http://www.maryseallard.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Digg Firefox 3 Extension from Kevin Rose on Vimeo. It's very cool to see services like Digg taken out of the "website" context and turned into web-wide applications. It's even better to see them enabled in an open-source browser like Firefox, especially when the toolbar is open source. Digg just got a ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/09/digg-uses-firefox-to-extend-its-reach-web-wide/ Maxwell Blecher, an antitrust expert with the Los Angeles firm of Blecher & Collins, agreed that Apple could face legal challenges for bundling if other music vendors are indeed prevented from distributing songs to such a gadget. "Apple is going to argue that they compete with lots of other similar ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/emusic-apples-bundled-music-device-would-be-anti/ See a summary of all my Defensive Computing postings. Agreed. Keep it simple.Don't make assumptions.And never, ever trust tech more than you really have to. Frank Hayes, writing in Computerworld, does a great job recounting how an Excel to PDF conversion resulted in Barclays Capital making a multi-million dollar ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/defensive-computing-for-lawyers/ Torrent Freak offered a translation of the comments made by the director, Harald Zwart, to the Nettavisen.no: Then while eating lunch, a colleague pointed out this commentary by Mike Masnick at TechDirt and I laughed so hard I nearly passed a cheese sandwich through my nostrils: Ah, now ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/all-together-now-long-flat-balls-for-free/ The Windy31 Wireless Broadband router supports the 802.11g standard and can work in one of three modes: as a router (by default), an access point, or as a regular USB Wireless adapter. The best part is it costs about the same as a regular USB wireless adapter. At only ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/windy31-usb-wireless-router-internet-sharing-gets/ India and other countries that voted against Open XML last September attended a Ballot Resolution Meeting last month in Geneva to address technical issues that were raised. Now, countries have until March 29 to change their votes to "yes." By next Saturday, March 29, national standards organizations need to submit their ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/india-still-thumbs-down-on-open-xml/ The company says that CloudStatus will report on service availability, latency, and data throughput. But when things break, it isn't always easy to know why: Is the problem in the application or in the cloud? CloudStatus works with Amazon Web Services now. Hyperic plans to support additional cloud service providers later this ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/hyperic-service-peers-into-amazon-cloud/ A week after some users of Vista Media Centers were prevented from recording two NBC Universal shows, the network acknowledged Monday that it inadvertently blocked some people from recording the shows. "We made an inadvertent mistake," an NBC spokeswoman said in an interview with CNET News.com. "We're not aware of ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/nbc-says-it-inadvertently-flagged-american-gladia/ As with all Woot deals, when this one's gone, it's gone--so don't wait if you're in the market for a remote to control all that hot Media Center action. Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET's Shopper.com. Know how I'm always going on and on about TV tuners ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/add-a-remote-to-your-vista-media-center-for-1499/ Once the official SDK is released in June, it will be interesting to watch how unofficial iPhone development progresses. Apple's restrictions have some carrots attached, such as a powerful distribution vehicle in iTunes and the App Store, which will definitely attract those trying to make a living off the ... http://www.maryseallard.com/index.php/2010/08/oreilly-releases-guide-to-iphone-hacking/