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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comRoseburg Roseburg43.218031 -123.339513tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-90438036146690588082013-12-21T09:53:00.001-08:002013-12-21T11:33:38.753-08:00Imaginos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginos">Imaginos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>: Virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani financed the recording of his second album, Surfing with the Alien, through his work on Imaginos.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-50159697679607609402013-12-21T09:00:00.001-08:002013-12-21T09:00:35.696-08:00Cynic’s Progress | The Weekly Standard<p><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/cynic-s-progress_771509.html?nopager=1#">Cynic’s Progress | The Weekly Standard</a>: His witticisms, which were of a very high order, reappear sometimes, too. His best aphorisms in The Devil’s Dictionary are easily a match for La Rochefoucauld, maybe even Voltaire. His most reprinted book review consists of a single sentence: “The covers of this book are too far apart.” When a young mother pestered him for advice on bringing up children, he finally replied: “Study Herod, madam. Study Herod.” Democracy he defined as “four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” At the death of a local politician, Bierce volunteered the epitaph: “Here lies Frank Pixley, as usual.” Disdainful of philosophical pretension, he rewrote Descartes’s axiom as “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum”: “I think I think, therefore I think I am.”<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-54268877786563147532013-12-20T17:36:00.001-08:002013-12-20T17:36:38.242-08:00New Mac Pro: Simultaneous Real-Time 4K Effect Rendering, +900MB/s Read/Write<p><a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1686867">New Mac Pro: Simultaneous Real-Time 4K Effect Rendering, +900MB/s Read/Write</a>: FCP.co posted a 24-hour hands on with the new Mac Pro. They found read speeds of 880MB/s from the Mac Pro's solid state storage, with impressive write numbers of 985.5MB/s. Further, the team discovered that new machine could post full 4K video with multiple color corrections, effects and transitions playing back all in real time. <br /><br />Macworld saw even more impressive SSD performance, with Black Magic reporting 952.8MB/s writes and 920.5MB/s reads. Black Magic's speed test app reports that the new Mac Pro can easily handle all video formats it currently tracks, with FCP.co adding that its Mac Pro was able to play back 16 simultaneous streams of 4K video.<br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-30734636906149594992013-12-19T17:22:00.001-08:002013-12-19T17:22:26.978-08:00FaceTime Audio Coming to Macs With Next OS X Update<p><a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1686533">FaceTime Audio Coming to Macs With Next OS X Update</a>: According to 9to5Mac, the FaceTime audio feature is "integrated deeply" into both the Messages and FaceTime apps, making voice communication between Apple users on any device easier than ever. With Messages, FaceTime, and FaceTime audio on iOS and OS X, Apple will have a complete communication system in place. <br /><br />With a simple way to answer telephone calls and chat requests from all devices, those in Apple's ecosystem will have little reason to resort to alternative VoIP apps when communicating with other Apple users. FaceTime audio is also a high-quality VoIP choice, as it uses the AAC-ELD codec for Full-HD Voice. AAC-ELD is designed to provide CD-like audio quality for voice calls, delivering high speech and audio quality at a low coding delay. <br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-29783139705250002002013-12-19T13:02:00.001-08:002013-12-19T13:02:17.472-08:00Plex Media Server 0.9.8.17 - Seamlessly connect your Plex clients with your local media. (Free)<p><a href="https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42311/plex-media-server">Plex Media Server 0.9.8.17 - Seamlessly connect your Plex clients with your local media. (Free)</a>: Plex Media Server seamlessly connects your Plex clients with all of your local and online media. The combination of centralized library management, streaming of online content, and powerful transcoding functionality provides an unrivaled level of flexibility and ease of use.<br />Plex Media Server runs on your Mac, PC, or compatible NAS device and serves your media to all of your Plex clients including Plex-enabled mobile devices and 2011 LG Smart TVs.<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-58692396821616261672013-12-19T12:05:00.001-08:002013-12-19T12:05:21.802-08:00Making the most of iMovie's lesser-known features | Macworld<p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2081761/making-the-most-of-imovies-lesser-known-features.html#tk.rss_all">Making the most of iMovie's lesser-known features | Macworld</a>: Using the Sports Team theme and editor<br />Speaking of themes, iMovie includes the Sports theme, which has a special talent for adding player names and statistics, player photos, and team logos. It gains this information via the Sports Team Editor. You use it this way.<br /><br />Choose Window > Sports Team Editor. By default you’ll see an entry for the Leopards. You can edit this entry by clicking on it or you can start fresh by clicking the plus (+) button to add a new team. Click on the Sport pop-up menu to choose the sport the team plays—baseball, basketball, football, soccer, or volleyball.<br /><br />Below the teams area is a place for the team’s players. Click the plus button to add team members. For each player you can, by default, add a number, name, position, age, height, and weight. (Adding all of this information isn’t required.) To add a player’s picture, just drag it to the Player Photo field or click the plus button in this field and navigate to the image you want to add. Likewise, to add a team logo, drag it to the Team Logo field or click the plus button and navigate to it.<br /><br />You can edit much of this information. For example, if the sport your team plays isn’t listed, click the triangle that appears next to Sports at the bottom of the window. Then click the plus button that appears below the list that’s revealed. A New Sport field is added. Fill it in as you like—Bowling or Disc Golf, for example. To the right are four Label fields. Select each one and enter an appropriate label—Average, Shoe Color, Ball Weight, and Cocktail, for example. When you’re finished configuring your team, click Done.<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-44391320573311374492013-12-19T10:02:00.001-08:002013-12-19T10:02:26.093-08:00Apple releases Final Cut Pro X 10.1, optimized for Mac Pro with 4K support<p><a href="http://macdailynews.com/2013/12/19/apple-releases-final-cut-pro-x-10-1-optimized-for-mac-pro-with-4k-support/#comments">Apple releases Final Cut Pro X 10.1, optimized for Mac Pro with 4K support</a>: “Alongside the release of the new Mac Pro, Apple has updated Final Cut Pro in the Mac App Store to take advantage of the machine’s immense raw processing power,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac.<br />“Specifically, Apple says that playback and rendering has been optimised for the Mac Pro’s dual GPUs,” Mayo reports. “Final Cut Pro X 10.1 also adds 4K support, including monitoring across Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI displays as well as 4K titles, transition and generators.”<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-69546187332137279902013-12-17T13:15:00.001-08:002013-12-17T13:15:05.759-08:00Roku enters early 21st century, offers YouTube<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/WIznP8J_3No/story01.htm">Roku enters early 21st century, offers YouTube</a>: Merry early Christmas, Roku owners. You can finally watch YouTube as a Roku channel.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-39466984975974482602013-12-11T11:44:00.001-08:002013-12-11T11:44:59.895-08:00Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics - Wired Science<h1>Mind-blowing!!</h1><br /><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/">Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics - Wired Science</a>: The revelation that particle interactions, the most basic events in nature, may be consequences of geometry significantly advances a decades-long effort to reformulate quantum field theory, the body of laws describing elementary particles and their interactions. Interactions that were previously calculated with mathematical formulas thousands of terms long can now be described by computing the volume of the corresponding jewel-like “amplituhedron,” which yields an equivalent one-term expression.<br /><br />“The degree of efficiency is mind-boggling,” said Jacob Bourjaily, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University and an author of the first of two papers detailing the new idea. “You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-22894965482484551102013-12-09T14:02:00.001-08:002013-12-09T14:02:47.738-08:00Kitzhaber announces he'll run for historic fourth term<p><a href="http://www.kpic.com/news/local/Kitzhaber-announces-hell-run-for-historic-fourth-term-235085441.html">Kitzhaber announces he'll run for historic fourth term</a>: Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced Monday morning that he will run for an historic fourth term.</p><br /><br />Way to go, Hayduke, from your old buddy, Lightspeed!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-54671944143109985132013-12-06T11:47:00.001-08:002013-12-06T11:47:03.615-08:00How and why to use Google+, the surprising champ of photo sharing<p><a href="http://www.techhive.com/article/2068832/how-and-why-to-use-google-the-surprising-champ-of-photo-sharing.html#tk.rss_all">How and why to use Google+, the surprising champ of photo sharing</a>: Google’s much-maligned social network is leagues above the rest when it comes to photo-sharing tools and privacy controls</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-62298828793303914442013-11-29T12:52:00.001-08:002013-11-29T12:52:44.768-08:00Apple updates Dictation for Mac users in OS X Mavericks<p><a href="http://macdailynews.com/2013/11/29/apple-updates-dictation-for-mac-users-in-os-x-mavericks/#comments">Apple updates Dictation for Mac users in OS X Mavericks</a>: “One of the lesser known features of Mavericks is an upgrade to the Dictation Software,” Daryl McCartney reports for Amsys. “In 10.8 Dictation was available but required an internet connection so that it could contact Apple Servers to translate speech to text.”<br />“In Mavericks, Apple have added Enhanced Dictation which is a worthwhile initial 490MB approximate download which gives you the ability to have offline Dictation,” McCartney reports. “Even better, the translation is almost instant and because it is done locally you can live edit the dictated speech.”<br /><br />McCartney reports, “Unlike dictation in 10.8, when using enhanced dictation, you aren’t limited to a 30 second recording.”<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-92007828049450604552013-11-24T11:03:00.001-08:002013-11-24T11:03:05.414-08:00First official new Mac Pro sold sets all-time record for most expensive personal computer at $977,000<p><a href="http://macdailynews.com/2013/11/24/first-official-new-mac-pro-sold-sets-all-time-record-for-most-expensive-personal-computer-at-977000/#comments">First official new Mac Pro sold sets all-time record for most expensive personal computer at $977,000</a>: “Apple is known for making history by inventing the future, but even its designer could not have predicted a new record shattered on Saturday as a special one-off red version of the new Mac Pro (which is not officially available for sale yet) was sold at a charity fundraising auction for $977,000 — an all-time record for the priciest personal computer ever made or sold,” Electronista reports.<br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-30692986772301205322013-11-23T07:15:00.001-08:002013-11-23T07:15:52.056-08:00Aldous Huxley: the prophet of our brave new digital dystopia | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/22/aldous-huxley-prophet-dystopia-cs-lewis">Aldous Huxley: the prophet of our brave new digital dystopia | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Guardian</a>: It is set in the London of the distant future – AD 2540 – and describes a fictional society inspired by two things: Huxley's imaginative extrapolation of scientific and social trends; and his first visit to the US, in which he was struck by how a population could apparently be rendered docile by advertising and retail therapy. </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-13563417017522696662013-11-22T13:38:00.001-08:002013-11-22T13:38:36.769-08:00Apple dives deeper into designing and inventing robots, other manufacturing tech<p><a href="http://macdailynews.com/2013/11/22/apple-dives-deeper-into-designing-and-inventing-robots-other-manufacturing-tech/#comments">Apple dives deeper into designing and inventing robots, other manufacturing tech</a>: “Apple is putting a record $10.5 billion to work in new technology — from assembly robots to milling machines — that consumers will never see,” Adam Satariano reports for Bloomberg News.<br />“To get a jump on rivals such as Samsung Electronics and lay the groundwork for new products, Apple is spending more on the machines that do the behind-the-scenes work of mass producing iPhones, iPads and other gadgets,” Satariano reports “That includes equipment to polish the new iPhone 5c’s colorful plastic, laser and milling machines to carve the MacBook’s aluminum body and testing gear for the iPhone and iPad camera lens, said people with knowledge of its manufacturing methods.”<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-84883048205846187312013-11-20T10:20:00.001-08:002013-11-20T10:20:05.539-08:00Windows 1.0, where it all began - CNET News<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10019025.html">Windows 1.0, where it all began (PICTURES (TILES!!))- CNET News</a>: Microsoft Windows 1.0, seen here, was released in November 1985. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it failed to inspire -- especially when compared with the more user-friendly graphical user interface developed by Apple for the Macintosh.<br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-37382864708575686822013-11-20T09:59:00.001-08:002013-11-20T09:59:45.884-08:00Interactive Dylan video takes surreal roll through TV land<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/7CFWmBFxxkM/story01.htm">Interactive Dylan video takes surreal roll through TV land</a>: Cutting-edge new video for the 1965 Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone" lets you flip through TV channels as a host of recognizable characters lip-synch their way through the iconic song.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-58139515574908364522013-11-20T09:58:00.001-08:002013-11-20T09:58:38.969-08:00For Your Pleasure: 10 essential “lesser known” Roxy Music tracks selected by Michael Bracewell – The Vinyl Factory<p><a href="http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/for-your-pleasure-10-essential-lesser-known-roxy-music-tracks/">For Your Pleasure: 10 essential “lesser known” Roxy Music tracks selected by Michael Bracewell – The Vinyl Factory</a>: So, with the extended Roxy discography reaching in all directions, we asked Michael Bracewell to take stock and delve into the band’s essential back-catalogue to introduce ten “lesser known”, but nonetheless essential, Roxy Music tracks and the records where you can find them.<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-59369805040931220132013-11-19T16:16:00.001-08:002013-11-19T16:16:16.059-08:00When We First Met – The Infinity Stones | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources<p><a href="http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/11/19/when-we-first-met-the-infinity-stones/">When We First Met – The Infinity Stones | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources</a>: The soul gem was first introduced in Marvel Premiere #1, when Roy Thomas and Gil Kane first gave us Warlock. The High Evolutionary just gives it to him…<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-18250733369332442942013-11-18T10:29:00.001-08:002013-11-18T10:29:10.026-08:00Obama May Have Twitter, But Lincoln Was the First President to Go Viral | Underwire | Wired.com<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/lincoln-gettysburg-tech/">Obama May Have Twitter, But Lincoln Was the First President to Go Viral | Underwire | Wired.com</a>: “Lincoln was a master political strategist. He truly understood what it took to get the message out to the people,” said Schnall. ”He knew the speech would be telegraphed across the nation; within 48 hours every newspaper as far as California had printed the speech straight on the front page, which is exactly what he was aiming for. He was using the media of communication in different ways than a president had ever done before.”</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-31229019155942188872013-11-15T12:14:00.001-08:002013-11-15T12:14:58.443-08:00Google Play Music makes its debut in Apple's App Store<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/G25VHE8NpB0/story01.htm">Google Play Music makes its debut in Apple's App Store</a>: The application allows people to listen to the millions of songs in its library, as well as upload up to 20,000 of the user's own songs to the service for access elsewhere.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-58180380683934904952013-11-12T11:41:00.001-08:002013-11-12T11:41:19.611-08:00Apple's New Manufacturing Partner, GT Advanced, Uses Particle Accelerator to Cut Sapphire Glass Production Costs<p><a href="http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1670476">Apple's New Manufacturing Partner, GT Advanced, Uses Particle Accelerator to Cut Sapphire Glass Production Costs</a>: "A particle accelerator bombards these wafers with hydrogen ions, and with exacting control of the voltage of the accelerator, the hydrogen ions accumulate precisely 20 micrometers from the surface of each wafer. A robotic arm then transports the wafers to a furnace where the ions expand into hydrogen gas, which cause the 20-micrometer-thick layer to shear off."<br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-30045599972734198962013-11-11T11:53:00.001-08:002013-11-11T11:53:52.643-08:00PerfectTablePlan 5.1.4 - Create a seating plan for your wedding, party, or event. (Demo)<p><a href="https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20441/perfecttableplan">PerfectTablePlan 5.1.4 - Create a seating plan for your wedding, party, or event. (Demo)</a>: PerfectTablePlan is the easiest way to create a seating plan for your wedding, party, or event.<br />Import existing guests lists, experiment with table sizes and shapes and assign guests to seats with a single mouse click.<br /><br />No more fiddling with scraps of paper!<br /><br /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601297701152762435.post-60763163872932455512013-11-11T06:47:00.001-08:002013-11-11T06:47:02.935-08:00Flipboard expands into mobile commerce with catalog feature<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cnet/tcoc/~3/l1vcquxPTt8/story01.htm">Flipboard expands into mobile commerce with catalog feature</a>: The social magazine app has broadened its commerce ambitions with a new catalog section, letting users and brands alike curate products with price tags and purchase links.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976510458864253077noreply@blogger.com