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.

The Moose is back.

The Moose is back.

Since 1986 on Macintosh users have been able to irritate themselves with a talking interrupting moose. Now available for Mac OS X...

Uli's Moose with additional Terry Pratchett phrases available. Free but give a donation if you really over use it and drive yourself mad.

http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/moose.htm

Poladroid test

Poladroid test: VW Camper
Originally uploaded by Mooganic.

A test of the new Mac application which processes your images and emulates a Polaroid print, very cute interface. www.poladroid.net/

The currently free beta places a small blue Polaroid camera on your desktop, you drag and drop pictures ont the camera which whirs and pops out Poladroid prints which slowly develop on your desktop. All works rather well.

350ppm

Syncing Journler across two Macs with Dropbox

Although Journler is a great information management and diary application, one feature that has been lacking is the ability to easily sync across multiple Macs. After syncing using the dependable Chronosync application and a target disc mode connection (Firewire, try doing that on the new Macbooks) I have found a better syncing method using the cloud. 

Dropbox is a new service which syncs a specific Dropbox folder on your Mac (Dropbox also works on Windows and Linux). It works very quickly as there is some sub file level smart updating and compression going on in the background. The links are all made using secure SSL and the storage is on Amazon S3. Your files are stored using 256 AES on the Amazon servers. There is also full versioning for changes to files o make it simple to revert to a previous version of a file.

The key thing is that unlike MobileMe (.Mac) there is a free 2GB account available until recently it was invitation only but now you can just sign up and be running Dropbox in minutes. 

So far I've found it very fast and reliable and also use it for Rapidweaver files I like to keep in sync across computers.  1Password from Agileweb Solutions new Agile keychain feature in 1Password v 2.9 also can make use of Dropbox rather than the more cumbersome keychain sync of MobileMe. Check out the key features at the Dropbox site.

How to set up syncing of Journler entries using Dropbox:

1. Sign up to Dropbox and ensure you are using the latest build available through the Forums at Dropbox e.g. v 0.6.404 solves problems with Mac OS X package folders which helps Journler RTFD files sync properly. 

2. Install Dropbox, on all Macs to be synced.

3. Back up your Journler folder (in 2.5.5 of Journler this is most likely in your Documents folder). 

4. If you have password protected your Journal, temporarily switch off this feature in Preferences, Advanced, before copying the Journal. Then quit Journler.

5. Copy the Journler folder into your new Dropbox folder. The original Journler folder can be renamed later and left as a back up copy.

6. Dropbox should begin its syncing process and eventually, the Journler folder will be synced and available on the other Mac/s.

7. You can now test the sync by opening Journler, using the Locate button and pointing it to the Dropbox stored Journler folder. After creating a test entry,you may reinstate your password option in the preferences menu at this point.

Note: only have one copy of Journler open on a single Mac at any time, otherwise the syncing is likely to be seriously confused. Remember, Journler is intended for single user working only and is not a true networking application.

With the initial sync out of the way subsequent syncing should be extremely fast.

The next step is to see whether this works with Omnifocus!

Find out more abut Journler: Journler - Wherever Life Takes You

Origin of the emoticon in 1982

September 19th 1982 and Scott Fahlman invents the :-) emoticon.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/09/dayintech_0919

1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman  :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(

Everything that hapens will happen today.

David Byrne & Brian Eno, back together again for the first time since My Life in the bush of ghosts. Being published first as a download (no DRM and flac versions - good for them).

Robot Parade, Vocoder goodness with a charming video

Robot Parade from Jared Foster on Vimeo.

Jake von Slatt, talks with Wired

Brief explanation how to make a Steampunk PC keyboard.

Remind yourself of the fragility of existence with a isight and a Mac.

DT4 Identity-SA is an "artware" of Project 7², a type of screen-based installation with visual feedback and sound synthesis. It displays a new type of animation of aesthetic graphics and deformed reflection of user's image.

Created by

	Tatsuo Unemi  Department of Information Systems Science, Soka University.
	Daniel Bisig  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,University of Zurich.

Download here

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25590/dt4-identity-sa