September 2007

Cleaning up a list of things...

Checkout MusicBridge, it looks pretty good for keeping an iPod and Windows Media content lists in sync. I'd offer a link, but the one I found was from a Google search listing download.com I'm afraid if I listing something it would change.

Checkout eRightSoft.com: SUPER © (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, ffmpeg2theora and the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. Player and Encoder of various types of multimedia files.

PageDeFrag: from Microsoft, this link should be good.

More diverse audio content, now, horror stories to GO, or if you're into science fiction ...

If you're into home automation, PVR's , more home automation , home automation from HomeSeer

Multi-factor Authentication

Multi-factor authentication was first discussed extensively on Security Now podcast, Episode 90. In Episode 101, during the reader-mail section, the Paypal Security key was mentioned, and was thoroughly discussed with Michael Vergara, PayPal's Director of Account Protections, in Episode 103.

I've gotten a Paypal security key, and I'm studying the specification as outlined in the OpenID Book by Rafeeq Ur Rehman.

I think it's an excellent idea and encourage all who read to follow-up and implement personally. The proliferation of OpenID could really help reduce the confusion of multiple passwords and login IDs that may of us have, AND, reduce the number of weak passwords we use.

Tues - 4 Sep 2007

It's been a month. I've been working, but not blogging.

In regards to the "webified life" research, a new site came to my attention which looks interesting.

www.iscrybe.com opened up for a day or so for a few new testers. I'm involved in a little beta testing and like most of what I've seen so far.

Once upon a time, when handwriting recognition was young, the challenge was to get the computer to understand handwriting. Once we figured out how to write so the computer understood US, thing went much better. What I'm trying to say is "once I change HOW I put my work on the web, maybe I'll find the solution.