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It appears Yahoo is working on a technology that will allow you to search subscription based websites. So does this mean we’ll now have access to reading content we normally would have to pay for? I wonder if it will index pictures …

The service, called Yahoo Search Subscriptions, allows users to search multiple online subscription content sources and the web from a single search box.

Users can see content from the sites they subscribe to, while nonsubscribers have the option of paying to see it. Content providers, for their part, get access to the vast audience of web search users.

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The big “D” Michael Dell has spoken some words lately about absorbing Apple’s OSX into Dell’s mix of OS’s distributed with their systems. I wonder how Microsoft feels knowing that not only is Apple’s future plans to go X86, but the biggest computer distributor in the world [Dell] wants a piece of their competition [Apple]..

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“If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it to our customers,” Dell wrote in an email. It’s the first time any PC industry executive has openly shown enthusiasm for selling machines with Apple’s software.
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Just got word this morning from David Breyer that a new SYSTM was released!

Systm Episode 2!

We are pleased to announce the release of Systm episode #2! This time we feature a how-to on the popular open source based PVR software, MythTV. MythTV brings you the ease-of-use of a TiVo and the flexibility of a ReplayTV without any associated monthly service fees. We use the bootable Linux-based OS, KnoppMyth, to demonstrate just how easy it is
to install, configure, and ultimately enjoy!

Don’t forget to download our first Systm episode, “Building A War Spying Box,” if you haven’t done so already. It features the first ever handheld auto-switching war spying device (links available at systm.org).

Wow, just when you thought you had to wait 5 more days for the next TWITCast Leo surprises us with the first midweek PodCast of TWIT episode 8A. Live from the Mac developers conference in San Francisco.

Available for download at www.twit.tv