Saturday, 13 July 2002
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NY Times: "Every time you play a CD, the machine automatically copies its tracks onto its built-in 20-gigabyte hard drive. Thereafter, you can play back those songs without having to insert the original CD. The hard drive holds 300 CD's worth of music, turning this handsome unit into a self-contained jukebox." [Scripting News] ' (The L7HD stores audio in Sony's own Atrac3 format rather than the more common MP3 format. But since you can copy music only onto the hard drive, never off it, the storage format makes no practical difference.)'
Data compression: bad!
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Springsteen to Begin a World Tour. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are to begin a world tour on Aug. 7 at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., in support of their new album, [New York Times: Arts]
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How to publish online. Weblog: More and more people are using weblogs. Here is our guide to the phenomenon - and a list of readers' sites. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Mac-Based Artist Rocks New York. Isca Greenfield-Sanders is a hot New York painter who relies more on a Mac than her pallette of oils. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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Video Scratching on M-M-Macs. Just as scratching and sampling has forever changed music, video scratching is starting to revolutionize club visuals. A New York trio, Squaresquare, are leading the pack. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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