Claro sucks
April 25, 2008 11:47 am
categories:
Technology
Today my mobile woke up with no signal at all. My mobile carrier said that things will be alright only after lunch. Yesterday I noticed that Google Calendar works only with Oi and Tim, no with the Claro carrier. Now this…all day off. It really sucks!
Just waiting next year when it will be possible to change the carrier and keep the same phone number to start testing another carrier.
The music world may change a bit
April 10, 2008 6:39 pm
categories:
Music, Technology
Today I took notice of a great, great invention that may shake the music world. It’s called so far as Direct Note Access, acronyms DNA no innocently. It’s a little complicated to explain, but basically Peter Neubäcker created a way to split notes from a recorded chord and manipulate each note separately. What you already can do in a MIDI file you will may do in a WAV file.
And by this I mean that it will be possible to anyone change music notes, changing chords from minor to major, music scale, pieces of harmony, timing, pitch, arrangements, whatever! with a click of a button. Sounds crazy? Let’s see what they say at their website:
Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time in audio recording history you can identify and edit individual notes within polyphonic audio material. The unique access that Melodyne affords to pitch, timing, note lengths and other parameters of melodic notes will now also be afforded to individual notes within chords.
Examples of use: tune a guitar after recording, correct harmony vocals that are out of tune, or fix their timing, turn major chords to minor (and vice versa), switch tone scales, mute single notes, remix volume levels, etc. – all after the performance is already taped!
Enough reading…watch the video!
Via Daniel DP.
Another tape!
6:23 pm
categories:
Music, cyberculture
Just a few days after writing about Muxtape, I found another service very similar,Mixwit, through AnaPow’s blog . Although more complicated (you need to have the music stored somewhere online), you can get a “real” tape with some cool interface features. And the coolest thing are the skins, all from ooooold tapes. Pick the one you like best.
Here goes my first tape, for now with just a single music
Bad, bad service. Shame on you, Unibanco.
April 8, 2008 2:54 pm
categories:
Usability
Today, as many bank users, I tried to find the telephone number of my bank agency through their website. As a internet user, I almost don’t need to contact my manager. But this was a special case and I needed to know the manager’s telephone.
I went to their website and tried to use the “Find an agency” service. The first problem: the page loads at the very beginning a form that asks “Why do you need to go the agency”. Well, it’s a noble initiative, to offer some services that may help the user and (maybe) save him an unnecessary trip to the agency.
So what’s the problem, you may ask? Well, just below this “innocent” question goes a form where you put your Agencu and Account number with a contextual button. Depending on what you select as your “need” at the select field, the form changes. And the very first option of the form is to “loan some money”. Tricky!
When users get to that page they certainly wants to get an Agency number, directions or something like that. But the search service in fact is the last thing the user sees. First there’s a lot of selling services, in a gray box, with texts in bold. Confusing, disruptive, annoying and you could say dishonest in a certain way.
But the very best is of the story comes now.
After struggling with the selling box I finally got to the search service itself. Well, I informed the agency number and ‘voila’, the system says “Invalid agency number!“. I double checked my bank card, and that’s the number, I’m not crazy. Let’s try again….It didn’t work! The service that is the only reason for that page to exists doesn’t work at all! Holly Jakob Nielsen Batman! I bet that the selling service works just fine! But I refused to test it, that would be too much!
I wrote to the Bank Customer Service complaining about that. Let’s see what will they say.
The Unibanco Agency Search Page
Muxtape
April 4, 2008 12:22 pm
categories:
Music, cyberculture
Cool project, make a K7 tape of your favorite songs to listen wherever you are. I already have mine. Check it out.
