Berlin, Germany:
"Phonographic Migrations 4: Berlin.SoundscapeFM" is a collaborative sound work which takes place during the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Germany from 4 to 9 February 2005. It takes the form of an FM radio broadcast, combined with a user-uploadable database filled with field recordings taken from the city of Berlin.
::more links
::phonography.org
::and-oar.org
::fieldmuzick.net
::nauzemuzick.net

Labels: audio, netlabel

IMP is the Internet Messaging Program (formerly, among other things, the IMAP webMail Program), a PHP-based webmail system and a component of the Horde project. IMP, once installed, accesses mail over IMAP thus requiring little to no special preparations on the server on which mail is stored.
About the Horde Project:
Are you a PHP application developer? The Horde Framework provides backend-independent interfaces for dealing with preferences, logfiles, MIME, hierarchical data, authentication, data formats, encryption, forms, session handling, file storage, remote procedure calls - and more is on the way.

Labels: development, tip, utilities

Rumors are circulating that Apple has signed a deal with one of the satellite radio companies, Sirius, to market iPods that can receive and record that company's satellite broadcasts. I can't say if there is any validity to this latest bit of gossip - it is probably nothing more than someone's clever imagination - but since Think Secret's accurate scoop the other month on the iPod Photo one hesitates to dismiss it too quickly.

The Business Angle

From Apple's point of view an iPod Satellite would certainly offer a unique high end feature that would trump the FM radios found in a number of competing units. Some pundits have been listing XM and Delphi's latest MyFi portable satellite radio as an iPod competitor, but it is not an MP3 player. The iPod could be the first to converge both technologies.

Labels: mobile, photo, tip

A German computer researcher has been paid $2,500 by Mozilla as a thank you for pointing out five flaws in its browser. Michael Krax was paid $500 per bug and got a free Mozilla T-shirt.
"We developed the bug bounty program to encourage and award community members who identify unknown bugs in the software," said Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at the Mozilla Foundation.

Labels: community

Canary Wireless today announced the release of its Digital Hotspotter device, a Wi-Fi detection and analysis tool with an LCD display that provides essential network information to Wi-Fi users and technology professionals.
The company says its device is the only one on the market to provide smart signal analysis, including network ID, encryption status and channel data for multiple networks.
Canary's Wi-Fi detector costs US$49.95, unless purchased in volume.

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By Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville 2nd Edition August 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00035-9



This edition contains more than 75% new material. You'll find updated chapters on organization, labeling, navigation, and searching; and a new chapter on thesauri, controlled vocabularies and metadata will help you understand the interconnectedness of these systems. The authors have expanded the methodology chapters to include a more interdisciplinary collection of tools and techniques. They've also complemented the top-down strategies of the first edition with bottom-up approaches that enable distributed, emergent solutions.

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