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January 2005

114 posts

MyCollages Photo Website

Thanks to our friend Robert Scoble for directing us to this new photo-based website.

Anti-Trust Fears May Keep MS from Adding Desktop Search to Windows

eWeek is reporting that Microsoft won't build desktop search into Windows. Why not?“Speaking on a panel on search technology at the Harvard Business School's Cyberposium, Mark Kroese, general manager of information services and merchant platform product marketing for MSN, said the federal antitrust battle Microsoft waged with the government has made the company think twice about what technologies it can add to the operating system.

This Week’s Microsoft Links

From the Public Edition of the Microsoft Partner's Newsletter, here are some links that you may find important or interesting from Microsoft.

TechPodcasts.com Getting Ready To Launch

After very little activity in the mailing list, I decided to move forward and put up a initial test site that looks like it may work out ok. This will not be by the final design by any means but over the next several days I will get it populated with all of the Tech Podcasters and hopefully we will

Are you willing to hand your RSS feed over to FeedBurner

For a while we had a feedburner icon on the side of the page. Nearly 300 of you still get your feed from them. I understand that some of you do not get new posted information for sometimes up to 2-3 days later. Never mind that they posted some information on a weblog versus sending out a newsletter that told

Open MS Office?

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas

ATI Beats Out Nvidia For Graphic Chip Leader

Notebook Shipments Drive ATI To Top Spot ATI Technologies outsold all other vendors of graphics chips during 2004, an analyst firm confirmed Friday. More and more IT departments are issuing their clients notebooks instead of desktop PCs, and students and professionals are choosing to take their work, or entertainment, on the road. That's good news for vendors like ATI or

iRIVER release Firmware Upgrade which makes it a USB Drive

This is one of the smartest moves that iRiver has made in a very long time. No longer will you by default have to use their proprietary application to get media onto the device. This opens the way for the iRiver MP3 players to be used easily with Windows Media Player. I know several Podcasters are jumping for joy. I

Paying Homage to Your iPod

They call it a "Ride with Style"The iPod Dock has substance. It works just fine. The iPod Dock plus an iDockCover gives you substance and style. Put it this way-- you can get to where you're going with a Ford Pinto. But you can get to where you're going with style in a Porsche. And that's what we offer you-- a ride with style. If you're satisfied with the look of your unadorned Dock, that's cool. But for many, our new iPod accessory is a welcome addition. We have iDockCovers to fit the 3G (third generation), 4G (forth generation-- now called the White iPod, offered by both Apple and HP), U2, Mini, and the iPod Photo. We offer units that span the spectrum from natural wood finishes to "electric guitar" finishes in a variety of glossy colors, to our new low-cost, stone texture models. From conservative and classy, to bold and brash, we have you covered. We think you'll agree-- this is truly a unique iPod accessory.

Geek News Central Podcast #34 2005-1-28

On tonights Podcast I take a few minutes to do some shout-outs to listeners that have been dropping me e-mails and comments. I also became aware this week of a several VIP listeners and we want to Thank them for taking time out of their busy schedule to listen to the Podcast. I discovered a user comment that was tired

A Linux Geek Embraces Mac OSX

ExtremeTech“I've always wanted a Mac. There, I said it. I'm out of my Mac closet. I've secretly longed for one but could never really justify buying one. OS 9 and its predecessors held no real interest for me. But when OS X—really a version of Unix under the hood—came out, suddenly the idea of buying a Mac became all the

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