Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time they crash or upgrade (40)
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Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover it from backup or transfer it to a new PC. Like I said when MSN Music proposed to do the same thing: "All those years the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM attached managed ...
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MikeD said:
Every time this happens it's such a "told you so" moment for the anti-drm movement. First it was the MLB videos, then MSN Music, now Yahoo! Music. Maybe everyone just knew all along.
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tosh said:
see kids, this is why you don't buy music
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Simon said:
DRM is such a horrible idea.
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DeeFresh said:
Yet another project that I worked on shutting down. Apologies to anyone out there who actually bought DRM'd songs from yahoo.
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Rui said:
Hate to say I told you so ...
BlackBerry Media Sync Released, iTunes and RIM Now 2Getha 4Eva [BlackBerry Media Sync] (10)
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With a large enough expansion cards BlackBerries have always been decent media players, but transferring tunes is sort of a pain in the ass. Released today, Media Sync solves this problem, interfacing with your iTunes music collection to automatically transfer selected music and playlists to your BlackBerry. It is currently only available for Windows and doesn't support video or DRMed tracks, but hey, it's a start. [BlackBerry via CrackBerry]
Apple Launching App Store Beta Program (63)
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Apple’s App Store has seen an unprecedented amount of success and exposure since its launch, with millions of total downloads and 909 applications already available. Unfortunately, Apple has been unable to keep up with the influx of submissions from developers (each app must be approved before it appears on the store), leaving many companies frustrated and confused as their apps sit in limbo. Adding to the frustration has been the difficulty associated with testing an ...
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glongman said:
right on!
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Chung said:
apple, just stop trying to control everything!!
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smuggyuk said:
Yet another example of Apple's locking down via iTunes causing problems for the guys they should be looking after in an app program - the developers.
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Haltse said:
Woo Hoo will be able to test, and justify an iPhone:D
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npike said:
This can technically be done now already, each developer is allowed to "provision" the install of his application to 100 different iPhones, given the UUID of that phone. The dev just has to handle all the leg work himself..
More PDF Goodness (1)
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Have you ever wanted to capture the contents of an entire web page? Screenshots won’t work when the page is larger than the screen so what do you do? Firefox users now have the ability to save a web page as a PDF document using the just released PDF Download plugin. This tool allows us to save an entire web page - layout, images, text and even hyperlinks - as a PDF document with one ...
Welcome to Shredding The Document (1)
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“Just what the world needs. Another technology blog…” With the recent launch of Acrobat 9, a few of us on the Acrobat Product Management team thought now would be a good time to hang up our shingle on the crowded wall of the blogosphere and begin to share with you all some of the thought process which went into Acrobat 9 as well as how the product may evolve moving forward. More after the break…“What’s ...
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Richard said:
“Why, again, do we need another technology blog?” Perhaps because Nitro has been doing one for a while ...
Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool (23)
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Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.
Google Gear Offline Functionality to Be Expanded to Gmail and Calendar (2)
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Bloggers are reporting that Google will be making both Gmail and Google Calendar accessible offline within the next six weeks thanks to Google Gears, which currently enables offline access to Google Reader and Google Docs. The addition of Gmail and Calendar to Google Gears isn't much of a surprise. Google accidentally enabled the option in Google Calendar recently and confused users with Gears-related pop-ups. The "announcement" was made via the Twitter feed of Andrew Fogg, ...
Is This The Future Of Search? (171)
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The video above shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. Earlier today we showed a screen shot of the interface and a video of the search history, recorded by Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango. This new video, however, shows the full Google search experience with a very Digg-like interface. Users vote search results up or down - a down vote makes it dissapear with a ...
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kliger said:
the mahalo killer because it is a much more intelligent and flexible implementation of human intervention in the search process
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Icefreez said:
I wouldn't mind comments on several billion websites to help me to find better sites :)
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Kells Nollenberger said:
This looks really cool.
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Jeff A Coon said:
Pretty amazing changes in the works for Google Search, combining aspects of Digg with Search. Nice short video to check this out.
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Chris said:
Wow! I really like this. Hope it becomes active for everyone soon.
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Emon said:
Very cool!
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Haidong said:
There are some secret projects in Google, maybe this is one of those. I know they have a whole bunch of ideas for the next generation of google. By the way, I've seen this "tatango" CTO for several times. This is pretty good marketing and SEO strategy.
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Richard said:
reminds me a little of friendfeed
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Tekla said:
Diggle? Goog? What's up with that?
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Alisher said:
Круто. Еще бы френдование добавили. С опцией смотреть комментарии моих друзей - эта штука была бы просто идеальна!
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Coxymoney said:
Wow...
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Garrett said:
interesting video of where google search is going.
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jaehyun said:
난 괜찮은거 같애. 이런 개인화 검색결과 에디팅.
Google Docs Templates Directory (29)
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Google released a layout templates directory for Google Docs*, the application suite consisting of Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations (Google’s kind of web-based light-weight Word, Excel and PowerPoint). You can sort templates by target application, like Spreadsheets, or by category, like “Resumes” or “Personal Finance”. Then you can look at a preview and if you like a style, hit the “Use this template” button to fill it with your own content. Google Presentations since some ...
Apple apologizes for its MobileMe mess, admits bungle on "push," offers 30-days free (27)
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Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops After six long days, Apple has issued an official statement on the debacle that was / is the MobileMe transition, and has offered a 30-day extension to contracts as an olive branch to disgruntled users. According to a form letter being sent to subscribers, the company openly admits that the switch to MobileMe was "a lot rockier than hoped," and claims that the service is now running smoothly. Additionally (and ...
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thelastminute said:
oops
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Derick Valadao said:
Since when did companies start getting responsible for service issues? MS just did that with Xbox Live 5 months ago... now Apple?
Sony VAIO hands-on extravaganza (2)
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Filed under: Laptops Sony really bumped out a whole lot of laptop today, but we got a chance to handle each and every one, and came away impressed -- perhaps not blown away, but Sony certainly doesn't seem to be planning on letting the likes of Lenovo run away with the PC laptop design crown. None of the laptops felt astounding light, but they did all feel rather solid to handle, as if crafted out ...
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Richard said:
Time for Apple to update their MacBook Pros. They're starting to look pretty old and tired next to laptops like these.
Penis Builder Brings Wrong Images, Potential Fatal Accidents - NSFW [Wrongmodo] (6)
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So this morning you and your manhood woke up in bed, alone again, thinking, "really, what can I do to improve this? Perhaps I need a "penis bodybuilding" apparatus that makes my outer self grow to infinity and beyond with ease and without pain? A slingshot-like device that attaches to my underpants? Is that really it? " Of course it is! Because we all know that the key for a man's happiness is a penis ...
EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games [IPhone Games] (5)
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The three games we already saw on the iPhone from EA are Scrabble, Tetris and Sudoku. Scrabble is getting Wi-Fi upgrade for multiplayer plus accelerometer action that shakes up the words on your tray. Tetris is getting a feature where you can actually draw the upcoming piece righ
