By now you have heard about the new “standard” feed icon that is going to be used by Microsoft and Mozilla. Problem is that Safari and Opera still have their own icon. Here is an installer that will swap about the blue RSS icon in Safari and replace it with the new feed icon. Read more »
This is a cool use for RSS. You can go to this site, enter a tracking number and who the package is shipped with, and it will generate an RSS feed of the tracking status for you. Ben Hammersley did something like this a while back with FedEx’s tracking facility. This site offers UPS, the Postal Service, FedEx, and it looks like they are maybe going to offer DHL soon. Read more »
Today, Forever Geek passed a milestone, we passed the 2500 entries mark. This was the 2500th story. This is the currently the 2504th story, and there have been 12722 comments averaging at around 5 comments per story. We have also had 938 TrackBacks. We hope that you continue reading here, and hope that we can provide you with 2500 more quality posts. Thanks again. Read more »
If you’re one of those 90′s CD collectors, and you want to update your technology, you’re in luck. Millennium Music is offering to give you an iPod if you give them your old music CDs. All you have to do is ship them your CDs, and they will value them based on physical condition. The conversions of CDs to iPod is here: 45 CDs = 512 MB iPod Shuffle 65 CDs = 1 GB iPod Shuffle 85 CDs = 2 GB iPod Nano 110 CDs = 4 GB Nano 130 CDs = 30 GB iPod 175 CDs = 60 GB iPod If you don’t have that many CDs, you can Read more »
The US Government has posted a torrent file on one of their .gov domain names. The torrent file is for a program, Worldwind. It’s the first known torrent file posted on any government website. The torrent file can be downloaded here. Read more »
Griffin Technology has released another version of its popular iTrip addon for iPods. This newest addition, the iTrip Auto, not only allows you to listen to your iPod on your car stereo, it also charges it at the same time. iTrip Auto, the newest addition to the iTrip lineup, is the most versatile iTrip to date, accommodating every dock connector iPod, including iPod nano and 5th Generation iPods with video. iTrip Auto combines Griffin’s renowned FM transmitter technology with an integrated charger. Designed specifically for use in the car, iTrip Auto’s large, easy-to-read backlit LCD screen affords quick, precise station selection and easy status at a glance. iTrip Auto uses Read more »
Looks like the DivX browser plug-in project has been revived. They released an Active-X control a while back that seemed to be well received. Now they have come back with a newer version that supports more than just IE, although it is still a Windows-only plug-in. After receiving lots of great feedback last year on our experimental ActiveX control for Internet Explorer that played high quality DivX videos from the web live inside the browser, we decided to rewrite a fully featured DivX Browser Plug-In from scratch – cleaner, leaner, meaner than before, and here it is! The newest version of the plug-in now supports: Internet Explorer (5.0 and above) Read more »
While I do believe this is pretty far-fetched, Insider Scoop is claiming that Microsoft puts up $715 to manufacture every XBox 360 console, meaning they lose $315 – $415 excluding shipping costs. That would mean that they would have to sell 6 – 8 Microsoft games before they broke even, or have 6-8 years of Xbox Live subscription. BusinessWeek estimates that Microsoft is losing $126 per console. Read more »
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) have created a way in which to transfer data between people and electronic devices. The technology uses transceivers called RedTaction to create a safe network transmission path, which in turn creates a HAN (Human Area Network). The technology isn’t slow either, it is able to transfer at 2Mbps. HAN is ready to ship for next year and will probably revolutionize the way you can transfer files. Imagine going to work and touching a pole, allowing you to receive all the files that you need to work on for the day. Or imagine going to your friend’s house, and transfering all their songs to your Read more »
A writer at Java Developer Journal has found out that Microsoft has a sense of humor. This writer was reading an End-User License Agreement for Microsoft Desktop Operating Systems, with an excerpt that contains the following: “The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed, manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines , or weapon systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to death, Read more »
