Everyone who has followed the E3 game conference for more than a year knows the basics – new hardware is introduced, and hot new awesome looking games are trotted out just to demonstrate how hot and awesome everything will be once it all ships. In years past some of this was done by way of [...]
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Grab a Free Low Latency Yamaha DX-7 Synth Emulator for Android
One of the key limiting factors for me in terms of integrating Android in my life was the lack of viable music apps … which in turn was due to the lack of a low-latency music infrastructure baked into the OS. While those issues haven’t been resolved, at this year’s Google I/O conference there was [...]
GoG.com Kicks Off #No DRM Summer Sale wth Torchlight Freebie, Great News for Mac Gamers!
Every summer GoG.com puts on a huge summer sale … and this year is no exception! For the next 17 days they will have more than 500 games on sale! This massive catalog os great games is ENTIRELY DRM-free, meaning that once you buy and download the game, you are free to install it and [...]
Samsung Giving Away Jay-Z’s New Album, But Will It Buy Him #1 in Sales?
In the rap and hip-hop world, few artists loom as large as Jay-Z. Emerging in 1996 with a blockbuster debut that was as successful critically as it was commercially, he seemed to fade for a few years before emerging with the excellent ‘The Blueprint’. Then some more mediocre minor releases before what he claimed would [...]
Have Some Coffee to Rock Your Workout – The Monday Mile
Many of us grew up with some specific ideas about soda, coffee and caffeine in general: mainly that caffeine is a diuretic; it will therefore flush fluids from your system (make you urinate) and dehydrate you. Therefore, any of those types of drinks are bad choices for athletes at any point around a workout. But [...]
Blade of Darkness Review – a Classic PC Game Retro Romp
Have you ever heard of the game ‘Blade of Darkness’? Don’t worry if you haven’t – it is more of a ‘cult classic’; a game that is now more than a dozen years old but that never gained much popularity due to lousy marketing. The advertisements at the time were made before the game was [...]
Looking Back at John Scofield’s UberJam as He Prepares to Launch the Sequel
How often do we hear about an album getting a real ‘sequel’? Well, actually it has become a bit of ‘a thing’ in rap in recent years, but for the most part the results show it is an ill-advised trend at best. And Meatloaf started with a classic and ended up with a second sequel [...]
New Balance Minimus MT10 Running Shoe Review
A few months ago, Carly reviewed the Merrell Road Glove 2, which is one of the most highly regarded minimal running shoes available. For the last year or so I have been running on Nike Free Run 3s, which are a ‘minimal-ish’ shoe with a small drop, very light construction, but still a decent amount [...]
AmpliTube Gets New ‘Studio’ Interface in Major Update – Hands-On Review
Along with the original iRig, IK Multimedia delivered AmpliTube, a high quality guitar amplifier and effects chain simulator. It all started simply enough, with a few effects and amp simulators and a solid sound that made it a great ‘practice amp’ in much the way the RockMan worked for musicians in the early 80s. Since [...]
Righteous Kill Movie Game for the Mac Review
Have you ever seen the film Righteous Kill? I never did, and consulting RottenTomatoes tells me I didn’t miss much – I did try to stream it, but it wasn’t freely available so I requested it from Goozex, but I wasn’t able to get it before doing this review. Turns out it doesn’t matter, since [...]
Who Wins and Who Loses with Apple’s iTunes Radio Announcement?
At the WWDC keynote, Apple announced the revamped music player app for iOS 7 and along with it iTunes Radio. While you can check out the press release for the full details, suffice to say that this is more of an ‘internet radio’ like Pandora than an ‘on demand’ service such as Spotify. Obviously there [...]
Clean Up iTunes with ‘Show EXACT Duplicate Items’ Command
If you are like me, and you have been dumping music into iTunes for over a decade across multiple computers and mobile devices, chances are you have imported the same music more than once. And perhaps you did it once from CD and another time from a backup after altering MP3 tags (I used to [...]
Sony Thumps Microsoft on Key Hardcore Gaming Weaknesses in Two Videos
Mike Siebenaler will be giving us a thorough look at all of the E3 presentations in the coming days, but as a primarily PC gamer sitting on the sidelines I had a couple of observations on what would draw me in or push me away from the new consoles. When Microsoft announced the XBOX One, [...]
Tap: Book of Angels, Vol. 20 – Pat Metheny Plays the Music of John Zorn
If I was to make a list of musical artists whose stuff I enjoy and who have influenced me through the decades, two names that would certainly be on the list are Pat Metheny and John Zorn. I have followed Metheny since the late 70s and have enjoyed most of his group and solo works; [...]
10 Tips for Running in the Summer Heat – The Monday Mile
Just over a week ago I was in Kentucky for work and commented on Facebook that I barely made it out of the hotel parking lot on my 4:30AM run before I was covered in sweat. Last week, Judie noted that she got a late start and that it was 98F while she was running; her [...]
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