Apple Music Classical: A Nice Start, Needs Some Air
This evening, I got my notification to download Apple Music Classical, which I’ve been eagerly awaiting for awhile now. My first impressions are quite positive. Breaking away from the simple...
View ArticleKnotwords
I’ve been meaning to post about a lot of different things and failed to get around to it (including Dorico 5!) My students often talk about Wordle, and on Mastodon (another topic I’ve meant to post...
View ArticleDorico 5.1
Dorico 5.1 is out, and it’s a fantastic update! But wait, I never did get around to posting about Dorico 5 when it came out in…May? Well, to my credit, I did write about it. I was relatively satisfied...
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My “Default Apps” of 2023
I happened across this post from Carlo Zottman1 and was inspired to do my own. I did dig through the people he gave attribution to (and discovered some interesting apps that I had not even heard of...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Blogging
I wanted my own website early on from my youth. Despite always being into computers, I never saw myself working in technology, even before I saw myself working in music (which is, funnily enough, the...
View ArticleUsing Marvis Pro
When I made my recent post on what apps I’m using for what purposes, I mentioned that I’ve been using Apple Music as my music service (as I have since the day it launched in 2015). But I neglected to...
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Feature Shoutout: PDFEXpert’s “Export Annotation Summary”
PDFExpert is my preferred PDF viewer on the Mac. It’s far from perfect, but has features that I’ve come to rely on; it’s better at re-organizing pages than anything else I’ve used, has some nice PDF...
View ArticleTalking About Sports Teams
I’m not a hockey fan, but I had a brief Mastodon interaction with Nick Heer (whose blog you should be reading because he’s very smart) about referring to the Florida Panthers’ victory as “Florida” in a...
View ArticleEnd of Finale
It’s the second-busiest time of the year, but there’s very little news that gets bigger than this. In 2012, I had to do my first serious arranging project. I had found Bill Holcombe’s arrangement of...
View ArticleDr. Drang’s Terminal Tips
While I’m not a programmer or a developer, I do like to get a lot nerdier than most, and that often means delving into the terminal. I know some basic things while I’m down there and have customized...
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