 is a 99-cent  audio-recorder app for the iPhone/iPod Touch (w/ external iPod mic), from BIAS (makers of Peak and Deck editing software): AppStore | MacWorld article
New protools|blog by PT Software Strategist, Scott Church. There’s also the ProMedia Pro Tools Training Center, the ProToolerBlog, the Pro Tools Users community, and the Yahoo! Pro_Tools group.
via Gregg- Undercurrents and Rich- SoundRcih.
Wordle “is a toy for generating ‘Beautiful Word Clouds’ from text you provide.” For instance, to the right is The Constitution of the United States as a wordle (detail; click to enlarge):
The Java applet was writ by Jonathan Feinberg of IBM Research.
They’re already into Season 2, but if you can’t keep up, go back to the basics, My Damn Channel You Suck at Photoshop #1:
Josh Quittner recently wrote an article for Time, “The Photoshop Guys Revealed!†unmasking the creators of the enormously popular and hilarious Photoshop tutorials “You Suck At Photoshopâ€. The 10 episode series (Season 1) on My Damn Channel was created by Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch (Troy does the voice of Donnie) of the creative agency Big Fat Brain, who designed the My Damn Channel website and are the guys behind the series “Tim after Timâ€.
To demonstrate our WY-centric station carriage, mentioned in post prev, our graphics team has prepared this map:
That’s right, there’s a new toy in town, Google Charts: online generation of graphs, charts, and data-driven maps. Thanks, Jon, for telling me about it and making me waste my morn — you know I can’t resist to trying new tech. Or as Jon graphically points out:
Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth gives this TED talk about their software. Photosynth “can access gigabytes of photos in seconds” and integrate related images from all over the web into a single expandable, collapsible, explorable whole:
h o w j s a y . c o m is an online English Pronouncing Dictionary. The site uses
They’re associated with fonetiks.org‘s free “guides to the sound systems of ten languages” (including nine varieties of English) and “pronunciation samples by over 40 native speakers.”Their Phonetic Alphabet for Keyboards is potentially useful for radio scripts. “We needed a practical phonetic alphabet for use with a standard computer keyboard. These phonetic annotations were needed as an aid during recording sessions. To increase typing speeds, upper case symbols were mostly avoided and the commonest items were assigned to easy-to-reach keys.” For example:
| u u; u;; |
put, foot boot, food German ‘über’, French ‘tu‘ |
via Jake- PRX.
Akamai has a Real-time Web Monitor tracking “global Internet conditions around the clock.” Areas w/ highest traffic are brightest. You can also color the map by areas with the slowest connections (latency) or the most recent “network attacks.”
Two apps that record radio for later listening, progammable by station and time: Rogue Amoeba – Radioshift (Mac $32) and RadioTime.com (Win $29). Both capture the station’s online audio stream then save it as an mp3 soundfile. Haven’t used either but I frequently resort to Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack Pro, and can vouch for that co. heartily.
For the preceeding Murrow mp3, I tried out the new Zamzar – Free online file conversion. Submitted an online real-audio file thru Zamzar’s eb form; received an email w/ an mp3 attached. All went well. They can do the same for image, audio and video formats.
I haven’t tried this, but if you have frequent ProTools probs, you might give this shareware a go: ProTools Prefs & Database Helper (Mac 10.4.x). It finds-&-deletes Digidesign databases (.ddb) and preference files (.plist) to help debug Pro Tools perturbations.
Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network has posted on his Blogarithms an in-depth guide to Recording Skype Interviews, which he sez can now exceed the audio quality of a high-end telephone hybrid.
My kick ass guitar teacher has a brother who developed software that allows you to create loops and other sorts of musical feats without ever touching a computer. Amazingly cool. Introducing, the Amazing Rolo’s Wii Loop Machine!
I can’t wait to check it out. I already am imagining myself dancing around the kitchen while making music for radio, with just the click of a button.
Check out the Demo videos here.
The Amazing Rolo’s Wii Loop Machine, part 1:
Part 2:
PS–I have to say it’s a little eerie how much my guitar teacher and his brother look alike.PPS-And NPR passed on this guy when he applied for a Kroc fellowship. I can’t believe they let this genius slip through their fingers. Or wait, maybe I can.
Is everyone else waking up to spams titled “USA Missle Strike: Iran War just have started” (sic) and such? The eems have malware attached, like “News.exe” and “Movie.exe.” Haven’t a clue what it does (on a Mac, doncha know), but ya gotta admit its email subject is a clever bit of social-engineering to get you to click. Though, even after all these years, “Nude Anna Kournikova pics” still works around here.
BTW, while I’m being divergent, have you heard a Texas Hold ‘Em hand: Ace-King (AK), aka, Big Slick, is now also aka, Anna Kournikova, for its initials but mainly cuz “it looks good, but hardly ever wins.”
This Iran/Missile/War/USA malware spam must be new. Not even on Snopes yet.
New audio software, not yet released yet, but a possibly promising tool: Snapper by Audio Ease.
Oakbog studios has posted ProTools Troubleshooting Techniques, w/ reference topics: Know the Major Components of your System, Isolate the Problem: Questions to Ask, Common Problems and Solutions, and When All Else Fails.
And do check their mashup medley mp3 Tokens (Tokens, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango) of Wimoweh– The Lion Sleeps Tonight: