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April 30, 2005
QuickTime 7 and QTJ
QuickTime 7 Update Guide
From the article:
Updates to QuickTime for Java
QuickTime for Java (QTJ) is now fully supported in QuickTime 7. QTJ is now installed by default in QuickTime 7.
Finally!!!!
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April 28, 2005
BluePhoneElite - Phone/Desktop integration with via Bluetooth
BluePhoneElite: About
BluePhoneElite was just launched:
Call Center, Incoming Call Alerts, SMS Center, SMS Chat, Proximity Behaviors, Address Book Integration and more...
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Java, JMF and FFMPEG round 2
As Dave points out in the comments to this post: sLop: Java wrapper for ffmpeg there is a new open source FFMPEG JNI JMF wrapper: Omnividea FOBS - FFMpeg C & JMF Bindings..
Gotta love those acronyms.. :-) Sorry.
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April 26, 2005
Optimizing J2ME Code
Lurker's Guide to J2ME (Java 2 MicroEdition)
A nice quick article concerning some dos and don'ts when developing J2ME apps.
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April 25, 2005
Digital TV for Handhelds goes Standards Based
DTV broadcast standard for handhelds gains momentum
Does it offer any interactive components?
From the site:
Apr. 18, 2005
A number of wireless industry leaders announced support today for the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) standard, at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. DVB-H is an open standard for delivering broadcast digital TV (DTV) to mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs.DVB-H delivers an improved end user experience over current video streaming services that utilize cellular networks and reduce network capacity for voice services, according to the DVB Project consortium. Trials are underway in the US, Germany, France, UK, Finland, Sweden, and other countries, with more trials expected to launch later in 2005 and throughout 2006
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April 24, 2005
NYU ITP Spring Show, Thesis Week, Performances and Screenings
ITP Spring Show 2005
All of the events are worthwhile but be sure not to miss the show:
Tuesday, May 10th, 5 - 9pm
Wednesday, May 11th, 5 - 9pm
ITP - 721 Broadway, 4th Floor
An exhibition of innovative student work including multimedia installations, physical computing and interaction design, sound and video design projects. All projects on display at ITP.
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Why don't I have one of these...?
Archos Linux-based portable audio/video player available online
Ok ok, $800 is a bit rich for me at the moment but I would love to try some things out on one of these. The combination of Linux/WiFi/Touchscreen an video capture really gets my motor running. Hmmmmnn.. No SDK available yet (but promised). Needs a JVM and a Skype port (I think it would sell like gangbusters then)
From the site:
The much-ballyhood Linux-based "fourth generation" Archos PMA400 personal video recorder/player (PVR/PVP) -- with a 3.5-inch color LCD, 30GB hard drive, wireless Internet access, Qtopia PIM suite, and lots of other cool features -- is now available for purchase online from Archos's website.According to Archos, the PMA400 can record video directly from a TV, VCR, cable box, or satellite receiver. It can also record and play music. A browser interface for scheduling recordings can be accessed over the Internet. The device can also be used to view photos, play games, or run third-party Linux applications of all kinds, the company says.
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Polish those J2ME apps
J2ME Polish
From the site:
J2ME Polish is suite of tools for creating "polished" J2ME applications. Each tool meets a definite need of J2ME developers:
Build-tools with an integrated device-database, a powerful GUI, a framework for building localized applications, a game-engine, a logging framework and a collection of utilities.
Thanks Laura and Dan.
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The Brooklyn Bridge at Night
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April 23, 2005
Are you watching, listening and reading those ads?
Arbitron%u2019s Portable People Meter - Engadget - www.engadget.com /
Track human to ad exposure.. I suppose it could work. I would like to wear one just to see how much advertising I am exposed to throughout the day. Be pretty interesting to see if I can remember any of it :-)
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April 22, 2005
The Source for information on Portable Video Players
The Best Portable Video Players - PVPs/PMPs
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An MMS to Email Gateway Provider
Media Community Platform: Easy Email Reply
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CNet sponsoring a Future of TV Wiki...
Main Page - Me TV Wiki - CNET News.com
Wow...!
From the site:
Welcome to CNET News.com's Me TV Wiki. Here, you can collaborate with other readers to predict the future of television, collectively writing and editing your own chapter of this special report. A few potential points to address: How do you think people will watch TV in five years? What kind of shows will be available to download, and at what cost? Will 30-second commercials become obsolete? Who will control the TV industry?
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Video Phone for Vonage
Video Phone Rides VoIP Wave
Interesting.. Things like this have been around for a while in the corporate sector.. Perhaps this will break into the home..?
Posted by vanevery at 03:17 AM | TrackBack
Free your Vlog (as in Free Beer)
Freevlog
Step-by-step instructions for setting up a free videoblog.
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The crazy financial boom may be over but the ideas and tech just keep coming..
Yahoo! News - Plugged in - Next Big Tech Ideas May Be Small Ones
Nice article from Yahoo regarding a couple of interesting topics: POSM (Project for Open Source Media), Asterisk, Odeo, Blogger and more...
"Once you can surf by it, all your content kind of turns into television," says Halle, who once worked on interactive TV projects for a Public Broadcasting System station in Boston but became frustrated by the high cost of available gear.
The Project for Open Source Media (POSM), as Halle calls it, is designed for the era when anyone with a $200 camcorder or a video cameraphone can become a broadcaster. The interactive TV box costs $500 plus a $100 TV turner card.
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April 21, 2005
Nice writeup regarding the legal issues surrounding podcasting
Podcasting Music - The legal implications - CBI
Pretty much applicable to any downloadable audio file on the internet.
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Yikes..!! Glad this isn't a problem on my system.
Java glitch hits OS X update | Tech News on ZDNet
Apple really needs to get it's act together. Between this and the QuickTime update engine not working period they are really frustrating me.
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Hmmmn.. Bill with 1 up and 1 down for copyfighters passes House
Wired News: House OKs Family Copyright Bill
Not sure either of these are really that important overall but they could set an interesting precedent. Stiff penalties for video taping in a movie theater and fair use of media in the home.
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Prcessing goes Beta, Code Artists AWAKE!
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April 20, 2005
Jonny's Rant at IMC
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Screencasting
O'Reilly Network: Movies of Software
Good article on screencasting (recording and streaming your screen).
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Note to self: Try Ubuntu
Russell Beattie Notebook - Ubuntu is Amazing
Ubuntu, a new live cd based Linux distro that Russell definitely likes...
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JavaScripting QuickTime
JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime
So.. Apple has finally started to support JavaScript for plugins. The catch is that you need Tiger. <snide remark>A big help to us developers</snide remark>
From the article:
The QuickTime plug-in is scriptable from the Safari browser, but Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or later is required.
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April 19, 2005
iChat to SMS and back
iChat with my phone
brian d foy: I can use iChat to send SMS messages to my phone, and my phone can send an SMS message back to my iChat.
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April 18, 2005
Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it plans to buy Macromedia Inc.
Adobe to buy Macromedia in $3.4 billion stock deal - Computer Software - Internet Software - Software - Internet - Company Announcements - Earnings - M&A
Maybe Adobe will make Flash useable for developers.. Maybe..
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George Cook's QT Resources Page
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April 15, 2005
QuickTime Latency Part 2
sLop: QuickTime Latency
Soooo.. Following the various instructions in my posting from March 21 QuickTime Latency, I am able to reduce the delay from encoder to server to client to near zero...!
Here are the configuration changes from the QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server streamingserver.xml file:
From: <PREF NAME="reflector_buffer_size_sec" TYPE="UInt32" >10</PREF>
To:
<PREF NAME="reflector_buffer_size_sec" TYPE="UInt32" >0</PREF>
From: <PREF NAME="disable_overbuffering" TYPE="Bool16"
>false</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME="disable_overbuffering" TYPE="Bool16"
>true</PREF>
and
From: <PREF NAME="overbuffer_rate" TYPE="Float32"
>2.0</PREF>
To: <PREF NAME="overbuffer_rate" TYPE="Float32"
>1.0</PREF>
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Color Conversion Formulas
EasyRGB - Color mathematics and conversion formulas.
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April 14, 2005
Execellent QuickTime for Java page
Jason Freeman - Quicktime for Java
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April 11, 2005
New QuickTime SMIL Documentation
SMIL Scripting Guide for QuickTime
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April 10, 2005
Jonny mindmapping
Jonny mindmapping
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Fiery furnaces
Fiery furnaces
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April 09, 2005
Great Segment on All Things Considered
NPR : An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media
Regarding Advertising, TV, Radio, Podcast, Video Blogging and Unmediated.org
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April 07, 2005
Perl meet Eclipse
EPIC - Eclipse Perl Integration
Features supported are syntax highlighting, on the fly syntax check, content assist, perldoc support, source formatter, templating support and a Perl debugger.
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Flash beats out Java for video yet again
Video Ad Pioneer Ditches Java
The fate of Java in the video world takes another hit. It really is too bad that Sun hasn't done anything with JMF in a couple of years and Apple can't figure out how to make QuickTime for Java usable.
Woe is me..
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HTML Parsing in Perl
HTML Parsing: The World is Your Database
Looks to be a good article.
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Will this turn video blogging into the next podcasting..?
HOW-TO: PSPcasting on your Mac - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
I might have to get one of these nifty PSP thingamagigs now.. I would like to see a couple more hacks to them first, like the addition of a web browser or a JVM. Anybody know any of those projects are underway?
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April 05, 2005
Annotating The Times
The Annotated New York Times
Interesting site that tracks blog entries that cite the NY Times.
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April 01, 2005
3 Great Mobile/Media Articles from The Feature
TheFeature :: How Not To Do Mobile Chat - How Cingular and American Idol got it wrong ($.30 per moderated message!!!!).
TheFeature :: Why Are Mobile Operators Bowing To Hollywood?
TheFeature :: MMS Reborn As A Platform - Now we are talking.. MMS is the platform I use to create all the silly little video segments on this site.