[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]arlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify’s recommendation algorithms hadn’t been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the same lazy “safe picks” over and over again … When my wife kept asking me, “Hey, it keeps recommending that one song, how do I […]
Take an ebook. Take an audiobook. Smash the two together and you get a “TalkingBook”: synchronized text and audio that highlights what’s being spoken and lets you click phrases to trigger their audio content. In principle, it’s a simple idea. In fact, when I show it to people, it seems so intuitive: of course that’s […]
The Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface is a great little box with some nice 60db boutique-quality preamps. You’ll often find it mentioned in forums and blogs across the web, and especially since this article, many people have been interested in the Onyx Blackjack as a affordable solution to power their gain-hungry Shure SM7Bs (in […]
[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]fter playing around for a few days with Google Cardboard I definitely started to see the potential of phone-based VR but unfortunately the available games/apps on the Play Store were all rather short and restricted, seeming more like demos than full-blown VR experiences, so when I found that you can stream PC games in VR to your phone mode by […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]hile working on the latest two book and audio releases, I rediscovered the fun of playing old Super Nintendo games during downtime, the simple joy of quickly firing up Super Mario World in an emulator, stomping a few Goombas, flying high through pixelated skies, before going back to the grueling routine of editing, formatting, compiling vocabulary […]
UPDATE: In 2025 a lot of things have changed, but OneDrive still unfortunately gets stuck with its synchronizations. Here’s what you can do: Let Windows Update complete and reboot machine If it still gets stuck processing, do a hard reset: C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset or %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset or C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset — I […]
Over the weekend I was indulging in nostalgic drum and bass reveries. Brought on by the delivery of our government prescribed gas masks — different story — whose packaging reminded me of the Breakbeat Era cover, I went on a three day serendipity spree. Here are some of the links and tokens of this journey. Curious […]