Show #17 - 02.18.2007
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News
- Steve Jobs Has Opinions on Music
- Apple forced to use DRM by Record labels
- Apple has a certain amount of time to fix holes in Fairplay DRM or they lose contract to sell digital music
- Licensing Fairplay would mean Apple would no longer be in complete control of the DRM
- Getting rid of DRM in music downloads would cause a growth in the sale of digital music purchases
- RIAA mis-understands the letter, thinks licensing Fairplay is a GREAT idea
- PDFCreator
- Free and Open Sourced
- Adds a "Printer" to your computer called "PDFCreator"
- To create a PDF version of something, simply select PDFCreator printer and Click OK
- Simple to install and use.
- 25GB of Free Online Storage
- ErrorZilla
- Firefox Addon
- Gives a useful error message when a page can not be loaded
- Also gives options to see the Google Cached, Coralized Cached, and Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) versions of the page.
- Getting Things Done with Google by starkos (via Lifehacker )
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Utilizes Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Notebook
- Gmail for ALL email accounts using Mail Fetcher
- Google Notebook for Action Lists
- Google Docs for Project Management
- Microsoft to Support OpenID
- What is OpenID?
- Open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric identification
- Framework is free to use and utilize
- A web address is your identity
- How a single ID can be more secure than many
- One password to remember
- With only one password to remember, you can make that password very secure
- Most of the OpenID providers allow you to create profiles
- Profiles Allow you to decide how much personal data a website is allowed to access
- Profiles Allow you to decide how much personal data a website is allowed to access
- Some Ways to Get an OpenID
- MyOpenID
- Verisign's Personal Identity Provider
- LiveJournal and Vox (both by Six Apart)
- What is OpenID?
Editorial ("Power Up")
- Photoshop stuff
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