Check out this description of the new release of GarageBand. A lot of new podcasting features including support for artwork, sound effects and jingles, and a built in speech enhancer.
Category Archives: Remaindered
Thunderbird is go | The Register
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This article over on The Register talks about the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird and its support of RSS and, yes folks, podcasting. For more information, check out the release notes for the 1.5 release.
news @ nature.com – Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
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Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds. – From the article: “The discovery came as a surprise to some experts. “My colleagues believed it would be impossible to really see anything in less than 500 milliseconds,” says Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University in Ottawa”. One question. Any of these guys read Blink?
Podcasting 101 Tutorial
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Ken Underwood has put together a very simple “listening to podcasts HOWTO” in both printable and screen resolution PDF. For those of you who want a simple set of instructions to get your family and friends into podcasting, check out the Podcasting 101 links in the “Getting Started” section over on this page.
Shelley Winters dies at 85
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Shelley Winters dies at 85 – New York Daily News
MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up
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MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up – General Services Administration signs five-year contract with MySQL AB.
Apple-Intel units unveiled
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Apple Computer has unveiled their new Intel based machines. It looks like I will seriously have to consider the Mac as my next machine.
Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right
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Ari Paparo writes about his experience writing a public bookmarking service and why his implementation didn’t hit the popularity that del.ico.us did. Thanks Nalla for the link!
The Truth about 911 – A Video
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A one hour analysis of 9/11 and how it is more likely than not that the government was actually behind the attacks. I heard about this on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. This is a really well done documentary. No matter what you believe, you’ll be fully engaged by watching this video. This one is going to cause me to leave the house an hour after I scheduled myself to leave for work this morning. I’m totally sucked in.
Free Scrum Process Automation Tool
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Nalla pointed me to ScrumWorks, a Scrum automation tool available at danube.com. Apparently its free with site registration. I haven’t looked into it in any semblence of detail, but thought it was worth a note to myself and a later look into the details.