Sunday, February 18, 2007

Show #17 - 02.18.2007



[Download Show #17 as MP3]

News
  • Steve Jobs Has Opinions on Music
    • Apple forced to use DRM by Record labels
    • Apple has a certain amount of time to fix holes in Fairplay DRM or they lose contract to sell digital music
    • Licensing Fairplay would mean Apple would no longer be in complete control of the DRM
    • Getting rid of DRM in music downloads would cause a growth in the sale of digital music purchases
    • RIAA mis-understands the letter, thinks licensing Fairplay is a GREAT idea
Software / Hardware / Power Web Picks
  • PDFCreator
    • Free and Open Sourced
    • Adds a "Printer" to your computer called "PDFCreator"
    • To create a PDF version of something, simply select PDFCreator printer and Click OK
    • Simple to install and use.
  • 25GB of Free Online Storage
  • ErrorZilla
    • Firefox Addon
    • Gives a useful error message when a page can not be loaded
    • Also gives options to see the Google Cached, Coralized Cached, and Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) versions of the page.
Penny Pinchers
Security & Privacy
  • Microsoft to Support OpenID
    • What is OpenID?
      • Open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric identification
      • Framework is free to use and utilize
      • A web address is your identity
    • How a single ID can be more secure than many
      • One password to remember
      • With only one password to remember, you can make that password very secure
      • Most of the OpenID providers allow you to create profiles
        • Profiles Allow you to decide how much personal data a website is allowed to access
    • Some Ways to Get an OpenID
Gamer's Corner
Editorial ("Power Up")
  • Photoshop stuff

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