Category Archives: technology
Don’t trust the machines…
An excerpt of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major K331, First Movement Andante grazioso.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Major crisis with my rendering of Are You An Evil Mystik, Mister? I just realized that setting the keyboard and software tempos to the same beats per minute doesn’t mean they’ll stay in sync thru the whole tune! Ouch. Looks like I’ll have to start again. I know how to fix it. But it means doing two tracks all over again.
I’m getting tired of this being creative stuff. Being Black Friday maybe I’ll run out and buy something just for kicks!
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Calling all iPad peeps
Trying to get some help in fixing a buggy iPad2…
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Audiogalaxy app for iPad
iPad mini (Photo credit: patrick-allen)
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/mobileRedir?orig_request=%2F
This is an amazing app for iPad. I have a lot of music on my HD, and am using an old laptop in my bedroom to pull it up as I enjoy my entire digital collection anywhere in the house. It’s free and works very well!
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iCloud demo
At the Eaton Centre last Wednesday before lunchtime… it was a rainy day and all the stores were pretty empty, until I walked past this iCloud demo. Afterward I realized that watches, jewellery, food, drink and clothes don’t turn people on half as much as the latest high-tech trinkets. That’s where the action is. And I guess that’s just part of human evolution…
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How a computer processor is made
This is pretty mind-boggling…
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Glenn Gould memories…
Here’s a video that summons up childhood memories of listening to CBC FM radio, when it was still predominantly classical.
Glenn Gould used to live in a 70s-style Toronto condo called “Inn on the Park” that’s now torn down, replaced by a Toyota dealer. He’s buried in a nearby cemetery, where I worked one summer cutting grass so I’d have enough cash for school.
I’ll have to go visit some day and pay my respects…
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R & D
Earlier today I was surfing around the web, looking at old Spirograph game box pictures and came across a site where you can make your own spirographs.
Click on the logo to go there… and have fun!
Streaming Electronica
I ♥ techno: diluvienne / Mélanie
When I was doing my doctorate in Ottawa I went through a huge techno phase as it was called back then. All the university radio DJs played it like crazy, in both French and English.
So happy I was when I found this CBC Ottawa streaming channel, called ‘The Chill Lounge’ on Cable.
Seems to be a good mix of laid back, atmospheric stuff without getting too angry or odd.
Check it out… http://radiotime.com/WebTuner.aspx?StationId=65413&
skyperference
skyperference, originally uploaded by earthpages.
I can’t remember exactly how this happened. I was talking to someone on skype; the image started to break up at their end; they took a photo or maybe webcammed it back to me and I did a screenshot…(?)
