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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsBelkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype - I was doing some Christmas shopping on Amazon when I was curious what sort of VoIP phones were available on Amazon. I came across the Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype, which I never heard of. The Belkin Desktop Internet Phone for Skype is a standalone Skype phone with ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Toshiba 512GB Solid State Drive - Toshiba announced that it will showcase a 512GB solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month, with shipments of this large SSD in the second quarter of 2009. These NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) will be the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte SSD and features fast read/write times and reliable performance for laptops/notebooks, and other equipment. In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules. The drives feature a maximum ... Christmas Blu-ray player + Netflix = A Very Blue Christmas - I have a Blu-ray player on my Christmas list that I hope to get. Santa Claus hasn't failed me yet. I also have a subscription to Netflix and planned on upgrading it to the Blu-ray package for an additional $1/month should I stay off Santa's "naughty list" this year. This would give me access to Netflix's massive Blu-ray ... CNET - Where's the ? love? - I love CNET, it's one of my favorite technology, electronics, and gadgets sites. But I'm just not feeling the love. You see, I wrote a quick review of the just launched GizmoCall Flash-based VoIP service this morning. A few hours later, see in my RSS alerts another article on GizmoCall. Naturally, I want to see other people's opinions on it, so I click through and see that it's a CNET article. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10124311-94.html) The CNET article had very similar sentiments to my own and performed the same test... BlackBerry OS Running On Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro - From the "Oh no you didn't!" department, BerryReview.com has an article and some sweet photo goodness showing a Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro running a virtual BlackBerry operating system. The Windows Mobile OS running the BlackBerry OS? What's next, the iPhone running Windows Mobile? Soon there will be human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together mass hysteria! The BlackBerry OS runs as an application on Windows Mobile allowing you to run your favorite BlackBerr... GizmoCall Another Flash VoIP Player - GizmoCall, a Flash-based, no download, cross operating system VoIP app launched on Monday. GizmoCall isn't the first to offer a Flash-based VoIP client. I believe the first Flash-based VoIP app was Flashphone, which I discovered last year. I also found a Flash-based app that not only did VoIP, but it did SIP-based video as well.In any event, I decided to give GizmoCall a go. Registering was easy and was done from within the Flash application. Simple entering a username, password, e... The Pirate Bay Offline for Christmas? - Interesting message on The Pirate Bay today. At first I thought maybe the FBI, Interpol, or some other law enforcement entity took them offline. Or perhaps the plethora of Christmas downloaders had knocked them offline. Though, I'm not sure giving a gift of pirated music or movies burned to a CD/DVD is exactly the type of Christmas spirit that Jesus would approve of. See Commandment "Thou shall not steal."I was getting an authentication window popup asking for username and password. The initial message said something about "Forbidden Planet". Now I see this message below that says "A username a... TMC & Digium Announce Educational program for Digium|Asterisk World - Some good news from my company TMC and Digium, the founder of Asterisk that I thought I'd share. If you're an Asterisk fan, you need to be at Asterisk World, which is co-located with the #1 VoIP tradeshow in the U.S., namely TMC's ITEXPO.Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, the Asterisk Company, today announced the educational program for Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled to take place February 2-4, 2009 in Miami. The event is collocated with TMC's ITEXPO East 2009.TMC and Digium also announced that although the conference content and exhibiting opportunities are more than 90 percent complete, additional opportunities remain for interested Digium partners... ADTRAN Launches n-Command MSP - Remote VoIP Management Network Tool - Interesting new product from from ADTRAN whose aim is to simplify remote management of VoIP networks with their n-Command MSP. It sounds very similar to NetQoS Unified Communications Monitor 2.0 I wrote about last month, except NetQoS UC Monitor 2.0 is designed for Cisco UC and Microsoft OCS environments, while the ADTRAN offering seems targeted exclusively to managing ADTRAN NetVanta or Total Access converged networking solutions. One of its core features is centralized collection and reporting ... Nortel Web.Alive = Second Life for Business - Rich Tehrani has a very interesting post about Nortel's foray into virtualized business meetings. Think Second Life virtual world meets business world Rich participated in a virtual world demo with Nortel where they showed him web.alive. This business-oriented virtual world looks eerily similar to Second Life, including the 3D avatars, and 3D world but under the covers it sports something else - namely 3D audio powered by ... Remote Desktop Dual Monitor Support tip - You're probably wondering if there is dual monitor support for Remote Desktop Connection. There is indeed, but there are some caveats and issues you should be aware of, as well as some solutions to these issues. First, as of Microsoft Remote Desktop client version 6.0, support was added for spanning across multiple monitors. Only some configurations are supported by Remote Desktop client in span mode. According to the Remote Desktop help file Remote Desktop Connection supports high-resolution displays that can be spanned across multiple monitors. The monitors must be the same height and al... Grandstream GXV3005 Video Phone - Grandstream just announced the GXV3005 IP video phone is coming this month. The GXV3005 features an additional FXO port and is part of the GXV3000 IP video product line series.The GXV3005 features the same design and all of the functionality as the GXV3000 model, but it comes with the advanced versatility of an FXO PSTN line port, which enables customers to receive both video telephony service over an IP network and their home land-line. One thing I like about Grandsteam is they follow industry standards, such as SIP, but also H.263 & H.264, so in theory their video phone will work with other H.263/H.264 compl... Scientists develop software that can 'Draw' your Dreams - Scientists have developed software that can 'draw' your dreams by reading your mind. Your dreams have now been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.According to Telgraph.co.uk: A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen.While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the bra... Skype 4.0 beta 3 released - Skype has been striving to improve the usability of Skype and give more prominence to other features such as video by rearranging Skype's interface in version 4.0. They also have improved conversation management. Today, Skype released Skype 4.0 beta 3 for Windows.
So what's new in Skype 4.0 beta 3? New is this version, is an abuse reporting feature, which will give you the option to report any users you are blocking to Skype. According to Skype, "Under the hood we have also added a bandwidth manager which will enable better call quality."
They also have also brought back the Call Quality feedback area, Outlook Contacts and full History. They've added full History features, as promised when we launched Beta... Free snom Flexor CTI for Outlook Application offers Advanced Telephony Features - snom and Camrivox today announced free VoIP telephony integration with Microsoft Outlook with snom Flexor CTI software for Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used contact manager with a market share of over 60% of email users. A free CTI app for snom's VoIP phones? I remember the days where you had to pay thousands of dollara for a CTI server. No CTI server required for this app nor the thousands of dollars!The highlights of this integration are: On-screen Click-to-... Copy Paste Comes to the iPhone - Pastebud is a cool new service launching tomorrow that leverages javascript, web services, and bookmarks in mobile Safari to finally bring copy and paste to the iPhone and iPod touch. Thank the heavens! It's about time. What was Steve Jobs thinking when he didn't put copy/paste into the iPhone? Why Steve Jobs crippled the Jesus phone is beyond me. Further, I believe some third party copy/paste apps were banned in the Apple App Store. Well rejoice iPhone users, your savior just may have arrived.Gizmodo ... WordPress 2.7 released - WordPress 2.7 "Coltrane" was just released featuring some pretty cool upgrades in features. First, it sports a drag-and-drop interface for redesigning the layout of your WordPress blog/website. Second, it automatically updates core WordPress files and your plugins (if you so choose). Heck, you can even have it set to download beta nightlies. According to WordPress "Matt": "this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you're ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click." ... Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard - Logitech today introduced what they deem a "Game-Changing Gameboard" called the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard. Hyperbole aside, the Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard is an interesting concept. It sports a naturally contoured design, on-board memory, customizable backlighting, and programmable keys. A keyboard with memory? What's next? A keyboard which is a full-fledged PC? Oh wait, that's been done.Anyway, the Logitech G13 advanced gameboard is a hybrid gaming keyboard designed to complement your Logitech keyboard and mouse. It gives you 25 programmable keys and an analog stick, as well and three game modes to help the PWN factor against your gaming buddies... Truphone brings low-cost calling to iPhone over Wi-Fi & now 3G - Truphone is now bringing low-priced international calls to the iPhone even when not connected to Wi-Fi. In case you don't recall, Steve Jobs will only allow VoIP over Wi-Fi and not over a 3G data connection. So has Truphone enabled VoIP over a 3G connection for the Apple iPhone? Not quite. It's a callback system similar to Jajah that uses the 3G voice bearer ch... Ditch Desktop IP phone to Save Money? - With a slowing global economy, one of the cost-cutting measures desired by IT personnel appears to be the desktop phone, including desktop IP phones. That at least according to an OnRelay survey that shows 88% of cost-conscious IT Professionals would ditch the desktop phone. Apparently, the desire for for mobile working makes desktop tools a low priority expense. I should point out that OnRelay offers a hosted PBX solution with mobile phone only extensions, so you might think this survey has a conflict of interest. However, OnRelay's solutions can work with existing PBXs and desktop phones, so there isn't necessarily a conflict.In any event, today OnRelay published results from a survey revealing the person... Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta Released - Skype's Mobile team has overhauled Skype for Windows Mobile and released Beta 2.5 today. The new beta features improved sound quality, better stability and a more familiar user interface. Will have to give it a try on the XV6700 running Windows Mobile 6.1.Download it now here:http://www.skype.com/go/windowsmobile.
Tags: skype, Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta, ... Fonality Launches PBXtra Unified Agent on Salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange - Back in September I wrote about Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) and how it can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged. Apparently, this was still a yet-to-be-announced product I wrote about that resulted in a call from Fonality's CEO Chris Lyman asking how I found out about it. Woops, my bad, Chris. ... Digium Responds to FBI Vhishing Security Warning about Asterisk - A few days ago the FBI's Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) issued an unclear warning that says versions of Asterisk software are vulnerable to vhishing (voice phishing) attacks, but didn't say which versions, but causing a flurry of news activity on VoIP news sites, tech sites, and blogs. It all started with this warning from the IC3: New Technique Utilizing Private Branch Exchange (PB... More Than Half of U.S. Adults Got Game - More than half of U.S. adults play video games, according to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, and 20% do so daily. The survey of 2,054 U.S. adults was conducted late last year, with a margin of error of 25.People from all walks of life play, although younger adults are far more likely to play than seniors, proof that video games are mainstream entertainment for the generations that grew up with them. In all, 81% of respondents between 18 and 29 said they play games, compared with 23% of people 65 and older.Another Pew survey this fall found that nearly every teenager -- 97% -- is a gamer.The gender gap between gamers was not what would be predicted by old stereotypes painting video game fans as young men who... Gadget Prices Falling This Holiday Season! - Ho ho ho! 'Tis the season for steep discounts on gadgets goods on the Internet. According to this article in Electonista, online shopping sites such as Buy.com, HP.com, SonyStyle.com, Newegg.com, OnSale.com and RefurbDepot.com all are offering big savings. Buy.com has cut prices on everything from MP3 players and digital photo frames to GPS units and notebook computers. Prices are slashed on everything from wireless routers and printers to wireless mice and Bluetooth stereo headphones at HP.com. SonyStyle.com is offering deals on notebooks, iPod docks, game consoles, digital cameras, HDTVs and more as well as g... Football Drives HDTV Sales - And now the truth can be told! HDTV manufacturer Samsung has revealed that a survey found football to be the most popular sport to influence HDTV purchases among sports fans in America. The survey from Kelton Research revealed that more than half (54%) of all football fans would most likely purchase a new HDTV for the start of football season if their budgets allowed. Football had the highest purchasing influence for HDTVs over all other fan favorites, including baseball (9%) and basketball (7%).Now let's get ready for Monday Night Football! And don't forget the snacks! Thanks to ... Never Charge your gadget again - Free Electricity! - Intel said it is researching technology to harvest free energy from the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones running for indefinite periods without recharging. Intel is working on tiny sensors that can capture energy from sources such as sunlight and body heat to power personal electronic devices such as MP3 players, cell phones, portable handheld gaming devices, etc.Intel is also looking at powering a mobile phone by converting the energy the user creating simply by moving the phone's trackball. Additionally, the radiation of cell phone or TV signals might also be used to power devices. One example given is an accelerometer buried in the wall of a building that could automatically recharge itself by harvesting the energy of radiation from a cell phone tower.... Asterisk-based VPN in a Flash Mobile Telephony Appliance -
Nerd Vittles (Ward Mundy) is the man! He just combined the popular Acer Aspire One NetBook featuring the powerful Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz) processor along with Fedora 10 and his Asterisk-based distro. Nerd just may have cooked up the perfect low-cost, powerful, GUI-rich (low overhead KDE), and portable Asterisk-based appliance! Now you can take your phone system on the road while driving, on the plane, etc. Imagine sticking a 3G/EVDO card in the system while driving and... CounterPath Launches Bria for Microsoft Outlook integrating VoIP with Outlook Contacts - CounterPath Corporation announced the launch of Bria for Microsoft Outlook, which integrates CounterPath's softphone technology directly into Microsoft Outlook. CounterPath also makes the popular (& free) SIP client called X-Lite.The toolbar gives users easy access to VoIP call control aling with personal information manager (PIM) info stored within Outlook Contacts. On an inbound or outbound call, it will automatically perform a lookup of your Contacts to find a match so you can see exactly who you are calling or who is calling you. With a minimally invasive G... Facebook Connect for Movable Type plugin - Facebook Connect is appearing in more and more websites, including Techcrunch, SFGate, and more, allowing you to use your Facebook credentials to post comments on third-party websites. TechCrunch announced Facebook Connect support for their comments just a few days ago. Yesterday, perhaps in response to Google Friend Connect opening up their service to everyone, Facebook announced just yesterday that their Facebook Connect service was now open to everyone (previously invitation only). Any website can now pull personal data about visitors from Facebook and send back activity reports to their news feeds. All you need to do is fill out a ... please remove - Please remove these documents:
http://www.archive.org/details/IndexPostorumProhibitorum-Forum.porcjunkula.org
The right place for this kind of documents is Wayback Machine not Text archive. ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - Just to be clear, a little while ago I mentioned the JW generating stuff just for the Archive, I was suggesting that might be their next step, but that I strongly disagreed with them being allowed to ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - Yeah, I agree with all the above points of view; the JW should be allowed to have free speech, but I disagree with those views that say to allow them to start generating stuff for IA.
Religious group ... Re: Link to Open Source Books is gone - open source books are under the additional collections section of the text collection.
hope this helps! ... Re: Link to Open Source Books is gone - For some reason it's here now:
http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
I saw it the other day if you click the link it's still under the text parent once you get there I would bookmark ... Link to Open Source Books is gone - The link to Open Source Books appears to have disappeared from the Texts page.
Is this a bug or is that archive going to be dropped? ... microsoft ts and cs - Hi,
When Microsoft stopped their scanning program the 'no commercial use' clauses stayed on their scans in the archive. The only statement I can find that this no longer applies is the phrase 'We are ... Re: its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA - "its agaist the law to distrubute spam and porn in the USA"
What law is that?
(I assume you meant "against" and "distribute")
"I have already a few times over the last two years warned you people an ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - " people who MUST have instantaneous RSS "???
That is a ridiculous thought.
It looks like the biggest source of spam here is you.
Aren't you the one in NZ?
I'm sure our Justice Department is lo ... Re: The mythology of all races - I've seen a request system called "Scan-on-Demand", although it's limited to books in the Boston Public Library and I've never tried it.
http://openlibrary.org/bpl
Probably the best way is to searc ... The mythology of all races - This is a very good project in 13 volumes. In the internet archieve I have seen volume number 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, but it seems they didn't upload the others, particularly volume 5. So I was won ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - Not that I'm hating on valium or anything, I'm sure it has many positive benefits, when administered by people who know what they are doing, and who obtain the drugs from a respectable pharmaceutical . ... Re: Isn't selling Valium w/o a perscription against the law - Once again the pharmaceutical spam is back
http://www.archive.org/details/BuyValiumBuyValiumOnlineWithoutPrescriptionPurchaseValiumCod
Would the admins please find a way to stop people attempting to ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - If you do some checking about 60% are in the public domain. ... Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas form Central Texas all! If you are thinking of the perfect gift, I think that deleting this
http://www.archive.org/details/OrderXanaxNoPrescriptionBuyOrderXanaxOnlineCheapXanaxNoPres ... A little request to Duke and Boston Col - Could one of you please find it in your heart to upload:
Full report of the proceedings of the International Workers' Congress, London, July and August, 1896
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/219247 ... Re: A little request to Duke and Boston Col - dudeman,
I work for a library consortium,. let me see how fast I can get it.
Gerry
... Re: Merry Christmas - You know what I would really like for Christmas
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=216617
... Re: Merry Christmas - dudeman,
Think about the positive aspects of this item. Since it is now open source, restrictive copyrights can no longer be placed on this type of crap. My only concern is that there should be a col ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - Just couldn't resist. Everytime some one says "I want something really bad", that line from Austin Powers pops into my head. ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - u r so funny , and st..p..d, sir.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=heinemann%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&sort=-publicdate&page=2 ... Re: i wanna see more loeb classical books - "And I vanna toilet made out of solid gold, but it just isn't in the cards now, is it?"
Actually, if any were published pre-1922, or are in public domain for another reason, it would be a great addit ... Re: Uploading a scanned book - I am a newbie, is there any document which explains about my above question? Thanks. - goodwin ... Uploading a scanned book - I have a book of 1900s, and I would like to upload it here. In which format should I upload it, so that the pdf, flip book, Full Text are also generated as in http://www.archive.org/details/birdbookil ... Searchable PDF for a Scanned book - Dear all,
I uploaded a pdf containing images of scanned pages of a book. And later using the Metadata editor, I changed the format from "pdf" to "Image Container PDF". But strangely I see no changes ... i wanna see more loeb classical books - pls! ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - We also have the Exclusive Brethren in NZ, a mate of mine used to work for them, their religion stops them using computer stuff, my mate had to go to another company to make use of fax in and out. how ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - Actually some of what the JWs have to say is kinda interesting. Unlike other Christian sects, they don't believe in an afterlife. They don't participate in politics or the state in any way (juries, mi ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - I disagree with what the JW say, and I don't like for profit spam, or porn or gambling coming from others.
BUT no way can I agree with JW stuff not being allowed on the Archive, because that's what t ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - duedman,
I think any of these groups should be encouraged to put all of their materials up, especially under the Creative Commons License. Eventually we will have enough materials up so that it may s ... Re: Jehovas Witness texts - I disagree with Jehovas Witnesses but yeah, at least their propaganda can have cultural value and/or historic value in the future. People 100 years from now will find those documents facinating. I hop ... Jehovas Witness texts - It seems the JWs have discovered archive.org! Knowing them, this will likely mean a steady stream of scanned material and lengthy metadata adding a large amount of material to this site.
Actually, I ... Re: Copyright Question - "Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K"
Can you explain me this affirmation?
Is very important for me.
Thanks. ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - I am not expecting a 24/7 response at all, I am suggesting that the Archive look at adapting spam type filters
I am suggesting that the Archive stop bots from signing up. I am suggesting that new mem ... Re: text achive is tended by humans - From the timing of your post, I gather you were reacting to a larger than normal spam attack, that was launched after midnight on a Sunday PST (where IA is located). I'm taken aback if you expect a 24 ... Re: How do I take raw jpgs and make a djvu file? - Uncanny! I was just going to ask this. I'd also like to know if there are the necessary tools for Linux (or, at a pinch, Mac) to do this with. Too many books (especially unwieldy, big ones) are availa ... Re: text achive is breaking the USA laws. - Thanks for making trouble and wasting the time of this small non-profit mostly volunteer run organization (disclaimer: I don't work there).
Based on the litigious tone and information in your post n ... text achive is breaking the USA laws. -
text archive is breaking the USA laws.
The text archive is, I believe, breaking the USA laws, knowingly aiding spammers, by allowing its servers to be used for distributing illegal spam world wide.
... How do I take raw jpgs and make a djvu file? - I'm interested in taking some of the raw jpg files in some of the books (basically color plates and their descriptions) and building my own text searchable djvu file from them.
Does anyone know of th ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - You point to an important point, but, unfortunately, there is no way for the Archive to incorporate corrected OCR into its book files. It is a problem we will solve in the future, but currently it can ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Thanks for answering. I have another concept of "quality" and think useless maintain a file of very bad quality when a good one is present. Of course the good one can (or must) be ameliorated. Another ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Well, I think the idea with Internet Archive is that when users such as yourself create something new (such as a corrected OCR text) you can upload it to Internet Archive. Just upload the new text and ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Hallo! I've just joined. Perhaps I duplicate a question :) If so, sorry. Some weeks ago I DL this text from Googlebooks: http://www.archive.org/details/sullestradeferr00blasgoog.
And insert the text i ... Re: Duplicate files/books? - Can you give an example book your trying to search for duplicates?
Gutenberg and Google books are uploaded here. There appear to be over half a million Google scans, and I suppose all of Gutenberg (I ... Duplicate files/books? - I'm wondering what the best method for searching out duplicates is. I would like to submit some pdfs I made of old, out of print Chinese books on TaiChi. I'm not sure how to search for items that have ... Re: Flip Book Format -
we would like you to upload your PDF's to the archive. We are working to expand our PDF deriver so that any pdf uploaded will be able to be a flip book (and embeddable).
Please upload!
-brewster
... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - To get all the Henry James related books (minus Google and Gutenberg) you would need this search:
mediatype:(texts) -scanner:google -contributor:gutenberg AND (subject:"James, Henry 1843-1916" OR cre ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - I should have also said, that the above method of searching excludes the Google books leaving only the 'native' books and collections.
I am too hasty with the 'submit post' button these days ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - Oh! Sorry, I never answered that part
No, no - all the books that were here before the Google Books were uploaded are all still there. It's just the amount of Google Books (previously there were a ... Re: does google books oust other pdfs? - Many thanks. I'd never have thought of this, but it works.
But it is true that the previous scans seem to have disappeared, haven't they? ... Copyright © 2009, Uncle HQ. All Rights Reserved. |