Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc  —  One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc.  At first, the name might fool you into thinking the type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new computer …

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iPhone 1.1.1 “bug” unleashes music over Bluetooth  —  The iPhone 1.1.1 update has a hidden little surprise for y’all: Bluetooth audio streaming is now available off of your iPhone for whatever you darn please, meaning you can finally listen to music from the phone wirelessly.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Paul Miller
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/29/iphone-1-1-1-bug…

Why Does Facebook Make Young Men Swoon?  —  In debunking Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick love letter to Mark Zuckerberg, I noted yesterday that the 23 year old ex-college student’s most valuable attribute is the ability to make grown men swoon.  —  Today, we see that young men are far from immune to the Facebook love bug!

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Verizon’s Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager get outed  —  Apparently due to launch in a couple of weeks, Verizon is prepping a phone blitz of fairly epic proportions.  The new Samsung Juke, BlackBerry Pearl, LG Venus and LG Voyager are due for simultaneous arrival on the market, and are sure to turn heads.

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The Unsung Heroes Who Move Products Forward  —  AT first blush, the iPhone from Apple, the new microprocessor family from Intel and the ubiquitous Google search engine have nothing in common.  One is a gadget, one is an electronic part and one is a service.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   G. Pascal Zachary
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/technology/30ping…

Facebook’s Killer Feature Coming Soon  —  Back in August I suggested that if Facebook allowed you to place your friends in specific groups (e.g. professional, social, family, etc) and assign custom privacy settings, LinkedIn would be doomed.  While Facebook is going to have to work toward putting …

Source:   All Facebook
Author:   Nick O’Neill
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Demonoid Trackers Back Online, Site Still Down  —  The demonoid downtime caused quite some controversy, especially after the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reported that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was responsible for the downtime.  —  We contacted both the CRIA …

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-trackers-back-online…

Payloads for Twitter  —  Back in 2001, I wrote a document called Payloads for RSS that explained how you could attach something to a RSS item.  I didn’t explain how a RSS app would display or play one of these things, that would come later.  —  Today, we may be at a similar place with […]

If you care about your rights, don’t buy an iPhone  —  Late last fall, the Library of Congress issued six exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the far-ranging anti-piracy law that governs virtually all modern technologies.  Among the exemptions was this: It is perfectly legal …

Source:   Salon
Link:   http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/09/28…

Steve Jobs, Motivational Speaker For Yahoo  —  Guess who stopped by to give Yahooligans a little pep talk?  Steve Jobs!  He told the gathering of 300-odd Yahoo (YHOO) vice presidents that they can do anything.  The company with one of the largest Internet user bases can do and achieve anything, he apparently told them.

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