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Open sound series: Part 1 - The Freesound Project
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| This week's featured site is The Freesound
| Project (TFP). While working on a personal
| Ardour project, I began looking for some
| sound clips to throw into a song in order
| to bring the track a bit more life. Namely
| I was looking for a drunken countdown, or
| something similar. I had bookedmarked TFP
| while researching an earlier article, so I
| figured I'd give it a go. What I found
| after a quick search using their integrated
| search tool was a well-recorded group
| countdown from roughly the number 12. They
| mumbled at the beginning, making it seem
| like it could very well be at a bar. What's
| great is, as mentioned previously in my
| Open Music article, this meant that I had
| to attach credit to the song I was working
| on. Thus generating more traffic back to
| the page where I received the file, helping
| both the author of the file itself and The
| Freesound Project as a whole. It's a great
| web that is quickly woven around art that
| otherwise would go unnoticed. The best
| part? It wouldn't be possible at this level
| without open source.
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http://opensource.com/life/10/4/open-sound-series-part-1-freesound-project
Time to Abandon AIM
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| AOL has closed the doors on its Open AIM
| program. Pidgin developer Mark Doliner
| outlines where to go from here to support
| AIM, but maybe it's time to close the door
| on the protocol altogether.
|
| AIM and Yahoo! were the predominant
| protocols for IM when I started using
| Linux, and for a very long time they were
| the only reliable ways to chat with most of
| my friends and family that used Windows or
| Macs. IRC was fine if I wanted to chat with
| other Linux folks, but most of my contacts
| didn't use IRC and weren't about to switch
| or pick up yet another client because I was
| the odd man out on the desktop.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/time-to-abandon-aim
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