http://core8.com Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:58:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Advanced Access Content System is the group responsible for “managing content stored on the next generation of pre-recorded and recorded optical media” which roughly translates that they security protect a range of new media like Blu-Ray and HD (High Density) discs. Around the beginning of May 07 a decryption ... http://core8.com/2007/06/01/cyberspace-vs-aacs/ We're soon to welcome a new iMac to our offices and news today about the soon to be released Parrallels 3.0 makes the pending arrival all the more sweet. Of particular interest is a little feature called SmartSelect. A wicked cool new feature that lets you assign any OS X or ... http://core8.com/2007/06/01/parallels-30/ http://core8.com/2007/05/31/im-a-mac-im-a-pc/ Next time you sign into your Google Adwords account you might notice a new tab present - Audio Ads. Running on a CPM basis, your audio ads will play on radio stations. Seems you don't have to worry about hiring voice talent either as Google has got this covered. All ... http://core8.com/2007/05/31/google-audio-ads/ We've all experienced a bad case of "fat fingers" from time to time. You type away at a common enough domain such as cnn.com yet somehow end up at a page filled with horrible ad links. Upon further inspection you realise that you've actually typed cnn.cm and with a shrug, ... http://core8.com/2007/05/23/the-cameroon-quick-step/ Derek Powazek one of the founders of JPG magazine recently posted an article on his website detailing the resons for his recent departure from the publication. Derek and his wife Heather Champ started the magazine as a small labour of love and it quickly grew into something much larger. ... http://core8.com/2007/05/17/why-the-outpouring-for-powazek/ Back in October of 2004, Julie Amero, a substitute teacher in a Connecticut middle school found herself in a bit of a bother. Well, actually that's all it should have been but it led to Amero facing a 40 year prison sentence and the case has highlighted the intense neo-luditism ... http://core8.com/2007/05/16/weathering-a-storm/ We've been using Joost.com around the office now for a while. The online video broadcasting app works well enough and the quality of the video is quite good. Overall it's a really good user experience but it all comes down to content and that's something that's been lacking thus far. This ... http://core8.com/2007/05/02/joost-signs-new-deals/ Jack Valenti may be dead and buried, but even from the great beyond he seems to be working his particular brand of lunacy. It seems that there's a hex number floating around that unlocks the encryption code for High Density DVDs. We can argue all day as to ... http://core8.com/2007/05/02/digging-the-mpaa/ If there's one thing we've always said it's that Estonians are the hippest cats in the world. We certainly didn't any further evidence of this but then the Estonian bank, SEB went ahead and told its customers they could put any image they liked on their credit card. So ... http://core8.com/2007/05/02/firefox-credit-card/