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A step by step so smooth it should work for the most clueless. .< 1:54:48 PM  >The Globe and Mail: Court quashes Ottawa's MP3 fee Canada's Copyright Act gives the federal board the authority to apply levies on blank media such as compact discs and audio cassettes. But the wording of the act has not kept up with the new technology of MP3 players, represented by the wildly popular iPod, which use an embedded memory rather than discs or cassettes, to store digital copies of songs. The levy on iPods will likely be removed following this verdict. .< 1:52:07 PM >The Globe and Mail: Canada refuses to scrap in-flight cellphone ban Canadian authorities say they will continue to prohibit cellphone calls during flights on this country's carriers, despite moves by the United States to reconsider such a ban.
But Canadians who need to be connected in flight can take heart: There is faint hope that they might be able to surf the Internet wirelessly if Ottawa is convinced it's safe.
Cool. The technical/safety issues with regards to cellphone use may be bogus but I do not like the idea of sitting on a flight full of people gabbing on their cells. The environment is already far to noisy. Wireless access for data is another matter. Of course once you have the data you could always use VOIP but presumably the number of users there would be minimal. .< 12:17:05 PM >Kids like to listen more than look David Pescovitz: Cognitive scientists at Ohio State University report that infants and young kids, unlike adults, are attracted more to sound than visuals in their environment: (Vladimir) Sloutsky, who is also associate dean of research for the university’s College of Human Ecology, said children probably pay more attention to sounds because of their temporary nature.Link [Via Boing Boing] .< 12:14:16 PM >Dallas police said Vince Neil had asked... Dallas police said Vince Neil had asked the soundman for more volume on his guitar but attacked Talbert as he adjusted it, leaving him unconscious for 45 seconds. [Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 2:00:52 AM >New Radio UserLand macro: categoryLinks Want to have a list of your categories on the home page of your website? No problem! Use this macro: categoryLinks [Via house of warwick] .< 1:56:38 AM >New: PDF Adder Whew! Love the recently discovered PDF feature in iTunes 4.7. In case you didn't know, the special edition U2 box set at the iTMS comes with a PDF ("Digital Booklet") of esoterica which can be accessed via iTunes. Well, us regular folks can make PDFs, too...lyrics, album art, production notes, whatevah. I created PDF Adder to use a selected track's Album and Artist tags to likewise tag a PDF "track". Just select an audio track in iTunes and run the script. It asks you to select a PDF. The PDF is added to iTunes and uses the selected track's Artist and Album tags in the PDF "track" so you can better associate the PDF with a particular Artist and Album. [Via Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes] |
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