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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

Launchbar Tips from Dan Frakes

Today I learned how to append to items in the clipboard history, how to quickly get to the home folder, and how to see invisible files. Be more productive with LaunchBar, Part 1 | Macworld via Shawnblanc.net

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