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I have become very fond of new sound utility I discovered last month called Sound Grinder. Sound Grinder 2.5.1 was developed by a company called Monkey-Tools. This handy little program started out as a simple audio conversion tool and has blossomed into much more. [Via Lockergnome's OS X Fanatics]
Now with FLAC support. .< 9:50:26 AM  >Possible Eaton Centre Store Location An investigation by Ben has revealed a possible location for the future Apple store within the huge Eaton Centre (Toronto) mall to open later this year. He notes a 12,000+ square-foot space on the third level next to the La Vie en Rose store. This photo has a partial view of the space (or check this page for a huge version of the photo). [Via ifoAppleStore] .< 9:50:20 AM >Two More New Territories Selected for Stores Two important new territories have been selected for Apple retail stores: the Montreal suburb of Laval (Canada) and Knoxville (Tenn.). A new store will occupy the huge Le Carrefour Laval mall in the mostly-residential, French-speaking district northwest of downtown Montreal. The city has been without a major walk-in retail showroom of Apple gear since B.mac closed in Oct. 2004. It will be the third store in Canada. Further south ... [Via ifoAppleStore] .< 9:50:10 AM >New Scientist Technology - Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes THE US navy wants to protect its warships with a system that will destroy incoming torpedoes by firing massive underwater shock waves at them. The ships would be equipped with arrays of 360 transducers each 1 metre square - effectively big flat-panel loudspeakers - running along either side of the hull below the waterline. When the ship's sonar detects an incoming torpedo, the transducers simultaneously fire an acoustic shock wave of such intensity that the torpedo either detonates early or is disabled by the pulse's crushing force, according to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is funding the project. But these are no ordinary loudspeakers . . .[snip]
If it reaches the stage of testing in the open ocean, however, the developers are likely to come into conflict with marine biologists. They have evidence that whales blasted by frequent acoustic signals from submarine or ship sonar appear to develop symptoms of decompression sickness, and die. When I received my new Intel-based iMac, I attempted to install Mac OS X on an external FireWire hard drive. Imagine my surprise when I hit a brick wall attempting this formerly simple task. While the Intel-based Macs are mostly compatible with older Macs, they change the Mac boot process in fundamental (and incompatible) ways. [Via TidBITS] .< 9:49:50 AM >Tools We Use: DropCopy Matt Neuburg (~310 words) I've recently discovered DropCopy, from 10base-t Interactive. This little utility's "window" is a small translucent dark spot, rather like a hole, that sits behind all other applications (and behind your desktop Finder icons). Drag a file or folder onto this hole, and a menu appears next to it, listing the names of any other computers on your local network that are also running DropCopy. Continue dragging onto an item of that menu, and the file or folder is copied to that computer. [Via TidBITS] |
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