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  • Accordion Players Step into the L.A. Spotlight

    Accordion Players Step into the L.A. Spotlight

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Get ready to unleash your inner Weird Al Yankovic and sign up for the Roland U.S. V-Accordion Festival! This headbanging event will be held in Los Angeles (home to the Van Halen, Motley Crue, Ratt, and other well-known accordion-influenced bands) on Saturday, September 18. Aspiring accordion artists can submit application videos until July 15. If that dusty [...]

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  • Shinobi Ninja video game iPhone app

    Shinobi Ninja video game iPhone app

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    As more and more musicians and entertainers discover ways to use iPhone apps to reach their fans, we see an increasing amount of gadgets and games. Some of them are good, some of them are ehh. Earlier this year, the Brooklyn-based rock-rap group Shinobi Ninja launched a fun and amusing game called “Brooklyn to Babylon: Shinobi [...]

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  • HP and Dragon Training

    HP and Dragon Training

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    How to Train Your Dragon, from DreamWorks Pictures opened on Friday and promptly blew fire over most of the competition. Numerous outlets reported the film was Number 1 at the box office this past weekend, despite somewhat slower ticket sales than expected. In case those HP commercials featuring New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby (perhaps most well-known [...]

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  • Don’t Call Tech Support. Try Orkin Instead!

    Don’t Call Tech Support. Try Orkin Instead!

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Someone passed this post along to us, and since our Chinese is limited here in CrunchGear-land, I’m afraid we can’t vouch for it. The video contained may, in truth, provide the recipe for a lovely London broil for all we know, so take it with several healthy grains of salt. But at least the basic [...]

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  • A Historical Recreation of a Copy

    A Historical Recreation of a Copy

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Last year, Omega released a special edition timepiece to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo astronauts voyage to the moon. In 1969, the men in the space capsule wore Omegas so the firm decided to recreate that bit of history with a contemporary product. But what if Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong hadn’t worn Omegas [...]

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  • Get Ready to Take Over the Coffeeshop

    Get Ready to Take Over the Coffeeshop

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Roland just started shipping the AC-33 Acoustic Chorus Guitar Amplifier. This cool gadget is world's first battery powered amp built specifically for acoustic guitar. With a 30-watt amp and 5 inch speakers, you're not going to rock Knebworth with this thing. But if you're trying to impress the college girls at the local coffee house with your re-interpretation of "Your Body is a Wonderland" or if you're staking out a corner in the local subway station, then this baby is for you.

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  • PSA: How to filter out iPad news using Google Reader

    PSA: How to filter out iPad news using Google Reader

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you missed it, Apple announced the long-awaited iPad yesterday. And while there's been no shortage of coverage by just about every technology-related blog on the planet, perhaps you'd like to be able to use Google Reader without every third post being about the device. If so, there's a very simple search trick you can use to filter out all the iPad-related hoopla.

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  • Brightcove Comes To Yahoo Connected TVs, But Web Video Is Still Stuck In Widget Hell

    Brightcove Comes To Yahoo Connected TVs, But Web Video Is Still Stuck In Widget Hell

    Posted on January 7, 2010 | No Comments
    If you own an Internet-connected TV that is compatible with Yahoo's TV widgets (AKA, a Yahoo Connected TV), you may soon start seeing video produced for the Web on your TV. Brightcove announced today that media publishers using its online video platform can now distribute their videos through Yahoo's Widget Engine, which powers the widgets on Yahoo-Connected TVs. These TVs are made by Sony, Samsung, Vizio, and LG, which show widgets along the bottom displaying data and content from the Web. These include your Facebook and Twitter streams, stock quotes, the weather, Amazon on-demand videos, and now Web videos powered by Brightcove. A lot of print publications use Brightcove to power video on their Websites, and some of these already have Yahoo Connecetd TV widgets. These include MyRecipes, Cooking Light, Real Simple, Southern Living, Sunset, AllYou and ThisOldHouse. There are a lot of Time Inc. titles in there. TheStreet.com, Wine Spectator, Slate, and The Hollywood Reporter now also have TV widgets through Brightcove. Yahoo also announced a partnership with MIPS Technologies today, which makes processors for Internet-connected TVs and set-top boxes. The idea that you need a special TV to watch video content from the Web seems strange. As long as it's a flat-panel TV, why should it matter, right? But these integrations are more about bringing data to TVs from the Web in a friendly format.

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  • Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

    Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    tlaf_logo The Little App Factory seems to have a big problem on their hands. The company received a letter from Baker & McKenzie, representing Apple, asking that The Little App Factory change the name of one of their most successful applications. Why? It has the word iPod in it. iRip (formally known as iPodRip) was originally written in 2003 at the MacHack developer conference in order to fulfill an obvious problem with the iPod. Basically, iRip lets your copy and transfer your songs from iPod and iPhone to your computer. The app itself has been downloaded more then five million times, and has helped users transfer more then one billion songs to their computer.

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  • U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

    U.S. Senate: It’s cool to jam cell phones in prisons

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    cell-jammerOh, U.S. Senate. Just when we thought you had turned your collective attention to the plethora of incredibly important issues to tackle (read: healthcare, 2 wars, global warming, education, etc), you go and pass the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009.

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  • iPhone OS 3.1 brings improved App organization via iTunes 9

    iPhone OS 3.1 brings improved App organization via iTunes 9

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Way back in February, when iPhone OS 3.1 was but a distant "dream," we posted 8 Little Things We Still Can't Stand About the iPhone. More than half a year has passed and we can finally knock #7, "Arranging applications sucks something terrible," off the list with the release of iPhone OS 3.1.

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  • Apple Strikes Back: iTunes 9 does NOT sync with the Pre

    Apple Strikes Back: iTunes 9 does NOT sync with the Pre

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like the never-ending "sync war" between Apple and Palm continues to rage on. According to numerous PreCentral forum contributors, iTunes 9 does NOT sync with their beloved Pres. What now, Palm?

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  • Interview: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

    Interview: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    I recently had the privilege to interview Jordan Rudess from the progressive rock/metal band, Dream Theater, while the band was on tour. Not only is Jordan an amazing keyboard player, but he also is a big geek. So like most musicians, he combined his passion for music and technology, and released an application to the [...]

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  • Ultimate iPhone App Organizer Hits The Web

    Ultimate iPhone App Organizer Hits The Web

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    57394v1-max-250x250Have you ever wanted to rearrange your applications on your iPhone, but ended up messing up pages of apps? Well, now there is a solution for that, and it's called Movement. Movement essentially lets your rearrange all of your applications on your iPhone or iPod Touch, straight from your Mac. Seems too good to be true, right? Of course, there's a catch. It requires a jailbroken iPhone.

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  • Bodega Launches Mac OS App Store

    Bodega Launches Mac OS App Store

    Posted on August 3, 2009 | No Comments
    bodega-icon IDFusion Software, the company behind Bodega, today announces the first public release of Bodega, a free application store for Mac applications. Bodega is a free download, for both users and developers, and creates simple process for people to discover great, new and old software, while also giving the developers an alternative way to sell their applications. The Bodega storefront also gives users links to press articles and blog postings, so they can see what writers have to say about the app. Bodega lets users purchase directly from developers as well. If the application is a paid app, you can download a free trial for most applications. If you are a developer, and would like to be included in the Bodega Store, IDFusion Software has setup a developer area with all the information needed.

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