Tuesday, 24 September 2002
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Taking Taiko, Japan's Big Drum, Into the Hip-Hop Age. For 20 years, the Japanese taiko master Eitetsu Hayashi has helped lead a musical revival that has made taiko drums and their sounds sell out concerts. By Elizabeth Heilman Brooke. [New York Times: Arts]
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Flirting with Mac OS X. Byte.com: “UNIX is for servers, Windows is for desktops. Right? No, wrong. Turns out nowadays you don’t need to use that ugly W word to have a decent desktop and office environment. Enter Mac OS X.” [ranchero.com]
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Canadians shortlisted for Booker literary prize
Three Canadian authors have been shortlisted for Britain's prestigious
literary award, the Booker Prize.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Email Magician: Eudora helper utility [The Macintosh News Network]
Lots of cool features. But no OS X version yet. And Eudora is still crashing when opening mail with images in html messages.
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MacNet Journal reports that OmniOutliner will support OPML soon. That's very good news indeed. [Scripting News]Just last night I was thinking that I'd delete OmniOutliner from my drive. I love it but I thought it would be a good idea to trim down the number of apps I try to keep up with. And Radio has an outliner and so much else to offer. But this will certainly make me reconsider.
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Digidesign Ships Digi 002 FireWire Mini Studio
DALY CITY, Calif., Sep. 24, 2002
-- Digidesign has begun shipping the Digi 002, which incorporates a FireWire interface, a
touch-sensitive control surface, 24-bit/96 kHz specs and Pro Tools LE 5.3.2 software for both Windows (XP Home) andMacintosh (Mac OS 9.x).
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments. When physicists were recently asked to nominate the most beautiful experiments of all time, the 10 winners were largely solo performances. By George Johnson. [New York Times: Technology]
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DSVariables: free FileMaker Pro plugin [The Macintosh News Network] "The purpose of the plugin is to allow the database designer to dynamically use live variables in their scripts in order to pass parameters between them. This will eliminate the need for global fields and will work between scripts in different databases."
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CNN.com - To Blog or not to Blog - Sep. 20, 2002 "If you like following the latest Internet trends, it may be time to dip your toe in a blog. "Blog" is "Netslang" for "Web log." At its most basic level, a blog is a diary."
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Sonic Studio to Launch Sonicstudio HD at AES
Plymouth, MN (September 24, 2002)--Sonic Studio will unveil SonicStudio
HD 1.8 at the upcoming AES Convention. The first product release from
Sonic Studio, the company formed earlier this year to develop and market
the SonicStudio HD line of digital audio editing and pre-mastering workstations,
SonicStudio HD 1.8 offers enhancements to existing functions as well as
many instability fixes. [ProSound News]
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Prairie harvest delayed by rain
Prairie farmers struggled with a drought through most of the summer.
Now, as they try to harvest what's left of their crops, it's raining.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Kodak Pro DCS-14n, 14 megapixel full-frame CMOS. Photokina 2002: Kodak has announced the new 14 megapixel DCS-14n. This new digital SLR is even more remarkable for its capture device, a 13.89 megapixel full-frame (36 x 24 mm) CMOS sensor. The magnesium-alloy... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]14 megapixels!? Wow.
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StuffIt Deluxe 7 - What's in a Filename? (23-Sep-2002; 6.6K) [TidBITS]An improved new version. Handles long file names properly and creates a new format with tighter compression.
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O'Reilly Network: Using PC Peripherals on the Mac [Sep. 13, 2002] So I decided to try out my existing pool of PC peripherals. To my great pleasure, most of them work!
This article lists some of my experiences in using my existing PC peripherals on the Mac. PC users who are contemplating buying a Mac can use this as an informal guide to see for themselves how much of their existing hardware they can reuse.
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The CBC Celebrates Glenn Gould: "On September 25th, colleagues, friends and fans share their stories and insights about the legendary Glenn Gould." It would have been his 70th birthday.
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