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links for 2010-12-26

  • Those days are gone when we had to wait for the people to be in front of us to show them our pictures. Today we make use of photo sharing sites to share our photos with friends and relatives. So,here we present top 5 websites for photo sharing.
  • 81 Betterists matching your search criteria for all services under Trombone
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    links for 2010-10-30

  • Maurice Murphy, who died yesterday, is an essential part of the soundtrack to your musical life – even if you don't realise it. Maurice was principal trumpeter of the London Symphony Orchestra for 30 years, from 1977-2007, and you have sung along to his unmistakable, brilliant sound even if you have never knowingly been to the Barbican to hear the LSO in the flesh. It's his trumpet playing you hear blazing over the soundtracks to all six Star Wars films, and it was his playing for John Williams on the first film – his first gig with the orchestra – that made Williams stick with the LSO for his future movies. But Murphy's playing was always cosmic in its splendour, as anyone will know who heard him with the brass section of the LSO in the countless concerts and recordings they made together.
  • Today on the Twitter blog, the company wrote a post that was all of three sentences to let people know about their new logos. Yay! But there’s actually quite a bit more to it then it seems. If you follow the link they provide to Guidelines page, you’ll find some interesting tidbits.
  • Mike Pantoliano of Distilled had a good post over at SEOmoz about how to turn Google Analytics into your own rank tracker. We have been playing with the cd= parameter at Yoast before to track SEO rankings, as Mike also notes, and his improvement on the idea is a welcome one. In the comments, my buddy Richard Baxter immediately suggested this would be a good addition to the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin. The "problem" was/is that Mike's example was in PHP, doing the rank recognition server side. This won't work, as we all use W3 Total Cache to cache our pages, right? And then, we'd be storing the same rank over and over again, or no rank at all, or, well you get it, mayhem ensues.
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    links for 2010-10-24

  • As most of you who visit the blog are probably aware, I record bands sometimes.  I like doing that kind of thing.  I record my OWN stuff all the time, but I particularly enjoy recording someone else.  It forces me to think differently and to try things I never would have done with my own music—mostly just because I’m pretty much dialed in to my “sound” and I don’t need to experiment to find it.  I love the recording process. Most of the time. Sometimes bands can make the engineering/mastering process, which I LOVE, a real pain in the ass.  The enjoyment of everyone in the project hinges on some very basic issues between the band and the engineer, and as a service to musicians (and as a hopefully fun read for anyone who wonders what a recording session looks like) I thought I’d offer a few suggestions that a band can take to make their project an easier effort for all involved.  I came up with 12 off the top of my head.  Thought about editing it down…
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    links for 2010-08-07

  • Just a quick note for those with a Netflix account. On a whim, I decided to check if they had any concert videos that I could get on DVD. I was looking for live recordings of any concert that I might like. There were a lot, but for the first few pages, they were mostly classical performances and other artists that I've never heard of. I like classical and I added one or two, but my eyes lit up when I noticed the Pink Floyd stuff. Of course, I had to do a specific search on Pink Floyd to see what else they had. The Wall made it into the queue first, but there were a lot of other discs I added. One that caught my eye was not of the band, but an instructional DVD on how to play their music style on guitar. Interesting. Does Netflix have a lot more pages of music lessons on DVD? Yes, they do. For the more specific, they have a subcategory specifically for guitar and banjo lessons. Great! Something else I learned about Netflix? Their DVD queue has a limit of 500 discs. That means that as
  • Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.
  • This photo was taken on July 20, 2008 using a Canon PowerShot SD750.
  • I'm proud to mention here that I'm soon to begin running a game for my two daughters Reese and Olivia and one other girl named Zoë, the daughter of a close family friend. This will likely be the first actual game for all three of them and just for them. For accuracy, my daughters have each had at least one turn in a gaming session or two with my sibling in-laws. During those sessions, I would play really loose with the rules (for them). I don't think we ever actually completed their characters except for the basics. In all honesty, my goal was to game with the adults, but I appeased the kids enough to let them play along. We had fun, but they weren't the focus and the game went over their head just a bit. But now, I've decided that they are both old enough (aged 8-11) to play the game for real. Zoë's parents also agreed, as we all used to game a bit back in college. And now it's going to happen.
  • My sister-in-law, my daughters and I saw the movie yesterday and here is my review of The Last Airbender. Approximate Genre: Children's fantasy, live-action adaptation of a cartoon, adventure Viewing Method: Theater (in Chicago), 3D Written and Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan I am a big fan of the cartoon series and watched it with my kids when it was on Nickelodeon originally. For a kid's show, it showed some emotional depth and was part of a rich fantasy world that resonated as real. Summary: It is a world of four nations and four elements; Water, Earth, Fire, Air. Aang is a boy who at the age of 12 learned he was the next Avatar, a spiritually important person who is imbued with the power to learn to control all four elements. Startled by this news, Aang runs away from home but gets lost in a storm and trapped in a block of ice for a hundred years. While he is gone, the Fire Nation begins a war of imperialistic conquest. Once Aang is released from the ice by his new friends Sokka
  • I like Apple. I like iTunes. That's what is going to make this hard (and yet so very easy) to write complaints about them. In yet another argument for never ever updating software ever, a setting that I depend on in iTunes buried deep in the preferences menu defaulted to factory settings. I should note that I'm not sure this happened during an update or for some other reason. I use iTunes for most of my music right now. I've used Winamp (yay), Windows Media Player (boo) and a few of the online services like Playlist.com. What I find most often is that none of these free tools is fully featured, but depending on what you need at that moment the right tool is available. That's a presumably common thread for free software, right? But for the longest time, Windows MP would not rip mp3s from CDs and neither would Winamp so when need this I used iTunes only. By default, the star software from Apple will rip your mp3s to a ridiculous place on your computer's hard drive.
  • Designer always wait for fresh and beautiful Html / CSS templates. So today we are providing 10 beautiful HTML / CSS web site templates of july 2010 for free download. Here you can get code files for editing and modifying according to the requirement you can edit color, fonts text every thing as you like. This is good way where upcoming designers can learn about website design with HTML / CSS templates. In our Last month’s post we wrapped up 10 best Html/CSS Web templates for free download and received lots of appreciation. This time I believe that you can find here another fresh piece of work. In this article there are many websites template examples like corporate business, blog, portfolio and e-commerce, school templates, iPhone templates design.
  • Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. No, it’s not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon. Well, provided they’re self-motivated learners. “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” Gates said at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA today. “It will be better than any single university,” he continued. He believes that no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. Whether it’s an MIT degree or if you got everything you know from lectures on the web, there needs to be a way to highlight that. He made sure to say that educational institutions are still vital for children, K-12. He spoke glowingly about charter schools, where kids can spend up to 80% of their time deeply engaged with learning.
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    links for 2010-06-20

  • Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music contains more than 62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885. Included are popular songs, operatic arias, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. The collection documents the attitudes and tastes of a bygone era with music of many varieties and sources, all of it published in the United States.
  • Excellent Big Band charts by top writers from anywhere in the world
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    links for 2010-05-21

  • Rock trio Muse has canceled and rescheduled dates on their upcoming fall tour due to the expected arrival of a new member of the Muse family. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme and his wife Kelly are expecting a child in November. Consequentially, the band has canceled the November 2nd show in Kansas City, MO and the November 3rd show in St. Louis, MO. The November 5th show in Columbus, Ohio will now be October 12 and the November 6th show in Cincinnati will be moved up to October 11. Tickets previously purchased for the Ohio show will be honored at the new dates. Refunds for canceled/rescheduled shows can be obtained at point of purchase.
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    links for 2010-04-25

  • Barbarian Hordes remix – made in Aviary – music editor – Barbarian Hordes.egg
  • Space Frontiers remix – Made in Aviary – music editor – Space Frontiers.egg
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    links for 2010-01-27

  • In the autumn of 1971 Don McLean's elegiac American Pie entered the collective consciousness, and over thirty years later remains one of the most discussed, dissected and debated songs that popular music has ever produced. A cultural event at the peak of its popularity in 1972, it reached the top of the Billboard 100 charts in a matter of weeks, selling more than 3 million copies; and at eight and a half minutes long, this was no mean feat. But this was no ordinary song, either: boldly original and thematically ambitious, what set American Pie apart had a lot to do with the way we weren't entirely sure what the song was about, provoking endless debates over its epic cast of characters. And these controversies remain with us to this day. But however open to interpretation the lyrics may have been, the song's emotional resonance was unmistakable: McLean was clearly relating a defining moment in the American experience—something had been lost, and we knew it. Opening with the death of sin
  • Over the past few years with the influence of premium themes, High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find. Designers and developers are selling their themes, which is right for their awesome effort and work, the free wordpress themes are not coming in the flow as they were used to some time. Nevertheless, we have went through many sources and are presenting a showcase of beautiful, but rather lesser known themes you might have missed. Here are 31 High Quality Free WordPress Themes.
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    links for 2010-01-13

  • What's better than a young hot girl playing a harp? :: Vidmax.com
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    links for 2010-01-12

  • After almost 19 years of performing together, The Gas House Gang is currently retired and will no longer be performing. After losing baritone Rob Henry to cancer in 2003, the GHG decided that it would not be the same without him. The gang was able to sing on all shows booked through 2005 thanks to the help of some very talented men who filled in for Rob. A huge THANK YOU goes out to: Michael Slamka / Brandon Guyton / Tony DeRosa DJ Hiner / Jonny Moroni and Kevin Keller for their help and support. The GHG has performed in all 50 states and 15 different countries. They have five recordings to their credit that have been top sellers in a cappella catalogs such as Primarily A Cappella and Mainely A Cappella. They have also received awards and nominations from CASA (Contemporary A Cappella Society). See our CARA (Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards) Nominations and Awards HERE. Having shared the stage with such distinguished performers as The Four Freshmen, The Swingle Singers, Ro
  • It’s a fact of life that when people hire a web designer, they don’t just want a website, they want a website that does something! There can be a world of difference between these two things. The "action" they need the website to take for them can be one of several common things: selling products for their business (an e-commerce site), generating sales leads, and/or providing free information in the hope that the visitor will make a purchase from the company at a later date. An Introduction to Website Split Testing These aims differ slightly for some sites, like non-profits, blogs and communities; however business sites in general aim to generate revenue by one of the above methods. Sometimes the client will split up these functions between two separate businesses – the website development will be taken care of by "Best Ever Web Designers Incorporated", while the marketing is done by "Your Ad Here Pty Ltd". However, if the push towards action (marketing) is created at the web desig
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