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  • iPhone 4 launch day at AT&T stores: 7AM opening, awesome t-shirts confirmed

    iPhone 4 launch day at AT&T stores: 7AM opening, awesome t-shirts confirmed

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    What you're looking at here, folks, is the extreme wardrobe you can expect to see when you waltz into a corporate-owned AT&T retail location on the iPhone 4's launch day later this month -- and even better, casual pants and footwear may be worn if approved! On a more serious note, though, this launch packet we've received confirms that stores will be opening on 7AM on the 24th and that new AT&T customers will be restricted to a maximum of one device (the same restriction applies to the new 8GB 3GS) and current customers will only be able to buy one phone per active line of service. Oh, and if you're going to a store that sells U-verse service, expect a pitch. Don't say we didn't warn you.

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  • Gleeks Rejoice! Smule Packs Fox’s Glee Into A Fantastic iPhone App

    Gleeks Rejoice! Smule Packs Fox’s Glee Into A Fantastic iPhone App

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    If you own a TV, you’ve probably heard of Glee. It’s Fox’s new big thing, starring a surprisingly pretty lot of “geeks” who not only happen to be able to belt out just about any pop tune you throw at them, but can find ways to squeeze those songs into situations where no one would [...]

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  • iTiki iPhone Case…Um, something is wrong with me, because I kinda want one?

    iTiki iPhone Case…Um, something is wrong with me, because I kinda want one?

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Anytime the press release for a new product says something like this, I’m bound to pay attention: iTiki™ is a South Pacific deity from the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, who protects iPhones from enemies. iTiki is more than just the original tiki-based iPhone case. It’s the silicone incarnation of the same spirit who, according to [...]

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  • Vodaphone’s $15 phone for the developing world

    Vodaphone’s $15 phone for the developing world

    Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
    The mood in Barcelona must be somber, for the city's team lost to Atletico Madrid yesterday. Granted, Atletico Madrid is Barcelona's bogey team, but come on, Atletico Madrid?! Team CrunchGear could beat those guys on the pitch. Still, the Mobile World Congress soldiers on. Here's something that caught my interest—something aside from the Windows Phone!—is the Vodaphone 150. It's for the developing world.

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  • First DJ iPhone app lets you mix beats without listening to them.

    First DJ iPhone app lets you mix beats without listening to them.

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    If we applied Moore's law to the art of DJing, we would probably get something like Amidio's Touch DJ app. Gone are the software disk jockeys who replaced the original vinyl selectors. Now you can spin beats on your iPhone or iPod touch without listening to them. Wait, what?

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  • Playing with Fire: A new MVNO, Simple Mobile, has entered the arena

    Playing with Fire: A new MVNO, Simple Mobile, has entered the arena

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Screen shot 2009-11-16 at [ November 16 ] 12.31.50 PM What do you mean, US MVNOs are generally doomed from the start? Sure, Helio went under. Yeah yeah, so did Disney Mobile. And Mobile ESPN. And Amp'd, Voce, and Sonopia. Thats only what, a billion dollars or so thrown down the drain? Don't be such a naysayer. The MVNO game is one hell of a risky business, but it seems like no one told the folks at Simple Mobile that. Earlier this morning, this fledgling MVNO opened its doors to all major US markets, plus Puerto Rico.

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  • Antares: Friend of misleading singers, enemy of misleading apps

    Antares: Friend of misleading singers, enemy of misleading apps

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Here’s a bit of App Store drama for you: Antares Audio Tech, the company that built the underlying technology licensed for the popular “I am T-Pain” iPhone App, has unleashed their lawyers on Steamboat Mountain Designs, an indie developer and maker of the now-removed iPhone app, “AutoTuner.” Why? Well, it turns out that the term [...]

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  • Smule sells 300k copies of I Am T-Pain, celebrates with a new song and a huge contest

    Smule sells 300k copies of I Am T-Pain, celebrates with a new song and a huge contest

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    The second we laid eyes on Smule’s autotuning, pitch-changing iPhone app, I Am T-Pain, we knew it was going to be a huge hit – and it has been. We just got some details from Smule’s CEO, Jeff Smith, on how things are going so far. In the first 3 weeks alone, the application [...]

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  • The Eigenharp: Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here either

    The Eigenharp: Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here either

    Posted on September 29, 2009 | No Comments
    So this is apparently an electronic instrument, handmade in England, that has been in the works for 7 years. It seems to be a cross between a piano and a harp with a set of keys and a strip controller for handling pitch bending. It seems there’s also a built-in arranger as well as a [...]

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  • Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Extraordinary rendition is still happening to Speak&Spells right now, write your Congressman

    Posted on September 22, 2009 | No Comments
    What you are about to see will shock you. Our allies overseas are being given broken Speak&Spells for full interrogation and their techniques are as far from the Geneva Convention laws as you can imagine. After stripping out most of the lower part of the device, these interrogators are forcing the Speak&Spells to perform unnatural acts, some that turn the stomach.
    Touching the word "Speak" turns the unit on. "Spell" triggers a random letter. "&" triggers a random glitch sound. The touch pads to the right trigger a really crazy hold/distortion effect. This is one of the most interesting effects I've found in a Speak&Spell in years. The strip below changes the pitch. This doesn't actually utilize a transistor. I simply wired the pad to the pitch base on the circuit.

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  • Telus announcing something on September 15th

    Telus announcing something on September 15th

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    September 15th. 26 days from today. Do you know what’s coming? Do you have any idea what’s heading your way? Cause we sure as hell don’t. Canadian carrier Telus has been running a series of ambiguous ads in movie theaters north of the border, highlighting September 15th as the day of the big reveal. We don’t have [...]

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  • Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, dead at 94

    Les Paul, father of the solid-body electric guitar, dead at 94

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Strum out a few chords of Stairway, friends, because the guy who pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, Les Paul, is dead. He died of complications from pneumonia in White Plains, NY. Paul also invented multitrack recording, the process of playing and recording multiple tracks at once. This led to incredible - and decidedly mechanical - [...]

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  • Video: Demo of Nikon’s S1000pj projector camera

    Video: Demo of Nikon’s S1000pj projector camera

    Posted on August 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Okay, so Nikon’s S1000pj just launched a few hours ago and I think we all want to see how it’s going to work. We’ll have a hands-on shortly, but here is the official Nikon video that demonstrates the camera clearly. We just hope that the room doesn’t have to be pitch black inorder for it [...]

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  • Unintended consequences: Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Auto-Tune’ boosts sales of the software

    Unintended consequences: Jay-Z’s ‘Death of Auto-Tune’ boosts sales of the software

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    A few weeks ago, Jay-Z released the song “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune),” much to the delight of some corners of the Internet. It's basically a song that rails against the proliferation of Auto-Tune, software that can alter/correct the pitch of someone's voice. Its most notorious use is to make the singer sound like a robot, thus hiding their inability to sing at all. It's huge in hip-hop, for whatever reason.

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