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Mystique (3.x) Photo Gallery Headers
I finally got round to updating to the new Mystique theme (3.1) for my Website.
After a brief read around the web, I was slightly concerned by the number of difficulties folks seem to be having with the transition. I’ll be honest I found it all straight forward, but I did do quite a lot of research [...]
Dropbox – Why Aren’t You Using It?
Remember the days when your associates would attempt to send you a file attached to an email? It sometimes took hours to download, clogged up your entire internet bandwidth and then after all the anticipation, the file would be a joke or picture than you could have found yourself if you were really [...]
PS3 Stuttering MP3 Solved
Our media server is built into our router (Cisco E4200 + Twonky) – So there’s not a lot of room for tweaking at the server end. Recently Cisco updated the E4200 firmware (1.0.03) which made the Twonky server and streaming very reliable. Some pretty high bandwidth files can be streamed with no [...]
Apple Mobile Device Restart
2011, July 22
Free Application Release.
Does your iTunes lock up sometimes when you plug in your iPhone or iPad? I have been plagued with this problem for quite a while now and after searching around have really found no obvious answers.
The symptoms are that when you plug a device into iTunes to sync it, iTunes [...]
10 Ways to Enhance Your Digital Audio Workstation
Does your DAW need a wash and brush up? As producers we spend a lot of time trying to get the best performance from our studio computers. Here’s 10 of my suggestions for getting the best from your Windows Digital Audio Workstation.
This is not a detailed discussion but of course if anyone would [...]
Code Therapy
2011, June 23
When I’m not writing songs and making music – In my spare time I often find myself programming code.
My first days of programming (after a brief time learning CECIL at school) were back in the days of the renowned Sinclair ZX Spectrum. What a great little machine that was. And what amazing things [...]
Facebook Likes & Comments
A great way to share the hard work you have done on your website and blog is to get your friends to “Like” what you have done and share it with their friends on Facebook.
This is a subject covered in many places around the web.
How do I get Facebook Like Buttons, Comments Boxes and various other [...]
Using Cubase 6 – Matching Tempo
Imagine the scenario – You are about to start work on a remix and you have been sent the original radio edit plus vocals as a reference. You need to pull the original track (and vocals and possibly other parts) into a project and line them up so the vocals fit and you can work at your new tempo and [...]
How To: Wake Over LAN + Internet
Most people these days have some kind of Smart-phone, Netbook or Laptop. But many of us also still need hulking behemoths of power stashed away at the office to do our main work. Our studio, for example, would never run on any kind of laptop and certainly not a netbook (correct at time of [...]
Yes – I Play Guitar
Funny really; My main sources of work and also much personal enjoyment revolve around various fields of music and production and song-writing. I’ve been blogging about my flying training experiences because they are a relatively new thing to me. Music isn’t. Not that there aren’t always new things [...]
