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Best of Macworld/ iWorld Part II

by J.S. Gilbert

Despite my remarking how disappointed I was with this past Macworld/ iWorld Expo I attended, I still managed to glean more than just a few worthy moments from my overall experience. In fact, I had to actually break it down into 2 blog posts. If you missed the first one, you can catch up by [...]

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Apple Macworld/ iWorld 2013 – A Few Things That I Liked.

by J.S. Gilbert

  Apple Macworld/ iWorld 2013 – A Few Things That I Liked. Well, it’s been several months since I attended Macworld at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and the fact that I’ve waited until now to “report” on it may be more telling than anything else. This was the third Macworld since Apple has pulled out, [...]

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Don’t Shoot Down That Idea So Quickly, There’s 1 or 2 More Things we Can Learn from Apple.

by J.S. Gilbert

It happens every day in big corporations and mom and pop businesses, in classrooms and kitchens, in forests, on mountaintops, while you’re asleep and even when you’re on the toilet. What happens? Ideas are hatched. But all too often, either the one who came up with the idea or somebody else, will shoot it down [...]

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Slide to Unlock

by J.S. Gilbert

Slide to unlock – You may not actually be familiar with the term, but it’s something you unconsciously do all the time. Well, at least 20 – 30% of the folks in America do. It’s that little left to right swipe we make to get our smart phones to turn on. It’s the same motion [...]

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Nuwaste Studios Free Pocket Light Meter App for iPhone

by J.S. Gilbert

This is currently a free app that is advertising supported that uses the iPhone’s camera as a spot meter, as well as an incident meter.  The app works with either the forward or backwards facing cameras on the iPhone. You can move the reading area around on the screen to take multiple readings or a [...]

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Gadgets and Stuff

by J.S. Gilbert

The Making of Play: Music Video shot entirely with an iPhone Play: Music Video shot entirely with an iPhone Accousticalsurfaces.com For those of you looking to upgrade project studios or home studios or are looking to build or retrofit studio space, www.acousticsurfaces.com is a treasure trove of information and products for almost any situation. From [...]

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Plural Eyes and Dual Eyes = Great Audio for Your Video

by J.S. Gilbert

By now, many of us have either seen or heard about the incredible footage that was shot for the 2010 season finale of House. It was completely done using Canon 5D Mach II DSLR’s, which took advantage of the cameras small size and ability to film in low light to provide some dramatic and uncharacteristicly [...]

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Jake Ludington to the A/V Rescue

by J.S. Gilbert

I was browsing the Web recently and came across a video in YouTube by a Mr. Jake Ludington, demonstrating how to make portable recording environment. It was simplicity at its best and would be quite helpful to many pod casters, broadcasters and v.o. folks. One big takeaway from this was that he used a serrated [...]

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Studio Six Digital audio apps and new pro mic/ audio interface for the iPhone

by J.S. Gilbert

Newest Update now is 11-30-12 (feel free to read the entire piece, but to save you time and get to the meat of the matter, I will report my latest findings here) I attended AES (Audio Engineer’s Society) Annual event in San Francisco, several weeks ago and got to purchase the latest iaudioInterface 2 from [...]

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