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While browsing Entrecard sites, I have noticed something that I would like to address. There are a lot of Entrecarders out there who put their cards in a location that really makes a dropper try to find it.

Now, I get the idea that they are trying to get me to look at their ads. I’m not saying that I don’t look around these sites, I do. It just makes me feel like the ads are being forced upon me instead of being a helpful link to something. Most times they are not even relative to the content I am looking at – in any way.

In turn, I have begun to collect a list of Entrecarders who have decided to locate their cards in a great location – above the fold. Here is the list: Sabra Duffiney’s 300 Drops.

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When a friend of mine moved away, he left a few of his things here with me to use until he was able to re-attain them. My favorite of these things is a Roland JP-8000, an analog modeling synthesizer. Well, recently another friend set up his DJ gear in the studio and connected the JP-8000 to the mix through his Ableton Live setup. Without his mac and him here, I have been unable to use the JP-8000 without messing up his set-up.

Roland JP-8000

I am not a DJ as you know. I have no use for a program as complex, bulky and expensive as Ableton Live though it is a really great program. I found a way to skip Ableton Live altogether and just use my mac in place of his.

Sound Studio is a free program for Mac that can be used to bridge this gap. In the Sound Studio drop down menu at the top there is an option called “Preferences”. Select this and you will see a pop-up with a bunch of options. The one that matters most here is “Audio” > “Input”. This is where you change the source of your audio. The “Output section is where you will hear the audio being played.

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If you have been sharing links on sites such as Facebook and Digg, you may not be getting all of your AdSense revenue. Most times, when a user clicks a link on Facebook or Digg, they will see a framed page. Since your website then is inside of a “window” type frame, your site is not getting the actual traffic from that click, Digg and/or Facebook are.

There is a way to stop this from happening to you, and it is so very simple. Between the <head> and </head> tags of your website, one little JavaScript call is all you need to add. The code is as follows:

<script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”>
if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location);
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This will prevent your website from being framed in the future, and will prevent any loss of traffic and or revenue from ad providers such as AdSense.

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I have been wanting to start another blog about the musical things that are in my life.  There are 3 things that I love the most and they are my Family, Technology and Music!  The more I have been digging into different styles of music and how it is created, the more I realize that Modern Technology and Music are falling into step with each other.

Some of the greatest songs that are coming out today are technology driven.  Auto-tune is a proprietary audio processor which artists such as T-Pain, Uncle Cracker and Maroon 5 have used in their songs.  Synthesizers are an electronic instrument that is able to produce a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different sound frequencies.  Even drums can come in Electronic Form with sound kits and more – Roland V-Drums are a great example.

With all of this technology in today’s music and yesterday’s too, I just can’t figure out any good reason to start a whole new blog.   In turn, I will be integrating more of my musical experiments into this blog and keeping you updated not only on Computer tips and tricks, but also Technology in Music tips and advice!  Keep checking back for a broader spectrum of topics coming soon!

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I was messing around with some photos of my daughter today in Photoshop.  I enjoy playing with images, the little ‘accidents’ that happen can sometimes teach you a lot.  I am not a graphics designer, never will I claim to be.  I am still learning how to do more with Photoshop since switching to a Mac from a PC.  There are so many little things that are different.

As I was blending and brushing out the kool-aid from her lip I thought “This is the perfect image to lay out on a background”.  So, I grabbed a snowy mountain scene and laid her face on top of it.  This is the cool part, and I have no idea how I did it.  I will soon figure out how to replicate this action.  She went from being a full on image to a ghost.

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Facebook made some huge changes about a year ago that truly turned their site around. Prior to these changes, Facebook was more for people that were trying to connect to old school buddies. Then it became a site for people to connect without so much of a college influence and has gained upwards of 3 million users.

Well, after everyone flocked to the new user interface on Facebook, they changed their tune again. Unlike MySpace, Facebook decided to surprise all of the users with these “Grand new changes”. When MySpace changed their user interface, they gave the users a choice to switch to the new, or to stay with the old. The users of Facebook had no warning, and no clue that everything they were used to was about to change. Usually change takes time to adjust to, whether it is a change in a life situation or it is a website that changed a bunch of stuff.

What do you think? Are they good changes? Are they changes that should be reverted? Should Facebook leave well enough alone and change it back, or should they stick to their guns? Should we trust the developers of Facebook a bit more to be actually moving toward improvements, or do you think that the management doesn’t know what the users really want?

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