Guitar Recording on iPhone

The iPhone is one of the most versatile mobile devices ever released, however it soon becomes frustrating if, as a musician, you try and record your work on teh iPhone.

Fortunately there are ways you can not only record sound perfect guitar recordings on your iPhone, but also mix your recordings on multitrack iPhone software applications to give you a powerful platform for any musician.

The bad news is that this kind of technology is not cheap,  running to around $200!

Sonoma Wireworks is probably the most popular iPhone guitar recording solution, which provides a great high quality recording system for your guitar (You can also buy an adapter for 1/8 inch input as well as the guitar’s 1/4 inch connection).

Sonoma Wireworks adapters work really well with iphone apps such as FourTrack, which costs around $10, but provides a fantastic fourtrack music studio for your iPhone!

It’s not often the secretive Apple corporation make a slip up with their security, however rumors have surfaced around a young employee who apparently left his iPhone 4G in a bar, only for it to be picked up by some random individual who sold photos and demonstrations of the phone to some of the top internet technology websites!

As of yet we have received no details as to the innards of the latest test version of apples upcoming iPhone replacement, nevertheless we will keep a close eye on the preceedings for you to make sure you know the latest about the Apple iPhone 4G!

You may have noticed a fairly severe lack of updates here recently, for which I do apologise!

The last few months have been spent writing articles for others, in an attempt to get some quick cash for an emigration to America sorted, alongside with a marriage and a new apartment. I hope to be picking up my posts both here and at my other Gadget News website in the near future, however life is hectic.

Most of my recent work has been on Hubpages, where I have been earning a rather nice income of around $1000 a month, if you like to write then I strongly suggest you check it out, you might be able to make a nice little stash of extra cash every month!

If you do join up to Hubpages feel free to check out my profile at This is Oli!

In the meantime, I have just updated the version of wordpress which has been running this blog for the last 5 years or so.  It definitely needed doing, and I have not seen any major glitches YET.

If you do find any problems please tell me as soon as possible so I can get them fixed!

Oli

For those of you who have been keeping up with the latest in Google technology, Wave is the Word. Designed to provide an ultimate communications tool for personal or business use, Google Wave is a whole new era in technology.

If you know what Google Wave is you will undoubtedly be wanting one of these precious invites, and now is your chance to get them!

Geekywood is giving you the chance to win one of three Google Wave invites, to win all you have to do is comment saying why you should win! The three best answers will be given a Google Wave invite!

If you do not know about Google Wave check out http://wave.google.com today!

The future may have started to arrive, nuclear batteries may soon be set to hit the market as researchers have perfected their personal battery design.  Nuclear batteries already can be found in items such as pacemakers and underwater systems.  It’s not yet sure how long it will take for these devices to hit the market, but with over one million times the battery life of a standard battery, they could bring forth a new era in technology.Imagine laptops which only need a new battery once in a year, Cars running purely on electric and all in a light, small and very portable device.In the future they expect the nuclear battery to power all kinds of industrial devices, and have not pushed for consumer devices as of yet, the future it seems is inevitable though.Despite the miniature size and lightness of this nuclear battery, they are expecting to make it smaller, around a hairs thickness in size if they are as serious as they sound!

We all thought the format war was over, after one company toppled the rest followed suite and HD-DVD was no more.  Despite this it seems that not everything was as it seemed, in China the techincal bods have been hard at work undermining the Blu-Ray format.While many people saw HD streaming video straight to TV as the next technology, a new format, CBHD, has outsold Blu-Ray 3 to 1 in china.CBHD is a new format heavily based on HD-DVD, which has always been the better, higher density, cheaper format. CBHD has improved on this, and undercut the Blu-Ray prices.Currently Warner are the only studio officially backing CBHD, although with the Chinese Government and it’s 2 billion population supporting the new format, things could soon change.  Chances are that this new format might soon take over the Blu-Ray format completely.  Currently the CBHD format, outsells Blu-Ray three to one in China, and with the new government backing this is only set to increase.While Blu-Ray may be under threat from the new CBHD format, it has gained a strong foothold in the western world. This could protect it from being taken over by the CBHD format. This is still under dispute however, as most of the blu-ray sales are PS3 based.Only time will tell if the new cheaper CBHD format dominates the Blu-ray market, or if HD internet streaming will beat them all!

Panasonic have just released their new handheld digital camera, and it looks like it may just be a winner.

WIth the Panasonic FP8 the research bods decided to take an innovative new approach. Instead of simply increasing current specifications they did something rather radical.

After much stagnation in the digital camera industry, panasonic went to it’s customers and asked what they wanted.

Quite surprisingly the customers said they did not care that it’s current digital cameras could take pictures with 12 megapixel resolution, neither did they give the proverbial about being able to put a picture frame around someones face. Infact the only real complaint was that it can sometimes take up to 10 seconds for a camera to start up, and two seconds for it to take a photo.

The people up at Panasonic HQ thought long and hard about this, after all they have spent 10 years working out how to fit more mega pixels in to a smaller space. But in the end they admitted, maybe it was time to listen to the consumer.

And the results do not dissapoint, the Panasonic Lumix FP8 starts in under a second, it has a new high speed auto focus system, which before was the domain only of Sony. Even with this high speed picture taking you get anti-blur technology and auto flash/whitebalance settings to give you the perfect picture!

This dinky little camera even comes with HD video capabilities, a sweet topping to this already delecious treat!

My only worry is that Panasonic may have come a little bit too late with their realization. Sony alraedy has sone pretty quick consumer digital cameras with the DSC series, and many casual photographers swear by it. However the New Panasonic Lumix FP8 is a very strong contender, which will do Panasonic proud!