Computer sage cuts paperwork, converts his life to digital format

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Convert Drop converts digital media

Convert Drop converts digital media 09/01/2004 09:30 AM
Winnipeg, Canada's K-werkx Inc. on Wednesday released Convert Drop 1.0, a digital media conversion tool for Mac OS X and "Classic" Mac OS. It enables you to prepare images, sound, music and movies for Web, multimedia distribution, 3GP and 3GP2 phones and mobile devices. Covert Drop 1.0 supports dozens of popular image, sound and movie formats, including QuickTime/MPEG-4, WAV, AIFF and ULAW, AVI and more. Convert Drop costs US$9.95.

Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games

Focus on the Family and Digital Praise
Unveil Two New Interactive Computer
Games Based on Adventures in Odyssey;
One of America’s Most Popular Family
Radio Shows Comes to Life in Interactive
Computer Games 06/30/2004 03:04 AM
New game titles announced for ages 8 and up; Titles based on Adventures in Odyssey radio show. [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Sage founder buys computer reseller

Sage founder buys computer reseller 10/29/2003 09:12 AM
Wylie Coyote

New Digital Photography Search Engine
cuts through the Internet "noise" to
return only relevant Digital Photography
content.

New Digital Photography Search Engine
cuts through the Internet "noise" to
return only relevant Digital Photography
content. 09/03/2004 02:28 AM
New Digital Photography Search Engine uses revolutionary new "automatic preview" function to summarize search results instantly. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]

Audio format wars may give added life to
piracy

Audio format wars may give added life to
piracy 10/29/2003 12:13 AM

Is Forgoing Digital for Medium Format
for You?

Is Forgoing Digital for Medium Format
for You? 06/16/2004 05:15 AM
It seems as though everyone in photography is moving to digital. Consumer digital cameras will outsell film cameras this year. Even professionals are moving into digital; photojournalism is practically all digital now. I have followed the development of digital cameras quite closely since first digital SLRs (those big cameras with changeable lenses) came out. As a prosumer and someone who is critical of quality of enlargements I have been saying that I will move to digital when an affordable 8 megapixel SLR comes out. Recently Canon delivered with their EOS-1D Mark II priced at around $3000. Now would be a good time to move to digital as a serious amateur photographer. Instead, I'm moving to medium format. Should you?

Internet cuts into your social life

Internet cuts into your social life 01/01/2005 02:26 PM
Asian Age Jan 1 2005 4:48PM GMT

Adobe Plans New Format for Digital
Photos (AP)

Adobe Plans New Format for Digital
Photos (AP) 09/27/2004 03:13 AM
AP - Adobe Systems Inc. plans to introduce a new format for digital photos on Monday in an attempt to create an industry public standard to make the archiving and editing process compatible across all types of cameras and photo software.

Adobe Plans New Format for Digital
Photos

Adobe Plans New Format for Digital
Photos 09/27/2004 04:41 AM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 27 2004 9:09AM GMT

Report shows adoption of Secure Digital
format

Report shows adoption of Secure Digital
format 10/29/2003 09:09 AM

Adobe Systems proposes new universal
format for digital photos

Adobe Systems proposes new universal
format for digital photos 09/27/2004 08:44 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 27 2004 12:34PM GMT

Ahead Pushes Nero Digital Format for
DVDs (PC World)

Ahead Pushes Nero Digital Format for
DVDs (PC World) 09/24/2004 05:51 PM
PC World - Deal with ESS Technology will add support for Ahead's variant of the MPEG-4 video format on DVD players.

Adobe intros Digital Negative format;
updates raw plug-in

Adobe intros Digital Negative format;
updates raw plug-in 09/27/2004 10:49 AM
Adobe today introduced the Digital Negative Specification (.DNG), a new unified public format for raw digital camera files...

Oki Data cuts digital color printer
prices

Oki Data cuts digital color printer
prices 08/02/2004 11:41 AM
Oki Data has lowered the estimated street price of its C5000 Series digital color printers by as much as US$200 on some models...

IBM Cuts 300 Jobs in Computer Systems
(AP)

IBM Cuts 300 Jobs in Computer Systems
(AP) 01/27/2004 02:57 PM
AP - IBM Corp. cut 300 jobs in its computer systems division Tuesday, about 2 percent of the unit's overall work force.

Challenger: Job cuts at computer firms
on the upswing

Challenger: Job cuts at computer firms
on the upswing 07/08/2004 05:23 PM
Technology job cuts rose 16% in the second quarter of this year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., with losses at computer firms up sharply.

Computer Assoc. Cuts Profit Outlook

Computer Assoc. Cuts Profit Outlook 04/12/2005 11:49 PM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2005 4:32AM GMT

the digital life

the digital life 01/10/2004 10:10 PM

Today's New York Times magazine has an article, My So-Called Blog on weblogs and the impact of our digital lives on the "real" world:

When M. gets home from school, he immediately logs on to his computer. Then he stays there, touching base with the people he has seen all day long, floating in a kind of multitasking heaven of communication. First, he clicks on his Web log, or blog -- an online diary he keeps on a Web site called LiveJournal -- and checks for responses from his readers. Next he reads his friends' journals, contributing his distinctive brand of wry, supportive commentary to their observations. Then he returns to his own journal to compose his entries: sometimes confessional, more often dry private jokes or koanlike observations on life.

Finally, he spends a long time -- sometimes hours -- exchanging instant messages, a form of communication far more common among teenagers than phone calls. In multiple dialogue boxes on his computer screen, he'll type real-time conversations with several friends at once; if he leaves the house to hang out in the real world, he'll come back and instant-message some more, and sometimes cut and paste transcripts of these conversations into his online journal. All this upkeep can get in the way of homework, he admitted. ''You keep telling yourself, 'Don't look, don't look!' And you keep on checking your e-mail.''

Well, we've all been there, haven't we? Okay, many of us have. Okay, would you believe me if I said I have? :-)

The article has a certain focus on "teenagers" or "young adults" for some reason. But that aside, it has some interesting comments and some good insights that apply to all groups I think. Everyone that is involved with new tools (using them... building them... whatever...) is trying to feel their way around.

And this is just text, and maybe pictures. A video here and there at most. And that creates a certain tension IMO, which won't really be gone until we can superimpose cyberspace with meatspace.

Right now if you want to "be online", mostly (and I emphasize mostly, as we all know that you could be IM'ing on your cellphone these days) you need to be sitting at a computer, and that means not being with others, or doing other things. The display, the keyboard, the whole UI experience pulls us in and demands a large part of our attention.

Result: a disconnect.

But, as I said, if the "real" (I keep putting real between quotes because I'm a subjectivist) and "virtual" worlds were superimposed things would be different. When that superimposition happens, there will be very little tension between interacting digitally and otherwise.

How do I mean? Science Fiction moment: You look at a restaurant and your glasses (or a retinal implant) superimpose a translucent image of its website. You get a person's business card and it contains a bluetooth chip that tells your PAN (Personal Area Network) about the person's email, etc, and their company webpage pulls up next to their smiling face and you see there that the product he's talking about hasn't been released yet. Or you have embedded a few key details into a wireless implant in your arm and everyone that sees you through the glasses (or the implant!) can see your weblog too, and see that you just posted a picture of them, taken with your cameraphone. Posting, browsing, and chatting, all from your local pub, pint in hand.

Okay, this is pretty lame as science fiction goes. I should brush up on my Snow Crash, Neuromancer, The Diamond Age, and all the rest...

Wait a minute. How did I get here from a New York Times article? Oh Well. :-)

Computer Assoc. Cuts Profit Outlook
(Reuters)

Computer Assoc. Cuts Profit Outlook
(Reuters) 04/12/2005 07:22 PM
Reuters - Computer Associates International Inc. , one of the world's largest software makers, on Tuesday said its quarterly net income will miss its prior forecast because a decision to return overseas profits to the United States will result in a tax charge of $35 million.

Computer Assoc. cuts net profit outlook
on charge

Computer Assoc. cuts net profit outlook
on charge 04/12/2005 02:50 PM
Reuters India Apr 12 2005 6:30PM GMT

A dual digital life

A dual digital life 12/04/2003 07:19 AM
Olaf Olafsson, Time Warner's executive vice president of technology, sheds light on his twin roles as a best-selling literary author and a technology strategist.

Apple Cuts Price on Entry-Level
Macintosh Computer

Apple Cuts Price on Entry-Level
Macintosh Computer 04/13/2004 03:35 PM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 8:04PM GMT

Ex-CEO Kumar cuts ties with
scandal-racked Computer Associates

Ex-CEO Kumar cuts ties with
scandal-racked Computer Associates 06/04/2004 03:54 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 4 2004 8:32PM GMT

Concerns raised about funding cuts to
computer training program

Concerns raised about funding cuts to
computer training program 09/25/2004 07:04 PM
ABC Online Sep 25 2004 10:22PM GMT

Digital life can't pass on when someone
dies

Digital life can't pass on when someone
dies 12/26/2004 05:00 AM
Houston Chronicle Dec 26 2004 6:43AM GMT

Apple Cuts Price on Entry-Level
Macintosh Computer (Reuters)

Apple Cuts Price on Entry-Level
Macintosh Computer (Reuters) 04/14/2004 10:37 AM
Reuters - Computer maker Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) said on Tuesday that it cut the price on one of its entry-level Macintosh computers by $100 to $999 and upgraded the microprocessors and other components on the eMac line.

Intel Corp cuts price of computer memory
chip prices

Intel Corp cuts price of computer memory
chip prices 11/05/2003 10:34 PM
Irish Examiner Nov 5 2003 10:14PM ET

Computer chip maker PMC-Sierra cuts
third-quarter revenue outlook

Computer chip maker PMC-Sierra cuts
third-quarter revenue outlook 09/20/2004 10:38 AM
National Post Sep 20 2004 2:31PM GMT

Life chances harmed by the digital
divide

Life chances harmed by the digital
divide 12/16/2003 06:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 16 2003 6:04AM ET

Digital Forest, Bryce and Konfabulator
on Your Mac Life

Digital Forest, Bryce and Konfabulator
on Your Mac Life 06/30/2004 11:19 AM
This week's Your Mac Life QuickTime webcast radio show features DAZ Productions' Bryan Brandenburg, who will discuss his company's recent acquisition of Bryce from Corel. Hosting, co-lo and development services company Digital Forest's VP of Technical Operations Chuck Goolsbee will e on-hand to talk about his company's business. And Konfabulator developer Arlo Rose will be present to talk about how Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger's" new Dashboard technology may affect the future of his company. Peter Cohen of MacCentral.com and Macworld magazine will also be on hand to talk about the latest news from the world of Mac games. You can tune in to an audio feed or a video feed, depending on your bandwidth. The fun starts at 5:30PM Pacific time, 8:30PM Eastern time.

iPod Shuffle: Life Is Random, But Your
Digital Music Doesn't Have To Be

iPod Shuffle: Life Is Random, But Your
Digital Music Doesn't Have To Be 04/15/2005 01:10 AM

It's going to be hit-or-miss for just about everyone; some people will love it for its price and simplicity while others will hate it because it doesn't exactly offer many optiosn (or a screen). By Gear

Personal Life Recorders and Digital
Lifestyle Aggregators

Personal Life Recorders and Digital
Lifestyle Aggregators 09/13/2004 09:19 AM

Nick Graydos brings up a good point.

Once we have Personal Life Recorders (PLRs) - we'll need digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) to organize all the crap we collect.

Perhaps the biggest barriers to humans utilizing all the technology we offer them - is how to get all this stuff digitzed, uploaded, meta data attached and indexed - before we can utilize it.

PLRs solve that problem.

But we'll need ways of organizing, keeping track of and backing up all our stuff - especially as we move from home to work and school and bop around the world - as well. This all goes along well with the last post I did on dealing with your digital lifestyle - currently.

There are other things that require DLAs as well.

Activity based computing for one. Is it a coicidence that Don Norman influenced me on that one as well?

Clay Shirky calls it Situated software, but I see a more general era of technology - where the human no longer has to bend over to adapt to the weird rules and eccentricities of the software - to use it.

This assumes that the usability issue is finally understood, that soci al interfaces are predominant and that DLAs help us pull it all together.

The PLRs and activity based computing will take us to the next level.

Here's Nick's post which inspired this outburst.....

USA Today ran an article on MRAM (magentic ram) and its impact PLRs - personal life recorders.

The holy grail of devices = Storage Capacity + Battery Life + Device Speed / Responsiveness + Physical Size.

How do you feel about having your life recorded? I'm ready.

Marc Canter has some related ideas that tie into his themes of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation. I really think that Personal Lifestyle Recorders will require Digital Lifestyle Aggregators to sift through all of the data to find the interesting bits.

Imagine a next generation MyYahoo service – which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal (and their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided them with ‘home publishing’ capabilities to create, store and distribute their own content.  Imagine a social networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and in ‘real space’.)...

...Now imagine all of these capabilities and features in one integrated environment – focused in on a particular constituency, content brand or set of activities.  That’s what we call a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLA.)"

[Nick Graydos > thynk]

100 Photographs that Changed the World
by LIFE - The Digital Journalist

100 Photographs that Changed the World
by LIFE - The Digital Journalist 09/14/2004 03:28 AM
100 „‚€„, ˆ… € .. 100 Photographs that Changed the World .. can be seen here

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At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain
Digital Life

At a Mountain Monastery, Old Texts Gain
Digital Life 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
A monk uses digital tools to preserve manuscripts in an Egyptian monastery.

Intel to make digital life market a
reality

Intel to make digital life market a
reality 06/02/2004 02:16 AM
China Post Jun 2 2004 6:10AM GMT

Intel brings digital to life for GITEX
visitors

Intel brings digital to life for GITEX
visitors 09/14/2004 01:47 AM
AME Info Sep 14 2004 5:51AM GMT

Asa Aarons' Ask Asa: Old computer can
have new life if you donate it

Asa Aarons' Ask Asa: Old computer can
have new life if you donate it 01/04/2005 06:46 AM
New York Daily News Jan 4 2005 10:42AM GMT

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format? 12/11/2003 02:43 AM
Now that every other company is starting a music download store (even if no one is making any money off of it), people are beginning to realize that maybe it makes sense to come up with a single format that works for anyone. Of course, some might say that we've already got formats that work, but the folks over in the recording industry seem to have a mental block when it comes to the formats that everyone likes to use. So, now, Microsoft, Universal Music and others, under the title of the Content Reference Forum, are teaming up to create a new music format - but one that makes it easier for them to make you buy the music. There aren't all that many details, but it appears to be going back to some of the very original concepts behind a hypertext system: that content only needs to be available once, and any time you want to access it, you just link to it. In other words, instead of offering downloadable music, the plan is to offer links to music that is served up remotely. Of course, one of the "features" of such a system is that the content providers can know (and, potentially, charge you) every time you want to hear that certain song. It's an interesting idea, but it seems to make the music less valuable. Suddenly, it can only be listened to from an internet connected machine, you don't actually own anything, and the big content providers get to keep a big database of exactly what songs you listen to when. Doesn't sound all that appealing to me. The one thing that it does have going for it, is that it allows people to "share" - if, by share, you mean point someone to a link and let them pay for it themselves.

Computer analyst gets life imprisonment
for wife 's murder

Computer analyst gets life imprisonment
for wife 's murder 04/12/2005 08:45 AM
Sunday Business Post Apr 12 2005 1:08PM GMT
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