One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 29 September 2004

.< 11:07:47 AM >
Frontier Released as Open Source

Dave Winer: Introducing Frontier 10.0a1. “This is a fresh start for the Frontier kernel, the technology under Manila and Radio UserLand, and in the future, possibly many more useful system and network applications.”

No matter what happens next with Frontier, this makes sure that a lot of good work is preserved, which is a cool thing. [Ranchero.com]

< 10:01:42 AM >

It was more than a year ago, at Macworld CreativePro Conference & Expo in New York, that Griffin Technology Inc. first announced the radioSHARK, a USB-powered desktop AM/FM radio with Mac and PC-compatible software that included time-shift recording capabilities and the ability to automatically synchronize with iTunes. At long last, the product is shipping -- about a year later than Griffin originally said it would. [MacCentral]

< 1:13:30 AM >

Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. and Olympus Corp. have jointly developed a 1GB version of their XD Picture Card memory card and plan to put it on sale in the first half of next year, they said Monday. The two companies did not announce any other details of the card beyond its planned launch during the first half of 2005. Pricing was not announced and a FujiFilm spokeswoman declined to provide any estimate for how much it will cost. [MacCentral]

< 1:10:16 AM >

A previous hint here explained how to use the "Go to folder" in Cocoa apps' Open and Save dialogs -- just hit / or Shift-Command-G and the box will appear. You can then enter a path, and use the Tab key to auto-complete field... [macosxhints]

< 12:59:16 AM >

As BitTorrent becomes mainstream, it imperils the movie studios' most lucrative source of revenue -- the $17.5 billion the industry reaped last year from DVD sales and rentals.

Hollywood has yet to find a way to thwart BitTorrent's distribution of bootlegged copies of new films like ``Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,'' or the latest episode of hot cable television shows like ``Nip/Tuck.''

This is one of the technologies I mentioned back in March at the TAG Team meetings. This is a pretty decent article outlining the technology from a non-technical point of view.