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.
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.
An amazing story.
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.
I must say, that was very good.
You know you have to be good to win a National Geographic photo contest.
Every day, more people connect face to face on the iPhone than any other phone.
A very important element in design.
This kind of reminds me of what the guys did at Barley—except Barley is finished and implemented.
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.”
This was posted last year, but given Apple’s decision yesterday to begin a USB Power Adapter Takeback Program, I thought it was worth a link.
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.
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 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.
“Customer safety is a top priority at Apple. That’s why all of our products — including USB power adapters for iPhone, iPad, and iPod — undergo rigorous testing for safety and reliability and are designed to meet government safety standards around the world,” Apple said in a statement posted to its Web site.
The program begins on August 16. Apple says you can drop off your adapters at an Apple Retail Store or at an Apple Authorized Service Provider.
“If you need a replacement adapter to charge your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, we recommend getting an Apple USB power adapter,” according to Apple. “For a limited time, you can purchase one Apple USB power adapter at a special price — $10 USD or approximate equivalent in local currency. To qualify, you must turn in at least one USB power adapter and bring your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to an Apple Retail Store or participating Apple Authorized Service Provider for serial number validation. The special pricing on Apple USB power adapters is limited to one adapter for each iPhone, iPad, and iPod you own and is valid until October 18, 2013.”
Every f-bomb dropped by Malcolm Tucker from the 2009 comedy In The Loop, the movie spinoff of the British series The Thick of It.
Tucker is played by Peter Capaldi, who was revealed over the weekend to be the successor to Matt Smith as the twelfth eleventh regeneration of The Doctor – the twelfth Doctor – in Doctor Who, the beloved SF television series.
I love the Custom Shop gear that IK Multimedia put together for AmpliTube. New models come from Dr. Z Amplification, Fulltone and Z.Vex Effects.
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.
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.
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.
This is a great one.
Some of these portraits are pretty good.
I know it may seem odd for The New York Times to post a programming style guide, but the senior developer over there, Matthew Bischoff, is a smart guy.
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.
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.
I think Obama did the right thing, as I outlined a few days ago.
You may remember this 14-year-old playing Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption earlier this year.
This is one of my favorite guitar apps for the iPhone and iPad, especially for high gain tones.
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NSFW, but awesome.
For the uninitiated, Amanda Palmer is something of an indie darling; she first came on the scene in the mid-aughts as one half of Dresden Dolls. Palmer explains why she wrote this song in the video, but the executive summary is that British shitrag tabloid Daily Mail wrote a sensational piece about Palmer’s boob appearing during her performance at the Glastonbury Festival. Nudity is almost de rigueur at a Palmer event, so the Daily Mail’s coverage of it seemed ludicrous. Palmer responded with this.
(Via Upworthy)
(Updated with better quality video, hat tip to reader def4)
Some new guitars from Fender. I’ve had a Squier since 1986 and it’s a wonderful guitar.