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It's back up. Here's the link. Excellent! Bookmark this. .< 9:56:08 PM  >Quickly mount AFP share points [Mac OS X Hints] ". . . you can save yourself some time by adding it to the URL you give to the "connect to server" panel." .< 7:37:46 PM >digitalMASS: Antipiracy bill a high-tech threat. Millions of people already steal their products with digital assistance, and the problem is getting worse. But the proposed alternative would turn our personal computers, and all our other personal technologies, into digital busybodies that probably would forbid even legal copying. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 7:30:09 PM >Ivan Ortega updated his free Codec Calulator utility for calculating video and audio data rates. Version 2.0 adds support for QuickTime 5 and eleven other codecs and improves MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 calculations. Other features include a calculator for determining maximum video file size plus two-way conversion of kbps and k/sec. [Macintouch] .< 7:29:47 PM >ADC Extension for Apple LCD Displays: " ADC Extension by Dr. Bott offers an extra 3 meter (10 ft.), extending the range of the display to a total of about 4.5 meters (15 ft.). A passive extension cable cannot go further than that as both the digital video signals and the USB signals that are also carried in the ADC cable will not permit so. " Might this be enough to make it from the machine room to the monitor in my studio? .< 6:25:53 PM >EE Times: Group to form content-protection specs for audio players. A group of consumer electronics manufacturers and technology suppliers have formed the Digital Media Device Association (DMDA) and created a working group to draft specifications related to the use and exchange of digital audio content on portable and networked players. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 6:07:28 PM >CanadaComputes.com - Audio Review: Furthur 1.5.6 (beta)Furthur is a relatively new P2P music sharing system aimed specifically at distributing music by 'jamband' artists who allow free non-commercial trading of live concert recordings Route around the record companies. .< 6:04:56 PM >Air Canada recalls hundreds of workers as traffic rebounds. CBC Mar 8 2002 1:28PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] We've shaken it off. Let's get back to business. Right on. .< 6:02:12 PM >Toronto's winter warmest on record. Toronto Star Online Mar 8 2002 1:59PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] No kidding. .< 5:36:41 PM >Globe and Mail: Intranets become 'intramess'. Many intranets fail to live up to their potential because they don't have the content that is supposed to help people perform their work, and users often can't find what they're looking for even if it's on the sites, says Bobbie Merilees, a Vancouver-based consultant who advises companies on intranets. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 2:40:53 AM >The $59 USB Hexa Media Drive from LaCie can read and write from six types of memory cards: CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MemoryStick, MicroDrive, MultiMedia and SD. The USB-powered unit can also transfer data between two cards when used with Mac OS X 10.1.2 or later, and is recognized by iPhoto. [Macintouch] Bingo .< 2:35:58 AM >Morpheus's Virtual Composer is a $50 "graphical multichannel musical compiler, sequencer and analyzer, designed for perfect execution of complex polyphonic music." Version 3.0 is a major update of the QuickTime-based application, featuring improved beaming and resynchronization algorithms, partial support for MIDI file import, and the ability to use local QuickTime controllers between notes. [Macintouch] .< 2:25:46 AM >BusinessWeek reports that Apple is planning to use developers in India to port business applications to Mac OS X. [Macintouch] "Does all this mean Apple will finally win respect in the executive suite? I doubt it. The Mac's best features -- stunning graphics, stylish design, and ease of use -- are what corporate purchase managers value least. What they favor are cookie-cutter PCs at rock-bottom prices." .< 2:19:14 AM >Georg Boenn's $35 SynthX soundfile synthesizer and processor for Mac OS X and Classic was updated with support for input and output of 96 kHz/24 bit soundfiles. Version 1.1 also features improved file processing performance. [Macintouch] .< 2:15:57 AM >Ranchero: Frontier/Radio Contextual Menu Plugin Beta: "This is a free contextual menu plugin for OS X that gives you a Frontier Scripts submenu. You can attach your own scripts and run them from the Finder. It also works with Radio UserLand" Awesome. Go Brent! .< 2:10:12 AM >Proper Use of UNIX Layer [Mac OS X Hints] The original post is a bit wonky. Scroll down to until you see a reply with this message and read on for the real info. "There are *three* places you might install some neat thing you find on MacOSXHints (or elsewhere)" .< 1:59:14 AM >Reader: Apple airs primetime iMac ad on NBC [MacNN] I gotta say, it's cute. macrumors has it for downloading. What other computer would inspire people to tape a commercial and put it up on a web site the night it airs? .< 1:49:37 AM >Gap between high- and low-income Canadians grows. Straight Goods Mar 8 2002 0:08AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Twas ever thus. That doesn't make it ok. .< 12:44:52 AM >Arts: "Work was hard to come by for these performers back in the late fifties. Racism was still a fact of life in the United States. Their albums were labelled "race records," and marketed as such. To its immeasurable credit, the CBC regularly hired them for their variety shows and even their own specials. " We watched the show tonight. It was fantastic. Read the rest of this article now, while it's still available (gone after 7 days from the Globe's site) .< 12:02:56 AM >Well I'm all pleased with myself. I've come up with a workaround for the bug I found. The reason I started poking around with this script is that I wanted all of the templates to open up in Radio. I much prefer working with an outliner for my editing chores. In fact I wish I could do all of my posting within the outliner. But I digress. I should let you know that I am but a lowly hacker who barely knows what he's doing. It works here folks but if anything breaks, well, you broke it. The first 'gotcha' with my workaround is that it only works if you want to open all your templates in Radio. Here's how you make that happen. Jump to (command-j) user.radio.prefs.editors. There are three entries here. Set each of them to the path to your installation of Radio. In my case that's 'X:Users:xxxx:Applications:Radio UserLand:Radio UserLand[dot accent]' (well, not really) Now tweak the verb which is causing the problem. Jump to system.verbs.builtins.radio.menuCommands.openTemplateFile. Select the entry called 'openTemplateFile'. We'll back it up before we mess with it. Command-c to copy the script to the clipboard. Rename the original to something like 'openTemplateFileORIG'. If you're still in selection mode from having renamed the verb, hit the enter key to return to selection mode. Now command-v to paste in another copy of the verb. This is the copy we'll open and modify. If something goes wrong, just remove the 'ORIG' from your back up and you are back in business. With the 'openTemplateFile' verb selected, hit command-enter to open it up. Find the line 'launch.appWithDocument (adreditor^, f)' and comment it out (command-). Hit return. Type 'fileMenu.open (f)'. Hit the 'Compile' button at the top of the window. Now try out your changes. Go to menu Radio->Templates-> and choose anything in there (other than 'Restore defaults'). The template you selected should open in Radio. Yay! I'm a happy guy. I've also made a backup copy of the script in my workspace in case it gets tromped on by an update. If someone has a better solution or thinks I'm being dangerous here I'd be grateful if they'd let me know. PS There is a line in the script below an if statement, along with a comment as follows: fileMenu.open (f) //launch.appWithDocument doesn't work for Radio running on MacOS X under Classic, but filemenu.open does work.
This was the final hint I needed for the solution. I think it's safe to say that 'launch.appWithDocument doesn't work for Radio running on MacOS X' in this situation, period. I'm not running Radio in Classic. |
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