Determined to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps, Matthew Schmidt studied violin making in Germany and now works at Geo. Heinl & Co. Ltd., a Toronto conservator of fine and rare instruments. Video by Bernard Weil
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In the “spirit” of Thanksgiving, Governor Sarah Palin takes part in the pardoning of a turkey, and then completes this interview – in front of a guy slaughtering turkeys…
I’ve always wanted my own Muppet… and now I can!!!
FAO Schwarz allows you to design and build your own Muppet on their website. If anyone is having a hard time deciding what to get me, this might be your solution.
In honor of their 10th birthday, they’ve brought back their oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
Items that we now take for granted like the iPod didn’t even exist!
I download a lot of live music via Bit Torrent – and most of it is compressed using FLAC. The cool thing about FLAC is that it is a lossless compression format. The downer is that to listen to these files on my iPod they need to be converted to an iPod-compatible format. To save space I like MP3 – I keep the FLACs for home stereo listening, or burning to CDs.
The process of converting from FLAC to MP3 used to require a couple of programs and be a somewhat time consuming process… until now! Techspansion, makers of another of my favourite programs – VisualHub – have released AudialHub. This almost* all-in-one audio converter does exactly what I need… and more.
And for $20 ($15 if you already own VisualHub) it’s a great deal.
http://www.techspansion.com/audialhub/
*Read the FAQ on their site as they don’t claim it to be the be-all and end-all.
A friend of ours just had his first review published. Check it out at artrocker.com, and let him know what you thought of it through his MySpace page.