Category: General

Mac Audio Tip: Garage Band imports at 44kHz. If your audio is 48kHz, import it to iTunes, and use iTunes adv Mac Audio Tip: Garage Band imports at 44kHz. If your audio is 48kHz, import it to iTunes, and use iTunes advanced import settings to convert the audio to 44kHz. Then, put the converted audio out of your iTunes library and into GarageBand. (Like podcasting didn’t have enough workarounds already)

If you listen to the First Crack Podcast, you may remember in #112, Shef Otis was putting together some “Dadiator” classes.

They’re now on the calendar:
3 “Dadiator” Workshops held at the SweatShop, 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon. $20 per dad/kid pair.

With apologies to Jessica Shaw’s Shaw Report in Entertainment Weekly
In

• VOIP Mobile Phones
• Blogging
• Curating
• Netflix Instant Play
• Working

15 Minutes Ago

• GSM Mobile Phones
• Twitter
• Favorite-ing
• TiVo
• Co-working

Out

• Calling Cards
• Instant Messaging
• Commenting
• Cable TV
• Coopetition

I was just reading how to hack Mac OS X onto the cheap new netbooks. Buy step 4, the effort had already surpassed the price of a new Mac Book.

Shopping malls are the biggest advertisement for e-commerce.

Additionally, every aisle of warehouse stores (Costco, WalMart, Super Target, etc) is completely filled with opportunity cost.

Months ago, Rick Mahn asked me to list 5 things I was thankful for. Friday seems like an appropriate day to respond:

1. Red Stag‘s Mac & Cheese for lunch.
2. Re-arranging my office making both a cozy reading corner and a usable coffee-making corner. (Finally)
3. Ruby.¹
4. You.
5. Checking one more thing off the To-Do list calendar.

1. There’s a longer post in here about being productive in 2 hours. Ruby is the second language I’ve written in (the first was RealBasic, years ago) where I can solve a problem and start a new problem in the course of just 2 hours. Add a few well structured Google searches and the number of solved problems increases dramatically. Happiness.

I’ve described one of the projects I’m working on as ‘Twitter for your wallet’ – makes me giggle. Then when I correct myself by saying, ‘well, more like Pownce for your wallet’ – I completely lose it.

When I’m working on start up projects and listening to techstep, I feel a strong affinity for J.F. Sebastian.

Related,

“I think cyberpunk is alive and well” – Eric Rice

I’m really enjoying using QSPress.rb to shoot quick drafts into my blog. Oh sure, I’ve got a pile of drafts to publish – but they’re much more fulfilling that Twittering them (and I have a record).

It’s kinda like “MacroMyopia” – this tendency to underestimate that tomorrow is a new day, and overestimate that right now (while damn good) has a few significant, hard to solve problems.

I think there was even a musical about this….set in the Great Depression.