Fission Means Simple & Lossless Audio Editing [Sponsor]

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Fission makes audio editing easy.

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Crop and trim audio, paste in or join files, or just rapidly split one long file into many. Fission is streamlined for fast editing. Plus, it works without the quality loss caused by other editors, so you can get perfect quality audio even when editing MP3 and AAC files.

If you need to convert formats, Fission can do that too! You can rapidly export or batch convert files to the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats.

Download a free trial of Fission, then buy it in the App Store or directly through our store.

A matter of personal choice

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I agree with a lot of what Shaun McGill says in this article. We have come a long way from the days of Palm and using a device as a PDA. Now we have a computer in our pocket and your computer is a matter of personal choice.

3D printing to explode in 2014

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Here’s what’s holding back 3D printing, the technology that’s supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents. In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire, says Duann Scott, design evangelist at 3D printing company Shapeways.

It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next couple of years.

Apple comments on developer site hack

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I spoke with Apple tonight about news that its developer portal was hacked last Thursday by someone attempting to gain access to personal information about the company’s developers. While the company admitted already that the site was breached, there are some important details that you should know.

Apple developer Web site hacked

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Apple Developer Website Update

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

Oh shit.

PDFpen

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Many thanks to PDFpen for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week. PDFpen is the all-purpose PDF editor. Version 6 now includes Microsoft Word export, an editing bar for faster workflow, Retina graphics, and more.

If you work with PDFs, you need PDFpen, the multi-purpose PDF editor. PDFpen can make changes, fix typos, resize images, fill and save forms. It can perform OCR (optical character recognition) to digitize scanned documents as part of a paperless workflow. It can even redact sensitive information by removing it permanently and completely from a PDF.

Jim’s note: PDFpen saved me in the past, so I am a loyal user.

Gibson Les Paul LPX

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I’ll be honest with you, as the owner of several Les Paul guitars, I’m not quite sure what to think about this guitar.

Trolling

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Daniel D’Addario for Salon:

But for a word that’s tossed around so frequently, its meaning seems to evaporate into air when grasped at. Trolling is bad. Trolling provokes a reaction, usually negative. Trolling is apparently quite easy to do. But, if only to better gird one’s own defenses against it — what is trolling?

We’ve all come across this on the Internet.

Apple buys crowdsourced location data company Locationary

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Apple has acquired the Toronto-based Locationary, a small Canadian startup, backed by Extreme Venture Partners and Plazacorp Ventures. Multiple sources familiar with the deal tell AllThingsD it closed recently and includes Locationary’s technology and team, both. The price of the acquisition couldn’t immediately be learned.

Pultec EQ tips and tricks

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I absolutely love the Pultec EQ. The ability to simultaneously boost and attenuate frequencies gives you some unique possibilities when mixing tracks. All of the music I mix is done with Universal Audio plug-ins, including their Pultec collection. John Paterno gives you some tips and tricks on using this classic EQ.

The Loop Magazine Issue 6

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In this issue, Matt Gemmell looks at the gadgets we carry around and choosing the right one for you; Philip Michaels takes you through the drinkers code of conduct in a way that will make you laugh out loud; Patrick Rhone may be the only African-American in the room, but it doesn’t faze him anymore; Monique Dalrymple explains the reasons she fosters dogs; and Michael Mulvey considers Zelda when starting a new project.

You can preview the entire issue online or download the app for iPhone and iPad from the App Store and get a free 7-day trial.

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Negative space in design

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In amateur art classes, artists are taught to keep three things in mind while designing: frame, positive and negative space. The frame is of course the border of the picture and positive space is the area occupied by the object drawn. Negative space is defined as the space that is around an object but inside the frame. Utilizing this space brings balance in the picture and harmony to its composition. The image created by the negative space may either be the subject of a picture or it may help that subject stand out.