Thursday, March 15, 2007

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Playlist

’s the link: Playlist #1 par Douglas Edric Stanley . If you want a translation, Google will do it for you
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Google will be censoring itself in China. In the search engine stakes, Google is losing out to Yahoo at the moment, which probably counts for a lot. However it is important that they intend to disclose the fact that their results are being censored. Such transparency over what they are doing, in real time alongside search results, is a crucial factor.This affair also raises the issue... the number of people with access to its services. Google’s behaviour suggests that the more profitable

Upload Wisely…

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Upload Wisely…

“…George, if you have your excel spreadsheet ,perhaps you would be kind enough to post here and our members can upload them…” Um… this is not a good place to post personal information. this blog is subject to searches by Google, Yahoo!, et al. Posting email addresses here could be open season for spammers. This site can be read-only by anyone who has the URL. Only members can add to it. We should assume things posted here are OK for public view we should probably formally

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Know others who would find this information useful? Add our headlines or link to us . If you weren't already getting enough spam in your inbox, you can now expect it via your daily video site. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting write-up about growing signs that video spam has arrived. In the article, they cite an example where a video titled " Hot Blonde Tells You How She Wants to... " received 500,000 views and achieved the 6th slot in Google Video's Top 10. (The video is still

All Nightaz » Give it up for… The All Nightaz

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Google Adding Search Privacy

Tech News Computer software/hardware 15 Mar 2007 06:53 pm Google is changing its data retention practices to make it harder to identify the specific computers used in searches. Google s servers log information every time someone conducts a Web search, keeping data such as the keywords... and maintain information such as the user s site preferences. Currently, Google maintains the search data logs indefinitely. Under the new policy announced on Wednesday, which Google expects to have

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MarillaAnne Blog Entry

Found some pretty good video s on the Google site pertaining to Linux and in the true spirit of Open Source share them with you here First up (and read some of the comments, they are funny) is - Compiz Quinn (Beryl Project) Next we have one of the IBM shots with the blond kid (Spanish titles but interesting anyway) - Linux Prodigio. Touch screen and 3d desktop - Funny when the guy knocks something over in his exuberance - Will add some more soon.

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What's next with the web?

It seems that Google is eating itself through some kind of cannibalism We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it! Google will maybe soon advertise for a Saving Google competition, stay tuned! It seems that consumers can finally have their revenge towards the banking system. Now it is a deal between

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. They are sister stations in Florida. Yesterday I was glancing at my Google Reader and it brought me this by way of my subscription to Google Operating System: Unofficial news and tips about Google... the post at Google Operating System , you will see that he and his readers have some other ideas

Tribble Ad Agency » We will never be a ‘true’ Ad Agency because we are here to fix the printer

Microsoft is by all fair accounts a fairly large pot to be calling Google a black kettle . Here s an interesting take on Microsoft s most recent shot over Google s bow: A massive brouhaha has erupted following Microsoft head attorney Thomas Rubin s comments in a speech to the Association of American Publishers accusing Google of a ‘cavalier approach to copyright’ – be it in selling AdWords for pirated content, scanning the books of others, taking news headlines and categorizing them in Google

Fear And Smear » Blog Archive » Microsoft shot at Google justified or just garbage?

The Future of Widget Enabled Sites

page made entirely of your choice of widgets, using the same concept as the Google personalised
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Do Newspapers Realize Their Online News Readers Are More Valuable than Print Readers?

is huge. Google wants a piece of the pie . Newspapers must embrace web technologies and maximize
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Tribble Ad Agency » We will never be a ‘true’ Ad Agency because we are here to fix the printer

that worry more about Google rankings than look and feel. This whole underground of marketing
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IMG_1001 at All ROmanian Crews - Graffiti Site

I had this problem that my blog is looking fine on mozilla firefox but just run on internet explorer. After some research from googling it out from google, i read somewhere that IE6 has bug that makes wordpress theme alignment run and thus makes your sites look messy. Well this is serious issue as i noticed alot of my readers are IE user. So I decided to upgrade my IE6 to IE7. And the result is, the whole layout improves dramatically. But the picture in post still runs so make sure you space

Briefs: Google to sweep records after 2 years

Briefs: Google to sweep records after 2 years San Antonio Express News - Google Inc. said it will delete a user s personal information from its Web-search records after two years to address concerns about online privacy. Any information that may reveal a user s identity will be scrubbed from logs after 18 to 24 months 4-PLL Timing Chip Channel E - Cypress introduced the latest member of its PREMIS (Peak Reducing EMI Solutions) family of spread-spectrum timing solutions. The CY25400

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IMG_1001 at All ROmanian Crews - Graffiti Site

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March 15, 2007 at 11:53 am Filed under general Alright, finally someone woke up and realized that they can make these community sites messed up. All these days, we forgot about spammers providing wrong information on those sites. They started with this billion dollar acquisition by Google (YouTube) with wrong tagging. We trusted that tagging is a useful one by community. because, we thought that people look at a picture and they tag it with thier thought process. But what happened

Google's YouTube hits a wall of resistance - International Herald Tribune

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

YouTube in billion-dollar lawsuit

US entertainment giant Viacom sued Google and its subsidiary video sharing website YouTube yesterday for copyright infringement on "a massive scale " seeking more than US$one billion from the Silicon Valley company. The suit which was filed in New York on Tuesday morning alleges that YouTube has posted on its site more than 160 000 unauthorized clips of movies and TV shows from Viacom's cable networks.

Viacom launches billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube

US entertainment giant Viacom on Tuesday launched a billion-dollar lawsuit against Google and its affiliate YouTube accusing the video-sharing website of "massive" copyright infringement. Google said it was confident the courts would take its side against Viacom whose empire includes many youth-oriented networks like MTV and VH1 along with the Paramount and DreamWorks movie studios.

Does Google Have Any 'Good Faith' Left?

Google has 30 days to respond to a $1 billion brought by media giant Viacom yesterday. It's only defense: good faith.
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Viacom sues Google over video clips on its YouTube site

Since it bought YouTube last October Google has been chasing deals that would give it the right to put mainstream video programming on the site. Just a few weeks ago Google's chief executive Eric E.

YouTube in billion-dollar lawsuit

Bloggers on Rep. Pete Stark and Viacom v. Google.

Filed under: Software, Productivity, Internet ToolsI found a widget back in January that did a ho-hum job of checking your Google hosted email (via Google's Apps for Your Domain service), but it doesn't always behave, and for RAM-conscious users a wi[...]

Startup Organizes Multimedia Content

(AP) -- A Silicon Valley startup hoping to become "the Google of audio and video" introduced software this week that trolls the Internet for podcasts, music and videos, then sorts the clips into categories such as "fashionista," "hip hop" and "gossi[...]

No bailouts for (About supereloan) sub-prime borrowers

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Bloggers on Rep. Pete Stark and Viacom v. Google.

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Google Takes New Privacy Steps: A Start

Filed under: Audio, Business, GoogleGoogle has been testing their audio ads in a few markets since the purchase of dMarc last year. In December they officially announced the start of beta testing and things are apparently going better than expected. [...]

Google Talk Widget Lands

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Video PageRank: Google Searches for The Holy Grail

In yesterday's interview with Matt Cutts from Google, on the topic of next-generation search, we touched on how Google is tackling the issue of indexing (and advertising around) online video. Matt implied that Google is looking for an equivalent to [...]

Google Tightens Privacy Measures

(AP) -- Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them - a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.

What happens after Google loses?

I’ve been thinking about what happens after Google loses its $1 billion lawsuit that it’s facing at the hands of Viacom. It’s going to take until 2008 for this to play out. So, what will late 2008 look like? Well, hundreds of millions of new video cameras will be in people’s hands between now and then. [...]

Google Takes New Privacy Steps: A Start

But it's not what I'd like to see. From Google's blog post: When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. To[...]

Google Looses Again

Google Google recently failed to secure the “Gmail” name in a few European countries, this time they have lost again and once more it is Europe. Copyright is the issue this time, it has to do with the fact that Google reproduces news from other sources on it’s own pages.

I just had to talk about this because the country that launched the legal action was Belgium. For those that don’t know that is where co-host Paladin Knightwise is from. So what is the deal? The deal is that a group of 17 Belgian newspapers sued Google for reproduction of their content. Google counter claimed “fair use” and that they linked back to the original material. The court ruled in favour of the group due to the fact that the search engine cached links and content available for free that the newspapers would usually sell. They have demanded that Google remove all such links and material. Of course Google have appealed.

Copiepresse (the 17 strong group of papers) stated that the ruling could well set a precedent in other countries such as Norway, Austria and Italy having spoken to them. Google of course are worried and that is obvious by their response in which they just claimed that was false and that every country is different. Although at this time the ruling only affects Google.be according to Google representatives.

If Google do not comply with the court they are up for $32,000 per day. Legal representation for the newspapers say that the ruling also affects other versions, I am assuming that they mean other Google domains and not just .be. If this is the case then Google could be up for 4.3 million per day! They say that the ruling covers all Google domains and all content owned by the papers should be removed from every one.

Followed by more legal mumbo jumbo. But what stands out like proverbial dog’s you know what… is this huge clash of media. In one corner we have print. They don’t want their Newspapers being accessed for free. Then you have Google, the electronic scraper of the universe indexing all kinds of media. Print, blogs, video, newspapers, RSS feeds the lot. Most people would be stoked if their content was indexed by Google for their news service. The clash is a fight of the dying and birthing media. Newspapers will die one day. I have said before that if they do not evolve then in time they are dead.

People are changing, culture is changing media is changing. Some media is not changing with it. This is the news here. Not the fact that it is Google. Indeed other search engines are under the same scrutiny from similar services. The fact is that Newspapers want people to buy newspapers. Problem is that not everybody wants newspapers anymore. They are fighting a loosing battle.

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"THE RIFLEMAN," STEVE McQUEEN, ET AL, ETC.

Frame enlargements of Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford from the first episode of The Rifleman

I've been thinking a lot about "The Rifleman" lately.

It all started just before Christmas, when I walked a slightly different route after work to get to the CTA Blue Line station at Daley Center -- and I passed by the still-under-constriction Museum of Broadcast Communications near the Marina City House of Blues. I'd visited the museum many years ago when it was housed in River City and enjoyed the exhibits a great deal. (I toured the museum with Chicago sportswriter and broadcaster George Castle, who's a font of pop-cultural information.) For a time, the MBC moved to the Chicago Cultural Center, but I never stopped in when it was there.

Anyway, as I walked past the museum, I began reflecting on TV shows that had an impact on me. Sure, the original "Star Trek" fueled my imagination, and "Adam-12" briefly stirred some interest in pursuing a career in law enforcement, but the one show that caused me to seriously reflect on the human condition while still in elementary school was "The Rifleman."

The two photos above are screengrabs from the first episode's scene in which we're introduced to Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) and his son, Mark (Johnny Crawford), as they arrive in the New Mexico Territory of the 1880s. The show's haunting main theme plays in the background and, for a moment, shifts to a minor chord as Mark expresses concern and regrets in dialogue wonderfully written by Sam Peckinpah and masterfully handled by Connors and Crawford...

Lucas: Well, it's new and mighty fine country, son.

Mark turns and stares over his shoulder.

Lucas: There's no looking back -- we've come too far.

Mark: I wasn't really looking back. I was just remembering back.

Lucas: What do you say we start from here?

Mark: Fine.

Lucas: Let's go.

I like how the characters' backstories are only hinted at -- and then played out slowly in the episode and, indeed, in the series, as well. In a later scene the McCains check in at North Fork's hotel. In the lobby, they meet Vernon, a young gunslinger played by Dennis Hopper -- who'll be competing against Lucas later that day in a turkey shoot. Lucas heads upstairs to stow their bedrolls and tells Mark to go into the restaurant and "order for both of us." What's engaging about the following scene is how naturally Crawford and Hopper play their parts. It's acting done so well it doesn't seem to be acting. And the dialogue is finely crafted, as well. A lesser writer would have glopped it up with dialect, yet Peckinpah uses it sparingly.

Frame enlargements of Johnny Crawford and Dennis Hopper from the first episode of The Rifleman Mark: Would you like to come and sit with me?

Vernon: Yeah, I guess I might as well.

Mark (to waitress): I'll have some of that beef stew.

Vernon: I'd like the same.

Mark: I guess you must be pretty fast with that gun.

Vernon: Well, I guess I'm just about as fast as anybody there is.

Mark: My pa, he doesn't use a pistol -- he uses a rifle, but he's pretty fast, too.

Vernon: No man with a rifle is as fast as a man with a six-gun.

Mark: My pa is. When we was living in the Nations, they used to call him "The Rifleman." He's the greatest shot in the world.

Vernon: Well, he may stand tall where you come from, kid, but he ain't shooting against no sodbusters. He's shooting against me.

Mark: You'll see. What's your name?

Vernon: My name's Vernon.

Mark: Mine's Mark McCain. Was that your pa in the lobby?

Vernon: No, he's my uncle.

Mark: My pa says I'm not old enough to carry a pistol right yet.

Vernon: I've been wearing one and shooting ever since I can remember. I must've had a gun since I was six years old.

Mark: You're lucky, Vernon.

Vernon: That's what my Uncle Wes says.

Mark: I can shoot my dad's rifle, but he won't let me carry a pistol.

Vernon: What about your ma?

Mark: She died -- a long time ago. What happened to yours?

Vernon: I never had one.

Mark: Don't it bother you, I mean, not having a ma or a pa?

Vernon: I reckon. Sometimes it bothers me considerable.

The scene is made all the effective by Herschel Burke Gilbert's gently poignant music. I especially like how Crawford delivers the line "He's the greatest shot in the world" with the genuine pride a child has for a loving parent. It reminds me of the way Billy Gray describes his mom's government job in "The Day the Earth Stood Still." He points out to Klaatu that the guy everybody calls a secretary isn't a secretary at all and that "My mom's a real secretary!"

I have to admit that while the hints of sadness and darkness Peckinpah injects into "The Rifleman" make the series -- especially its first season -- a classic for me, much of his later film work strikes me as needlessly cruel and violent. An exception is his 1972 "Junior Bonner," a star-laden (Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson) picture that also explores father-and-relationships, but in a latter-day setting. A similar but more-Hollywooden treatment of this theme appears in Stuart Rosenberg's excellent "My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys," a 1991 production with Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw and Ben Johnson.

SEE "THE RIFLEMAN" -- You may be able to view a complete episode of "The Rifleman" by searching the somewhat-twitchy (at least for me) MBC archives. Or, better yet, have the episodes sent right to your own ranch by Netflix.

SEE A TRIBUTE TO "THE RIFLEMAN" -- Here's a cool tribute to the show and its late star, Chuck Connors.

SEE LUCAS McCAIN IN ACTION -- Another nifty YouTube clip compiles a number of North Fork shootouts.

"THE RIFLEMAN" MEETS "THE WILD BUNCH" -- Clever fan editing shows "'The Rifleman' opening if Sam Peckinpah had been allowed to direct the way he wanted."

SEE "THE NAKED APE" MAIN TITLE -- Johnny Crawford stars in this Hugh Hefner production and settles the boxers-or-briefs issue as the credits roll.

SEE "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" -- Incredibly, you can view the complete movie (at least for now) on Google Video.

And hey, what a great way to wrap this up: Steve McQueen's last film was "The Hunter", filmed on location here in Chicago. Its show-stopping stunt happens at Marina Towers, those twin-corncob highrises two doors up from the Museum of Broadcast Communications. This spectacular scene features a car crashing through the retaining wall in one of the tower's parking garages and then plowing into the Chicago River.

That scene provided the inspiration for a recent Allstate commercial.

ChicagoScope feedback line: 312-683-5272.

Google For The Enterprise!

We have for you this week a crammed show full of the usual Geek Goodness. In Tech News we look at what Microsoft says about Internet Explorer… we told you so… Holographic storage is here, but it ain’t cheap! YouTube are looking to the classics and some Wii news for good measure.

Discover some applications that will enable you to “back-up” HD DVD’s and use your face as a password. Hone your debating skills and convince me you are right with a social network designed for open debate or arguing depending on the intelligence level.

I have also heard there is something special at the end, call it payback. Look left and look right but proceed with caution, here are the show notes.

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Show Notes

Welcome

Happy Birthday TPN
Congratulations Cameron Reilly of G’day World on Episode 200!
Dave and Mac
Rooster’s Rail gets a Renovation
We now have Email Subscribing
The Global Geek Podcast Widget
The Podcast Network Widget

Technology News

Google Can you hear Me?
Gmail Now Open to Anyone and Everyone
YouTube to Release TV Classics
Wii will Stumble [mentioned: StumbleUpon Video]
Parents Vs MySpace
More HD and Blue-ray Blues
Coral says DRM is Intraoperable
MSN on Internet Explorer
A Better Hack for Installing an Upgrade to Vista
New Google Earth Feature
Clippy Dead… Knightwise stop dancing on his grave

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Applications

AnyDVD HD (beta): remove copy protection and region codes from DVDs and HD-DVDs
SysInternals Suite: a large collection of individually executable PC troubleshooting utilities
Sys Info for Windows: gives you any information about your software, hardware or network
MediaFork (beta)(All OS): turns your DVDs into iPod-compatible files
FaceCode: Use your face as a password
MacOSaiX (Mac): Creates Mosaics from your digital images
BlueScreen Saver: The Blue Screen of Death Saves Monitor…
InkScape 0.45: Open Source vector graphics editor

Firefox Extensions

Save Image in Folder: Right Click "> Save in Folder Context Menu
OpenSearchFox: add a search plugin for ANY site that has a search box
Smart Link: Adds open in new tab / window options to right click menu for plain URL texts

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Sites and Services

WiiToob: a Wii browser friendly portal to YouTube videos
VodPod: Launch a Widget that hosts multiple videos from multiple sites
Magnify: lets you find, filter, and share video from the web
ifixipodsfast.com Video Walk though: Replace your iPod Battery
AllTh.at: The search that never stops, email and RSS notifications
ConvinceMe: Debate Web2.0 style
Zlango: Language based on pictures… kind of weird really

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Anyone Got Today’s AFR?

There is an article in the INFORMATION section on Google Australia’s online advertising revenues and how they are now bigger than Sensis. I noticed the article while skimming the paper in a restaurant at lunch time but, of course, I can’t find it online. I’d love to know the actual numbers though. I think Google’s revenue was something like $206 million vs Sensis at $196 million. “Google Schmoogle“, hey Sol?

Google For The Enterprise!

Want to increase your Gmail storage to 10Gb? Want to get rid of text ads beside your email?

Then you might want to check out Google Apps Premier Edition! This is very cool. My Gmail account is almost full and I’ve been listening to Jason Calacanis bitch for months about how he wants more Gmail storage and I thought I was going to have the same problem. Not any more!

Okay, so this probably won’t be a challenge to Microsoft’s dominance of the VERY LARGE enterprises for a while, but that’s not the battleground. Small and Medium business is a much bigger market for these product than the big end of town. I remember from my MSFT days that the big revenue growth was expected to come out of SME. Now they have some serious competition.

New Prototype iPod: Or is it?

Wayki Logo Not sure what to make if this discovery. I was reviewing a new service today called Wayki. It is based on the Google Maps API and allows users to put place marks on a world map. It allows for comments, pictures and replies in tabs when clicked. The thing that I liked was that you can also get a link from the place mark and link to it from your blog or where ever you like, some are included in this post. The pictures are displayed in a nice flash window. That’s the site in a nutshell.

But that is not what this post is about. I was looking about and decided to have a look at San Francisco. Not much there although I did find the host of Mythbusters had put an entry in (which was cool). I went down the coast to Los Angeles not much there either. Then I spotted something in San Diego. On hover it displays the title of the place mark… “New prototype iPods” so I clicked on it.

In the detail tab is written, “prototypes for apple”. Then I clicked the replies which had “12/13/06 7:25 PM Testing comments in IE7.”. That to me says that it is the developer testing the service. That alone casts doubt as to the rest of it, because it just could be bait to get people to use the service. Then I clicked the photo tab and I was amazed to find this:

iPod Prototype? :: Click for full sized screenshot

Click for full sized screenshot on Flickr.

Now I have no idea if this is real or not and I am not saying it is. But it could be. I am sceptical because it looks like a developer put it there as link bait. The other thing is that I thought it was a strange place geographically for the iPod to be developed. Anyone know where Apple bases their iPod development? In addition to this is the fact that the comment is dated from last year. It seems strange that it has been there that long and not noticed.

But the case for might be that this developer knows more than we give credit for. Bored iPod developer? It is also a very sneaky place to put a photo of a prototype iPod. Something that an individual would think was cool to get away with. It also seems like a lot of effort to go to for link bait. I would love to know that there was a picture sitting right under people’s noses of the new iPod and no one found it. It does look part of a bigger image as well. The quality of the image is not great so it is hard to tell if it is fake or not. It is clearer on a smaller image.

I have searched all the usual haunts for these images and have not found anything. There has not been any images posted anywhere that I can find that depicts these “prototypes”. I found that strange as well.

Me, I am going the way of saying that I think it might be link bait. But then I have no idea either. What do you think, cast your vote in the comments. Looks like a cool idea for the new iPod though, huge touch screen and what could be a “mini Mac” based on the tag line. But this is either cleaver link bait or the real deal.

DIRECT LINK TO PLACE MARK ON WAYKI

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The Global Geek Podcast #041 :: Wucka, Wucka, Wucka…

This week we have a great show which is packed full and over flowing. Yes we went over… again. But you guys have said… Let it go, so we did. But what you get is some interesting Technology News. Some Applications that will power up your system, especially if you own a Mac. Sites and Services that will super-charge your RSS, simplify your blogging and search for software and much more. So the pay off ain’t that bad.

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Show Notes

Welcome

Great news about a new FeedDemon release
iPod Prototype story
Knightwise tells us the top 5 things that Windows OS has done for the average user

Technology News

YouTube does Not get an Oscar
MPAA Orders SourceForge Take down of HD DVD Cracking Software
Hack the XBox
Dell to Offer Pre-Installed Linux
Digg News (Don’t Forget to Vote in The Poll)
Second Life gets a Voice and Some Nukes
Microsoft Support for XP and Vista Compared
AMD Does More Flops in a Box than you can Count
Adobe Promises Online Photoshop
Bit Torrent Launches Online Store
Install Windows on a Budget PC (very, very budget…)

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Applications

Spotlaser (Mac): Allows you to complete complex searches for lost files
Max (Mac): Open Source, encode audio files to any format you can imagine, or swap from one compression format to the other and more
Parallels (Mac): Final Release is out now
xCuts (Mac): Dashboard widget for quick access to keyboard shortcuts and help for Windows converts
DM2 (Windows): Feature rich window manipulation software including, minimize to tray and transparency
Dekoh: Open Source, integrate your desktop and the web seamlessly
DemocraKey: Open Source, portable security suite from your Flash drive or iPod
Isolator (Mac): Create a distraction free work space
DoNaut: Add sound effects, ambient sounds and manipulate your voice in VoIP calls + Record Skype!
Pac-Man (iPod): Re-Released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pac-Man, Pac-Man for your iPod

Firefox Extensions

About This Site: Quick access to a range of services for more information on a site
Auto Slide Show: See all pictures on a page as a slideshow, Flickr and other online services supported
Clipmarks 2.0: Save parts of the web that you want to keep and share with others, words, paragraphs and now video

Sites and Services

Windows Vista Compatibility Site: see what is compatible, updated regularly
The Ambient Clock: Google Gadget that ties in with Your Google Calendar with a visual display of your time and how you have wasted it, Google maps integration to estimate travel times
Zamzar: Now support video, drop a URL and convert online video to various formats for you to download
Tumblr: Simplified blogging, thought streams and blogging scrapbook style. All good descriptions
Deligio: Software search engine for open source and free software
xFruits: Hack your RSS Feeds to do what you want them too
Photagious: Premium photo hosting with heaps of features including unlimited bandwidth
Bandwagon (Mac): Back-up your iTunes library in full
Wabble: Multiplayer, Ajax powered, Scrabble clone. Cool diversion

Feedback

Tony on the Blog
Rich via Email, we tried to read it Rich but we got talking… Thanks for the effort
Eric via the tggp del.icio.us tag: Does anyone know about sending him a Clippy trophy??? It was not us BTW

Farewell

Dave’s Blog

Knightwise’s Blog

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Zoom Hack for Google Maps: Reports are Bogus

If you follow Tech news at all you will have heard, read or seem pictures of what are claimed to be mega-zoomed images on Google Maps. Further that these images are accessed by “hacking” a URL to display a higher “hidden” zoom level. Most feature a camel or what appears to be a village somewhere. Sorry to burst your bubble but no such hack exists or is necessary to see these images. It is a featured layer in Google Earth.
According to Google Sightseeing all this started after the Australia Day flyover and the not so recent African flyover project (2005). The results of both these flyovers are images with a higher zoom and translates to one or two steps in zoom levels that can be seen. These flyovers are done with light aircraft at low altitude. People don’t often look up to observe a passing satellite!

The high zoom levels are thanks to the National Geographic Layer that was added to Google Earth in September 2005. Google Earth blog covered this story in August 2006. In relation to this project there is a great collection of Placemarks that list a heap of animals from Africa and opening it in Google Earth will give you links to the photos, link is on the Google Earth Blog Post.

So there is no big conspiracy of hidden zoom levels or hacks to access them. Just turn on the “National Geographic Magazine Layer” in Google Earth under Featured Content. The long and the short is that the story is that there is no story.

If you don’t have Google Earth then I would highly recommend that you take a look you can get Google Earth Here.

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The Global Geek Podcast #042 :: The Brown Note

This week, two become three as we are joined by Tim King of +groovearmy. Tim is the designer and programmer of both The Global Geek Podcast Widget and The Podcast Network Widget. Tim came on the show at short notice, so we did not get much of a chance to talk about what he does. But we have the intention of having him back again to do so.

Please enjoy the podcast this week, we have a huge show for you and a brand new segment, so listen out for that. Keep an ear out also for our discussion of the “brown note” and our business model that relies on war, Turkey gets a mention as well and we do some reminiscing about our first PC.

Included also is the usual bevy of Free applications to make your life easier and some Sites and Services that are both useful and are there to make you laugh.

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Show Notes

Welcome

Special thanks to Adam who has been an ongoing silent sponsor of The Global Geek Podcast.

Technology News

Turkey Blocks YouTube
YouTube Does Elections
Skype Launches Prime Service
Man Sues Microsoft After his Security is Breeched… by the ATF
Webcasters Face Royalty Increases
Commodore Back from the Dead?

[See Knightwise’s Flickr for the C64 Pics!]

Shutdown Day “Do they have off switches?” - Knightwise
Robot Eiquette
First the Microwave Gun and Now The Vomit Gun

Promo Spot :: TPN Rock

Applications

iFeedPod (Mac): Download and transfer RSS feeds to your iPod
Calgoo (All): Sync: iCal, Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar + Offline Support (WooT!)
Desktop Sidebar (Windows): Adds a Vista like sidebar to XP
doPDF (Windows): Adobe is bloody expensive, this application creates PDF’s and it is free [FoxIt Reader]
MediaCoder (Windows): Convert any file format to any file format in any codec (very Swiss Army)
Gizmo Project (All): VoIP client, new release crosses networks:: Call your buddies on MSN, Yahoo! and GTalk all from Gizmo!
TypeFaster (Windows): Free Open Source typing tutor program, look no further
Password Safe or Keypass (All): Both Open Source, both good password management Apps

Firefox Extensions

SendTools: Schedule delivery times for emails you have composed in Thunderbird
Firekeeper [Alpha]: Security against sites that are knowingly or unknowingly running malicious code
DapperFox: Create an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one on the fly in Firefox
Gmail Manager: Keeps track of your Gmail account without having a tab open

Dr Evil’s Two Minute Tip

Sites and Services

whonu: Awesome Ajax powered cross site search engine :: Must see!
Couchville: View the TV guide for your area, easy to use. All you need is your zip code
LibriVox: Free audio books in the public domain
Rate My Network Diagram: Rate this network, no we are not kidding
The Kegulator: Make planning the beer and level of intoxication at a party easy

Feedback

Sam via Email
isillya via the Blog
Chris Laning via IM
Peter on the Blog
Blogslut on the errr Blog

Farewell

Dave’s Blog

Knightwise’s Blog

Tim’s Site Keep and eye on the development of the new +groovearmy blog: One Inch Pixel

Please check out +groovearmy for all your design related requirements, Tim works on everything from Album Art to Websites! Having a great eye for design and a very individualistic style that is unique.

Also check out the 30 Days of Wallpaper, all designed by Tim for free and available for personal use.

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Box Office Weekly #057

Box Office Weekly #057 (MP3 - 14.7 MB - 21 min)

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Your Host, Daniel K. In todays show: Viacom hates Google as much as they hate Tom Cruise… Law and Order costs too much to maintain… and in my commentary; I tell you why the salad days are over, pal. All this and 300 Spartans sacrifice their lives so that Warner Brothers may flourish, today on Box Office Weekly.

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BOX OFFICE FIGURES (Courtesy BoxOfficeMojo.com)

TV RATINGS (COURTESY A.C. Nielsen Company)

Stories We’re Following: BIG STUDIO TO EXCLUSIVELY MAKE PICTURES IN-DEPTH

VIACOM THINKS YOUTUBE VIEWINGS ARE WORTH OVER A BILLION DOLLARS

THE PRICE OF LAW AND ORDER

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