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Getting to grips with Editorial workflows

Posted by ashleyelsdonon April 4, 2015March 30, 2015in Mobile Applications, Tech, Work, WritingLeave a comment

I’ve been using Editorial for a while now and never really got to grips with using the workflow functionality in it. That is up until now. I found an actual use for workflows. I won’t bore you with what I’m using workflows for, but I’ve start using it in some very simple ways. Just using simple dialogues and markdown to record information.

It works. It saves me time, and it’s useful. That’s a good combination as far as I’m concerned. I’m hoping that I’ll continue to find new ways to make use of Editorial’s workflow as it has loads of capabilities, and as yet I’m just scratching the surface of what it can do.

So, hopefully you’ll be hearing more about my use of Editorial workflows in the not too distant future. Who knows, I may even share a few!

A little bit of Elastic Drums from me

Posted by ashleyelsdonon April 2, 2015March 29, 2015in MusicLeave a comment

A small performance with Barcodas

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 27, 2015March 23, 2015in Creative Process, MusicLeave a comment

I know it’s a bit strange, but I actually had a lot of fun doing this, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Barcodas page now up

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 21, 2015March 20, 2015in Sounds, Stuff, TechLeave a comment

This will be of limited interest but I thought I’d post it anyway as its of interest to me. You can find my page of barcodes that play a nice little tune in Barcodas (an iOS app that plays barcodes), can be found here.

I’ll be adding to it over time, so if you are interested you’ll see more of them there, although I probably won’t post about adding new ones.

Playing with PAW server

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 17, 2015March 13, 2015in Mobile Applications, TechLeave a comment

Which is an interesting Android app for running your own web server on an Android device. So, why do it? Good question. Like a lot of technologies I tinker with, I end up asking myself just that. What’s the point of this? What useful function does it offer me? I may well end up with the same question with PAW server. I’m not sure what I can do with it that can’t be satisfied elsewhere. At least, not yet anyway. It may have one or two uses.

If I find them I’ll let you know about it.

A little development log of sorts

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 9, 2015March 7, 2015in Making thingsLeave a comment

So as you know I’m always tinkering about with Palm OS stuff, and usually talking about it on Palmorama too. However, I thought it might be interesting to start off a little development blog of sorts for my latest creation, Seq1. I’ve started it off here as a page on the site, and I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks and months.

IFTTT becomes IF and launches 3 new apps

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 22, 2015February 21, 2015in Mobile Applications, TechLeave a comment

I’m always interested in seeing what IFTTT do. Now they’ve become IF, or at least their main app has become IF and the interface has changed too. If that wasn’t enough though they’ve launched another three apps as well. I’m not entirely sure that I get the idea behind these three new ‘Do’ apps. Perhaps I need to spend a bit more time with them though, to really get what they’re trying to achieve.

What I’d really like to see them do is …

Multiple accounts for a channel, so being able to use more than one twitter account
Set times for when a channel runs, so control the frequency, like running something twice a day or every 10 minutes
Support for chaining

Let’s see if they do anything like that.

Loving Barcodas and finding out about bar codes

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 14, 2015February 14, 2015in Creative Process, MusicLeave a comment

I do like the idea of made from things that don’t normally make music. Hence I like barcodas. The idea of making little snippets of music from bar codes is very appealing. To me anyway. The interesting thing, at least, interesting to me anyway is that different types of bar codes seem to have very different properties. So for instance, using bar codes taken from books, these all sound the same, at least the first few notes do. Bar codes taken from cereal boxes are quite different.

So I had a little idea for a barcodas project that I think I’m going to try out soon.