iPhone app: Air Sharing

Now THIS app is very cool:  Air Sharing.  With it, you can now access (add, delete, open) files on your iPhone from your computer, over the air.  It’s free for the next 2 weeks or so, so get it now, or pay for it later. I just tested it out from my Vista pc and it works really well.  I dragged some mp3s, a pdf, a quicktime .mov, and a .wmv file from windows to…

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Drums halfway done now

On Sunday, I was down in Manhattan at Threshold Studios tracking drums with Mike Maenza and Tom Sposato.  Between them, we got 5 more songs’ drum parts recorded.  So that takes the tally up to 6 songs done now on drums: half way there! Threshold is the studio where The X’s (Maenza’s old band) recorded their (awesome) album a couple years back.  Random tangent: For what it’s worth, I always dug Fuel and Brett’s voice…

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Google Gears and Chrome… awesome

I’m not exactly sure what this Google Gears thing is yet, but I do know that I can now “search” through my MySpace inbox thanks to it, and that is VERY awesome.  Would’ve been nice if MySpace built that in, but hey. That’ll save a LOT of time next time I go look for “that email from that band who wanted to set up that show”… In related news, I also installed the new browser…

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Valerie Webb’s new song

A couple months ago, Valerie Webb (from the band Venomentality) contacted us (The Velmas) with an idea.  She’s putting together a portfolio for college (she’s only 16!) next year, and in general is trying new things and experimenting with her music.  She had this song called “All While Laughing” that she had recorded a quick acoustic demo for, and she wanted us to arrange it as we saw fit.  Then we’d record it in the…

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