December 28th, 2007
So here is the link, http://www.startrek4u.com/startrek4u/index.html The page may periodically go down or become unusable, just wait a bit and reload the page. It doesn’t look right in IE, but what does. So I may find myself writing an entirely new style sheet just for IE!
I would love to get your opinion on it,
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December 26th, 2007
Well I have been debating a new redesign, and I think I am going to do it!this time I think I am going to make everything much more integrated, with an easy ways for me to update the site, and easy ways for you the visitor can get the latest updates! Instead of taking the whole site down, this time I am going to leave it up, so no worries there! I think you all will enjoy the new version, I know I will!I will post when I have updates on the project.
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October 29th, 2007
I like the way Malt Wasburg said it (:laugh:) Leopard isnt required for mac users, but it adds a lot of value.
Here is what I love most about the leopard upgrade
Spotlight! in tiger i tried to use Spotlight search as an app launcher, (cmd+space [search_string] *wait a few seconds* cmd+enter) problem was the search wouldnt bring the right thing up first.
now it is just cmd+space [search] enter! the results you get back are instant, it is just amazing!
I love virtual desktops on linux, but never found a good way to add virtual desktops on a mac. Spaces seems to be a solid solution that I will stick with. The ability to rearrange desktops and applications within each desktop is great.
I have cleaned up my desktop a lot now with stacks. I hated things on my desktop (on my mac anyway) if you goto the desktop thread you can see how I had most of the things I needed to keep easy access to on my desktop (HDD, Sites, Projects, junk, Windows VM, and a few files) now all i have on my desktop is my HDD and the win VM. I placed the rest of those folders and files in my documents folder, and just created a stack for them in my dock. It gives me the instant access I want to them, while cleaning up my desktop.
Overall the OS is much snappier (after a single reboot) at first there were some things going on in the background indexing and such, but once all that was done and I rebooted, everything is very fast.
UI stuff:
Translucent menu bar grows on you (or me at least)
3D dock just didnt cut it for me, I made it black (like it looks when you put it on the side)
New finder is much more intuitive, with a bread crumb location bar
and quicklook being such a time saver when previewing a file!
Leopard sure isnt a required upgrade because Tiger is rock solid, but I dont think you will have any regrets upgrading.
If you have any specific questions, just ask and ill answer. 
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October 22nd, 2007
so earlier lastbweek apple posted the release date of Mac OS X Leopard! The 5th major release of Mac OS X. I have already preordered my copy, and should get it the day it comes out (this Friday the 26th).More info later this week,Unlil then you can learn more athttp://apple.com/macosx
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October 22nd, 2007
ok, so as you can see I haven’t been posting as much I as would of liked to have been. This is because there was a bug in the wordpress software, and I couldnt log it! I have since fixed the issue, and upgraded to a newer version! Look forward to seeing more posts!
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May 11th, 2007
Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real have all been targeted with cease-and-desist letters from Media Rights Technology, which threatens to sue the companies unless they adopt MRT’s streamripping protection DRM. No, this isn’t a joke!
Come on! This is absolutely ridicules! they just want the publicity!
read more | digg story
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May 2nd, 2007
A couple of days ago, an 16 character hexadecimal number was released into the wild, and showed up on Digg. The DMCA contacted Digg, via a cease and diciest letter, demanding them to remove the number or otherwise face legal action. Digg complied and took down the post. Later someone reposted it, the post quickly rose to the front page. Digg was compliant yet again with the cease and diciest, and promptly removed it. This provoked a massive out-roar from the community. Last night Digg was flooded with posts that all included the number. Every story on the front page was a protest at Digg’s actions to censor what goes on their site. In the mass Digg would take down the posts, and every second more would be added.
The next day Digg founder, Kevin Rose, address the massive community with this response.
Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts…
In building and shaping the site I’ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We’ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
The community quickly stopped posting the number after this response. However the Damage may be done already. If the DMCA decided to sue Digg for allowing the content then this will likely be the end of Digg. While Digg have a massive user-base it is a relatively small company.
Digg is not the first to see threats by copyright protection associations. YouTube has also see this. So how did they get out of it? well the offered to take it down. However the founders realized that it’s about time to sell the monster they had built. and who better to sell it to then a beast? Google!
What would happen if Google bought out Digg? Google doesn’t care about the DMCA, the MPAA, or the IRAA. Google has the money to fight back in court.
Copy protection is impossible and it is about time that the DMCA realize this! but I fear that they only way they will is by a large company standing up, Apple has done it and in less than a month we will have DRM free music on iTunes! now record companies are now in talks to offer DRM free music on iTunes as well.
Perhaps we need Google to stand up with apple and the me too company (Microsoft) to finally get rid of DRM on all media!
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April 30th, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007 - 10:42 AM EDTMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by USA Today’s David Lieberman at the sixth USA TODAY CEO Forum, in conjunction with the University of Washington Business School. The interview took place in front of an audience.
Ballmer is the laughing stalk of the tech industry. The guy said the same thing about microsoft when it first started! Apple would be trilled with 1% market share! that is what they are shooting for. The phone industry is bigger than any other consumer electronic! Ballmer is scared to death that this will be the next iPod!
read more | digg story
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April 30th, 2007
Today Digg went down! The site that is infamous for crashing servers goes down!
Cool!!!
read more | digg story
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March 31st, 2007
I was looking at some of the new features in Dreamweaver CS3 that is soon to be out, and one of the coolest features I have seen is built in AJAX framework!
I downloaded the Framework, so I can hand edit everything in, and it has changed the site a lot!
Mainly the quicklinks…
Link to Page (beta)
There is a bug in IE, so it doesn’t like to work. but if you use a real browsers. (like Firefox) it will work just fine!
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