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April 26, 2006

ZeroLogik - 016 - 04.26.2006

In the News
  • V for Vendetta - the movie
  • The RIAA sues a family that does not own a computer. Despite finding this out they still claim the family shared files | Read More
  • The RIAA sues a dead person for illegal file-sharing | Read More
  • Congress ready to broaden digital copyright bill and make DMCA so broad that you could be sent to prison for downloading music | Read More | Read More
  • New congressional bill intends to take ownership of the internet away from non-profit committee run organizations and turn the control over to private organizations like AT&T and Verizon | Read More
  • NFL defensive back Ricky Manning Jr. was arrested on suspicion of assault Sunday after a fight at a restaurant near the UCLA campus. | Read More
  • Apple retail stores started blocking MySpace.com because customers would spend hours hogging demo units to talk to friends | Read More
From Us to You I’m Here to Learn
  • Ten tips for you if you're working as a freelancer | Read More
  • Studiometry 3 | Read More
Tricks of the Week
  • How to decide the best image format to import into your Flash document
Listener Stuff and Announcements
  • Shazam service does the same thing as the Cingular service in detecting what song is playing | View Site
  • Ben asks - What's the difference between DVD+R and DVD-R? | Technical Comparison
  • Book reviews and giveaways coming soon.

Posted by ZeroLogik at 12:23 PM |

April 22, 2006

ZeroLogik - 015 - 04.22.2006

In the News
  • Eyal Zinder joins us on the show as a guest this week.
  • Burst.com is suing Apple claiming they hold a patent for caching and playing music asynchronously | Read More
  • Bush administration wants to put warning labels on adult sites | Read More
  • Posting on MySpace prevents Columbine-like shooting spree | Read More
  • New law requires some businesses to secure their WiFi networks | Read More
  • Apple underclocking MacBook Pro graphics cards to extend battery life | Read More
  • Steve Jobs is expected to win in his negotiations to keep $0.99 tracks on the music store | Read More
From Us to You
  • Witch, an app that makes switching between applications easier than using CMD+TAB | Web Site
  • TechCrunch reviews online music stores and compares them for you | Read More
  • HD-DVD, DVD, and the future of portable media (Flash media) that relies on moving parts (discussion only, no link)
  • Most idiotic complaint about Macs vs PCs ever | Read More
I’m Here to Learn Tricks of the Week
  • Put Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"; on the first frame of the main timeline and then set your Flash movie's dimensions to 100% x 100% and you'll have your Flash movie fill the entire browser window without scaling your artwork.
Listener Stuff and Announcements

Posted by ZeroLogik at 6:01 PM |

April 11, 2006

ZeroLogik - 014 - 04.11.2006

In the News
  • ZeroLogik outtages over the past week or so.
  • Apple is starting to release updated MacBooks to address some of the issues users have reported | Read Story
  • The Motorola RAZR sucks. Shane has had his replaced twice and now Cingular and T-Mobile are replacing them for free if you get tons of dropped calls
  • Guy takes 40,000 hits of ecstasy in his life-time | Read Story
  • Apple releases BootCamp to allow you to effortlessly dual-boot Windows and OSX on your Intel Mac | Read More | Photos
  • Man stabbed for his PowerBook in SF WiFi cafe | Read More
  • iAlertU uses the motion detectors for MacBook to act as an alarm for your laptop | Read More
From Us to You
  • Use EasyWMA on Mac to convert your Windows Media files to something useful | Read More
  • Create a favicon.ico file from any image you upload using this site | Web Site
  • Amazing art work done completely in Photoshop and Illustrator | Web Site
  • An Automator script for OS 10.4 to run all maintenance scripts | Read More
  • Identify a song you're listening to using Cingular | Read More
  • Funniest moment ever on ZeroLogik
I’m Here to Learn
  • How to handle active content in IE when the changes come about | The Tutorial
Tricks of the Week
  • A quick Flash trick to call Javascript from within Flash using "javascript:" in the getURL command.
Listener Stuff and Announcements
  • What do you guys think of console emulators? Is it stealing?
  • I'd like to know more about what Scott does for a living.
  • Scott doesn't know what Lemmings are | A Wiki
  • What are the top 3 distros of Linux? | Distro Watch
  • Laura says she uses Amphetadesk as a Newsreader. We recommend Newsfire or NewsMac Pro if you're on a Mac.

Posted by ZeroLogik at 11:39 PM |

April 1, 2006

ZeroLogik - 013 - 04.01.2006

In the News
  • Desperate Housewives inspires a video game based on the hit show | Read Story
  • New car developed to run on compressed Air | Read Story
  • Dealing with ActiveX controls in IE7 due to the Eolas patent issue with Microsoft | Read Story
  • Euclid Achieves 460% Improvement Over MPEG-4 With No Loss Of Visual Quality, Paving The Way For Video Conferencing On Mobile Phones - For streaming commentator video, Euclid can reduce a 23 MB video file to a 1,519 byte file | Read Story
  • CEO of AMC theatres compares movie prices with that of baseball games or going to the symphony | Read Story
  • allOfMP3 Launches their beta software allTunes | Read Story
  • AT&T says 15Mbps internet is irrelevant and their 1.5Mbps lines are just as capable | Read Story
From Us to You
  • AlertBear treats news feeds like a river of news instead of like email as most news readers do (Windows only) | Web Site
  • A list of Iranian blogs written from inside and outside the country (all in English) | Web Site
I’m Here to Learn
  • RSS Newsfeeds
  • What are they?
  • Why to use them
  • How to setup a way to get them all the way you want
  • Software or Websites to aggregate your personal news

Posted by ZeroLogik at 8:50 PM |