MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting today

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September iPod Garage User Group meeting
was an enjoyable success

September iPod Garage User Group meeting
was an enjoyable success 09/22/2004 02:25 AM
The iPod Garage User Group held its sixth monthly online meeting on Monday, September 20th, and an enjoyable time was had by all in attendance. To learn more about the group or to become a member, visit http://www.iPodUserGroup.com . [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

First OpenSolaris user group meeting

First OpenSolaris user group meeting 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Technocrat.net Mar 26 2005 7:24AM GMT

Laszlo User Group meeting

Laszlo User Group meeting 07/19/2004 09:28 AM

OK - so unless it's not already obvious - the future has MUCH to do with reich media interfaces - those 'webapp'-like entities that exist in a webpage, but act like a "normal" app.

I'm in love with a company called Laszlo Systems - and they've got abunch of new stuff coming down the pipe.....

So my friend Andrew Woolridge wants everyone to know - there's a Laszlo User Group meeting coming up......

Here's Andrew's pitch......

Next User Group Meeting: Tuesday July 27, 2004

At: Laszlo San Francisco Office
Time: 6:30 pizza; 7-9 pm meeting

A group of Laszlo enthusiasts have organized the Laszlo User Group. Meetings occur monthly at the Laszlo Systems offices in San Francisco, CA. Free pizza is often served. Members typically discuss and demo their latest projects. They also hear updates from as well as discuss issues directly with the Laszlo engineering team.

Directions.....

There may be something very significant demoed this week....

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I'll be there = :-)

Today is the last day to sign up for
your free VIP Pass for the South Beach
iPod Garage Party

Today is the last day to sign up for
your free VIP Pass for the South Beach
iPod Garage Party 08/30/2004 08:12 AM
Today is the last day to sign up for your free VIP Pass for the South Beach iPod Garage Party

Today is your last chance to sign up for your free VIP Pass for the South Beach iPod Garage Party, which takes place this Wednesday, September 1st, on Miami Beach. The VIP Pass entitles you and your party to free admission and more. Bring your iPod, and you'll be eligible to be the DJ for up to twelve minutes and compete for more than $600 worth of prizes, including an iPod mini. Don't feel like playing DJ? No problem! We'll also be giving out an additional $500 worth of iPod-related random door prizes to attendees. Oh, and be sure to arrive early: the first one hundred people to arrive will receive a complimentary copy of the inaugural issue of Playlist Magazine, in addition to being eligible for all the other great prizes. See you there:

The iPod Garage to hold the first-ever
iPod Garage Party on South Beach in
Miami

The iPod Garage to hold the first-ever
iPod Garage Party on South Beach in
Miami 08/10/2004 10:21 AM
The iPod Garage to hold the first-ever iPod Garage Party on South Beach in Miami

What could be cooler than hanging out with other iPod users? How about doing so on Miami's South Beach?

On September 1st, the iPod Garage will be hosting the first-ever iPod Garage Party. And you're invited. What's more, if you bring your iPod with you, you'll get to hook your iPod up to the sound system and show us what you've got, for up to fifteen minutes. You don't have to be a professional DJ, just share with us the fifteen minutes of your music library that you cherish the most. iPod-related prizes will be given to those of you who can win over the audience the most effectively.

FCP, DVD Studio Pro topics of user group
meeting

FCP, DVD Studio Pro topics of user group
meeting 11/10/2003 11:27 PM
The New Jersey Final Cut Pro Users Group and the New Jersey Filmmakers will host a special joint meeting on Dec. 10 to discuss production and distribution trends for independent filmmakers. The event will start at 7 p.m. at William Patterson University in New Jersey.

Oracle user group meeting due in Florida

Oracle user group meeting due in Florida 09/10/2004 05:28 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 10 2004 10:15AM GMT

East to speak at LIMac user group
meeting

East to speak at LIMac user group
meeting 04/20/2004 06:19 PM
Daniel East, founder and president of The Mid-Atlantic Apple/Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs), will be a guest speaker at the Friday, May 14 meeting of The Long Island Macintosh Users Group (LIMac)...

New England Area SMS User Group SPECIAL
MEETING With Microsoft Program Manager

New England Area SMS User Group SPECIAL
MEETING With Microsoft Program Manager 04/12/2004 02:16 PM

iPod User Group launched

iPod User Group launched 04/19/2004 03:17 PM
The iPodlounge has announced the launch of an online iPod User Group...

This week's user group news

This week's user group news 03/22/2005 05:04 PM
Chuck Joiner has posted his latest User Group Report to the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center Web site. In this update, he interviews BeLight Software's Irina Nazarova, who talks about her company's involvement with MUGs; Design Tools Monthly's Jay Nelson, who covers the Quark vs. InDesign debate as well as his publication's user group offer; and Tropical Software's James Lee, who recaps his recent presentations to MUGs about the company's TopXNotes software and mentions which ones he's visiting next.

Upcoming MUG presentations, other user
group news

Upcoming MUG presentations, other user
group news 04/27/2004 07:28 AM
Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center editor Chuck Joiner leads off this week's MUG news round-up with his latest User Group Report. Guest David Lloyd, who founded the "All Things iPod" Web site iPodLounge, chats about his new iPodLounge user group. In addition, Joiner covers the latest user group deals from participating companies.

MUG news abounds in new User Group
Report

MUG news abounds in new User Group
Report 05/10/2004 10:18 AM
A celebrity user group supporter, upcoming user group events and news, and some of the resources the MUG Center (an online resource for Mac User Groups) offers to make your user group better are included in this week's edition of the User Group Report, the Internet radio show hosted by Chuck Joiner, editor of the MUG Center...

The last User Group Report for 2004,
more MUG news

The last User Group Report for 2004,
more MUG news 12/28/2004 03:23 PM
Chuck Joiner has posted his final User Group Report of 2004 to The Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center Web site. Available in streaming QuickTime or as a downloadable MP3 or Podcast file, this edition has Joiner talking to TidBITS' Adam Engst about his three new Take Control books, as well as the TidBITS User Group Program; Brian Rotchschild, executive director of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, which will stop by next month's Macworld Conference & Expo San Francisco; and The Graphic Report's Lesa Snider, who completes her three-part "Great MUG Graphics" series.

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered 11/03/2003 01:23 PM
Sarah Friedlander, the newest member of the Apple Campus Group Advisory Board will give her first interview in this week's User Group Report, which will also offer reports on Mac User Groups from a Unix perspective, the first Platinum sponsors for User Group University, and why this UGU will be even better for vendors and attendees alike.

User group news: leadership in the UG
Report, more

User group news: leadership in the UG
Report, more 06/22/2004 05:33 PM
Chuck Joiner, who runs the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center, has posted his latest User Group Report. Available as either a QuickTime stream or a downloadable MP3 file, the newest report features professional leadership trainer Jen Shelby, who joins the User Group Report team as a regular correspondent by talking about how to motivate user group members; and Total Training's Brian Hoffman, who covers his company's training materials as well as its support of user groups, which includes giving away products for raffles.

Chuck Joiner's latest User Group Report,
more MUG news

Chuck Joiner's latest User Group Report,
more MUG news 06/08/2004 07:36 AM
Chuck Joiner leads off the latest news at the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center with his newest User Group Report. The latest report also focuses on IDG World Expo Group vice-president Warwick Davies' discussion of Macworld Expo's relationship with user groups as well as new attractions that can be found at Macworld Conference & Expo Boston; Macworld Boston conference chairperson Paul Kent's rundown of the conference tracks available at next month's show; and Chris Kiltz, who talks about Josephine County MUG's upcoming Rogue Valley Mac Expo, which is an all-day event that will be held on June 13 in Grants Pass, Oregon. You can listen to the streaming QuickTime file of Joiner's report or download it in MP3 format on the MUG Center site.

Win an iPod mini at the South Beach iPod
Garage Party

Win an iPod mini at the South Beach iPod
Garage Party 08/27/2004 02:00 PM
Win an iPod mini at the South Beach iPod Garage Party

What's cooler than hanging with your fellow iPod users on Miami's South Beach on September 1st? How about going home with a brand new iPod mini in your pocket?

Yeah, that probably got your attention. But thanks to event sponsors iPodResQ, the iPod mini is just one prize among many that we'll be giving away at the South Beach iPod Garage Party. So what do you have to do to win? All you have to do is show up with your iPod, connect it to our sound system, and play "DJ" for twelve minutes as you share the highlights of your own music library with the rest of us (as many songs as you like, as long as it fits within the time limit). Yep, it's your very own twelve minutes of fame.

BBC NEWS | Technology | ITunes user sues
Apple over iPod

BBC NEWS | Technology | ITunes user sues
Apple over iPod 01/07/2005 04:15 AM
forced him to buy an iPod in order to take his iTunes stuff with him .. ITunes user sues Apple over iPod .. suing Apple because each song

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4151009.stm
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SLIDE-LOK Garage Storage Cabinets
Expands its East Coast Dealer Network
with the Addition of Garage Outfitters
in Massachusetts, and Completes its
Dealer Network in Connecticut with the
Addition of Garage Storage Solutions -
SLIDE-LOK Continues Seeking Applications
from Professional Garage Storage
Professionals in the United States and
Canada

SLIDE-LOK Garage Storage Cabinets
Expands its East Coast Dealer Network
with the Addition of Garage Outfitters
in Massachusetts, and Completes its
Dealer Network in Connecticut with the
Addition of Garage Storage Solutions -
SLIDE-LOK Continues Seeking Applications
from Professional Garage Storage
Professionals in the United States and
Canada 06/03/2004 02:08 AM
SLIDE-LOK Garage Storage Cabinets Expands its East Coast Dealer Network with the Addition of Garage Outfitters in Massachusetts. And completes its Dealer Network in Connecticut with the Addition of Garage Storage Solutions – SLIDE-LOK Continues Seeking Applications from Professional Garage Storage Dealers in the United States and Canada. SLIDE-LOK Dealers include Storage Solution Providers that Focus on Cabinetry, Carpentry, Closets, Flooring, Furniture, Home Security as well as the Home, the Office, and the Garage. Garage and Storage Professionals in these fields are encouraged to apply to join the fastest growing dealer network in the US - SLIDE-LOK – The Original Name In Garage Storage Cabinets. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

iPod Garage Party on South Beach
announced

iPod Garage Party on South Beach
announced 08/10/2004 03:53 AM
iPod Garage let us know that they will be hosting the first-ever iPod Garage Party on South Beach in Miami September 1st...

That Place Where Bush And Blair Are
Meeting Today?

That Place Where Bush And Blair Are
Meeting Today? 03/16/2003 01:55 AM
Welcome To Lajes Field, located on the island of Terceira in the stunningly beautiful and unspoilt Azores, home to the U.S. Air Force's 65th Air Base wing and U.S. Forces Azores. A curious little website, with its own particular micro-culture and quite a few interesting historical tidbits. [Not to mention two lousy jobs going.] Or, as they themselves put it: "multimedia products to help you better understand and appreciate the noble mission of the military men and women assigned to this outpost in the Atlantic." [In case you were wondering, it's here, later today, that Bush, Blair and Aznar, hosted by Durão Barroso, will hold their little war summit.]

Ben Ramsey: Atlanta PHPUG Meeting
Reminder (Today)

Ben Ramsey: Atlanta PHPUG Meeting
Reminder (Today) 06/06/2005 12:15 AM
Off of Ben Ramsey's Blogt his reminder for anyone in the Atlanta area that would like to attend today's Atlanta PHP User Group meeting in Tucker, Georgia.

iPod & iTunes Garage: New Book Authored
by Kirk McElhearn Reveals the Power of
this Dynamic Duet

iPod & iTunes Garage: New Book Authored
by Kirk McElhearn Reveals the Power of
this Dynamic Duet 12/24/2004 12:41 PM
Upper Saddle River, NJ – December, 2004- Hear ye, hear ye! Attention all iPod and iTunes music junkies! Please briefly remove those conspicuous white earbuds and pay attention to hear this! Author...

[[ Visit http://www.macmegasite.com for full article ]]

User-Lab's John Knight to guest speak at
WMita DDA meeting

User-Lab's John Knight to guest speak at
WMita DDA meeting 06/29/2004 02:10 AM
John Knight, Usability Engineer at User-Lab http://www.user-lab.com is to guest speak at West Midlands IT Association (WMita) http://www.wmita.co.uk/ DDA meeting focusing upon the issues of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

SCO to Sue Linux User today

SCO to Sue Linux User today 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I tell you one thing if SCO thought they where hated before go ahead and let them sue a Linux...

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

I was out all day yesterday to attend the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting at Wells Fargo World HQ in San Francisco.  About one hundred people from wide assortment of backgrounds were there, some from law enforcement agencies like the Secret Service and FBI, lawyers, prosecutors, financial services, e-tailers, solutions vendors, and security experts.  APWG did an impressive job of pulling them altogether to focus on the phishing epidemic which continues to grow.

While everyone wanted to pool resources to combat phishing, I sensed a common desire to protect details about ongoing APWG activities from the public for various reasons.  Since I am not sure what APWG's policy is about blogging, I will limit this post to my thoughts and observations.

Toolbars

Warm receptions received by Account Guard feature of eBay Toolbar and Dan Boneh's SpoofGuard means more toolbars in the near future.  I predict we'll see about ten security-related toolbars released before this year is over.  Since highly integrated client-side software like browser toolbars are one of my specialties, all this is good news for me but I couldn't help worrying about the oncoming glut of toolbars, sidebars, and deskbars causing confusion among users.

Microsoft

Microsoft needs to do more to combat phishing.  Actually, they need to do 'less' by disabling or limiting use of hyperlinks and javascript in Outlook and Hotmail.  Since phishing is causing real financial damages to companies and individuals, Microsoft created an arguably very large liability exposure by introducing DHTML e-mail in Outlook.

My opinion is that hyperlinks in e-mail contents should require the user to approve each navigation after viewing a dialog that clearly indicate the link destination.  This constraint can be eased depending on the age of the hyperlinks because destination phishing websites are more likely to be takendown or abandoned over time.  I also think javascript should be disabled completely in e-mail contents to protect against new breed of javascript obfuscated webpages.

Hunters vs. Butchers

Law enforcement agencies are IMHO still in the hunter mode, meaning hackers they find and prosecute are more or less trophies for assuring the public.  Seen as services, they are open to denial of service attacks by organized hackers arming script-kiddies to overload or slowdown cybercops.  They need to think about ways to shift-gear from hunter to butchers mode now, if not just against phishers, then for homeland security.

Takedown.com

Most difficult part of fighting against phishing is taking down phishing websites.  Differences and confusino in law and legal jurisdictions, cross-language communication issues, availability, authority verification problems, and other issues make taking down a fraud site a skill or an art of social networking, ingenuity, and patience which most companies do not have.

Solutions suggested so far like contacts and standards are useless IMHO.  A more effective solution is to encourage entrepreneurs to startup federated or franchised businesses to offer takedown services around globe and around the clock with the local touch.  Having middlemen like them solves most of the issues mentioned above.

Spoofback

Considering the difficulty with takedown, another options is to 'spoof back' by posting phony information to the phishing websites in order to spoil the goods by diluting it with bad info.  Instead of receiving 3,000 good responses, phishers will receive 300,000 responses most of which will be bad.  Another variation is to post user info leading to honeypots in order to phish the phishers.  I am not sure about the legal issues, but hackback risk is no worse than the takedown IMHO.

APWG Future Threat Models SIG

I have volunteered to participate in the Future Threat Models SIG at APWG because I am both highly creative and insanely paranoid which means I can see blindspots where none exists.  :-)  I probably won't be posting about the activities there but I will post my thoughts and publicize imminent threats like the XSS Network threat I posted about before.

W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and
All-Group Meeting

W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and
All-Group Meeting 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
3 March 2003: W3C holds its third annual Technical Plenary and All Working Group Meeting from 3-7 March in Cambridge, MA, USA. 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many of the more than 400 participants attend the all day public plenary, by far the largest group in the event's history. If your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. (News archive)

Ping ID to host first users group
meeting

Ping ID to host first users group
meeting 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
Next month, in conjunction with Digital ID World in San Francisco, Ping Identity will hold its first (I believe) PingFederate Users Group meeting. The meeting is free to all members of the users group. Membership of the users group is free to everyone who uses the PingFederate server. The PingFederate server is free to download from Ping Identity. See a pattern here?

Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting
Minutes

Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting
Minutes 06/13/2004 07:30 AM
Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting Minutes
http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2004/05/xml-work-group-may-1 8-meeting.html

Alice Marshall reports on the XML Work Group, May 18 meeting with her minutes.

At MySQL User Conference Today

At MySQL User Conference Today 04/19/2005 11:39 AM
As previously noted, I'll be at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara today. I'm looking forward to several of the talks on the schedule: LiveJournal's Backend: A History of Scaling Flagship Features in MySQL 5.0 Replication and Cluster Overview Who knows... maybe I'll see you there....

Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux
User

Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux
User 02/17/2004 09:03 PM
Slashdot Feb 18 2004 1:13AM GMT

SCL London Group Meeting & AGM:
'Contract law - Developments relevant to
technology contracts that cannot be i

SCL London Group Meeting & AGM:
'Contract law - Developments relevant to
technology contracts that cannot be i 07/22/2004 06:13 PM
SCL.org Jul 22 2004 9:40PM GMT

User group round-up

User group round-up 02/10/2004 02:47 PM
Macintosh User Groups (MUGs) meet year-round to trade tips and tricks, socialize, and listen to guest speakers. The MUG Center acts as a clearinghouse for information important to MUGs across the country, and they put out a weekly newsletter that highlights the latest news on their site.

Narrow User Group

Narrow User Group 01/16/2003 11:19 PM
Got this in my email today from a mailing list, so many others did too. Hi all, There is a new mailing list for Christian

User Group happenings

User Group happenings 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
User Groups devoted to the Mac in general, as well as specific software, are usually busy year-round, putting out schedules packed with events. The Boston Final Cut Pro User Group (BOSFCPUG) is one such group, and the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center serves as an umbrella organization for a wide variety of MUGs, disseminating information far and wide.

Adding a User to a Group

Adding a User to a Group 07/26/2004 07:26 AM

Mac user group roundup

Mac user group roundup 04/13/2004 07:17 AM
The Mac User Group (MUG) Center leads off this week's round of user group news with editor Chuck Joiner's latest User Group Report. Available as a downloadable MP3 file or in streaming QuickTime, this week's edition features interviews with South Florida Final Cut Pro Users Group member Orlando Luna, who talks about the In House Film Festival and other things DV-related; journalist and user group advocate Dennis Sellers, who discusses his new Web site, Macsimum Perspective; CodeTek Studios employee Bill Goldstein, who tells Joiner about his company's support of user groups and an upcoming rebate program; David Roemer of Ideas United, which is sponsoring iMovieFests and other Mac-related events at colleges and universities in Georgia; and O'Reilly's Marsee Henon, who offers a glimpse into the publisher's upcoming Mac User Group Day on April 24.

How to Start a User Group

How to Start a User Group 09/04/2004 11:51 AM

Grok Description matches for MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting today
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Get User Groups from OU to Excel

Get User Groups from OU to Excel 07/22/2004 09:23 AM

SQL Server User Groups

SQL Server User Groups 07/18/2004 06:35 PM

User groups in Paris, more MUG news

User groups in Paris, more MUG news 08/31/2004 02:28 AM
Chuck Joiner's Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center Web site notes this week that France's 40 recognized MUGs will receive visibility at the Apple Expo Paris thanks to the Apple User Group booth, which will be located in the Easy Mac section. Apple Regional Liaison team member Alain Pougeoise told Joiner that all user group leaders and members heading to Paris should send him an e-mail so that he can include them in all the activities. You can find more information on the MUG Center site.

PHPClasses.org: PHP User Groups Listings

PHPClasses.org: PHP User Groups Listings 04/27/2004 07:33 AM
In an effort to create a listing of PHP User Groups around the world, PHPClasses.org has started this page to serve as a record.

User Groups, Lynda.com, NAB on Inside
Mac

User Groups, Lynda.com, NAB on Inside
Mac 03/17/2005 03:05 AM
The March 12th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio Show is now available as an MP3 download...

User groups at MacDesign Conference,
more

User groups at MacDesign Conference,
more 06/02/2004 02:33 AM
Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center editor Chuck Joiner has updated his Web site with the latest news from groups around the world. First up is the MacDesign Conference, which will be held June 2-4 in Chicago and attract photographers, graphic designers, digital video editors and other Mac-using creative types. Joiner notes that Apple User Group Advisory Board member Lesa Snider will host a Birds-of-a-Feather gathering at 7 p.m. on June 2, offering user group members and leaders the opportunity to meet in an informal atmosphere. You can find the meeting location and RSVP information on the MUG Center Web site.

ICANN Approves Community User Groups

ICANN Approves Community User Groups 12/18/2003 06:08 PM
theWHIR Dec 18 2003 5:08PM ET

Adam & Tonya at New Mexico User Groups

Adam & Tonya at New Mexico User Groups 04/18/2005 06:45 PM
Adam C. Engst (~130 words)

Adam & Tonya at New Mexico User Groups -- Tonya and I have never traveled to the southwest United States, so we're particularly looking forward to a trip to visit not one, not two, but three New Mexico-based Macintosh user groups in early May. At 7:00 PM on 03-May-05, I'll be speaking in Albuquerque to the AppleQuerque Macintosh User Group. Then, on the afternoon of 04-May-05, I'll address the Los Alamos Macintosh User Group, and at 7:00 PM that evening, the Santa Fe Macintosh User Group. I'm planning to talk primarily about iPhoto and wireless security; Tonya will be on hand to chat about Take Control and electronic publishing in general. If you're in the area, come say hello! [ACE]

Two HP user groups will continue
independent conferences

Two HP user groups will continue
independent conferences 08/05/2004 12:15 AM
Two Hewlett-Packard user groups said they will continue to hold independent user conferences despite HP's plans to create its own conference beginning next year.

PHP local User Groups diffusion
initiative

PHP local User Groups diffusion
initiative 04/27/2004 04:34 AM
The PHP User Groups diffusion is an initiative to help existing groups gain visibility among PHP users of the same region. The PHP Classes site is very popular world wide, being accessed by tens of thousands of users from more than 130 countries. The idea is to use this fact to provide greater exposure to regional groups, overcoming the lack of budget of most PHP user groups, unlike other languages user groups that are backed by large companies.

Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous
Greying

Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous
Greying 07/06/2004 11:33 PM

Microsoft’s Initiative Summary for IT
User Groups

Microsoft’s Initiative Summary for IT
User Groups 08/03/2004 07:52 PM

Microsoft Release New PPT to User Groups
with Avalon Info!!!!

Microsoft Release New PPT to User Groups
with Avalon Info!!!! 05/07/2004 12:07 PM
In the continuing series of FREE presentations for user groups and others to use, Microsoft has released to INETA a presentation entitled: 'Microsoft Client Presentation Roadmap'.

Reporter's Notebook: user groups,
tornados and protestors

Reporter's Notebook: user groups,
tornados and protestors 07/15/2004 10:30 AM
by Dennis Sellers - The rain just keeps on trickling down, which crimps my usual style of hoofing it around a city I'm visiting...

iPod User’s Guide

iPod User’s Guide 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Introducing his iPod User’s Guide, the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg writes, “By all accounts, millions of people will buy or receive Apple Computer’s iPod digital-music players this holiday season. The gadgets are beautifully designed and simple to operate, which is one reason they’re so popular, even after three years on the market and despite a rising number of competitors.” [Dec 15]

ITunes user sues Apple over iPod

ITunes user sues Apple over iPod 01/06/2005 06:54 AM
A user of Apple's iTunes services sues the firm saying it is unfair that he can only use an iPod to play songs.

Apple offers user/app/sales numbers,
15GB iPod

Apple offers user/app/sales numbers,
15GB iPod 01/07/2004 06:46 PM
Apple today announced that there are now over 9 million active users of Mac OS X and the company expects to cross the 10 million user mark later this quarter...

iTunes User Sues Apple For Only Letting
Music Play On The iPod

iTunes User Sues Apple For Only Letting
Music Play On The iPod 01/05/2005 10:30 PM
Well, this should be interesting. An "unhappy" iTunes user is now suing Apple for antitrust violations, claiming that they broke antitrust laws by only allowing their music to play on iPods -- blocking out other music players from the market. It's unlikely that he'll win the lawsuit, and honestly, it sounds more like a setup by an Apple competitor than just some individual who feels wronged. The guy in question says he was "forced" to buy an iPod in order to make use of the music he bought on iTunes, but the courts will likely point out that he could have gone to a competing online music store. Of course, what this really highlights is how some of these copy protection issues are building fragmented worlds. How would people react if the CDs they bought at Tower Records could only play on Tower-branded radios? Thanks to the way the industry views intellectual property online, the end result is a lot of competing separate worlds, which actively discourages use.

Google Groups vs Yahoo! Groups

Google Groups vs Yahoo! Groups 05/14/2004 07:37 PM
Search Engine Positioning and Web Marketing weblog,CA-9 hours agoGoogle has just launched a beta version of Google Groups 2 an extension of the current Google Groups that is does not only include Usenet but is similar in ...

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

Link

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting today

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