Though tfr has only gotten Leopard to work at a fixed 800×480 resolution and hasn’t tried to get WWAN networking working, Mac OS X running at all on the VIA-based hardware is interesting nonetheless. Another curiosity is that OQO was founded by ex-Apple employees who left the company when their idea for an OQO-like device [...]

Demonoid ReturnsDemonoid, the wildly popular torrent tracker is back in the p2p tracking game after a long hiatus. The previous admin @ Demonoid could no longer manage the site going forward and has handed his responsibilities to a close friend.
“Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care [...]

Muxtape, an online mix tape/playlist application that lets you share a mixtape with the internet, just launched. (Here’s mine.) Design as simple and effective as this continue to define the gold standard for next-generation web applications because they focus less on “what everyone else is doing” and more on giving the user the [...]

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A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer [...]

Using just a Nintnedo DS and two jailbroken iphones these three people composed a sweet jam session and caught it all on video.

CNN reports that while western music companies pushed for punishment of AllofMP3.com owner Denis Kvasov, head of MediaServices, they instead witnessed Russian law executed as it was written.
Of course they claim they are going to appeal, but the Russian copyright law is still quite different from American copyright law.
Silly companies. Music is for the people.

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The Reactable is a multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artifacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.

If your an Apple “Fan-boy” like most of us at YISTA then I’m sure that you remember the angelic ringtone that came from Apple’s new iPhone when Steve Jobs received the first public iPhone call during his keynote @ MacWorld 2007.
The iPhone won’t be out until June ‘07 but the ringtone is up for grabs [...]

Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.
URGE comes integrated into the newest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player, which users of Microsoft’s Windows will receive in coming weeks as [...]