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It looks like Podcast Alley has reset the voting counter and it will now be done monthly. Good move on their part If you feel our show is worthy we would hope that you would vote for us. I believe you still can vote daily and each month the votes will be cleared. Site Info and Voting Box at Podcast
The Sci-Fi channel and specifically BattleStar Galactica took another step forward for podcasting with their new BattleStar Podcast. They created a podcast that is meant to be listened to along with watching the TV broadcast as a “Producers Commentary”. They have it split into different breaks or acts of the TV show and even beep to tell you when to stop the podcast for the commercials.
I am begining to regret my decision to purchase a Mac Mini. I will continue my boycott of buying music from iTunes. Apple call off the lawyers leave Bloggers alone!
According to MacMinute, A California judge ruled Thursday that Apple can force three Mac sites--Powerpage.org, AppleInsider and Think Secret--to disclose where they got confidential information about an unreleased Apple product. "Judge James Kleinberg of state court in San Jose, California, refused to shield the publishers from Apple's inquiries," reports Bloomberg. "Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that seeks to protect civil liberties related to technology, sought the order on behalf of the publishers. 'We're disappointed that the tentative ruling was a denial,' said Kurt Opsahl, a lawyer for the foundation. He said he would appeal the ruling." In December, Apple filed a suit seeking to force the three sites to turn over information about the person who leaked details on an unreleased product code named "Asteroid."
For years criminals have been able to set up fake websites in the hopes to lure customers of those sites to enter their usernames and passwords, or other private information. These “phisher” sites would then take that information and use it to empty Paypal accounts, or Debit card accounts, or access Ebay accounts to sell non-existent high price products. Finally Democrat Patrick Leahy, has introduced a new federal anti-phishing bill that would impose jail terms up to five years and fines up to $250,000 for criminals creating fake web site designed to con consumers in to giving them their personal information.
Microsoft announced that if you have a bootlegged copy of Windows in China, and tell Microsoft how you got it, they’ll sell you a legit version for half price. What a deal! Microsoft reports that the offer will cost them much more then a similar one in the UK did last year, I see it as Microsoft making a ton more money then they would have if they did not make this offer to the Chinese. I guess it’s just the way you look at it.
Many times I used the anonymous proxy service at godaddy.com to register domain names in order to keep my domains from being spammed, or sometimes to keep a customer’s private address off the internet. But now the U.S. Commerce Dept. has ordered registrars to stop allowing anonymous proxies on domain names with the.us extension.
Changing the name format a little to make everyone happy. This is a great show lots of energy and yes like Texas Holdem "I'm ALL IN" GNC-2005-03-04.mp3 GNC-2005-03-04.wma GNC-2005-03-04.ogg GNC-2005-03-04.torrent More chat about PodcastConnect.com I cover a lot of e-mail's tonight! Do VC's care about RSS? Info on University of Michigan Study Are Blogs taking down the NYT Java Program
I think most of us feel that RealPlayer is an over-bloated, trouble-ridden piece of software. But, there are still a few places that demand we have it installed to view their online content. So I thought I better pass this along to you.RealNetworks updated its media players on Wednesday in order to prevent malicious code from running on a victims' computer when an infected SMIL or WAV file is opened. The flaw, which affects all RealPlayer versions, can be fixed by downloading the latest update from Real's Web site.
Did you every think about owning your own Weblog tracking service? Well one is for sale, blo.gs, including weblo.gs domain name. Here’s what’s included: the blo.gs domain name (and all subdomains), the weblo.gs domain name, the database of blogs (and related databases), all rights to the blo.gs software
Yesterday in San Francisco at the Intel Developers Forum, Intel introduced concept designed PC’s that they would like to see in the future. These are portable PC’s that Intel feels will be where the consumer market is heading toward in the next year. From Intels’ website: Don MacDonald, Vice President, General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel, set the stage for the future of digital home technology at yesterday morning's keynote address. MacDonald emphasized the importance of standards, "Standards will grow the market and are critical in the digital home," said MacDonald. He went on to say, "Individual cooperation is essential to all our success," before inviting Joe Belfiore, General Manager, Windows eHome Division, Microsoft, to the stage. "Microsoft and Intel are highly aligned on our vision for the digital home," said Belfiore.
We all know that the most evil concept in FCC history is attempting to be shoved down our throats, the broadcast flag. It will, in reality, stop the recording of TV shows by individuals on their PVR's or DVD's by placing a digital flag on the show when it's broadcast that tells the recorder it cannot copy this program. If you take all the rotten, dirt tricks that the MPAA or the RIAA has been doing to us over the last few years and place them in one big pile, the pile of the broadcast flag would be much bigger. (You can imagine what the pile is with no help from me). The SF Guardian News has a great story of a group of folks that said we are not going to take it any longer. They are building their own TV which no broadcast flag can touch.
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