Lend me your ears

Source: Stuff.co.nz

BOYCOTT: The Beatles have withheld their music from Spotify. As have AC/DC, The Eagles and Metallica. OPINION: After 20 years of music industry uproar over illegal downloading, file sharing and music piracy, it came, inevitably, to this ...
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When Devji Hengda met Richie Benaud!

Source: Times of India

AHMEDABAD: As a teenaged shepherd, Devji Hengda used to while away his time listening to cricket commentary on his transistor, even as his cattle grazed on open fields of Faangdi village in Banaskantha near the Indo-Pak ...
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Guide to smartphone hardware (4/7): Displays

Source: Neowin

With such a huge range of smartphone hardware on the market today from vendors such as Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, LG and more, it can be very confusing to keep up with what exactly is inside each of these devices. ...
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Making homemade transistors (or at least trying)

Source: Hacker News

On 1987, I learned about how computer and digital gates works. On 1988 I made a full schematic of a calculator with transistors. On 1989 I decided to make a transistor. Today, 20 years later, where I am? Unfortunately, I am too far away fro ...
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Letters to the editor: Safety issues worry school bus drivers

Source: GoErie.com

As a concerned school bus driver of Millcreek Township, we are out there watching you. I don't understand why people have not learned that it is not OK to run past flashing red lights on our buses. Have ...
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Guest Post: How to Use Compressors

Source: Audio Geek Zine

One of the most common tools that will be found in music production studios is an audio compressor. I will initially make distinction between dynamic range compressors and for example an MP3 compressor, here we are dealing with the contro ...
Full article at: Audio Geek Zine  More like this  1 day ago, 8:31pm CDT

Landlines are still lifelines for many

Source: SouthCoastToday.com

Dust always needs a place to land. Take the record turntable, rarely used, but there when you want to listen to some classic vinyl. Or the transistor radio. The sound quality is awful, but it'll come in handy if a storm knocks out the pow ...
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My Life, My Words: The death of a girl I didn't even know was life-changing

Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The newspaper was on the table that Saturday morning in 1962. Before rummaging for the comics, my attention was drawn to the front page because there was a girl about my age on the cover. I read the story and learned that this girl na ...
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SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at space station

Source: CTV

Comments are now closed for this story Space exploration is the one place where all nations can be united in peace on a common cause. This is a fair cry from always haveing nations united against a common enemy...Perhaps one ...
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