Michael Koby

Power of Information 2007-08-26

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Michael Koby

This week on the Power of Information, Derek and I are going to keep it wireless by talking about this whole Bluetooth thing.

You can download this week’s episode here (mp3).

You can hear Power of Information Sundays on KCAA 1050AM in Loma Linda, California at 5pm Pacific Time. You can also download Power of Information in podcast form from our website at http://www.powerofinformation.net. The Power of Information is part of the America First Radio Network.

Special thanks to AngelsEye Inc. for donating the bandwidth to Power of Information. AngelsEye Inc. specializes in corporate branding and promotional marketing. Created to help companies of all sizes promote their own business and events. Visit AngelsEye Inc’s website today. Also, thanks to the band Pushmonkey for supplying music for our program. You can find out more about Pushmonkey and their music at http://www.myspace.com/Pushmonkey.

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links for 2007-08-26

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Michael Koby

Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Gets X-Video Support

The open-source “Nouveau” NVIDIA driver now contains X-Video support for most NVIDIA GPUs. The details are in the developer companion along with the status of video overlays and other features.

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
Pool Transformed Into Home Theater

An indoor pool is drained and rebuilt as a spacious, stadium-style home theater.

(tags: digg Television Entertainment)
15 Web Addresses for Wasting Time … View At Your Own Risk!

There’s a lot of articles around about how to make your time more productive. But some days I really don’t want to be productive, and while I should get off my chair and go outside instead I find myself killing time online.

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Top 10 and Bottom 10 Liveable Cities in the World 2006

The threat of terrorism and civil unrest is a major contributing factor to the cities that suffer from the worst liveability scores, as are poor development indicators. Algiers is the least liveable destination in the survey, with a score of 64.7%.

(tags: digg WorldNews World&Business)
Killer job interview questions and answers

Gonna start memorizing these right away! Just not while I am at work.

(tags: digg Business&Finance World&Business)
10 Habits of Highly Effective Brains

The LA Times just completed a wonderful 4-part series on how learning and memory work. The NYT re-emphasized the importance of physical exercise for neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons). To put this news in better perspective, let’s review some good

(tags: digg Health Science)
Microsoft Unveils New Linux Hate Site

Microsoft has finally killed off it’s old anti-Linux “Get the facts” website that had been spreading lies about Linux for years. However, don’t think that anything has changed, the site is being replaced with another, more insidious site called “Windows S

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
RIAA subpoena may violate federal privacy law

A University of Tennessee student asks to have an RIAA subpoena seeking his name, addresses, phone number, e-mail address, and MAC address quashed. His argument: the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act bars the school from releasing the data without

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
desktop linux users doubled

“Some great news from desktoplinux.com! They recently revealed the desktop survey results. The facts are there, the number of desktop linux users has doubled the last year!”

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
Court orders movie pirate to switch to Windows

A pirate who was sentenced to five years in jail for illegally downloading a movie from a Bittorrent site has been told that, under the terms of his probation, he has to switch to Microsoft Windows.

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Know Your Rights: Is it illegal to unlock my iPhone?

“We thought today would be, well, fitting to start our new technology law series Know Your Rights, written by Engadget’s own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of

(tags: digg Apple Technology)
Brazil Says NO to OOXML [and India Says NO As Well]

…the standards process director had to analyze the audio recording of all the meeting, review some facts, review again all 63+2 comments produced by the technical group about the ECMA specification, and conclude that a NO for OOXML is the correct positi

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
How I made my presentations a little better

“Since my Google Tech Talk (previously) caught fire last month (it’s gotten over 100,000 views so far), I’ve been receiving a lot of really nice email, comments, and questions about how I put my presentations together. I’m happy to oblige.”

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Geek To Live: Partition and Image Your Hard Drive with the System Rescue CD

You’ve reinstalled Windows from scratch again but this time you want to preserve your sparkling clean setup for instant restoration down the road. Instead of dropping cash on Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, burn yourself a free, bootable Linux-based S

(tags: digg Software Technology)

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links for 2007-08-24

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Michael Koby

Yes this really is a Moon…… (pic)

This is a cool picture….. It almost doesn’t even look like a real moon.

(tags: digg Space Science)
Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux

INTERVIEW | Linus Torvalds relates his plans for the future of Linux, including the 3.0 kernel, problems with the Linux release cycles and which distro he personally runs on his home PC. “’Compile everything by hand’ ones simply weren’t interesting to

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
Poll: One in four adults read no books last year

New survey shows biggest readers are women, older people…and that’s probably only because they don’t have their own computer 🙂

(tags: digg OffbeatNews World&Business)
Good Answer… Perhaps TOO Good

Peter B. was an out-of-work PHP developer looking for contract work in early 2005. A recruiter he’d worked with in the past emailed him some information regarding a possible position. Reading the job description, Peter thought he’d be a good fit, so he su

(tags: digg Programming Technology)
Financial and technical reasons lurk behind Paramount’s HD DVD coup

Paramount’s decision to abandon Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD has raised many, many questions, especially after it came to light that Paramount and Dreamworks received a combined $150 million as part of the deal.

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Removing Backgrounds Quickly in Photoshop

A tutorial on using the Extract filter for quick and dirty background removal.

(tags: digg Design Technology)

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links for 2007-08-23

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Michael Koby

New Metal Gear Solid Trailer.

More footage of the highly anticipated PS3 title by Kojima.

(tags: digg PlayStation3 Gaming)
Lifehacker’s Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks

The default desktop environment for Linux users, Gnome, is fast, organized and very easy to learn. But Gnome is also very powerful and highly customizable. Today’s top 10 lists the various ways you can tweak Nautilus and the Gnome desktop to turn Linux in

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
Federal judge orders White House to produce global warming report

A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming, siding with environmentalists who sued the White House for failing to produce the documents

(tags: digg PoliticalNews World&Business)
How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Blog in One Day

Here’s a great 7-step case study on getting a large amount of blog subscribers right at launch.

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Training Your Brain with Online Games

Happy Neuron claims its games can help strengthen five major cognitive functions of the brain and ward off dementia.

(tags: digg GamingIndustryNews Gaming)
Blogger tracks down the guy who hacked him, publishes his name and photo

Justin Watt discovers that his website disappeared from Google search results. He investigates, discovers that he was hacked by a Russian SEO hacker scumbag, then he TRACKS THE GUY DOWN. Vadim Smelyansky, you have been p0wned.

(tags: digg Security Technology)
Flash Beta Version Released for Linux too!

“There is a new beta of the Flash Player Update available. That’s right: the beta is even available for Linux (same time as Windows and Mac)” – Watch out for the click bug (I have it).

(tags: digg Linux/Unix Technology)
Michael Bay “drinks the Kool Aid,” now supports HD DVD

Amazing what a little cash can do…

(tags: digg Gadgets Technology)
POLL: Liberals Read More Books Than Conservatives

A new AP-Ipsos poll finds that 34 percent of conservatives have not read a book within the past year, compared with 22 percent of liberals and moderates. Among those who had read at least one book, conservatives “typically read eight” books in the pas

(tags: digg PoliticalOpinion World&Business)

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iTunes/iPod Tips & Tricks: Track Options

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Michael Koby

In continuing our series on various iTunes/iPod tips and tricks we are going to look at several of the options that you can set for your individual tracks (or a group of tracks) in your iTunes library. Several of these options transfer over to your iPod when you sync the tracks.

When I talk about “track options” I am talking about the tab on the “Get Info” dialog when you right click on a track and select “Get Info” from the resulting menu (see image below). There are some other tabs that you might be interested in and we will cover those at a later date. Lets get down to business.

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links for 2007-08-22

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Michael Koby

Photo taken With and Without Flash

What a difference!!

(tags: digg OffbeatNews World&Business)
CONFIRMED: iPhone $100 Cheaper at the Apple Refurb Store

Do you think the iPhone is $100 too expensive? Well, you can get refurbished 4GB and 8GB iPhones for $100 less than their original price-tag at the Apple Store.

(tags: digg Apple Technology)
Extended Cut of ‘Transformers’ Hits IMAX Next Month

If you thought Transformers looked awesome on the big screen, imagine how the giant robots will look on a giant IMAX screen!

(tags: digg Movies Entertainment)
Michael Bay responds to Paramount’s abandonment of Blu-ray No Transformer 2

Michael Bay — the director behind “Transformers,” “Bad Boys,” “Pear Harbor,” etc. — just threw down with Paramount in his personal blog. He states, “I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray su

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)
Great Scott! The DeLorean will return in 2008!

James Espey, VP of DeLorean Motor Company: “Job one will begin the third quarter of this year, with delivery by Q1 of 2008. We’re aiming for $57,500 as the sale price.”

(tags: digg Design Technology)
Full WEB 2.0 API List

A comprehensive list of hundreds of Web 2.0 APIs.

(tags: digg Programming Technology)
Google launches embeddable map feature

Google has rolled out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages. The feature will operate in much the same way as the embedding feature for YouTube videos.

(tags: digg TechIndustryNews Technology)