Category " Equipment"

The online music landscape changed a few days ago, when Google opened up its new Google Play app store and services portal, where users can purchase and store e-books and other media.  It’s very similar to Apple’s iCloud service, and is a “digital locker” for all your digital purchases.  By purchasing music, apps, videos, and [...]

Automobiles have had built in radio available since the 1930s.  Music and driving may seem inseparable to us today, but there was a little while there after the Ford Model-T when the only sounds you heard while jaunting about in the car was the sound of the wind rushing past your ears, or people shaking [...]

Apple’s award winning program gone app, Garageband, is now available for iPhone, but how effective is it really on such a small screen?  Some people have already tried it out.  As I’m sure you might imagine, the iPhone version of GarageBand is downsized for the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen.  People report that the overall app experience [...]

Once upon a time, somewhere in the late 1990s, electronic devices that stored and played MP3 files were widely known as MP3 players. This was before Apple introduced the iPod on October 21, 2001, launching a sweeping revolution in sound and how music is enjoyed and shared digitally.  Within a few months, anytime a person [...]

You probably don’t consider something as benign as air guitar to be championship worthy, and on that point, you would be squarely wrong.  There is in fact, in the United States, an official US Air Guitar Championship and you can actually see (and hear) some of the best in the world compete.  Air guitar has [...]