Mar
10th
links for 2007-03-10
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:22 pm
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The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday.
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DVD players are brilliant at doing what they are designed to do over and over again. And if the expedient here is a $7 MPEG-2 decoder chip, it’s a wonder why such chips didn’t appear long ago in PCs.
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Palm has hired Paul Mercer to begin working on something for Palm. Mercer isn’t an average joe, he is a designer and former Apple computer engineer.
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Every since starting John Chow dot Com, I have been progressively stepping up the number of posts the blog does each day.
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Today’s column addresses something that’s been on the wish lists of Mac users for a long time–a way to run the occasional Windows program when they need to, without having to set aside their usual Mac programs at the time.
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The Online Publishers Association says that mobile marketing is working. With response rates as high as ten times that of Internet ads, mobile ads seem to be working for early adopters. The OPA admits that the medium is fledgling and that results can chan
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I’m flattered! Someone appreciated my plugin idea so much that they rewrote it to be backwards compatible with PHP4 (mine used SimpleXML which is only in PHP5.0+). Thanks to Samanthon.com for knocking this out!
