Archive for October 2007
Test ink blog post from the P1i
Test ink blog post from the P1i
Doh. Picture didn’t get rotated. Should’ve done that on the phone first.
I’m leaving it unrotated to remind me of my mistake. 
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Hi, Kids! Hopefully you’ll be seeing this, a test ink blog post (of sorts) taken & uploaded by my new toy, a Sony Ericsson P1i. More later.
Pic of ink blog post written in FLY Fusion notebook
Pic of ink blog post written in FLY Fusion notebook
Took this picture so those interested could see how it compares to the output of the pen (see prev picture in my photostream).
FLY Fusion Pentop Computer
Just last Friday I bought a FLY Fusion pen from Target. I was interested in seeing how well of a Tablet PC “replacement” it would be for ink blogging. My first couple writing tests were not really what I expected, unfortunately. The results are as jagged as my ink blogs from my Fujitsu P1610. It seems that the sampling rate is not as high as I liked. I’ll be doing some more writing samples to test out the device some more. Here is an ink blog post I wrote:
New toy: Fly Fusion pen top computer
Today I decided to pick up a little gadget called the Fly Fusion, by LeapFrog. It’s aimed at younger kids, from elementary to high school (maybe HS is too old…). But I wanted to see how well it would work for digitizing handwritten notes, like for ink blogging.
So far, I’m impressed by the functionality in this little guy. I won’t go into too much detail now, but suffice it to say, it’s an interesting device. Entertaining. It has a speaker that provides aural cues when you’re doing activities. You can even play mp3s with it, or tap out some songs with the keyboard printed inside the back cover of the Fly Fusion notebooks, or you can draw your own instruments on a sheet of notebook paper!
One irritation so far: when my handwritten notes are saved as a jpg, it looks jagged! I had hoped that I’d be able to achieve better-looking ink blogs using the Fly Fusion. Oh well, I still like it. More later, Kids.
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Google <3 Jaiku
Yay, great news for my favorite social network — Jaiku is joining Google. I am very excited to see how Jaiku grows with Google’s support. Of course, I have a bit of apprehension that being part of the Google “empire” might adversely affect Jaiku, but I am happy with a lot of other Google services right now, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
At any rate, big congratulations to the Jaiku staff is in order! I look forward to seeing fun stuff that I’m sure is in store for us Jaiku fans.
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RIAA wins first-ever file-sharing case to go to trial, awarded $222,000
GRRRRR! The EFF should take this woman’s case and try to win the appeal… Absolutely ridiculous!
P.S. Just testing e-mailing posts directly from Google Reader to Blogmailr as a way to share items from Google Reader with a little bit of editorial comment added. Please excuse if the post looks messed up.
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Filed under: Portable Audio
The first RIAA file-sharing case to go to trial just wrapped, and sadly, the outcome isn’t a positive one. Regardless of the incredibly asinine and consumer-hostile comments made by Sony BMG’s head of litigation the other day, the jury found Jammie Thomas, a single mother from Minnesota, liable for willful copyright infringement and awarded the RIAA plaintiffs $222,000 — that’s $9,250 for each of the 24 songs she was alleged to have made available on Kazaa, for those of you keeping track at home, and probably something like, oh, say, $222,000 more than she should have had to pay, since the RIAA plaintiffs weren’t required to show that Thomas had a file-sharing program installed on her machine or that she was even the person using the Kazaa account in question. Of course, this is just one case and there’s always the possibility of appeal, but anything that emboldens the RIAA’s litigation team is never good for the general public.
Disclaimer: Although this post was written by an attorney, it is not meant as legal advice or analysis and should not be taken as such.
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