MICROPHONE, TECHNOLOGY In addition to taking excellent stills, today’s DSLR’s (Digital Single Lens Reflex) are being used by professional photographers/videographers to capture excellent quality video footage. Unfortunately, the audio quality by way of the DSLR’s built-in mics often don’t match up to the DSLRs spectacular video quality. Coming to the rescue is the FR-310 shotgun style…

BRILLIANT IDEA! MUSICIANS WILL LOVE IT. SINGERS WILL ADORE IT. I had the opportunity to use  the iKlip during a performance. Where , as a singer, I would usually use printed lyrics on paper to refer to during a performance, the iKlip was an amazing replacement. Aside from the fact that iKlip with my iPad looks looks real…

RICK LEVINE FUELBAND, NIKE, REVIEW Nike Fuel Band is a wristband with an electronic core and silicone type of surface that can be coordinated to sync with one’s computer and mobile phone in order to provide a measurement of one’s daily physical activities in the form of what is called ‘Nike Fuel Points’. With Nike Fuel Points…

With all the iPad holder gadgets out on the market, it’s hard to believe that its possible to still find a device that really stands out. The iPad Pivot is an innovative, versatile and definitely unique mechanism for use with the iPad for the following reasons: the iPad Pivot folds, supports multiple orientations, provides for…

AVIIQ PORTABLE LAPTOP STAND, MACBOOK PRO Who knew that a laptop stand could be so cool! Promoted as the ‘World’s thinnest portable laptop Stand’ that is designed to extend the life of your laptop as well as your wrists, the AViiQ Portable Laptop Stand is ‘ready  to go when you are’ – literally. The AviiQ portable laptop stand is the laptop stand that is designed…

APPLE IMAC, FAST TRACK C400 AUDIO INTERFACE, M-AUDIO, MACINTOSH, PRO TOOLS, RECORDING M-Audio promotes the new C series Fast Track recording interfaces to be the best sounding, best looking and most feature rich audio interfaces they have ever designed. When M-Audio designed the new C Series audio interface, the company wanted to use technology from their higher line of interfaces with the…

APOGEE DUET 2, APPLE MACINTOSH RECORDING HARDWARE, AUDIO INTERFACE,HOME RECORDING STUDION Many musicians these days have home based recording studios. With some experience in the recording process and the correct set of computer components, a talented artist can produce final results that can sound as good as any professional level recording studio. Over the past few yearsApogee…

DATABASE FOR MACINTOSH, FILEMAKER PRO 10 Talking about Databases can be a real lackluster experience. Talking about Filemaker Pro 10 changes all that. First and foremost, Filemaker’s main strength has always been the ability to provide businesses, organizations and individuals with a powerful customizable database tool that is relatively easy to use. Secondly, Filemaker Pro has always included a…

AUDIO, PRESONUS HP 4 You’ve just set up your digital recording studio and you’re with a couple of other musicans, all ready to record. Suddenly you realize there are not enough headphone jacks for everyone. This is a situation that is initially, easily overlooked. The primary purpose of the Presonus HP-4 is to provide multiple headphone…

ACCOUNTING, MAC, REVIEWS Until now, current Mac Users who wanted to run a pro level accounting software package on the Mac platform in Canada, CBC’s (Canadian Bean Counters), had precious little to choose from. CBC’s could install the US version of AE, however, the effort was, by and large, futile. Not being able to obtain current tax table updates or easily account…