Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Alia Sheikh
Dave Crossland wrote: On 25/02/2008, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. Since Air is proprietary, that it runs on GNU+Linux is not good. For a certain value

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Alia Sheikh
don't know if any of you are on this list?). This is not a forum that exists simply for the purpose of telling the BBC that it is Wrong. It would have been good to talk. Alia Andy wrote: On 26/02/2008, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this is a bit hairy - would you be happier

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Alia Sheikh
for whatever it's worth: http://osflash.org/ http://osflash.org/mtasc are also useful simon wrote: don't know if this has already been discussed here, but: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Alia Sheikh
Dave Crossland wrote: On 26/02/2008, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: On 25/02/2008, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A free download will allow users of Macs, PCs and, later this year, Linux machines to run any Air applications. Since Air

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-26 Thread Alia Sheikh
://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I never said anything about being unhappy with open standards, please do not implicitly misquote me like that:) What I said

Re: [backstage] Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

2008-02-27 Thread Alia Sheikh
Hi Rupert, I appear to have duplicated your comment on Prism. Didn't mean to ignore your message, it just got a bit lost in the noise. Have you used it at all? Or anyone else on this list for that matter. I'd be interested in an opinion. Alia Rupert Watson wrote: Ian I think it is

Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-13 Thread Alia Sheikh
Beat me to it steve:) We have some code that allows you to author id3v2 tags in mp3s to indicate chapters http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/chapter_tool/ and some classes that read these tags out of mp3s enhanced in this way. Currently written in Actionscript, as the demo player is

[backstage] Cool Accessibilty Hacks and Subtitles using BBC Redux @ Mashed

2008-06-17 Thread Alia Sheikh
PROTECTED] (word of warning - I can only approve requests for Mashed attendees) See http://mashed08.backnetwork.com/event/?articleid=28 for more info:) Alia Sheikh Research Engineer Kingswood Warren - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

[backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-18 Thread Alia Sheikh
So last week there was some discussion on this list about writing an app that let you skip the boring bits of a podcast, and I mentioned that we had some code that would let you do just that. We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available that will let you

[backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-18 Thread Alia Sheikh
So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts,

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some massive successful word cloud out there and I've just missed it? 2008/6/19 Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
since I'm about to add things to that page right now, this was extremely useful, thanks:):) Alia Phil Wilson wrote: We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available that will let you use mp3 tags to enhance audio with images, chapters and descriptive text.

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
all fixed, in case you're waiting on that:) someone has suggested another CoolThing we could do for the audio visualisation stuff too, so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that out... Phil Wilson wrote: We're making that code, some demo apps and some open source applications available

Re: [backstage] Mashed : Hack Moyles - Audio segmentation with RTMP

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
actual flight was achieved, albeit briefly Michael wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 12:41:38 Alia Sheikh wrote: so we're currently flapping a bit sorting that out... Are you really /flapping/ ? :) Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
of this happening? adam Alia Sheikh wrote: Hi again! We've been doing some work on automatically extracting colours from audio, to allow us to better navigate that audio. It works suprisingly well at actually revealing the structure of a peice of audio content. For Mashed we're making available

Re: [backstage] Use visualisations of audio in your mashups!

2008-06-19 Thread Alia Sheikh
er, the remains of the curry we ordered in at work late yesterday evening I'm afraid I didn't make innovative use of it, but some synergies were leveraged. Ohyes. Matt Barber wrote: Alia-currently-typing-this-with-one-finger-while-eating-lunch Alia, what IS for lunch? - Sent

[backstage] Did the MASH. (Did a reduxy mash).

2008-06-23 Thread Alia Sheikh
and I might reactivate your acount for a little while longer:) It's been fascinating seeing what people have tried to use their redux access for - maybe there's something in this letting you play with it malarkey ;) See you next year! Alia Sheikh Kingswood Warren - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-03 Thread Alia Sheikh
Oh I promised myself that I wouldn;t get involved, but yay Godzilla! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFEzpUsUBk Ian - I'd like to know more about the competition. If all we know is that it's using AIR then that's all we'll argue^H^H^H^H^Htalk about. Whats it actually going to be? Is

Re: [backstage] Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:40:58 +0100

2008-07-06 Thread Alia Sheikh
:):) Unrelated, but seeing as they're here: many thanks to Alia, Matt, Ian and everyone else who helped make Mashed so great! Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.

Re: [backstage] What's the calendar app?

2009-07-14 Thread Alia Sheikh
Nico, Calendar app, open-source, using Drupal - anyone? WebCalendar 1.1 do you? It doesnt seem to be supported anymore though http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:61solrsort=sort_title%20desc This page may be of some use: http://www.roseindia.net/opensource/open-source-calendar.shtml

Re: [backstage] TEDxNorth

2009-07-20 Thread Alia Sheikh
Registration being free and available here: http://www.tedxnorth.com/manchester09/register.php Got a preliminary programme yet Ian?:) Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, Just a quick note about the series of TEDx - http://www.ted.com/tedx events coming up this summer in the North of England. TEDx

Re: [backstage] TEDxNorth

2009-07-20 Thread Alia Sheikh
with an experiment in the nature of perception. TEDx are local events following the same model Alex Mace wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but what is TED? A quite look at the website tells me plenty about signing up and events going on, but nothing at all about what it is... On 20 Jul 2009, at 09:35, Alia

Re: [backstage] Encryption of HD by the BBC - cont ...

2009-10-07 Thread Alia Sheikh
Please. Only conspiracy theories allowed here. Move along:) However, don't get me wrong - it would be nice if there were more flexibility regarding the portability of protected content, but instead of many very smart people expending huge amounts of effort demonising DRM, maybe it would be

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
Sorry for prattling on for so long. Hi Tom, found this interesting, and you've reminded me to read through this http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/1345/03329 so for 'prattling' it's decent;) Alia Tom Morris wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 22:32, David Tomlinson d.tomlin...@tiscali.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
Dave, So we can have this discussion in only a manner which is determined by yourself? Children count, pictures of dogs count, pictures of someone's gran or bank statement or a tree counts. If your arguments hold tight then they hold tight for all examples. Hard to have a discussion when

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
My suggestion is that you don't post images you don't want re-distributed in a public place. Sounds fun for all those artists with showreels David Tomlinson wrote: Martin Belam wrote: I suspect you can trust your family, friends etc to respect your wishes, and you can limit the

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
This seems to roughly translate to 'anything anyone makes that they show to the world, can be taken and used by anyone in the world'. Which feels like a setup for making creators very paranoid about what they share with the world. Doesnt seem like a fun place to live if it had that effect. The

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
Your arguments should hold true for anything involving the word Nazi too:) Interesting the control you are trying to exercise over our freedom to discuss this topic. Alia David Tomlinson wrote: Alia Sheikh wrote: Dave, So we can have this discussion in only a manner which is determined

Re: [backstage] Free as in 'Freedom'

2009-10-09 Thread Alia Sheikh
review or abolish? bit pointless abolishing flippers before inventing feet David Tomlinson wrote: I just think copyright is a bad law and we should review (abolish) it. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] Google Wave

2009-12-01 Thread Alia Sheikh
Its worse because you know the rules of email at the outset before you start playing. Once people become familiar with wave then protocols and accepted behaiviour will emerge, but for now, I'm finding the Oh I added you to a work/holiday/pictures of my cat! wave phenomenon irritating as well Is