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Aug
31

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Aug
31

Meet Melody Movable Type’s open-source sibling

Unlike previous open-source efforts though, this one is the first to break off (or “fork”) from the main product, allowing for much faster and drastic changes. In many ways it’s an answer to WordPress, a competitor of Six Apart that began as an open source project and has benefited from rapid development because of it.

Correction at 7:15 a.m. PDT: The spelling of Byrne Reese’s first name has been fixed.

Even though it’s going in a different direction as MT, the group of users that are creating it hope that many of its community-created features will make their way back into that product. “The word fork is a very charged word,” says Byrne Reese, who has been one of the leading contributors to MT, and was its product manager at Six Apart for two years. He’s now helping to head up the Melody project and organization that will manage it, the Open Melody Software Group.

Instead, Reese wants Melody’s feature set to become the “bleeding edge” of what the MT platform is capable of by implementing community-driven features that can coexist peacefully alongside the work of Six Apart. Although he admitted that doing that while making sure that changes can migrate over to the other platform will be a challenge. “What melody hopes to do is to merge those two sides of the coin. We hope to exist somewhere in the middle,” Reese said.

That also means a faster progression of new releases. While MT is getting a new major release every six months or so, Reese is expecting Melody’s to be much faster. “We want to create features that stem from real need. But we also don’t want to do that at the expense of being able to draft off the experience of Six Apart. The company is often the first to create new standards. When there’s a new service that comes on the market you can expect that Six Apart will be one of the first to have it. If we didn’t draft off that we would fail.”

Community members of Six Apart’s Movable Type platform (MT) are launching a new blogging service on Tuesday. Dubbed “Melody,” it’s an open-source version of MT that community members are free to build on and change.

In a call with CNET News on Monday, Reese said that everyone who is participating in the project has a love for MT, and that Melody is simply a way to get some new community-driven features into it at a faster pace than what’s previously been possible. “When you are an enterprise product it comes with a lot of overhead,” he said. “Change in the enterprise world can be dangerous. So that’s been one of the great challenges, and where a lot of the pent up desire to contribute comes from.”

Reese and the other community members behind Melody aren’t trying to get rid of MT though. “What we really hope to do is build on top of what Six Apart has done, and what it’s actively doing,” he said. “When you have a commercial product, I think your priorities as far as feature development goes, are naturally going to gravitate towards the features that make the paying customer happy.”

Melody is being released as an early alpha version on Tuesday, with a version 1.0 release later this year. Reese says that this initial version is less “sexy” as much as it is a re-architecting of the core of the existing MT service to more easily integrate code from third parties. “I don’t know what the right metaphor is…but I like to think of Melody as a leading edge of a knife. A very long, thin knife. Hopefully we can start to make these little changes, and features that amount to something much bigger.”

Aug
31

Re-create the thrill of in-box spam with FwdItOn

The service has a wonderfully simple submission process. You simply forward any e-mail you feel like sharing to submit@fwditon.com. Likewise, if you feel like forwarding anything you come across to friends or family, there are copious sharing options as well as a new built-in system for marking content safe or unsafe for work viewing.

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Got a friend or family member who just loves to send you chain e-mails? The kind that have been forwarded a hundred times over and have so many indents and signatures on them that the original sender probably sent it off years ago? If you secretly enjoy these, but want to find a place where others have compiled their own in-box gems, check out FwdItOn, a simple service that lets you share images, videos, and text e-mails with others in one huge pool.

The service shares a lot of its core functionality with Digg. There’s an upcoming section, a live view of incoming content (called Spy), and the content can be rated, commented on, and tagged by its users. While the images and videos are standard fare, the service’s real draw is in its directory of text e-mails, which are full of raucous jokes, riddles, and anything else you’ve seen end up in your in-box.

Read e-mail chain messages without filling up your in-box with FwdItOn. (click to enlarge)

Aug
30

Microsoft’s many open-source faces

Microsoft is a very big company, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it hasn’t been able to articulate a coherent message around open-source software. While the Redmond giant has largely distanced itself from earlier criticisms of open source as “anti-American,” “a cancer,” etc., it struggles to present a coherent, consistent face to the open-source world.

Of course it has. Microsoft is simply going through growing pains as it learns to adapt to the open-source friendly world in which it lives. Any big company will both compete with and collaborate with open-source software, and Microsoft is no exception. What we’re witnessing is the natural inconsistencies made public through Microsoft’s efforts to get open source right.

This isn’t just true in Microsoft’s criticisms of open source, but also its praise.

This falls in the same week that a book was released by a senior Microsoft intellectual-property attorney highlighting the machinations Microsoft engineered to get around the GNU General Public License in its controversial patent covenant with Novell.

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What the !%!%!% is going on? Has Microsoft listened to itself lately?

On the one hand, Microsoft has put TomTom, a major GPS device maker, on the defensive by suing it over patent infringement, including claims against TomTom’s use of Linux. Two weeks later, Microsoft released !exploitable Crash Analyzer, an open-source security assessment tool.

And now Microsoft has published an official position paper on its open-source views, which says lots of happy things about open source, while cautioning that open source isn’t a panacea.

A week later, Microsoft launched Web App Gallery, a service that makes it easy to deploy a range of open-source content management, gallery, wiki, and blogging tools. Almost in the same breath, Microsoft is urging open-source vendors to not promote their cost advantages and instead focus on value, a competition that Microsoft presumably feels it can win.

Aug
30

Beam pics from camera to computer with Eye-Fi 2GB

I’ve been testing an Eye-Fi for the last couple weeks, and it’s pretty cool. The only downside is having to leave your camera on while the photos get transferred, but it definitely beats having to fish out a USB transfer cable or pop the memory card out of the camera and into a reader.

(Note: The above link takes you to CNET’s product page for the Eye-Fi Home. On the right-hand side, you’ll see that several vendors are offering the card for $59. To get free shipping, choose either BuyDig or Beach Camera.)

If you want a little more versatility, BuyDig has the Eye-Fi Share for $79. In addition to beaming pix to your PC, it can automatically upload them to any number of online photo services (Facebook, Flickr, Snapfish, etc.). But wait: Starting Oct. 5, owners of the Home card can get the same Web-sharing feature for an annual fee of $9.99. (Eye-Fi also plans to roll out a free firmware update that will improve transfer speeds.)

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Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET’s Shopper.com.

By now you’ve probably heard of Eye-Fi, the Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory card that wirelessly beams photos from your camera to your PC. When it first came out last year, I thought it was overpriced at $99–but now you can scoop up an Eye-Fi Home card for just $59 shipped.

My advice: Buy the Home card now, spend the extra 10 bucks if you decide you want Web sharing, then reevaluate after a year. You’ll still come out ahead.

Aug
28

Buffalo LinkStation Mini Network storage device g

In all, the LinkStation seems great, except for its price. At $699 and 17 ounces, the LinkStation Mini by far tops the charts of dollars-per-ounce cost. Fortunately we don’t assess the value of technology that way. Come back to CNET.com for an in-depth review of this device and find out if its performance, functionality, as well as other features are worth breaking your bank.

The Buffalo LinkStation Mini doesn’t have any fans but has a lot of openings on the casing for ventilation. This means the device will operate silently and hopefully will not generate a lot of heat. It features a Gigabit Ethernet port and a USB port for adding more external storage devices to it.

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The LinkStation Mini is by far the most compact 1TB NAS device to date.

The LinkStation Mini, despite its size, offers a lot of high-end features such as RAID 0, RAID 1, Active Directory support, and Buffalo’s Web Access that allows for sharing its storage over the Internet. It’s also compatible with Windows’ SMB protocol (so you can browse it using Windows Explorer) and support DLNA media streaming server. The drive comes with Memeo AutoBackup software for both Windows and
Mac platforms.

By tiny I refer strictly to the form factor. Having the same footprint (and about the same weight, too) as the OWC Mercury external hard drive, the LinkStation Mini offers twice the amount of storage space: 1 terabyte. That’s plenty of storage and more than most regular-size NAS devices offer. Unlike other NAS devices that use regular-size 3.5-inch hard drives, the LinkStation features two 2.5-inch hard drives, 500GB each. This is Buffalo’s key to significantly reduce the size and weight of the LinkStation Mini. The compact design of its internal circuit board and outer casing helps, too. In the end, the LinkStaion Mini’s actual size is not much bigger than the combination of two 2.5-inch hard drives inside.

I’ve tested and reviewed a good amount of NAS devices and found them generally bulky. Even those we consider “compact”, like the Synology DS107+ or the D-Link DNS 323, are still in no way close to being able to fit in your pocket. This is why I let out a big “wow” today when I saw Buffalo’s newest kid on the NAS block. The LinkStation Mini immediately and totally changed my expectation in regard to how tiny a network storage device can be!

Aug
28

News sites swamped following Michael Jackson’s dea

CNN.com appeared to be sluggish delivering Jackson stories at times. In its defense, the news organization said that the site saw 20 million page views and a fivefold increase in traffic (from where it was prior to when news about Jackson’s death began widely circulating) in one hour.

It turns out many of the Internet’s top news sites fared better at handling the glut of traffic following the death of singer Michael Jackson than previously thought.

When news of the iconic performer’s death began trickling out, scores of people turned to the Web for information. TMZ broke the news that Jackson, 50, known for producing some of the world’s best selling records, including “Thriller” and “Bad,” had died Thursday afternoon, but the gossip hub cited only unnamed sources and offered few details. As other news services turned their attention to the story and as the public took to the Web to learn more about the performer’s condition, some Web sites began slowing down.

This story was updated multiple times after it was originally published, including with a Keynote System statement that it erred in assessing the performance of ABCNews.com and other media news sites.

A Google representative confirmed that “between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson.”

On Friday, antivirus vendor Sophos reported on a wave of spam related to Jackson’s death that claims to have vital information about the news event. There are no malicious URLs in the spam, but recipients who reply to the message are then providing proof that the e-mail address is legitimate and will likely be targeted in future spam campaigns, the company said.

Some Google users complained that the search engine’s News area was inaccessible for a time.

While Keynote’s assessment of site performance may have been overly bleak, many news sites were slow to deliver pages and in some cases were inaccessible at times.

Dan Berkowitz, Keynote’s spokesman, said the most important thing was to correct the record about ABCNews.com, which he said delivered pages to visitors close to normally during the hour-long traffic spike following Jackson’s death. He added that the company is still studying the causes of the error. A representative for Disney, which owns ABC, said the company saw “no dips in performance” as a result of the traffic glut.

Even before Jackson’s death, Thursday was a big day for news sites as word of actress Farrah Fawcett’s death hit the wires in the morning and continued interest in the scandal surrounding South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

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Corrected on June 26 at 4:07 p.m. PT:
Keynote Systems, the source for Web site performance supplied CNET News with incorrect data. ABCNews.com’s performance following the death of Michael Jackson was near optimal.

Michael Jackson's death sent U.S. Internet users to news sites and the traffic heated up network traffic. as evidence in these images.

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The traffic deluge came swiftly and lasted for about a half hour, according to internal data here at CNET News, which saw twice the normal amount of hourly traffic shortly after word of Jackson’s death spread. At sister site CBSNews.com, traffic numbers were five times their normal levels.

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Keynote Systems, a company that tracks site performance, said Friday that it erred in measuring performance for news sites and issued incorrect information Thursday evening.

Aug
28

Green news harvest Toyota handicaps alt fuels, Pi

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Toyota Releases Sustainability Report 2008, Looks to Liquid Peak – Green Car Congress
More on Toyota’s plans to use alternative fuels, as part of its corporate sustainability efforts.
Alt-chemistry battery maker PowerGenix lands a deal for electric scooters and bikes – VentureBeat
Nickel metal hydride battery designed for plug-in hybrids is finding a home in electric scooters.
Out of Africa: New Concentrating-Solar Tech Inspired by Congo Stint – Greentech Media
Interesting profile of Canadian company that claims to reduce cost of concentrating solar power using acrylic as material.
Republicans break with Bush on ethanol – Reuters
A proposal to shift away from government mandates on ethanol production which, along with a phase-out of MTBE additive, has been driving the market.
Experts wary of Pickens’ clean-energy plan – SF Chronicle
Some skeptical reactions to the Pickens Plan, specifically on the speed of wind turbine deployment and the shift to natural gas-powered
cars.
Scoop: Tesla’s future – Autocar
Details on planned five-person plug-in hybrid sedan from Tesla, which reportedly will be the platform for future cars.
Carbon offset developer raises $280 million: source – Reuters
Snapshot of the carbon offset marketplace with a Dubai-based fund committing to a 10-year fund despite some policy uncertainty.

A chart from Toyota's 2008 Sustainability report on the barriers to different types of auto fuels.

AltaRock & Weyerhaeuser Sign Engineered Geothermal Exploration Deal – RenewableEnergyWorld.com
AltaRock, funded by Google and Kleiner Perkins, is an enhanced geothermal systems company drilling deep into stone to get renewable energy.
Toyota Plugs Lithium Ion Batteries, Reluctantly – Greentech Media
A presentation from Toyota exec handicaps the different transportation technologies, including plug-in hybrids, liquid fuels, and hydrogen. Not mentioned is Toyota’s rumored plans to use zinc air batteries for plug-ins.

Aug
27

Gimmick or hope How far can go cloud MP4 video

HD CC1600 chip core Fei Hua

"Cloud video" is also based on this principle, the arrival of video cloud to break the current market development in high-definition MP4 ice, a lot of buying high-definition MP4 friends have found themselves in after purchasing the high-definition MP4 is an ornament, although the hardware Standard 720P HD video playback support, but no film can suffer up, stood holding a general MP4 MP4 HD video can be put, really did not face ah! This of course has some relations firms, in order to increase the selling point, quickly enter the market, MP4 manufacturers tend to ignore the high-definition MP4 supporting the progress of HD film sources is the most critical issue.

However KSD brand will introduce the concept of cloud computing MP4 field, that "video cloud" concept, to remove obstacles to the development of high-definition MP4. "Cloud Media" will be cloud and the client component, where the "cloud" refers to the mass of the resource sharing center, the client refers to all in the hands of MP4, mobile phones and multimedia entertainment terminal, through the client network interface to achieve cloud resource sharing, the clouds not only high-definition video, and more all the resources needed.

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Is MP4 the market was so stagnant it? MP4 is the development of people, when questioned, "Cloud video" turned out to, and often friends who are concerned about the MP4 market somewhat familiar with that word, then the "cloud video" in the end What is it? Cloud video is MP4 KSD cutting-edge brand a concept put forward in the cloud on video before, or start it say "cloud computing" because "cloud video" is based on "cloud computing" principle. Cloud Computing (Cloud computing), is Internet-based super-computing model, that is stored in personal computers, mobile phones and other devices, processors, large amounts of information and resources together to work together. Enterprises and individual users no longer need to purchase expensive hardware investment costs, only through the Internet to purchase the leased computing power, "to your computer as access ports, all that to the Internet bar."

"Cloud Video" for the MP4 market pointed out the direction, the network will be the MP4 market share trends that change from the consumer electronics market can be seen, high-definition flat-panel TV into a network functions, digital cameras equipped with network interface, you can share resources, MP4 as personal entertainment devices, to achieve a network share is a matter of time. Before long, we can experience the epoch-making "video cloud" products KSD V9 bring our unique charm, and the KSD will lead the players in China market has entered a new development track!

To realize the cloud video program, the client must have network interface, that the KSD V8 get a good reflection, KSD V8 core with a Chinese HD CC1600 flight program, which integrates a 100M network interface, with the development of the network , KSD will consider the opening of these interfaces, with the network interface of this "infrastructure" development through firmware upgrades, web browsing, video sharing and on-demand and other exciting applications will become a reality.

MP4 market in the past two years, the joint efforts of domestic and foreign firms, has been developed to its peak stage, in order to further tap the market capacity, major brand has employed every means, any RM / RMVB live models are nothing new gadgets, big-screen MP4 flooded the market, the wave of the Olympic Games through high-definition, manufacturers MP4 HD elements into them, in order to attract the attention of consumers, and further open the market. MP4 market, competition is fierce, and especially the Chinese MP4 market, more and more companies to launch its own high-definition MP4 products, over time, high-definition has been the desire of consumers can not wake up, MP4 market seems to be caught up in a stagnation.

Exchange in a group of portable digital enthusiasts, the one on the KSD will soon release a true sense of the cloud message loud and clear audio and visual products. According to the mysterious sources, KSD KSD V9 internal R & D, code-named machines is legendary cloud audio and video products. In order to prove a reliable source, the person said, this is an epoch-making significance of the history of portable digital audio and video products will cloud a comprehensive listing of early April. According to its introduction, the first audio-visual end products cloud KSD V9 hardware configuration is extremely luxurious, ultra-high resolution screen machines, all-touch operation and support of virtual keyboard input. Ordinary portable digital audio players, or MID, UMPC different, in addition to the current mainstream owned MP4 possess all the features, KSD V9 also supports include phone extensions (According to sources, KSD V9 phone extensions are quite useful, as long as the ordinary phone card <such as SIM card> into the appropriate expansion slot, KSD V9 instantly become the embodiment of a smart phone), CMMB mobile TV free channel reception, CMMB mobile TV channels to receive encrypted (encryption cards required to install CMMB CA), Wireless Internet access, OFFICE office, business assistant and so on. Easy access through the wireless network "cloud" end of vast amounts of resources.

KSD in the proposed "cloud video" concept, while the client in the cloud video also spared to prepare, where not least the client products, including audio and video KSD V8 is the cloud of material products, with 720P HD video playback, super strong rate of 10M bit stream decoding, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 800 × 480 resolution, more 16 million true color output, professional audio decoding options, support for dual lossless audio, which are audio and video programs for the cloud lay a solid foundation.

Google global vice president Kai-fu Lee made a vivid metaphor: banks, the first people to just put the money on pillow, then with banks is safe, but to honor them too much trouble. Now developed to the banks to withdraw money to any network, even through the ATM, or foreign channels. "Cloud computing" is such a change brings – from Google, IBM this company to build a professional network of computer storage, computing center, the user through a network cable through the browser can easily access the "cloud "As data center storage, and application services.

Aug
27

A better way to defrag your hard disk

The amount of drive or partition space recovered by the defragmentation is shown when the Disk Defrag utility finishes.

Before you begin, open the Control Panel’s Add or Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista), and uninstall any applications you no longer use. Then use a program such as CCleaner to empty your Recycle Bin, Temporary Internet Files folder, and other locations where clutter tends to accumulate on your PC.

XP’s built-in defragmenter provides a similar show, but Vista’s equivalent doesn’t indicate what it’s doing, or how much progress it has made.

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Track your defrag progress on a map of rectangles representing your drive's sectors.

View a pie chart showing your used and free disk space prior to beginning to defragment using Auslogics' free Disk Defrag utility.

There is little agreement on how much–or even whether–defragmenting improves your PC’s performance, but having files closer together on the disk reduces the amount of movement required by the drive’s mechanical parts. This should make it last longer, though such factors as operating environment and the quality of its components probably have a greater impact on its life span.

I wish I could say that I’m guaranteed to recoup many times over the time I spent defragging my PCs by having them run so much faster post-defrag. Maybe I’m kidding myself that there’s any practical benefit to defragging, but then again, maybe my dog wouldn’t smell any worse without a bath.

In the long list of odious chores, defragmenting your hard drive is right up there with flossing your teeth and washing your dog–or flossing your dog’s teeth, for that matter.

By default, Vista defragments your drive once a week. You can set the defragmenter to run on a different schedule, though you don’t want to defrag when you’ve got lots of applications open because of it’s guaranteed to slow everything down.

Once you’ve taken out the digital trash, you’re ready to tighten up your hard disk’s sectors. Open Disk Defrag, and select your disk or partition to see a pie chart showing its used and free space. Click Next to begin the defragmentation.

The greatest benefit of third-party defraggers such as Disk Defrag is their speed: The program did its work in less than 5 minutes on my Vista machine, while Vista’s own defragmenter took more than 20 minutes to finish. And on a tremendously fragmented XP machine, Disk Defrag got the job done in about 40 minutes, which was a third the time required by Windows’ own tool.

When the defragmenting is done, you’re shown the results, including the percentage of drive or partition space that was recovered. You can see more information in a browser window when you click Display Report, but don’t bother clicking the Optimize PC link at the top of the window. That simply leads to a page where you can download the company’s $30 BoostSpeed performance-boosting utility. Hey, you can’t fault the company for trying to make a buck.

Regardless of whether it will actually improve your system’s performance and reliability, I do know that there’s a better way to defragment your drive than using the utility built into Windows: you’ll get the job done in less time by using Auslogics’ free Disk Defrag utility.

Windows’ own Disk Defragmenter is a slug compared to Auslogics’ alternative. At least in XP, you got some feedback while the Windows defragger was working; Vista doesn’t give you a clue what’s happening after you click the Defragment Now button, other than to let you know that the process could take from a few minutes to a few hours (my bet’s on the latter). I know many people scoff at the dancing colored blocks on the map as pointless, but I kinda like ‘em.

If you’re really bored, you can watch the program work. While the drive’s fragmented sectors are cleared out, the process is represented by colored blocks on a disk map. Below this is a progress bar and a list of the names of the files currently being shuffled. You also get a count of the total files processed, as well as the number of fragmented and defragmented files.

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