this one will show you how to share your itunes library over a network [a local network, like your home wifi network =] first thing: authorise all your machines with the same itunes store account. then: open itunes on the machine where your library is [ill call it the main Read more…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…
Using ichat for msn, twitter, irc, icq etc – iChat can use jabber (xmpp). xmpp can use ‘transports’ to let you connect to other networks, like MSN, icq, irc, twitter, etc. Update: there is a way to do this now without having to resort to using a jabber service. You Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends using Facebook chat in iMessages on your mac. Facebook chat uses the xmpp protocol. This means that you can connect to Facebook chat using third party chat applications. This makes Facebook chat comparable to the way you used to connect Read more…
The grand corniche started well; we left the campsite at 11am, down the top half of the grand corniche; got 66.9 km/h knowles got 75.6km/h. The grand corniche When we got to the steep part of the mountain, Knowles fucked into a wall at about 50km/h. His bike snapped in half. Knowles Read more…
how to resize a batch of images using preview on osx this wasnt going to be a post, but I needed to resize a bunch of images on my mac, and figured this out, so I thought id share it… open preview goto preferences tick ‘open all files in the Read more…
this will show you how to make Itunes smart playlists for podcasts and music so you can have every episode of certain podcasts, and the latest episodes of the others. Its also good for music – eg songs you have never played, songs you havent played in the last 6 Read more…
i will show you an alternative to using stickies and notes. it also allows syncing between your iphone and your mac simplenote iphone app (search for simplenote in the app store) simplenote client for mac (selfcoded.com/justnotes) they are simple to use, they sync with each other. its free. all notes Read more…
This is a short post with the protools new track shortcut keys mac: cmd + shift + n pc: ctrl + shift + n That will open up the new track dialog To change the track type (audio, midi, aux, instrument) mac: cmd + up / cmd + down pc: Read more…
This is just a short post with the protools new session shortcut keys: to create a new shortcut, open protools and type: on a mac: cmd+n or on a pc ctrl+n you will now have the protools new session dialog on screen :)
This is a short post with the protools open session shortcut keys mac: cmd + o pc: ctrl + o
Syncing your iphone or ipad with google: Here are the detailed instructions on syncing your iphone or ipad with google gmail calendar and contacts. After doing this you will have all your google contacts on your iphone or ipad, and all your google calendars on your iphone (or your ipod Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your google calendar with ical. jump to: instructions for osx lion, mountain lion and mavericks instructions for snow leopard faq How to sync your google calendar with ical in osx lion, mountain lion and Mavericks In osx snow leopard it was possible Read more…
You probably know this already: turn off push in mail ( settings > mail > fetch new mail ) and set the schedual to hourly or manual – manual will only get mail when you open mail, it will also control the updating of calendars and contacts :) turn off Read more…
you hopefully have all your contacts synced between your iphone / ipod touch, your mac addressbook and your google contacts. if not see my blog post about it here once you have the whole syncing between your mac addressbook and the cloud (and then with your ipod / iphone) then Read more…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…
This one is simple. copy it across. intact. it just works. a few things to do before you copy it across though – consolodate it so that all the music is in the itunes folder. you might want to let itunes sort all the songs into folders – just goto Read more…
A few things went wrong today. well, not exactly wrong, just not the way I had expected. we got a message from mcaffee saying that their copy of nessus had found that we were running apache < 2.2.9 – which we were, so it was time for us to update Read more…
Yesterday I was securing a server to pass the PCI tests and the Mcaffee tests for a client of our’s. We have a Basic iptables firewall for linux that we use as a template – I didnt manage to get the firewall rules set properly for the client, so I Read more…
How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes. new method: Select a track in itunes. Right click > get info > options > set “media kind” to “audiobook”. The selected track is now an audiobook! How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes the old way I was looking Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your mac osx contacts to gmail contacts. This will allow for a two-way sync – ie when you add a contact to your addressbook, its automatically added to google and when you add a contact to google its automatically added to your Read more…
Migrating from hotmail to gmail. I’ve written before about how I like to keep everything in the one place – contacts, IM people, and email. Up until now I have been using various ways of checking my various email accounts – outlook, windows live mail desktop and thunderbird to name Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…
Calendars and organisation – I used to be the most disorganised person I know. I use google calendar a lot now – I used to use a .txt file and notepad. I still use microsoft onenote every day to put stuff in that I want to do, but never seem Read more…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
if your like me, then you love using abelton, but you also love making drum beats with reason.
you can use your reason drumbeats (and anything else you have) inside abelton.
its an easy process once you know how to do it, and you can save the setup as a template, so that when you open abelton its already wired for use with reason.
so fire up abelton and lets get going.
basically im going to show you with pictures how to :
1) create new audiotracks
2) set the input to reason
3) wire up reason so that the individual drum sounds have a channel inside abelton
4) save the setup as a template
5) record the drums from reason inside abelton
so, on with part 1
make a few audio tracks (ctrl+t)
This is a sneaky little one – How to use a playstation pad to control abelton (or any joystick) by using the joystick as a midi controller (you can control any other music making program that can do midi using this method too) I use a playstation pad to play Read more…