Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Digital Media Insider Podcast
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Dear Reader,
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be inside a professional
recording studio listening to experts discuss their tips and tricks? If
so, we have a great new podcast for you titled "Digital Media Insider."
This biweekly production is hosted and produced by O'Reilly's online audio
editor, David Battino. In the debut show, David features songwriter and
Pro Tools guru Gina Fant-Saez as she transforms a dust-dry vocal into a
gorgeous soundscape. Gina brings you these wonderful tips from inside her
recording studio. It's a real treat for the ears.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/09/07/playing-with-audio-plugins.html
Speaking of audio, we also have a great review of the new Edirol R-09
Pocket Digital Recorder. This compact gadget can capture professional-level
audio. Our review covers all of the notable features. If you're in the market
for a quality recorder that can keep up with you, then check out this article.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/08/31/edirol-r-09-digital-recorder-review.html
Signing off until next week,
-Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com
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*** Featured Articles ***
Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries: Part 2
Confused by file sharing in XP? You're not alone. In this second part of a
two-part series, Mitch Tulloch brings you under the hood and shows you
XP's secrets.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/09/19/windows-xp-file-sharing-mysteries-part-2.html
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Burn Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes
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How much money have you spent at the iTunes store? And what do you have to
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assets. Erica Sadun shows you archiving techniques to preserve your
(hefty) iTunes investment.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/09/19/burn-itunes-to-dvd.html
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Out-Of-Office Processing with Asterisk
Matthew Gast explains how he set up his home Asterisk system to handle his
out-of-office call processing needs. This detailed article includes the
code Matthew used to allow and validate user input of the time and date
for when out-of-office processing should be used.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/09/19/out-of-office-processing-with-asterisk.html
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Gavin Starks on Saving the World
Here at Euro OSCON, O'Reilly's European Open Source Convention, Jon
Mountjoy interviewed Gavin Starks about how we can save the world by
reducing each of our CO2 emissions by one ton. Gavin talks about the new
global charity called Global Cool. (3:32)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/19/eurooscon-save-the-world.html
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Metaphor
This week we look at two metaphors for open source. Scott Yara says that
Open Source is like rock and roll while Robert Lefkowitz says that open
source is like a tomato. Did you get your five a day? Finally, we listen
in on a new podcast that David Battino has launched on digital audio. (DTF
09-18-2006: 23 minutes, 20 seconds)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/18/distributing-the-future.html
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Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way
Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, and
much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly,
"Photoshop Workflow Setups." In this interview by new O'Reilly staffer
Sara Peyton, Eddie talks about his photography roots, the art of taking
pictures, his new book...and why he lives by the rule of 300.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/15/eddie-tapp-podcast.html
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Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot
Charles M. Hannum is one of the founders of the NetBSD project. He
recently posted to the NetBSD list that the project has "stagnated to the
point of irrelevance" and gave suggestions for improvement. As you might
expect, this provoked strong reactions. Federico Biancuzzi recently
interviewed Hannum about the past, present, and potential future of
NetBSD.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/09/14/netbsd_future.html
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Don't Let Hibernate Steal Your Identity
Hibernate has one set of ideas about how to make something unique, such as
using a database sequence number as an ID. But this clashes with Java's
need for implementations of equals() and hashCode() that determine
identity for objects, even those that haven't yet made a trip to the
database and thus can't have a sequence number. James Brundege has an
option that should satisfy both Hibernate and Java.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/09/13/dont-let-hibernate-steal-your-identity.html
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RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader
Paul Sobocinski combines RSS and AJAX to build a simple, in-browser news
reader that you can deploy on any website.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/13/rss-and-ajax-a-simple-news-reader.html
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