The New Team For MusicTechForMe Podcasts -Get Ready!
September 1, 2010 – 6:52 pm | View Comments

Prof. V. Keith Mason from Belmont University and I have officially agreed to team-up and do this year’s podcasts at MusicTechForMe.Com.   I am very excited for the opportunity to work with him and for our new podcast format.   Keith …

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Social Media Usage Is Explosive! -Social Media Counter
August 4, 2010 – 5:38 pm | View Comments
Social Media Usage Is Explosive! -Social Media Counter

Just a quick post an post and counter embed to show just how proflic Social Media has become in our online-everyday-lives.   Gary Hayes, from PersonalizedMedia.com has put together an incredible counter (yep, it’s embeddable) to …

Music Education Personal Learning Networks and Twitter ~Free Webinar In June!
May 26, 2010 – 11:00 am | View Comments
Music Education Personal Learning Networks and Twitter ~Free Webinar In June!

On June 7th at 7PM EDT/ 11PM GMT, I hope you will join me for a free Webinar discussing the importance of the emerging concepts of Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) as they relate to educators, specifically …

How Do You Find A Favicon Graphic File Of A Website?
April 10, 2010 – 10:00 pm | View Comments
How Do You Find A Favicon Graphic File Of A Website?

Finding a Favicon (usually called favicon.ico) of a Website is sometimes difficult.  There are various legitimate reasons why you might need to find these particular icons and a simple Google Search typically doesn’t turn up “good” answers …

More Effectively Managing The Twitter Data Stream While Participating With The MusEdChat
March 5, 2010 – 12:12 am | View Comments
More Effectively Managing The Twitter Data Stream While Participating With The MusEdChat

Quick Update 4/5/2010: I’ve updated the TweetGrid Template.  -Try this new template here
Last week was the inaugural launch of the weekly Music Education Twitter Chat.  If you participated, you witnessed and were involved with one of …

Microsoft 7, The Upgrade Play by Play, Expanding Files Fix, And More
October 23, 2009 – 11:58 am | View Comments
Microsoft 7, The Upgrade Play by Play, Expanding Files Fix, And More

I put myself through yet another Microsoft Upgrade Process as an “early adopter”  just so that I could understand better what everyone will be experiencing when they choose to upgrade their Microsoft Products (If possible, the …

Almost A Dozen Amazing, New, Unique, And Interesting Search Engines
October 8, 2008 – 10:09 am | View Comments

I spent a little time last night looking for and trhorugh a number of new search engines.  The following is a list of that I found that were interesting in some way (I looked at about fifty …

Using WordPress As A Music Organizational CMS
September 11, 2008 – 10:06 pm | View Comments

As many of you know that follow me and my WordPress exploits, I can honestly say that I have not found any website/blogging platform that is easier to use and yet offers, nearly, endless flexibility for creation …

Did You Ever Wonder If There Was A Global UnSubscribe Spam List?
June 3, 2008 – 10:58 am | View Comments

If you’ve ever wondered if there was a way to globally unsubscribe to spammers and spam list, you’re out of luck. There is no such thing.  I was researching this topic today and found a fairly authoritative …

Blue Snowball Microphone (USB Mics), Great For Some Audio Applications…What About Latency?
May 23, 2008 – 2:08 pm | View Comments

The Blue Snowball Microphone is definitely on the “cool” end of USB Microphones.   Blue Microphones have been making their “ball” type microphones for a number of years now and the “Snowball” is their latest USB …

An Interesting Problem With NBC.com, IE, And Tablet PCs
April 10, 2008 – 10:14 am | View Comments

This computer problem was brought to my attention and I thought I would post it on Mustech.net to see if any of you SUPER TECH SAVVY people out there could shed some light on this …

The End Of The High Definition Format War: Blu-ray Is The Champion
February 20, 2008 – 1:51 pm | View Comments

Toshiba has “called it quits” and Sony’s Blu-ray format has become the undisputed “winner” of the high definition wars.  Quite frankly, I’m glad the war has ended.
I decided that I was going to wait until …

The Best Free Web Hosting Site I’ve Found So Far…
February 11, 2008 – 11:57 am | View Comments

I’m sure as soon as I post this, I’m going to get a lot of feedback from others suggesting other great free hosting sites…and I welcome the feedback!  I’ve been looking for a free hosting …

Powerpoint Presentation About Syndicating, R.S.S. And Web 2.0 From Grand Rapids
February 10, 2008 – 9:53 am | View Comments

Hey all,
       I’ve taken a tip from Will and am going to embed the PowerPoint presentation I spoke about in a previous post into this post.  If you are interested in the “power” of R.S.S. …

Bloggers: A New Way To Get A Rush Of Blog Traffic Through Syndication Or Just Hype?
September 16, 2007 – 10:10 pm | View Comments

 
I’ve found a great new way to syndicate your blog and help drive targeted traffic to your site.  You can see it in action on the right side of my site http://www.mustech.net. It’s called Blog …

GREEN Portable Media Lovers Take Note: Hand-Cranked Media Players Now Shipping!
September 13, 2007 – 11:47 am | View Comments

Wow, here is an electronic gadget that I would have never thought… The wind-up, portable, super duper, EMP-MX71 Eco Media Player:

This little guy has 2GB (or 1 GB, reports vary) of Ram built in and a slot …

How Long Is A Gigastack Of Compact Discs?
July 12, 2007 – 4:52 am | View Comments

Understanding just how much a kilo-something, mega-this, giga-what or terra-anything is can be quite confusing.  In my classes, I’ve found, when talking about megabytes and gigabytes, using an illustration can be quite helpful.  Most new …

Full RSS Feeds And Odiogo- Now You Can Listen To Posts At Mustech.net
June 18, 2007 – 7:44 pm | View Comments

Mustech.net has been included as a blogger site for audio enabled feeds made available from Odiogo’s latest audio technology.  Odiogo brings the power of text to audio in a brilliant and user friendly way.  Each post at …

What Is RSS and Atom? RSS 101: Understanding The Feed Monsters
May 24, 2007 – 2:39 am | View Comments

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.  One of it’s earlier standards also referred to it as Rich Site Summary; either description is now used interchangeably.  Syndication can be defined as sharing information or …

Sound Reinforcement and Jazz: Mustech.net Podcast, E6
May 9, 2007 – 6:30 pm | View Comments

Sound Reinforcement and Jazz: Mustech.net Podcast, E6
Original Air Date: 5/10/2007
Podcasting Site: http://mustech.podomatic.com
Website: http://www.mustech.net
Podcasters: Joseph Pisano and Darren Morton
Episode 6’s Show:
Episode 6 is part one of a two part series that discusses live sound mixing and the Grove City …

Xbox 360 Now Supports Mpeg-4/H.264 And Other Video Codings
May 9, 2007 – 6:26 pm | View Comments

Just a quick blurb to let you all know that the new Xbox 360 update has been released and now supports more advanced video coding options. In particular, it will allow for Mpeg-4 containers and …