“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 8
We have a winner, this contest is now closed. Congratulation to faithful Macenstein reader Lizzie!
On the Eighth Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) Your very own copy of Audio HiJack Pro! – The award-winning software from Rogue Amoeba that lets you record any audio your Mac can produce. QuickTime, Safari, iTunes, Skype or DVD Player. Record from microphones, Radiosharks and other hardware. If you can hear it, you can record it.
This is yet another product I am excited to give away because it’s one I use daily. I currently have one of my Macs set up to record the Howard Stern show off off Sirius every day using AH’s scheduler, break it into bookmarkable AAC’s, and then automatically import into an iTunes smart playlist for syncing. I’ve recorded webcasts, Skype calls, OS X system sounds, old records and cassette tapes, copy-protected iTunes Audio… I love this software! And you will too if you are lucky enough to win it (and if you’re not, you should really go buy it). There’s a ton of other cool features worth mentioning, like the ability turn any application into an alarm clock with a timer, over 50 audio filters and effects (and support for hundreds of VST and Audio Unit plugins), and much more.
To enter: Since Audio HiJack is all about recording memorable events for posterity, leave us a comment telling us what you feel is the single most important event in history (besides Macenstein‘s launch). Winners will be picked randomly 7 days later and notified (kind of like in The Ring, only with less killing… we hope). Open to all readers world-wide. Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein! (Oh, and be sure to enter ALL our “12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaways!)
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The beginning of everything.
God creates the universe. Without that moment, there would be no other moments.
The moon landing! That and the discovery of pizza.
For me, the birth of my son!
I really like what Matthew said about tomorrow
That day an apple fell on Newton’s head.
atom bomb used
The day/s that we as a species decided to plant our food rather than forage for it.
Big bang is, of course, critical. Creationism is a fairy tale. Speech was a big step on this path and fire was never discovered – it is a natural phenomenon. We learned to control and manage fire but we didn’t discover it.
The birth of agriculture is the dawn of modern societies. We settled down and began to live in larger. more organized communities. We built (somewhat) permanent homes. granaries et cetera. We began to develop the arts and social structures and learned to control natural processes. We created three key products that led to the development of our modern society – bread, cheese and wine (and/or mead/beer). All three involve mastering chemistry and a detailed process that began a virtually unbroken string of developments leading up to modern life. None of the skills can be passed on observationally so the development of education and communication was absolutely necessary.
End of lecture.
The day the second telephone was invented. Until then, there was no one to talk to on the first telephone.
The Day apple’s market share with the iphone grew to beat out other popular phone makers,
Moon landing
The day I discovered MACENSTEIN 🙂
The day I was given my first computer a 8086 with unix.
The Birth of my Children
sorry for the double post
November 10 1775, birth of the Marine Corps
How about this day ,,,,”The day they drove old Dixie down the people were singing bye bye miss American pie drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry good old boys drinking whiskey and rye this will be the day that I die” lol got to have some fun once in a while. Plus there are to many important days to pick just one.
Since I have a complete PA system in my kitchen and yes in the kitchen you read right and my soul mate sings and plays guitar It would be so great to be able to record all of the 800+ cassettes we have and most important are the Band tapes that we have recorded onto cassettes over the years. I think there are about 70 of them ranges as far back as the first band he was in back 22 years ago. Some of the members we have not seen in 10yrs so he treasures these cassette tapes so to be able to record them. Thanks For Sharing~! 🙂
has to be the day the printing press was invented
The most important event in history of the humanity was the moment of conscience.
the gutenburg press
January 24th, 1984.
It’s why 1984 wasn’t like “1984.”
The Big Bang
today.
Human rights. That’s why we are all able to speak here, and why you can’t tell whatever you want if you live in some places I won’t quote.
The day my wife was born
The Big Bang.
…the big bang.
May 25, 1977 – the day Star Wars was released
January 20th, 2009 – let’s hope!
Birth of Christ
April fools day, 1976…
Apple is established and starts selling the Apple I…
The Big Bang
The Zune release date.
February 24, 1955
October 23, 4004 BC…..
12/7/1941, a day that will live in infamy.
Why? It forced the USA to participate in Word War II which led to the domination of the latter half of the 20th century by America. Computers were invented in the USA, and our world will be forever changed by their rise. Just about every component of modernity comes out of WWII and its aftermath.
Big Bang, for sure.
I want to say the big bang, but because this was also the creation of space time I’m not sure if it can be said that it happened on any day. So I’ll go with when the monkey touched the obelisk and got the idea for tools.
The Death of Christ
April 22, 1993. Version 1.0 Mosaic was released. Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.
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The day AOL was founded in 1983. I know its sucks now but back then it was pretty cool.
The day i actually win something in a contest/competition/lucky draw/whatever.
Pls God (or Doc), it doesn’t hv to be a car or anything. I’ll even settle for a dozen free donuts (failing which, free software will do too). 🙂
The discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus…
July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
The relase of iPhone 3G!!
The premiere of The Simpsons.
Yeast! It’s yeast, I say! Without it there’s no beer.
Or bread.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The invention of the Internet, exactly 25 years, 11 months, 1 week, 5 days, 30 minutes ago
invention of the printing press!
July 20, 1969