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Month: April 2013

  • Iris (Electronic Arrangement)

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    Two days ago, I shared my seven-year-old Iris arrangement. As a bonus track, here’s what happens when you spend the night messing around with GarageBand’s seemingly endless synthesizer settings.

  • Iris (Instrumental Arrangement)

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    Sure, I work for Automattic now, but when I was in college, I actually wanted to be a music teacher. While pursuing my degree in music education at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, I took an instrumental arranging course and one of my assignments was to arrange a pop song for an entirely instrumental group.…

  • Earth Day, 2013

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    It’s Earth Day again! Time to start at least saving the environment for free if you haven’t been already, and maybe even plant some trees and donate to a worthy charity, like The Conservation Fund. If you want to know why I prefer The Conservation Fund, read this. Want to do even more to save the environment? Start…

  • Preview the Upcoming WordPress Dashboard

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    MP6, the future of the WordPress Dashboard, has arrived on WordPress.com. If you have a WordPress.com blog, visit Users -> Personal Settings in your blog’s Dashboard and check “Enable experimental admin design (MP6)” now! If you follow WordPress development, you may have heard that this was on the roadmap for WordPress 3.6, but was pushed…

  • Two Step Authentication on WordPress.com

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    If you have a WordPress.com blog, now is the perfect time to make your account more secure with our new two step authentication! Two step authentication (also referred to as two-factor authentication) requires you to enter a one-time secret code from your mobile device whenever you log in, after entering your password of course, which…

  • WordPress 3.6 Beta Released

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    The WordPress 3.6 Beta has been released, and users with a self-hosted WordPress installation can easily upgrade to it with the Beta Tester plugin. This is the first beta release, so it’s not recommended for live sites, but plugin/theme developers and anyone with a keen eye for bugs are encouraged to try it out now. Unlike…

  • New Theme: Superhero

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    I have been meaning to find a new change of clothes for this blog, which is good, since I instantly fell in love with Superhero by Oscar Winner Theme Wrangler Michael Cain. There are a few things that I don’t like about the stock theme, but I love a theme that encourages me to alter…