Mixing gadgets, music and the Internet
from WindowsDevCenter.com:
If you are the owner of a Bluetooth headset, you will be glad to know that besides using it with your cellular phone, you can also use it together with your Windows XP PC. However, you may have attempted to pair up the headset with your PC only to find out that the built-in Bluetooth stack in Windows XP Service Pack 2 does not support the headset.
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This is an interesting Podcast on IT Conversations about how the combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python (a.k.a. “LAMP”) has become the mostly used web application platform. Despite being one of the biggest supporters of Java and J2EE from the start, I have long been pointing out that most of the web seems to be still running on CGI. Actually come to think of it, this blog is powered by LAMP. Peter Yared interviewed here is from a company that has put together an “Enterprise Grid” enable LAMP product. He reveals a few interesting facts about web application servers - I especially liked the bit about heterogeneous two phased commit.
Peter Yared on IT Conversations >>
I first heard about O’Reilly’s new magazine through a podcast on IT Conversations and from the former Engadget guy Phil Torrone. Apparently this is O’Reilly’s first magazine publication. It’s all about geeky techy projects and it’s full of ideas for things you can build.
Continue reading ‘MAKE Magazine’
You probably know that there are a number of audio formats in addition to MP3 that you can use to store music in (WMA, OGG, WAV etc etc). I’ve always been an advocate of sticking with plain old MP3, simply because it’s the one standard that works with pretty much anything. But now I’ve discovered AAC, it should be just as open as MP3 and it sounds better than MP3 even at lower bit rates.
Continue reading ‘AAC vs MP3′
