Ted Ritzer: Tech4CommunicatorsFor anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.(Untitled)- November 30, 2005 Mac Mini Kaleidoscope Project Leaked. Lately I've been researching ways to add a Mac Mini to my home theater set, and maybe even replace my second-generation TiVo in the process. Now it looks like I won't have to work very hard: Apple is set to unveil a new Mac Mini at MacWorld that includes Front Row 2.0, DVR functionality and an iPod dock. This project is dubbed Kaleidoscope and will be aimed at the living room, according to ThinkSecret. The Mini will have Intel inside, like lots of other...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/29.html#a3911 (Untitled)- November 30, 2005 Overhaul for Firefox web browser. A big marketing push is planned for the latest version of Firefox, the main rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. BBC News Technology UK Editionhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/29.html#a3910 (Untitled)- November 30, 2005 Open-Source software for OS X. Open Source Mac “is a simple list of the best free and open source software for Mac OS X. We aren’t trying to be a comprehensive listing of every open-source mac app, instead we want to showcase the best, most important, and easiest to use.” By Brent Simmons. ranchero.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/29.html#a3909 (Untitled)- November 25, 2005 Many Went Online for Hurricane News (AP). AP - More than half of U.S. Internet users went online for news and information about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the vast majority having visited the Web sites of traditional news organizations such as CNN and MSNBC, a study finds. Yahoo! News: Technology Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/24.html#a3908 (Untitled)- November 25, 2005 Blazing Dual Channel Thumb Drive. Anonomisk Howard writes "The speed results from Big Bruin's review of OCZ's latest flash drive have me lusting for a new thumb drive. From the review: 'The OCZ Rally drive is not a radical new design, it does not look significantly different than any other USB 2.0 drive on the market, but then you plug it in and begin to use it. This thing smokes! The transfer times shown in the charts are what this drive is all about. If you want the fastest, sleekest, and...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/24.html#a3907 (Untitled)- November 24, 2005 Murdoch predicts gloomy future for press. Media: Rupert Murdoch forecasts gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet. Guardian Unlimitedhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/24.html#a3903 (Untitled)- November 24, 2005 Freesound Reaches 10000 Files. Bram writes ""The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, -not songs-... released under the Creative Commons Sampling+ License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing and browsing these samples." In less that 7 months we've grown to 30000 users and today we finally reached the first goal of the project: we've collected over 10000 samples, added by various people...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/24.html#a3902 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off. Thousands of city employees have started using OpenOffice.org and hundreds are running Linux, less than two months after the 'soft' migration started. Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/22.html#a3899 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Dueling simplicities. Most of my writing goes straight to the web, but my column still takes a detour through the print magazine. Usually that's no problem. I'm not a news hound. And while I'm comfortable editing myself, I enjoy the thoughtful feedback I get from Neil McAllister who, in addition to editing my column, writes his own. Every now and then, though, I wish I could have bypassed the print loop. Case in point: next week's column on two-way RSS. I wrote it last week; it will appear on...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/22.html#a3898 (Untitled)- November 23, 2005 Hauppauge Live TV Tuner. Add live TV to your PC with the WinTV HVR-900 TV Tuner, a very small USB 2.0 stick that plugs right into your laptop or any computer to let you receive analog and digital terrestrial TV. Not a bad thing to have when you're stuck at the airport and don't feel like watching Fox News, the HVR-900 comes with a high-gain aerial, letting you receive up to 40 digital channels. It also lets you record live TV to your hard drive and burn DVDs at 1.68GB per hour. Of course, the.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2005/11/22.html#a3897 |