Man @ Work
I was hard at work on my computer, when suddenly one of my certified diskettes had a failure. So now I have to reinstall GEM 1.0. Darn. I must have lost at least 360Kb of work !
Category: hardware
My HyFy
This is basically how I would want my hifi to look (and behave) like, all under my 50-year-old motto Less is More, Simple is Better.
The stereo amplifier has the following controls (left to right):
- Headphones output jack.
- Mute button.
- Micro-stepped volume button. Push to power on/off; also switches off all connected peripherals.
- Four source select […]
Fun with Guitars
First, pick up a guitar.
Then you will need a guitar amplifier…
This one - the all new Metasonix G1000 - is apparently all good, all tubes, and all evil. ←NSWF!
For more tubular fun, go to Eric Barbour’s Metasonix site.
Info Graphics
I love infographics. I have great admiration for the designers and illustrators who create them, and often I wished I could be one of them. There is of course a certain relation to what I do - designing the user interface for a web site or database is sometimes quite similar in scope - but […]
iPhoney
There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. [link]
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in April 2007.
In its first full quarter on the market, Apple’s iPhone has become the second-best-selling smart-phone platform in North America, trailing only RIM’s BlackBerry, according to a new report.
The study by […]
Little LiLo
There’s an interesting discussion going on in the Analog Heaven mailing list [all things analogue synthesis] about which way is best to get your audio signals (mics, instruments, synths) into your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, like Logic, Cubase, Sonar, etc).
Basically it boils down to two-and-half choices:
- either use a multi-port AD converter (Apogee Ensemble {my […]