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February 2005

150 posts

Linspire CEO To Offer Music Service With No DRM Restrictions

The announcement will be made next week at the Linspire Desktop Summit, where a new VOIP company, SwitchVox, will also be launched. Robertson's other venture, SIPphone, will also introduce a $39 device designed to facilitate Internet calling.

Gnoppix Releases a New Live Linux CD

Gnoppix is quickly releasing new developer versions of its Ubuntu-based Live CD. This is version 0.9.9b1, a beta version, based upon the upcoming release of Ubuntu. This LiveCD will not take you directly to the Gnome Desktop environment, it will ask you some questions and you will be prompted with some dialog windows that will ask you about the language

Hide Your iPod, Here Comes Bill!

Wired News Story Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears. To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

Project: mini PC

Oh boy if the Mac Mini I bought doesn't work out I guess I could convert it to a Windows PC and have it run in the same case. This is hilarious. [KevinRose.com]

Windows Home Server my way!

Rick Hallihan has some great ideas over on Blobservations about the dilemma a lot of us are dealing with, because we have multiple computers in the home. He list a whole bunch of features for a proposed Windows Home Server. I would like to narrow them down into one paragraph. Lets say I have 5 windows computers at home all

Can the Marqui CMS Platform make a small company look big

I am a paid to blog about Marqui see the last paragraph for my disclaimer! I get phone calls from time to time from sales reps or customers asking to speak to someone in sales and I say you are on the phones with sales, the next call could ask for the CEO and I say he's speaking. I am

MSN Updates Toolbar Suite

In the initial beta, a number of MSN Desktop Search users received antivirus warnings each time an e-mail attachment was cataloged, due to the software creating a temporary file. Developers note, however, that "no virus would occur as a result of this because the file wasn't opened, but it was annoying to get the pop-ups."

Google AdSense

As some of you that physically visit the site versus pulling the info from a Aggregator can see we have added Google AdSense ads to the website. This is to help me cover rising hosting cost, and also to pay for some of the major improvements to the site design that are being tested on prototype website. We will be

Firefox 2.0 Roadmap

Even though version 1.1 of Firefox was said to be delayed, Ben Goodger , lead engineer, gave us a roadmap for version 2.0. You’ll find it here, along with some other interesting comments on his blog. 

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