Archive for July, 2006

Front Row Envy?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Feeling envious of the Front Row feature of new Mac models, but not enough cash to upgrade? Fear not! Here’s CenterStage – The Mac Media Center to the rescue!

This free, Open Source software is made of two components:

“CenterStage is the Media Center Application that allows you to use the digital content stored on your [...]

Slim Devices releases Transporter

Monday, July 31st, 2006

As noted a few days ago, Slim Devices has introduced an audiophile’s dream called Transporter, the most advanced networked audio system currently available anywhere.

With serious technical improvement over the already good Squeezebox, Transporter’s sound quality surpasses that of even the most sophisticated high-end compact disc players. It also offers a broad range of options not [...]

Is a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Mac Sales on the Horizon?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Is a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Mac Sales on the Horizon? by David Morgenstern is an eWeek article suggesting that, finally, the PC-using public is going to ‘get’ the Mac.

From Slashdot: “According to the article, the new advertising, increased functionality of OSX, and Intel-based machines are all raising the profile of Apple’s machines to new heights.”

From [...]

WWDC Bingo 2006!

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
This is a randomly-generated bingo card for WWDC Bingo 2006, created by Peter Hosey. (Note: This is a mirror of Foom’s mirror site; the canonical URL is http://geocities.com/iamtheboredzo/wwdcbingo/.)

About
The game was first proposed by John Siracusa on his blog. Since then, Simone Manganelli has created shuffled versions of the original card.

But at Christopher Forsythe’s suggestion [...]

AMD to buy ATI

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

From Ars Technica:

At the beginning of the summer, an industry analyst made headlines by saying that an AMD acquisition of ATI was imminent. As is usually the case with such rumors that do not immediately come to pass, the story simmered down after a couple of weeks. It looks as though the deal may be [...]

Hacking Digital Rights Management

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Ars technica has posted a great in-depth article called “Hacking Digital Rights Management”; it provides both an historical overview of DCM and some predictions about the future.

Like a creeping fog, DRM smothers more and more media in its clammy embrace, but the sun still shines down on isolated patches of the landscape. This isn’t always [...]