Maybe you need Waver 1.0. Waver is a Adobe Air app which simply takes Google wave in the Webkit browser and stips off all the browser chrome and runs in its own process. I say all this like its necessarily a bad thing. Its not bad, its actually quite snappy compared to running Google Wave in a browser with many other tabs. The only issues is its not really a new client for Google Wave, its more hybrid rip off of the iphone running wave in webkit. Luckily the whole thing is free and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux without too much bother.
Archive for November 3rd, 2009
The Crispy Friday mix
Nov 3
Brand new mix, this time a little more deeper into the genre of tech trance or progressive trance if you prefer. Its certainly not one of my best mixes, I actually did it during lunch while I was waiting for something to be done. Its a mix which doesn't quite take off, instead keeps its self contained till close to the end when it does spread a wing or two. Enjoy!
- Crispy Bacon – Laurent Garnier
- Friday (trentemoller remix) – Fred Everything & 20 for 7
- Roundabout – Sam Sharp
- Us – Simon Patterson
- Panic Attack – Simon Patterson
- Dawn Raid (Sander van Doorm remix) – Jon Rundell
- Revolving Doors (club mix) – Ronski Speed
- Thump – Simon Patterson
- Certitude – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Exposure – Gareth Emery
- Strip Search – Simon Patterson
- Smack – Simon Patterson
- Joy Enerigizer – Joy Kitikonti
- Ultra Curve – Cosmic Gate
The new look Kdenlive
Aug 3
When I upgraded to the latest version of Kdenlive a free software non-linear editor which runs on every platform except windows. I was honestly shocked, it was clean, crisp and professional. There's little doubt that open source and free software has somewhat left user experience and interface design concerns closer to the bottom of the pile but this is radically changing. I'm hoping to show some of the new look applications which are worthy of another look and your attention, starting with the new look Kdenlive.
While in London last week I had the opportunity of spending the time on tube doing mixes to myself in the headphones. I did quite a few mixes but these are certainly the best of the bunch. I tried to upload them to pacemaker.net but I kept getting errors when uploading. I can't quite work out if its because I'm running the software under a virtual machine or not. Eitherway, Soundcloud seems like a great place to put mixes. Just noticed my mixes have been downloaded a total of 909 times to date. Which can't be bad for just the occasional tweet and live mix. I should do more mixing, but I guess my walk to work is too short.
The warm breeze sweeps through London mix, was the recent heatwave the UK has been getting. I remember I was in the hotel and deciding if I should bother with a coat or not. Decided against it in the morning and enjoyed the sunshine right through till beyond dusk. I was coming back from dinner somewhere (think it was China Town) and although it was close to 10pm it was still warm enough to not need a coat. When I got back to the hotel, I stood outside and mixed till it was too cold to be outside. So imagine, me on the tube mixing away, then slowly walking from the station still mixing, then outside the hotel mixing away, alongside all the smokers and waiting taxi drivers.
- Dido (Armin Universal Mix) – Aria
- Shadow World – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Grooveline (Matt Darey's mix) – Blockster
- Peace – Yves Deruyter
- Embrace (Ferry Fix) – Embrace
- Intuition – Marninx Presents Ecco
- Gouryella (extended version) – Gouryella
- Into the Danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
- Resound – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Turn out the lights (Transa mix) – M.I.K.E
- Heal – Electrique Boutique
- Walk the Edge (Alex M.O.R.P.H b2b Wiidy van Eyedn mix) – Alex M.O.R.P.H
- 1999 (Gouryella mix) – Binary Finary
- In the Dark (Tiesto trance mix) – Dj Tiesto
- Barber's Adagio for strings (Ferry Corsten mix) – William Orbit
The Force of night is done while going home again from a dinner, this time I opted for the bus but a major accident on Oxford Street just down from Oxford Circus stops all traffic and after a while of sitting on the bus I decide to walk it. Because I'm mixing away, I decide to only rejoin public transport at Lancaster Gate. Nice walk and headphones on mixing away through the whole journey back to the hotel.
- Running Two – Run Lola Run
- A New Dawn (extended version) – Steve Forte Rio
- Troy (Push Remix) – Sinead O'Connor
- Attention – John OO Fleming vs Christopher Lawrence
- First Strike (signum signal 2004 remake) – Signum
- Such is Life (Marco V Remix) – Rank1 feat Shanokee
- Into the Danger (M.I.K.E Remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
- Summer Melodies (Frequence remix) – Frequence
- Please Save me (Push Remix) – Sunscreem vs Push
- Beauty hides in the deep (John O'Callaghan remix) – The Dopplr Effect
- Gouryella (Extended mix) – Gouryella
- Eventuality – 8 Wonders
R&D TV : Episode 2
Jun 3
We've launched R&D TV episode 2. You can download it directly from the BBC in many different flavours of codecs and formats. We got everything from Flash to Ogg Theora. There's even RSS feeds now which is good. Like the last one, were using a Creative commons non-commercial attribution v2 licence and we have made the assets available for anyone in the world to remix. I want to say thanks to everyone who was involved in the project. R&DTV is a collaboration between BBC Backstage and RAD teams, who are: Producers Rain Ashford and Hemmy Cho, as well as Exec Producers: Ian Forrester, George Wright and Adrian Woolard. This months video is maybe a lot closer to what people were expecting, so enjoy it.
I gave a talk at Social Media Cafe yesterday which included a preview of R&DTV and received a lot of feedback, some of it was quite harsh but only harsh because people could see r&dtv was a good project. The lovely Sarah Hartley live blogged the whole thing using Friendfeed. Chi Chi wrote a little bit and talked about her project, which I missed due to a interesting discussion about the history of emoticons. But if you really want to get a full feeling of what people thought of the project, check out the tweets afterwards and this audioboo which was recorded a few minutes after it ended.
Heavy snow in the midnight city mix by cubicgarden
- Tin There (edit) – Underworld
- The 7th Day (M.I.K.E Remix) – The Gift
- Sky Falls Down (Armin van Buuren Remix) – Oceanlab
- Bulgarian (Signum Remix) – Travel
- Beauty hides in the deep (john o'callaghan remix) – The Doppler effect
- The Pride in your eyes (Martin Roth mix) – Tillmann Uhrmacher
- Language (Santiago Nino Dub Tech Mix) – Hammer and Bennett
- Gamemaster (Matt Darey 2003 Club Remix) – Lost Tribe
- Attention (steve birch remix) – John 00 Fleming vs Christopher Lawrence
- She wants him – Moussa Clarke & Terrafunka
- Into the danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
- Gouryella (extended version) – Gouryella
- Heal – Electrique Boutique
- In the dark (tiesto trance mix) – Tiesto
This mix was recorded during the snow storm hit the South East of the UK on Feb 2nd. The slips are where my cold hands would wipe snow or ice off the pacemaker, Enjoy!
In a very surprising move, Tonium has done a deal with HMV to sell the Pacemaker on there site and in selected stores. This is great news, because finally the device will be available outside of the pro dj shops and in the hands of the general public. I do however wonder if people will understand it without some direction or some time in such a busy shop? Oh well its yours for only 399 pounds now, which isn't bad if you consider how much I paid for mine back in May 2008. At least I can claim braggin rights with number 211.
Oh if you've ever wanted to see whats actually in the pacemaker, someones actually taken it apart [1] [2]. Here's how to do it.
The case is held together by two sets of pins on opposite sides.
If you attempt this yourself, gently pop one side off, then even more gently wiggle the other side off. If you've ever yanked a laptop hard drive, you know the side-most connector pins will get bent if you rush it.
The twin chips are each 512mb of RAM. The spotted one is possibly the Freescale i.MX31L. The spots run to indicate moisture damage. The uppermost chip is audio power management. I didn't look underneath the hdd's ZIF connector as it's really fragile.
The USB and phones boards are tightly secured to the back piece. All of the jacks are snug against the pc boards and i didn't notice any weak solder points.
Looking at the front piece, you can see that everything is screwed tightly to the chassis and backed up further by the hard drive and battery. This means no buttons to break off and push in and nothing to jiggle loose.
Beautiful work Tonium.
As expected its pretty straight forward because the guys behind it only had off the shelf “standard” components to work with. There's already talk about replacing the Samsung HS122JB hard drive with a ZIF comptable Flash Drive on the forum. But the biggest challenge is software it seems. People are trying to build replacement ways to get music on and off the device without the editor. The best attempt so far is the Pacejacker software, which is written in Adobe Air and allows you to alter the song names, genres, etc without touching the files. I'm convinced once this device gets more into the public, your going to see much more hacking on it.
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