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All I want in the world right now is a Nokia N95-3… and now it’s coming out in PINK!

I’ve been trying out CoComment and so far I love it.  You sign up for free, install a firefox extension (or use a bookmarklet) and it tracks all the comments you leave on OTHER blogs around the net.  It makes it SUPER easy to check to see if any of your comments have been replied to, or say you want to go back and edit a comment you left.  It’s awesome. 

From Digg:

This is a very informative article, it explains DRM so that anyone can understand it-

blog.wired.com…

From digg:

“The end of anonymity on the Internet “Over 20 million PCs worldwide are equipped with a tiny security chip called the Trusted Platform Module, although it is as yet rarely activated. But once merchants and other online services begin to use it, the TPM will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are.”

digg.com/security/The_end_of_anonymity_on_the_Internet 

OH MY G–d…. I need to change my pants. This guy got a Nokia N95 (5mp camera! gps! wifi!), which is my next phone (hopefully). Here is a pic plus links to some unboxing videos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/369062645/

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2007/01/unboxing_the_no.html

http://nokiatestcenter.blogspot.com/2007/01/video-unboxing-nokia-n95.html

I have a Nokia N80 and LOVE it, the N95 is going to be THE SH*T!!!!

Tech-gasm!

kw: nokia, n80, n95, nokian80, nokian95, cell phone, camera phone, cameraphone

I love Leo!  And this video rant of his is hillarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZXiLY4bo80 

Lucky text messages led engineers to missing San Francisco family:

mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16171582.htm

Turning Cell Phones Into Lifelines:
news.com.com/Turning+cell+phones+into+lifelines/2100-1039_3-6140794.html 

I’m finding these articles about cell phone technology and how it helped to find 3/4 of the missing Kim family very interesting.

M. works for a cell-technology company. So as I find these articles they peaks my interest.

Meanwhile, the longer I own my Nokia N80 (3mp camera phone), the more I LOVE IT but as soon as the Nokia N95 comes out, I’ll be upgrading (if I’m not broke) because that will have GPS (and a 5mp camera).

Very interesting NPR “Talk of the Nation” interview about GPS-enabled phones.  I now have the Nokia N80 (3mp camera phone) which I LOVE and as soon as I can I’m going to get the N95 which will have GPS (and a 5mp cam!).

npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6576666 

This is old news (Oct. 7th) but I still think it’s really cool:

“Google Launches SMS Search Service”

Well, I’m back from Ireland. I’m still updating my Travel Blog as I sort thru photos and upload more of them, so be sure to keep checking that travel blog for a while.

I found a KILLER program today, No Clone, at NoClone.net. It goes thru your hard drive (or whatever folder you tell it) and finds, byte by byte, duplicate files. This is great for me cuz for a month or so, my main pc was offline, and I created temp folders on my laptop in the meantime. This program goes thru and finds duplicate files, if they have the same name, but were modified at different times, etc. This is fantastic for purging your computer or backup drive of duplicte files. Yay!

This is too cool! (from slashdot)

“A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries.

Jean-Luc R. writes “Via mediaTIC blog. Gallina is a GMail blog tool created by Jonathan Hernandez that uses GMail messages as “entries” (so 1000 MB of entries!!), replies to conversations are the “entry comments”, uses Libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail. It uses XML/XSLT and by the way it’s a GPL software. You can download it there. See the Gallina Demo Blog as for an example.”

Read More.

If I was moving to Ireland instead of just visiting there, I could get this cool phone:

http://www.nokia.ie/nokia/0,,55590,00.html

From slashdot: “Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mexico’s Attorney-General, now has a non-removable microchip in his arm, to track his movements and to give him access to a new crime database, according to Bloomberg.”

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/14/1226212.shtml?tid=126&tid=158&tid=99

What exactly do they mean by “non-removeable”? I mean, does he die if the chip is pulled out?

This is interesting:
From slashdot:

“Imagine a world where computers become so ubiquitous that the idea of carrying a laptop will almost be laughable, a world where any computer could be your computer! According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this is the goal of Intel Research Pittsburgh’s Internet Suspend/Resume (ISR) project, a project that may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption by using the Internet, distributed file systems, and virtual machines. When the non-proprietary technology becomes available, a user will suspend a task on the computer he’s working on, and resume this work using another computer in another part of a city or several thousands of miles away. The second system will look identical to the first one, with the same files and applications opened.”

Whole story: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/08/1324225.shtml?tid=126&tid=185

“Yahoo to Trillian: Talk to the hand”

Trillian: http://trillian.cc

Trillian will surely release a patched version soon.

Discussion on the trillian forums.

This is sad. It’s something that I’ve never even contemplated before. Yikes!
“Think looking at spam is offensive? Try listening to it.”
“Blind Get Earful of Spam Daily”
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63934,00.html
(link via fark)

From TechLive:

“A federal judge in Connecticut ordered William Martinez, an accused file swapper in a record-industry copyright lawsuit, to pay $4,000 for downloading five songs from the Internet.”

“Silas Brandner and others in Aberdeen, Wash., want to start a nationwide boycott against U.S. oil companies to strike back against high gasoline prices. He’s asking everyone he knows to not buy gas on Mondays.”

Neat free thing from Kevin’s “dark tips” at The Screen Savers (link):
A free telnet shell account, an acct on a unix server, to learn about shell scripts, or scripting, ftp servers, or anything re. Unix, just telnet to:
open nova.hbx.us
login using the login new/new, pick a user name and password.
They give you email, ftp, ssh, telnet, smtp, finger, httpd, full access. free. So you can learn about Unix (actually Fee BSD).
It’s the HBX Free Shell Project.
Thanks Kevin!

TechTV was talking about this software called FairPlay which allowed people to play iTunes music on non-ipod mp3 players. It got shut down but now you can get it offshore.

There’s a program that does the same thing for audible’s aa files (makes them into mp3’s and other formats), it’s called GoldWave.

Companies shouldn’t dictate what PLAYER you play your PAID FOR files on. And besides that, what happens when the stupid companies can’t even write their software properly and the paying customer can’t even play the files they paid for ON the DESIGNATED device?

Hmmm.

An ethernet-enabled pet bowl:
http://www.techtv.com/freshgear/products/story/0,23008,3522601,00.html

iseepet is a pet feeder w/ a webcam built in, ethernet, and you remotely control it from any internet computer. It plays a tune (think Pavlov’s dog) when you dispense food and you can watch poochie come running and chow down.

Super Mega Linky Listy!

I Spent the whole weekend glued to TechTV on Satellite w/ Tivo watching current and reruns of techtv shows. I wrote down links to stuff that caught my ear from various techtv shows. More info is most likely found at TechTV.com. Perhaps the first one is the best…

CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE…
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From Slashdot.org:

“Developers: A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing-
thefinite writes “This article needs to be read by anyone interested in the outsourcing of IT jobs to India, no matter your opinion of it. It dispels some rumors (for example, if Indian IT companies do such bad work, why are over half of Carnegie Mellon’s highest-rated programming companies Indian?). It addresses all of the arguments. Perhaps most importantly, it adds faces to the problem. It not only tells us about the American programmers who are out of jobs, but also about the Indians who are getting them. In the end of it, this is what Free Trade is about: people. This article makes that clear.
Read More“

From the article:
“”We can’t stop globalization,” Turner says. But outsourcing, especially now, amounts to “contributing to our own demise.” When jobs go overseas, governments lose income tax revenue - and that makes it even harder to assist those who need a hand. Losing IT jobs has particularly frightful consequences. In a jittery world, “it’s really foolish for us to become so dependent on any foreign country for those kinds of jobs,” she says. What’s more, she continues, it imperils the US middle class. “If we keep going in this direction, we’ll have just two classes in our society - the very, very rich and the very, very poor. We’re going to look like some of the countries we’re outsourcing to.”"

War Driving t-shirt!!!!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/60f0/
at ThinkGeek.com

From Think Geek:
“Finally, A Reason To Go Outside!
If it weren’t for geocaching or wardriving, geeks and hackers would develop blotchy white skin, a debilitating sensitivity to light, and cravings only for food that slips easily under a door (pizza, cheese, poptarts, hotpockets, etc).”

Uh… that’s me.

Get your “My job went to india and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirt here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/31/35084.html

Related story: “The Rise of India” from Business Week.

Disclaimer: I love India and the people of India. I just hope that the US can continue to provide jobs to it’s American computer professionals.

From the register:
“Hollywood has abandoned its attempt to stifle publication of DVD decryption code, by dropping its lawsuit against a Californian publisher. The DVD CCA (Copy Control Association) filed a trade secrets lawsuit against Andrew Bunner (and others) for disclosing details of the DeCSS, which circumvents the CSS encryption scheme used on DVD discs.” Read More…

In case you haven’t been following this: Somebody had to decode DeCSS, simply so that they could play their legal DVD’s in their legal dvd drive on their computer because it was the case that putting a perfectly legal DVD in a computer running linux meant that it would not play. Hollywood assumes we all use Windows or Mac, so there was no copy-protection translastion software for linux (Hollywood DVDs would not play on a Linux machine). So, as is standard procedure with Linux, an end-user wrote a program that allowed DVD’s to play on Linux machines. But in order to do that, he had to understand (or “crack”) the code and then shared his improvement. Such is the way of Linux. So they tried to throw the guy in jail.

But according to today’s news, they dropped the charges finally, after three years. Good.

Yay! One of my fav sites for tech news (theregister.co.uk) now has a mobile version so you can view streamlined version on your cell phone or PDA:

The Mobile Register

I have to sneeze.

I just sneezed.

Patent lawyer puts claim to entire Internet
NSI and Register.com at end of ridiculous lawsuit.

Interesting article @ news.bbc.co.uk,
Web of complexity: Weaning yourself off Google search is hard to do…

I think this is too cool:
Web creator, Tim Berner’s Lee was knighted.
Many news stories thereof.

Some interesting headlines on sci/tech this week:

Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers - “The recording industry can’t force Internet providers to identify music downloaders, a federal appeals court said Friday in a major decision shielding online privacy while undercutting the industry’s anti-piracy campaign.”

Downloading Lawsuits Cost Getting Higher - “The recording industry can still bring civil lawsuits against people who download music illegally, but Friday’s court ruling will make that more expensive and time-consuming.”

Court: Kazaa not responsible for swapping - “AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The makers of Kazaa, the world’s most popular computer file-sharing program, cannot be held liable for copyright infringement of music or movies swapped on its free software, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled Friday.”