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News: Technology

iPhone's New 'FaceTime' Video Calls Are Free

June 21, 2010

Looking to save money on your wireless bill? Have the new iPhone? Maybe you should start making video calls instead. With this week's launch of the new iPhone 4 and it's accompanying software, the Apple smartphone now enables a video calling feature by way of a new application called “FaceTime." And apparently, these videos calls, unlike ...

News: Technology

Phone Software Takes the Taps out of Typing

June 21, 2010

Back in the 1990s, typing out hello on most cellphones required an exhausting 13 taps on the number keys, like so: 44-33-555-555-666. That was before the inventor Cliff Kushler, based here in Seattle, and a partner created software called T9, which could bring that number down to three by guessing the word being typed. Now there ...

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News: Recording

Best Album Art of All Time

June 21, 2010

Columbia's Microgroove LP Makes Albums Sound GoodColumbia Records introduced the first successful microgroove long-playing phonographs way back in June 1948. But it took decades before album cover artwork came into its own. To celebrate the LPs birthday, Wired.com's staff compiled the following list of stellar albums featuring mind-bending graphics and kick-ass inserts. The Beatles: Revolver, Sgt. ...

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News: Event

Jimmy Buffett Plans Free Concert on Alabama Beach

June 21, 2010

Jimmy Buffett and a few of his friends plan to give a free concert on the Alabama coast to show support for the Gulf region. Alabama tourism director Lee Sentell says show will be July 1 on the beach at Gulf Shores. Buffett's website says the concert is meant to demonstrate support for the people, ...

News: Technology

Apple's iPhone Software Upgrade -- iOS 4 -- Released Via iTunes

June 21, 2010

Apple is allowing iPhone and iPod touch users to download the newest version of its mobile operating system, called iOS 4. The revamped operating system will allow users to run multiple applications at the same time, as well as feature a gaming platform, a built-in advertising system and Apple's proprietary iBook application. Users will also be ...

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News: Technology

June 21, 1948: Columbia's Microgroove LP Makes Albums Sound Good

June 21, 2010

1948: Columbia Records puts the needle down on historys first successful microgroove plastic, 12-inch, 33-1/3 LPs in New York, sparking a music-industry standard so strong that the digital age has yet to kill it. Columbia engineer Peter Carl Goldmark set out with his staff in 1939 to evolve the 78-rpm record forward to 33-1/3 rpm, extend ...

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News: TV / Film

The 'Soul' of a Remarkable High School Jazz Band

June 21, 2010

Anyone compiling a list of the all-time great funk masterminds would inevitably think of names such as James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone. One name that may not come as readily to most is Conrad O. Johnson, band director of the Kashmere Stage Band. As the new documentary “Thunder Soul" makes clear, Johnson and his ...

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News: Festival

Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2010 - La Fontaine

June 21, 2010

The La Fontaine program for Copenhagen Jazzfestival 2010 is now ready. If your in Copenhagen during the festival from July 2 to July 11 - La Fontaine's Program will give you a unique glimpse into what Danish Jazz can offer. The program is packed with new young Danish talents as well as established stars - Jacob ...

News: Festival

Arturo O'Farrill, Jimmy Heath, Jane Monheit, Ted Rosenthal at Usdan Festival Concerts

June 21, 2010

Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts, now entering its 43nd season and once again declared a “Best Of" class or camp for 2010 by TimeOutNY/Kids, will open its series of Festival Concerts, private on-site educational performances for its students, on Monday June 28 at the Center's 200-acre woodland campus. In addition to these concerts, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

So Cal Hot Summer Jazz

June 21, 2010

Lee Ritenour with Dave Grusin Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, CA The jazz favorites who teamed on Ritenour's 2008 album “Amparo" take on Ritenour's latest, “Six String Theory," joined by fellow guitarists John Scofield, Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'. With Dianne Reeves. July 21st 8 p.m. Cassandra Wilson ...