The seven finalists creatively incorporate or feature musical instruments and music-making. The finalists’ ads feature everything from custom guitars and a car rigged to play musical notes to a human-body-powered one-man band.
EZmix is a very easy plugin to use and I’m looking forward to giving the Amps Pack a try.
Apple today announced the Wi-Fi + Cellular versions of iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina display will be available in China on Friday, January 18. iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad are currently available in more than 100 countries worldwide including the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.
Kyle Baxter:
With the proliferation of powerful and cheap microprocessors and sensors for mobile devices, along with wireless technologies and the web, we have the potential to completely re-create what a computer is. Let’s do so in such a way that makes our lives better, and not just filled with more glowing screens.
Some interesting thoughts.
I’ve been asked a lot today why Apple hasn’t responded to the Wall Street Journal article saying that there have been massive cuts to iPhone 5 orders. The simple fact is, they can’t.
SEC rules prohibit Apple from talking publicly about the company. This is known as a quiet period and all publicly traded companies must adhere to these rules.
The Wall Street Journal can publish more of its “according to a person familiar with the matter” and there isn’t a lot Apple can say.
Apple is scheduled to release its Q1 2013 earnings on January 23, 2013 — next Wednesday.
CNET News:
…we were told that we must use the official statement and that we must follow corporate policy to defer all press requests to corporate communications.We were in an impossible situation as journalists. I could have quit right then. Maybe I should have. I decided that the best thing for my team was to get through the day as best we could and to fight the fight from the other side.
Going forward, I will do everything within my power to prevent this situation from happening again.
Anyone else want to join me in calling bullshit on her statement? She didn’t do “everything within my power” to stop it this time. What makes us believe that she will next time?
Perhaps the weirdness of the math is why the current version of the WSJ article no longer cites the 65 million unit figure. Sometime between Sunday at 8:00 p.m. EST and Monday at 7:00 a.m., the Journal decided to drop the number from its article. But if the 65 million number is not right, is the estimate for halving March orders correct, either?
This is a great article and asks some good questions. The one that stuck out for me is the specific question asked of the Wall Street Journal. Why did they cite and then remove the 65 million figure? I think WSJ has some answering to do.
Apple’s stock took a beating today on these reports. If you don’t smell stock manipulation here, I have a bridge to sell you.
Yes.
Tim Stevens, Engadget:
In exchange for the series hybrid get-up that drives the [Fisker] Karma, the Destino received a supercharged V8 — more specifically, the LS9 that powers the Corvette ZR1.
I must admit there is a lot going on there. Maybe FIFA should back off of the requirements and let the artists be artists.
Cool, but I don’t think I could use them.
Only Merlin Mann could find this.
He quit over the whole CBS interfering in CNet editorial decisions with the CES awards. At least there is one honest person at CNet — too bad he’s gone.
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I use 1Password on my Mac and iOS devices. It’s a must-have utility.
A catalog of 64 famed guitars culled from over 75 years of rock ‘n’ roll history.
Great chart.
Benedict Evans provides a couple of charts comparing Apple’s guidance and results.
Zildjian Digital Vault features 34 classic crashes, splashes, rides, chinas and hihats hand-selected by Zildjian’s master cymbal tester Paul Francis. Recorded in intricate detail by sampling guru John Emrich, the sounds are captured with crisp direct mics and lush stereo overhead and room mic sets. Each cymbal is recorded at multiple velocities while being struck by sticks, brushes and mallets.
Great stuff.
Emily Willingham, SciLogs:
After the 20th cancer-related headline promising a “cure just around the corner,” readers just don’t believe the stories any more. For them, the words “breakthrough” and “cure” have lost meaning. And for good reason.
What’s the harm, you might ask, in a headline that perhaps overstates the case or a lede that does the same, with the balance debuting somewhere around the 10th paragraph? The harm can be a two-way street. Lose reader trust, and you will, I’m assuming, lose your readers.
Willingham’s comments don’t just apply to science blogging and reporting, of course. We see the same thing in the tech blogosphere every day.
Chris Mooney, Mother Jones:
In other words, it appeared that pushing people’s emotional buttons, through derogatory comments, made them double down on their preexisting beliefs.
Mooney cites a recent study from George Mason University that looked at how comment trolls affected participants’ perception of perceived risks with nanotech. The result was interesting.
Jason Fried:
The only answers that matter are dollars spent. People answer when they pay for something. That’s the only answer that really matters.
So true.
I wish more people would adhere to these simple rules.
Nick Bilton:
What struck me about our brief conversation wasn’t that Mr. Cook was talking about two teensy buttons — this is Apple, after all — but that he never once mentioned the technology in the iPad Mini. Instead, he talked about one thing: design.
In all of the meetings I’ve had with Apple executives over the years, design is always one of the first things they talk about. There is an overwhelming sense of pride from everyone at Apple about the products they make.
It shouldn’t be about stealing someone else’s content or blindly reposting a rumor. Think about what you are writing. Your readers will appreciate the effort.
Very well done.
I enjoyed reading this.
Luckily the store wasn’t packed full of people at the time.
PC shipments in the US dropped 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a new report from research firm Gartner. Despite the drop in overall shipments, Apple’s market share went up.
Apple’s fourth quarter 2012 market share was 12.3 percent, up 5.4 percent over the same period in 2011. HP (12.6%) and Lenovo (9.7%) were also up over 2011.
The big sucking sound in the PC industry is coming from Dell, down 16.5 percent, and Acer, down 21.6 percent over last year.
It’s also important to note that the data does not include the iPad. From Gartner:
Data includes desk-based PCs and mobile PCs, including mini-notebooks but not media tablets such as the iPad. Data is based on the shipments selling into channels.
If you can’t beat them…
The New Yorker:
In the January 7th issue of the magazine, Adam Green profiles the pickpocket Apollo Robbins. In this video, Apollo demonstrates some of his tricks and techniques, using Green as his victim.
Amazing to see Robbins work. You can see more of his pickpocketing on Youtube.
io9:
Since June 2010, Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta have been filming a shot-for-shot live-action remake of Pixar’s Toy Story, using human actors as the human characters and real toys for Woody and the gang (and the original Toy Story audio track). The toys move with a combination of stop-motion photography and good old-fashioned puppet strings and wires.
Do yo have far too much time on your hands? Then you might want to do what these guys did!
Think the Honey Badger is badass? It’s got competition in the southern grasshopper mouse.