One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 27 February 2004

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Digitizing History

The British Pathe archive consists of 3,500 hours of historical video footage and over 12 million still photographs documenting the past 75 years, including footage of the Titanic, the D-Day Landings and The Beatles. Using Xserves and Macs, all the video content is currently being encoded into QuickTime files accessible through the British Pathe archive web site. [Feb 26] [Apple Hot News]

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It wasn't long ago that only those serious about moviemaking created short films during their college years. Now, however, rapid advances in technology have allowed anyone to pick up a digital video (DV) camcorder, shoot some footage, and edit it on a Mac with Apple's iMovie, which comes pre-loaded on every new computer sold by the company. And with the growing popularity of DVD burners, they can also easily transfer the finished product to a disc playable on most set-top players. It's a far cry from the old days of jerky 8mm films projected on someone's bedsheet and never seen outside a small group of peers. [MacCentral]

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37signals has introduced Basecamp, a new hosted Web-based project management tool aimed at designers, consultants and freelancers. It's based on Weblog (blog) technology, and it consolidates disparate communications like e-mails, chats, presentations, links, comps and feedback, leveraging integration with Apple's iCal software and the ability to publish Rich (or RDF) Site Summary (RSS) newsfeeds. [MacCentral]

Oh man, I wish everyone in my work group used Macs. Life would be so much better.

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Eight officials from Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) entered the Japan offices of Microsoft Corp. Thursday morning as part of an investigation into possible anti-competitive practices by the U.S. software giant, the company confirmed. [MacCentral]

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Novell announced recently that the upcoming release of version 6.5 of their GroupWise cross-platform client will support Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther," in addition to Linux. The client, which is part of the GroupWise family of collaboration tools, is currently in an extended Beta program; the company expects to ship it in the next one to two months. [MacCentral]

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February 25, 2004 (The Internet): Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org), a volunteer-created, multi-language encyclopedia, announced today that the project has reached a milestone of 500,000 articles, spread across 50 different languages. [Kuro5hin.org]

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Good Experience: The Page Paradigm. In my nine years of working on the Web's user experience, a lot has changed online - but one thing that hasn't changed much is the way that users navigate websites. Back in 1999, I proposed the "Page Paradigm" to describe this near-constant usage pattern; it still holds today... [Tomalak's Realm]

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Don Park theorizes that Osama bin Laden will be killed or captured shortly before the US election in the fall. [Scripting News]

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NY Times endorses John Kerry. [Scripting News]