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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsBuild Your Own Notebook -- Really, You Build It - OCZ Technology has announced a new spin on an old product: the build-it-yourself notebook PC. Yes, you really do build it yourself According to a report in ExtremeTech, OCZ's DIY Gaming Notebook (part number OCZNBIAS15DIYA on the company's Web site) includes the basics: a 15.4-inch WXGA display, an Intel PM965 chipset, an Nvidia GeForce 8600MGT/512 Mbyte video card and an 8X DVD±R/RW combo drive capable of reading and writing four-layer discs. However, buyers have to buy and install the CPU, memory, hard drive and operating system themselves, either from OCZ or somebody else. However, "building" the notebook consists of four steps: installing the hard drive, installing the memory,...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Touch-Screen BlackBerry Coming!? -
According to reports in today's Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, pesky Research In Motion (RIM) plans to introduce a touch-screen version of its BlackBerry to thwart the challenge posed by the popularity of Apple's iPhone. (And no wonder we are seeing so many RIM TV ads )
Apparently dubbed the Thunder, the new BlackBerry is among RIM's strongest moves so far to appeal to the increasing number of consumers jumping for multimedia phones, a market that is increasingly turning to touch-screen devices for their ease of use (and cool fa... Nintendo Wii Outsells Them All! -
Researchers extraordaire NPD has just released its gaming console sales numbers for April and guess what? Nintendo took the number one and two slots in hardware sales, with the Wiihaving sold 714,200 units while the Nintendo DS sold 414,800 units. Third place went to the PSP with 192,700 units. These are staggering numbers and underscore the life in the gaming market, even in tougher economic times.
And while these numbers may be impressive, what's more impressive is that the Wii outsold the Playstation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, and Xbox 360 combined! Yikes!
For more details, check out Ars Technica here.
Tags: ... SIP-based VoIP Wake Up Call Service - The beauty of VoIP and the corresponding SIP standard is the ease at which applications can be developed. Today, I learned about a wake-up-call service on www.sipservices.gr that leverages the SIP standard to allow you to schedule wake-up-calls. The software app called “Wake up Easy Voip Service” simply registers as a SIP extension to your existing SIP-based IP-PBX, waits for inbound extension calls, plays a prompt, you enter your wake-up time, and voila', the system will call you at the designated time. This is perfect application for hotels that are migrating to a VoIP phone system. Also, it leverages CallerID (your hotel room extension number) to figure out which room to call.
The application works well with the Windows-based 3CX ... Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Rumors - I've heard from various sources about Office Communications Server 2007 R2 coming soon. I'm a member of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 MVP team, so I'm privy to information that I cannot divulge at this moment due to NDA requirements. In fact, I hadn't planned on blogging this at all had I not come across a few posts online talking about OCS 2007 R2. Other sources outside the Microsoft MVP community were also asking me if I knew anything about R2.
There are several rumors milling about what features OCS 2007 R2 would contain, including this link on Network World. Another website, the IT-Pro Know... New Jawbone headset is sexy - The new Jawbone, made by Aliph, is 50% smaller than the original Jawbone. This Gen 2 Jawbone Bluetooth headset enhances the original Jawbone's claim-to-fame capability - namely its superb ability to suppress background noise.
Here's some more pics of this sexy Bluetooth headset:
... Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 - Microsoft launched a webcam called the Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 that "literally bends over backwards for you." Or at least, that's what Microsoft says.
Somehow picturing a webcam and bending over backwards sounds a wee bit pornographic is you ask me. That is until I found out what the fuss was all about. The LifeCam VX-5000 lets you "bend" its shape. The bendable attachment base that molds to virtually any surface so it can work on either a notebook or a desktop.
The LifeCam VX-5000 features a brightly colored ring around the front of the webcam in the colors Cool Blue, Lucky Green and Fire Red. The LifeCam VX-5000 also features MS... Can You Believe It? One Fifth of U.S. Households Have Never Used Email! - Because we are so, so connected, we think everybody else is too But a new survey finds a substantial number of households have not crossed the "Digital Divide."
According to National Technology Scan, a forthcoming study from Parks Associates (an annual phone survey of U.S. households) found 20 million households are without Internet access, representing approximately 18% of all U.S. households.
According to Parks Associates, nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document, underscoring the significant digital divide between the connected majority and the homes in the unconnected minority that rarely, if ever, use a computer.
Age and education are factors in this divide -- 50% of those who have never used... A New Way to Stargaze via the WorldWide Telescope -
Maybe it's time to get a new telescope or upgrade for the future in another way?
According to a report in today's New York Times, the skies may be the next frontier in travel, but not even the wealthiest space tourist can zoom out to, say, the Crab Nebula, the Trapezium Cluster or Eta Carinae, a star 100 times more massive than the Sun and 7,500 light-years away.
But those far, far away places and thousands of others can now be toured and explored at the controls of a PC, with the constellations, stars and space dust displayed in vivid detail and animated imagery.
The project, the WorldWide Telescope, is the culmination of years of work by researchers at Microsoft, and the Web site and free downloadable so... Movable Type 4.15 beta 2 - I've been testing Movable Type 4.15 beta1 for a few weeks now with plans to migrate from Movable Type 3.33 to 4.15 when the product finally launches. According to the Movable Type roadmap wiki, the final non-beta version will launch in 6 days. Well, technically it says "Target Release Date: May 19ish" so they're leaving some wiggle room. Regardless, I'm pretty excited about the pending launch. There are essentially three version of Movable Type as so eloquently explained by master Movable Type plugin developer Mark Carey from MT-Hacks.com.
In general, all MT versions include the same identical core, MTOS (Movable Type Open Source) . "Packs" are effectively plugins that add-on to the core. So we have:
1) MTOS = MTOS (Movable Type Open Source)
2) "Commercial" = MTOS + Professional Pack (Custom Fields, etc.)
3) "Enterprise" ... Dell Goes More Seriously after Gamers -
Surprising to some, but Dell is abandoning several of its most popular models to focus on its premium line of specialty gaming personal computers.
Not too surprising to some, Dell had to do something to juice up its chances after falling to the No. 2 spot in PC sales behind HP. (Doesn't No. 2 always try harder?)
Looks like Alienware may be invading a home near you sometime soon And we all know those higher-end innovations do participate in the "trickle down" effect that we've all come to know and love.
Read more about it in the Wall Street Journal here.
Tags: ... Druid 1.2.0-3 Launches - Today, Druid 1.2.0-3, an open source Asterisk-based solution was launched. (Check out my full review of the Asterisk-based Druid platform for some background.) Here's a screenshot of their web-based front-end that makes it easy to manage their version of Asterisk:
Vikram Rangnekar from Druid shot me off an email saying they have some great new features in Druid. Figured I'd share some important excerpts of his email that explain the news:
In the two months since its been out, We have had a little over a thousand downloads. I'm more than satisfied with how the community is growing we have around 400 people on the forum... VonagePro for Business - It appears that Vonage is looking for a Director of Product Management for VonagePro, a service I had never heard of until today. I just happened to notice the VonagePro job listing on Monster.com. Hmm - "Requires bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience." I've got those credentials! Just don't tell my boss I was surfing Monster.com.
Truth be told, I happened across this job listing because I came across this article, which said: "... CNET's Tech Tips Can't Be Beat -
So many tech sites and so little time!
With that in mind, I've always found CNET to be very useful, especially for its handy Tips & Tricks. In fact, it's usually my first stop when I've got to figure something out and don't already have that knowledge stored somewhere (usually in my own unique personal storage device -- my head).
Take a look at their latest Top 5 list, which includes:
* Moving your iTunes library from PC to Mac
* Quick home-theater buying tips
* Optimize your iPhone using playlists
* HDTV: Comparing 720p vs. 1080p
* Find a Vista-compatible graphics card
This beats Googling every day!... Garmin's Nuvi 350 Is the Way to Go! -
I've had the great pleasure to try out the sleek, portable nüvi 350 from Garmin for a while now. It takes GPS into a wider world than just GPS navigation, offering an all-in-one traveler’s reference and digital entertainment system . It's really a pocket-sized personal travel assistant, and it's rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it convenient for navigation by car or foot.
The nüvi 350 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a robust points of interest database with hotels, restaurants, gas stations and ATMs for instance.
Destinations can be plotted with 2-D or 3-D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions (or just leave the voice off if you've got your own onboard human navigator).
In addition, the nüv... So What Did Mom Get? -
Now that Mother's Day has come and gone -- and I hope it was a happy day for all! -- curious to know what gadget mom got?
You mean you stuck with flowers and candy?!
We went for a new cell phone -- Moto RAZR -- and a new service since AT&T is just so bad! And we also went for cards, flowers, candy, dinner, etc., too! (Thanks to Mothersdaycentral for the image.)
Now I want to know about you? What did you do? Did you make Mother's Day Gadget Day?
Tags: AT&T, Mother's Day, Mothersdaycentral, ... Apple Pays Up Over Battery Woes -
Apple has agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to more than 2 million Mac owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark.
Nice to see cash actually going to the consumers who suffered through this, not to the lawyers who brought the suit. We've all been there before, eh?
The 2006 class-action suit alleged that Apple misrepresented problems with the power adapters. In 2001, Apple recalled about 570,000 adapters sold with PowerBooks after reports of overheating. Apple advised customers to stop using the adapters and offered free replacements.
Get more at The Los Angeles Times ... AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind -
What's a major telco to do when it can't make up its mind?
Put things on the website one day and then remove them the next?
Here ya go? AT&T has flip-flopped again on whether iPhone customers can get free access to AT&T hotspots.
Yesterday, the iPhone plans page on the AT&T web site clearly stated that access to the hotspots was included with all plans (didn't I just blog about this?), but now that statement has disappeared.
Now if they could just get the network to work in Fairfield Co., but I guess they got bigger fish to fry
And maybe Apple should be looking to Verizon as a partner?
Read more about it on ... Amazon offers Click-To-Call Ordering - I was on Amazon.com looking for a Garmin GPS when I noticed I had the ability to click "Call me" to order stuff from Amazon. Interesting. Curious, I clicked the Call me button and saw this:
As seen above, it appears eStara is powering Amazon's Click-to-Call capabilities. Now I realize this isn't new "news" since the WSJ wrote about Amazon using eStara awhile back. However, in all of my Amazon shopping I've never come across the click-to-call feature. Today, was the first time.
What's interesting is that this click-to-call feature only appears on certain product listings.... Blackberry 9000 Is Coming Next Week! -
Exciting news for all Blackberry fans -- seems like the highly touted 9000 is due to be announced May 12!
Take a look at The Boy Genius here (thanks for the photo!) for a bit more and here at Crackberry for a three-part review of the little beauty.
Tags: Blackberry 9000, Crackberry, The Boy Genius
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... HP Goes Upline -
Do we really need another online storage company?
Apparently, HP thinks so and has launched Upline, a data storage service that lets you put your data in a more secure, online headquarters location.
As we should have learned by now, automatic backup makes securing data simple, not just one time, but as often as you choose. And with any Internet connection you can easily access, share, manipulate and store your data from anywhere.
Three plans -– Home/Home Office, Family and Professional -– are available, all offering unlimited sto... AT&T To Give iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access? -
We can never get enough iPhone news or juicy rumors, so here we go again!
According to MacRumors, AT&T's iPhone website (under the Plans tab) has been updated to note that each iPhone plan now includes access to their "more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S."
Not officially announced, but then again
Read more about it here.
Tags: AT&T, iPhone, MacRumors, ... New Dell Notebooks Coming? -
The steady pace of computer technology marches on
According to a report on Engadget (here), Dell is set to launch a series of new Inspiron notebooks.
Having had an Inspiron 700m for what sees like ages now, feel good that Dell is coming off of its battery woes, but only time (and the gadget-buying public) will prove that right
And that may be soon, with the first one apparently coming right around Memorial Day.
Tags: Dell, Inspir... SkyFire Review - Rich Tehrani has a great review on the SkyFire browser that gives Windows Mobile devices the Apple iPhone browsing experience. Well, not quite, but definitely much better than the built-in Windows Mobile browser. It supports easy zooming, Flash support, videos (including YouTube videos) and more. Rich was getting so frustrated with the crappy Windows Mobile browser that he even weighed the pros and cons of switching to the Apple iPhone from his Verizon HTC 6800 Windows Mobile.
But now Rich is giddier than a kid that just got a PS3 for Christmas, or that blogger who just got an iPhone and can't stop blogging about it. Yesterday, Rich had this big smile on his face and he coul... Jangl & TalkPlus Spell VoIP Troubles Ahead? - Om over at GigaOm writes that Jangl was looking to sell itself earlier this week and is "headed towards an ignominious end" and adds that Talkplus "is going nowhere fast". I wrote a detailed write-up on TalkPlus, interviewing TalkPlus CEO Jeff Black at ITEXPO and my biggest fascination was how the supposedly reverse engineered Skype. I wrote, "One final interesting thing we talked about at ITEXPO is that TalkPlus has built their own Skype gateway. In fact, when pressed further, Jeff mentioned they actually reverse engineered Skype's protocol. Although the Skype gateway is... Covad Vonage Deal Redux - I was emailing industry analyst Jon Arnold about some things and mentioned I quoted him in my post this morning about the Covad & Vonage partnership and the resulting product offering called/branded "Vonage Broadband" and soon to be carried by Covad.
He wrote back with some interesting insights of his own regarding the deal and wonders if it's a good move or one of desperation. That thought had crossed my mind as well and I nearly blogged as such in my earlier pos... South Korea Blocks VoIP - here we go again... - Do you recall my 2006 post about South Korea wanting to ban VoIP, which would also include U.S. military bases and military personnel serving in South Korea? Well, according to today's Vonage Form thread it appears South Korea has taken a playbook from the Great Firewall of China and is now blocking U.S. military personnel from making inexpensive VoIP calls back to the U.S.
The Vonage forum thread was started by a U.S. Air Force serviceman claiming that all of a sudden his Vonage service stopped working. Apparently, some ISPs have been blocking for a few months with others now joining the blocking VoIP parade.
... Covad to offer Vonage Broadband - Vonage and Covad Communications today announced a strategic relationship which will enable Vonage to provide its customers with a broadband solution using Covad’s nationwide DSL network. The new service, called Vonage Broadband, is expected to be offered to new and existing customers by the end of the year.
This is interesting, since Covad's strength has always been in offering business VoIP services not residential. Though, I should point out that in 2004, Covad said they were j... Real iPhone Competition? -
High Tech Computer, a little-known but fast-growing Taiwanese gadget maker, has unveiled a its Touch Diamond, a touch-screen smart phone that is the latest product in its surprisingly (so far) successful effort to compete against Apple's iPhone.
Unveiled in London with plans for European sales next month, this follows the Touch, which has sold well since its launch last June, a few weeks before the iPhone launch.
Plans are for the phone to be available in the U.S. in the second half of this year.
Read more about it in the Wall Street Journal here.
Tags: Apple... Re: wrong item needs to be removed - Dudeman, if the identifier still covers the work you wanted to upload, I believe you should be able to upload the correct work over the incorrect work using the Edit Item function for this particular ... DIY orbital scanner - For ages now I've been walking around with the idea of making a custom, cheap planetary scanner using mostly off-the-shelf parts, but I am not very handy, nor can I afford to spend gobs of money in tr ... Re: 400,000 books! - Amazefabuloutastic! Congrats everyone! ... Re: spam removed - Thanks for taking it all off. ... Re: spam removed - Done. ... Take off now. - It says internet archive texts, and I think its the idea is pretty clear. Why we keep having these damn spammers essentialy vandelize it is beyond me.
[spam quotes despammed]
Like anyone using this ... Re: How to delete duplicate of text? - OK, I found two items and removed the earlier one, all set! ... Re: How to delete duplicate of text? - I don't know the url but it's on this site and is called Alien Mind, a text. ... Re: How to delete duplicate of text? - What is the url of your item? ... How to delete duplicate of text? - My ebook, a text, was re-submitted, because the first version was erroneous. So, I need to delete the first version. How do I do so? ... Re: How do Microsoft (make that Scribe) digitize texts? - Thanks for that lead, Brewster, I found a couple of things (oddly, mentioning a guy named Brewster):
redjar.org/jared/blog/archives/category/preservation/digitization/
aipengineering.com/scribe/
www . ... Re: Is the archive "dark web" to Google - that is odd since we put a link on the book display page specifically because a google representative kept telling the press they had a hard time crawling these books.
hopefully they get better at ... I Just Uploaded The File - Thanks!
EDIT: I just uploaded the file.
http://www.archive.org/details/Should_Be_Dated_By_2018
My idea of art is a bit odd, But I hope this text is very dated by 2018.
This post was modified by Rob ... Re: Is the archive "dark web" to Google - I did some tests and found Google does not index the full text of books on IA, at least the ones I tested. Metadata yes, but not the full text. Even for non-Microsoft books. My tests are only a few an ... Re: Does a text document have to be PDF? - No problem, .txt file sounds fine for your project. ... Does a text document have to be PDF? - I'm working on an art project and I'd like to have it preservedon IA. However, It's a txt document, and I can't be bothered to turn it into a PDF. My art project consists of a few lines of text, which ... Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? -
Microsoft digitizes books many different ways. One way is to sponsor digitization done by the Internet Archive.
Those books are photographed in color and then put through a set of processing steps, ... 400,000 books! -
There are now 400,000 books in the Internet Archive collection.
The Archive is scanning about 1000 books a day and there are many other contributions coming in.
Thank you all for helping build a ... Re: Is the archive "dark web" to Google -
All search engines are welcome to and do index all the books in the Internet Archive. All the metadata is harvestable in multiple ways.
The text inside the books are also available for indexing in ... Re: Is the archive "dark web" to Google - Many thanks - very helpful.
Andy ... Re: Is the archive "dark web" to Google - "whether Google indexes text inside the Internet Archive?"
No. Google has its own Book Scanning service called books.google.com and they see themselves in competition with IA (more accurate ... Is the archive "dark web" to Google - I've posted this same query in the FAQ forum. It got no reply there so I'm posting it here - hope that is OK.
The question is: can anyone tell me whether Google indexes text inside the Internet Arch ... Hi Joe - You are doing a wonderful job, I love that books are online! ... Re: liberate and disseminate -- illegal copyright or illegal upload? - Hello, Erik,
That was quite not smart :) Google might have coped with that, but I don't know if the Internet Archive has enough clout to deal with angry copyright holders.
I understand your ... How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Can anyone tell me what Microsoft uses for its book digitization? Mainly, what is the bitmap compression used: on enlargement of a page the fonts and illustrations have a sort of 'watercolour' appeara ... Re: How to correct errors? - I am no heavyweight here, but nobody else has replied, so:
On the left side of the screen, under the "view the book" panel, is a panel "resources" with an option "report erro ... Re: Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - Vive l'Liberation!
Forget the lawyers, will just hold a demonstration and storm the parliament building, they do it all the time Europe. ... How to correct errors? - In some pdf texts there are errors. For instance,
in the History of the Standard Oil Volume 1, Ida Tarbell,
page 37 of the book produces Acrobat errors and is blank.
In the compbined text (V1 and V2 i ... Re: Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - Good way to sink archive.org: post copyrighted materials here then cue the lawyers :( ... Re: Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - This is a long article, I'll cut and paste the relevant section here (BTW, this is not me!):
"I've taken it upon myself to start an organisation called MLOP, the "Movement for the Liberatio ... Movement for the Liberation of Old Documents - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401386&c=1
The The Internet Archive is an amazing place. Most famous for maintaining the net's largest repository of o ... Re: Cancer, Blindness & Ethnography - Hello Annien,
Thank you very much for the reply of my post, but I'm not looking for people who deal, in some kind of way, with blindness, like yourself. The reason why I would like to check this book ... Re: Cancer, Blindness & Ethnography - i can help you by telling you how it is to raise a child who is blind (my son has norries). i don't mind helping you. contact me if you want at annienloey@optonline.net.
... Diary of the high command of the Wehrmacht Vol.2 - When is Volume 2 of the war diary of the high command of the Wehrmacht uploaded? ... Re: wrong item needs to be removed - All set! ... Re: wrong item needs to be removed - http://www.archive.org/details/IstDasVerlangenDesDeutschenVolkesNachEntjudungBerechtigt ... Re: wrong item needs to be removed - What is the details url of your item? ... wrong item needs to be removed - Ist das Verlangen des deutschen Volkes nach Entjudung berechtigt (1933)was an apparently pd work that I felt had enough historical importance to be included here.
However I inadvertently uploaded a c ... I'm looking for old cinema reviews - Yes, I'm looking for reveiws of old movies, written back when they were released! I tried searching but couldn't find much.
Anybody gonna help? ... Re: St. Rose of Lima : the flower of the new world (1913) - Hi,
I just post my experience and hope it will help others. I used to download corrupt pdfs and I accidently tried a tool called Advanced PDF Repair. It worked well to repair many corrupt pdf files . ... Re: Another Site Problem - I don't know why some people have been having problems lately and others not, but here is a thread about the same thing:
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=185220
The short summary is: ... Another Site Problem - You have no idea how guilty I feel complaining, given how massive a labour of love this site is, as no one gets any compensation beyond appreciation. But, in case it's effecting others, and keep the s ... Re: 'Not in Copyright' books as relates to commercial use - So sorry I never reponded to your posting Diana Hamilton, I never got my Alert from the Forum that there'd been another post. That was EXACTLY what I was wondering, thanks so much for that relief. :) ... Re: site problems - I am having this same issue. How does one go about uploading files via FTP to the archive? I have some files in an area already and want to replace some and add some new ones.
Anybody out there can ... Re: site problems - The simple-upload wasn't working when I tried a little while ago, but the ftp-style upload function was.
I don't know if Library of Alexandria staff worked fulltime on weekends including early mornin ... Re: site problems - Now it won't let me upload anything. I keep getting, for instance, this:
checking if identifier "TheGreyBook" is free
Identifier "TheGreyBook" is available. You may upload file ... Re: site problems - it is now fixed. sorry for the inconvenience.
-brewster
... Re: site problems - http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=185909 ... Re: Download problem - Marty,
I didn't have a problem getting "The Plain Man's Pathway". If the right-click method works use that instead (then open Adobe as a separate program and load the file that way). Your not the fir ... Re: Download problem - Yes, I was able to Right-click and download the book. Thanks much for your help!! Marty
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