∞ Google+ Pages

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In life we connect with all kinds of people, places and things. There’s friends and family, of course, but there’s also the sports teams we root for, the coffee shops we’re loyal to, and the TV shows we can’t stop watching (to name a few).So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people. But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care about—from local businesses to global brands—so today we’re rolling out Google+ Pages worldwide.

Google is putting a lot into its social networking venture.

∞ 34 Veterans Day pictures

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One of my biggest peeves in life is how people do not show enough respect for the men and women that have served our countries.

∞ NY Times sues Huffington Post over blog name

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Reuters: In a lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Times said Huffington Post’s “Parentlode” blog had caused reader confusion with the newspaper’s 3-year-old “Motherlode” blog. Both blogs have been overseen by Lisa Belkin, who … Continued

∞ Illegal Immigrant

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The Associated Press has updated its stylebook entry on “illegal immigrant,” rejecting once again the “undocumented” term recommended by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, but approving “living in the country without legal permission” as an acceptable variation.

∞ When a community loses its newspaper

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Jim Romenesko: After publishing for 110 years, the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram went out of business and left the community of 30,000 without a daily newspaper. That was in 1993. “In Holyoke babies have been born, raised and sent off to college … Continued

∞ Photoshop Elements 10, Premiere Elements 10 in the Mac App Store

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Two of Adobe’s newest applications for the Mac have made their way onto the Mac App Store. Photoshop Elements 10 and Premiere Elements 10 are both available on Apple’s software store for download. Both applications cost $79.99 and weigh-in at about 1GB each. The Elements moniker signifies that these are Adobe’s consumer-level applications, but based on their professional counterpart.

∞ Making the impossible possible

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Adam Satariano and Peter Burrows for Businessweek: About five years ago, Apple (AAPL) design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature for the next MacBook: a small dot of green light above the screen, shining through the computer’s … Continued

∞ Streaming TV works

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Matt Alexander on CBS turning down Apple’s offer for streaming TV: The streaming model works. Once you’ve experienced the joy of watching what you want, when you want, it’s difficult to go back to regular television consumption. And yet, here … Continued

∞ Apple lossless compression tests

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Kirk McElhearn:

Just as when you compress a text file using zip compression, decompressing returns all the original letters and characters, lossless music compression provides the full fidelity of the original audio you compressed.

Nice compression overview by Kirk.

∞ ChronoSync

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I’d like to thank ChronoSync for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop. ChronoSync is the automated synchronization and backup application for Mac OS X and ChronoAgent for Mac is a utility that runs on the destination Mac and … Continued

∞ Clint Eastwood on gay marriage

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GQ: Because what I really believe is, let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to … Continued

∞ iPhone tops sales at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint

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Barrons.com:

Canaccord Genuity’s Mike Walkley this morning raised his already fairly high estimate for this quarter’s sales by Apple (AAPL) of its iPhone from 27 million units to 29 million units, after his “checks” last month suggested the iPhone 4S was the top seller at AT&T (T), Sprint-Nextel (S), and Verizon Communications (VZ).

Such a disappointment indeed.

∞ Multitrack bounces with EZDrummer and Logic Pro

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If you have EZDrummer then you’ll know there is no way to do this natively inside the plugin. There are however workarounds to this and I’m going to show you how to do this in Logic Pro. Although I’m in Logic this concept will work in any DAW that can feed a record input from an internal source.

Step-by-step instructions from MacProVideo.com.

∞ CBS turns down Apple TV streaming

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Ryan Lawler at GigaOM: Apple had long been rumored to be working on a subscription streaming service that would aggregate content from multiple TV networks and compete against more traditional cable and satellite services. That product ended up never coming … Continued

∞ Pro Tools 10 video tutorial

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Pro Tools 10 is chock full of new features and functions that will dramatically speed up your workflow and production time. Pro Tools guru Michael Costa takes you step by step through each new feature and function, in-depth, leaving no … Continued

∞ RIM is a 'wounded puppy'

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Hugo Miller and Matt Walcoff:

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM)’s decline below book value for the first time in nine years leaves the BlackBerry maker worth less than the net value of its property, patents and other assets in a sign of investors’ lowered faith.“This is a wounded puppy,” Timothy Ghriskey, who oversees $2 billion as chief investment officer of Solaris Group LLC in Bedford Hills, New York.

Investors had the chance to kick the co-CEOs to the curb at the last annual meeting and they didn’t. Instead they asked the pair softball questions and accepted their lame explanations. The downfall of the stock is much the fault of the investors as it is the CEOs at this point.

∞ BSA acquires Fusion Ads

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Chris and Michael, Fusion’s previous owners, have done a great job building and running the network. We’re honored to be the new owners, and plan to build upon the great work they have done. We will continue to run Fusion Ads as it’s own standalone network. The value we bring for Fusion publishers is our ability to run these types of networks efficiently, profitably, and with great care toward the community that they help support. The value we bring for advertisers is similar, but with the added benefit of our software running their campaigns that will have real-time insight into performance and hassle-free billing and creative management. We look forward to working hard to serve the Fusion Ads advertisers and publishers for years to come.

I was with Buy Sell Ads for two years before joining Fusion in September. Now I’m back, sort of. The BSA people were always good to me and the way ads are done on The Loop under Fusion will not change.

∞ iWatch has Bluetooth

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Joshua Schnell:

For instance, the iPod nano doesn’t have built in Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, so wirelessly connecting it to your audio systems is out of the question.Well, at least, that was a problem. A new Kickstarter project, named The Proof, has the lofty goal of changing all of that by including not only Bluetooth into their iWatch case design, but also waterproofing.

Lots of cool Kickstarter projects around. Good find by Schnell.

∞ Microsoft accuses Google of having no vision or roadmap

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Microsoft’s Tom Rizzo:

In cancelling this group of social media-like services, it is clear that Google is not in tune with the market needs and does not have a product roadmap and clear vision for productivity for their business customers. The Microsoft Office team does. Our vision demonstrates a clear focus on what business customers are looking for, such as intuitive interfaces across a wide range of devices.Google releases experimental products and tracks adoption to determine whether to continue providing them. Its products are like spaghetti, Google throws them up against the wall to see if they stick.

Michael Gartenberg’s take on Twitter is classic. “pot to kettle, you’re black.”

∞ Google's missed opportunity

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Matt Alexander:

I have nothing against Android, but I find it brutally frustrating to watch Google flounder in the face of the professionalism offered by iOS, and even Windows Phone.

∞ Graceful degradation

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Smashing Magazine:

Frequently, when I discuss CSS3 with other developers, the issue of stubborn clients comes up. They tell me that even though they personally don’t think a website should look the same in all browsers and they’re eager to try all of these new techniques, their clients insist that their website should look the same, so the developers are stuck with the same Web development techniques that we used five to ten years ago. Their clients just don’t “get” graceful degradation.

When we were doing the redesign for The Loop last summer, I told Phil that I don’t care about old browsers. Modern browsers only.

∞ Apple is not worried about the Kindle Fire

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BGR:

Following a meeting with the pair of Apple chief officers, Reitzes delivered a note to investors suggesting that the company sees Amazon’s forthcoming tablet as good news for the iPad. The Kindle Fire’s low price point makes it accessible, but Apple believes it further fragments the Android ecosystem, which may cause consumers to flee to the iPad.

This is just what I said back in September. Kindle Fire will be successful, but it’s not an iPad killer.

∞ My iPad guitar setup

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People have asked for my iPad guitar setup, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of what I use. Many of the people that email me ask how I write songs on the iPad. The fact is, I don’t. … Continued