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War sucks. .< 11:22:12 PM  >TechTV gives iMac 'thumbs-up' [MacNN] .< 11:07:42 PM >DevShed: Building a Quick-and-Dirty PHP/MySQL Publishing System. “Constructing a dynamic, database-driven Web site in Perl would take me a week; with PHP, I’m done in two days, and my code is cleaner, more readable and less convoluted than my best efforts in Perl.” [mac.scripting.com] .< 11:05:55 PM >Record companies: Save us from ourselves!. With payola up but profits down, labels are wondering if paying $100 million to middlemen "fixers" is still a swell business idea. [Salon.com] 'Most listeners don't know it, but virtually every song they hear on FM commercial radio has been paid for -- indirectly -- by five major record labels. The companies pay millions of dollars each year to the independent radio promoters, universally referred to as "indies," who in turn pass along money to radio stations whenever they add new songs to their playlists.' .< 10:58:27 PM >Sex tips for Victorians. Dr. Becklard's 1845 self-help book is amazingly sex-positive, but probably should not be consulted regarding contraception (it involves trotting a horse). [Salon.com] .< 10:57:07 PM >Sutton Hoo lays out its treasures. UK latest: Seamus Heaney pays tribute to greatest British artefact discovery. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 4:14:11 PM >Nicotine perfectly built for addiction: study Nicotine doesn't just stimulate the brain's "reward" centre, it also shuts down the system that limits how long those rewards last. [CBC News] .< 3:38:56 PM >But the art of the next bomblet won't be in the bombing, it will be in the smooth ramp, the seduction that gets people to try it without being overwhelmed by its hugeness. It will appear to be an evolution on instant messaging. But in fact it will be much more. [Scripting News] Dave the perpetual tease. I've never used an IM app but I'll bet this one (being much more than that) will capture my imagination. lCan't wait. .< 2:34:18 PM >MacNN: Steinberg intros Cubase SX audio system: "Steinberg today introduced a new version of its professional music recording & production system, Cubase SX, at Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany." OS compatible. US$800 96/24. Looks interesting. .< 12:18:01 PM >Update: The Evolution of Rollovers. Thanks to your feedback we've updated our rollover roundup with improved pure CSS2 rollovers, both vertical and horizontal. By morphing your links into block-level elements you can reliably set their dimensions. From JavaScript 1.1 to CSS2, we chronicle the development of rollover creation techniques over time. By Andy King. 0313 [WebReference News] .< 12:08:06 PM >Peter Goldman pointed out a review of Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server: "Network Computing has an in-depth look at streaming video server solutions - highlighting and giving top honors to Apple's Darwin Streaming Server 4 as compared to Microsoft Windows Media Services and RealNetworks RealSystem iQ."[Macintouch] .< 12:00:53 PM >Dave Hanks reports excellent results with the new Mozilla web browser: "After almost a full day (several hours) of use I can say this new Mozilla version a vast improvement over Netscape 6.2.1!!! Not one crash yet! This baby is rock solid and it actually works. I've even visited several sites that would always crash Netscape and it keeps on ticking.[Macintouch] Cool. They're back on line. There is an OS X version. I'm downloading it now. .< 11:57:58 AM >Melonsoft's $10 WebPeek X uploads screenshots taken at user-specified time intervals to a designated server via FTP. The images can then be viewed remotely in any web browser. Date, time and IP address can be added to the image, and image size and quality can be adjusted by the user. [Macintouch] I'm behind a firewall at work. I want to keep an eye on what's happening with my machine from home. Looks like this would do the trick. .< 11:54:34 AM >John Cramp's Playthrough FX 1.0 is a free Mac OS X utility to applying real-time effects to audio input. [Macintouch] From the description it looks like a bit of a fun toy at this point, as opposed to a serious tool. My interest is that it shows the potential of OS X as an audio platform. .< 11:49:48 AM >Web File Types CM Plugin by Brent Simmons - a Contextual Menus plugin that allows you to quickly and easily switch the creator of files. This is useful if you want to switch the creator of, for instance, a Navigator document to a BBEdit document. It runs on Mac OS 8 and 9 and OS X. [Ruminations News] .< 11:40:51 AM >Artist inspires solace with New York Tribute of Light. National Post Online Mar 13 2002 3:14AM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] His parents are French Canadian. .< 11:21:14 AM >Kenneth Starr's $70 million bag of garbage. The independent counsel's pathetic final report reveals what a travesty the right wing's get-Clinton crusade was. [Salon.com] .< 1:04:38 AM >CD Review Search / Recherche dans les critiques de DC: "The Casals documentary was aired in 1974, shortly after the untimely death of the cellist. Gould chose Albert Kahn, who co-authored the volume of Casals memoirs Joys and Sorrows, as the main commentator. While his authority as a Casals specialist is never in doubt, Kahn does not have a particularly good radio voice, which makes his hesitant, rather stilted delivery a liability." Two comments. What's an untimely death? The man lived for 97 years. .< 12:20:05 AM >French characters in Terminal [Mac OS X Hints] It really is worth digging through the prefs settings! |
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