• Games Knoppix
  “A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme, gamepad support for XWindows.”
  (categories: Games Linux Open_Source)
• Troubleshooting Your Images
  “In this article we discuss a variety of common causes of poor digital images, and present some tips on diagnosing and correcting the problems.”
  (categories: HOWTO Photography)

• CEO resigns from PeopleSoft
  “PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, who returned as chief executive of the business software maker during its takeover battle with rival Oracle, has resigned from the company.”
  (categories: IT PeopleSoft)

These guys have an entire library of old Apple ][ programs online that run within the browser. They use an ActiveX control that’s an Apple ][gs virtual machine emulator running within the IE… Sweet!

[with Virtual Apple]…”you can now relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disks through the internet and web browser. This web site uses an ActiveX application and Apple IIgs emulator to automatically download and play most Apple 2 disk images online. To play a game, just select the disk from the menu and click on Yes to automatically download the ActiveX emulator and disk images. (Note: Requires Internet Explorer and Windows) Don’t worry, there isn’t any spyware to worry about, and it’s completely free!” (via Boing Boing)

• Koch’s IT Strategy
  Last week’s acquisition of Peoplesoft by Oracle is the final example of how badly the original mission of enterprise software–business and technology integration in a box–has failed

• Open Text Summarizer
  “The Open Text Summarizer is an open source tool for summarizing texts. The program reads a text and decides which sentences are important and which are not.”
  (categories: Dev Search)
• Desktop Search Matrix
  Matrix compares Desktop Search offerings
  (categories: Search)
• Using Image Calibration Techniques to Reduce Noise in Digital Images
  “This article is about a method of reducing noise in images taken with digital cameras - especially long exposure and/or high ISO images taken with digital SLRs.”
  (categories: HOWTO Photography)
• Remote-controlled digital picture frame apparatus
  Nice…”Spoils of an old laptop”
  (categories: Hacks Hardware Photography)

• Collection of front pages of today’s newspapers
  Newseum site has has scans of newspaper front pages… interesting…
  (categories: News Service)

• The Graphing Calculator Story
  Great stroy … I loved that Calculator
  (categories: Mac Software)
• The MPAA has no idea what’s about to hit them
  “…several large Bittorrent tracker sites were shut down, citing concerns about problems with copyright holders.The movie studios think this is a good thing. They’re wrong. P2P is the Content Industry’s worst nightmare….”
  (categories: P2P Torrents)

• VentureBlog: Coming Soon: Desktop In Your Pocket
  “Last year, I wrote an article about using your mobile device as a window into your desktop world. This year, we are several steps closer to that goal.”
  (categories: Mobile Search)

I said it last year around this time and the year before too. Now Ev is saying it and of course Anil had said it way before anyone, but PLEASE let us make sure we rid the world of the bloody fax machine!

Not surprisingly we’re going to see much more in the way of video or “multimedia” search from the likes of Yahoo, Google and of course Microsoft, but it looks like the Blinkx Video Search is the first one out of the starting blocks (too bad they don’t offer the results in RSS with enclosures)

“The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using “smart folders” that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service.” (via
CNET)