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Check out this restrictive early license agreement for a 78 record, circa 1909. (kudos boingboing) A phonograph cylinder Edison EULA, 1907-ish, is also mighty fine. [related posts: License to Nil]

We have been looking at Windows Vista (TM Microsoft) for a few weeks, seeing how it will affect Sagebrush products. View earlier articles Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4. Another Look at Monitoring Sound Input. In the previous part of this series, we looked at a change in the way that sound is routed to the speakers … Read more

We happened upon this web site, dedicated to fighting a particular font. “Comic sans”, hmmmmm, where have I heard that term before? Oh yeah, when designing our own web site style sheet: H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6{font-family: “Comic Sans MS”…} Now, we understand graphic designers have strong opinions about fonts (and web page layout, user interface design, etc, etc, … Read more

We will be updating software for this blogsite in the next couple of days, to fix a compatibility problem with Internet Explorer. (Always check other browsers– but Firefox is so foxy we sometimes forget.) If we do something wrong and you cannot access the site, or articles fail to appear, this is why. We’ll get … Read more

Professor Eric Faden, Bucknell University, explains copyright brilliantly in “A Fair(y) Use Tale“:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo] (hat tip BoingBoing)

With over a month of blog posting and 35 entries, what have we been discussing so far?able add affect agree already application april archive archives articles attorney audio background bad beginning beta blog border building bytes called card cards case categories category cd change changes check checkbox chime chimes click coder com comments compression computer … Read more

We tend to avoid real-time phone tech support in favor of e-mail and forums, but sometimes a user tracks us down. It usually goes something like this: (kudos Cosmic Variance)

We have been looking at Windows Vista (TM Microsoft) for a few weeks, seeing how it will affect Sagebrush products. View earlier articles Part1 and Part2 and Part3. Recording Different Inputs Concurrently. Here is some good news in the way Vista handles various recording sources. Under WinXP a sound device may have several inputs, but … Read more

A random stroll through YouTube astonishes again.