Who USB'ed the Firewire on IrDA?

01 September 1999 Dear Squeak and Blat, OK, I'm really frustrated. I just bought one of those new Macs with the fancy color scheme that reminds me of a set of pool toys I bought last summer. The machine runs beautifully and I am getting use to the new mouse and...

Broadcasting Your Music News on the NET!

01 February 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, I'm interested in starting a computer-based discussion forum going among the music teachers in my school. I think I can do this by using individual email addresses, but is there a better way? Someone told me about a list service...

Who Minds the Music Lab When the Prof's Back is Turned?

01 April 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, I am setting up a new music lab that has about 14 stations and need some advice on how to keep it running with personnel. The lab is in a college music department that has about 124 students. I know you two guys do this. Any tips?...

Does Your OS Loose Its Flavor on the Mousepad Over Night?

01 September 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, I have a friend that owns a Wintel box and I have a Mac. We both are running older versions of the operating system and all our music applications seem to be stable. So what's so great about OS8 for the Mac and Windows95 and 98...

Causes and Cures of Poor Intonation: Applications of Audiological and Psychological Research

01 October 1986 To deal with a student's poor intonation appropriately, a teacher must know the specific cause of the problem. Many causes exist, most of which can be fairly easily detected (if not always so easily eliminated). These include lack of practice, lack of...

[i]Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium[/i], edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle

01 October 2003 Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium, edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle. CMS Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 16. Michael J. Budds, series editor. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press,...

Boot Camp San Antonio: Internet Conferencing, Collaboration, and Convergence

31 October 2006 Those who arrived in San Antonio a day early were treated to an event of music and technology unlike any ever before assembled for a CMS conference. The CMS 2006 conference began with a pre-conference that immersed some 50 attendees in the latest...

The 2008 CMS National Topic Was Just a Clicker Away!

30 April 2007 A new technology gaining in popularity in college classrooms is the audience response system known more popularly as clickers. Instructors design PowerPoint slides that query students on lecture points or solicit input and opinion interactively during...

Finding Music Technology Bucks!

01 November 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, I have enjoyed your first few months of helpful hints. Help me with something I have wondered about. How do I find money to develop a music lab? It's clear at my school that everyone is excited about technology but the money...

Java Cantatas: Drip or Perk Those Java Beans?

01 November 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, Has the world lost its orbit or what? All I hear about is Java, Javascript, Java Beans, Java Cafe, Java Applets, ad whipcreamium! I know there's a real coffee craze going on but what has all this to do with computers and the World...

Going Bilingual With Your Music Multimedia Projects

01 September 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, My school computer lab has both Mac and Windows 95 computer workstations. I've created some nice Powerpoint and HyperCard projects for my students in the World Music class I teach and in the Music Listening class. These were done...

Squeak and Blat: Future Thoughts on Advancements In Technology and the Music Classroom

31 October 2009 Squeak and Blat, Q: You've offered us many good technology tips in the past. I need help with the future. I'm involved in long-range strategic planning for our School of Music at Counterpoint College and we'd appreciate your insight on what we might...

Wilfred C. Bain: A Reminiscence In Memoriam

01 October 1998 Wilfred C. Bain: A Reminiscence In Memoriam Written by Ennis Williams Symposium Volume 38 Wilfred Bain died in Bloomington, Indiana, March 7, 1997. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the most influential music administrator in higher education in...

Getting a Tired, Old Computer and Musician Connected to the Internet

01 September 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, My music department is still in the dark ages and isn't connected to the Internet. I would really like to have e-mail and take advantage of all those neat things on the Internet. How can I get my old tired Mac LC connected from...

Squeak and Blat: RSS Feeds: All You Wanted to Read, but Were Afraid to Ask

31 October 2010 Dear Squeak and Blat, There are so many new acronyms and names for social computing tools these days it's a challenge for even the best musicologist or theorist to sort out: tweet, friend-me, blogs, pods, walls, and more! Of all of these new terms the...

BVDS or DVDS? Fuzzy or Extra-Crisp Media?

01 April 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, DVD? What is this? I was in my favorite super electronic store the other day and saw this player that looked like a CD audio player, but it was playing movies from a CD? My local video store is also renting a few of these with the...

Putting Some Multimedia Zip into Your CPU

01 June 1997 Dear Squeak and Blat, What the heck is this MMX stuff I see in ads about Wintel computers? Is this some kind of Star Wars thing? Is it worth it? Stevie J. MacWintel Blat: Dear Stevie: No, nothing to do with C3PO or R2D2. The secret to understanding MMX...

Leftover Bucks Burning a Hole in Your Christmas Stocking?

01 December 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, With just a few dollars to spend after Christmas, how can I get some rudimentary music software? I'd like to be able to score a bit, and it would be nice to be able to play on my MIDI keyboard. I've got a Mac, a Casio keyboard...

Publishing Your Talents to the Big Wide Web

01 December 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, I want to write my first web page that features my family and their music achievements. My wife is a pianist, I play trumpet and my daughters are learning drums and tuba. I've just signed up with an Internet Service Provider (ISP)...

Sharing a Computer Screen with the Masses

01 October 1996 Dear Squeak and Blat, I have a computer in my classroom but I haven't figured out how to use it so that my whole class can see the screen. How can I get this to work for me? M.M. Blat: Well M.M., how about just putting the screen up high and giving all...