First weeks with iPhone X

Well I’m a few weeks in with the iPhone X and so far I’m loving it.

Some quick thoughts in praise of the phone…

Touch gestures make the home button feel like something that never needed to exist (though the swipe down for control center is garbage).

It is arguably one of the best looking iPhones of all time (I got the silver model).

The entire phone is lightning fast (though some of the transition animations have frame rate issues, likely due to the buggy behavior of iOS 11).

Did I mention touch gestures? Swiping the bottom of the screen left and right to multitask is a dream.

Animoji are fun.

Have not spent a ton of time with the camera yet, unfortunately. But the new portrait mode lighting is really special.

Some quick concerns…

Reviews spoke highly of Face ID. I think it’s great. But it’s very much where Touch ID was upon first release. Kind of slow and unnatural. Face ID is not as flexible about how my face is positioned to it as I would like it to be. And it is not very fast.

I thought I would hate the Notch on the top of the screen. I do. But it is not even one percent as intrusive as I thought it would be. I rarely notice it. It is worse in landscape mode, but I just don’t ever find myself my phone that way.

🗒 NAfME Session Notes – Digital Time Management for the Music Teacher

I am thrilled to be presenting at the NAfME National Conference today!

If you were at my session, Digital Time Management for the Music Teacher, click the link below for the session notes.

Click here to see the notes.

🗒 MMEA Session Notes – Working With Digital Scores

Tomorrow I will be presenting at the Maryland Music Educators Association’s Fall Conference. The session I am presenting is all about Working with Digital Scores. I will be covering file management, scanning, and score reading software such as forScore. I am also going to be digging in to some of the new iPad productivity features that shipped with iOS 11 last month. If you are going to be at the conference, come say hi!

Here are the session notes for the session…

Click here to view the session notes in Evernote!

Working with Digital Scores Session Notes – Robby Burns – MMEA In Service, October 20, 2017

Apps for Scanning:

Apple Notes App

Apps for Managing Files:

Files App

Apps for Working with Scores:

Notes on forScore:

Link to my blog post on creating indexes with forScore

My Book:

Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

Buy on Amazon | Buy on Oxford University Press

View the video trailer

About Me:

Robby Burns

Twitter | Blog | Podcast | Email

🔗 “The Simpsons” Composer Alf Clausen Fired After 27 Years

“The Simpsons” Composer Alf Clausen Fired After 27 Years:

Two-time Emmy winner Alf Clausen has been fired from “The Simpsons” after 27 years of providing music for Bart, Lisa, and company.

Clausen told Variety that he received a call from “Simpsons” producer Richard Sakai that the company was seeking “a different kind of music” and that he would no longer be scoring the longtime Fox hit.

This just makes me entirely sad.

🎬 Using the iOS 11 Files app makes working with Dropbox and Google Drive on an iPad smoother than ever before

As of Thursday, Google Drive Now Supports iOS 11’s Files app. Now that Google Drive and Dropbox support the new iOS 11 Files app, you can view all of your documents under one roof. This integration means that using third party cloud drives feels native to the iPad, something we have been able to experience with the Finder on macOS for years. You don’t ever even need to launch the Google or Dropbox apps again. I made a shoe video demonstrating the utility of this integration.

<div class="sqs-video-wrapper" data-provider-name="YouTube" data-html="

“>

<div class=" image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none "> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " style="max-width:312px"> <div class="image-block-wrapper"> <div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio " style="position: relative;padding-bottom:125%;overflow: hidden"> <img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5595df9ce4b0ce9ff9ecd1a8/1506481458441-JDI9AWQAVKZS0156DUJY/IMG_7914.PNG" alt="The Siri face shows upcoming calendar events." width="312" height="390" style="display:block;object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <div class="image-caption"><p class="">The Siri face shows upcoming calendar events.</p></div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class=" image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none "> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " style="max-width:312px"> <div class="image-block-wrapper"> <div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio " style="position: relative;padding-bottom:125%;overflow: hidden"> <img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5595df9ce4b0ce9ff9ecd1a8/1506481531166-RPZKW5HOTA3CXKWHHP8U/IMG_7919.PNG" alt="Combine calendar with alarms, timers, and other app data and this is a powerful watch face." width="312" height="390" style="display:block;object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <div class="image-caption"><p class="">Combine calendar with alarms, timers, and other app data and this is a powerful watch face.</p></div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class=" image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none "> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " style="max-width:312px"> <div class="image-block-wrapper"> <div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio " style="position: relative;padding-bottom:125%;overflow: hidden"> <img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5595df9ce4b0ce9ff9ecd1a8/1506481474892-9XU339VMHWY12WQY1JOM/IMG_7915.PNG" alt="You can scroll through your day with the Digital Crown." width="312" height="390" style="display:block;object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <div class="image-caption"><p class="">You can scroll through your day with the Digital Crown.</p></div> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class=" image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline combination-animation-none individual-animation-none individual-text-animation-none "> <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " style="max-width:312px"> <div class="image-block-wrapper"> <div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio " style="position: relative;padding-bottom:125%;overflow: hidden"> <img src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5595df9ce4b0ce9ff9ecd1a8/1506481668382-394LAA9U0HGDZLROW8T1/IMG_7936.PNG" alt="The modular face is still useful for viewing a lot of complications at once." width="312" height="390" style="display:block;object-fit: cover;width: 100%;height: 100%;object-position: 50% 50%" loading="lazy"> </div> </div> <figcaption class="image-caption-wrapper"> <div class="image-caption"><p class="">The modular face is still useful for viewing a lot of complications at once.</p></div> </figcaption> </figure> </div>

EVERYONE! Seriously check out the deal below. Rogue Amoeba makes some very creative and productive Mac apps for audio. I use Audio Hijack daily to record apps and produce my podcast. All of their apps are on sale until the end of the month.

Rogue Amoeba’s 15th Anniversary Sale:

We’re always eager to help even more people with their audio needs, so to celebrate our 15th anniversary, we’re offering a rare and very limited-time sale. Through the end of September, we’re offering discounts on every product we make.

So just how big is this sale? We started by lowering the price of all of our products by 15%, to match the 15 years we’ve been in business. We didn’t stop there, however. We’re also offering the chance to boost those savings by 1.33x, 1.67x, 2x, 3x, or even 4x. A few lucky users will save as much as 60% off our everyday low prices.

Providing a great deal on our apps is one small way we can thank our existing customers for all their support, and to help new users with our tools as well. We don’t discount our software often, but right now, everyone can save on every purchase from Rogue Amoeba.

Music Ed Tech Talk