SimpleTracking provides an RSS feed to track your UPS – USPS – FedX – DHL package! No more periodic visits to the UPS site to see where your package lives in realspace. All you need is the tracking number and a working e-mail address (where they will send your RSS feed URL) as well as [...]
Archive for November, 2005
RSS for Package Tracking
Posted: 26 November 2005 by Kathy E. Gill in Innovation, Personal Technology, Web/Tech0
Sony Faces Another Challenge
Posted: 19 November 2005 by Kathy E. Gill in Convergence, Legal, Media, Personal TechnologyOn the heels of claims that Sony’s DRM software is malware comes this news: an allegation that the software is "’infringing the copyright of several open source projects," according to reknowned hacker Jon Lech Johansen. According to Reuters, Thomas Dullien from Sabre Security, concurs: "We can confirm that at least five functions in the XCP [...]
Apple Abandons Firewire?
Posted: 18 November 2005 by Kathy E. Gill in Innovation, Personal TechnologyI was poking around the Apple Store, looking at the new iPod, when I noticed this: "USB 1.1 and 2.0 through integrated USB connector." What? No Firewire? I quickly did a web check — USB v Firewire — to try to refresh my memory as to the differences. Ah, yes, USB 2.0 is supposed to [...]
