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Chats and Forums RSS Feedsfring Adds VoIP to iPhone - fring for iPhone has arrived! I'm a huge fan of fring, which I like to call the Swiss Army knife of VoIP/IM communications since fring works with AOL/AIM, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, Twitter, Yahoo! Messenger, and SIP registrars/IP-PBXs. I've used fring on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phon...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com See, Video Games Are Good for You - Games and virtual reality simulators are becoming increasingly popular tools for training by the army, various police forces and even in medical applications. If a new pilot program called "InSight" pans out for Allstate, though, the next place you could be seeing video games is at the local DMV. Allstate is currently piloting a new program which seeks to find out if playing driving video games could make better drivers out of those over age 50. If the study shows that it can, the insurance company plans to offer discounts to mature drivers who pass the online tests and the current, single-state pilot would be spread across other states next year. ... Best Buy Selling Musical Instruments -- Making Real Guitar Heroes! - Look out Guitar Center and Sam Ash! Maybe you don't think of them as gadgets, but Best Buy is adding musical instruments to its entertainment repertoire at roughly 85 stores nationwide. (Didn't I just see you at Best Buy?) The stores will cater to novice and professional musicians and carry brands such as Fender, Gibson, Roland and Drum Workshop. The Best Buy in Pembroke Pines, FL, for example, features a 2,500-square-foot store-within-a store with more than 1,000 guitars, bass drums, keyboards, recording equipment and other instruments and accessories. The Best Buy in Pembroke Pines will have five to seven trained musical instrum... Nokia Unveils Its First Music Phone -- 5800 XpressMusic - Turning up the volume on what could be a music phone war, Nokia has unveiled the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, a mobile device for music that brings innovative new features to the mass market. Delivering on Nokia's vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's service that offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog. When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience -- with more mem... Windows Live Messenger Back in the VoIP game! - Ok, now my head is getting dizzy from the number of times Microsoft Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger has had outbound VoIP-to-PSTN calling (2006), then ... Lenovo Celebrates 16 Years of ThinkPad - Lenovo is celebrating sixteen years of continuous ThinkPad innovation (most of them of course under the Big Blue of IBM) with -- what else? -- a sale.Lot of fun to look at the "Legends of ThinkPad" to see some of the amazing feats this little gadget has been through. You can take your choice of "melted," "sunk," "crunched," "trekked" and "stolen."Actually some stuff you won't believe!And of course there are many awards Reminds me of all of TPs I've owned -- T20, A Series, etc. -- some still in fact ticking still!See the Legends... Now the iPhone Is a Political Tool ... - Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application today that turns the gadget into a political recruiting tool. The most notable feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to reach out and make an impact quickly," according to the software. For example, if you have contacts in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico, they would be ranked at the top; at the bottom would be someone with a cell phone in Texas. The application anonymously reports back the number of calls made this way: "Your privacy is important: no personal data or contacts will be uploaded or stored. Only the total number of c... Ronco's Baaack!!! - Remember the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler? To many baby boomers, those names recall the days when Jimmy Carter was in the White House and Farrah Fawcett starred in Charlie's Angels.And who can forget the Bass-O-Matic skit on Saturday Night Live (when it really mattered!)?Now a new generation will be able to form its own memories. The Ronco Acquisition Corporation, the company behind these products, is reviving its in-your-face infomercials, even weaving in historical footage of Ron Popeil, the original pitchman.(Now if only Cra... Is Your City One of the Most Connected? - Among the top designated marketing areas (DMAs), San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles are the most connected cities based on home networking adoption. What does connected mean: A wired or wireless home network allows consumers to connect multiple PCs and printers, and to share Internet access among computers. MultiMedia Intelligence's research identifies significant variations among major metropolitan areas. San Francisco has the highest household home networking adoption rate of 28% among the top DMAs. In contrast, the San Antonio, Chicago and Cleveland DMAs have among the lowest home networking adoption. This reflects, in part, the varying reg... Smelly MacBook Pros Not Good for You - Strong-smelling MacBook Pros have been discussed on Apple forums, but an anonymous French molecular biologist/researcher went to Greenpeace to check out why his smelled. Greenpeace got Analytica involved, and then Inéris, France's national institute covering the industrial environment. Apparently benzene is a component of the smell, and this could be risky -- over time, sensitive people could develop leukemia. Unconfirmed stories suggest the problem Mac Pros have been built in China, not at Apple's European factory. Note, we'... How about Being Your Favorite Gadget for Halloween? - With October ringing in today, of course thoughts turn to Halloween -- yes, I know it's nearly a month away. Wonder why we don't see any trick or treaters dressed up as their favorite gadgets? Would be pretty easy to be an iPhone (or just about any cell phone for that matter, but those clam shell designs could be trouble?). TV set or computer monitor is another good one -- at least for head gear. What do you think? Does this make any sense? And if it does, what gadget would you be? And why
Tags: ... Adtran IP 706 Review -
Adtran recently launched their IP 700 series of IP phones in late April. Adtran sent TMC Labs the IP 706 model, which supports up to 6 lines, but the 700 series also includes the IP 712 which is identical feature-wise but supports up to 12 lines. Each line can be configured to register with unique SIP proxy/registrar servers. This allows a different line for every line key on the phone. A line is called a multiple call appearance (MCA) type if it will be assigned to one or more line keys on the same phone. It is called a shared call appearance (SCA) type if the line is shared across multiple phones. This is not to be confused with SLA (Shared Line Appearance) which maps PSTN lines to buttons on all the phones. Of course you need to assign t... 2009 Microsoft MVP Award - Today, I was awarded a 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award, making this the second year in a row I've been granted this prestigious award that has fewer than 5,000 awardees worldwide. As part of the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) announcement, a message from CEO Steve Ballmer said, "As the independent voice of users worldwide, your influence on technical communities is felt in many ways--enhancing people's lives and contributing to our industry's success. We're deeply grateful to you for sharing your feedback, comments, ... Amazon EC2 running Windows Server and SQL Server - Amazon just announced that Amazon EC2 will soon run Windows Server and SQL Server. The announcement was made to Amazon Web Services developers this morning. This announcement may be partly in response to Microsoft who has been building a hosted development platform of their own. In fact, Microsoft is expected to announce the hosted platform officially at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, will keynote and is expected to unveil Microsoft's cloud computing solution. According to an Amazon representative, starting la... Nintendo's New DS Goes Music, Camera, Wireless - By the end of this year, Nintendo will debut a new version of its DS handheld console that plays music and is equipped with a camera and advanced wireless functions.This would put the new DS in direct competition with such well-entrenched devices as the Apple iPod and camera-equipped mobile phones. The price for the new machine is expected to be below 20,000 yen ($189) in Japan, compared with 16,800 yen ($158) for the current model.Now I wonder what Sony and other folks have up their sleeves in this very, very competitive market segment? More at ... An Unlocked iPhone 3G in HK? - Unlocked iPhone 3Gs are now on sale in Hong Kong direct from the company web site, according to a published report. Until now, Hong Kong iPhones could only be bought from Hutchison Telecommunications on a two-year contract, the cheapest package being a staggering $188 a month. Now Apple's local website is offering the 8 gigabyte version of its unlocked phone for $695 and the 16 gigabyte one for $798, letting buyers choose their own GSM service provider. The shape of things to come? Get more ... Cell Phones: More Tapping Than Talking Now - For the first time in recorded history, we used our cell phones more for sending text messages than making phone calls! (Knew that day would come )In the fourth quarter of 2007, the average subscriber's volume of text messages shot upward by 64%, while the average number of calls dropped slightly, according to Nielsen Mobile. Not surprisingly, users with QWERTY-style keypads sent 54% more text messages than those with ordinary keypads. Teenagers 13 to 17 are by far the most prolific texters, sending or receiving 1,742 messages a month, according to Nielsen Mobile. By contrast, 18-to-24-year-olds average 790 messages. Thanks (as always) to the ... How about a 9-Megapixel Camera Phone? - German-based Digital Imaging Systems (DIS) has introduced a camera module for cell phones that for the first time includes 9-megapixel technology.(Remember when 1 MP was a lot?)The module delivers image data with a max resolution of 3488 x 2616 pixels through either a parallel interface or optional MIPI interface. Full production is scheduled to begin later in the year. The unit also contains an array of advanced photographic features, according to the DIS. These include auto-focus, high quality lenses, mechanical shutter and ND-filter with integrated actuators and an easy-to- access platform software, enabling high-end digital still camera quality in mobile phones.The announcement was made at Photokina, ... Cell Phones Will Take over GPS Market - Cell phones will replace the personal navigation device (PND) as the primary GPS device by 2011, according to the research firm iSuppli. The firm predicted that cell phones will then account for 36% of the GPS market, compared with 30% for PNDs, which today account for 50% of global navigational units sold. The report also predicted that price drops among PNDs will lead to smaller manufacturers selling out to larger hardware companies over the next year or two. (Doesn't this happen in every gadget category?) Reminds me how cell phones were going to replace digital cameras -- don't believe that has happened yet. But maybe GPS is a more ea... Muxtape Back with Indie Focus - Muxtape.com has changed its tune. A month after the NYC-based music site was shut down by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for copyright infringement, founder Justin Ouellette announced that it will re-launch with a new focus. The six-month-old site had allowed users to create playlists or mixtapes of up to 12 songs and share the lists with friends. According to a message on the Muxtape home page, the site will now become a service for bands to promote their music on the Web. The revamped Muxtape will join a long list of Web firms like Nabbr, TuneCore and Music Nation, which are trying to cash in on helping aspiring artis... Gizmo5 SIP Trunks available in trixbox CE - Gizmo5 SIP trunks have always been available in trixbox CE, but it was a manual process. The Gizmo5 team has built a module to be part of the trixbox package manager that allows you to purchase your trunks, see your account balance, purchase more minutes, and automatically setup your inbound and outbound routes. The module is now available via the trixbox package manager and will be built into all upcoming ISO builds. Additionally, the calling service for trixbox CE is pre-configured to use the Gizmo5 calling network and includes a new UI for easy administration. Also included is a Tech Check system that ... Motorola Femtocell Picture Frame Combines VoIP, Video, Bluetooth, Touchscreen and more - Check out this cool new converged prototype device from Motorola that combines a picture frame with touch-screen, video camera, Bluetooth headset, VoIP, femtocell, and video streaming. A femtocell is a small cellular base station, typically designed for use in residential or small business environments that allows you to use your mobile phone in your home connecting to your femtocell access point.Femtocells essentially are an alternative way to deliver the benefits of Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) without the need for a dual-mode handset. In the Youtube demo video below demoed by Motorola representative Harsha He... NuTsie Streaming iTunes to Your Phone - Regional mobile carrier Alltel has launched NuTsie, a service that allows users of almost a dozen of the company's handsets to stream certain titles from their PC's iTunes collection to their cell phones. This makes the operator the first U.S. carrier to offer such a service, which will cost $4.99 a month, or $19.99 a year. To stream the protected and unprotected songs in a user's iTunes library, NuTsie does not actually place-shift songs from a user's PC. Instead, the service matches the songs in a user's library to the licensed songs stored in NuTsie servers, then streams only the songs in its server. As a result, not every song in a user's PC library... Asus Going 3.75G for Eee - Asus has announced that it will be adding 3.75G connectivity to its hugely popular series of Eee PC netbooks, enabling convenient and high-speed access to the Internet anytime, anywhere. The inclusion of 3.75G is a perfect addition to the Eee PC's existing set of travel-friendly features such as its high portability, shockproof data storage and all-day battery life -- strengthening its reputation as the solution for computing on the go. Frequent travelers will particularly welcome the timely addition of 3.75G support, which comes as service providers around the globe are ramping up their adoption of 3.75G High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA). This... Flash VoIP calls to Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Google Talk - Flashphone is a web-based SIP softphone, while gtalk2voip lets you make or receive calls to/from all SIP phones and SIP services, including Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Google Talk. Both Flashphone and gtalk2voip are free. Now combine the two and you can make free web-based Flash calls to Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Google Talk (gtalk) users.According to the Flashphone blog, "For example, if someone is online in Gtalk and you want to call him from flashphone you just need to enter SIP URI like sip:google_username@gtalk2voip.com and gtalk user w... Netbooks Yes or Netbooks No? - A new report predicts that ultramobile devices will reach 200 million in unit sales by 2013 and will match the market for notebook PCs. ABI Research said products such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, will gross $27 billion by then, with MID units growing in popularity to surpass its rival. All this from ZDNet. On the other hand, in a wide-ranging interview, Dell CEO Michael Dell (in photo) voiced suspicion that small-screened netbooks will shake up the computer industry or become the primary computer in dev... More on Skype for Asterisk - Continuing the coverage of the big Skype for Asterisk news I covered earlier today In a nutshell, the Asterisk server acts as a Skype-to-SIP gateway, a very popular requested feature, mapping Asterisk SIP-based phones onto the Skype network via the As... Skype for Asterisk Launches - Skype and Digium have hooked up to bring Skype to Asterisk called Skype For Asterisk. Skype For Asterisk launched minutes ago enables Asterisk users to get access to Skype features coupled with the capabilities of Asterisk. For example, the beta version of Skype For Asterisk will allow customers to make, receive and transfer Skype calls from within Asterisk systems using their existing hardware; enable inbound calling solutions like free click-to-call from company websites... Digium AEX410 Launches - Digium announced the immediate availability of the AEX410, a four-port modular analog PCI-Express x1 telephony interface card for use with Asterisk. The AEX410 is a PCI-Express board that compliments Digium's existing PCI-based TDM410 product.The AEX410 offers analog (FXS) stations and analog trunk (FXO) modules for connecting to the PSTN or analog devices. An optional DSP-based 128ms line echo cancellation for the AEX410 is provided by Digium's VPMADT032 G.168 module. The optional hardware echo cancellation module provides 1024 taps (128 milliseconds) of echo cancellation for superior voice quality on both trunk and station interfaces.According to the ... Digium Major Announcement - what can it be? - Today, Digium, creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the leading open source telephony platform will be making a major announcement at Astricon later today. Digium hinted to me that a major announcement would be made at Astricon when I visited their Huntsville, Alabama headquarters in August.I tried to find out what the news will be, but alas Digium couldn't tell me. So I thought it would be fun to prognosticate what this deal could be.1) Digium's Switchvox will be distributed by Dell, which currently carries another Asterisk competitor, Fonality.2) Digium will be acquired by Adtran, an avid suppor... Re: Problem with DjVu links - The link /stream/ is the streaming link and is supposed to open the file in the DJVU viewer; it doesn't always work. The download link is /download/
I use FlashGet and when the download ... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Does it block some PD books internationally, the way Google does? I would doubt it.
... Re: A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - Works in the UK. ... Re: Please remove - You know, of course, that it's a joke-- it's making fun of that mentality .
Copyrighted, naturally, and now gone.
Does this-- and his companion piece about, em, African Americans, really go over p ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - I'm surprised these major publications got past the first eye down there. They're pretty famous. ... A new search engine for the Google-Michigan text archive - In case anyone's interested, somebody worked up a clever new search engine for the University of Michigan's copies of its Google book and journal scans.
http://roytennant.com/proto/hathi/
The advant ... http://www.archive.org/details/sharhelmakoudi - thanks for this im very happy caus im serching in all site but i cant fiend it im verry glad ... Brewster is onTED - I have just spotted Brewster's inspiring lecture on TED.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html
It is outstanding. ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Think about it like this: a few generations ago our forebares disregarded prohibition even though it was written into the constitution. When the British put a tax on tea, the colonist started smugglin ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - Laws are meant to be broken, this is a digital revolution. I violate my own copyrighted material all the time! ... Re: Many copyrighted books on IA - they may be too busy checking if some GD show is a SB or Aud source a happy rhino is a good rhino ... Many copyrighted books on IA - I just came across a whole bunch of scanned books that are copyrighted. For three of them, I did a "Report Errors", but too many to report them all manually. They are scienceofculture00whit, ... Problem with DjVu links - The DjVu link on Details pages doesn't seem to work -- Here's an example
http://www.archive.org/details/atlasofdiseaseso00mraciala
When I click the link on the Details page, it doesn't go to the ... Microsoft License Update on E-texts - In the announcement on Public Funding posted here at the archive, it was stated that Microsoft "said they wer ... Re: Albert Deutsch, CRAZYIER then NOT, NOW more MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... Re: Albert Deutsch, The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC - Hello!I am mike from phoniex.There are lot of hospitals in Arizona for recover the patients from mental illness.Thanks for giving this information for recover mental illness people.
================= ... Re: 500,000 books online! - Whoo Hoo! Major mile-stone. Congrats IA! ... 500,000 books online! - We just passed a milestone of 500,000 books online. Fantastic to see.
The Internet Archive is scanning at about 1000 books a day at this point from 80 great libraries.
As we cross this milestone, p ... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - sorry about all of that distracting stuff. I think we have gotten a pile of it. As it turns out the culprits are doing it now, so we will see some more, unfortunately.
-brewster
... Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - That why I've been advocating a banning policy on the IPs that upload this crap ... Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! - What can we do to get rid of tons of spam advertisements that are being uploaded here? I even see today the actual advertisement WAS the description and is on the listing page. It's bad enough to wa ... More removals - I thought I did this last night, but apparently didn't press the right button; we need a policy on here that people who continually post stuff like the below thread should be banned, at least temporar ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Thanks LockerGnome. Have you worked on the IA planetary scanner? ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bounce the lighting off matte white reflectors.
Shape the reflectors to even the lighting.
The lights and reflectors need to be out of the view of the cameras reflected off the glass plate.
... Re: Greek letters - It appears to be the sort of garbage output from an OCR
engine trained only in latin scripts. The same mess happens at the beginning of many books where there is a mixture of fonts, particularly the t ... Re: Another removal - Done. ... Another removal - The author has asked that this be taken off
http://www.archive.org/details/PartnersInHateNoamChomskyAndTheHolocaustDeniers ... Commentarii in Vergilii carmina - I am sure I have browsed a latin commentary to Virgil's Bucolics. It must have been from Archive.org. However I cannot find such a text anymore, neither on the site nor on my harddrive. Have I dreamt? ... Re: Please remove - Somewhere Crumb is laughing his head off ... Please remove - http://www.archive.org/details/WhenTheGoddamnJewsTakeOverAmerica
Uh people who are familiar with the things I post know I don't shy away from sensitive issues, and like to post controversial things ... building news and engineering journal - My grandfather recently gave me the Building News And Engineering Journal Vol 29 1875.
I am trying to find out some more info on this publication.
How many were there printed? etc.
Would appreciate an ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Librivox can report what the circumstances are at his end of the node, not what is happening at the host server. I'm not meaning to be an appoligist for anyone, simply an observer of realistic expecta ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Believe me, kiteman, I also am grateful to those who operate the site. It has given me access to books which I could never hope to read otherwise. But gratitude is not the issue. The aim of the arch ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Your post states all of the reasons the host simply cannot do as you would ask. When you log on from (whether from Scotland or New York) your local lines, networks and servers have far more impact on ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - This is a good idea (P2P solutions). Duplication is the best form of preservation.
The thought has occurred to me of downloading a copy of every book (half-million or so) but then I did the calculat ... Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Are they still digitising?
I though Microsoft have wound their digitisation initiative down... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Greetings!
I'm also concerned with this issue, and in addition for donations which are truly useful for other areas of the IA project as well, I really urge the Archive to make use of ... Attention Framen - The guy that likes to review some of the stuff I uploaded and is apparently an Aussie - I thought you might get a kick out of this
http://www.archive.org/details/PocketGudieToAustralia
Maybe we can ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOnTheUsTrustTerritoryOfThePacificIslands_489
I keep getting a system slowness message, even though I haven't had the promblem with books of comparable size. Could ... Re: posting a new zine - =)
We feel like we've had a little car accident on the side of a motorway. So many passers by having a look, but no one stops!
Have we posted this question in the wrong place? or is it hard to answe ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Thanks for the info, stbalbach. I understand that the site relies largely on voluntary sources and things don't always run smoothly because everything's stretched to the limit, but that's no excuse f ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - One thing we can all do to help is send in yearly donations. In the states we have Public Television (in the UK it is the BBC) - IA needs that kind of broad base user support, in addition to the fundi ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - It seems that things can only get worse. I got a download speed of .9 kbps yesterday - yes, less than one kbps.
I happened to visit the Librivox website today, and they have an announcement that arc ... posting a new zine - Hello.
We had a bit of a look around, but couldn't find anything that obviously answered our question (so, sorry if we did miss something obvious).
We are about to start posting content for a new we ... Re: Copyright Question - I am just now working on a British author who died in 1934, whose copyright thus expired in 2004. A few of his books have been reissued in modern facsimile, i.e. not re-set by a publisher, so I don't ... Extremely slow download speeds - I've been collecting public domain ebooks for two or three years now, but only recently came across this truly fantastic site. I couldn't believe the range and quality of texts available - all for fre ... Re: Copyright Question - Correction-- it's late--- instead of Late 19th Century, read after 1911. Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K, but after 1911 many works are, because the authors lived past 1945.
Bert ... Re: Copyright Question - P.S. to get Google off the hook a little, there is an interesting legal copyright problem concerning British authors who died after about 1945 or so. It also applies to other online American archives . ... Re: Copyright Question - Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Few people have noticed this about Google.
Unlike the now-gone Microsoft Live Book Search, oftentimes Google will make their clearly pre-1923 works unavail ... Re: Copyright Question - What about their pre-1923 scans that are inaccessible apart from snippits? There is a lot from the late nineteenth century. ... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |