The HUAR command center site is now up and running. HUAR stands for “Humans United Against Robots”. This organization, started by Keith Malley of the Keith and the Girl podcast, “was designed to educate and aware the citizenry of the world the impending attack that computers and robots will put into affect against humans”.
Category Archives: Remaindered
Vai.com: A Post Tour Note from Steve
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Dated December 2 on Vai.com, Steve writes a post tour note to to his fans. In it he talks about an upcoming DVD and retreating back to the studio after a brief vacation.
GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools
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GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools – GarageBand opens GCast end to end podcasting service. Quote from article: “The firm said it was motivated to create Gcast after a Podcasting feature introduced on the GarageBand site doubled the company’s overall traffic. ”
Firefox del.icio.us Extension
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Over the last few days I’ve been using the new del.icious Firefox extension with Firefox 1.5. I have to say, this one is one of the most useful extensions I’ve installed. If you are running Firefox (and you should be) and use del.icio.us, you have to take the few seconds it takes to install this plugin.
It seriously makes all the difference in the world to have del.icio.us integrated directly into the browser.
Podcasting available through TiVo / Sony PSP
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Sony and TiVo support Podcasts – Sony adds support for RSS enclosures to the PSP and TiVo makes podcasts available through its service using feeds from the Yahoo Podcasts directory.
Apache 2.2.0 released.
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Version 2.2.0 of the Apache 2 Web Server has been released. Full ChangeLog can be found here.
Subversion 1.3.0 Release Candidate 4 released.
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Subversion 1.3.0 Release Candidate 4 released. According to the announcement, this is the first public release candidate. It looks like there are tons of changes for this one, including speed improvements, more support for xml rendering in commands (the –xml switch) and a whole lot more.
Interview with an Honest Boss
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I saw this site on WGN News this morning and thought it was pretty funny. Check out the Interview with an Honest Boss, brought to you by Hallmark.
Mark Baker: The Service Oriented Web
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Mark Baker has a post called The Service Oriented Web in which he links to a presentation on REST that he wrote and was presented in Japan. I like how he explains the concepts of REST and the simplicity of the model relative to SOAP.
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer
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Tom the Architect led me over to the Gizmo Project. Free Skype-like VoIP services, including free voicemail and phone mail. It also has the ability to record calls for you podcasters out there!
Bieber Labs 