This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
This post is a combination of previous posts about privacy settings in mac and ios. Safari do not track: Safari gives users the option to enable the ‘do not track’ feature. It’s easy to enable: safari > preferences > privacy > Ask websites not to track me Safari prevent cross-site Read more…
Tracking cryptocoin price changes can become difficult when you have more than a couple of coins. Fortunately there are a few altcoin exchanges and apps out there which can help you. I’ll do a breakdown of some of the apps I use. Blockfolio Blockfolio has a ton of data available, Read more…
Oracle control file: binary file start of instance, file is checked database has 1 control file each modifiable only by oracle editing prohibited, even by DBA Keeps track of: datafile names and locations redo log names and locations table-space information name of database time-stamp of database creation Usage: on start Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the Read more…
Some nice music for you to listen to and, if you like it, vote for. its a remix of janes addiction’s irresistible force by a friend of mine. if it gets enough votes then it may be an official release on emi :D Drawing on influences including Ministry, NIN and Read more…
This post will show you about moving between virtual desktops in osx mission control. I also have a post about how to setup multiple virtual desktops. Once oyu have the desktop spaces setup you can quickly move between them (I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time) – it allows Read more…
This is a short linux bluetooth scanning tutorial with some tools you can use in backtrack linux (now kali linux) or any distribution you prefer to perform bluetooth scans. Its not comprehensive, but will show you the tools that you need to get started searching for nearby devices. linux bluetooth Read more…
This post will show you how to subscribe to your Basecamp calendar in iphone calendar. For instructions on how to subscribe to your basecamp calendar in google calendar please see this post Basecamp is a great way to keep track of lots of things in your projects. You can use Read more…
This will show you how to fix google analytics ‘bounce rate’ if you have a blog. bounce rate is a tricky one – if you have an ecommerce site, then bounce is when people dont go to your checkout, or if they do go to your checkout then dont complete Read more…
Social media experiments monthly report. as part of my year tracking social media things I am going to provide some monthly stats. this way if I make a breakthrough then it will be obvious =) i also get to play with graphs on google docs. This month I posted 8 Read more…
Health apps are a big category for iphone, ipod and ipad apps. there are loads available, some work and are useful, some dont and arent. ive tried hundreds of them, and here are the ones I think might be of use to you nike+ http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ iphone / ipod appp tracks Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
Protools 9 is out the best features: its not tied to digidesing hardware any more! this means that you can install it on your laptop and do editing without humphing your desk about! it also has automatic delay compensation and multi track beat detective. all in all its like having Read more…
Protools shortcut keys select all protools shortcut keys for selection options mac + win alt+click = select all eg, to mute all tracks hold alt + click mute this works on most things – mute, solo, etc – it doesnt work on faders, pressing alt and clicking a fader puts Read more…
What the digital economy bill means for you as a copyright holder. I am a holder of copyright. I do sell music online. this new digital economy bill ( #debill ) is going to change the way the internet works. forever. the internet is our legacy to the children, not Read more…
ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable google analytics – provides an excellent way to track all the users of your site, what pages they go to, where they go, how long they stay on your site, Read more…
SEO seminar with Rand Fishkin – I work as a web developer. its a great job, and its great fun (especially since I’m a geek). One of the companies we do a lot of work with have a lot of good contacts. one of them is @randfish – founder of Read more…
This is a short post with the protools bounce to disk shortcut key shortcut keys for mac osx : cmd + alt + b shortcut keys for windows pc: ctrl + alt + b Sources for protools bounce to disk shortcut key Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC 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…
im testing out some gps apps for the iphone – mostly so that I can track my cycling, but also cos I think they are excellent =) first im trying out everytrail – its free, and its pretty basic. it tracks you, you can save the tracks and you can Read more…
I got an iphone 3gs today. Its nice. basically the exact same as my ipod touch, but with gps and a (crap) camera. i uploaded all the apps I had for my ipod, synced my calendar, contacts, mail accounts, setup the settings and thought ‘great, what do I do now’. Read more…
i just found a site (well, I re-found it in my bookmarks) that has listings for free plugins – au, vst, rtas and tdm ones for mac, and rtas, tdm and vst for pc www.dontcrack.com there are a few good ones – most you will probably have already, like the Read more…
Well, the F1 season is all but over. Im watching the qualifying for the brazilian GP. I suddenly thought that have not really tried to get any cool f1 stuff fro my ipod touch. time to scour the net. im writing this as I scour. I have found this – 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…
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…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…
ableton tutorial #1
warp markers.
this is the most important and the best thing about abelton – they are called warp markers.
im gonna tell you what they are all about, and im gonna tell you how you can use them to your advantage.
so…
fire up abelton.
Well, ive been looking into protools 8 there are a few cool features – things that cubase and others have had for a long time, but that make protools at least able to compete now =) the score editor looks nice – play your midi into protools as usual, and Read more…
Ive been busy mastering tracks. I just mastered 37 tracks (I actually mastered 51 of them, but a few got dropped already) I have bounced them all down to disk and now need to sort out the order of the tracks to make them flow better. I have my own 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…
Mastering tracks – Ok, so the hard part is done. you’ve written, demoed, practiced, arranged in countless different ways, recorded, re-recorded, mixed, re-mixed and finally scrapped and done all that again, you have a handfull of songs. your not happy with them (noone ever is). now the hard part starts. Read more…
This one is really fast – A quick tip about EQ – if you are adding EQ to a track, watch the peaks – eg, if you have a track thats peak value is -3dB and you add 4dB @ 500hz, then its gonna clip. this is also true if Read more…
Here are some protools tips – how to cram more into your session, and a few shortcuts that I use the first thing is to use a lot of busses. I usually group all my drum tracks together then fling an aux after it, and route all the outputs of Read more…
This one might seem a little easy for some people, but it essential that everyone knows it – what is a compressor, and how to use compressor plugins in protools. Basically a compressor takes the incoming audio and squeezes it, making the louder bits quieter and the quieter bits louder. 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)