Review: Monster Beats Solo headphones
On the Beats by Dre Solo box, Monster is keen to drum in a quote by Dr. Dre saying that "people arenít hearing all the music" -- that typical headphones are giving up details, and Dre feels it his mission to get those details back. That he largely achieved that goal with the high end models is generally accepted, but how does the Beats line fare with a middle of the road offering? Are listeners really missing details in their music with other headphones? Our Beats Solo review finds out....
published today, 10 hours 14 minutes ago, macintosh-news-network
Final Cut Studio at the Oscars
CNET News reports that 9 out of 10 of this year?s nominees in the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films, including category winners ?The Cove? and ?Music by Prudence.?
published on Friday, the 12. March 2010, apple-hot-news
Novothink ships solar-powered iPhone, iPod touch cases
Novothink today put out its promised Solar Surge case for the iPhone and iPod touch. The design acts like a battery sled for Apple's devices and, as its name suggests, is one of the few such cases that can power itself. While slow to charge, a two-hour exposure to daylight can give an iPhone 3G or 3GS enough extra power for 30 more minutes of calls and considerably longer for music....
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Pink Floyd songs could be removed from iTunes after court ruling
Music legends Pink Floyd won a lawsuit with their label EMI Thursday, with the band successfully defending its right to block the sale of individual songs on digital download services like iTunes.
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, appleinsider
Pink Floyd wins ruling, bans single-song downloads
Pink Floyd in a UK court on Thursday won a key ruling in its case against EMI for allegedly breaking its contract terms. The quick turnaround would prevent the music label from selling any Pink Floyd songs as individual downloads without permission from the band. In his findings, Judge Morritt determined that the key clause preventing per-track sales was meant to "preserve the artistic integrity" regardless of format....
published on Thursday, the 11. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Pioneer DJ mixer brings multi-touch screen
Pioneer hoped to move the technology of DJ mixers forward today by launching a new addition to the DJM line. The DJM-2000 is the first mixer with a multi-touch display and uses the 5.8-inch LCD to provide control over the sound that would be difficult with buttons. At a basic level, it lets musicians put up a set of custom interfaces for controlling a Mac or PC's music software through MIDI. Gestures also work to create "sidechain" mixing, and on-screen sliders can fine-tune the frequency....
published on Wednesday, the 10. March 2010, macintosh-news-network
Pink Floyd objects to EMI "unbundling" of online music
Progressive rock band Pink Floyd on Tuesday sued its label EMI for allegedly breaking the terms of its contract through online sales. The complaint accuses EMI of knowingly "unbundling" the band's songs by letting those at iTunes and other online music stores buy some songs individually, against terms that insist all the content of an album be sold as one item....
published on Tuesday, the 9. March 2010, macintosh-news-network