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December 20 to 31, 2005
Unsurprisingly, Apple crippled the iPod to prevent high-quality
record
ing. Here's a hack to enable it, although it may only work on 3rd-gen iPods...
"Prescription Drug Use at
record
High for Americans"...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive technical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for
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ing, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and
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s video...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire
record
ing interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be excellent for
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ing on the road with a laptop...
April 11 to 17, 2005
The government gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A better overview of perpendicular storage technology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Perpendicular
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ing likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage technologies...
March 21 to 27, 2005
No doubt the movie has star attraction (Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand), but I like to think that people enjoy plots in which uptight conservative people (in this case, a paranoid ex-CIA operative...
Finally, indie rock group the Decemberists released a high-res version of their music video "Sixteen Military Wives" via file sharing. They are among the first musicians to release a music vide...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, an unreleased Velvet Underground acetate found at a garage sale could be the most expensive
record
in the world...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manufacturers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "Several
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ing artists" are in talks...
The cool trailer for the new movie based on the Philip K. Dick novel "A Scanner Darkly". In nine years, everything you do will be
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ed...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Chloroflourocarbon-free expanded polystyrene housing can withstand the worst earthquakes
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ed and is energy-efficient too...
February 7 to 13, 2005
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ing an album? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
Here's the mp3, despite the fact that Simmons denied NPR permission to make the
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ing available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and
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ing capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in
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in...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Unusual events "unheard of in the history of seismology" have been
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ed in the Andaman and Nicobar islands since the tsunami...
January 17 to 23, 2005
A new cheap DVD
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er (sold at Wal-Mart for $140) may make the VCR obsolete...
Were Robert Johnson's
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ings deliberately made faster? Slow his music by 20% to match actual guitar pitch and you get a whole new perspective on his amazing talents...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The story of 21 year-old Matt Leto, possibly the greatest video-game player ever. He likely holds over 800 world
record
s and is set to make six digits in competitions this year...
CD sales rose by 2.3% in the U.S. in 2004, yet pirated CD sales have hit a
record
high. So why is the RIAA still suing music downloaders instead of going after real pirates...
December 13 to 19, 2004
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ing Academy members voting for the GRAMMY awards will now be able to listen to all nominated songs in the "
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of the Year" category via iTunes...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Handy Mac-based tools for those
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ing audio interviews that need transcription...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Some cable companies now broadcast signals that prevent you from making copies of
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ings...
The great history of Sun Studio, the most influential
record
ing studio ever...
The RIAA issues its first gold, platinum, and multiplatinum certifications for digitally downloaded music...
September 20 to 26, 2004
"3 Myths About the
record
ing Industry Debunked...
A new business model for artists! Green Day sells blank
record
able CD-Rs with album designs...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Drool... new DVD
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ers with 400GB drives. Burn a one-hour DVD-R in 56 seconds...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
"BMI posts
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year, despite music industry doom and gloom"...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The world's first movie
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ing on a preformatted holographic disc...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
August 2 to 8, 2004
The FCC, by the way, would like to prohibit you from
record
ing anything from the Internet...
Clubbo Music, a fabulously detailed and funny site about a nonexistant
record
label...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Golden Apples of the Sun http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/
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-reviews/b/banhart_devendra/golden-apples-of-the-sun.shtm...
Devendra Barnhart is a good example of this musical category: http://www.younggod
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s.com/Artists/DevendraBanhart...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first
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ed decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
Will libraries be illegal? Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive aims to be the modern Library of Alexandria - here's a fascinating recent talk on his fight to archive digital media and create a fre...
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in
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sales" thanks to putting a free track on file sharing networks...
June 21 to 27, 2004
1) radio is becoming less of a factor in music popularity, and 2) artists should encourage the live
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ing community...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
"This is the most amazing, subversive piece of political webware I've ever seen. It scrapes the Parliamentary
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and makes the entire thing commentable, searchable and permalinkable... We need on...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A company
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s shows live and sells USB devices holding the
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ing after the concert...
April 19 to 25, 2004
Technology has been developed that takes images of old, damaged vinyl
record
s and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of
record
ings...
March 31, 2004
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical
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s and credit histories are being exposed outside the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new DVD
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er from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire side of the disc...
January 5 to 11, 2004
The FBI can now obtain financial
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s without requiring a judge's permission...
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying computer
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s.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
Thanks to cdbaby.com (which made Jack Johnson popular) and frequent national touring, Alexi Murdoch is poised to be the Next Big Thing in music. His music continues where Nick Drake left off...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The Worst Album Covers Ever http://www.io.com/~dork/
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s/sleeve.htm...
September 30, 2003
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
August 25, 2003
2003 Ozone Hole May Be
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Size, Australia Say...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...