I did a review of the Flashback X4 Delay that allows you to beam TonePrints to the device using your iPhone. With the release of the TonePrint Editor you can create your own TonePrints.

Apogee Duet is an award-winning audio interface, headphone amp and MIDI interface making it easy to create professional recordings anywhere on your iPod touch, iPhone, iPad or Mac. With Apogee’s legendary digital audio conversion and world-class mic preamps, Duet is the best way to capture your music with incredible dimension and detail.

Another great Apogee product that I’ve used for a long time. Certainly worth a look if you’re recording.

The all new Apogee ONE is the first studio quality microphone and USB audio interface for iPad and Mac. ONE is designed for easily creating professional and amazing sounding recordings on your iPod touch, iPhone, iPad or Mac. Using Apogee’s premium AD/DA conversion, ONE produces pristine music, podcast, and voice-over recordings while also delivering audiophile quality sound to your headphones.

I have the original One from Apogee and it’s a great product. It’s compact, light and records high-quality audio.

Yes, I know. That’s absurd. And that’s how Wall Street works. What’s really broken with Apple? The company’s inability to surpass overinflated expectations. It’s as simple as that. Almost.

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Revenue and profits are slowing down. They’re growing slower as a percentage over previous growth rates. Rates. Not actual numbers. Once a company hits $100-billion in annual revenue, growth of 20-percent requires another $20-billion in revenue in just a year. That kind of growth rate is difficult to maintain, regardless of how stellar the finances.

Some smart insights here. Worth a read.

Macworld has a nice summary of Tim Cook’s comments to analysts in their quarterly phone call yesterday. Pay particular attention to what Cook says about Mac sales.

“Today we have 24 carriers around the world that provide LTE for iPhone 5,” Mr. Cook said. “Next week, we’re adding 36 more carriers for LTE support. These carriers will be in countries that were previously not supporting LTE.”

Should help Apple move more iPhones to over 300 million subscribers in the countries where LTE support is available.

The company’s assets have been divided, pending final court approval: Sega agreed to purchase Relic (Company of Heroes), Koch Media has agreed to purchase Volition (Saint’s Row) and the Metro property, Crytek has agreed to buy Homefront, Take-Two will purchase the unannounced game Evolve, and Ubisoft will buy THQ Montreal and the South Park game.

Sounds like a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. Bad news.

Another way of looking at it is that Apple’s analysts did worse than the company this quarter, and the amateurs as a group did worse than the pros.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s post-game roundup of Wall Street analyst winners and losers and their prediction of Apple stock performance has become one of my favorite things to look for after an earnings call.

Larry Dignan, ZDNet:

Let’s hear it for cannibalization. The good news for Apple is that at least iPad sales at the expense of Mac revenue keeps the financials in the family.

“Cannibalization” is predicated on a big assumption – that customers buying iPads would buy Macs instead.

But is a tablet buyer really choosing between a tablet and a PC? We’re “Post PC,” remember?

Personally, I like Fender Strats the best. I don’t think of them as an acoustic company.

Chris Broderick Pro Series Soloist 6 and 7

When Chris Broderick joined a revitalized Megadeth in 2008, fans were awestruck by his chops. Jackson now honors this metal stalwart with the Chris Broderick Pro Series Soloist, in six-string and seven-string models.

Corey Beaulieu USA Signature KV6 and KV7

Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu is a true virtuoso and needs a guitar to keep up with his blindingly fast hands. That’s why Jackson is excited to honor him and Trivium fans alike with the Corey Beaulieu USA Signature KV, in six-string and seven-string models.

Dave Ellefson Signature Kelly Bird Bass

Megadeth’s Dave Ellefson is expanding his arsenal of signature bass models with the addition of the new David Ellefson Signature Kelly Bird Bass.

Pro DKA Dinky 7 and 8

The limited edition Pro DKA Dinky, available in seven-string and eight-string models, features an arch-top alder body, bolt-on maple neck (flat-sawn) with graphite reinforcement, 16”-radius maple fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets.

Pro DK2HT, Pro DK2MHT, Pro DK2QHT, and Pro DK2MQHT

The DK2HT Pro Series features an alder body, bound bolt-on neck (flat sawn) with graphite reinforcement, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard (maple in Pro DK2MHT and Pro DK2MQHT) with 24 jumbo frets, direct-mount Seymour Duncan JB (bridge) and ’59 (neck) humbucking pickups with five-way switching, single volume tone controls.

USA Select B7MG, USA Select B7MG Deluxe, USA Select B8MG, and USA Select B8MG Deluxe

The seven-string B7MG features a beveled alder body, bolt-on quartersawn maple neck with graphite reinforcement and oil finish, compound-radius ebony fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and side-dot position markers, 27” scale length, direct-mount EMG 707 (neck) and 81-7 (bridge) pickups, Jackson direct-mount HT-7 hard-tail string-through bridge, Jackson-branded Gotoh tuners and Dunlop locking strap pins.

S22-7 DKA Dinky, JS32-7Q Dinky, JS32-8Q Dinky, JS3QM Concert Bass, and JS3VQM Concert Bass

The JS22-7 DKA Dinky JS Series seven-string features an arch-top basswood body, bolt-on maple neck, 16”-radius rosewood fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and “piranha” inlays, 26.5” scale length, dual high-output Jackson humbucking pickups, single volume and tone controls, direct-mount hard-tail bridge, and die-cast tuners. Available in Satin Black.

Dan is joined by Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann. They talk about intense heat, hotels, writing, the evolution of the link blog, advertising online, guitars, and more.

Jim and Dan discuss Blackberry 10, Apple’s profit falling, 3 Monkey Amps, and Pro Co RAT2 Distortion Pedal.

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Matt Burns, TechCrunch:

The $999 11-inch MacBook Air is Apple’s low-end device. Like the Surface RT, it offers just enough power to get by and nothing more. I wouldn’t recommend the base Air model for anyone that wants to venture outside of iPhoto or the web browser. It’s not a work machine; the $999 MacBook Air is a Facebook machine.

It’s just as pathetically easy to goad the rest of the tech press into publishing utter bullshit. This isn’t unique to games journalism at all.

How many do you remember?

In 2003, the agency’s investment arm, DARPA, tapped the non-profit research institute SRI International to lead a five-year, 500-person effort to build a virtual assistant, one the government hoped might yield software to help military commanders with both information overload and office chores. Although it wasn’t the project’s mission, this helper, the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes, or CALO, would ultimately provide the inspiration and model for Siri.

Lots of stuff you might not know about Siri’s origins in this Huffington Post piece.

How bad does your operating system suck when people have to pay this much just to get rid of it?

Agreed.

Michael Homnick compares WordPress, Blogger, Jux, Tumblr and Posterous Spaces.

This summer, on June 1-2, 2013, citizens in cities across the Nation will join together to improve their communities and governments as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking.

Civic Hacking Day is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs to unleash their can-do American spirit by collaboratively harnessing publicly-released data and code to create innovative solutions for problems that affect Americans.

That’s a pretty cool idea. Hopefully something good will come of it.

hitting cities like Hershey, Pennsylvania; Chicago; Milwaukee; Boston; Vancouver; Salt Lake City; and Denver. The band will also return to Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the first time in decades.

Halifax? Hey Jim!

Pixelmator is a great image editing app and all that I use on my Mac.

It’s a Mid-Side stereo microphone for iOS devices.

Capo can now import songs from apps like Dropbox. Great app.