Business Week]
I check into CERT every day to see what they are reporting. They usually have news of attacks and system vulnerabilities available and where to get patches or how to protect your servers. [Cert]
Seems the blue screen of death turned out to be the last straw. The owner pulled out his handgun and blew it away. I remember taking a hammer to a card one time because it cost me some money (Long Story). Too bad this guy did it in his business establishment his moment of happiness cost him a night in
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