Archive for: December 10, 2007

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While it's not likely to move past the novelty phase any time soon in the US, keitai shousetsu has become a genuine phenomenon amongst readers in Japan. The books, which are pulpy serials composed and distributed entirely on cellphones, occupied five of the top ten bestseller slots for the first half of 2007.

The subject matter for many of these books--as is the case with a good chunk of Japanese pop-culture--isn't especially safe for work (right Fark?). Still, these keitai shousetsu bestsellers have managed to move an average of 400,000 copies a piece.

According to Gizmodo, "scholars attribute the shallowness of the literature to a dearth of cell-phone accessible kanji characters and small screens which necessitate 'short, simple sentences with basic words.'"

Besides, complex phenomenon like character development require some seriously tough thumbs.

Your computer's acting weird, so you give it a three-finger salute and launch Task Manager. Now what? That list of programs on the Processes tab is huge and impenetrable. Maybe znort.exe is the problem, or bletch.exe. Who can tell? You can, by searching Uniblue's updated Process Library. It's simple to use and lists many thousands of common processes, identifying them by manufacturer, purpose, and security risk level.

Maybe you can't tell for yourself what looks suspicious? No problem! Uniblue also offers a free ProcessScanner that will compose a report on all the processes running on your system. If you prefer to stick with good old Task Manager, their ProcessQuickLink utility adds an icon to each process reported in Task Manager. Clicking the icon brings up the corresponding ProcessLibrary page. Naturally, both utilities take full advantage of the newly-enlarged library of processes.

Scattered among the library and the various utilities you'll find plenty of links to launch the SpyEraser spyware scanner. Alas, when I reviewed it earlier this year it proved to be a dud. But most of the time a visit to the Process Library will simply serve to reassure you that a suspicious-looking process is actually benign.

For years there's been one dominant phraseology employed when attempting to save office workers from the sad fate of clicking on images of deviant sexual behavior or video with loudly uttered curse words on a blog in the context of a workplace setting.

Not Safe for Work (NSFW) headers have surely saved all of our *ahem* hides from time to time. The phrase and its accompanying acronym have become a fairly ubiquitous aspect of the blogosphere. In fact, it seems a bit absurd to imagine that someone would attempt to lay claim to it, at this late date.

What's that Fark? Your own Jeopardy category wasn't enough? You want Not Safe for Work all to yourself?

While the phrase has arguably fallen into the land of genericized trademarks before it was ever actually trademarked, copyright blog, Trademork, has discovered that Fark has filed to protect their claim to the NSFW.

If Fark does win the rights to NSFW, I opt that we employ my initial suggestion, Don't Look at this Site, You Damn Pervert (DLATSYDP). You can have that one for free.

Although many of us still don't know who he is, Presidential candidate Ron Paul is yet again the Internet's most popular candidate. According to MediaPost, Ron Paul's Web site drew in nearly half a million visitors in November. Maybe we should start taking some lessons from him!

Visitors to Barack Obama's site surged past Hillary Clinton's, with 318,179 monthly visitors to the New York senator's 289,615.

But it was Republican Mike Huckabee who received the largest online gains of any candidate--nearly doubling site traffic to 270,349, not to mention the average time a person spent on his site was 17 minutes per visit. A fun Huckabee fact: He plays the bass guitar in his rock-n-roll band, Capitol Offense, (pictured here) which has opened for artists such as Willie Nelson and the Charlie Daniels Band.

Music social networking site, Imeem, continues their push to stream every song every recorded, by striking a deal with Universal Music Group. The agreement follows in the wake of similar deals with fellow majors, Sony, Warner, and EMI, making Imeem the first social networking to have struck free streaming deals with all four major labels.

The deal with Universal, which goes into effect today, gives Imeem's 19 million-odd members ad-based streaming access to the label's entire digital catalog of music and videos, including artists like Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, and The Killers.

"Universal Music Group is committed to exploring new ways for consumers to discover and enjoy our artists' music online," said Doug Morris, the CEO of Universal, who has thus far been perhaps the most hesitant amongst the major labels to adapt to new technologies. "Imeem has developed an innovative way to make our artists' music a central part of the social networking experience. More importantly, they've done so the right way -- by working with UMG to provide an exciting musical experience for consumers, while ensuring that our artists are fairly compensated for the use of their works."

The UMG subsidiaries involved in the deal include Decca Label Group, Deutsche Gramophone, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Philips, Polydor Records, Universal Music Latino, Universal Motown Records Group, Universal South Records, Verve Music Group, and various others.

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Filed under: LaptopsEver noticed that “Warranty Void whether Removed” label by the access door to the one SODIMM slot in your Eee PC? Apparently, Asus wants you to just disregard those four little words. In a guarantee update posted to the firm’s website, it plainly states that “merely breaking or r…

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In the slow crawl of news main up to our annual CES blowout, we bring you that, the Nokia Eco Sensor concept device. The device consists of two parts: a wearable mobile phone (duh, it’s Nokia) with giant display and a isolated sensing unit which keeps tabs on y…

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Good news! Turns out your right ear wasn’t insane after all. Apparently, Activision has simultaneously fessed up to the lack of stereo on “some” Guitar Hero III discs for the Wii and offered to prepare amends. Company spokeswoman Rhy-Ming Poon stated that the firm “recently becam…

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The space-saving new Asus 2L desktop PC – the Nova P22 integrates an Intel’s Desktop Core 2 Duo CPU, WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.0 technology for robust multitasking and communications; and it does so operating at a mere 25db (below human hearing) for uninterrupted multimedia enjoyme…

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