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post from Daring Fireball on 02 October 2009 11:11:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

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Embraceware Software announces Awaken 1.1.1 for
iPhone and iPod touch

post from prMac on 02 October 2009 10:55:00 PM. © prMac

Embraceware Software today announces Awaken 1.1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. Awaken is a digital alarm clock, sleep timer, fullscreen clock and flashlight. Wake up to music on your iPhone or iPod touch or any of the dozen built in sounds. Set the volume and screen brightness to slowly fade in to ease you out of sleep. Choose from a selection of 3 fullscreen clock styles. Works great as a night table or desk clock. Supports both portrait and landscape modes.

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RjDj to Sell Whole Albums as Interactive Sound
Experiences for iPhone

post from TheAppleBlog on 02 October 2009 06:00:00 PM. © TheAppleBlog

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RjDj, the exceptionally cool “reactive sound platform” app from Reality Jockey, which turns the iPhone’s microphone into an audio synthesizer, just got even cooler: Now available in the App Store is “Kids on DSP,” an entire album featuring collaborations from two well-known techno artists — Carl Craig and Acid Pauli — converted for play in the RjDj app.

Audio picked up by your mic is seamlessly mixed with the music, and played back as a unified audio soundscape in your ear buds; your surrounding environment becomes part of the album. Take a deep breath, say, and it’s turned into a heavily reverbed whoosh; take your iPhone into the kitchen, and the faucet sounds like a rainstorm crescendo added to the backbeat.

The RjDj experience for “Kids on DSP” will vary from track to track, Reality Jockey producer Robert Thomas told me by email. “‘Drowning Street’ incorporates sounds from your surroundings to become a kind of tripped out sonic bed which washes over you and pumps around the music,” he wrote. The “Timecruising” track created with Craig takes external audio inputs and plays them backward, creating a bizarre, temporal rubber band effect. (This video explains further.)

All this aural wizardry isn’t just an innovative plaything, however, because it’s also being launched as a new revenue source for recorded music. Reality Jockey is developing a number of applications for “major label chart topping artists,” Thomas said. While a number of artists are selling apps of their own, he argued that “most of them are actually no different from the old ‘multimedia CD’ release — i.e. some music, some video, some web links, etc.” Thomas believes RjDj will offer a better strategy by selling albums that weave a musician’s work into an immersive, interactive experience that goes beyond mere listening. (Operating on a somewhat similar premise, track downloads for the music video game franchises Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become enormously successful. )

Still, whether this can become another needed revenue alternative for the music industry remains to be seen. Thomas tells me 300,000 iPhone/iPod touch owners have downloaded the RjDj app, which is a nice audience base to start with, but will probably need to grow much larger before it becomes a significant income/promotion channel for labels and artists. And as with music video games, the other challenge is composing music tracks customized to play well in RjDj. Thomas suggested that in order to do that, “[T]he composer needs to think in multiple possible scenarios, not just one route. I tend to call it quantum composing.”

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Psystar attorney quits legal team in Apple
lawsuit

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 02 October 2009 05:40:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

Psystar shuffled its defense this week as one of the attorneys defending the Mac clone builder left ...

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Briefly: M-Audio working on SL support,
SplitScreen for FCP

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 02 October 2009 05:40:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

In brief: M-Audio has announced that it is in the process of bringing Snow Leopard support to the M-...

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StarTech debuts 2-port DisplayPort KVM Switch

post from Macnn | The Macintosh News Network on 02 October 2009 05:15:00 PM. © Macnn | The Macintosh News Network

StarTech has released the 2-port DisplayPort KVM Switch, a new device for controlling up to two comp...

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How to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS on OS 3.1 Pwnage Tool
(Mac)

post from iHackintosh on 02 October 2009 05:12:54 PM. © iHackintosh

Finally Dev Team released Pwnage tool for iPhone 3GS Firmware 3.1, the latest firmware update OS 3.1 contains a baseband firmware update 5.11.04 which is not compatible with Ultrasn0w. Means if you upgrade your iPhone 3GS 3.0 to 3.1 your baseband also[...]

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Briefly: Line 6 users request 10.6 support,
Security Bundle

In brief: Several users of Line 6 hardware have started a new forum for discussing Snow Leopard rela...

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Kanex Mini DisplayPort adapter sends digital
audio over HDMI

Kanex has released its latest Mac accessory, a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter that supports 1080p ...

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NVIDIA: Snow Leopard will benefit from Fermi

The just-unveiled Fermi graphics architecture will find its way into Macs and play an important role...

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