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New AmpliTube adds iOS 7 support, Inter-App Audio routing system

September 24, 2013 by admin1 · Leave a Comment

IK Multimedia is pleased to announce a new version of AmpliTube for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, the full-featured guitar studio and recording app for mobile musicians, which adds iOS 7 compatibility as well as the ability to use AmpliTube as a filter app in the new iOS 7 “Inter-App Audio” feature.

Inter-App audio allows audio apps to communicate with each other and stream the audio output from one app to another. This feature is extremely handy for adding effects, and processing the audio stream from one app and sending it to another. AmpliTube can be used as a “filter” app in iOS 7 for processing the audio from other apps, allowing musicians to use all of the stompbox and amplifier effects with any live (real-time) or recorded material. This feature is similar to AudioBus functionality, but provides the opportunity for more complex routing. AmpliTube is fully AudioBus compatible as well, making it the most flexible audio-processing and recording app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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Filed Under: accessories, Audio, GadgetGreg, In the news, New Product · Tagged With: Audio

Diehards return to the Apple Store for new iPhone 5S, 5C

September 20, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

A decent sized crowd lined up almost out the mall doors this morning at Edmonton’s Southgate Centre anxiously waiting in line to get in to the Apple Store and get their hands on the latest models of the iPhone – the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S.

Happy 50th Birthday, Cassette

September 13, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

casettebirthday_v2-lrg It’s hard to believe that the cassette tape is celebrating its golden anniversary this month. That’s 50 years of fast-forwarding, rewinding, starting, stopping and flipping over to play side two – if your compact cassette player didn’t have an auto reverse function. All was wonderful, until one day you would cringe at hearing the crunching sound of the magnetically encoded tape as little gremlins chewed it up in your in-dash cassette player.

3D printed bow-tie protects you from space invaders

August 25, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

With your positively overwhelming response to our 3D car printing post, we thought you might like another 3D story. While this one might not be as grandiose as printing a car, it’s creatively entertaining nonetheless. This time it’s a bowtie. Not any bowtie, but a 3D printed one that’s designed to alert a person you might be talking to with a series of flashing LEDs that they have come just too close for comfort for a little too long.

19th century camera technology still relevant today

August 14, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

The Petzval lens, old and new

EDMONTON, AB, / Troy Media/ – If 19th century University of Vienna Mathematics Professor and inventor Joseph Petzval were alive today, I wonder how surprised he’d be to see how far camera technology has advanced. But I’d really like to witness the look on his face if he knew that a lens he created in 1840 was getting a new lease on life almost two centuries later. Read More at Troy Media.

Filed Under: GadgetGreg, In the news, New Product, Signs of the Times, Taking care of business, Troy Media · Tagged With: history, photography, Technology

Canadian Apple Stores not activating new iPhones today on Rogers or Fido

August 10, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

iphoness If you’re looking at picking up a new iPhone at an Apple Store across Canada and get it activated in-store on the Rogers or Fido network today, you won’t be able to do so. This comes just one day after Rogers moved from three-year plans to the new shorter two-year plans.

Read more…AT CANOE TECH BLOG

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Reinvented 19th century lens raises $1 Million on Kickstarter

August 8, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

A new Kickstarter project designed to bring a legendary 19th century camera lens back to life has already got a real boost, having raised $1.13 million U.S. in just over a week. The kicker, pardon the pun, is that the funders were originally looking for backers to pledge $100,000, an amount that they reached within a matter of a few hours. And with already over 2,700 backers, it certainly sounds like there’s a new demand for this oldie but goodie technology.

Read more…AT CANOE TECH BLOG

Filed Under: accessories, Canoe Technology, Digital Video, In the news, Signs of the Times · Tagged With: Gadgets, photography

Swann unveils video camera & iDevice controlled helicopters

August 7, 2013 by admin1 · Leave a Comment

Swann, a company known for their electronic security and wireless gadgets have unveiled a new series of helicopters: Black Swann, i-Fly Micro Lightning, Sky Eye, remote controlled helicopters that feature iOS control & wireless video cameras.

I’ll be reviewing one of these in an upcoming post but wanted to give you all a heads up as to what they are all about.

Black Swann ($99.99): records flights with video or still photos with the push of a button by adding a Micro SD card (up to 32GB)
iFly Micro Lightning ($69.99): controls with app’s push button controls or enter ‘tilt’ mode to control the movement of the helicopter by tilting the iDevice
Sky Eye ($99.99): records flights with video or still photos with the push of a button on built-in 512MB memory
Easy-Fly Gyro Technology provides stability and makes flying a breeze
6-way multi-directional flying includes up/down, forward/backward, left and right turns
Powered by built-in rechargeable Lithium-ion battery & recharged via remote control

For more info check out Swann’s page dedicated to just Helicopters.

Filed Under: accessories, Apps Alive, GadgetGreg, In the news, New Product · Tagged With: Helicopters, video cameras

New Zealand man printing full-scale car using desktop 3D printer

July 31, 2013 by Greg Gazin · Leave a Comment

I’ve heard of 3D printers being used to create tiny little plastic replacement parts for cars, but Auckland New Zealand’s Ivan Sentch has something on a much grander scale in mind. He’s got his sites set on 3D-printing a full-scale car and planning on doing it with a desktop 3D printer.

Read more… AT CANOE TECH BLOG

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10 interesting financial facts about comic books

July 26, 2013 by admin1 · Leave a Comment

Superheroes have been around for a while and with the exponential growth and interest in events like ComicCon, it’s interesting to see what kind of financial impact comics have had since the early days of the 1st Superman comic.

The interesting and informative infographic, features 10 of the best-recorded financial triumphs of our childhood ( and adulthood heroes. (did you know that in 1946, comic books sales surpassed that of regular books — eliciting outrage?). Click more to see an infographic.

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Filed Under: GadgetGreg, In the news, Signs of the Times, Taking care of business · Tagged With: Comics, finance