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  Monday, 25 April 2005

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A Jazz Discovery Adds a New Note to the Historical Record

Of all the recent Voice of America tapes found at the Library of Congress in January, it is the one of the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane that constitutes the real find.
[Via New York Times: Arts]

"The music was discovered by accident, during the routine practice of transferring tape from the Library of Congress's Voice of America collection to digital sound files for preservation. Larry Appelbaum, a studio engineer, supervisor and jazz specialist at the library, said that he was given a batch of about 100 tapes for digitization one day in January and looked to see what was there; among them he noticed a brown cardboard box for a 7½-inch reel, marked in pencil "sp. Event 11/29/57 carnegie jazz concert (#1)," with no names on it. It piqued his interest, and one of the boxes holding the Carnegie tapes - there were eight in all - said "T. Monk." "It got my heart racing," Mr. Appelbaum said. (None of the tape boxes mentioned Coltrane.)"

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Elton John to marry Canadian partner

Pop singer and David Furnish to tie the knot later this year or early next year
[Via The Globe and Mail - Entertainment News]

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CSFB upgrades Apple, says company now catering to 100% of PC market

Credit Suisse First Boston this morning upgraded Apple from "neutral" to "outperform" on the be...
[Via AppleInsider]

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iMac ship times delayed with new models in the pipeline

Apple and Macintosh news site MacNN.com is first to note that Apple's online store has extended the...
[Via AppleInsider]

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Feature: On beyond iTunes: Macintosh

iTunes is a great tool for ripping, encoding, and managing your music library, but it’s not the end-all and be-all tool for creating audio CDs. And because it isn’t, I begin a series that looks at tools that can take you where iTunes can not tread. Part 1: Roxio’s tools for Macintosh, Toast and Jam.

[Via MacCentral]

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Mac mini Inspires Web Sites

Jeff Carlson (~690 words)

Looking at the Mac mini's technical specifications alone, the computer sits firmly in the middle of Apple's computer offerings - it's essentially an eMac without the monitor, keyboard, or mouse. What's notable about the mini is its physical size, a diminutive rectangle only slightly larger than most external hard drives.

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"The first thing you start doing is cease using hierarchy as a means of storing stuff. I know this, because I've been using this for a few months and I don't bother to file things anymore. I don't give a rat's ass where my files are, because Spotlight finds everything for me."

That's the crucial, boiled-to-the-bone reality of something like Spotlight. If it really is capable of finding what you need, why bother keeping your stuff in any kind of order?

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OpenRAW is a "group of photographers...

OpenRAW is a "group of photographers and other interested people advocating the open documentation of digital camera RAW files."
[Via Scripting News]

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Catholics parade through Montreal to honour saint

More than 1,000 Roman Catholics joined a solemn procession through the streets of Old Montreal on Sunday to honour Canada's first female saint, Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys. FULL STORY
[Via CBC News]