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Steve Jobs stated today: "Let me give you an update on podcasts." 7 million subscriptions to Podcasts. 15,000 podcasts in the Podcast Directory. 21 languages including Finnish, Serbian, and Thai. House Democrats and Senate Republicans are among the podcasters." What is amazing is that the directory does not have all 15,000 podcast listed more like about 3000. Somehow the numbers
Apple iTunes version 5.0 is available now with some enhancements. [Apple]
Hate to say this but "Yawn" a cell phone that will only hold 100 songs and another iPod derivative that is no different but just small. This is what everyone is getting excited about, please spare me and wake me up when Apple releases something cool. [News.com]
A very detailed study is to be released on the initial findings of the Deep Impact mission. Preliminary information indicate that the comet is very fragile and the surface as soft as snowbank. Interesting to say the least. This makes me wonder how a comet would react to a encounter with a high explosive device. [Reuters]
The RIAA and their lawyers have served the fatal blow to Kazaa and they are sitting back enjoying the kill. Kazaa may be in triage but mark my words the network has suffered a blow so severe it will not survive. The question is now which P2P application will be next. The developers of these tools are learning many valuable
I have been using the Flag blogger content option to try and draw attention to weblogs that have been setup for spamming. I think I am about two weeks into flagging accounts and have been tracking those that I have flagged and guess what. Nothing has been done to them. Obviously it takes about 5 seconds to look at some
Real thin on Tech News because of the labor day weekend here in the United States, I cover a great deal of information on resources and initiatives to help the Hurricane Katrina Victims. Sponsor: Save 10% at GoDaddy.com Listener E-mail Links Simply Hired Houston Simply Hired New Orleans Skylook Review LocalHost disasterkatrinablog.blogspot.com Levee Info GeneralLockService.com Perseus Show Notes Being Net-Ready
Did you forget we have two Rovers still in real good shape collecting science on Mars. With Spirit sitting on top of a hill it has a new vantage point to take pictures. Opportunity had a computer glitch a few days ago but otherwise is about to resume work. Simply amazing we are at about sol 570 if I remember
It's nice to see a list of software packaes that I have played with before. Even though I only have a Mac Mini it has been a fun machine to get to know the OS on. You wont hear me debate the pro's and con's anytime soon. My adage is it's a computer! Regardless dont care who you are we
As shelters get stood up, their will be needs for individuals to access online banking, file claims etc. Not to mention trying to reach family members and generally communicate. Being many of the shelters will have 50 people or less in them, and the infrastructure within these shelters may not support more than a couple of phone lines. So long
I want to start flowing money into some Skype accounts directly from our fund raising, but need to spread it around. I want to be able to buy Skype Out credits for accounts without actually having to transfer the money a second time. I need someone with a personal contact at Skype to have them contact me immediately via e-mail
Over the past several days I have been working the phones. I have found out that many organizations that are housing those that have lost everything from the Katrina disaster are getting broadband donated by many of the national service providers. I have been asking what we can do and the biggest request thus far is donations for Skype-Out calls.
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