Monthly Archives: March 2004

A P2P media distribution platform for news for and by students and others

Posted on March 31, 2004 by vanevery

DV Guide The goal of this project is to create a content sharing platform consisting of contributors and corerspondents recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout the global mediascape who are engaged in direct reporting via collective production of … Continue reading →

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P2P, 802.11b, handhelds and radio, a combination made in my heaven

Posted on March 31, 2004 by vanevery

tunA From MIT via Gizmodo: tunA is a mobile wireless application that allows users to share their music locally through handheld devices. Users can “tune in” to other nearby tunA music players and listen to what someone else is listening … Continue reading →

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a GNU GNOME…

Posted on March 31, 2004 by vanevery

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project From the page: In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: … Continue reading →

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Clay writes about “Situated Software”

Posted on March 31, 2004 by vanevery

Shirky: Situated Software From the article: Part of the future I believe I’m seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I’m calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation … Continue reading →

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Posix for Java

Posted on March 31, 2004 by vanevery

Free Software by Gregory Guerin From the description: Imagine that you could catch signals, raise resource-limits, get mounted file-system info, manipulate file modes, or change effective user ID from Java. Imagine that many of the other interesting and useful POSIX … Continue reading →

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Wrapping it all up…

Posted on March 29, 2004 by vanevery

ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX Wraps all those nice Open Source audio and video encoders and players for MacOS X. From the site: ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed … Continue reading →

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Fighting for LPFM (Low Power FM) in the Cities

Posted on March 27, 2004 by vanevery

About the Prometheus Radio Project! What is Prometheus all about: To serve as a microradio resource center offering legal, technical, and organizational support for the non-commercial community broadcasters To research and develop technical resources in anticipation of legalized micro-radio. Upon … Continue reading →

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WiFi for anything and everything

Posted on March 27, 2004 by vanevery

Lantronix Device Networking Products – Embedded Device Servers – WiPort(tm) From the site: The WiPort is the most compact, integrated solution available to add 802.11b wireless networking to any edge device with a serial interface. Using our highly integrated hardware … Continue reading →

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Nice discussion of early animation and game programming in J2ME (MIDP 1.0)

Posted on March 26, 2004 by vanevery

Programming Games in J2ME (SYS-CON)

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Better Mac Sound Preferences/Control Panel

Posted on March 26, 2004 by vanevery

Alain CRETET Software From the site BetterSound is a Mac OS X audio preference panel, offering some extra features in sound control management. BetterSound allows you to see all audio input and output controls at a glance in one panel. … Continue reading →

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