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version

-Intro Tune: Ambient Light, Vogue of Triton
for Ultrasound Commercial, FastTracker, XM
18 instruments, 18 samples, 16 patterns, 11different, 4 unused
227k
Who is Triton (demos, FastTracker, other side of Future Crew and Scream Tracker

http://www.modarchive.com/reviews/amblight.xm.rev.html
Musical Rating: Excellent / Professional

Ambient Light is one of two songs by Vogue (the other being Ambient Power) that
blends the ambient and techno styles of music into a pulsing and energetic
composition. The only drawback is that it is so short at 1 minute 22 seconds,
BUT I think Vogue assumed people would have it looping, which is what this song
was made for.

Technical Rating:
Excellent / Professional

Vogue is a master composer and tracker, and it is evident from this song. He
also has the notability of being the main developer of the tracking program
FastTracker, and exploited its capabilites in making this song. This is also a
good song to use as a tracking tutorial, with its many uses of effects like
pattern breaking. Note that this song does not play correctly in WinAmp.

 

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FIRST SEGMENT

-black helicopters

---------------
OUTTRO
Tune: Point of Departure
Artist: Necros FM/Legend Design/ iCE
Year: 1995
Type: S3M
Channels: 16
Samples: 20, 8-bit
Size: 491
Patterns, 44, 32 different

Details: For Progression music disk


Why: It's the beginning of this netcast.

 

Un gars demande un formulaire pour porter plainte dans un poste de police, et
ils... oui oui... l'arrêtent!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53ky3RIjfU  (3 minutes)

Light text on dark background vs. readability

What's up with the current design trend of light text on
dark backgrounds? Many web designers seem to favour inverted colour schemes, but
what happened to readability and usability?

URL:

http://digg.com/design/Light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability

 

Vista's Aero Glass: Is It All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Windows Vista provides a host of new features, but the
first thing that jumps out is the slick, sleek Aero interface. Here's a look at
the advantages and disadvantages of the new interface and what's required to get
the most out of it.

URL:

http://digg.com/software/Vista_s_Aero_Glass_Is_It_All_It_s_Cracked_Up_to_Be

 

Gmail Audio Player

Gmail has a built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you
receive emails that include MP3 files (maybe a podcast or a public domain
recording), you can listen them directly from Gmail.

URL:

http://digg.com/software/Gmail_Audio_Player

 

Softick Card Export II
From
Ben Lucas Ben Lucas comes in this hour with a great program, Softick Card
Export II, so what's it all about? "Using

Softick Card Export II it's possible to access SD/MMC card inserted into
Palm OS device as a logical disk on the Windows desktop. Card Export II emulates
USB Mass Storage device and doesn't require any additional drivers on modern
desktop systems." All devices excluding Sony Clies work fine plus all Treo's.
http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/softick_card_ex.html (cache)


Wi-Fi Helping To Fight War On Terror

Cell phones have become a key way for terrorists to
detonate bombs remotely. But a Bay Area company has developed a possible
solution for the military and for airports to pinpoint them before it's too
late.

URL:

http://digg.com/security/Wi_Fi_Helping_To_Fight_War_On_Terror

 

Do you need multi-tasking in a mobile device?

For those that may have missed this,

Mobile Gadgeteer put together a very good written editorial entitled Do you
need multi-tasking in a mobile device? "I was hunting for some news in the
mobile community and stumbled across an article titled, Palm OS–not the best for
the multitasker, and thought it would be a good article to read and discuss a
bit. I started out with Palm devices and after bouncing around for a couple more
years I settled primarily on the Treo 650 for over a year, before going back to
a S60 smartphone."

URL:

http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/do_you_need_mul_1.html

 

AOL fires employees over search data scandal

The corporate guillotine has been wheeled out to deal with
the apocalyptic fallout from AOL's infamous decision to release "anonymous"
search data on hundreds of thousands of users for research purposes.

URL:

http://digg.com/tech_news/AOL_fires_employees_over_search_data_scandal

 

Une petite fille de 9 ans demande à sa maman :

- Quel âge as-tu, maman ?
- Cela ne se demande pas ma chérie, lui répond sa
mère.
- Combien tu mesures, maman ?
- Cela n'est pas important ma chérie, reprend la
mère.
- Maman, pourquoi toi et papa avez divorcé ?
Redemande la petite fille.
- Cela ne te regarde pas ma chérie, dit la mère
en terminant la
discussion. La petite fille demanda à sa
meilleure copine pourquoi les
adultes ne parlent pas de ces choses-là.

Sa copine lui dit :
- C'est vraiment simple, toutes les réponses à
nos questions sont sur
leur carte d'identité. Le lendemain la petite
fille fouille dans le sac
à mains de sa mère et trouve sa carte d'identité.

Elle est ravie de voir que son amie disait vrai,
toutes les réponses à
ses questions s'y trouvent ! Elle court alors
voir sa mère et lui dit :
- Maman, je sais ton âge.
- Ah oui ? Et j'ai quel âge ?
- 36 ans. Et je sais combien tu mesures.

- Ah oui ? Combien ?
- 1 mètre 71. Et je sais aussi pourquoi toi et
papa avez, divorcé.
- Et bien cela m'étonnerait fort !
- Tu as eu un F en sexe... et çà, ce n'est
vraiment pas une bonne note!

 

Robertson, Olmert pray for victory

[Editor's note: Pat Robertson is probably the most
notorious representative of the Hollywood churches, also known as Christian
Taliban,...

URL:

http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1296&Itemid=0

 

Cheat Sheet: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is one of those phrases which we're hearing a lot
about currently. Everybody says they're very excited about it but do they really
know what it is?

URL:

http://digg.com/software/Cheat_Sheet_Web_2_0

 
Subject: Make tents fit in the transport bag

 

NeoCons Are Busy Covering Their Asse(t)S

Israeli press reports about the Israeli Defense Force's
Chief of Staff dumping stocks just before war broke out served as...

URL:

http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1306&Itemid=0

 

Apple fires retail employees for downloading Leopard

Filed under:

Desktops,

Laptops

Nobody touches Big Brother's Apple's OS until
they're good and ready — not nobody. Apparently not even Apple employees are
beyond the long arm of the law, since a few Apple Retail employees have been
sacked after being overheard by the Thought Police co-workers while
discussing their evil deeds, and were subsequently reported to corporate. Their
crime? Downloading the WWDC edition of

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that was handed out to developers at the recent
keynote and has been <

 

South Koreans make hydrogen solid for a brighter fuel cell future

Filed under:

Transportation

While storing hydrogen as a solid by fusing it to titanium
isn't an entirely new idea, a team of South Korean scientists look to be the
first to find a reliable and efficient method of doing so. The solid-state
storage of hydrogen has long been a goal of

fuel cell systems, since it does away with those nasty explosive notions of
storing hydrogen at a high pressure and low temperature. Apparently the new
method being unveiled by the team from the Korea Institute of Science and
Technology not only manages to bind hydrogen with titanium into the form of a
stable solid that has much less

 

14-year-old girl sues friend over missing iPod

Filed under:

Portable Audio

You gotta love the litigousness of youth — especially
when there's an iPod involved. A spat over a missing iPod resulted in a lawsuit
in Wheaton, Illinois, when 14-year-old Shannon Derrik sued her (now former)
friend Stephanie Eick for losing her brand new iPod. It seems that Shannon made
the fool mistake of lending her iPod to Stephanie, who decided it'd be a good
idea to give back the iPod by leaving it on Shannon's desk rather than waiting
for her to return from the restroom to hand it over in person. The iPod managed
to disappear — apparently someone in that classroom had some sticky fingers —
and so Shannon sued for $475

 

Maybe I should get one of these

TechEBlog is reporting on a "Ubuntu Linux controlled DIY cat feeder and
water dispenser" created by a fellow named Lee Holmes.

Lee uses his "JasJar PDA phone to SSH into the box, and feed[s] the cats on
demand just by running the script."

The computer runs Ubuntu Linux, so a crontab entry controls the scheduling.
The script calls eject /mnt/cdrom to open the CD Rom, delays, and eject –t /mnt/cdrom
to close it again.

Head over to TechEBlog and

watch the video .

URL:

http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/maybe_i_should_.html

 

Best Buy: "Media Center - OLD / DO NOT USE"

Filed under:

Media PCs

Best Buy Canada's online megastore wants to break it down
for you about the HP A1410N Media Center they have on sale for a mere $644.97
(after $55 mail-in rebate): it's old and should not be used. Maybe they're
trying to cover their asses in case of buyer's remorse (obsolescence is now
instantaneous), maybe it's one of those rare instances of truth in advertising,
or maybe, just maybe, they're using some powerful reverse psychology on us,
telling us not to use the HP A1410N so that we'll lust after it that much more.
It has to be something, because we just ordered a half-dozen of 'em.

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New passport holder claims to block unwanted RFID signals

An Orem Utah-based forensics company is now selling metal
mesh bags that it claims will stop identity thieves from accessing the newer US
E-Passports. Paraben Corporation, known for their mobile phone forensic kits, is
selling a nickel, copper and silver mesh "Passport StrongHold" bag will block
RFID transmissions from hitting unopened passports.

URL:

http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=5cbd07482c09564b527ce0b5d5de0b62

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