Apple vs. Microsoft in the PC space turned out pretty well for consumers, but it sure did take a while.  Apple vs. Google in the phone space should bring improvements really, really quickly.

under the spotlight/
neither black nor white/
it doesn’t matter.
as drunk as you might/
working day and night/
whatever happens.

If one starts Ableton before one starts Torq, Torq will enter “ReWire Slave Mode” and disable external vinyl control (rendering it useless).  But if Torq is started first, it’s totally feasible to control it from turntable timecode while simultaneously (ie - on the same machine, but using a separate hardware audio i/o) record the output of one’s outboard mixer in Ableton.  (80kb PNG diagram and link to 31.7MB mp3 after the break)

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Excerpted from: http://golden-braeburn.com/…purveyors of a commercial, open-source toolkit for embedding a branded store inside the Mac software apps the store is intended to sell.

If you love pain, you can learn about banking and taxes and speaking to Payflow Pro and credit card processing and SSL and MD5 hashes and digital signatures and certificates and databases and daemons and launchd and QuickBooks IIF and accounting, and you can write your own store. And then, just as we did in the early days, you’d get to worry about debugging it, and worry that if you screw up you’ve either stolen money from some would-be customer, lost money from a messed-up sale, or violated tax laws, and you’d worry that your system isn’t secure and some hacker will get all your customer data or steal your customer’s information from you or steal stuff from your store or break your license scheme. Even if you make no coding mistakes (we certainly made some), you still get to learn every business lesson the hard way: how to track your customers and sales, what data you’ll need for taxes, and how to do your accounting. The same lessons we had to learn.

When you’re selling something you know kicks ass, it’s okay to let your audience know that you know.