Who said size doesnt matter. The Wall of Sound weighing in at a sumo-esque 120 kilos (that’s 265 pounds) the WoS has a tube amplifier and 28 elements, each with its own handcrafted box, meaning it can pump 125W of sound out of its 3 x 4 foot frame.
Price = $4,495
The Wall comes from Brothers, but to me it doesnt seem like the best quality website and I was wondering if this is actually a real product.
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen in a while.
As the digital music market grows, there are more and more players entering the digital distribution market, getting artists music onto iTunes, E-music, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody and the other big online stores. These aggregators represent a variety of different models, ranging from The Orchard’s more traditional ‘intensively involved’ regime, where they take a hand in promoting their artists through a home-grown press network, but help themselves to a large chunk of the back end (think around 35%) of all sales of their partners’ music, to Tunecore’s flat-rate model, where they take a $0.99 a song, $0.99 a store per album fee, plus a $9.99 – $19.98 annual fee per release. Our favourite of the available digital music distribution products is provided by RouteNote; instead of charging up front or subscription fees to artists who may never make the sales to cover the charges, or gouging large lumps out of the back end profits (they take 10%, which seems pretty modest next to the Orchard’s slice).
Currently their model works out to be the cheapest route to market for artists selling less than 20,000 units online (tracks) annually, which is pretty much everyone starting out in the industry, plus they have a few tools and guides to facilitate artist self promotion. They’re still reasonably small (their artist roster is just over 1,500 at the moment) but we’re looking for them to grow quickly over the coming months, particularly if they get a little more press.
Disclosure: This article was written by Dashiel Munding. Im currently CEO of RouteNote.
Yes, what you probably thought that you will never combine is arriving: A device for playing and recording VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray and HDD. And who is in charge of this invention? JVC, they are releasing the JVC DR-BH2550 in Japan in a few weeks more (December).
But wait, that’s not all, it also has a 250 GB hard drive, neat isn’t?
The idea actually, if you think about it, it is not all that strange. Recording from DVD to Blu-R it is not all that common yet, using a DVD recorder to replace a VHS it is not working either (maybe because there is none with an acceptable quality); so what do you may need? A device that combines all of them.
Some of other features that will include:
Estimated cost? US1400
So Twitter lists launched last week and over the weekend we all the the chance to take a look see, make a few lists and figure out just what it was all for. As it happens it’s a pretty cool feature which connects you with more people of the same interests giving Twitter even more of a social feel without taking away from the whole ‘Get it off your chest aspect’.
Now, the weekend has come and gone and the Twitter developers have plopped a Lists Widget into our laps for us to play with on our sites and blogs. Here’s what it looks like.
Basically, it works in the same way as other Twitter widgets except instead of showing the tweets of just one person is shows the tweets of everyone who is in that list. I can see this being a massive hit in the blogosphere because building community and adding new features to blogs are two of the most important things for a blogger to consider – well the list widget hits the nail on the head.
I tested it out and while it looks good and gets the job done the widget can be a little slow or sluggish but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s only out a single day. I’m sure the developers are on to it – they’ve had enough practice to know what to do when something is down, broken, sluggish or ‘over capacity’.
Get the Twitter lists widget for your blog right here.
Well all know about the new lists feature that Twitter has released. Here at Crenk we thought we would add a few Twitter lists of our own and categories them so everyone can keep up to date with what is happening in the following areas:
Crenk Team – http://twitter.com/crenk/team
Top Technology News Sources – http://twitter.com/crenk/toptechnews
Tech Talk (Top Analysis from Leading Minds in Technology) – http://twitter.com/crenk/techtalk
Bittorrent News – http://twitter.com/crenk/bittorrent
Google Wave has not been a big hit so far – everyone though it would be…but it hasn’t. The interface is complicated, buggy and unpractical. People aren’t staying long enough to build a community and worst of all – nobody is quite sure what exactly it’s for yet. However the development team are still making strides.
They have just opened up Wave to third party companies by releasing an API package. This allows companies to host their own Wave like services on their own servers and interact with other companies API Waves. This is currently only in sandbox testing and isn’t live on the internet as of yet.
One thing which concerns me is that this could mean the start of SPAM on Wave. Since its launch people have been confined to specific waves but now we’re seeing a growth in access. Although this growth isn’t enough to start a spamming campaign it could be the start of it. I’m pretty sure that soon the hackers and spammers will descend on Google Wave – then it’s up to Google to stop them on a platform which will supposedly be more open than e-mail.
This new application for the iPhone brings back a lot of old memories. Doom has to be one of the most legendary shoot em up games ever made.
Doom is now available in Apples App store and includes the original three episodes as well as Episode Four, Thy Flesh Consumed, spread across 36 levels of non-stop carnage and action.
You can choose from customizable control schemes, all designed by id Software co-founder and industry legend, John Carmack.
In DOOM Classic, multiplayer action is reborn! With a wireless connection, battle up to four players in Deathmatch mode, or work together cooperatively and fight back against the demons of Hell.
It will set you back a measly $6.99 and you can download it from here.
The way we add a new contact to our phones hasn’t changed since mobiles became popular in the late 90s. Just type in their name, number, e-mail address and all their other info and hit ‘Save’. Tried and tested.
Well for the iPhone, a new app has been released which can pretty much do the job for you. It’s a business card reader so when a new client, solicitor, plumber or a pompous friends gives you their card all you have to do is take a snap of it. Then, this app will scan the card using its text recognition abilities and all of the contact info on the card will be uploaded to your address book under a new contact which the app also automatically creates.
Very handy.
The business card reader is really only recommended for the mobile networker who’ll be handed several cards in one outing. It costs $5.99 from the app store and is available right here.
The team over at Iconshock and HongKiat have released a new Twitter icon set called Blitter.
Download Blitter (256×256, 512×512), PNG format
Download Blitter source Ilustrator .AI format
Download Blitter full set (Icons + source)
“Come on now Dean. Ryan was nice enough to share it with you. The least you can do is share it with the loyal Crenk readers!” – said the little angel on my shoulder.
“Feck ‘em! Sure can’t they find it themselves, boy? Arrr ark ark ark” said the little devil on my opposing shoulder. (For some reason he’s an Irish pirate). I flicked him away… I hate pirates.
Okay, so I’m going to share with you guys the great WP theme that a colleague of mine directed me to for my new blog. This theme incorporates the minimalistic feel while still having all the functionality of a highly strung WP theme packed with plug ins.
Her name is Arthemia.
As you can see from the screenshot below she’s a beaut. Great menu bar across the top, followed by a headline section with a scrolling ‘Featured’ slot to the right. Below this there is a categories bar with cool animation when you hover your cursor over a category.
Then, below all of this magic we have the posting area with a sidebar to the right. Amidst all of this there are two premium ad placements; one square in the sidebar and another to the right of the title.
It’s available for free (although there is a slightly pimped out premium version available) right here. Seriously, for any WP user who has been finding it difficult to locate the right theme for their blog that says “I don’t take myself too seriously, but my blog? That I do.” – it has to be Arthemia.
Let us know your thoughts and opinions about the theme in the comments!
Online gaming is gaining very high popularity across the globe nowadays. So if u want to compete with the beat gamers of the planet u need to have the best gaming laptop in ur hands. Laptops with high graphics quality, high speed with sufficiently high RAM is mostly preferable by most gamers. Points to remember when choosing laptops for gaming are given below.
Graphics & Graphics
More gamers give prime importance to graphics. So u should be equipped with the fast and the latest graphics available in the market. Some of the well rated graphics chipsets rated by majority of gamers across the world includes ATi mobility Raedon 9700, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX. Also ATi Mobility FireGL V3200 is a high quality graphic card giving u high performance at lower power levels, saving battery. Some of more available chipsets are STMicro, 3D Labs, Matrox and many more…
Huge RAM
The higher RAM u can have the better it is because it is the RAM which determines how much graphics ur notebook computer can handle. Specially prefer Video RAM because this RAM is exclusively dedicated for handling graphics and visuals on your laptop. For even better visual performance there is a special Video RAM known as Windows RAM(WRAM) available.
High Speed
Once again the higher the speed ,the better it is. So instead of going for 4200rpm Hard drives go for 7200rpm hard drive which is 33% farter. Select Serial ATA Harddrives because it uses less power and is ideal for laptop specially if it is exclusively used for gaming. Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300; 8GB RAM; two 500GB drives; 17-inch display (1,920×1,200); dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M (2GB); 12.7 pounds
Some of the best Gaming Laptops in the market
Till now the fastest gaming laptop available is Alienware M17x having Intel 2.53GHz core 2 extreme quad QX9300 processor, 8GB of RAM, two exclusive 500GB harddisks, 17” display with NVIDIA GeForce GTX280M(2GB).
Some other best laptops are Alienware Area51M-15x ,Sony Vaio NW180J/S, iBuypower M865TU, Asus G51Vx-Rx05 having a minimum of 2GB Intel core 2 duo processor ,4GB of RAM which is very much high, minimum of 400GB hard drive with 15.5” display, minimum 512 MB above mentioned Graphics card installed which make them among top 5 gaming laptops preferred across the world.
This guest article was written by Amit Bhawani who writes different Laptops Guides at Laptops Next
