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	<title>Canton Becker</title>
	<link>http://cantonbecker.com</link>
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		<title>How to sync Google Music genres with iTunes genres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why does Google Music show the wrong genres (compared to my iTunes genres?)&#8221; This past weekend I went a little crazy trying to synchronize my iTunes library with the (otherwise totally awesome) Google Music service. As someone who had spent many hours carefully organizing the genres for my iTunes library, I was depressed to see all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/uncategorized/2011/google-music-genres-different-from-itunes/</link>
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		<title>Keep an online diary &amp; send emails to your future self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After more than 5 years of planning and full year of on-and-off programming, I&#8217;m pleased to announce the public beta launch of My Future Self at http://MyFutureSelf.com: &#8220;My Future Self is a new way to keep an private journal online. It will encourage you to write about your life and the stories from your past. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/projects/2011/keeping-an-online-diary-sending-emails-to-my-future-self/</link>
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		<title>How to change the width of an automatic WordPress embed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the superb things about WordPress is that it will automatically convert YouTube URLs into embeds (as well as URLs pointing to Vimeo, Flickr, Hulu etc.) For example, the video you see embedded on this post was supplied from within the WordPress post editor like this: How to set the size of automatic embeds for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/musings/2011/how-to-change-automatic-wordpress-youtube-embed-size-width/</link>
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		<title>Feedback for NPR&#8217;s Android App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some feedback for the open source development team that&#8217;s updating NPR&#8217;s somewhat buggy but hugely valuable Android application: Please make it easier to listen to NPR programs with this app. I&#8217;m sure there are users of this App who like to fiddle around with the program streams and create their own custom playlists, but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/etcetera/2011/how-to-use-npr-android-app/</link>
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		<title>Breathe Free Tibet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I agree to build one or two non-profit websites at a discounted rate. This year, I was especially honored to be given the opportunity to design and launch BreatheFreeTibet.org. The purpose of this organization is to &#8220;save an ancient culture from extinction&#8221; by improving health care available to Tibetans in exile. This population [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2011/breathe-free-tibet/</link>
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		<title>Website Redesign for Unity Woods Yoga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unity Woods Yoga hired me to design and build a modern website for their four yoga studio locations in the Washington DC area. The client is able to edit 100% of the pages on the website using WordPress, including all homepage content, instructor bios and the blog. Additionally, class schedules are automatically synchronized to a 3rd party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2011/website-redesign-unity-woods-yoga/</link>
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		<title>Website &amp; blog redesign for Round Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Round Mountain is a &#8220;Two man singing folk orchestra&#8221; based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When musicians Char and Robby Rothschild received a last-minute invitation to play at the Folk Alliance conference in Memphis, they asked me for an emergency meeting to see if it would be possible to build them a brand new website [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2011/round-mountain-redesign/</link>
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		<title>Eclectic Mix of &#8220;Some Guys&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A departure from my usual dance/electronica mixes. This one includes everything from Appalachian blues to electronic/glitch to hip hop to pirate ballads to chants. I put this together when a group of my Guy Friends got together to share stories and music. The only theme to this mix that the songs are all recorded by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/dj-sets/2010/eclectic-mix-of-some-guys/</link>
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		<title>The Asia Foundation wins Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our work helped The Asia Foundation earn a prestigious Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award in the 2010 Web Marketing Association WebAwards. Congratulations to the asiafoundation.org web team including David Hirschi, Donovan Watts, and Keith Mitchell. It&#8217;s notable that most of this award-winning design work was completed almost three years ago, proving that our work remains relevant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2010/non-profit-standard-of-excellence-award/</link>
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		<title>Floodwaters (lush techno)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first original techno track in a long, long while. Lush, layered, moody, epic. Composed in daily 20 or 30 minute stolen workday moments over the course of several weeks. Floodwaters by canton Finished this during a moment in history when 2,000 Pakistanis have died and 20 million are injured or homeless as a result [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/my-music/2010/floodwaters-lush-techno/</link>
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		<title>Deadmau5 vs. Double Rainbow Guy (unintentional mashup)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just now I was checking out the website belonging to techno legend Deadmau5, enjoying how his home page was bumping out a tune called &#8220;Word Problems&#8221;.  Then I noticed he&#8217;d tweeted about some over-exuberant double rainbow guy on YouTube. I opened the YouTube video in a second browser tab &#8212; didn&#8217;t want to lose my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/etcetera/2010/deadmau5-vs-rainbow-guy-unintentional-mashup/</link>
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		<title>Does Gmail support HTML imagemaps?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Short answer: Yes! I ran a test myself because if you search for email client support of imagemap-clicking, you&#8217;ll see everyone pointing to this article from 2007 which sadly reports that Gmail is the only significant email client that does not support HTML imagemaps. Sometime between then and now (July 2010) Gmail added HTML image [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/musings/2010/gmail-now-allows-imagemaps/</link>
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		<title>Chanson pour Monsieur Du Serf (1993)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Il y&#8217;a un truque que m&#8217;a frappé: Tu a quatre-vingnt ans, il y&#8217;a des vins que tu ne boiras jamais.&#8221; (This is the thing that struck me: You&#8217;re eighty years old, there are some wines that you&#8217;ll never drink.) This afternoon I was digging through my collection of digitized cassette tapes as part of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/my-music/2010/chanson-pour-mr-du-serf/</link>
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		<title>Toryanse Dance Remixes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I flashed back to 2006 when video game maker Konami hired me to compose a techno remix of Toryanse for their Xbox release of Dance Dance Revolution. All in all I think I went through 13 rounds of remixes back and forth before Konami finally settled on a techno genre tempo-warping version of the melody. Here's an early draft version of the final mix (to which Konami still has exclusive rights.)]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/my-music/2010/tooryanse-crossing-song-techno-dance-remix/</link>
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		<title>Podcasting website for Future Primitive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joanna Harcourt-Smith has been recording her interviews with visionaries and innovators for almost five years, so the most important part of this website redesign was to reorganize her 150+ recordings into topics and collections using WordPress. This also presented the opportunity to create a striking graphic design and logo to reflect the earthy and ambitious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2010/future-primitive/</link>
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		<title>Using the TGFI SEO plugin for WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my response to a client asking for guidance about filling in the fields offered by my favorite WordPress SEO plugin, TGFI.net SEO: 1) No need to set the TITLE if it&#8217;s the same as the name of the page. Only set it if you want to make a bigger fancier more keyword-rich TITLE. (Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/musings/2010/wordpress-search-engine-optimization-using-tgfi-seo/</link>
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		<title>Drinking chocolate recipes and building a site in 4-hours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been trading Internet business consulting for exquisite chocolates made by my friend Mark Sciscenti, the man behind World Tree Chocolates. Mark had purchased the domain name for WorldTreeChocoaltes.com some time ago, and last week in a frenzy of chocolate-induced mania, we planned, designed, and launched his new website in under four hours. (We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/musings/2010/drinking-chocolate-recipes-and-4-hour-site/</link>
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		<title>Website redesign for MMD France: MindManager experts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This project involved redeploying an extensive static HTML site as a WordPress site with a brand new look and feel. MMD France is made up of a team of experts in MindManager, software used for &#8220;Mind Mapping&#8221; ideas. To distinguish MMD from its competition, the goals for this redesign included: Becoming content-driven: Focusing attention on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2010/website-redesign-for-mmd-mindmanager/</link>
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		<title>Tutorial: How to crop images within WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is great for resizing the resolution and file size of images you upload using its editor. If you upload a huge 3000 x 2000 pixel 8MB digital camera snapshot, WordPress will do the work to reduce the image to a web-friendly 600 x 400 pixel 100KB file. And now (as of WP version 2.9) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/musings/2010/crop-images-within-wordpress-tutorial/</link>
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		<title>Website for Earth Treasure Vase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Thanksgiving Day 2009, the official website for the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project was completed and published. Visit EarthTreasureVase.org to see how this interesting and profound spiritual practice was illuminated using an unusual circular introductory video and an interactive geo-tagged google map. This site is 100% WordPress powered, meaning that as new Earth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cantonbecker.com/work/portfolio/2009/website-for-earth-treasure-vase/</link>
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