Not surprisingly, Apple quietly released a slimmer unibody aluminum design this week with a 2.4GHz or 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 gig of ram (expandable to 8 gig with two SO-DIMMs), Firewire 800, GigaEthernet, 802.11n Wireless, Bluetooth, 320 or 500 GB hard drive,  NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics with …

Today at the WWDC 2010, Apple announced the 4th generation ‘iPhone 4′. (you know, the leaked/stolen one that made the blog rounds some weeks ago)
They changed the case design, giving it a glass front and back (supposedly developed to be 30 times harder than plastic), with a slim silvery edge …

Over the past few weeks I’ve been almost insane with the ambient noise level of my PC Desktop.
The machine is hand-built and has always been fairly noisy, but I attributed it to the fact it has a high end video card inside.
We have parquet wood flooring in the apartment and …

Now that Apple has released Logic 9.1 with 64-bit plugin support, we’re starting to see announcements.  Spectrasonics released word of 1.2 versions of Omnisphere and Trillian which offer native 64-bit support as well as new 32-bit Sample File Server option which allows more memory access due to existing platform limitations.
It …

Recently I was trolling the ‘net and came across this tasty info:
Pixar, makers of some of the most memorable 3D movies, has a very informative Online Library to share animation techniques.

PreSonus, makers of excellent audio hardware, jumped into the digital audio workstation (DAW) market the middle of  last year.
They took  a look at the market at large, and found most products are bloated and ridiculously complex in work-flow.  So they decided to work with German developers Wolfgang Kundrus and Matthias …

Back in the day, 1982 to be exact, a company called Commodore released the 64 personal computer.  It could plug into a dedicated monitor or your TV.  You could load software by a cassette tape or hard disk.  It ruled the home computer market selling 17 million machines between ’83 …

After years of rumours, Apple announced today the Ipad tablet for release in 30+ days.
It is a half inch thick and a mere 1.5 pounds.  The screen is 9.7 inches (1024×768) and is a capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display.
Running on a 1ghz Apple A4 chip (remember the purchase of P.A. …

Apple released a few interesting things today:
- Security Update 2010-001 (found on System Update)
- Bootcamp 3.1 update – finally.  Native Win7 support!  My tests thus far show the trackpad to be less jerky, it seems to handle the system fans better.  I will push it with a DAW to really see …

Access in recent years have turned around and showing a lot of developments for owners of the Virus TI series of synthesizers.  Some would consider a hardware synth to be expensive and many are not upgradable.  Not so with the Virus TI’s… Access has announced for 1Q 2010 availability a …