Dave’s Answer:
This doesn’t arise too often for GarageBand users, from what I have been able to research, but there are definitely many discussions about this particular error message, the “disk is too slow” error, that you can find online.
Unfortunately I haven’t found any definitive answer about why you might suddenly see this after working for days, weeks or even months on your computer with the very same type of projects.

In fact, search for that error message in the GarageBand built-in help, and there are zero matches. Not so useful!
So first, here’s the error I bet you’re seeing:

Familiar error window? Ayup, “Core Audio: Disk is too slow (Write): (-10002)”.
Generally, you can fix this by restarting your system, but there are also some tips I found to help avoid this message in the future:
1. Quit as many other programs as you possibly can. Freeing up system resources can often help with disk swapping problems, too little RAM, and so on.
2. Make sure you’re plugged in and that you don’t have any strange Energy Saver settings (go into System Preferences to check it out). The one to avoid? “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible.”
3. Don’t work with source material that’s directly on an audio CD or DVD: copy it onto your computer drive before you go further.
4. Make sure you don’t have FileVault running. Don’t know what that is? It’s a built-in disk security system that keeps your data encrypted but slows down reads and writes because everything has to be encrypted/decrypted on the fly.
Here’s how to check if you have that running: Go to System Preferences and look for the “Security” icon on the Personal row:

Choose it, then click on the “FileVault” tab:

On mine you can see “Turn On FileVault”. If yours says “Turn Off…” well, then you should seriously consider turning it off as it will speed up disk writes on your computer.
If those don’t do it, you might well have a problem with your disk or computer. For most people, however, these should take care of the problem so you can get back to mixing and producing your material in GarageBand.

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You’re spoiled for choice with a growing number of web services and iPhone apps, all (currently) free.

In March, I discovered Audioboo, a free service that gives you the ability to record up to five minutes of audio on your iPhone and publish the recording to your Audioboo account on the web, complete with descriptive text, tags and your  geo-location data if you choose to include that.

At about the same time, I found out about ipadio, a phone-based system that offers a broader and deeper range of audio services including recording audio from any telephone. Nemisys, the UK company behind ipadio, released a new ipadio for iPhone app last week, a free app which, from  my user perspective, broadly does the same as Audioboo. (I’ll be posting a comparative review of Audioboo and ipadio soon.)

Apps like this focused on the phone – specifically, the iPhone – make it as easy as you can imagine to record and share audio content on the web. No microphone, software nor computer, just the iPhone. It couldn’t be simpler.

Well, it looks like it just got even simpler thanks to a tool like Chir.ps, a web- and iPhone-based service and app that lets you speak, record and publish with a few clicks at the website or screen taps on the iPhone.

The web service is simplicity itself, making use of a microphone you have connected to your computer or a built-in one to record via the service’s Flash-based interface.

It’s equally simple on the iPhone as Chir.ps hasn’t developed its own app but instead makes use of the Voice Memos recording app that comes with Apple’s version 3.0 operating system for the iPhone.

Voice Memos lets you record and share audio via email or MMS. With Chir.ps, you record and email your recording to Chir.ps which publishes it in your account on the website.

How simple is that?

Each of these apps has its strengths and weaknesses (in my experience, lots of strengths and very few weaknesses) so you use what you judge to be the best app for the job at hand.

Each of them offers a number of ‘social’ elements (including embed codes, followers, text commenting, marking as favourites, etc) although Chir.ps is quite literally embedded with Twitter, linking your Twitter account when you do your first recording.

You’re already seeing some imaginative uses of such tools, especially Audioboo and ipadio on the iPhone as entry points into audio blogging/podcasting but without the infrastructure.

These aren’t the only audio-recording apps and services out there, either. There’s TweetMic, for instance, which I’ve been experimenting with as well. Also stand-alone recording apps for the iPhone such as Griffin iTalk.

It’s never been easier to get your voice heard on the net.

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My 7 Cool Things Of The Day - SimulTravel, Basic Print, LifeAssist, Wertago, Twellow, and Montana GIS

1. iPhone App of the day -  SimulTravel for iPhone - The new Simultravel GPS iPhone application locates hotels within the desired area, displays pricing information, and enables instant conversation with a live travel agent at the tap of a screen. Available for just 99 cents.
2. Blackberry app of the day -  Cortado Basic Print - the app establishes a bridge between BlackBerry smartphones and Bluetoothr enabled photo printers.
3. S60 App of the day - LifeAssist, an innovative “Man Down” tracking application. Complete with GPS tracking, motion tracking, elementary signs-of-life check, biofeedback, remote camera activation, battery monitoring, and a voice-based interface.
4. Google G1 (Android) App of the day - Wertago is a clever mobile application for nightlifers wanting to get up-to-the-second information about what venues are hot, share content and influence the social scene and view details on a map
5. Tweet of the day - From conservative Twitterer @ rmaynard: News: Obama declares that the $700+Billion Stimulus Plan saved 25 jobs in Columbus, OH. That’s $28B per job saved, yeah!!!
6. Twitter Add-on of the day - Twellow is a tool designed to help you connect with people that interest you. Simply key in a search term, then browse the results. Twitter users are presented to you based on you search term.
7. Free GIS Data Pick of the day - Montana GIS Clearinghouse. Select data from a list of available GIS data layers or simply bundle up data using the bundler application.

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The North Hall was in-car audio and mobile audio and devices, which was less well attended and, to my interests, less interesting. More amazing cars and lots of “booth babes” who were dressed exactly as they’d been for the almost cliché mechanic’s calendars they’d posed for in the first place. And lots of guys eager to pose for photos with ‘em, arm firmly in place around their barely clad waists.

We took a break, then went to the Las Vegas Hilton’s own convention area for the International Gateway, which was exclusively representing companies in China and Hong Kong. Lots and lots of tiny booths with an amazing array of gadgets, gizmos and gewgaws, and every company hoping to find someone to distribute their products in the United States. This makes it a bit frustrating when you see something cool and realize that it might never be for sale through Best Buy, Wal-Mart or even Amazon.com, but it’s fascinating to think that two shy Chinese women who are hiding out in their tiny booth might well representing a two-thousand person strong manufacturing powerhouse in a far-flung province of China.

Anyway, on with the photos!

A typical scene of chaos at the more popular area of the Consumer Electronics Show 2009, this shows you a portion of the huge Microsoft booth space, with Motorola’s familiar “M” logo and a portion of its booth on the left. Behind Motorola was Intel, so the triumvirate was well represented in this area of the show. The most interesting thing that Microsoft was showing off? Windows 7. There were a lot of people from Microsoft demonstrating the Zune, but not many attendees were stopping to see what was going on.

Notice that the attendees are predominantly male here at CES too. That’s probably true of the demographic of consumer electronics buyers anyway, but still, is there even one woman in this picture?

This is a simple idea and I hope that they can get some traction in corporate America: it’s a button that you push when you’re walking away from your computer that puts it instantly into sleep mode, which saves about 80% of the electricity that it’d otherwise be using with a screensaver, etc.

They were one of many companies offering simple and effective green solutions to help us all use less power with all our gadgets and gizmos, and it’s an important step for all of us to consider. The Ecobutton guys also pointed out that compared to running a computer 24×7 for a year, simply pushing the button to have it instantly go to sleep for 10 hours/night would save you over $100 in electricity costs.

One of the most talked about things here at CES is the LG mobile watch. As you can see, it’s like a tiny iPhone curved around your wrist. My take? It’s another early concept product that might be of interest to a small number of very early adopters, but they’ve got a ways to go before Dick Tracy will be ready to charge one to his Paypal account.

Even more ironically, check out this picture from a tiny manufacturer in the Hong Kong area of the International Gateway:

In case you can’t read the signage, it says: Cell Phone, Digital Camera, Music, Video, Bluetooth. And bling! Sweet!

This was astonishing, the Samsung very thin screen prototype screen. It really is just as thin as you can see in the picture, and it’s a bright, gorgeous screen. They wouldn’t say how much one of these babies would cost since they’re not on the market, but it’s more than you and I can afford. For now.

In ten years, you can imagine a roll of this screen substance being one heck of a fascinating wallpaper material that’s actually a wall-size screen. Or a set of tiles that you slap on a wall, add a quick wooden frame, and have an instant art display system that just happens to double as a bright HD video monitor. I want one NOW!

Speaking of rolling things up, though, check this out:

They asked me not to take pictures of this, but fortunately it was after I’d already taken this shot. Again, imagine having a spare keyboard in a tube on the bottom of your backpack, bluetooth enabled, and when you need it, you flip it out onto a table and just start typing. Heck, maybe you could pair it with the mobile phone / computer wrist watch!

I told you we saw cool cars, right? Here are some of the best:

Yes, that’s the car from Back to the Future, the slick DeLorean. Too bad the company imploded, these are now quite the collector’s item.

Not sure how tricked out this is, but you gotta admit, this is one nice lookin’ Nissan Z. My son would go bonkers if I drove up in one some afternoon after school.

Check this one out too: it’s an old Ford (I think? Can someone tell me the specs on this car design?) that they’ve completely gutted and rebuilt as an all-electric vehicle. Yes, believe it or not, this lowrider that’d fit in just fine in East LA is a zero emissions electric car. I have no idea about the price for this conversion, but what a great idea!

It’s hard to get a sense of the scale here, but each of these screens is at least 52″ across and it’s a literal mountain of TVs arching over the Samsung booth here at CES. It’s incredible, and the processing power needed to have it all work at the same time, even with separate line sync and such (we got a briefing on how these work from Thomson Digital Advertising a few days ago).

I’ll end with something cute: what girl wouldn’t love these Hello Kitty accessories? My 4yo would flip for ‘em if I could somehow bring them back to Colorado with me.

Anyway, that was the end of the second day of CES for us. We then went to a great Affiliate Summit West speaker dinner, followed by a wonderful behind-the-scenes tour of Cirque du Soleil’s “O”, followed by seeing the show itself. Fabulous. Photos and narrative to come!

Don’t miss our CES Flickr Stream too, for lots more photos — including of the “booby” mouse pad — and snarky commentary.

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I’m a huge fan of Animoto, the service that creates imaginative videos from static photos and music.

Once you sign up for a free account on the website, you can upload or link to some photos, choose some music, click a button or two and within a short time, you have a 30-second video. Open a paid account and you can create much longer videos and enjoy other benefits.

Now with Animoto on your iPhone, you can easily create a short video from photos on your phone or that you shoot there and then to include in your video, wherever you happen to be.

Check out this Animoto iPhone video, which took me less than 5 minutes to select the pics from some I happen to have on my iPhone, choose some music from Animoto (and listen to previews of what I was considering before selecting a track), hit the button and wait a bit for the notification email:

So spontaneous and so simple. This will be a huge hit!

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The latest device I have for such a purpose is an iPhone 3G which arrived by courier late on Friday evening, thus giving me much of the weekend to get to know it a bit.

I do plan to write some commentary during the coming weeks, and maybe do a video or two. Meanwhile, here are a few initial immediate impressions as my Twitter comments this weekend remind me:

• Undoubtedly the iPhone is a beautiful-looking and -feeling device. Apple set the  form and function bar very high indeed for competitors to follow (although I think the Googlephone comes pretty close).
• The icons and touch screen combination are so intuitive, I am certain even a very young child could figure out what to do with the device within a very short time, without opening the manual.
• Choosing and installing an application from Apple’s App Store is so simple and easy to do I just can’t figure out why only Apple seem to understand that what’s important to  users about their devices is simplicity and ease of use.
• The particular model I have is the 16Gb capacity one. How would I ever fill that up with content? (Do I hear “640k of memory is enough for anyone.”)
• The results from using the camera are not bad for a 2.0 megapixel device, although no match at all for cameras like the 5.0  megapixel one sported in the Nokia N95 8GB (which, ironically, is the camera I used for the pic you see above). Even 5 megapixels are looking distinctly entry-level now, though, compared to Samsung’s 10.0 megapixel SCH-B600 cameraphone. And wait for 12+ megapixels coming soon from Sony Ericsson.
• It’s not all peaches and cream about the iPhone, though. For instance, figuring out how to do things like transferring photos to a PC or uninstalling an app should be a whole lot easier than it is, as should be some of the choices for synchronizing content PC<->iPhone.
• The biggest negative for me so far is the iPhone’s inability to shoot video, with no native app for that, and no versions of Qik or seesmic (that I use on my N95) for iPhone.

In any event, I have an open mind about the iPhone and intend to keep that open focus as I use it over the coming weeks.

How I got this device might be of interest as much as any review of it, as it didn’t come from Apple, their PR agency or any organization, but from an individual.

That individual is Adrian Melrose, an entrepreneur and investor, someone I’ve known in the blogosphere for quite a few years, and who is probably best know in the online PR community as the man behind The Truth About the Land Rover Discovery 3, a blog with which an individual – call him a passionate citizen journalist – could use as his public platform to take on an automaker over product quality and customer service issues.

The bottom line: Adrian became an ex-customer – and Land Rover lost a passionate brand advocate – and went and bought an Audi Q7 SUV. You can read Adrian’s concise summary as well as the posts I wrote as events unfolded during 2005 and 2006.

So why did Adrian decide to provide me with an iPhone on loan (a pay-as-you go deal with O2 with me doing the paying and going for usage after Adrian’s initial set up) to use and think about? As he said in one of our email exchanges:

[…] after reading you for so long, I cannot believe that you are still on a PC and loyal to Vista! So, as I said to you on the phone, I want to slowly “Applefy” you! Secondary to that, I’d genuinely like to know how the iPhone compares to the G1.

I love a challenge and this is a good one!

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Cocomo is definitely a very cool platform and on the surface it makes it easy to build real-time applications that may otherwise be quite difficult to build. But I also see an enormous overlap between Cocomo and Flash Media Server.

This comes as no surprise since Adobe Connect uses Flash Media Server as its foundation, and Cocomo applications feel very familiar to the experienced FMS developer. A key differentiators is the fact that Cocomo is a pure client side framework, meaning the developer has no access to the server side code. This is not a big issue since Adobe is aiming to provide all required functionality without the developer requiring access to any server side logic.
What concerns me are Adobe’s efforts to push further into the domain of their own developers, and potentially competing with them on a playing field on which the referee may be playing for the opponent. I’m not yet convinced whether Cocomo will open more doors than it will close, and it is clear that any application built using Cocomo is competing with applications that were previously built with FMS. Undoubtedly this will drive some developers away from FMS since Cocomo is now the suggested way to build collaborative applications.

Having taken part in the Cocomo pre-release program I have had the opportunity to use the technology first hand and the team at Adobe (many of which are familiar faces) have done an incredibly good job. The platform cannot be faulted from a technical standpoint. No, it’s the business perspective that worries me greatly at a time where Adobe is trying hard to drive more developers towards FMS.

I’m a huge fan of online collaboration and real-time applications on the web, and that’s what got me most excited about FMS in the first place. I now seem to be receiving mixed messages from Adobe about which one of their platforms to choose, and right now I must say that I am highly skeptical about the approach that they are taking with Cocomo. I understand the business decisions behind it, but I don’t think I agree with them.

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Nokia Legends and indoor positioning - I’m missing!

Nokia Legends and indoor positioning

The system is being tested in some 40 buildings and airports enabling users to locate the shortest distance between 2 points inside the building. Imagine having help locating an airport gate or a shop within a mall…

Nokia indoor positioning

A demo of the app shows how a person within a building finds her way around by seeing her position in relation to the floor plan. Position is calculated indoors via WLAN. A person with a known location can then sahre their position with others over the server, enabling others to see where they are on a map. Building on this technology, location-aware apps can then be built on top of this positional information, perhaps to invoke triggered messages or ?? Imagine walkign through an airport and as you approach a gate or security check point information is shared with you, perhaps a reminder to remove your laptop from the bag, or specific directions or instructions are provided… the possibilities are endless.

From Nokia Research… How does this work?

The mobile uses the buildings’ WLAN infrastructure to triangulate your position and then indicates where you are on a building map. Nokia prototypes today can show your location - building section and floor level. They allow you to browse the building, find points of interest and you can even share your position with the people you choose, when you want. Today Nokia has Indoor Positioning trials ongoing within 40 buildings worldwide.

In order to enable indoor positioning in buildings, the indoor positioning solution requires a list of available WLAN access points and their approximate location in the building. Based on this list, which often already exist due to network planning, the indoor position is calculated. Nokia is working on and testing algorithms capable of finding your indoor position to within a few meters.

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Cooliris: iTunes Store.

This release of Cooliris for the iPhone centers around two main features: Search, which allows you to browse the latest pictures and videos, and Discover, your portal to up-to-date news for Sports, Entertainment, Business, and all the other featured channels you’ve come to expect from Cooliris on the Web.

Taking advantage of the iPhone’s GPS, Discover for the iPhone will provide you with a regional news channel that gives you local stories, as well as the traditional feeds. Discover allows you to zoom in on stories that interest you and get the full article in-line with the related media by using the Earth icon.

This is only the first release for Cooliris for the iPhone, and as such, it’s meant to help you navigate the internet’s news and media as simply and easily as possible. As the application grows, you’ll be seeing more features currently only available on the web client, as well as new ones which take advantage of the iPhone’s unique interface.

FEATURES

• 3D Wall makes navigating Internet media attractive, easy, and fun
• Discover provides you with news on-the-go: stay on top of the latest current events
• Local news feature makes it simple to get news that’s relevant to you
• Get the full story: Discover allows you to read the entire related article as you’re browsing news media, without ever leaving the app.

REQUIREMENTS

• Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch
• Requires iPhone 2.1. Software Update

INTERACTIONS

• Scroll the 3D Wall one screen length - 1-finger swipe
• Scroll the 3D Wall indefinitely - tilt the iPhone left or right
• Zoom in/out - pinch/expand
• Select media or go full screen - tap once
• Select an item to go one level deeper - press the Menu button
• Slide the sub-menu items to see more - finger swipe the sub-menu
• Open the corresponding Web page - click the Metadata button
• Show/hide the metadata panel - click the ‘i’ icon
• Share media via your default mail client - click the envelope icon
• Go home - press the Cooliris logo

Disclaimer: This article was submitted via the Article Submission option.

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Features:
• First ‘clickable’ touch screen smartphone purpose built for Vodafone - revolutionary tactile touch display
• Building on BlackBerry platform’s strong wireless heritage, the BlackBerry Storm is ideal for both consumers and business users featuring:

• Multi-media services including outstanding music and video experience:

http://www.vodafone.com/storm

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