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MacStuff: Surviving a Major Crash58

MacStuff: Surviving a Major Crash

If you’ve worked on a Mac for any length of time, you know, at a visceral and almost animal-intelligence-non-thinking level, what is going on with your computer just by the sounds it makes. It starts with a...

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Working Band #12: What's Your Message?58

Working Band #12: What's Your Message?

As opposed to his teacher Plato, Aristotle believed there were worthwhile roles for artists in society. In case you didn’t know — or care, although more knowledge is always better than less, right? — Plato had no use at all for artists and...

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Working Band #8: Internet Overview60

Working Band #8: Internet Overview

It’s a funny thing. Not “ha ha” funny, not really Twilight Zone weird-funny, but somewhere in the middle. As recently as ten years ago, a “Web site” was still a novelty, and something no...

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Working Band #10: The Coming Digital Convergence56

Working Band #10: The Coming Digital Convergence

In case you haven’t noticed, your computer’s turning into a TV and your TV is turning into a computer. Some technology observers think it could be as little as five years from now that the...

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Money Matters General Overview56

Money Matters General Overview

Money Matters, a General Overview For some people, one of the most difficult transitions to make from childhood to an adult life involves finances. The various money matters that seem to plague some upwardly mobile citizens are not even on the...

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Working Band #9: The Wonders (and Woes) of the Web60

Working Band #9: The Wonders (and Woes) of the Web

It’s all coming together now. You have a demo, you’re working around town and getting some interest from professional management, you’re building a buzz — so let’s get that site up and running. That...

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Working Band #11: Exercising Creative Muscles55

Working Band #11: Exercising Creative Muscles

If you’ve been a regular reader of my columns, then you know we’ve covered a lot of territory together. Frankly, it’s hard to remember how this all started and what the first (or third or fifth) "Working...

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Do Manners Matter?58

Do Manners Matter?

I got an e-mail message recently that read thus: "TAKE ME OFF YOUR **** MAILING LIST NOW, NEXT SPAM **** I GET FROM YOU IS BEING REPORTED... STOP IT NOW. **** YOU AND THE HORSE UP YOUR ***." I'm trying to...

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Working Band #1: A Game of Musical Hats55

Working Band #1: A Game of Musical Hats

I was going to liken the struggle of “making it” in the music business to a game of musical chairs, until it occurred to me that there’d be too much sitting down and you’d never get anywhere. You’d...

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Working Band #6: From Mix to Master59

Working Band #6: From Mix to Master

Somehow or other — in a process that combines love, luck, and a lot of hard work — you got some of your songs recorded (we’ll say three) for your band demo. Now, it will matter somewhat in the marketing...

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