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I love Volumouse. I use it at work a ton because I don’t have a volume control on my mouse.

I find it burdensome to activate a media player window in order to change the volume. With Volumouse you can specify a hot key to hold down when rolling the mouse wheel to change the system volume. It comes in handy when you need to immediately mute or lower the volume.

Labels: apps, software, windows

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 15:10 0 Comments Links to this post

While I’m not particularly fond of the name, musikCube has exceeded my expectations. First of all, it’s open-source. On top of that, it has a relatively low footprint and it’s fast.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a [Last.fm]http://www.last.fm/) plugin.

Here are some nice features I noticed off the bat:

• filtering while you type (like in explorer, but more robust)
• customization of the view panels (add as many as you wish: album, artist, genre, year, etc)
• dynamic playlists
• tag editor with automatic capitalization features, etc

If you have some spare time, I highly recommend giving musikCube a whirl as an alternative music player.

Labels: apps, software

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 14:00 0 Comments Links to this post

New track.

I want to keep working on this track. I made it on a whim, like all my songs are made, and it’s hard to get back into it. Criticism always helps.

Labels: compositions, music

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 14:00 0 Comments Links to this post

Matt: haha holy shit did i ever tell you about when i played lacrosse?

Wes: no

Matt: well i played in hs for like 3 years and the last summer that i played i went to notre dame for a camp there was this asshole on my team that told me he shit his pants while playing which is the most retarded thing i heard i told my buddy and i guess it got around eventually the kid almost got kicked out of the camp because he was hitting on some girl and a guy came up and was like “arent you the kid who shat his pants?” and he punched teh kid out haha anyways the last night of camp we were playing indoor, and we had a little half court thing going on, and this kid was being a douche and doing fucked up shit like hitting kids in the helmet with his stick or just being too violent so i confronted him about chilling out and shit, and he flipped out on me, started punching me and wacking me with his stick and shit i had a helmet on but still it was fucked up we called him freddy bed wetty and my room mate at the camp just told me he saw him in orlando, and he’s all fat and bald now haha

Wes: you better watch what you say, bub

Matt: ha karma

Labels: conversations

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 14:00 0 Comments Links to this post

Yessssss. My tonevendor order was waiting for me in the mailbox today. I ordered:

• Lowlife – Eternity Road
• Ceremony – Self-Titled
• Skywave – Synthstatic
• Biosphere – Dropsonde

All amazing albums. One track on Lowlife, entitled “Hollow Gut” sounds strikingly familiar to Joy Division. It’s almost like Ian was resurrected and called the band for a reformation.

If you are a fan of noisey shoegaze, electro stuff, I highly recommend the Ceremony album. Before Ceremony, there was Skywave… a Jesus and Mary Chain rip off, almost. Ceremony has more of a New Order feel. Only 7 tracks :(

The latest Biosphere is amazing! As always… I wouldn’t expect anything less. The man Geir Jenssen is the ambient king. He continues to evolve his soundscape. I will always love Biosphere. When you can’t sleep, listen to Biosphere. When you need peace, listen to Biosphere. When all else fails, listen to Biosphere.

Labels: cd, music

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 14:00 0 Comments Links to this post

It’s been a while since I changed my mouse. I’ve been attached to the Intellimouse for years now, but I finally made the switch.

To start with the bad… I’m not very fond of the form-factor. My hand does not rest on it fully. That issue can be overruled by the remote functionality.

So many times I’ve been in bed and the music is either too soft or too loud, (I have neighbors to worry about…). Now I can just modify the volume accordingly from the bed. I can also pause and change tracks. This is a very good mouse/remote combo for lightweight remote usage. It works great for music, don’t know how well it would work on a media box. It is perfect for my room. Almost exactly what I wanted!

Labels: computers, gadgets

// posted by Wes Rogers @ 15:06 0 Comments Links to this post

Wow.

What can I say? Other than, “I adore Ruby on Rails”. If you are a struggling Rails would-be developer, have no fear! I was in your shoes at one time, in fact, I’ve only taken off one shoe.

You may ask, what it is that got me so thrilled about Rails? This pretty much sums it up.

Here’s a break-down of my process over the past few days:

1. Stumbled upon this wonderful, amazing, enlightening article published by Apple.
2. Work was slow, so I decided to buckle down and get a development process in order.
3. Eventually got a process in order using SVN for keeping up-to-date on progress at work and at home. This was a huge step.
4. Progressed my blog into what it is today. I’m very happy with it.

I’m very obsessive about order. So much that for the longest time, I could never accomplish anything because I didn’t have a process. Rails provides this process almost transparently. It’s an amazing framework, and I applaud David for frontiering the future of web development.

Bless the Sterkens Dubbel Ale. Mmmf…

Labels: programming, ruby on rails

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