April 17, 2009 7:15 PM PDT
Buzz Out Loud 955: Wing and a prayer
Today's show may be held together by Duct tape and super glue, but Jeff Bakalar was kind enough to help us cover the day's news. Time Warner cancels its bandwidth cap plan, the Pirate Bay founders are thrown in the slammer, and YouTube is said to launch a pay-per-view model.
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EPISODE 955 |
Time Warner to shelf plan for pay-as-you-go broadband
Use of proxy server would increase jail time
YouTube to launch pay-per-view model
Pirate Bay founders get jail time
Florida to build the first solar-powered city
GM proposes standard electric vehicle plug
E-MAILHey Buzz Crew,
Just writing in with a "well actually"... (my first actually) In #954 you were talking about the guy whose Amazon account was suspended, and how he couldn't get new books onto it, even the "free" ones. Well, actually, you CAN still load content onto a Kindle via USB. Plug it in and it will mount as a hard drive. You can copy text files (.TXT) directly to the "documents" folder without any conversion necessary, and you can use the free MobiPocket Converter (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/ProductDetailsCreator.asp , Windows only but it works on the Mac with virtualization software) to convert books from PDF, HTML, or MS Word to the MobiPocket format which the Kindle reads. Or - even better - the "Savory" kindle hack (http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/?p=246 ) will install a daemon that automatically converts PDFs or "ePub" format books dropped into the "documents" folder into Kindle format eBooks... on the actual Kindle itself (no PC/Mac conversion software required).
LOVE THE SHOW,
Donald the (no longer out of work, yay!) software engineer
Just a note, Time Warner announced that they will be canceling their planned "experiment" with caps in all markets. Yea! This has gotten a lot of local coverage in Rochester, and there is an excellent local website that has covered all developments in detail. They are having some server issues with all the traffic, but if you can get on, there is good information there.
www.stopthecap.com
Love the show.
Chris the LabVIEW guy.
Tom Merritt appears on
CNET TV, specializing in help and how-to and the ever popular Top 5
lists. He also co-hosts CNET's The Real Deal podcast. 
Jason Howell can
often be found producing Buzz Out Loud from the audio studios at CNET,
updating XML feeds from the comfort of his cubicle, and saying "uh-oh"
from time to time. 
However I hope Tom Merritt is back next week.
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by raygun01
April 18, 2009 11:29 AM PDT
- Aww shucks! Thanks! When I have less to do on the tech front during the show, I feel a bit more comfy with talking. I'll trying to do that a bit more. Thanks for noticing!
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by AdamBindslev
April 19, 2009 12:21 PM PDT
- I second that - really been a good BOL-week
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