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Items of Note: This episode is being recorded in the latest beta of Ubercaster. If you have any comments or feedback, please let me know.
Pertaining to the last episode, please accept my apologies if you were offended by the use of language. Please e-mail me if you have any concerns.
Feedback:
Tom writes: I am interested in the restoration application from episode 101, however when I visited the site it was all in Japanese. I have recently downloaded and used an application called Test Disk to recover files. Its free and in DOS format. Although I haven’t had time to test it thoroughly, I have used it in a test case to recover 53 pictures which have been deleted from a fat16 formatted SD card. It was successful at recovering all of them.
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Tech news:
Teenagers don’t think copying CDs is a crime. A new poll by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News found that among teens ages 12 to 17, 69 percent said they believed it was legal to copy a CD from a friend who purchased the original. By contrast, only 21 percent said it was legal to copy a CD if the friend got the content for free. Similarly, 58 percent thought it was legal to copy a friend’s purchased DVD or videotape, but only 19 percent thought copying was legal if the movie wasn’t purchased. The survey results angered the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. Both contend such sharing — they call it “schoolyard piracy” — is illegal and now a greater threat than peer-to-peer downloading.
Roomba may be venturing outside. According to a Forbes profile of iRobot, the company said they are working on a robot lawn mower. No other details were announced but along with this domestic product, they are also developing a bomb sniffing robot to help law enforcement.
Online Music Holdouts Give in to ITunes. Bob Seger and Metallica finally have signed up for the iTunes music store, who were big holdouts to putting their music online. Now, only a few remaining big-name musical acts refuse to make their songs available on Apple’s popular store. Analysts say the online holdouts including the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Garth Brooks, Radiohead and Kid Rock probably can’t avoid iTunes forever as fans flock to the Internet to buy music. Artists argue online distribution leaves them with too small a profit and they say iTunes wrecks the artistic integrity of an album by allowing songs to be purchased by the track. Some bands, such as AC/DC have released albums on other, more flexible sites, but not iTunes. Since record companies have realized the popularity of iTunes and other sites, many reworked contracts to give artists less money per download. Record companies once offered artists about 30 cents for each song sold, now musicians are earning less than a dime.
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Test a geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast.
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How To: Have the time in your titlebars
If you’re looking to relocate the clock on your computer, there is a great application that allows you to have the current time in the titlebars of your programs called TitleBarClock.
TitleBarClock adds the date, time, and unused RAM to the titlebar of your active Windows application. The neat part about the TitleBarClock is that it takes advantage of the generally wasted space between the title and the minimize/maximize/close buttons on your Windows titlebar.
Download TitleBarClock at http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?download=1&ID=1563
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Ask A Geek: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast.
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Hack: Show hidden files in Finder
By default, Mac OS X’s Finder keeps system files – which generally start with a dot, like .bash_profile – out of your sight. But that makes editing one of these files extremely difficult. To change these settings you can set Finder to show all hidden files. Turning on hidden folders will allow you to browse your iPod so you can copy music files off of it.
In the Terminal type:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
To set it back, execute those same commands but just switch TRUE to FALSE.
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The geek’s view: This segment will return on a future episode of The Geekcast.
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