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The fourth title in the Metal Guitar Gods series presents 50 unique amp and cab settings modeled directly after the personal tones of four top metal players.

I really do like Toontrack’s music products.

I like it.

Wearable fitness device maker Fitbit Inc’s revenue forecast for the key-holiday shopping quarter fell well short of analysts estimates, hurt by stiff competition from rival device makers.

Apple Watch.

Looks good.

There is some great information in here. If you are interested in recording instruments, you should read this.

I would like to pull one quote from this Q&A, but I think it’s important to read the entire interview.

Six months ago, we launched Talkshow in the App Store, with the goal of giving people an easy way to have simple, uncluttered conversations in public. Today we have some tough news: on Thursday December 1, we’re shutting down the Talkshow app and website. While we have enjoyed the conversations that have happened on Talkshow, and are grateful for the community that has formed around the product, we don’t see it getting big enough to have the impact we had hoped for. We’re sorry, and we’re going to try to handle this transition in the right way.

This is the manifest of things I’ve learned about managing CSS in large, complex web projects during my many years of professional web development. I’ve been asked about these things enough times that having a document to point to sounded like a good idea.

The song is “Alberta,” which the album’s liner notes credit to blues guitarist Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter. The suit notes that the song is actually based on the blues song “Corrine, Corrina,” which was written by singer Armenter Chatmon, popularly known as Bo Carter, who recorded it in 1928.

I don’t even know what to think about this. Clapton is being sued for $5 million.

Brilliant.

I love the implementation. I hope to see it in an update soon.

My thanks to Hullo for sponsoring The Loop this week. That sorry old pillow on your bed is long past its prime. It wasn’t even the right pillow for you to begin with. It collapses under the weight of your head at night causing neck pain in the morning. It retains your body heat, forcing you to repeatedly flip it to the cool side in the middle of the night. Your pillow totally sucks, but it hasn’t exactly been nagging you to be replaced like your cracked iPhone 4. It’s time to treat yourself to better rest–you deserve it! Try a Hullo buckwheat pillow. Hullo’s buckwheat hull fill provides unique and firm support that simply can’t be matched by traditional pillows; it will perfectly conform to your head and neck. Hullo buckwheat pillow also:

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Thanks to Mountain Duck for sponsoring The Loop this week.

Mountain Duck – based on the solid open source foundation of Cyberduck – lets you mount server and cloud storage as a disk on your desktop. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume without synchronising files.

Use coupon code “THELOOP” to get a 20% discount this week.

After attending the Mac Event at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters yesterday, I met with company executives to get a closer look at the new MacBook Pro. It is more impressive in person than the demos were able to portray. […]

Stephen Hackett lays out his thoughts on the miles to go before the Mac line is back to being “Buy now” instead of “Don’t buy”.

Clearly, the iMac, Mac mini, and Mac Pro are in need of updates. I’d like to think that these updates are coming but just not yet ready for prime time. Time will tell.

It’s good to see Microsoft on top of this.

Events held on Apple’s campus are my favorite and today didn’t disappoint. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the new Macs, but after getting some time with the MacBook Pro, I was impressed with the new Touch Bar and wide gamut display. […]

“The early response to AirPods has been incredible. We don’t believe in shipping a product before it’s ready, and we need a little more time before AirPods are ready for our customers,”

I love my AirPods and use them all the time. I’ve had a few little issues, but nothing major.

Enjoy.

Dawn Chmielewski writing for USA Today:

Described to network executives as “the Watch List,” the app will recommend shows based on the content viewers access through their Apple TVs. For example, a subscriber to FX Networks might be encouraged to check out the new dramatic series Atlanta.

I’m still waiting for Single Sign-On that was promised with the release of tvOS 10.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Claridge’s Christmas Tree will be designed by long-time friends of the hotel, Sir Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer at Apple, and Marc Newson, one of the world’s most influential industrial designers. The tree will be unveiled in Claridge’s lobby on Friday 18 November, 2016.

The Claridge’s Christmas Tree has long been a seasonal landmark and symbolises the start of the festive season in the capital, drawing visitors and Londoners alike to admire its creative design. This is the seventh year that Claridge’s has invited a favourite guest to reinterpret the tree in their own distinctive style.

The rollout of Google Fiber will be paused in Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Jose, and Tampa, Dilts added.

It will continue in places where it is already active, so existing customers needn’t worry. It will be interesting to see how AT&T’s fiber project reacts to this.

I think the sites are amazing, using them on a regular basis, but I don’t think the sale itself is. Actually, the sale makes me worry what The New York Times will do to make changes to suit itself, rather than its readers.

It’s unlikely all of these products will be upgraded tomorrow but Apple has a lot of catching up to do.

Apple on Tuesday announced a $9 billion profit for the company’s fiscal fourth quarter on 46.9 billion of revenue. These results compare to revenue of $51.5 billion and net income of $11.1 billion, in the year-ago quarter.

No Escape key.

Nobuyuki Hayashi: The event was reported on uncountable number of media outlets, from radios, TVs and web news (Blog was still new back then, and there were virtually no social media). But not many of the coverages talks about the … Continued

Next time you go traveling, check out this map to see what is in the area you’ll be visiting. Next year, I’m (hopefully) heading to Portugal and Southeast Asia to teach beginning photography workshops and I’ve already picked out some of these extraordinary places to visit.

At 6’3″, I generally sit on the aisle for legroom but I’m going to try this “trick” next time I go to a theater.

Notice the difference in these shots from a professional photographer, in particular, the background elements. Something I teach my students all the time is to look behind your subject to see if there are elements there that don’t add to or even subtract/distract from your subject.