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Apple's Digital Rights Management system allows ipods playing music downloaded through its itunes store (tell me what is a monopoly, if this one is not one). This wired blog entry talks of an reverse engineered prodct that will allow other providers selling i-pod compatiable music, which hopefully will end this monopoly. Speaking of i-pods, heres my new favorite i-pod killer: Creative Zen Visinon:M

"Times are a'changing" as Dylan put it some 30 years ago. These days "Times" are on an "Eco" track. Carbon emissions, reducing them, neutralizing them, how to be carbon free, how to trade carbon, global warming, its existence, its non-existence, Kyoto Protocol are all familiar to everyone. So "being Eco" being the trend, Windows and Google have shown their differences on this field again... This article on Reuters describes the incredible step that Google is taking, by converting to solar and relying on solar power for 1/3s of its power consumption in its headquarters! They being the trend setters, if this move catches on with the burgeoning Eco-conscious movement in USA and World, it can, with the recent move by Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson to tackle airlines contribution to global warming, open up the gates for corporate environmentalists. Windows on the other side is about to roll out its new Operating Sysytem, the Vista, ...

I've used Google Talk 's Voicemail feature for the first time with my uncle. There are two aamzing sides to this first timer. First is the software itself, Voice mail is a great idea. I hate typing long e-mails to friends, and thats why I get a lot of "why aren#t you writing to me"'s. What I am gonna do is give'em a Google Talk Account (if I haven't still done so), and send them voicemails from time to time. Teh messages come to your mailbox as E-mails, and you can either listen to them on built -in player or download as mp3 file. Second interesting point is that it got my uncle interested to it. I mean he is not a computer illiterate, but he is not a geek or power-user either. Yet, Google's simplicity lets even not so advanced users play around... And best of all, google talk is still beta :)