Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Mon, 03/24/2008 - 11:05am
From the site:
Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!
Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Mon, 04/14/2008 - 2:36pm
Viddler gets New Media Rights' nod for the most advanced (as of April 2008), and simply coolest social video website. It allows placing of comments and video comments in the video timeline, lots of tagging, and more, while being easy to use.
From the site:
Viddler is a fresh, creative web application that lets you upload, enhance, and share digital video quickly and easily inside your web browser.
Last week at SXSW, music industry veteran Jim Griffin broached the idea that file sharers pay a small fee through their ISPs in exchange for unlimited file sharing. There is a great deal to recommend an idea like this (as we've been saying since 2004), but there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it.
We are big fans of a collective licensing solution for the music file-sharing dilemma: music fans pay a few dollars each month in exchange for a blanket license to share and download whatever they like; collecting societies collect the money and divvy it up between their member artists and rightsholders. It's not a radical idea -- that's roughly how we pay songwriters for radio play, concert hall performances, and the music playing in your favorite restaurant.
But this should not turn into, as some have called it, an "ISP tax." Any collective licensing solution should be voluntary for fans, artists, and ISPs alike. We don't have a compulsory "restaurant tax" for songwriters -- there's no reason to have a compulsory "Internet tax" for file sharing. It should give fans what they want, rather than trying to withhold things from them -- after all, artificial scarcity is what got us into this mess. And it must give artists the freedom to choose among competing collecting societies, which is the only mechanism that will guarantee the kind of transparency and efficiency that much of the current music industry lacks.
Read on for a quick reference guide to help distinguish a good collective licensing plan from a bad "ISP tax."
Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Fri, 03/14/2008 - 9:26am
Google is offering a new product, Sketchup, which comes in both a free and Pro (pay) versions and provides 3d design. What do you think of it? Check it out and comment below!
From the site:
"Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse."
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Elizabeth sez, "In the 1960s, my husband's dad taught him to program computers with a Bell Labs Science Kit called the CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (CARDIAC). My husband was so nostalgic for his first 'cardboard computer,' that a couple of years ago I tracked down a guy who still sells the kits - manufactured in the '60s but still brand new and unopened - and bought my husband a new CARDIAC for Christmas. Today, I just found out that the owner of Comspace, the lone remaining dealer of original Bell Labs Science kits (they also have lots of other cool stuff besides the CARDIAC) will be closing his business at the end of this month and is selling off his inventory. You can read more about the Bell Science Labs kits at the URL above. That page also contains a link to the Comspace site, where you can order the kits. (Note, though, that some things listed on the Bell Labs page are no longer available. Contact Phillip Dixon at Comspace for the current product/price list.) He's also offering 5% discounts to anyone who buys 20 or more kits. (Please note - I have no connection to or interest in Comspace. I just think this is a really, really cool sale of vintage-but-brand-new geeky stuff.)"
My dad taught me to program with these in the mid-1970s as well -- it was incredibly engrossing. Link (Thanks, Elizabeth!)
See also: CARDIAC: Bell Labs's old cardboard computer
Lisa sez, "I've been working these past few weeks on this installation with Electric
Sheep artist Spot Draves. He and Second Life 3-D artist Somatika Xiao
(a.k.a. David Stumbaugh) have put together an incredible interactive art
exhibit in Second Life. We're having an opening this
Thursday night - March 13th, with Spot there live at 7pm.
I've just posted the first
part of a multi-part interview with him that explains the nuts and
bolts behind his incredible art."
Link
(Thanks, Lisa!)
See also:
Electric Sheep artificial life DVD launch March 31, San Francisco
Electric Sheep: Evolved fractals movie in NYC next Sat
Submitted by New Media Rights last modified Tue, 10/27/2020 - 7:50pm
If you've ever bought a ringtone of a song you already owned, or just want to record your own sounds to use as ringtones, then you've come to the right place. Forget about the ringtones being offered by your service provider, mtv, jamster, or anyone else. You can make your own ringtones for free, and you aren't limited by the songs or snippets of song chosen by content providers, just follow the steps below:
1. Get your cell phone connected to your computer and install BitPim, a free open-source software program. If you haven't done this already, just follow the steps in How to Hack Your Cell Phone Using BitPim.
2. Cut your audio down to ringtone-length samples (and convert to .mp3 or .wav format). You will need to use an audio editing program, but don't be intimidated, there are free and easy-to-use programs available. If you need some help, see How to Edit Audio: A Beginner's Guide. Also, if you are having trouble converting your audio into a workable format, take a look at How to Capture Streaming Audio.
3. Import your audio into BitPim. Select "ringers" under the "Media" category, then choose "Add Ringer" from the tool bar at the top (the icon is a blue note with a green plus sign) and select your file. You must convert the file before going and further. BitPim sets the default Bitrate at 48, but you can set it higher. Most mp3's sold online are at a 128 bitrate so don't hesitate to bump that number up, your phone shouldn't have a problem handling it (BitPim may give you a standard warning that the file may be too big, but it isn't always accurate). You can also change the starting and stopping points for your ringtone at this point.
4. Send your ringtone to your cell phone. BitPim will send all of the ringtones in your "ringers" folder to your phone. You can either add the new ringtones to the existing ringtones on your phone, or you can replace your old ringtones with the new ones. Select "Send Phone Data" at the top of the tool bar (the icon is a green arrow pointing toward a cell phone). You should see a pop-up window with a number of check boxes. Check ONLY the "Ringtone" box and BE SURE it is set to "Add" and NOT "Replace All." Accidentally selecting "Replace All" for other items such as calender or address book COULD ERASE IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR CELL PHONE.
5. Select your new ringtones on your cell phone. If done properly, your new ringtones will appear right along with any others you may have purchased.
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