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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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Making Music on an iPad with Garageband




In this video Hagop Tchaparian and Scott James show how you can make music on and iPad with Garageband and a few pieces of equipment from Apple and Guitar Center.






using iPad and iPad music applications such as digidrummer, iCanBass and JamPad







by applegirl

iPad Garageband - Guitar Jam Improvisation

梁祝小协 Butterfly Lover Violin Concerto 3/3

Peter Beinart in Conversation with Paul Krugman

Summary

Professor and journalist Peter Beinart talks with Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and a Nobel Laureate in Economics.




Peter Beinart in Conversation with Paul Krugman
The Graduate Center, CUNY

fiscal policy
Measures employed by governments to stabilize the economy, specifically by adjusting the levels and allocations of taxes and government expenditures. When the economy is sluggish, the government may cut taxes, leaving taxpayers with extra cash to spend and thereby increasing levels of consumption. An increase in public-works spending may likewise pump cash into the economy, having an expansionary effect. Conversely, a decrease in government spending or an increase in taxes tends to cause the economy to contract. Fiscal policy is often used in tandem with monetary policy. Until the 1930s, fiscal policy aimed at maintaining a balanced budget; since then it has been used “countercyclically,” as recommended by John Maynard Keynes, to offset the cycle of expansion and contraction in the economy. Fiscal policy is more effective at stimulating a flagging economy than at cooling an inflationary one, partly because spending cuts and tax increases are unpopular and partly because of the work of economic stabilizers. See also business cycle.



Peter Beinart

Peter Beinart is an American journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast website. Beinart worked at The New Republic until 2006, for much of the time writing The New Republic's signature "TRB" column, which was reprinted in the New York Post and other major American newspapers.

From 2007 to 2009, Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University, and an Op-Ed columnist for the Times. His numerous books include "The Great Unraveling," "The Conscience of a Liberal," and "The Return of Depression Economics," an updated edition of which was published in 2009. For his contributions to New Trade Theory, he received the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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The Economist

iPad Camera Kit Secrets... Microphone Magic




iPad camera connection kit, sold to quickly and easily import photos and videos from your camera, iphone and ipod has some undocumented secret features. It turns out that you can connect high quality studio USB microphones, and is also fully compatible with the iMic device for even NON-USB mics and audio input from mixing boards etc. Suddenly your "Magical" Apple Tablet becomes a Field recorder & a Podcast recording, production and upload studio!

Alesis iO Dock




Introduce your entire music studio to your iPad. iO Dock is the world's first professional audio interface for iPad.

Happy Toy Machine Allows You To Build Your Own Plush Toys




The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley audience choice winner today is Happy Toy Machine, which allows you to design and create plush toys online.

The site allows adults and children to customize their plush toys by colors, size, body parts, shape, type, build and more. When you are satisfied with your design, you can actually have your creation built and sent you. It’s sort of like the Build-A-Bear on steroids.

Price ranges from $30 to $50, which is comparable to Build-A-Bear’s prices. The startup says the design element of the site is designed specially so that children can interact with the site and be able to design toys on their own.

In the future, the company would like to partner with video games or other entertainment properties to leverage Happy Toy Machine’s platform.