19 Canned At Gawker–Is New Media Really Just Old Media Without A Press?
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It’s not often Matt Drudge posts a headline about a company laying off fewer than 20 workers–especially nowadays. announcement 19 employees would be released while the company would ditch its traffic based writer bonus payments and readjust its priorities. Gawker’s announcement is more important than just the 19 jobs lost because of [...]
Hands On: GIMP 2.6 Is Out
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The geekily quirky, unfortunately named, a few days ago, it’s getting more and more difficult to know what’s significant based solely on the naming and numbering scheme. GIMP.org says, “GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view.” I’ll treat it that way.
which is the current image manipulation [...]
Microsoft’s ‘DeepFish’ Mobile Browser Deep-Sixed
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Rarely does a news announcement sneak by the blogosphere, but it appears that the demise of the Microsoft has done so.
In a on Microsoft’s Live Labs site, Microsoft said that the market has “caught up” to where it was going with Deepfish, and that there was no need to continue the program. [...]
eBook Hood: Find and Convert Files to Audio Books
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If you commute to the office or school, you know that the trip can be boring–and a little entertainment goes a long way. Some decent reading material can take the edge off, and is designed to provide plenty of options.
The service offers hundreds of free eBooks that you can download and read on [...]
PlisTube: Create Video Playlists of Your Favorite Artists
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When you visit YouTube and look for music videos from your favorite artists, you’re usually opening new tabs or windows for each video that you want to watch, so you don’t lose your search results. If you do lose them, you either have to go back, perform a new search, or rely on the [...]
Apple Software Updates Bring Genius, HDTV to Apple TV
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Apple today rolled out updates to iTunes and to Apple TV software. Both offer for the popular software, but rest assured: Those are in the mix as well.
iTunes 8.0.1 offers a fix to Apple’s recently introduced Genius feature by keeping the current song playing while the user creates a playlist. The update also syncs [...]
Report: Internet Loves Obama Six Times More Than McCain
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Before you get ready to fire off yet more angry email, bear in mind that I am merely your friendly tech messenger here to relay the findings of an online market intelligence provider .
In its latest study titled “Searching for the Next President: the Internet’s impact on McCain vs. Obama”, the company reports that [...]
YouTube Revamps Uploader Site, Allows 1GB Files
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YouTube has made public a revamped version of its video uploader.
Most notably, the upgrade increases the video site’s file-size limit from 100MB to 1GB. It will also allow users to upload multiple files at once without downloading a plug-in. Instead, YouTube will display separate progress bars for each file.
The changes will also allow users [...]
Limit Space Used by Windows Resource Protection
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Q: In Windows XP, hundreds of megabytes are stored in the C:\Windows\Sytem32\dllcache folder by the Windows File Protection feature. I always deleted all of them and created a new folder that stored only 50MB This saved a lot of space on my hard disk. I have never found any problems or instabilities, although these files [...]
House OKs Web Radio Royalty Rate Compromise
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Amid the bailout frenzy on Capitol Hill this weekend, the House on Saturday passed a bill that would give its blessing to any compromise reached between Internet radio stations and copyright holders over royalty fees.
“There may now be a light at the end of the tunnel in the fight over Internet radio royalties,” bill [...]
