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Asus WL-700gE

Paul Westbrook | 10 August, 2006 22:04

Remember when WiFi base stations were just wireless base stations?  The Asus WL-700gE WiFi router is more than just a base station.  I has a built in 160GB drive, a iTunes client (daap, I assume), and a BitTorrent client, that can download directly to the device.  Also if another drive is connected, it can be configured as a RAID.

The product web page states

iPod Users can Manage Music Stored in the WL-700gE with the iTunes Interface

I wonder how this works.  Normally iPods will only sync with local files, and not with files through the daap protocol.  Maybe if you connect an iPod directly to the WL-700gE with USB, you can go to a web interface to select files to be transferred to the iPod.

[via Gizmodo]

Technorati Tags: Asus, BitTorrent, daap, iPod, iTunes, networking, WiFi, WL-700gE

WEB2DNA

Paul Westbrook | 10 August, 2006 21:35

There is yet another way to visualize web pages.  WEB2DNA will take an html page, and analyze the tags and spit it out a image that looks like a graphic representation of human DNA.

Here is the one for this site:

[via Download Squad]

Technorati Tags: WEB2DNA

web crawlers and JavaScript

Paul Westbrook | 10 August, 2006 19:07

Many web pages use JavaScript to modify the content of the page.  The effects of the javascript can be seen by anyone who has JavaScript enabled in their browser.  But most web crawlers do not interpret and run the scripts when crawling pages.  This is a problem when this content is intended to be seen by the web crawlers.

For example, BlogRolling is a site that lets you store links.  Then you can insert a JavaScript into your web page to display a blogroll.  One use of these blog roll sites is to link to other sites that you find interesting.  Ideally these links would help affect the Google PageRank or the Technorati rank.  But, it appears these crawlers are not intepreting JavaScript, so they are not picking up these links.
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