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Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Carl Zeiss SLR Lenses Now Also Canon EF mount

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Carl Zeiss is expanding its successful line of SLR lenses: ZE lenses with EF bayonet for all analog and digital EOS camera models. As with all EF lenses, the new ZE lenses from Carl Zeiss transfer all information exclusively via electronic contacts. This means that all exposure modes such as programmed auto exposure, shutter priority, aperture priority and manual setting are supported. The camera’s automatic focus confirmation also remains available to an unlimited extent with these manual focus lenses. With digital SLRs, the lens data and all exposure data can also be accessed via the camera’s EXIF file. Even E-TTL flash metering is supported. The first lenses to be available will be the Planar T* 1,4/50 ZE and the Planar T* 1,4/85 ZE in the last quarter of this year. Further focal lengths will be added to the line within the next few months.

PlanarT1.4-50mm
Planar T* 1,4/50 ZE 579 euros (incl. 19% German VAT)

PlanarT1.4-85mm
Planar T* 1,4/85 ZE 999 euros (incl. 19% German VAT)

transKode Script

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Convert audio files from inside your favorite music/playlist manager with transKode, a free plug-in for Amarok. If you’ve never installed an Amarok script, it’s simple—grab the package ending in .tar.bz from the link below, head to the Tools->Script Manager menu, then hit the “Install” button and point to where you put that package.

transKode

Miro 1.0

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Cross-platform, open source video application Miro is now available in a full-featured, bug-fixed 1.0 version. The program formerly known as Democracy Player plays almost any kind of video file, but its real value lies in its content fetching and organizing features. Miro can subscribe to video podcasts, grab from YouTube channel feeds or BitTorrents.

Miro 1.0

Testament at Independent in SF

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Yesterday I went to San Francisco to see Testament plus Vicious Rumors / Ruffians live at The Independent club. That was my first visit in this place. Nice small club but parking was nightmare. Anyway concert was great, I liked this club and I am looking forward for next events in this place ;-)

From Testament

FLAC and OGG plugins for iTunes

Friday, January 19th, 2007

xiph

Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is a set of QuickTime and Macintosh OS X plug-ins. Their role is to provide support for Xiph media compression and container formats.

If you are an end user: installing XiphQT components is all you need to start using Xiph-formatted media files in a variety of applications – for example, listening to Ogg/Vorbis files in QuickTime Player or iTunes.

Apple Computer Nike + iPod Sport Kit

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Nike iPod Sport Kit and compatible Nike (“Nike Plus”) shoes are now in stores. Consisting of a small, red and white wireless 802.11 2.4 GHz sensor/transmitter and an all-white iPod nano receiver, the Sport Kit tracks a runner’s performance and sends data to the nano for recording and synchronization with iTunes. In order for the kit to work, the sensor must be inserted into a pocket within the shoe.
Nike+IPod

Rammstein – Rosenrot

Monday, June 19th, 2006

I have been listening to new Rammstein for last two days. It’s fantastic. Some ot the songs are heaviest ever. Lyrics as usual are very surprising. So far songs I most like are “Rosenrot” and “Spring” (it gives me creeps). Yeu can read more on Wikipedia page.

RosenRot

iPod firmware update

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

iPod Updater 2006-01-10 includes iPod Software 1.1 for the new iPod, new iPod Software 1.1 for iPod nano, new iPod Software 1.2.1 for iPod with color display, new iPod Software 1.4.1 for iPod mini, and new iPod Software 3.1.1 for iPod with Click Wheel. iPod Updater 2006-01-10 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2005-11-17 for all other iPod models.

iPods

Tunebuckle – “Waist Management” for iPod Nano

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

It comes equipped with either a white or black to belt to match, or compliment, your iPod nano’s shade. We’re not even going to call these guys out on their
Tunebuckle

Google Music

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
Google Music