Guitarist DigiTech RP Series review - two Guitarist Choice awards

“The basic quality of sounds (and this is true of all four units here) is very high, with crystal clarity and practically no background noise”. The new issue of Guitarist magazine features a round up of the latest RP model updates, the RP55, RP155, RP255 and RP 355. Most importantly both the RP255 and RP355 are awarded the magazine’s prestigious...

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Lenovo IdeaPad S12

Unfortunately, there's nothing game changing about Lenovo IdeaPad S12's looks. While the design made up of glossy plastics and embedded circular patterns is tastefully done, it's been done before by the likes of the HP Mini 110 and Mini 1000. Its hues white and black aren't as varied as the colorful offerings of the Dell Mini 12, although...

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Alienware M17x

The 17 inch widescreen, which is usually a sight to behold on a gaming laptop, is one of the M17x's weaker points. While the intense brightness levels (backed by two CCFL lamps) and awe inspiring 1.920 by 1.200 resolution are top notch, the screen itself has the characteristics of a mirror. The glare is magnified because the entire screen...

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HP Pavilion dv7

At 10.9 by 16.2 by 1.4 inches (HWD) and weighing 8.4 pounds with and 7.3 pounds without its AC adapter, HP Pavilion dv7 (2173cl) is wide enough for a full sized keyboard with separate numeric keypad, although the former's Insert and Delete keys and cursor arrows are on the small side compared with their counterparts on the keypad. The keyboard...

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Birthdays for S60

Features Birthdays for S60:Birthdays reads the birthdays stored in the Contacts application.The birthdays are displayed in a list and ordered after the remaining time until the next birthday.For each birthday name, date of birth, age and remaining time until the next birthday are shown.When Birthdays is switched to foreground, the birthday...

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SSL X-Desk on Sound On Sound front cover - "I want one."

This month's Sound On Sound Magazine dedicates its front cover to the new SSL X-Desk.“There's no question in my mind that a lot of readers would baulk at the thought of paying this much money for what is, in crude terms, the arse end of a mixer. But what an arse: J-Lo eat your heart out! While there can never be a perfect product, for me...

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Bloody Washburn axe wielded in iGizmo mag (187,000 readership)

So which guitarist has designed a signature electric guitar complete with a ‘blood spattered’ finish? The man in question is Scott Ian of Anthrax, the undisputed king of the most ferocious rhythms in metal. The new Washburn WV40 VASI in its striking blood spattered finish has appealed to the darker side of iGizmo magazine - the Dennis Publishing...

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Bright Light Touch for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

Allows you to use your Nokia 5800XpressMusic as a touch.Free Download: h...

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Soundcraft's Vi6's Live and Uncut at Latitude

Two Soundcraft Vi6 digital mixing consoles — and two excellent sound technicians to babysit the systems — were provided by AdLib Audio for feature stages at this month’s Latitude Festival.In charge of the highly influential Uncut Arena was the experienced Walter Jaquiss, while simultaneously the same furious schedule, with back-to-back changeovers,...

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DigiTech TimeBender reviewed in Guitar Buyer - "the only delay pedal many players will need"

Following an award winning Guitarist magazine review last month, the Digitech TimeBender is reviewed in the latest issue of Guitar Buyer, receiving the magazine's 'Gold Stars' for "Great delay sounds", "Solid construction", a "Simple interface" and "Incredible pitch-shifting possibilities". 'Black Marks'...none! "The lush chorus of the modulation...

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JBL LSR2328P studio monitor review in MusicTech

The brand new JBL LSR2300 Series monitors get their first review in the new issue of MusicTech Magazine. Receiving an impressive 8 out of 10 rating the JBL LSR2328P's are praised in particular for their, 'fatigue free listening', 'deep bass', 'impressive clarity', 'wide sweet spot' and the fact that they are 'very loud'! More information...

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DeviceInfo widget for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the N97

DeviceInfo widget for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the N97. Widget displays more or less essential data about the device it’s running on. With this widget you can display: Graphical display for storage and RAM space, Graphical display for battery status, IMEI code, WLAN Mac Address, Phone model, Firmware version, Manufacturer, Product type,...

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Key Lock Clock for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

Key Lock Clock is a free Clock application that is shown while the device's key lock is on.This version was designed 5th edition touch devices such as 5800 & N97, but should work on all Symbian S60 3rd edition non-touch devices.Program is unsigned, you need to sign it. You can open sign here.Free Download: KeyLockClock_060_0_Unsigned...

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Football and Sports Arena magazine features Sound Technology stadium sound solutions

The latest Football and Sports Arena magazine carries an impressive article regarding Sound Technology's projects and solutions for engineered stadium sound. With our portfolio of products from Harman Professional Group, the world's largest professional audio company, coupled with proven experience in the execution of world-class projects,...

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Super Green IC's

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody when they here about tech companies trying to make the things we use more energy efficient. But recently the tech industry has taken a serious boost forward in pursuit of zero-day-dissipation IC technology. The Japanese Rohm Co Ltd is at the forefront of developments and they are designing custom...

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Do functional programmers need design patterns?

“Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” is a book that I am sure all self respecting software developers have read. The infamous Gang of Four book seems to shape everything we do in modern object oriented software development and by applying the principles contained within generally results in a quality software product. One common (but slightly controversial) view on design patterns is that generally they only exist...

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Philips GoGear SA6185

One of the latest Philips products is Philips GoGear SA6185 multimedia player. This media player is capable of playing videos, music, radio and voice recording. Also pictures can be viewed on it. The version we tested has been equipped with an 8GB internal memory, has a weight of 153 grams and is black. Philips GoGear media player is packed...

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LG Touch DVB T80

The "Digital Media" department deals with "Mobile Entertainment Devices" or in other words portable media players. LG has been rewarded many times with an EISA Award for the best product, like their first MP3 player featuring a touch screen. The LG T80 is one of its siblings. LG T80 PMP was designed by the same designer that designed the...

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Creative Zen X-Fi MP3

Creative keeps on surprising again with the new Zen X-Fi, the first media player with integrated X-Fi technologies. According to Creative, listening to music on the Zen X-Fi becomes a genuine experience. Whether that is true will become clear from the test. And as if X-Fi isn’t already enough, also Wi-Fi is available on the Zen. From the...

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HTC Magic

HTC Magic Google Android smartphone is introduced with a Vodafone simlock. The modest yet colorful Vodafone package displays a small picture of the smartphone itself, including the phone's main features. The Magic Android does not really look like an actual HTC Smartphone. It has an elegant design and feels extremely solid. The phone also...

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Speedtouch is a lightweight entertainment game that tests your reaction speed

Speedtouch is a lightweight entertainment game that tests your reaction speed.On the game screen, colored spheres will turn yellow in random intervals. You have to hit them with the finger or the stylus as fast as possible. If you're too slow or don't hit the spheres with the required accuracy, the game is over. Try to survive as long as...

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Lexicon U42S review: "sets the standard for other to follow"

"The IONIX U42S is easily the most elegant USB interface we've used, but, more importantly, its sonic performance 'under the bonnet' is just as impressive. An ideal solution for desktop recording that sets the standard for others to follow".The Lexicon IONIX U42S receives a Music Tech Choice award and a 9 out of 10 rating in the latest issue...

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Nokia 3720 Classic

New Nokia 3720 classic, an IP-54 certified mobile phone designed to resist water, dust and shock. Following the footsteps of Nokia's highly popular 'rugged' cell phones of the past, Nokia 3720 classic handset is encased in durable materials and is entirely sealed to protect the inner electronics. The Nokia 3720 cell phone is expected to retail...

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Nokia Surge

Nokia Surge smartphone is an ideal device for active consumers who like to stay connected whether using instant messenger, text or e-mail, sending multimedia messages, AT&T Video Share, or updating and connecting via their favorite social networks. With a full slide out QWERTY keyboard in a slim, stylish design and Symbian S60 multi tasking...

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nClicker for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

nClicker is a handheld clicker application for Nokia 5800XpressMusic.Free Download: nClicker_1.0....

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Soundcraft Vi6 consoles at iTunes Festival

The iTunes Festival relocated to The Roundhouse in North London this year, with over 60 artists playing live at this free event, which runs throughout July.With bands ranging from Oasis, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol at the commercial end to acoustic performers like Newton Faulkner, quirky performance artists with wide dynamic...

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Compass for Nokia N97

Compass is the first app utilizing N97’s Compass Sensor to show you the NORTH!Free Download: here(Phones Supported: Nokia N97, 6210, 6220)via: symbian60.m...

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MindBreaker for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

MindBreaker is a objective of this touch screen game is to recompose the images shifting the tiles. Free Download: h...

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Dataquota for Nokia S60

Dataquota can shows how much of your packet data quota you've used so far this month.Free Download: DataQuota.0.1.5.sisxvia: rodrigostoledo....

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JBL makes its Marc at top fashion store

When Marc Jacobs opened the UK’s first Marc by Marc Jacobs diffusion line on Mayfair’s South Audley Street recently, part of the ambience was provided by Romford-based Digital Village, who equipped the boutique with a high quality JBL sound system. The store has a bazaar type atmosphere (described as “a designer pick ‘n’ mix”) in a chic...

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Sony Ericsson T715

Sony Ericsson T715 mobile phone allows consumers to stay connected without any compromise on communication features or design. An ultra compact slider mobile phone, Sony Ericsson T715 still offers a large keypad and font size allowing you to get the most out of your SMS, MMS or email management. Keep yourself organized in an intuitive way...

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Motorola Karma

Motorola Karma QA1 cell phone curvy and compact handset helps you slide your way up the social ladder with an effortless social networking experience and conversational messaging capabilities over 3G speed. Keep your favorite social networks close with one click, home screen access over amazing 3G speed. Use Facebook to connect and share...

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HTC Hero

HTC Mobile, a global designer and manufacturer of mobile phones, debuted HTC Sense, an intuitive and seamless experience that will be introduced across a portfolio of cell phones beginning with the new HTC Hero Android smartphone. With its distinct design and powerful capabilities fully integrated with HTC Sense, HTC Hero smartphone introduces...

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CardSpace and the Access Control Service

The Geneva Framework is designed to simplify the development of claims-aware applications that want to eternalize the authentication function. I wanted to the the Geneva Framework to help create an ASP.NET application that would enable users to authenticate with either a Windows Live ID or a CardSpace managed information card, and then apply some authorization rules that were defined in the Access Control Service (one of the cloud...

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Karao 60 for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

Karao60 is a .KAR players able to play music and highlight text according to melody. Free Download: h...

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is almost here with the release date of October 22nd just right around the corner many people are still wondering if they should upgrade or not. Here are some key things you should know before thinking of upgrading to Windows 7. First is the system requirements in order to run Windows 7 smoothly. There is nothing really out of the...

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SameGame 2 for J2ME phones

SameGame 2 is a puzzle game is perfect for those quick breaks, as a game only takes a minute or so to play, but it still is highly addictive! Remove pieces of the same color, in as large blocks as possible. There is also lots of statistics so you can keep track of your best and worst scores, how many games you have played and much more.Free...

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Washburn Rover Guitar - Top 10 Ultimate Festival Gadget for Stuff Magazine

With music festivals happening left, right and centre Washburn’s Rover travel guitar is getting some fine coverage on Stuff’s website. Indeed, Europe’s best-read fashion, lifestyle, home entertainment technology website, showcases the camouflage finish version of the guitar on no less than three separate occasions: · The Washburn makes the Stuff Festival Kit Top Ten http://stuff.tv/Top10/Festival-kit/ · The Washburn receives a...

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Free update from Nord brings Piano String Resonance to Stage EX

The Nord Stage EX has been updated to OS version 5.1, an important update that adds several new exciting features including "Piano String Resonance". The String Resonance feature, together with specifically designed new acoustic piano sounds in the Nord Piano Library, recreates the wonderful acoustic phenomenon that occurs inside the body...

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SharePoint, Search and Loopback Checking

Recently a client encountered a problem on a single server MOSS deployment on Windows Server 2008. After installing MOSS SP2 and some Windows updates, the client reported that:The search service wasn't returning any results.They couldn't access the SSP administration page from the server.This turned out to be the loopback checking feature in IIS. This feature prevents you from accessing a Web site with a host header from the same...

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Calc Sheet Lite for Nokia S60

Calc Sheet Lite is a spreadsheet for mobile phones. Useful to organize informations or to perform simple and complex mathematical calculations.FeaturesWide range of mathematical functions64 bit floating numbersCell formatting optionsUnlimited number of worksheetsFree Download: h...

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Samsung MyShot II

It will also be the first Cricket phone to offer MyHomeScreen, which provides customers with a fully personalized home screen with widgets to quickly access their account information, favorite Internet content including news, weather, sports, social networking, and shop for downloads. "Samsung MyShot 2 provides Cricket customers with high...

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Samsung Omnia LITE

The new Omnia smartphone line up follows the success of the very first flagship ‘Omnia’ phone, Samsung’s milestone Open OS model which was launched at CommunicAsia last year. With the introduction of the new Samsung Omnia smartphone series, featuring diverse functions for a wide range of user needs, Samsung truly offers a variety of smartphones...

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Music Stopper for Nokia 5800XpressMusic

Music Stopper can stop the default music player automatically after the time you want. To set the countdown, move the pen on the rectangle and choose a time between 1-60 minutes.Free Download: MusicStopper.sisvia: masmil...

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UK distributor begins dedicated UK blog for Propellerhead Record

record-you.co.uk brings latest UK information in the build up to this landmark software releaseSound Technology Ltd, exclusive distributor of Propellerhead Software in the UK and R.O.I., is pleased to announce the publication of a dedicated weblog in the run up to the release of Propellerhead's new Record music recording software. Visit record-you.co.uk...

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Bolt s a web browser for Nokia S60

BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones.Rather than offering a simplified, mini version of the Internet, BOLT provides users with a fast, efficient, feature-rich way to enjoy full PC-style web pages and rich media applications on all levels of mobile devices.Free...

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LG LX370

LG LX370 has a far more traditional slider style, and not in an unattractive way either. We liked the new Sprint One Click interface, as well as features like a 2.0 megapixel camera, GPS, and EV-DO Rev. 0. That combined with great performance and call quality, and the LG LX370 is a pretty good midtier handset for Sprint customers. The LG...

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Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for S60

Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 (JRT 2.0) is a totally re-written Java mobile execution environment for Nokia S60 devices. It gives you several usability and performance improvements, including:One-click application installationImproved application launch user experienceImproved execution performanceThese improvements will make it much more...

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DigiTech RP1000 -"there isn't anything that'll do anywhere near as much in such an elegant and cost-effective manner"

"So, its built like a tank, sounds great, interfaces with anything you'll run into in stage and studio situations, is easy to programme, can be as simple or complex as you like, and is operationally controlled by footswitches and as integrated expression pedal. If you're looking for something that does what the RP1000 does, or even if you're...

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Washburn EA21HM 'Heavy Metal' Electro Acoustic reviewed

Added to the long-running Washburn Festival Series for 2009, the Washburn EA21HM (Heavy Metal) gets its first review in this month's Acoustic Magazine."Our example played like a dream with a set of 12-gauge phosphor bronzes, and the set-up was spot on".Aimed at the Hard Rock/Metal guitarist, this slanted headstock, electro-acoustic guitar...

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