RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest for Thursday, June 25th, 2009:

Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four microSDs In RAID [Storage]
ASUS G60 gaming laptop rolls out, gets examined
Apple sued for 30¢ $5
Michael Jackson dies of cardiac arrest
U.K. Employs ‘Naughty Boys’ to Battle Other Hackers
Microsoft to bridge earth and Windows Azure
Obama fills FCC seats
Xbox 360: 1 vs 100 available to Silver Xbox Live members this weekend
Mozilla IT: Mozilla Scheduled Downtime – 06/25/2009, 7pm PDT (0200 – 0600 06/26/2009 UTC)
What PC makers are paying for Windows 7
TPB denied retrial, decision final
Australian ‘Net filter to block video games, too
National Handshake Day? More Like National Barricade Yourself In Your House And Don’t Go Outside Day
Generate a .lib from a DLL with Visual Studio | Code Retard
Students create portable IED-detection system
Ballmer says offline media is dead, keeps mum on Microsoft’s offline software
AT&T’s iPhone App Brings Remote DVR Scheduling To U-Verse Customers [IPhone Apps]
NoPorn: Apple removes “Hottest Girls” from the App Store
The Twitter Cycle: Curiosity, Abandonment, Addiction. Global Visitors Hit 37 Million.
WWIII With USB [USB]
Consumers still not sold on Blu-ray
Creating worthless copyright “consensus”: Canada’s case study
Putting the Outlook 2010 HTML issue in perspective
Microsoft announces Win 7 pricing, special pre-order price
Benjamin Smedberg: Help needed: Firefox crashing on AMD K6 and other old processors
Stoned wallabies responsible for crop circles
Water-cooled Aquasar supercomputer does math, heats dorm rooms
SSD Video Camera
35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever [Music]
Apocalypse Not: Behind the Swine Flu Hysteria
Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us!

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Apple, Asus, Azure, Ballmer, Beta, Browser, Firefox, Hackers, iPhone, LED, Microsoft, Mobile, Mozilla, Obama, OEM, Photofast, Samsung, SSD, Twitter, UK, Windows 7, Xbox 360

RSS Digest for Friday, June 19th, 2009:

Zune HD has a Tegra processor, confirms official Zune podcast
Some iPhone activations delayed up to 2 days
Affordable Austin: No Longer a Tech Mecca
Palm webOS 1.0.3 update now available
8 Gadgets For Meddling Bastards [Tgif]
10 hidden features in iPhone OS 3.0
Microsoft extends XP downgrade option for OEMs to 2011
Paul Rouget: Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course: Hack and learn
Hello! There Are More Than Just iPhones In This Universe! [Smartphones]
ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID – Part 2
Sony CEO Stringer: It’s the Network, Stupid
Finally, a way to simultaneously mount all your favorite gadgets in the car
Activision leaving PS3, PSP? Doubtful, but threat remains
iFixit tears down the 3G S
John Biggs, major Internet media figure, gets his iPhone 3G S
Dell Vostro 1220 leaks out, looks as cool as it sounds
Viliv X70 preorder deals announced by Dynamism
Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy Buy It’s NESessary [Gaming]
Competitive US wireless market? New FCC may give new answer
Activision to drop Sony PS3, PSP support?
Attack On a Significant Flaw In Apache Released
Colbert takes swipe at Microsoft, Project Natal
Amazon code release irrelevant, Kindle is still closed
Will Google Wave reshape enterprise IT?
I Want This Now [Robots]
Samsung’s SMX-C14 camcorder now beautifying stores in Korea
GearDeal: The Kramer classic artwork – .49
Is it Even Summer Yet?
Yahoo! sells off Contests.com for a surprising low price
Xbox 360 Arcade now shipping with 512MB memory
Pixar Grants Girl’s Dying Wish With Home Viewing of ‘Up’
How Science Fiction Writers Can Help, or Hurt, Homeland Security
June 19, 1964: ‘Twilight Zone’ Fades Into Twilight Zone

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: ACLU, Activision, amazon, Apache, Apple, Dell, FCC, Google, Homeland Security, iPhone, Kramer, Microsoft, Mozilla, NES, Nintendo, OEM, Palm, Pixar, PS3, PSP, Robots, Samsung, Sony, Summer, Twilight Zone, Viliv, WIndows, Windows 7, Xbox 360, XP, yahoo, Zune

RSS Digest for Thursay, June 18th, 2009:

OEMs, partners can’t brand Windows 7 Starter either
Panasonic releases 85-inch plasma display
Safa rolls out accelerometer-equipped G3 PMP
Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to Brin
Pre-order Halo 3: ODST and get Sgt. Johnson later
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty
What’s the Best Hard Drive Enclosure to Buy?
Bluetooth enabled dress lights-up for incoming calls
A facelift for Facebook in-boxes, but is it enough?
Smaller reactor design for fusion may work in a “pinch”
Wired on the Race for Netflix’s Million-Dollar Prize
Super Talent’s MasterDrive SX SSDs would go great with an old MacBook Pro
Google revs up smart charging for plug-ins
Big Opportunities for Semiconductors in LED Lighting: Report
GPS Device + Web Access = Never Get Lost Again
People are still using Bing.com a few weeks later
LG-NComputing promise: 11 users, 1 PC
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Application ID
new firefox logos
TweetDeck Update Adds Multi-Column iPhone Client, Account Sync
Rock-on with some concrete speakers
The Young Entrepreneur Stereotype Bites the Dust
Motorola’s Endeavor HX1 Bluetooth headset packs ‘true’ bone conduction technology, modicum of style
Trick for enabling MMS on the iPhone – UPDATE
Tenenbaum P2P circus: judge’s “indulgence is at an end”
How to Play Chess on Twitter
Microsoft beating Mozilla…in open-source licensing
Windows 7 licensing situation a “disaster” for businesses?
StarForce DRM making a comeback?
Opera Unite Web Server Benchmarked

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

Tags: Apple, Bluetooth, Concrete, Dress, DRM, Enclosure, Facebook, Firefox, Fusion, G3, Google, GPS, Halo, Hard Drive, iPhone, LED, Microsoft, MMS, Motorola, Mozilla, Netflix, OEM, Open Source, Opera, p2p, Panasonic, plasma, RIAA, Science, Speakers, Twitter, Windows 7

There is one thing that annoys me worse than activation… That one thing is how many OEM computer makers DON’T include install/restore discs.

So far I got two machines that required burning of recovery media and didnt even include a real windows disc.  Restore discs are bad enough as it is but having to burn them your self is even worse.

Many people buy a new computer and use it without making the restore discs and when they get infected the trashed system is no longer capable of making the discs leaving them in a tough situation. In that case all the user can do is buy a windows disc or pay for the restore media from the OEM that built their machine. Often the OEM charges for the discs.

The most over looked issue also is that the don’t include windows install discs any more. That is a major issue since many of the OEM installs are unstable after you remove the crapware. Even more so you can’t use System File Checker if you don’t got a windows disc.

OEM machine builders should be charged for not including install/restore media since it should a crime to punish the users.

Anyway this rant is over and I better stop before I go to far

Tags: disc, install, Machine, OEM, Restore, WIndows