John Duprey is a husband, father, and geek. He makes his living from the latter as a software architect for Thomson Reuters Research and Development. However, he lives for the former two - his wife Abby and their daughter Emma. -- Public Profile
Vimeo Music Store is a great place to find music to use in your videos. With over 45,000 tracks available in the store, you're guaranteed to find the perfect track. Learn more or watch the tutorial.
What a great way to make it easy for people to license music for their videos! Are there other services like this?
Finally started trying out Google Music Beta... I wonder how long it will take for my music to upload? There is no iPhone/iPod app yet and there doesn't seem to be an iOS optimized web site yet.
UPDATE: A Couple of days have passed and I already have ~1500 songs uploaded out of the 5500+ songs I have currently in my library. At this pace, my entire library could be backed up in the cloud in under a week. A screenshot of the web interface has been added to the photo gallery.
Bow down before the one you serve. You are going to get what you deserve.
Adobe resurrects Flash-to-iPhone app tool
Apple's loosened developer restrictions reopen the door for Adobe's Packager for iPhone tool, and Adobe chose to walk back through. Flash still faces challenges, though.
• FAQ: App Store rulebook
First Lala falls to Apple, now Amie Street falls to Amazon and neither Apple nor Amazon are keeping the service on under their wing. Amie Street was great for finding Indie artists and had an interesting pricing model.
July 25, 1992 I had just finished my freshman year of college. My Dad had died that spring after years of illness. These were perhaps my most difficult years full of soul searching, debauchery, and other sinful behavior all in the name of exercising those demons of childhood. All ancient history...
While recreating my digital music library for the twenty first century (256 kbps, mp3 still), I came across my Guns N' Roses "Use Your Illusion II" CD cover. (My generation still calls them album covers.) Sandwiched between the plastic case and the cover was a ticket stub and a locket of hair.
The ticket stub is from the "Monster Tour" starring Guns N' Roses and Metallica. Faith No More opened for them. I remember very little from the concert which, in those days, meant you were doing it right. GNR of course rocked the house. In their traditional fashion, they showed up on stage late. The crowd managed to amuse themselves with the help of the camera crew. Ladies, and I use that term loosely, would take turns flashing their breasts to the camera crew who, in turn, put them up on the jumbo monitors. The crowed would cheer, or jeer, in a voting method not so dissimilar from American Idol.
Anyone else attend this legendary concert? Share what you remember here!
... oh and the locket of hair.. that came just a little later. It was donated by my girlfriend my sophomore year. MANY years later, I married that girl. The rest really is history. :)
