As an Android fan I was tickled by the original version of this video (which only had text, no voice), so I volunteered my services to this tongue in cheek retort to Apple's current ad campaign.
Enjoy!
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, August 3, 2008
iPhone Radio Interference Fix - Getting Rid of GSM Buzz?
Yup,
Actors are trendy folk, and I see more iPhones flashed around VO studio lobbies than at Apple Stores.
Neat...
Except for when you need to record them, and your microphone or speakers start going "B-R-R-R-R-R-R-BUP-BUP-BUP-BUP".
Well, MacLife might just have a solution for you.
Apparently you can use those ferrite beads you see on some USB cables to help reduce this interference.
Check out the whole post HERE.
[ (wagging fist) You kids with your iphones, and your texting, and your hotmail, and your friendster, and your rock music. GET OFF MY LAWN!!! - Ed.]
Actors are trendy folk, and I see more iPhones flashed around VO studio lobbies than at Apple Stores.
Neat...
Except for when you need to record them, and your microphone or speakers start going "B-R-R-R-R-R-R-BUP-BUP-BUP-BUP".Well, MacLife might just have a solution for you.
Apparently you can use those ferrite beads you see on some USB cables to help reduce this interference.
Check out the whole post HERE.
[ (wagging fist) You kids with your iphones, and your texting, and your hotmail, and your friendster, and your rock music. GET OFF MY LAWN!!! - Ed.]
recording, help, how to, voice over, voice acting, diy, radio
Pic courtesy of MacLife
Monday, January 7, 2008
News Sound Bites - Napster, Sony, Golden Globes and More!
CorePlayer (a play anything media player Windows Mobile users have been using for a while) comes to the iPhone. Play any file, not just what Apple wants you to play!
Sony's plans for DRM-Free Music are retarded! I mean this in the truest sense of the word, as in "to retard progress".
In other DRM news, Napster is going DRM free, likely give up on subscription service?
NO GOLDEN GLOBES FOR YOU! ONE YEAR!!!
Your iPhone can now be used to help you figure out what that song on the radio is...
Sierra Entertainment touting Prototype as the first Video Game to feature 7.1 THX surround sound audio. Sounds good to me.
Odeo relaunching, to become relevant again?
MetaFilter users wax philosophical on the Death of High Fidelity (not the movie), and I agree.
Sony's plans for DRM-Free Music are retarded! I mean this in the truest sense of the word, as in "to retard progress".
In other DRM news, Napster is going DRM free, likely give up on subscription service?
NO GOLDEN GLOBES FOR YOU! ONE YEAR!!!
Your iPhone can now be used to help you figure out what that song on the radio is...
Sierra Entertainment touting Prototype as the first Video Game to feature 7.1 THX surround sound audio. Sounds good to me.
Odeo relaunching, to become relevant again?
MetaFilter users wax philosophical on the Death of High Fidelity (not the movie), and I agree.
Friday, December 14, 2007
News Sound Bites - WHOLE TON o STUFF
Yep. There's a lot of news to cover today.
Apple finally gives in on custom ringtones for the iPhone. A not so mysterious "Share ringtone with iTunes" button has popped up in Garageband. It's about time. The ringtone lock down was a stupid, ill advised, arbitrary way to milk customers for extra revenue, while simultaneously providing little to no benefit.
Seibertron.com interviews Frank Welker! Yup, the REAL Megatron. Not to say Hugo didn't do a good job in the movie, but if you grew up in the 80's, this man's voice represented everything that was evil.
It never even occurred to me that they would bother, but apparently they did get "names" for Alvin and the Chipmunks. Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney voice the rodents in the up coming movie. Why? Really, I mean, why bother? No one cares. They weren't used to promote the movie. You can't recognize the voices. The performances wont be "better" than using true blue VO people. There's no benefit. I don't get it...
The Cincinnati Post takes a look at narration in TV series. I finally saw Amelie for the first time, and Pushing Daisies totally nails the quirky yet emotion tone of that film. Good times.
CNET News has a photo gallery up of Skywalker Sound, a totally drool-worthy look at one of the most advanced post production facilities in the world. Careful clicking on the link, because if you're anything like me, there's going to be a LOT of gear lust...
And lastly (i know right?), Do you own a Wii? Have you noticed an increase in the cockroach population of your abode after your acquisition of said Wii? There's a rumor floating around "teh intarwebs" that the Wii emits a sonic frequency that attracts the little buggers. I don't think it'll stop me from trying to grab one to rock some Mario Kart.
Apple finally gives in on custom ringtones for the iPhone. A not so mysterious "Share ringtone with iTunes" button has popped up in Garageband. It's about time. The ringtone lock down was a stupid, ill advised, arbitrary way to milk customers for extra revenue, while simultaneously providing little to no benefit.
Seibertron.com interviews Frank Welker! Yup, the REAL Megatron. Not to say Hugo didn't do a good job in the movie, but if you grew up in the 80's, this man's voice represented everything that was evil.
It never even occurred to me that they would bother, but apparently they did get "names" for Alvin and the Chipmunks. Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney voice the rodents in the up coming movie. Why? Really, I mean, why bother? No one cares. They weren't used to promote the movie. You can't recognize the voices. The performances wont be "better" than using true blue VO people. There's no benefit. I don't get it...
The Cincinnati Post takes a look at narration in TV series. I finally saw Amelie for the first time, and Pushing Daisies totally nails the quirky yet emotion tone of that film. Good times.
CNET News has a photo gallery up of Skywalker Sound, a totally drool-worthy look at one of the most advanced post production facilities in the world. Careful clicking on the link, because if you're anything like me, there's going to be a LOT of gear lust...
And lastly (i know right?), Do you own a Wii? Have you noticed an increase in the cockroach population of your abode after your acquisition of said Wii? There's a rumor floating around "teh intarwebs" that the Wii emits a sonic frequency that attracts the little buggers. I don't think it'll stop me from trying to grab one to rock some Mario Kart.
Friday, September 7, 2007
iTunes Hack for FREE RINGTONES
Just posted up on Engadget...
If you read my last story on this, it's just ridiculous to me that ringtones should cost extra on the iPhone. It's another example of them fundamentally missing the market.
If Apple had said "Those other companies make you PAY for ringtones, with Apple the music IS your ringtone!" or some other such nonsense, he could've driven so much more business to the iTunes music store. Instead Apple/AT&T are trying to shear a sheep that's already been shorn (I know that was meta).
The fact that music costs about .99 a song anywhere you go (except eMusic!), and ringtones cost about $1.99, is retarded (and I mean that in the classical sense of the word as in "to retard progress of the music/cellphone industry").
Anywho, there's a story up at Engadget telling us how to get around their 99 cents extra charge:
Read the rest here @ Engadget!
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Is it Illegal to Make My Own Ringtones @ Engadget
If you read my last story on this, it's just ridiculous to me that ringtones should cost extra on the iPhone. It's another example of them fundamentally missing the market.
If Apple had said "Those other companies make you PAY for ringtones, with Apple the music IS your ringtone!" or some other such nonsense, he could've driven so much more business to the iTunes music store. Instead Apple/AT&T are trying to shear a sheep that's already been shorn (I know that was meta).
The fact that music costs about .99 a song anywhere you go (except eMusic!), and ringtones cost about $1.99, is retarded (and I mean that in the classical sense of the word as in "to retard progress of the music/cellphone industry").
Anywho, there's a story up at Engadget telling us how to get around their 99 cents extra charge:
To get this to work, we hear you only need to rename an AAC track to .M4R, then double click it and iTunes
will automagically load it into iTunes for you. Next time you plug in
your iPhone to sync up, just check off the song in the Ringtones tab
and voila, instant tone gratification.
Read the rest here @ Engadget!
***EDIT***
Having read this over now, it doesn't look like this will work for music purchased through iTunes (which has copy protection on it, but should work fine for unprotected songs (like the ones you rip off CD's).
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Is it Illegal to Make My Own Ringtones @ Engadget
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Apple Adds iPhone .99 Ringtone to iTunes ... Kinda Lame ...
So this iPhone thing can hold GIGS of music, all available at a flick of a finger, and ringtones still cost .99 EXTRA. If I purchase a song on iTunes, I have to spend twice as much to use a crappy version of the same song as a ringtone.
Why can't this phone use the same audio file?
Why do you need to take up more storage?
Why does it cost extra? It's the same song!
Would I get charged extra if I bought a song and played it really loud on crappy speakers? That's what a ringtone IS!
I'm really frustrated with Windows Mobile right now, but at least I can use WHATever media I want, HOWever I want...
Here's Engadget's write up!
And Here's Gizmodo's!
Why can't this phone use the same audio file?
Why do you need to take up more storage?
Why does it cost extra? It's the same song!
Would I get charged extra if I bought a song and played it really loud on crappy speakers? That's what a ringtone IS!
I'm really frustrated with Windows Mobile right now, but at least I can use WHATever media I want, HOWever I want...
Here's Engadget's write up!
And Here's Gizmodo's!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Did you hear? The iPhone was unlocked!
So I must be a huge geek! Yup, HUGE!
By week's end I had received almost two dozen emails about the iPhone being unlocked. Even my Mom. Yup Mother AudioGuy herself passed the story up to me, so I can't even use the "My mom thinks I'm cool" joke anymore because... clearly she doesn't.
With all the attention I couldn't help but post this pic from the Herald Sun, taken from one of the headlines surrounding the triumphant deed.
First off I just feel for the kid, as he looks exactly how I'd picture the unlocker of the iPhone to look. I mean bad lighting aside, the pic does scream "Keymaster Of Gozer" right? But, what really got me was the headline its self. Let's play a game of "What's wrong with this headline?".
Click on the pic to play!
By week's end I had received almost two dozen emails about the iPhone being unlocked. Even my Mom. Yup Mother AudioGuy herself passed the story up to me, so I can't even use the "My mom thinks I'm cool" joke anymore because... clearly she doesn't.
With all the attention I couldn't help but post this pic from the Herald Sun, taken from one of the headlines surrounding the triumphant deed.
First off I just feel for the kid, as he looks exactly how I'd picture the unlocker of the iPhone to look. I mean bad lighting aside, the pic does scream "Keymaster Of Gozer" right? But, what really got me was the headline its self. Let's play a game of "What's wrong with this headline?".
Click on the pic to play!
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Economies of Sound: Ringtones
Not an original topic, I know. Ringtones have been discussed, and debated, and analyzed to death.
One problem though, I still don't get them.
Ok, so I understand their popularity. It's an identity. Just as people put skins and cases on their gadgets, having a speaker blare out a particular tune is as close as most of us will come to having a soundtrack (lest we walk around with a ghetto blaster 24/7, and risk getting lynched). I get that part. I take part in that part. My 6700 is currently pimped out with a delicious little sample of Baba O'Riley by the Who (just the opening intro right before the drums and guitars kick in, very simple, very subtle, and as rings go, I either get the "I know that" nod, or the I-think-that's-cool "what is that").
What I don't understand is people's willingness to accept the current business model surrounding the ringtone. It's currently a boon to the music industry, and another source of revenue to keep a failing business model afloat (and yet another way NOT to pay artists, but that's another post).
Love them or hate them, Apple has set the price of a single at 99 cents. This seems appropriate (though I question their crappy bitrate, and DRM, but that's also another post). After years of CD inflation pricing at places like Tower Records (RIP), the 99 cent store attitude of the iPod companion was a breath of fresh air.
So, why are ringtones still 2-3 times more expensive? In essence they are the same thing, both a data file with the audio information needed to create sound to drive a speaker, but the ringtone is a vastly inferior version of that information. Usually consisting of just an intro or chorus, and at a ridiculously low quality (as it only will be played out the back of a crappy phone speaker), One would assume that it would be the single NOT the ringtone that would be worth more...
Of course Apple has recently announced their Awesome Phone (awesome like a hotdog), and sadly I think a lot of people will be disappointed by it once they use it for a while.
One reason they might not realize right away:
It will probably still use ringtones.
This is of course WILD market speculation, but the music industry has already ceded too much power over music to Apple as it is. I find it highly doubtful that they will just yield one of their last remaining cash cows over to Jobs and Co. Also, if you watch this insanely fine toothed comb over of the iPhone announcement, you'll see a new iTunes tab for ringtones.
So, how disappointing will that be? Here you've payed $600 for the privilege of being locked into a 2 year agreement with Cingular, and you legally buy your music at 99 cents a song, and this is going to be the Music/Feature phone to kill all SideKicks and Chocolates, but you'll still have to buy separate ringtones. This thing'll hold 8GB of movie and song data files, but you'll still have to purchase separate audio data files to change your ringer? It WONT be able to use the songs already on it as ringers?
Of course, we don't know this is what will happen, but looking at how cut throat the economies of audio have become, I just don't see this working out in favor of Mr and Mrs Consumer.
Most phones these days use MP3 files for ringtones. For my next post, I'll talk about another topic that's been beaten to death: How to "roll your own" ringtone.
ringtones, cellphones, audio sound design, some audio guy, business, annoyed, rant, iphone
One problem though, I still don't get them.
Ok, so I understand their popularity. It's an identity. Just as people put skins and cases on their gadgets, having a speaker blare out a particular tune is as close as most of us will come to having a soundtrack (lest we walk around with a ghetto blaster 24/7, and risk getting lynched). I get that part. I take part in that part. My 6700 is currently pimped out with a delicious little sample of Baba O'Riley by the Who (just the opening intro right before the drums and guitars kick in, very simple, very subtle, and as rings go, I either get the "I know that" nod, or the I-think-that's-cool "what is that").
What I don't understand is people's willingness to accept the current business model surrounding the ringtone. It's currently a boon to the music industry, and another source of revenue to keep a failing business model afloat (and yet another way NOT to pay artists, but that's another post).
Love them or hate them, Apple has set the price of a single at 99 cents. This seems appropriate (though I question their crappy bitrate, and DRM, but that's also another post). After years of CD inflation pricing at places like Tower Records (RIP), the 99 cent store attitude of the iPod companion was a breath of fresh air.
So, why are ringtones still 2-3 times more expensive? In essence they are the same thing, both a data file with the audio information needed to create sound to drive a speaker, but the ringtone is a vastly inferior version of that information. Usually consisting of just an intro or chorus, and at a ridiculously low quality (as it only will be played out the back of a crappy phone speaker), One would assume that it would be the single NOT the ringtone that would be worth more...
Of course Apple has recently announced their Awesome Phone (awesome like a hotdog), and sadly I think a lot of people will be disappointed by it once they use it for a while.
One reason they might not realize right away:
It will probably still use ringtones.
This is of course WILD market speculation, but the music industry has already ceded too much power over music to Apple as it is. I find it highly doubtful that they will just yield one of their last remaining cash cows over to Jobs and Co. Also, if you watch this insanely fine toothed comb over of the iPhone announcement, you'll see a new iTunes tab for ringtones.
So, how disappointing will that be? Here you've payed $600 for the privilege of being locked into a 2 year agreement with Cingular, and you legally buy your music at 99 cents a song, and this is going to be the Music/Feature phone to kill all SideKicks and Chocolates, but you'll still have to buy separate ringtones. This thing'll hold 8GB of movie and song data files, but you'll still have to purchase separate audio data files to change your ringer? It WONT be able to use the songs already on it as ringers?
Of course, we don't know this is what will happen, but looking at how cut throat the economies of audio have become, I just don't see this working out in favor of Mr and Mrs Consumer.
Most phones these days use MP3 files for ringtones. For my next post, I'll talk about another topic that's been beaten to death: How to "roll your own" ringtone.
ringtones, cellphones, audio sound design, some audio guy, business, annoyed, rant, iphone
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