Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

I have been getting a lot of e-mail recently that follows these general lines:
Dear,
Good day to you over there,i am Mr Lily James I want a PrivateTeacher for my son (Josy James), I got your advert while searching for Private Teacher through the internet and I really want my son to be taught by [...]

While blogging via a cell phone may seem like a painful experience, the iPhone is no ordinary cell phone, and with the release of the brand spanking new WordPress app especially for the iPhone, it’s easier than ever.
While I doubt that iPhone blogging (which I’m doing right now) will replace desktop blogging for longer [...]

I’ve done a major overhaul of the doublebassblog.org user interface recently. Why? Well, I like to do some sort of design change every six months or so–it’s simply good web design protocol, and it keeps things from getting stale. Plus, web technology moves pretty darn fast, and there are a ton of new features that [...]

Check out part 1 and part 2 of this series as well!
A significant chunk of my time these days is spent preparing, recording, editing, distributing, and promoting my podcast Contrabass Conversations, and even though I have always known that I’d have an easier time doing these tasks on a Mac, I’m a creature of habit, [...]

Check out part 1 of this series here.
One of the main tasks I use my laptop for is blogging, and the workflow on the Mac was of primary importance to me. Though I spent the first few years of my blog ging career on a PC, I knew that over 50% of all bloggers use [...]

Only a few days after writing about how everyone mocks my Acer laptop, I moved over to a shiny new MacBook with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 gigs of RAM, with Leopard, iLife ‘08, and the regular accoutrement of Mac applications. As a former Mac user who switched over to [...]

I’ve really got a great one for this week’s “Fun Friday” post! I found this video through the excellent podcast net@night. It’s got one guy who’s never used Facebook and another who’s very into Facebook–a quite common scenario based on my experience. Check it out!

As a blogger, podcaster, and all-around new media guy, I have found that most people assume that I am on a Mac.  I frequently have people ask me if I’ve installed Leopard yet, how to perform a specific task in iMovie, or tips on assembling podcasts in GarageBand.  This is a pretty reasonable assumption–a [...]

….at least, that’s what this internal Microsoft video would like one to believe.  Microsoft has a decades-long reputation of releasing utterly inane internal videos.  I hope that they were kidding with this one, but they probably weren’t.
By the way, check out the short-haired woman in the audience.  She really likes Vista Service Pack 1!

San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz (we’ll be interviewing him on Contrabass Conversations in the near future) passed along a link for a free tool for Macs created by a violinist in the San Diego Symphony.  Looking for an accurate tempo?  This simple application will give you an accurate tempo reading, which is useful [...]