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Dan Robins
Member since 21st October 2005
Occupation: Programmer and Columnist
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22nd November 2005
When Napster and Kazaa began the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on their respective systems, record publishers and stores saw a decrease in the amount of music they were selling through retailers. Industry red flags went up in the air, followed by cri...
Views: 274
16th November 2005
For the longest time, eBay has been charging developers a fee to join there developer network. While the ability to offer eBay products or services in conjunction with their own websites or standalone programs, many programmers waived the opportunity b...
Views: 324
14th November 2005
If you're one of those tech savvy consumers that couldn't wait for the 802.11n Wi-Fi ISO standard to be ratified by the organization and purchased one the many Pre-N routers that are on the market today, you might want to take note of this bit of infor...
Views: 426
12th November 2005
Who could have imagined around the turn of the century in 1900 that in a short one-hundred years technology would have advanced as much as it has. Telephones, electricity, automobiles and even computers have all changed the way we walk, talk, eat and e...
Views: 445
11th November 2005
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 1.5 (C2) to the general public and the popular internet browser is available on their website for downloading. According to the organization there are improvements with the p...
Views: 282
09th November 2005
If you visit the Grokster.com website, this is the message you receive:The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal. Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files ...
Views: 269
09th November 2005
Congressional hearings start on Wednesday, November 9th by the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Aims of the hearing are to draft legislation that will create a statutory framework for Internet Protocol and Broadband Services. The co...
Views: 248
02nd November 2005
For as long as I can remember, the brightly colored MSN butterfly that is lightly atop the "N" of the company's logo will soon be a thing of the past. I can even recall a time, probably in the early stages of the MSN website, when the butterfly glided ...
Views: 339
01st November 2005
While Windows and Macintosh owners continue to squabble about who has the better operating system, Linux continues to gain more acceptance every year. While we know there are many computer enthusiasts that will swear their loyalty to the product, your ave...
Views: 343
28th October 2005
As much as I would like to save thousands of worldwide computer users and turn them into Microsoft Office aficionados, the fact of the matter is that the cost of the software suite is somewhat limiting to users that can't either afford it or are new to th...
Views: 342
27th October 2005
Who knows the countless number of times that you've gone into a service-related business or bought a product from a store when the service was substandard or the product didn't operate as expected, company employees simply through their hands up in the ai...
Views: 380
26th October 2005
There was a time several years ago, generally in the time table when MP3 media became popular, that "Peer-to-Peer" (P2P) file sharing was not all that uncommon. Napster was the king of the hill before it was shut down and went legit, with Kazaa briefly ta...
Views: 249
25th October 2005
Many of have become used to the idea that you can transfer digital camera images to your PC or printer through the use of a memory card, PictBridge interface and even using Bluetooth technology. As technology manufacturers continue to raise the bar on a d...
Views: 659
24th October 2005
I recently read an article by TJ Tierney on the iSnare website with quite a bit of interest. Tierney is a professional photographer who still believes that film cameras should be used especially when taking landscape images.
This made me think about my...
Views: 239
22nd October 2005
GOOD: You have to admit, Google is THE premier search engine in the world. If you've ever wanted to find out about any topic imaginable, chances are you'll find it via the company's search engine. Although MSN and Yahoo! are debating the supremacy issue, ...
Views: 346
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