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Digital Film Revolution
Movie theaters going digital: Celluloid is becoming a thing of the past in Hollywood. After years of Hollywood hype, 2004 could truly be a watershed year for digital cinema. A recent surge in investment by theater chains and technology companies means the number of digital projectors in cinemas will ...
Published: December 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Digital Pictures in the Courtroom
Digital photography poses thorny issues for justice system: Interesting article on how digital photography is being treated in the courtroom. Digital photographs can be manipulated relatively easily and lawyers pounce on this fact, so introducing them as evidence isn't the slam-dunk that traditional film pictures were. As more police departments ...
Published: February 10, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 996
Disposable Digital Camera
A disposable digital camera enters the market at $19.99: I couldn't find any information on how many pictures it holds, but $20 is is steep for disposable anything. Pure Digital makes the world's first truly digital one-time-use camera. It has been on the market for more than a year but ...
Published: August 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 992
eBay to Enter Digital Music Market?
EBay flirts with digital music downloads: It was probably inevitable. Online auction giant eBay Inc. will allow some customers to buy and sell digital music files as part of a pilot program that could piggyback on the success of Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes service. San Jose, Calif.-based eBay said ...
Published: July 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 991
Slimming via Digital Camera
Slimming photos with HP digital cameras : There's a Flash animation that shows how it works -- surprise, it just narrows the image. They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a ...
Published: September 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 980
Digital Photography's Effect on our Skill Level
Why digital cameras = better photographers: Why digital cameras will make us all better photographers. Digital cameras don't only eliminate the cost and hassle of film processing, they should help do away with bad holiday snaps and see us all become better photographers. It all boils down the fact that ...
Published: January 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 971
Digital Track at Billboard Awards
Did you know that the latest Billboard Music Awards had a category for "Digital Track," defined as the most legitimately downloaded song of the year? How's that for digital music penetration, when it actually gets an award? Outkast won it for "Hey Ya."
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 967
Which is Better for Digital Media: Mac or PC?
A report on processing performance: This has got to be the mother of all Mac vs. PC comparisons for digital media processing. Fourteen pages worth of statistics.
Published: January 6, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 952
Digital Shoplifting
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan's 'digital shoplifting' plague: Japanese bookstores are up in arms about "digital shotlifting." It goes like this: "[Someone reading a magazine at a newstand] might spot a new hairstyle or a new dress in a glossy fashion magazine and they want to know what their ...
Published: June 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 947
Digital Gallery for Your Wall
PhotoVu recently announced the PV1910 wireless picture frame to display your latest and greatest digital creations. The PV1910 is the industry's first Wi-Fi®, 19" LCD digital picture frame. Recognizing that most digital camera users store, organize, edit, and share their pictures with the computer, the PV1910 compliments the way you ...
Published: July 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 940
Digital Web Magazine
Digital Web Magazine: This site just keeps getting better and better. They have a new design, which is top notch, and some of the best content of the Web for designers and architects. A true gem.
Published: August 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 940
The First Digital Camera
If only Kodak had phased out celluloid sooner ...: This is a great article on the very first digital camera, built by Kodak in 1975. Steven Sasson knew right away in December 1975 that his 8-pound, toaster-size contraption, which captured a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape at a ...
Published: September 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 937
Abuse Photos Were Digital
Digital cameras are changing how Iraq war is perceived: How would this have been different if they were traditional? Would it have played out differently? Traditional photos can get lost, aren't instantly reproducable, and have to be physically transported. Would this situation not have come to light if that were ...
Published: May 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 926
Kodak Suffers Under Digital Trend
Kodak struggles to keep up with smaller firms cornering digital market: Here's the story of a company that saw a market trend, but didn't react fast enough to it. Echos of Barnes and Noble. "The change has been too rapid for Kodak to handle. That's why, even though shutterbugs are ...
Published: August 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 906
Polaroid's Digital Kiosks
Polaroid betting big on digital kiosks: Polaroid is two years out of bankruptcy and looking for someting anything to build its future on. Here's what it came up with. "Polaroid's kiosks, fed a credit card and camera memory card, spit out a high-quality print every two seconds. That's ...
Published: October 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 903
No More Shut-eye In Digital Pics
Rob should appreciate this one: Digital images featuring someone in mid-blink could be banished forever using an image-analysis system for cameras developed in Japan. The system developed by Kaneko's team gets around the problem by snapping 15 frames in 0.5 seconds after the shutter button is clicked. A computer then ...
Published: May 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 899
Analog TV on the Way Out
Boob Tubes Going Digital By 2007: First the slide projector, and now the analog TV it's been a bad week for old technology. "The transition to digital TV, which was designed to be mostly completed by 2007, has been slowed in part by high-priced equipment needed to receive the ...
Published: October 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 879
Wi-Fi Digital Camera
Fuji recently unveiled a prototype of a digital camera with Wi-Fi capability built in. The interesting part of this story is that the camera they displayed is the exact style of the one I own. It features a compact flash and a smart media slot. If Wi-Fi is not actuaully ...
Published: July 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 874
HD Radio
Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too.: We don't even have digital radio around here, much less HD. Of course, to listen to HD radio, you have to have an HD receiver, which is about $500. The radio industry, like broadcast television before it, is switching to digital technology. ...
Published: January 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 873
LEGO Digital Designer
A friend mentioned yesterday that LEGO just updated it's Digital Designer (LDD) app. It's a freebie Mac OS X or Windows app that you your kids can use to... build absolutely anything... right on your computer. Then you can buy the real bricks to build your creation online in LEGO ...
Published: January 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 854
Digital Dental X-Rays
I was at the dentist this morning, and they had to do x-rays, which kind of suck because they stick these huge wads of film into your mouth and make you bite down. So, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my dentist has gone digital. Now I get ...
Published: January 19, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
When You Just Can't Let Go
We are becoming digital pack rats: There's no greater manifestation of the pack rat syndrome than with email. I've always thought that email retention is a disease. I know people (I used to be one of them) who have CDs of email archives from when they first started using the ...
Published: September 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
Digital Tunes Done Poorly
WalMart.com - Music Downloads was formally announced yesterday, and in typical Walmart fashion, they are undercutting the big boys in price -- 88 cents a single and $9.44 an album. But the service leaves much to be desired, as they will specifically exclude not only Mac users, but also the ...
Published: December 19, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 841
CineMassive Masterplex
CineMassive MasterPlex 21T: My eyes have seen the glory. 21.3" Premium Digital Samsung LCD Center with Four 17" Digital Wings in Portrait Mode, $3,799 Via a comment on this entry.
Published: February 13, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 832
The Inevitable Lawsuit
SunnComm has announced their intention to file suit against the Princeton student who figured out how to disable their iron-clad software using the shift key. "Concludes Jacobs, 'This cat-and-mouse game that hackers and others like to play with owners of digital property is over. No matter what their credentials or ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 832
A One And A Two...
Now I think I may have seen it all Roland is now building, of all things, a digital accordion. Roland is pleased to introduce another milestone in digital musical instrument history —the V-Accordion. Models FR-7 and FR-5 are the first instruments of their type to successfully integrate powerful digital ...
Published: October 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 827
Office Depot Begins Electronic Recycling Program
Office Depot offers to recycle electronics for free: This is a Very Good Thing. I'm not an Earth-muffin or anything, but old electronics do some really crappy things to the environment. Don't be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines or digital cameras office supply retailer ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 825
Google Toilets
Digital revolution leaves Google feeling quite flush: Amazon may have whiteboards in their elevators, but Google has the baddest toilets on the planet. The noted Internet search engine has recently installed digital toilets at its Mountain View offices [...] And not just any old digital toilet. Japan's Toto, the world's ...
Published: December 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 799
Icelandic Capital to Wire Every Home
Digital Reykjavik: This would almost be worth losing a toe or two to frostbite. "Reykjavik, the northernmost capital in the world, is close to becoming a digital role model for communities all over the world, large and small. With unsurpassed fiber infrastructure, Reykjavik could become the world's first city with ...
Published: October 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 795
The Influence of Technology on Fashion
Digital eye at center of a fashion hurricane: This is an interesting article about the influence technology has had on fashion. Apparently, fashion runway shows used to be only the province of the rich who could attend. They would see styles, wear them, and those styles would enter the public ...
Published: October 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 795
Wither the PDA?
Mobiles 'to replace handheld PCs': "Mr Levin said makers of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital cameras were likely to suffer as phones became more powerful. 'The PDA is dead,' Mr Levin told BBC News Online. He asked why anyone would opt for an expensive, bulky handheld computer when smartphones ...
Published: September 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 792
Content Management Mergers
Interwoven Buys MediaBin: Content management and Digital Asset Management are increasingly becoming two sides of the same coin. I imagine this purchase is in response to Documentum's purchase of Bulldog and Boxcar last year. "Interwoven Inc. announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to buy its digital asset ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 789
Inkjet Counterfeiting
Computers help tech-savvy counterfeiters cash in: Twenty years in federal prison is but a printer cable away. Thanks to advances in digital copying technology, desktop computers and color printers now produce about 97% of today's fake $5, $10 and $20 bills [...] That's a significant jump since 2003, when 46% ...
Published: August 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 786
A Digital Time Capsule
Someone at Forbes had a great idea, and made it reality: Most time capsules involve cramming stuff into a metal box and burying it in a hole in the ground. It's a method that works but it's so primitive. What if you could write an email to yourself, and ...
Published: November 13, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 781
The Death of the Home Stereo
High fidelity takes backseat to portability: Interesting article on the decline of the stereo system as a piece of consumer electronics, and the resulting decline in audio fidelity that no one seems to care about. With their ability to store vast libraries of music in your pocket, sleek digital music ...
Published: April 23, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 780
Triage: MS Jazzercises Photo Management
Building on it's planned technologies for Longhorn, Microsoft is developing a new technology called 'Triage' to manage digital photos. It appears they're tagging photos with metadata ala Photoshop Album, but check out this ZDNet Video and take a look at how they're presenting the user interface. Very slick looking, but ...
Published: June 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 777
The State of e-Books
E-books are getting a boost at BookExpo: Here's the latest update on the state of the e-book market. "To those who say it's ridiculous to read a book on computer, Nick Bogaty, who runs the Open eBook Forum trade group, retorts: 'Five years ago, you'd say I prefer getting mail ...
Published: June 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 775
Bad for Business, Good for Us
Real is playing for keeps in music price war: Nice. This makes up for some of the focus of anger and frustration that is the Real Player. RealNetworks today is slashing the price of a digital download to 49 cents a song from 99 cents a bold move in ...
Published: August 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 773
Zinio
Zinio puts hundreds of digital magazines a click away: Interesting article on Zinio. I used this service some time ago, and really liked it. It s a fantastic way of reading a print publication. Advancements in software and hardware are making it easier for a growing faction of consumers — including ...
Published: May 28, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 773
School of the Future
Windows HS: Microsoft designs a school system: Microsoft helped the Philadelphia school system modernize in a pilot program. Students -- who are called "learners" -- use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has ...
Published: September 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 769
PDF Competition Overview
Beyond PDF: Digital Delivery Develops: Interesting article on the future of the PDF and competing platforms that have developed to knock PDF of its perch. Yet it has its share of critics who complain that it's not the most effective digital distribution method. Among its most famous broadsides was Jakob ...
Published: August 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 769
EXIF Plugin for MT
MT Plugin Directory: ImageInfo: Movable Type plugins just keep getting better and better. Camera geeks rejoice (and by "camera geeks," I mean "Rob"). Display image EXIF data along with image on weblog page. Especially useful with digital camera pictures, which often store a lot of EXIF data (time stamp, f/stop, ...
Published: April 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 767
Paper Consumption Declining
Pushing Paper Out the Door: The only good news I ve heard about the environment in ages. After rising steadily in the 1980s and â??90s, worldwide paper consumption per capita has plateaued in recent years. In the richest countries, consumption fell 6 percent from 2000 to 2005, from 531 to 502 ...
Published: February 9, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 767
Leveling Camera
Why hasn't anyone produced a digital camera (or any camera, really) with a built-in bubble level? I'm sick of people giving me pictures that are tilted at an angle. It doesn't have to be a big angle either. If the horizon is just a couple of degrees off, the picture ...
Published: March 31, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 763
Digital Biffy Board Advertising
I went to a concert at the Washington Pavillion last night, and during a break my 7 year old needed to use the rest room. In the men's room they had just installed an LCD panel above each urinal that displayed animated ads. These may not be new, but it's ...
Published: January 24, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 760
Streaming Media Patent Fight
Wired News: Porn Sites May Stream No More: If you get past the first two-thirds of this article, which is about porns sites losing a lawsuit by default, you get to this gem: "So far, 27 companies have settled with Acacia. Those include LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation, the hotel video-on-demand service, ...
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 758
"Today's laptop is yesterday's bicycle"
Laptops, tech toys drive rise in dorm room thievery: When I spent time in the dorms at Iowa State ten years ago, I can honestly say that I didn't have a single thing worth stealing. Not so anymore. Students can cart $3,000 or more in gear to campus just by ...
Published: September 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 758
The New Broadcast Flag
FCC Endorses Built-In Copy Controls: Why don't I think this has a prayer of working? "Tuesday's vote orders makers of hardware that can receive digital television signals to build in recognition of broadcast "flags" that copy-protect content. When the flag-compliant device, such as a PC or DVD recorder, detects content ...
Published: November 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 757
Online Mapping
In Parts Unknown: Ever wonder how they keep online maps so current? An exercise in the obvious: they employ people to drive around with GPS units in their cars and write down addresses: "Privately held Navigation Technologies is one of the world's biggest digital mapmakers and expects revenue of $200 ...
Published: July 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 756
Big Media: Stage Two and Holding
Digital Assets: I agree with this guy's theory. Big Media will eventually understand that they just can't sue everyone. You can't stick toothpaste back in the tube, and there's no way to stop file sharing. The content distribution model has fundamentally changed, and Big Media's business model will have to ...
Published: November 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 753
North Carolina's Battle Over Solitaire
Is that a spreadsheet on your screen or solitaire?: A North Carolina lawmaker wants to ban Solitaire. And in the words of the guy from Fark there's still no cure for cancer. Senator Allran wants the state to erase the free game modules from all its computers ...
Published: March 19, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
Storage Sells
Storage takes starring role in tech gizmo sales pitch: We went through a long period a few years ago when hard drive size was so abstract. Discs had gotten so big compared the stuff we put on them, that increases in hard drive space didn't really matter to anyone. I ...
Published: March 27, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 748
Electronic Lifeguard
Digital Eyes Scan Pools For Trouble "When the first toe is dipped into the pool at Fairfax County's newest recreation center next year, swimmers will be watched by a sophisticated system of digital cameras above and below the water's surface that will act like an extra lifeguard. If the cameras ...
Published: September 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
The Real Reason Why eBooks Aren't Selling?
I've been reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" as an eBook in Microsoft Reader. It's been a great experience, and I'll write more about it later, but today I went looking for other eBooks at Amazon, and I was amazed at the prices. Consider: The Complete Idiot's ...
Published: July 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
The Shifted Librarian Defined
What Is a Shifted Librarian?: I always wondered where she came up with that name. "...So back to the definition of information shifting. It comes from a New York Times article that discussed the history of consumer fair use and the entertainment industry's efforts to regulate use of VCRs and ...
Published: October 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 742
Apple a Monopoly?
Apparently Apple isn't just taking people to court, they're also being sued by an unhappy iTMS customer. It seems Thomas Slattery is being "forced" to buy an iPod if he wants to use the songs he purchased from the iTunes Music Store. Last I checked you could listen to any ...
Published: January 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 732
Data Gets Old Fast
The Long Now Foundation: library: This is a really good essay on the lack of longevity with digital media. It's not just the media itself that degrades, but the file formats. Computer scientist Danny Hillis notes that we have good raw data from previous ages written on clay, on stone, ...
Published: October 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 726
The Agenda Behind EFI?
My buddy Joe made a really good point about Intel's upcoming EFI: it's a really good way to build Digital Rights Management (DRM) directly into the BIOS. Sneaky devils.
Published: February 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 719
Microsoft Throwing Its Weight Around
Yeah, I know. What's new about that? MS lawyers jumped all over the administrators of digital.forest demanding that they immediately shut down the MacSlash site because someone posted what appeared to be a valid Longhorn serial number in a comment to a post there. (Story here.) From the logs, the ...
Published: December 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 717
Files On Your Wrist
Imation keeps digital files close at hand Imation Corp. has gone glam with its newest high-tech offering, a portable flash drive in a rubberized wristband that can double as a fashion accessory. Via StarTribune.com.
Published: January 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 713
The Tech of Sky Captain
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW / **** (PG): Some interesting information in Ebert's gushing review of this movie (it hits theaters today). Apparently there were no physical sets. Much will be written about the technique, about how the first-time director, Kerry Conran, labored for years to bring forth ...
Published: September 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 702
Ambilight
Philips Flat Digital Picture TVs: I just can't figure out if this is a good idea or not. "Ambilight" is a new idea from Philips whereby your plasma TV emits colored light out of the sides to match the predominant color on the screen.
Published: September 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 701
GNOME 2.8
The GNOME Foundation is set to release version 2.8 of the GNOME Desktop today. The major change in this release is the inclusion of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), designed to make hardware 'just work'. So, if you plug in your jump drive, the drive icon magically shows up on ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 698
Adobe Enters eBook Market
Adobe Digital Media Store: Adobe has started selling e-books in order to pump up its PDF format as a viable alternative to formats from Microsoft and Palm. They may be able to fill some of the vacuum left by Barnes and Noble when they left the market.
Published: December 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Mirra Personal Server
Mirra Personal Server: I don't know why a continual backup system qualifies something as a "server," but I knew things were going to head in this direction someday. The Mirra Personal Server is the easiest way to backup, remotely access, and securely share your important digital files, photos, and email.
Published: December 31, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 690
Countdown to MyDoom
MyDoom worm spreads as attack countdown begins: The attacks launch on Sunday and Tuesday. Security experts warned on Thursday the fast-spreading MyDoom virus would plague e-mail users for some time as it counts down to a mammoth digital attack next week on Microsoft and software firm SCO Group Inc.
Published: January 29, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
Is File Sharing Over?
RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'contained': Huh. Seriously? [...] the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping has been "contained." "The problem has not been eliminated," says association CEO Mitch Bainwol. "But we believe digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business, and file-trading ...
Published: June 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 687
Aerial Picture Tweaking
Secret Service airbrushes aerial photos: Not only do they edit the content of the Web sites, now they edit the aerial photos. Interesting. ...portions of overhead color photos of the Capitol building and the grounds of the Naval Observatory, where the Vice President's residence is located, have been distorted ...
Published: December 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 686
Fumbling Towards Legitimacy
Downloads chart may signal single's comeback: "This week, Billboard introduces Nielsen SoundScan's new download tracks chart, which tabulates Internet purchases of music files from sanctioned services by Apple, Liquid Audio, Pressplay and others. Napster, the renegade outfit that's expected to return as a legal provider of digital music, also will ...
Published: July 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 685
Apple Backs Blu-ray Tech
This is a big win for Sony: The Sony Corp. and Panasonic led Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) welcomed Apple Computer Inc. to its board of directors on Thursday. The Blu-ray Disc format now seems more certain of being accepted as the future standard for storing High Definition movies, photos and ...
Published: March 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
HP Moves Toward Gadgets
HP to Unveil More Than 100 New Gadgets: All the computer manufacturers are starting to encroach on the gadget space. Big day for HP today. "Hewlett-Packard Co. is introducing more than 100 new consumer gadgets on Monday, from digital cameras to photo-quality desktop printers, in anticipation of what could be ...
Published: August 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Well, That Was Quick
Gateway Shifts Back to Personal Computers: Gateway's big consumer electronics strategy that we discussed here, here, and here is over. Gateway Inc. on Monday said it would return to its roots as a personal computer company, backing off on an aggressive strategy of expanding into TVs, digital cameras and other ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Picasa 2
Entrepreneur lets Google fly with his creation: It gets better, and it's apparently still gonna be free. On Tuesday, Google unveils a major upgrade that could chip away market share from leaders Adobe and Microsoft. Picasa 2 is almost as full-featured as their Photoshop Elements and Digital Image Suite photo-editing-software ...
Published: January 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 683
Is the RIAA Winning?
More households deleting music from hard drives: Sell all your stock in hard drive manufacturers, because if this keeps up, no one is going to need new ones. "More than a million households deleted all the digital music files they had saved on their PCs in August a sign ...
Published: November 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
CNN Reports on Tagging
'Tagging' helps unclutter data: You know a concept has gone mainsteam when CNN is reporting on it. How soon before it jumps the shark? That's "tagging", and it's currently all the rage among the digerati. Tagging has the potential to change how we keep track of and discover things digital ...
Published: May 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
iPods Are For Cheaters
Schools say iPods becoming tool for cheaters: iPods are flat evil, there's no doubt. If you use one, you are a terrorist. [...] schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device. Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an ...
Published: April 27, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Gateway PDA
Gateway talks business at CeBit: Gateway has plans for a new handheld: Gateway's new PDA will begin shipping in mid- to late July. The company fitted it with a 400MHz XScale processor from Intel, along with a 3.5-inch screen and dual Compact Flash and Secure Digital slots for adding modules ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
More on the Acrobat Changes
Acrobat...to Support Full XML Digital Editions: More information on the changes coming to Adobe Acrobat. XML is great. "...a website that is XML-compatible could automatically display as HTML elements the text, illustrations, or entire pages or chapters of 'Adobe Reader' PDF documents. Likewise, Adobe's new software would be able to ...
Published: April 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Photoshop Protects Currency
Adobe Helped Gov't Fight Counterfeiting: The new version of Photoshop has anti-counterfieting technology built-in...no, not that kind of counterfeiting. We're talking about the real kind. Adobe, the world's leading vendor for graphics software, said the secretive technology "would have minimal impact on honest customers." It generates a warning message when ...
Published: January 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 677
Adobe Buying Macromedia
Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion: Oh my goodness. My mind reels at the ramifications of this. Adobe instantly bought their way into a ton of markets. Computer document company Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy multimedia software firm Macromedia Inc. for about $3.4 billion in ...
Published: April 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 677
Photoshop in a Browser?
Ektron Web Image FX: Ektron, the company behind a pretty good browser-based WYSIWYG editor, has released image editing capability: "Ektron WebImageFX is an imaging application that allows users to edit images directly online. Images can be copied and pasted from a local or network drive as well as a peripheral ...
Published: August 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 676
The Future of Adobe
Forbes.com: The Trojan Document: A great article about where Adobe is headed. "Serving the needs of state bureaucrats has never been Adobe's thing. For 20 years the company has been the digital muse for black-turtleneck-wearing art directors, making a mint off its bestselling publishing and graphics software such as Acrobat, ...
Published: June 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 676
MiCRoSoFT rox0rs
w00t! Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways using different substitutions and combinations, but once one understands that nearly all characters are formed as phonemes and symbols, leetspeek isn't difficult to translate... Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user ...
Published: February 18, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 675
$43 Disposable Video Camera
I'm just getting to yesterday's news: The $29.99 pocket-sized digital video cameras are able to capture up to 20 minutes of video and sound. CVS Corp. stores, which has exclusive rights to sell them, will process the camera for $12.99 and return a DVD; users also can e-mail video and ...
Published: June 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
RIAA Site Hacked Into Oblivion
RIAA site disabled for five days: Five days and running. As the Recording Industry Association of America continues its push to shut down digital pirates, the industry group suffered its own defeat online. According to data from Internet watcher Netcraft, the trade group's site has not been reachable for nearly ...
Published: March 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 673
The Web Turns 15
The Web: Fifteen years of browsing: I was 19 when the Web was created, it turns out. It had a birthday last week. This is a good article. Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a ...
Published: January 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Tivo Users Like Janet
TiVo: Jackson stunt most replayed moment ever: Tivo has forever changed how we watch TV. When Justin Timberlake tore at Janet Jackson's leather outfit during Sunday's Super Bowl half-time show, TiVo users took notice. Then they took notice again and again, using the digital video recorder to replay the event ...
Published: February 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
EMI Breaks Ranks
EMI will sell songs without copy protection on iTunes: Cory Doctorow, 1. Jack Valenti, 0. Giant record label EMI Music said Monday it plans to sell songs without built-in copy protection on iTunes and other digital music services. EMI, the label of Norah Jones, Coldplay, Iggy Pop and many other ...
Published: April 2, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Gadgets Trump Computers on the Bottom Line
Consumer Electronics Surge Ahead of Office Computers: More argument that Gateway's push into consumer electronics is a good thing: "The dichotomy underscores the harsher prospects for companies still tied to older computer businesses. Though pressure to cut prices is severe in most categories of electronics, companies riding the crest of ...
Published: August 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Froogle Finally Out of Beta
Google puts Froogle on site, tests personalization: They're also testing personalization, which Slashdot linked to yesterday. I tried it, but didn't get much out of it. Nice interface, though. Google's Froogle shopping feature helps users sort items such as digital cameras or Apple iPod music players by price. The service, ...
Published: March 30, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Mind your phraseology!
Here is an exceptionally well-written article about search engine theory from Digital Web magazine. It concentrates on one of the biggest problems facing search engine developers: users will often call something a different name than what the search engine has indexed. Are you looking for "first course" or "appetizer"? "Human ...
Published: August 27, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
Thumbnail Linking Ruled Legal
Court backs thumbnail image linking: I didn't even know this was an issue. "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is a partial win for defendant Arriba Soft an image search engine now known as Ditto.com in its case against photographer Leslie Kelly. Kelly sued Arriba Soft ...
Published: July 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
Newsflash: Mac Mini Expected to Succeed
Mac Mini might inspire buyers in mass quantities: Gee, you think? Once Apple gets its manufacturing into gear, the launch of the Mac Mini its first budget computer is expected to pay big dividends for the company, which has been transformed by success of the iPod. Apple has ...
Published: January 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
It's a Color-ized World
Kodak to Discontinue Black-and-White Paper: After all, black-and-white is just a couple mouse clicks away from every picture these days. "It's a shame to see it go," said Bill Schiffner, editor of Imaging Business magazine in Melville, N.Y. "Digital has done a lot of good things for the industry but ...
Published: June 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
Zombie Networks for Rent
Home PCs rented out in sabotage racket: This is just hideous. Now they have "zombie brokers" that will rent you a zombie network they've created. Vast networks of home computers are being rented out without their owners' knowledge to spammers, fraudsters and digital saboteurs, security experts say. The terminals ...
Published: July 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 669
Presentation Management Systems
Integrating CSS with Content Management Systems: Here's a great article from the heroin factory that is Digital Web Magazine on building PMS "Presentation Management Systems." Building CSS editing features into our content management systems allows us to make style changes as easily as we make content changes. In the ...
Published: September 20, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 668
Orbital Data Center
Backup Data on the Moon?: Doesn't the moon get pounded by meteorites quite often? "Locate backup data on the moon? Now that sounds like a rock-solid business model. However strange the idea may sound, TransOrbital of La Jolla, California is taking it and other proposals for marrying high-tech and the ...
Published: July 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 667
Blog Spam Hits Mainstream News
Spammers now clogging blogs, cell phones: Kalsey got quoted in this AP story about blog spam. Three years ago, Adam Kalsey set up a Web log to share his thoughts about online business and the digital revolution. Like countless other "bloggers," he lets his readers post comments on his ...
Published: November 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Online Journalism Awards
The 2003 Online Journalism Awards Program is Accepting Entries: PaidContent.org won the "2003 European Online Journalism Award" for best news Weblog. Do I see this award in Gadgetopia's future? Probably not. "The fourth annual Online Journalism Awards, presented by the Online News Association in partnership with the USC Annenberg School ...
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Thumb Drives and Car Stereos
Car stereos come with USB ports: Looks like USB drives in car stereos are becoming the next big thing. Stereo makers say they want to accommodate both digital music players and thumb drives to give customers choice. "The whole point is people want music their way," says Amy Gilroy, senior ...
Published: January 5, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
MP3 Jukebox
26,000-Hit Wonder Keeps It Hopping: That's what you get when you have a jukebox full of MP3s. "Mr. Stuto's basic idea was to digitize his music collection and make it available in a jukebox that held far more than the standard 100 albums. EL DJ, or Extra Large Digital Jukebox, ...
Published: September 4, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Yahoo! Go
Yahoo! Go - What Is It?: I don't get how this works. It's an OS for a DVR, essentially. But can you load a new OS on your DVR, or is this for a TV you make work like a DVR? Now you can take Yahoo! off your computer and ...
Published: April 26, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Discovering Altered Images
photofakery: This is a very log and dense article, but it provides some good, basic advice for figuring out if a digital image has been altered in some way. A common inconsistency found when the image content is altered is the mismatch of radiometric or illumination conditions between the altered ...
Published: August 20, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
F-150 To Have Built-In Wireless
Ford to Debut Pickup With Mobile Office: Fascinating. Ford Motor Co. says it will soon offer wireless mobile offices in its F-series pickups, an option aimed at building contractors and others who do business on the road. [...] Ford expects to offer the mobile office as a dealer-installed accessory in ...
Published: October 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Microsoft vs. InterTrust
Microsoft's Patent Problem: Add this to our list of soap operas. "Microsoft suffered utter defeat at a crucial pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent litigation ever one in which a tiny company called InterTrust Technologies claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line infringes its ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
CNet Buys MP3.com
CNET to buy, retune MP3.com: It must be something in the water this week. I think I'm next in line to open up a music business. CNET Networks representatives said the company aims to augment its position as a provider of interactive content through the acquisition, with plans to enter ...
Published: November 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 665
Good Things, Small Packages
Looking for a smaller PC? How about one the size of your desktop's CD-ROM drive? They're pricey, but LittlePC.com has some of the smallest systems you're likely to find. Littlepc.com is a manufacturer of small pc, mini pc and little pc products designed for limited space applications. The small computer ...
Published: March 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
The Basics on JPEG2000
JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage: I'd seen this format floating around, but didn't know anything about it. This article looks promising for you digital camera buffs. Though JPEG2000 is a new format that is not yet widely supported by image-editing and web-browsing applications, it can already ...
Published: November 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
The DMCA and Garage Door Openers
Garage Doors Raise DMCA Questions: There s a fascinating test of the DMCA playing out in court right now. Skylink Technologies manufactures a universal garage door opener that can be used to open and shut any type of garage door. Its competitor, the Chamberlain Group, claims that Skylink violates the Digital ...
Published: September 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 663
Physical Mail Via Email
Planetwide for travellers: Postal mail via email or mail forwarding: The battle is over, and digital has just beaten physical. "Planetwide scans your mail, emails the scans to you and stores the originals. These then get forwarded to you when you notify Planetwide of an address to send them to." ...
Published: October 3, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Tablet PCs Now Under $800
Welcome to TDV Vison: An 8.4" screen is awfully small, but so is the price: $799. Prices are falling awfully fast in this space. "The V800XPT is an 8.4-inch LCD PC and notebook in one product. It features an external USB keyboard module, an external USB optical drive, a Transmeta ...
Published: July 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Google and Your Health Record
Concerns loom as Google begins testing health records system: I can t decide if this is scary or not. Dangerous? How do you manage security for something like this? The pilot will involve transferring the health information of between 1,500 and 10,000 patients who have records at the Cleveland Clinic, which ...
Published: February 21, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Another Hashing Exploit
Trust no one: Cryptographers have found a way to snip a digital signature from one document and attach it to a fraudulent document without invalidating the signature and giving the fraud away. The development means that attackers could potentially forge legal documents, load certified software with bogus code, or turn ...
Published: June 14, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 661
Identity 2.0
Identity2.0: This is video of a presentation at OSCON from Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity, on the future of digital identity. What's interesting is the style of presentation. He talks for about 20 minutes, and goes through about 600 slides (do the math). On top of making a good ...
Published: October 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 659
U.K. Military Bans iPods
UK military: iPOD is security risk: Look, do we need anymore proof that Apple is evil? The pocket-sized digital music player, which can store thousands of songs, is one of a series of banned gadgets that the military will no longer allow into most sections of its headquarters in the ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
3D Printers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Printers produce copies in 3D: They "print" things. Not pictures of things, but actually, three-dimensional things. "The machines work by placing layers of a powdery material on top of each other to create a real-life model of a digital image. 'With hundreds and sometimes thousands ...
Published: August 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
How to Make Fake Software Boxes
Box Art: You know all those pictures of boxed software from companies that don't sell anything but downloads? No surprise -- the boxes never existed. Sometimes you need to create a 3D software box, hardcover book, or other box-like object in a pinch. It could be done the long way ...
Published: January 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
iPod and the Car Stereo
Apple's iPod rocks car-stereo makers: It looks like Lawyer Milloy was way ahead of his time. Looking to capitalize on the digital music player's sales success over the holidays, auto electronics makers are rushing to develop plug-in adapters that let drivers pick tunes from their iPods using the controls of ...
Published: January 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
Portable Media Center Devices Arrive Today
Microsoft's Portable Media Center is set to release today. Digital Media Thoughts reports that two units, the Samsung Yepp (pictured here) and the Creative Labs Zen are already listed at Amazon. These are neat little doo-dads, but it seems like a device for a pretty small niche. You'd need to ...
Published: September 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
San Francisco Wants to RFID Library Books
SF library wants to track books with computer chips: RFIDs are slowly creeping into society. Complain all you want about privacy, but these things are coming. "Library officials approved a plan Thursday to install tiny radio frequency identification chips, known as RFIDs, into the roughly 2 million books, CDs and ...
Published: October 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Microsoft's AutoAlbum
AutoAlbum: A System for Browsing Through Personal Digital Photographs: This is a Microsoft research project. There's a demo on the site it's interesting. AutoAlbum and PhotoTOC are browsing user interfaces that help solve this problem. [...] Thumbnails of all images in the shoebox directory is shown on the right ...
Published: December 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Holding Files for Ransom
Internet infection holds files 'hostage': This is inventive. Computer users already anxious about viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand $200 over the Internet to get them back. Security researchers at ...
Published: May 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Document Conversion via GMail
Digital Inspiration: Convert doc, xls, ppt, rtf, pdf to HTML: Brutally simple hack to get a ton of different document formats into HTML: send them to a GMail account as an attachment, then "View as HTML." GMail will show the following types of files as HTML: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt, ...
Published: December 15, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 657
Distributed RSS via BitTorrent
BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution: Here's on interesting look at combining P2P with RSS to provided distributed RSS feeds using BitTorrent. RSS consumers also become distributors, and future consumers simply grab the nearest available feed instead of taxing the source for it. ...the more popular the feed, the more ...
Published: December 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
Treasure Hunting for Geeks
The Bounty Hunter: A really interesting article on how technology is transforming the treasure hunting business. Specifically, the article details the attempt to raise the Sussex and the estimated $4 billion she holds under roughly 20,000 feet of water. "A decade ago, it wasn't practical to take quality video at ...
Published: August 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 656
The Microsoft Expression Suite
Microsoft Expression: I knew this was coming, but I just stumbled on the site this morning. This is the replacement for FrontPage, and the supposed competitor to Dreamweaver. Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites which deliver superior quality on the Web. Expression Blend is ...
Published: January 23, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
GalleryPlayer
GalleryPlayer: Don't want to get stuck with the same old art hanging on the walls? This service will "deliver" images to your plasma television (or many, depending on how rich you are), and rotate the image at set intervals. It's based upon something Bill Gates himself has in his home. ...
Published: October 16, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
BitTorrent Seeks Commercial Legitimacy
BitTorrent jumps into enterprise market with content delivery service: This is exciting. P2P is too cool of a technology to be burdened by the perception that it s just for pirates and punks. Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent is set to announce on Tuesday morning the availability of a new enterprise content delivery ...
Published: October 9, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
Outsourcing Fast Food Drive-Thru
McDonalds Outsourcing Drive Through Order Takers: Proof that the world must be ending soon. Fourteen McDonalds in Oregon and southeastern Washington have been linked to the call center operated by SEI-CCS Inc. a Fargo, N.D.-based company that works closely with McDonald's. The call taker in Grand Forks enters your order ...
Published: January 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Track and Field Tech
Can We Trust Track & Field Records? - How accurate are they?: Interesting anaylsis of the technology used to time track and field events. This is in the news lately because a Jamaican just broke the 100 meter record by .01 seconds. Not a big margin. The best systems use ...
Published: June 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Web Patterns
Patterns in Interaction Design: Here's a good list of a lot of the UI patterns and site types you see around the Net. You know, things like flyout menus, site maps, advanced search, etc. For each, it shows an example and discusses when and where you'd want to use them. ...
Published: December 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Really, Really Small Drive
Iomega Samples 1.5-GB DCT Drive: I know that small storage drives are getting ho-hum these days, but 1.5 GB on a drive the size of a half-dollar? The only thing more incredible than that is the fact that Iomega is actually still in business. "Iomega Corp. said it had begun ...
Published: July 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Scraper Sites
Please Don t Steal This Web Content: Remember those people that reprinted my content a few weeks back? Apparently this phenomenon has a name. VanFossen isn t referring to the kind of plagiarism in which a lazy college student copies sections of a book or another paper. This is automated digital plagiarism ...
Published: August 3, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Make Magazine Coverage
Tech magazine speaks to the MacGyver in us all: USAToday has a nice, little article about O'Reilly's new Make magazine. [...] the magazine offers dozens of simple and practical tricks and hacks. For example, the Imaging section tells you how to recover photos that have been erased from a digital ...
Published: March 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
iScribe
Franklin Covey iScribe: The iScribe pen and paper from Franklin Covey stores everything you write in your planner in the pen itself, which will then sync with your computer. Apparently the special paper allows the pen to know where on the paper it's writing in the task list area ...
Published: April 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Acrobat 8
Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrades, adds new tricks: This sounds like bloat, what what did we expect? Acrobat and Flash together have more saturation than any other software -- even Windows, I'd guess. When you have that kind of distribution network, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Acrobat 8, ...
Published: September 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 654
Natural Process
Natural Process : Process Flow: An art exhibition (I couldn't figure out where) called "Natural Process" has Google's home page printed at a gigantic size, hung on the wall, then projected on the Web. The NP system is constructed so that a webcam captures the painting in the museum and ...
Published: September 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 653
Photos 4.0
Alex King just released Photos 4.0 (formerly known as Gallery). It's a web-based photo database for storing, cataloging, and retrieving photos, but NOT for publishing web galleries. It can import photos by the folder or one at a time, and stores a thumbnail of each image. It's designed for "Anyone ...
Published: August 12, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
We Are All Geeks
Techies by Necessity, Not by Choice: The proliferation of technology is slowly making us all geeks. "...the average consumer performs chores that two decades ago would have been familiar only to a mainframe systems operator: installation and removal of hardware and software, and general troubleshooting and maintenance. ... With the ...
Published: July 24, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
NBC Cuts Off YouTube
NBC pulls YouTube channel: This really, really sucks. There were a lot of Monday mornings around here where we would replay the latest Digital Short. [ ] the relationship had run its course. NBC got buzz for a revived Saturday Night Live and The Office, and YouTube, through the sheen of ...
Published: October 21, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Amazon Grocery
After Delving Into 33 Other Lines, Amazon Finally Gets Around to Food: Anyone else think they're stretching a little thin here? I've never thought grocery stores worked well on the Web, unless they were local store serving a local customer base, and even then it's tough. Amazon introduced a grocery ...
Published: July 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
The Tech of the USS Ronald Reagan
The Best Defense Is a Good Upgrade: Neat story on the USS Ronald Reagan, its technology, and how it was built to be expanded on over the next 10 years. "A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the Reagan is the first built since the '90s tech boom. Engineers strung 200 miles of ...
Published: August 21, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Internet Radio Royalty Rates Announced
Webcast royalty rate decision announced: Is this the death kneel for Internet radio? The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music ...
Published: March 4, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
NAS for the home
Logitec is working on a series of Network Addressable Storage (NAS) devices geared toward the home user. These are more commonly seen in small to medium sized business networks. Ranging from 160GB to 300GB, they come with the expected LAN connection, plus three USB2.0 ports; additionally, plug a digicam or ...
Published: May 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Dish Network Quality Control
Bad Product">When Good Design => Bad Product: This is a pretty humorous examination of of massive usability and quality control problems in Dish Network receivers. It must be a nightmare for a Public Relations department to have a world-reknowned usability expert as a customer. If you have Dish Network, ...
Published: December 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Interview with Jakob Nielsen
Digital Web magazine has a good interview with Jakob Nielsen where he discusses among other things his changing views on Flash and how his Alertbox called "Flash: 99% Bad" rankled Web designers all over the world. He is much more conciliatory towards Flash these days, it appears: "...there ...
Published: November 26, 2002  Geek Popularity Factor: 649
Geometric Mapping and National Landmarks
U.S. disaster plans include cloned icons: An older article, but still an interesting look at the science of geometric mapping and how it's being used to ensure we can rebuild historical structures if they're destroyed. The bottom line: Should disaster strike, and a political decision be made to rebuild, exact ...
Published: September 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 648
Girls Top Guys in Tech Purchases
A "news report" on the KELO website says that women are outspending men on tech gadgets. Women have crossed the digital divide that once separated them from the male-dominated world of technology. Last year, women spent fourteen percent more than men on electronics. Now whether that is related to the ...
Published: May 28, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 648
Not So Anonymous Reviews
Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers: Amazon accidentally posted the real names of anonymous book reviewers on their site, and in the process, revealed that the whole user-submitted review process is garbage. But even with reviewer privacy restored, many people say Amazon's pages have turned into what one writer called ...
Published: February 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 647
TiVo for Your Car Radio
Gotuit Media aims to reprogram radio and television habits: It doesn't exist yet, but I'd sign up for it in a second: "Just as TiVo digital recorders enable consumers to pause live television, skip ads, and easily store shows for later viewing, Gotuit Audio's product, marketed as "The Radio That ...
Published: July 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
My Computer Made Me Do It
Hacker suspect says his PC was hijacked: This is destined to be the hot, new defense strategy. "Caffrey said while the attack apparently was triggered from his computer, he was not the person behind it. He said his machine may have been taken over by another individual or group who ...
Published: October 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Look Inside the Book II
Publishers Grudgingly Cooperate With Amazon Database Effort: Amazon wants all publishers to provide digital copies of all their nonfiction titles so customers can search for a term anywhere in the text when shopping. Publishers have issues. "Publishers cite three major concerns about the project, dubbed Look Inside the Book II. ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Apple Tablet PC Coming?
Digital Hubris: Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV "Real computers have keyboards," Steve has said a zillion times, and he'll mean it right up to the moment he changes his mind. That moment appears to be coming soon. Quanta, the Taiwanese company that ...
Published: December 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Encyclopedias: R.I.P.?
Encyclopedias gather dust as research moves online: I'm not surpised that paper encyclopedias are dying off. I am surprised that CD-ROM based encyclopedias are. In the age of the Internet, encyclopedias are gathering dust, and most families with young children don't even consider buying the space-hogging printed sets anymore. Even digital ...
Published: March 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 646
Terrafly
TerraFly: This is kinda interesting. It's an aerial map that you can m