Free Friday or 3 Free Video Tools

VLC

VideoLan is cross platform and very portable media player.  I love it it.  It is easy to use and plays most anything without a hitch.  I prefer to bloat software like Windows media player and ITunes.

DeVeDe

DeVeDe is a Linux DVD and Video CD burner.  There is been port to Windows [...]

Worlds Largest Record Collection or The Jems In Those Stacks

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

The Archive is a nice little documentary on the largest record collection in the world. If you love vinyl this is Mecca.  I thought DJ Shadows secret record stash was big this is unbelievable. This is both amazing and sad that little care about it. If [...]

Building Custom Effects Pedals Video or More Revison3

I am getting addicted to Revision3. Here is video covering modding guitar pedal kits. You can easily find the whole seris from Christopher Willitis at his site including a video looking at Ableton Live 8.

DIY Headphone Amp Again or I Miss TechTV

This is great video on building the Chu Moy headphone amp. It is super cool and fun and one of the first projects I did. If you have wanted to do something like this it is a great project. The video even includes a soldering tutorial. Cool.

Free Friday or Free and Legal Torrents

We all know torrents are eating up all the bandwidth of the interwebs and destroying the entire world be pirating media.  Well, that might be true.  But the reason people use it for all the copyright violating is it works really good.  Pirates tend to be early adopters of the best technology.  The thing that [...]

End of Week Links or A Bunch or Unrelated Stuff

Julien Bayle can instruct you how to make a monome clones which is good because the monome always have a waiting list.

Music might have stopped me from being a misanthropic criminal so maybe this will change some that are ready are. Jail Guitar Doors is Billy Bragg’s initiative to provide inmates with musical instrument. [...]

4 Rock Docs or Music on Film

I always in the mood for a good Rock Doc. Below a collection of music documentaries that I have enjoyed recently.

1. Dig!

Even though I am not really a fan of either the Dandy Warhols or The Brian Jonestown Massacre(or clever references to overrated 60’s artist in your band name for that matter) I [...]

Korg Nano Video or Small Controllers Captured on Film

Found Via Chip collection:

Here is some video of one of those cool Korg Nano Controllers.  More at SOS also.

The Weekend Link Dump or Tiny Control, Desks, CD’s & Les

Found Via CDM

These new tiny tiny controls from Korg seem pretty damn cool. I am sure the is a market for these with all the mobile muscians out there. What took so long.

Desktopvibes same how nice images of some cool desktop areas. So if you workspace needs some work take a look.

Everyone [...]

Radiohead’s Nude Remix on PC parts or 6/8 Dot Matrix Rhythms

I found this on the very cool Retro Thing. When I heard about Radiohead’s remix contest for Nude I was excited. Then when I heard the track my enthusiasm waned a bit. Radiohead were having some fun with the song they selected. If Radiohead was a Shakespearean character the their fatal flaw [...]