Craft & Design

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iPod photo extractor

iPod photo extractor

IphotoMacworld has a handy guide for iPod owners “…while visiting relatives a while back, I was showing pictures from a family event—thanks to the iPod photo’s handy present-on-the-TV feature—and got several requests to send one photo or another to various family members. I ended up writing down who wanted which photos and then grabbing them from iPhoto when I got home. But I wondered: How could I have pulled those photos off the iPod right then and there?” Here’s how – [via] Link. You can also check off a box in iTunes/iPhoto that says “include hi-res photos” too.

Happy Birthday, Doppler!

Happy Birthday, Doppler!

Doppler SoundLast week was Doppler’s birthday, Creative Digital Music has a tribute featuring where to learn more about the Doppler effect, and how it applies to astrophysics (but NOT the expansion of the universe), and how to reproduce it in software like Pro Tools. Now if someone can just come up with a good recipe for the Dopplertini. Definitely shaken. Link.

Open source audio editor for Mac/Win/Linux gets big upgrades!

Open source audio editor for Mac/Win/Linux gets big upgrades!

Audacity13Peter writes Audacity, the excellent and free waveform editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux, is finally getting a major upgrade. The new beta does real multitracking, helps you transcribe music or interviews with pitch controls, adds better Mac support, and unveils many other improvements. Most promising for podcasters: an FTP upload option.” Link. This is great news for Podcasters!