Word: multimedia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stop dreaming about what Adams House was like back in the day and join the celebration of multimedia at mobius 10th annualArtRages decaDance, a benefit party withperformance, video, sound, participatory and otherart forms. Live music will be provided by NeonGrandma. The only wallflowers at this bash will bepart of the installations because that artsy setcan really boogie down. 8 p.m. to midnight, 11Stillings St., 2nd floor, Boston, 542-7416.Tickets $12, $10 for students in advance, $15, $12for students as the door...
...meantime, a number of companies, including WebGear and Proxim, are offering inexpensive ways to connect the computers scattered throughout your home without the hassle of running complex (and expensive) grids of cables and routers between them. I decided to try Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree Wireless, since I know and use Diamond's excellent graphics card. The $199 DeskTop Pack connects two computers by radio waves; you can add as many as 15 others for $100 each. And for an additional $129, you can buy a HomeFree PCMCIA card and hook in a laptop...
...this opening-up-your-PC hurdle seems insurmountable, I recommend Dazzle Multimedia's Digital Video Creator ($249), a Walkman-size device that attaches externally. It doesn't have the extras of the Marvel (graphics card, TV tuner), and it uses the MPEG standard of compression, which delivers half the resolution of the MJPEG. Still, some people may prefer MPEG, since it consumes far less storage space...
...meeting in August 1995 (when Microsoft appears to have been on something of a rampage, given the alleged Netscape shakedown that came a month before). Gates met with Andy Grove at Intel?s campus, intent on persuading his opposite number to drop development of Native Signal Processing, a multimedia technology that would supersede and clash with the soon-to-be-launched Windows...
...wonderful thing about multimedia is that there's people in it--people actually speaking [about their religion,] Muslims speaking about being Muslims, for example," she said. "Books don't necessarily have that...