One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 10 August 2004

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Tips from the Radio Community

Several members of the Radio community have created tips pages to help new Radio users get started. One of the best is Newbie Tips, created by by, Julie Wiggins, author of the SexyMagick Radio weblog.

Rogers Cadenhead, the author of the book Radio UserLand Kick Start, maintains a Radio tips page on his Workbench Radio weblog.

[Radio Discussion List]

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Smoking among teens plummets by a third over five-year span [GAM-National]

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Steve has only been on the job 24 hours and he has some great accomplishments. Among them, he posted a letter to Radio users and has some great feedback. As he mentioned, the direction remains consistent: fix upstreaming, faster/better comment system, application stability. He has also released the Radio Roadmap. Recommended reading for those who want to know where Radio is headed.

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US elections: This year's US presidential election might be the first in the country's history to be monitored by international observers. [Guardian Unlimited]

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“No other DVD authoring program in the $500 price class is capable of creating such stunning, highly creative DVDs as Apple’s DVD Studio Pro 3,” writes PC Magazine. “For video pros looking to take their productions to the next level, it’s worth a serious look.” [Aug 4] [Apple Hot News]

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The Dual Disc has been approved as an official DVD format, and the major record labels are scurrying to get their content in order for a pending launch of the half-CD/half-DVD discs to consumers (Audio/Video Revolution, 23-Jul-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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The adoption of the aacPlus codec for use as an optional compressed-audio track on DVD-Audio discs will allow both 2-channel and multichannel audio to be transferred from DVD-A to portable audio players and other digital audio devices (T.W.I.C.E., 26-Jul-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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Single-speaker surround sound, developed by Niro Nakamichi - proprietary NIROSON Cinema technology creates a true 5.1 surround audio field using HRTF processing (added 2-Aug-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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The latest home theater market research finds that 24% of U.S. households now have surround audio systmes, and that there is a consumer trend of upgrading inexpensive home-theater-in-a-box systems to pricey multichannel setups in the $1,000 - $5,000 (US) range (Tekrati, 3-Aug-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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The finalists in all categories have been announced for the third annual Surround Music Awards (SMAs), with winners to be announced at a star-studded event taking place August 31, 2004 at The Highlands in Hollywood, CA (DVD-Audio Daily, 7-Aug-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

Includes a category for BEST BROADCAST MULTICHANNEL LIVE PERFORMANCE

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The latest Phone Valet for Mac OS X delivers a nice mix of tools and Mac-integration for both home automation and iTunes/iPod enthusiasts. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]

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Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that the US version of its iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs in its download catalog. Apple said that it's the first commercial online music download service to offer a million song catalog. That catalog includes offerings from all five major commercial record labels and more than 600 independent labels. Apple claims more than 70 percent market share of legal downloads for singles and albums. [MacCentral]

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Apple on Monday released Mac OS X v10.3.5, available for download through the Software Update system preference pane. The new version of Mac OS X "delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability," according to Apple, which recommends it for all users. [MacCentral]

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The "hub" of most enterprise software systems is a database. However, getting the information from the database to all of the applications that need it and then back again can be a challenge. Here in part four of his ongoing series, Adam Behringer shows you how. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]