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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411</id><updated>2024-02-08T07:30:09.417+05:30</updated><category term="Technology"/><category term="Animation"/><category term="PC Help"/><category term="Thief and the Cobbler"/><category term="Audio"/><category term="Linux"/><category term="Apps"/><category term="Music"/><category term="Troubleshooting"/><category term="Mac"/><category term="NLE"/><category term="Video"/><category term="Videography"/><title type='text'>NKM: Creating Multimedia</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default?alt=atom'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>16</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-4100904149362968475</id><published>2016-03-19T19:38:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2016-03-19T19:38:08.506+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Animation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Audio"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="NLE"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Video"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Videography"/><title type='text'>HitFilm Express - Best (Free) Editor Ever!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  2. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  3. &lt;a href=&quot;https://s3.amazonaws.com/fxhome-static/images/global/hf/primary-96.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://s3.amazonaws.com/fxhome-static/images/global/hf/primary-96.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  5. &lt;br /&gt;
  6. If you haven&#39;t heard of HitFilm, well, I don&#39;t blame you. I didn&#39;t hear about it either until very recently. I was tasked with creating certain samples (or previz) for a video, but I had to create it using free tools. Enter HitFilm.&lt;br /&gt;
  7. &lt;br /&gt;
  8. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  9. What is HitFilm?&lt;/h3&gt;
  10. &lt;div&gt;
  11. HitFilm Express is a free video editing software for Windows and Mac. There are many on the market, but this particular editor just so happens to be professionally built. That&#39;s what makes it stand out from the rest of the market. It&#39;s not just an editor, but an &lt;b&gt;editor and compositor &lt;/b&gt;combined! As you&#39;re editing your video, if you happen to need motion graphics, just create a new composition, fiddle around until you&#39;re happy, and insert it directly into your editing timeline! It&#39;s that simple!&lt;/div&gt;
  12. &lt;div&gt;
  13. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  14. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  15. Interface&lt;/h3&gt;
  16. &lt;div&gt;
  17. The interface looks very familiar to the Adobe collection, a combination of Premiere and After Effects, to be precise. In fact, several of the keyboard shortcuts are exactly the same (like v for the Move Tool).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  19. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  21. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zy-zhw1eqGM/hqdefault.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zy-zhw1eqGM/hqdefault.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  23. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  24. &lt;h3 style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  25. Pricing&lt;/h3&gt;
  26. &lt;div&gt;
  27. What I really like about HitFilm is that they have various different pricing options:&lt;/div&gt;
  28. &lt;div&gt;
  29. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  30. &lt;div&gt;
  31. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  32. &lt;li&gt;HitFilm Express: &lt;b&gt;Free&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;+ optional paid plugins&lt;/li&gt;
  33. &lt;li&gt;HitFilm Ignite: &lt;b&gt;$199 &lt;/b&gt;for over 140 plugins (for use in your favorite NLE)&lt;/li&gt;
  34. &lt;li&gt;HitFilm Pro: &lt;b&gt;$349 &lt;/b&gt;for software&amp;nbsp;+ HitFilm Ignite&lt;/li&gt;
  35. &lt;li&gt;HitFilm Studio: &lt;b&gt;$649&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for software&amp;nbsp;+ HitFilm Ignite&amp;nbsp;+ Stock content (&lt;b&gt;31.8 GB&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
  36. &lt;/ul&gt;
  37. &lt;div&gt;
  38. The optional paid plugins for &lt;b&gt;HitFilm Express&lt;/b&gt; can be purchased from within the software, or online. There are 14 different add-ons available, with prices ranging from as low as $10 (for the starter pack) to $100 (for Particle Simulators, or 3D Model Toolkit).&lt;/div&gt;
  39. &lt;/div&gt;
  40. &lt;div&gt;
  41. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  42. &lt;div&gt;
  43. &lt;b&gt;HitFilm Ignite&lt;/b&gt; basically a large collection of (140+)&amp;nbsp;plugins (created by HitFilm) for you to use in your favorite software. It&#39;s compatible with Ae, Premiere, FCP, Motion, Vegas, DaVinci, and Nuke.&lt;/div&gt;
  44. &lt;div&gt;
  45. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  46. &lt;div&gt;
  47. &lt;b&gt;HitFilm Pro&lt;/b&gt; comes with the basic software, HitFilm Ignite, as well as some extra plugins, like Mocha hitfilm.&lt;/div&gt;
  48. &lt;div&gt;
  49. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  50. &lt;div&gt;
  51. &lt;b&gt;Hitfilm Studio&lt;/b&gt; is a big package. It contains HitFilm Pro, Hitfilm Ignite, Sony Catalyst Production Suite, and a collection of stock content. The stock content contains gunfire, flame throwers, ground hits, and more, and is available in 4K, HD, and 120fps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  52. &lt;div&gt;
  53. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  54. &lt;div&gt;
  55. &lt;b&gt;Sony Catalyst Production Suite&lt;/b&gt; contains Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit. The Catalyst Production Suite is used for preparing, organizing, and ingesting video into your NLE workflow. This package can be purchased separately from HitFilm for &lt;b&gt;$399&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;if needed, or as a part of HitFilm Studio.&lt;/div&gt;
  56. &lt;div&gt;
  57. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  58. &lt;h3&gt;
  59. Who is it for?&lt;/h3&gt;
  60. &lt;div&gt;
  61. From amateurs and enthusiasts to professionals on a budget, HitFilm is suitable for everyone! If you&#39;re just getting started with videography, and want to try our your skills, this is a perfect place to start! It provides a professional interface and platform, free of cost. As your requirements grow, you can purchase add-ons as needed. If you&#39;re a professional, and need to edit on a system that doesn&#39;t have a professional NLE (like I had to), then this is a wonderful substitute. If you&#39;re a professional indie filmmaker, considering HitFilm for your production, HitFilm Pro / Studio have amazing functionality. &lt;b&gt;HitFilm truly is for everyone.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  62. &lt;div&gt;
  63. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  64. &lt;div&gt;
  65. Now, if this is your first time using an NLE, then there might be a steep learning curve, but that&#39;s true for any professional editing software. Personally, I don&#39;t have to worry about that.&lt;/div&gt;
  66. &lt;div&gt;
  67. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  68. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  69. Personal Experience&lt;/h3&gt;
  70. &lt;div&gt;
  71. If you&#39;re used to working with Adobe Dynamic Link, you&#39;re going to &lt;i style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;love &lt;/i&gt;HitFilm. You can edit and composite within the same software! Just fire up a new composition, do what you need to, and throw it onto a timeline! Not what you were looking for? Go back in, make the changes, and get back to the timeline! The integration is just brilliant!&lt;/div&gt;
  72. &lt;div&gt;
  73. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  74. &lt;div&gt;
  75. I had a wonderful time working with HitFilm Express. I fired it up, and the interface looked instantly familiar (I&#39;m used to an Adobe post-production workflow). I took a while rearranging my workspace the way I liked, looked through the manual for a few critical shortcuts, and that&#39;s it! Within half an hour, I felt very much at ease, and was working like a pro!&lt;/div&gt;
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  77. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  78. &lt;div&gt;
  79. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  80. &lt;div&gt;
  81. &lt;i&gt;visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://hitfilm.com/&quot;&gt;hitfilm.com&lt;/a&gt; for more information&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  82. &lt;div&gt;
  83. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  84. &lt;/div&gt;
  85. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/4100904149362968475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/03/hitfilm-express-best-free-editor-ever.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/4100904149362968475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/4100904149362968475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/03/hitfilm-express-best-free-editor-ever.html' title='HitFilm Express - Best (Free) Editor Ever!'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-5430823279766935315</id><published>2016-02-22T18:30:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2016-02-22T18:30:37.019+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Animation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Linux"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PC Help"/><title type='text'>Portable Multimedia Suite III - GIMP</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  86. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  87. What is GIMP?&lt;/h3&gt;
  88. &lt;br /&gt;
  89. Okay, I&#39;m going to get straight to it. GIMP is an open source image manipulation program (&lt;b&gt;GNU Image Manipulation Program&lt;/b&gt;). It&#39;s a free alternative to Photoshop. I have recently been working on a project using nothing but free softwares, and naturally, GIMP is one of the first tools that I fired up. It&#39;s really good!&lt;br /&gt;
  90. &lt;br /&gt;
  91. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  92. Who is it for?&lt;/h3&gt;
  93. &lt;div&gt;
  94. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  95. &lt;li&gt;Artists who can&#39;t afford Photoshop&lt;/li&gt;
  96. &lt;li&gt;Artists who have Photoshop, but can&#39;t access it&lt;/li&gt;
  97. &lt;li&gt;Amateurs interested in getting into image editing&lt;/li&gt;
  98. &lt;/ul&gt;
  99. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  100. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/images/frontpage/wilber-big.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://www.gimp.org/images/frontpage/wilber-big.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  101. &lt;div&gt;
  102. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  103. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  104. Why use GIMP:&lt;/h3&gt;
  105. &lt;/div&gt;
  106. &lt;div&gt;
  107. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  108. &lt;li&gt;Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux)&lt;/li&gt;
  109. &lt;li&gt;Easy to adapt to/from Photoshop&lt;/li&gt;
  110. &lt;li&gt;Supports Layers, Layer Masks, custom patterns and many other useful features&lt;/li&gt;
  111. &lt;li&gt;Supports reading PSD files&lt;/li&gt;
  112. &lt;li&gt;Supports scripting in C, C++, C#, Python, Perl, and Ruby! Ironically, no JS, VBS, or AppleScript - the 3 languages that Photoshop supports :P&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
  113. &lt;li&gt;Does pretty much everything you&#39;d expect from a &lt;i&gt;professional&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;image editing program&lt;/li&gt;
  114. &lt;li&gt;Offers plenty of documentation, and there are loads of 3rd party learning resources&lt;/li&gt;
  115. &lt;li&gt;It&#39;s free!&lt;/li&gt;
  116. &lt;/ul&gt;
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  118. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgli80rgcq-hHraGblvxvuYmGfojeMscIdtAfP-V5O7DKmpLvhwzSHdeV2AQJe2_J5iZCd1MwECCSaFcXhkjgzgrvPvwP0Dr1lNQTqsrKVE1zDroVg7neCNxNKOZgWVIGoPj-rZ3x27KtoW/s1600/python-fu.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;156&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgli80rgcq-hHraGblvxvuYmGfojeMscIdtAfP-V5O7DKmpLvhwzSHdeV2AQJe2_J5iZCd1MwECCSaFcXhkjgzgrvPvwP0Dr1lNQTqsrKVE1zDroVg7neCNxNKOZgWVIGoPj-rZ3x27KtoW/s320/python-fu.JPG&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  119. &lt;div&gt;
  120. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  121. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  122. The Issues:&lt;/h3&gt;
  123. &lt;div&gt;
  124. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  125. &lt;li&gt;Personally, I find the shortcuts to be crazy&lt;/li&gt;
  126. &lt;li&gt;Cannot select multiple layers at a time. So, if you&#39;re grouping layers, you have to create a folder, and put one layer in at a time.&lt;/li&gt;
  127. &lt;li&gt;When moving layers with your keyboard arrow keys, you need to select a layer, and click on the canvas before moving. Otherwise, the arrow keys are used to select different layers.&lt;/li&gt;
  128. &lt;li&gt;Creating a layer mask opens up a menu asking you to select what to fill it with (full white, full black, use selection, use layer&#39;s alpha channel, etc). It would&#39;ve been nice if they just applied a default, and provided a menu driven window to access those options.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
  129. &lt;/ul&gt;
  130. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  131. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEherva3Bcc3nWWP3BHOm20EHrQOVGIvufE8JRCi7zBJU3dkFVmk0UIAO9EBvO8yZlQnDLibtxSd3he9jZhI9f2aVIj7DpWTP8x2TSNr4lwB9tLaxJbURA2jbrqDSEgrmh01a_XcTp8WTlEe/s1600/Layers.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEherva3Bcc3nWWP3BHOm20EHrQOVGIvufE8JRCi7zBJU3dkFVmk0UIAO9EBvO8yZlQnDLibtxSd3he9jZhI9f2aVIj7DpWTP8x2TSNr4lwB9tLaxJbURA2jbrqDSEgrmh01a_XcTp8WTlEe/s320/Layers.JPG&quot; width=&quot;187&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  132. &lt;div&gt;
  133. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  134. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  135. Closing Thoughts:&lt;/h3&gt;
  136. &lt;/div&gt;
  137. &lt;div&gt;
  138. There are quite a few irritating quirks about GIMP that take a while to get used to (like the ones listed above). Personally, I feel that that&#39;s to be expected of any open source software. After all, these tools are not professionally built; they&#39;re created by a community. Keeping that in mind, I would have to say that GIMP is without a doubt the best open source multimedia application I have seen! (I haven&#39;t used blender, so don&#39;t throw that in my face). This is officially the &lt;b&gt;first &lt;/b&gt;software I&#39;d add to any&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;portable multimedia suite&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;that I make in future.&lt;/div&gt;
  139. &lt;div&gt;
  140. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  141. &lt;div&gt;
  142. &lt;b&gt;Bonus 1: &lt;/b&gt;It comes pre-installed in Ubuntu Studio!&lt;/div&gt;
  143. &lt;div&gt;
  144. &lt;b&gt;Bonus 2: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gimpbook.com/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Click here for a &lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gimpbook.com/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;free ebook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;on using GIMP. It covers everything from navigation to scripting!&lt;/div&gt;
  145. &lt;div&gt;
  146. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  147. &lt;/div&gt;
  148. &lt;/div&gt;
  149. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/5430823279766935315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/02/portable-multimedia-suite-iii-gimp.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5430823279766935315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5430823279766935315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/02/portable-multimedia-suite-iii-gimp.html' title='Portable Multimedia Suite III - GIMP'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgli80rgcq-hHraGblvxvuYmGfojeMscIdtAfP-V5O7DKmpLvhwzSHdeV2AQJe2_J5iZCd1MwECCSaFcXhkjgzgrvPvwP0Dr1lNQTqsrKVE1zDroVg7neCNxNKOZgWVIGoPj-rZ3x27KtoW/s72-c/python-fu.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-660379844569724030</id><published>2016-01-24T15:43:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2016-01-24T15:46:31.793+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Linux"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mac"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PC Help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Troubleshooting"/><title type='text'>God Bless Ubuntu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  150. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  151. The Backstory:&lt;/h3&gt;
  152. &lt;div&gt;
  153. After postponing for a while, I finally met up with a client and collected my work for their next project. I did what I always do: copied all the needed files in a pen drive. Usually, I&#39;d format it before taking it with me, but somehow it just slipped. The only thing I had in that pen drive was Ubuntu Studio, along with some other random files. I knew there weren&#39;t any viruses, so there&#39;s really no point in formatting my drive (other than to look neat).&lt;/div&gt;
  154. &lt;div&gt;
  155. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  156. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  157. The Plot:&lt;/h3&gt;
  158. &lt;div&gt;
  159. I met my client, came home, had lunch, and plugged in my pen drive, only to find this:&lt;/div&gt;
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  167. The files I need are inside that folder....the selected one.....which has now become &quot;DATA.exe&quot;....&lt;/div&gt;
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  171. GREAT!!&lt;/div&gt;
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  175. Apparently, I picked up a virus.&lt;/div&gt;
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  197. Now, I can&#39;t fix this on my mac without installing some random software, which I really don&#39;t want to do. Judging from the damage, this seems to be a rather simple virus, something even Windows Defender could handle. On the other hand, the virus would become active the moment I plug it into Windows. It&#39;s probably not going to do much, but I can&#39;t risk losing those files. (I don&#39;t want to end up asking my client for another copy; that&#39;s just unprofessional)&lt;/div&gt;
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  201. Eventually, I decided to fire up Ubuntu (not the one on my pen drive), and see how that flies. So, I booted up, mounted my pen drive, and guess what?&lt;br /&gt;
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  210. Lo and behold, I can access my folder again! I love how you can see both the original folder, and the virus! Ha ha.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  219. So, I backed up what I needed, formatted the drive, and went back to catching up on this years Oscar Nominations. (My money is on Eddie Redmayne. Better luck next time DiCaprio!)&lt;/div&gt;
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  231. The Conclusion:&lt;/h3&gt;
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  233. And that, my friends, is the story of how Linux, an open source operating system, was more helpful to me than either Mac or Windows! You don&#39;t need to be a geek to use Linux! (I&#39;m not saying that I&#39;m not one, but hey, that&#39;s just me). You don&#39;t even have to use it, just have a copy lying around for times like this! What harm could it possibly do you?&lt;/div&gt;
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  242. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HBKzFdRabmv3zzVBTxbRcGXGB6WdhY7uKKBMhBFYck3IVALgYJ3qGU-hA6oPhq1V3sMg4aFFzvzcfMlqDDHALNMyIcOoATRLOPNNxqBwtc48xW5cHgfi23ZlfaNd5Vbcme7Ax77hN7Rr/s1600/ubuntu_logo.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  243. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Download your copy of Ubuntu now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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  251. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/660379844569724030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/01/god-bless-ubuntu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/660379844569724030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/660379844569724030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2016/01/god-bless-ubuntu.html' title='God Bless Ubuntu'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGeSsRU_Env5EKmpxVz9cWaZodDPFMUQRXQZGaLexowoXAx2b5FR3xDmO0c6EVWTlkhrIQ4iB_FX7FJLAciLHl2FsFKx9hzwvm62xRtFXBwk07boOvWmahvGdp3zAc2hLNotCmnTCEi-3/s72-c/Mac.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-7231572543924071824</id><published>2015-10-12T10:07:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2015-10-12T10:10:37.308+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Audio"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><title type='text'>Musical Maturity 05: Time (or) Meter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  253. It&#39;s&#39; been 5 and 1/2 months since my previous post in this series, (sorry) so I&#39;ll need some time to get back on track. Okay....(for my older blogs in this series, visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nkmaudio.weebly.com/&quot;&gt;nkmaudio.weebly.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;
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  262. What is Time?&lt;/h2&gt;
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  264. In 9th grade, my physics teacher told me that time is something that could never be clearly defined. Wikipedia defines it as&amp;nbsp;a measure in which events can be ordered from the&amp;nbsp;past&amp;nbsp;through the&amp;nbsp;present&amp;nbsp;into the&amp;nbsp;future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.....perhaps a bit confusing.&lt;br /&gt;
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  266. In music, time &amp;nbsp;refers to the time signature, or meter of a song. Despite the large number of time signatures in existence, there are only 2 meters: duple and triple.&lt;br /&gt;
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  268. &lt;strong&gt;Duple: DOWN, up, DOWN, up&lt;br /&gt;Triple: DOWN, up, up, DOWN, up up&lt;/strong&gt;All time signatures are derived from, or variations of, these 2 meters.&lt;/div&gt;
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  270. Time signatures define how many beats are in a measure (or taala), and the notational duration of each beat. In western music, it&#39;s represented as a fraction:&lt;/div&gt;
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  272. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;3/4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  274. This time signature signifies that there are 3 beats per measure, where each beat has the duration of a quarter note. This is an example of triple meter.&lt;/div&gt;
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  283. Why do we need it?&lt;/h2&gt;
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  285. Time signatures do more than just indicate the structure of the song. Each time signature has certain rhythms associated with it. For example, 3/4 indicates&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;waltz time&lt;/strong&gt;. 6/8 is commonly used for faster&lt;strong&gt;dance music&lt;/strong&gt;. My point is,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;position: relative;&quot;&gt;time and rhythm go hand in hand.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  287. Listening to music and trying to identify the meter, time signature, and the rhythms are excellent ways of improving your sense of music. Later, think back and try to group certain rhythms with certain meters. You&#39;ll soon find patterns emerge, correlating these 3 elements. Unfortunately, this is something you need to experience for yourself. Listening to uncommon time signatures helps a lot. My personal favorite signature is&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;7/8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  296. How does this help compose?&lt;/h2&gt;
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  298. Any rhythm that you play has to finally fit in your meter. Understanding how rhythm intertwines with time signatures can help you make&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;intelligent choices&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;in your music. For example, if you want your song to be interesting, the first thing you need is a catchy rhythm. Okay.........how do you get compose a catchy rhythm?&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Force yourself to use a catchy time signature, of course!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  300. For example,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;5/4, 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, 15/16&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  302. I think you get the picture. Any signature with an odd number of beats, will easily churn out an interesting rhythm. Unfortunately, 3/4 can&#39;t make this category, because it&#39;s pretty much over used, and, a bit slow to form an intriguing rhythm.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  311. Final Thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;
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  313. I realize that this has been a rather ambiguous blog. There&#39;s really nothing here about&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;position: relative;&quot;&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;to come up with a complex rhythm. I&#39;ll delve into that a later time......hopefully. Until then, keep analyzing.&lt;/div&gt;
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  315. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/7231572543924071824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/10/musical-maturity-05-time-or-meter.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/7231572543924071824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/7231572543924071824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/10/musical-maturity-05-time-or-meter.html' title='Musical Maturity 05: Time (or) Meter'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-8995281346646980159</id><published>2015-10-01T00:00:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2015-10-01T00:00:01.599+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Animation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thief and the Cobbler"/><title type='text'>Visualizin Zigzag: Teeth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  319. We&#39;ve been talking about Zigzag a LOT, right? Well, we&#39;re not done! Have you noticed his teeth? Yes, they&#39;re perfectly straight, no, there&#39;s nothing wrong with them. So, why did I bring it up? Let me give you a lesson on human teeth, that will distract you so much, that you&#39;ll be staring at people&#39;s teeth instead of paying attention to what they&#39;re saying. Okay, here we go:&lt;br /&gt;
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  324. If you observe someones mouth when they talk, look at the position of their teeth, with reference to their lips. Most of the time, you&#39;ll find that you can predominantly see their top set of teeth, while the bottom set peeks out occasionally. In some cases, you&#39;ll find the opposite to be true. Although, from what I&#39;ve seen, people always show their top teeth when smiling (even if they predominantly display their bottom teeth when talking).&lt;br /&gt;
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  328. Now, according to Richard Williams, Vincent Price (voice actor of Zigzag) inspired the teeth on this character. Apparently, when Price delivers his dialogues, you would sometimes see his top teeth, sometimes see his bottom teeth, and sometimes, you could see both sets of teeth at the same time! Personally, I am sorry to say that I haven&#39;t seen any of Vincent Prices&#39;s movies (he&#39;s actually an actor), but when I do, I&#39;ll be sure to keenly observe his teeth!&lt;br /&gt;
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  333. Coming back to the topic at hand, look at Zigzag&#39;s teeth. You can almost &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;see both sets of his teeth! .....That kind of creeps me out a little bit. Hey, he&#39;s an antagonist, so, the creepier the better! Haha.&lt;br /&gt;
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  343. Okay, we&#39;ve covered hands, but don&#39;t they still look kind of weird? Is there something you&#39;re missing? Take a closer look - not at the hands as a whole, but at the fingers individually...yes it&#39;s creepy, but why? Certainly not &lt;i&gt;just &lt;/i&gt;because it&#39;s long.....(or that he has so much bling)&lt;/div&gt;
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  353. As I&#39;ve already mentioned, animating a character with 6 fingers on each hand is hard enough, but adding an extra joint on each finger is just insane! Sure enough, you never notice &lt;i style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;any &lt;/i&gt;of this stuff when watching the movie. It just goes to show that Richard Williams truly is a master animator.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  375. Take a good look at Zigzag&#39;s hands. Notice anything? Well, aside from the fact that they&#39;re extremely long......Have you tried counting the fingers?&lt;/div&gt;
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  385. 6 fingers!! Now let me tell you something: making fingers move believably is one of the most difficult parts of animating any character. Many cartoon characters only have 4 fingers, and dealing with 5 is hard enough, but 6! Man! What leaves me even more dumbstruck is that, I&#39;ve seen the Thief and the Cobbler &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;many&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; times, over the past....well...15 years I&#39;d say! In all these years, I never noticed this quirk. I only found out when I heard it in a documentary.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  389. Let&#39;s put things in perspective. Humans have 5 fingers. When we see a character with 4 fingers, we notice right away. It just slaps us in the face! Zigzag has 6 fingers.....and yet, he&#39;s animated so convincingly, that you don&#39;t for a &lt;i style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;second,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;doubt&amp;nbsp;that he has anything other that 5 fingers! The thought never even crosses your mind!&lt;/div&gt;
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  393. Well that&#39;s it for today. I&#39;ll be back tomorrow with something along the same lines of this same topic. Keep your eyes peeled!&lt;/div&gt;
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  408. I&#39;m assuming you&#39;ve seen the Thief and the Cobbler by now. I&#39;ll kick off my series starting with character designs and personalities. First up is my favorite character, Zigzag. Evident from the title, I&#39;ll discuss his posture.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  412. Take a moment to look at the above picture. Do you see anything unique, or....out of ordinary? To be honest, there are LOTS of weird quirks hidden in this character, and I&#39;ll walk you through them, one at a time. For now, lets start with the most obvious-the position of his head. Compared to the rest of his body, shouldn&#39;t the head be a bit higher up?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  416. Notice how his shoulders stretch way up. It&#39;s physically impossible for a human skeleton to position itself that way. Try it out! So why is it like that? Yes, I&#39;m aware of the exaggeration principle of animation, but Richard Williams was trained by Ken Harris, who was known for his excruciatingly minimal use of exaggeration. [Ironically, he worked for Warner Bros.]&lt;/div&gt;
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  439. His shoulders are actually the wings of a vulture! This gives Zigzag the look of a predator, waiting to devour a decaying carcass. But this is only one of his oh so many quirks. Stay tuned for the others, and until then, keep observing!&lt;/div&gt;
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  452. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/4462201500247652083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/09/visualizing-zigzag-posture.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/4462201500247652083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/4462201500247652083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/09/visualizing-zigzag-posture.html' title='Visualizing Zigzag: Posture'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCT3X8sEEbwBdlPTCJGJlEgy4hPyd-v1Hyi7T_ZfCweezC_YKutdKcdU4rm70FfJ28ujgACbWBunkYdcGDK8De4_n4z3AU-1-w-nt7jVgZIzBvM6ZD_R88tEIDX-kG8w5ItPZNUF3wzBhh/s72-c/Zigzag+Model+Sheet+2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-1503049394510548286</id><published>2015-09-27T17:48:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2015-09-27T17:48:35.647+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Animation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thief and the Cobbler"/><title type='text'>The Thief and the Cobbler: The Greatest Animated Film Never Made</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  455. If you have heard of The Thief and the Cobbler, then I applaud you. Unfortunately, chances are, you haven&#39;t; and there are reasons for that. Personally, I feel that this movie deserves to be known. It was supposed to be Richard Williams&#39;s animated masterpiece, but sadly, never saw the light of day.&lt;br /&gt;
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  457. I&#39;d like to mention upfront that in this blog, I&#39;m not referring to the Miramax edition [the one with horrible songs], or Lionsgate&#39;s &quot;Princess and the Cobbler&quot;. Both of those are horribly butchered versions of Williams&#39;s original intentions. I am referring to Garrett Gilchrist&#39;s fan-made restoration, the &quot;Recobbled Cut&quot;. This happens to be the closest thing to the originally intended masterpiece.&lt;br /&gt;
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  459. Have you heard of Richard Williams? No? Have you heard of Who Framed Rodger Rabbit? Well, Williams was the director of animation of Rodger Rabbit, and won 2 academy awards for it. He also won an Oscar for his animated version of Charles Dickens &quot;A Christmas Carol&quot;. In fact, A Christmas Carol was actually a test of sorts to see if it would be possible to create such an impossible movie like Thief and the Cobbler.....have I sold it enough yet?&lt;br /&gt;
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  461. Now you might be wondering what makes this movie so special. Well, I&#39;m glad you asked. You see, this film was in production for 28 years, only to be mercilessly grabbed out of the director&#39;s hand, sliced into an unrecognizable pulp, leading to an inevitable box office failure. I would like to spend the next several months going into details about all this history, and why I love this film. I promise to keep the blogs short, and to the point.&lt;br /&gt;
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  463. In 2012, director Kevin Schreck made a documentary about the tragic story behind this movie. Ironically, this documentary titled &quot;Persistence of Vision&quot;, won many international awards and was screened at film festivals all over the world. I haven&#39;t had a chance to watch it yet, but would obviously love to!&lt;br /&gt;
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  465. DISCLAIMER: Thief and the Cobbler is not a movie for the fainthearted. If you are not a fan of animation, then this film will most certainly bore you. What you are seeing is an incomplete film.....just wanted to put that out there.&lt;br /&gt;
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  492. As any Mac owner knows, beyond the sleek design and performance, this piece of machinery comes with its baggage. I won&#39;t get into many issues, just one in particular: &lt;b&gt;backward compatibility&lt;/b&gt;. It all started when I wanted to install Maya 2016 yesterday, but it required that I update my OS. After much hesitation and deliberation, I decided to go ahead and move up to Yosemite. This, as usual, led to a world of problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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  511. As you can see above, the first problem I encountered was a driver problem for the GPU. The display started acting crazy. Luckily, a couple of updates fixed that issue. Next, I started running my most important apps to make sure they still work. This left me with 3 Java Update requirements, 3 OS incompatibilities, 3 damaged app errors, one configuration error and one plain old &quot;can&#39;t be opened&quot; error. Oh, and PTGui just keeps bouncing without doing anything else.&lt;br /&gt;
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  520. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlonuHDq5rvJltDNPGuhviiEWsXj9lDBtkd5GXATd49qr9lWJK6U5r97hvtPHAGe8l63Q8vRvpEjIOWqwQTZz3jT4EcHELxw1hVcIVHDTYHCTKSGeBrvjua0pYLm3S9ON744P-OyX6Kqd/s1600/Finale-Comp.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;116&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHlonuHDq5rvJltDNPGuhviiEWsXj9lDBtkd5GXATd49qr9lWJK6U5r97hvtPHAGe8l63Q8vRvpEjIOWqwQTZz3jT4EcHELxw1hVcIVHDTYHCTKSGeBrvjua0pYLm3S9ON744P-OyX6Kqd/s320/Finale-Comp.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  521. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Finale 2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  522. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  523. First thing I did, was install Java SE6 runtime. That fixed Illustrator and Flash, but Finale wasn&#39;t as lucky. It started running, but when I created a note, it displayed an error: &lt;b&gt;&quot;Unhandled Exception Caught&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and closed. Next time, it just &lt;b&gt;&quot;quit unexpectedly&quot;&lt;/b&gt;. At first, I thought something was wrong with the Garritian Instruments plugin, but it crashed even when using the default SoftSynth instruments. Eventually, I was able to use it a bit, but it&#39;s still very unstable.&lt;br /&gt;
  524. &lt;br /&gt;
  525. &lt;br /&gt;
  526. &lt;br /&gt;
  527. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  528. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUvp0lbPmjts2vU46p_NKicqDOQCgpxN6ogNdJZpE_C3s5x61iuCqxlQ2b953W1odWKzxONQufPOTev-9rpBHnr2AgYxMHFRXGOichTy-GGUqUkQUjXTdiS0mBta5wOsYSBi0KZRE_Xo9/s1600/AE.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUvp0lbPmjts2vU46p_NKicqDOQCgpxN6ogNdJZpE_C3s5x61iuCqxlQ2b953W1odWKzxONQufPOTev-9rpBHnr2AgYxMHFRXGOichTy-GGUqUkQUjXTdiS0mBta5wOsYSBi0KZRE_Xo9/s320/AE.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  529. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;After Effects CS6&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  530. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  531. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  532. &lt;div&gt;
  533. Next, I searched for an update for After Effects CS6. I found one on Adobe&#39;s website, and after installation, it started running smoothly. *Phew* That one was a bit scary. I can&#39;t imagine working without AE. I had to install newer versions of FCP and Compressor to get those working too. (OMG! Compressor looks completely different!)&lt;br /&gt;
  534. &lt;br /&gt;
  535. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  536. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiV_F3I_H7Sj_UZdqgdCDLHmn0v63DeYgpwVnnAhb0OR8zKiGQUk3sd_hbrssgEoaFYaXPJJl5-sPwEEJ55IvAKkUWrdp7_WngZ51s56ZrlV4HeClXcOyQRzKU7LOdcs8aNZlOEbKS3_WD/s1600/Nuke.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiV_F3I_H7Sj_UZdqgdCDLHmn0v63DeYgpwVnnAhb0OR8zKiGQUk3sd_hbrssgEoaFYaXPJJl5-sPwEEJ55IvAKkUWrdp7_WngZ51s56ZrlV4HeClXcOyQRzKU7LOdcs8aNZlOEbKS3_WD/s320/Nuke.jpg&quot; width=&quot;282&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  537. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Nuke Studio 9&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  538. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  539. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  540. &lt;div&gt;
  541. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  542. &lt;br /&gt;
  543. &lt;br /&gt;
  544. &lt;div&gt;
  545. &lt;br /&gt;
  546. &lt;br /&gt;
  547. &lt;br /&gt;
  548. &lt;br /&gt;
  549. Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio all refused to open, claiming that the app was &lt;b&gt;&quot;damaged or incomplete&quot;&lt;/b&gt;. A quick reinstallation took care of that. And I have to say, way to go on the non-commercial license! Thank you, The Foundry!&lt;br /&gt;
  550. &lt;br /&gt;
  551. &lt;br /&gt;
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  560. &lt;br /&gt;
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  562. &lt;br /&gt;
  563. &lt;br /&gt;
  564. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: left; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  565. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHrExJ0cTlOxM2FtXBORTP7gv72Oci0QWDD3ybDNKi0QI8rnZLgI-TBls9yNHd3QuTCWZlbLdLFXKen5F9QkmxX0vD_RKRtL1FJVf8NWtacTQyiCtK-_Is8HxUCqTI_WryzGvtIrcPAEuR/s1600/DaVinci.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;213&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHrExJ0cTlOxM2FtXBORTP7gv72Oci0QWDD3ybDNKi0QI8rnZLgI-TBls9yNHd3QuTCWZlbLdLFXKen5F9QkmxX0vD_RKRtL1FJVf8NWtacTQyiCtK-_Is8HxUCqTI_WryzGvtIrcPAEuR/s320/DaVinci.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  566. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;DaVinci Resolve Lite 11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  567. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  568. &lt;br /&gt;
  569. DaVinci Resolve was kind of a weird fix. I uninstalled the current version and tried to reinstall it, but got an error saying&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  570. &lt;div&gt;
  571. &lt;b&gt;&quot;Mac OS X 10.6 or Later Required&quot;&lt;/b&gt;....Um.....I&#39;m running 10.10!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  572. &lt;div&gt;
  573. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  574. &lt;div&gt;
  575. Whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
  576. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  577. &lt;div&gt;
  578. Thankfully, the lite version of DaVinci is free, so I just downloaded and installed the latest version from Black Magic Design&#39;s website.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
  579. &lt;div&gt;
  580. &lt;br /&gt;
  581. &lt;br /&gt;
  582. &lt;br /&gt;
  583. (&lt;i&gt;They have a &lt;b&gt;linux&lt;/b&gt; version now?? Sweet!&lt;/i&gt;) I can&#39;t wait for them to launch a mac version of Fusion! I love professional grade freeware.&lt;/div&gt;
  584. &lt;div&gt;
  585. &lt;br /&gt;
  586. &lt;br /&gt;
  587. &lt;br /&gt;
  588. &lt;table cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  589. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQdp3NUL-ymvqp96lVzmyJOglnlZhBtJO6qPLb18agYbadSMvFaTMisWrzzV6XUWlOsUU-hxyBwa62hkLRL5EUMBONqwss-3BMIWxDyiE21X8B43t-gf4I5CbLHu0nPgNCPLtsIEM9VGK/s1600/Kontakt.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;214&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMQdp3NUL-ymvqp96lVzmyJOglnlZhBtJO6qPLb18agYbadSMvFaTMisWrzzV6XUWlOsUU-hxyBwa62hkLRL5EUMBONqwss-3BMIWxDyiE21X8B43t-gf4I5CbLHu0nPgNCPLtsIEM9VGK/s320/Kontakt.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  590. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Logic Pro 9 running Kontakt 5&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  591. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  592. &lt;br /&gt;
  593. &lt;br /&gt;
  594. &lt;br /&gt;
  595. Something weird happened with Kontakt. When opened as a standalone software from applications, it gave me a blunt message saying &lt;b&gt;&quot;Can&#39;t be Opened&quot;&lt;/b&gt;. Interestingly, I can still load it as a plugin inside of Logic...Well, that&#39;s really the only way I&#39;m going to use it, so, whatever. I&#39;ll just let it be.&lt;br /&gt;
  596. &lt;br /&gt;
  597. &lt;br /&gt;
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  600. &lt;br /&gt;
  601. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  602. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;While I was fixing all of this, I noticed something crop up on my Activity Monitor. I typically have a habit of keeping it open whenever I work, and for good reason. My CPU usage was suddenly sky rocketing for no apparent reason. A closer look revealed the cause to be a process initiated by HP? What? This useless process was eating up my resources much like a virus, and kept relaunching upon termination. A quick search online showed I wasn&#39;t alone. Apparently, this was caused by a printer driver.....so much for that update from apple! Removing it was an instant fix.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  603. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  604. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Note to self: don&#39;t update drives unless necessary.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  605. &lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
  606. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7-eg65r9zI1CylhBnuALcuKJeuqdEjBxc82l-kyooi_ZR__1tWqzvYzHbt0r8DSuFb6Ka2Xyhjq2Nsr_JSXgtaYwN3ITrQK3v1hLYG7jBjzk9OmTqYqZXyVWuI0YhB5qjliQ16Vevgxf/s1600/HP_TransportProxy.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;98&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7-eg65r9zI1CylhBnuALcuKJeuqdEjBxc82l-kyooi_ZR__1tWqzvYzHbt0r8DSuFb6Ka2Xyhjq2Nsr_JSXgtaYwN3ITrQK3v1hLYG7jBjzk9OmTqYqZXyVWuI0YhB5qjliQ16Vevgxf/s640/HP_TransportProxy.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  607. &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;HP&#39;s custom made virus&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  608. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
  609. &lt;div&gt;
  610. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  611. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  612. &lt;/h3&gt;
  613. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  614. Closing Thoughts&lt;/h3&gt;
  615. &lt;/div&gt;
  616. &lt;div&gt;
  617. During the OS update, the installer displayed an error, saying that my Wacom driver will not be supported. Apparently it went ahead and automatically uninstalled it. I downloaded the latest driver and now, my pen tab seems to work fine. In the end, I could never get PTGui working. I guess I fixed everything other than that and Finale...oh well. Irritating as these issues may be, they all stem from one root cause -&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Mac is based on Unix&lt;/i&gt;. Unix has lousy backward compatibility. Like it or not, such issues have to be expected. Although, at the end of the day, I&#39;d rather debug a Windows than a Mac.&lt;br /&gt;
  618. &lt;br /&gt;
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  620. &lt;/div&gt;
  621. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  622. &lt;b&gt;P.S. - Red iTunes?? Seriously???&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  624. &lt;/div&gt;
  625. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  626. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4C572JKuqgnmaut-O0uFQGiLN94TAEZlAXrGCnTv-2aL0geHOjyUoRpos5lF4ssDy38iuy4aSJ1sDG0Q90rtYAUFUBpfJ_PMCorE3W-jdwJb4tWzP25j7_sr8uq-bDMjYWzaIQN8bT6Z/s1600/Wacom.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;220&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4C572JKuqgnmaut-O0uFQGiLN94TAEZlAXrGCnTv-2aL0geHOjyUoRpos5lF4ssDy38iuy4aSJ1sDG0Q90rtYAUFUBpfJ_PMCorE3W-jdwJb4tWzP25j7_sr8uq-bDMjYWzaIQN8bT6Z/s320/Wacom.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  628. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  629. &lt;/div&gt;
  630. &lt;/div&gt;
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  632. I previously blogged about carrying around a studio in your pocket. For those who&#39;d like to get started with that, you can download the latest version of Ubuntu Studio &lt;a href=&quot;https://ubuntustudio.org/download/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. To get it to run off of a pen drive,read my old article &lt;a href=&quot;http://nkmultimedia.weebly.com/using-puppy-linux.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. However, I&#39;m now beginning to wonder whether Ubuntu Studio is appropriate for this task. Am I contradicting myself? Well, allow me to explain.&lt;br /&gt;
  633. &lt;br /&gt;
  634. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  635. The Ironic Predicament&lt;/h3&gt;
  636. &lt;div&gt;
  637. Ubuntu Studio comes packaged with a lot of wonderful multimedia tools. That&#39;s what makes it such a handy OS. Unfortunately, it comes with so many, that one might consider it bordering bloatware! Basically, it&#39;s a collection of all major multimedia software available for the OS, neatly bundled and ready to use, but honestly, no one is going to use every single one software. We all have our own tastes and preferences. Ordinarily, this shouldn&#39;t be such a big deal, but we need this solution to be portable, every bit counts! Anything that &lt;b&gt;can&lt;/b&gt; be cut, &lt;b&gt;should&lt;/b&gt; be cut. Now, we have 2 options:&lt;/div&gt;
  638. &lt;div&gt;
  639. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  640. &lt;li&gt;Install Ubuntu Studio and remove all software that you&#39;re not going to use, then add any additional apps you need (like VLC!)&lt;/li&gt;
  641. &lt;/ul&gt;
  642. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  643. &lt;li&gt;Install plain old Ubuntu and simply install the tools that you &lt;b&gt;will&lt;/b&gt; use.&lt;/li&gt;
  644. &lt;/ul&gt;
  645. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  646. Weighing the Options&lt;/h3&gt;
  647. &lt;div&gt;
  648. The latter seems to be an ideal choice, only it&#39;s more work than meets the eye. You see, you can&#39;t just install your apps and expect them to work; you also have to install whatever packages are needed to support your app. For example, if you need to edit a video, you have to install an editor, &lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt; the codec required to make the editor support your video. Ubuntu Studio offers all of that functionality right out of the box. Not to mention, the interface of Ubuntu Studio was designed for artists. It&#39;s just so much better! Fortunately, you can install a theme that provides that same interface for Ubuntu.&lt;/div&gt;
  649. &lt;div&gt;
  650. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  651. &lt;div&gt;
  652. Unfortunately, the problem with the former is that we are running a live cd version, so uninstalling apps is a problem. Removing software from a cd image seems counterintuitive. I&#39;ve tried, and, well, it seems to have been removed, but I didn&#39;t see a decrease in file size, so I guess it&#39;s entry was just deleted......&lt;/div&gt;
  653. &lt;div&gt;
  654. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  655. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  656. The Not-So-Elegant Solution&lt;/h3&gt;
  657. &lt;div&gt;
  658. There exists an app called the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/uck/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ubuntu Customization Kit&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;which claims to let you create a customized version of Ubuntu, and create an installation disk for it. Basically, you can make whatever changes you want, install or uninstall whatever software you want, and make a live cd version of the OS &lt;b&gt;at that state&lt;/b&gt;, providing you with your own custom flavor of Ubuntu. Unfortunately, it involves coding, and I don&#39;t know the first thing about Unix. Honestly, it would be a lot easier to just get a pen drive with a couple gigs of extra space, but.......well, what&#39;s the fun in that?&lt;/div&gt;
  659. &lt;div&gt;
  660. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  661. &lt;div&gt;
  662. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  663. &lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  664. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP7Cot1usbNm8tnf0i6OeRxdK6gFKRbZKocCaXbgxbL6jKtKyqqcPxA7_Bz1TIh13vIpAgcbbClICJIf6caI7kz8dhhb1avZCExRxKqARW01CHkUVY53oVjfHxlM4BUgBzQ8Ee0pbXiAiN/s1600/uck_install_03.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;313&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP7Cot1usbNm8tnf0i6OeRxdK6gFKRbZKocCaXbgxbL6jKtKyqqcPxA7_Bz1TIh13vIpAgcbbClICJIf6caI7kz8dhhb1avZCExRxKqARW01CHkUVY53oVjfHxlM4BUgBzQ8Ee0pbXiAiN/s400/uck_install_03.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  666. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  668. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  669. &lt;/div&gt;
  670. &lt;/div&gt;
  671. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/7573914685102859734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/portable-multimedia-suite-ii-to-studio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/7573914685102859734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/7573914685102859734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/portable-multimedia-suite-ii-to-studio.html' title='Portable Multimedia Suite II: To Studio, or Not to Studio'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP7Cot1usbNm8tnf0i6OeRxdK6gFKRbZKocCaXbgxbL6jKtKyqqcPxA7_Bz1TIh13vIpAgcbbClICJIf6caI7kz8dhhb1avZCExRxKqARW01CHkUVY53oVjfHxlM4BUgBzQ8Ee0pbXiAiN/s72-c/uck_install_03.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-3488055782996631202</id><published>2015-06-11T17:33:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2015-09-26T10:59:21.515+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PC Help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Troubleshooting"/><title type='text'>Cleaning Browser Redirect Virus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  672. How many times has this happened: You&#39;re on google, click on some search result, which initiates a chain of web page redirections to various malicious websites? Well, you&#39;re not alone. There are a lot of articles explaining how to clear such issues on Windows or a Mac, but come on people! We&#39;re one and a half decades into the 21st century! Most people are now surfing on their smartphones and tablets, which means iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry must be taken into account! I&#39;ll cover the 1st &amp;nbsp;two here, but the same concept should work on any device.&lt;br /&gt;
  673. &lt;br /&gt;
  674. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  675. &lt;b&gt;STEP 1: Clear Browsing Data&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  676. That&#39;s right. Start with the basics. Clear ALL browsing data: history, cache, cookies, everything. Pretty standard stuff.&lt;br /&gt;
  677. &lt;br /&gt;
  678. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  679. &lt;b&gt;STEP 2: Change Your DNS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  680. &lt;br /&gt;
  681. &lt;blockquote class=&quot;tr_bq&quot;&gt;
  682. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #46494d; font-family: tradegothic_light; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.533333361148834px; line-height: 34px;&quot;&gt;OpenDNS is built on four cornerstones: safety/security, speed, intelligence and reliability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
  683. &lt;br /&gt;
  684. Okay, I don&#39;t know why this works, but it just does! When you surf the web, your device connects to the internet through a DNS server. The default server is provided by your service provider, but by all means can be changed if necessary. We are going to switch to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.opendns.com/about/global-dns-infrastructure/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OpenDNS&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;I&#39;m going to assume you&#39;re browsing through wifi.&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;With that said, here&#39;s what you do:&lt;br /&gt;
  685. &lt;br /&gt;
  686. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  687. &lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  688. iOS:&lt;/h4&gt;
  689. &lt;div&gt;
  690. Go to Settings &amp;gt; Wifi and edit the network you&#39;re connected to. Change the DNS to &lt;b style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;208.67.222.222&lt;/b&gt;. You should be fine now.&lt;/div&gt;
  691. &lt;div&gt;
  692. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  693. &lt;h4 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  694. Android OS:&lt;/h4&gt;
  695. &lt;div&gt;
  696. Go to Settings &amp;gt; Wifi, long click the network you&#39;re connected to and select &lt;i&gt;Modify Network Config&lt;/i&gt;. Enable &lt;i&gt;Show Advanced Options&lt;/i&gt;. For some reason, Android doesn&#39;t let you modify your DNS unless you use a static IP Address.....whatever. Go ahead and switch the IP Setting from DHCP to Static. Scroll down to DNS 1 and change it to &lt;i style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;208.67.222.222&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
  697. &lt;div&gt;
  698. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  699. &lt;h3 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  700. That&#39;s All Folks&lt;/h3&gt;
  701. &lt;div&gt;
  702. OpenDNS seems to offer much better security than my service provider. This fix has worked in most cases I&#39;ve seen. I&#39;d love to hear your results in the comments. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;
  703. &lt;br /&gt;
  704. -Niranjan&lt;/div&gt;
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  706. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  707. &lt;/div&gt;
  708. &lt;/div&gt;
  709. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/3488055782996631202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/cleaning-browser-redirect-virus.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/3488055782996631202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/3488055782996631202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/cleaning-browser-redirect-virus.html' title='Cleaning Browser Redirect Virus'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-5597348677242457390</id><published>2015-06-02T15:09:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2015-09-26T10:59:46.204+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Linux"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="PC Help"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Portable Multimedia Suite - I: Introduction</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  710. Are you an artist? If so, you know the hardships of having to ready your computer by installing a plethora of software before you can use it properly. Well, at least that&#39;s your computer, so it&#39;s just a one time process. On the flip side, when you&#39;re on someone else&#39;s computer, and your creativity strikes, what do you do? Obviously, since they don&#39;t have the required software, there&#39;s really not much that you can do! Have you ever felt this handicap before? Don&#39;t you ever wish you could do something about it? If so, you&#39;re not alone.&lt;br /&gt;
  711. &lt;br /&gt;
  712. For many years now, it has been my dream to establish a portable multimedia solution. Essentially, something that would let me work on any computer, without having to depend on them installing any software. The obvious solution that came to mind was to do something with a pen drive....but what? Initially, I tried using portable versions of various software, but, if you&#39;ve tried this, you know exactly how irritating it is. Most of the time, it doesn&#39;t even work! Now what?&lt;br /&gt;
  713. &lt;br /&gt;
  714. Along this journey, I have tried out using several different distributions of Linux to find an ideal version to store on a bootable pen drive, for emergency situations (for instance, accessing data from a PC that won&#39;t boot). Eventually, I decided to use Puppy Linux for that particular cause &lt;a href=&quot;http://nkmultimedia.weebly.com/pc-isnt-bootingdidnt-backup-my-dataaaahhhh.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;(you can read further in my older blog&lt;/a&gt;). That&#39;s fine for basic tasks, but you can&#39;t exactly use it for creating media. So, a few months ago, I ended up installing Ubuntu Studio to get a hang of using it. At the time, my basic goal was to avoid using Microsoft as much as possible :P&lt;br /&gt;
  715. &lt;br /&gt;
  716. After using Ubuntu for the past 6 months, I finally have the urge to see how far I can push this OS; not in terms of software, or portability, but both! I want to create a pen drive containing a bootable version of Ubuntu Studio, that has all the apps you need to create and edit media. This particular distro of Ubuntu comes with many such apps preinstalled, but there are still a lot you need to add manually. For example, it lacks a decent video editing software. I heard Cinelerra was a good one...haven&#39;t tried it out though.&lt;br /&gt;
  717. &lt;br /&gt;
  718. Anyways, think about how great it would be to just carry around a pen drive, that lets you use ANY COMPUTER to complete your work! Editing? Photography? Composing? Writing? You name it! And the beauty of it is, if you don&#39;t have the right app for something, you can always install it!&lt;br /&gt;
  719. &lt;br /&gt;
  720. The only down side is, you have to learn a whole new set of tools, and more often than not, they won&#39;t be as sophisticated as your professional software packages. On the bright side, it&#39;s always better than nothing. After all, you don&#39;t really need Avid Media Composer for editing you home videos, now do you?&lt;br /&gt;
  721. &lt;br /&gt;
  722. In the long run, I want this to be part of a larger set of tools used to trouble shoot a computer. Clearly, all that&#39;ll have to wait. Over the next few weeks, I&#39;ll delve in to my experience of creating this Portable Solution. One step at a time!&lt;br /&gt;
  723. &lt;br /&gt;
  724. -Niranjan&lt;/div&gt;
  725. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/5597348677242457390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/portable-multimedia-suite-i-introduction.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5597348677242457390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5597348677242457390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/06/portable-multimedia-suite-i-introduction.html' title='Portable Multimedia Suite - I: Introduction'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-5515740480901072381</id><published>2015-05-23T14:38:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2015-09-26T11:00:45.011+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Audio"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Neutron Player</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  726. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;
  727. For the past few months, I&#39;ve been on a hunt for the ideal music app for android. What I primarily look for is:&lt;/div&gt;
  728. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;
  729. Out of the box sound quality&lt;br /&gt;
  730. Gapless playback&lt;br /&gt;
  731. Good Interface&lt;br /&gt;
  732. Decent EQ&lt;br /&gt;
  733. Battery life&lt;/div&gt;
  734. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;
  735. The first app I tried (after some searching online) was Neutron Player. Aaaah, neutron player! I still get shivers thinking about it! Amazing sound quality!! Drastic improvement transitioning from Samsung&#39;s player! True gapless playback! According to their specs, it analyzes your audio files to find out the exact SAMPLE at which the music ends! There&#39;s literally no way to detect the transition unless you&#39;re staring directly at your phone!&lt;/div&gt;
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  737. Regarding it&#39;s interface, I&#39;ve read many people complaining about it&#39;s unintuitive complexity. In fact, a friend of mine actually asked me how to get it to play your music! Personally, I just love it! Yes, it&#39;s different, but that doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s bad. Different people have different tastes; this just so happens to be mine.&lt;/div&gt;
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  739. Neutrons equalizer comes with a built in preamp, which is always useful for those pesky songs with low volume. Bonus points for displaying the sound spectrum of the file! It&#39;s not just for looks-it&#39;ll help you eq your song. I read a review on Google play, complaining that there&#39;s no option to apply separate eqs to the left and right channels! Apparently it&#39;s needed by those with a hearing problem.....I can honestly say I never even imagined such a feature.&lt;/div&gt;
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  741. This app comes with quite a few effects, but I prefer listening to music the way the composer intended. In fact, that&#39;s the only reason I eq my songs in the first place. But where this app shines is with its ability to enable 64-bit processing and dithering for higher quality output. Apart from that, I don&#39;t use any feature, nor do I intend to.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  743. The lock screen widget is very handy! When I&#39;m sitting at work with with my headphones plugged in, a lot of the time, I just need to change something in my music app. Most apps these days have a lock screen widget, but none this efficient.&amp;nbsp; You can access the ENTIRE app without unlocking! So you can go in, change the song, EQ and other settings, all while your phone is locked!&lt;/div&gt;
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  745. A very important thing to note-Neutron guzzles up battery like a dense neuron star after its supernova (a.k.a: a black hole). Perhaps that&#39;s where it gets its name from :D Jokes aside, if you plan to use this app full time, be prepared to carry a power bank, or some other charging source.&lt;/div&gt;
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  747. Sadly, the trial app had a usage time limit, after which it prevents you from playing anything. But then again,&amp;nbsp; no one would buy the full version of it didn&#39;t.&amp;nbsp; Mine timed out over a month ago, so everything I&#39;ve written is from my recollection of using it. On the bright side, they didn&#39;t lock out any features just because you&#39;re using a trial version. You have access to the entire app, throughout the trial.&lt;/div&gt;
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  749. As of now, I have to say my search isn&#39;t really to find a ideal app, but rather an app that compares to neutron player. That&#39;s how much I enjoyed the experience! *sigh* ....Well, gotta keep lookin!&lt;/div&gt;
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  751. &lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neutroncode.mp&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;referrer=utm_source%3Dgoogle%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_term%3Dneutron+player&amp;amp;pcampaignid=APPU_1_cUFgVfHtC8OgugTVkICIDw&quot;&gt;Get Neutron Player&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  753. Price as of May 2015: &amp;nbsp; Rs.379&lt;/div&gt;
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  755. &lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe3xIFWENvtdYNUKqHu1uwKab0iybagBXRedJoA-cBGBh-Fk8JIlRMM8XBscviCX2nmENbIEF7-ddHbLa8sEJa3uDKoYLSUxZkblzfRmk8TroWmTFn-V4x3k0beWuGQJ_HkfOXk4Snxnz/s1600/Screenshot_2015-02-19-22-38-14.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt; &lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe3xIFWENvtdYNUKqHu1uwKab0iybagBXRedJoA-cBGBh-Fk8JIlRMM8XBscviCX2nmENbIEF7-ddHbLa8sEJa3uDKoYLSUxZkblzfRmk8TroWmTFn-V4x3k0beWuGQJ_HkfOXk4Snxnz/s640/Screenshot_2015-02-19-22-38-14.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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  760. &lt;/div&gt;
  761. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/5515740480901072381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/neutron-player.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5515740480901072381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5515740480901072381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/neutron-player.html' title='Neutron Player'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe3xIFWENvtdYNUKqHu1uwKab0iybagBXRedJoA-cBGBh-Fk8JIlRMM8XBscviCX2nmENbIEF7-ddHbLa8sEJa3uDKoYLSUxZkblzfRmk8TroWmTFn-V4x3k0beWuGQJ_HkfOXk4Snxnz/s72-c/Screenshot_2015-02-19-22-38-14.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-1150752835122526690</id><published>2015-05-20T01:33:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2015-09-26T11:00:37.536+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apps"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Audio"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Hunt for the Ideal Music App</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  762. Alright, let&#39;s get straight to the point. For the past couple of months, I&#39;ve been looking for the ideal music app on android. So far, I&#39;ve used Neutron, DeadBeef, Jet Audio, Noozy, and now trying out n7. For the longest time, I was sticking to Samsung&#39;s default music app, until one day, it suddenly hit me! OMG! Why have I not tried other apps???&lt;br /&gt;
  763. &lt;br /&gt;
  764. Sure enough, changing players provided superior audio quality. Surprisingly, many people don&#39;t know this! So here&#39;s how it works. The quality of your audio is determined by the following:&lt;br /&gt;
  765. &lt;br /&gt;
  766. &lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  767. &lt;li&gt;Source File&lt;/li&gt;
  768. &lt;li&gt;Sound Circuit &amp;amp; Amp&lt;/li&gt;
  769. &lt;li&gt;Media Player&lt;/li&gt;
  770. &lt;li&gt;Speakers&lt;/li&gt;
  771. &lt;/ul&gt;
  772. &lt;div&gt;
  773. They say that the net quality is tied to the weakest of these 4. In my case, I simply want to ensure that it&#39;s not the music app. Personally, I use my Samsung android phone (and the in-ear buds that it came with) for music all the time. However, being an audiophile, I store 90% of my music in FLAC format. I&#39;ve reached a point where even a 320kbps MP3 feels audibly low in quality. Trust me, it&#39;s a curse! So for those of you affected with this same curse, stick around while I explore and provide my personal thoughts on the &quot;top of the line&quot; music apps, as stated by people on the web.&lt;/div&gt;
  774. &lt;div&gt;
  775. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  776. &lt;div&gt;
  777. &lt;i&gt;-NKM: Your Audio Consultant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  778. &lt;/div&gt;
  779. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/1150752835122526690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/hunt-for-ideal-music-app.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/1150752835122526690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/1150752835122526690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/hunt-for-ideal-music-app.html' title='Hunt for the Ideal Music App'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114837092796742411.post-5017863490424429364</id><published>2015-05-19T12:36:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2015-05-19T12:36:27.004+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Hi There!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  780. Okay, how about a little introduction. Hi there! I&#39;m Niranjan Kalyanasundaram, a multimedia proffesional, techie, and an audiophile. Currently woking as a 3D Modeler, I graduated with a degree in animation. I&#39;m hosting 2 websites at the moment:&lt;br /&gt;
  781. &lt;br /&gt;
  782. www.nkmultimedia.weebly.com for my portfolio, and&lt;br /&gt;
  783. www.nkmaudio.weebly.com for downloading royalty free audio.&lt;br /&gt;
  784. &lt;br /&gt;
  785. I have blog pages on both of those sites, but I can&#39;t quite find time to sit down and blog. Switching to blogger, I can just blog on the go. Anyways, to know more, just visit my websites. Bye!&lt;/div&gt;
  786. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/feeds/5017863490424429364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/hi-there.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5017863490424429364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/114837092796742411/posts/default/5017863490424429364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nkmultimedia.blogspot.com/2015/05/hi-there.html' title='Hi There!'/><author><name>Niranjan K</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07486365848373094225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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