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Tascam TR-1 and Fission rock!

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Had a chance to record a concert with the Taxcam DR-1 highly recommended. It is quite a bit bigger than the iPod, but has really high quality builtin microphones. I was amazed at the quality. The user interface is primitive but it lets you record in real time in MP3 format and most importantly [...]

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Apple ships 2.5M Macs and 11M iPods in 3Q2008

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Apple

These are just stunning numbers and of course the stock traded down since they are explaining that there will be margin pressure. Most interesting:

Mac YTY unit growth is 41%
Looks like they will refresh MacBook and MacBook Pro and prices are coming down the entry level MacBook Pro drops to $1800 from $2000 and the MacBook [...]

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Airport Firmware 7.3.2 Problems

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Apple just release 7.3.2 which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes.
As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. Pokrface has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that problem, [...]

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