PGP Whole Disk Encryption comes to Mac

PGP Whole Disk Encryption comes to Mac
PGP has announced an upgrade to its self-titled Encryption Platform, used to provide enterprise security. The platform consists of NetShare 9.9, Universal Server 2.9 and Whole Disk Encryption 9.9, including Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X. The upgrades allow PGP users to centrally manage and automate data security policies for each application, as well as multiple locations regardless of where ...

GBTV #0386 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #0386 (small) | GeekBrief.TV
We're giving up DV tapes in our production flow with the Firestore FS5 release.

Matt, or Multiple Account Twitter Tweeting, is the first service I think I might continue to use to post my tweets to multiple accounts. The only downside that I've found is that posting isn't immediate.

AT&T is working to make purchasing the iPhone 3G seem as complicated and unpleasant as possible.

My t-shirt was provided by Allmightys.com.

AMD sells off digital TV team to Broadcom

AMD today said it would sell off the digital TV portion of its business to Broadcom. The $192.8 million deal gives Broadcom access to all of AMD's digital TV processors made under its ATI label, including the Theater and Xilleon processors for tuning and processing HDTV images as well as a raft of smaller circuits and processors designed for common TV tasks such as scaling and converting video. ...

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MacBreak 165: MacBreak: Blu-ray Encoding in Compressor

Brian Gary talks with Alex about Blu-ray encoding in Compressor. Read more

MacBreak 100: Macworld 2008: Skullcandy

Justine Ezarik checks out the new cool products at the Skullcandy booth. Read more

MacBreak 141: NAB 2008: JK Audio

MacBreak 141: NAB 2008: JK Audio
Alex drops by the JK Audio booth to see how they're improving phone recording interfaces.

Browser share dominated by Nokia, Openwave

Nokia and Openwave dominated the global mobile browser share with 34 percent and 29 percent, respectively, according to an AdMob report showing data from July. Microsoft Mobile, Safari, Palm and Blackberry all had shares less than five percent. Globally Nokia also lead for devices with 33 percent followed by Motorola with 16 percent. Phones from Research in Motion held a 2.8 percent share, and j...

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GBTV #353 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #353 (small) | GeekBrief.TV
Despite the fact that I introduced the show as Brief #352, it's actually #353.

Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo reminds me of something that would happen in sixth grade, except instead of passing notes, the two companies keep passing Press Releases. Yahoo didn't respond to Microsoft's deadline for an answer and Mark Andreessen >analyzed the situation

Apple upgraded the specs on the iMac, but everyone is really just waiting for the announcement of a 3G iPhone. The expectations are reaching frenzy status.

Geoff Smith launched a new Web service called RingtoneFeeder.com. It's a subscription service that automatically installs a new original ringtone on the iPhone via iTunes every week. Each ringtone is an original Geoff Smith production. Subscriptions are $1.98 a month or $19.98 a year. There is a free sample feed available at Ringtonefeeder.com for anyone who would like to see how it works.

Festo created a giant indoor flying object that floats through the air like a jelly fish in water. I cant tell what AirJelly's ultimate purpose could be, but it's beautiful to watch. It uses a combination of helium and an electric motor powered by lithium-ion polymer batteries.

MacBreak 39 Macworld 2007: Keynote Rundown

MacBreak 39 Macworld 2007: Keynote Rundown
Leo, Alex and Merlin discuss the Macworld 2007 Keynote announcements.

Canon ships 100 million compact digital cameras, 90 million of them broken with E18 lens errors

Canon ships 100 million compact digital cameras, 90 million of them broken with E18 lens errors

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Okay, okay, we're kidding -- we definitely think it's quite an achievement that Canon's hit another camera milestone and shipped out 100 million compact digital cameras since the PowerShot 600 first rolled off the line in 1996, and it's no secret that the PowerShot line's terrific image quality and friendly UI have a lot to do with it. Still, they're fragile little buggers, aren't they? A quick count amongst Engadget eds reveals at least 10 broken Canon digicams, ranging from a 2000-vintage PowerShot S100 all the way to a more recent PowerShot SD850 IS, and we know we're not outside the curve -- have you felt our pain? And, more importantly, do you keep coming back for more? Let us know in comments!

[Via PhotographyBLOG]

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MacBreak 05: There is a Need for Panic

Leo and Emery show you how to use Transmit, the award-winning FTP software from Panic Software. Read more

GBTV #0402 (small) | GeekBrief.TV

GBTV #0402 (small) | GeekBrief.TV
I asked for video of Microsoft's Sphere at the Research Faculty Summit. Todd Bishop provided it.

Dell's Studio Hybrid Desktop PCs provide a design alternative to the Mac Mini. You get your choice of 6 color sleeves or a bamboo sleeve.

Brando released the SATA HDD Multimedia Dock, which lets you connect it to a TV. It's a great price for a media center, even if it is a little unattractive.

Slydial gives you the option of calling someone and going straight to their voicemail so you don't have to talk to them. People like Louise and Neal are going to love this!

I keep talking about Bacon Tech, and now we have some real bacon tech. The Wake 'n' Bake Alarm Clock will actually cook your bacon in the morning and wake you up happy. Cali's Shirt Courtesy of Brew City Online
Cali's Necklace is a NeoCube

Canon adds two AIO printers, three scanners

Canon adds two AIO printers, three scanners
Canon geared up its back-to-school efforts with a pair of all-in-one printers and a trio of scanners. Aside from a more streamlined design, the PIXMA MP480 and the simpler MP190 both print faster, producing color images at 16 and 15 pages per second respectively (20/19 in black and white). The MP480 is similarly fast at generating full-quality fo...

Windows Live improves RSS reading; New Onfolio-based toolbar due today

Microsoft's Windows Live has just improved its RSS feed reading feature and supposedly now lets you import your OPML files. But the biggest news is that a new toolbar is due out this afternoon that incorporates many of the features of Onfolio, a desktop research organizer and RSS reader that Microsoft announced it acquired yesterday. Onfolio is no longer for sale and won't be supported in the future, with the acquired company now focusing all its efforts on improving and supporting the new toolbar only.

It's unclear whether the new toolbar will keep any of Onfolio's desktop RSS functions. We'll have to wait and see this afternoon, when the new toolbar is released for download. It appears you can download it from the Onfolio site. I'm curious to see what functions are delegated to the Web and which ones are left for the desktop application. (By the way, if you purchased the basic or professional versions of Onfolio after Dec. 8, you can request a refund. Purchasers of the academic version are out of luck because a half-dozen or so of its features are not available in the toolbar.)

On Windows Live, RSS reading is very cool. You can click on a feed and go to the original site to the read a story -- or you can hover over a "[more]" link and see much of the feed's content and graphics. You can scroll through a story if it doesn't fit into the pop-up window. This is how Google should have programmed its RSS reader, which, in my mind, sucks. (I do, however, like Google's personalized front page, where I do much of my RSS reading.)

The RSS modules on Windows Live show a continuous stream of graphics for each feed group. If you click on one of the graphics, a full page containing that module's feeds appear, displaying a portion of that feed's post. You can choose to "collapse all" or "expand all" feeds. Unless you're interested in reading each feed's entire post, expanding all feeds is a quick way to browse through a blog's postings. If you want to read the actual post on the blog, you can click on "more."

As for OPML files, I could not find a way to import RSS feeds. I filled out a support ticket, so we'll see how long it takes to get an answer. I suspect I'll discover how to do it by this afternoon, either from information released with the new toolbar or from one of the readers of this blog. :)

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Apple to use dedicated movie chips?

Apple to use dedicated movie chips?
Apple's widely discussed mystery product transition will involve dedicated movie processing hardware, according to a claimed tip on the subject sent to Silicon Alley Insider. The rumor would have at least some of Apple's products carry a chipset that would accelerate both decoding and encoding video, offloading much of the work from the main syste...

Intel's Nehalem now officially Core i7

Intel on Sunday quickly confirmed recent leaks with official word that its next-generation Nehalem processor architecture will be named Core i7. The move continues the Core name despite a major platform change and signals the new line's status as Intel's seventh major architecture since it began with the 8086 decades earlier. The highest-performi...

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Scientists look for new data mining tricks

ATLANTA - It turns out even computers can have information overload. Powerful computers can make millions of calculations in a blink of the eye, but that leaves a nettlesome challenge: the task of analysing the resulting mountains... Read more

Kindle profits to top $1 billion by 2010; Citi

Kindle profits to top $1 billion by 2010; Citi
Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney at Citi Investment Research is predicting the Kindle e-book reader offered exclusively by Amazon.com will sell 378,000 units this year, up from his previous estimates by a factor of two and well above the growth rate of Apple's iPod in its early years. His previous estimates of the $350 device's sales have also been bu...

RSS/Copyright Debate

RSS/Copyright Debate

Is RSS syndication honestly a threat to copyrights and those trying to protect them? It’s beginning to look that way.
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Is RSS syndication honestly a threat to copyrights and those trying to protect them? It’s beginning to look that way.
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CherryPal $249 cloud PC delayed for a fortnight... or longer, maybe

CherryPal $249 cloud PC delayed for a fortnight... or longer, maybe

Filed under: Desktops

Be honest here, you didn't even remember that the $249 CherryPal cloud PC was expected to ship this month last month. Reportedly, you'll be waiting a little longer for a PC you don't even know about thanks to a software quirk that isn't playing nice with a newer SSD. CherryPal is hoping to get the issue resolved and begin shipping the wee boxes within two weeks, though it does leave open the possibility for things to take "longer" as it slips into vaporware territory.

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Latest Picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun
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MacBreak 46 Macworld 2007: Flip4Mac

Leo and Merlin chat with the makers of the Flip4Mac suite of digital media tools. Read more

MacBreak 160: MacBreak: Foldit

MacBreak 160: MacBreak: Foldit
iJustine and Dr. Kiki fold proteins and aim for the nobel prize with Foldit.

FeedLounge is Ajaxian answer to desktop RSS readers

I plopped down five bucks this week to try the beta of FeedLounge, an elegantly designed online alternative to such storied desktop RSS readers as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire. In fact, it's hard to tell the difference, at first glance, between FeedLounge and an offline reader like FeedDemon. (The three screenshots show the same feed using different views.)

Of course, the main problem for FeedLounge's developers is convincing folks that they need to pay $5 a month for what Bloglines and NewsGator are already providing on the Internet for mostly free (NewsGator does have some paid versions of its service). Still, it's an impressive feat and it was worth the Lincoln to see what Ajaxian technologies can do for the RSS-reading community.

My first task was inputting a list of about 900 feeds via an OPML import. Rather than handling it all it once, FeedLounge provides a notice that it will incorporate the feeds in batches until they're all there. This apparently keeps their servers from dogging everytime someone like myself comes along with a gigantic OPML file.


I can't tell if all my 900 feeds are in the system. And I'm not going to count them to find out. :) But it looks like they are, and they even maintained the folder structure I brought over with me when I exported the RSS feed list from FeedDemon. Still, FeedLounge isn't without its growing pains: the servers were down for four hours yesterday "due to the database server becoming non-responsive to write operations." Like any Web-based app, you're taking a crap shoot on whether the servers will be up when you need to access the service. And in this case, you're paying moola to use the service.

I felt the purveyors were a little grouchy with me on two occasions, but I can understand that with a new start-up that has has taken 12-hour days to complete. The first was my fault: I had a payment bounce back in PayPal and so I went in and paid them $5 for the first month. They returned my money and told me they could only accept money through their automated system. Fair enough, on hindsight. But it was a waste of my time to do this. The second issue was that I sent them a support request directly to their e-mail address and they didn't care for that, pointing me to the support forums. But he did answer some of my questions in the e-mail reply.



I haven't had a chance to try out the service enough on a daily basis to make an informed decision on whether it's better than other options. But I did find one extremely irritating action that the owners don't seem interested in changing. Whenever a RSS feed is malformed, a warning appears on each and every feed: "Invalid Feed! This item is from an invalid feed. You may want to contact the owner of the feed to let them know." This is extremely irritating and I haven't seen it elsewhere, except occasionally on FeedDemon when a RSS feed is poorly written that it can't be read.

Overall, I'd say it's worth the $5 to try the service for a month and see if it's for you. They also have a trial, but it's limited to 50 people at a time and may be hard to use. I think that FeedLounge is a good example of what we can expect from Web-based applications that closely imitate -- and possibly improve upon -- their desktop cousins. Still, I won't be uninstalling my FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and other RSS readers (yes, I have a lot) anytime soon.

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HTC to ship one millionth Touch Diamond this month

Filed under: Cellphones

We know how much those suits love to hit wild targets they set without any real understanding of the future, so we're pretty sure at least one or two are getting the kudos of their life with this one. Earlier this year, HTC boldly predicted that it would move a staggering two million Touch Diamond handsets before 2009 dawned, and according to a new report, it'll ship the one millionth unit sometime next week. With Sony Ericsson having all sorts of difficulties moving its mid- to high-end mobiles, one may wonder if HTC really can sell another million before December 31st. But we have all ideas the looming Sprint / Verizon launches will be all the help it needs to call itself a proven prophet.

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Video: Aigo's Patriot MID released, demonstrated inside elevator

Video: Aigo's Patriot MID released, demonstrated inside elevator

Filed under: Handhelds

Right on schedule, Aigo's 800MHz Atom Z500-powered P8860 MID (aka, the Gigabyte M528 for the US and Europe) is hitting the mean, retail streets of Hong Kong today. With it, we've got a bit of video showing off the new pen+finger-based MIDLinux (aka, Midinux) GUI which looks far better than it did when we went hands-on with the Gigabyte back in March. All in all, this 4.8-inch MID with Bluetooth, WiFi, sliding QWERTY, 4GB SSD, microSD expansion, and GPS and HSDPA data options is looking quite righteous for that $700-ish price tag and early reports coming out of UMPC Fever. Now bust out the xylophone and get ready to play along with the video posted after the break.

[Via Pocketables]

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Apple looking to patent remote iTunes streaming?

Apple handhelds may in the future be able to stream content from a remote iTunes library, a newly-published patent application indicates. Titled Remote access of media items, the filing describes a system in which handheld owners would be able to access audio, video and photos over a network. Unlike the current iTunes sharing scheme, however, peo...

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Coupons for Online Shopping

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MacBreak 95: Image Editor Roundup

Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay explore the features of image editors for your Mac. Read more

Introducing Woopra. You're Gonna Want It.

Introducing Woopra. You're Gonna Want It.
At WordCamp Dallas today, I was introduced to a live analytics tool called Woopra. It didn't make me cry, but it did awaken my inner Scoble. We whipped out the camera and went to work.

Unlike the stat service you might be using to analyze your Web site traffic data, Woopra provides exciting, LIVE data about your visitors as they explore your site. Web site stats might be interesting to those of us who have Web sites, but Woopra makes stats addictive and quite frankly, entertaining. It's sticky, and if you own a Web site, you're going to want to have it running on a screen, the same way a day trader keeps a stock ticker and CNBC running non-stop.

The rich, client side Java application installs on a Mac, PC or Linux machine supporting the latest version of Java. And data streams to the interface in the form of lush looking maps, charts, graphics and text. Woopra logs details what pages your visitors look at, where they came from and what keywords they searched for to lead them to your site. Reading back the description I just wrote, it doesn't seem like anything new. The excitement comes from the visual nature of the application. I guess, then, it's a good thing we do video. Have a look...

We used Vimeo's flash player so the shots of the screen would be crisp. Feel free to embed. :)

Active Directory Mac use enhanced by Likewise Open

Active Directory Mac use enhanced by Likewise Open
Likewise Software's new Likewise Open Fall 08 allows network administrators to remotely access, control and manage multiple computers across 118 platforms, including Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX and more, all from one point of control on any computer. Using a Microsoft Active Directory environment, Likewise Fall 08 integrates non-windows systems by provid...

Protopage: Ajax-Driven Personal Pages

Ajaxy personal pages with newsreaders are gaining traction and usability. Protopage is a free service that is astonishing easy to use and doesn't even require registration. (If you create a page and wish to make it persist at an easy-to-remember URL, you must register. But it's still free.) Floating information panels can be dragged around the screen, and there are three basic types: RSS reader; sticky note; and link panel. As far as I can tell there is no way to add a photo to a page, which is a shame. Protopage also provides a default search panel with keyword boxes for Google, Yahoo!, Dictionary.com, and Wikipedia.

Overall a simple product, but the RSS panel does allow OPML uploads, and you can fashion more than one panel for extra sorting power. All colors and backgrounds are customizable with sliders and drop-down menus. You can add pages to your Protopage space, and make those pages public or private individually. A mechanism for inviting friends is furnished, but there's no integrated social action here. You share you page by giving someone the URL, and, of course, friends can build link panels with each other's addresses.

Perhaps the funnest application of Protopage would be to share a password, and get a group together to build a space. Protopage would be an entertaining environment in which to assemble news, links, and notes. Conversations could transpire on the sticky notes. More widgets are needed to bring this thing to life, though. Give it a calendar and photo uploading, and Protopage would start to rock.

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MacBreak 95: Image Editor Roundup

MacBreak 95: Image Editor Roundup
Leo Laporte and Alex Lindsay explore the features of image editors for your Mac.

Optimus Maximus survives coffee spill test... or does it?

Optimus Maximus survives coffee spill test... or does it?

Filed under: Peripherals

Maybe it's the ambiguity and possible masking of truth that just adds to the allure here, but whether it really lived or not, you now know what an Optimus Maximus looks like after an impromptu greeting with lukewarm java. Sir tema clearly states that the keyboard "survived" its first recorded coffee spill "thanks to the construction of the upper tray," but judging by the looks of this thing... um, we're not so sure. Oh, and he also mentions that spilling liquids on the 'board is not only "stupid," but it obviously voids any applicable warranties. Thanks for the memo.

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