Software Program Archive

  • Apple Now Lets You Preview iPhone Apps In Your Browser

    Apple Now Lets You Preview iPhone Apps In Your Browser

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    In November 2009, Apple launched a feature dubbed iTunes Preview, which essentially enabled people to see what music is available on iTunes from their Web browser without the need to fire up - or install - the desktop software program. At the time, you weren't able to actually listen to a sample of music tracks from your browser, but that changed earlier this year when Web-based audio previews were quietly added (paving the way for the imminent roll-out of iTunes.com). This morning, Apple activated the iTunes Preview feature for iPhone / iPod Touch applications in addition.

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  • Ever wondered what an image would sound like?

    Ever wondered what an image would sound like?

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    rgb-music-failWe found an interesting little blurb about a software program that converts images into music. Specifically, it "converts the RGB, Red, Green, and Blue, values of every pixel of an image and plays a 3 note harmony based on the RGB values. It reads the pixels from top left to bottom right playing a song a long the way." According to señor willburns1 on his blog (link), "most of the time it seems like set a child loose on a piano but it is sometimes pretty cool."

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  • D-Link makes the Boxee Box official, still leaves us wondering

    D-Link makes the Boxee Box official, still leaves us wondering

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    D-Link just went official on the Boxee Box. But they still didn't answer our only last question: the price. All they said is that it will be less than $200. Thanks, we kind of figured that along with that the device will stream media from various big-name sources like Netflix, Pandora and Last.fm. Stay tuned though, more info is likely going to drop at CES in a day or two.

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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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