WizbangTech: May 2006 Archives

onethousandpaintings.com

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 31, 2006

The premise of One thousand paintings is simple: 1,000 paintings of numbers, all sold with a discount. That is, until 100 are sold, and price goes up. Fewer numbers, higher starting price. Oh, and there's bidding on the available numbers. Copyblogger explains Why One Thousand Paintings Works.... [Full Story]

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Musings from Mars on the state of browsers

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 31, 2006

All The Lovely Browsers A comparison of Windows and Mac OS X browsers, with chart-y goodness. A good starting point for understanding CSS and Javascript capabilities of browsers. ... [Full Story]

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Tim O'Reilly Responds To The Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006

From O'Reilly Radar: A lot of people have been waiting for a statement from me (Tim O'Reilly) about the Web 2.0 service mark. I'm back, and here it is. This is a long post, because the issues are complex, and I hope people will read to the end. I'll do... [Full Story]

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How-To: Build your own network firewall

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006

At the newly comment-less Engadget. But, ahem...we still have comments...ahem...... [Full Story]

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Napster still in business, now in Japan

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006 · Comments (1)

Engadget has the story on how Napster is set to launch sometime in the fall in Japan. Again, the big news is Napster is still in business.... [Full Story]

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Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006

The winner of the CSS Redesign contest has been announced over at Slashdot. You can see the winning design (sort-of) here. ... [Full Story]

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Adobe halts development of GoLive and Freehand

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006 · Comments (2)

Macsimum News got a report from MacGeneration that said that Adobe is going to cease the development of GoLive and Freehand. They were both redundant applications after Adobe's acquisition of former rival Macromedia. UPDATE: Glenn Fleishman tracks down the rumors and posts his findings in ExtraBITS. GoLive may not be... [Full Story]

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Krun.ch

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006

Upload and compress, upload and uncompress, and other compression-related web utilities at Krunch. ... [Full Story]

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CNET rates the anti-virus software

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 30, 2006

They rate 6 popular anti-virus programs at Download.com.... [Full Story]

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fo.rtuito.us

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 29, 2006

Check out this from new social networking site Fo.rtuito.us: What would happen if we no longer used things like looks, age, sex and nationality to decide if we would try and become friends with a person? I copied the formatting just like they had at the site. The hook of... [Full Story]

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AllYouCanUpload.com

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 29, 2006

CNET launched a free image hosting service at AllYouCanUpload.com, and it is a direct competitor to Photobucket.com and ImageShack, plus a pleathora of smaller sites that offer ad-based image hosting. For that, TechCrunch says "CNET's AllYouCanUpload Is Disruptive."... [Full Story]

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Daring Fireball: Confidence Game

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 29, 2006

John Gruber on Microsoft vs. Apple: Microsoft spent the '90s growing from a successful software company into an industry-dominating titan. Apple spent much of the '90s fighting the perception that it was on the verge of going out of business. So far in the '00s, however, things have swung the... [Full Story]

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iPod Killers for Summer 2006

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 28, 2006

MP3 Newswire gives us a list of the iPod Killers for Summer 2006 Part 1. Assuming that's even possible, the list has some really neat-looking, and not-so-neat-looking gadgets. My money's on the shoe.... [Full Story]

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Google AdSense crashes

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 27, 2006

From Google AdSense, in every language known to man, a couple alien and dog, I think: The Google AdSense website is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later. We apologize for any inconvenience. This would be a good time to stock up on shotgun shells and canned foods.... [Full Story]

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Announcing IE7+

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 27, 2006

From the IEBlog: With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, I want to announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista "Internet Explorer 7+". While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+, most... [Full Story]

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The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 27, 2006

From PCWorld.com: 1. America Online (1989-2006) 2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999) 3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995) 4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000) 5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005) 6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994) 7. Microsoft Bob (1995) 8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001) 9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002) 10. dBASE IV... [Full Story]

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Guild Wars vs World of Warcraft set to Can't Touch This

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 27, 2006 · Comments (3)

Proving some people will never have sex. Ever.... [Full Story]

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OurPrisoner.com

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

Our Prisoner sounded like a good idea at the time. You lock some loser in a cage, and you prod him with electrodes to do your bidding. Plus, you get to see it all on video. Here's a little about what this is: Kieran Vogel will make Internet television history... [Full Story]

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O'Reilly Radar: Controversy about our "Web 2.0" service mark

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006 · Comments (1)

From O'Reilly Radar: The blogosphere has been buzzing today about O'Reilly sending a cease-and-desist letter to IT@Cork, demanding (yes, that's the legal term) that they not use "Web 2.0" in the title of their conference. I'd like to give the O'Reilly perspective, and clear up a few things. You'd be... [Full Story]

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Windows Media Photo Specification

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

Windows Media Photo Specification Version 1.0. Just in case any of you were wondering. ... [Full Story]

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Picasa for Linux

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

Google released Picasa for Linux, the image storing/cataloging/editing application. ... [Full Story]

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IP Collage

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

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DivX for Mac 6.5

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

DivX for Mac Major update for the movie playing codec for Mac OS X. Still gaining feature parity with it's Windows brethren.... [Full Story]

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Teenagers using high-frequency ringtones adults can't hear

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006 · Comments (2)

There's them schoolchildren trying to beat the system by using ringtones that are outside of the adult hearing range. Those rotten kids. GeekPress had links to the files (which, yeah, I could hear, and I'm old). ... [Full Story]

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Automatic .htaccess file generator

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 26, 2006

Don't worry if you have no clue what the .htaccess Generator is. For people with websites and servers, this thing is a godsend.... [Full Story]

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Scroll Wizbang Across Your Browser

Posted by · Published: May 25, 2006 · Comments (1)

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Wizbang is great, but what it could really use is some scrolling news-ticker action..."? Well, you can stop your pining, as this Firefox extension has filled that ticker-shaped hole. RSS Ticker loads your Live Bookmarks (Firefox's term for RSS/Atom/news feeds) and scrolls their entries... [Full Story]

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Today is Towel Day

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001): What do I do?Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.When do I do it?May 25th.Where do I do it?Everywhere.Why a towel?To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.A towel, it says, is... [Full Story]

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SmackBook Pro

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006 · Comments (1)

Code and instructions on how to make this work on any PowerBook or MacBook with the built-in motion sensor at Medallia Blog. ... [Full Story]

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Nicholas Carr writes "Now, let's bury the myth," an indictment of Wikipedia

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

Nicholas Carr's follow-up to The death of Wikipedia, where he questions the lack of true openness brought on by vandalism and libelers: Now, let's bury the myth: Now that we have (haven't we?) come to accept the death of the True Wikipedia - even if the True Wikipedia only ever... [Full Story]

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Google to shut down Orkut communities

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006 · Comments (2)

From USATODAY.com: Google (GOOG) said Wednesday that it has agreed to shut down some communities on its popular Orkut social networking site because the Brazilian government says they advocate violence and human rights violations. Google agreed to shut down any sites that violate Orkut's terms of service, which forbid "any... [Full Story]

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Yahoo, EBay Announce Web Partnership

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

From TechNews: Yahoo and eBay, two giants of Internet commerce, announced a "strategic alliance" today clearly aimed at rivals Google and Microsoft in the ongoing war for billions of dollars in market share on the World Wide Web. The companies, in a joint statement, said they would combine forces in... [Full Story]

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Microsoft shows off JPEG rival

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

CNET News.com has details on the proposed new format, Windows Media Photo (with the unfortunate acronym of WMP). From the story: Steven Wells, a part-time professional photographer, said he sees promise in the new file format. "The JPEG artifacts make it almost unusable for professional photographers," he said. "Windows Media... [Full Story]

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Yahoo! Widget Engine reved to 3.1.4

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

Yahoo! Widgets puts small JavaScript applications on your desktop. This latest release is a maintenance update for all 3.1 users.... [Full Story]

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Unboxing.com

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

Unboxing.com is dedicated to "[v]icarious thrills from opening new gear." Share in the joy as people share their pictures of newly-opened tech-boxen.... [Full Story]

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Welcome aboard!

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: May 25, 2006

This would be the launch (or re-launch, depending on how you look at it) of WizbangTech. Yes, the fun and excitement of no-space-having names comes to Wizbang. Just thought I'd let you in on the roadmap for Tech. First, as Bomb Squad was to politics, Tech is to technology. You... [Full Story]

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