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More geek tools. .< 8:39:50 PM  >Following its recent $100 price cut for the most expensive 15-inch iMac G4 model, Apple has cut prices on the rest of the 15-inch models by $100, while the fast-selling 17-inch model remains at $1999. The 15-inch models are now priced at $1199, $1499 and $1699, respectively, for standard configurations with CD-RW, "Combo" and "SuperDrive" optical drives [Macintouch] US$ .< 8:25:36 PM >Watch QuickTime movies in the Terminal [Mac OS X Hints] 'Believe it or not, you can actually view a QuickTime movie in the Terminal, in ascii form.' Hilarious. Outgeek that! .< 8:19:34 PM >Intel to Invest $150 Million in Wireless Technology. Intel said on Monday it plans to invest $150 million in companies developing high-speed wireless networking technology. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 8:18:55 PM >Daily Mac OS X Unix Trick. OS X Special Commands - ditto [OSXFAQ] Use this unix command to backup your data while maintaining the Mac resource fork as well as owner and permission settings. .< 8:06:39 PM >WebReference has another sample Radio chapter from the O"Reilly blogging book. This one is about the technology, the object database, scripting language, networking, content management, XML, SOAP and XML-RPC support, and upstreaming. Thanks! [Scripting News] 'At its core, Radio is a very sophisticated piece of software-as sophisticated as you can purchase from any vendor today including Microsoft, IBM, and Sun.' .< 7:50:01 PM >Health Canada plans 500 smallpox vaccinations 
Fearing that a terrorist attack could create an outbreak of smallpox, Health Canada plans to vaccinate about 500 Canadians against the disease, CBC News has learned. [CBC News] .< 7:47:42 PM >Apple (finally!) talks about DRM. Ever since Apple announced intentions to support two different DRM systems (AT&T's a2b for QuickTime 4, SealedMedia's DRM for QuickTime... [PlaybackTime] .< 12:14:41 PM >Shields aims for literary hat trick with G-G nomination Novelist Carol Shields, already nominated for Canada's Giller Prize and Britain's Booker Prize, has made the short list for the Governor General's fiction award for her latest novel Unless. [CBC News] .< 4:12:46 AM >WiebeTech ships 200GB FireWire drive [The Macintosh News Network] US$600 .< 3:26:13 AM >Latest Web Article/Review Philip Anson reviews The Letters of Arturo Toscanini [LaScena-Features] .< 3:07:57 AM >Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Photographer, Dies at 100. Manuel Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's greatest photographer and a world master of his art. By Jonathan Kandell. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:06:07 AM >Vivendi Moves Up Deadline on Bids for Publishing Unit. Vivendi Universal is rushing suitors of its publishing business, which includes Houghton Mifflin, to submit final bids. By Suzanne Kapner and Andrew Ross Sorkin. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:05:12 AM >Still Replying to Grandma's Persistent, 'And Then?'. Pausing and withholding information an important narrative device was something I learned from my grandmother, a Sicilian and a good storyteller. By Frederic Tuten. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:04:16 AM >Hope and Lyric Rock From the Gentle Beatle. American Ballet Theater's latest instant hit, "Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison," is lively and lyrical ballet set to music by a rock idol that its title proclaims. By Anna Kisselgoff. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:02:50 AM >The Gatekeeper for Literature Changes at New Yorker. Deborah Treisman is the new fiction editor of The New Yorker a position that can control the velvet rope at the gateway to literary stardom. By David Carr and David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Arts] .< 2:34:15 AM >Being 18. This year 130 million teenagers around the world will turn 18. Guardian correspondents ask them about their hopes and fears for the future. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:24:32 AM >Paolo Valdemarin Weblog: Uploading a Radio weblog on .Mac: "If you are a .Mac subscriber, you have about 100Mb of disk space that you can use on Apple's servers. Some of this space can be used to host a public site. Following these instructions you can move your entire Radio weblog or a category of your weblog on these servers." .< 2:11:20 AM >New Solti website explores conductor's craft Masterminded by Lady Solti, site offers archive footage and recordings. [Gramophone - News] .< 1:25:17 AM >PDF in Mac OS X is cool for so many reasons. Any Mac OS X app that uses Quartz can save a PDF document as easily as it can print. In fact, the standard print panel/sheet in Jaguar includes a "Save as PDF..." button. Press it, and you've got a totally standard PDF document with all the fidelity of the original (including any glyphs for the fonts referenced in the document too). This is a great solution for saving receipts and confirmations from online purchases. Right from your browser, just choose Print..., Save as PDF and you are all set. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] Yup. Been doing exactly this since OS X came out. It's even easier with Jaguar. .< 1:20:26 AM >For the Web Generation, Travel Is Self-Service. An army of bargain hunters, booking at the 11th hour, is changing the travel industry. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:14:59 AM >Privacy Czar: Past Haunts Present. A former Clinton administration official in charge of privacy issues warns: If we don't learn from past mistakes, today's anti-terrorism witch hunts could go down as a stain on U.S. history. By Steve Kettmann. [Wired News] .< 1:12:18 AM >The Remote Controllers. On Internet sites, fans post passionate responses to their favorite shows. Writers and producers are taking this advice seriously and turning TV into an interactive medium at last. By Marshall Sella. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:11:19 AM >Rock's House Photographer. IN a business filled with overblown egos, one man modestly turned his hobby into a career. As a musician and member of the Modern Folk Quartet in the 1960's, Henry Diltz loved to take snapshots on the road and then present slide shows back home in Los Angeles. His organic, laid-back approach to photography appealed to his friends, who included the musicians David Crosby and Mama Cass Elliot, and a pastime quickly became a vocation. By Brendan Morgan. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:10:50 AM >Finding Art, and a Cause, in the Forest. Over the last six years, Valdir Cruz has been photographing people who live in some of the remotest regions of the rain forest in Brazil and Venezuela. By Lyle Rexer. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:10:06 AM >A Hard Man Who Saw Art as Power and Vice Versa. An exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal explores Cardinal Richelieu's use of the visual arts as propaganda for his grand enterprise the invention of the French state and for his own advancement. By Deborah Weisgall. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:09:20 AM >Intelligence, but Not in Place Of Vocal Beauty. Belgian baritone José van Dam is simply an intelligent singer. Thoughts come through his music. By Anne Midgette. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:08:46 AM >Don't Call It a String Quartet. It's a Band.. Ethel, a string quartet, is evolving a novel approach to presenting concert music in the 21st century, in clubs. By Steve Smith. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:07:20 AM >For Good or Ill, a Powerful Imprint. In just three programs, Lorin Maazel has put his powerful imprint on the New York Philharmonic, guiding their playing in a flashier yet quite controlled direction. By Anthony Tommasini. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:03:19 AM >Renée Fleming: America's Soprano of Choice. Without surrendering the persona of the classical musician, the all-American diva Renée Fleming has captured the hearts of a mainstream audience. By Matthew Gurewitsch. [New York Times: Arts] |
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