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...Roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes, Diamond Multimedia's Rio was the first "Walkman" designed solely to play digital audio files encoded with a form of compression called MP3. MP3 can reduce the storage needs of CD songs to roughly one tenth their original size without significantly sacrificing sound quality, and it has rapidly emerged as an open standard for transmitting music over the Internet. Songs, which can be downloaded from the Internet or "ripped" from CDs, are loaded into the Rio from a personal computer. MORE...
...Basically, the BeOS is an operating system designed for working with media: audio, video and images. It boots quickly, doesn't crash, runs applications rapidly, and is good at handling very large file sizes. In 1998, Intel invested in Be, Inc., to the tune of about $10 million. Why would a company that's traditionally been seen as Microsoft's Siamese twin pour that much money into a Microsoft competitor? To hedge its bets. MORE...
...audio tour at the Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville, La., mentioned the hundreds of slaves who lived and worked there, but insisted that the man who owned them was an opponent of slavery who had always wanted to free his slaves but was blocked by his neighbors. The tour was based on the oral testimony of dozens of white parents, children, aunts and employees, but no former slaves...
Something similar happened when I started duping music CDs. I made a copy of Art Pepper's Smack Up, but it didn't work in my 18-month-old portable CD player. The solution was a CD-R disc, which can hold up to 74 minutes of audio and worked just fine on my portable player, my PC and my Mac. You'll have to go to the Net to find conversion software that allows you to burn MP3s onto CDs and play them in your Discman, however. None was included. Why? Why? Why? I never got a good answer...
Then there's the audio-video setup I like to call our car theater. With a TV and VCR perched above the roomy passenger area, the stage is set to keep our crew merrily mesmerized for hours. It's rare that you can pick up a decent TV signal in a moving vehicle, but videos look as clear as they do at home. That's probably a good thing, since we're necessarily in full control of what they watch. We supplement a small library of store-bought videos (including a few never-before-seen titles to ensure maximum attention...