Fruits Manuva: Commune Gig Porthcawl...

Fair Trade Bananas - At the Commune 2009

The Commune gig on Sat 7th March at the Pavilion Porthcawl will also be involved in the Fairtrade bananas promotion which will be taking place that weekend... expect banana related mayhem.

Tickets for the gig are available at the main Pavilion box office and at Sussed on John St Porthcawl, opposite the Fulgoni’s cafe.

Known Safari 4 bugs on Mac

• Breaks Wordpress add link function on blogs
• Hotmail doesn't work fully
• GMail logged in on http:// rather than https:// doesn't work
• Resorts the currency convertor widget on Dashboard so that the lists are out of sync and therefore creates incorrect conversions.
• Breaks Mail when Growlmail is installed.

Update: the full release of v4 in June fixed many of these issues.

Safari 4 Mac breaks currency converter widget

Resorts the panels so they mismatch currencies. Clever.

http://tinyurl.com/d5b9z4

How to manually remove GrowlMail plugin if safari 4 causes Mail to Crash

• Quit Mail
• Delete the GrowlMail plugin stored in your Library, here ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
• Logout and log back in again.

Sync Safari and Firefox bookmarks

http://www.foxmarks.com/

Foxmarks (free) is a plugin for both Firefox and Safari which will keep your bookmarks in sync between these browsers across multiple computers. Also supports something called Internet Explorer. You can also access your bookmarks on their website when away from your computer. Started by the chap who created Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, who was heavily involved in the early stages of Firefox.

Code_Swarm Visualisation of Commits to a software project

code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

Commune 2009

Commune 2009
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

Upcoming gig...

ableton Live 8 videos

Ableton have posted some video demonstrations of the new version 8 of Live. The voiceover sounds amazingly like John Hodgman. (wikipedia)

Meow Mix

more animals

Audio Hijack Pro updated to 2.9

Rogue Amoeba's great audio recording software Audio Hijack Pro has been updated to 2.9 and features a more polished user interface with better ID3 tagging and artwork for MP3 recordings. Hijack Pro is a very capable and easy to use audio recorder for capturing audio from any source on a Macintosh, or from external line or microphone inputs. I've been using it for a while now and it's always been reliable and smooth in use. Definitely worth checking out the trial if you are in looking for something to capture audio.

Key features of Audio Hijack Pro:

• Able to use VST and AU plugins (comes with it's own as well as any you have installed). These effects can be flexibly organised using a matrix style grid allowing you to create and save unique recording setups.
• Captures audio from web browsers, Skype, DVD, applications, Web radio streams etc.
• Quick recording bin allows for fast set up and recording.
• Records to pretty much all the main audio file types directly. AIFF, MP3, AAC, Lossless AAC, etc. all fully customisable.
• Able to schedule recordings and split a file or pause when silence occurs.
• Can grab all system audio from all applications into one file.
• Good metering and can be controlled via Applescript
• Works with Fission a separate lossless editor if required or you can point Hijack Pro to edit using your preferred application (e.g. Audacity, Wave Edit, etc.)
• 50 effects plugins included from 4FX and Steve Harris (LADSPA compatible as well as VST and AU).

For full details of Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro see the product page

WMD Excerpt

Thinking of buying a fucking camera?

http://www.merlinmann.com/amazon/blog/

Well stop thinking about it and buy it.

Also you should listen to You look nice today. No, really, just listen to it while holding your new fucking camera.