Pages tagged “ipod”

GarageBand Available For iPhone

GarageBand Available For iPhone

It’s a relief to know that those on-the-go recording sessions that you’ve been stressing about are finally possible.  read more

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Steve Jobs: 1955 - 2011

Steve Jobs: 1955 - 2011

Apple co-founder, chairman and former chief executive Steve Jobs died Oct. 5. He was 56. Although a cause of death had not been released initially, Jobs had been battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer.  read more

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Spotify Launches New Features

Spotify Launches New Features

Spotify recently launched new features, including one that will allow users to sync the songs in their Spotify playlists to their iPods....  read more

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Microsoft May Stop Producing New Zune Models

Microsoft May Stop Producing New Zune Models

Due to lack of demand, Microsoft Corp. has announced that they will no longer create new versions of the Zune media player, “according to a person familiar with the decision,” writes Bloomberg....  read more

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Guitar Hero App Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

<em>Guitar Hero</em> App Now Available for iPhone and iPod Touch

There are just those times when the desire to push some colored buttons and pretend to be a legitimate musician is overwhelming. Thanks to the new Guitar Hero app from Activision for iPhone and iPod Touch, there’s a portable way to get the fix....  read more

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Listen Up: If This is the Decade of Glorious Musical Autonomy, Why do I Keep Hearing That Owl City Song?

Listen Up: If This is the Decade of Glorious Musical Autonomy, Why do I Keep Hearing That Owl City Song?

As the first tenth of our new century draw to a close, humankind is still waiting on the jet-packs we were promised nearly sixty years ago. Still, this is the decade we got the iPod, so it's almost a wash, right?  read more

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The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade (2000-2009)

The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade (2000-2009)

The new Millennium got off to a great start where the world of gadgetry was concerned...  read more

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Fourteen Catchiest Apple Ads (Plus, Who's That Singing In The New Nano Commercial?)

Fourteen Catchiest Apple Ads (Plus, Who's That Singing In The New Nano Commercial?)

With their clean lines, bright hues, tech-forward features and cultural cache, it often seems like Apple products simply sell themselves. But what, then, of the hundreds of equally stylish—and so often mesmerizing—television ads the company's shelled out for over the years? Are they just for our amusement? Well, no, but sometimes they might as well be. There are few other ad campaigns with the capacity to stop TV viewers in their commercial-break tracks from the sofa to the fridge, and few others worth seeking out on YouTube even after you've gone to great TiVo-related lengths to avoid them the first...  read more

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Getting to Know... Chairlift

Getting to Know... Chairlift

Chances are, you've heard at least 30 seconds of a Chairlift song—the bouncy pop of "Bruises" was used to launch Apple's fourth generation iPod Nano this past spring...  read more

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Sony's Walkman is 30! Now, What to do With That Clunky Old Thing?

Sony's Walkman is 30! Now, What to do With That Clunky Old Thing?

1979 saw the release of Pink Floyd's The Wall, the election of the UK's first female Prime Minister, and the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island. Equally innovative, groundbreaking and explosive, however, was the hottest new technology from Sony—the Walkman, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last week, on July 2.When the Walkman was first released, it weighed in at 14 ounces and was the size of a small book—titanic compared to today's teensy-weensy MP3 players. But it was the first kind of easily portable personal audio equipment, spawning a headphone revolution as people snapped up the $200 battery-operated cassette player....  read more

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