February 2005 - Posts


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The iRiver H10 Junior - iPod Shuffle killer? by Tim Marman

Wow. 2GB, a relatively large color screen, and 60 hours of battery life? This is what the iPod Shuffle should have been (although it remains to be seen what the price will be). Seriously, though, I don't get the iPod Shuffle. Before I bought her an iPod...
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SOLD: Acer C110 Tablet PC by Tim Marman

As many of you know, I've recently upgraded to a Toshiba M200 and, as a result, I'm selling my Acer. The computer is the Acer TravelMate C110TCi, a second-generation Tablet PC. It's a 900MHz Centrino with 512MB RAM and a 40GB hard drive and comes with...
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Community Server 1.0 - Source and conversion tool available by Tim Marman

As good of a day as any - first we get the source and then we get CSverter . I'm already running CS 1.0 on a few other sites and I'm going to try to use Rob's tool to migrate the SlashStar content over. I have a few plans for what I want to do here and...
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The Curse of the Secret Question by Tim Marman

Security expert Bruce Schneier has already warned us about the curse of the secret question ... and that's exactly how Paris Hilton's account was hacked . Syndicated from The Curse of the Secret Question from Loosely Coupled ( RSS )
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Bush states the obvious by Tim Marman

A little stale after sitting in my pile of things to post for over a month, but I immensely enjoyed the following paragraph from an article from CNN. Asked in the Post interview why he thought bin Laden had not been found, Bush replied, “Because...

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Two weeks with the Audiovox SMT5600 (and some pictures) by Tim Marman

After two weeks, I can happily say the love affair with my smartphone continues. Basically, I have almost all the functionality of a Pocket PC in the same form factor as my previous phone. I have had a bit of trouble getting ActiveSync over Bluetooth...
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SHA-1 broken... what does that mean? by Tim Marman

As you've undoubtedly heard, SHA-1 hashing has been “broken”. Bruce Schneier explains what that really means (along with some good background for those unfamiliar with cryptography in general). Basically, this is an interesting (albeit not...
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Are there legal implications of the Google's new AutoLink feature? by Tim Marman

A lot of folks are up in arms about the AutoLink in Google's new beta toolbar (which I mentioned here ). For example, go to select a book at Barnes & Noble. With AutoLink on, the ISBN becomes a link... to Amazon. When you mouse over the link, it shows...

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Google Toolbar 3 - new features include spell-checking. by Tim Marman

Google Toolbar 3 Beta is available for download. Syndicated from Google Toolbar 3 - new features include spell-checking. from Loosely Coupled ( RSS )

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When OneNote becomes ThreeNote by Tim Marman

As is probably pretty obvious, I'm a huge, huge fan and advocate of OneNote. The promise of OneNote is a good one: I used to have many half-filled notepads in addition to notes in different places on my computer. Now, with OneNote, all of my notes are...
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