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Digsby Gunning for Trillian Astra’s Social/IM Aggregation Throne
I’ve been playing around with Digsby today by way of an invite from Ars Technica, and it has quickly become my new favorite IM client. The beauty of Digsby is that it combines the IM aggregation from the likes of Trillian and Pidgin with the social networking aggregation of 8Hands. Oh, and it lets you [...]
The Forgotten Format War: Toshiba’s "DVD-Audio" vs Sony’s "Super Audio CD"
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All this talk about the HD DVD and Blu-ray format war being over has reminded me of a similar situation involving two other competing media formats. Not many people realize that the current format war was not the first “high-definition” war between Toshiba and Sony. The battle for high-definition audio supremacy has actually been going [...]
Changes on the Horizon
You may have noticed a lack of updates on this site lately. Fortunately, this time around the dry spell is not due to my laziness. I’ve actually been somewhat productive this past month, it’s just been for another site. For the past month I’ve been freelancing at Daily Bits, a recently launched technology blog by [...]
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Del.icio.us Link Stroll: Getting Buried is OK, Harry Chooses HD-DVD…
I realized just today that I’ve been religiously linking stories to my del.icio.us account for months now and never actually did much with all of that data. I mainly started using del.icio.us to serve as an easy way to share notable stories with my friends, but it’s now evolved to the point where [...]
Hard Disk Catastrophe: How to Recover Data from a Formatted Hard Drive
You know what’s ironic? I work in desktop support, and I tell people to back up their data every day. Yet just recently I experienced my worst case of data loss ever, which could have been easily avoided had I just backed up my massive collection of music (nearly 50GB by this point) and lesser [...]
Digsby Opens Up with Public Beta, Adds Twitter & Voice/Video Support