http://hackademix.net/2007/08/07/java-evil-popups
Nasty tricks with Java and Javascript Demo:
Warning be prepared to have to manually kill your browser process (with task manager or force quite or the command line...your preference, in some of these demos)
Flash Player 9 gets beefed up with H.264 support
Camino 1.5.1 released, fixes bugs and adds features
HandBrake v0.9.0 for Mac OS X
Back in April, HandBrake and MediaFork were merged into one terrific program for the legitimate transference of DVD video to other formats, and other things
Gaming on the Mac: once maligned, now showing signs of improvement
Blackfriars' Marketing: Predicting Apple's new iPods: evolutionary, but borrowing from the iPhone too
Digg - Early iPhone Adopters Extremely Satisfied: Best Rating of any Cell Phone
MTV bails on Microsoft, partners with RealNetworks for "Rhapsody America"
World's largest music retailer ditches DRM, not censorship
Wal-Mart's music download store has grown far more attractive now that
it offers 256kbps unrestricted MP3 tracks from both EMI and Universal.Because neither Warner nor Sony BMG are yet licensing their catalogs
without DRM, many of the tracks at the store are still DRM-encumbered
WMA files—it's a confusing situation and a huge drawback if the company
wants iPod users to shop there.
And pricing is competitive. The 256kbps MP3 tracks are
available for $.94 apiece, which compares well with iTunes' $1.29 for
256kbps AAC files (though AAC is a more modern compression scheme).
Wal-Mart's store can be accessed either through the browser or through
Windows Media Player (version 9 and later); oddly, the browser-based
store cannot be accessed when using Linux or Mac.Only edited versions of albums with parental advisories are
available, just as they are in Wal-Mart's offline stores. This isn't a
new policy; Wal-Mart's online music store has carried only edited
versions for years, but it's worth pointing out to potential new users
tempted by the lower prices and lack of DRM.
The policy is in contrast to iTunes, which offers both versions for
sale and allows users to choose which version they wish to purchase.
Wal-Mart has already made the decision for you, though, as part of its
corporate policy, and it hits hard in the rap section of the site: six
of the top ten rap and hip-hop albums have been edited.
Google Video Store gets stay of execution, full refunds coming
Google Video is closing its commercial video sales wing, the Google Video Store. The controversial decision will see Google eventually shuttering its video Digital Rights Management service, which will render video bought from the store useless.Fortunately, Google has seen the error of its ways and says it will now work with customers to give them full refunds in addition to keeping its DRM service alive for another six months. The upshot: customers can obtain full refunds, keep past credit, and still play their movies (until early next year).
Microsoft aims for online supremacy, opens up Windows Live ID
Microsoft recently opened up its Windows Live ID service to third-party web developers. Windows Live ID—formerly known as Microsoft Passport—is a web-based authentication service that allows applications such as Microsoft Hotmail to identify users. The public release adds a number of features that were missing from the alpha version, such as sample code in ASP.NET, Ruby, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP, as well as improved documentation. The service is available free of charge to all web developers, but there is a Terms of Use agreement that places limits on how the service may be used, for the most part to try and dissuade people from using it for the purposes of spamming.
Paramount adopts HD DVD, kicks Blu-ray to the curb
Just when many observers are beginning to believe that Blu-ray has the next-gen HD format wars all wrapped up, Paramount throws us a major curveball. The studio has announced that it is abandoning Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD.
Security violation scorecard: Military: 3,900, Milbloggers: 30
The Army's greatest leak of sensitive information isn't through bloggers, it's the Department of Defense's own official web site. These findings came from a series of audits (PDF) performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell (AWRAC), which were recently published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation as part of its lawsuit to obtain the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.The 10-person AWRAC found that despite the Army's claims that "milblogs" posed a major potential security risk to the Department of Defense because of violations to the operational security policy (OPSEC), only 30 violations were found on 594 blogs monitored between January of 2006 and January of 2007. Comparatively, official military web sites contained 3,900 OPSEC violations.
Giant, synchronized reboot (Windows Update) smokes Skype
Skype has finished its sleuthing and is ready to report on the conditions which led to the company discovering a flaw in its P2P networking code. The culprit? It turns out that Skype's code wasn't prepared for a massive restart of PCs caused by the standard Windows patching process."The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update," Skype indicated on its blog.
BBC NEWS | Business | Big names sign up to iTunes rival
Some of the world's biggest record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service, challenging Apple.Customers can buy tunes through Gbox at the same price charged by market leader iTunes - 99 cents (50 pence) a track.
Screenshot Tour: Apple Polishes Spreadsheets With Numbers - Lifehacker
Macworld says that iWork '08's Numbers changes the spreadsheet paradigm. Mac guy Merlin Mann says Numbers is like the Excel librarian who ditches her hornrims, opens a button and shakes her hair.
Web As Desktop: Zoho Writer Heads Offline with Google Gears - Lifehacker
The popular non-Google web-based word processor Zoho Writer now supports an offline mode with Google Gears. By default, Zoho Writer downloads 15 documents for offline viewing, but you can specify more if you want. Yes, that's offline viewing, not editing, though Zoho says that offline editing will be available in the next few weeks. Just think, if only Google had a web-based word processor that could take advantage of Gears. Oh wait...
Quicksilver, Feature - Lifehacker
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