Mac OS X 10.4.4 and iTunes 6.2 Update
Published Wednesday, May 17, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Three things in the Mac OS X 10.4.4 update caught my eye: .Mac now syncs which RSS feed items you have and haven't read in Safari. On the other hand, I am quite pleased that now I no longer have to decide, via the pop-up menu in the lower right hand quadrant of the iTunes window, whether I want to use external speakers via the Airport Express, or my computer's built-in speakers; now there's a third option, that uses both, "Multiple speakers." |
Surprise! The War On Movie Piracy Isn't Working
Published Thursday, May 11, 2006 by Technology Monster.| Software companies and their shill groups have been spreading around reports on the "cost" of piracy, which are made bogus by their assumption that every pirated copy of software equates to a lost sale, which simply isn't the case. The MPAA didn't want to release the study, and it's little wonder why: doing so would not only call into question its previous research, but also be a tacit admission that its "war" on piracy is failing, and failing badly. |
New version of MovableType
Published by Technology Monster.| All seems to have gone well... except my template and stylesheet are thoroughly bolloxed. I've made a termporary switch to the "old" ones, rather than the "new" ones until I can either port my favored old template and style sheet or shift to one with three columns. UPDATE: I decided to ditch the old template, because templates have changed a lot since I started, and move to a new three-column layout. I'm going to be tinkering with my style sheet and template a lot before I'm satisfied. |
Wikimania Takes Over Online Shopping?
Published by Technology Monster.| Overzealous marketers have been using the phrase "it's the Wikipedia of ______" to describe products for a while now, and wikis have had "all the cool kids are doing it" status for a while, so it's not surprising to see people try to shoehorn wikis in all over the place. But the ability to simply delete content with which one doesn't agree is pretty powerful, and somehow the sites' rebuttal that any user can then restore the content doesn't seem to do much to help. |
Another Take-Two Game Gets Re-rated, For Another Third-Party Mod
Published by Technology Monster.| Now, the ESRB, which rates video games, has re-rated another game from a Take-Two subsidiary, boosting the rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from "Teen" to "Mature". The ESRB says that not only did the game's developer under-represent the degree of violence in the game, but also failed to disclose the inclusion of a topless woman in the game, even though, again, it was inaccessible without a third-party mod. |
Sanford Spamford Spyford Wallace Gets Hit With Spyware Fine
Published Wednesday, May 10, 2006 by Technology Monster.| In the early days of spam, there was no spammer more notorious or publicity seeking than Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. He was proud about his spamming and was always seeking more attention for it. In 2004, he was accused of being in the spyware game, tricking people into downloading his fake anti-spyware software by claiming that users had spyware that his software would remove (when it really did the opposite). |
Ubisoft Ditches Starforce... But Looks For A Replacement
Published by Technology Monster.| A couple weeks ago an upset owner of a Ubisoft video game sued the company, claiming the copy protection scheme used on it, made by controversial copy protection software firm Starforce, opened up huge security holes on computers. However, they claim that they're going to replace it with another copy protection scheme, potentially putting themselves right back into the same problematic situation. |
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