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Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Review: Røde Podcaster USB Microphone

Podcaster? Screencast creator? Amateur musician? If you’ve ever tried your hand at any of those, you’ve probably found yourself wondering how to record better audio with your Mac. There are many solutions out on the market, but most require a bunch of bothersome cables, fiddling with filters or an audio engineering degree.

Enter the Røde Podcaster: [...]

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Guitarist’s Tip: Busking with your iPhone

There are a bunch of guitar chord & tab sites out there on the web, but usually you’re never near a computer when somebody hands you a guitar and wants you to play a song. Whilst there are a ton of iPhone guitar tuning and chord reference apps in the AppStore, there isn’t much in [...]

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Microsoft unveils DRM-laden mobile music store

After the last MSN Music DRM fiasco, you would have thought Microsoft would have learnt their lesson. However, the new MSN Mobile Music service locks music purchases to the phone they were bought on. 
How does Microsoft defend this policy? Hugh Griffiths offered this gem of an interview with PC Pro. In it he offers a few words of wisdom:
Why [...]

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