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unify the look of your Mac OS X

Apple started to use a new UI replacing the “old” brushed metal style – you can see it in your Mail or iTunes when you’re using Mac OS X Tiger.

podcasters threatened by broadcasters

on this content which they didn’t produce by themself, just for sending it over the airwaves 🙁 This would be a terrible future for podcasting. The British podcasting association has a online petition to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) – so hit the link and sign the petition!

MySpace comes to Europe

MySpace is the world’s largest social networking platfrom with over 18 million(!)… The whole article can be found here (in german): http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/117345/ in the comments a user mentioned an “myspace alternative” from Austria with currently about 1000 users: http://www.janusweb.info/site/index.php notable is, that for each new user signing up (for free) janusweb will by 1m?Ǭ? of Costa Rican rainforest – good for our environment!

Manipulate your mpeg-4 files for iPod Video

It’s very handy if you like to generate or manipulate the metadata in movie files to provide iTunes-like metadata automatically on a server. It even can turn your selfmade movies into “video podcasts” or “movies” inside your iTunes library like the movies you downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

create podcasts with iTunes

It acts as a small webserver which creates RSS2 feeds with enclosures (aka podcasts) from your iTunes library and even from each of your playlists!… I use it to stream my iTunes Library across my wireless LAN to my Sony PSP to listen to my music while walking around in my house 🙂 It’s really great for that purpose because the webserver fits nicely into the PSP screen, is easy to navigate and you can even search for songs or artists!

get kaa.metadata (mmpython) running on OS X

go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.

go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, [‘src/extensions/shmmodule.c’]) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.

Text to speech

This is a very promising project that aims to build a open source text-to-speech system, based on a JAVA server client system with the ability to build webbased services…. But if you like to hear how text-to-speech works nowadays then head over to http://mary.dfki.de/online-demos/java-interface (you need java 1.5 web plugin) and select one of these voices: time-awb (English, male, limited) dfki-zeit (German, female, limited) dfki-bundesliga-excited (German, male, limited) dfki-bundesliga (German, male, limited) i never heard such emotional computer generated voices – that’s the right way!

kupu resize images

I always had the problem, that i could resize (drag with my mouse) images inside kupu, but when i save the document the image has its original size 🙁 Today i found the solution to this problem here To enable kupu to keep the resize information upon save you have to add width and height to the style whitelist in the kupu preferences in your site preferences.