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More than a half century ago, a Canadian political economist named Harold Innis wrote what were to become two of the most influential books on the role of communications media in shaping culture. In Empire and Communications(1950) and The Bias of Communication(1951) Innis suggested that the nature of its communications technology influenced the outlooks and possibilities of a civilization, The often-used example is the rise of paper-based communication,

Development Research Centre. The session was called Controlling Internet Content Worldwide: Policing, public policy or creeping censorship? The invitation read "Not long ago, the internet was thought of as an open, self-policing commons —one that held special meaning for developing countries by promising to unleash a knowledge revolution. Today, along with the exploding use of the Internet throughout the world, there is also increasing pressure as governments seek to reinstate control over Internet content."

Can anyone or any government control Internet content?

Like paper in relation to clay tablets, the Internet sets loose information that gatekeepers of traditional media may have wanted to control — and this has huge implications both good and bad. The unnerving aspect of information on the loose is that it is unpredictable in its consequences — it can enrich as well as endanger individuals and societies as a whole. And that describes the Internet today — inspiration and dread, humanism and misanthropy, charity and greed walking arm in arm.

In the western world, governments have steered clear of wholesale censorship or draconian legislation to limit what goes online, [at least to our knowledge), but a similar tension has long existed online between individual and commercial, especially corporate commercial interests. We saw it in music, where online music sharing of MP3 files was a serious setback for the m ainstream music industry and f o rced i t t o fundamentally alter its business model. Meanwhile, the indie scene flourished. This issue, Lee Rickwood's article on online video sharing traces a similar tension where personal and commercial video s fight for audience. The huge popularity of YouTube and similar hosting sites points to a pent-up demand for something beyond the three formulas used in network TV programming, yet networks were relatively quick to see the numbers and realize there was an opportunity for them too.

which is very portable compared to something like a clay tablet and thus can spread information and ideas more easily and quickly. Paper and its sidekick, the printing press, permitted the rise of European empires, in a manner of speaking.

Innis influenced another great Canadian media theorist, Marshall McCluhan. McCluhan was interested in mass communication, particularly popular media and his Famous aphorism "the medium is the message" is shorthand analysis that TV itself changed culture, never mind what was on the tube. In short, instantaneous electronic communications created a global village.

Some analysts have suggested that the daily TV cast'of the horrific destruction in Vietnam and body bags of US soldiers arriving home was a big factor in turning public opinion in the US against the war in the 19?Os. Today, oppressive and friendly administrations alike try to manage media more effectively, including the Internet.

Coincidentally, as I was writing this editorial an invitation popped up in my email. It was to a brown bag lunch Enjoy the issue, seminar in Ottawa, sponsored by the international David Tanaka, Editor-in-Chief

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O nline video c h a r i n g From flea market to global marketplace Online video sites are like a digital media flea market. Folks come to show, share and swap their wares, unencumbered by over-riding commercial concerns. That can be good or bad, frustrating or satisfying — but it's all part of an exciting sense of discovery and shard experience.

The onlin e video phenomenon began [much as the Web in generaland P2P in particular] by promising empowerment to individual content creators or documentarians, be they neophyte, amateur, independent or even professional. The ability to share one's own video content [or musical favourites or personal photo albums or citizen journalist submissions) online opens up an almost unimaginably wide landscape of styles, concepts, interests and audiences. Many viewers say it's precisely the marginality of such content that gives video sharing its unique viewability, and ever-increasing popularity.

Among websites ranked by comScore Media Metrix, for. example, YouTube scored 19.1 million unique visitors in August (up 19 per cent over the previous month]. That makes it the 32nd most-visited Web property. Web surfersnow download 100 million videos a day on YouTube — none more than 10 minutes long.

Hostsites — like Oigg,YouTube,MySpace,OhMyNews, Google,Rocketboom, LeapFrog and others — are technology enablers, providing storage space and bandwidth. It's the creators themselves that fuel the fire, creating entirely new markets where the major media companies apparently thought none existed.

Monetizing and commercializing online video 8ut now, the big boys are stepping in, and the local flea market is beginning to look like a global shopping mall.

"Online video is from its infancy and entering the mainstream.

Many publishers and advertisers are responding to this trend, which means advertising dollars will continue to migrate online where consumers can be targeted with efficiency," says Jack Flanagan, well-known Internet guru and founder of a online audience measurement firm.

Flickr, the original Canadian photo-sharing site, was snapped up by an international media conglomerate. MySpace has a deal with Fox TV.MSNhas a video deal with Soapbox. User-generated content will still be available, but popular TV shows are featured and sold online more and more.

Like on YouTube. It signed a deal with giant Warner Music[but it is in legal limbo with others), and will offer as many established stars and branded artists as it does user-originated material.

As yet unsettled issues with user-generated content are questions of ownership, rights and compensation, Legal eagles are still exploring the ramifications of hosted material that is deemed libelous or defamatory, even as they jostle over who controls the material in the first place, and who may benefit from its exhibition or distribution, Video submissions to MSN8C, for example, are covered by an agreement that grants the company "a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to: use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit, publicly perform or display" any contributions it gets! Interestingly, those rather comprehensive rights are also granted to third party sub licensees.

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In the case of YouTube, music giant Warner has licensed its songs to You Tube, so that anyone who uploads their own version of a popular tune are allowed to do so — usually, YouTube will use tracking technology to tag people uploading copy-protected songs, and it will pass the information on to its corporate decision-makers to see if the video gets "approved." Some might argue that fair use considerations in most copyright laws already allow such usage.

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One approach is the revenue sharing model unveiled by Google or Blinkz.

People who post videos may set their own price points, or series of prices, depending on content, quality, length f5nd other factors. Some online video sharing host sites are exploring ways to share advertising revenue with the content creators, as well.

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The idea of personal brbadcastin), asopposed to posting videos on a hosted site, is also behind Stickam, a new Web application that allows anyone to broadcast live streaming video over the Internet, in addition to uploading videos, pictures and music on a personal blog or website.

Videos can be viewed by virtually anyone (there's no software to install) and will play on Linux, Windows and Mac systems.

Toronto's BubbleShare, with an enhanced photo and voice sharing service, lets users view content instantly on the desktop without opening their browser or email application. BubbleShare is a no-registration. required, voice caption-enabled service for sharing stories over the Internet. Users can upload photos individually or in batches, record 30-second audio captions if desired, and then email albums to friends and family by entering one or more email addresses. The basic service is free, with a premium service due to launch later in 2006. No word on whether video-sharing capabilities will be included in a future release.

From its Lethbridge, Alberta offices, comes word of Spymac Leapfrog, a platform-specific tool for video chat, as well as posting and finding content for the newly enhanced iPods. Interestingly, Leapfrog-enabled sites are automatically regionalized, depending on location and language, as a way to re-contextualize the content for people around the world. Spymac Leapfrog will be available later this year.

Finding all this content, and sorting through all the video clips out there, is another key aspect of online video sharing, and new tools and being released to sift through it all, ClipBlast has introduced video search technology and what it calls the first online video search toolbar, which allows users to search for video across the Web â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN do not provide. ClipBlast says it's been indexing millions of clips already, categorizing video files, Web pages and feeds so it can serve up content in real-time, on demand, Clip Blast also offers )ack-end capabilities that organize and monetize video libraries, providing content owners and advertisers with revenue opportunities drawn from targeted video-viewing audiences.

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Et Tu, YouTube She's not lonely, She's not 15.

She is female, but lonely girl15 is not even human in some ways. The popular MySpace vixen is really a professionally produced viral marketing campaign.

Outed recently by Web surfers who thought her persona, her words, and especially her video clips, looked a little too good to be true, "Bree" is shilling for a creative ad agency, the powerful Creative Artists group in Hollywood. Two established filmmakers are making her vlog posts, and they say they will continue to do so.

Whether the site will continue to draw some 2.5 million visitors, now the cat has been let out of the bag, remains to be seen. Much of the interest in

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Has the relationship between YouTube and its visitors (or between any video sharing service and its community of interest] been permanently scarred as a result of blatant manipulation and misrepresentation?

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Cold weather shooting does impose a couple of extra challenges that you need to think about, however. First, in the cold, battery life sucks. Last winter I left my camera bag in the trunk of my car for just a few hours, but that was enough to kill the battery. Admittedly it was a very cold February day, but I was surprised at how quickly the battery was affected. Normally it's good for 250+ shots and since my trip was a short one, I left the extra battery and

the charger at home. No photos for me: The quick lessons from that are: keep the camera — or at least the battery warm, and carry a spare[and keep it warm too].

If you solve the battery problem and manage to stay outdoors long enough to get the camera nicely chilled, the mere act of bringing it inside exposes it to another potential hazard: condensation. Eyeglass wearers whose glasses fog up every time they come in from the cold know this phenomenon well.

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One of the general hazards of winter living ls ice on walkways. If Ik you slip and fall with an unprotected camera, the chances are good that the camera will suffer some damage. A padded case will protect it from smaller bumps, as well as from precipitation. A case like the LowePro TopLoad nicely handles an SLRwith a zoom lens.

One of the overall considerations for winter shooting is that snowy scenes tend to fool the camera's exposure meter, and the result is shots that are too dark. If you use your camera on an auto or p exposure setting, you should be able to adjust the exposure with an exposure compensation setting. This is often called an EV setting, and the adjustments might run from -3 to+3. lf your scenes are too dark, you' ll want to dial in a + setting, which increases the exposure.

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Having a central location to post your thoughts and opinions for friends, family, and the public at large is quite an appealing proposition for the tech-salty and casual user alike. While text is arguably the quickest and most fundamental way to get a message across, audio and video are often far better at conveying a message. As podcasts become increasingly easier to produce, we are slowly but surely seeing the Internet evolve into a more aural/visual realm. So much so that it may not be too long before audio and video blogs become the norm.

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Editing your material, although preferred(since professionalism can add credibility), isn't absolutely necessary. Realistically, all you need to make an audio/video blog is a webcam or microphone [or any other device that captures audio or video) and a decent web connection. Once you've recorded an entry there is nothing stopping you from posting it, as is, on your blog, instantly releasing it to a worldwide audience.

"Eventually, I think video will be so commonplace online that people will

we go forward, the hard drive space used and bandwidth needed For the electronic distribution of this kind of media will inevitably reduce in cost.

Eventually offering to host user audio and video content for free could very well be expected from major online outlets.

"There is nothing more powerful than a moving image," explains MacArthur. "Whether it's a first-person account of a coup in Thailand or a 16.year-aid girl complaining about too much homework.'

Combining simplicity with inexpensiveness makes any form of content creation intriguing, particularly those that build a thriving community around it [like blogging has). Taking a look around the web, it seems more than plausible for video and audio blogs to quickly become commonplace.

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The ease with which MySpace allows bands to set up custom pages that But before you write MySpace off as yet another online refuge for angsty offer audio files, images, biographies and tour dates is what makes it stand teenagers, narcissistic nerds and creepy old men wanting to "chat," out over other social networking sites, according to Adrienne Lloyd, bassist consider this: High-profile users include Toronto mayor David Miller for Toronto band Hunter Valentine [myspace.corn/huntervalentine). "We (myspace.corn/mayordavidmiller], Canadian music icon Neil Young currently have two tracks posted on our MySpace where people can shmple [myspace.corn/neilyoung) and e x-Beetle Sir P aul M cCartney our music. It seems to be a great way to promote yourself with people who (myspace.corn/p are actively listening to bands throughMySpace sites," she says."My Space MySpacehas alsobecome ahotbed forindie bands (and even not-so-indie also allows you to search by area, so for playing shows on tour, it seems to — checkoutmyspace.corn/greenday, myspace.corn/redhotchilipeppers or be a new way of promotin'g shows to people in those various towns." myspace.corn/u2) to showcase their music to a wider audience, and forge According to Paul Banwatt, drummer for Clementine (myspace.corn/ connections with fans through non-traditional methods. ciementinetheband) and The RAA (myspace.corn/theraa], one of the great News Corps., who purchased MySpace last year for US$58D.million, now things about MySpace is the ability to discover new bands just by listening estimates the website's worth to be around $3.billion. to songs that friends have on their profiles — in other words, the concept of

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For music fans, MySpace is a unique opportunity to interact with their favourite bands on a Far more grass-roots and personal level than through the passive approach of an oAicial website or fan club. It's not uncommon for band members to interact directly with users by leaving posts and comments, which, represents a major shift in how bands and other india organizations can reach people, "[MySpace] gives the iliusion that you can be 'friends' with your favourite bands... it tends to emotionally attach Folks to their bands, which in turn leads to record sales because people really I'eel the need to support their friends,' says Navis Harris, publicist For Maple Music Recordings.

"From a marketing point of view, it's a great research tool, You get a good feel for the people the band attracts, you can see which other musicianh are digging the tunes Land that helps when it comes to planning openers/closers for tours), and you can also keep current fans interested by posting things like unreleased tracks. It really is a great touchstone for keeping 'tabs' on fans."

Another benefit of MySpace is that it's a free service, both for bands to host their music, and for fans to listen.

"Being an indie musician costs at least some money — for instruments, rehearsal space, and transportation — and provides very little income," says Banwatt, 'I think if I had to choose between an official website and a MySpace profile, I'd take the MySpace profile.'

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Bands aren't the only ones taking advantage of the uniquely grassroots networking approach that MySpace offers, When MoonRox jewellry designer Monique Chan was given the task of putting together a web site and press release for the Kit 'n Kaboodle craft sale in Toronto on a tight budgetand deadline, she created a MySpace page to be used as a coordination point for the event: (myspace.co rn/kitnkaboodleshowandsale].

"We wanted something that was easily changeable and at the same time easily accessible to as many people as possible. Many of our exhibitors were already MySpace users, so we thought it would be a great networking tool. In the last week before the show we had about 1,200 people view our page, which was fantastic," she says.

"MySpace allowed us to have all the necessary info online and have an easyway to network. And forsomeone who has no ideahow to design a traditional website, it was fairly easy to put together our page and make changes with the addition of each new vendor."

Were there any frustrations? "Not too many," says Chan, "other than the fact that the Kit 'n Kabaodle Show and Sale seems to get a few messages asking the Show out on a date. We need to think of a good way for the Show to turn them down!"

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A couple of years ago the major cellular phone carriers, realizing this was deja vu all over again, attacked the problem in the same way they solved spotty cellular phone coverage —with roaming agreements. In ZOO4, Bell, Telus, Rogers and Fido adopted a common HotSpot logo to identify participating locations, and set up the login so that you could access the hotspot and pay for usage on your cell phone account. I used the service in Calgary Airport and in several coffee chains across the country and this solution goes a long way to solving the two problems. First, because the participating locations are most often chains that people readily recognize and business travellers might be inclined to visit, the "where is it?" question is partially solved. If you know to look out for the logo, finding one of these hotspots becomes a little easier because most businesses wiil post the logo on their door. Common locations are Mailboxes Etc.[now UPS Stores), some latte shops(I noticed the logo at the local Starbucks attached to Chapters bookstore] and places like that.

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Unless you have access to executive ciass lounges, connecting at the airport can also be a crapshoot. I recently travelled through Pearson's new Terminal 1 in Toronto, and discovered the WiFi service there provided by Concourse Communications. After giving them permission to lighten my credit card account by the going daily rate, I was online. But a cheery email confirmation that I'd not have to register again if I wanted to use the service in the future leads me to the uncomfortable suspicion that my credit card number is forever in its clutches. My experience at Calgary Airport, paying for hotspot usage on my cell phone account, was much more agreeable.

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The reason why it was largely abysmal gets back to one of the problems already stated — finding WiFi locations in strange places. I had downloaded a list of WiFi locations from a web site before leaving on the trip, but it was a pain trying to find specific street addresses of often-small storefronts.

After wandering around an industrial park in Winnipeg looking for a Mailboxes Etc. location, we decided that the vacation was beginning to feel too much like work and abandoned the project. So finding the WiFi campgroundnearThunder Bay was a lucky coincidence because we were no longer seeking them out.

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The RSSFeeds button is particularly handy. Click it and you' ll be given the Another handy upgrade that shows Microsoft had people working to option to add feeds from the current web site to your own personal improve the user experience is a new print function that automatically fixes subscription list, which can be accessed from the Favourites pane. It' s the width and height issues of non-standard web pages to ensure they fit fast, easy, and makes subscribing to RSS Feeds attractive to users of all properly on a piece of paper. [Hopefully this will mean the end of wasted skill levels. pages printed with just a couple of words or a site graphic.)

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So while IE7 may be imitative, it also has a few new features all its own.

Given that IE has always been a far more likely target for malware attacks But the big question on everyone's minds, however, remains security. than its competitors, many features in IE7 labeled original and innobative Microsoft talks a good game, but not until IE7 is in the hands of the public have to do with security. Most of these changes work behind the scenes, — including hackers — will we know just how safe the new browser really is. but there are a couple of more obvious security upgrades that the average In the meantime, the biggest problem faced by IE may well be Microsoft's bloated and lengthy development process. More than five years have Joe can appreciate.

The first is an automated phishing filter. This filter, which is turned on by passed since internet Explorer 5 was released, and competitors made default but can be switched off by advanced users, warns people when serious inroads into Microsoft's browser space in the interim. If we have to they encounter known phishing websites. In extreme cases the fiiter may wait another five for Internet Explorer B, Microsoft's nimble challengers even deny access to a site to protect the integrity of user's PC. may gain even more ground, The second noticeable security feature blocks access to ActiveX controls (Note: A near-final beta is available at www.microsoft.corn. iE7 is slateff to [ActiveX is a technology used to embed multimedia files in web pages]. In launch with Windows Vista next year).

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A large number oF Linux desktop applications have matured into excellent products that are capable and easy to use by anyone already accustomed to a Windows or Mac environment. I' ll highlight several of these and provide tips and occasional tutorials on getting the most out of them.

To provide a convenient way for new users to ask questions and seek help, I' ve created a companion site for this column: a blog called Living with Linux

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• Linux is cheap, as in free, and most Linux desktop applications are also free. This can make Linux very attractive to someone living on a student budget or, likemyselfl,iving on a retirement income.

• Linux is cooL When you use Linux, you' re participating in one of the most wholesome, interesting countercultures in located at living-with-linux.blogspot.corn. The blog extension to thecolumn the world, where people donate will provide, links to Internet resources on Linux and Linux applications as their skills and time to making well as additional technical material that will supplement the print version free software available to everyone and in their own language where of the column. possible. As an antidote to the highly commercialized society we live in, The Linux distribution I' ve selected for this series is Ubuntu Linux Linux has no peer. [www.ubuntu.org]. Ubuntu Linux is based on the excellent Debian GNU/Linux distribution but has the advantage of being very easy to install and to use. It' s • Linux is "techie." A distribution such as Ubuntu is easy to use for a a free Linux that can be downloaded and burned to CD for installation. If you non-technical user, but Linux can take you as far as you want to go on the don't have this capability, Ubuntu will mail you a CD at no cost. technical side, including building web services and developing programs in The Ubuntu CD is a "live" CD, meaning that you can use it to boot right into a number oF programming languages for which all the necessary tools Ubuntu Linux to take it for a test drive, without risking damage to your are free. current computer. It runs slowly in this mode, but it gives you a taste oF the Ubuntu desktop environment in a way that is completely safe.

• Linux is fun. People who use it enjoy exploring its applications and uses. If The actual installation of Ubuntu Linux will not be covered in this column you' re the kind of person who has the right mindset for Linux, it makes your because the word limitation would not permit me to cover it in enough computing environment a particularly interesting place to hang out. detail, Instead, I have provided installation notes, and links to installation documentation, on the Living with Linux blogsite.

Linux is not for everyone, of course, but if you find yourself attracted by If you' re a Windows user who has never used Linux before, you might well the possibility of running Linux as your desktop, even if it's in addition to wonder why anyone would choose to use an operating system that is not Windows rather than replacing Windows, welcome aboard. Let's explore it even on many people's radar, There's no simple answer to this, but here are and have some fun! some of the reasons that some people use Linux:

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Colour lasers are attractive for home or small office use for a number of reasons. With the entry cost now at around $300, they are priced competitively with mid-range inkjet printers. They are faster than inkjets, particularly for making multiple copies of the same document. On cheap office paper the image quality is arguably better from a colour laser than from an inkjet. And colour lasers are cheaper to run, on the order of three to five cents per page for black and 16-20 cents per page for full colour.

But they definitely take up more desk space and weigh a lot more. And even though the cost per page sounds agreeable, replacing toner cartridges is expensive. Colour lasers use four — cyan, magenta, yellow and black — and each toner cartridge will set you back $100-$150.

Fortunately they are rated for at least 1,000 pages, with high capacity ones good for up to 5,000 pages. Manufacturers typically qualify the page ratings with something like "at five per cent coverage," which isn' t much, so in the real world you won't get%hat mileage, but even so, they last much longer than inkjet cartridges.

HUB:OL checked out a couple of the least expensive colour lasers on the Canadian market. The Hewlett-Packard Color LaserJet 1600 has a manufacturer's suggested price of $349 although I' ve seen it advertised for $299 at some stores. The Lexmark C500n has a suggested retail price of $399 but sells for as low as $350.

Oki, Xerox and Brother have small office colour laser products, but they beginatover$500.And Samsung was in the midstofa m odelchange, and its new entry level model wasn't available to us in time, (And I noticed as I was preparing this that Xerox is offering a rebate with its entry level Phaser, which bdngs the pdce under $500.)

Apples and Oranges The HPCLJ 1600 and Lexmark C500n are priced within $100 ofeach other, but they are quite different machines. They use different underlying technologies. HP is what's called a single pass printer, which means the four toner hues are imaged in a single paper pass. Lexmark C500n is a multi-pass printer, so the toner hues are applied in successive passes. Multi-pass printers are much faster at printing single hue documents; theoretically they should be able to print a black-only document in about a quarter the time of a full-colour one. Single pass printers will print black-only or full colour pages at roughly the same speed.

These performance differences were evident in my speed tests, The Lexmark blazed through a 10-page black text-only word processing document in under 30 seconds, while the HP took about three times as long to print the same file.

However, for colour printing, the two took roughly the same time to print a nine. page POFthat was a mix of black and coloured text, spot colour graphics and photographs. And to print a 10-page InOesign test booklet of mainly photos, the HP was slightly faster.

Even though both use four toner cartridges, their colour characteristics are different, so that in side-by-side comparisons, the reds and blues are slightly different. The HP also prints everything slightly darker than the Lexmark. For spot colours and black-only text, both are amazingly good when you consider the price, but the darker output of the HP is less Aattering to photos, making some samples look a bit muddy.

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P er sons( Co m p u t i n g The paper tray, which holds up to 250 sheets is at the bottom of the printer and the output tray is at the top. One aspect of the HP unit that surprised me was paper selection. With monochrome lasers it's been my experience that they are not too fussy about the kind of paper you feed them. However, the HP unit is more like an inkjet and seems to adjust the print process to take into account the kind of paper being used. This is a good thing, but it also means you have to be somewhat careful to set the paper parameters correctly. I had inadvertently left the paper selection to "plain paper" when I was using some HP glossy brochure paper, and the output was so bad I initially thought the printer was defective. There were bare spots in the prints where the toner had obviously not been properly fused, and streaks and globs of toner smeared across parts of the paper, When I discovered my mistake and set the paper type correctly, the problems vanished, and the printouts were blemish-free.

Overall, the colour quality is very good, and photo printing acceptable. For spot colours — a logo on letterhead or graphics in a report — the output looks very impressive, but photos print a bit dark — something you could correct in image editing software.

Although the print quality is a bit below the Lexmark, especially for photos, the HP unit seems to be an overall friendlier device — easier to set up, lighter if you need to move it around and with styling that's a refreshing departure from office beige.

Low points: weight [30 kg) makes it something of a handful for a home office

LexmarkCanada has setthe price ofthe CSDOn atan SRPof$399 ,andI"ve seen it online for $350, making it quite a bargain. The Lexmark unit gives you 1200 x 600 dpi output, monochrome print speed of 30 pages per minute [eight ppm for colour), built-in Ethernet and the option to use high-capacity toner cartridges rated at 3,000 pages (or 5,000 pages for black].

The Lexmark has a 300 MHz processor and 64MB ofmemory. As was noted in the Apples and Oranges section earlier in this article, this multi-pass printer has excellent black-only print speeds and full colour speed is comparable to the H~P[which one would expect as they are both rated at 8 ppm for full colour).

The C500n has many good points. The photo print quality was closer to the reference photo inkjet prints than the HP's performance, and the printer menu offers more options to tune the colour output. Although it's still not good enough to compete with a comparably priced photo inkjet for fine art printmaking, its colour is very pleasing and photos, even on office bond, look very good. I ran into some toner adhesion problems with the Lexmark — on samples of generic inkjet (yes, inkjet — silly me] card stock, the printouts had bare spots in the printout, and the toner would flake off when rubbed. The lesson to be taken —when you go to the store to buy paper, be mindful of the designation for laser or inkjet. It can make a difference.

Like the HP, the four colour toner cartridges are stacked on top of each Selected SpeclRcatlons. other, and are easily accessible when the front panel is opened. The fuser array drops into a slot amidships. While the HP and Lexmark unit cover Price MSRP $399($350 street) nearly the same footprint, the Lexmark looks a lot bulkier because of its Rated print speed: 31 ppm(black only); 8 ppm (full colour) boxy shape.

I'rint Resolution: 1200 x 600 dpi The C500n is more suitable as a small office workgroup printer than it is as Paper capacity 250sheets a home printer. It's networkable, and it's a lot heavier than the HP 1600(30 Lonnectivity USB 2.0; Ethernet kg vs. 16 kg for the HP). It also has a constant fan noise even when at rest Oirnensions(w x d x h): 48 x 42 x 38.5 cm[19 x 16.5 x 15.2 in] — until the unit goes into sleep mode, It's not very loud, comparable to the Weight: 29 kg[66 Ib) fan noise from a desktop PC,and would likely just disappear amidi the other Toner cosh Black(5000 sheet rating) - $170; Cyan Magenta and Yellow office equipment noises in a typical workspace. But nonetheless it would (3000 sheet rating] - $150 ea, be noticeable in a relatively quiet home office, especially when compared to the HP, which is mostly dead silent in standby mode. When printing, the High Points Built-in networking, high-yieid toner cartridges available, CSOOn also sounds like its a bit busier. colour settings can be tuned, drivers for Windows and Macintosh, very However, if you are willing to put up with the slight noise, and have the good colour output, even with photos space and a sturdy table, the CSOOnwould be a useful addition to a home office for very fast black document printing and good overall colour quality.

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and while it is well-used for music, jingles and soundtrack work, it is very good for spoken word material as well. Likewise, Apple's Final Cut Pro has audio tools, but nowhere near as many or as powerful as in its dedicated audio program, Soundtrack.

So, with a simple nod to the those and other powerful audio tools [Cubase, or Pro-Tools, come on down!), here in Part Two, we' ll look at a couple of software programs for the editing and production of spoken word or vocal-based audio content.

Let's start where things sound good right off the bat: good, easy and cheap!

Audacity is a handy little audio recording and editing program for all PCs and their operating systems. It is open source software, freely distributed under the General Public License[my copy of the program came with the MicroTrack 24/96 mobile digital recorder). Like all GPL software, Audacity's source code is open and available to investigation, enhancements and improvements from the user base.

Audacity works with high quality sound, and can record and edit 16-, 32- and 64-bit audio at up to 96 KHz, Using its own dithering and re-sampling algorithms, Audacity works with a wide range of audio formats and sample rates, converting them automatically in real-time.

It supports several common audio file formats [again, you can refer to the last issue of HUB: OL for more technicaiities about music and audio), such as WAV,AIFF,AU,and Dgg Vorbis Ales.Suppon for MPEG formats is available, but Audacity does not currently support WMA,AAC, or other such proprietary or restricted file formats.

Audacity records audio through a microphone or mixer, or you can use it to digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs.

With some sound cards, it can also capturestreamina gudio, and be used to create multi-track recordings[its default is two-track].

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The program uses what's known as an "Envelope" tool for fading or raising volume smoothly, and a mouse-driven "Drawing" tool to alter individual sample points.

Even though I have access to other audio programs, and powerful video editing tools, I often use Audacity for editing spoken. word podcasts. It' s ability to help me quickly cut out unwanted sections, clean up undesirable noises, and package the 'cast with music, effects or other sound Sources is hard to beat — especially at the price. n-Track is an audio and MIDI editing software, newly available in its Studio 5 version.

This Windows-only PC program is available in 32- and 64-bit flavours [running natively on x64 versions). Using a 64 bit internal sound path makes for the maximum audio quality available on today's CPUs. It's priced at less than $100. nTracit is optimized for the latest dual-core and hyperthreading CPUs, and its multithreaded design takes advantage of extra CPU's processing power to support more tracks and effects. Depending on the song structure and buffer size, the gain over a regular CPU can be around 1.2x[dual-core] or 1.1x [hyperthreading), acc'ording to the, manufacturer. n-Track is compatible with a wide variety of 16- and 24-bit single and multichannel soundcards that use PCI,USBor FireWire [IEEE 1394] or audio interfaces with Asio, WDM, MME, DirectSound or other compatible audio drivers [again, refer to the last issue of HUB: DL for details about audio technicalities].

Those technicalities aside, n-Track is a powerful digital multitrack recorder that transforms y'our PC into a powerful audio recording studio. You can record, play back and overdub your audio tracks while applying effects, realtime input processing, automated AUX channels sends and returns, and more. The program supports 24-bit, 192 KHz recording, 64-bit mixing, e

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It's not quite as easy as Audacity to get audio in and out quickly, but it does allow for a lot more audio processing and manipulation. Built-in effects include reverb, compression, parametric and graphic EQ, echo, pitch shift, chorus, multiband compression, and a spectrum analyzer.

At the higher price points expected for the most powerful and feature packed audio software programs comes Antares and the latest version of its Auto-Tune program.[Auto-Tune4 is out now; an enhanced Auto-Tune S was expected. at press time — but note that no plans for dual core suppo'rt were announced.)

Auto-Tune is called a professionai pitch correction solution for Mac OS X and Windows XP, and it's used primarily to correct intonation problems in vocal or solo instrumental performance. It does so in real-time, without distortion or artifacts, while keeping all of the expressive nuances of the original performance.

Over a typical pitch correction range, it is simply not possible to tell that a sound has been processed, except that it is perfectly in tune. it's possible to "save" even the most off-key or vibrato-saturated vocalfor instrumental] performance, and that's why it is well-known and well-liked in the music recording business.

Another Antares program, called Throat, is a dedicated "vocal designer"a "physical modeller" of spoken sounds, effects and artifacts — even to the point, for example, of adding "breathiness" to a recording.

According to some observers[studio engineers are notoriously closelipped], programs like Antares' are why many hits from artists like Cher, Green Day, and even Paris Hilton sound so good — or to put it another way, are so pitch perfect!

You maynot need the power orexpense — around $6OO — ofprograms like Antares for your audio editing needs, but know they are out there.

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F ilm feet: Once m n b i le Movies shot with cell phones shown on large screens The mobile movie phenomenon — content'produced on and created with mobile phones — is gaining both popularity and respect among filmmakers as it opens new avenues for creative visual output as well as a compelling new genre for storytelling.

Media mobility brought together Motorola and the 2006 Toronto

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5ix unique and ground-breaking mobile shorts created by filmmakers from the Talent Lab MotoFilm Project were released during the Festival after being processed to make them suitable for big-screen viewing. Each was shown in the theatres, and online as streaming video.

Motorola provided the filmmakers with a Moto0 videophone, and service from Bell Mobility to expedience mobile moviemaking first-hand. Some also used M'oto's V635 phone.

One of the participants, Gass-Donnelly, an award-winning film director, stage producer and music video maker, used his video-enabled handsets for an innovative piece created for the band The Fembots, and the song History Remade about the histgry of Toronto, its people and places.

By creating a unique camera rig of five handsets mounted along a block of Styrofoam, Gass-Donnelly was able to add a panoram ic feel to his eye-grabbing video.

He described cell phone-acquired video as having "a very specific look, use and response. It's almost iconic; people instantly know it's 'cell phone.' Like

the Polaroid snapshot, cell phone video is very self-referential."

Aesthetically, Gass-Donnelly found a mobile video does have a new identity. Technically, it has some hang-ups too, such as the non-existence of time code exists on cell phone video. "It has a shallow depth of field, and a forced perspective to it," he adds. The video shot was 15 frames per second [as opposed to film's 24, or video's normal 30), but he was still limited to shooting in three minute chunks, owing to the size of the handset's internal memory card — in this case, 512MB. Cell phone image dimensions are usually 176 x 144 pixels, a far cry from the 1920 x 10BO size of high definition video. It was obviously necessary to blow up the video for theatrical release, but the problems of pixelation, i degradation and aspect ratio conversion were not inconsequential.

Nevertheless, another participant, filmmaker Andy Marshall found new ways to combine his many interests on the small screen.

"The cell phone lets you into places where normally you wouldn't — or couldn't — have video cameras,"he says."W hereveryou can take a phone, you can make a movie. Also, because of its size and its 'normalcy' (pretty much everyone is comfortable and familiar with cell phones], it gives great access to subjects and scenery. It's perfect for documentary filmmaking, as a cell phone is a lot less intimidating than a camera, and also for guerrilla filmmaking, if there's footage you have to get 'undercover'."

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Some recerit history: Lenovo is the China-based personal computer manufacturer that acquired IBM's personal computer division for US$1.25 billion in 2OOS. That acquisition gave Lenovo a couple of valuable brandsthe ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCenter desktop lines — and vaulted it to Number-Three globally, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Taking over those marquees gave Lenovo a considerable and immediate slice of the North American market, but that's not enough to ensure lang-term success far two reasons. First, the halo effect of Big Blue heritage won't linger forever (Lenovo can use the IBM moniker for up to five years j. . The premium IBM brands are vulnerable te depreciation — either real or in the minds of potential purchasers — into parity products from yet another far-east PC builder.

Second, today's PCgame is as much about consumer retail as biz2biz, and oops — IBM got out of the retail PC market years ago. You just don't see ThinkPad or ThinkCenter PCs in electronics and office supply retail stores alongside HP,Acer and the like. So even with IBM's portfalio, Lenovo has no shelf presence where we ardinary citizens shop.

What is the company doing about that? To provide some answers, Lenovo Canada recently arranged a media tour to its product development centre in Raleigh, North Carolina and invited HUB". DLalong. Raleigh was chosen, I suspect, because it's home ta one of IBM's premium RLD centres — and when the new Lenovo facility is complete, one of Lenovo's premium RSD centres as weil. The Raleigh venue helped communicate a message about continuity fram IBM to Lenovo. Continuity in staff, since many of the key IBMers that shaped IBM PC product development are now part of the Lenovo crew; as well as continuity af product quality and innevation, as a tour of the new product showcase and briefings indicated.

Oeepak Advani, a senior VP and chief marketing officer said that Lenovo's main marketing slogan is "the best engineered PCs." To bolster that claim, Daryl Cromer, who is the executive director of Lenovo's Raleigh Advanced Technology Center taiked about same of the innovations that flowed out of the centre when it was IBM-run, and continue ta flow under Lenovo's direction, ThinkPads have long been popular with business users for a few reasons, not the least of which is the overall physical robustness of the machines.

I' ve seen IBM reps stand on them, pour water onto the keyboard and fiing them onto the floor. Dog and pony show theatrics for sure, but they demonstrate some of the engineering within the machines — an accelerometer that detects sudden movements and parks the hard drive heads to avoid HDD crashes, rigid alloy cases that reduce screen flexing and breakage, and waterproof pans under the keyboard (complete with drainage holes). Under Lenovo, the latest innovation is the roll cage, a magnesium alloy skeleton that further protects the electronics within.

To popularize that sort of engineerirtg prowess, Deepak Advani developed a viral marketing campaign called "the Lenovo Tapes" which purport to be secret tapes showing the latest technalogies Lenovo engineers are working on. These are entirely fictional but highiy entertaining. One shows arobot arm dropping a Lenovo notebook BC '

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Lenovo in Canada Murray Wright, President of Lenovo Canada, says the challenge here is similar to Lenovo's problem in the Americas as a whole — combating the "Lenovo who?" syndrome.

With the "Think" product line inherited from IBM, Lenovo Canada has held itsown, and Wright says Lenovo Canada has maintained a Number-Two position in commercial PCs this year. To further bolster its position among businessusers,in September Lenovo Canada signed adealwith AirCanada under which Lenovo will supply almost iOO PCs to Air Canada's 19 Maple Leaf Lounge Business Centres, located here and abraad, One of the biggest challenges fer Lenovo Canada is that it started with zero retail presence, Earlier this year, it introduced the first new PCs for North America under its own brand. Called the Lenovo 3OQO, it includes desktop and notebook models, and will be the products the company uses to tackle the retail market. So now, if you go to office supply chains in Canada, you may actuall y come across Lenovo branded products.

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Lenovo a force in Asia-Pacific Lenovo has retailing smarts and a portfolio of products aimed at the consumer market. For example, it is the biggest domestic cell phone brand in China and has about 20 per cent of the PC market there. The trouble is, it has operated almost exclusively in the Asia-Pacific region, mostly in China.

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This serves to raise awareness for PC gaming, but also increase anticipation for Vista.

The basic idea of the Games for Windows initiative is to provide developers, retailers, and garners access to whatever resources they require to maximize their experience with the platform.

On the developer-side of things, many refinements have been made to the qualification process used to ascertain if a game is worthy of the "Games for Windows" branding. Endorsement falls into two categories,

Microsoft's Games For Windows Initiative With the launch of two new video game consoles this month, many skeptics seem to think that PC gaming is, once again, on its last legs.

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The most affordable method is an FM transmitter, a smallish device that plugs into an iPod-type player and essentially acts as a miniature radio station, wirelessly broadcasting your playlist through your deck's FM tuner.

Pricier transmitters will also charge your iPod's battery via an additional cigarette lighter cable.

Are the days of the mobile CD jukebox numbered?

Although regarded as the pinnacle of car audio when they debuted just a couple decades ago, retail music CDs are certainly not that today. They simply don't hold enough songs compared to modern, ultra-compressed MP3 standards, They typically incorporate just three or four really good tunes and a ton of filler, and they have fixed playlists. Thusly, even if you have a dozen of them rattling around your car ready to fall out of their cases or beswapped in and outofyourdeck,you have maybe a couple hours of good music.

You could buy yourself a CD changer, but then you'd lose a chunk of trunk space and you'd still have just a fraction of the A-list songs your buddy stores in his comparatively miniscule portable music player.

A better answer is to stop allowing those pesky retail CDs in your car in the first place.

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The downsides to the FM transmitter are many, however. Most critically, it sounds like FM radio, complete with all the inherent interference and low-grade fidegty. Moreover, some transmitters work efficiently only when they' re positioned literally inches from the deck. And none of them will allow you to control your iPod through your deck.

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If your deck has a 3. Smmauxiliary input, you have yet another hardwired option. Auxiliary jacks are nothing new in the world of car audio, as evidenced by the fact that even slow moving North American car manufacturers are now including them'with certain factory decks, Yet for

the smart shopper, caveat emptor. Auxiliary inputs do not charge your player's battery, nor do they allow you to control your player's functions from the deck.

USB: Coming to a car near you Undoubtedly the best player-to-deck solution is a USB connection. Now featured in top.end decks by the likes of Kenwood, Alpine and Clarion, USB offers uninterruptible two-way communication. Thus, you can listen to your iPod or non-iPod player in full high fidelity, charge its batteries, and conveniently control all its functions and see all its playlist information right there on your dashboard.

I Moreover, USB is the ideal answer for those who would rather store their music on a comparatively inexpensive flash memory "thumb" drive or even a miniature hard drive. Merely run the USBcable from the back of the deck into the glove compartment or some other inconspicuous cubbyhole, connect the drive, and control everything from your deck. SomeUSBdecks, such as those in Kenwood's Excelon series, offer "voice indexing," wherein a synthesized voice announces each new artist, genre, or sort function. You don't even need to take your eyes from the road to know what's coming up next.

It's important to note, however, that car USB is still in its infancy and the list of supported USBdevices is not set in stone. Kenwood, for example, has officially approved just asmat teringof the current crop of flash memory drives. Furthermore, USB connections. are limited by the amount of power they can deliver. Though enough for most players and drives, it isn' t fol' some.

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With all these options, each of which is theoretically far superior to any CD technology, a CO-less car audio future would appear to be at hand. And indeed it is. Clarion, for one, will unveil a lineup of no-CD decks at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, 200?. Featuring USB and SD memory card slots, an FM tuner, and Bluetooth support, the units will in all probability be the first in a new wave of audio hubs that usher the once proud compact disc out the proverbial tailpipe.

Radio Ga-Ga The future also looks bright for motorists who don't want to bother with personalized music collections at all, and preFer instead that old standby, radio. Apart from standard AM and FM, listeners now have the option of satellite radio, a subscription service that delivers a wide variety oF commercial-free channels to anyone who owns a satellite receiver. The primary benefits of satellite radio are its commercial-free format and its clean digital signal that's theoretically equally strong anywhere on the continent. Moreover, fans of specific genres of music or talk or sports are likely to find a channel that caters strict! y to their preferences. However, there are drawbacks. Sateilite is a paid service s

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A potentially better betfor thoseamong us who'd rather save than spend our money is HD Radio. HDRadio is essentially an analog-to-digital upgrade ofthestandard AM and FM signals,whereintheAM band soundg as good as traditional FM stereo and the FM band sounds almost as good as your CO player. HO is not a subscription service, so you won't pay monthly fees. All. you need is a deck that supports HD and a separate HD receiver. Indeed, some decks now feature a completely integrated HD solution.

The most discussed downside.to HD Radio is that it's funded by commercials — the same commercials you' ll hear through standard AM and FM. Furthermore, being a terrestrial rather than satellite-based technology, the HD signal will degrade as you move further from the nearest tower. But the biggest hurdle for Canadian HORadio fans may be accessibility. Digital radio [once more commonly known as DAB, or "digital audio broadcasting") hasn't exactly taken off in this country, due mostly to red tape, technical issues, and an apparent lack of consumer interest, Surveys suggest consumers wanted better content, among other things. Though HD Radio technology permits "multicasting" Cthe broadcast of two simultaneous programs — one each in digital and analog format) doing so is naturally a more expensive proposition for the radio station. It's a Catch-ZZ situation

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