Mid-May Miscellaneous Updates
Some smaller news items--all of which concern recent subjects of my column and blog--that didn't earn their way into a separate blog post over the last few weeks:
* Cable-modem provider Comcast got in a lot of hot water last year when people discovered that it sometimes blocks the popular BitTorrent file-sharing program. Now a new study reveals that Cox, which provides cable-modem service through most of Fairfax County, has been engaging in the same kind of traffic screening.
* Remember how I complained about the difficulty involved in sharing pictures from a computer to a digital picture frame? One of the oldest digital-frame vendors, Ceiva, just shipped a plug-in for Apple's iPhoto software that lets you send over pictures from a Mac to a Ceiva frame over your home network. (I can't tell you if this is at all easy to use, since the loaner frame went back to Ceiva PR weeks ago.)
* Adobe's Web-based Photoshop Express program, the subject of my review in early April, now connects to Yahoo's popular Flickrphoto-album site, courtesy of an update delivered early this month.
* eBay's controversial feedback changes--which have generated about a tenth of all the comments on this blog--go into effect next week.
* Speaking of comments, this humble blog picked up its 8,000th one sometime last week. (If you count comment spam that gets junked, it's probably had more like 30,000 by now.) Thanks!
By Rob Pegoraro |
May 16, 2008; 3:09 PM ET
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Posted by: Just Me | May 19, 2008 11:02 AM
Hey RP,
I just installed and tried out the Ceiva plug-in, and I must say it is brilliant.. from my end. I can't tell right now if the photos have been received on my Dad's Ceiva frame a half a world away, but the plug-in sure has saved me a step.
Posted by: Mateo | May 19, 2008 12:07 PM
Today's paper had an approving article about Sony and the Cable companies cooperating to eliminate the need for a set top box. Perhaps I am too suspicious but Sony's normal behaviour leads me to wonder whether it is ever going to do anything for the consumer without ulterior motives. I shall be waiting to see if the next step is to make it impossible to record programs or to use set top boxes, including PVRs, that are not on an approved list, that will just happen to include only those from the cable companies and Sony.
Posted by: Ian | May 28, 2008 3:43 PM
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