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Brass and Woodwinds: Science of "Horns" | Care and Maintenance of Musical Instruments | How to Buy a Musical Instrument
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Last Modified: September 27, 2009

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What and How to Buy Musical Instruments

Beginners Guide to Band Instruments
Band Instrument Rip-offs
Choosing a Band Instrument
Original Trumpet Used to Create the ZeuS Guarnerius
Accessories and Supplies
The Ancient Myth of Zeus
A Modern Story of ZeuS
Bach Strad and ZeuS Guarnerius Photos: Side-by-Side

Care and Maintenance of Musical Instruments

Care and Maintenance of Your Flute
Care and Maintenance of Your Saxophone
Care and Maintenance of Your Trumpet
Care and Maintenance of Your Clarinet
Care and Maintenance of Your Trombone
Guitar Setup Tips
Build Your Own Humidifier
Setting Up A Guitar

Digital Recording

Hardware/Software Tools

Convert LPs into CDs
Microphone Preamplifier Technology
Reorganized Sound: Effects by Established Technques
Practical Acoustics for Technicians
Brass Recording Tactics
Making Tracks: Intelligent Harmonization
Create an environment for your MIDI hardware
How to Filter Your Audio 10 Different Ways
Creating Effect Via Established Techniques
Bias Voltages and Tube Amp Maintenance
The Technical Features of Monitoring
Brass Recording Tactics
MIDI In Session
Freakin' the Faders
High Fidelity
Phantom Power and Microphone Interconnect Basics
Resonance and Radiation
Recording the Electric Guitar
Good Reference Monitors
Plug-ins
Mic-mix
MySpace for Musicians
Sonic Mayhem
Mic Specs
Samplers

Studio

Creative Commons Licensing and Copyright
Guide to Buying Pro-Audio Equipment
Installation Basics for Studio Wiring
Recording Electric Guitar
Audio Room Acoustics
Reducing Studio Noise
Speaker Impedance
Differences Between CD-R/CD-RW Discs and Standard CD
What to Do With Extra Computers
Audio Gear Modification
Build a Budget Studio
Sound Design Workshop: On the Bus
Good Reference Monitors
Improve Your Mixes With This Critical Listening Exercise
How to Filter Your Audio 10 Different Ways
How to Process and Improve Home Recorded Vocals
How to Process Vocals for an Amazing Professional Sound

Studio Logic Pro

How to Create Amazing Bass Patterns for Electronic Music
Making Tracks: Intelligent Harmonization
Create an environment for your MIDI hardware
How to ReWire Individual Reason Instruments into Logic Pro
How to Automate Audio Tracks in Logic Pro 8
How to Create Crisp, Controlled Effects with Dynamic Effect Busses
How to Create a Custom Instrument with Logic’s EXS Sampler
6 Stereo Miking Techniques You Can Use Today
10 Ways to Improve Your Mix-down
How to Master a Track in 15 Minutes or Less
Improve Your Mixes With This Critical Listening Exercise
How to Process and Improve Home Recorded Vocals
How to Process Vocals for an Amazing Professional Sound

Science of Audio

The Electronic Century: A Historical Perspective
Mastering Vinyl
Strings, Standing Waves and Harmonics
What is a Sound Spectrum?
What is a Decible?
Protein Storage
MUS150: Musical Acoustics (Stanford Univ)
Flute Acoustics
Acoustics of Reed Woodwinds
Didjeridu acoustics
Violin Acoustics
Guitar Acoustics
Vocal Tract Acoustics
Pipes and Harmonics
How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?
Flutes vs Clarinets
Helmholtz Resonance
Note names, MIDI numbers and frequencies
Interference beats and Tartini tones
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the musician's uncertainty principle
Acoustical investigation of the cornetto
Input impedance measurements on wind instruments using pulse reflectometry
Measuring the human voice: Analysing pitch, timing and voice quality in mother/infant communication
Acoustical comparison of bassoon crooks
Acoustic pulse reflectometry in musical wind instrument research
Thesis: Acoustic pulse reflectometry for the measurement of musical wind instruments
Wall vibrations in wind instruments
Have you ever found an oboe and wondered where it came from?
The development of a modular paradigm for the physical modelling of musical instruments

The Science of "Horns"

Interactions Between Windway and Air Column
Calculating the Spectrum of Struct Piano String
Beneade-Reed Pipe
Acoustical Evolution
Pulse Reflectometry
Practical Acoustics
Input Impedance and Wind Instruments
Brass Instrument Impulse Response
Benade-Finger Hole Summary
Acoustical Data on Clarinets
Register Hole Design for Cone Woodwinds
Ocillations in Clarinet Like Systems
Wall Vibrations in Wind Instruments
Materials Used in Horn Construction
Perturbations Theory and Its Application to Musical Air Columns
Bore Construction
Benade-Clarinet Clinic
Acoustical Comparison of Bassone Crooks
Measuring the Human Voice
Acoustics of Cornetto
Physical Acoustics of Musical Instruments
Radiation of Fiddle Box
MX Clarinet: Physics of a New Clarinet
Acoustics of Various Clarinets
The Subject of Mutes
Schlike Brass Clinic
The "Feel" of the Bore
The Coprion Bell
The "Color of Sound"
Instrument Metals
Tour of a Brass Instrument Manufacturing Plant
Introduction to the acoustics of brass instruments
The Acoustical Evolution of Wind Instruments
Diagrams and Slides on the Acoustics of Various Clarinets
Summary Notes on the Mathematical Theory of Fingerholes, as Applicable to Clarinets
Resonance Between Reed and Pipe Resonance Frequencies and the Playing Frequency of a Reed-Pipe Combination
Studies in the Physical Acoustics of Musical Instruments
Brass Wind Instrument Impulse Response Measurements
Calculating the Spectrum of a Struck Piano String
Thirty-six Transcendent Studies for Trumpet, Cornet, and Flugel Horn In Bb
Interactions Between the Player's Windway and the Air Column of a Musical Instrument
Ocillations in Clarinet Like Systems
On Radiation From a Fiddle-box As It Is Influenced By the Main Air Resonance
Perturbation Theory and Its Application to Musical Air Column Adjustment
Register Hole Design For Cone Woodwinds
The NX Clarinet
The Subject of Mutes
General Chemical and Physical Properties
Introduction to Saxophone Acoustics
Bore reconstruction by pulse reflectometry and its potential for the taxonomy of brass instruments
Using pulse reflectometry to compare the evolution of the cornet and the trumpet in the 19th and 20th centuries
The development of a modular paradigm for the physical modelling of musical instruments
Acoustic pulse reflectometry in musical wind instrument research
Thesis: Acoustic pulse reflectometry for the measurement of musical wind instruments
Wall vibrations in wind instruments

Musicians Health and Exercises

The Ultimate Musician's Index
Health for Guitarists
Musician Exercises
Links & On-Line Articles
Musicians and Injuries the types of injuries suffered and how to prevent them.
Why is it That Musicians Suffer An Extraordinary Amount of Physical Discomfort? Does this mean that it hurts more to be a musician?
Curved Fingers and Tension ...almost all musicians curve their finger while playing and this can lead to injury.
Safe Gigging ...playing is not as safe as we assume.
External Links Addressing the Health of Musicians is a short list of external links that primarily deal with the health of musicians.
Why Physical Exercise for Artists? The advantages of exercise for the artist.
A Ten Point Plan for Fitness to Play
Stretching is an excellent PDF on how to stretch efficiently and effectively.
Rotation Exercises While Playing increase your finger strength while playing the piano.
Stretches and Back Care Exercises an illustrated guide to taking care of the back.
The Effects of Stress on Music Performance
FAQ Relaxation Techniques
Relaxation Techniques I a very comprehensive set of exercises. A lot of Eastern techniques.
Relaxation Techniques II these exercises address affirmations and visualizations among other things. It is the icing on the cake if done in conjunction with Relaxation Techniques I .
Stress in Piano Playing how to play without incurring debilitating stress. Very comprehensive.
Beta Blockers and Performance Anxiety in Musicians the use of Beta Blockers and any potential problems.
Alexander Technique for Musicians
Everything You Need to Know About Sleep if you cannot get a good nights sleep, then you will have some health issues.
The Benefits of Better Breathing breathing is an very important component in stress reduction and creativity. An excellent resource.
Teaching Whole Music Literacy knowing how the brain learns can only benefit the user...The Brain Users Manual.
Music, Development, Aging and the Brain how does music effect the development of the brain? Again, understanding empowers.
The Brain of Musicians: A Model of Functional and Structural Adaptation
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
The Effects of Music Training On Children's Brain and Cognitive Development
Creating Melodies with Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks

Music for Guitar

Below is music in the form of chords. Most are twelve-bar blues, but it will get more difficult as you go down the list. To get the most out of these progressions you should listen to a recording of the song, and find the lyrics...then just strum along.

Stormy Monday PDF
KCs Blues PDF
For Stompers Only PDF
Green Onion Blues PDF
JB Goodes Blues PDF
Minor Jazz Blues PDF
Ms Slows Blues PDF
Twelve Bar Blues in D PDF
Twelve Bar Blues in A PDF
Hesitation Blues PDF
I'm So Glad PDF
Sitting On Top of the World PDF

Strumming Exercises

These are basic strumming exercises that get progressively more difficult. If possible, you should try to spend 15 minutes, twice a day practicing these exercises.

Exercises 1 and 2 PDF
Exercises 3 and 4 PDF
Exercises 5 and 6 PDF
Exercises 7 and 8 PDF
Exercises 9 and 10 PDF
Exercises 11 and 12 PDF
Exercises 13 and 14 PDF
Exercises 15 and 16 PDF
Exercises 17 and 18 PDF
Exercises 19 and 20 PDF

Sheet Music

Body and Soul PDF
Born to Be Blue PDF
But Blue PDF
Christmas song (Chestnuts) PDF
Days of Wine and Roses PDF
Embraceable You PDF
Here There Everywhere PDF
In a Sentimental Mood PDF
It Don't Mean a Thing PDF
The Girl From Ipanenama PDF
Ask Me Now
This I Dig of You
Lydian April
What's New
Belonging
Kake
Mocambo
Einstein's Scretary
Gabrielle

Current Events

References, News, and Resources
An Open Letter to the American Public
Anti-War Groups

Misc

Whole Lotta eBooks Over 250 Free Books
Math Art
Decrypting ITunes
Archiving your CD Library
How to rip (legally) copyprotected CDs.

Links

Main Link Page
Index for iPod, iTunes, and MP3's
Colorado Connections
Visual Art
Trumpet Players and More
Music Equipment Manufacturers
Music Related Links
Music Theory and Education
Jazz
Saxophone Links
The Brass Connection
Non-Profit Organizations
Home Recording
Blues
World Music
Acoustics, Music, Science, and More...Much More!
Digital Media Links
iMovie Tutorial Links
Digital Photography Links
Web Design Links
Multimedia White Papers (PDF)
Complete Fireworks Introduction and Tutorial Links

Educational Tools

Educator Tools
Student Tools
Outdoor Education Curriculum
Assessment Terminology
Blooms Question Category
Blooms Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives
Training With The Brain In Mind:
The application of brain dominance technology to teaching and learning

General Interest and Education

Alexander Technique for Musicians General Reference, Search, and Educational Tools
Music Education Facts and Figures Educator Tools
Saxophone Books Writing in Mathematics
Benefits of Learning Music
Teaching Whole Music Literacy
Creativity Techniques
Helping Your Child Read
Pre-school Children
Helping Your Child Succeed
Helping Your Child With Early Adolescence
Helping Your Child With Homework Helping Your Child Be Responsible
Smart Parenting Techniques

Guitar

The Axis of Guitar (Guitar Pages)
Build Your Own Humidifier
The Electric Guitar: History, Tunings, Pickups, and Just How it Works.
How to: Maintain, Adjust, String, and Tune Your Guitar
Simple Guitar Physics
Strings, Standing Waves and Harmonics
What is a Sound Spectrum?
What is a decibel?
What's In a Pickup?
Guitar Pickups - Tone & Timbre
Guitar Pickups - Different Positions
Guitar Pickups - Combinations
How Guitar Amplifiers Are Used
Guitar Amplifier Basics
Guitar Amplifiers - Valve Emulations
Guitar Amplifiers - Valves vs Solid State
Guitar Amplifiers - Overdrive & Distortion
Guitar Amplifiers: Power and Volume
Guitar Effects - What They Do
Guitar Effects-Digital
Guitar Effects - The Digital Revolution
Guitar Effects - Order & Tips
Acoustic Concepts/Measurement Technique
Understanding Guitar Schematics
Natural Talent
Climb Every Mountain
Your Hand is Your Band: The Importance of Fingering
Your Growth as a Guitarist: Vertical or Horizontal?
Why Should I Learn To Read Music?
Think 10 Times, Play Once!
The Secret of Speed: Finding the Incredible Lightness
The Inner Master
Can I Teach Guitar?
Perfect Intention
Pulling Up The Slack: Mining Your Potential
The Glue of Repetition
The Alexander Technique: Taking Pressure Off Your Body
Changing Bad Habits
Easy Bar Chords
On Memorizing
Attentional Deployment
Changing Chords. Having a little trouble with those "easy" chords?
Review is Required!
Real Life Scenes From Dr. Jamie' Studio: Another Guitarist Brought Out of "Musical Coma"
Teachers Lounge: You Treat a Thing The Way You Define It
Double Trouble
Get the Juices Flowing
Lost In Time
Moving in the Direction of Skill
Shifting
Review is Required!
Removing The Barriers To Musical Expression
Goalines Not Deadlines
Technology Behind the Air Guitar

Guitar Strumming Exercises

Guitar Lesson PDFs

Alternate Tunings
Guitar Chord Forms
Music Information
Beginnning Warm-up
Fretboard Warm-up
More Warm-ups
Hammer-on Drills
Pull-off Drills
Combination Drills
Progression
Fretboard Intervals
Position Intervals
Blues Warm-up
Pentatonic Scales
More Pentatonic Scales Pentatonic Stretching
Blues In E
Blues In A
Minor Chords
The Major Scale
Major Scale Tabs
Music Theory
Circle of Fiftths
Augmented Chords
Moveable Chords
Scale Degrees
6th Chords
7th Chords
9th Chords
Diminished Triads
Classical Tablature

General Music

Teaching Tempo
Teaching Song Form
Teaching Dynamics
Music-Theory and Ear-Training Tools

Neural Cybernetics (1971)

Introduction
Methodology
Chapter I: Electrical Property of Nerves
Chapter II: Schematic Diagram of the Nervous System
Chapter III: Peripheral Data Processing in the Nervous System
Chapter IV: Automatic Control Circuits
Chapter V: Permanently Wired-In Behavior
Chapter VI: Electrical Nature of Conscious Mental Processes
Chapter VII: Control Centers of Emotions and Consciousness
Chapter VIII: Personality and Speech; Frontal Lobes
Chapter IX: Memory
Chapter X: Automatic Learning
< Chapter XI: Higher Learning
Chapter XII: Computers and the Brain

Creative Problem Solving

Theory and methods on mastering the skill of creative problem solving.

Introduction
A Working Definition of Problem Solving
Human Information Processing Systems
Problem Space and Goals
Searching the Problem Space
Biological Aspects of Problem Solving
Developmental Factors in Problem Solving
Characteristics of Problem Solvers
Blocks (Cultural, Perceptual, Emotional) to Creative Problem Solving
Memory: Simple Tools to Improve It
Creativity
Change Attitudes in Problem Solving Via Affirmations
Writing Logically
Bibliography

The Iron Book

Around 1970, this book was used with two other workbooks to begin a social experiment in producing social/cultural leaders. These leaders were the Cosmic Warriors or Social Ninjas of the day...and as with the martial arts...before one can become a Master...he/she must first master the Self via self-discipline. Here are the tools...

Courage
Dialog: "Courage"
Urban Survival: 10 Steps
Privacy
Maturity

More to come... maybe so, maybe not

Transparent Recording Software Applications
Detailed comparisons of neurologically based software by Transparent.

NP2 comes with unique sessions designed to optimize the brain for creative ideas, brain storming and out of the box thinking. Much like the Study Helper and the IQ Increase sessions, it is based on stimulating the brain to produce brainwave patterns similar to those exhibited by the great creative thinkers of our time.

Parenting

Brain Baby
Tips On Infant Massage
Infant Massage Research
Smart Parenting Techniques
Helping Your Child Read
Pre-school Children
Helping Your Child Succeed
Helping Your Child With Early Adolescence
Helping Your Child With HW
Helping Your Child Become Responsible Citizens
Why Should a Child Learn Music?
The Religious Affiliation of Guitarist
John McLaughlin
The Effects of Music Training On Children's Brain and Cognitive Devlopment
Food in the first year of life
Healthy eating for kindergarten
Healthy eating in pre-kindergarten years
Healthy eating for young toddlers
Healthy eating in the primary school years
Healthy lunch boxes for children
'Try it - you'll like it!' Vegetables and fruit for children
Why no sweet drinks for children
Milk: Fact and Fallacies

BSC Extras

Quality Brain Work
Exercises for improving the qualithy of the brain. Good for both the worker and the emloyer.

Brain Baby
Kick-start your children into Whole Brain Power. Simple tools to help bond parent and child. Love.

Catastrophe Amongst Our Children A radical perspective of what our society is doing to kill the spirit of our youth. The problem is real, as are the symptoms...the solution is easy...

Brain Self-Control Goals
The goals from which this entire programs is built. It is along with the goals, and the need for individual creative self-expression that drives each of us towards attaining life meaning and happiness. The ultimate goal is self-realization, Nirvana, Cosmic Consciousness, and higher states of consciousness.

Introduction
Know this: Whole brainpower can be learned. Once you make the decision to accept the free gift of your natural curiosity and enthusiasm about understanding your brain cell neurons, then all you need to do is the work.

Emotion Curve
Emotion Curve Graph "Paper"
One of the first things you need to do is to track your daily emotional levels.

Inner Journal
To complete all of these lessons successfully you will need to write and keep a Journal. Your Journal is your most important tool right now, and for the remainder of your Life. In this lesson you will be given some simple directions, and asked your first Journal questions.

The Universe and You
The Universe and You, is a worksheet that will help you define yourself within the context of the Universe. There is also an excellent reading list to keep you busy for a year or two.

Tech-Neurobics and Brain Related

How We Think
Transactional Analysis and the Triune Brain
Brain Boots up to Process Sensory Info
The Utility of a Neuropsychology of Religious Experience
Creating Melodies With Evoloving Recurrent Nerual Networks
Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Three-Dimensional Structure of Synapses in the Brain and on the Web
Brain Self-Control
BSC Disclaimer
BSC Goals
BSC Introduction
Inner Journal
Chapter I: Introduction to Your Personal Bio-Computer
Chapter II: "Who Am I?"
Chapter III: Objective Reality and Rational Thought
The Universe and You
Science, Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences, and Pseudo Sciences Links
The Triune Brain
The Self
Self-Realization and Social Responsibility
Making for a Better Brain With Walking
Creativity Links Mycoted
Future Human Evolution
Self-Directed Evolution
Creative and Strategic Thinking
Theories of Brain Organization
Training With The Brain
A Computational Model of the Brain
A Biologically Based Computational Model of Working Memory
Whole Brain to Work Model
Connectionist Mechanisms for Cognitive Control Dual-Core by Intelligence
Meditation Found to Increase Brain Size

Transparent Recording Software Applications
Detailed comparisons of neurologically based software by Transparent.

Mind Stereo is a fully functional media center for your mind, allowing you to listen to musical playlists, internet radio and watch mesmerizing visualizations while enjoying the many benefits of brainwave entrainment, affirmations and other audio/visual brain-enhancements.

Health, Neurology, and Exercises for Musicians

Musicians Health and Exercises Index
Links & On-Line Articles
Health for Guitarists
Musician Health Exercises
Musician Exercise Links
Musicians and Injuries
Why is it That Musicians Suffer An Extraordinary Amount of Physical Discomfort?
Curved Fingers and Tension
Safe Gigging
External Links Addressing the Health of Musicians
Why Physical Exercise for Artists?
A Ten Point Plan for Fitness to Play
Stretching
Rotation Exercises While Playing
Stretches and Back Care Exercises
The Effects of Stress on Music Performance
FAQ Relaxation Techniques
Relaxation Techniques I
Relaxation Techniques II
Stress in Piano Playing
Beta Blockers and Performance Anxiety in Musicians
Alexander Technique for Musicians
Everything You Need to Know About Sleep
The Benefits of Better Breathing
Teaching Whole Music Literacy
Music, Development, Aging and the Brain
The Brain of Musicians: A Model of Functional and Structural Adaptation
Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
The Effects of Music Training On Children's Brain and Cognitive Development
Creating Melodies with Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks
Benefits of Learning Music

Science

The Elephant and the Event Horizon

Audio and Recording

Audio Index
Audio and Home Recording Links
Reorganized Sound: Effects by Established Technques
Creative Commons Licensing and Copyright
Guide to Buying Pro-Audio Equipment
Installation Basics for Studio Wiring
Protein Storage
Freakin' the Faders
High Fidelity
MIDI In Session
Links to Acoustics, Music, and Science
Brass Recording Tactics
Creating Effect Via Established Techniques
Bias Voltages and Tube Amp Maintenance
The Technical Features of Monitoring
Strings, Standing Waves and Harmonics
What is a Sound Spectrum?
What is a Decible?
Brass Recording Tactics
Multimedia Articles
Acoustics, Music, and Science
Reducing Studio Noise
Phantom Power and Microphone Interconnect Basics
Audio Room Acoustics
Speaker Impedance
Differences Between CD-R/CD-RW Discs and Standard CD
What to Do With Extra Computers
Resonance and Radiation
Audio Gear Modification
Recording the Electric Guitar
Build a Budget Studio
Good Reference Monitors
Plug-ins
Mic-mix
MySpace for Musicians
Sonic Mayhem
Mic Specs
Samplers

The Tools: Photoshop CS3, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver

The Fireworks Pages
The Photoshop Pages
Index Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver

CSS in Dreamweaver by Adobe

Web Site Development

Good Examples of Web Sites
Web Design: Rules to Code By
Web Development Process Overview PDF
Web Site Development Process
Digital Design
Web Styles Guide

Graphic Goals: What are the goals of your site?

About Goals
Your Goals
Your Site's Goals
User Goals
Win Win Solutions
About Personas & Scenarios
Site Personas and the Dialogue Process

Know and Target Your Viewers

How People Use Web Pages
Content
Don't Decorate...Communicate
Branding
The Golden Rule
Conventions
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
Design Engineering

Understanding Design

Scanning
Content
How People Use Web Pages
People Are Impatient
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
The Brain's Strengths

The Design/Plan Stage

Planning Your Web Site
Principles of Copyright
Planning Your Website
Ten Steps To A More User Friendly Website
Web Design: Rules to Code By
The Golden Rule of Website Building
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
10 Tips on designing a fast loading web site
Web Site Specification PDF
Web Design and Development Process PDF
Site Structure PDF

Color

Calibrate Your Monitor
Color: Creating a Palette
Color Theory & the Color Wheel
Color Picker Software
The Lagom LCD monitor test pages
Real Color Wheel
Web Safe Colors by Value Order
Web Safe Colors by Hue Order
Communicating With Color
Color Wheels and Gray Scales

Graphic Design Basics

Graphic Design Basics Index
Clarity in web page design
Colour
Contrast
Readabilty
Effective text
HTML text
Imagery
Attention Map

Page layout

Layout for web page design
Containment
Alignment
Grouping
Rhythm and repetition common styling
Logical order
web page design

Visual techniques

3D Effects in graphic design for the web

Logo design
Key Characteristics of an Effective Logo

Text-based logos

Favourite logos
Add an Icon to Your URL

Case studies

Artorg: Worked example
graphic artists

Case study: Business Improvement Network

Case study: Foruse

Tools

Download YouTube Videos
Embedding Audio and Video into Dreamweaver Pages
Using Flash and Video in a Website
Videography and Cinematography Basics

Web 2.0

MMORPGs and the Virtual Sweatshops of the Digital Empire
Content Migration between 3D Online Learning Environments
When Worlds Collide - Exploring the relationship between the actual, the dramatic and the virtual
Bumping Into Ourselves: Individual and Virtual Worlds
The Network Really Is the Computer
Riding the Waves of “Web 2.0”
Web 2.o Software: Best Of
Web 2.o Definition
Web 2.o HackerNews Definition
What Is Web 2.o? Design Patterns and Business Models
The State of Web 2.o
Google Aims to Break Open the Closed World of Social Networking

Class Projects

Planning Your Web Site
Web Site Specification
Important Links
The Complete Fireworks Tutorial
DMS Main
Principals of Copyright
Creating a Logo
Creating a Page Banner
Optimize Images
Using Fireworks
Setting Up Dreamweaver
Using Dreamweaver
The Insert Bar
Web Design and Development Process
Production Storyboard
Using Flash and Video in a Website
Create Image Maps
Create Rollover Images
Create pop-up Menus

Web Design

Getting Started

Firefox Tutorial
Six Essential Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
File Management

Web Design Tutorial Links
Web Design Links and Tools

Graphic Goals

About Goals
Your Goals
Your Site's Goals
User Goals
Win Win Solutions
About Personas & Scenarios
Site Personas and the Dialogue Process

Know and Target Your Viewers

How People Use Web Pages
Content
Don't Decorate...Communicate
Branding
The Golden Rule
Conventions
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
Design Engineering

Understanding Design

Scanning
Content
How People Use Web Pages
People Are Impatient
Factors That Influence the Browsing Experience
The Brain's Strengths

The Design/Plan Stage

Planning Your Web Site
Principles of Copyright
Planning Your Website
Ten Steps To A More User Friendly Website
Web Design: Rules to Code By
The Golden Rule of Website Building
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
10 Tips on designing a fast loading web site
Web Site Specification PDF
Web Design and Development Process PDF
Site Structure PDF

Graphic Design Basics

Graphic Design Basics Index
Clarity in web page design
Colour
Contrast
Readabilty
Effective text
Imagery
Attention Map

Page layout

Layout for web page design
Containment
Alignment
Grouping
Rhythm and repetition
Logical order

Visual techniques

3D Effects in graphic design for the web
Logo design
Text-based logos
Favourite logos

Case studies

Artorg: Worked example
Case study: Business Improvement Network
Case study: Foruse

Web Accessability

Usability for the Blind and Low Vision
Color Vision Confusion
The Elderly
Developing For Low Education/Motivation
Children On the Internet
Universal Usability Guidelines for Users with Slow Connections
Customer Service for Web Developers

Dreamweaver

CSS in Dreamweaver by Adobe

Flash Tutorials

Non Animation

Applying Gradients to Text in Flash
Gradients in Flash
Glow Effect in Flash
Change Image Color in Flash
Draw House
Drop Shadow in Flash
Flash Slideshow
Convert Bitmap Images to Vector in Flash
Creating a Sphere
Attractive Flash Text

Animation

Titration
Fire Text Animation
Flash Digital Clock
Flash Analog Clock
Animated Sparkle Effect
Animated Moving Effect Great for banners.
Custom Cursor in Flash
Loading External Images in Flash
Simple Flash Preloader
Flash Ripple Effects

Web Accessability

You can use BSS for:

Relaxation / Meditation
Improved Memory and Concentration
Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis
Headache Relief
Euphoria / "Spacey" Mental States
Exotic, Spiritual Mental States (some have reported lucid dreams and OOBEs)
Making your own Brainwave Transforms to stimulate the brainwaves of your choice!
Adding an "edge" to your music that other musicians / bands have never even heard of!
Making your own brainwave entrainment CDs, which can then be sold!
Stimulating brainwaves while listening to your favorite tunes!

Neural Noise Synthesizer stimulates the brain by generating noise which is embedded with brainwave entraining frequencies, using our unique filtering system. For example, one NNS filter removes and replaces the higher frequencies generated by the Noise, in a circular pattern over time. Because NNS is generating noise that is structured to stimulate the brain over and over each second, the brain fires neural responses to the same rhythm. After about 6 minutes, brainwave entrainment is established, and the brain of the listener is synchronized to the frequencies embedded in the noise.

NS can also generate binaural or monaural beats, which are the most commonly used brainwave entrainment techniques.

Using brainwave stimulation and dynamic psychological techniques, the NeuroProgrammer enables you to rapidly achieve profound and long lasting results.

Brainwave stimulation increases cerebral blood flow, the production of neurotransmitters, growth of dendrites, axons, neurons and more. In other words, when you use NP your brain is being trained and encouraged to build connections and neural structures to support your goals. Transparent provides software applications at an affordable price.

Photoshop CS3 Tutorials

Easy

A Simple Layer Mask
Five Great Background Masking Techniques
Creating and Duplicating Layers
Get Organized in Photoshop
Creating and Duplicating a Layer Mask
Building Accessable Menu Tabs
Creating Glass
Matrix Text
Plastic Engraved Type
Brushed Metal Texture
Converting to BW
Glass Text
English Tea Can Painting
Beveled Steel
Persepective Grid
Warholesque Color
Realistic Spotlight Effect
Creating Starburst Glints of Light in Photoshop
Double Beveled Outlines
Chrome Effect
Screw Heads
Photoshop Alchemy: Apply Image
Rusted Type
Merging Drew and Bouguereau Combining Images
Creating Wood
Realistic Rock
Outline Text

Moderate

Superman 3D Extrude Text
Brick Wall/Layer
The Channel-Bevel Trick
Cast Shadow in Photoshop
3D Effect Using Channels
Graffiti in Photoshop
Reflective Liquid Type
Make a Cone
Interfaces and Basic Shapes in 3D
Original Gangsta Bling Diamonds
Realistic Microphone in Photoshop
Wrapping Objects with Displacement Maps
Segmented Tubes

Difficult

Chrome Cherries
Anime Beads
Kiosk Orbs
Realistic Rope in Photoshop
Golf Ball

Advanced Projects

Using Vector Designs & Customizing Text in Photoshop
Airbrushing an Image in Photoshop or PaintShopPro
Build a Mercator
Using Vector Designs & Customizing Text

Web Tools

Web Design Pages
Design a Website In Photoshop
Turning A Sliced Image Into An HTML Webpage
Making a Web Photo Gallery
Morning Drink

Web 2.0

Web Candy Like Badge
Web Content Box
Web 2.0 Text
Web 2.0 Badge
Web 2.0 Graphic Element
Web 2.0 Button
Web 2.0 Button II
Create for Web

Tools for Game Design or Just for Fun

Modern Ruins
Chocolatized Skull
Zombifying Mandy Moore
Smoking with Photoshop
Turning People Into Statues
The Making of a Robotic Frog
Kristin Kreuk as a real Manga Gal!
Laser and Shiny Things
Fire in the Night
Create a Cyborgenic Leopard
Faceswapping
How to Create Rain

Software Downloads

Free Windows XP Downloads
Free Open Source Software
Free Open Source Portable Media Software
Free Portable Software
Free Music Software
Free plugins, mp3 Players, and browsers
Open Source Downloads
Flock

Operating Systems

Windows Software

The Best Free Windows XP Software and Opensource Software Available This is where we go for our must have software when we rebuild a system.
Free Open Source Software...an extensive list of software and resources.
Free Open Source Portable Media Software...media geek's on the go.
Free Portable Software...geek's on the go. OSes to Browsers.
Free Music Software...music only software.
Free plugins, mp3 Players, and browsers

Vista

Tweak Vista ...free utility download.
Customizing Your Aero
Control Vista...this is how you turn off those frustrating dialogs you keep getting every time you try to do something. Improve your Vista experience.
Vista Diagnostics are light-years beyond anything you ever saw in Win XP.
Vista Gadgets...everyone loves a gadget, and MS came through for us.
Taking Screenshots with Vista...just as easy as it is with Win XP.
Vista Tweek: Turn Off User Account Control...and stop being annoyed.
TweakUAC is a sweet little application that will give you total control over the Vista User Account Control... It is free.
Vista Drivers are easy to take care of.
Searching in Vista is easier than it ever was in XP.
Dual-Boot to Vista ...it does not get any easier.
Vista Parental Controls ...sorry kids, but the "liddle" one need protection.
Working with Windows Defender ...not much use if you do no know how to use it properly.
Managing Windows and Using Flip 3D is one of the coolest new features of Vista.
Vista Sound and Volume Controls...time to rock.
Resize Your Vista Partitions
Turning Vista Features Off
Vista Program Compatibility
Vista: A Double Dose Recovering documents, and sound tips. December 31, 2007
Screen Font Size, Quick Launch, and Log On Message January 2, 2008
Vista 3D Desktop January 2, 2008
Ten New Vista Tips January 2, 2008
Vista AutoRun January 2, 2008
Vista Disk Cleanup January 2, 2008

Hardware Benchmark Tools and More

Test your computer hardware for free.
The Intel® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system.
PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Fixing Your Flash Drive..."waste not want not."
KeePass Password Safe Slap it on your USB memory stick for the ultimate experience.
AutoGK Quick DVD-to-Div-X rips and power user features.
Auslogic Disk Defrag Wow, free defragger for Vista!
DoubleTwist An iTunes DRM stripper. More iTune tools: iPod, iTunes, MP3s
ThreatFire

Development

VirtualPlastic

Mac Software

Mac Software an exhaustive list of the best free software in the Mac world.
MacDesktops almost...almost an infinte source of desktops. (External link)
iPhone Wallpaper some great wallpapers. (External link)
the iconfactory tools for building icons for both Mac OS and Windows (External link)

Running Mac OS X

Trashing the Preferences
How To Add Login Items
Force Quitting Applications
Changing the Appearance of Your Dock
Connecting to a Server

General Mac OS

What Is Apple Hiding?...Censorship and more Censorship.
Make Windows More Like Mac OS X. Free downloads at: My Expose, Stardock Object Bar, Stardock Object Dock, and use Safari.
BSOD Comes to Mac World
Mac hacks Allow OS X on PCs
Mac OS Leopard has a major data transfer flaw. Uh-oh--external link.
Leopard has both hits and misses.
Mac hacks Allow OS X on PCs via a little program called OSx86 Project
The Mac Trojan Virus...so much for the infallibility of the Mac OS.
Running Puppy Linux inside OS X 31-Dec-2007

Free Digital Music

Free Sound Links is where you can score various sounds to use for recording. March 31, 2008
How to Download Myspace's Free Music for Your iPod or a CD March 31, 2008
Hijacking Audio February 24, 2008
Free Music is available legally...quick note: we do not advocate piracy.
One Million Free and Legal Music Tracks Here is a page full of links to some very hi-powered free and legal music sites.
How to Remove DRM from WMA to MP3 for iPod/iPhone 27 January, 2008
More Freedom for Music Fans with sinking DRM ship.
Stream Music to Airport Express Without iTunes
Move Music Off of Your iPod ..do it for legal purposes only.
Suing people who download music illegally external link.
Woman Must Pay $222,000 in Fines for Piracy external link
Google MP3s

Technology and Culture

The Information SuperHighway:
Social and Cultural Impact
Rise of the web's social network

Computer Technology

Open Source Philosophy
Open Source Downloads
Free Windows XP Downloads
Open Source Portable Media Software
Free Portable Software
Free Music Software
Free plugins, mp3 Players, and browsers
The Microsoft Monopoly
The Advantage of Open Source
Math Art
Fixing Your Flash Drive