One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 25 May 2004

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DVD Database X 1.0

Organize and maintain your own DVD movie database. [CNET Download.com 25 Newest Mac Titles]

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Apogee Electronics Corporation announced that its much anticipated AD-16X and DA-16X converters are now available worldwide through authorized dealers and distributors. The AD and DA-16X are designed to be the ultimate system for digital audio conversion and offer 192k sampling rates, the C777 clocking technology from Apogee's Big Ben, a redesigned power supply and analog section, and direct connectivity to Pro Tools HD with the X-HD card. FireWire enabled computers can be connect directly to Apogee's optional X-FireWire card. [ProSound News]

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I wrote a piece for TheFeature.com about i2 Internet's new device , the InternetTalker MG-3, which allows mobile phones to make VoIP calls.

Want to talk to somebody in China? You’ll get charged 5 cents a minute. Cingular has been having a great time charging you $3.49 a minute for making the same call.

Link [Boing Boing]

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So, um, the EU got ten new member states a few weeks ago. The tabloids would have we Brits believe that we'd be flooded with "asylum seekers", "migrant workers" and "illegal immigrants" the instant such refugee hotspots as Malta, Estonia and Slovakia became EU members on May the first. But they didn't. How odd. [Kuro5hin.org]

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News.Com: Flash memory makers slash prices. [Tomalak's Realm] 'The average price of 512-megabit flash chips has tumbled to $9 from a $21.50 peak in October, according to DramExchange. For consumers, that has resulted in bargains such as a 512-megabyte SanDisk memory card reduced to $98 from $221.'

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EE Times: Humble cell morphs into device for all seasons. Some received radio and TV broadcasts; some played music, videos and games. Others functioned as electronic money or personal identification systems, with the help of wireless ICs; still others accessed the Internet to remotely control home robots. [Tomalak's Realm]

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In my InfoWorld column this week ("Blogging behind the firewall"), I write about a small but really amazing outpouring of information-sharing in InfoWorld's IT department since we started a group weblog a few months ago. [snip] In my experience so far, weblogs work best as documentation repositories in the spirit of what Scott Ambler has written about as "agile documentation," a concept I also discussed recently.

Scoble wonders what we write about in our internal InfoWorld weblog. Here are a few recent headlines to posts with some background info in parentheses:

• Vacation - IT staff (a scintillating view into the summer vacation schedule for InfoWorld's IT staff)
• Long-term equipment plan (5-year plan for Test Center capital spending)
• FY 05 Capital budget planning (our purchase plans for web site scaling, desktop/laptop replacements, etc. for next fiscal year)
• Oracle migration procedure (a step-by-step explanation of what we did to upgrade from Oracle 8i on Solaris to Oracle 9i on Linux for our CMS)
• Firewall settings (see why this stuff isn't public?)
• MX record trick to fake out spammers

Practical example of the usefulness of weblogs behind the firewall.

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The sport of hockey has been the long neglected stepchild of North American team competition. While many have watched the Red Wings on TV, or possibly been to one or two games, hockey is still relatively unknown to most people south of the Canadian border. This is unfortunate , as hockey could be considered the most fast paced and intelligent sports played today. [Kuro5hin.org]

Funny! But they're serious!

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I often find myself in pop-ups that have no address bars. Safari has an awkward shortcut to invoke the address bar (command+shift+), but I discovered that the Google shortcut on the edit menu accomplishes the same thi... [macosxhints]

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I was frustrated to find out that in iCal, I could not attach alarms to events from other people's calendars that I had subscribed to. However, I later discovered that this is actually possible. Even though you cannot change ... [macosxhints]