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A woman told of smearing Huy Fong’s flagship product, Tuong Ot Sriracha (Sriracha Chili Sauce), on multigrain snack chips. A man proclaimed the purée of fresh red jalapeños, garlic powder, sugar, salt and vinegar to be “the bomb,” and thanked Ms. Lam’s employers for “much joy and pleasure.”
via United Tastes – Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle – Series – NYTimes.com.
Hear archived concerts and see photos from George Wein’s annual showcase of the best in folk music from beautiful Newport, R.I.
via Newport Folk Festival Live From NPR Music : NPR.
Lots of performers. Looks like I will be spending the weekend listening to the festival.
There are set lists along with photos for each act.
Things working from the pad.
With iTunes 9.2 and iOS 4, the iBooks 1.1 app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch can store and view PDF files, together with EPUB files.
If you want to quickly add a document or a web page to your ‘Books’ collection in iTunes, all you need to do is to create an alias of iTunes and drag it to ~/Library/PDF Services. Now, when you’re browsing the web or viewing documents and you decide that you want to read them later on a portable Apple device just hit Print, click the PDF button on the bottom left corner of the window and choose iTunes. iTunes will launch and receive the PDF. Next, sync your device and you’re ready to go.
short snippet from an email I received today
Vuvuzela Filter EyeTV 3.4 Special Edition For a limited time only A special edition of EyeTV 3.4 software is available during the 2010 FIFA World Cup that offers a new feature called the “Vuvuzela Filter”. This filter gives you the option to dampen the buzz of vuvuzela horns in the stadium during live TV broadcasts; it can be quickly switched on and off at any time during the game. To use the filter, control click to bring up the contextual menu in EyeTV. Click here for a quick demonstration of the Vuvuzela Filter in action. http://downloads2.elgato.com/elgatonews/EyeTVWithVuvuzelaFilter.mov
They need to add a second bandpass filter to kill the harmonics. The video only gets rid of the lower frequencies (to my ears).
From the internets ;-)
Use the EQ as a bandpass filter to get rid of the annoying frequency around 233 Hz and the corresponding harmonics (466Hz, 932Hz, and 1864 Hz)
Say you’re using your Mac to create a report on tropical fish as your class project. The project contains a story, some images, image descriptions, and an audio file for background ambience. Your challenge:
How do you build and share this project so others can view it on their computers and iPads?
via PADILICIOUS.
This is so neat. “Services” that let you build/share things on an iPad.
This is all described in the WWDC 2010 presentation “Session 302 – Automating the Creation of iPad Content” which you can get for “free” from http://developer.apple.com/
I used one of the services to create a “photo application” which has some Salvador Dali pictures.
Tucson Raceway Park has seen the light and has made plans to end their asphalt season early and switch to a dirt surface for the second half of the year. According to their website at http://tucsonracewaypark.com/ , June 26 will be the last asphalt race at the track.
via Tucson Raceway Park Goes Dirt – Onedirt.com.
OK – 2 dirt tracks in town. Wonder how that will work out.
daily wisdom
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