Tag: itunes

  • Beatles tracks to be made available for sale online finally?

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    The Toronto Sun is reporting that the entire Beatles back catalogue may be released through iTunes in the coming months with the first songs being made available as soon as next month- wohoo! This follows on from a deal having been struck between the Beatle’s Apple company and Apple Computers over naming and sales of…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Audacity aiff import problems

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    Audacity is an open source, cross-platform sound editing application. It is the sound editor I use for producing the PodLeaders and it@cork podcasts. The process I use for producing the podcasts was: Record the interview using Skype and Wiretap Pro (with Wiretap Pro set to save as mp3) Import the mp3 file to Audacity and…

  • FairPlay cracked

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    According to an article on CNN Money, Jon Johansen, the hacker who cracked the DVD encryption, (aka DVD Jon) has now broken the ironically named FairPlay. FairPlay is the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software which Apple puts on songs sold through its iTunes store – this DRM stops songs bought through iTunes playing on devices…

  • An Líonra Sóisialta in iTunes

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    Conn’s podcast in the Irish language – An Líonra Sóisialta is at position number 37 in iTunes! The more people who subscribe to the podcast, the higher it will go in the listings. Conn has also been nominated for a richly deserved Netvisionary award in the podcasting category – if you haven’t voted yet, head…

  • Plus ça change

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    According to CNet, it appears that the French have backed down on passing legislation which would have forced Apple to open its DRM if it wanted to continue selling music online in France. The background to this is that all the music which Apple sells online through its iTunes stores has Apple DRM software applied…

  • Interviewed by Matt Cooper of The last Word

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    I was interviewed this afternoon by Matt Cooper of Today FM’s The Last Word in a follow-up piece to the Irish Blog Awards. Matt raised the recent proposal in France to make it legal to crack DRM – this was reported by Reuters yesterday: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer…

  • IT@Cork member podcasts begin

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    IT@Cork is a not-for-profit organisation which facilitates networking amongst IT Professionals – by the holding of evening events, mini-conferences and the annual conference. IT@Cork has 220+ member companies drawn from fmcg, to banks, to pharmas to IT companies. I have been working with IT@Cork to set-up a members podcast and we published the first podcast…