Monthly Archives: October 2005

RCA’s HDTV Website

Posted on October 27, 2005 by Nick Dynice

http://tv.rca.com/en-US/Home.html

RCA is hawking a Dummies book: HDTV for Dummies on the HDTV section of their site. On the same page there is a SDTV logo with the slogan “Digital TV for Everyone.” I think this slogan is …

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Splogbusters Part 2

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Nick Dynice

There is some speculation that sploggers are employing people in third-world countries to type in catchpa. This is probably done by pulling the images from the Blogger blog admin and presenting them in another pages so that the …

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Solving the Blogger.com Splog Problem in 3 Steps

Posted on October 23, 2005 by Nick Dynice

The main problem I see with splogs is the poisoning of Technorati results by Blogger.com/Blogspot splogs. Here is my proposal. Continue reading →

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I am learning Ruby and then Ruby on Rails

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Nick Dynice

If you check my del.icio.us you will notice all of my bookmarks on the Ruby language.  I have installed Ruby on my Mac and I am following along in Chris Pine’s tutorial. The last language I learned was HyperTalk …

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Flock beta relased today

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Nick Dynice

I am writing this blog post from the Flock application in Mac OSX to see what it does. (edit) I am writing this sentence from my blog to set the category, add a trackback UIR from TechCrunch, …

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Planned Obsolescence and Cheap Design of Consumer Products are Dead Strategies in the Face of Social Media

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Nick Dynice

The type of planned obsolescence I am talking about is regarding compatibility and interoperability, not how a device is made obsolete because of technological advances. I am not talking about when a major change happens after a standard has …

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Details On Non-Features

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Nick Dynice

In the trend of full disclosure and transparency, I think there may come a time where a vendor has to inform costumers what their product or service does not have an particular feature (only when it is a feasible …

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FreeMySpace.com is Misguided

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Nick Dynice

See Free MySpace.com’s MySpace profile or FreeMySpace.com

There are a couple people who think that the acquisition of MySpace by News Corp means that they will start charging. Why would MySpace charge users? I’m afraid that these passionate …

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