Monthly Archives: April 2004

Air America really streams

Posted on April 25, 2004 by vanevery

RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter Air America broke a couple of records for concurrent streams on it’s first day out of the gate. The article mentions some interesting metrics for internet radio. RealNetworks said that it delivered 50,000 concurrent streams … Continue reading →

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Portrait of Bush made of soldiers killed in Iraq

Posted on April 24, 2004 by vanevery

Photo Matt » Moving Image

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Mobile phone app for urban community connections

Posted on April 24, 2004 by vanevery

Jabberwocky Liz Goodman, an ITP alum worked on this project while working at the Intel Research Berkeley lab. From the description: Jabberwocky is a freely available mobile phone application designed to promote urban community connections and a sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →

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Java Stored Procedures, Step by Step

Posted on April 24, 2004 by vanevery

Oracle and Java Stored Procedures Ever wanted to run Oracle stored procedures in Java. This article shows you how.

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Blind users can see with a camera and laptop

Posted on April 24, 2004 by vanevery

Wright State University Communications and Marketing No not really, but this is an interesting project. From the article: Tyflos, the Greek word for blind, is the name of the portable, wearable device Bourbakis has developed. The partnering project at ASU … Continue reading →

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Apple shows new H.264 codec at NAB

Posted on April 24, 2004 by vanevery

Apple demos new high-quality video codec at NAB From the article: In addition to the five product announcements made on Sunday and the upgrades to the notebook product line-up on Monday, Apple Computer Inc. still had a surprise for people … Continue reading →

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Simple volume operated recording

Posted on April 17, 2004 by vanevery

Pandaa makes a simple audio recording application that allows for scheduling and volume operated recording (VOX). Freeware.. Thanks to Evan for the link.

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Cell phones supporting interactive FM radio

Posted on April 14, 2004 by vanevery

Nokia, HP ‘Visualize’ Mobile Radio Nokia is apparently making a couple of handsets that are capable of receiving FM broadcasts and synchronizing visuals and other media elements. Very interesting… From the article: “The FM radio capabilities are based on standard … Continue reading →

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RsyncX – rsync for MacOS X

Posted on April 14, 2004 by vanevery

macosxlabs.org – Documentation Not that the original doesn’t work, this just adds a GUI and better support for the filesystem. Oh, yeah, rsync is a nice backup and synchronization utility.

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Java based open source streaming server for Ogg

Posted on April 13, 2004 by vanevery

JRoar — Pure Java Streaming Server for Ogg From the site: JRoar is a streaming server for Ogg in pure Java JRoar casts live Ogg streams to Ogg Vorbis players as IceCast2 does and shouts live Ogg streams to IceCast2 … Continue reading →

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