News / technological topography
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Sprechen sie Ableton? Live release date March 5, 2013
Read more . . . →Ableton Live 9 release date has been announced for March 5 this year. I'm very excited to get my hands on the push controller as well as the newly redesigned Live. Particularly interesting will be the Max4Live scene. They are now building this into the highest end Ableton so more people will have their hands on this incredible tool.
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ABLETON LIVE 9
Read more . . . →Woah, go check yerself! Ableton Live 9 has just been announced, to be released in 2013. New improvements include a dedicated controller, Suite includes max for live (YES!) among dozens of other core-usability improvements. This is major news for the music making community. More to follow
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The Aug EP, and new ways to (re)market music within the iTunes Music Store
Read more . . . →This week Apple announces their iOS 6 operating system, which will probably be the OS that's on the iPhone 5. I have been using the OS for a little while now and I noticed an interesting feature in the redesigned iPod app. Basically when you're listening to a song that's part of an album available on the iTunes Music Store a small box appears at the bottom like this: From there you can click the button and you get offered to complete the rest of the album as if you were in the iTunes Store App. This is great news...
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Music Mondays: Robots Cover Manson
Read more . . . →I always loved a great cover of a great song, but this time we're in for something different
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Twitter for Bands: My experiences
In May of 2011 I first started to try and actively get more Twitter followers and maintain that "Follower Momentum." The plan was to follow possible fans and then hope that they follow me back. It seems obvious then: that the more work you do selecting who you follow, the more success you will have in connecting with true fans. In this article I'm going to explain some of the process I went through and my results.Read more . . . → -
Yes to Lulz or No!?
Read more . . . →With all the news of hackers, government scandals and widespread corruption, two of the worlds most infamous underground groups, Anonymous and Lulz, announced an official statement. I'm not completely sure how I feel about this gang; they're sort of like a new, digital form of ancient pirates. On the other hand, despite their renegade behaviour, it is a natural revolution against government tyranny and corruption as any other revolution has been throughout history. The only difference now is that the computer technology is more vulnerable to attack and more vital to our lives. The main part of the statement...
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How to manage a cluttered email inbox
Read more . . . →Let's be frank here for a minute. The only reason that I use a hardware email client is for the instant search capabilities that I have. I was an early adopter of gmail and one of my favourite features was the instant search speed of the google servers. When you wanted to find a key word it would look at a huge number of emails instantly and the search provided relevant results too! When I started using multiple emails on different domains I quickly needed to find an email client to aggregate multiple accounts and gmail didn't seem to fit...
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Comments now powered by Disqus
Read more . . . →I have been looking for a few more ways to improve this site and lately I have added Disqus to handle all the comment and trackbacks for ColdplaySucks, just some mostly under the hood improvements!
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OS X Lion Release Date in Canada
Read more . . . →[caption id="attachment_1259" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The new box for OS X Lion? Think again, Lion will be digitally distributed only."][/caption] As far as I know OS X Lion is coming to the world and Canada on July 22, 2011. The new OS is going to be distributed only on Apple's internal App Store and will be at the low $30 price point much like the release of Snow Leopard. Clearly this low price point has worked well for Apple by encouraging early-adoption while simultaneously discouraging piracy. I think that this is not a sustainable price for consumers though, I was recently...
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Music Mondays: Cassius - Love You So (Skream Remix)
Read more . . . →Let me start off by first warning: This is NOT the real music video for this song/remix. I have been a big fan of the Skream remix to Cassius' I Love You So ever since I first heard it a couple months ago. The original is released on the French electronic label Ed Banger (as in "head banger" pronounced by zee French) is very similar in sound yet radically different in style. I've been a fan of Justice and Uffie as well but haven't heard enough other releases to really know for sure if I'm an Ed Banger myself when...