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Copyleft The Great Giveaway
Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, ...
Readers Overwhelm Europe's New Digital Library
BRUSSELS - Europe's heritage went digital Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante's “Divine Comedy" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony just a mouse click away. Europeana (www.europeana.eu) gives multilingual access to two million digitized books and other items of cultural and historical significance held in over 1,000 institutions in ...
McCartney, Guns 'N' Roses Debut on Myspace
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but on Thursday, their new albums will debut online on MySpace. Users of MySpace, the world's largest social network on the Internet, will be able to listen for free to “Electric Arguments," the new album ...
STLtoday Adds Jazz Coverage with Culture Club Blog
STLtoday, the Web site of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has revamped what was once the site's classical music blog into a “fine arts" blog called Culture Club that also will include news of visual arts, theater, dance and jazz. The latter two subjects will be covered by the Post's Calvin Wilson, who's written frequently about jazz ...
NPR Jazz Notes Newsletter Now Available
Sign up today for NPR Music's “Jazz Notes," an email newsletter delivering you our best jazz features of the week, including Take Five: A Weekly Jazz Sampler, Live At The Village Vanguard, Jazz Profiles, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, and more. It will also include news on live concert webcasts and exclusive free downloads. Visit NPR Jazz ...
Hidden Jazz Downloads (Vol. 6)
Every couple of months or so, I spend a few hours running my e-fingers through the iTunes' “bins" looking for jazz gems that have been quietly added to the store's inventory. At iTunes, it seems, albums are flipped in abstractly, like baseball cards, barely promoted and sometimes even mislabeled. That happened with a James Moody collection I ...
Youtube Tests out High Quality Stereo Surround Videos
YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week. The new format could be a big move for YouTube, as the video size is over 80MB, which means that they are probably the ...
Apple Bends to Studios Adds Copyright Protection to Macbooks
Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on external displays. Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) in the external display ports on the latest models of it MacBooks, released ...
St. Louis Jazz Notes News: Addthis, Plus More Ways to Get STLJN
It's been a busy couple of weeks here at StLJN, with a lot of breaking news and relatively high traffic (as well as some nagging computer issues that still aren't totally resolved). While there's a momentary lull in the action, I wanted to take the opportunity to convey a couple of bits of site-related news.
Adobe Configurator Revolutionizes Photoshop
To help make Photoshop more flexible and bit easier to work with, Adobe has just released Configurator an add-on that makes it easy to customize Photoshop panels to suit your needs. For newcomers, Photoshop can seem like a labyrinth. The photo editing app is very powerful, but with great power comes great complexity figuring out how ...
