Daily Archives: July 15, 2012

Griffin’s MIDIConnect now available at $80 to make beautiful music with your iDevice (video)

Griffin’s MIDIConnect now available at $80 to make beautiful music with your iDevice (video)

Inspiration can strike from anywhere, and now you can use a proper musical instrument to channel it with MIDIConnect, available from Griffin Technology for $80. The unit allows you to twang, pluck or tickle a MIDI instrument on the go directly into GarageBand and other iOS music apps, and also reverses the flow — allowing … Continued

Savi People app brings ‘smarter’ contacts to iPhone, integrates with your favorite social networks

Savi People app brings ‘smarter’ contacts to iPhone, integrates with your favorite social networks

If you haven’t been completely content with the stock Contacts app on your renowned Cupertino handset, and were wishing there was a little more to squeeze out of it — there might just be something in the App Store waiting to meet your needs. Enter Savi People. The 99-cent application essentially brings all your address … Continued

How to Grow and Manage an Engaged Online Community

How to Grow and Manage an Engaged Online Community

Do you wear many hats at your place of business? Do some of them have to do with reaching out to and interacting with your social media fans and blog readers? If so, then you’re officially or unofficially performing the role of an online community manager. If you’re doing it right, then it’s probably one … Continued

BAE Systems speaks about unmanned ASTRAEA: no reason it can’t stay in air ‘for weeks’

BAE Systems speaks about unmanned ASTRAEA: no reason it can’t stay in air ‘for weeks’

BAE Systems’ ASTRAEA isn’t a new concept — the company’s been playing up its unmanned potential for quite some time now — but it’s all seeming entirely less pie-in-the-sky now that the Farnborough Airshow has kicked off. Typically, UAVs are thought to be smaller, drone-type apparatuses; these things are typically used in military exercises where … Continued