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Get the Led Out: Social Media Lessons from Led Zeppelin

by Kyle Akerman

One of the greatest rock bands of all time was secretly doling out social media advice well before its time.

While scrolling through the songs in my iTunes library the other day, I came across my collection of Led Zeppelin tracks. And by collection of tracks, I mean every song from all 10 of their albums - yeah, I’m a fan. Well I must have been thinking about social media and community building as I skimmed through the list of songs, because a number of the titles started to speak to me about those exact topics.

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Lunch-n-Learn 7: Tomato Basil Toast w/Melted Garlic Cheddar Cheese, Side of Guacamole & Garageband

by Jeff Livorsi

Mightybytes’ seventh Lunch-n-Learn jammed together good old fashioned comfort food with songwriting on the side, and a dollop of guacamole on top.

Joy prepared Tomato Basil Toast as an open-faced grilled cheese and added a side of guacamole, while James continued his presentation on how to use the GarageBand digital music-making software to combine instrumental, rhythm and vocal tracks to make a complete song.

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Four Resources for Editing Video in the Cloud

by Travis Chandler

Editing video in the cloud or "I shot Raging Bull 2 on my cellphone. Now what?"

Video editing software has an amazing range of prices and abilities. But surely the most fascinating new realm of editing software is the on-line editor, where videos can be spliced and diced in the cloud. That’s right, you can trim heads and add cross-dissolves way up there in the digital stratosphere. How do they do it? Magic.

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Final Cut Pro X: An Apple Apologist’s Assessment

by Travis Chandler

The latest release of Apple's flagship video editing application hits a few bumps in the road and offers a significantly streamlined workflow as well.

When Final Cut Pro X was released in late June, there was a lot of hubbub. It was not the happy feel-good hubbub usually attributed to an Apple release, however. It was closer to the hubbub of the townspeople gathering to burn a witch at the stake. It got so rowdy, in fact, that it warranted this sketch on the Conan O’Brien show. Apple’s not usually the brunt of late night comedian tomfoolery. How could technology’s hippest company find itself getting burned by late night’s hippest comedian?

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Lunch-n-Learn 6: Sopes and GarageBand

by Jeff Livorsi

Mightybytes’ sixth Lunch-n-Learn fused Mexican street foods with songwriting. It brought color, taste, and sound to our weekly series.

Cesar prepared sopes, one of Mexico’s best known street foods. Filled with different ingredients and garnishes, sopes are easily eaten by hand. This time, Cesar prepared a guajillo and an ancho salsa, which you can learn how to make using the recipes at the end of this post. Conveniently, that allowed James to dive into some hands-on magic by showing our team how to use digital music-making software.

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