Tag Archives: software
Signed audio units
Looks like audio units and other plugins will be subject to Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper. If you are distributing Mac software or audio plug-ins outside of the Mac App Store, Gatekeeper will affect your users who adopt Mountain Lion and download … Continue reading
Disabling Locked Documents on Lion
The oddest thing about this tip is that it wouldn’t need to exist if Lion’s autosave function wasn’t fundamentally broken. It’s a feature that’s supposed to add convenience, but all I think it’s done for me is help me accidentally … Continue reading
Looking past a green icon I don’t like
My brother has made the switch to Macs. He reports that iTap Mobile RDP is an excellent remote desktop application for connecting to terminals through Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol. It’s pretty good from what I’ve tried. Doesn’t feel like a … Continue reading
Bruce Dickinson Lives On In Figure
The two parameters you can edit for the cowbell in the TR-BOB kit in Propellerhead Software’s Figure are Prescription and Fever. Clever.
New Audioscrobbler Beta
Looks kinda cool, like Tweetie for Last.fm, and introduces keyboard shortcuts for loving and banning. I’m not sure the previous version had that. You don’t want this for scrobbling. There’s plenty of decent iTunes controllers that already do that well. … Continue reading
iTunes Remote on an iPad
Years ago a setup like this for wireless control of music throughout your house would cost you thousands of dollars, and that’s ALL it would do. Now it comes on every iPad. iTunes Remote on an iPad Related: It’s clear … Continue reading
Reason 101′s Reason 6.5 Update Writeup
Good overview on the news from Propellerhead software this week. It looks like my wish for Reason instruments to be independent plugins to use in other DAW software will never come true. I love Reason’s sounds, but don’t like the … Continue reading
Omnifocus Sync Costs $0
Signing up right now. Been using WebDAV for this, but it always feels slow, especially when you want to capture something on the phone and then need to wait for something to get optimized. Omni Sync Server: Beta no more! … Continue reading
“The Dark Side of Digital Distribution”
The only problem with digital is that it cedes control of your software library (and therefore all the money you’ve invested in it) to business, and business is evil. The dark side of digital distribution