Tuesday, July 27, 2004

InformationWeek > Online Music > RealNetworks Bypasses Apple With Songs For The iPod > July 26, 2004 InformationWeek > Online Music > RealNetworks Bypasses Apple With Songs For The iPod > July 26, 2004 - "RealNetworks claims it did not break Apple's protection through reverse engineering, which is the process of taking software apart, analyzing its workings in detail, and then reconstructing a new application that does the same thing, without actually copying anything from the original. This is important because the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act made it illegal to reverse engineer software to bypass protections embedded by the original author. " This is important because it provides competition for Apple in a space that needs to be open.  If Apple lets it go forward without interference, it will sell more iPods and more iTunes and share the wealth the Real. 2:13:17 PM    comment []  trackback []

freshmeat.net: Project details for XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver freshmeat.net: Project details for XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver - "The XFree86 Synaptics TouchPad Driver is a driver for Synaptics touchpads, which are found on many notebook computers. It features tap gesture decoding (including tap-and-drag operations and multi finger tapping), emulation of a middle mouse button, emulation of vertical and horizontal scroll wheels, palm detection, and run-time configuration. " 1:51:10 PM    comment []  trackback []

Slashdot | Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed Slashdot | Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed Posted by simoniker on Monday July 26, @04:45PM from the big-boy-now dept. Bender writes "The Tech Report has done a comprehensive review of the just-redesigned Shuttle XPC. These toaster-sized systems, sold with motherboard but sans CPU, memory, and storage, are becoming a very attractive alternative to the standard DIY system that's over twice the size. This latest PC 'cube' has everything: PCI Express, a BTX-inspired chassis design, room for a small RAID array, and pre-routed cables. The only snag is a Pentium 4 thermal throttling problem discovered through some nice investigative work. If Shuttle can fix this problem, this thing could be a killer personal workstation box." 12:04:56 PM    comment []  trackback []

ABA Legal technology resource: New survey on law office use of technology available ABA Section of Litigation - Online Resources for Litigators (cached at July 26, 2004, 2:39 pm) The ABA LTRC has published a new edition of its annual survey of technology use in the practice of law 10:27:02 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft delivers Office Service Pack InfoWorld: Top News (cached at July 27, 2004, 9:39 am) Microsoft on Tuesday made available for download its first Service Pack for Office System 2003, which features fresh capabilities to its OneNote and InfoPath applications, along with improvements to overall speed and performance and a collection of previously announced security fixes. 10:03:02 AM    comment []  trackback []