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DreamOn Pro - A Reason-influenced Shmapple Product

If you’re a fan of the Schmapple Store then you want to check out their new software synth: DreamOn Pro.

Kill hours and hours of your free time believing that a single piece of good-looking software is your key to stardom. Then, after months of fiddling, end up with a track that sounds exactly like it was stolen wholesale from someone way more talented than you. But from three years ago.

I really wish there were a Excellantaliser plugin - but unfortunately it looks like DreamOn Pro uses Rewire.

• Link: Dream On Pro - Music Destruction Software.
• Via: Why, That’s Delightful!

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What do Rick Astley and Chrono Trigger have in common?

I think I’m about 10 years late on this, BUT…

There’s no denying that Chrono Trigger has one of the best soundtracks of 90s videogames, but did you ever think of what some of your favorite videogame music gets influenced by?

Listen to the choruses of these samples and judge for yourself. Feed subscribers, go to the site for the audio.

Robo’s Theme - Chrono Trigger

Together Forever - Rick Astley

Roboroll’d - Robo’s Theme on Top of Together Forever

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id-EEEots

There’s this new web identification service floating around right now called Ning. They want you to get a Ning ID to tie together all the social networks that you probably aren’t using.

Check out the graphic for the Ning ID page:

Sure looks familiar, doesn’t it?

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Yeah, that’s nice, but how about you do Ghostbusters instead?

Gametrailers takes a look at the Ghostbusters videogame coming out, and the first part of the interview with the developer is kind of depressing:

Interviewer: How did this dream project come about?
Developing company president: Well, it’s an interesting story. We were on the west coast pitching our own original title to Sierra and they said “Wow, that’s great! We love the technology…but how about Ghostbusters?”

• Gametrailers TV with Geoff Keighley

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You Need To Grab the Tim and Eric Music

Wow.

If you’ve ever seen Tim and Eric then you know a big part of the show is the songs made up of Apple loops.

Cartoon Network has a digital (only?) release of 49 tracks from Tim and Eric Aweseme Show.

Recommended tracks: Beaver Boys, Pizza Boy, I Sit Down When I Pee, and Poke On.

• On Amazon
• On iTunes

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Pownce vs. Twitter

After using Pownce and Twitter for a while I’ve come to this conclusion that you don’t have to scroll all the way down to the bottom for.

I like Pownce better.

Thing is, like every social network, it doesn’t really matter which one is better - it matters which ones your friends are on. Amazingly, I have friends on Pownce and not Twitter.

However, the software support is better for Twitter. Twitterrific is a great app (don’t be shy, you don’t have to pay for it if you’re happy with getting an ad every hour); it has Growl support, it hangs out in the OSX menu bar…The Pownce desktop app has none of that. It’s built on Adobe’s Air platform which doesn’t feel right on OSX. You have to get used to going to the upper-right to close a window.

Some people, even Pownce’s founders, have said that they use Twitter for basic messaging/tweets and Pownce for everything else. Thing is, if Pownce can basically do tweets too, I don’t see the point of maintaining another service just for that.

So imagine how much cooler Pownce would be if there were a Twitterrific-like app for it? Anybody want to make Pownceremonious, Powncelebrate, Pownceleb, Powncentral? Any other cute names you can come up with? Is that all it would take for Pownce to reach critical mass?

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April 2008 Posts Roundup

From the past month:

• Powerbook G4 = Still Dead
• Maneasy Lover - Phil Collins vs Nelly Furtado
• 48 Hours with the Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000
• Deceitful Clicking and Taking Advantage of Standard Conventions
• How I Wish Leopard’s Quick Look Worked for Logic Pro
• Don’t Let Anyone Tell You What You Can’t Be

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Using The Best Tools Is Half The Battle

I keep thinking about this presentation at C4 from Panic’s Cabel Sasser.

The one thing that has stuck with me about it is how Coda is one of my favorite OSX apps, but there’s really not that much originality in it. Sasser discusses how there were already these great tools on OSX for the tasks that they wanted to do in Coda.

• FTP: Transmit
• Previewing: Webkit
• Text Editing:Subethaedit
• CSS editing: CSSEdit
• Documentation: O’Reilly

Rather than creating something from scratch, Coda was developed with the intention of simply integrating the best tools already available.

Along the way Panic had to make compromises (their arrangement with CSS Edit didn’t work out, and O’Reilly wanted an amount in royalties from licenses that Panic didn’t agree with), but they found solutions either by coming up with them internally or going someplace else.

I think there’s something to learn in that. Next time you find yourself building something completely from nothing, ask yourself if someone has already done it - and then copy/steal/learn from that idea. You may come up with something better than you set out for - and faster.

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New Nine Inch Nails Album, The Slip, Available Now For Free

As expected, NIN released a new album today - The Slip.

The Slip, which I’m downloading now, features 10 tracks including the 2 previously released tracks Discipline and Echoplex that had the text “visit nin.com on May 5″ in the comment metadata.

The Slip can be downloaded in MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and 24/96 WAV files. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License.

• Link: nine inch nails: the slip

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Apple Selling Off Pro-Apps To Make Room For Adobe? Nah!

Robert Cringely speculates about the future of Apple Pro Apps:

…why, then, was Apple quietly shopping around its entire professional application business to prospective buyers at the recently completed National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas? These include Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Logic, and Shake — applications that are hardly also-rans in their segments and none of which are antiquated in the least. Final Cut, of course, absolutely dominates the video editing business. Why would Apple want to give that up?

The claim is that Apple is trying to avoid antitrust problems for it’s inevitable buyout of Adobe. Adobe has software that does the same tasks as Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, After Effects -

There is no Adobe equivalent of Logic though…

Plus, Apple just hit one million Final Cut Studio licenses - they want to dump that? Really?

• Link: Iron Man: Steve Jobs is even tougher than you think
• Via: Daring Fireball

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