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July 22, 2005
Just came across a nice link for replacement firmware for my iHp-140 where you can Game Boy On Your iRiver iHP-140 ... :-) LOL
Following intense pressure from politicians and media watch groups the big time seller and austrian game production "GTA San Andreas" was rated "Adult-only" in the United States with such nice quotes like from Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton, who said
she was disturbed the sexual content appeared on store shelves in the first place
She asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and called on the Entertainment Software Rating Board to do more to police game content.
What a mess - the adult content could be unlocked with some internet-downloads - a crack...
In a country where alcohol is allowed from 21, weapons can be bought at 18 and cars may even be driven to death at 17 I really wonder why so many jerks can freak out about some naked tities in a video game... I guess this was strongly influenced by porn laws being tightened in the last months...
July 20, 2005
I just came across the Asus WL-700g Marketing Specifications - ASUS' new wireless storage router - supporting one internal IDE interface for 3.5 inch IDE disk and 3 USB 2.0 ports for high speed USB disk, USB Printer, Web Camera or Speaker.
With embedded BitTorrent (BT) "download machine" and web server, users can download data from the Internet and share their own data to the world... the killer product for users of unlimited DSL lines.
- USB RAID. Support RAID 0 to expand internal IDE disk and external USB disk into one user-level partition. Support RAID 1 to online-mirror data of IDE disk into USB disk.
- Simultaneous NFS/CIFS/FTP/Web Access support.
- Download machine also supports Gnutella/Fasttrack/OpenFT support.
- SPI firewall, DOS protection, DMZ
July 12, 2005
the Free SkypeOut Days are a nice promo by skype to show users how cool it is to phone to normal wire phones from their internet Pc...
We wish every day could be a Free SkypeOut Day, but that would make us bankrupt. So our accountant says we can have 4 of them this month.
The simple idea to record a phone call for "quality assurance" purpose or just to use it to type an interview should work perfect with such a crisp clear phone soltion as Skype. I found a couple of people already went to great lengths to describe and discuss possible solutions:
- Bill created a multi-page, full color PDF tutorial on using the VAC (virtual audio cables) software for $40 to create a setup with multiple running Skypes on one machine ... he speaks about creating hard restore points in WinXP to get rid of the demo version, so I don't really have much trust in this solution - as it also sound quite complicated to setup
But his introduction is a very clear and motivating one
Many friends and colleagues have experienced the clarity of Skype with me. This same group also wants to go Podcasting. From Poets to Panels creating Podcasts from a lonely Windows PC seemed impossible. Well... turns out it isn't. Now you can interview, record and become the next big broadcasting stars on the Internet. This solution enables
- Total Recorder is a virtual sound card driver software that should enable you to record every sound on your PC and a friend of mine already used that software in older version for recording audio streams ... for the price of $11.95 for the standard version this should be a fine solution - and the highcriteria developers seem to work actively with Skype users on resolving issues
- in the Skype User Forum a couple of other products SuperMP3Recorder, HotRecorder, Pamela Professional that could be alternatives in the future
I'll start with TotalRecorder now...