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The Decade In Loudness

December 31, 2009 By Graham English

Robert Siegel talks with two guests about how recorded music has changed in the past decade. First, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig explains how recordings have gotten louder and worse. Then Robert talks Andrew Oxenham, a professor in the Psychology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: absolute peak level, Andrew Oxenham, Audio, Bob Ludwig, capitalism, CD, Christopher Clark, compression, decade, dynamics, engineering, high frequency peaks, loudness, loudness wars, low frequency peaks, mastering, mastering engineers, mid frequency peaks, mp3, music producing, music production, music technology, NPR, peak level, peak levels, producing, Psychology, recorded audio, recording, recording technology, RMS, RMS levels, Robert Siegel, Technology, University of Minnesota, volume, white noise

The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

December 3, 2009 By Graham English

How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: bloggers, Blogging, David Rawlings, digital music, Facebook, fans, file sharing, free, Gillian Welch, imeem, John Mayer, Julie Greenwald, Kevin Barnes, major labels, mp3, music distribution, Music Industry, music technology, musicians, MySpace, Napster, NPR, Of Montreal, P2P, Steve Albini, Technology, Twitter

Celemony Presents Melodyne Editor… Again [NAMM 2009 Highlights]

January 15, 2009 By Graham English

Quite some time ago Celemony made a huge buzz among musicians and non-musicians alike with their Direct Note Access technology. I discovered it in the Delicious Popular Feed of all places. Anyway, I forgot all about it until today. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: Celemony, del.icio.us, Direct Note Access, Melodyne, NAMM 2009, Technology

How To Shorten URLs With Bit.ly Using Quicksilver

July 8, 2008 By Graham English

A URL shortener service called Bit.ly launched today. It has some great features that convinced me to switch from using Metamark to shorten my URLs. Since I have a slick script that allows me to use the Metamark API from Quicksilver, I had to modify … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: API, Apple, AppleScript, Bit.ly, code, Firefox, hacks, LifeHacks, Mac, Metamark, programming, Python, Quicksilver, Safari, scripting, Technology, URL

Update Twitter, Facebook, iChat, Adium, And Skype With Quicksilver

August 11, 2007 By Graham English

I'm a Facebook fanatic. I joined immediately after they opened to the public. In the beginning, there wasn't much to talk about. None of my friends had joined and there really wasn't that much I could do there. But since then, the buzz has caught my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, automation, Facebook, Growl, hacks, HowTo, iChat, IM, Keychain, Mac, OSX, plugins, productivity, Quicksilver, Skype, social, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter, workflow

My New Method Of Automated Journaling

June 11, 2007 By Graham English

I've been hacking this auto-journal script for a while and I've recently settled on using a local install of WordPress combined with AppleScript and Quicksilver. It's really pretty easy. Follow MacZealots' tutorial on Installing WordPress on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, automation, Blogging, Growl, GTD, HowTo, journaling, LifeHacks, Mac, OSX, productivity, Quicksilver, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Wordpress

GTD: What Are You Doing Right Now Redux

April 20, 2007 By Graham English

My previous attempt at a time-tracking script worked well for a while. But I wanted something that was self-contained so I could share it with my friends and coworkers. I also wanted to cut down on key strokes. Since my internet connection has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, GTD, HowTo, LifeHacks, Mac, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, OSX, peak performance, Practice, productivity, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

GTD: Automator Wants To Know What You Are Doing Right Now

April 8, 2007 By Graham English

I'm into systems. I love figuring out how to get from point A to point B and then optimizing the process as efficiently as possible. Better yet, I love being able to turn a system on and not have to think about it again. This is one of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, behavior, best practices, entrepreneur, GTD, HowTo, LifeHacks, Mac, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, OSX, peak performance, Practice, productivity, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

iQuickTwitter – My Quicksilver + Twitter + iChat + Growl Hack

April 6, 2007 By Graham English

When I read that you could use Quicksilver with Twitter, I felt as excited as Jack Bauer in an interrogation room full of terror suspects. It all started with Twitter Fan Wiki. And then I lost myself in hours of troubleshooting as I tried to force … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose, Technology Tagged With: Apple, AppleScript, Growl, hacks, HowTo, iChat, IM, Keychain, Mac, OSX, plugins, productivity, Quicksilver, social, software, Technology, tools, tutorial, Twitter

Top 10 Twitter DOs and DON’Ts

April 5, 2007 By Graham English

You've got a blog. You've got email, SMS, and IM. These are great tools for communication. Email and text messaging are two-way conversations. Blogging is mostly a one-to-many conversation. But what about something in-between? Twitter is part … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: best practices, Blogging, communication, conversations, Dave Winer, hacks, iChat, IM, LifeHacks, lists, Mac, networking, plugins, RSS, SEO, SMS, social, software, Technology, Top 10, tutorial, Twitter, Web 2.0, wiki, Wordpress

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