You may not be familiar with the company Tronical but you will know their work because they are responsible for Gibson’s Robot Guitar tuning systems. Well judging by this video it appears that Tronical are about to launch some standalone systems that can be retrofit to pretty much any guitar be it a Les Paul [...]
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Plantronics DSP 500 Headset
Intensify your computer digital audio experience. The DSP-500 is perfect for multimedia applications including games, CDs and MP3 music, speech recognition and voice applications.
For me, MAC OS X immediately detected the USB device as a DSP sound processor and the headset was ready to use in a matter of seconds. As far as the headset is concerned, the Plantronics DSP-500 comes with a high quality lightweight headset with a 3 meter long cord, which has a rather modest sized DSP and an in-line volume control attached to it. The 3-inch long attachment is the Digital signal processing unit, which houses all the works that processes sound and sends it directly to the headset.
I use a Plantronics DSP-500 USB Headset for most of my calls using Skype. I am now doing 50% of my calls on Ustream.tv using this headset and Skype people tell me quality is great.
The quality is much better than a cell phone or a landline. It has some amazing DSP noise-canceling technologies.
As far as PC audio is concerned, the DSP-500 is Plantronics’ top of the line offering.
Flip Video To Offer Personalized Cameras
In a joint effort between Pure Digital (the company behind the Flip Video) and Cafepress, you will be able to buy your own Flip camera and customize the appearance to suit your tastes. In the press release sent to PCMech this morning, it says:
For no additional cost, the Flip Video personalization platform gives consumers unlimited options to create a Flip Mino to fit their individual personalities. Users can choose from thousands of designs from artists, leading design firms, celebrities, and iconic brands, or they can easily upload their own image to create a one-of-a-kind camcorder. Adding to the fun, Flip Video has built an exclusive design engine – the Pattern Generator – that makes it easy for anyone to make a truly unique device. By partnering with CafePress, the leaders in user-generated commerce, over 6.5 million individual CafePress users have the ability to design Flip Mino camcorders to sell on www.cafepress.com or www.theflip.com, creating an unprecedented mass design community for Flip Mino. Consumers can add their creations to the open marketplace and earn commissions for each camcorder sold using their designs. Users can also elect to have their designs earn commissions for non-profit causes.
Sure enough, when you go to Cafepress, you see a new category for Flip Camcorders. And they’ve got some creative designs up for sale already.
The pricing of the cameras seems to be heavily dependent on what is printed on it, however many of the designs are offered at normal retail price for the Flip Mino.
Webmasters know that Cafepress is also a place to have custom shirts designed so you can sell to your audience and make a little commission. I, myself, have used Cafepress in the past. Well, this announcements also means that you can design custom Flip Video designs and offer them for sale to your audience.
Perhaps I’ll pimp out a Flip with the PCMech logo. 
Post from: PCMech. Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On And Live The Digital Lifestyle.
(Via PCMech.)
YouTube Begins Streaming Full-Length Shows from CBS
In another move towards earning more revenue from its huge audience, YouTube has started streaming full-length TV shows that will include advertising. The content, which includes Star Trek, The Young & The Restless, and Beverley Hills 90210 comes through a deal with CBS. Advertising will include familiar formats like pre, mid, and post-roll.
For YouTube, the deal certainly marks further indication that the company is not having a great deal of success in monetizing the user-generated video that dominates the site. While the current lineup of content from CBS may not be especially impressive – no offense Y&R fans – it’s likely just the first of many deals that YouTube will make to bring more professionally produced content to its site that can be more easily monetized.
For CBS, the deal might be seen as yet another sign of a lack of confidence in Joost, the professional video content site where CBS is an investor. Meanwhile, CBS already offers full-length versions of many of its popular shows like CSI on its own website. Ultimately, it would look like YouTube is simply being viewed as another place to distribute content for the media company. CBS also recently did a deal with Slide to distribute video content through Facebook applications.
(Via Mashable!.)
MTR Podcast Recorder WordPress Plugin
MTR Podcast Recorder offers real-time recording that is saved on the same server where WordPress is installed. All recordings will be saved into the MP3 format using the so famous LAME encoder. In addition to all this, you can manage your playlists and recordings from the WordPress administration. You can easily add a Podcast Player widget to any of your sidebars, posts, or pages if you want to promote a specific recording to your readers.
StreamDesk 1.4 – Lve stream player designed for Flash based streaming.
StreamDesk is a live stream player designed for Flash based streaming. It works with a variety of websites including ustream.tv. It gives you a list of over 50 streams, from Tuesday Night Tech Show (featuring Srasm) to the SpaceVidCast. Some of its features include bookmarking and automatically saving sessions.
(Via MacUpdate – Mac OS X.)
RSSMixer makes Mashups Easier
Recently launched RSS Mixer wants to make mixing
and mashing up all of your RSS feeds as easy as possible. They’ve spent the last year devloping a service that they hope will allow even the least technically savvy user be able to create their own mashups without the complexity of Drupal, Microsoft Popfly or even Yahoo Pipes.
After experimenting with RSSMixer and creating several new mashups in a matter of minutes the verdict is that they have accomplished their goal. It is extremely easy to mix and mashup many RSS Feeds in no time at all. The interface is well-designed and helps make the process very simple.
If You Build it they will come
Not only is it easy to create as many mixes as you want, you can also share the RSS feed that’s created for every mix that you create. People can subscribe to your mixes just as they do for other sites in their RSS reader of choice.
Getting Jiggy Widget
There’s also a widget feature that will allow anyone to add you mix as a gadget or widget. The four most popular types are supported: Apple Dashboard widgets, Yahoo Widgets, Vista Widgets and Google Gadgets.
Rince, Lather and Repeat!
One of the nice things about RSSMixer is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. If you see a mix that someone else has created that you like then you can actually add that mix to one of your mixes and change it up to make it your own. Within every mix you can see which RSS feeds were used by its creator.
Add-on tools
There’s a Firefox add-on tool for your toolbar that will make it easy to add any RSS feed you want to your RSSMixer account. You can also import all of your RSS feeds from your RSS reader of choice by using the OPML format.
Conclusion
If you don’t have the time or interest to learn how to use some of the more complex mashup services like Yahoo Pipes or Microsoft Popfly then RSSMixer is a no-brainer. Just copy and paste RSS Feeds and you’ll create new mixes on a single webpage with all of the information that you want to track or share with others.
(Via Mashable!.)
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