January 25, 2007
My wife and I both have reasonably busy schedules, but we never had a way to keep track of each other’s schedules. We’ve both carried PDAs for a long time and maintained our schedules electronically, but we still didn’t have an easy way to view or edit each other’s schedule.
As part of a larger shift (which is the subject of a future post), I moved both of our calenders to Google Calender. We still use our PDAs (Palm/Treo), but we use Companion Link’s synchronization tool to keep them in sync with the Google Calendar. Using Google Calendar we can view each other’s schedules, and easily copy appointments from one to another.
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January 25, 2007
I’ve been a LinkedIn user for a while now, and I like to look around and see who people know, but it never had a big payoff. However, that all changed recently.
I was going through my address book and checking to see if I had linked to all my known contacts. I came across Aaron, who I worked with several years ago but no longer had a valid email address. I did a quick search and found out that he was in my network. I had my contact ‘forward’ the request on to him, and we got back in touch.
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January 25, 2007
I released a new version of my iTunesExport utility.
iTunesExport exports your iTunes playslists as .m3u files, allowing you to setup playlists in iTunes and use them with other software or devices.
This release fixes issues with playlists that include \ / or : characters.
http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/itunesexport
January 24, 2007
My previous post points out the frustration I have with lengths companies go to to ‘protect’ their content. They add DRM to disks and encryption to interconnects. In order to truly secure the content, you have to protect it at every level.
The problem is, it isn’t possible.
The news that HD-DVD has been broken came out just before Christmas. Not, it appears that Blue Ray has been broken as well.
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January 23, 2007
What is HDMI?
See Wikipedia for a full definition, but it is essentially a way to plug your high definition video sources into your display device. Decoded: plug your HD-DVD to your TV.
Is it Better?
HDMI touts several advantages over the existing alternative, Component Video. It is digital instead of analog, carries audio as well as video, and does it all in a single cable. These all sound great, but are they really true?
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