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It's 9 AM PST Wed. Jan. 27th, 2010, an hour before Steve Jobs take the stage to announce Apple's newest product. I have no inside information, but I am going to speculate on one thing. What if, after putting pen computing out of business with the iPhone, Jobs uses the finally-here tablet to restart the whole domain? If I have a flat notebook sized computer, I want a stylus for it. I gave up

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When an iPhone application isn't in the foreground, it would be nice if it could be sleeping on arbitrary events, either the arrival of a new packet over the Internet, a timer going off, or other events like GPS-determined proximity. But instead of waking up the application, the event should simply inform the user (with icon counters, interactive alerts, or sounds) that something new would

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I've blogged before on Digital Rights Management and Apple, calling for them to openly license their FairPlay music DRM. A friend made the case this would never happen, because handing out DRM secrets would defeat the purpose of DRM, by allowing hackers in. Instead Steve Jobs made moves to help dismantle DRM in the music world, as a variety of record companies have opted for distributing

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I have a degree in computer science, and have been programming computers all of my adult life. In my first job I met an interesting fellow with ambitions of rethinking computer science by adopting a different perspective than those handed to us by the founders of the discipline. He saw the possibilities of considering it a natural science that described how processes work, from physics to

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.Above is an idea for an editorial cartoon. It shows a "Toy Story Woody" Obama and a "General Patton" Hillary engaging in a contest at a county fair. The goal is to see who can last the longest without shooting themselves in the foot. Obama's six-shooters are labeled Rezko and Wright. Hillary's big military

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I'm glad to see that iTunes store offered movies for purchase and download in 2006. I've been impressed with the performance of video streaming using 802.11g from Mac to Mac inside my house. I'm looking forward to the launch of Leopard and the "iTV" product. Apple has a large chunk of my computing and media bucks for the foreseeable future. Because I care, here are a few things I hope Apple

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I think the French have taken an important step in protecting the freedoms of digital media consumers in this millenium by drafting a law requiring the sharing of DRM technologies between companies that sell media and media players.Although an advocate of open source and Creative Commons copyright, I am not one who buys into the fundamentalist arguments of the libre information crowd. Just as

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There has been a lot of speculation about Apple developing a movie streaming service, and maybe they were, but I'm guessing they finally figured out what every consumer of broadband Internet already knows -- streaming sucks. If you want to offer a video streaming service to the consumer you need 100% dedicated wire into their house, and 100% control over the allocation of bandwidth on that wire,

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Two of the most interesting blogs I've started watching are written by female taxi drivers, one in New York City, one in the San Francisco area. They meet a variety of people, see a great deal of town, and write up the interesting bits for online readers.M.P. (New York Hack) roams the streets of NYC, and presents a slice of street life -- at least the street life that opts for a taxi -- a lot

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Green Giant Welcomes You to Blue Earth Originally uploaded by jimmywayne22. I've been using and posting stuff on the web since 1994, but only recently has it become a compelling hobby for me. Part of the reason is RSS and RSS readers that make it easy to keep an eye on streams that interest me. But a big reason is the social photo-sharing site Flickr.Flickr is not so much a "community"

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At MacWorld this year Steve Job's announced an 85% market share for the iPod. Though I doubt this would be legally found to be a monopoly in a court of law (Microsoft had over 90% market share when it got tagged as a monopoly), maybe it is time for Apple to declare it has a de facto monopoly in MP3 players, and behave accordingly. Do you think it could hurt sales to declare you're the only game

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In my household, several people are involved in plinking pianos and plunking guitars. I've played a little of each (more guitar than piano), and I find my perennial novice status gives me insights into the learning process, insights that seem out of reach to an experienced instructor. courtesy of stickywiki -- Creative Commons license First and foremost, they should really call it "sight playing

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This is my blog of semi-professional concerns, essays on vocations of mine that might have made me money in the past, or might make me money in the future. I'm a computer programmer, living in Northern California, with a background in imaging, graphics, and user interfaces. I also like photography and music and travel. Nothing better than a trip to NYC to take pictures of bands with my

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