Tech, Music, Misc.
Why I think there will be an iPod touch 3G introduced Wednesday
Aug 30th
Wednesday there will be an Apple event, presumably for music-related items, since the logo for it is an acoustic guitar, with the Apple logo as a sound hole.
This likely means some sort of revision to the iPod line, presumably an iPhone 4-based iPod touch, and a new Nano [...] Continue Reading…
Android is becoming an unpleasant mobile hybrid of Windows and Linux
Aug 22nd
So I have the Droid. We have now gotten a couple Droid Incredibles at work, and now a Droid X. My wife just got a Samsung Galaxy S.
They’re all different, and not in a good way. The Windows comparison is due to the bloatware these phones are coming with, [...] Continue Reading…
Apple Abandons First Generation iPod touch, iPhone
Aug 12th
As I mentioned before, Apple’s iOS had a pretty serious vulnerability in how it dealt with PDF’s. While it allowed easy “jailbreaking” of the OS, it also alluded to serious security implications that would allow an attacker with a specially crafted PDF file to completely take over an iOS [...] Continue Reading…
A Verizon iPhone: Do We Still Care?
Aug 9th
MSNBC covers yet another iPhone-on-Verizon fueled rumor, this time due to apparent SEC filings lending more credibility to the whole debacle. The question is, do people still care about the iPhone on Verizon, or has that ship sailed and we’re perfectly happy with the Droid X and Droid Incredible? [...] Continue Reading…
Security: It’s Everyone’s Problem
Aug 6th
Recently much as been made about Windows (even Windows 7) and its security flaws. The recent zero day vulnerability reminds us that even completely modern operating systems have bugs and vulnerabilities. It’s not just the severity of the vulnerability, it’s also how the vendor in question handles it. Microsoft [...] Continue Reading…
“iPad Owners are ‘Selfish Elites’”
Jul 27th
An article on Wired.com this morning covers a study from MyType (a consumer research firm) of 20,000 peoples’ opinions. Their conclusion was that iPad owners were wealthy, sophisticated, educated, but they weren’t very giving or nice. “Selfish Elites”. Someone once said you can prove anything with a study, because [...] Continue Reading…
The iPad Heads to School
Jul 26th
CNN.com has an article about the usage of iPads at various higher education schools this fall. As someone who is attending Keller Graduate School of Management and also using an iPad, I think it’s a great idea. There are a number of reasons for this, some outlined in the [...] Continue Reading…
What the iPad Needs for Live MIDI work
Jul 26th
The iPad could seriously rock if either A. Apple (or 3rd party) released a MIDI connector the dock port, and B. came out with a soft synth/sampler that ran on the iPad. I could totally see plugging this thing into the PA, with a modest set of virtual instrument [...] Continue Reading…
Amplitube iRig for iPad Part 2: What Should be Added
Jul 25th
So I’m into this app a few days, and here are some more thoughts: 1. IK Multimedia needs to add in some of the other amp models (and corresponding speaker cabs) as well as effects that their full version Amplitube 3 offers. How to do that? They have an [...] Continue Reading…
Amplitube iRig for iPad Part 1
Jul 24th
So I got my iRig dongle in the mail, and promptly downloaded Amplitube for iPad, the full version. This version has five amp models (clean, crunch, lead, metal, and bass), along with multiple cabinet models, effects, and even two different microphone models.
The amp models are quite good; your [...] Continue Reading…