One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 3 December 2003

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Ads: Bush No! Democratas Si!

Another Democratic group launches TV ads against the president, aimed squarely at Hispanic voters. [Salon]

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Network World: NTT DoCoMo plans dual 3G/WLAN handset. In WLAN mode, the telephone supports data transmission and, when linked to a corporate IP telephony server, voice transmission. This enables the telephone to double as both a regular cellular telephone and, within a company wireless network, as a cordless handset and data modem. [Tomalak's Realm]

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With hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into the paid digital download arena, the sector could be the most active online commerce category next year. [New York Times: Technology]

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The DVD Forum goes with the blue-laser format advanced by Toshiba and NEC and says it will endorse only one technology, but that hardly settles matters. [Wired News]

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Wired magazine presents 77 of the coolest stereos, 3-D screens, toys, cameras, DVRs, games and gadgets of the year. [Wired News]

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Julian Hirsch, an electrical engineer and writer who was among the first to help a growing audience of audiophiles sort through the good, the bad and the indifferent in electronic sound equipment, died. [New York Times: Technology]

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Nikon today announced that it is "working on" a new budget priced digital SLR, the D70 and a new complementary DX lens. From the hints given in the 'development press releases' it's fairly easy to come to the conclusion that this camera will be fully announced at PMA 2004 and should hit the stores shortly afterwards. Considering its "budget price" and considering the current competition I will make a wild guess that the D70 will be based around the D100 engine with... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

Forced to play catch-up with Canon.

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How America rewrote the rules of war. Special investigation by James Meek. [Guardian Unlimited]

War crimes.

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Simply edit two lines in the "Image - Duplicate as PNG.scpt" (located in /Library -> Scripts -> Folder Action Scripts) to be able to convert screen captures and Illustrator 10 (PDF compatible) files to PNGs. [macosxhints]

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Fortune magazine names the Power Mac G5 as one of “The 25 Best Products of the Year,” writing, “The G5’s anodized aluminum enclosure isn’t just an aesthetic home run: Its perforations keep the computer from overheating. Two sleek handles make the machine easy to move. And the G5’s 64-bit processor is one of the fastest around.” [Dec 2] [Apple Hot News]

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Apple's adoption of Zeroconf networking (branded as "Rendezvous") has opened the door to new ways of sharing information on local networks. In this article, Wei Meng Lee shows you how to use two collaborative editing tools: SubEthaEdit and iStorm. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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Yes, the iPod can store thousands of songs. But now you can use it to upload thousands of pictures too, directly from the memory card. And thanks to Panther, that's only the beginning of what is sure to become an indispensable tool for many digital photographers. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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New Scientist: Internet mapping project weaves colourful web. "It started as a bet, but after I warmed up to the idea I found a lot of value in the project itself," Lyon writes on the project's homepage. He says his maps could provide a useful overview of the internet's structure and even reveal the effects of disruptions caused by real-world disasters. But more importantly, he says: "The project is art." [Tomalak's Realm]