Archive for May 31st, 2007
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Digital Audio Compression
This great article from the NYTimes.com discusses the pros/cons of various forms of bitrate encoding. As digital storage gets cheaper by the day, music companies are starting to increase the bitrate sampling of songs they make available online (currently for a premium). Some are even taking Super Audio CD tracks and sampling them at ridiculous [...]
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Surface Computing
Popular Mechanics has a terrific video demonstration of Microsoft’s recently announced surface computing hardware. I’ve been a multitouch fan for a while (have a ThinkPad X61T with screen input for example, and of course Apple’s upcoming iPhone features multitouch prominently), and this demo shows where multitouch is going. You’ll be able to find these multitouch [...]
