Geeks In Training http://www.geeksintraining.com Geeks in Training is a site for the not-too-puzzled. If you know everything already, it's not for you. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:34:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sometimes, the ISPs get it right http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeeksInTraining/~3/21lpcO4AsL4/ http://www.geeksintraining.com/2009/10/09/sometimes-the-isps-get-it-right/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:34:48 +0000 Michael Zimmermann http://www.geeksintraining.com/?p=89 With all the knee-jerk DMCA legal reactions to copyright infringement so popular in the States, it’s nice to see that some companies aren’t falling for it all the time. This story via Slashdot.org tells of an ISP standing up for their customer, in the face of Ralph Lauren, no less. Gasp.

via Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing.

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A little bit scary to see my place front and center, with a view that can pan around and inspect the neighborhood.

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Bell, Telus confirm iPhone launches – The Globe and Mail.

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This seems quite redundant, a little bit wasteful, and a bit of a surprising step back for Google. I’m sure they’ll do a great job of implementing it, but I’d have thought something along the lines of easier integration with e-ink readers would have been more their style.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Video appears in paper magazines.

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RIP, Douglas Adams.

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Many reference books on technical subjects (main focus here being computers and web-development) are available as eBooks. They have many advantages, including loss-prevention/recovery, flexible access (read it on your iPhone or your Kindle), and searchability. Some, like the O’Reilly books, don’t hinder you with cumbersome DRM, putting the reader’s comfort and respect ahead of their own unfounded fears of copyright infringement.

]]> http://www.geeksintraining.com/2008/12/31/ebooks-for-geeks/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksintraining.com/2008/12/31/ebooks-for-geeks/ Seadragon, zoom in on your life http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GeeksInTraining/~3/q5k0HoY-9sw/ http://www.geeksintraining.com/2008/12/31/seadragon-zoom-in-on-your-life/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:09:47 +0000 Michael Zimmermann http://www.geeksintraining.com/?p=72 It’s just another really well-done implementation of an old idea. Microsoft Live Labs has managed to execute another neat tech called Seadragon, allowing you to zoom in smoothly and seamlessly, getting more and more detail from an image. This is definitely the sort of thing that, can ’splode your mind, given time. The mobile version is even more impressive, allowing you to close in on any city, from a map of the world.

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