Month: July 2009

These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 11th from 15:42 to 16:52:

• Linn Records – specialists in Classical, Jazz and Celtic music – … and now with Studio Masters available for download
• AIX Records – Audio Fidelity Beyond Reality – High definition audiophile downloads…
• HDtracks high resolution audiophile music downloads – High Definition downloads. 24bit/96Khz. Limited selection for now – just like CDs in the old days 😉
• Ripping it Right! – High Quality CD Ripping | Home Entertainment – Quality ripping tips – squeezing all of the quality out of a CD. Doesn’t include upsampling tips.
• Computer Audio for the Audiophile | Home Entertainment – Outboard DAC review and roundup of audiophile-grade audio playback from a Mac. Now the question is how to get 96Khz audio into iTunes in the first place. Oh, and getting a cheaper DAC – $4k isn’t really ‘audiophile’ – it’s “divorce” 😉

These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 1st through July 8th:

• MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP – Quoth ye site:
  “The abbreviation “MAMP” stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!
  MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
  MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!”

  Sounds interesting and a nice way to play server without messing up one’s MBP…

  Furthermore, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” OS X).

• About & Tour | Sifter – BaseCamp lookie-likie bug and issue tracking software. Hosted, not cheap, but certainly cheerful looking.
• KartOO : The First Interface Mapping Metasearch Engine – Looks pretty. Some interesting links. Not the hyperbolic tree viewer I’d expected, so that’s good. Via Mark Russell
• Maturity Model approach to web analytics – from https://blog.immeria.net/2009/06/tale-of-web-analytics-near-miss.html

  Interesting to see the CMM approach now applied to as assessment of an organisation’s approach to web analytics.

• A tale of two retailers – Very interesting article comparing the IT approaches of two retailers – House of Fraser (disclosure: a client of mine) and ASOS. The two IT directors comment on the approach to IT. At HOF it’s the ecommerce team are the digital ‘haves’, while at ASOS it’s more pervasive (as befits an ecommerce pureplay). The challenge is the extent to which legacy systems and business approaches are a ‘defensible investment’ or a drag on progress.