One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 16 May 2005

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Canada's Petitclerc wins Laureus Sports Award
Canadian wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc won a prestigious Laureus world sports award Monday as top sportsperson with a disability. FULL STORY
[Via CBC News]

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CORRECTED: Newsweek retracts story on Koran

Please read in second paragraph "had uncovered Koran abuse" instead of "had uncovered Korean abuse"
[Via Reuters: World]

Good grief!

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Indeed, many people today argue that despite the better efforts of so many throughout our industry, there has been a decline in the quality of recordings, of equipment and of the overall music business climate. Music listeners are settling for mediocrity instead of insisting on excellence. Convenience always seems to trump fidelity.
[Via Mix Magazine]

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Rikki Don't Lose That Number
One of the most important collections of recorded material on the planet is managed by the U.S. Library of Congress. According to digital conversion specialist Peter Alyea and Larry Appelbaum, supervisor/senior studio engineer of the LOC's recorded sound laboratory, “Our current baseline format for our master files is .WAV/Broadcast .WAV at 24-bit/96 kHz. We refer to this as our baseline because the majority of our work is archiving analog sources. We have also archived a smaller number of analog sources at 24-bit/192 kHz.”

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Audio playback devices come and go, as do data formats tied to a specific platform or OS. Using more universal standards such as BWF, XML and SQL database structures ensures the archive is relatively independent of particular applications, devices and manufacturers.
[Mix Magazine]

A fine article reviewing current practice.

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Typical storage costs for a high-performance disk storage system run in the $2000 to $4000 per terabyte range. In contrast, storing that same content on data tape can be much less, as little as $400 per terabyte — that's one-tenth the cost of disk storage. This means a data tape can store about nine hours of 50Mb/s video for less than $10 per hour. Tape also excels in terms of storage density.

[Broadcast Engineering]

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XM subscribers top 4 million

XM Satellite Radio's subscriber base has topped 4 million, the company said Monday.
[Via CNET News.com]

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Narrowcasting Your Show

Watch a whole hog barbeque, fly casting in Kansas or movies by indie filmmakers. Niche TV programming is in the works. Small companies like DaveTV will soon use broadband to offer shows catering to special interests.
[Via Wired News]

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Mexico telephone operator under VoIP fire | CNET News.com
The Telmex VoIP situation has grown since mid-March, when the company's broadband customers say the quality of their third-party voice over Internet Protocol calls began eroding to what are now unbearable levels, according to e-mail interviews with VoIP customers who routinely call in and out of Mexico.

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Spring Into HTML & CSS: Working with Color and Images Using CSS

Color options in CSS include hexadecimal color, hexadecimal shorthand color, RGB color, etc. Using images, you can create beautiful layouts without the constraints of tables. This week, you'll learn how to apply images to backgrounds and elements, and how to use images for a range of visual techniques. By Addison-Wesley Professional. 0516
[Via WebReference News]

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Political Wire : "8 in 10 journalists...

Political Wire: "8 in 10 journalists said they read blogs."
[Via Scripting News]

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Wired : "Inventive web developers are taking...

Wired: "Inventive web developers are taking Google's online map service to a new level, layering in house sales and apartment rentals, real-time traffic stats and Flickr photo tags."
[Via Scripting News]

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Classic Radio Reaching New Audiences
These days, instead of gathering around the radio to enjoy Jack Benny, “The Shadow,” “Dragnet” and other programs from the Golden Age of Radio, nostalgic listeners are downloading their favorite shows from the Internet to CDs, MP3 players and cell phones. “Research shows that the older generation is the fastest-growing group of Internet users,” says Jeffery Dittus, CEO of Media Bay, a digital media and publishing company. “When they get online, not only are they rediscovering the shows of their childhood, they’re introducing this programming to their grandkids.”

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Smart Folders are just plist files: that's your first clue.

There are two key parts of the file:

1. The directives that tell the Finder what you chose
2. The compiled search query that it uses when viewing the folder

If you edit the key RawQuery to have in it whatever you want (like, oh, || instead of &&) and then open it in the Finder, it will execute that query. This means you can choose the more interesting things like date ranges or whatever in the GUI and then build the logic around them manually.

If, after editing the file, you re-edit it in the Finder, changes to the RawQuery element will be lost.

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If you want to make a program start at a certain time, for a certain event, or just stay running, the new launchd service in Tiger is for you. No longer do you have to write a shell script in a package with specific permissions and such to get an item to start with the computer. As of Tiger all you need is one plist and the OS handles the rest.

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Gone are the days where applications like Mail had their own separate script menu for application-specific scripts. These scripts are now ...
[Via macosxhints]

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All Forces » Blog Archive » iChat to MSN Through Jabber

A step by step illustrated guide.

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