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Friday, August 29, 2008

Show #94



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Tech Headlines (Computers, Cameras, Cell Phones, Big News)
  • Copyright Owners must consider "Fair Use" before sending Take Down Notices
  • Jott goes primetime
    • Pricing
    • FREE - 15 second messages advertiser supported, links to Twitter, Amazon, Blogger, Zillow, Jaiku, LiveJournal, Tumblr, TypePad, and WordPress
    • $3.95/mo - 15 second messages + Outlook, links to Google Calendar, Sandy, Y! Groups, Remember the Milk, 30 Boxes, FortythreeActions, Gumiyo, Heep, KeepUp, Kwiry, Mentat, Mosio, Nozbe, Recommender, SmartSheet, Toodledo, Trapster, TSheets, Vitalist, Xpenser
    • $12.95/mo - 30 second messages + BlackBerry
  • Apple Ready to Rumble September 9th
    • New iPods? New iTunes?
    • Who knows, the cone of silence is strong
  • Red Hat Infrastructure Servers Hacked and Compromised
    • Red Hat confirmed that their first party servers were compromised
    • "high confidence" that the hackers did not obtain the passphrase used to secure Fedora signing keys.
    • Did use the hack to sign some unknown SSH packages
    • Thinking about changing key which would require hands-on from every Fedora owner
    • What this means: Unix is hard to secure, even for their creators
  • Universities giving free IPhones and IPods
    • Marketing in a competitive environment at its finest
    • University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian U., Abiline Christian and Freed-Hardeman all announced the rollout
    • Stanford creating applications like campus maps and directory specifically for IPhone
    • Students have to pay for service and data plan
  • US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail for Game Piracy
    • Caught selling PowerPlay handhelds with 76 pre-loaded pirated games, 2006-2007
    • Ordered to pay $415,900 restitution
    • Profits exceeded $390,000

Tech Picks (Software, Hardware, Websites, Reviews)

    • Mozy Home
    • IDrive
    • Syncplicity
    • Microsoft Mesh
    • Carbonite
  • 10 Futuristic Interfaces
  • 103 inch plasma for your house
    • Well... If you've got $50K lying around
  • 18 IPhone drinking apps
    • BeerCounter - simple drink counter
    • Bar Hopper - $1.99 gets you Drink Timer and Beer Counter in one
    • R U Drunk - Six Sobriety Tests that you can take ($2.99)
    • DrinkBuddy - Bar Hopper with save points and pre-loaded drinks
    • BeerPad - Beer tracker for beer afficionados. Log beers and your thoughts
    • WinePad - same as beerpad except for wine lovers.
    • MyColorWave - tap, swipe, shake, jump and the screen changes colors
    • Woo Button - EVERYTHING IS WOO WHEN YOUR DRUNK!!! Let the app do the work

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