Saturday, October 28, 2006

Links, info, and such: Clearing out the paper pile

I'm bad about accumulating bits o' paper with website or products I want to check out. Today was clean out the piles day! This entry is a post-it-note of sorts of stuff I need to check out later.

Note that I haven't checked these out yet - I've got to finish cleaning. These links may be dead by now!

Music Stuff ------------------------ 5 free AU plugins - Speedster, 3 synths, filter effect http://airy.andre.online.fr/AU

from 11/04 Electronic Musician p. 20


Free Samples from november 2005 Electronic Musician, p. 46

free sample libraries - this is not the whole list, just the ones I'm interested in. www.hammersound.net soundfonts w/ general MIDI + other synthy, ethnic, percussive sounds

www.hollowsun.com www.soundfonts.it/?a=soundfonts large well-organized collections of soundfonts

www.johannes.roussel.com/soundfonts.htm emphasis on pads, strings, percussions

kingstondrums.bombsquad.org/files.html

2 great sounding drum kits in variety of formats


online collaboration - recording

www.tonos.com from EM 2002 desktop music production guide


Conversations with Cage

emusician.com/em_spotlight February 2005 Electronic musician


Make a test-tone free - for macs www.audioease.com


Instrument tuner www.audio-phonics.com

Jam Online at eJamming - from EM June 06 ad

SafeSell - bands can sell their music on their website


Macintosh related stuff


Macworld virtual CDs

Oct 2005 - Tiger Secrets Revealed Aug 2006 - iTunes advanced features, intervew with developer of macNewsLite October 2006 - footage from WWDC and Steve jobs, ilife and vacation movies March 2006

April 2006

June 2006 - choosing a laptop bag, step-by-step podcast creation, best of macworld.com September 2006 - camcorders, Address/Mail,iCal tips

October 2006 - Footage from Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote, iClip giveaway, vacation movies and photos in iLife

December 2006 - gear guide cool gadgets, Bungalow - gear guide in action, Jason Snell podcast, reviews, the latest software updates

January 2007 - advice for those who want to tuse th elatest ISP technology: FIOS, upgrading a new mac, running non-native apps, must-have addons, Macworld's Game hall of fame

February 2007 - Google's lesser known productiviy features, Brren: getting the most out of your web time


File transfer services service - max file size - registration required Dropload.com - 100mb - y megaupload.com - 250mb - n rapidshare.de - 50mb - n sendthisfile.com - unlimited - y yousendit.com - 1gb - n
Pac the Man X - requires 5oomHx G3 or faster, OpenGL compatible graphics system and 16mb Vram. Free pac-man-concept game from mcSebi.

from May 2006 MacWorld

Quinn 3.1 - tetris remake for Mac (from macWorld June 2006) FREE!


Diablotin utility to manage fonts, extensions, etc. in OS X

QT codec for multiple formats: Perian (free) Mac mapMakers

Google Earth

Google Sketchup - online 3d app