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France. Last Saturday saw the official inauguration of the Paris Wi-Fi project. Free wireless internet connection is available to anyone in the vicinity of one of the 350 antennae covering 225 public places, parks, libraries and museums in and around Paris. The full 400 antennae for 260 sites will be up by the end of […]

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Last.FM, the UK based, social-music platform - with over 20 million registered users - have launched their ‘Campaign for better music’ with the ‘Now form a band’ web site, designed to be a leg-up guide to the sites and softs that could prove helpful in the promotion of unsigned bands. From the site manifesto:
In […]

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How do you upgrade to the latest WordPress version with as little effort as possible ? [btw: WP 2.3 ‘Dexter’ was released yesterday, appears to be a fairly big upgrade]
German opensource consulting team Zirona have been working on this and have released a plugin - InstantUpgrade - that looks serious and so it should, when […]

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Streamripping, as you no doubt know, is how folk record Internet radio to their hard drives. There’s plenty of available software to do this. A quick search for ’streaming audio recorder’ on SourceForge for example, has links to more than two thousand on-going projects, an idea of how popular it is. An open source […]

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Just came across the work of Moritz Stefaner a freelance information visualizer and designer from Germany - impressive stuff. If you’re interested in visualization design then take a look at his Thesis page - a roundup of work for his M.A. in Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam.
The FOLDING TIME experiment […]

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Bumped into - Islands of Consciousness from serial Flasheur, Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo. Stream of associated images pulled from Flickr tags. Intermingling, distorted photos manipulated in real time by the random soundtrack. Collaboration between Klingemann’s Flickeur project and a musical piece called Islands by Oleg Marakov, a musician and composer from the Ukraine - Got […]

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>> Chipwrapper - set of tools to search the sites of major UK newspapers [BBC, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Guardian, Independent, ITN, Sky News, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times] includes a Google CSE, a Yahoo! Pipe for the Headlines and IE7 / Google Toolbar plugins.
>> Zemanta from Slovenia [one of […]

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Wi-Fi transmissions across the Tyrannian sea have set a new world record. Habitants of Sardinia can now stay in touch with the Italian Peninsula using a 5GHz WiFi connection that maintains a transfer rate of 5Mbps over a distance of 188.89 miles (304km).
The world record achievement was made possible by the Italian Center for Radio […]

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