Re: [backstage] RealPlayer banished Toady!

2008-06-18 Thread Richard P Edwards
Hi James, I am looking forward to all these changes, I hope it will be great. One quick question, regarding the iPlayer Radio is it possible on an update to make the volume control actually go down to zero? I can then watch the Magic Roundabout on Youtube instead of listening to the

[backstage] Matt Cashmore on Tech Weekly

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/1213737956679/8617/gdn.tec.080617.sc.Tech_Weekly.mp3 Enjoy... -- Brian

[backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate

2008-06-18 Thread Peter Bowyer
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To

[backstage] More for Mashed

2008-06-18 Thread Simon Thompson
Seeing as we've got Arduino, ARM, Microsoft Robotics and Goddard Space Flight Centre all turning up to Mashed, we've got you some electronics kit to play with. Expect to find capacitors, resistors, op-amps, 74 series logic, voltage regulators, breadboards, batteries, solder, wire, tools,

Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate

2008-06-18 Thread Mr I Forrester
Peter Bowyer wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here already... or maybe I've been asleep... http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/the-techcrunch-bbc-debate/ Yep I assumed everyone just knew about it too. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - Sent via

Re: [backstage] Techcrunch BBC debate

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Barber
Thanks Ian, I can't make it so will appreciate the recording. I'll be there recording for those who can't make it. Cheers, - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list

Re: [backstage] More for Mashed

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Barber
This all sounds so cool, and it's making me rather envious that I'm not going! If I didn't have prior commitments then I would most certainly be there. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Simon Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing as we've got Arduino, ARM, Microsoft Robotics and Goddard

Re: [backstage] More for Mashed

2008-06-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
2008/6/18 Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This all sounds so cool, and it's making me rather envious that I'm not going! If I didn't have prior commitments then I would most certainly be there. I too can't make it .. Matt made it sound SO exciting on the podcast today. On Wed, Jun 18,

[backstage] Mashed TV

2008-06-18 Thread Steve Jolly
Simon Thompson wrote: We'll also be radiating a DVB-T (aka Freeview) signal for you guys to hack around with. We've got some USB DVB-T sticks, some software links and a talk on how to hack DVB-T and MHEG interactive stuff. Just to clarify - this won't be a rebroadcast of one of the existing

[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] Techcrunch BBC debate

2008-06-18 Thread Christopher Woods
Thanks Ian, I can't make it so will appreciate the recording. Ditto! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: