As I suspected...

So Apple came out with the new improved 10 inch iPod Touch, oops, er I mean iPad! I won't lie and say I don't want one, but do I really need a 10 inch iPod?!%#. I was really hoping for a full on tablet notebook from Apple, as opposed to having to buy a "ModBook" through Axiotron. Meanwhile Microsoft has announced Windows Mobile 7 coming out "later this year" per Steve Ballmer. What will the Microsoft Courier look like, and will it run Windows CE ? In the musical world I've got to give a hand to the folks at tc eclectronic. I just recently become the happy owner of a second hand M300 dual engine processor. My props to my sales guy Andy at Guitar Center for recommending at $75 as opposed to retail price of $250.The link above gives some great examples of what it can do. It's excellent, it has a multi-effects engine and a reverb engine with a ton of options for flexibility. It's outstanding in the studio and for live sound reinforcement. So the 'ol guitar rack is now complete. At this point there is a Peavey Rockmaster Tube Preamp(for a great lead channel-use the crunch channel almost as hi-gain as the Ultra channel), a BBE Sonic Maximizer 411, dbx 266XL Compressor/Gate(this thing totally got rid of extra hum and unwanted noise, I run one channel into the Clean EFX loop on the Peavey and the other into the Crunch/Ultra EFX loop), a Quadraverb 2, and the a fore mentioned M300. I have pedals for everything, (except for G foot pedal to control M300 remotely). All this fun sonic love goes into the Line 6 duoVerb modeling combo amp (to record to use the XLR recording outputs direct to the the XLR inputs on the Tascam FW-1082 mixer Mac or PC depending on the software needed. In addition to this I also have an assortment of pedals, as you can never have enough. I use a Moogerfooger-12 stage phaser, a Morley Bad Horsie 2 Contour Wah(this is the best wah I've ever used in 25 years of playing guitar), A Digitech Bass Synth Wah/Envelope Filter(this a super fun noise maker to the Nth degree!), a Behringer Digital FX600 Multi EFX(this pedal I got prior to the M300-there is no comparison the M300 takes the cake, but if I do not want to hual around my whole rack to a gig or a studio, it comes in handy!), Danelectro Fab Overdrive( for $15 this is great fix for a pretty great sounding distortion pedal), and a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster(this is a great used as a preamp or to get extra boost for a guitar, bass, synth or drum sound for recording or live sound applications). As a musician you can never have ALL the equipment you need, because there is always something else you may want to get to tweak your sound. It's kind of like getting into photography, or collecting and restoring cars. You know you will never stop collecting. You just hope your significant other understands, supports and encourages your music fetish like mine does.
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Microsoft Black Screen of Death...Really?!

So, Microsoft who ingenuously based the build of Windows 7 on Vista, is seeming to have a problems with Windows 7...WTF?! you say, it's true.Check out the Black Death Screen courtesy of Windows 7. Yeah! In a little happier news you can buy the new iMac withe a screaming fast i7 chipset, it's faster then a Mac Pro! Hmmm, ask me again why I like Macs and dislike PC's...

The newest digital musical instrument

Quick! Before all the cool kids in town get one. Be the 1st person on your block to own an Eigenharp. It' s a synth, it's a drum machine, it's an electric guitar and also a saxophone if you want it to be. Another sweet musical instrument that's been around for about 25 years is the Chapman Stick, crazy right ? I think one of favorite crazy instrument is the electric Gittler Guitar.
In another note, how long do you think Apple will let this slide?

New iPod Touch to have 802.11n Wi-Fi

Upon taking apart it appears to have a Broadcom BCM4329 chip which supports N Wireless protocol. It has the ability to recieve FM for a radio and BT 2.1 as well. Meanwhile the Zune HD supports HD Radio thus far.

I have to get one of these!!

Image by vernhart via Flickr

So again, mark my words, Apple will come out with a sweet tablet iPod well before Microsoft does with a Zune tablet. You naysayers are thinking, "Well what about netbooks?" If you seriously think innovation is a 9 year operating based computer, that generally can't run Microsoft's "flagship" Vista, well I now why you are Microsoft customer and I am an Apple customer. It should look something like this one. Pretty groovy I have to say. I don't see any Zune's like this... There is however Microsoft's Surface. They are shall we say a bit on the spendy side though. Like even if I had an extra $10,000 it would be spent on upgrading the recording studio's software and hardware. It's cool, but $10,000? No "normal" people/consumer's will buy this. Business's, maybe...

Microsoft again lags behind Apple

I have not seen anything remotely like this in a Zune, have you? Apple's new iPod Nano shoots video. How long do we think it will take Microsoft to follow up with a product like this? I know for a fact that Microsoft copies all it's new, trendy ideas from everyone else. What the hell kind of business model is that? If you counted how many iPods you have and how many Zunes you have, I think we know what you have more of...

Why buy Apple?

Apple designs the closed platform software and insures the closed platform hardware work together to benefit you. So you know it works, and it works seamlessly together. UNIX is stable as hell, and it's not Vista. Anyone ever told you they actually like Vista?? A computer should not be a hassle to use, OK? Neither shuld the OS. Any questions? Oh yeah, they make the iPhone!
Enough said.

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Microsoft's "Big Guns"

Someone once told me,"Just you wait and see, Microsoft will be pulling out the Big Guns." I do not think this is quite what he & Redmond had in mind...Kind of like a kidney punch when you are down.

The Economy & the coming Sentient Internet

Whew, I was worried there for a minute. I guess the Economy is on the rise as unemployment rates go down to 9.4%. State by state is even worse in some cases. If you think your state's unemployment sucks, be thankful you don't live in Michigan! Maybe Nanotechnology can save us from ourselves and the sorry state of the job market. Can the Internet become Sentient? Some people think yes it will. One can hope. What a great way to control people constantly, Twittering, posting to blogs, and surfing the web, inputing 24/7 It's bound to happen. Wait a minute, it's already Sentient!

So can I get an iPhone like this?

Just when thought the iPhone had all the cool Apps at the App store, this comes out! I say, WTF?! I have to worry about some one jacking my iPod/iPhone & now I have to worry if someone is going to shoot me with a friggin' cell phone! Or use it as a stun gun!?
Again I say, WTF?