Category Archives: iPad

iStrobosoft guitar tuner app review

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Peterson iPhone and iPad apps are accurate and low cost strobe instrument tuners

iStrobosoft iPhone app

Peterson has two apps for the iPhone and iPad that give the musician strobe tuning accuracy for about $10.  The iPad app is being discounted to $9.99 until January 31st, 2012.

I wanted to see just how accurate the iPhone Peterson would be. I was not disappointed, although the under $20 Snark SN-1 clip on tuner was almost as accurate.

Last night I was practicing guitar while the news was on. It was handy to refresh my tuning without looking for a tuner. I’m not sure if musicians will risk damaging their iPhones in a studio or stage environment to use the iStrobosoft app. The practicality of the iStrobosoft tuner for those uses is up to each person to decide.

Peterson Strobe Tuners have been the pinnacle of stringed instrument tuners for decades and known for accuracy and high cost.  Continue reading →

Samsung’s Transparent Galaxy Tab will kill iPad

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Transparent and shape-able screens from Samsung will define the next technological advance


In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device.  A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.

Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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Minority Report coming to Windows in 2012

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First the mouse and windows in the 1980s, then touch and swipe with iPhone and soon gesture and voice will control your computer

Kinect controlling medicine (photo Microsoft)

Apple won the latest round of the computer interface war but Microsoft is fast on Apple’s heels with Kinect for Windows.  Kinect is a game changing technology.

As visualized in Minority Report, we won’t touch the mouse or screen but merely gesture with our bodies.
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Is NJN Network Blackberry compatible

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Check it out and let us know

A reader advised us that NJN Network on her Blackberry was looking pathetic. She was right.

We made a few changes and Voila it seems to be working correctly now.

On a smartphone, this site fits withing the screen and appears different than the browser view on a computer.  Continue reading →

Mobile Flash dropped by Adobe

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HTML5 is the new standard for mobile

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Adobe “will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations,” according to a blog posted by Danny Winokur, general manager of interactive development for Adobe. Those configurations include the chipset, browser, OS version and more, he said. The changes will take place following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook, he added.  Continue reading →

Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

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44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.

Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.

Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web.  Continue reading →

Microsoft’s vision of the future is almost here

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The shared vision of portable connectivity will be here sooner than later

The Dick Tracy wrist watch – computer and video phone -  was a dream in the 60s

People like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates made it a reality.

The smartphone is just the beginning of the truly personal computer that connects us together and to the businesses we use.

It won’t matter who builds the devices – Apple, Android or Microsoft. Continue reading →

Sync your iPhone over wi-fi can drive you bonkers

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Apple once again demonstrates the law of unintended consequences

Apple’s tutorials for iOS 5 encourage you to sync your iPhone or iPad over wi-fi.

Why? Because you can now.

The downside is that every time your iPhone is near the computer it will launch iTunes on top of whatever other programs are working.  Continue reading →

The future of music is the iPad and HTML5

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Roger McNamee says in the bold new world, Microsoft and Google are on the way out as mobile devices dominate computing’s and music’s future

This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.

The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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