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I’ve been using Evernote for a few months now. I used to use Journaler, which is still a great app, but Evernote has some much cooler features.

http://evernote.com/

I have 2 laptops and an iPhone. It is so nice to create notes, even audio and photo notes on the fly and have them sync centrally on the Evernote server. So, what does this have to do with music? well, it’s both the regular notes and audio notes!

There are many times when I’m out an about and I come up with a rhyme or verse. If I’m at my computer (one of them), I’ll probably jot it down real quick or write it a notebook or sketchpad. But, if you don’t have either one and you have an iPhone, then create the note on there and it will sync to your account and you can retrieve it via the Evernote desktop app or on the web, which is very handle if you travel a lot.

So, the really nice thing is if I have a melody or beat idea and I’m out. I can just use my iPhone and record it and again, sync it up and it’s there in my computer.

So, use it for whatever, but it is really great for musicians, especially if you have an iPhone.

and yes, I do end up taking my rhymes into my computer from my notebooks or I may simply type my verses. It’s nice to have them ready to go if you want to embed them into the metadata of the song.

I like this approach on street art. Utilizing what is already there and being resourceful, especially with content which is not very pleasant or creative such as the advertisements Poster Boy targets for his creations. Don’t get me wrong, there is good advertisement out there, which can also be used for this collage work, but when it is so mass marketed, people can get tired of the redundancy. Poster Boy adds a little flare, creativity, humor, and pushes the underground art technique of the streets.

Barack Obama was sworn in today as the 44th President of the United States of America!

The event was packed with Americans celebrating the new President. Over 2 million people attended the ceremony today in Washington DC.

His 20 minute speech acknowledged the struggles that the U.S. is currently going through such as economy, and international events such as wars. He did provide a sense of not only hope, but also confidence in his plans to begin leading America into a new direction. He mentioned that overcoming challenges, comes with sacrifices.

This shall mark the beginning of a great 4 years and hopefully more!

Welcome Barack Obama!

In this video, Shepard Fairey explains his objectives and motives behind one of the most iconic images from the recent election, and possibly from any United States election.

The Barack Obama poster has become many things in today’s society, from propaganda posters and stickers, a symbol of change and hope, a marketing piece, a channel to transcend politics into various communities and subcultures which would normally be untouched by politics, modern art piece, inspiration, and much more.

Like many of Fairey’s pieces, it has spawned copy cats, and even a website application developed in Flex which you can create your very own stylized piece.

Here is what Fairey had to say about it:

One of my favorite reporters, Stephen Colbert, even had him on his show. Fairey even mentioned that he’s not enforcing the copyright unless someone is abusing it. True street style and mentality. It’s not so much about the profit, as it is with the impression on society and the exposure to the many who can enjoy seeing it. He even did a Colbert portrait in the style of the Obama portrait. It was nice to see that Colbert did not give him a lot of Sh!t like he does with many of his guests.

No matter if you like Obama or not, or if you like Fairey’s portrait of the new president, you cannot argue that this piece of art will be an iconic piece from this era.

Scratch Live 1.8.3 is now available!

Get it here:

http://www.scratchlive.net/downloads/

There are no new features in this release, just some bug fixes and performance improvements. Not to sound like I’m degrading this version, bug fixes and performance enhancements are always welcomed!

For a list of the changes in 1.8.3 visit:

http://www.scratchlive.net/forum/discussion/?discussion_id=117952

Now go download and it start throwing down some cuts!

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Just got a 500GB Time Capsule and everything has been running smooth with it. The set up was fairly easy (minus a user caused issue).
To sum this post up, you CAN create an iTunes library on Time Capsule and access it over the wireless network (or hard wired).
- Transferring via ethernet is obviously going to be quicker.
- Import music, rather than simply loading, for full iTunes management features and capabilities.

You can read on to see my experience and special notes.

Time Machine backup set up went well, Manual file transfer was a snap, and adding network printer was no problem. After all of that, I wanted to consolidate my iTunes library of over 90GB.

My first attempt was to just transfer my library onto Time Capsule, then open iTunes using an alternate library when I’m home on this network. I opened up iTunes, while pressing “Option.” This will prompt a library chooser dialogue. I chose create new and then went into the preferences to Importing, chose the directory on my Time Capsule (in this case called “music”). Then I dropped all of the music from the Time Capsule directory into iTunes. I did do this in sections, so not to overload the transfer.

That all went fine. The music showed up into iTunes, but the source files are all on the Time Capsule drive. They played fine over the network, so I thought it was all good. The only issue was, when you transfer music in this manner, iTunes does not manage the songs as if you had “imported” the music. What I mean is, if I delete files, then they simply get removed from my iTunes library list, but not from the drive. Good for safety, but bad for management. If you need to remove any files for whatever reason, like a duplicate or a corrupted file, it will still remain on the source, and be removed from your iTunes application display.

So, what I did to fix this was removed all of that music I just loaded. Created a new directory on Timecapsule. Went into iTunes preferences and chose the new directory as my iTunes main library path. Then I went back onto my Time Capsule and dropped the music back into iTunes. This took several hours again. What this transfer did was actually imported the music and “copied” it into the new source directory and properly builds the iTunes library structure.(contains: Album, Artwork , iTunes Library file, and iTunes Library.xml)
*note: if you had to do something similar to this, you would want to ensure that your drive has enough space to copy on that music.

So, now I have my whole library of +90GB, in my iTunes accessible on my MacBook, but not taking up any space (while connected to the Time Capsule). I just open iTunes, choose the library I want for my location and it’s all done. I plan to have a smaller local library of approx 20GB, then getting a portable 320GB drive to ensure I have my whole library with me when traveling or performing.

You could do this simply, by just having another Mac on your network and sharing, but I’m getting rid of my G5, so the Time Capsule will be my power house of storage.

Based on a reply to one of the comments on this post, I created a more detailed PDF to assist with centralizing your iTunes library on a TimeCapsule. Please keep in mind this was targeted towards a specific scenario in the comments section.
Click here for the iTunes SetUp PDF