http://www.creativebump.com Satisfying Gear and Tech Lust For Creatives Sat, 10 May 2008 01:40:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=548504&cid=23354448 Intellectual Property Tax (Score:5, Insightful) by apenzott (821513) on Friday May 09, @03:58PM This could be a wonderful revenue opportunity for cash-strapped state and local governments.   When such a court claim is made on infringement ... http://www.creativebump.com/2008/05/09/intellectual-property-tax/ Ztar Musings : Romantic Jazz Etude from Myles on Vimeo. Here's a short piece utilizing my Ztar MIDI controller. I am getting more accustomed to the legato technique. I can use the string triggers but generally find a double handed tapping technique to be a little ... http://www.creativebump.com/2008/03/06/ztar-musings-myles-de-bastion-romantic-jazz-etude/ This news is hot off the press. Harvey Starr who builds custom MIDI instruments and sells them direct from his website www.starrlabs.com has unveiled a new web site design and also an attractive small-form Ztar called the Baby-Z. There has been some small yet excited murmurings ... http://www.creativebump.com/2008/02/27/the-baby-z-a-new-ztar-model-is-born/ This is some very neat software coming from Hungarian creativist Gabor Papp. You can see information about the application and other works at his site http://www.mndl.hu Animata although not yet available it seems, will be Open Source, multi-platform (Mac, Windows & Linux) and can be connected with widespread programming ... http://www.creativebump.com/2008/02/13/animata-animation-software-for-live-performance/ Among all the hype, boring product demos, glitzy million-dollar budgets and scantily dressed booth girls, there probably is only one site worth visiting for news from the NAMM floors and that's NAMM Oddities. Where else are you going to read about Egyptian God Guitars, Toilet Seat Covers made ... http://www.creativebump.com/2008/01/29/oddities-the-only-site-worth-visiting-for-namm-info/ After a many month wait for my custom built Ztar Z7-s to be constructed and delivered, it arrived last week direct from Harvey Starr at StarrLabs and I have been getting to grips with the way it feels and plays, not to mention the depth of complexity in splits, zoning and setting up ... http://www.creativebump.com/2007/10/08/starrlabs-ztar-z7-s-midi-controller-instrument-sneak-preview/ I use Gmail.  A lot.  Here's a list of things that would make my grin even wider when splurging messages in Gmail:  XHTML Support - A biggy, especially for signatures. Default text for composing emails - Wish I could choose Verdana to be my default font face. It's more readable!  "Refresh All" - Check ... http://www.creativebump.com/2007/10/05/10-features-that-google-should-implement-into-gmail/ OK, I'm going to profess that as much as I wish that I was a guru and wizard at patching together my own audio-visual apps using Max/MSP/Jitter combos for my own performances and exploration.  Unfortunately. each time this is attempted, I have been presented with the Max interface,  scratched my head, tried ... http://www.creativebump.com/2007/09/30/cycling-74-announce-max-5-coming-easier-and-more-fun/ I just saw a recent entry on Dmitry Fadeev's blog where he posted a design he made for an ebook reader. It mimics the classy Apple styling to great effect and looks like a sibling of the iPhone.  If these product concept design was actually taken on by a company ... http://www.creativebump.com/2007/09/29/digital-pages-the-new-ebook-reader/ Wow, so this is what the Alienware team have been up to lately? This new Laptop from Dell is and I quote "Head Turning", most likely due to sheer shock to see such a huge and powerful computer dressed up in "mobile" shoes, that manages to mimic a granite slab ... http://www.creativebump.com/2007/09/27/dell-release-new-xps-m1730-laptop-i-dub-it-the-ugly-brute/