A quick follow-up to the challenge MySpace is serving up to Apple with their music service, as I wrote about previously (reference: http://www.thereformed.org/2008/04/07/myspace-gambles-big-on-lost-cause/). As I stated before, I don’t believe MySpace will be able to capture a significant market share in an industry which is experiencing innovations per quarter from the company who established and arguably perfected the vary model industry leaders are salivating to get bigger a piece of and the major economic downturn (an obvious recession.. if it looks like a duck…) which is hitting consumers in the pocketbook. What this brief article addresses is the sheer, implausible numbers game that a small fish such as MySpace is facing in a private pond thats home to a big hungry shark. Continue reading ‘Apple Wins by the Numbers’
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MySpace has matured the social networking portal more than any other provider, but how will they fair in the media market - specifically their venture in MySpace music? They’re going after the hallowed ground of Apple’s iTunes and I suspect that we might not necessarily see a failure (because MySpace’s user-base is so very large it can take the hit), but we can forsee that no notable, sustainable gains will be made - Apple’s loyalists will benefit from it extremely however. Why? Continue reading ‘MySpace Gambles Big on Lost Cause’
<<< DISCLAIMER >>> Please note that I have not written this article to enable people to steal music from MySpace artists - This is a ‘proof of concept‘ article. Please, do not steal music! If you are going to steal it then please do so knowing you are committing a crime and myself and theReformed have nothing to do with it.
Continue reading ‘Snatching Protected MySpace Music Using Safari’
Here we are at the fifth, and most probably final, installment in this series! This article in this series which succeeds the first, “HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 1”, the second “HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 2“, the third "HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 3" and the fourth “HOWTO: Mac OSX + Dell Latitude C840 - Part 4“. We're going to tackle something fun today, your on-board 32-bit 128Mb nVidia GeForce 440 GO graphics card. An archaic relic with more variations than a chameleon can turn colors? Yes. Unfortunately, from word of DiegoMax, the probability of QE/CI being supported on these laptops is pretty remote. Alas, we need to at least get a larger resolution so let's get at it!
There are grave inconsistencies in the implementation of secure communications that have left the consumer at great odds with a new generation of talented, albeit immature, data thiefs. Catching a segment of traffic out of the air or through a piggy-back of a stream of packets brings concern to this scene veteran's mind.
This post is something I have been meaning to write about for ages. We all use wireless network connections all the time, At work, home - on the move. For most of us pro's wireless networking has become the norm, so much so that if you get to an airport or train-station that doesn't offer some kind of wireless access you feel like you're sitting in a backwards ultra low tech bumpkinesque farm. Continue reading ‘Cracking WEP. Watch me hack you.’
POLL: 2 cents on PDAs?
What I would like to pull off with this post is to get some opinions for the best PDAs on the market right now. Not just the uber powerful with linux under the hood but also the super user friendly 'enduser' PDAs. Continue reading ‘POLL: 2 cents on PDAs?’
