July 2002

The real story about how peer-to-peer affect musicians

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Janis Ian writes an alternative perception of the music industry and their “problems” with peer-to-peer networks: If you think about it, the music industry should be rejoicing at this new technological advance! Here’s a fool-proof way to deliver music to millions who might otherwise would never purchase a CD in a store. The cross-marketing opportunities are unbelievable. It’s instantaneous, costs are minimal, shipping non-existant?a staggering vehicle for higher earnings and lower costs. Instead, they’re running around like chickens with their heads cut off, bleeding on everyone and making no sense.

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Flash projects: The Flash site connection

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Mario (Quasimondo) keep on producing cool projects, this time around its the Flash Connection v1.0 that has been released. Mario writes: [It] tries to visualize the ties between the flash-related sites that I currently link to. My rough crawler could of course only read HTML so pure flash sites will probably show no outgoing links. At the moment the information gets served by a static XML file, but in the future I try to make it fully dynamic (perhaps it is even a better idea to crawl RSS feeds). I

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Wi-Fi in the park

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Interesting article in the New York Times today: Escaping to Bryant Park, but Staying Connected to the Web It was the perfect collision of technology and nature, at least the way Oren Eckhaus, a Brooklyn photographer, describes it. He was surfing the Internet on his Apple Titanium PowerBook one day last week and a leaf fluttered in a light breeze and landed on his keyboard. “I’m surrounded by all this technology, and this leaf falls — that is so amazing,” Mr. Eckhaus said, sitting in the shade on a bench

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Macromedia Designer & Developer Tips Library

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A new cool resource for anyone using any of Macromedia’s MX products for developing or designing web and multimedia content: Designer & Developer : Tips Library Its nice to see Macromedia coming along with a more interactive resource center. At the Tips Library you can contribute with your own tips, to quote Macromedia; «ways of saving time, checking quality, or making your site something “special”»

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More Opera for Macromedia

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Interesting announcement from the norwegian browser company Opera today: “Macromedia to Embed the Opera Browser in Web Authoring Products” Today, Opera Software announced an agreement with Macromedia, whereby the two companies will work together to integrate their products for the Mac platform. Opera will deliver a full-featured, embeddable version of its desktop browser to be integrated into a wide range of Macromedia Web development products. The anouncement has sparked some questions in the blog community about what this means for the Macromedia products. At ActionScript.com the question was: Macromedia uses

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Flash 6 player developer beta

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Macromedia has released a developer beta of a new Flash 6 player, codenamed Airwolf. The list of bug fixes and extra features in the player is actually quite impressive. The Flash 6 build r39 beta can be downloaded from Macromedia.com. Mike Chambers have been nice enough to provide a username and password: Username : betabits Password : flex475 New features / fixes include: Masking Device Fonts Accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with the Airwolf Player Flash scriptability (XPCom/LiveConnect) support for Netscape Text fields are now more efficient and consume

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Mobile Development Center at Macromedia.com

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A new resource has been made available at Macromedia.com today, the Mobile Development Center is packed full of valuable content for anyone wanting to develope content for mobile devices, its very comprehensive – even to the point of offering information about solutions not directly tied into the Macromedia product line. Here is a rundown of the articles available: Mobile Development Center JD’s Forum : Why you should care about devices : John Dowdell Logged In : The Future of Flash on Devices : Top Developers Selling Macromedia Flash Device Content

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Why to not _blank

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Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target=”_blank”> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the previous window, so the “Back” button is disabled. This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I’ve been using the web for 10 years My personal reason for not using _blank tages on my weblog

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