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Tuesday, July 25
Digital music player for the serious
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 09:40 BST
Wi-fi music player gets serious
it plays for Compressed formats (MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA), Uncompressed formats (AIFF, WAV, PCM) and of course Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless) It seem they really have up'd their game and not compromised with any of the parts or connectors in this one and at $1,999 (£1,079) is not that too pricey for the audiophile pockets.DataSheet
Manufactures website
AMD to buy graphics vendor ATI for $5.4B
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 25 Jul 2006 00:15 BST
It’s a TLA Day, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to buy Canadian
graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.4 billion in cash
and stock, the companies announced today.
Rumors that AMD would buy ATI have circulated for a couple of months. If
approved, the deal will add significantly to AMD's product line, bringing in
a lineup of cutting-edge graphics chips and chip sets that include
integrated graphics capabilities. Much like the Intel line up
Sunday, July 23
dreamspace accident
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 23 Jul 2006 20:48 BST
I took some photos a few years ago of Dreamspace when it was at Mile End, it was a amazing ... more »
Saturday, July 22
Spam
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 22 Jul 2006 11:19 BST
Yesterday and this morning I have mostly been fending off a spam attack to my domain offmybox,com, i've been recieving ... more »
Monday, July 17
How to fry an egg... on an Apple MacBook
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 14:54 BST
Now we know why Apple's notebooks run hot - the company wants you to
own a computer you can cook ... more »
Mark Thomas Protest about a Protest
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 13:43 BST
This is another SOCPA inspired demonstration. It is illegal for an individual to hold a placard protesting in Parliament Square ... more »
ContentAgent 2.1
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 17 Jul 2006 12:00 BST
James the CTO of Root6 Technology post in his blog
ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing. Some of the new features include:
Avid MXF Writing Enhacements
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Support for 28:1, 15:1 and 14:1 JFIF resolutions in PAL and NTSC -
Insertion of Timecode metadata intro resulting MXF file
General Enhancements
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Enhanced support for running ContentAgent on “Full” Windows XP (as well as XP Embedded) -
On-screen keyboards throughout UI -
Touchscreen support in workflow designer -
Template import from ContentAgent v1.3 -
Enhanced performance for browsing folders with large number of files -
Improvements to the licensing system
Capture Enhancements
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Visual adjustments for video cropping boarders -
Input Proc Amp controls for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Colour Gain, Colour Balance, Gamma -
Vertical blanking support for handling 608 line capture (PAL) and 512 line (NTSC) -
Improved input video format detection -
Live capture for a set time period
Image sequence creation
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Platinum Transcode engine can now transcode video to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, Targa, PNG, JPEG2000 and DPX file sequences
MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node
AutoCropping on still frame grabs
Export clip metadata as XML
This release will be available as a free-of-charge update to all on software maintenance.
Sunday, July 16
AutoClav1.1 Photos
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 16 Jul 2006 12:15 BST
I spent most of Saturday on the balcony in the sun correcting photos I'd taken the previous weekend of Tony Young from Autoclav1.1.with some new techniques I've learnt in Photoshop.Examples of this shoot can be found below, click on a the image to see the larger version and description ©2006 K2 VisualsThere are more if you've got a flickr account ping me a message and i'll add you as a friend
Friday, July 14
You call is important to us!
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 16:52 BST
How important, so important that we don't answer your call and when we do we cut you off. So more hold music at the back of the queue when you call back. Isn't it wonderful when people don't do there job and promise you that they will sort it, rearraging a delivery for the day you can make rather than a day when you can't, are you listening Dell Customer Service.Have you ever though about asking your staff to do what they say to customers. I won't name and shame yet but if a company is judged by the way it treats it customers through customer service the Dell has poor third world customer service,
Courier Companies
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 14 Jul 2006 13:19 BST
I've always
wondered by courier companies never ring the person they are going to delivery
to before they send the ... more »
Tuesday, July 11
The lunatic is no longer on the grass
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 11 Jul 2006 17:25 BST
Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett 1946 - 2006
Monday, July 10
German archivists have found a way to store and access digital data for centuries -- convert it to analog.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 17:18 BST
The data pool in
the universe is continuously growing. More and more information is
being saved digitally on CDs and DVDs -- but these thin silver disks
have a life-span of only about five years. That may be sufficient for
the average user at home or work, but archives and libraries face the
threat of massive loss.
At the end of June,
specialists gathered for a colloquium in the library at the University
of Stuttgart. They met to conclude the so called ARCHE project, which
sought a long-term solution for storing digital data -- and found one.
microfilm http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2079655,00.html
Tomorrow is D-day
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 10 Jul 2006 15:25 BST
Tuesday is D-Day for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME users. After some
extensions, Microsoft is finally ending its association ... more »
Friday, July 7
PlayStation 2 in VAT Sting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 07 Jul 2006 16:18 BST
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd have been caught by the TaxMan They have been calling the Playstation 2 machines as ... more »
Thursday, July 6
Cops spot-fine Goth £80 for upsetting weapons detector
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 13:59 BST
Start your own arms race in the office
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 12:57 BST
Every office should have onehttp://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=mislau The USB Missile Launcher is the ultimate deterrent against those annoying people who lurk ... more »
Sky launches its text to record service
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 12:37 BST
Sky
has launched a service allowing customers to text their Sky+ boxes from
anywhere in the world, instructing it to ... more »
Microsoft will be the sole supplier of Engine Control Units to Formula 1.
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 06 Jul 2006 10:50 BST
Wednesday, July 5
Breaking News
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 05 Jul 2006 11:15 BST
It's alleged that one of the Portuguese football players failed a drugs and alcohol test after the match. If this ... more »
Monday, July 3
The man is a god
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 23:07 BST
Stay Beautiful's pavement is normally covered in glitter on the best of night but tonight was special the Manics ... more »
WiMAX in the UK. Here's why it won't fly
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 03 Jul 2006 17:43 BST
This article is from old friend Steve KennedyThe Article is from the great technology news service http://www.theregister.co.uk
WiMAX is ... more »
Friday, June 30
Fatman iTube
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 30 Jun 2006 16:12 BST
Forget today's synthetic sound systems - if you want to give your
digital tracks the audiophile treatment, you need to take a look at the
Fatman iTube.
Yes, it's an old-fashioned valve amp for your portable player, which
promises to give the music from your iPod "a luscious warm analogue
sound". While old-school technology might be at work for the music
output, the iTube is still a very modern piece of kit. It's essentially
a docking station for all iPods (except the shuffle), which comes with
a remote control so you can sit back and enjoy the music - or if you
hook it up to the TV, you can enjoy your pictures and video clips,
again controlled by the remote. Will it really improve your music that much? You can find out in July, when it goes on sale for £300. http://www.fat-man.co.uk/
Thursday, June 29
dedicated 2nd video out from the ibooks
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 29 Jun 2006 14:47 BST
Owen a good friend and Video Artist
has told me that "You can get dedicated 2nd video
out from the ibooks – it’s built into the graphics card, but has been disabled
in the operating system. Install this - http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
and you have a dedicated second video out J
It’s installed on Tony’s ibook and has been
on two of Andy’s without any negative effects…there’s even the software to undo
it should you want to take it in for repair and not have a voided
warranty….
Tuesday, June 27
Anonymous Posting
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 17:46 BST
After much complaining for various people, yes you know who you are! I have allowed anonymous posting on the blog ... more »
There are still tickets left - A Night of Conscience
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 13:58 BST
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/StoptheWar-Kendall-Smith.htm WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE 7.30PM:
A Night of Conscience
Intoduced by Tony Benn
St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J ... more »
James Dean Bradfield
by
The Trained Monkey
on Tue 27 Jun 2006 11:39 BST
James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers is playing University London Union on Tuesday the 11/07/2006 more »
Monday, June 26
Tiger Woods '06
by
The Trained Monkey
on Mon 26 Jun 2006 23:21 BST
Well as much as I don't normally get sucked into computer games, well the last one to get me really ... more »
Friday, June 23
UK Mobile Phone Throwing championship
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 17:35 BST
The event takes place on 20 August at London's Tooting Bec Athletics Track. The first throw is due to take place at 2pm. It costs £5 to enter, which gives you three attempts at elevating a handset. Entrants have to be 18 years old or above. more »
Roys New Toy
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 14:41 BST
help people send big links via the web or for that matter over the telphone its called threesimplewords.net more »
Gamma Curves
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:44 BST
This was a post that Phil the Chief Engineer here at Root6 made in his blog regarding Gama Curves and future developement of ContentAgent..... permlink to the post
Broadcast live
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 23 Jun 2006 12:21 BST
just having spent three days on a stand setting my purple flares 'hot wares' at Broadcast live www.broadcastlive.co.ukat Earl Court Two, were the great and the good of the Television industry came to look at shiny boxes and electronics with blue leds on them, I bumped into a few old faces and had a good time meeting some new ones and hopefully soon to be good customers as well. Had the wonder pleasure of showing the sales people at Sony how to dub one tape format to another with audio. The key to it guys is arming the audio tracks, giggles He's a picture of top bloke Phil...is it all going well Phil? Other pictures here and here
Sunday, June 18
optical illusion
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Jun 2006 03:53 BST
my first attempt at creating an optical illusion
order your Sony Playstation 3 now
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sun 18 Jun 2006 01:59 BST
Bloody hell not at that price....Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year. Pre order now for disappointment at Christmas, at the very cheap honest guv price of £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
Friday, June 16
mobile blogging test
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 16 Jun 2006 08:33 BST
Testing mobile blogging
-from phone
Thursday, June 15
Frisbee in the Park
by
The Trained Monkey
on Thu 15 Jun 2006 15:21 BST
Wednesday, June 14
Avenue Q
by
The Trained Monkey
on Wed 14 Jun 2006 11:17 BST
Well went to see Avenue Q last night at the Noel Coward Theatre and it was excellent could not recommend it more, if you want a fun night at the theatre involving sex, drug, intenet and puppets, its your kind of night.
Saturday, June 10
Last.fm
by
The Trained Monkey
on Sat 10 Jun 2006 10:46 BST
well its my birthday today so i thought I'm have some birthday music...so i logged into last.fm and turned it up loud.
Friday, June 9
test of the new blog software
by
The Trained Monkey
on Fri 09 Jun 2006 14:31 BST
well it works
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