Edward Finkler

Member since: Jul 24th, 2005

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AOL TV	1 Comment
Download Squad	2 Comments

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Bioshock Tuesday: win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Bioshock (Engadget)

Aug 22nd 2007 2:35PM Current Fav? Defcon, I'd say.

Motorola announces new HD PVR (AOL TV)

Feb 3rd 2007 8:22PM ... or your cable company rolls it out and disables all of the cool add-on functionality.

Google enables POP checking for some Gmail users (Download Squad)

Dec 9th 2006 7:23PM Well, IMAP4 *is* a much heavier, more complex protocol than POP3. It introduces a lot more network traffic than POP3, and IMAP clients cause far more server load than POP clients. I love IMAP and use it exclusively, but I'm not surprised Google isn't anxious to take that dive, especially since Gmail is entirely proprietary -- it may require them to essentially write a full-featured, very robust IMAP server from scratch, which is no small undertaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol#Disadvantages_of_IMAP

CenterStage Mac Media Center Project (Download Squad)

Jul 24th 2005 8:56PM Media Portal, an open-source Win32 "media center" app: http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/ I use this personally. Pretty nice, although still a little rough around the edges.