WizbangTech: January 2007 Archives

A Vista Review From a Mac User

Posted by · Published: January 30, 2007 · Comments (3)

MSNBC has an odd little story written by Joe Hutsko of a Mac user who switched to Vista. Hutsko's claim to fame is that he used to work with John Sculley; as if that's impressive. In reading the story, mostly his reasoning for liking Vista is that it catches up... [Full Story]

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Microsoft Robotics Studio, Free For Most Users

Posted by · Published: January 27, 2007 · Comments (2)

I must say, this is the coolest thing I've seen Microsoft do in 10 years. They have a new package called Microsoft Robotics Studio, that is free for most non-commercial users. Sure it's an attempt to gain marketshare but that's the way business works. They could be trying to charge... [Full Story]

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WiiMote Controlled Roomba

Posted by · Published: January 27, 2007

The Roomba hacking is getting pretty refined. Here is an example of using a Wiimote to control a Roomba. He uses DarwiinRemote which is obviously a Mac product but Microsoft has an interesting solution too. More details in above post. ... [Full Story]

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On Microsoft Paying People to Edit Wikipedia

Posted by · Published: January 25, 2007 · Comments (1)

First, a bit of full disclosure. I've done contract work for Microsoft. I've never been "on the payroll" but certainly I've made money from Microsoft. (several years ago) And I'm typing this on an XP powered laptop. Having said the above, I'm far from a Microsoft fanboy. I'm using Firefox... [Full Story]

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Call it the PS3 Effect

Posted by · Published: January 24, 2007 · Comments (1)

This was obvious: EBay Profit Increases 24 Percent SAN FRANCISCO -- EBay Inc. reported Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit increased 24 percent from the same period last year, trouncing Wall Street estimates and prompting executives to raise estimates for the current quarter. Thanks to scorching holiday sales _ particularly in eBay's... [Full Story]

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Worthless Tech Product of the Day

Posted by · Published: January 23, 2007

For only $300 you can get -while supplies last- one of only 20,000 "Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition." If you believe the hype, Bill Gates personally signed 20,000 boxes of software: Signed by Bill Gates himself: Windows Vista Ultimate is Microsoft's powerful new operating system for... [Full Story]

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Fix for Firefox 2.0 Open File Dialog Default Action Change

Posted by Jon Marler · Published: January 18, 2007 · Comments (3)

Ever since I installed Mozilla Firefox 2.0 I have noticed that certain file extensions that I used to be able to "Open" by clicking now pop up this new dialog box that doesn't show the open option at all, and only allows FlashGot. It took me a while to realize... [Full Story]

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Apple Earnings Report Blows Wall Street's Doors Off

Posted by · Published: January 17, 2007

Things certainly are sunny in Cupertino about now... Apple Reports Record 1Q Profit SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Apple Inc. on Wednesday posted a record profit in its fiscal first quarter, beating Wall estimates as earnings rose 78 percent amid strong holiday sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh... [Full Story]

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On Demand Media Coming of Age

Posted by · Published: January 17, 2007

The demand media era is a few steps closer to reality if you read today's news. First up, Netflix started as set up steaming servers, giving their clients the ability to skip the post office and get their content via the net. Of course they are far from alone, many... [Full Story]

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PCI Express 2.0 Released

Posted by · Published: January 17, 2007

The PCI-SIG group released v2.0 of the PIC Express protocol. It's cool but not earth shattering. PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important... [Full Story]

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And Next Year's Darwin Award Nominees Are...

Posted by · Published: January 17, 2007 · Comments (1)

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Wordpress 2.0.7 Released

Posted by · Published: January 16, 2007

Security issues in PHP Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We're able to work around it fairly easily, so we've decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that... [Full Story]

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Rsync for Windows? We can only hope

Posted by · Published: January 16, 2007

I make no endorsements because I have not tried not but this looks oh so promising. What is DeltaCopy In general terms, DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program. Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would... [Full Story]

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A Peek Under the AppleTV's Hood

Posted by · Published: January 16, 2007

Apple insider says it has the scoop on the AppleTV hardware: According to those familiar with the component makeup of Apple TV, it utilizes a 1.0GHz Pentium M-based chip (code-named "Crofton"), which has been under-clocked to run on a 350MHz bus. The chip is based on Intel's pre-Core Duo "Dothan"... [Full Story]

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First Four Hours of 24 available on P2P

Posted by Jon Marler · Published: January 12, 2007

I'm not going to tell you how or where to find it, but if you know where to look, you can find full videos of the first four hours Season 6 of Fox's show 24 on the P2P networks. There is even a video out that supposedly has the... [Full Story]

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Shocking: Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Name

Posted by · Published: January 11, 2007

Unless you've been in a cave, you expected Cisco to sue Apple today over its iPhone trademark. And while it looks like an open and shut case favoring Cisco. There is no way Apple is going to get away with claiming the name won't confuse people. But it might not... [Full Story]

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CIA Warns of "Spy Coins" from Canada

Posted by · Published: January 11, 2007

This is absolutely fascinating on a number of levels. U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.... [Full Story]

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Why Modern CDs Sound Like Crap

Posted by · Published: January 10, 2007 · Comments (3)

I've tried to explain this to people but it's hard to visualize. This video makes the whole thing perfectly clear. This should be required viewing for every sound engineer under 35 years old. I think I need to make that my sig somewhere... "When there is no quiet, there can... [Full Story]

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Saddam Strikes Back From Beyond The Grave

Posted by Jon Marler · Published: January 9, 2007

In a non-surprising move, malware writers are trying to exploit the publicity around the hanging of Saddam Hussein to their own advantage. So far we've seen three different examples of malware using Saddam-related themes. According to F-Secure, two of the variants disguise their nefarious activity by opening up a... [Full Story]

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The Good New Is We Found Life on Mars...

Posted by · Published: January 8, 2007

The bad news is we killed it. Life on Mars? We may have found it -- and killed it, report says We may have already encountered Martian life about 30 years ago and accidentally killed it, according to a new analysis of NASA's Viking mission to Mars presented Sunday at... [Full Story]

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Astronomers unveil 3-D map of universe

Posted by · Published: January 8, 2007

Cool stuff from the astronomy geeks: Dark matter mapped in 3-D detail Invisible web serves as scaffolding for 'ordinary' matter, scientists say SEATTLE - The most detailed 3-D map of the universe ever made, stretching back over billions of years, provides the best evidence yet that mysterious "dark matter" serves... [Full Story]

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Product Review: Garmin Nüvi 350

Posted by Jon Marler · Published: January 5, 2007 · Comments (4)

I recently leased a new car, an Acura RSX Type-S, and got it fully loaded. The only thing that I wanted that Acura couldn't deliver stock was a navigation system. My wife took care of that this Christmas and bought me a Garmin Nüvi 350 portable GPS device. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (7 votes cast)

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