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For the love of Music

I noticed that every post I make recently is either about technology or stuff related to the internet. What about my other categories? Exactly!

So in the interest of posting on a different categories and utilize those category icons I’ve prepared in the past, I will post something in the “music” section.

Anyways, my friend is submitting a demo tape (song) for some singing group – and has asked me to do the vocal track for it. Happened a while ago and it was quite an experience.

I dare not post more “incriminating” information; considering the people that may read this, baka magka-bukuhan, which is the last thing I want to happen. It ain’t my song to begin with, so I don’t want to be the one spoiling anything (if there’s anything to spoil, that is).

We recorded in the studio of our group’s usual sound engineer. I had fun not only recording, but actually watching him do the whole “sound engineering/production procedure.” I do my own sound production/engineering for my songs, and watching someone with years of experience was really a treat. I got to ask a ton of questions with regards to the technical aspects of recording/mixing/mastering – I really enjoyed every minute of it.

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Oh Apple, say it ain’t so!

The best post I’ve ever read all day about the whole Apple debacle.

It’s all very well being preachy about right and wrong, but come on if every crime, no matter how small, was punished to the full extent of the law the whole population would be living under house arrest.

For those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. There’s been quite some lengthy discussion about Apple suing some kids. A little over two months ago, Apple decided to finally put its foot down and act on some people who have illegaly distributed preview versions of its upcoming OS called Tiger.

For a detailed scoop of the issue: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000369.html

Despite Apple having every right to take such a course of action, it seems to be gaining a lot of bad press – comparing them to Microsoft as a cold-hearted corporation.

For the buzz it has generated: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000473.html

Most noticeable is that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak himself, as well as other respectable Apple software developers seem to have taken the side of the defendants (to a certain extent).

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Witch

GP introduced me to this nifty daemon/utility called Witch. It’s like an OS X command-tab (or Windows alt-tab) function on steriods.

The thing that made me prefer it over the default command-tab function is that it can list/access even the minimized windows in the dock (which the default function obviously can’t.

Accessing minimized applications have been very important to me since regardless of OS X’s Exposé, I still am kind of OC about screen real estate – and like hiding/minimizing a lot. Witch solves all the problems the limitation of the default command-tab function introduced in navigation, and brings a whole lot more functionality in application access.

I’ve now assigned it the alt-tab hotkey (like in Windows) – but I wish that the developer allow it to override OS X’s command-tab altogether.

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iScroll2

There was news before that pre-2005 Apple portables/laptops had “w-enhanced” keyboard hardware. A hack was made available, which can enable two-finger scrolling on these trackpads.

The new 2005 Powerbooks have hardware scrolling features too, but do not necessarily mean they have the same type of trackpad as the pre-2005 models do.

Anyways, when news first came out about a month ago, I tried it. My system hung, good thing I prefer navigating using the keyboard, so that problem was quickly solved.

Today I tried it again, and this time it worked. But I found myself going back to SideTrack after a few hours. The rest of this post is input that I hope may help other people in trying out the said hacked drivers.

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