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Blog Napster, of course, caused the dramatic collapse of the recording industry - who can forget those horrific scenes of executives in cracked sunglasses, soles flapping off their All-Stars, lining up at Sally Ann soup vans?
[October 22, 2006, 14:11]
A free tool from VKernel for tracking VMs
Blog It can help in the documentation and inventory recording of virtual machines (VMs), the company said. Called SnapshotMyVM, it is a standalone application that can do the tedious job of documenting and recording all the virtual machines that are...
[April 2, 2009, 15:12]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog The morning found me holed up in a radio studio at Broadcasting House together with presenter Simon Cox, recording the first show for series 4 of Radio 4's Click On. After the recording, I and producer Monise Durrani (who's fresh from producing a...
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's nothing to stop a sufficiently determined adversary from continually recording signals from multiple quasars and then repeatedly trying different bits of the recording until it finds one that fits.
[March 31, 2006, 19:30]
Alternatives to DVB-T in the UK
Blog I’m hoping that at least I can get DVB-S working for recording and such, then upgrade to DVB-S2 when it’s reliable. There will probably be 2 tuners in a machine that will do the recording (possibly boron) and the other 2 runs will go to the living...
[June 20, 2008, 9:23]
Wednesday: The magic of music
Blog I'm bored with writing about the Recording Industry Association of America and its steadfast campaign to alienate its customers. Wednesday 25/06/2006 But it won't give up -- now, it's planning on taking thousands upon thousands of individuals to...
[June 27, 2003, 9:57]
New ooVoo Release for Mac
Blog The major addition is video call recording, which is a very nice feature. A new release of ooVoo for Mac is available, version 1.5.1.83. While still technically a "beta" release, this update brings the Mac version much closer to the Windows version.
[September 9, 2008, 12:48]
Tuesday
Blog Apple hasn't added recording, an FM tuner, wireless networking or video capabilities, but if it's not broken, why fix it? Tuesday 29/04/2003 The new iPod is here! Or it will be in the next couple of weeks.
[May 2, 2003, 14:53]
The CD is 25. Rupert is somewhat older...
Blog So there I was, recording an interview for the BBC World Service on the CD's 25th birthday -- on the European strand of the WS at 5:40pm this afternoon, if you're listening -- when I was asked about the relative stamina of the format.
[August 17, 2007, 15:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Briefly, they took a pulsed stream of electrons, shot them at hard disk recording material and made the pulses go faster and faster until the gunk no longer accurately recorded what happened. Wednesday 21/04/2004
[April 23, 2004, 17:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So Seagate’s latest hard drives, using longitudinal recording to pack its little rice-grains of data onto the disk end on rather than flat out, should be popular. Thursday 9/06/2005 Who on earth wants 160GB drives for a laptop?
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
New iPhone specifications Summer 2009
Blog Video recording & editing capabilities Here are the specs for the new iPhone, given the Palm Pre release in June I see most, if not all of these features being present - most of these come from an iphoneapps.com post of 19/5
[May 21, 2009, 17:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's just like the Pace box, except if you plug it into a PC over USB it can do hard disk recording too. Tuesday 23/04/2002 Paid-for terrestrial TV may be in trouble, but the free-to-air channels are still going strong.
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You can get hundreds of channels, programmes on demand, subscription-free services from the BBC, ITV and their various offshoots, personal video recording — a rich set of options. Thursday 7/9/2006 It's hard to know where to begin with the...
[September 8, 2006, 18:30]
Canadian record industry faces $6bn copyright fine
Blog Since the late 80s, the Canadian recording industry has decided not to pay musicians and other rights holders for tracks used in compilations. The Canadian record industry has been particularly active at pushing its agenda for more - and more...
[December 7, 2009, 14:13]
Vista downgrade product prompts lots of U Turns!!
Blog Sir Clive Sinclair has brought out a cassette that lets you convert your ZX Spectrum into a ZX81 and Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are to be replaced with Sony's Betamax 1/2 inch (12.7 millimeter) home videocassette tape recording format.
[February 6, 2008, 13:47]
What can your new iPod do ?
Blog Voice recording when it detects a microphone, new colours and very green materials.and 16 GB.also spoke menus of all on the screen. If youre not one of the 160,000,000 current owners here are some of the new crop details
[September 10, 2008, 14:03]
Mobile Keyloggers and Your Credit Card Information
Blog Much like its computer related predecessor, mobile keyloggers are used as a tracking/recording device. Mobile Keyloggers and Your Credit Card Information By: Eric Everson, Founder - MyMobiSafe.com I’ve touched on the topic of mobile keyloggers in...
[July 1, 2007, 15:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We’re busy recording a discussion about all things nanotech, or at least we’re trying to. Monday 3/08/2003 Grey goo: it scares Prince Charles but makes professors chuckle. At least, it makes Professor Gabriel Aeppli -- head of the London Centre for...
[August 8, 2003, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog IBM's ever-vigilant storage scientists have found that if you put one of these layers between two layers of more conventional hard disk recording material, the amount of data you can pack goes up by orders of magnitude.
[May 25, 2001, 17:50]
