I’m redoing my computer this weekend. Reformatting my drives and installing a fresh copy of Win XP Media Center and dual booting Vista Home Premium. I’m finally taking the plunge to Vista. I was using Vista Beta 2 but it seemed very slow, I hear the shipping version is faster so here goes nothing. see you Sunday night or Monday after work.
Kevin.
Apple today announced Complete My Album, a groundbreaking new iTunes service that allows customers to turn their individual tracks into a complete album at a reduced price by giving them a full 99 cent credit for every track they have previously purchased from that album.
Complete My Album offers customers up to 180 days after first purchasing individual songs from any qualifying album to purchase the rest of that album at a reduced price. When users buy any song on iTunes the corresponding album will immediately appear on their personalized Complete My Album page with the reduced price listed. For example, a user who’s already purchased three 99 cent singles and decides to buy the corresponding $9.99 album would be able to download the remaining songs to complete the album for just $7.02, without having to buy the singles again.
This is it, Junkies. We’re down to the wire. Lets show Scott our support on April 1, and buy this excellent book at Amazon.com. Don’t forget the time! 9 am Pacific, Noon Eastern!
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On a remote island in
By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs. Rhumkorrf discovers the ancestor, but it is not the small, harmless creature he envisions. His genius gives birth to a fast-growing evil that nature eradicated 250 million years ago — an evil now on the loose, and very, very hungry.
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Link of the week. 3-29-07
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites on the Internet.
In every article, links will guide you to associated articles, often with additional information. You are welcome to add further information, cross-references, or citations, so long as you do so within Wikipedia’s editing policies and to an appropriate standard. You do not need to fear accidentally damaging Wikipedia when you add or improve information, as other editors are always around to advise or correct obvious errors, if needed, and the Wikipedia encyclopedia software, known as MediaWiki, is carefully designed to allow easy reversal of editorial mistakes.
Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which in principle anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in some very important ways. In particular, older articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while newer articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content, or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this in order to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation which has been recently added and not yet removed. (See Researching with Wikipedia for more details.) However, unlike a paper reference source, Wikipedia can be constantly updated, with articles on topical events being created or updated within minutes or hours, rather than months or years for printed encyclopedias.
Get the patch here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid
This patch is for people running Windows Vista and using an iPod with iTunes.
I’d like to announce the launch of my new site Vista Revisited at http://www.vistarevisited.com Stop by and have a look. I’ve copied all the Vista content from here to my new site and from now on I will only post Vista content to Vista Revisited. Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out my new site.
Fly Around The world From Your Desk With World Wind
World Wind, http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Is a open source 3D interactive world viewer, was created by NASA’s Learning Technologies project, and released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers.
At its simplest you can think of World Wind as a desk globe, however World Wind is not a simple desk globe.
World Wind allows any user to zoom from outer space into any place on Earth. World Wind uses satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Virtually visit anyplace in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara.
Unlike your desk globe World Wind can display thousands of placenames all over the world, from country capitals to villages in sparsely populated regions. You can see country borders, and in some cases intracountry borders such as US states.
World Wind can also be expanded to include additional imagery and data.. There have already been a number of add-ons created, from Norway’s Prehistoric Hillforts to additional planets, for more information on using add-ons see the Add-on Launchpad.
Worldwind gets it imagery from the following
Blue Marble Next Generation — World Wind has a full copy of the Blue Marble, a spectacular true-color image of the entire Earth. Put together from data of a variety of satellites such as Terra and Aqua, the Blue Marble can be seen in all its glory at 1 km per pixel resolution. Blue Marble Next Generation is streamed from the NASA servers at 0.5 km per pixel and in 12 versions, one for each month of year.
Landsat — LandSat 7 is a collection of images from 1999-2003 at an impressive 15 m per pixel resolution. LandSat 7′s resolution makes it possible to see your own city, neighborhood, or landmarks in your vicinity. Seeing the whole globe like this puts the world in context with scientifically accurate data. You can view LandSat imagery in visible colors or in False Color bands.
USGS — United States Geological Survey data. USGS provides Topography maps of whole United States down to 1:24K scale, 1-Meter detail images of most of the United States and Urban Area images of most of the major U.S. cities down to detail of .25 Meters.
SRTM + — Combining LandSat 7 imagery with Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Data, World Wind can display a dramatic view of the Earth at eye level. Users will literally be able to fly across the world in any direction. The data was acquired during the Feb 2000 flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, using a short-wave radar device. It covers the whole world except near-polar regions and has horizontal resolution of 90m worldwide, 30m for the U.S. area and global bathymetry. SRTM is that, what really gives the Earth’s surface the third dimension
Vista is reported to work but has some problems; UAC (User Account Control) needs to be turned off for install and during use, a reboot may be required after turning off UAC. However, if you install WW outside C:\Program Files disabling UAC may not be necessary.
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Podcast of the week
3-26-07
DL.TV http://dl.tv/
Remember the Screen Savers from Tech TV on cable and satellite. Then you’ll love DL.TV
DL.TV is a technology related IPTV show or video podcast hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron. It provides a mix of product reviews, tech news, and technology help.
It is streamed live weekly on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 3:00pm ET/noon PT from the Ziff Davis office in
The show was originally known as “DigitalLife TV,” and was shortened to DL.TV in late 2005, possibly to avoid confusion between the show and Ziff Davis’ annual technology expo show, also called DigitalLife.
The show aired its 100th episode on October 3, 2006.
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Xtrememac HDMI Switcher
http://www.xtrememac.com/audio/av_cables/switcher/
Too many HDMI devices and not enough ports on your HDTV to connect them? We feel your pain. Most displays only offer one or two HDMI ports, which isn’t enough to support all of your devices. Our 4-port HDMI switcher is a simple solution that lets you connect up to four devices to a single HDMI port on your TV.
Simply connect your devices— cable/satellite box, Apple TV, DVD player, gaming console, etc.—to the input ports on the switcher. Then, connect the
switcher to your display using a single HDMI>HDMI cable. It’s that easy.
You can switch between devices using the included infrared remote, your own universal remote, or the button on the front of the unit. An LED on the front of the unit will indicate which source you have selected.
The XtremeHD HDMI 4 to 1 switcher is built with the highest quality components so you get the best quality audio/video signals from all of your devices—up to 1080p resolution. We even have the HDMI cables you need to get it connected—at a fraction of the cost you’d pay elsewhere. Now that’s simple.
· Connects up to four HDMI sources to one display
· Switches easily between HDMI sources via remote or on-unit button
· Supports 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p resolutions
· Connects with HDMI>HDMI or HDMI>DVI cables for input and output
· Compatible with all HDMI and HDCP compliant devices
· Maintains high resolution audio and video signal
· Includes wireless remote and 120/240v power supply
· Fully compatible with Apple TV® and identically sized for stacking
Specifications Video Amplifier Bandwidth1.65Gbps Formats Supportedup to 1080p resolution HDMI Inputs4 (19-pin female) HDMI Output1 (19-pin female) Input Cable Length Supported30 ft Output Cable Length Supported90 ft Power Consumption10W Max Power Supply5V DC, 2A Dimensions7.7’’(L) x 7.7’’ (W) x 1.04’’(H) Product Weight1.08 lbs
3-24-07
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