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Friday, January 18, 2008

links for 2008-01-18

January 18, 2008

Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie | George Ou | ZDNet.com George Ou points out that “HD” download services from Apple and Microsoft are nothing of the sort, delivering quality that’s actually below DVD. He’s not wrong. (tags: HD downloads video apple microsoft tv)

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links for 2008-01-18

January 18, 2008

Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie | George Ou | ZDNet.com George Ou points out that “HD” download services from Apple and Microsoft are nothing of the sort, delivering quality that’s actually below DVD. He’s not wrong. (tags: HD downloads video apple microsoft tv)

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Uh huh, right, so there’s no Mac malware…

January 18, 2008

Note that F-Secure do not sell a security product for the Mac – so forget about that "they’re only trying to spread FUD so we’ll buy their product" stuff. More details on Trojan:OSX/DNSChanger, plus a blog post about its variants – over 60 variants of this have been found by F-Secure. And finally, yes, this [...]

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Uh huh, right, so there’s no Mac malware…

January 18, 2008

Note that F-Secure do not sell a security product for the Mac – so forget about that "they’re only trying to spread FUD so we’ll buy their product" stuff. More details on Trojan:OSX/DNSChanger, plus a blog post about its variants – over 60 variants of this have been found by F-Secure. And finally, yes, this [...]

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Service interruption on Sunday

January 18, 2008

Depending on what time I get back from the weekend’s visit, there may be a period of downtime for this blog on Sunday. I’m transferring Technovia from running on Typepad to my own hosted version of WordPress. All permalinks should remain working, and no posts or comments will be lost, but while I move the [...]

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Service interruption on Sunday

January 18, 2008

Depending on what time I get back from the weekend’s visit, there may be a period of downtime for this blog on Sunday. I’m transferring Technovia from running on Typepad to my own hosted version of WordPress. All permalinks should remain working, and no posts or comments will be lost, but while I move the [...]

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Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it’s fair; if it substitutes, it’s not – Boing Boing

January 18, 2008

Link: Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it’s fair; if it substitutes, it’s not – Boing Boing. "Tim busts out a great working definition for fair use that simple enough to understand that it can be reliably followed by casual remixers and users of content, but not so simple as to [...]

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Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it’s fair; if it substitutes, it’s not – Boing Boing

January 18, 2008

Link: Fair use for the 21st century: if it adds value, it’s fair; if it substitutes, it’s not – Boing Boing. "Tim busts out a great working definition for fair use that simple enough to understand that it can be reliably followed by casual remixers and users of content, but not so simple as to [...]

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The day Steve Jobs got snubbed at his own show

January 18, 2008

The story about Violet Blue being snubbed by Steve Jobs reminded me of an incident that I witnessed a few years ago where Jobs was, himself, snubbed. After keynotes, Jobs usually likes to head down to the show floor and look around the Apple booth, talking – mostly – to Apple employees. At one keynote, [...]

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The day Steve Jobs got snubbed at his own show

January 18, 2008

The story about Violet Blue being snubbed by Steve Jobs reminded me of an incident that I witnessed a few years ago where Jobs was, himself, snubbed. After keynotes, Jobs usually likes to head down to the show floor and look around the Apple booth, talking – mostly – to Apple employees. At one keynote, [...]

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