G’DAY WORLD #304 – Social Activism update
Posted on 29. Nov, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast, social activism
As you know, I’m trying to figure out how I can make the world a better place. Today I had a chat with Richard Giles about some of the recent attempts I’ve made to volunteer for organisations like LifeLine and Big Brother Big Sister, my vision of a 21st century geek version of Rotary, and the following sites:
Mobile Phones and Social Activism
The track for today is:
Maritime
“For Science Fiction” (mp3)
from “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
(Flameshovel Records)
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Ducking in Adobe Audition
Posted on 28. Nov, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in podcasting
Here’s a great tip for any podcasters using Adobe Audition. Since I started using Garageband on my Macbook a few weeks ago, I have come to enjoy the wonderful “ducking” tool that is built into GB. Ducking automatically dips the volume of your backing music when someone starts talking in another track, and then lifts the volume again when the vocal track stops or there is some silence. It’s very cool. And it made we wonder why I had never seen that tool before in Audition which costs about $1600. Sure enough, there doesn’t seem to be a ducking effect in Audition. There is, however, a free plug-in that will do the trick for you. I’m using it now while I edit a particularly troublesome show and it’s saved me hours. Literally.
Fortunately, someone has already written step-by-step instructions on how to download, install and configure the plug-in. The guide is written for Audition 1.5 but worked fine for me in 2.0. Check out the ducking in Adobe Audition guide here.
A snippet of TPN in SL
Posted on 27. Nov, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in Second Life
Peter87 Hax captured a few seconds of me ranting in SL tonight. See what you’re missing out on?
My Strange Gift
Posted on 27. Nov, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in General
I got home from a lunch today to find a notice in my mailbox (the analogue one) from the post office. A parcel to collect. So I walked down to pick it up, thinking it might *finally* be my copy of Leopard from Apple (nope), and what I received was a package wrapped up in plain brown paper and string, with no details of the sender. I opened it up walking back down the street to find… this:
“Okay….”, I’m thinking, “I’m *finally* famous enough that people are sending me anonymous porn. I don’t remember *this* being in my Amazon wishlist… what a bitch it’s VHS… I’ll have to borrow the kids’ old VHS player and move it into my “special place”.”
I turn it over and see more of the same:
I opened it up and got this:
A close-up will show you what it actually is:
I think it’s from my friends at Paramount. Nice packaging! Certainly amused the hell outta me.