iStab is a must have accessory for all iPodders who are paranoid, living in the US, want to defend themselves against muggers with good taste or homicidal maniacs.
Ooooh! Check out the new icons for Mozilla Thunderbird by the same guy who did the gorgeous Mozilla Firefox icon over at Hicks Design.
Finally something to compliment the Firefox icon. I can’t wait until this baby is sitting on my desktop at work!
Apple releases new hardware and software:
Newer, faster G4 PowerBooks
Newer, faster iBooks
New motion graphics software
Hmmm…
It’ll be interesting to see how Motion stacks up to Adobe After Effects, and even more interesting to see what other apps Apple has up their apparently very long flowy sleves.
Hmmm… web page editor? 2d animation package? One might even go so far as to speculate that a drawing app not unlike Illustrator would be on the cards what with the Inkwell built into OS X+.
Okay that’s probably quite far fetched.
Public Patent Foundation, a little-known public interest group, last week asked the US government to revoke a Microsoft patent that covers the company’s Windows file system
Telstra’s appetite for acquisitions appears unsated by last week’s boardroom bloodletting, with the company in talks with rival Hutchison Telecommunications to buy its Orange mobile phone business for about $250 million
The recent US-Australia Free
Trade Agreement Chapter 17 (IP) locks Australia into our existing DMCA-style laws and extends them further: banning access control
circumvention, extending copyright, guaranteeing penalties greater than actual damages for deliberate copyright infringement, committing us to recognising patents whether a product or process, in all fields of technology
, etc. Linux Australia has produced a draft position paper (rough HTML version), has a how to help page, and started a petition
How hard would it be to swing an election by hacking computerised voting machines? How valuable would it be? Counterpane.com’s Bruce Schneier did the math, and the results are even scarier than he expected them to be
As if I wasn’t already addicted to online news feeds, Newsmap is a rolling visual representation of the Google News stream — via Die Puny Humans
Newsmap… provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe. Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It’s objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.
Inkjet printers can produce a nice enough colour photo at an affordable price for the home user, but the images are far from stable as you’d know if you’ve ever gotten one wet. Darren Barefoot has tracked down a printer using superior dye sublimation printing process at a fairly reasonable price:
Most home colour printers use inkjet technology. Essentially, this sometimes messy screening process involves shooting tiny dots of ink at a piece of paper. There’s a superior approach to colour printing called dye sublimation. Basically, it involves using a heating element to heat dye impregnated in a ribbon to over 350 degrees, at which point it turns into a gas and migrates into the surface of the specially coated photo paper. Temperature controls how much dye transfers at any point on the paper. One critical aspect of this approach is that the dots on the page can be of variable sizes.
Until now, the cost of dye sub has been restricted to professional printers and photo developers. I read today, via Engadget, about the HiTi 730PS. It’s a dye sub printer for the home, capable of printing images up to 6 x 8 inches. The prints cost about 40 cents each, and the printer starts at US$368. I haven’t actually seen these printers in action, but apparently they offer a vastly superior print quality for a decent price. The printer also includes an LCD display, so that you don’t have to download your images to your computer before printing.
Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web, has won Finland’s first Millennium Technology Prize. Berners-Lee, who heads the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, revolutionised the Internet in 1991 when he devised a way to organise, link and browse Net pages
Amazon has entered the search engine fray with the beta launch of its A9 portal, enabling broad-based Web inquiries, as well as delivering results from the company site and a host of personalised services
The DVD Forum, which oversees the DVD format, approved a blue laser-based format, to be called HD-DVD. Unlike Blu-ray, the Toshiba/NEC system retains backwards compatibility with today’s DVD specification. While Sony and Toppan Printing have been working for about a year on printing data onto Blu-ray discs made mostly of paper. The companies are aiming to produce lower-cost discs and expand the use of the technology. The 25GB discs will be able to store more than two hours of high-definition video
Dotcom entrepreneur Karl Suleman will spend at least 12 months behind bars after NSW District Court Judge Peter Berman sentenced him to 21 months in jail for fraud
A month ago, a trial version of a little-known Linux application called CoLinux was released that is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. It’s the work of a 21-year-old Israeli computer science student and some Japanese open source programmers; in Israel, analysts are already saying it could help transform the software world
You are engaged in a chat session with some friends and colleagues, when one of them makes a witty remark or imparts a pithy bit of information. You hit CTRL-A and select the conversation, then copy it to a document that you save. Under a little-noticed decision in a New Hampshire Superior Court in late February, these actions may just land you in jail
The National Australia Bank is shedding its tarnished image from such IT disasters as the integrated systems implementation, with the aim of becoming a world-class technology leader by 2007. In the midst of major upheavals at the bank following its $360 million foreign exchange scandal, NAB is working to wipe away past disasters, and experimenting with new technologies that for the first time will involve sharing innovation across the group
E-mail provider Everyone.net says it has a new program to protect e-mail users from one by-product of the spam plague: bounced messages. The firm is announcing an enhanced e-mail protection service called Total Protection 2.0 at the ISPCon conference in Washington, DC this week. The new service includes a technology called Email Fingerprint that can stop bounce storms
, in which e-mail users who have had their e-mail address stolen by spammers or e-mail worms receive a flood of returned e-mail messages
Sun Microsystems has discontinued development of two planned chips as it retrenches in a difficult era for the company. Santa Clara, California-based Sun has stopped work on the UltraSparc V, a server chip that was supposed to come out late next year, and Gemini, a dual-core chip for Web servers
Remember how online music stores were going to route around the music industry? The pigopolists have barely got their feet under the table and already demanding more. The Wall Street Journal reports that the major five labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song
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