One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 6 January 2004

.< 11:27:52 PM >
Protests widen over sky marshals

Lisbon joins Denmark and Sweden in rejecting US calls to post armed guards on international flights. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 11:27:10 PM >

The military unveils incentives to encourage soldiers to re-enlist for Iraq and Afghanistan and bars others from retiring. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 11:23:51 PM >

DNA shows BSE cow is Canadian
DNA tests have confirmed that a cow that tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Washington state was born in Canada, officials from both countries announced Tuesday. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

< 3:50:39 PM >

Effective today, the USA is fingerprinting and photographing all visitors arriving or departing from the USA except short-term tourist visitors from a few mostly Western European countries, and will retain the digital images in a new US-VISIT database . Most... [The Practical Nomad]

Sure am glad I flew direct to Mexico this time. No more travel to the US for this guy. Not until the Bush admin is gone. And bravo to Brazil.

< 3:47:58 PM >

As I was driving to Los Angeles (it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there) on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Air France (AF) flights to LAX were being cancelled on the instigation of the... [The Practical Nomad]

< 3:44:55 PM >

Recently I cleaned up some of my mail prefs and auto-junk filtering stopped working. If I manually marked a message as Junk, it would go to the Junk box, but messages marked as Junk when downloaded would stay in my Inbox.

... [macosxhints]

< 3:43:01 PM >

My wife and I share the same Mac OS X account since I personally find it a pain to deal with multiple accounts. Anyway, since we both have our own email accounts set up in Mail.app, when we select or hit the keyboard shortcu... [macosxhints]

< 3:42:29 PM >

Recently, I discovered that my iBook had its CPU pegged even though I was only using Safari and a few other small apps. Turns out another user left Microsoft Word running in her account (via fast user switching), and that wa... [macosxhints]

< 3:40:58 PM >

Apple on Tuesday introduced the iPod mini, the second member of the iPod family. The hard-disk-based iPod mini is about the size of a credit card and measures only 1/2 inch thick, but stores up to 4GB of music. [MacCentral]

< 3:39:25 PM >

Apple CEO Steve Jobs also used his Macworld Conference & Expo keynote to announce a new version of iLife, dubbed iLife '04, that will be available on January 16 for US$49. It will be free with every new Mac sold on or after January 6; anyone who buys a new Mac on or after that date that doesn't have the new suite installed can order an iLife Up-To-Date upgrade package for a $19.95 shipping and handling fee. He said it was "like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life" and explained that it features new versions of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD, along with a brand new fifth application, GarageBand, that allows you to compose and record music on your Mac. [MacCentral]

< 3:38:42 PM >

Toronto, ON --Heading North Mastering recently upgraded its mastering suite with Z-Systems z-16.16 Digital Detangler and Universal Audio 2192 Master Digital Audio Interface. [ProSound News]

< 10:50:33 AM >

Roxio Inc. on Monday introduced Toast with Jam 6. Toast is Roxio's CD and DVD burning software for the Mac, and Jam provides users with high-quality audio tools. The new combination will be previewed this week at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif. [MacCentral] 'Dolby Digital Sound software is included. This encoding and decoding software enables users to fit more content in their projects without losing fidelity. It enables users to use existing Dolby Digital content in their Toast products, and also offers the ability to produce DVD Music Albums, complete with on-screen menus, drag & drop support from iTunes and more.'