Hello everyone, I’ve started up another year of school and I’ve been falling a bit behind on my Music Mondays posts. -Alex Massaad

Like many other developers I have been running iOS 5 for the better part of their beta program. This has allowed me the chance to preview and test out some of Apple’s next generation software, as long as I didn’t tell anybody about it.

Now iOS is out of beta and yesterday was made available to all users for free and I can report on this revolutionary update.

I spent about 6 hours updating (apparently I had an unresolved network config error, not a problem on Apple’s end) but now that I’ve got their official release I have a problem: My WIFI Hotspot is no longer available!

At first I thought it had been moved around but I realized it wasn’t anywhere to be found. Eventually I discovered this simple solution which was the following:

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Tap the General tab.
3. Scroll all the way down and tap Reset Network Settings.
4. Restart iPhone
5. Launch the Settings app.
6. Tap General.
7. Tap Network.
8. Scroll down and the Personal Hotspot should show up, and will now be activated on the main Settings app tab

I’ve been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. While this zippyshare download isn’t a release quality link, it does allow me to play this song out to more people who can love it too via iTunes or Ableton!

You can download this song here: The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot -Silicone Shelter (King Unique Bootleg) on zippyshare

Here’s proof that our future is not becoming less free.

Film 4002 – “Is our future becoming less free?

By: Alex Massaad

Featured Article until March 2010

Course Description:

The proliferation of high-speed Internet and multimedia-capable computers has opened up an information highway that has changed the way modern audiences interface with audiovisual media. New information sharing technologies such as YouTube and Bit Torrent have enabled the swift dissemination of almost any commercial audio or video recording, while concurrently causing a furor within legal systems internationally.

This course will look at audio and video separately in order to understand how technology is altering culturally coded norms within media. As the course develops we will be looking at various binaries such as: copyright/piracy, free/paid, corporate/independent and original/remix in order to understand how our use of media and technology can alter both the media and the technology.

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