One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 4 June 2004

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Nova Scotia poet takes home the Griffin...

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[GAM-National]

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Jazz festival unveils the 380 free shows that are part of this year's event. [montreal city weblog]

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As she applies final polish to “A King Listens,” her opera inspired by an Italian story, Margaret Anne Schedel says, ”It’s interactive between the performer and the composer, the computer, the audience.” [Jun 4] [Apple Hot News]

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A patent recently obtained by Microsoft covers the use of such technologies as double-clicking and holding down a button on a PDA. Critics call it yet another example of overly broad patents on familiar technologies. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

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Microsoft denies there's a problem, but Wi-Fi users report a maddening occurrence: the sudden, inexplicable loss of their wireless connections, even when XP says everything is hunky-dory. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]

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Aging players and 80's nostalgia are reinvigorating interest in old video games, and an industry that has long focused on the future has become eager to herald its past. [New York Times: Technology]

Olivia and Sandy were talking about Pac-Man just this morning. If this game had come out a few years later it would have been called PacMan.

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From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity (washingtonpost.com) [Daypop Top 40] 'Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. Though stretching the truth is hardly new in a political campaign, they say the volume of negative charges is unprecedented -- both in speeches and in advertising.'

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Last week, TC Electronic posted software version 1.11 for Reverb 4000, as well as the Macintosh OSX version of the TC ICON editor program used to control it. The Version 1.11 update and Mac ICON editor can be downloaded free of charge from the TC web site at www.tcelectronic.com/reverb4000. [ProSound News]

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If the 12-in. PowerBook is too small (or too slow), and the 17-in. PowerBook is too big, then the 15-in. model should be just right. And yet ... [Computerworld Macintosh News]

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Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of videotapes -- aging home movies shot with a big, bulky camcorder that may not even work anymore. You haven't watched these movies in years, but all this talk about the digital hub and iLife has got you thinking, "Why not transfer those old videos to the Mac and burn them to DVDs?" Transferring old film and video to DVD can be a time-consuming process -- but it's well worth the effort. This step-by-step guide will show you how to get set up and what to do with the movies once they're on your Mac. [MacCentral]

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OJR: "I haven't been to the New York Times home page in years and yet I read 20 articles a day in the New York Times," [Scripting News]

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Importing Track Data From Text Files is a brief article about how to use AppleScript to import tag data from a text file—such as a file exported from a database or some other indicies of track info—and an accompanying AppleScript which you can customize for use at your house. [Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes]