One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 1 April 2004

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Ninja , a new centralized RSS aggregator,...

Ninja, a new centralized RSS aggregator, is open for business. NY Times article. Nick Denton explains. [Scripting News]

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TouchTone phones uses a system called Dual Tone Multifrequency dialing, which turns the digits you press into sounds which your phone company uses to determine who it is you're calling. You usually use the buttons on your pho... [macosxhints]

Geek alert! ;-]

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As the rage cooled and life got back to normal in Falluja, many townspeople said they felt a mixture of pride and shame. [New York Times: International]

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Four suburban moms are gaining prominence as the savvy World Trade Center widows who prodded for and got the creation of the 9/11 panel. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Everybody's talking about the free 1 Gig, which is doubtless very cool. But the idea of sending and receiving mail with advertising related to the contents of the email I or a colleague wrote is, well, creepy!

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Denying marriage to gays unfair, Ottawa tells court [GAM-National]

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On this day seven years ago a weblog called Scripting News first appeared. [Scripting News]

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Virgin Airlines is giving the high-rollers in its departure lounges complimentary iPods to listen to while they wait for their flights. Link

(via Engadget) [Boing Boing]

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Record labels are using data gleaned from pirate P2P networks to refine their sales-strategies, to excelletn effect. Nevertheless, they still repudiate the networks themselves, and vow to go on individually suing every participating music fan until they have all learned to respect the music industry. [Boing Boing]

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Sydney Morning Herald: "Monitor manufacturers are presenting digital photography enthusiasts and professionals with a bleak picture: the forced replacement of chunky cathode ray tube monitors with thin, expensive and, according to many experts, inferior LCD screens." [lawrence's notebook]

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Dowbrigade: "Meanwhile it is scary the degree to which my worldview and emotional well-being are becoming dependent on this five-pound slab of plastic, metal and silicon. Over the next three months it will be our companion, our post office, our library, our TV, our newsstand, our juke box, our confidant, our journal, our game chest, our worthy opponent in games and puzzles, our cookbook, our darkroom, our calculator, our telephone, our scrapbook, our window on the world and our lifeline to our past. It seems a miracle that one object can fill so many roles and desires. Our preciouuusss." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Another reason to love my Mac: Commandline BitTorrent client. Just download the python source and you're good to go! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Will Richardson a Manila user at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Fleming, New Jersey has an article on Blogging and RSS for educators in the January/February issue of MultiMedia & Internet@Schools. [UserLand Product News] 'However you start, start small and experiment. And become a blogger and a user of aggregators so that you can get firsthand experience in the power of the tools.'

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This excerpt from Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther introduces Unix networking: remotely accessing your Mac from other computers and copying files between computers. It also shows you how the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze once you've set them up the first time. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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I recently returned from a trip to Hong Kong and neglected to set the clock on my digital camera to local time there. When going through hundreds of photos at home and trying to figure out places and dates the EXIF informatio... [macosxhints]

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Tony Smith writes for the Register, “The AAC (Advanced Audio Codec), the audio format supported by Apple’s iTunes Music Store, has been chosen as a key future DVD Audio disc technology by the standard’s governing body, the DVD Forum.” [Mar 25] [Apple Hot News] 'In order to ensure DVD Audio playback on personal computers, the DVD Forum has proposed the inclusion of a DVD-ROM 'zone' on each DVD Audio disc, which the PC-based player will read in preference to the main audio area. That DVD-ROM will hold compressed versions of the songs encoded in DVD Audio format, and its for these compressed tracks that AAC has now been chosen.'

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Comparing Bluetooth on Mac OS X and Windows XP, Rebecca Freed writes for PC World, “When it comes down to it, there are still too many seams showing in Bluetooth on Windows. Sure, if you’re a savvy user you can make it work...Setting up my whole Bluetooth network on the Mac was quick and painless from start to finish — and truly wireless, unlike the Logitech DiNovo set.” [Mar 29] [Apple Hot News]

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The new iMac G4, with its 20-inch LCD monitor, is a wonder to behold. Despite its consumer-level status, it's a mighty Mac. For $2,199, you get the same computer as the 17-inch iMac G4 but with a very large, 20-inch screen, for which you pay the additional $400. [MacCentral]