Next Monday Tim Cook, along with a number of other Apple execs, will take to the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to address software developers at the 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The scheduled keynote address – which gets underway promptly at 1:00 PM Eastern time – will be the company’s first opportunity to show […]
Is Apple Reviving Ping for New Streaming Music Service?
It is no secret that Apple is prepping a new streaming music service to challenge the likes of Pandora and Spotify. After all, most analysts believe that was the whole reason the company spent $3 billion acquiring Beats last year in the first place. While Apple’s plans for the new service remain shrouded in mystery at this time, […]
5 Things We Now Know About the Apple Watch
On Monday of this week, Apple held a highly anticipated press event in San Francisco during which they introduced a stunning new laptop, lowered the price of the AppleTV, and revealed their final plans for the launch of the Apple Watch. During the event, we not only received demonstrations of just what the Watch is capable of, […]
Does Anyone Care About a Streaming Music Service From Apple?
When Apple acquired Beats for $3 billion last year most analysts believed it was a strategic move to help the Cupertino-based company to get into the streaming music industry. While Beats is well known for making flashy headphones with questionable audio quality, the company had recently launched Beats Music to some fanfare a few months prior […]
Google Play Music Finally Available For The iPhone
Google’s answer to streaming music, Google Play, has finally come to the iOS App Store. The app comes six months after the service initially launched on Android and the Web. While the iOS version is missing some key features of the Android version, the app is still a strong player in the streaming music market. […]
Apple releases iTunes 11.0.2
Apple has recently announced the release of a minor update to its iTunes software. The new update upgrades iTunes to version 11.0.2, and implements a number of changes. According to Apple, the new update carries with it the usual bug fixes to make iTunes more stable. Other issues have also been addressed with […]
8 Years Later, Is Microsoft Finally Ready to Compete with iTunes?
In the third major iteration of its digital music download store, after eight years of trying to compete, can Microsoft finally take on iTunes with Xbox Music?
World’s First Concerto for iPad & Orchestra
What if the iPad was a real musical instrument? Composer Ned McGowan believes that it is, and he wrote a classical concerto to prove it. It was performed a few weeks ago by the Sinfonia Rotterdam, and after you watch this video of it, you’ll be a believer, too.
How to Edit Audio Files with Garageband
This is a next new tutorial in our Garageband tutorial series. You can read the first tutorials here and here. Need to remove some background noise, mistakes or unneeded fillers from your audio files? Perhaps you want to clean up a podcast or conference call or a song you’ve just recorded. Well then I highly […]
How to Write a Song Using Garageband Loops
We all know that Garageband contains hundreds of loops that we can use to create “original” music. Many of us, however, take them for granted and don’t realize how quick and easy it is to create a professional-sounding song. As a home-recording application, Garageband is quite underrated and, in my humble opinion, can and should […]
