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Friday, February 20, 2004

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Apple updates iSight: "That was about time: The iSight 1.0.2 update provides improved auto exposure and auto white balance functionality, enhanced IIDC compliance and better overall performance. The iSight 1.0.2 update is recommended for all iSight users. Tonight I will know whether the low light exposure is better after the update." [vowe dot net]

For me the update worked perfectly. I didn't notice a big improvement in the image quality, but then my room gets a lot of light from two sets of windows. Well, judge for yourself:

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Competencies: "Linux may be heading toward World Domination, but there still are plenty of incumbent legacies (Exchange) that haven't been dominated. There's only one way to deal with them." [Linux Journal]

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My attempt at a meme: "MacMerc posted instructions detailing how to not lose the iTunes / Pepsi promo. It's the most popular thing we've ever published, proving that sugar water and music rule the world." [I <3 Mena]

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Thinking about home: "A few things have cropped up recently to really make me appreciate Tasmania, and I wish I wrote about it a little more. It's hard to appreciate just how special something is when you don't often get to see it from the outside." [synapse]

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Smiles fade at Napster: "Napster is losing money, and top executives have left the company, including its president, chief financial officer, vice president of programming and head of corporate communications as well a key board member. On Wednesday, Roxio began laying off people at its Napster division."

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Blogs, the Media, and Corporate Communications>: "Weblogs aren't just weblogs anymore. I've noticed some very real changes in the last few months--all as a direct result of publishing a weblog: I've been finding myself on more and more PR related mailing lists. I've received numerous solicitations for advertisement on my weblog." [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

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Apple gets it: "Apple has put together a page that lists all of their RSS feeds." [vowe dot net]

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At the Front in the Virus Wars: "When F-Secure's antivirus researcher Katrin Tocheva first spotted the MyDoom virus late in the evening of Jan. 27, she immediately reached out and smacked the monkey that sits near her desk. The monkey is a stuffed toy that screams when hit. F-Secure's antivirus team uses it as an alert signal; when the monkey starts screeching, the team knows there's a new virus or worm on the loose." [Privacy Digest]

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Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions: "The Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent organization which includes 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement accusing the Bush administration of distorting scientific fact and supressing findings to fit administration policy decisions on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry. They also issued a 37-page report detailing the accusations."