I installed Lightbox on my blog. Click on the picture of the studio I work at below to see: What else is new? I just bought a new Wacom tablet, a modest Graphite 4 CTE-440, that works better with OSX than the one I used to have. Sounds Good episode 14 is in the making, now with the comfort of this new lovely pen device!
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It is so much fun to do the Sounds Good podcast in and of itself. But to get great reviews in the iTunes stores (you know they are specific for each country, don’t you?) and personal thank you emails makes it even better. Here’s asample: Also good to see that the recent Loopmasters contest and their newsletter have ramped up the subscription count, which is now reaching 500 RSS subscribers according to my FeedBurner metrics:
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From: http://www.insidehomerecording.com/?p=328 By: Paul Garay “My new tutorials are now available at macprovideo.com If youre sort of new to Podcasting and are a GarageBand user, these tutorials will take you through everything from setting up your microphone with your Mac, all the way to publishing your Podcast to the web with iWeb software. I had a lot of fun creating the tutorials, and I hope you like them. Thanks to Mike Kaye and Hens Zimmerman for helping me out with the remote interview segments.” powered by performancing firefox
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As you can see on the sidebar to the right of this post, I caved in and created a Twitter account. It’s a lot fun to “chat to the world” with Twitter. Feel free to follow me if you are so inclined. If you enjoy Twitter, consider using Twitterrific too, which makes it even more easy to use. As an aside, I will start as a Protools mixer/editor for the Mediapark in Hilversum tomorrow, so that will take up a lot of my time, I guess. I’m very much looking forward to this new job! I also just moved to the city of Utrecht for this purpose. I’m not sure how much time I will have left for this blog, but if you subscribe to my rss feed, you’ll be among the first to know, right?
Podcasting gets little respect from traditional media. To them we’re little more than a joke, than amateurs. What they don’t understand is that podcasting is more than just a delivery mechanism - it’s a social movement. People are sick of the watered-down, cookie-cutter content that networks and record companies expect us to enjoy. People are tired of watching friends and loved ones get sued by record labels who only care about profits and nothing else, not even the artists they supposedly represent. We want and deserve more. On March 22, 2007, we’re going to change that with your help.
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Click to Play blip.tv, check it out! I uploaded my childhood movie thing there and crosspost to my own blog on 37hz.net too. Nice! This video was originally shared on blip.tv by hz37 with a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Oh well.. skipped a day! It’s a bit crazy, what with me moving to another town and getting prepped for a new job. In the mean time I also made a family movie with old Super8 movies using Logic, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, VisualHub, Soundtrack Pro, LiveType, MediaFork and iShowU. I also discovered that old 18 fps Super8 movies captured to PAL 25 fps look better if you set Playback Quality to Standard in iMovie HD’s Preferences. High and Highest definitely looked more shaky with the old Super8 movies, and I didn’t see any drawbacks of the Standard setting in my own 25 fps material (LiveType and iPhoto Ken Burns things). Today’s “tip” is of a more generic nature. You may not fully realize this, but the internet has morphed into a place where your opinion matters; a place where you can query the hive mind if you’re anxious to find out the answer to a difficult question. Here’s a few examples: 1) Metafilter, and more specifically AskMefi. The first is a community weblog, the latter is a way for you to ask a question to a whole lot of people at once. You will get answers too! Of course you can also answer questions from other people if you happen to know the answer or have an opinion about something. This is different from places like Yahoo Groups or the plethora of forums out there, because AskMeFi is a diverse audience answering question from diverse people. Sometimes that helps. 2) Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us, etc. If a thousand people think some matter is interesting, it’s definitely worth checking out, I think. Of course this is an argumentum ad populum, but that’s what the hive mind is all about. It also doesn’t guarantee that an interesting story is always spotted as such, but at any rate, the popular stories on the aforementioned sites make a good read if you ever find yourself bored. It’s also a great way to see if something *you* find interesting strikes a nerve with the world at large…. 3)… which brings us to tip 3. Start a blog! Share your thoughts. It’s a great way to make new friends, make a difference, write something down in history. At the very least, you can share your photos on a free FlickR account. That’s a super great service to share your photos with friends, groups, family. It’s also one of the best interfaces on the web, I think. Before you know it, someone will think your photo is a favorite of theirs. I recently upgraded to a pro FlickR account, which means you have unlimited storage. And the FlickR uploader tool is really totally intuitive to use. Works on both Mac and Windows.
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I’ve been a satisfied customer with Amazon for years now and have bought many items in their stores. I think one of the most amazing things about Amazon is that this has always been a successful online store. All through the dot com bubble, Amazon was certain of their customers. If you think Amazon is just “an online book store”, you may have some catching up to do. Did you know for instance that you can buy the following items at Amazon? Kellogg’s special: An overdrive stomp box: And if you happen to buy one of these items using the above links, I make a little money. And yes, you can be an Amazon Associate too. There’s simply too many services on Amazon to mention here, but two things I would like to bring to your attention anyway, because they are simply awsum. The first one is your Amazon wish list. This year, on my 40th birthday, someone actually did sent me an item from my wishlist. Populate your own wish list (and yes, they have wedding lists too!) and put a button like this on your website: And if you don’t have a website, you can still send your friends and family a link to your wish list. Easy! Also for them. The other thing Amazon is doing that I think is well worth mentioning is called S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service), which is part of Amazon Web Services or AWS for short. This great service lets you have as much online diskspace and traffic as you will ever need, and you simply pay as you go. You can use this for private storage or shared storage or both, and you and I know both know the future is online apps and online storage anyway. S3 is also a tremendously great solution for podcasters. I’m slowly phasing my podcast files to Amazon S3. I’ve been using S3 only for a short while now (episode #1 for instance is now hosted on S3), and so far it works just fine. S3Fox is a great way to organize your S3 account from within Firefox, but there are also tons of other free java and rails solutions out there. Anyway, check out Amazon.com or your local version of it, like amazon.co.uk for me. The Amazon personalized recommendations system is really working well, and you can tailor it to make it even better.
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