Music Mondays: Robots Cover Manson
I always loved a great cover of a great song, but this time we’re in for something different
Edited: August 8th, 2011
Twitter for Bands: My experiences
This article originally appeared on ATAM Productions
Back in March of 2011 I first started to try and actively get more Twitter followers. My original plan failed because I wasn’t able to maintain that “Follower Momentum.”
The new plan was to follow possible fans and then hope that they follow me back. It seems obvious then: the more work you do in selecting who you follow, the more success you will have in connecting with true fans. In this article I’m going to explain the prescreening process I went through. Eventually I’ll post my long term results in another update.
Earlier this year I took my Twitter follow count from a meagre 100 or so up to about 360 followers in 24 hours but I spent a lot of time and the quality of my followers was garbage. How did I achieve this and why did I ultimately fail?
Edited: August 4th, 2011
Yes to Lulz or No!?
With all the news of hackers, government scandals and widespread corruption, two of the worlds most infamous underground groups, Anonymous and Lulz, announced an official statement.
I’m not completely sure how I feel about this gang; they’re sort of like a new, digital form of ancient pirates. On the other hand, despite their renegade behaviour, it is a natural revolution against government tyranny and corruption as any other revolution has been throughout history. The only difference now is that the computer technology is more vulnerable to attack and more vital to our lives.
The main part of the statement posted is as follows:
Let us tell you what WE find unacceptable:
* Governments lying to their citizens and inducing fear and terror to keep them in control by dismantling their freedom piece by piece.
* Corporations aiding and conspiring with said governments while taking advantage at the same time by collecting billions of funds for federal contracts we all know they can’t fulfil.
* Lobby conglomerates who only follow their agenda to push the profits higher, while at the same time being deeply involved in governments around the world with the only goal to infiltrate and corrupt them enough so the status quo will never change.
These governments and corporations are our enemy. And we will continue to fight them, with all methods we have at our disposal, and that certainly includes breaking into their websites and exposing their lies.
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
From the full release linked below:
We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing – absolutely nothing – you can possibly to do make us stop.
Edited: July 23rd, 2011
How to manage a cluttered email inbox
Let’s be frank here for a minute.
The only reason that I use a hardware email client is for the instant search capabilities that I have.
I was an early adopter of gmail and one of my favourite features was the instant search speed of the google servers. When you wanted to find a key word it would look at a huge number of emails instantly and the search provided relevant results too!
When I started using multiple emails on different domains I quickly needed to find an email client to aggregate multiple accounts and gmail didn’t seem to fit the bill anymore.
My first problem with using an email client became apparent about 3 or 4 months in. I started to experience a slow lag every time I needed to check my email. I don’t like to keep my email client open while I’m working because I find it distracting, and this was in the days before solid state drives!
My new solution is to keep my inbox clear constantly in my email client while keeping my important emails in a folder that isn’t my inbox. The Apple Mail client is smart enough to not fetch these messages until I want to browse that folder, so voila, instant inbox almost all the time!
Edited: June 19th, 2011
Comments now powered by Disqus
I have been looking for a few more ways to improve this site and lately I have added Disqus to handle all the comment and trackbacks for ColdplaySucks, just some mostly under the hood improvements!
Edited: June 17th, 2011
OS X Lion Release Date in Canada
The new box for OS X Lion? Think again, Lion will be digitally distributed only.
As far as I know OS X Lion is coming to the world and Canada on July 22, 2011. The new OS is going to be distributed only on Apple’s internal App Store and will be at the low $30 price point much like the release of Snow Leopard.
Clearly this low price point has worked well for Apple by encouraging early-adoption while simultaneously discouraging piracy. I think that this is not a sustainable price for consumers though, I was recently reading an insightful article about the economics of todays music industry and what is known as the “Long Tail” and how this comes into play with dance music today.
Edited: June 15th, 2011
Music Mondays: Cassius – Love You So (Skream Remix)
Let me start off by first warning: This is NOT the real music video for this song/remix.
I have been a big fan of the Skream remix to Cassius’ I Love You So ever since I first heard it a couple months ago. The original is released on the French electronic label Ed Banger (as in “head banger” pronounced by zee French) is very similar in sound yet radically different in style. I’ve been a fan of Justice and Uffie as well but haven’t heard enough other releases to really know for sure if I’m an Ed Banger myself when I listen to their tunes.
Now onto the video, this online re-edit is so perfectly done I can’t believe its not actually for this song. This is actually the video for the song “Luv Delux” by Cinnamon Chasers and was directed in 2009 by Saman Keshavarz.
Someone at Tempa (Skream’s label) should give Keshavarz a call:
Edited: February 28th, 2011
Buying a New MacBook Pro? Maybe hold off for a little bit . . .
Just a couple months ago I bought a new MacBook Pro (2.8ghz i7) for use at school and with music projects, such as Not MJ but I also learned a very valuable tip for anybody planning a MacBook Pro purchase. Make sure a new model isn’t about to hit the streets
I ran into a little bit of trouble because originally I had purchased the (at the time) top of the line 17″ MacBook Pro.
Not even a full week later Apple announced faster processors (the 2.8 ghz i7) replacing the machine I had just purchased. I weighed my options and decided to absorb the cost of returning my older machine for the new, newest machine (grrr). It cost me about $175.00 but the end result is a faster machine for my audio work.
If you’re looking for a new machine consider the following possible upgrades. Rumours of the following did not all prove to be true but either way the upgrades that were true were would be worth the wait:
(false)- end of white MacBook (Apple goes back to just the 13″ MBP)
(false)- 16 GB SSD SATA drives on all models to store the system (that would have been cool)
- Core i3 and third USB port on the 13″ model
(false)- Matte screen as an option on the 13″
(false)- Option to replace the SuperDrive on the 15 and 17″ models
(false)- HD screens on all models : 1440×900 on the 13″, 1680×1050 on the 15″
- 200 to 300 grams lighter : 1.8 kg for the 13″, 2.3 kg for the 15″, 2.65 kg for the 17″
(false)- Better battery life : 12 hours on the 13″, 10 hours on the 15″
- 8 GB of RAM on the 17″
In addition to all these changes, another source was cited saying a “new technology” will make its way into the MacBook Pros.
Check out new products on the Apple website
Edited: February 26th, 2011
2.8 ghz i7 macbook pro shipping time
by firewire
New Hardware, New Posts to follow?
Well it’s been a while since I’ve actually posted something serious here, but with good reason! Mid term season is upon us; I am just getting over all the work and a pretty rough cold too!
I also just ordered one of the 2.8 ghz i7 MacBook Pro’s direct from Apple. Currently I estimate it to arrive around November 3, but it hasn’t been built yet so its tricky to say still.
Anyways, I’ve been procrastinating my last piece of school work long enough so I must be off!
Later!
Edited: October 24th, 2010
iPad May soon support USB audio interfaces
Just a rumor now, but here’s what it looks like so far:
- Class-compliant USB audio devices will be supported through the USB dongle from the iPad Camera Connection Kit,
- The iPad will support USB-Audio 1.0 class specification only, supporting full speed.
- iPad docks may be able to support USB Audio device I/O.
- Low-power audio interfaces will be able to run off the iPad, otherwise you will need a powered hub or device power.
- The interface will suport 16bit audio. 24bit may be supported later.
At this point, USB audio support on the iPad is a rumor, because no official announcement has been made. Nevertheless, a lot of people are excited about the idea of connecting standard USB audio interfaces to the Apple iPad using the iPad Camera Connection Kit.
USB audio support for the iPad is “nice-to-have”, but not essential.
If you want your iPad to have audio interface support and a hardware keyboard and to be able to run desktop music applications – you’re probably better off just buying a much more powerful Apple laptop.
USB audio support may also be a distraction from understanding the unique new strengths of the iPad as a tool for music. I’m more interested in discovering what the iPad can do that is new than in trying to make it do all the stuff we can already do with laptops.
The iPad Camera Connection Kit is scheduled for release later this month, so it shouldn’t be long until the rumored iPad USB audio interface support rumor is tested out.
In the meantime – leave a comment and let us know what you think of the possibility of connecting USB audio devices to the Apple iPad!
via MacRumors
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Edited: April 16th, 2010