February, 2007:

• Technodifier 025 (17MB 64k_mp3)

SOFTWARE
FM recording ability silently reappears in some Creative players
Store 256GB on an A4 sheet
Emulating the OLPC XO On Windows
MediaPortal – the Open Source Mediacenter!

HARDWARE
Neuros OSD: open source multimedia player
FlexRadio Systems : DR-1000
DMCA exceptions part 2: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years)

GAMING
PSP FW 3.00 adds visualizations
PSP PS1 emulator requires a PS3 for downloads. Stupid move Sony.
$2.1 million in Xbox 360s stolen
Using thw Wii: Josh & A Wii Thanksgiving (Joystiq’s) test on the family

SERVICES
World first: download-to-own movie service
Gritwire is a set of useful tools for people who use the Web daily.

FORMAT WARS
Josh hath heard blu-ray and hd dvd on television commercials. Wheres the cheap players?
[Im looking at you China….]

Commentary: Messing w/ big music/video files.

• Technodifier 030 (13MB 64k mp3)

(former)Apple!(haters)

• Stock shoots up on iPhone announcement
• So who owns the ‘iPhone’ name?
• CISCO? Apple?
• Analysts say iPhone costs $~250
• Is Apple sharing the profit with Cingular?
• Apple TV is top seller even as a pre-order
• Is an Apple/Apple Records Beatles announcement in the works?
• (remember Beatles being chosen in Jobs’ iPhone demo?)
• New record for quarterly profits
• Apple’s new golden age?
• Seems they make their $ 2 bucks at a time
• Apple charging for driver upgrade to enable full WiFi speed for existing owners
• They are blaming it on the accountants

NAMM is happening again

FCC: XM/Cingular merger? NO!

YouMail.com: Free web-based voicemail with custom outgoing messages based on caller ID.
Pretty cool concept.
You can even set it up to play an outgoing message and then hang up (based on Caller ID).

GAMING
Sega will stop making GD-ROM, bye bye Dreamcast
Half Life 2: ep 2 coming in 2 forms

• comes with portal
• more details
• Where is the $20 version?

Paul and Matt playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance

TV COMMERCIALS FOR AUTOMOBILES ARE OUT OF CONTROL!!!!!!!!!

• Technodifier 025 (17MB 64k_mp3)

SOFTWARE
FM recording ability silently reappears in some Creative players
Store 256GB on an A4 sheet
Emulating the OLPC XO On Windows
MediaPortal – the Open Source Mediacenter!

HARDWARE
Neuros OSD: open source multimedia player
FlexRadio Systems : DR-1000
DMCA exceptions part 2: Cell phone unlocking legal (for three years)

GAMING
PSP FW 3.00 adds visualizations
PSP PS1 emulator requires a PS3 for downloads. Stupid move Sony.
$2.1 million in Xbox 360s stolen
Using thw Wii: Josh & A Wii Thanksgiving (Joystiq’s) test on the family

SERVICES
World first: download-to-own movie service
Gritwire is a set of useful tools for people who use the Web daily.

FORMAT WARS
Josh hath heard blu-ray and hd dvd on television commercials. Wheres the cheap players?
[Im looking at you China….]

Commentary: Messing w/ big music/video files.

• Technodifier 024 (35MB 128k_mp3)

Next-gen console news
xBox 360

• For pay HD Movies and TV coming to your Xbox 360 via broadband.
• HD-DVD for Xbox360 debuts…And it works in XP!

PS3

• In Japan less than 1 PS3 game sold for each console.
• Is this because people bought it as a Bluray player/ media player box that can play their old PS2 games… or is it because people bought the things to resell it?
• Or maybe it is because there are very few games available at launch.
• Crazies waiting in lines…
• Dentist hires 60 temps to wait in line
  
• Jon Edwards looking for a PS3 and special priveleges too
• Fights, robbery and the such
• There are reported issues with some PS2 games crashing or being unplayable on the PS3
• xbox 360 had similar issues, but wasn’t $600
• The PS3 interface is basically an extension of the PSP interface.
• Check out a video of the interface.
• The photo viewing options look really cool.

Details of MS’s cash infusion into Novell (a la Apple)
And been playing HL2: Episode 1 on his PC.
I wonder how well/if it will run on his new Mac Book.

So is TiVo finally adding some download ability for video?

Variety: VHS is dead

10 prototype ‘1 laptop per child’ machines have been made.

Zune

• Engadget had an extensive review. Verdict: it sucks!
• But Beatles albums are avaiable in the Zune Marketplace!
• There is a little hope for the Zune.. as a hacked Linux device?

NBC offering free video podcast downloads of new programs via iTunes.

M-audio cheap ‘mixer’

Program that copies models in Second Life causing problems for the community.

Daily Motion: out Tubing Google in Europe?

Silly gadgets not made for kids.
Head mounted camera and PVR system that lets you record 8 hours of video without a recharge.

MPAA sues company for selling pre-loaded iPods
If they are actually charging $$ for the ripping aspect.. I understand the lawsuit.

iPhone: too little too late?

Podcasts on your cellie for free

• Podlinez.com
• fonpods.com
• You can even get our Podcast with a simple phone call via Podlinez
• normal long distance charges and other shit apply, but if you have a cellie this most likely doesn’t matter
• Technodifier: 415.376.7259
• Nodfast: 415.376.7257

Matt is trying a Treo 600 on Verizon with no data plan (as his secondary phone, to test it out)
Audio issue resolved by $15 app, Freedom.

• Technodifier 023 (26MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 023 (13MB 64k_mp3)

Sunday Nov 4, 2006

Holiday season digital upswing in full effect.
At local Target store there is a (closed off) section for the PS3,
an accesory section for the Wii,
and BluRay and HD-DVD discs ($20-$30) including a few HD-DVD/DVD hybrid discs.

PS3 comes out Nov 07, but there are some videos out of test units.
The UI is almost identical to that of the PSP

Having never owned an Xbox and currently owning a PS2 and PSP I stil
feel partial to the Xbox 360 mainly due to cost.
I am not going to buy either any time soon, so time will tell what I end up buying.

So you bought some MSN music tracks from MS?
Well MS says, “Fuck you, buy a Zune”….

The gist is that MSN is no more and there is no way to remove the DRM
(**cough**cough**legally**cough).
So if you want the ‘snazzy’ new Zune, you will need to repurchase all your existing music.
This sort of situation is the MAIN reason DRM is not good for consumers.
What if CDs, tapes, or records were like this?
What does this mean for the future of digital media as it applies to history and cultural legacies?

Great idea for simplification of analog audio to PC connections

RIAA has trouble suing mom, so they decide to sue her kids

Matt’s pain in the ass issues with MCE OEM on a Gateway PC.
Try to backup install.. failed about 6 times.
Finally got a copy of MCE and reinstalled.
Months later product key shows as invalid.
Tried using product key from my PC, no luck.
Called MS, no luck.
Gave up, installed XP Pro.

With the reinstall, matt finally installed IE7 on XP.
Looks pretty good.
Tabs make sense.
Quick tabs is pretty nice.

And along the lines of playing media files in XP, matt swears by the K-Lite Codec Pack.
It includes a GIGANTIC package of selectable codecs for most any file out there.
It also has software players and even plays FLV files fullscreen without the need to convert to AVI, QT, or another format.
Highly recommended

MacBook Pros are not 39% (like apple states), but 10%

• Technodifier 029 16MB 64k_mp3)

CES, MacWorld… shit couldn’t be more busy in the tech world.
welcome to 2007!

New version of Paralles for Mac: beta3
and a tool to convert VMWare images for use with Parallels
And what about Crossover, and VMWare Fusion?

Matt has finally replaced his 6 year old TiVo series1 with a new Series2
TiVo to Go for Mac… kinda…
for way cheaper than the ‘real’ $80 version that just came out…

Way to expensive, but a cool concept (especially for college textbooks)
Sony eBook reader
iRiver has one too!

Is Second Life using press to spread misleading information?

Rumors abound: Has HD-DVD’s encryption been cracked? (not really)

How about a 1TB HD?
or a PC HD-DVD burner…
or a Bluray burner and HD-DVD reader

CES is a-coming as is
MacWorld

And Sony has decided they will no longer make computer monitors…

Luxpro wins Apple knock-off shuffle lawsuit… and counter sues Apple

Ms to introduce ‘Home server;?
more details…
Is this a work around for the super dinky Xbox360 HD?
iPod rip-off interface for DS

Vista Sideshow in the wild?

Credit Card sized MP3 player…
I used to have an FM radio that was this small… when I was a kid

Xbox360 v2?

Brazil court orders YouTube shutdown… but they have no authority in the US
How about a 32GB flash-based ‘HD’
Xbox360 iptv

Matt is trying to get Synergy working b/w his mac and Xp machine… with little luck

cingular and apple launching phone?
will it NOT suck like the old itunes phone?
josh says leave the cell phones to the south koreans. but more importantly, phones should not have
interfaces (like itunes) you have to use in order to get music on their phones (like their ipods).
what about these iphones?

• Technodifier 028 9MB 64k_mp3)

Wednesday December 20, 2006

Comcast offers on demand same day as DVD release
Stereo Bluetooth headphones
LED lights

I need a TB drive

Weird Dell RAM thing

HD for my MacBook?
this one

My first iDVD 😉

Paul played with a Stanton C.314

• Technodifier 027 (11MB 64k_mp3)

Tuesday December 12, 2006

josh’s over caffeinated laptop (i’m not calling them notebooks)


Fuck Cingular[SBC,Ameritech, AT&T]
-Josh is trying to get his deposit [$250] back…and keeps getting told something different every time.

Xbox360 sold 8 million units, on target for 10 million.
at $75 profit for each unit, $750 million? …not too shabby for the first year.
Numbers for Nov: Xbox – 511,000; Wii – 476,000; PS3 – 197,000.

Is Sony’s past and the PS3 ruining it for Bluray?

YouTube adds ability to add record vid directly to site.

Bit Torrent buys utorrent.

We are now using blogger beta

Dell Bluray laptop

is it time for NAS?

Spike TV announces winner of video game awards before the show airs. why watch?
‘Gears of War took Best Multiplayer Game, Best Graphics, and Best Shooter’

DIY home fabrication: 3D ‘printer’

300GB laptop drives

Tech c-mas gifts?

• flickr membership
• netflix membership
• Bluetooth GPS receivers for less than $50 now
• DVD burner VCR replacement for $60

• Technodifier 026 (8MB 64k_mp3)

Record Label?

Josh and Greg were bluetoothing some files to and fro [motorola q + pocket pc]

CD and DVDs be gone!
disc emulation: Daemon Tools, native Mac OS X

Virtualization

• Parallels beta for Mac
• VMWare coming to Mac
• Virtualization in general
• servers
• every computer you have ever had on your current machine

Mac Book: new bad pixel?

• Technodifier 024 (35MB 128k_mp3)

Next-gen console news
xBox 360

• For pay HD Movies and TV coming to your Xbox 360 via broadband.
• HD-DVD for Xbox360 debuts…And it works in XP!

PS3

• In Japan less than 1 PS3 game sold for each console.
• Is this because people bought it as a Bluray player/ media player box that can play their old PS2 games… or is it because people bought the things to resell it?
• Or maybe it is because there are very few games available at launch.
• Crazies waiting in lines…
• Dentist hires 60 temps to wait in line
  
• Jon Edwards looking for a PS3 and special priveleges too
• Fights, robbery and the such
• There are reported issues with some PS2 games crashing or being unplayable on the PS3
• xbox 360 had similar issues, but wasn’t $600
• The PS3 interface is basically an extension of the PSP interface.
• Check out a video of the interface.
• The photo viewing options look really cool.

Details of MS’s cash infusion into Novell (a la Apple)
And been playing HL2: Episode 1 on his PC.
I wonder how well/if it will run on his new Mac Book.

So is TiVo finally adding some download ability for video?

Variety: VHS is dead

10 prototype ‘1 laptop per child’ machines have been made.

Zune

• Engadget had an extensive review. Verdict: it sucks!
• But Beatles albums are avaiable in the Zune Marketplace!
• There is a little hope for the Zune.. as a hacked Linux device?

NBC offering free video podcast downloads of new programs via iTunes.

M-audio cheap ‘mixer’

Program that copies models in Second Life causing problems for the community.

Daily Motion: out Tubing Google in Europe?

Silly gadgets not made for kids.
Head mounted camera and PVR system that lets you record 8 hours of video without a recharge.

MPAA sues company for selling pre-loaded iPods
If they are actually charging $$ for the ripping aspect.. I understand the lawsuit.

iPhone: too little too late?

Podcasts on your cellie for free

• Podlinez.com
• fonpods.com
• You can even get our Podcast with a simple phone call via Podlinez
• normal long distance charges and other shit apply, but if you have a cellie this most likely doesn’t matter
• Technodifier: 415.376.7259
• Nodfast: 415.376.7257

Matt is trying a Treo 600 on Verizon with no data plan (as his secondary phone, to test it out)
Audio issue resolved by $15 app, Freedom.

• Technodifier 023 (26MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 023 (13MB 64k_mp3)

Sunday Nov 4, 2006

Holiday season digital upswing in full effect.
At local Target store there is a (closed off) section for the PS3,
an accesory section for the Wii,
and BluRay and HD-DVD discs ($20-$30) including a few HD-DVD/DVD hybrid discs.

PS3 comes out Nov 07, but there are some videos out of test units.
The UI is almost identical to that of the PSP

Having never owned an Xbox and currently owning a PS2 and PSP I stil
feel partial to the Xbox 360 mainly due to cost.
I am not going to buy either any time soon, so time will tell what I end up buying.

So you bought some MSN music tracks from MS?
Well MS says, “Fuck you, buy a Zune”….

The gist is that MSN is no more and there is no way to remove the DRM
(**cough**cough**legally**cough).
So if you want the ‘snazzy’ new Zune, you will need to repurchase all your existing music.
This sort of situation is the MAIN reason DRM is not good for consumers.
What if CDs, tapes, or records were like this?
What does this mean for the future of digital media as it applies to history and cultural legacies?

Great idea for simplification of analog audio to PC connections

RIAA has trouble suing mom, so they decide to sue her kids

Matt’s pain in the ass issues with MCE OEM on a Gateway PC.
Try to backup install.. failed about 6 times.
Finally got a copy of MCE and reinstalled.
Months later product key shows as invalid.
Tried using product key from my PC, no luck.
Called MS, no luck.
Gave up, installed XP Pro.

With the reinstall, matt finally installed IE7 on XP.
Looks pretty good.
Tabs make sense.
Quick tabs is pretty nice.

And along the lines of playing media files in XP, matt swears by the K-Lite Codec Pack.
It includes a GIGANTIC package of selectable codecs for most any file out there.
It also has software players and even plays FLV files fullscreen without the need to convert to AVI, QT, or another format.
Highly recommended

MacBook Pros are not 39% (like apple states), but 10%

• Technodifier 022 (34MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 022 (17MB 64k_mp3)

Google to use solar energy for a bunch of their current electricity needs
[google stock just hit all time high]

Universal sues video hosting sites (one owned by Sony pictures)

Apple ships iPod with Windows virus… nice…
[…and Jobs blames microsoft…]

Are Pc makers going to ask for more money from Sony due to the battery issues?

US population is 300 million

Yellow Dog Linux to run on PS3

7.1″ 1080p HD display

Creative disables FM recording in new Zen firmware (don’t upgrade)

A working version of Bob.

Josh has been mp3ing his cds for days…and is only to the letter C.

Jitter [max/msp for video]
anyone got a copy?

• Technodifier 019 (15MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 019 (8MB 64k_mp3)

More Diebold vote hacking, Tesla’s electric car, free software and 911
Diebold voting machine hacked in 4 minutes, so 12 days would be enough time for about anyone…

Old x-ray film used as replacement for vinyl

Tesla’s electric car?

Free Software

• Microsoft Max: MS’s take on iPhoto?
• Download the beta
• New version of Yahoo’s free PVR software, Yahoo! Go
• new Democracy Player release

Switching from cell to Wi-Fi, seamlessly
Is it time to switch to FeedBurner for podcast XML/RSS generation?

The hard drive is 50!

Vonage v-phone

Remebering Sept 11, digitally.

• 911 digital archive
• Platial

Second Life data compromised: Real data from the virtual world

• Technodifier 021 (39MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 021 (20MB 64k_mp3)

HARDWARE
TimeShifting is SOO yesterday, how about placeshifting HDTV?

Greg just got a moto Q.
which is rad bc with windows mobile 5 you can run all them nifty pda warez (like theramin
emulators and similar such noisemakers…)

10MP cam phone: At what point are people going to say “that camera phone is too damn big”?

More confusing HD-DVD and Blueray product announcements.

Pe-orders for non-existent Sony PS3 started today
$100 down to get the $600 box
Only reason I would buy one is to sell it on eBay.

Just buy an Xbox360, really.

Apple Rumors.
Core 2 Duo coming to Mac Book Pro? What about the Mac Book?

Concept ‘turntable’ laptop

Will the HD last for long?
Samsung’s solid-state memory-based laptops

DIY: Make your own audio high quality interconnect cables

SOFTWARE
Windows

• Matt’s favorite (free) Windows photo management software has a new beta
• Picasa for Windows 2.5.0 Build 32.95.0 Beta
• Ie7 forced to users rtoday via Windows update?
• IceWeasel: totally free Firefox

PSP

• New custom firmware adds the best of old FW with features of new.
• hybrid of FW 1.5 and 2.71
• Full featured PSP email client (even has keyboard support)

MEDIA
Target pissed about DVD pricing compared to download formats

GooTube!
So will people sure Google now… since Google has so damn much money?

3D figures from Second Life avatars

NES Donkey Kong in Lego animation

BUSINESS
Amazon Grocery: Didn’t this idea fail already as about 5 different .coms?
I guess I might use it if I lived out in the boonies…

• Technodifier 018 (22MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 018 (11MB 64k_mp3)

Flickr adds geotagging for photos

• Review

How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine

DRM Hack overview
QT6 DRM hacked?
MS Windows Media DRM hacked (for now)
Download it at Betanews
MS issues a “fix”
and an unrelated story 😉
Napster offers 7 day free trial

Sony battery problem affects Dell and Apple.
Costs Sony millions

OLED “keyboard” review

AllPeers tries to simplify private file sharing

Firefox 2 beta unveiled
or try the portable version

Josh got some new samsung cameras.

Series 3 (HD) TiVo in the wild!

Is the Commodore name really worth anything?
ght thinks so!!!!! [greg has 4 of them!]

Great site that generates cool images…

“Bob” goes open source.

• Technodifier 022 (34MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 022 (17MB 64k_mp3)

Google to use solar energy for a bunch of their current electricity needs
[google stock just hit all time high]

Universal sues video hosting sites (one owned by Sony pictures)

Apple ships iPod with Windows virus… nice…
[…and Jobs blames microsoft…]

Are Pc makers going to ask for more money from Sony due to the battery issues?

US population is 300 million

Yellow Dog Linux to run on PS3

7.1″ 1080p HD display

Creative disables FM recording in new Zen firmware (don’t upgrade)

A working version of Bob.

Josh has been mp3ing his cds for days…and is only to the letter C.

Jitter [max/msp for video]
anyone got a copy?

• Technodifier 021 (39MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 021 (20MB 64k_mp3)

HARDWARE
TimeShifting is SOO yesterday, how about placeshifting HDTV?

Greg just got a moto Q.
which is rad bc with windows mobile 5 you can run all them nifty pda warez (like theramin
emulators and similar such noisemakers…)

10MP cam phone: At what point are people going to say “that camera phone is too damn big”?

More confusing HD-DVD and Blueray product announcements.

Pe-orders for non-existent Sony PS3 started today
$100 down to get the $600 box
Only reason I would buy one is to sell it on eBay.

Just buy an Xbox360, really.

Apple Rumors.
Core 2 Duo coming to Mac Book Pro? What about the Mac Book?

Concept ‘turntable’ laptop

Will the HD last for long?
Samsung’s solid-state memory-based laptops

DIY: Make your own audio high quality interconnect cables

SOFTWARE
Windows

• Matt’s favorite (free) Windows photo management software has a new beta
• Picasa for Windows 2.5.0 Build 32.95.0 Beta
• Ie7 forced to users rtoday via Windows update?
• IceWeasel: totally free Firefox

PSP

• New custom firmware adds the best of old FW with features of new.
• hybrid of FW 1.5 and 2.71
• Full featured PSP email client (even has keyboard support)

MEDIA
Target pissed about DVD pricing compared to download formats

GooTube!
So will people sure Google now… since Google has so damn much money?

3D figures from Second Life avatars

NES Donkey Kong in Lego animation

BUSINESS
Amazon Grocery: Didn’t this idea fail already as about 5 different .coms?
I guess I might use it if I lived out in the boonies…

• Technodifier 020 (25MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 020 (13MB 64k_mp3)

HARDWARE
WS LCDs… cheaper and cheaper…
Viewsonic
Acer

Makes things like this happen…
more TVs than people

Expensive (but cool) MS MCE/Vista keyboard

Finally… standards for laptop batteries?

usb batteries

mother of all digital cameras

Samsung DSLR

MS’ Zune
Sony does HD at 24p

Potential pmp of the week
Neuros OSD

MUSIC DEVICES
Paul’s Uber CD ‘turntable’

HACKS
Homebrew comunity beats Sony to the PS1 emulation front on the PSP?

HOW-TO
Photoshop tutorials blog

Software
have a webcam? use this to take quick video and post easily to sites.

Looks like I am probably getting a Mac Book
so I need to bone up on Mac software and such…
especially the open-source variety

Universities banning Skype?
Business
YouTube and Warner deal… What’s next?
Copyright infringement as a business model?
Warner to put thousands of music videos on YouTube

iTunes and Disney… making money with little expense…
Is Wal-mart pissed? or not?

Apple now claiming the “own” the term podcast.
So do they think they own the three letter combination ‘pod‘?
gastropod? cephalopod?
The word DID exist before computers were even a concept to humans.
The damn root alone means foot Greek.

• Technodifier 019 (15MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 019 (8MB 64k_mp3)

More Diebold vote hacking, Tesla’s electric car, free software and 911
Diebold voting machine hacked in 4 minutes, so 12 days would be enough time for about anyone…

Old x-ray film used as replacement for vinyl

Tesla’s electric car?

Free Software

• Microsoft Max: MS’s take on iPhoto?
• Download the beta
• New version of Yahoo’s free PVR software, Yahoo! Go
• new Democracy Player release

Switching from cell to Wi-Fi, seamlessly
Is it time to switch to FeedBurner for podcast XML/RSS generation?

The hard drive is 50!

Vonage v-phone

Remebering Sept 11, digitally.

• 911 digital archive
• Platial

Second Life data compromised: Real data from the virtual world

• Technodifier 018 (22MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 018 (11MB 64k_mp3)

Flickr adds geotagging for photos

• Review

How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine

DRM Hack overview
QT6 DRM hacked?
MS Windows Media DRM hacked (for now)
Download it at Betanews
MS issues a “fix”
and an unrelated story 😉
Napster offers 7 day free trial

Sony battery problem affects Dell and Apple.
Costs Sony millions

OLED “keyboard” review

AllPeers tries to simplify private file sharing

Firefox 2 beta unveiled
or try the portable version

Josh got some new samsung cameras.

Series 3 (HD) TiVo in the wild!

Is the Commodore name really worth anything?
ght thinks so!!!!! [greg has 4 of them!]

Great site that generates cool images…

“Bob” goes open source.

• Technodifier 020 (25MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 020 (13MB 64k_mp3)

HARDWARE
WS LCDs… cheaper and cheaper…
Viewsonic
Acer

Makes things like this happen…
more TVs than people

Expensive (but cool) MS MCE/Vista keyboard

Finally… standards for laptop batteries?

usb batteries

mother of all digital cameras

Samsung DSLR

MS’ Zune
Sony does HD at 24p

Potential pmp of the week
Neuros OSD

MUSIC DEVICES
Paul’s Uber CD ‘turntable’

HACKS
Homebrew comunity beats Sony to the PS1 emulation front on the PSP?

HOW-TO
Photoshop tutorials blog

Software
have a webcam? use this to take quick video and post easily to sites.

Looks like I am probably getting a Mac Book
so I need to bone up on Mac software and such…
especially the open-source variety

Universities banning Skype?
Business
YouTube and Warner deal… What’s next?
Copyright infringement as a business model?
Warner to put thousands of music videos on YouTube

iTunes and Disney… making money with little expense…
Is Wal-mart pissed? or not?

Apple now claiming the “own” the term podcast.
So do they think they own the three letter combination ‘pod‘?
gastropod? cephalopod?
The word DID exist before computers were even a concept to humans.
The damn root alone means foot Greek.

• Technodifier 014 (20MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 014 (10MB 64k_mp3)

Software
OSX 10.4.7 on your x86 (Intel) Windows machine

Legal
P2P lawsuit insurance?
Is MS WGA Spyware?
The end of Graffitti’s legal history?

100Mbps: real (world class) broadband is a coming!

Software
ReplayTV PVR relaunches as software for PCs

Hardware
Prototype wall mounted scanner
Portable projectors getting smaller
PSP Camera in the wild. Video calls to come.
The non-Mac mini
Sony UX is shipping

Want to own Kraftwerk’s vocoder?

PMP of the week
1GB player from Napster for “$50”

• Hands on review

• Technodifier 017 (14MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 017 (7MB 64k_mp3)

Back after almost a month!

Google Talk update
Google WiFi in Mountain View Cali

Vosonic’s X-drive
great mobile media solution, especially if you have a PSP

• Technodifier 016 (22MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 016 (11MB 64k_mp3)
• New Vidcast
• Technodifier 016 vidcast (xxMB divx)

Something (pricier) to top the M-Audio Multitrack?

Do we have a winner or is this some damn SPAM bot (Gmail script)?
“Hello,” I said. “You called for me?” Willy looked right through me,
The Strugatskys posit that the Earth experiences a brief visit from
there were plenty of explosions; they said they were blinded from a loud
left to the dozens of postgraduate theses being written on the subject and…

DJ Ted Stevens
Not a truck.

Hardware
LG FINGER mouse
Sanyo updates tiny handheld HD camcorder (Xacti HD1a)
Sony’s nicer HD cam

Hacking a (relatively) cheap phone to run Skype via wifi
Even I don’t have this may CRTs

PSP

• PSP update: now have Devhook working and can boot any version of the firmware since 1.5
• Target pulls UMD movies from stores
• Sony selling mem cards w/ movies
• PSPKick
• PSP Rhythm

Software
Skype Protocol reverse engineered by some folks in China
Mumbai Bombings Shake Outsourcing Community
Google Makes house calls?

I think that online Web 2.0 apps are of age.
Preloadr: Flickr+ online editing
Made using this company’s software
This is so cool. I wonder how it runs over dial-up?
Support layers, channel adjustments, layet transform, series of image filters, and even import images as a layer.

Office killer’s?
Writely
Google Spreadsheets

Chaka Khan rocks the drums

• Technodifier 015 (18MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 015 (9MB 64k_mp3)

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

• Net Neutrality makes (senator with the mind of the) HULK ANGRY!
• Hulk teach you about internet tubes!!! not trucks!!! grr!!! (with audio)
• (he wears a Hulk tie.. really…

PSP Firmware downgrader
Matt just successfully completed this. Opens world of homebrew once again.
But still trying to get UMD games that require later FW to boot via DevHook 0.42b

Been playing Callisto!

Music Animation Machine

Stupid drink machine.

Wacom tablet used for electronic music

Windows 98 and Me support gone bitches.

• Technodifier 014 (20MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 014 (10MB 64k_mp3)

Software
OSX 10.4.7 on your x86 (Intel) Windows machine

Legal
P2P lawsuit insurance?
Is MS WGA Spyware?
The end of Graffitti’s legal history?

100Mbps: real (world class) broadband is a coming!

Software
ReplayTV PVR relaunches as software for PCs

Hardware
Prototype wall mounted scanner
Portable projectors getting smaller
PSP Camera in the wild. Video calls to come.
The non-Mac mini
Sony UX is shipping

Want to own Kraftwerk’s vocoder?

PMP of the week
1GB player from Napster for “$50”

• Hands on review

• Technodifier 017 (14MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 017 (7MB 64k_mp3)

Back after almost a month!

Google Talk update
Google WiFi in Mountain View Cali

Vosonic’s X-drive
great mobile media solution, especially if you have a PSP

• Technodifier 015 (18MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 015 (9MB 64k_mp3)

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

• Net Neutrality makes (senator with the mind of the) HULK ANGRY!
• Hulk teach you about internet tubes!!! not trucks!!! grr!!! (with audio)
• (he wears a Hulk tie.. really…

PSP Firmware downgrader
Matt just successfully completed this. Opens world of homebrew once again.
But still trying to get UMD games that require later FW to boot via DevHook 0.42b

Been playing Callisto!

Music Animation Machine

Stupid drink machine.

Wacom tablet used for electronic music

Windows 98 and Me support gone bitches.

• Technodifier 013 (24MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 013 (12MB 64k_mp3)

The Pirate Bay Returns
Windows Media Center Preview in Vista Beta 2
Amazon launches online grocery store
Gates leaving the M$ party
Sony unveils “world’s smallest” LED projector

Stupid patents: Creative sues Apple… Apple answers with another lawsuit
Can’t we just get along?

Weird-ass blue-man group plastic musical toys
Google Browser Sync

• Tech Nodifier 012 (20MB 128k_mp3)
• Tech Nodifier 012 (10MB 64k_mp3)

Another one bites the dust
YARR! Swedish police site broadsided after Pirate Bay raid

Coming soon: the Wi-Fi MP3 player
Half-Life 2: Episode One
First video of a working “One Laptop Per Child” laptop

Movies Delivered Via Television Signal

Government May Help Bells Defend Against Wiretap Suits

PC Worlds 100 best products of the year

FCC approves the Vaio UX

• Technodifier 016 (22MB 128k_mp3)
• Technodifier 016 (11MB 64k_mp3)
• New Vidcast
• Technodifier 016 vidcast (xxMB divx)

Something (pricier) to top the M-Audio Multitrack?

Do we have a winner or is this some damn SPAM bot (Gmail script)?
“Hello,” I said. “You called for me?” Willy looked right through me,
The Strugatskys posit that the Earth experiences a brief visit from
there were plenty of explosions; they said they were blinded from a loud
left to the dozens of postgraduate theses being written on the subject and…

DJ Ted Stevens
Not a truck.

Hardware
LG FINGER mouse
Sanyo updates tiny handheld HD camcorder (Xacti HD1a)
Sony’s nicer HD cam

Hacking a (relatively) cheap phone to run Skype via wifi
Even I don’t have this may CRTs

PSP

• PSP update: now have Devhook working and can boot any version of the firmware since 1.5
• Target pulls UMD movies from stores
• Sony selling mem cards w/ movies
• PSPKick
• PSP Rhythm

Software
Skype Protocol reverse engineered by some folks in China
Mumbai Bombings Shake Outsourcing Community
Google Makes house calls?

I think that online Web 2.0 apps are of age.
Preloadr: Flickr+ online editing
Made using this company’s software
This is so cool. I wonder how it runs over dial-up?
Support layers, channel adjustments, layet transform, series of image filters, and even import images as a layer.

Office killer’s?
Writely
Google Spreadsheets

Chaka Khan rocks the drums