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We hardly knew yee Pownce…

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Michael W. Smith – Let It Rain

08 Let It Rain.mp3

I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot.

A comment on digg made me stuck on that song!

Team America – America, Fuck Yeah!.mp3

You all know how expansive printer ink can be, it’s actually more expensive than gas and most very expensive perfumes. Now this handy trick will help you save paper, and help you save nearly anything that is printable into a portable document file (PDF). The real great thing about PDF is that what ever the operating system, the fonts installed or the default settings, the file should look exactly the same in every place.

Just today I was trying to get my grades from my college’s website but they didn’t make a PDF version available. By installing doPDF you get a very simple way to create PDF files, this application adds itself as a printer in your system. So when you try to print a page, instead of selecting your printer you can select doPDF, it will then ask you where to save the file. And voilà! You’ve got a nice PDF file that matches what the printed out version would of looked like. While you’re at it, ditch the bloated Adobe Reader for Foxit Reader (light weight alternative to view PDF files). With Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft attempts to push their own version of PDF called XPS… total waste of everyones time. They’re coming late to the game attempting to implement a new standard.

So the word had been out that Joost wasn’t doing so well in it’s original form. Lets say the application did not catch fire and take the web by storm. So instead of having a desktop application that would use P2P to deliver streaming content, you now have a web based player. Similar to YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo and countless others all you’ll need to view the new Joost is your web browser and the Adobe Flash Player installed.

This new solution makes it more accessible then before, but also might drop one of Joost’s initial selling point. They had a secure platform (sort of DRM) that would ensure content holders that their shows would not get copied/pirated without having a way to monetize them.

Now I think this is the real problem Joost always had. The lack of content that would motivate me to go to their service. The image quality seems to be pretty good and on the same level as other services (except YouTube). But if you can get a video you want to see quickly else where nothing would motivate you to seek it elsewhere. Besides all the potential content was blocked to most regions (similar to Hulu) and those services are dead to me, because they defeat the purpose of the Internet by making their content local and limited to a geographical area. I do understand what license agreements are, but content creators who want to venture on the web should know that their audience is Global.

Back to Joost, you’re invited to create a free account (blazing fast) upon visiting www.joost.com.

Dear Opera Software, for years I’ve used your wonderful browser and you keep making it better all the time. I’ve grown dependant on your flag ship features and wonder why the rest of the world is still ignorant of your beauty.

I missed the window of opportunity to post about the new version of the Opera Web Browser. I waited so long they came out with an even better version with a few bug fixes. By now I hope you know that there are more ways to access the Internet than the little blue E on your desktop. People might of talked you in using Firefox, or even Google’s Chrome. As for myself I press you to try out Opera.

As far as features go they’ve kept improving on the existing ones. They added better IMAP and RSS support, extended features of their Opera Link service that synchronizes Bookmarks, Notes, Browsing history and Speed Dial across different Opera Browsers (laptop, office, mobile device). It might be considered a small incremental update from 9.5 but steadily improving a great product is a good thing in my book.