Black spiritual featured at BBC Celtic Connections
The famous spiritual is often associated with American country music and Merle Travis but it was a black spiritual long before that.
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I Am A Pilgrim by Aaron Neville
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Facebook may not erase photographs
Facebook’s delay in erasing photos deleted by users is ongoing privacy issue
Burning those old Facebook photos (photo Ars Technica)
Users who delete their Facebook accounts have found their photographs still on the internet years later. The proper procedure is to manually delete each photograph or other post to your wall before you delete your account.
Privacy experts and users say Facebook has no timely mechanism to remove photographs and other private material from its servers. Continue reading
Doing it for love
Creating Valentines to give away
Graphic Artist Marian Bantjes shows how she creates her art. Her course on Linda.com Marian Bantjes, Graphic Artist is a one hour tutorial in how to build your own Valentines.
Sign up for a 7-day free trial to lynda.com and you can watch the whole course free. A Lynda.com subscription has thousands of courses that will awaken the creative person inside you or someone you love. lynda.com software training My problem in writing about it is she checks this column.
James Taylor Free Guitar Lesson # 3
Famed singer songwriter is offering his fans free guitar lessons – how cool is that?
James Taylor (picture James Taylor)
James Taylor is offering to teach the world how to play his unique finger picking guitar style. Free. On YouTube.
The project started in October and he just posted Lesson 3 called Second Wheel. Continue reading
Chimes of Freedom all Bob Dylan all the time
What’s not to like about a 4-CD 76-song tribute to Bob Dylan and Amnesty International for $20
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan is a lot of Bob Dylan songs for only $20 sung by artists famous and not-so-famous. The project will raise money for Amnesty International.
Amnesty International are fighting for human rights and freedom around the world. They deserve our $20 and more for defending people from oppression.
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty International, Bob Dylan’s 50th anniversary of recording. The project seems like a winner. Continue reading
Solar Eclipse Sunday May 20 2012
Mark your calendar – Moon will pass in front of Sun over parts of USA, Pacific and Japan
By – Dr. Tony Phillips NASA – On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It’s an annular solar eclipse–the first one in the USA in almost 18 years.
An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the sun, but the lunar disk is not quite wide enough to cover the entire star. At maximum, the Moon forms a “black hole” in the center of the sun.
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Lynda.com makes photo book production a breeze
Online course explains how to plan, organize and publish a photo book on Blurb.com
Lynda.com Creating Photo Books with Blurb, showing book cover design
Self-publishing a book is a daunting task made relatively easy with the Lynda,com course Creating Photo Books with Blurb.
For example, if you want to create a really special Valentine’s Day photo book covered in How to make the best Valentine for under $50, the related Lynda course takes about 2 to 3 hours to complete and costs $25, or $37.50 if you use their sample files. The fee is a one month membership and you can also take other courses during the month. There also is a Lynda.com 7-day free trial.
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Google Chrome breaks computers again
Installing Chrome browser with MS Office breaks the hyperlink feature
Sneak attack on MS Office and LiveMail
Google Earth comes automatically with Google Chrome browser. Installing Chrome on a Windows 7 computer which has either MS Office or Windows LiveMail will break the hyperlink feature.
Hyperlink allows to you to click on a link in a document and automatically go to the internet page in the link.
iStrobosoft guitar tuner app review
Peterson iPhone and iPad apps are accurate and low cost strobe instrument tuners
iStrobosoft iPhone app
Peterson has two apps for the iPhone and iPad that give the musician strobe tuning accuracy for about $10. The iPad app is being discounted to $9.99 until January 31st, 2012.
I wanted to see just how accurate the iPhone Peterson would be. I was not disappointed, although the under $20 Snark SN-1 clip on tuner was almost as accurate.
Last night I was practicing guitar while the news was on. It was handy to refresh my tuning without looking for a tuner. I’m not sure if musicians will risk damaging their iPhones in a studio or stage environment to use the iStrobosoft app. The practicality of the iStrobosoft tuner for those uses is up to each person to decide.
Peterson Strobe Tuners have been the pinnacle of stringed instrument tuners for decades and known for accuracy and high cost. Continue reading
How to make the best Valentine for under $50
Roses wilt and chocolates melt but a Blurb photo book of pictures will last forever
The longer you’ve been together the harder it becomes to wow her on Valentine’s Day.
Everything becomes old hat after awhile so I really like this idea from Blurb.com to create a Happy Valentine book from pictures. Continue reading
Finding the dream job with Microsoft
The dream job has arrived – learning, testing and recommending Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is about to ship on March 7, 2012.
Don’t even think about getting a copy unless you are one of the elite Microsoft beta testers or have the Release Candidate which is available now.
That’s right. You have to be connected to Microsoft to qualify to install and test the new release of SQL server which is better than Oracle in some respects. Continue reading