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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsA Final Tweet for Tweeter? - Report: Tweeter may open stores to trim its inventory.Tweeter, which abruptly closed its stores this week, may reportedly open up stores temporarily in hopes of liquidating its inventory, which has an estimated value of $15 million. Might be a good time to pick up some good stuff -- at even better than Black Friday prices -- I hope!More at the Boston Herald. Tags: black friday, tweeter...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Blockbuster Goes All-in-One in Nevada - Blockbuster has chosen Reno, Nev., as the test market for a new store concept that combines video rentals with sales of video game accessories, high-definition TVs and other home entertainment products. Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes said the company is "selling convenience" with the new design. And you know we gadgeteers love convenience, even if we have to wait for it.We hope the still have snacks!More a the The Cincinnati Enquirer/Gannett News Service.
Tags: ... Sangoma Launches B600 Series of Analog Voice Cards - Rich has a great interview with Sangoma's VP Sales and Marketing, Doug Vilim about their new B600 Series of Analog voice cards, which can be used in Asterisk-based systems. Apparently, Sangoma's über customizable & modular cards can be a slight cost detriment for those that don't need such modularity. ... Truphone Transforms iPod touch into iPhone - We all know the iPod touch is basically an iPhone minus a microphone and the wireless (3G) phone capability. Well, behold Truphone for iPod touch, which adds phone capabilities using VoIP over WiFi. This isn't the first time someone has enabled VoIP for the iPod touch. Some hackers were able to add a microphone to the iPod touch last December. Later, another group enabled a SIP softphone client for the iPod touch to use with the "hacked-in" microphone. Well, now Truphone for the iPod touch gets in the gam... What Shall I Blog About Tomorrow? - The beautiful thing about the world of gadgets is that there is always something new every day.So part of the challenge -- or opportunity -- is figuring out what's of interest and then taking a stab at writing something interesting about it.Looking ahead, I wonder what news tomorrow will bring?And I'm wondering if there are any topics, gadgets, issues, oddities that you'd like to see in this personal blogosphere?Don't be shy if you have an opinion or a request
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Related Entries... The Top Holiday Gift Choices? Is It Blu-ray? Or Not? - You've seen the recent blogs about how nine of the top 10 best-selling items so far this holiday shopping season are gadgets -- but how about them Ugg boots!Seriously, we've seen how this is the season of Blu-ray and this isn't the season for Blu-ray. Honestly, what do you think?For me personally, I'm still busy with DVDs, some PayPerView and even some old video cassettes if the movie is good enough -- but granted, those DVDs do look better!So I'm not too close to plunking down greenbacks for Blu-ray, but if the hardware prices keep drop, drop, dropping and the software prices keep drop, drop, dropping, then perhaps I will take the plunge.But how many gadgets can I stack up in an AV home theater system anyway?... Green Becoming the Color of Gadgets - Environmental concerns are playing an even bigger role in consumer electronics. To state it plainly, the world of gadgets is becoming increasingly eco-friendly. You can see this all across the landscape, from better product designs, lower power usage and better end user responsibility -- unplug those desktops at night, OK? But what more can we do? We have so many of these wondrous devices, large and small? What else can we do about waste disposal, energy conservation and other environmental issues so that we all become more environmentally conscious consumers at the same time that companies become more environmentally responsibl... Nokia N97 Sweet! - The Nokia N97 sports a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (16:9 aspect ratio) resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It's heavily focused on social sites like Facebook with its "always open" window to favorite Internet or social networking sites. The N97 also features HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3.5-mm head jack, and 32GB of on-board memory. With a microSD expansion you can go up to 48GB total memory. The battery is capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5 hours video.Contin... Raketu Adds VoIP Support for Google G1 Android Mobile - Raketu today released its Raketu Mobile for Google's G1 Android mobile adding VoIP support to the Android phone. Raketu already supports iPhone, Nokia, WinMobile and BlackBerry mobile phonesThe new service allows anyone with a G1 using roaming data services or WiFi to connect to the Raketu mobile services to make phone-to-phone calls, send sms-text messages and email, send and receive instant... Office Communicator clients cannot communicate with AOL Contacts Problem Solved - Scott Oseychik over on the MSDN blogs has a good post today about federation issues between OCS 2005/2007 and AOL. Apparently, American Online changed their root certificates on their SIP Access Gateway at approximately 12/2/2008, 4:00 AM EST.Via Scott's post: If your organization leverages Public Internet Connectivity (aka: "PIC") in conjunction with their Live Communication Server 2005 and/or Office Communications Server 2007 servers, you may not be able to successfully communicate with (or see the presence status of) America Online Instant Messenger users.... I told you it was going to be a Blu-ray Christmas! - I hate to say I told you so, but today's PriceGrabber.com gadget report on Black Friday sales, once again proves my opinion that this Christmas will be a "black" Blu-ray Christmas! My opinion goes against conventional wisdom that Blu-ray won't succeed, and that streaming HD using Roku/Netflix, and cable providers offering HD content is now closing the window of opportunity for Blu-ray. I'm not buying that theory. Additionally, several other articles, i... Momentum Building for Fuel-Cell Development - Thanks to recent changes in government regulations, a reliable, long-lasting fuel cell to power today's electronic gadgets may be right around the corner. "We are closer, much closer, than even two years ago in terms of the companies' internal designs, how they've met their milestones and just the amount of testing and evaluation that's going on right now," said Sara Bradford, an energy and power systems consultant for Frost & Sullivan.Now wouldn't that be nice!Cars next, please! Google/The Associated Press has more.
... Not Even Half of Old PCs Get Reused ... Sad - Worldwide demand for used PCs is greater than supply, yet less than half of PCs entering the secondary market get reused.Only one in five PCs targeted for reuse find their way from a mature to a developing economy, tech consulting firm Gartner said in a report. Of those machines that actually make it, only 44% get used. Major hindrances include export tariffs and high transportation costs. "The secondary PC market offers great opportunity to specialized intermediaries, resellers, or vendors, but it is a highly fragmented and competitive market," Gartner analyst Meike Escherich said in a statement. Refurbished PCs typically offer equal or b... Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales - Despite one of the worst economic climates in decades, consumer spending on Black Friday hit $10.6 billion, 3% higher than the day after Thanksgiving in 2007, according to researcher ShopperTrak. Gadgets accounted for nine of the top 10 most popular Black Friday products, PriceGrabber said. Data from PriceGrabber.com shows that online consumers are taking advantage of promotions on popular electronics, including LCD and plasma TVs, Blu-ray disc players, digital SLR cameras, laptops and video game consoles. The most popular products on Black Friday:Nintendo Wii ConsoleUgg Australia '... Disney World Deal - Buy 4 Nights, Get 3 Free - Knowing I'm a Disney fanatic, Rich just sent me this amazing Disney World deal that gives you 3 nights free and includes Disney World theme park tickets. This deal is via a partnership with American Airlines. You'll also receive a $200 gift card when you travel January 4 - March 29, 2009.I have a Disney World timeshare that requires I use my points towards my vacation, so this doesn't help me any, but it might help you, so enjoy! Here's the details: This Dea... Bittorrent Kills VoIP - Game Over Man! - An interesting article at the Register claims that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for P2P file transfers (instead of TCP) to get around ISP "traffic management" restrictions will cause a meltdown of the Internet. Poppycock you say? It's worth pointing out that traditionally P2P sharing apps such as Bittorrent, use TCP not UDP. So why would UDP cause VoIP apps to fail? Well for one huge reason, TCP allows for congestion control. First, the article explains: Gamers, VoIP and video c... Black Friday Results are in! - It appears it just might be a Merry Christmas even with the doom & gloom surrounding the economy. I guess President-elect Barack Obama must be the Messiah, since he's already creating miracles and he hasn't even been sworn in yet. Or it could just be that credit card loving Americans just don't know when to quit spending & charging.Check this out:NRF Survey Finds Black Friday Gets Holiday Season Off to Energetic Start-- Great Bargains, Pent-Up Demand Drove Shoppers to Stores, WebThough the holiday season is far from over, retailers across the country are breathing a collective sigh of relief after shoppers he... Cyber Monday Amazon Deals - Amazon has a special landing page listing all their Cyber Monday deals. Amazon doesn't call it "Cyber Monday" but rather the "Black-Friday-After-Thanksgiving-Sale", so this landing page should be good until Christmas. Maybe they were afraid Cyber Monday was patented, kinda like their one-click ordering patent. ... It's Going to be a Blu-ray Christmas -
Some experts are skeptical about whether consumers will buy Blu-ray DVD players this Christmas - I am not one of them. Many are saying it's going to be a "blue" Blu-ray Christmas. I disagree. I went shopping for a cheap Blu-ray DVD player on Black Friday, with one bargain special at Wal-Mart offering a $128 Blu-ray player. This was one of the biggest deals offered by Wal-Mart on Black Friday, and one was to wonder if this deal was part of the draw for the raucous crowd that stampeded and killed a Wal-Mart employee.
... Force Skype HQ Video Mode with any webcam -
So you want Skype High Quality (HQ) video, but aren't willing to shell out for a nice dual-core processor and a high-end Logitech camera, eh? Well, no worries - Nodewave has a Force 'Skype' HQ Video app that allows you to Enable/Disable (and even configure) High-Quality Video in Skype, and even High-Definition Video regardless of your camera or processor.
So if Santa doesn't stick a high-end Logitech Orb AF webcam (my favorite webcam) i... Nimbuzz VoIP app on Apple App Store - Nimbuzz is a free app that lets you call (VoIP), chat, message, and send photos, music and video on your iPhone, which was recently made available on the Apple App Store. Using a centralized contact list you can connect with all your buddies on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, StudiVZ, Hyves, Jabber and Twitter, plus popular social networks including Facebook and MySpace. It features presence (who's online and where), group calling, chatrooms, and more. If your buddies are offline, let them know you're trying to get in touch by sending... Killing off Vampire Power for Good! - It's been called both "vampire power" and "phantom load" -- likened to the power-hungry HAL 9000 computer (at left) in Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's the little unblinking red light on the television set that is silently drawing energy from the grid; studies have shown it can add 10% or more to a household energy bill.Now Spanish entrepreneurs claim to have invented a way to end the problem that has bedeviled energy regulators, environmentalists and appliance manufacturers. They have patented an algorithm that can detect when an appliance is in standby mode and automatically switch it off comple... It's Black Friday! America's Retailers Need You! - Yes, Black Friday it is!(And did you know about Black Friday the movie?)And gadget retailers (and all others, too!) are looking for you to make your contribution to their coffers!Now, I know it may have been hard (very hard), even too hard, to get up before the rising sun to hit those eager merchants at 5 AM when the best (very best) deals could be had, but there is still plenty of time today to either hit the pavement for a real physical visit or simply click the keyboard to do some stylish online shopping.Whatever your choice, get out there and do it!
Tags: ... Making Black Friday Deals Easy - You know I scoured all of the flyers and online ads to put together a great list of Black Friday deals, but seems Gizmodo has just plain beat me to it! So just like last year, they have rounded up and sorted through all of the real deals for you, broken down by category and merchant. If you know how to survive, this is the only Black Friday deal list you need. Get it all here.
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Tags: 2wire... Re: Flip Book Format - What I'd like to know, though, is what is the name of the program that creates the flip books. And, how can I convert pdf files into flip books like yours. ... Re: Flip Book Format - More information about Flip Book here
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader ... Flip Book Format - Can you tell me what program is used to create the flip books and flip books beta?
Also, why do some flip books display properly in Adobe Acrobat but not others? ... Re: DjVu viewer or plugin not found - Try this http://djvu.org/resources ... little book... - http://www.archive.org/details/BookOnLife-Rev4
... Great advanced searching feature - IA has a great searching feature I just "discovered". Here is a sample output for author Emile Zola:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/65sqt9
The great thing with this method, one can click on th ... Re: New Open Library Blog - Thanks I've subscribed via RSS. Couple good posts so far, great technical details. ... New Open Library Blog - Check it out: http://blog.openlibrary.org/ ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Sadly, they remain to pollute the IA servers and waste space. Not to mention the pain of having to use the advance seach feature just to avoid having to dig through them.
Yes, the files that Googl ... Google uploads - Every one of the books which I checked from this user are in the public domain. in fact probably 85% of the books published between 1923 and march 30, 1989; are in the publ;ic domain. Also, many (alm ... Re: google books - Every one of the books which I checked from this user are in the public domain. in fact probably 85% of the books published between 1923 and march 30, 1989; are in the publ;ic domain. Also, many (almo ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Google knows it has quality control problems and more recently it has improved - but there are still a lot of older poor quality scans floating around. I could see Google releasing those older scans t ... Re: google books - 1. See a lengthy thread about this below.
2. The Google hit count numbers are totally unreliable. It may be 800,000, or it may be 200 in reality when you try to scroll through the results screens.
... google books - http://www.archive.org/details/googlebooks
Digitized books from many different libraries from the Google Book Search program. These digital files have been downloaded from the Google site and uploaded ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I think Google has been getting into trouble with copyright, could it be that they are degrading the quality of their scans on purpose, as a means of heading off legal action by pay-for-text publisher ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I agree that that most all Google material is garbage.
Fortunately the descriptions have the fact they are Google scans and you can avoid them. Though if you have the thumbnails turned on you can se ... Re: its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - No junk today, wonder why?
Its too much to hope that Archive Management have woken up and switched a spam filter on.
Very likely the spammers are monitoring the forums, and realised they might just ... Re: its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - I am sure some archive management are turning a blind eye, they must have some kind or reason or incentive.
Have the ever spoken out? sometimes i wonder if the whole archive is automated?
I saw some ... Re: spam and porn feeds - Sorry Mate, Monday To Friday, I get both spam and porn, and I have to work. I monitor heaps of other RSS feeds for research, in fact, I work unpaid in advocacy, and i need honest info on meds, legal d ... Re: spam and porn feeds - @Today it's medication on my text RSS, tomorrow its porn on my video RSS again
Turn off your RSS on weekends. ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - All such medications can be legally used in appropriate circumstances, but few people have the training to decide when its appropriate, that's why only doctors get to write scripts, and medication can ... Re: its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - You are right. This stuff should not be that hard to block; however it is really the fault of our governments. They waste their on our time by passing useless legislation and giving taxpayer money to ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - he'd probably have better results selling drugs in the Grateful Dead forum. ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - Yeah, it appears that Valium, or "Diazepam", medical terms, is an addictive, controlled substance, so I suggest we block this from archive.org, before he starts hocking speed and meth (or ar ... its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - Attention Archive management! have you all gone nuts or have you all been taken over by the hackers and turned into spam and porn distributing zombies?
Start stopping the waste of your and my resourc ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - These scumbags pollute everything they touch. This archive is not meant to sell anything. This is the crap that these people learn in college today, make money no matter what. Sad commentary on the hu ... Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - I think it would be a bad idea to use archive.org to traffic in controlled substances.
This post was modified by dudeman5685 on 2008-11-22 02:57:18 ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I too have been trying to use some of the texts posted from Google Books by tpb, and am totally appalled by the lack of any kind of quality in the submissions. Missing pages, inverted or blurred scans ... DjVu viewer or plugin not found - The link to a DjVu viewer or plugin on the FAQs page brings up a site that I was not able to find a viewer or plugin for Windows XP. I did find a viewer for a Pocket PC. When I click on a DjVu file in ... Re: Full-Text Search the Texts Archive with Google - Interesting.
Just so you know, Google Book Search seems fundamentally broken. I guess it's better than nothing but is highly variable. Check my post at Ask Metafilter
http://ask.metafilter.com/1064 ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - Well, the simplest way would be to conduct your searches through the 'Advanced Search' page. Go to Texts and click 'Advanced Search' or go straight here: http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php
Und ... Full-Text Search the Texts Archive with Google - Ah! This is a breakthrough for me. Everyone else probably does it, but I thought just in case anyone didn't know about it I would post it here.
The breakthrough is not just searching IA through Googl ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - "I assume that is why collection categories are created, to allow the segregation of materials by content."
Does anyone know if there a way to filter out the Google scans when searching? (I ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - "I don't know anything about the technical or the copyright aspects of the Google material posted here, but I can say that 90% of the scans I've come across are very poor quality compared with th ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - Question is whether the editions are the same between what was on IA and what was on google, there often are many editions of the same work and it would be nice to have all of them in the archive, how ... Re: Reprise of the upload discussion. - I'll ammend my own post. Has someone uploaded all of Google to the IA, including the indexes? The answer is yes.
This is fairly major. Now I can get Google scans with the full function without on IA ... Reprise of the upload discussion. - I am new and this is my first post.
I noticed that some Google scans are being uploaded to IA. This seems to be the case even when IA already has a copy of the book.
Case: Zinkeisen, History of the ... A little request to Duke and Boston Col -
Could one of you please find it in your hear to upload:
Full report of the proceedings of the International Workers' Congress, London, July and August, 1896
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/219247 ... Digitizing Packaging - Is there a dedicated archive for the digitizations of product packaging, or; instruction, owners, specification. and operation manuals. Much of this material is not copyrighted or the copyrights were ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Excellent, thanks. Hopefully they will list these libraries/collections on the main Text page with the others.
Re: download counts, yeah who knows, guess we'll need an insiders view to explain it.
Y ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Addition: The European Libraries also contain books from Lausanne and Ghent Universities, although Oxford makes up the vast majority. ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Oh, look, I came across another collection page, 'European Libraries'. http://www.archive.org/details/europeanlibraries
Seems to be all the Bodleian/Oxford University books from Google.
Re: the downl ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - I don't know anything about the technical or the copyright aspects of the Google material posted here, but I can say that 90% of the scans I've come across are very poor quality compared with the Mic ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Well, partly to answer my own question, looking at the full metadata record (under the "HTML files" link) it appears the "publicdate" field is recent, in the past few months, so th ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Hi thanks for the info, I had not noticed the Google sponsor category, which I guess makes it official. One thing I don't understand is why the books have such high download counts, as if they have be ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Cool thing to do. Taking it into your own hands.
BTW, It's really obvious that google will soon be getting out of the free PD download business. That would explain why they are not complaining about ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - This is exactly the situation with the Sam's Photofact series. They are charging for viewers to see their material almost all of which is Public Domain. This is why it is critical that this stuff get ... Re: Why isn't Google verifying copyright status of newer works? - You're right-- my mistake. But downloading in-copyright books is not allowed, which makes it all pretty useless, IMO. Just good for browsing. Even if you BUY the book, you're stuck watching it online . ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Yeah, apparently the term "limited" in the Constitution now means 'finite'. Limited means limited though, but because property rights are what this is all about, it's not gonna change.
Actu ... Re: Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb - Most of the latter Google books did not have watermarks on them. Actually all identification can be removed from these images with the right software.
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