Archive for October, 2005

Oct 31 2005

Bravo Bravia!

What happens when you release 250,000 superballs and take a picture of it? My previous post on Bouncy Balls answers this. What happens when you film it? A delightful commercial from Sony for their new LCD TV – Bravia. I strongly encourage you to get to a machine that can play the H.264 (high resolution) [...]

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Oct 28 2005

Magnetic Toy Teaches About the Internet

Published by Andy Rush under IT,News & Commentary

A course offered by Harvard University’s Extension School entitled Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet! looks to be the best example that I’ve seen so far of a course that can be offered synchronously and asynchronously. There’s a whole lot more here that I need to investigate, but the course throws the whole [...]

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Oct 25 2005

You Great Twit!

Published by Andy Rush under IT

Just finished listening to the latest Twit (This Week in Tech for the unwashed), episode #27, and what a riveting conversation about copyright, the movie and music industries, generating revenue from podcasts/videocasts, and a whole lot more. Larry Lessig (Creative Commons) was the special guest on the show along with host Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, [...]

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Oct 21 2005

Media Center 1.0

Published by Andy Rush under IT

This is actually a test post from the new Flock Web Browser. I’m working on a project to upgrade my Home Theater and this Flickr photo is version 1.0. UPDATE: This Blog/Flickr integration is more extensive than I thought. Flock could change EVERYTHING for me. Stay tuned.

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Oct 12 2005

Three for the Price of One – Hot Recorder, gada.be, and Dolby Headphone

Published by Andy Rush under IT

I was exposed to three cool new technologies this past week: Hot Recorder – Actually this is one I’ve been aware of for a while. It is an EASY way to record the conversations you have with Skype (and now Google Talk). There are more traditional ways to record the audio from these Voice Over [...]

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Oct 12 2005

Just Call Me THE (iPod)

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

It is . . . it isn’t . . . IT IS an iPod with video! Steve Jobs has no idea how this is going to change things. Oh, and the title of this post refers to the name of the device. There is currently the iPod Shuffle, the iPod Nano, and then simply the [...]

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Oct 03 2005

A Shining Remix

Published by Andy Rush under News & Commentary

My colleagues know my opinions on remixes and mash-ups, but when the remix has an obvious respect for the original, I’m all for it. This brilliant reworking of the trailer for “The Shining” is transformed into a movie that is more like an “About a Boy” prequel. Waxy.org points to this Video which has gotten [...]

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