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[Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital
Feb 1st
Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording “folk music” was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both. But only a small amount of his recordings were available online, with few available for download. The Association for Cultural Equity is changing that.
His archives include “5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts,” according to the New York Times. By the end of February, 17,000 tracks will be available for free download. But today, a collection of 16 field recordings is being released for free download to celebrate what would have been Lomax’s 97th birthday.
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Under the Global Jukebox label, Cultural Equity will continue to release more complete tracks and collections for free download.
Tracks are already available on the site for listening, but most are not downloadable, aside from the birthday sampler. Plans are also in the works to release CDs of some of these collections.
Global Jukebox gets its name from Lomax’s recording mission, to assemble a global jukebox that allows listeners to understand what we have in common as a species through our musical undertakings, as well as understanding the different solutions we’ve come up with musically to adapt to our surroundings and answer the big questions of human life.
Lomax began recording on bulky tape machines around the South in the Thirties, visiting locally famous, but nationally unknown, musicians, like Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, to capture the unique vocabulary of American music. He continued his recordings, as well as lectures and writing, until his death in 2002. For a large chunk of his life he was dogged by the F.B.I., who interpreted his devotion to cultural equity as an element of the Communist threat.
Photo of Alan Lomax recording in Dominica, 1962 by Antoinette Marchand from ACE.
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Google Webmaster Tools Adds Useful Download Options
Jan 20th
Google webmaster tools data is helpful stuff, but has been somewhat tough to download and use. Last month, Google made things a bit easier by providing a Python script for downloading search query data (as this report isn’t available as of yet through the API). Now, they’ve added new…
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SEO Inc. Offers Free Google+ Pages Whitepaper: Download Now – Sacramento Bee
Nov 9th
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SEO Inc. Offers Free Google+ Pages Whitepaper: Download Now
Sacramento Bee 9, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — SEO Inc., an industry leading social media marketing and search engine optimization company, has announced a Free Google+ Whitepaper Download. The whitepaper focuses on the most important aspects of the new Google+ Pages. … |
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SEO Inc. Offers Free Google+ Pages Whitepaper: Download Now – MarketWatch (press release)
Nov 9th
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SEO Inc. Offers Free Google+ Pages Whitepaper: Download Now
MarketWatch (press release) 9, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — SEO Inc., an industry leading social media marketing and search engine optimization company, has announced a Free Google+ Whitepaper Download. The whitepaper focuses on the most important aspects of the new Google+ … |
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Apple: iOS 5 Will Be Available For Download on October 12
Oct 4th
The next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 5, will be available for download in just over one week, Apple announced today.
Apple’s Senior Vice President of iOS Software told the crowd at the company’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” media event today that iOS 5, a significant upgrade that was first unveiled at the WWDC in June, will go live on October 12.
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The new OS will feature tight integration with Twitter, wireless syncing of content across devices, an overhauled notifications and a new SMS-style messaging system for iOS users.
Perhaps its most anticipated feature will be iCloud, which will wirelessly sync music, apps, calendars, contacts and other content across iOS devices. Apple will also roll out its own “cloud locker” for music called iTunes Match, which will let users make their music library available from the cloud without having to go through a hefty download process.
Other features include a digital newsstand (aptly called “Newsstand”) for newspapers and magazines, multi-tabbed browsing in Safari, a native to-do list manager called Reminders and some improvements to the way the camera works.
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Yahoo Favors Its Own Download Site, Then Offers Yahoo Toolbar Download, Too by @mattmcgee
Oct 4th
While the US government accuses Google of, in part, favoring its own properties in search results, Yahoo appears to be doing the same thing on download-related searches. And, in the process of offering downloads of popular software, Yahoo is also offering searchers additional downloads including…
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Yahoo Favors Its Own Download Site, Then Offers Yahoo Toolbar Download, Too
Sep 30th
While the US government accuses Google of, in part, favoring its own properties in search results, Yahoo appears to be doing the same thing on download-related searches. And, in the process of offering downloads of popular software, Yahoo is also offering searchers additional downloads including…
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Finally: Java 7 Release Candidate Available for Download
Jul 7th
Well, here it is: the official Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 release candidate. It’s the first new version of Java in five years, and the first since Oracle took over Sun. It feels like more of a stop-gap release while Oracle readies Java 8, but it’s still noteworthy.
The first general release of Java 7 will be July 28.
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Here’s a run down of what’s new in Java 7:
- JSR 292: Support for dynamically-typed languages (InvokeDynamic)
- Strict class-file checking
- JSR 334: Small language enhancements (Project Coin)
- Upgrade class-loader architecture
- Method to close a URLClassLoader
- Concurrency and collections updates (jsr166y)
- Unicode 6.0
- Locale enhancement
- Separate user locale and user-interface locale
- JSR 203: More new I/O APIs for the Java platform (NIO.2) (turorial on File I/O)
- NIO.2 filesystem provider for zip/jar archives
- SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
- SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol)
- Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack
- TLS 1.2
- Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC)
- JDBC 4.1
- XRender pipeline for Java 2D
- Create new platform APIs for 6u10 graphics features
- Nimbus look-and-feel for Swing
- Swing JLayer component
- Update the XML stack
- Enhanced JMX Agent and MBeans
Last year the Apache Software Foundation voted against Java 7 and eventually left the Java Community Process over a lack of openness in the Java specification process.
Meanwhile, as we’ve reported Oracle is already hard at work on Java 8. Here are the goals for the next big version:
Exploiting the opportunities of multi-core CPUs in a way that is safe and practical for programmers is essential for all Java applications.
Modularity is a fundamental building block for developing, deploying, managing, and evolving all Java applications. Existing frameworks and tools support these tasks today, but standardization in the Java SE Platform would promote interoperability and benefit developers, users, and vendors.
While it may seem like Java is a little past its prime at this point, we’ve made the case that Java isn’t dying, it’s mutating. Just yesterday we looked at how Java use is expanding at Twitter, and along with the JVM-based language Scala. Also, Clojure, which runs on the JVM, has been getting hot. And of course Java is still the primary language for working with technologies such as Apache Hadoop and Neo4j.
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Google Maps For Android Lets You Download Maps For Offline Use
Jul 7th
The Google Blog announced that you can now download maps on your Android device so that you can access maps and directions even without a data connection. The feature is a Google Labs feature currently available for Android users who are willing to experiment with new, beta features. It is called…
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