Tag: Plug-in (computing)
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Another Green World
Fascinating documentary on Brian Eno by BBC’s Arena (he provided the music for their famous floating bottle logo) about how he works and his life. I especially love the whole thing about coming from family of postmen ‘we’re in communications!’ and him going fossil hunting as a kid. But the thing it seems people remember…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Three
The third part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting. Please read part one, and part two first. Pop it like it’s not My first mic on my podcast was a cheap lavalier (‘tie-clip’) mic taped to a tripod – I’m not proud!…
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The Guerrilla Guide To Podcasting Part Two
The second part in a series on making your own podcast that won’t break the bank, concentrating on DIY and low-cost podcasting . Read part one here. Gear fetish I’m a big believer in making expensive mistakes on cheap gear, rather than the other way around. I have done it, and still wince at the…
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The Revolution May Be A Slider Away…
If Wordfence is correct, the whole Mossack Fonseca shit-show might have been caused by an outdated WordPress plugin, Slider Revolution! That’s if the data was indeed hacked, as MF asserts, and not handed over by a concerned party, as the ICIJ claimed. But it does reveal something I’ve been concerned about a lot, following Wordfence…
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Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis
Around 40 years ago, Forrest S. Mozer created the first Integrated Circuit speech synthesiser, modelled on his voice, and licensed it to a company creating instruments for blind people. But you’ll more likely recognise it as the voices in Berzerk and later sampled in the Stakker track ‘Humanoid’. Ploque are plugging a new plugin ‘chipspeech’…