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New Year’s Dissolution

Image Credit: Timo Newton-Syms from Helsinki, Finland and Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons I hope your 2024 is going swimmingly thus far, as we’ve been dealing with chaos here in APITEland since the New Year started. Buckle up for the details… Around mid last year (about the time of the last post) my email here…

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The Toys of Summer

Banner Image: John Haedo Title is a play on words from this, yes. The Middle of Summer here on Planet Earth, and everything is melting, on fire, or under water. Hopefully now the deniers will realize this is not normal and join the rest of us to do something about it. ‘This must not inspire despair, but action.’ — I installed PopOS on Henry, and it’s a much better analogue for the Object-based…

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Finally...?

After hearing about this in various Rumor Mills for a while now (honestly, I’m sure I’ve been hearing it since the iPads were introduced) The Mothership finally announced both Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad sound mid-week. Both will require the latest version of iOS (16.4 as of this writing, which should be realized in the next few days) and although Logic will make due with an A12…

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Henry's Special Coal (and Hello MaG3)

It’s March 31st as I write this, and officially the end of #Marchintosh – more on that shortly! Progress on Ol’ Henry has halted for the moment. It basically boils down to ‘I’m too old for this $#@!’ and although I got Ubuntu Studio, Reaper, and some Plugins up and working, I have to say that audio setup with JACK is…jacked. It works, but there is a (so they say) better audio system for Linux…

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TN(O)SS - The Adventure Begins

Hello everyone! I’d like all of you to meet Henry – that’s the sticker on the its Top Panel in the Banner Pic. Seemed fitting. 🙂 The name is keeping the ‘Ford Family’ of computers alive and well here in APITEland (as in Josephine’s older brother) but it’s also a h/t to Mr. Slinkman from Rifftrax lore. You can see the namesake in the preview over at their site. — So what is this (at the time of…

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Decentralize It (Don't Criticize It)

Image Credit: Adam Aladdin For any of you looking for something on Buttcon/Craptocurrency – move along. Although to be honest, we will be taking a few pointers the Technorati left on the Cutting Room floor… So let us begin. Dumping Leon Skum’s (h/t c.reider) Springfield Tire Fire for The Fediverse is one of the best things to happen to my Social Media experience in years. I really love my Little…

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Lovely blots of color on a grey New Year’s Morning. Bokeh effect gives an interesting and quite eerie appearance to the leaves and wires. Happy 2023 everyone!

Happy Holidaze®

(Image Credit: Yours Truly. Fish Ornaments by Doug Rhodehammel.) Well hello there everyone! Like (my) normal, it’s been a while… Hope you and yours are doing splendidly. It’s December 22nd as I write this, and wanted to give an (cue Hans Zimmer-influenced theme song) ‘End of the Year Report’ with all things APITE. There are some changes in the works for 2023, a few planned upgrades, and some…

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Empathy for the Revel(ation)

So the Masthead Pic is the original, Old Skool MPC – Roger Linn’s Linn 9000. More info at Roger’s Museum Page. I had one of these way back in the day, and it was a great combination of quality drum samples (with optional Sampling capability) and MIDI Sequencing in a fairly portable box that didn’t require you to lug around a computer to gigs. It also had a nasty tendency to crash at the most…

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Everything's Been Done Already - Time to Look for Something New...

Everything’s Been Done Already – Time to Look for Something New…

Image Credit Lovingly put into the CC Zero/Public Domain Space and retrofitted by Yours Truly. 🙂 Sorry for the Clickbaity Title, but we need to talk. First though, a bit of housekeeping: — I posted the Featured Image over at the APITE Tumblr Spot. I pretty much have given up on the Tweet Machine® since the Current Incarnate of P.T. Barnum got involved. I do miss some of the people and info there,…