CD Stack for fast ripping

CD Stack is an application that tries to minimize that pain mainly by separating the ripping and the L.A.M.E.-based encoding into two separate tasks. Instead of waiting to rip track two until track one is finished encoding, CD Stack places each ripped track into an encoding queue and continues on its merry way, allowing you to rip your CDs faster than they encode. This makes the most efficient use of your time by minimizing the time you spend sitting in front of the computer, especially if you have a large number of CDs to rip.

High-speed CD ripping with CD Stack

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Uptown Fashion

Flickr: Photos from ianmcc

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!!! (Chk Chk Chk) at the Pyramid May 8th!!

Their coming ot the Pyramid. One fmy fave albums from a few years ago was their Louden Up Now! Should be a fun gig!

Their Website

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24 hrs of Flickr

It's coming! 24 Hours of Flickr: A global Flickr community event

What happens around the world in one day? In a word – life. Here on Flickr, our members are sharing the world that they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty.

To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. On May 5 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures.

Join the 24 Hours of Flickr group to get ready for the big day. After the big day, post your best photo to the group. We'd love to see the group photos on a map as well, so make sure you add your photos to the map using the Organizr.

Remember! We want the photos here to illustrate one day in the life of the Flickr community — May 5, 2007 — so, you can only submit a photo taken on May 5. (You'll have until May 21 to add your photo.)

Flickr: 24 hours of Flickr

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The plush camera, talk about about dust on the sensor!

plushyou: Blythe Church Interview

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On the Nonsuch

Seems like everyone hasn't been there since Grade 6 field trip days! Unless, like me, you've had out fof town relatives come for a visit. It's pretty cool, this big old boat in the middle of the museum. As for the room, its much darker in there than you remember it, and the damn seagulls will NOT shut up! :-)

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More Robyn with the DIY lights

Had to tweak some more of Robyn's shots. Shot with two banks of fluorescents and a holgen lamp.

Robyn on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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On Being

Oliver Oike had this posted in his blog noun. Looks very cool. I'd love to have the time to shoot some video like this.

onBeing

"onBeing is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little better. What you’ll find here is a series of videos that takes you into the musings, passions, histories and quirks of all sorts of people. The essence of who they are, who we are.

There will be a new video every Wednesday, so check back often. In the meantime, feel free to add your thoughts to the comments section and tell us about someone you’d like to see in onBeing. Over time, we should end up with a pretty cool community. — Jenn"

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Gotta be KD!

Gotta be KD!
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

I like mine simple, just a bit of pepper. Some like ketchup or hot sauce, or hotdogs in there.

How do you like your KD?

I Hate Analog day

Long play
Originally uploaded by Brapke.

Yesterday was I Hate Analog day for the move. All my Vinyl records, casette tapes and over-sized thick, clay heavy, photography books!

As much as I loathe moving this stuff, I was constantly stopped in my tracks when something caught my eye, like a cool record jacket. More often that nto it was the scalle of things that impressed me. Photos, and music imagery are now both something we see itty bitty on the computer screen. When confronted with them even 10 inches , they seem HUGE!

Cool stuff your Mac can do that you didn't know part 15

Did you know you had a VNC server built in your Mac?
 In researching the use of a Mac for a media server, I stumbled upon this fact. You switch on Apple Remote Desktop, download the app below and you can remotely control your machine from another machine. With VNC you can use ANY computer, regardless of platform, to control your Mac. So the media Mac in the basement doesn't even need a montior, and I will control it anywhere in the house.

Chicken of the VNC - Geekspiff

Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you. Chicken features automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable

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A green one and a purple one

A green one and a purple one
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Thanks to my buddy Scott who called from the Toys R Us and alerted me to the rare diecast Pixar Cars in stock. The green "Ramone" one is new and is a big hit!

Movin'

Movin'
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

We're almost done.

Essential items at shoots: Cookies!

A well fed Art directors is lesslikely to ask you to move everything to the OTHER side of the skate park for one shot. That's not to say he won't ask, he's just less likely to ask, so when he does you are shocked and surprised! :-)

NWC Skateboard Park Shoot on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Friday's shoot at the skateboard park.

Surprisingly sunny and hot that day.

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Wake up to your iTunes

Awaken wakes you up to your iTunes music, or any of the built in alarm sounds. You can also fall asleep listening to your music with the built in sleep timer.

Embraceware - Awaken: Alarm Clock And Sleep Timer For Mac OS X

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Interview with the guy who has the biggest iTunes library

Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes CollectionApple April 19th, 2007Will Friedwald proclaims he has the world largest iTunes collection. An avid listener to Jazz music, and a writer for the New York Sun, Will spends his days in front of his Power Mac G5 running “The Maxtix”, his mammoth 200,000 track iTunes library.Will took some time out of his rigirous daily schudule and took some time to talk with me about iTunes, his music collection, and how he manages it.The question we all want to know.
How large is your iTunes music collection?:
I just re-compiled the main library (something that takes about six hours – I only do it a few times a year!). Here are the new stats:
849 GB | 172,150 tracks | 809.2 days
2,935 artists | 11,561 albums
Tunes library database file - 282 MB
iTunes library XML file - 259 MB

Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection

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Make a WIFI extender with Asian cookware

Make 2.4GHz parabolic mesh dishes from cheap but sturdy Chinese cookware scoops & a USB WiFi adaptor !

http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/

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New Bjork!

www.myspace.com/bjork

And guess what?.. it's weird! The last few releases from Bjork go the same way, first couple listens I don't enjoy it, the next couple I downright dislike it, then suddenly, a swithc is thrown and I think it's brilliant. I don't think this stuff will go that way, it's not as big a stretch as Medulla or Restraint 9 (THAT was weirdly wonderful) Hit the Myspace link to hear and watch SNL this week for her performace, I am sure it will be eye catching!

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Livestock

Trendy sneaker and shirt shop in Van City. I get their emails, its fun to look at this stuff, though I don't think I could wear it!

Livestock

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Cool art images that have to be seen!

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

current work

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This week's geek post: NAS

My Linkstation
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

NAS stands for network attached storage. a small box you plug into your network which then shows up as a networked drive you can back up files to. I' ve been playing with the idea of using NAS around the studio for about 3 years ago. This Linkstation is a 120 gig box abotu the size of an old DVD burner. Runs on an embedded Linux OS. Many people have hacked and replaced the OS with a different version that can do all sorts of things.
Last week, while reading about Aperture users using different libraries on external drives it dawned on me: I can run iTunes off this thing.
So I pointed the iTunes on my iMac to use a library on the Linkstation. Turning sharing on iTunes suddnely means I have gigs and gigs of music sharing all over my network without gumming up my iMac with music!
We've been talking about this concept getting into the home and eventually I think you are gonna see more of this. Down in the basement beside the freezer, you'll have a big grey box that serves up your media, music, photos, movies, to all the machines in the house.

I got it!

Joost™ - Goodies

It's kinda neat but heavy demand on your machine

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Comparsion of all photobooks

This guy is trying all of the photobook publsihers and, Aperture /Apple, Blurb, MyPublisher

photobook « Cheeky Grin

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Cool video explaining Web 2.0 in words and visuals

Skinny Puppy Live!

Zip.ca must of sensed that I would be home tonight with Liam while everyon else goes to il Divo. So to offset the Popera I watched this DVD. Crazy intense Insudtrail originators. I still count the show I saw in 1985 at le Rendezvous as one of the intense I have ever seen. It's been a few trips to rehab for the Puppies, but this show is still pretty wild. Great sound, even 5.1 surround, though I don't think I would use this DVD to showcase a home theatre!

Amazon.com: The Greater Wrong of the Right Live: DVD: Nivek Ogre,Cevin Key,William Morrison (IV)

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Download and print Björk's new album cover before it launches!

SHOWstudio: Blog: Download and print Björk's new album cover before it launches!

The release of a new Björk album can only mean two things: new musical territory, the likes of which the world has never experienced, and a cover image to match. 'Volta', Björk’s sixth studio album, is due for release on 7 May and its cover image, shot by Nick Knight, certainly is unlike anything we’ve ever seen! From today, we are offering you a sneak peek in advance of the launch with a special download jigsaw: an opportunity, on completion, to possess your very own, giant Nick Knight/Björk/Bernhard Willhelm original.

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Please make the bad wallpaper go away

Please make the bad wall paper go away
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Don't worry Liam it's already gone.

Running in the new living room

Running in the new living room
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Liam checks out his new home

Liam checks out his new home
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And this one... and this one..

And this one... and this one..
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

How to build a web site with Aperture and iWeb

Photojournalist Gunnar Blondal
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Destination: Cambridge Bay

Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Iqaluktuuttiaq) named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, is a hamlet located in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. The traditional Inuinnaqtun name for the area is Ikaluktuutiak (old orthography) or Iqaluktuttiaq (new orthography) meaning "good fishing place".

Cambridge Bay, Nunavut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Liam loves his new blue boots

blue boots
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Say that 7 times fast!
Shot with the new D40, tweaked a bit heavy handed in Lightzone.

Apple takes a page from MS's Longhorn/Vista pagebook

Apple Statement
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones

Apple - Hot News

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Wine bottles

Wine bottles
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.

Shot while standing around and waiting at Lux Sole

Horse

Horse
Originally uploaded by ianmcc.