Now, I won’t be the first one to promote this program, but Audio Hijack Pro is a really powerful tool. I use it to boost the sound of my not so powerful MacBook. The program can take the sound of any program, boost it, apply a whole bunch of filters, mix it, and even record it. I am using it mainly for boosting audio and recording podcasts. Unfortunately not free but at a price of $32 very reasonably for people that like to listen to audio.

I got a nice email today from Fon, giving me the option to order their La Fonera router for free. About a year ago I ordered their original Linksys router for about 10 euro, but I kind of broke it directly. As a thank you for being one of their first clients I now get a free new La Fonera router (worth about 45 euro/dollar).

I still think Fon is not very viable concept because of the simple fact that most people with a Fon router do not live in interesting places, but at least I can now use my Fon account again if necessary.

I was wondering if it isn´t possible to combine techniques like OpenID and GenPass to create a sort of OpenID login for sites that don´t actually have an OpenID login.

The idea of a proxy server like this would be to automatically create an account for you on a site that it recognizes and so allowing you to login transparently using your OpenID provider. This idea could be implemented by sites like ClaimID who already provide more than just OpenID. I think it would actually be pretty easy and I might give it a try when I get my MacBook back from Apple. On the other hand maybe Simon Willison should give this a try with his OpenID provider idproxy.net.

Obviously this technique would only be a hack as I believe that any small site should provide an OpenID login. On the other hand, as many sites run the same software (Wordpress, Drupal, etc) it would not be diffucult to create a proxy server that can automatically generate accounts the most common systems on the web if necessary.

Many people know that I like LJS Apple Service Center in The Haque (The Netherlands), but unfortunately there is no service point here in London that will do a repair in a couple of hours. Still I am glad when I went to the Apple Store in Regent Street this afternoon.

LJS killed my combo-drive with the last repair of my topcase of my MacBook. The Apple Store here was happy to fix it for me, even though somehow all of my repairs at LJS are not listed in their system. Additionally I had a nice talk with some of the tech guys of DJ Jazzy Jeff (who was also int he store himself). I just love the geek bar here, it is simple and it works and when you sit there you even get to meet people.

MacRumors user stomer has found slides from further in the webcast that us going on right now that confirm that the announcement will revolve around “DRM-free tracks at twice the sound quality.”

From the press release: $1.29 for premium tracks (DRM-less), $.99 for standard (DRM), and $.30 for upgrade.