{"id":22507,"date":"2014-09-15T02:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=22507"},"modified":"2017-12-18T18:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:31:18","slug":"blogger-and-author-david-mcraney-cool-tools-show-010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/blogger-and-author-david-mcraney-cool-tools-show-010\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger and Author, David McRaney [Cool Tools Show 010]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/167758553&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Podcast on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">\u00a0RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1dwoWLUWvVHWIDnGJY5_6ItHpJs9LUhlQUZKZr_WJdWY\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/167758553-boing-boing-cool-tools-show-010-you-are-not-so-smart-author-david-mcraney.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/archives\/tag\/cool-tools-show\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blogger and author David McRaney introduces us to some lesser known creative solutions to life&#8217;s tiny nuisances that will help you untangle your wad of keys, opt for a better YouTube experience, and explore the future of musical experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Show Notes:<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s Blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/\">You Are Not So Smart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN\/1592407366\/cooltools-20\">You Are Not So Smart<\/a>\u00a0by David McRaney<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN\/1592408796\/cooltools-20\">You Are Now Less Dumb<\/a>\u00a0by David McRaney<\/p>\n<p>Here are David\u2019s tool picks, with quotes from the show:<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"color: #333333;font-style: normal\" src=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141219073320\/http:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0252\/5199\/products\/Blue_grande.jpg?v=1401478302\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00JOFJJ8Q\/cooltools-20\">Keysmart<\/a>\u00a0$20<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t have a big wad of keys and they just swing out like a pocket knife and go into the door and you twist it, open a door and then swing it back in. It\u2019s all nice and tight and compact and I like it. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81U%2BMvVTagL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EEJGRK\/cooltools-20\">Hercules Stands Wallmount Guitar Hanger<\/a>\u00a0 $15<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may have seen something like this in a guitar store. That\u2019s how I started looking for it because I used to have all my guitars around my house and my basses on stands and it only takes two or three and suddenly a whole side of your room is taken up by the stuff. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71nhvyH160L._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourceaudio.net\/products\/hothand\/hothand3.php\">Source Audio SA115 Hot Hand 3 Wireless Adapter<\/a>\u00a0$150<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way I was first introduced to this is there\u2019s a band called <a href=\"http:\/\/music.pinnpanelle.com\/\">Pinn Panelle<\/a> and they had a video where they did a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wNgcHF\">live cover of Skrillex\u2019s &#8220;Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites<\/a>&#8220;&#8230;and the bass player was able to make the dubstep bass sound by using this controller&#8230;His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/unoriginalson\">Nathan Navarro<\/a> and he\u2019s got some really face melting bass solos that he\u2019s created using this device and his album even comes with tablature for his solos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/KIdUdXZ8kqrtuQMx7m00yXfeg5hPo8DU1bDBs74cyvsdHvsqN0D8lV19O86DgeP9l-v3XHIpMg=s640-h400-e365-rw\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/alientube-for-youtube\/opgodjgjgojjkhlmmhdlojfehcemknnp?hl=en\">AlienTube<\/a>\u00a0Free<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone knows that YouTube comments are the worst place on the internet. They are so horrible. I hope that if some sort of extraterrestrial intelligence is scanning our database of knowledge that they don\u2019t ever see the YouTube comments. But usually Reddit comments about a video are pretty good and sometimes really amazing things can be in a Reddit thread&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author David McRaney shares his favorite tools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[238,1559],"tags":[1555],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22507"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30382,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions\/30382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}