several years ago “micropayment” was the buzzword and then seemed to fade into oblivion as so many cool tech ideas do. well it look like it’s trying to make a comeback. peppercoin is touting a micropayment solution for “early 2003″. peppercoin’s founder is ron rivest - the r in rsa - and of course has the “patent-pending payments protocol” to back up the system. maybe it’s time…

(i’m not sure what hot chicks and other model types on the website have to do with anything, though.)

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need to know what that strange file extension is? whatis.com has every file format in the world listed by file extension. quite impressive.

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at least the macromedia flash developers seem to have a sense of humor!

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ok, maybe i’m into too much tech stuff… cool tech is just too cool to me. cd formats being this past weekend’s cool thing. a friend of mine downloaded a couple movies that won’t fit on a 700 meg cd… so what to do to archive them? xcd to the rescue! ok, so there’s no error correction right now, but they’re working on it. using the mode2 format and using vcd/svcd as a starting point, we’ve got a alpha product that works pretty well so far.

i tested it on the stargate divx i have which xp reports as ~770MB and goes into red on nero. using the mode2 cd maker, i was able to create a bin/cue image that nero would burn. then, using the xcd direct show filter (available on the same site) i was able to use bsplayer or mp9 to playback the file directly from the cd. cool stuff…

i’d like to get a hold of real 800 or even 900 meg cd-r’s i heard about to see how well they work. haven’t see any in stores yet, though.

oh yeah, i do realize that a dvd-r solves this problem totally, but money being tight right now, this is a cool solution…

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anyone got any thoughts on securing content displayed in a browser? a client of mine for a side project is requiring such a thing. obviously you can’t disable print screen, but i was thinking of using flash to it. you can make content non-selectable and can disable the print function in the player. not ideal, but might work. doesn’t have to be 100% non-hackable, just not easy for the average user. has to work in most browsers, too.

anyone? anyone?

just found out that flash (even mx) doesn’t support the html image tag, so not sure how to make authoring simple… hmm…

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while doing some research on a topic i’ll post after this one, i came across the “flash is evil” page. i don’t know if i agree with this 100%, but sure, flash is over used. anyone got any thoughts on this? macromedia as a company seems kinda shaky from what i’ve heard, too.

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