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Les Paul, NOT the inventor of the electric guitar

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Almost all the reports of the death of American electric guitar pioneer Les Paul, give the impression he was single-handedly responsible for the creation of the solid-body electric guitar that made rock and roll possible. It’s as if Adolph Rickenbacker, Paul Bigsby, Merle Travis or Leo Fender never existed.
The Electric Guitar was not invented, rather [...]

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The Pogues – Dirty Old Town

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Warlach’s Band has a new Album

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Actually, it doesn’t. And neither does mine. It’s the current meme du Jour of the web. I normally don’t indulge in these, but this one intrigued me…
From Warlach’s World, the instructions for creating your own album cover:
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is [...]

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Converting MP4 to MP3

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I know there’s a lot of sites (like vidtomp3) that let you extract music from online videos. But what if you already have the video (in my case, some *.mp4 files) on hand ?
Converting MP4 files to MP3 is quite easy, once you have appropriate software. I used google to find the free [...]

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New Skin for your Music Hardware

Monday, September 29th, 2008

At StyleFlip.com, you can design your own adhesive vinyl skin for a variety of music gear — turntables, CD players, DJ mixers, drum machines, keyboards and more. (The company says the skins are removable and leave no residue.) The site’s Flash-based interface is easy to suss out, and the previews look dramatic.
With so many [...]

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Play YouTube Videos in a Loop

Monday, July 7th, 2008

There are two ways (that I know of) to play a youtube video in a loop. 
 

The first one requires that you manipulate the loop parameter of the embeddable player (here’s the complete list of parameters) – in the example, replace VIDEOID with the ID of the video you’re playing:
href="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID&loop=1
If you add the autoplay [...]

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old school mixtapes with mixwit.com

Monday, April 21st, 2008

One of my memories of growing up was making mixtapes for road trips. New Zealand doesn’t look like a big country, but the roads were (still are !!) tight and twisty. One trip we used to regularly make was about 80 miles as the crows file, but over 200 miles driving.
Now that [...]

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Grab the latest music from Youtube

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

from GHacks :
You can use a Firefox extension like Download Helper for instance to download the videos in first place. When you start FLV Extract uncheck Video and Timecodes so that only the Audio option is enabled. Now drag and drop files whose music you want to have into the program window. It takes [...]

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Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

From the Official Australian Google Blog:
An interesting side-effect of YouTube’s recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser’s cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In [...]

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Is your ISP is messing with your BitTorrents ?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

We have seen claims that almost 70% of ALL Internet traffic is P2P (but no one can tell what the ratio of legal vs. illegal content is).  Since then, many ISP’s have taken it upon themselves to throttle down BT related traffic, despite the fact that no one knows whether you’re downloading a Linux Distribution [...]

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