Ted Ritzer: Tech4CommunicatorsFor anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.(Untitled)- December 3, 2004 RC Aerial Photography. Gary Dickerson pointed out these folks over at the RC Groups forums who have been rigging up small digital cameras to their RC airplanes and getting some fantastic low-altitude aerial pictures. The trick is to find cameras that are light enough not to affect the handling of the planes too much, like the 2-megapixel Sony DSC-U40 that Gary rigged up with a custom mount and a hand-built trigger. The RC Groups forum is putting together a 2005 calendar now, too, collated from.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3871 (Untitled)- December 3, 2004 Open Source Multimedia Center For Windows. An anonymous reader writes "A new opensourced multimedia center for Windows has been released. Media Portal boasts the ability to turn your PC into an advanced HTPC (Home-Theatre PC) and PVRDVR (PersonalDigital Video Recorder). It allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio, watch all your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. The software is a port of the homebrew Xbox Media Center software which requires a...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3867 (Untitled)- December 3, 2004 Podcasting mechanics. After I posted yesterday's audio interview, Paul Schaeflein wrote to point out that I ought to be using RSS 2.0 enclosures in my feed so that enclosure-aware aggregators can download media objects. ... Jon's Radiohttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3866 (Untitled)- December 3, 2004 Personal soundtracks. Online: Ben Hammersley on how audio programming led to the rapid spread of the podcasting phenomenon. Guardian Unlimitedhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3863 (Untitled)- December 3, 2004 BBC: Blog picked as word of the year. Slow news day. Scripting Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3857 (Untitled)- December 3, 2004 Decentralizing Bittorrent. An anonymous reader writes "Exeem is a new file-sharing application being developed by the folks at SuprNova.org. Exeem is a decentralized BitTorrent network that basically makes everyone a Tracker. Individuals will share Torrents, and seed shared files to the network. At this time, details and the full potential of this project are being kept very quiet. However it appears this P2P application will completely replace SuprNova.org; no more web mirrors, no more bottle..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/02.html#a3856 (Untitled)- December 2, 2004 October 27, 2004. Pure CSS Slideshows CSS expert Eric Meyer came up with a pretty awesome slide show system called S5: ìS5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt..http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/01.html#a3855 (Untitled)- December 2, 2004 Microsoft Debuts MSN Spaces for Bloggers (AP). AP - Hoping to keep more Internet users in its branded universe, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest company to offer blogging to the masses. Yahoo! News: Technologyhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/01.html#a3854 Google Local is sooo cooool- December 2, 2004 Google Local. Better than the yellow pages Cool Tools like the man says, my wife and I like East Indian food, typed in that put in our city, Edmonton, Alberta and bingo bango a map with a list of East Indian food restraunts. I will never let my fingers do the walknig again!!!!YAHOO FOR GOOGLE LOCAL!!!http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tech4communicators/2004/12/01.html#a3853 |