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February 29, 2004
Public Access TV Related Sites
The Alliance for Community Media
Global Village CAT
The Buske Group
Study of US PEG Access Center
Policy and Media Activism Sites:
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Media Reform Network
Center for Creative Voices in the Media
Independent Media Centers
Prometheus Radio Project
Media Access Project
Spectrum Policy, New America Foundation
The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
NY State Legislation:
New York State Public Service Commission
New York City Public Access Centers:
Brooklyn Community Access TV
BronxNet
MNN
Queens Public Television
Staten Island Community Television
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TV and web chat program with youth from around the world
Chat The Planet
- Homepage
From the site:
Chat the Planet is a groundbreaking TV & web initiative that connects young people from different countries and cultures to break down barriers, foster tolerance, and to celebrate our common humanity.
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Open Source Small Device C Compiler
SDCC - Small Device C Compiler
From the site:
SDCC is a Freeware, retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC14 and PIC16 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.
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MacOS X Bugs (this guy)
Matthew Thomas » My first 48 hours enduring Mac OS X
I just like the last line:
Mac OS X is like Sir Winston Churchill’s description of democracy: the worst possible system, except for all the others
Thanks Alex
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NSA contributing to Linux
Security-Enhanced Linux
From the site:
As part of its Information Assurance mission, the National Security Agency has long been involved with the computer security research community in investigating a wide range of computer security topics including operating system security. Recognizing the critical role of operating system security mechanisms in supporting security at higher levels, researchers from NSA's Information Assurance Research Group have been investigating an architecture that can provide the necessary security functionality in a manner that can meet the security needs of a wide range of computing environments.
Thanks Hans
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1968 was messed, maybe more so than now, maybe.
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February 28, 2004
"Where Left is right and Right is wrong" ...
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Musicans attempting to use P2P for distribution (with payment)..
About Weed File Sharing
From the site:
Weed is a service of Shared Media Licensing, Inc., a group of musicians and software developers from Seattle, Washington. They envisioned Weed as a better solution to the problems of Internet file-sharing. File-trading is here to stay, so finding a way to legalize it and supporting musicians at the same time is the most equitable solution for all parties concerned. Independent musicians and small labels have a hard enough time making a living these days, so something revolutionary is needed to give them some leverage.
Weed encourages file-sharing while making payments to musicians at the same time. File-traders who respect artists' rights are rewarded and a new community of file sharing is born! Anyone who buys a few songs can become a distributor and put up a page with their songs or put these songs on a P2P network.
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Portable broadcasting backpack
neuroTransmitter
From the site:
com_muni_port is a portable radio broadcast unit created for short range pedestrian broadcasting. com_muni_port models itself after historical military, scientific, and media-related mobile communication devices.
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East Village Radio
EAST VILLAGE RADIO New York City
From the site:
In reaction to a lack of radio in NYC's East Village, a small band of overly opinionated and underpaid illegitimate saints created EVR.
You have reached it's nerve center. We encourage you to contact us, to support our path towards the FM dial, and most importantly to listen.
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Free Radio Berkeley
Free Radio Berkeley: International Radio Action Training Education
From the site:
Welcome to Free Radio Berkeley. Founded on April 11, 1993 as a Free Speech voice challenging the regulatory structure and power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Free Radio Berkeley has been engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the FCC. Until it was silenced by a court injunction in June 1998, Free Radio Berkeley was broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 104.1 FM with 50 watts of power as the alternative voice for the greater Berkeley/Oakland area. The original Free Speech mission to provide community news, discussions and interviews, information, a wide range of music, and more has now been taken up by Berkeley Liberation Radio.
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Radio broadcasting equipment
Veronica® LTD - Broadcasting Equipment
Low cost, low power, FM, Kits, Transmitters, Power, Antennas and more...
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Pirate radio information
Great information on creating a pirate radio station.. Why, how and what..
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February 27, 2004
Linux distro for routers and more
NYCwireless
From the description:
Pebble Linux is a smallish (smaller than 64megs, larger than 8 megs) distro image designed for embedded style devices such as the Soekris boards, or a Stylstic 1000. It is based off of Debian GNU/Linux. It runs on many different types of systems, such as old 486 machines, mini-itx boards, or the $199 machine down at Frys.
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February 26, 2004
TiVo for Radio
MP3 Players - Radio YourWay - Remote Controls MP3 Players-Recorders- AudioRave-RipFlash
From the site:
Record any AM/FM broadcast in a digital format with ease
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Bill Day's J2ME Site
BillDay.com J2ME Archive
From the site:
Archive information on developing applications and services written for Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition powered devices, including related technologies such as JTWI, MIDP, CLDC, and the KVM.
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Colin P. Fahey's Mobile Phone Development site
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM : Mobile Phone Development
Mobile Phone Development, J2ME, Brew and more...
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Gadget fashion show
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Model mobiles
From the article:
Micro-skirted models wearing communicating necklaces or funky watch phones, such as those from Seiko, drew a big audience at 3GSM, the annual get-together of the mobile industry. Among the fashionable items on the catwalk was a jacket that can change according to your mood. Feeling psychedelic? Just send a text to transmit a psychedelic image to the display panel on the jacket
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J2ME tutorial..
Wireless Development Tutorial Part I
Wireless Development Tutorial
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February 25, 2004
Mail and Java - The fundamentals
jGuru: Fundamentals of the JavaMail API
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Company developing flexible displays
Polymer Vision
From the site:
Polymer Vision is developing flexible, rollable displays
Dedicated large displays in small housings that easily connect to the smallest mobile devices. Rollable displays: a permanent solution for the ever-increasing demand of larger displays in a roaming environment.
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Materials materials materials
Material ConneXionÆ. Where
professionalsóarchitects, engineers, industrial and interior designers, manufacturersóaccess specifications
and manufacturersí contacts for the latest, most innovative materials and processes from around the world. How? Through our on-line database or physical library.
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TiVo to your friends favs
RSSTV: Syndication for your PVR
From the site:
We propose to share program information by building on existing syndication infrastructure. Specifically, we'll add a number of namespaced elements as an extension to RSS. The value formats for these elements will be taken directly from XMLTV, a source of publically available program information.
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February 24, 2004
Covering TV and technology
Lost Remote | About Us
From the site:
Lost Remote takes issue with the status quo of television. Technology is changing fast, and new generations of TV viewers are demanding more.
We do our best to keep you ahead of the curve. Every day, Lost Remote's bloggers scour the planet for the latest trends in TV and new media. Every Thursday, we send out an email newsletter with the week's highlights. And nearly 300 TV web producers swap tips and rants in Lost Remote's email discussion list.
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Online book (draft): Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
by: Miller Pucket
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Center for Communication
Center for Communication
From the site:
The Center for Communication is an independent media forum, launched in 1980 by former CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton and Museum of Television & Radio president, the late Dr. Robert Batscha, to bridge the gap between the communications industry and the schools. The Center, supported by the industry, is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
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Streaming audio in your Palm
Geekzone, mobile forums
From the site:
Pocket Tunes is an advanced audio player for Palm Powered devices. It provides music playback in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and PCM WAV formats, with capabilities to support future formats as they are developed. Pocket Tunes is the only software to bring streaming audio to Palm Powered phones and wireless devices, allowing users to listen to live broadcasts over the Internet. Pocket Tunes also includes numerous other unique features designed to bring a high-quality listening experience to handheld users.
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Rendezvous for Linux and Windows
Porchdog Software
From the site:
Howl is a cross-platform implementation of the Zeroconf networking standard. Zeroconf brings a new ease of use to IP networking.
Thanks to Hans for the pointer...
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February 21, 2004
Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network
v2v | peer-to-peer video syndication release group | ${config.now.dc}
A Call to Join and Contribute to the Establishment of a Video-Sharing Syndicate/Network
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building a new era of Open multimedia
Xiph.Org: home
From the site:
Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.
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Free Books, Free Books, Free Books
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web
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Everything must go...
New York New Media Association
From the site:
For the past ten years, the New York New Media Association (NYNMA) has had the pleasure of serving the New York area technology industry. Unfortunately, we must now inform you that as of Friday, December 19, 2003, NYNMA has ceased operations due to a significant financial shortfall.
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February 20, 2004
This is the beginning of the end...
Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | 'Mr Ferrer can't be with us tonight'
Tagline:
Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds.
I think this signals the beginning of the end of NYC's time as a center for art and other culture. Oh, where will we go..?
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Java, JNI, Firewire Camera Capture for MacOS
FWCamAkiz allows image sequence acquisition from a FireWire camera compatible with the IIDC standard, on an Apple computer running MacOS 10.1.5 or above. FWCamAkiz provides:
a Java Native Interface (JNI) library handling the camera
a Java class interfacing with this library
a plugin for the free image manipulation software ImageJ by Wayne Rasband which allows comfortable acquisition with multiple timing options from within ImageJ, live preview and color conversion from raw image data.
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February 19, 2004
Documentaries for social good
MediaRights.org
From the site:
MediaRights.org, a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.
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Flying bots are coming to form grey goo near you
Silicon Chip Online - Epson Develops World's Smallest Flying Microrobot
Epson Develops World's Smallest Flying Microrobot
How soon before they can reproduce...;-)
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Pinouts pinouts pinouts
More pinouts than you can shake a stick at. I only wish they had XLR...
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February 18, 2004
Counting, MPEG style
Streamingmedia.com: The MPEG Video Standards – from 1 to 21
There's more to MPEG than just audio and video compression. There are five MPEG standards–MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MPEG7, and MPEG21–spanning all aspects of compressing, authoring, identifying, and delivering multimedia. Here's a quick look at each one and where it fits in the digital media landscape.
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Nice responsive video, commercialized
Reactrix Systems,Inc.
From the site:
Reactrix® is a breakthrough visual display system that responds to people instantly and in real-time with dramatic visual effects and entertaining gameplay, to deliver an engaging experience people not only remember, but seek out.
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Ernie's run-down on the Digital Democracy Teach-in at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference last week
Ernie The Attorney: Digital Democracy Teach-In at ETCON
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Video improvisation group
242.pilots
From the site:
242.pilots : a real-time video improvisation ensemble
hc gilje (norway)
kurt ralske (usa)
lukasz lysakowski (poland)
three video artists who perform collaboratively.
using their own custom software, 242.pilots expressively improvise rich,
layered experimental video works in real-time (both as a trio and as soloists).
improvising as a group, the three artists respond and interact with each other's images
in a subtle and intuitive way. images are layered, contrasted, merged, and transformed.
the degree of interplay and unspoken communication between the artists is akin the best
free jazz ensembles.
the end product is a complex 'visual conversation': a quasi-narrative exploring
degrees of abstraction; a mesmerizing, immersive journey through diverse landscapes;
or just raw retinal delight.
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Bye monkey, you will be missed.
Wired News: Webmonkey, RIP: 1996 ñ 2004
From Wired News:
Launched in August 1996 as part of a fast-growing collection of websites funded by the original owners of Wired magazine, Webmonkey instantly became the surprise hit. Most of Wired's sites offered the breathless cyber optimism and punditry the magazine was known for. As it turned out, online readers didn't care for it. What they really wanted was: How do you build that Java-powered interface to your site?
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February 16, 2004
Nifty heads up displays and other wearable computer equipment
Some other links that came along with this one (that I haven't had a chance to investigate):
http://www.handykey.com
http://www.wearcomp.org
http://www.cybermind.nl
Thanks Seth..
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February 15, 2004
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age
illegal-art.org :: a project of Stay Free!
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February 14, 2004
Perl, life the universe and email parsing
MailBox Documentation
From the site:
This page is dedicated to Perl's MailBox module. MailBox consists of a large set of packages which implement powerful methods to handle e-mail in Perl.
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Put a GUI on that script
Research Systems Unix Group: iHook
iHook - a graphical interface designed as a frontend for commandline executables.
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Net Art Commissions and Support
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Control your own data
The SWIPE Toolkit
From the site:
The SWIPE Toolkit is a collection of web-based tools that sheds light on personal data collection and usage practices in the United States. The tools demonstrate the value of personal information on the open market and enable people to access information encoded on a driver's license or stored in some of the many commercial data warehouses.
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Free Voice over IP - Worldwide..
Free World Dialup - by pulver.com
From the site:
Free World Dialup (FWD) allows you to make free phone calls over the Internet using a 'regular' telephone or a computer program. You can join today, at no cost, by either using programs already on your computer, or by downloading a free program. Later, an IP phone upgrade will let you realize the total freedom FWD provides whether on Cable, DSL, Dialup modem, or WiFi around town.
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February 13, 2004
Text to Speech - File (put it on your iPod)
codepoetry :: projects :: Text Reader
From the site:
All I wanted was a program that took a text file and saved it to an audio file for my iPod. All I could find were programs I had to pay for to do this simple task that can be accomplished in one line of AppleScript. That's silly. So, I wrote a very simple program to do this and more.
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Nobody knows how to make money, really..
Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Article tag line:
Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Social networking tool companies are sizzling as start-up venture investments, but can
they make money?
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February 12, 2004
Shady (online, social software) marketing tactics..?
New Media Strategies and us
From the post:
But "Dixie" 's posts about "All My Children" got me curious. I looked up her IP address. Why am I not surprised it's registered to a company called New Media Strategies and that New Media Strategies offers:
Highly effective online Word-of-Mouth marketing (that) drives buzz about your brands and products. NMS harnesses the power of the online communities and opinion leaders to raise awareness of your brands and, ultimately, produce sales that bolsters your bottom line.
So, just in case Google indexes this page: New Media Strategies sucks. Let me repeat, "New Media Strategies sucks."
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Make those walls transparent at the flip of a switch or programming matter
Programmable Matter FAQ
From the FAQ
Programmable matter is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc.  Primitive forms may allow only limited adjustment of one or two traits (e.g., the "photodarkening" or "photochromic" materials found in light-sensitive sunglasses), but there are theoretical forms which, using known principles of electronics, should be capable of emulating a broad range of naturally occurring materials, or of exhibiting unnatural properties which cannot be produced by other means.
Posted by vanevery at 06:15 PM | TrackBack
Evolutionary distributed SHEEP (screensaver)
the electric sheep screen-saver
Posted by vanevery at 03:11 PM | TrackBack
WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X
Use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows applications on Darwin and Mac OS X.
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Amazing collaborative text editor
SubEthaEdit
From the site:
With SubEthaEdit you can. The idea of collaborative editing has been researched for years, with notable results. But now for the first time it has been implemented in a way you actually want to use: A sophisticated technique allows all users to type anywhere in the text without locking parts of the text for other users, making SubEthaEdit just as easy to use as a traditional text editor
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Rendezvous meet Java, Java meet Rendezvous
MacDevCenter.com: jRendezvous: Java and Rendezvous Working Together [Jul. 29, 2003]
From the article:
With Rendezvous making IP networking simple, and Java making cross platform network programming possible, we see the possibility for a beautiful friendship. An implementation of Rendezvous for Java, called jRendezvous, now allows Java programs running anywhere (not just Mac OS X) to participate in Rendezvous networks. With jRendezvous, Java programs can listen for, and advertise, services on the network with ease.
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February 11, 2004
Machine readible web of people and links between them
the friend of a friend (foaf) project
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
Posted by vanevery at 07:41 PM | TrackBack
Calls and Opps List
Weekly list of calls for work and opportunities in the art world.
Posted by vanevery at 07:36 PM | TrackBack
About Jaron's concept of phenotropics
4. In Praise of Diversity - Ideas 2003: Jaron Lanier On Software Design - CIO Magazine Jan 1,2003
"The thing I'm interested in now is a high-risk, speculative, fundamental new approach to computer science. I call it phenotropics," says the 42-year-old Lanier. By pheno, he means the physical appearance of something, and by tropics, he means interaction. Lanier's idea is to create a new way to tie two pieces of software together. He theorizes that two software objects should contact each other "like two objects in nature," instead of through specific modules or predetermined points of contact. With this type of protocol, there would be no previous agreement or expectation regarding the character of the exchange. Each software object would be responsible for "learning" how to interact with the other.
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See the citations
CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
From the site:
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features.
Posted by vanevery at 07:10 PM | TrackBack
Matt Webb's Glancing Software
Social presence software by Matt Webb. Very interesting presentation given at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology.
Posted by vanevery at 07:00 PM | TrackBack
Launching the ITJ Site
Interactive Tele-Journalism is a platform (under development) for supporting the creation of low cost, live interactive television news progams.
Posted by vanevery at 03:25 AM | TrackBack
February 10, 2004
Great cell/pda created content
mobile.links.net
text and sketches from the mobile internet
Posted by vanevery at 08:21 PM
How Pigeon's are changing the web
The technology behind Google's great results
Posted by vanevery at 03:27 PM
Send from Localhost on Panther
chaotic intransient prose bursts: Panther Tips (1): Running SMTP
From the site:
turning on Panther's SMTP server. SMTP is for sending email. I like sending email via the localhost, just because I can. In earlier system versions, it meant turning on Sendmail, but Apple has dropped Sendmail in favor of Postfix. Postfix is arguably easier to configure and a little
Posted by vanevery at 03:01 PM
Compression engine for the Mac
P O P W I R E
From the site:
Popwire announces the release of its new Compression Master 2.2, an unrivalled Mac OS X-based encoder. This state-of-the-art desktop encoder is perfect for Broadcasting companies, Media houses, ISPs, and Mobile operators with the need to provide high-quality content in multiple bit rates.
Posted by vanevery at 02:07 PM
iTunes issues on OS X with multiple users
raelity bytes :: /computers/operating_systems/apple/mac_os_x/apps/itunes_single_instance.html
Rael hits it on the head, this the probably that we have at home ever since switching from a single user install to two on our media machine. Please Apple fix it (oh yeah, same trouble with iPhoto).
From Rael's write-up:
It's silly enough that I can share my tunes across my home network yet I can't share them with someone on the same machine. Despite keeping all my music in /Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Music, I still have to wander from account to account adding each new CD or iTunes Music Store purchase to each user's library just so that we can share _our_ (defined in the strictest sense) music. Surely your iTunes library on the local machine should show up in my iTunes window just like any other network-shared iTunes library?
Posted by vanevery at 11:58 AM
February 09, 2004
Did anyone apply for the job?
Video iPod? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com
The "video iPod"? romor has been floating around for a while so until they go on sale it’s all still speculation. This ZDNet story talk about some of the reasoning behind the rumors, and what might come of them, and when.
Posted by vanevery at 09:55 PM
Not MORE reality television
Reality Central
From the site:
Until now there has been no dedicated broadcast source for information and entertainment dealing exclusively with reality television. REALITY CENTRAL is the destination for fans to visit everyday and connect with their favorite programs and personalities. REALITY CENTRAL is the place for the latest in news, entertainment, and information covering the world of reality television. Reality TV fans will be transported behind-the-scenes of their favorite shows and find in depth coverage with never before seen footage. REALITY CENTRAL will promote the wildly popular reality programs of major broadcast and cable networks, serving as a catalyst for their promotional efforts. In addition to featuring rebroadcasts of network reality series and premiering international hits, REALITY CENTRAL will produce its own original talk, call-in and interview shows, many featuring the most prominent reality TV stars
They say they will feature ITV from the get-go, let's see what they mean by that...
Posted by vanevery at 09:48 PM
Wireless messaging
Simplewire is a wireless messaging infrastructure and software provider. Its unique platform and accompanying tools ease the process of creating wireless applications for businesses, telecommunications carriers, and software developers. The Simplewireô Wireless Messaging Network currently supports 400+ networks in over 150 countries. Its SMS Software Development Kit seamlessly integrates into applications of all types, while its Wireless Message Protocol Server provides the ideal foundation for a full spectrum of customizable solutions. Hence, Simplewire's comprehensive suite of products and services connects users in an array of industries to the global wireless world.
Posted by vanevery at 05:46 PM
The Corporation Documentary
The Corporation
From the site:
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a "person" in the eyes of the law, the feature documentary employs a checklist, based on actual diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and DSM IV, the standard tool of psychiatrists and psychologists. What emerges is a disturbing diagnosis.
Posted by vanevery at 03:18 PM
IRC on the Mac
X-Chat Aqua is a MacOS X IRC client. If you are familiar with XChat for UNIX/GTK /X Windows, then you will be at home with X-Chat Aqua. X-Chat Aqua uses the IRC engine from XChat and has been designed to look and feel like XChat.
Posted by vanevery at 03:11 PM
February 08, 2004
Work that game..
A Joystick That Challenges You to Sweat
More about the workout/game playing device(s). One question, does it have any haptics (feedback)? Here is the manufacturer: http://www.powergridfitness.com
Posted by vanevery at 01:37 PM
Harmony through digital means is central to the discussion..
Harmony Central®: Computers and Music: Audio Programming: Sinewave Generator
This particular page is: Audio Code Library: Sinewave Generator but the rest of the site has just about everything related to sound synthesis and control: http://www.harmony-central.com/Computer/Programming/
Posted by vanevery at 01:21 AM
February 07, 2004
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's site
:::::___coin-operated.com___:::::
Some very nice interactive and physical projects, I like the public desktop as well as the literal physical re-interpretation of internet related terms, such as search engine.
Posted by vanevery at 02:33 AM
February 06, 2004
Acacia streaming patent case started
Does Acacia Own Streaming Media?
Acacia Media Technologies, a division of Acacia Research (Quote, Chart), sued a group of porn producers in the U.S. District Court in Calif. for allegedly infringing on its patents. The company says these patents give it the right to charge licensing fees to anyone who streams media via the Web.
Posted by vanevery at 10:05 PM
AIM and iChat AV, Interoperable with VIDEO
AIM Video Debuts, Links to iChat
America Online (Quote, Chart) has officially taken the wraps off the new version of its AOL Instant Messenger application, with its much -anticipated video IM feature -- and the surprise addition of compatibility with Apple Computer's (Quote, Chart) iChat AV.
Posted by vanevery at 10:00 PM
Java and the Mac, a match made in heaven.
oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Mac OS X for Java Geeks
From the Description:
Mac OS X for Java Geeks delivers a complete and detailed look at the Mac OS X platform, geared specifically at Java developers. Programmers using the 10.2 (Jaguar) release of Mac OS X, and the new JDK 1.4, have unprecedented new functionality available to them. Whether you are a Java newbie, working your way through Java Swing and classpath issues, or you are a Java guru, comfortable with digital media, reflection, and J2EE, this book will teach you how to get around on Mac OS X. You'll also get the latest information on how to build applications that run seamlessly, and identically, on Windows, Linux, Unix, and the Mac.
I'll get this book if they update it for Panther and XCode and if the sample chapter (QT4Java) is still valid after all of the recent changes that Apple has made.
Posted by vanevery at 09:18 PM
Perl talking to Apple Apps ala AppleScript
perl.com: Introducing Mac::Glue [Jan. 23, 2004]
The Mac::Glue module provides OSA compatibility and allows us to talk to Mac applications with Perl code. Let's take a look at how to script Mac tools at a high level in Perl.
Posted by vanevery at 09:12 PM
Get power even though your computer only has a 4 PIN Firewire plug
FireWire power injector. makes it possible to use bus-powered devices on computers with un-powered FireWire ports
Posted by vanevery at 11:43 AM
February 05, 2004
Coding HTML for the Java Plugin
Encountering OBJECT, EMBED, and APPLET Tags With Different Plug-in Versions and Browsers
This section deals with how different versions of Java Plug-in, runing with different web browsers and web browser versions, behave when OBJECT, EMBED, and APPLET tags appear on an HTML page. It presents the various scenarios in table form and then answers some of the common questions developers and users have.
Posted by vanevery at 02:10 PM
New York Event Listings
Posted by vanevery at 03:08 AM
Wear your electronics
Wearable Computing Links.. <-- What it says..
Here is Maggie Orth's site: http://web.media.mit.edu/~morth/TTTtalk.htm, she is "Helping computers escape from their boxes out into the world! " and has "Woven Electronic Textile Substrate" information ;-)
Another good site is Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing @ http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/index.html
Which states:
Wearable computers can now merge seamlessly into ordinary clothing. Using various conductive textiles, data and power distribution as well as sensing circuitry can be incorporated directly into wash-and-wear clothing. This paper describes some of the techniques used to build circuits from commercially available fabrics, yarns, fasteners, and components.
Posted by vanevery at 03:01 AM
Microsoft Developer Network, Windows Media Scripting
Posted by vanevery at 02:53 AM
Chris Adamason gets us started with JOGL
reference implementation of the Java/OpenGL binding is hosted on java.net as the JOGL project. This article will get you up and running with JOGL by describing:
How to download and provision the JOGL library files.
How to create a JOGL-powered AWT component that's wired up to receive and respond to events such as size changes and repaint requests.
How to do 2D graphics in JOGL with simple graphic primitives and images.
Posted by vanevery at 12:59 AM
February 04, 2004
Tickleing nueral networks
STLtoday - News - Science & Medicine
Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all those things, but he's really just "the man behind the curtain," he says. The real inventor is a computer program called a Creativity Machine.
Posted by vanevery at 10:20 AM
A festival bringing together media, art and politics
next 5 minutes :: festival of tactical media
Next 5 Minutes is a festival that brings together media, art and politics.
Next 5 Minutes revolves around the notion of tactical media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of the festival together.
Posted by vanevery at 09:13 AM
BE THE MEDIA
Independent Media Center | www.indymedia.org | ((( i )))
BE THE MEDIA
Keep your servers running, organize and create media.
Posted by vanevery at 08:55 AM
Article about contemporary video activism and the internet
LiP | Feature | Pixel Visions: The Resurgence of Video Activism
Posted by vanevery at 08:52 AM
Video is a powerful tool for social good
The VAN is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.
Posted by vanevery at 08:41 AM
Take aim at that corporate culture machine and FIRE
LiP Magazine Home Page
From the site:
What We Believe and What We Intend
LiP takes creative aim at a culture machine that strips us of our desires and sells them back as product and mass mediocracy. Brazen, audacious and presumptuous, LiP combines a biting aesthetic consciousness with a structural understanding of power. Refusing to be colonized by despair, cynicism or apathy, LiP gives voice to those working for a sustainable society rooted in cooperation and diversity. LiP confronts the miserabilist capitalist system with dangerous humor, liberated eroticism and Informed Revolt.
Posted by vanevery at 08:35 AM
Radical Software, Online
Radical Software
From the site:
The historic video magazine Radical Software was started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider and first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers. Though scholarly works on video art history often refer to Radical Software, there are few places where scholars can review its contents. Individual copies are rare, and few complete collections exist. This Web site makes it freely available and searchable on the Internet.
Posted by vanevery at 07:36 AM
Community created internet TV channels
WHAT IS SUPERCHANNEL?
Superchannel is a tool which offers individual people and communities their own web channel and enables them to produce their own internet TV.
Currently there are 31 channels and 1401 shows.
Browse for an archived show or select a channel from the top menu.
Posted by vanevery at 07:20 AM
Open Source Streaming Distribution Network
What is the Open Source Streaming Alliance?
Open Source servers, exchanging streaming content and replicating content.
The driving idea is global networking of servers and high-bandwidth centers in ways that avoid unnecessary multiplication of Net traffic while delivering content as locally as possible.
The Open Source Streaming Alliance is extension of the networking paradigm with one crucial addition: it transcends the current only-for-profit context, allowing experimental, independent media and arts centers to catch up with the need to stream content creation and distribution. It thereby gives voice to diversity and facilitates global accessibility for all.
Posted by vanevery at 07:16 AM
Autonomy event listings..?
We seek the widest variety of radical, autonomist, not-for-profit events listings only. No major commercial or for-profit posts will be approved for listing. We encourage you to register here and add your own events. You may also wish to post additional events announcements or more information on our forum page.
Posted by vanevery at 07:12 AM
NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Autonomedia
From the listing:
New York City will become the epicenter of the media democracy movement this February, when hundreds of journalists, scholars, artists, and organizers gather to discuss how to strengthen and expand the city's vibrant network of independent media.
The NYC Grassroots Media Conference, which will be held February 27-29 at New School University, will feature over 40 workshops and panels conducted by more than 40 local organizations on topics ranging from video production to puppet-making; from how to start your own record label to practical ways that community media can help fight environmental racism. The goals of the weekend-long event are to promote awareness of the independent media in the city, to strengthen and unify the cityís independent media community, and to create strong bonds among community groups and local media makers.
Posted by vanevery at 07:09 AM
Independent news program, broadcasting everywhere
About Democracy Now!
From the site:
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America.Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), shortwave radio and the internet.
The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City's Chinatown (shown to the right).
Posted by vanevery at 07:02 AM
ABC NoRio's InterActivist Network
We seek to offer new, dissenting perspectives, and to disseminate information about news-worthy events often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.
Though the issues we address will be specific to our community, our goal is to instigate both a national and international conversation concerning similar issues affecting other communities.
The InterActivist Network is a model for community action using new media and technology to invigorate notions of public dialogue; to inform current debates within our community, both local and global; and to motivate non-mediated communication between the general public and participants in news-worthy events.
Posted by vanevery at 06:54 AM
Community art and activism
ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. We are known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and we retain these values to the present.
We seek to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community. We believe that art and activism should be for everyone, not just the professionals, experts, and cognoscenti. Our dream is a cadres of actively aware artists and artfully aware activists.
Posted by vanevery at 06:48 AM
Location One - A Converged Gallery
Location One | Manifesto
From the site:
Location One: Catalyst for Content and Convergence
This is our credo:
1. First, the Internet will be about content,
not just serve as a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content—not just access and distribution—with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter.
2. Second, Location One is about convergence.
We are bringing together creativity along the two standards that have governed the history of human expression: the axis of expressive discipline and the axis of available technology.
3. Third, Location One is a catalyst.
We select talent, stimulate interaction, supply resources, and provide real and virtual forums. We enable things both cool and consequential to happen. New media transform artistic expression. Conventional barriers of time and distance are erased. With them depart a myriad of social, political and cultural distinctions. Access, distribution, participation become universal (and affordable).
Posted by vanevery at 06:42 AM
the open video archive
Posted by vanevery at 06:37 AM
February 03, 2004
Experimental Television Center
Experimental Television Center
From the site:
The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969; today, the Center continues to provide support and services to the media arts community.
MISSION
to support the creation of work using new electronic media technologies, by providing space and time to artists for personal, self-directed creative investigations, and by providing funding and other administrative support directly to makers
to encourage an informed appreciation of media art by supporting the exhibition of film and electronic works by artists and by arts and cultural organizations in the State, and to encourage the development of new venues and audiences in all regions
to help honor our independently created moving-image heritage by initiating projects and participating in partnerships which address the needs for research, education and preservation, and place independent works within a larger cultural context
Posted by vanevery at 06:11 PM
Flea at MIT
http://mit.edu/w1gsl/Public/flyer
I hear it is THE place to find all kindsa crazy hardware and electronics from bygone days..
Posted by vanevery at 01:03 AM
Mac Dev Book, Online
Project:Omega - Books - Developers Books - Mac OS X - version 10.3 : Panther for developers
Welcome to Mac OS X v10.3: Panther for developers.
This guide tries to summarize and gather in one single document everything you should know in order to get started with Mac OS X v10.3. It will help you discover all the new features, applications and APIs added to Panther.
Once you have had this overview, you should be ready to pick the best technologies (those which suits the best your needs, in fact) and get more in-depth help and documentation through Apple's Developer Site (developer.apple.com) and Xcode.
Posted by vanevery at 12:55 AM
The Expo is coming, the expo is coming!
International Artexpo 2004
International Artexpo is an art show like no other. It offers unmatched opportunities to network, discover new talent and close deals. Whether you’re an art dealer or retail gallery owner interested in new editions, an art publisher looking to discover new artists or an architect, corporate art buyer or interior designer, International Artexpo promises to deliver unsurpassed opportunities to buy and sell art. Consumers are welcome to explore and buy artwork on the final three days of the show.
Posted by vanevery at 12:36 AM
February 02, 2004
Fabric Switches and Keyboards
SOFTswitch Electronic Fabrics - Applications - Wearables
As fashion and technology converge, SOFTswitch is providing the enabling fabric interfaces to allow electronics to function within clothing. From wearable audio and computing to mobile phones and personal healthcare SOFTswitch enables the portability and softening of traditionally large hard plastic devices.
Employing wireless connectivity SOFTswitch enabled clothing can also interact remotely with electronic devices in your home, car or workplace.
Posted by vanevery at 01:05 PM
New York Silk Screening
We carry and manufacture everything for the silk screen printer.
Screen printing supplies including Emulsions, Degreasers, Reclaimers, Haze Removers, Plastisol Inks, Water Based Inks, Stretched Frames, Squeegees, and a host of other silk screen supplies.
Posted by vanevery at 11:10 AM
February 01, 2004
Mobile phone news and dev and whacking
Posted by vanevery at 11:07 PM
QuickTime related news, articles, tutorials, reviews and so forth..
Posted by vanevery at 10:15 PM
SVG support in Java
Batik is a Java(tm) technology based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as viewing, generation or manipulation.
Posted by vanevery at 07:39 PM
Directory of Open Source Applications
Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com :: Open Source Software, Reviews & News
From O'Reilly...
Posted by vanevery at 07:34 PM
Media Development Tools Reviews
RealOne Player and Helix DNA Client reviewed by PC Magazine
Discusses Real, Windows Media and QuickTime from the perspective of a developer (using the API or SDK).
From the article:
Media Development Tools
February 1, 2003
By Richard V. Dragan
Developers are faced with a difficult decision: picking the best format for delivering content. Many factors are at play, including the quality of output and the players that the target group is likely to have. An important consideration is which format will provide the best tools for producing content.
Posted by vanevery at 07:33 PM
Video available for research..
The Open Video Project :: Project Information
Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard collection of video to be used for research purposes.
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.
Posted by vanevery at 06:16 PM
Live Interactive Performance Resources
Live Interactive Performace Resource
Welcome to this online resource for live interactive performance. Have a look around. Please feel free to help make this resource as complete as possible by submitting any information at all that you feel would add to this site.
Posted by vanevery at 06:09 PM
Processing Gallery
Processing 1.0 _ALPHA_ >> Software
Exhibition. A collection of featured software created with Processing.
Posted by vanevery at 06:01 PM
Sideshow - Todd
Todd Robbins Carnival Knowledge
From the site:
Todd Robbins, whom New York Magazine calls "a performer of dazzling skill," parts the curtains of the secret world of the carnival sideshow in his amazing new stage production, "Carnival Knowledge."
One of the last practitioners of a quintessentially American art form, Todd Robbins brings us face to face with an oddly beautiful mixture of real-life human marvels and classic carnival magic. TheaterMania.com calls the spectacle "infectious, informative and colorful." The New York Post promises, "this is theater at its most visceral!"
Posted by vanevery at 04:36 PM
WiMax - The industry's answer to WiFi's wild west
"The new technology will usher in a broadband wireless revolution." -- Isn't that already happening with WiFi? We shall see.
Posted by vanevery at 04:24 PM
Pan, Tilt and Track Webcam
Logitech > Cameras > QuickCamÆ Orbit
Unfortunately it is USB and not FireWire. Probably no MacOS support either.
From the site:
You've never seen anything like the unique combination of form and function of the QuickCam Orbit. It features a black, ball-shaped camera that sits atop a nine-inch-high stand at your eye level. Why? So that you'll get optimal face time during your video calls or video instant messaging (IM) sessions. And when you move, it actually follows you around! The QuickCam Orbit mechanically and automatically turns left and right for almost a 180-degree horizontal view or up and down for almost 90-degree top-to-bottom view. So your smiling face will always stay in the picture.
Posted by vanevery at 04:17 PM
Internet watches... ;-)
Suunto
From the site:
Suunto n3, the first in a new line of smart wristop computers that combine the quality and features from Suunto with access to timely, glanceable information provided by Microsoft‚Äôs MSNÆ Direct Service. The Suunto n3 offers a variety of features that will streamline daily tasks and enhance daily life - a stylish and unique information source for people who want to be in the know while on the go. Owners will be able to receive customized information to their wrist discretely and automatically - Microsoft‚Äôs MSN Direct Service ensures that the information they need is up-to-date and ready at a glance.
Fossil has another MS powered watch is: http://www.fossil.com/jump.jsp?iMainCat=450&itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=451.
Fossil also has a Palm powered watch: http://www.fossil.com/jump.jsp?iMainCat=447&itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=448
Posted by vanevery at 04:08 PM