Archive for the 'Computers' Category

DRM Sucks (what’s new?)

kill appletv
In short words:

The Apple TV won’t let you play Rental Movies unless you do have a pristine DRM activated Apple TV, and much more worrisome, it doesn’t work without a proper DRM-enabled HDMI connection cable.

Yes it’s true. And I’m not even talking about HD movies.

It doesn’t work [...]


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Blu-ray for Mac

blu-ray
Dear lazyweb (yes, every day I’m getting lazier and more overwhelmed with the amount of information out there), can you please advice us on a Blu-ray burner that is proved to work in the Mac? It’ll connect to a Mac mini intel. We don’t care if it plays [...]


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Flickr Video is a go


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Javascript madness - link list

Mario
* Super Mario in 14kb Javascript (blog.nihilogic.dk)

* Time Machine Javascript (jovianskye.com)


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Microsoft Maps do not exist!

Dear lazyweb. Let me re-do the same question I did six month ago:

Is there anything like Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps, but from Microsoft? I heard about some kind of Virtual Earth or something, but I still can’t find what it is and what is the URL to access it.

I’m trying to find out a [...]


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I multiply spam

well, take three of this soap opera

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Now I’m receiving spam mails from companies with whom iCreate has set a partnership.
Does this mean that iCreate has given away contacts to companies without prior consent ?

Fun facts:
- no way of removing the email from the list in this new spam
- and [...]


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Predictions for Apple’s next Announcement

iPhone 3G
Here’s my 2 cents:

- The iPhone 3G will NOT be announced next week. 3G is still not ready for Apple. It will only be announced after the summer vacations, and sold for the christmas ‘08 season.

- There will be a both a smaller laptop, and a new [...]


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Blu-ray vs. HD DVD

Blu-ray vs. HD DVD
Recently I’ve been thinking about improved offline storage capacity solutions to replace some DVD’s we have (you know, when one gets a Mac, the amount of photos and video data increases tremendously), not because we have no more space at home to store them, but [...]


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Spam in Portugal is not Spam

Um disclaimer num email de spam (unrequested commercial information) no meu endereço Gmail:

“Esta mensagem é enviada sob a nova legislação sobre correio electrónico, art. 22.º do Decreto-lei n.º 7/2004, de 7 de Janeiro, sobre correio electrónico não requisitado. Um email não poderá ser considerado spam quando inclui uma forma [...]


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Revivalism Mode


(Video)

This is a “demo” from Future Crew, called “Second Life” “Second Reality”, and was the winning place at the Assembly contest back in ‘93.

It is a 1MB executable file for MSDOS PC’s, with nine whole minutes of amazing graphics, animations and soundtrack, including multiple different scenes themes in 2D [...]


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