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July 22, 2005
Internet TV (IPTV and Streaming) Station Listing
TVover.net - Watch Live Internet TV
From the site:
Tired of the same old TV shows? Sick of annoying advertising? Turn off the TV and turn on Internet TV.
Below you will find the most detailed guide of free TV over the Internet. The stations below will either be live TV or video on demand broadcasts. Below each description of the TV station, you will find the category and type of video stream in bold.
Posted by vanevery at 01:34 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Sun and Java moving into the PComp arena
Sun SPOT | Sig9
From the site:
Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) is a new research project at Sun Labs that promises to turn a vision into reality, the vision being, to make wireless sensors ready for mass commercial deployment by simplifying application development for them. Wireless sensors are inexpensive battery-powered, low-power communication devices composed of radios and exceptionally small mechanical structures that sense fields and forces in the physical world.
Posted by vanevery at 01:14 PM | TrackBack
An old rumor that is gaining momentum.
business2blog: Scoop: Disney Considering Teaming Up with Apple on Video iPod
Which was first, the product or the rumor? I think perhaps Apple reads the rags for product ideas :-)
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July 19, 2005
State Assembly TV
Lawmakers Allow Voters to See It Now - Jul 19, 2005
Finally..
Posted by vanevery at 06:01 PM | TrackBack
Making a phone call with J2ME
Invoking Platform Services in MIDP 2.0
Seems ridiculous that support for this wasn't available earlier.
Oh well, at least you can almost interact with the actual phone now.
Posted by vanevery at 05:57 PM | TrackBack
Experience The Experience Of Catapulting Wireless Devices
Experience the Experience!
Fun and informative
Posted by vanevery at 04:44 PM | TrackBack
Verizon, calling P2P illegal
I am a Verizon DSL customer. Perhaps once a month I receive a newsletter, generally marketing their latest product or offering some tips. In the latest newsletter, they have a little tidbit regarding P2P and filesharing. Here is the paragraph that troubles me:
"Remove file sharing software from your computer. The way many popular file sharing software programs work is by allowing other users to access music or other files on your hard drive. P2P file sharing involves one Internet user requesting files from another unknown source. Aside from being illegal, file sharing can open your PC up to viruses, Trojan horses, and theft of your personal information."
While P2P file sharing services are often used for illegal purposes, such as sharing copyrighted music, pirated software and movies, it is NOT ILLEGAL itself. Verizon is perpetuating a myth and discounting any legitamite uses for P2P software. For instance, I utilize BitTorrent to distribute videos that I have made or worked on to whomever is interested. This is clearly NOT illegal
Posted by vanevery at 02:39 PM | TrackBack
July 18, 2005
QuickTime Pro, redone in Java (Free and Open Source)
amateur: Home
From the site:
Amateur is a free clone of Apple's QuickTime Player implemented in Swing using QuickTime for Java. However it is uncrippled and does not require registration or a serial number to provide full functionality.
Very nicely done..
Posted by vanevery at 06:55 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Finally, iSync with my Nokia 7610
Litux Wiki : HowToAddDevicesToTigerIsync
The above URL, while somewhat opaque was the key.
Essentially, iSync wasn't working with my Nokia 7610 which it is supposed to. I recently upgraded to Mac OS Tiger which is purported to add support for this phone (and many others) but had no luck. iSync was saying that the device is unsupported.
After searching around and finding many blog entries which showed dismay over this vary subject I came upon the above Wiki entry.
Following it's instructions, I realized the problem, Nokia is identifying the phone as "Nokia 7610b" instead of "Nokia 7610" which is what iSync is expecting.
In order to find this out, I had to download ZTermZTerm (which I haven't used since 1996). Unfortunately, Z-Term was my last thought, after going through Fink and realizing that minicom just wouldn't work (actually, wouldn't install). And after pairing with the phone through the Bluetooth Setup Assistant I was able to connect to it as a modem and run the AT command "AT+CGMM" which returned "Nokia 7610b".
I then edited the MetaClasses.plist file and changed the identifier for the Nokia 7610 to "Nokia+Nokia 7610b" and viola, everything was peachy.
Finally...! I can carry around my contacts, something I haven't been able to do since my Palm died 2 years ago. Who would have guessed something so trivial would be so hard. I almost resorted to paper ;-)
Posted by vanevery at 03:18 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack
July 11, 2005
Why "Long Tail Content" doesn't appeal to big media
Emmy Advanced Media - Television Business News: The Big Hump
or Why citizen created media will still have a place after Big Media figures out what the internet is really about.
Posted by vanevery at 08:26 PM | TrackBack
July 10, 2005
FXO, FXS and VoIP, damn the acronyms
For my reference:
FXO: Foreign eXchange Office - This is the plug on your phone. It receives Dial Tone, Current and Ring Voltage. If you have a card that does this, you can plug it into your wall jack and receive calls.
FXS: Foreign eXchange Subscriber - Service from the phone company, provides Dial Tone, Current and Voltage. If you have a card that does this, you can plug your normal phone into it.
In terms of VoIP (asterisk in my case), if you want to receive POTS calls into your system you need an FXO. If you want to plug in a normal phone and make VoIP calls you need an FXS.
Both terms from the POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) world.
Posted by vanevery at 11:50 PM | TrackBack
July 09, 2005
Port Your Java MIDlets to a Palm Device
Port Your Java MIDlets to a Palm Device
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Mark Cuban on podcasting
Podcasting - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _
Mark Cuban compares the recent Podcasting craze with the Stream craze of the 90's.
Posted by vanevery at 01:26 PM | TrackBack
July 08, 2005
Repurpose that disposable camcorder
Boing Boing: Pinouts for CVS's "disposable" camcorder
From Boing Boing:
CVS Pharmacies sell a one-time-use camcorder that you have to bring to their shop once you're ready to get your videos, which are delivered on DVD. Enterprising hackers are racing to reverse-engineer the camcorder so that they can extract their own video and make multiple uses of the camera without paying repeatedly.
Posted by vanevery at 03:02 PM | TrackBack
Use Linux to turn your iPod into a recording device
Linux frees iPod's inner recording studio
Posted by vanevery at 02:48 PM | TrackBack
Clay Compares Categories, Hierarchies, Links and Tags
Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Posted by vanevery at 02:40 PM | TrackBack
Skype Casting Product
Freecorder
Record Skype calls on your PC
Posted by vanevery at 12:27 PM | TrackBack
July 01, 2005
a decent AJAX (asynchronous Java and XML) tutorial
AJAX: A Fresh Look at Web Development
AJAX is definitely the wave of the future with regards to web development and produces web pages that respond like regular desktop applications. (I hope this makes Flash go away, I really do but I know it won't)
Posted by vanevery at 10:35 PM | TrackBack
Asterisk has some competition
Open source telephony app server evolves
Called Bayonne.. Interesting. I would like to see a comparison with Asterisk.
Posted by vanevery at 01:09 AM | TrackBack
JBox - Java and Linux in a nice little package
Welcome to iGoJava - iGoLogic JBOX Java J2SE Embedded Development Kit!
Perfect for many of my projects, fairly inexpensive, powered by a Via single board computer, runs Linux and pre-installed with J2SE. Very nice..!