
I have also done consulting in interdisciplinary and general education curriculum design. Other recent work includes a sound sculpture commissioned for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. One of my current research projects is called The Ethics of Timbre, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I also do creative work including jazz composition, performance on double bass, and sound installations. My main research interests include music and ethics, musical improvisation, meaning in music, soundscape, modern European philosophy, and psychology. The book examines how musical experience creates encounters with other people that leads to ethical responsibilities. My book, Music and Ethical Responsibility, is published by Cambridge University Press. I am Professor of Music and Humanities at Quest University Canada in Squamish, British Columbia. There is much more information on the websites of the applications, but I've tried to show a couple ways I have found these apps useful. You can also trigger Liquid without selecting anything and pressing option-space and typing your own text. For example, I could highlight the text of an entire article or book and have Liquid copy all the sentences with a specific word or phrase – very handy. What I think might be top use is for researchers is the 'copy sentences with' option. You can also translate the text to/from just about any language, which I use fairly often (despite the inelegance of internet translation). You can search for the text in google, or set up custom searches (I have one for google scholar and one for the amazon kindle store). Then you can do all sorts of things with that text through easy keyboard shortcuts. Liquid works by selecting text and triggering with cmd-shift-2. Liquid duplicates some of what Popclip does, and unless you need the extras you might find Popclip enough for you. Between the extensions listed on the popclip website and Brett Terpstra's popclip extensions, there are all sorts of useful things for writing in markdown, like quickly adding the first link google fetches (like I just did with to make the link on the word 'markdown'), making lists, wrapping selected text in quotes or asterisks, or indenting or outdenting the selection. There are options to add reminders, open a link, send an email, and other helpful actions. There are some options baked in, but where it really shines is when you add popclip extensions. The menu shows different things you can do with the text. When you select text in any application, a pop up menu comes up much like you find in ios. Both allow you to do different things with selected text, and both are under $5.
POPCLIP FOR MAC MAC OS X
I've recently started using two little applications on Mac OS X that I have already found quite helpful: PopClip and Liquid. "I'm buying it right now." - Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly. "I think even Mac traditionalists might be tempted." - Dan Frakes, MacWorld "If you love the tap and copy functionality of iOS and want it on your home computer, PopClip is a simple app that adds similar functionality" - lifehacker "an awesome new utility from Pilotmoon that makes the copy & paste function on your Mac look just like the copy & paste function on your iPhone" - Cult of Mac For that alone, it is worth its asking price." - The Next Web "PopClip has achieved near perfect integration with Mac OS X and seems like a default feature of the operating system. For an up-to-date list of known incompatible apps, see Please note: PopClip works in most Mac apps, but not in all.
POPCLIP FOR MAC FULL
See the full range of available actions at:

PopClip integrates with many popular apps and websites.

Send a snippet to a translation website, or add a task to your favourite to-do app.

You can transform the text from lowercase to capitals, or sort the selected lines alphabetically. Select a URL, and PopClip lets you open it, or shorten it, or add it to your reading list. Select a misspelled word, and PopClip offers corrections. The basic actions include copy and paste, dictionary lookup, and web search. PopClip pops up when you select text with your mouse, giving you a customizable row of helpful action buttons.
