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This is a guest post by Kathlyn Clore, Associate Editor at the European Journalism Centre who was kind enough to write this report for us after attending the press event.

A cadre of European politicians gathered Thursday at the Museum of the 18th century in Brussels to launch Europeana, a digital museum that allows visitors to explore classic paintings, photos, recordings and texts in the same manner in which it is possible to search, say, Amazon.com.

Trying to access Europeana on the day of its launch, though, was akin to navigating the Vatican Museums in the tourist-thick month of August. It was impossible to see anything, as the project’s three servers were totally overwhelmed.

The Commission said Saturday in a press release that the site received about 10 million hits per hour throughout Thursday - double server capacity. The site was taken down Friday evening and is expected to be back up in mid-December.

Europeana’s three servers are located in the Hague, where the project is headquartered, but programmers plan eventually to put mirror servers around the world.

A pair of Dutchmen programmed Europeana in about 10 weeks, said technical developer Eric Van der Meulen. They added the final two of 21 European languages, Finnish and Hungarian, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

Europeana, which is still in beta, was programmed using only open source applications, Van der Meulen said.

“Once we get the thing finished and stabilized, we want to be able to put this down as an open source application so other people can look at it and go, ‘Ok how did you do this?,’ and ‘Wow, maybe we can use this for something.’ The future of computing is open source and not only that but you can get a lot of input from all over the world this way.”

Technical challenges included harvesting and normalizing metadata from more than 1,000 different museums and libraries from around Europe. Half of participating cultural heritage institutions so far are French. The Louvre in Paris, the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (which contributed footage shot on French battlefields in 1914) and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam are three of the biggest participating museums.

Europeana is an outgrowth of The European Library, on which Van der Meulen also worked. But it has in the press been compared to Google’s Library Project. Copyright concerns are abundant in all three projects.

Viviane Reding, European commissioner for media, worked to bring the European Digital Library to fruition prior to realizing Europeana.

Issues of intellectual property will certainly complicate Reding’s goal of adding 10 million more objects over the next two years. The project will receive 2 million Euro over the next two years for that goal, said European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday. For now, all objects on Europeana are in the public domain.

Reding said Thursday that she encourages users of the site to ‘remix’ what’s available. Moving forward, she plans to facilitate dialogue among various stakeholders to find a way to legally include contemporary works. Nobody wants a black hole when it comes to artifacts from the 21st century, she stated. In particular, she said she will continue discussions with books publishers in order to arrange for digitization of orphan works.

The difference between Europeana and existing library projects, though, is in the diversity of digital objects available on Europeana. Van der Meulen, for example, is able to search the names of his family members and come to a recording of his uncle’s 1970s rock band, the Makkers, or photos of his father Leendert Van der Muelen, a world-class cyclist.

“It’s for a lot of people that way,” he said. “Its a fun toy. Everybody Googles their name, you know. Only with this you get associations with your own name that you wouldn’t find in Google.”

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Seth Godin called up on the Tribe to write a book together in response to his book Tribes. Take a look:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/files/TribesQA2.pdf

There’s so much gold here, I can’t choose a snippet to share. Take a look. This would be an excellent discussion point for staff meetings and long range planning. Maybe the new long range plans for some innovative libraries will be: How can they lead the tribe?

Amanda at blogwithoutalibrary.net writes:

This is from a design/marketing/communications company’s website. I love how they’re not afraid to showcase ideas that didn’t fly:

Think of this as the final resting place for ideas that - for one reason or another - lacked sufficient postage. The road to change is littered with them.

You can’t have innovation without failure, right? I’d love to see libraries celebrating their failures more. If you know of a library that does this, let us know in the comments!

Good stuff. And certainly part of a more open, transparent institution. One commenter ponders that it might not work in  public libraries:

While I think this is a lovely idea in theory, I just don’t see libraries doing it. As much as I would love them to! Public libraries are funded with public money so I’m sure they might see this idea of celebrating “failed ideas” as too close to celebrating “public money wasted”. You know what I mean? I’m not agreeing with that rationale, I’m just putting it out there as one possible reason why were not seeing more libraries do this.

Maybe Academic libraries have more latitude with something like this? I work in a public library and don’t pretend to understand how academics work but perhaps there is less need to be wary of being seen to be wasting money in an academic environment (sorry that was an akward sentence!). Just a thought (but like I said, I don’t know much about academic libs so I could be totally off base).

I think public libraries could certainly do this. Think “Anytown Public Library Innovation Labs” or “Cool County Public Library New Ideas Space” that might spend a bit of time experimenting with new services, new formats and new ways of doing what we do. The program might be prefaced with a statement like this:

Anytown PL’s mission is to promote access to information of all kinds, to anticipate the future needs of our patrons for library services and to give access to ideas in various media. This means we must be looking for new ways to serve our patrons. One way we’ll be doing this is devoting a bit of staff time and library resources to experimenting and trying new things. If you’d like to help, let us know. And we’ll let you know what we’re trying, what hasn’t worked, and what new services we’ll be bringing to you from these explorations.

As a APL patron, I might be very interested to check out the space and see what the staff have cooking. This space might be part of the physical library or part of its virtual presence. 

So, celebrating failures in the public library? I think so. What do you think?

Online-music rental services -- where users get access to a library of songs for as long as they pay a monthly fee -- keep hanging around, despite little apparent interest in them. In an attempt to breathe some life into its subscription service, called Zune Pass, Microsoft is now a href="http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2FSB122715813445844027-email.html#038;nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email%2FSB122715813445844027-lMyQjAxMDI4MjI3MDEyNTA4Wj.html"giving subscribers 10 songs they can permanently keep/a per month. The company says its research shows that more consumers might consider subscription services at current pricing levels if they got "to take something with them." But isn't that just saying consumers prefer to buy music, rather than rent it? Rentals work for one-time-use items like movies and books, but for things like songs, which people tend to listen to multiple times, subscriptions aren't attractive. The argument that subscriptions are good for discovery doesn't really hold water, either, given the proliferation of online services that let users listen to huge libraries of music for free. One other angle to this news: why would anybody purchase digital content from Microsoft after the a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080422/234401923.shtml"PlaysForSure fiasco/a, in which it shut off its DRM servers, making it impossible to transfer PlaysForSure-"protected" content to any new devices, rendering it largely useless?p style="border-top: 1px #aaaaaa dashed;padding-top: 5px;margin-top: 10px;"emCarlo Longino is an expert at the a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"Insight Community/a. To get insight and analysis from Carlo Longino and other experts on challenges your company faces, a href="http://www.insightcommunity.com/"click here/a./em/p br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/1149262901.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081120/1149262901.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081120/1149262901op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ec9442b609fd8877ea3c69318099ebe0p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ec9442b609fd8877ea3c69318099ebe0p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ec9442b609fd8877ea3c69318099ebe0" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=kCzKn"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=kCzKn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/461342195" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_video.jpg" width="800" height="494" style="display:block;float:none;" /If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for you in beautiful symbiosis, allowing you to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen, well, this is the guide for you./p pNow there are two general strategies you can take: physically copying your files to a USB drive, memory card or CD/DVD, which is pretty straightforward, or streaming your video over the network, which is where things get more fun and interesting. So let's dive in./p pFirst things first, codecs. Now that you're all learn-ed on the ways of video encoding thanks to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093670/giz-explains-every-video-format-you-need-to-know"Matt's Giz Explains from this week/a, the issue of codecs will make a lot more sense. Thankfully, it's not something you have to worry too much about here, because all three consoles can handle a large number of the codecs you will find commonly: AVI, MPEG (1, 2 and 4), H.264, DivX/XviD, and WMV—and if a particular format you want to play isn't supported, it's often possible to convert it to work on the fly. The PS3 also supports AVCHD, a format used by many HD camcorders. Not all formats are supported with every streaming method though, especially in the 360's case, which we'll get to in a second. Now, for getting all those files on the TV./p pNote: if you need to re-encode a video in a different format because it won't play, nothing beats VLC's transcoding wizard. a href="http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html"Here's a guide./a/p pstrongXbox 360: Streaming (PC)/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297019303_tversity_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="403" style="display:block;" /In typical Microsoft fashion, there are tons of different ways to pull of streaming your video to the Xbox 360—and the only one that's truly comprehensive, in our opinion, comes from a third party. a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity/a is a free UPnP media server that can manage your video and music files anywhere on your PC and stream them out to your 360 over the network. It will also kindly transcode just about any video you can throw at it into a codec your console can definitely read. You might have to install some additional codec packs here and there for Windows but for the most part, you can forget about worrying about codecs with TVersity. This also allows TVersity to handle files not officially supported by the 360, like MKV containers./p p1. Grab a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity here/a and install it.br 2. Click the giant plus sign in the top left corner to "Add Your Media Source" - namely, the folder on your PC with all of your videos.br 3. Under advanced options, set your transcoding preferences: "When Needed" will make sure most all of your files play.br 4. In the main TVersity menu, select "Start Sharing"br 5. On the Xbox 360, TVersity will now appear as a source in the Media blade or under My Xbox -gt; Video Library in NXE./p pThe other three options via Microsoft's own various software solutions all have their own drawbacks, which we'll cover here briefly. Our advice? Use them only if you already use the Zune software, Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center to manage all of your video./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297041777_windowsmediaplayer_01.png" width="494" height="432" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: WMP 11 can stream out to the Xbox 360 pretty easily. Here is an a href="http://paininthetech.com/2008/01/03/stream-video-to-xbox-360-with-windows-media-player-or-winamp-remote"in-depth guide/a. strongDrawbacks?/strong Somewhat clunky format support. In our tests we could not stream Quicktime video at all, and had inconsistent experiences with MP4 files. MPEG-4 and H.264 support are technically supported via third-party WMP codec add-ons, but even with those, we still had trouble—MP4 files tended to play fine on the WMP 11 end, but not show up as browsable on the 360. Somewhat unbelievably, the Xbox 360 team actually recommends you a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx"manually rename your unsupported MPEG-4 and H.264 files/a, adding the ".avi" container extension to fool WMP into playing them. This worked occasionally, but not for every file and was generally inconsistent.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297025800_zune_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="338" style="display:block;" /strongZune Software 3.0/strong: Zune offers a much nicer interface than WMP (Settings -gt; Sharing -gt; Add is the extent of the setup), and thankfully supports MPEG4 and H.264 much more consistently. strongDrawbacks?/strong No DivX or Xvid support, which means a huge chunk of your Torrented video probably won't work.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297876080_360_MCE.jpg" width="494" height="308" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Center Extender/strong: If you already have a Media Center setup honking on your network, there's a good chance you won't need this guide, but the Xbox 360 can of course stream your MCE content to your TV seamlessly (a a href="http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1392/Xbox-360-Windows-Media-Center-Setup-Guide/p1/"complete guide is here/a). The interface is really fantastic. strongDrawbacks?/strong The gimpiest codec support of the bunch: only MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and WMV are supported. So unless you're converting everything you have into those formats, you'll still need something like TVersity to play most files you'll find up for download.br clear="all"/p pSo, in the end, TVersity wins hands down as the easiest and most elegant streaming setup for the 360. But do keep in mind—if you're playing a format that your Xbox can't handle (MKV being the most common of these you'll find), TVersity will have to transcode, which means you will lose a bit of quality./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297010629_connect360_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="378" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Streaming (Mac)/strong: UPnP support—the networking standard used by both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in various flavors to play network-streamed video, music and photos—is not natively supported by OS X yet. And unfortunately, there isn't a stellar all-in-one free package like Windows' TVersity.br clear="all"/p pNullriver, however, makes an incredibly slick piece of software called a href="http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360"Connect360/a, which easily streams all of your iLife libraries or any folder full of video on your Mac to the 360. Unfortunately, it'll cost you $20. There is a free trial version that supposedly shuts off after 30 minutes of sharing, but sometimes it seems to forget and lets you play longer. But even so, $20 isn't bad for the convenience factor here. No transcoding, but it will handle every codec the console itself can play back./p p1. Download and install the Connect360 preference pane.br 2. In System Preferences, start up Connect360 sharing. Here you can also add folders for more sharing.br 3. Access the Connect360 source on your Xbox in the usual way. Done./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227301048351_xbox_video.jpg" width="494" height="329" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Physical Media/strongbr 1. If streaming isn't for you, and you don't mind hauling a storage device back and forth between your computer and Xbox, then this is super easy: Insert Flash disk/USB/CD/DVD and browse it with the Media blade or the Video Library section of NXE (under "My Xbox"). Enjoy.br clear="all"/p pstrongPlaystation 3: Streaming (PC)/strongbr strongTVersity/strong: Again, Tversity is your friend. It works just as well for the PS3 as it does for Xbox 360 (see above for setup)./p p1. With Tversity set up and sharing turned on, just browse to COMPUTERNAME: TVersity in the XMB and you'll see a listing of all your shared files./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_wmp11.png" width="500" height="371" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: Just like for Xbox 360, you can use WMP11's built-in DLNA/UPnP serving capabilities to stream to the PS3, too—but with the same codec funkiness as noted above.br clear="all"/p p1. In the Media Sharing preference box with your PS3 powered on and connected to the network, select "Unknown Device"—that's your PS3.br 2. Your library should now show up in XMB./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297942918_Picture_26.png" width="494" height="405" style="display:block;" /strongPlaystation 3: Streaming (MAC)/strongbr Mac: Nullriver didn't just hook up 360 owners—Media Link is the version especially for PS3. It costs 20 bucks, but will give you totally seamless and painless streaming of all of your iLife libraries (photos and music too) as well as files in any folder you can access with your Mac, whether it's on a network or local.br clear="all"/p p1. Operation is just like Connect360—with sharing enabled in the Media Link preference pane, just browse through all your files under the "Media Link" source in XMB./p pstrongPlaystation 3: Physical Media/strongbr 1. Easy as pie. If you're using a USB flash or hard disc or an SD or CF card, just dump all of your videos into a folder named VIDEO on the root of the drive and they'll show up automatically in the XMB.br 2. You can also browse the entire drive or disc by pressing triangle and choosing "Display All" to find videos that aren't in the VIDEO folder./p pstrongWii: Physical Media/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/wiihomebrew6.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block;" /For playing video on your Wii, physical media is the way to go, which is easy to pull off with some a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"homebrew hacking/a. There are lots of services that will transcode your video and ouput it in a Flash player that you can view through the Wii's Opera browser (like a href="http://orb.com"Orb/a), but you'll take a hit quality-wise and it's not as easy as just playing the source files directly with Mplayer.br clear="all"/p p1. Install the Homebrew Channel and Mplayer on your Wii. We've got you covered here with our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"complete Wii homebrew guide/a—but hopefully you haven't installed the latest System Menu update. In that case, you'll have to wait for a workaround, but it probably won't be long./p p2. Install Mplayer via the Homebrew Browser (also a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"covered in our guide/a)./p p3. Now, you can use Mplayer to play files off or even an attached USB drive (as long as its formatted in FAT16 or FAT32, which most are). The interface is not nearly as nice, but it gets the job done./p p4. Mplayer for the Wii covers a ton of codecs, but sadly, the Wii's processor chokes on HD content. If you've got HD files, you'll need to transcode them into a lower resolution with VLC./p pAnd that's about it. Now, no more huddling around your laptop screen or fiddling with TV and audio-out cables. Welcome to the good life./p pemAdditional reporting and testing by Seung Lee. See more a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/how_to"Giz how-to guides here/a. 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div class="rxbodyfield"p class="ArticleBody" page="1"In separate moves this week, Sun and Microsoft both proceeded with previously stated plans to boost their software development environments/pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/13/sun-releases-beta-of-NetBeans-IDE_1.html" class="regularArticleU"Version 6.5 of the NetBeans open-source IDE/a was released by Sun and the NetBeans community, while Microsoft has added a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/29/Microsoft-to-back-jQuery-library_1.html" class="regularArticleU"jQuery Intellisense support/a to Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Accessible for a href="http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/65/" target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"download/a, NetBeans 6.5 features increased support for Web and Java software development, according to Sun and the NetBeans community. It includes localized versions for simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Also being offered is an early access version of NetBeans for Pythin applications, featuring an editor, debugger, and Python runtimes./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Version 6.5 features tooling for PHP, such as syntax highlighting and code completion. A JavaScript editor is included as well./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"?Integration across multiple languages simplifies development. The NetBeans IDE 6.5 allows you to stay within one tool and move easily from PHP to JavaScript and back," said Ian Murdock, Sun vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun, in a statement released by the company./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Other capabilities include enhanced support for Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Pages, and Java Persistence API. Support for Groovy and Grails also is offered in the editor. Ruby enhancements are offered within the editor and debugger./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Multithreaded debugging for Java technologies is featured as well./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Sun in December will offer a training and certification for NetBeans by way of its Certification Specialist for NetBeans IDE effort./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Microsoft, meanwhile, is offering JavaScript Intellisense support via Service Pack 1, which can be a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/cc533448.aspx" target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"downloaded./a JQuery is a JavaScript library./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1"Users also must install the VS 2008 Patch KB58502 a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB958502/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1736" class="regularArticleU"patch/a to support "-vsdoc.js" Intellisense files and download the a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Download_jQuery" target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"jQuery-vsdoc.js file/a./pp class="ArticleBody" page="1""Visual Studio 2008 SP1 adds richer JavaScript Intellisense support to Visual Studio, and adds code completion support for a broad range of JavaScript libraries," said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division, in his a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/21/jquery-intellisense-in-vs-2008.aspx" target="_blank" class="regularArticleU"blog./a/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=32ddde53f3730acac7f2bb08b8b2f6e5p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=32ddde53f3730acac7f2bb08b8b2f6e5p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=32ddde53f3730acac7f2bb08b8b2f6e5 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

Sometimes i put different albums etc on my macs, so not all of them have the same music. How can i keep them both synced without doing anything? Both of them are on a network but i rather not drag the new songs into my other itunes library manually.

img src="http://c.fsdn.com/fm/screenshots/36796_thumb.png" align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10" NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server and desktop virtualization system based on the X11 protocol. NX is an order of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. In addition, NX translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX, enabling users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC sessions. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio and video over the Internet. hr / strongLicense:/strong GNU General Public License (GPL) hr / strongChanges:/strongbr / The new server, which collects all the fixes sported by the 3.2.0 maintenance releases, adds solutions for problems such as: upgrading of NX Server causes replacement of the DSA custom key, and NX Server may choose a wrong display number when looking for a free display. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5_bFzTrJrddYUWNfjuUk1-wtVVA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5_bFzTrJrddYUWNfjuUk1-wtVVA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-unix/~4/1uAAXR1N6kE" height="1" width="1"/

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"Remember when a phone was just a phone? You#39;d no more give thought to its operating system than you would to the one that your microwave oven ran. Boy, have times changed./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Today#39;s smartphones are pocketable, Net-connected personal computers, and the OSes they use have a huge impact on their power and their personality. Buy a phone, and you#39;re committing to a platform just as surely as you are when you choose a PC or a Mac./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Check out Neil McAllister#39;s#160;a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/fatalexception/archives/2008/09/sdk_shootout_an.html?source=fssr"SDK shoot-out of Android vs. iPhone/a#160;as well as InfoWorld#39;s Test Center review of#160;#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/15/42TC-t-mobile-g1_4.html?source=fssr"Android, Google#39;s iPhone killer/a. And discover the top-rated IT products as rated by the a href="http://www.infoworld.com/testcenter/?source=fssr"InfoWorld Test Center/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"To see how today#39;s smartphone OSes stack up, I spent time with five leading ones as experienced on phones that show them to good advantage: Apple#39;s iPhone OS (which I tried on the iPhone 3G, using ATamp;T#39;s network), Google#39;s Android (on T-Mobile#39;s G1), Microsoft#39;s Windows Mobile (on HTC#39;s Touch Diamond, using Sprint), Nokia#39;s S60 3rd Edition on Symbian (on the company#39;s N96, sold only in unlocked form), and RIM#39;s BlackBerry OS (on the company#39;s own BlackBerry Bold, using ATamp;T)./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"(Consult a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/125397/top_10_smart_phones.html"PC World#39;s Top 10 Smart Phones chart/a to see how the hardware compares.)/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"I judged the five operating systems on their capabilities, ease of use, and visual panache, and considered both their standard applications and third-party programs./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strongThe Winnersbr//strongThe two most impressive operating systems were the two with the briefest histories: iPhone OS and Android./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Both are built for Internet-centric devices, both are not only functional but fun, and both make extending your phone#39;s capabilities with new applications extremely easy. At the moment, a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/149415/blog_apple_updates_iphone_os_thwarts_hackers_fixes_flaws.html"iPhone OS/a beats the a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007790.html"newer, rougher Google OS/a ; over time, a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007815.html"Android#39;s open-source design/a and lack of restrictions on third-party developers could give it an edge over Apple#39;s more locked-down approach./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Among the old-timers, the a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007731.html"BlackBerry OS/a is doing a solid job of preserving the strengths that made it popular in the first place while keeping up with the times. In contrast, I regret to report, a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/144024/microsoft_updates_windows_mobile_ie_mobile.html?tk=rel_news"Windows Mobile/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.s60.com/life"S60 3rd Edition/a are aging badly. Let#39;s delve more deeply./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strongApple iPhone OSbr//strongemWhat it is:/em iPhone OS is a pocket-size version of the a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/138964/review_mac_os_x_leopard.html"Mac#39;s OS X/a , shrunk down and redesigned to power the iPhone 3G./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emHow it works:/em As you zip your way around the iPhone 3G#39;s multitouch interface with your fingertips, hardware and software blur into one pleasing experience. With other OSs, it#39;s all too easy to get lost in menus or forget how to accomplish simple tasks; a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007238.html"iPhone apps/a , however, are remarkably sleek and consistent. The OS#39;s most infamous omission is cut-and-paste capability -- but to tell the truth, I haven#39;t missed it yet./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emHow it looks:/em Terrific. Everything from the sophisticated typography to the smooth animation effects contributes to the richest, most attractive environment ever put on a handheld device./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"emBuilt-in applications:/em What#39;s good is great--especially the a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006651.html"Safari browser/a , which makes navigating around sites that were never designed to be viewed on a phone remarkably simple. And the OS#39;s music and video programs truly are of iPod caliber. But as a productivity tool, the iPhone lacks depth: You can#39;t search e-mail, and you get no apps for editing documents or managing a to-do list./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emThird-party stuff:/em Just months after Apple opened up the iPhone to other developers, thousands of programs are available, and downloading them directly via the App Store is a cakewalk. The best ones, a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007515.html"such as Facebook/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/149833/top_five_free_iphone_productivity_apps.html"the Evernote note-taker/a , are outstanding. But the a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/143552/apple_waitlists_wouldbe_iphone_developers.html"limitations that Apple puts on third-party apps/a -- they can#39;t run in the background or access data other than their own -- place major obstacles in the way of everything from instant messengers to office suites. And Apple, the sole distributor of iPhone software, has declined to make available some useful applications that developers have submitted./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emBottom line:/em iPhone OS is easily the most enjoyable and intuitive phone operating system in existence, but its growth could be stunted unless Apple keeps its control-freak tendencies in check./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strongGoogle Android/strongbr/emWhat it is:/em Google#39;s new phone OS is an ambitious open-source platform intended to let companies customize it to their liking for an array of handsets. So far, however, it#39;s available on just one model, a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/39727/review/g1.html"T-Mobile#39;s G1/a ./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emHow it works:/em On the G1, Android#39;s interface feels like an iPhone/BlackBerry mashup -- much of it uses the touch screen, but you get a trackball and Menu, Home, and Back buttons, too. The highly customizable desktop is a plus. Overall, it compares well to older platforms but isn#39;t as effortless as the iPhone./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emHow it looks:/em Android isn#39;t an aesthetic masterpiece like iPhone OS, but it#39;s fresh and appealing, and it makes good use of the G1#39;s high-resolution screen./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emBuilt-in applications:/em They#39;re tightly integrated with a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/140513/six_easy_ways_to_conquer_gmail.html"Google services such as Gmail/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/145844/26_tricks_to_help_you_tame_google_calendar.html"Google Calendar/a -- the first thing you do when you turn on the phone for the first time is to give it your a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/153055/google_moves_to_openid.html"Google account info/a . (That#39;s fine as long as you#39;re not dependent on alternatives such as a target="_blank" href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/082608-exchange-replacements.html"Microsoft Exchange/a .)/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Android#39;s browser lacks the iPhone#39;s multitouch navigation but is otherwise a close rival. The best thing about its music features is the ability to download a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/130853/four_ways_to_reclaim_your_digital_rights.html"DRM-free/a songs from Amazon. The only videos it can play are YouTube clips, alas./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emThird-party stuff:/em Developers are just beginning to hop on the Android bandwagon. The a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/152613/google_launches_android_market.html"iPhone-like Market service/a lets you download apps directly to the phone from Google; unlike with the iPhone, you can also snag programs from third-party merchants a target="_blank" href="http://www.handango.com/homepage/Homepage.jsp?storeId=2218w.handango.com/homepage/Homepage.jsp?storeId=2218"such as Handango/a ./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emBottom line:/em Android#39;s potential is gigantic, especially if it winds up on scads of phones. On the G1, it#39;s a promising work in progress./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strongRIM BlackBerry OS/strongbr/emWhat it is:/em This software powers RIM#39;s BlackBerry smart phones, including the a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/29994/review/blackberry_8300_curve.html"Curve/a , a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/29346/review/blackberry_pearl.html"Pearl/a , and a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/29846/review/blackberry_8800.html"8800/a , as well as the new a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/43074/review/rim_blackberry_bold.html"Bold/a and a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/153773/verizon_wireless_to_launch_blackberry_storm_next_week.html"Storm/a models./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"emHow it works:/em The basic concepts behind the BlackBerry interface have changed remarkably little in a decade. And why should they? In its own way, the BlackBerry interface is just as logical and consistent as the iPhone#39;s: On most models you perform almost every function in every application with a trackball, a Menu button, and a button that lets you back out to the previous screen./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"Master those three actions, and you can whip around the OS with extreme speed. (I haven#39;t tried the Storm, which replaces the standard BlackBerry controls with an iPhone-style touch screen.)/pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emHow it looks:/em The BlackBerry OS is fairly mundane and text-centric, although recent models such as the Bold dress it up with crisper fonts and slicker icons./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emBuilt-in applications:/em The BlackBerry#39;s e-mail and calendaring applications still set the standard for efficient design and reliable real-time connectivity with widely used messaging systems such as Microsoft Exchange./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"The Bold introduces a much-improved new browser that rivals iPhone OS and Android in its ability to display sites the way their designers intended; its music and video apps are serviceable enough but still secondary to the productivity tools./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emThird-party stuff:/em Once upon a time, users didn#39;t have many BlackBerry programs to choose from, but recently the market has boomed--thousands, from productivity apps to games, are available now. Windows Mobile and S60 have even more bountiful selections, though./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"Currently BlackBerry has no over-the-air storefront comparable to Apple#39;s App Store or Android Market. a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/154131/8_reasons_to_pick_iphone_over_blackberry_storm.html"RIM#39;s BlackBerry storefront/a is expected to launch in March 2009./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emBottom line:/em The BlackBerry OS is an old dog, but a smart one -- and one that#39;s proving itself capable of learning new tricks./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"strongMicrosoft Windows Mobile/strongbr/emWhat it is:/em As its name makes clear, this is Microsoft#39;s mobile edition of Windows. Version 6.1 ships on a dozen phones from manufacturers such as HTC (with its a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/32187/review/touch_diamond.html"Touch Diamond/a ), Motorola, Palm, and Samsung./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"Here#39;s a video showing the best of the new features of Windows Mobile 6.1./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"Some manufacturers -- including HTC with the Diamond, Palm, and Samsung -- supplement Windows Mobile with their own software layer or tweaks to the underlying Windows Mobile OS./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emHow it works:/em Surprisingly, Windows Mobile acts like a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/browse.html?cat=2207amp;type=2"full-strength Windows/a , complete with a Start menu and system tray. That isn#39;t a virtue -- who wants to squint at tiny icons on devices meant for on-the-go use? The Touch Diamond covers up part of Microsoft#39;s stylus-oriented interface with a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/43890/review/fuze.html"a fingertip-driven system called TouchFLO/a that#39;s nowhere near as elegant and intuitive as the iPhone./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emHow it looks:/em It#39;s workmanlike. But it falls far, far short of iPhone OS#39;s surface gloss./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"Built-in applications: The version of Internet Explorer on current phones is profoundly archaic; the Touch Diamond dumps it for a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006440.html"Opera Mobile/a . (Microsoft has released a new version of IE, but it isn#39;t yet available on any phones.) On the other hand, the productivity apps -- basic versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint -- aren#39;t bad./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"emThird-party stuff:/em The best thing about this OS is the sheer variety of available applications in every category. Utilities such as a target="_blank" href="http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/"Lakeridge Software#39;s WisBar Advance/a let you tweak the interface#39;s look, feel, and functionality, compensating for some of its deficiencies. But you get no built-in app store #224; la iPhone OS and Android./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emBottom line:/em Windows Mobile has fallen behind the times on multiple fronts. Microsoft#39;s next major overhaul isn#39;t expected until late 2009 or 2010; by then, version 6.1 will be all but irrelevant./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"strongNokia S60 3rd Edition on Symbian/strongbr/emWhat it is:/em S60 3rd Edition is the version of the venerable Symbian mobile OS found in a variety of smart phones, not only from Nokia (including a target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/150606/nokia_ships_first_units_of_n96.html"its new N96/a) but also LG and Samsung./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emHow it works:/em S60#39;s interface dates from the days when even the smartest phones sported only a numeric keypad and a few other buttons, and it tends to make you shuffle through menus one laborious item at a time. (The BlackBerry OS does a much better job of making non-touch-screen devices fast and efficient.)/pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emHow it looks:/em It#39;s pretty old-fashioned by today#39;s standards, with blocky fonts and retro icons./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emBuilt-in applications:/em The programs vary from phone to phone. The N96 I tried includes a reasonably comprehensive suite of apps, and judged purely on available features, they#39;re respectable; the browser, for instance, has a zoom-in/zoom-out interface that#39;s theoretically similar to the one in iPhone OS#39;s Safari. But the clunky interface leaves them feeling less powerful than the apps on any other phone I tried for this article./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emThird-party stuff:/em A profusion of useful S60-compatible applications is available at sites such as Handango -- one of the deepest libraries for any platform, thanks to Symbian#39;s long life span and wide usage./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emBottom line:/em S60 3rd Edition is stale in comparison with iPhone OS and Android, but it#39;s also heading for retirement. The new a target="_blank" href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8203_S60_5th_Edition-touch_and_sens.php"S60 5th Edition/a brings the OS up-to-date with features such as touch-screen support; a target="_blank" href="http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1256590"Nokia#39;s 5800 XpressMusic/a , the first phone to use it, won#39;t arrive in the United States until early next year./pp page="4" class="ArticleBody"emFormer PC World editor in chief Harry McCracken now blogs at his own site,/em a target="_blank" href="http://technologizer.com/"emTechnologizer/em/a. ema target="_blank" href="http://www.pcworld.com/"PC World/a is an InfoWorld affiliate./em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=4e53c84712d9565c4450c151b54af6f2p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=4e53c84712d9565c4450c151b54af6f2p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=4e53c84712d9565c4450c151b54af6f2 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/Windows_7_MC_First_Look.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="807" height="186" style="display:block;float:none;" /A few days back, I showed you a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093261/windows-7-touch-control-makes-media-center-more-awesome"the new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7/a, and though I had to pull the video, I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media Center features. I say "proposed" because, like everything else about Windows 7, this is all alpha and subject to change. But these features are very cool, and really should be included. One more thing: These screens were projected on a wall in a well-lit room, so they look horrible, but anyone familiar with Media Center (and Microsoft has shipped like 100 million of them, so that should be plenty of ya) will have a good idea of the pleasantness to come. Or you can just drink in the following prose descriptions:br script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('10coolwin7mcfeatures', 3, ''); /script/p pbull; strongShows appear dissolved behind menus/strong - When you're watching something and want to pull up a menu to add a new show or browse the channel guide, or even go into another area of the Media Center, the current show stays on, not as a picture-in-picture, but tastefully dissolved into the background./p pbull; strongChronological turbo scroll for channel guide/strong - When you're looking at the channel guide, but want to go from Tuesday to Sunday in a hurry, you just hold down the arrow button on the remote, and the days start to whip by. Listings become a blur, but the days of the week, and the portions of the day, appear floating over the listings to give you an idea of when to stop./p pbull; strongLive thumbnail forward and rewind/strong - During HD video playback, you might want to jump around. Grab the time marker and drag it forward or back, and as you do, you see a miniature version of the show playing backwards or forwards at the same speed./p pbull; strongLaunch TV from Start menu/strong - Media Center can occupy a pole position in the Start menu, and when you hover over the MC logo, a list of recently recorded shows pops up, along with other frequently used MC features./p pbull; strongFloating Media Center gadget/strong - Not only can you access shows from the Start menu, you can browse MC features from the desktop with the gadget. I am not clear whether or not you'll get to have actual video playing in it, but for people who need MC at their fingertips, this appears to be a nice, subtle execution./p pbull; strongAlphabetical turbo scroll for music/strong - The chronological turbo scroll on the channel guide is cool, but this one will come in more handy for me: As you scroll through the countless artists in your music collection, the names become a blur but your location in the alphabet is denoted by two letters, probably so that those longer letters like J, M, R and S can be broken up better./p pbull; strongDrifting cover art grid/strong - When you're playing a song, the album art for that track appears with some basic metadata, and all the cover art for every other track you own materializes and drifts in the background. The primary cover art jumps from side to side and top to bottom, so that everything is in constant, fluid motion./p pbull; strongScattered photos picture show/strong - As you're playing music, you can opt for a photo show that essentially reaches into a folder, grabs a handful of shots, scatters them evenly around the page, and then zooms in on one at a time. A nice touch: In the wide angle, all the photos look like desaturated black-and-whites, but as each shot gets its own screen time, it magically becomes full color./p pbull; strongCopy remote content/strong - If you are browsing multiple libraries or Media Center PCs and come across a show you like, you can watch it or save it for later by hitting "make a copy." As long as there's no broadcast flag or some other DRM, the vid will flow over to your local HDD so you can watch it when you've left the network./p pbull; strongVirtual channels without TV tuner/strong - One of the new Media Center's central concerns is the new popularity of internet-based video, not just YouTube clips but whole TV episodes like those shown on Hulu. DVR functionality is key to making the most of an MC, but at launch there will be loads of virtual channels with shows you can watch just as easily. Microsoft demoed a special MSNBC channel that had clips and full shows; it's of course feasible for them to build similar channels for third-party web video services too. 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