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Apple Says If You Want to Run Itunes, Don’t Get Vista
So it seems that instead of updating iTunes to make it compatible with Vista. Apple is trying to turn it’s sluggishness to update iTunes as a reason to not upgrade to Vista. It’s not like they didn’t have plenty of time to work on compatibility. read more | digg story [ad#co-1]
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Jamming at the Speed of Light
From Wired News: A new online service is about to launch that will allow bedroom musicians worldwide to play together in real-time — without leaving their own bedrooms. In March, eJamming will introduce eJamming Audio, an online music studio that uses peer-to-peer connections to eliminate lag times between live performers. read more | digg story…
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StroboSoft Reply
I recieved a letter from Marshall Johns at Peterson regarding my previous review of StroboSoft. Marshall sent me a link to the most recent version of StroboSoft that I had requested but hadn’t received. It seems he had sent it previously from his home address rather than from a Peterson address so it may have…
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FCC to Fine Behringer One Million Dollars
An interesting piece of news if you own any Behringer equipment: Radio World Posted an article saying that the FCC is proposing a $1,000,000 fine for marketing products in the United States without certification that they meet FCC standards for radio interference. There is a list of the specific models that were imported in the…
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iGuitar from Brian Moore Guitars
This is an interesting video demonstrating the iGuitar from Brian Moore Guitars. I like this guitar because it connects directly to your PC via USB, so it is especially well suited to controlling software instruments. If you want more information about the various iGuitar models you can find it at the manufacturer’s site. They have…
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Return of the Robots.
Perhaps Evil Spud Boy was too hasty in saying farewell to QRIO and Aibo. A lot of speculation on the internet indicates that Google is up too something and I think we know what that is. First, we see that Google is teaming up with Volkswagon and nVidia to create a new vehicle navigation system.…
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Fender Internet Guitar
I just saw this article on gizmag saying that Fender and Intel have teamed up to produce an internet enabled guitar. It seems like this is a concept guitar and not an actual product.
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Sell Your Music on iTunes and Rhapsody with TuneCore
TuneCore is a new music distribution service that allows any artist to sell their music on iTunes or Rhaposody. What is really great about this is that they don’t take any cut from the sale. (You get 100% of what iTunes or Rhapsody pays out) and you don’t give up any rights or ownership of…
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Fairwell, QRIO, I hardly knew you.
Engadget posted a story that Sony is ceasing development of the Aibo and QRIO robots. I’m very dissapointed about this. Sony just recently released Mind 3 for the Aibo. And QRIO’s abilities seemed very impressive also. You can read about QRIO’s cababilities and watch a demonstration on Sony’s site. I don’t know how long they…
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Cool Keyboard
Check out the Optimus Keyboard. It’s very cool. Each key is made up of an array of OLEDs so that they can change function for various programs. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist. The site says it is supposed to be released in 2006 but that could be optimistic.