August 15, 2005 — Tech News and Analysis

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The Feedster Top 500

Feedster has just announced Feedster 500 list. Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster writes, “We used the algorithm that we thought best for this first-pass at the Feedster Top 500 blogs list. It is a ranking of the blogs with the most inbound links over… Read More »

+ Sprint EVDO in Bay Area is partially working, perhaps beating out the good ole Verizon which is likely to power it up in the Bay Area in the third week of September 2005. + Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to shed light on San Francisco’s free… Read More »

 
 

Introducing DTV: Internet TV

DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library. Our publishing software lets you broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost. The project… Read More »

DeathWatch – McLeodUSA

Chief Executive Officer Chris Davis and Chief Financial Officer Ken Burckhardt resigned from McLeodUSA. They are short on cash and well now the executives are jumping ship. And it is pretty clear that the company is on a death watch Read More »

The Lambda Network Project is a glimpse into the future when everything is tied over a network that zips bits at speeds of 10 gigabits per second. I wrote about this back when I worked at Red Herring. Like the first generation educational networks led… Read More »

AOL going WAOL

I mean, AOL has launched its wireless portal. Excellent! Read More »

WindowsVista on a Tablet PC screen shots

The Microsoft Tablet PC team has released some screen shots of the WindowsVista beta running on a Tablet PC.  No information was provided indicating what model Tablet PC was used. The images below show the floating TIP icon on the left side of the screen, the… Read More »

Blinkx has audio and video search capablities, so it makes absolute sense. Read More »

UNEASYsilence has posted detailed instructions including screen shots and video for putting the OS X developer’s edition onto an Intel box.  Cool to see OS X running on an Intel-based notebook computer. Read More »

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated in a recent interview on ITP.net that the Tablet and Media Center editions will “join the premium editions” of the WindowsVista family.  Ballmer went on to remark that Windows XP Pro “drove literally billions of dollars of revenue growth versus… Read More »

Great ActiveWords series

ActiveWords is a program that is often spoken of in zealous fashion by those who use it because it does what it does very well.  ActiveWords lets you perform actions that can be a single function or a complex script, all with just a simple… Read More »

More Must Reads

Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal recently reviewed the great note-taking app, EverNote.  EverNote is an innovative note-taking and organization program that makes use of a time-band for locating any nugget of information you might need to find.  If you’re lucky enough to… Read More »

Good question… anyanswers? Read More »

Interesting take on the twoproponents of tagging. Read More »

In the “better late than never” category I am excited to announce that Josh Einstein’s great program Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (TEO) has topped the 10,000 downloads mark on Tablet PC Post.  In fact it’s now over 10,500 downloads for the super program.  Josh… Read More »

Microsoft has a free PowerToy that does not show up anywhere on the Microsoft Download Center yet provides a simple way to mount ISO images.  The Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP will mount a number of CD image formats, including the popular ISO,… Read More »

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