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How To Autotune Your Voice In Garageband- Sound Like T-Pain Tutorial

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Want to get that signature T- Pain or Kanye West auto effect using nothing but GarageBand??? This quick tutorial will show you how to take your crap voice and put it in tune.
No plugins needed!!! If you have Apples Garage Band in OS X you have everything you need.

Screen Saver Desktop- Mac OS X Trick

Terminal Code- /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

Terminal Code- /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
I’ve always wanted to have a desktop image that was a live music visualizer. This is how I did it. As far as I can tell (by Googling the techniques that have been detailed elsewhere), this is the only start-to-finish instruction to accomplish responsive music visualization on the desktop.
Before you begin, note that the major issue with this hint is that it requires you have the visualizer running in iTunes in order for the desktop visualizer to work. I have a Quad dual-core, so I don’t notice a hit in performance, but I’d prefer this to work cleaner. Read on for the how-to if you’d like to see how I did it…
First, I copied a visualizer (for example, Lathe.qtz) from the Compositions folder in the /System » Library » Compositions folder, and modified it heavily in Quartz Composer (part of XCode) to make it unique.
Still in Quartz Composer, go to Editor » Edit Protocol Conformance, and click both Screen Saver and Music Visualizer. Then save the edited composition into the Screen Savers folder in your user’s Library folder.
Then open the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences pane, and set your newly-created screen saver as your screen saver. After doing that, in Terminal, issue this command.
This sets your selected screen saver as your desktop background. Press Control-C to quit the overlay, or simply close the Terminal window the command is running in, to exit the background screensaver. (I made a new entry into my bash profile to simplify the long command into a more memorable and simpler command, Visualize.)
Nothing will happen until you turn on the visualizer in iTunes. You can use any one the visualizers, except for iTunes Visualizer or iTunes Classic Visualizer. All the rest use the Quartz engine, and will send the audio output to the correct listener (for lack of a better word.)
Two improvements that could be made to this technique. First, as noted earlier, is the need to have to run the iTunes visualizer alongside the desktop visualizer.
The other improvement that could be made is that this solution paints the compostion directly between your desktop icons and your current desktop pattern. I set my desktop so a simple color from the Desktop tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel, in order to save some processor cycles by not painting two large JPGs accross my two displays.

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How to run your iTunes library off an external hard drive

Let’s face it—an iTunes library can get very big, very quickly. You don’t want to clog up your system, but deleting things would be a waste of your money. The best choice, therefore, is to save your library on an external drive. No, not for storage, for active use. Let’s look at how you can put your whole iTunes library on an external drive and still use it.

These comes in two steps.

Step One: Organize your iTunes music folders automatically.

1. From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
2. In the resulting window, click the Advanced button.
3. Select the “Keep iTunes Music folder organized” checkbox.
4. Click OK.

Now, you can actually make the move.

1. Open iTunes.
2. From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
3. Click the Advanced button in the Preferences window.
4. Click the Change button in the iTunes Music folder location pane.
5. In the Change Music Folder Location window that appears, navigate to the location where you would like your new Music folder to be created. Note: By default, your iTunes Music folder is a folder named “iTunes Music” in ~/Music/iTunes/ where the tilde “~” represents your home directory.
6. Click the New Folder button in the Change Music Folder Location window.
7. In the New Folder window that appears, enter the name of the new iTunes Music folder.
8. Click Create.
9. Click Open in the Change Music Folder Location window.
10. Click OK in the Advanced window.
11. From the File menu, choose Library and then Consolidate Library… A message appears that says: “Consolidating your library will copy all of your music into the iTunes Music folder. This cannot be undone.”
12. Click Consolidate. Important: This action copies all of your music and media files to the new location. There must be enough hard disk space available to copy all of your music and media files.
13. After the folder has been copied, locate your original iTunes Music folder, and drag it to the Trash.
14. Empty the Trash.

And that’ll do it. If you need more help, you can get it on the Official Apple Support Site… but you know how helpful that really is.

Custom icons on Mac OSX [Tutorial]

Today Dan will teach you how to fully customize the look and feel of your Mac running OS X. This is a really easy process that can be mastered in less than 10 minutes! Follow along the video for all steps. Any links mentioned in the video are listed below.

Downloads mentioned in the video:

Candybar

Icon Sets

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