The App of the Week is Meebo
Free
Star Rating 4
Space Needed 1.3MB
What is it? Meebo is a native application created for users of the popular Meebo client that you can find online. Imagine all your social networking sites in one. With Meebo it’s possible, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger and MSN are all tied into a intergrated system so you can keep track of what’s going on – who’s online/offline and connects you even when your not at the computer which wasn’t possible for Facebook Chat before. Meebo is very useful to take you friends on the go and maybe even save a few bucks here and there. Did I mention its’ free now all you need is friends lol
Website: http://www.meebo.com/iphone/
Preview:
Shutter Island has come and gone from my local cinema…and it’s like I’m stuck in this constant limbo of “Is that for real?”
Some news stories out there usually envoke such a thing resounding “COME ON!” from me, but more and more puff pieces are to be expected in such a weird wacky world like on Daria.
So I saw this great thriller (In my opinion) with Academy Award Nominee Leo Di Caprio in a Martin Scorsese film about two Federal Marshals investigating a missing prisoner on “Shutter Island”…being isolated in the middle of the ocean the only way off is on the boat and a dangerous storm has kept the Marshals there and on their feet looking for the clues to solve this case. Problem is are they even solving anything worthwhile?
On the way home my friend and I kept thinking if anything afterwards was real? People, places and things seem to disappear into a world of mystery. It’s cast some weird funk over that friend of mine…I however have recovered.
Hey at least it’s not as bad as people being depressed cause they can’t go to the fictional Pandora from AVATAR…
I’m not one to judge but that’s a little crazy!
The App of the Week is iStudiez Pro
A $3.99
Star Rating 4+
Space needed 6.0MB
What is it? iStudiez Pro is essentially an organising application for students, it created an extensive profile of your classes from the lectures down to the assignments and rooms and lectures, with designated timers and push notifications to alert you of a next class and upcoming assessments when you lose track of things. This is app can easily be done in a notebook as well, but to have everything in an app is a handy tool when on the go trying to organise a social life and work life as well to see if that one assessment won’t be a problem getting in the way later…
Website: http://istudentpro.com
Preview:
What was the most watched and mother of all realtiy television shows….
SURVIVOR!
1. Australian Survivor
2. Survivor: Fiji
3. Survivor
4. Survivor: Gabon
5. Survivor: China
6. Survivor: Cook Islands
7. Survivor: Panama
8. Survivors: All-Stars
9. Survivor: Micronesia
10. Survivors: Heroes vs Villains
The last one there is the upcoming season which brings all the people you loved and hated together for another chance at the title of SURVIVOR!
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These are the two tools that I’m using in order to complete my sound project. It seems that both have their pros and cons in relation to what I need them to do.
Ableton is a fantastic sequencer which allows me to interface with PD fairly simply by use of a MIDI yoke. Basically MIDI yoke is a virtual MIDI driver for Windows that lets you route MIDI between applications. I was thinking of using this to pass sound that I’ve sequenced in Ableton directly through to PD when the contact mics pick up a signal.
Pro Tools is a great multitrack sound editor which allows me to create my surround ambient soundscape as well as touch up some of the recordings that I’ve done. Annoyingly Pro Tools is restricted to having an M-Box attached to the computer (which is annoying and expensive, though I suppose it’s one way to stop piracy) and also I’m not entirely sure if Pro Tools can be passed through to PD or not (I’ll have to investigate this further).
The next thing that I’m still having issues with is getting multiple inputs into a computer, since the computer generally has only 1 mic input with two channels. I’ve been researching a bit online and it seems that I would need to get a portable multitrack mixer of sorts to be able to grab four or more inputs into a device (or buy a very expensive M-Box 2 Pro that allows me up to 6 mic inputs) and some sort of DAC to input the mixer into a computer. Talking to Mat, he said that I should be able to borrow these rather than buy them (is is preferable), so I’ll look into that this coming week or so.
