Blue Microphones have announced their second generation Mikey Portable Recorder for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Blue has previously wowed iPod and Mac fans with their previous releases of the Snowball, Snowflake, and Mikey original.
The second gen Mikey is still being considered for iPhone certification, although it looks like a powerful professional recording solution for iPhone users when it is supposed to arrive in the Spring. Mikey features two Blue mic capsules for pro-quality stereo recording, but now has slightly improved acoustic circuitry for better recordings such as concerts.
Early in October, I learned that my brother Bill @VegasBill on Twitter, was picked from all entries, from all around the world, to be one of the first to officially participate in NASA’s launch of STS-129 Space Shuttle Atlantis Tweetup or by this link http://bit.ly/bIfGDD . A Tweetup is a group of people that use the social networkingsite Twitter to chat about what’s happening. Bill learned of the event via Twitter and decided to take a chance. Space Shuttle Atlantis will be making its way to the International Space Station to deliver needed equipment to finish it, along with a change of staff.
Boxee’s new app store brings along with it an API or Application Protocol Interface, which allows developers to extend the increasingly popular open source digital media center software. Some of these new apps integrate Pandora, an Internet radio site as well as RadioTime and a Mozilla-based browser.The browser is very important in this upgrade to the Boxee software as it once again provides a way of accessing Hulu.com. Hulu.com is a web site which aggregates television shows from its partners that commonly have episodes available within 24 hours after being on TV. Continue reading Boxee Get's Open App Store, API And Is Expanding To Hardware in 2010
Users of the first iPhone and the 3G iPhone cell phone from Apple have been waiting for an A2DP (A2DP supports stereo and standard mono music headset audio profiles) Bluetooth stack release since day one.It appears that Apple is in no hurry to release such a Bluetooth stack into the iPhone version of Mac OS X.It’s puzzling why Apple would pull the Bluetooth stack from Mac OS X for the iPhone when it’s already included with the Mac OS X.
Apple iPhone 2G owners with more than 2 of the cell phones may have to wait to purchase additional handsets. AT&T wireless has confirmed along with Apple, that people looking to activate more than 2 cell phones will be out of luck, at least initally.