DVD Flick - DVD Authoring w/ chapterising
Libra - Personal media inventory w/ lending. Barcode reading via webcam, cuecat
ZFS quick guide.
Automatic ZFS snapshotting - Not quite Netapp, but better then anything else out there IMO
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Friday, September 7, 2007
Podcasting links
A friend of my wife is interested in starting podcasting so I googled some links.
She has a Macintosh so I'm focusing on Mac tools
O'Reilly Digital Media Article - a good site for all digital media
Audacity is a good audio editor. It's cross platform and open source too. Free.
Engadget has a HOWTO that mentions free tools for receiving and creating
A Linux setup for Recording Video - many of the tools are available for MacOSX
From about.com - more info
iLounge is a cool iPod site with a Beginner's Guide
Most of these articles mention Free/Open Source software. You don't need to buy software to podcast. You can get by with a microphone, a computer, free software and maybe a webcam. Better microphones and a digital camcorder are obvious upgrades.
There might be Legal issues. This is the Creative Commons take on it. It's based on EFF's Guide. The EFF is all about protecting your legal rights in digital media. Since you're publishing, you care about Intellectual Property (IP) and Copyright. Lawrence Lessig is worth paying attention to.
I'd focus on creating the content, the audio MP3. I'd leave distribution to one of the podcasting sites. The about.com link has some sites.
She has a Macintosh so I'm focusing on Mac tools
O'Reilly Digital Media Article - a good site for all digital media
Audacity is a good audio editor. It's cross platform and open source too. Free.
Engadget has a HOWTO that mentions free tools for receiving and creating
A Linux setup for Recording Video - many of the tools are available for MacOSX
From about.com - more info
iLounge is a cool iPod site with a Beginner's Guide
Most of these articles mention Free/Open Source software. You don't need to buy software to podcast. You can get by with a microphone, a computer, free software and maybe a webcam. Better microphones and a digital camcorder are obvious upgrades.
There might be Legal issues. This is the Creative Commons take on it. It's based on EFF's Guide. The EFF is all about protecting your legal rights in digital media. Since you're publishing, you care about Intellectual Property (IP) and Copyright. Lawrence Lessig is worth paying attention to.
I'd focus on creating the content, the audio MP3. I'd leave distribution to one of the podcasting sites. The about.com link has some sites.
Fly Fusion Pen
My wife & I got a Fly Fusion pen to try. You write on special paper and the pen records your writing.
You can hook it up to a USB cable and import the drawing & writing. Output is an image or OCR will transform the text into a document.
In addition, the pen had a speaker and headphone jack to play music and give feedback for other functions. There is a music playing app: You draw a keyboard and can then play it with the pen. It will translate spanish writing to english speaking or vice versa. A calculator.
Your lettering needs to be block style like elementry school. I have pretty bad handwriting and decent block lettering. The OCR works well for me.
It's targeted at kids for homework and the applications are geared that way. For note taking, I think it's good for business use too. It's less obtrusive in a meeting then a laptop or especially a table computer. It's quicker then using a Palm. It captures drawings better then both. At $70 plus $8 per notebook, it's a nobrainer.
You can hook it up to a USB cable and import the drawing & writing. Output is an image or OCR will transform the text into a document.
In addition, the pen had a speaker and headphone jack to play music and give feedback for other functions. There is a music playing app: You draw a keyboard and can then play it with the pen. It will translate spanish writing to english speaking or vice versa. A calculator.
Your lettering needs to be block style like elementry school. I have pretty bad handwriting and decent block lettering. The OCR works well for me.
It's targeted at kids for homework and the applications are geared that way. For note taking, I think it's good for business use too. It's less obtrusive in a meeting then a laptop or especially a table computer. It's quicker then using a Palm. It captures drawings better then both. At $70 plus $8 per notebook, it's a nobrainer.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
pyTivo issues
Apparently pyTivo doesn't like "-" in the name of a share. Anything I tried to transfer from such a share would pause after 10 seconds and eventually kill the transfer. Removing the "-" from the sharename fixes it.
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