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Tuesday, August 5, 2003
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Another quantum leap for Apple with flawless videoconferencing tool : "iChat AV isn't the first videoconferencing tool, but it's the first to flawlessly integrate multimedia into the chat model. [...] I go a step further, and assert that iChat AV is an improvement on the telephone itself. What if you picked up your handset, scrolled to a friend's name and photo, and even before dialing you knew that he was near the phone and had time to talk?" [via Macminute.com]
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Switched to Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh -- Comment()
I have been using Virex on my PowerBook, but today I installed Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh. Virex was awkward to keep up-to-date. I hope Norton is better. At least the user interface seems better, and there are more possibilities for scanning files for viruses.
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Testing iSight with iChat AV, ohphoneX, EvoCam etc. -- Comment()
I have decided to do some testing of different software products in use with iSight. Also, I have to check how to make a videoconference to Windows, taking care of all firewall settings etc. I wonder if Apple will providie H.323 compatibility in iChat AV at some point?
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Where "Think Different" Is Taking Apple: "Rather than accept being a niche PC maker, Steve Jobs is transforming his baby into a high-end consumer-electronics and services company. By Jane Black" (BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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The Foreigner's Guide to Finland: "First thing to know: Finland is not part of Soviet Union, although Russia is a neighbor - so are Sweden and Norway. Only the northernmost Finland is covered by glaciers, and polar bears are not common in the southern part of the country. Reindeer and lapps also live only in the northern part of the land." [via JMTee's Noteworthy Weblog > visakopu.net]
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Purchased EvoCam to be used with iSight -- Comment()
I purchased a copy of Evocam to use with the iSight camera. Works perfectly. I tested the internal web server of EvoCam, and the video capture did indeed stream, even to a Windows machine running Internet Explorer. I had to switch EvoCam to the port 8081, however, because Radio Userland was using 8080. And I had to allow connections to port 8081 throught the build-in firewall of Mac OS X. (I disabled the web server after testing.) There are a lot of interesting possibilites in EvoCam, motion sensors etc., have to test these a bit more. But now I can have a look at my office even when I'm not there.
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iSight working fine -- Comment()
I had trouble getting iSight to work, and at first I had to use a thicker Firewire cable instead of the original (Apple is sending a replacement for the cable, though). I decided meanwhile to use the Firewire cable from my iPod. Now iSight works perfectly, because this Apple Firewire cable fits the holder of the camera as well as the original cable.
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I hereby create the word 'shlogging': "Shlogging = a word to identify Shock Blogging, or blogging for shock value. It's not necessarily a bad thing and you've got to admit it's everywhere and usually fun, to say the least. And it's not always the shlogger's intent to be shocking. Sometimes, it's just the subject matter that induces that ol' kneejerk reaction." [jenett.radio]
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Head over to the Scientist: 'A more immediate question for many life scientists is whether they need to hire a bioinformatician. Unless a lab is heavily invested in problems that require intensive use of bioinformatics, the database builders say the answer is, probably not yet. For now, Birney suggests looking for "a geeky graduate student who is up to the job," or three or four labs can get together to share a scientist who has bioinformatics expertise. That person will need to learn Perl, Java, or Python (programming languages that are easier to use than C++) when setting up a lab database or linking lab data to a large database for internal use.' [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog]
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Linux copyright row escalates: "The biggest distributor of the open source computer system is suing a company trying to claim ownership over part of Linux." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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RIAA More Powerful Than Police: "Here's why the record industry is now more powerful than police. [...] police must show probable cause that a crime has been committed before they can get a judge's permission to search your home for evidence, or subpoena you to appear in court. But under the federal Digital Millenium Copyright Act, all the RIAA has to do is file paperwork with a court clerk to get a subpoena [...]" [On Lisa Rein's Radar]
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Blood-powered "human batteries": 'Researchers at Panasonic's Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Japan are developing a way to draw power from blood glucose -- mimicking the way the body produces energy from food. The result could be a device capable of producing electricity from blood, effectively turning bodies into "human batteries". The estimated power output per person? Around 100 watts, or enough to turn on an average lightbulb.' [Boing Boing Blog]
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