Cracking open the Ion USB turntable
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Watch and learn as TechRepublic dives into the innards of a vinyl-to-MP3 turntable.
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DVD burner from Sony does just fine without a PC. Also: Virgin goes head-to-head with the iPod Mini.
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USB Sentry protects FileMaker Pro databases from unauthorized use by tying them to a USB stick.
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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Microsoft Windows users need to watch out for several flaws in non-Microsoft media players.
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This article is from a new book published by No Starch Press: Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook by Rickford Grant. &nbsp;This excerpt covers using your iPod with Ubuntu and it is full of tips, tricks, and helpful pointers. &nbsp;Reprinted with permission from No Starch Press, all rights reserved. &nbsp;More information about the book and its author is at the end of the article.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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An increasing number of oddball peripherals have appeared in recent years, and nearly all tend to be designed for the widely used USB standard.
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A step-by-step summary of TechRepublic's project to take apart the Wii. Caution: This will seriously void your warranty.
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After cracking the encryption system that protected DVDs in order to play the discs he had bought on a PC running Linux, Jon Lech Johansen has his sights set on liberating other audiovisual content from the format in which it is sold.DoubleTwist, a company he co-founded in March 2007 with Monique Farantzos, on Tuesday released beta versions of a Facebook application and a PC desktop application for unlocking and managing music and video files.Johansen achieved notoriety as &#39;DVD Jon&#39; when he ended up in court for co-writing the DeCSS software that cracked the encryption on DVDs and allowed them to play on PCs running open-source media player software on Linux. Until then, they could only be watched using authorized hardware or proprietary software because their content was encrypted using the Content Scrambling System (CSS).He followed that up by breaking a series of other DRM (digital rights management) encryption systems including FairPlay, Apple&#39;s proprietary DRM wrapper around the open AAC format music files it sells via its iTunes Store.While Apple&#39;s iPod is not the only portable device that can play AAC files -- many Nokia phones do too -- it is the only one that can play the encrypted AAC files Apple sells. There are ways to work around Apple&#39;s DRM, including burning the files to a CD and then ripping them back into the computer in another format, but they are time-consuming.DoubleTwist&#39;s tools, Twist me and doubleTwist desktop, are intended to make it easier to move music and video files, including those locked by Apple&#39;s DRM, from one device to another, or to share them with family and friends, the company said.Twist me, the Facebook application, lets users of the social network site put music and video on their profile pages to share with friends.DoubleTwist desktop runs on Windows PCs alongside Apple&#39;s iTunes, and can take legally purchased iTunes files in the DRM-protected AAC format and, on the machine authorized to play them, turn them into MP3 files that will then play almost anywhere, the company said.The desktop software also includes tools for sharing audio and video playlists and photo albums, and synchronizing them with Nokia&#39;s NSeries, Sony Ericsson&#39;s Walkman and Cybershot phones, the Sony PSP game console and the Amazon Kindle e-reader, among other devices. In addition to AAC and MP3, it handles WMA (Windows Media Audio) and WAV audio formats, and video in MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV (Windows Media Video), AVI and the 3GP format used by mobile phones.DoubleTwist&#39;s software may soon be obsolete, though. Digital music retailers are beginning to realize that DRM just irritates customers, and Apple now offers almost half the encrypted music in its iTunes Store in higher-quality versions without DRM, at the same price. Amazon.com, meanwhile, sells all its digital music in MP3 format without DRM, as do independent online music stores such as EMusic.
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A few years ago, when MP3 players were establishing themselves as the hot cool thing, the next step seemed clear: What if you could take along not only music but movies, television programs, home video and still pictures in a high-tech box svelte enough
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Reg review Windows Mobile 2003 in a clamshell
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Blog: Amberwave says you need to crack silicon to pile stuff on
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A relatively easy hardware mod gives Microsoft's music player an enormous upgrade. In Gear Factor.
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Connect iPod, press Record Review For budding DJs, or musicians who want to record live sets or gigs, the new iKey Plus portable USB recorder could be just what the beat doctor ordered. Designed to work with - yes, you've guessed it - the iPod, or any other external USB storage device, the iKey Plus can record live audio in MP3 or WAV format without the need for a PC...â¦
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Finnish security company F-Secure has reported on new rootkit-like software discovered on USB thumb drives manufactured by Sony. Although the software doesn't appear to cause damage to a user's system, it does create a hidden directory that is inaccessible via the Windows API and some virus scanners.
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption