Archive for August 9th, 2006

Guitar Software

Published by Yuletide on August 9, 2006 in Guitar, Hacks, Software, Software and Tablature. 0 Comments

WOW! There is tons of free guitar software out there… Even a handful of apps that can open GuitarPro files (prolly do a better job than the POS mac version of guitarpro). (These are either osx apps, LINUX apps that can run on OSX, or Web/Java apps). [All are usable at least under OSX, though at levels of functionality that I can't yet say]
Found via Sourceforge.net

**TabView:”TabView makes it possible to view and print PowerTab tablatures. PowerTab is a well-known and widely adopted tablature editor for Windows systems. You can easily find thousands of song transcriptions in this format on the net. (OSX App)”

**DGuitar Pro: Views, Prints and Plays Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) files!!

**TuxGuitar: A multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, Opens GP3,GP4 and GP5 files! Works!! And made “Images” by Cacaphony sound awesome, since it changed a few of the instruments from the GP4 file… (Electronic drums! haha!) And is much smoother working than the official GP for Mac (< a href="http://apoc.buildtolearn.net/wordpress/2006/08/07/guitar-pro-5-for-mac/">blech). Yay!

Hendrix “trains your chords switching skill, in guitar or piano or any other harmonic tool. Hendrix includes metronome and guitar chords dictionary. JavaScript only!”

Tuners:
Instrument Tuner in Java

Untested/Whack:
Tablature is a Java program that lets you author guitar and bass tablatures graphically, playback the songs and publish them into the Web !” (Works, but is awkward and not so useful…)
KGuitar: Untested guitar tab editor for KDE (might work in X11, but don’t have the time to test right now). Can open GP4 files!

Oh, and Lieberman

Published by Yuletide on August 9, 2006 in Funny and Politics. 0 Comments

Yeah… He is way cool:

Speculation seems to be that Lieberman, a closet Republican since 2003, if he’s no longer able to do it in the Senate, aims to help his friend George Bush in any way he can, including splitting the Democratic vote to allow a GOP candidate to win in November.

The question is why Mr. Lieberman, once respected enough by Democrats that he was chosen as their vice presidential candidate, would turn on his party and it’s principles to give such unfailing support to one of the stupidest Republican presidents in the history of that party. The answer, according to political analyst Melvin Gibson is, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” But in a time when Americans are slowly waking up to the fact that George W. Bush’s policies are destroying the planet, Mr. Lieberman seems to be out of step with anyone who wants to live.

The Future of the Web

Published by Yuletide on August 9, 2006 in Tech and Trends. 0 Comments

Some smart guys from Sun Microsystems on the future of the web (happy 15th birthday, Web!):

  • P2P won’t be a deciding factor
  • Centralized registration sites will be
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