Blogger imaging

I imagine Google is going to use the Picasa software for it's own benefit to allow users to create their own online photo albums using their Blogger system. I've been using Hello, Picasa's photo sharing system with the Bloggerbot they created to post photographs to my blog. I can't imagine that Google wants to get into the software business, and competing against Ofoto and Snapfish would be quite easy for Google. Read more at: Digital Media Thoughts - Digital Media News & Views

These are the guys RIAA needs to go after

BBC NEWS has an article about a large bootlegger who has been arrested. I've always contended that those of us who are downloading and sharing music via the Internet and receiving no financial gain are doing nothing wrong. Bootleggers that profit from their illegal sales are the ones that need to be stopped and jailed. Kids and grandmothers that share music and gain nothing financially should be ignored.

How helpful are Pocket PC's really?

Thanks to Pocket PC Thoughts I was able to read this excellent article. Anyone who uses a Pocket PC can appreciate this article. Using a Pocket PC is easy and you can do lots of things without the need for a full blown computer. Read the article here: 40 Things I Did with My Pocket PC in a Week :: September 2004

The next rage -- Portable Media Centers

Digital Media Thoughts has a link to Amazon, which is starting to list these new units. Samsung and Creative are the first two to "market" at Amazon.com. It will be interesting to see if these units manage to take off. While the price is not very high, there are already similar products on the market like the FlashTrax by SmartDisk. The main difference is that the Portable Media Centers use the Windows Mobile OS. I have to say that my Pocket PC runs great with the Windows Mobile OS, so perhaps there is a great future for these products.

Easy way to make your own blog using Bloglines | Clip Blogs

Robert Scoble has a link blog that is very similar to what Clip Blogs is all about. Scoble likes to use NewsGator to read his RSS feeds, and then usesKunal's OutlookMT -- an easy drag and drop way to create a link blog from within Outlook.

I recently thought I would give NewsGator a try in Outlook 2003, which I use on my Tablet PC. NewsGator took a while to configure like Bloglines, which I have broken down by topics. NewsGator was easy to use, but I wasn't 100% convinced. I made a few posts to my blog using NewsGator, but I didn't quite like the method. While I haven't used Kunal's product yet, I really like using Bloglines' Clip Blog feature.

Clip Blogs will allow me to post items without requiring a lot of time and/or writing. I already have great plans for it, now I just need to link it to my main blog. You can find it here for now.

Tivo vs. Windows Media Center

This elaborates on something I had imagined to be true

Oh, oh, Eric Harrison compares a Windows Media Center to a Tivo and finds the experience wanting. One caveat. What's excited me is the next version of Windows Media Center. That hasn't been released yet. So, let's revisit this in the fall when the Media Center gets released. It'll be interesting to compare the two then (and compare my experience to Eric's).

I'm also trying to get an interview with folks over on the Windows Media Center team and get a demo for our Channel 9 audience. More to come on that front.

Since I don't have a Windows Media Center (yet) I'd like to hear opinions of those who have gotten one. What do you think?

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Myths

 Mike McBride posted this link, Busting the Biggest PC Myths, on his blog: Life of a one-man IT department. It’s worth noting that most users I know are clueless about the majority of the topics in the PC World article.

 

Test post using NewsGator

I am hoping that using NewsGator to post and read while offline will become second nature to me.

Blogger posting plug-in updated

I’m testing out NewsGator to see how I like it.

The posting plug-in for Blogger has been updated; the new version supports the subject/title field. It is available immediately for download.

Existing users will need to install the latest version, and then reconfigure the plug-in from NewsGator/Options, Posting tab.

UPDATE: the new plug-in has been updated to fix some configuration problems that some upgrading users were having. If you upgraded earlier today, and are having problems configuring the plug-in, download and install the latest version from the link above.

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Wired over wireless followup

OK, Microsoft does an excellent job of filling in the blanks to my questions with Knowledge Base Article 299540 - An Explanation of the Automatic Metric Feature for Internet Protocol Routes.

Resolving Connection Problems in Mixed Wired and Wireless Networks

This is an excellent article, but I'm not sure that it is accurate. I am having this problem at my office and I have set my wireless card to a metric of 1 and left my wired card set to Automatic. For some reason, my wireless card still takes precedence. I wouldn't mind, but my wireless card is in a very low signal zone and it gives me problems connecting. I wonder if there is something else to this problem? Read about it at Windows & .NET Magazine.