S*T*U*F*F* Reloaded

I downloaded the Radiohead record last night. What did I pay for it? Nothing. I thought to myself, “I’ll check it out, and if its good, I’ll pay something at a later date.” And I will - I’ve been working this way with shareware for a while now and have honoured my self-made agreements with [...]

After an initial burst of frantic anger at losing my MacBook Pro on Friday night, I managed to get all the data off it on Saturday thanks to my wonderful neighbour letting me use his computers pretty much all day. I toast the existence of SuperDuper! - an amazing backup app that just works so [...]

My bastard MacBook Pro has died. Logic board gone. One minute its fine, I’m just opening Safari to check the news, next minute the display is scrambled and an enormous beard starts sprouting from my face. I can barely imagine (hot on the heels of my post on the spiral of misery that any single [...]

I had another hat on last week - presenting Guitar Rig for Native Instruments and helping Apple show the amazing new Logic Studio at a couple of workshops. I say workshops… that was something of a misnomer, as demonstrated beautifully in Liverpool, when a poor kid came up at the end and said, “I brought [...]