Tuesday, February 12, 2002

QuickTime Streaming Server 4 is free, and has a terrific, easy-to-use interface (and even great online help, very unlike Apple recently, but much appreciated!). I was really up and running in 5 minutes with my own MP3 streaming station. Now all I want is to be able to easily export an iTunes playlist to QTSS. The file format is very simple, it should be a half-hour AppleScript project (but not tonight!) 10:52:02 PM | reply [] Not much interesting happened today, I wrote a lot. I hope Apple gets the MPEGLA to see its point of view on MPEG-4 licensing issues, the improvements (especially QuickTime Broadcaster) sound really useful. Didn't realize there was a newer version of the theme which I started from. I pulled a few items from it into this version, in particular the XML coffee cup and permalink icons. Tried out RadioService but I couldn't get it to work. No time to troubleshoot tonight. 10:23:40 PM | reply [] Just downloaded the firmware update for my MP3 player. The only feature I wanted (128 MB SmartMedia support) is there, but they've messed up the interface in so many small ways. The index shows filenames instead of song titles now; song numbers aren't shown unless you wait a second for it to read the MP3 format, etc. And it scrambled my radio presets. Oh well, off to buy a memory card. (Funny, the picture on this page is of an Apple QuickTake 150, which I used briefly while my Coolpix 950 was being repaired. It only has 1 MB internal RAM, and certainly doesn't take CompactFlash cards!) 6:25:43 AM | reply [] Amazing, I got that spam twice. It really does seem to originate from China, there aren't even any forged headers, the sending IPs were 61.154.132.137 and 61.154.133.139, and from there it was relayed through Colombia and Venezuela. 5:45:10 AM | reply [] This is definitely the most targeted spam I've ever received. Dear Sir, My name is ChenHua, and I'm writing on behalf of the China-Lutong mechanical company. Located in the south east of China, we specialize in hydraulic heads for the VE distributor pump. We can supply standard, good quality units at a very competitive price. The following types are available: Engine model VE PUMS code NO UNIT PRICE(EX WORKS) ISUZU) NP-VE4/11L 096400-1600 $USD40 (NIPPON DENSO) ISUZU NP-VE4/11R 146402-0820(zexel) $USD45 [...] Imagine if the whole world worked this way: everyone got everything. We'd be sifting through garbage for our entire lives. (Although I feel somewhat like that with the huge stack of papers on my desk.) 12:20:22 AM | reply []