tunequest

Allow me to share with you one of my favorite apps in all of Apple's App Store: TonePad. You see, I've been intrigued by the elusive (and expensive) "visual music composition device" known as Tenori-on since I first heard about it a couple years. And since I don't really have the time to make the most of a thousand dollar diversionary investment like the Tenori-on, only an intrigue it ...

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Apple unleashed iTunes 7.4.2 today, mostly to cripple efforts by the iPhone community to customize their ringtones without having to pay an additional $.99 to do so. On that topic, one could argue that users are well within their Fair Use rights to repurpose (format shift) into a ringtone the music they've already paid for. I'm not an iPhone user nor do I intend to be, so it's purely ...

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(or, Initial Thoughts on the iPod Touch) Weeeee... new toys from Apple! iPods iPods iPods, including shuffles in drab new colors (gimme orange), a new iPod NanoVideo (aka iPod Squat), an all-metal iPod Classic (the form we all know and love––now up to 160GB!) and a phoneless iPhone (aka iPod Touch). Upon the availing of the line up this afternoon, I was immediately torn. In my mind, the iPod brand is ...

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Apple has really screwed up with the new sorting behaviors introduced in iTunes 7.3 and it's making a lot of people seriously unhappy. And, honestly, I've NEVER been mad at Apple for anything in my 25+ years of history with the company (annoyed at times, but never mad), but the more I think about this the more pissed I get. For those just joining the story, Apple released version ...

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Links to interesting stories. This edition is long overdue. Medialoper: 5 Ways to Improve eMusic I love eMusic. At ~$0.25 per song, it's easily one of the best values in the digital download arena. While generally functional, parts of the site could use some overhauling. Medialoper leads the discussion on how. Cognitive Daily: Even the musically untrained respond differently to new symphonic movements "A new study of brain responses to music has found ...

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Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it "link sharing." Webomatica chronicles the hoopla as the launch of the iPhone approaches. Antics include people paying other people to stand in line, christening June 29 as "iDay," and links to major newspaper reviews. T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2... A number of audiobooks were sold at the iTunes Store recently that didn't work on the iPod. That problem has ...

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What's more fun than speculating about the outcomes of court cases? Well, most everything. But it does pose an opportunity for a healthy debate. So let's play What If... What might happen if Cisco and Apple in up in the courtroom? Leaving aside for the time being that "iPhone" is a pretty weak name for a product that's much more than a simple phone, it does appear that Cisco has been ...

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So the mythical iPhone was unveiled yesterday and by all accounts, it is a revolutionary communications and portable computer device. The user interface alone is light years ahead of anything else on the market. And the technology behind it really looks phenomenal... for a phone. But even with all that legendary RDF action in effect, my own reaction is surprisingly lukewarm. Bias Alert!: I abhor the telephone in general and ...

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