Links
October 23rd, 2006
- Songbird. Mozilla based, open source, free desktop media player. Looks promising (it’s v0.2 at the moment), especially if the extension community gets going like they have with Firefox.
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
- Cisco telepresence rig shows the future of videoconferencing. 1080P HDTV with imperceptable latency. I’m reminded of the teleconference scene in Demolition Man - It’s amazing how dated that things that were originally designed to look futuristic become
- Undersound. Swap other people’s tunes onto your phone from a base station on a tube platform.
undersound is …an interface that is on your mobile phone and in the underground stations you pass through every day … undersound is a way of listening to, distributing and affecting the flow of music in the underground that goes beyond just the music itself. It allows you to see your journeys, the people around you, and the tube itself in a new light.
Hmmm… [arches eyebrow skeptically]
- Which nicely links to Underworld, who have been quietly putting out new material for download on their website for over a year. It sounds good, but I need a bit more than a 30s sample to decide if it’s worth £5 for an half hour mp3. Strangely, the greyed-out subnav doesn’t seem to work, but a bit of URL hacking opens the archive where there’s an entire live show from Benicassim, 2005. I’m listening now - Pearls girl good!
- Retired weapons. Nice graphic design
- Good luck to Bec, graphic designer extrodinaire and all-round good-egg. First, for a good week working at the Electric Proms (listen to Squarepusher on Radio 1, 2200, Thu night); then, for your return to Oz next week. Click your heels three times; there’s no place like home…