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May 3, 1815: Blown Away by Horn with Valves
1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly and with total precision. Brass instruments were exceedingly limited at the time, and the invention put the concert horn technically on par with ...
Internet Security 101: What Not to Post on Facebook
A Consumer Reports survey found that more than half of adults who use social networks post information that puts them at risk for identity theft and other cyber crimes. A survey of 2,000 U.S. households in January showed 9% of those who used social networks were victims of malware, identity theft, scams of harassment within the ...
Apple Sells 1 Million iPads, Outdoing First iPhone
Apple Inc. said Monday that sales of the iPad have topped 1 million units less than one month after the touch-screen tablet device first went on sale. The company released the WiFi version of the iPad on April 3, while devices that connect to 3G wireless networks went on sale Friday. Sales have already outstripped initial ...
Recording Studio in a Pocket: Tascam Dr-08 Digital Linear PCM Recorder
Audio Recorder Flexes Dual Mics for Strong Fidelity Recording different types of audio is tricky. One recorder might be great at soaking up a quiet conversation, but take it to a rock concert and your audio will sound like a coffee grinder crammed with ball bearings. That's not the case with Tascam's DR-08. This linear (meaning ...
Recording: Crafting the Magic of the Beach Boys
Ive been lucky to be included in the Beach Boys inner circle since the late 70's and I've worked on many of their records but nothing quite prepared me for being given carte blanche to arrange, record, and produce background vocals for a founding member of one of the greatest vocal bands of all time. The ...
4 Ways to Survive a Jazz Double Bass Session
Many home engineers might cringe in fear at the thought of a double-bass player walking in to record a jazz session. The instrument itself is large, has strings made from sheep's intestines, and isn't likely to show up in your usual rock and roll scene. Not to mention that jazz players aint impressed with hammer-ons, sweep ...
Is Anytime Access Worth It? The iPad 3G Review
iPad Wi-Fi + 3G In the five weeks or so that I've been spending time with an iPad, little has made me back off my initial review that while not for everybody, Apple's freshly conceived tablet is indeed a game-changer, a stunner of a machine that promises a profound long-term effect on media, mobile entertainment and ...
Net Neut: Webs Users Against Its Gatekeepers
With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users consumption. Proponents of the current system called network neutrality see that principle as a kind ...
Apple Closing Lala 5/31. is iTunes in the Cloud Next?
Lala is shutting down The Lala service will be shut down on May 31st, 2010. Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new users. That was the simple message posted on the lala.com home page last night. Does this mean iTune's in the cloud is nearing launch? And what does it mean for ...
Apple iAd Platforms Entry Fee Reported to be $1 Million
Apples iAd platform holds lots of promise for advertisers, considering how much people use their iPads, iPhones and iPods. But buying into this game wont be cheap. The company plans to charge each advertiser a minimum of $1 million when the platform rolls out in the next few month between five and 10 times what competing ...
