atmaspheric | endeavors

I was listening to some audio samples of voice talent today for work and it occurred to me through a simple change in how the samples were created I could get much more out of the experience. As you probably know, ID3 tags contain all sorts of helpful information about the track of music, [...]

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Good question… I don’t think so either. Phone plans are no longer offered (unless you really have a tough time affording service) with limits other than minutes. Everyone pushes time on rather than where you are calling - outside of international which is still premium. Though Skype is certainly working to reduce [...]

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If you’ve been enjoying Chatter Email or waiting to use it until attachment support arrived, today is your day. Chatter Email, in case you’ve been sleeping through things lately, is a IMAP (IDLE required) email client that can PUSH email to you in the background. It’s a very efficient email client and can [...]

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Growing up, I always remember The Who singing Eminence Front and thinking, what the hell do they mean living in a box… Give it a listen -
I learned long ago know it’s not living in a box, but rather Eminence Front. I’m not living in a box either, but sort of feel [...]

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Good read…
…this week journalist J.D. Lasica tries out the Sidekick II and speaks with Hank Nothhaft, CEO of Danger, Inc., about the device’s upcoming release, the market for wireless handhelds, the cachet of having Derek Jeter and Paris Hilton as Sidekick fans, and whether, if forced to at gunpoint, he’d buy a Blackberry or a [...]

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This looks very nice… Might be a nice option for FOF users looking for more, but who don’t want Bloglines… I’ll stick with Bloglines for now, but like the way this looks.
Temboz is a RSS aggregator. It is inspired by FeedOnFeeds (web-based personal aggregator), Google News (two column layout) and TiVo (thumbs up and [...]

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Vote or Not … Get registered, vote and possibly even win some money for your time.
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One thing I noticed right away after installing Skype on a second computer is that none of my contacts and no info from my profile seemed to find there way to my system. This is a tad frustrating since I had to resend the Skype hello message out to the people I’ve listed. [...]

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For our trip back on Sunday I decided to get some new tunes for us to enjoy beyond the 35+ GB already housed on my iPod. There’s a fantastic bookstore in Manchester, VT called the Northshire and they have a terrific children’s section for books, toys, video and music. Prices on music are [...]

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I used my Vonage (X-Ten) softphone for all but one call last week based on a flickering wi-fi connection in my hotel room. I was also able to use Skype on occasion to connect with people as well. All connections were computer to computer or computer to phone.
I’m sold on this as a [...]

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As I’ve mentioned all last week, we took a break from the city and headed North to Vermont. This was actually our second trip north recently, having driven to Saratoga for my sister-in-law’s wedding. On both occassions, we were fortunate to rent a great family truckster, the Volvo XC-70 wagon. It had [...]

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…we’re hearing that the Treo 650 is supposed to come out on November 1st. [Engadget]
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This is a very interesting sign of how things have changed… I recall how about 10 years ago (1995), AOL hosted (and perhaps still does) live chats with celebrities in their forums. Now it’s all being done from the mobile…
Last week, AT&T Wireless and Upoc Networks hosted a moderated, live “TXT Chat” for fans [...]

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I like this idea a lot… this could be a solid driver for new subscriptions for both services and lets TiVO compete outside the existing VOD services currently offered on Cable and Satellite. The main difference will most likely be depth of catalog, but it really seems like only a matter of time until [...]

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Something that bothers me about the limitation of the iPod is that I can’t easily put music on my iPod from multiple computers. I know I am not alone in this, but it’s continually frustrating.
I manually sync since my digital collection is way larger than my 40GB iPod and I use iTunes [...]

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I passed on a link to iPodder yesterday and mentioned I was unable to use it since it was Mac only. Well Pieter Overbeeke posted a link in the comments that he’s coded up a windows version.
I am using it today and have to say it’s totally cool. The code automatically connects and [...]

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Export directly to flickr….
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Even though Firefix is set to my default browser, if IE is running (works best for remote Exchange access and some other Intranet stuff) it picks up the link I click on from any app… Bad IE, down!
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Can’t try this yet… out of town on a PC laptop, but can’t wait to get it going on my Powerbook when I return.
iPodder automatically downloads new mp3 files when they become available from any of 5 sources (you can change these if you wish) and copies them to playlists in iTunes based on the [...]

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Not sure if this is considered data or voice (data would be free to umlimited plan users) or what the latency might be which is the key to successful Push to Talk Applications. Nextel for example is less than a second once the initial connection is established. You need to at roughy one [...]

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