Share MP3s With Your Facebook Friends Using DoubleTwist
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The new desktop application DoubleTwist lets users share audio, video and photos between their computers. It can also strip the digital rights management restrictions from songs purchased from iTunes by rerecording them into the MP3 format, so you can share those too. (Also, by creating DRM-free MP3s from your iTunes music, DoubleTwist frees those files to be played on any digital audio player -- not just an iPod or iPhone.)
DoubleTwist is the work of Monique Farantzos and DVD Jon (whose real name is Jon Lech Johansen), the programmer who made his name cracking the CSS encryption that's part of the DVD standard.
Their company also launched a Facebook app called Twist Me that lets you and your friends share audio, video, and pictures with each other. The Facebook app works in sync the DoubleTwist desktop application. A drop box within the app lets you send photos, videos, and music out to your friends and receive stuff from them.
Here's how to get set up with DoubleTwist and Twist Me to start sharing media between with your Facebook friends.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Toshiba Camileo Pro HD camcorder
The new Camileo Pro HD camcorder from Toshiba is at the top end of the company’s new range for 2008. Retailing at around an impressive £150, it features a 5-megapixel CMOS sensor that can shoot high-definition footage at a progressive resolution of 1280 x 720.
Not bad, but that’s not all. The Camileo Pro also allows you to play back video footage straight to your HD-ready TV via HDMI and boasts 128MB of storage, a 3x optical and 4x digital zoom, voice recording, an MP3 player, a PC motion detector and even a webcam.
Unfortunately, it won’t help you with your laundry or double up as a mini vacuum cleaner. As far as TechRadar is aware, these are not currently additional features being considered by Toshiba’s research and development gurus.
Slim, smart and cheap as chips
Toshiba’s Graeme Simons - who has the enviably long job title of business unit manager, PC Options, Peripherals and Services, Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd - said of the new camcorder:
“The Camileo Pro HD is a triumph for Toshiba’s innovative approach to product design. It’s incredibly slim; it has a smart, attractive design and offers the same picture qualities as cameras over twice its size and several times its price. It’s quite simply an excellent offering for consumers who want to shoot HD on the go.”
Toshiba's latest do-it-all, competitively-priced camcorder will be available in April.
By Tech staff
Not bad, but that’s not all. The Camileo Pro also allows you to play back video footage straight to your HD-ready TV via HDMI and boasts 128MB of storage, a 3x optical and 4x digital zoom, voice recording, an MP3 player, a PC motion detector and even a webcam.
Unfortunately, it won’t help you with your laundry or double up as a mini vacuum cleaner. As far as TechRadar is aware, these are not currently additional features being considered by Toshiba’s research and development gurus.
Slim, smart and cheap as chips
Toshiba’s Graeme Simons - who has the enviably long job title of business unit manager, PC Options, Peripherals and Services, Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd - said of the new camcorder:
“The Camileo Pro HD is a triumph for Toshiba’s innovative approach to product design. It’s incredibly slim; it has a smart, attractive design and offers the same picture qualities as cameras over twice its size and several times its price. It’s quite simply an excellent offering for consumers who want to shoot HD on the go.”
Toshiba's latest do-it-all, competitively-priced camcorder will be available in April.
By Tech staff
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Compatibility and Internet Explorer 8
Compatibility and IE8
In Dean’s recent Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 but also makes the development of the next billion pages (in an interoperable way) much easier. Continuing Dean’s theme, I’d like to talk about some steps we are taking in IE8 to achieve these goals.
I’ve been on the IE team for over a decade, and I’ve seen us apply the “Don’t Break the Web” rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the DOCTYPE switch to enable different “modes” of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in “standards mode” (my team ran a report on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) – few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them. We used the DOCTYPE switch in IE6 to change the box model to comply with the standards and enable developers to opt-in to the new behavior. We’d already seen so much content written to IE5.x’s non-standard interpretation of the CSS2 spec that we couldn’t change it without causing a slew of problems.
In Dean’s recent Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 but also makes the development of the next billion pages (in an interoperable way) much easier. Continuing Dean’s theme, I’d like to talk about some steps we are taking in IE8 to achieve these goals.
I’ve been on the IE team for over a decade, and I’ve seen us apply the “Don’t Break the Web” rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the DOCTYPE switch to enable different “modes” of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in “standards mode” (my team ran a report on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) – few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them. We used the DOCTYPE switch in IE6 to change the box model to comply with the standards and enable developers to opt-in to the new behavior. We’d already seen so much content written to IE5.x’s non-standard interpretation of the CSS2 spec that we couldn’t change it without causing a slew of problems.
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