Archive for January, 2003
Opera’s fat lady sings on Macintosh
1 Comment Published by Charles Wiltgen January 28th, 2003 in WebRecently I discussed the imminent end to the browser wars, and predicted that iCab, OmniWeb and Opera will no longer be relevant even for web developers by the end of the year.
Now, Opera Software has all but announced that they can no longer compete on the Mac platform. They’ve effectively asked Apple to subsidize their […]
MaGIC (an acronym of the forced-feeling Media-accelerated Global Information Carrier, “Magic” from now on) is a music networking technology that Gibson Labs has been working on for almost three years. As an example of its potential, imagine a Magic guitar transmitting audio (one channel per string) and control information (the state of knobs, whammy bars, […]
Beware first “MPEG-4″ DVD player
7 Comments Published by Charles Wiltgen January 28th, 2003 in MPEG-4Tom’s Hardware Guide (THG) has always confused the DivX codec (once a hack of an old version of the Windows Media Video codec, now an actual MPEG-4 Video codec) with the MPEG-4 format (which supports several codecs, including the MPEG-4 Video codec). The cluelessness continues in their review of the KiSS Technology DP-450.
THG’s review of […]
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- Fix Lightroom’s odd Vista incompatibility
- Drobo now $200 cheaper, just as gooder
- Burned by Vista
- Make iTunes (mostly) work for multiple users on Windows
- What the heck is happening at ATI?
- Devil’s in-box
- Gmail + POP + mailing lists = broken
- Steve’s Macworld keynote: What you need to know about the iPhone and more
- It’s not just you: Vista can’t reliably unzip files (0×800704C8)
- Maybe Büyükkökten.com wasn’t available
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