SecondConf

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I’ll be speaking at SecondConf this year, closing out the conference on the last day. If you’re attending, bring your instrument because we’ll be having a jam session too.

FlatGuitars

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An illustration project by David Navarro

Great illustrations of some of the most famous guitars of all time.

Universal Audio’s Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveler Collection

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I spent a few hours today beginning to mix drums on a new project. I’ve always loved the Teletronix LA-2A, so today I used it in a number of situations, including the Mixbus. It sounded incredible. Universal Audio has the best emulations of the original hardware units because they make the hardware units. What it does is so subtle, but very pleasing.

The Washington Post sale is an opportunity

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I agree with Joe, I’d love to see the Post get back to that old style journalism. Clearly they need to still compete with the newer, quicker news items, but mixing it with some investigative journalism would be welcomed by everyone.

20th Anniversary of the Newton MessagePad

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Peter Cohen:

An anniversary of sorts quietly passed us this weekend: Saturday, August 3rd, marked the 20th year since Apple began selling the Newton MessagePad, its then-groundbreaking tablet device with handwriting recognition. While the device was never hugely commercially successful, its development, creation and sale inevitably, inexorably lead us to where we are today, a “Post PC world” dominated by touch-sensitive smartphones and cellphones. The Newton’s influence can even be felt in Apple’s Mac line, with products like the MacBook Air.

I still remember the first time I saw one of these.

Android’s latest security flaw

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A feature that allows Android users to authenticate themselves on Google websites without having to enter their account password can be abused by rogue apps to give attackers access to Google accounts, a security researcher showed Saturday at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas.

And with that information, the attacker has access to “Google Apps, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Voice and other Google services.”

“Bezos is a genius”

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MG Siegler did a great article on Jeff Bezos, but it still didn’t convince me that buying The Washington Post was a good deal.

Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post

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The Washington Post Co. agreed Monday to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations.

Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to The Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.

There is no doubt Bezos is a smart man, but I’ll admit, this move took me by surprise.

Apple announces USB Power Adapter Takeback Program

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Apple on Monday announced its USB Power Adapter Takeback Program, a program that will allow customers to return third-party adapters they feel are faulty. Apple is offering those customers a special price on obtaining a new Apple adapter. […]

Auto Adjust: A photo rescuing app for iPhone and iPad [Sponsor]

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Auto Adjust is a photo rescuing app for iPhone and iPad designed to fix photos as fast and as pain free possible. Contrast stretching, levels, curves, color correction, and noise reduction are right at your fingertips without having to dig through menus and popovers. There are no “Projects” or photo libraries that are stuck in the app. Photos are saved to your camera roll and photo stream at their original size with all EXIF and metadata preserved.

Inevitable distraction

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Matt Gemmell:

We act as if we take concentration for granted, yet everyone has had trouble keeping their mind on the task at hand. We litter our menubars with icons, keep notifications enabled, and run our email programs, chat apps and social media clients all day. Something’s got to give, and invariably it’s our creative output.

This is why I like the Notification Center so much. It’s not perfect, but it does allow me to see at a glance what’s coming in and if I need to deal with it without leaving the project I’m working on.

My Adam Audio studio monitors

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I was asked the other day what I use in my studio for mixing, so I thought I’d post a link. My Adam’s are the A5 and are a bit older than the ones on company page, but the A5X is the closest thing to what I have. I love them.

95% of developers working on iOS 7 updates

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Craig Hockenberry asked developers if they were actively working on an update for their app to add iOS 7 features and compatibility—95% answered yes. What’s more, 52% of developers are going to require iOS 7 for their app. In other words, they are dropping support for all other operating systems.

I’ve been asked a lot about this strategy over the years and I’m in favor of it. Developers should offer their customers the latest and greatest as soon as they can. The only thing that would hold back a developer from doing that is the adoption rate of the operating system. Judging from the fast adoption rate of Apple’s operating systems, that doesn’t appear to be an issue.

Why PBS won’t support Android tablets

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Simply put, it’s too complicated for us to even consider an Android app for the first version; we’ll continue to support those viewers with mobile web.

Just take a look at the different sizes of Android tablets they would have to support—that’s a nightmare.

This is amazing

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You may remember this 14-year-old playing Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption earlier this year.

Ampkit 1.7 for iOS

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This is one of my favorite guitar apps for the iPhone and iPad, especially for high gain tones.