Thursday, September 6, 2007

Byte Into It - 5th Sept 2007



Crave: The gadget blog - Posts tagged 'Ovi'
As part of its new Ovi brand of Internet services, Nokia is reviving the much-maligned N-Gage gaming platform in a new way. Instead of offering a hardware-based gaming system, Nokia is opening up a mobile gaming portal with the N-Gage branding. Once accessed, you can browse through a wide selection of game titles, download free trials, and finally purchase the games directly from Nokia. Nokia is also heavily promoting the community aspect of the new N-Gage platform, suggesting that you can connect and play with friends all over the world, as well as keep track of global gaming stats. As with the Music store, you can either purchase the game over the air or download it to your PC first.

Search: top | Lifehacker Australia
If you're (for whatever reason) blocked from viewing a particular web site, tech site WebStuffScan has posted a list of ten different strategies you can use to access the forbidden.

Software Freedom Day Bazaar at the Melbourne Town Hall — Computerbank Victoria, Australia - Recycles donated computers with open source software
Software Freedom Day Bazaar at the Melbourne Town HallSaturday 15th September 2007
11am-4pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Corner Swanston St and Collins Sts, Melbourne

MLUG
Two members of Melbourne Linux Users Group been working on their Mythtv project and we
have tested all the myth tv distributions available, they also have
published their notes on how to get everything working including remote
control and an EPG for Melbourne. Please check it out at http://www.linux-mlug.blogspot.com/

The PC Authority Acronym Dictionary - Features - www.pcauthority.com.au
The PC Authority Acronym Dictionary. Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for?

New Eudora email client built on Mozilla | Lifehacker Australia
This is the first new version of Eudora since 2006, when developer Qualcomm donated Eudora to the Mozilla foundation. They've basically been working on migrating Eudora to an open source framework as an extension built on top of Thunderbird.

Ubuntu Founder Mark Shuttleworth on Productivity and Linux | Lifehacker Australia
Founder of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Lifehacker about email, productivity, travel, web applications, Ubuntu, free software and much more.

10 Must-Have Linux Tools - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
In this TechBuilder Recipe, the Test Center uncovers 10 tools that every Linux solution provider or administrator should be familiar with. While some of these are readily available for download, many of the command-line utilities generally are bundled with the distribution.

Live coverage of Apple's "The Beat Goes On" event

IGN: Forty PS3 Games Playable at TGS
Four mystery titles join White Knight Story and LocoRoco.

Sony edits Wikipedia, downplaying Halo 3's graphics
The Internet sees everything. It used to be you were safe to strike out at your enemies via Wikipedia edits, but with the advent of WikiScanner, those days are over. Which is why we're discussing a small edit made to the Wikipedia page of Halo 3. The contributor claims that Halo 3's graphics won't look much better than Halo 2, citing a Time story from March. Page 52, if you'd like to look it up...
For some crazy reason MaxConsole ran the IP itself and isolated the IP range to a particular place: SCEE's Liverpool offices. Someone at Sony isn't too happy with the state of Halo 3's graphics, and they want to talk about it.

Free Games: Ubisoft Titles Go Free On Fileplanet - Kotaku
Are you a PC gamer who's never tried Far Cry, Rayman's Raving Rabbids or Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Well today all four games have shown up on FilePlanet, completely free of charge for subscribers to the service. Well, not exactly completely free. They are all now in convenient as supported form, meaning you'll get a healthy dose of marketing along with your free game, but hell, these are some pretty awesome titles to get for the low, low price of watching a few commercials. Not sure if this is a temporary deal or what, as Ghost Recon was up there as well but the link is now not working, so you might need to hop on this ASAP.

http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain
Original Command &Conquer ISO images for Windows XP

US state bans forced RFID tagging of humans - Hardware - www.itnews.com.au
RFID tags have been used for years to identify pets, track inventory and more recently in contactless smartcards and other ID systems.State Senator Joe Simitian proposed the bill after RFID developer VeriChip was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration to sell implanted identification devices.

Simitian said that, so far, about 2,000 people have had VeriChip's devices implanted.

"RFID is a minor miracle, with all sorts of good uses," said Simitian. "But we should not condone forced 'tagging' of humans. It is the ultimate invasion of privacy."

Google patent sparks G-phone speculation - Mobility - www.itnews.com.au
Google has filed a patent application for a mobile payment system, fuelling rumours that the search giant may launch a mobile phone.The patent application covers a system that would allow consumers to pay for services via text message.

Dubbed 'GPay', the service would involve sending an SMS to Google which would then pay the retailer and charge the cost to the consumer.

"We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our employees come up with. Some of those ideas later mature into real products or services, and some do not," a Google spokesperson told The Times.

International standards group rejects Microsoft Office Open XML - Software - www.itnews.com.au
Microsoft's controversial campaign to convince worldwide standards bodies to endorse its Office Open XML document format as an international standard has hit a roadblock.A proposal that called for OOXML to receive so-called fast track approval was voted down over the weekend at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva by standards groups from participating countries.

The outcome does not end OOXML's chances of ultimately becoming an international standard. Many of the countries that voted against the format did so with qualifications, meaning that Microsoft will have a chance to address their concerns before a final vote is taken in March.

Failure to win the ISO's endorsement of OOXML could lock out Microsoft products that use the format from lucrative government markets, given that governments around the world are increasingly turning toward software that is open and standards based. Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite is among the company's OOXML-based offerings.

Microsoft is hoping to position OOXML as an alternative to the Open Document Format, which has already received ISO approva

In-game advertising company adopts TV ad model - Software - www.itnews.com.au
Double Fusion, a private company that connects advertisers and video game publishers, rolls out new technology on Tuesday to allow advertisers to mount last-minute ad campaigns in games the same way they use spot TV ads.The technology will be shown to developers at the Austin Game Developers Conference starting on Wednesday.

Game designers now designate and hard-code locations for in-game advertising during the development process. After the coding is completed, advertising content can be changed via an Internet connection, but locations for ads cannot be changed or added.

Double Fusion's new program, called fusion.runtime, separates in-game advertising from the development process, allowing developers to create new placements in completed games, including back catalog titles.

Featured Linux Download: Browse the Web Without Installing Anything with ioSwiftFox - Lifehacker
Linux only: Run a browser directly from RAM with open source "app" ioSwiftFox. ioSwiftFox requires absolutely no installation and doesn't even require root privileges to run for the first time. ioSwiftFox is a simple script that after some chmod foo you can use to browse the web. It runs faster than Firefox and even works with your existing Firefox extensions! If you want to get technical, ioSwiftFox is a recompilation of Firefox 2 for Infodomestic Objects.

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