Entries Tagged as 'tips'

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Time For Change, Part 2

Alright, part 2 of my suggestions for a new computer will focus on some neat utilities available for use so let’s hop right in. If you would like to read part one, head over here please.
These apps and utilities are all free with the exception of Saft.

Drop Box App: Store, Share, and Sync Your Files [...]

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

It’s Time for an Intense Debate

For a few weeks I’ve been using Disqus to host the comments on my blog and for the most part I’ve liked it. There were a few changes to how the comments looked (I no longer had my matrix gravatar for folks that didn’t have their own gravatar) and some other smaller tweaks, but it [...]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

The Best Way to Share Music Online for Musicians

Sending and Receiving Music Should Be Easy!
“Ever had trouble sending a track to somebody?”
If you answered no to that question, then you’ve probably never had to send a song to someone before and this post probably won’t be for you. If you happened to answer yes, well then keep reading.
Soundcloud.com is a website that seeks [...]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Songkick Kicks Butt with Their Songkicker itunes plug-in

A while back I wrote a review on a few websites to check out to track bands that you are interested in seeing in your surrounding area.
I left my review leaning towards bandsintown. The layout and interface was nice, plus they offered RSS feeds for band calendars. It was quick easy and simple to use, [...]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Let’s Discuss Disqus

Well, I’ve been in the blog tweaking mood for a little bit and I’ve made a few mild changes here and there. One of the most recent changes is that instead of having Wordpress comments hosted in my database and wordpress installation, I’ve moved them over and have them hosted and handled by disqus.com.

I love [...]

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Gravatar, Get Yours Poppin’

I thought I’d do a quick little write up on a service called gravatar that is run by the fine folks over at wordpress.com/org.

A gravatar is nothing more than a Globally Recognized Avatar. Avatars are small photo boxes that you see when people leave a comment on a blog. What a Gravatar does is allow [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Wordpress 2.6 is Out Now

It’s that time again. Time to back up and cross your fingers and upgrade to the new version Wordpress for self-hosted users.
For feature upgrades and what-not, head on over to the wordpress.org blog for more information.
Some of the things that you might find exciting and I do as well are the ability to track edits [...]

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

What Have You Gotten So Far, Halfway Through the Year

When I was growing up in highschool, I would spend a lot of my free time at the local music/bookstore spending hours listening to CDs looking for new music to purchase. Obviously, I was and am a big music fan but as I got older, and started having more bills and responsibilities, I realized that [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Obsolete Part III - Electric Bass Edition

Roy Mitchell Cardenas posted up a Part III to the Obsolete bass part for those who don’t have or play upright bass. All you mute math bass players/bass lovers, enjoy.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Welcome to Grand Central

Grand Central
I just signed up for a new service called Grand Central. It’s been aquired by google and is currently in a beta phase (and as I’m sure you’re aware with google products, that means absolutely nothing. Everything they aquire or create is in a Beta phase forever. It’s a good way for them to [...]