Afternoon Linkage for January 28th, 2009

I like the nightlife baby! She said: Let’s go! We had a nice contest this morning that was over in nearly an hour. Next time, we’ll try to get more licenses to give away. UFO or MP3 Player? Acer is launching a new smartphone Andrea lists lame shit on eBay LG’s latest phone is indestructible it seems The reviews are ...

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Editing Sound With Photoshop

You may be used to making music with apps like GarageBand, Logic Pro and Pro Tools. But did you know, that you can use the world’s most popular photo-editing software to manipulate sound? Using a program called Photosounder, John Keston was able to save a piano recording as a bitmap image file. He then loaded it into Photoshop, added some ...

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Rock Band To Get Nearly 5000 Tracks This Year

According to Billboard, the ever-popular Rock Band is due to get “as many as 5000” new tracks this year via downloadable content. The report comes as I completed “…And Justice For All” on Expert at 100% last night. Harmonix has already released over 500 songs for the Rock Band series, putting it way above the number of tracks Guitar Hero: ...

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Self-Stapling Paper A Student’s Godsend

As a student, I can’t tell you how big of a pain it is when you spend all weekend writing up a report, only to forget to staple it on the day you need to hand it in. You end up running around, classroom to classroom, searching high and low for a stapler to use. No more! Yanko Design showcases ...

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Google Unveils Offline Gmail

Google continues to inspire and amaze. The Mountain View, California-based company unveiled yesterday the ability to read and compose Gmail while offline. It’s available through the Google Labs feature within Gmail and when activated, starts downloading 10,000 emails to the user’s hard drive using Google Gears technology. Once finished, you’ll be able to search for emails and read them, as ...

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Quick Review: SmartRSS 2 For The iPhone/iPod Touch

I was asked by the developers of SmartRSS 2 to play around with it before its release on the iTunes App Store. The software, released by Visuamobile, is one of the best RSS readers I’ve used period, let alone for an iPhone. It’s very quick and although it lags up at times, this is expected when you’re grabbing hundreds of ...

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Afternoon Linkage for January 27th, 2009

Gearfuse can be controversial at times. That’s why we’ve booked Sinead O’Connor to sing for our site next week. The Cuckoo Watch I love the idea of a toaster that’s a trebuchet The P1E electric car is coming Pac-Man in MUD form Sweet Zelda car, bro! NOT! Just look at the image 21st Century Peepholes I bought some Sirius-XM stock ...

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Joel Johnson Visits Electro-Harmonix

Any guitarist with an array of pedals most likely has one from Electro-Harmonix. The Long Island City-based company (represent!) allowed Boing Boing’s Joel Johnson in for a video tour of the factory and the results are a spectacle to behold. Did you know that Electro-Harmonix is the largest manufacturer of vacuum tubes in the world? Neither did I. Check it ...

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Reminder: Killzone 2 Contest

Let’s cut right to the chase: time is running out on our contest for a Killzone 2 beta invite. We have two we’re giving away and suggest anyone with a Playstation 3 to get in on it. All you need to do is leave a comment letting us know why you love Killzone 2 and your PSN gamertag, along with ...

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