Mon July 26 2004
RealNetworks cracks iPod's DRM! |
05:21 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Portable Audio/Video After having failed to persuade Apple to license the iTunes Music Store DRM system, Real Networks has decided to simply reverse engineer the proprietary copy protection. Real will this week issue a beta release of Harmony, a Rosetta Stone for DRM, that promises to allow users to convert one copy-protection mechanism to another. You can read the full press release here. Apple has not yet commented on Harmony, and is probably waiting to see exactly what the software can do before responding. |
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Sun July 25 2004
Study - Paper or Pixels: What are People Reading Online? |
06:49 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News This survey from Wichita State U evaluates the reading habits of Internet users across five document types - journal articles, news, newsletters, literature, and product information. The (not so suprising) results: - Journal articles were primarily reported to be read in printed form; |
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Symbian BookWorm |
06:32 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management Symbian BookWorm is an eBook building software and reader for Sony Ericsson P800, P900 and P910 mobile smart phones. It can build from any text document by a simply cut and paste into the book builder software. You can then automatically have the software detect the chapters or enter them yourself manually. BookWorm currently sells for $19.95 and can be purchase from Handango . |
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Sat July 24 2004
Palm dominates Pocket PC at Chess |
04:10 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones For the first time ever, a Palm chess program is dominating all other After 42 games between Palm chess Hiarcs (the strongest Palm chess And according to the developer, Palm Hiarcs is beating other Palm chess programs like Chess Tiger and Chess Genius by even greater margins. Does that mean Palm-based PDA's are smarter than PPC? |
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PocketUAE - First Amiga emulator for PPC |
04:06 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones This is perhaps one of the most anticipated PPC emulator ports. Ismail Khatib has made available the first Commodore Amiga emulator that runs on your small PPC screen. It features everything UAE-based emulators have to offer, such as support for up to 4 Floppy Drives, emulation for 68000/010/020/040 CPU, optionally a 68881 FPU, OCS, ECS and AGA Graphics Chipset (including sprite-playfield collisions, up to 2MB Chip RAM and up to 8MB Fast RAM, or 8MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM, up to 64MB Zorro III Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only), up to 1MB Slow RAM, for extended compatibility with problem software, a hard-disk: either a harddisk image file or part of the native filesystem, and Mouse and Joystick support (Stylus and D-Pad on PocketPC). Keyboard support is still buggy, and a GUI is not available yet (so you cannot change disc images while Pocket UAE is running). Side fact: the first Amiga (Amiga 1000) was presented in New York City exactly 19 years ago (July 23 1985). |
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Fri July 23 2004
Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 revealed at FCC! |
07:08 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Fcc.gov turns out to be one of my favorite "latest geek" news sources Their site now reveals (manuals, photos, specs) some exciting highlights of the new Fujitsu-Siemens Loox 720 PocketPC. Aside from the great 3.6" 640x480 high resolution display, this PPC will have built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, USB2.0, and it will be powered by an Intel PXA272 520MHz processor. |
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Thu July 22 2004
the Jackito: the first *TDA* |
02:55 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones [Links from Slashdot] |
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Tue July 20 2004
Perform surgery on your Palm and drastically increase battery life! |
01:37 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones I hadn't been to the Brighthand Palm forums in a long time, so I recently went to peruse. Lo and behold, there is an incredible (and incredibly long) thread on upgrading your Tungsten battery and squeezing a lot more life out of it. A lot is made of the complexity, but if you have any basic soldering and electronics skills, it sounds simple. I am planning to replace my T|E battery (stock at 850 mAh) with a more powerful one (1200 mAh) and will try to document the procedure for the benefit of all. If you have ever cursed your battery length and you've got a steady hand and a brave heart, this is a thread for you! (BTW, PDAparts.com has a page with instructions for dismantling a wide variety of PDA's. Recommended if you've never been inside yours before!) |
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