TechnoMagicians Blog

Ok, I must not be getting something here. Why in my life time would I ever pay a monthly service fee to access my own video, photos etc from my own computer??? Just maybe I'd pay for software to do this which is likely available from a number of vendors. Am I missing something here??? […]

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Tyler is right on the money here: Countries in Europe and Asia are already heading in this direction, as is the United States. Canada should be leading in this, not following. A good start would be to buy a whole load of these fuel-cell car kits and distribute them to high schools, requiring science teachers […]

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Missed this over the holidays: Judge Awards ISP $1 Billion in damages (source Network World Fusion)

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I typically use computer gaming industry analogies or examples when talking about the computer technology industry. Lets face it, the gaming industry really pushes technology to its limits, has grueling development schedules etc. etc. Here is an interesting story from one of the founding member of probably one of the most successful gaming companies (Id […]

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Looks like VMWare is making good use of RSS as you can see here. You can create a custom feed with the type of news from them that you want (articles, events, news releases, success stories, vmware products). Looks like they are using technology from www.simplefeed.com (website simply says they are in stealth mode). Maybe […]

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Its a huge day for Seinfeld and U2 today. I'm talking of course about Seinfeld seasons 1-3 on DVD and U2's latest CD. Seinfeld without a doubt one of the greatest sitcoms of all times and U2 without a doubt one of the greatest bands of all times. Seinfeld Season 1&2 DVD is here – […]

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I have received a number of requests for information on how these text-to-speech blog posts have been put together. Basically I'm using the voices from NeoSpeech and the software TextAloud from NextUp.com. You can actually purchase both through NextUp. Previous to that, I was playing around with Babel Technologies but I think NeoSpeech is much […]

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A big welcome to the folks from ipodder.org. Since my last two posts traffic here has increased significantly. Tonight I'm testing out a new text-to-speech voice here. Its even better than the one I've used for the last two posts. Quality is just fantastic. The last two posts were really a pain to put together […]

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I've never been one to carry around music and listen much. Of course I've owned a walkman and discman but they never got much use. With the forces of iPodder, PodCasting and now the new U2 iPod how can one resist!!

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This is a bit of an experimental blog post. Since everyone is PodCasting these days and to follow somewhat in Ross Radar's steps, and likely others, I'm basically just going to take this blog entry and create a text to speech recording and enclose it here so the iPodder aggregators can pick it. That way folks have two […]

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