I had never bothered with these little players or compressed digital audio since I presumed the sound quality was awful. WRONG! The little things sound great for serious music listening, presuming you click a couple of the right buttons in iTunes’ preferences. I’ll explain these in this article.
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Archive for March, 2006
A Recording Engineer’s Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod
Wild accidents captured in Russia’s new Lefortovo Tunnel
Security cameras in Russia’s recently-completed Lefortovo Tunnel captured some pretty wild high-speed car accidents. The 3.2 km tunnel appears rather cramped, but that doesn’t stop any of these drivers from traveling at ridiculous speeds, nor has it prevented from being generally careless.
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Embrio: The Answer to the Segway
Like the Segway, Bombardier’s Embrio concept–a prototype that may or may not make production–uses gyroscope technology to balance riders but adds a dash of flair absent in the Segway, which we as car nuts find slightly nerdy.
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Filed in: Gadgets
Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus
On March 9th, NASA announced that the Cassini spacecraft had spotted geysers of ice and water vapor shooting from the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. This discovery may be evidence that resevoirs of liquid water can be found slightly below the moon’s surface. If true, Enceladus would be the environment most conducive to […]
Filed in: Space
Using sprites with CSS
CSS sprites allow you to create a single file that contains all the images laid out in a grid, requiring only a single image and only a single server call. Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to tame your Web site graphics using CSS sprites to consolidate images into a single file.
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Filed in: Web Design CSS
The Name Game
There’s a great article called “How they named companies” at the Day2Day Activities blog.
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Guy Kawasaki provides some guidelines about naming a company or product. Generally, the primary concern of most people seems to be whether a domain name is available. However, there are other considerations to keep in mind.
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Filed in: Branding
Apple to buy Disney Now?
Okay were on a back and forth relationship here, first Pixar is bought by Disney, and Now Disney is bought by Apple? I dunno, but I know I am not watching mickey mouse silhouette style!
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Filed in: Apple

