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FEBRUARY 8, 2008
Notes on a Dual-Mode Airport Extreme Network
Summary: These are followup notes from my attempts to setup a dual-mode Airport Extreme Network. This started at the Apple Discussion Forum for Airport Extreme but since forums have a way of disappearing over time, I wanted to preserve this somewhere else.
The Problem
I have an AppleTV which is 802.11n-capable. It gets media from my iMac which is 802.11n-capable.
Unfortunately I have these other non-802.11n-capable devices: iPhone, MacBook, and a Powerbook. [Ed: just to clarify, all current MacBooks are 802.11n-capable, but when I wrote this I was using a 1st generation MacBook which was neither capable nor upgradable.]
Which means I was getting very little of the 802.11n-goodness. When I was growing up, ‘Does Not Work Up To H”
50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials
50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials: “
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Over the last years we’ve got a pretty good understanding of what CSS does, how it works and how we can use it for our layouts, typography and visual presentation of the content. However, there are still some attributes that are not so well-known; also, CSS3 offers us new possibilities and tools that need to be understood, learned and then applied in the right context to the right effect.
In this round-up we present fresh useful articles about less-known CSS 2.1 and CSS3 properties as well as an overview of recently published CSS techniques, tools and tips for designers and web-developers. Please stay tuned: next week we will present the second part of this article, featuring fresh CSS3 techniques, tools and resources.
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Constructing a Song: Trent Reznor’s Cacophony of Beats | Magazine
Posted by admin in Inspiration, Music on June 7, 2010
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Constructing a Song: Trent Reznor’s Cacophony of Beats
By Bryan Gardiner May 24, 2010 | 12:00 pm | Wired June 2010
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Lots of musicians have studios; Trent Reznor [] has an alchemist’s laboratory. On hiatus from touring, the Nine Inch Nails frontman has stuffed a converted garage with blinking electronic doodads, from modded synthesizers and sequencers to archaic drum machines. Reznor is using all this gear for his new band, How to Destroy Angels. Here’s how one song off the group’s forthcoming EP evolved from a seeming cacophony of beats and weird noise into a dense, polyrhythmic track.
Inspiration
Using a technique they perfected on NIN’s 2007 album, Year Zero, Reznor and producer Atticus Ross [] began by r”