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- Ethan Poole
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- Thu 31 May 2007 at 8:40
Finland, which I already considered a cool country, just became an even cooler country. News came out earlier this week that a Finnish court ruled that DVD DRM was ineffective. Under Finnish law, only DRM that is "effective" is protected by law. This court ruling technically allows Finnish residents legally to break DVD DRM because it is not effective.
As for the rest of us, it is still illegal.…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Wed 30 May 2007 at 16:41
Today, the CBS Corporation (a US company) purchased Last.fm (a British Web 2.0 company) for $280 million. For those who do not know, Last.fm is a music community that tracks what music you play and organises it into pretty graphs and charts. Then it suggests new music to you, introduces you to people with similar musical taste, and much more.
Last.fm is certainly my favourite Web 2.0 website. At first I was terrified of the idea of CBS having control of it, but after reading the blog entry at Last.fm, I was relieved to read that the curre…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Tue 29 May 2007 at 14:03
In a recent thread on SitePoint, the question of whether Windows or Linux was a better platform for web design came up. I thought this question would be interesting to address here.
First, I do believe that Macs are better for web design, simply because the virtualisation technology (Parallels) available on OSX is much better than on Windows or on Linux. The ability to run Windows and Linux right within OSX makes it extremely easy to browser test in the browsers not available on OSX.
However, since the question did not include Macs, I d…
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- Ethan Poole
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- Sat 19 May 2007 at 17:06
I just came across Vecteezy, a website with tons of free vector graphics. The really nice thing is that the vectors are actually very well done and of good quality. If you are designing a website or an interface you may want to take a quick look at what they have to offer.…
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