Bloggin' Al

Another way cool bloggin’ tool (for WordPress, Blogger, and LiveJournal).  For those of you using Firefox as your web browser this may be for you.  Deepest Sender is an extension that with a click of a button will open a window for you to post to your blog.  Though I have not tested everything, there are buttons for assorted justification, lists, links, images, indents, etc.

To start this tool once installed, you can find it in the Tools menu.  The initial click will ask for log in information and the hardest part is the website.  For WordPress this would be:

http://www.yoursite.com/wordpressdirectory/xmlrpc.php

or if wordpress is on the root of your site it would be something like:

http://www.yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php

Add username and password, select a few preferences and there you are. Or so it seems.

You can also add an icon in the Firefox tool bar by right clicking the tool bar and Customize… Then find the Deepest Sender icon and drag and drop on to the tool bar where you want it.

Have fun.

Links:
http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/
http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/help.html

Way cool if this works. Trying out a Mac Dashboard tool called WordPressDash were I can write a post and publish it right from the DashBoard.

Looks like it illegal that I make a personal copy of my personal, purchased DVDs for my personal use under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). However, it is ok for the MPAA to make copies even if they promised in writing not to make copies of that specific documentary?

Quoted from the MPAA web site:

“Manufacturing, selling, distributing or making copies of motion pictures without the consent of the copyright owners is illegal,” the MPAA’s website says. “Movie pirates are thieves, plain and simple…. ALL forms of piracy are illegal and carry serious legal consequences.”

I really think that recording industry has gone way too far with trying to limit the “Fair Use” of copyright material and I hope that this event will start unraveling the trend.

More information here at the LA Times.

Another point to make on this article is that the MPAA believes it is okay for the recording industry to use internet service providers to snoop people’s personal download information and gather “evidence” while a guy is not allowed to drive around in a car and see what their employees are doing in public?

Well, it is official, after Jobs claimed at least a 2-3 times speed increase, it looks like Macworld says the Intel much closer to maybe 25% increase. And this is mainly for software that was developed for the Intel processor in mind(AKA “Universal” software).

If the software was not developed as “Universal” software for both the PowerPC chip and the Intel chip a tool called “Rosetta” needs to interpret the software for the Intel system. The results do not look good. Of the software tested only one ran on the Intel at near 50% of speed of the G5. The others were even slower.

Also, if you need to run Classic programs, they will not run on the Intel at all.

A good review is here (from a Mac proponent).

Finally, why Intel? Reading assorted articles, IBM, Texas Instruments, and AMD all have better products. Could Apple be looking at selling software only in the near future? Or even selling their computer business in favor of consumer electronics and positioning themselves to make the transaction more “valuble”? I surely hope not. But then again, this might create a push to look even closer at Linux as a desktop OS.