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Apple released iTunes 8 to the public on Tuesday. As a major iTunes user, I was more curious about this than the new iPods, the details of which we have known for a while. While iTunes 8 is certainly not a major update, there are some interesting new features.
First of all, the much-touted Genius functionality. [...]
In case you live under a rock, the RIAA is the Recording Industry Association of America.
If you didn’t know, they like to sue people. A lot. In fact, that seems to be their favorite pastime these days.
Don’t get me wrong - I am a fan of copyright protections. I know they protect artists and the [...]
One of my favorite new features of Firefox 3 is the Smart Location Bar, which allows users to recall not only their typed URL history, but also their bookmarks and page titles. The behavior of the bar can be tweaked to suit your needs. First of all, let me say that one of the features [...]
Firefox 3 is a terrific web browser. The most useful new feature to me has got to be the Smart Location Bar.
It’s like a typical Address Bar on steroids. I can type in a word or part of a word and be greeted not only with URLs containing the text in question, but also links [...]
This site may be up, down or have no css for the next couple days. Basically, when the domain was renewed, the hosting was renewed (and apparently transferred to my zackrippy.NET account, which was always just a parked redirect. They are in the process of fixing it, but it could take a day or two [...]
Most people familiar with BitTorrent assume that its primary appeal is to those who illegally share music, movies and other copyrighted works. While I have no doubt that is true, here is a great example of an enterprising IT staff harnessing BitTorrent for productive purposes.
INHOLLAND University used BitTorrent to distribute 3.5GB of patches to 6,500 [...]
I’ve always been a fan of Microsoft’s Power Toys applications. They’re quick and dirty productivity or enhancement tools. They are (were) tools by Microsoft developers that were made available “as-is” without official support from Microsoft itself. One of my favorites was the Image Resizer. It offered an easy way to resize images from your right-click [...]
Because I am huge history nerd, I occasionally (OK, frequently) visit websites like the National Archives and the Library of Congress. While browsing our nation’s library, I noticed this posting, announcing that the Library of Congress recently uploaded over 3,000 images to Flickr.
There are currently two photo sets - 1930s-40s in Color and News in [...]
This is certainly not a definitive guide to archiving or storing digital audio. This is just an overview of what I do with my library.
Since I first started storing music digitally, MP3 has been my format of choice. It is not open source, but a.) it is the ubiquitous digital audio format and b.) I [...]
An application tries to make an RPC call on a Windows 2003 Server and generates the following error:
There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper
Solution? Enable the Windows Firewall Service.
Can someone please tell me why I have to enable the Windows Firewall Service for [...]