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Archive for October, 2004

An Intel of televisions…

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Lately several news are giving us an interesting insight in the future of big-screen TVs. On one hand Intel announced that they were canceling their Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) rear projection TV chips project.
So LCoS won’t be the Texas Instruments DLP killer, and it might actually have been only a lot of FUD as […]

Does the iPod Photo miss its main use case?

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

Some, including myself, have been disappointed by Apple and their decision to not include a memory card reader in the iPod Photo. It would make the device slightly bigger, but it would really solve a problem with digital cameras and fill an important use case: Where to store the hundreds of pictures when going in […]

Moving to WordPress

Tuesday, October 26th, 2004

I moved my blog to WordPress. I discovered that the latest version of WordPress is correctly running in PHP safe-mode and works by my ISP. I would have probably used WordPress if I could have when I created this blog and then later moved to Blosxom.
The advantage of WordPress over my static use of Blosxom […]

Podcasting, it might very well become a big deal

Friday, October 15th, 2004

One of the last hot things among bloggers is podcasting. Think of it as the audio part of web feeds. The feeds you subscribe to give you audio content that is automatically downloaded and transfer to the iPod or similar devices.

It’s Do-It-Yourself radio, with a very low entry barrier, if any at all. To create […]

Getting paperless AND more efficient: FreeMind

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Personally, I’m not printing out many documents, I general read on screen and try to be quite paperless. Most people I know print out quite a lot, and I understand them. When it comes to reading, paper still has a too big advantage over screen to prevent people from pressing the print button. Myself I […]