HDTV on Your Mac
HDTV on Your Mac: "Even though the Mac is a little late to the HDTV party, you can roll your own setup for not too much time or money. Erica Sadun shows you how."
(Via O'Reilly MacDevCenter.com.)
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HDTV on Your Mac: "Even though the Mac is a little late to the HDTV party, you can roll your own setup for not too much time or money. Erica Sadun shows you how."
(Via O'Reilly MacDevCenter.com.)
JotSpot Is Free for Open Source Projects: "JotSpot is now free for open source projects! We've been wanting to offer this for a while now, but we've been waiting for guest user (i.e. anonymous) support, which just arrived with the latest update. Jot benefits greatly from open source software, and this is one way we can give back. And because a JotSpot wiki is provided as a hosted service, open source projects not only get the bits free, they get the server hosting and management free as well -- the whole enchilada. (Note that we're still in beta, but this offer is through GA and beyond... ) You can go here and get your site in a minute or two. Just be ..."
(Via JotBlog.)
Use Skype as a community media production tool: "Citizen journalists might be interested in learning how Skype can be used to conduct interviews which can be saved to hard drive, edited and then placed on the web. This article shares tips and techniques for doing so, along ..."
(Via macosxhints.)
Link: On the Death of SOAP.
I just put up a post at Between the Lines on the death of SOAP.
The challenge for the RESTful crowd is to create a well-thought out transport alternative to SOAP. HTTP is the basis for that transport, but it's not enough. The place to start is with service description and data binding so that RESTful Web services can enjoy the same kind of discovery that possible with SOAP. Paul Prescod made a start with his WRDL proposal, but it hasn't really taken off.
From » On the death of SOAP | Between the Lines
Referenced Fri Mar 25 2005 09:32:37 GMT-0700 (MST)
Ground-breaking BBC article on commercialization of...:
"Ground-breaking BBC article on commercialization of podcasting, with extensive quotes from Adam Curry and myself, and not surprisingly, we disagree. Adam says podcasting will kill radio. Nahhh. It'll become radio and vice versa. Airwaves are just another method of distribution. Same with satellites. What will change is who's talking and who's listening. Now the conversation will flow in all directions, with broadcasters listening to people they used to think of as 'audience.' Blogs changed the architecture of written-word-journalism in the same way. The BBC did miss that I did the early podcasts that were the inspiration for Curry and others, and continue to podcast, so it's not as if I'm on the sidelines, I'm in there, putting my ideas out, and helping inspire others to do the same."
(Via Scripting News.)
Buy DRM-free songs from the iTunes Music Store:
Jon Johansen, aka DVD Jon, aka the secret crush of hackers and DRM-haters everywhere, has struck again. And this time he’s not screwing around, he’s done something that will so seriously provoke Apple and the recording industry that he may have to go into hiding: he’s figured out how to buy DRM-free tracks from the iTunes Music Store. How? With a PyMusique, a new front-end he and some pals/future co-defendants created for the iTunes Music Store that let’s you buy songs without any of that bothersome DRM stuff. Seems that our good friend discovered that when you buy something from the iTMS, the DRM is only added to the tracks after you’ve purchased and downloaded them, which sort of makes sense since they do need to be tagged to your account. You’ll still have to actually pay for the music, but PyMusique conveniently neglects to wrap the file with any copy protection, which means you’re free to do what you want with the unrestricted file, including copying it to multiple machines or sharing it over P2P. Hard to imagine how this could possibly be legal, since Apple specifically requires you to access the iTMS only through their software (Laurie Duncan actually read the ToS and checked), but you may as well enjoy the next six to twelve hours before Apple devises a way lock PyMusique users out.
(Via Engadget.)
Podcast Shuffle: "Manton Reece: ‘Podcast Shuffle is an RSS feed with randomly selected podcasts. Each item is a direct link to the most recent enclosure for a particular show.’"
(Via ranchero.com.)
Jeff Bezos Announces open search RSS: "
a9 is now an aggregator of RSS feeds. This is a version of vertical search but not what has largely been talked about to date. The vertical search enabled by the a9 engine will take the semantics of the search initiator to categorize the search results. This is interesting stuff.
Link: [etech] Jeff Bezos Announces open search RSS.
When a searchable database uses the OSRSS code to identify itself, it becomes essentially a 'channel' to A9, and users can select which databases they want to see results from.
OSRSS consists of three simple extensions to RSS that simply state total results, a starting index, and number of items per page.
Inside Ranchero with Brent and Sheila Simmons: "The DrunkenBlog interview on NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Apple’s dark years, frisbees, user interface, and coffee."
(Via ranchero.com.)
We’ll spare you the obligatory iPod pimping commentary—namely because we’re sure you’d rather just let our
mad-scientist sister site hackaday make the effort to see the disgusted looks on
the faces of friends and family at an iPod abomination—but if you have to be the only kid on the block with a totally
wacked out 300GB iPod connected umbilically to a 3.5-inch (that’s desktop, size) hard drive via adapted mini-IDE cable,
be our guest. 75k songs in yr ‘pocket,’ dudes!
[Via hackaday]
Peerflix, a young Menlo Park company that we profile in today's Mercury News. It's a valley start-up that is hoping to build a business around the idea of peer-to-peer DVD sharing.
(Via SiliconBeat.)
Migrating from Eclipse 3.0 to Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7 (pdf): "Use this guide to quickly and easily migrate from Eclipse to Sun Java Studio Enterprise."
(Via java.sun.com.)
.. that is just ridiculous .. a 58! page document describing a migration no one outside of Sun would ever plan to do.. -- Marcel
HOW-TO: Make your own annotated multimedia Google map:
One of the great things about Google maps is it has its roots in XML. To translate for the non-web developers out there, it basically means Google maps are user hackable. This how-to will show you how to make your own annotated Google map from your own GPS data. Plus, you’ll be able to tie in images and video to create an interactive multimedia map. We’ll walk you through the steps we took to generate an annotated map of a walk we took recently through our hometown, now that it’s actually starting to get warm enough to want to walk about!
(Via Engadget.)
using RSS 2.0 enclosures to deliver application updates.
Six Apart Professional Network: SAJAX: Simple Ajax Toolkit: "
Sometimes development trends are worth the hype. If you've been itching to play around with the AJAX approach to web applications, you'll want to grab the SAJAX Toolkit. It's PHP-only for right now, but it gives you a robust set of tools for getting started with much richer web applications. SAJAX is BSD licensed, making it fair game for your apps even if you want to charge for them, and there's a donation link so you can support its further development.
If you do dig into AJAX functionality, be sure to check out these XMLHttpRequest usability guidelines for some best practices on how to make sure your gee-whiz features meet your users' expectations.
"(Via Six Log.)
The coolest plug-in you’re not using: "Today I saw a demo of something called Mylar, which is a system for making large scale development much more manageable. It works by filtering all the normal Eclipse views to show only things that are interesting while working on a problem. For the most part you can work without having to scroll any views [...]"
(Via eclipsepowered.)
Review: VIA Epia MII-12000 motherboard: "It's quiet, it's small, it's powerful enough for everyday desktop use and versatile enough to be a set-top media device or small home server. It takes PCMCIA cards, IDE drives, DDR memory, and a standard ATX power supply, yet it's smaller than a laptop computer. It has a built-in DVD decoder (no more DeCSS!) and with its built-in AES chip it can encrypt and decrypt data faster than the most powerful Athlon 64 system. The question isn't, 'What can you do with the Epia MII-12000?' The question is, 'What can't you do with the Epia MII-12000?'"
(Via NewsForge.)
StatCVS offers a view into CVS repository activity: "StatCVS is a handy utility for creating charts of a Concurrent Version System (CVS) repository's activity. In this article, developer Tom Copeland explains how to install and run StatCVS, gives an overview of the reports generated, and then explores generating reports for multiple repositories, StatCVS internals and limitations, and more."
Day 3: Packaging, Deploying and Running Rich Client Apps: "Thanks to everyone who came to my talk this morning. The final slides and examples now available. Slides: http://www.eclipsepowered.org/files/presentations/EclipseCon2005 Examples: http://www.eclipsepowered.org/files/presentations/EclipseCon2005_6.2.zip"
(Via eclipsepowered.)
Major news: Yahoo Has an API...: "Major news: Yahoo Has an API. Coool!"
(Via Scripting News.)