« Back to jordanbalagot.com

Category

Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Evidentally you can only have 9 pages of applications on the iPhone

( Apple andGear andiPhone )

And by installing all these applications I won the “congratulations, your phone stopped working” prize. Not really. It still works ok, but it definitely slows down the more apps you install. I actually found that FreeMemory ($.99 in the iTunes store) helps, but I think all it does is load 20 MB into memory forcing […]

Quick DIY Portable iPhone 3g Charger

( Apple anddiy andGear andiPhone andmisc andoriginals andscience )

I’m going to the desert for a week and wanted a way to recharge my iPhone. I bought a zap rx4-c, which works with most of my other devices, only to learn that it’s not compatible with the iPhone. Zap’s customer service was friendly but they should change their description in two ways: One, you […]

Textedit saves open files on crash

( Apple andmisc )

Uh, so I knew that Word would save copies of my open files, and firefox would reopen my session and tabs on a crash, but when did textedit start doing that? I have a bad habit of keeping notes in textedit (stickies started losing data on me) and not saving them. I just had a […]

Best iPhone tips site yet

( Apple andiPhone andmultitouch )

This thread’s great. http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400919&page=1&pp=15 So far I’ve learned: • You can take a screenshot on the iphone by holding down the hold menu button and hitting the sleep button. It gets saved to your photo roll. • You can insert punctuation by simply clicking on the .?123 button, holding, and dragging to a character, and […]

iPhone 3g vs. T-mobile Wing and Windows Mobile: Initial thoughts

( Apple andGear andiPhone )

Edit: I never finished this review, but I’m publishing it now because it’s getting dated. The clear winner is the iPhone, though there are some things about it that drive me nuts. In 2007 I decided to go with a T-mobile Wing instead of an iPhone and for the most part did not regret it. […]

Turn Wii Rock Band Instruments into Real Instruments with Junxion

UpdateCheck out my velocity sensitive full MIDI drumset with the guitar hero set and the rockband set. Today I figured out how to easily turn the rock band drum set for Wii into a MIDI drum controller: I did this with Junxion, a program that allows you to transform USB and wireless game controller input […]

Find tuplets below the staff in Finale files via music XML

In the orchestration class I’m taking we have some very strict guidelines on how our sheet music should be formatted. I’m writing some scripts to detect notational errors in my scores based on these guidelines. The first one I wrote detects if tuplets are marked below the staff. Our conductor requires us to have all […]

Map .rex loops to the keyboard in Logic 8 – easier method

( Apple andaudio andLogic 8 andMusic )

My friends Nathaniel, Charlie and I figured out a better way to map rex files into Logic using EXS 24 instead of Ultrabeat: -Create a new EXS 24 instrument, open EXS 24 and click on edit. -Click on Instrument > Recycle Convert > Slice Loop and Add Samples to Current Instrument. Extract MIDI Region and […]

Map .rex loops to the keyboard in Logic 8

-edit- There is an easier way of automatically mapping rex files to the EXS 24 instead of Ultrabeat. Here is a fairly tedious method of converting a Recycle Rex file into Ultrabeat in Logic so that you can play the loop mapped to your keyboard like you can with Dr. Rex in Reason: -Create an […]

Graphically Time Stretch Regions in Logic

( Apple andaudio andLogic 8 )

In Logic 8 you can now graphically time stretch audio files without changing their pitch. Hold down option and drag the end of a file to compress or extend it. This is so much easier than trying to use the time machine manually and trying to figure out the math transformation to get what you […]