Month: March 2011

Digicorders, storage in the cloud op kosten van de klant!?

Deze week las ik een artikel over het stroomverbruik van digicorders in standby. Persoonlijk ben ik daar niet zo verwonderd over. In alle digicorders zitten harde schijven. Volgens mij is de totale som van alle vrije ruimte op die digicorders in gans Vlaanderen en ver daarbuiten het gedroomde scenario om clandestien storage in the cloud op te zetten door ISP’s zoals Telenet, Belgacom enz. Wie zegt dat dit nu al niet gebeurt? De harde schijven hoor je wel degelijk af en toe werken, ook al staat de digicorder in standby. Kan iemand mij vertellen waarom dat goed is?

Firmwares pushen? Dan zijn het er toch wel héél veel op zéér korte tijd. De dienstverlening zou er dan wel op vooruit gegaan zijn… In elk geval mijn digicorder mag het ‘s nachts zonder stroom stellen!

Zie: Belgacom-decoder in waakstand kost meer dan 80 euro per jaar (De Standaard)

Dot com bubble revised

And now, thanks to a $500 million infusion of capital from Goldman Sachs and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies, Facebook is reportedly worth $50 billion.

Oh, really?

If that $50 billion valuation is accurate, Facebook is now worth more than Yahoo!, eBay and Time Warner, and is running up hard against such Internet giants as Amazon and targeted rival Google.

(…)

Some, like Google and Amazon, developed an enduring online presence and lasting financial value. But far too many—GeoCities, Freeinternet.com, theGlobe.com, and others—quickly lost value when it became apparent that their rapid growth wasn’t yielding revenue. Investors who sold their dotcom stocks before the bubble burst made fortunes—those who didn’t lost their shirts.


Source: Social Media: the next dot com bubble (Newsweek)

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Extending iPod support in WinAmp

This article is a continuation of ‘Moving your music library from iTunes to Winamp’

The standard distribution of Winamp already comes with basic functionalities for connecting iPod/iPhone devices. However, these features are really basic! Album art, smart playlists and ratings are not transferred.

The plugin ‘ml_ipod‘ enables such features (installation and configuration are self-explanatory). Compatibility should be checked with your device at the ml_ipod website, since Apple is not very happy with third party software.

ml_ipod

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlipod/mlipod