Archive for September, 2007
While packing for Mass today, aiden_freeman wandered over to my computer. He managed to open my word processing program and type on the keyboard.
He left me this message:
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Personally, I don’t think he could have put that better.
Madeleine L’Engle is dead at 88
People who know me well, know that I do not read a lot of fiction. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the genre… or even that I don’t enjoy reading. I just don’t find a lot of books that either captivate me or keep me in a manner that affords me the time to break away to read.
“A Wrinkle in Time” is not only one of the few pieces of literature I treasure… it’s one that I make a point to re-read every few years.
It was a stunning book that has allowed me to identify with not one.. but all of the characters everytime I’ve read it.
Ms. L’Engle will be sorely missed.
It would appear with the release of iTunes 7.4, Apple has enabled:
Closed Captioning.
This has been the great divide for me on getting an iPod for myself or anyone in the family. Without closed captioning.. why would I buy Video media? I can’t enjoy it with shimmeringjemmy… so what’s the point.
Granted.. as iLounge points out:
As of this writing, none of the iTunes-purchased videos we tested had any closed captioning information available. It is also unclear whether Apple will identify videos with closed captioning within the iTunes Store, or how this support will work with self-encoded content. Presumably third-party software developers will find a way to convert closed-captioning from other content sources to take advantage of this at some point as well.
The new lineup of iPod devices announced yesterday also includes the closed-captioning capability, and offers the ability to turn captions on or off within the “Video” settings. It is unknown at this point when firmware updates may be available to add this capabilities to existing devices like the Apple TV or iPhone.
I’ve downloaded a demo of an application called “MovCaptioner”
This app will let you manually caption any quicktime file. So I’m going to try that with a Podcast of mine and see how it works.
More forthcoming.