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Archive for March, 2007


26
Mar

Playing iPod music on any computer

Floola is a cross-platform applications to play music from your iPod on any computer. It is now up to beta 34, which adds podcast support. The only time a platform choice comes into play is when downloading the installer: there are packages for Linux, Windows (98 and up), and Mac OS X (10.2 and above).
The [...]


22
Mar

Bumrush the charts today!

As mentioned earlier, an initiative is going on to get an independent artist on the number 1 spot of the iTunes Music Store.
Today is the day. So go for it!


19
Mar

Beef up your wireless router with OpenWRT

Josh Kuo has an interesting article about giving your old Linksys a new lease on life with the OpenWRT project.
Some of the options after installing OpenWRT:

Install asterisk
VoIP
router/firewall on steroids with nmap, snort, and tcpdump
VPN with openvpn
Wireless hotspot with chilispot, FreeRadius and WPA.
All-purpose office server with DHCP, cups, lighthttpd, NTP

OpenWRT is not officially released - its [...]


19
Mar

Rumor: Apple in talks with Miglia about DVR capabilities?

When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.
Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an [...]


17
Mar

Miranda IM 0.6.8 released

I just received notice (even though it was released March 13th…) that Miranda has done a minor upgrade from 0.6.7 to 0.6.8.
Miranda is an instant messenger with multiple protocol support, like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Google Talk. Version 0.6.8 has a few bug fixes for AIM, Jabber (Google), and MSN support.
If you have never used [...]

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