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Thomas Nybergh writes “Due to an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, breaking the not very effective CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs is now a criminal act in Finland (robo translated). The verdict is contrary to what a district court thought of the same case last year when two local electronic rights activists were declared not guilty after having framed themselves by spreading information on how to break CSS . Back then it was to the activists’ benefit has CSS been badly broken and inneffective ever since DeCSS came out.”
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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Adobe AIR apps are the new hotness. We’re seeing more and more pop up every single day. It’s looks like the AIR platform is turning into the Facebook Platform on steroids.
Why? Because it’s cross platform, and what a brilliant move by Adobe on that. You can install an AIR app on Mac or Personal computer in a blink. Not only that, but it runs lightweight as all heck.
The latest app that has everyone talking is a desktop compliment to the increasingly popular FriendFeed. Introducing Feedalizr.
With FriendFeed’s pretty neat Remote Key system, you can allow apps to access your FriendFeed stream. So getting Feedalizr going once you have Adobe AIR installed is a snap.
Some of the things that Feedalizr lets you do from your desktop:
- Filter updates by service, such as Flickr, Pownce, and Twitter
- Filter updates by friend, so if you just want to see Robert Scoble’s mega-galacta-stream you can
- Post videos - which is rather seamless, and records right from your cam in the app
- Drag and drop photos and upload right to Flickr
- Get instant updates in that nice slick slidey fashion on the bottom right hand side of your desktop
FriendFeed has a public API and has no official apps, but this appears to be as close as you could possibly get to one. It’s very slick, and gets the job done.
What’s your favorite Adobe AIR app? Drop a link in the comments!
[via the inquisitr]
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OMGZombies writes “Speaking on a conference held yesterday in New York, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell stated that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM will ‘absolutely stop piracy of gameplay’. The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new personal motherboards and is stated to be ‘uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords’ though it won’t stop motion picture or music piracy, since ‘if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it.’”
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Filed under: Fun, World wide web, Utilities, Web services, web 2.0
So you surf the internet from work for your own personal entertainment, right? Who doesn’t? We sure do. Err, nevermind.
Anyways, sometimes you just need to get those up to date scores from ESPN, or see the latest news on Fark, and we don’t blame you. You can’t work 8 hours straight…nobody can.
Boy do we’ve something for you. It’s called workFRIENDLY, and it’s Wordlicious.
With workFRIENDLY you can surf any website within an interface that looks EXACTLY like Microsoft Word. It strips out formatting and such but it’s perfect to check up on that favorite blog of yours that might upset your bosses (coughDownloadSquadcough).
(HINT: It even has a “Boss” key which lets you switch over to random text that covers up your activities even more!)
Go check it out and surf away with less fears of corporate consequences and repercussion!
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StealthyRoid writes “I’m an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual. At the same time, I find the current trend of increasing penalties for minor violations, criminalizing civil IP matters, anti-consumer technologies like DRM, and abuse of the legal system by the *AA’s of the world really disturbing. You’d think that by now, there’d be a reasonable solution to the problem of protecting intellectual property while at the same time maintaining the rights of consumers and protecting individuals from absurd litigation, but I’ve yet to find one. So, I pose these questions to the Slashdot community: 1 — Do you acknowledge the legitimacy of intellectual property to start with? That’s, do you believe that intellectual property is a valid construct equivalent to physical property, or do you think it’s illusory? If not, why? 2 — If so, how would you go about protecting the rights of intellectual property holders in a way that doesn’t require unfair usage limitations or resort to predatory abuse of the tort system?”
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Someone over at IBM Developerworks who likes anonymity writes “Depending on what you want to do, there is probably a commercial or free distro built on the Eclipse platform waiting for you. From C/C++, Ruby, PHP, Groovy, Java, and Web development, you can use an IDE built on Eclipse to help you. The large question is: Which Eclipse distribution is right for you?”
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