Monthly Archives: October 2004

Newsday has an interesting article on bloggers generating revenue from their blogs. Great opening paragraph:

The odds of making a living by writing a blog are a lot like the odds of a garage band turning out a hit album: It … Continue reading →

Another interesting audio application from the folks at Rogue Amoeba: Detour allows you to send audio to different output devices on an application-specific basis. So you can send iTunes to your headphones, and Quicktime Player to external audio for example…

Make Room for Podcasting is a nice summary of the phenomenon of Podcasting.

Also, Jon Gordon has posted a succinct definition of podcasting:

A podcast is a talk or music radio show that’s sent directly to an iPod or other digital … Continue reading →

A new service called BlogFlix has been released, which apparently is able to take your digital images and build a movie-like (think Ken Burns effect) Flash presentation for inserting into your weblog. Here’s a snippet from their press release:

Transvector releases … Continue reading →

iZotope Vinyl is a free app (requires registration) which resamples your audio as if it were being played on a record player. From the site:

The ultimate lo-fi weapon, iZotope Vinyl uses 64-bit processing and advanced filtering, modeling and resampling to … Continue reading →

Ross: The real magic here is that this isn’t limited to iPod users -podcasting is limited to internet users with media devices. Podcasting builds on and extends the internet platform – the RSS/Syndication platform. Podcasting brings timeshifting to user generated … Continue reading →

The color scheme generator is a killer tool that all interface designers will want to keep handy…

Another article on the tech details of podcasting: How-To: Podcasting (aka How to get Podcasts and also make your own) from Engadget. Similar to the Hugo Schotman instructions I linked to a few days ago.

From the website: BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on LG VX4400/VX6000 and many Sanyo Sprint cell phones. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based … Continue reading →

Yellow Dog Linux 4.0, a Linux distribution for PowerPC-based computers, has been released. I tried Yellow Dog a while back and it installed and ran nicely on my Pismo G3 Powerbook. One of the things that would have gotten me … Continue reading →

What is an iPodder? Dave Winer asks you to tell him… He thinks it works like this:

There’s a list of feeds the user is subscribed to, just like a feed reader or aggregator.
Periodically the iPodder reads the feeds, looks for … Continue reading →

Some interesting things…
WireTap, according to their site: is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later that allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows … Continue reading →