October 2006 - Posts

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More Dell Tablet rumors - Spring 2007? by Tim Marman

We had rumors of a Dell Tablet back in July 2004, but of course those rumors stayed rumors. I said then that a Dell tablet was "obviously a big step in taking the tablet to the masses." It looks like those rumors have resurfaced again . According to GBM...
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Streaming video to XBOX 360... without Media Center by Tim Marman

The Fall Dashboard Update has been announced and is bringing a ton of changes. The one that really caught my eye is that "[i]t is now possible to stream WMV video from a Windows PC running Windows Media Player 11 or Windows Media Connect." It's about...
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The tradeoffs of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by Tim Marman

As part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that Congress passed last year, Daylight Savings Time will be extended by four weeks. One of the rationales behind DST is that we leverage the longer daylight hours in the summer months to minimize the need for...
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Our Trip to Pittsburgh by Tim Marman

Tara and I went back to Pittsburgh for her birthday a couple of weeks back. It was a very short trip - we flew out early on Saturday morning and flew back at 7 am for work and school on Monday. I proposed to her at dinner and, though it took her what...
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TWiL is finally out, and it's excellent by Tim Marman

The first episode of TWiL (This Week in Law), Denise Howell 's new podcast on the TWiT network, is (finally) out . It is excellent, which should come as no surprise given how good her previous efforts with Bag and Baggage and Sound Policy were. This episode...
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Blackberry 8700g, T-Mobile Dash and a leak in my system by Tim Marman

In July, I switched from my beloved Audiovox SMT5600 to a Blackberry 8700g. Part of the reason for the switch is that I wanted EDGE and I wanted a keyboard, but I wasn't happy with the phones out at the time on either GSM network here. I bought my slightly...
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Taxing Virtual Economies? by Tim Marman

A congressional committee is exploring the idea of taxing in-game virtual economies . This is not a tax on the sale of video games themselves ( especially violent ones ), nor is it a tax on the sale of virtual assets in a real market like eBay. As Mike...
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Free Fonts! by Tim Marman

Seth Godin confesses his love for typefaces , calling them "design in a little tiny box". Seth points to Urban Fonts and dafont as two great, free resources. I'd like to add my favorite to the list: Abstract Fonts . They have one of the slickest interfaces...
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Shame as DRM by Tim Marman

A German music download service is allowing customers to download unencrypted MP3 files, instead relying on embedded watermarks to discourage copying . The music store sells MP3 files which can be played on almost any digital music player, but adds a...
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Google bought the brand, not the technology by Tim Marman

Scoble says Google bought YouTube because it "realized it couldn’t make its own video service look as cool as YouTube." As I said before, Google was buying YouTube's audience and/or employees, not the technology . After listening to the Google-YouTube...
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