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  • Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon

    Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    If you're running an Android phone and you're lucky enough to be using 1.6 or above (our deepest apologies, CLIQ owners), we might recommend you pop open the Market and score the latest version of Google Maps that just launched today. What's new? It adds support for bicycle routing (something they've had on the desktop for a while now) and sharing of destinations via the usual array of mediums like email, Facebook, Twitter, and so on, but the most significant change might also be the smallest: the addition of a dedicated icon for Google Maps Navigation. The product is still in beta, but this seems like an early sign that it's starting to come of age -- and on a more practical level, this obviously makes it quite a bit easier to launch right into a route when you saddle up in the car. Anywho, Motorola, about that CLIQ update?

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  • Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    I assumed that VHS tapes had gone the route of Polaroid film and were continuing to be phased out of existence. I must have been too hasty, because according to the Entertainment Retailer’s Association, videocassette sales in Britain have more than doubled in the past year. In the grand scheme of home entertainment, these numbers are [...]

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  • Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry

    Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive apps for both the Android and BlackBerry, which are now available for download here. This is a pivotal moment for Seesmic because the startup is now conquering all the mediums—web, desktop and mobile. I sat down with Seesmic's co-founder, Loic Le Meur, to test out the apps.

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  • Win $10,000 of audio related things from Sennheiser

    Win $10,000 of audio related things from Sennheiser

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Hey everybody! Let's play the "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" game! Unfortunately, due to recent changes in corporation policy and budget cuts, you'll only have 10,000 USD to play with. And it will have to go towards something music / audio related. Wait, that's still totally awesome. But don't tell me what you would do with the cash. Go and tell the guys over at Sennheiser. Their Sound Tour Hookup Challenge can give you and five friends the chance to spend ten thousand bucks on whatever crazy audio scheme you can think of.

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  • Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    Enhance your MP3s all you want with iDFX Audio Enhancer. They still suck.

    Posted on October 20, 2009 | No Comments
    iDFX Audio Enhancer is an add-on to iTunes that serves to, "re-encode your current MP3 and AAC files using a patent-pending method that repairs the damage and lost harmonics that occurred during the original encoding process". Sounds like doublespeak to me for a $40 EQ and extrapolative guesswork. And the demo of iDFX sounds like just that. if you want good sounding audio, stop buying MP3s. And if you want smaller file sizes, start compressing with FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, or any number of lossless codecs.

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  • Happy Birthday, CDs

    Happy Birthday, CDs

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    The Compact Disc was quite a revolution when it came out. With a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a 16 bit rate, CDs marked the shift to digital music. Unfortunately, it seems to have fallen from being the playback medium of choice. These days, people either buy vinyl records because "they sound better" (especially when played on your vintage hipster record player you bought from Urban Outfitters) or MP3s online for the convenience. And noone even thinks about cassette tapes anymore.

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  • Pioneer sells another batch of Laserdisc players, in Japan

    Pioneer sells another batch of Laserdisc players, in Japan

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember Laserdiscs? Those large-size video mediums almost no one outside Japan bought in the 1980s and 1990s? I never thought I would write another post on LDs after the one in January this year in which I reported about Pioneer stopping the production of LDs players forever. But yesterday the same company (which manufactured the best hardware) issued a new press release [JP], saying it still has some players in stock, the DVL-919 ($1,000, pictured on the left) and the CLD-R5 ($400, pictured after the jump). The main difference is that the R5 only plays LDs and CDs, while the 919 also can be used for DVDs (region 2).

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