Welcome to iTheaterProject.com, the home of iTheater: Mac Media Center!
iTheater is an open source project that will be a media center application for OSX, not just the Mac Mini. We are currently programing this application, so check back often to see our progress! Any help is greatly appreciated, so please feel free to join and volunteer!
Screen Goo is a specially formatted, highly reflective acrylic paint, designed specifically for the video projection industry. Screen Goo acrylic paint allows one to transform any smooth paintable surface into a high performance projection screen.
Screen Goo’s performance reflects many years of research and development. It has the capacity to outperform most of the existing screen products in use today. Screen Goo is made from the highest grade acrylic available and contains no filler materials. Whether used in a professional, or home situation its simple application, versatility, quality and variable gain characteristics are remarkable.
Top 10 Web fads
By Molly WoodInternet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and moments of brilliance. And over the past 10 years, some of these ideas broke through to the mainstream. Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability to publish your thoughts online with just a few simple clicks, the following 10 Web fads still make us laugh, make us wonder, or make us feel guilty enough to update our blogs.
InformationWeek > FireFox Patches > Firefox 1.0.6 Release Fixes Flaws > July 20, 2005
The Mozilla Foundation late Tuesday updated both its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client for the second time in eight days to fix flaws that popped in last week’s refreshes.
Versions 1.0.6 of both Firefox and Thunderbird, said Mozilla, have been patched to “restore API (Application Programming Interface) compatibility for extensions and Web applications “which were unintentionally broken in the editions released last week.
One of the most popular extensions for Thunderbird, Enigmail PGP, which is used to encrypt e-mail, wouldn’t work with the 1.0.5 version, for instance.
This week’s updates should quiet the complaints from the developers of foreign language editions, who were told last week by Mozilla to skip localized versions of 1.0.5, and await Tuesday’s 1.0.6.
Firefox 1.0.6 and Thunderbird 1.0.6 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Web site.
Step by Step Make RSS Feeds
Everyday more and more websites, news services and blogs are adding RSS content. RSS is a method of syndicating content.The concept of aggregating content in one central location or repository is very appealing. Consumers have become tired of push technology, RSS allows users the flexibility to regain control of their content. RSS feed creators provide content without forcing it on consumers. In fact with RSS consumers are able to choose the content they wish to view.
Social Bookmarking, tagging and annotating all things Linux and Open Source : entries
LQ bookmarks allows you to bookmark, tag, annotate and share links to Open Source and Linux related sites. It also allows you to access your bookmarks from any browser on any machine. The ability to share and see what others are sharing is called social bookmarking.
Computer Hygiene - Take Out The Trash!
Computer Hygiene - Take Out The Trash!
By Earl GoochDo you find that your computer exhibits one or more of the following behaviors?
- Inexplicable message or warning pop-ups
- Frequent unsolicited reboots
- Your favorite application often crashes
- Applications now start up sluggishly
- Your computer seems to take forever to boot up
- You find new software running which you did not expressly install, and you cannot explain it’s existance
Your computer may simply have become cluttered with software to such a degree that all those programs now fight with each other for resources, or a particular type of software installed (with malicious intent or otherwise) could produce adverse side effects and may even compromise your system’s health and security. Even if your PC does not appear to suffer from any of the symptoms above, chances are over time one or more of these issues will surface.
So where should we look to find the root cause of such problems? In short, we can attribute this abnormal behavior to:
1) Our not being vigilant in monitoring the list of software running (or not running) on our system
2) Not being sufficiently mindful of how the installed software got there and why
Let me explain further. When one purchases a computer (or you inherit that “hand-me-down” from your relative) you will typically find a potpourri of software already installed. Furthermore, you will probably never use 80% of it. In addition, you may find yourself unable to resist the temptation to download and install freeware/shareware from the internet.
All too often we really do not need the programs we download, but refraining from doing so can be difficult due to the software’s enticing promo. And regardless of the utility of these programs, many times we don’t bother to uninstall them, thinking we may find a use for them in the future.
Just recently while browsing through a forum, I saw a post with the following opening line: I just had to reformat the family computer for the second time in three months because of my brother’s blatant ignorance of general computer hygiene. I can assure you that such behavior is commonplace. The various computers in my own home are a prime example. On numerous occasions my two children, who by the way, are old enough to know better, downloaded and installed software which essentially rendered their PCs unusable, thus costing me hours of work to get them back into working condition.
If you take nothing else away from this article, try to embrace the following two thoughts:
- Not being aware of every program installed, and particularly which ones get invoked by default at startup time, could cause your system to become highly unstable, resulting in frequent crashes, loss of data, or possibly even irreparable hardware damage.
- Try at all costs to refrain from installing non-essential software.
While you may very well find an overabundance of non-essential software installed, even more important is the fact that there may NOT be antivirus, firewall, or other security/protection software running. Consider this point CRITICAL. The absence of such software or it being improperly configured can set you up for disaster! In an upcoming article we’ll discuss the various “sleuthing” techniques for determining just what software resides on your computer.
The object of the second point above is to simply use good judgment in deciding which software goes and what stays on your computer. Sure, there’s no harm in keeping reputable software around such as that favorite game or multimedia player, given that you know where it came from and you do at least use it occasionally.
OK, let’s summarize our discussion. Start thinking now about your current software and which programs you consider as really important to you or your family. Remove everything else you can bear to part with. Furthermore, of the types of software you feel you must keep, evaluate it’s “utility”. Some programs you may have obtained and installed, and others were probably just pre-installed on your PC. You may want to consider upgrading existing packages, or particularly in the latter case, other similar software may exist which has a better feature set that can serve you better.
Now go ahead. Take out the trash!
Stay tuned for the next installment coming shortly.
About the Author
Earl Gooch is an engineer who has been involved in the high tech industry for over 23 years, working in various capacities including design of both computer hardware and software, web development, system engineering, customer support, and marketing.
http://www.softwarehelpme.com
Everybody In The Pool - Forbes.com
Everybody In The Pool
David M. Ewalt, 07.08.05, 6:00 AM ETNEW YORK - Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs has a reputation for thinking different. But now he might be planning a move for Apple that will leave even his biggest fans surprised–becoming a phone company.
California tech job lead grows | CNET News.com
California tech job lead grows
Published: July 6, 2005, 5:16 PM PDT
By Ed Frauenheim
Staff Writer, CNET News.comCalifornia is getting more golden when it comes to its share of the country’s new tech jobs.
Thanks partly to job creation in the heart of Silicon Valley, the state captured 29.8 percent of the new information technology jobs posted on major online job boards in June, according to a new study from job search service NimbleCat. That’s up from 26.1 percent in May and marks the state’s high point since NimbleCat began tracking tech job statistics in January of last year.
No other state generated more than 10 percent of the new IT jobs at major job boards in June, NimbleCat said.
Although NimbleCat’s monthly report, due out Thursday, shows new technology jobs gravitating to California, it’s not clear how good the news is for tech workers there. The report does not provide statistics on the absolute numbers of new jobs. There have been indications that better times for Silicon Valley tech companies and a revived start-up scene aren’t necessarily translating into a big wave of hiring.
The overall job market for tech professionals has been a mixed bag for some time. From the beginning of the year to June 1, job postings on tech-focused Dice.com rose 26 percent to 69,957, with strong gains in eastern cities. And a study released earlier this year indicated that the U.S. tech industry may have turned a corner last year when it comes to employment woes.
Technology News: Best of ECT News: Web Hosting 101: Making the Right Choice
Web Hosting 101: Making the Right Choice
By Jennifer LeClaire
TechNewsWorld
07/04/05 5:00 AM PTWhether you desire a simple brochure-style site with three e-mail accounts and 50 megs of storage or a fully functional, high-end e-commerce platform, keep in mind that reputable Web hosting providers will take the time to educate customers as to what they need and what they don’t need.