A New Bigsby-Equipped Traditional Les Paul from Gibson

New Les Paul Traditional model features a Bigsby B-70 tailpiece

Here's what Gibson has to say ...

Designed to showcase the best features displayed by Les Paul during the six decades of its existence, Les Paul Traditional is an heir to mount on the guitar that Eric Clapton featured in the mid 60s, and quickly became the weapon of choice for many top players, including Mike Bloomfield, Jimmy Page, Paul Kossoff, Jeff Beck. To catch a preferred option by everyone from Neil Young, Keith Richards, Joe Perry to Carl Perkins and original Son Volt guitarist Dave Boquist, Gibson USA now offers the Les Paul Traditional with Bigsby.

Equipped with an original Bigsby ® B-70's tip, this instrument gives you all the fat, singing tone that the world's leading guitar solo cut is known, the more the versatility of a tremolo unit for a vintage style Work expressive lead and rhythm player quivering. As such, it is a package with a very broad appeal, suitable for a wide variety of styles of play

Bigsby Les Paul Traditional is formulated in all the classic ingredients that have helped make this model a legend, and features a killer show thanks to a magnificent high-gloss nitrocellulose black ebony. Carved maple top to promote clarity and sustain, while mahogany adds depth and richness. Like all the Les Paul guitar, the traditional use of modern relief printing to increase resonance and reduce weight. Solid one-piece quarter sawn mahogany neck is glued to the traditional mortis and Tenon Joint, and is derived from a profile of 'traditional', which measures 0.838 "is the first fret and .983" is 12 days. The rosewood fingerboard Grado, 22 belt medium-jumbo, with 12 "radius of each choke-free bending, scoop neck will culminate with the preferred 17 degree reverse pitch to improve the Pressure Die Plek string cutting Corian.

To start this complete tonal goodness in the stratosphere, the Les Paul with Bigsby has two humbucker pickups Gibson USA is more popular, a classic 57 in the neck position of the dulcet tones, warm voice and a bit warmer Classic 57 brave addition to the bridge crisis and rising tones of lead. These units are made with real acclaimed Alnico V magnets and wound with 42 AWG, as the late legendary PAF 50 and 60 years and offer a mix of depth and clarity that few can match microphones today.

One of the most exciting additions to the guitar appear in the tip, which helps give it its name. A genuine Bigsby ® B-70 of the nozzle was installed by Gibson USA subtle, smooth action vibrato that only the original unit can offer. The Bigsby ® is a collaboration with a bridge Schaller Roller ™ - a device based on its own Gibson Tune-o-matic, but with individual roller saddles - for better performance at high capacity when vibrato is used. The material is crowned by a set of quality tuners TonePros Kluson style ™.

Each Les Paul Traditional Bigsby ® is protected by-case lined with plush black finish, and even the owner's manual and the literature of regulation, as well as Gibson's limited lifetime warranty and 24/7/365 customer service.

Features:

• Mahogany body with carved maple top
• The rounded profile of the neck "Traditional"
• 57 Classic neck pickup and just over 57 hot bridge pickup classic More
• Genuine Bigsby ® B-70 ™ apparatus with Schaller roller bridge
• Tone Pro Kluson tuners with pearl buttons

Pricing and availability:

• $ 3,198 msrp

Source: sonicstate.com

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Making Movies on iPhone and iPad

The iPad is a device of content consumption. Macintosh, in all its products- the tower, desktop or laptop - is the creation of content. We know that because Steve Jobs said.

Either he has changed his thinking or iPads 1 and 2 have developed their own ideas and we want to be the building units. And, yes, they are.

The spirit of the iPad, in this sense, the army of developers who are crowded into the iTunes App Store applications with the creative nature.

And Apple did, too.

Last week I talked about GarageBand, the creative application of the iPad, it's great to make music to be used for almost anything, from the background in iMovie to keep the neighbors awake.

Thus we come to the mobile version of iMovie, which appeared on the iPhone 4 and the latest iPod touch. If these screens are small, a remarkable work being done on them, not just record the video, but also for editing in a calendar is only a fraction of the width of a finger.

YouTube has loads of young amateur film made on the iPhone 4, a really nice quality. See examples here, here and here (see in high definition from the London Eye ferris wheel).

But not by Park Chan-Wook, director of one of the most famous films in South Korea, gong to shoot a commercial film, night fishing, iPhone 4 mysterious trailer for this production chilling horror of 30 minutes was also published.

The park used two cameras, a full-time iPhone 4, but after a while 'accessory lenses placed over the phone's camera. Shoot lasted 10 days, had 80 people in crews and pays $ 130,000, and probably will not be edited on the phone. How to make a Movie, we have yet to discover, but should be able to return to its price just out of curiosity value.

Another HD movies and this time Edited in iMovie HD on an iPhone 4 is Ride Hare, created by American Donovan Cook. It was not ordinary, but it was a walk in the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival this month. Watch it on YouTube.

Now if these people to use iMovie 2 iPad, things could have been even better. As apps go, iMovie is really strong. If you have iMovie ($ 5.99 from iTunes), iPhone 4, Update 2 version of the iPad is free.

Given the large screen iPad 2, Apple engineers have developed a new and improved user interface, although not a match for iMovie on a Mac, including Better than the iPhone 4.

Modified by tapping and stroking the screen with your finger is surprisingly accurate and easy, very intuitive. Press an image into the browser screen editing, drag to set the clips you want, drag it to the timeline and press to play in the control panels. If you do not like it, press and drag the clip to the timeline and either returned to the browser or in the trash.

Similar sleight of finger movements used to add video or still images shot on iPad 2 or imported from iPhoto to the browser where they can add to your movie. Music is available from the iTunes library on the iPad (or make your own in GarageBand) and titles and voice over commentaries are also easy to understand.

A fundamental change is automatically added between video clips or images, but can easily be changed via a dropdown menu is selected by pinching the transition.

The video or still images recorded on a digital camera or iPhone can be added using a connection kit aircraft Apple iPad ($ 35).

A help menu available from a button on the screen and another button opens a range of options for the exchange of YouTube, Facebook and other popular "look-at-me" network.

In general, the iPad iMovie 2 is very funny, surprising and powerful, then there is a learning curve is short and mild, mostly using common sense fingers.

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White iPhone 4 Finally Released

As promised, Apple has started selling white iPhone 4 in Eastern Hemisphere and European countries as markets tumble in April 28. United States and Canada should follow suit, just a few hours, the clock ticked over to the new day. Although the company is advertising the availability on front page of offices in countries where the clock is past midnight, on-line orders are not yet seem to be available even if a third-party retail outlets seem to be free to open their ports.

Even before the official release, the white iPhone 4 made their way into the hands of customers to choose from some retailers to start selling the device early.

Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller also conducted a telephone interview with All Things Digital earlier today, where they discussed some of the challenges a company faces in bringing a white iPhone 4 on the full market ten months late.

Video of the white iPhone 4 officially launching in Hong Kong:

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Secret Tracker Set on iPhones to Track Users Location

A site called iPhone Tracker posted a report Wednesday, that Apple devices appear to be tracking their owners' locations and storing data about people's whereabouts without their knowledge.

Two researchers reported, base on their unauthorized surveillance started in June 2010, when the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system was released, they discovered a hidden tracking file and posted it out of concern for users . But, Apple has not responded to the allegations.

A program online has been posted by the researchers that will let any iPhone user see a map of his or her location over time, going back to June, when iOS 4.0 was released.

Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, the program's developers, say this data is stored on a person's iPhone or 3G-enabled iPad and on computers that are synced with those devices. There's no evidence, they say, that the data is also transmitted to Apple as it's collected. But, it's a BIG POSSIBILITY !

Source: CNN Tech Edition

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10 Most Unattractive Mobile Phones Ever Launched

Attractive mobile phones are many and easy to find. Ever since Motorola's C Series and, later, the iPhone, a smartphone from Apple, manufacturers have had to work hard on delightful designs. Gorgeous, sleek steel or shiny chrome, giant glass fronts framed in elegant black, smartphones pack brains and beauty. But not always.

Before the mobile phone industry got all busy with design makeovers and tummy tucks, there were some delightfully hideous phones that represented the other side of the beauty trend. The Street has gone back through the past decade to dig up some of the best examples of designs that make you wince and stare in disbelief. The clueless stylings, the flights of fancy into odd shapes, the obsession with square versus rounded -- it is a wonderfully colorful history. Here are 10 of the most unattractive mobile phones that ever launched:

1. Palm Treo 700p

Palm, now a division of HP, arguably invented the smartphone. But the signs of Palm's eventual demise were evident with this later generation Treo. While its contemporaries were slimming their designs, Palm's Treo 700 arrived not only thicker but heavier than its Treo 600 predecessor.

2. LG VX9800

Two big speakers inside LG's horizontal flip phone didn't really compensate for the two puny display screens. LG, which had a decent track record with phones, apparently put aside its talents and let Verizon take over the design decisions. The VX9800 was intended to be a big vehicle for Verizon's VCast media offerings. Any wonder why Apple wouldn't play ball with Verizon all those years?

3. HTC Apache

Before HTC made sleek black phones, they cranked out clumsy, silver bricks like the Apache. The Apache was part of a pioneering smartphone effort by Sprint, Microsoft and HTC. The phone was hot, but not in a good way. And it was pocket-straining heavy. Let's just say HTC has done well not to follow the silver brick road.

4. Microsoft Kin

Teen phones are a questionable move by any company, but ugly teen phones like Microsoft's Kin beg the question: What were they thinking? At least the Sidekick, the Danger-made predecessor to the Kin, had a cool look. The boxy shape of the Kin almost assured Microsoft's phone failure. It only took two months of sales for Microsoft to kill the Kin.

5. Motorola Flipout

Is there a demon whispering "make it square" in the ear of phone designers? Even the new Motorola couldn't resist the temptation. The Flipout, launched earlier this year, brings a whole new approach to square with its interesting corner hinge. Foxy? No. Weirdly boxy? Oh yes.

6. Sony Ericsson t61z

It was a radical move by Sony Ericsson with the T61z phone. Do people want corners or curves? Let's give them both. Sony Ericsson made the T61z square on the bottom and oval on top. Brilliant. Who wouldn't like a phone shaped like a shoe-print?

7. Nokia 3620

Not to be outdone by those pesky Swedes, Finnish phone giant Nokia totally turned the tables on the Sony Ericsson T61z and made the 3620 with an oval bottom and a square top. Take that Ericsson.

8. BlackBerry 8700

Business folk cherished this squat, homely little phone. Who cared that it was pudgy and unapologetically plastic? One redeeming feature was the thumb wheel, which allowed hard-chargers to scroll through emails with one hand and, you know, master the universe with the other.

9. Samsung Cleo

Ah yes, the "lady" phone. The Samsung Cleo really hit the mark with this one. Pink is bad enough, but does square really speak to the female phone buyer? What a cute, ah ... cigarette case? um ... makeup compact? Oh, look at that, it's a phone!

10. Nokia 7600

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. While Apple was changing the phone industry with a super-slim touchscreen iPhone in 2007, Nokia came out with this gem. (Shown above) It's not clear what inspired the small screen and the pig's ear shape, but it gets top honors in this contest. Any wonder why Apple is cleaning up in mobile, while Nokia is clearing out.

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Cisco's Tough Decision: Shutting Down Flip Video Camera

A recent rumors told that the Cisco has made a tough decision, to shut down their Flip Video Camera business. Of course the rumors makes the users shocked and wondering what to do with their Flip Video Camera now. You can find the truth of that rumors in some news I have retrieved from several online media that you can read below:

TechCrunch.Com :

Wow. Cisco has just issued a release stating that in a strategic plan to “align its operations,” the company will exit parts of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer business to support four of its five key company priorities: core routing, switching and services; collaboration; architectures; and video. One of the casualties of this realignment: Cisco’s video camera Flip business, which was part of its $590 million acquisition of Pure Digital.

As part of the plan, Cisco will close down its Flip business and “support current FlipShare customers and partners with a transition plan.” Cisco will also refocus its Home Networking business and will integrate Cisco umi into the company’s Business TelePresence product line. As part of the transition, Cisco plans to eliminate 550 jobs.

Cisco CEO John Chambers issued this statement: “We are making key, targeted moves as we align operations in support of our network-centric platform strategy…As we move forward, our consumer efforts will focus on how we help our enterprise and service provider customers optimize and expand their offerings for consumers, and help ensure the network’s ability to deliver on those offerings.”

So Cisco is focusing on its enterprise customers, and is basically shutting down its consumer facing products. The writing was on the wall for the Flip video business. In a world where consumers can now record and stream video directly from their iPhone, Android or BlackBerry phone, Flip’s video camera business is no longer novel or useful.

Cisco also pulled the plug on its web email product earlier this year. Chambers recently wrote a regretful, ‘mea culpa’ note highlighting that the company had disappointed investors and lost credibility. In an effort to refocus the company, Chambers said that “we will take bold steps and we will make tough decisions.” Clearly one of these decisions involves killing the Flip video camera business.

Mashable.com :

The popular Flip video camera is no more, with Cisco announcing Tuesday it “will exit aspects of its consumer businesses,” which includes shutting down the Flip.

In a statement, Cisco says that it is realigning its consumer businesses to “support four of its five key company priorities.” On the subject of the Flip, Cisco says it will “close down the Flip business and support current FlipShare customers and partners with a transition plan.”

Cisco purchased Flip maker Pure Digital for $590 million in 2009. At the time, the move struck some as odd, but the potential of a Wi-Fi enabled Flip made some sense. Sort of.

Such a product has never materialized (even if FCC reports do indicate such a device exists). Meanwhile, the allure of the Flip — low cost video that can easily be uploaded to websites like Facebook or YouTube — was superseded by video cameras built into smartphones. In addition to the video being as good (if not better) on modern smartphones, phones have a built-in data connection and can upload video directly to the web — no computer required.

It looks like the Flip was simply an intermediary product. Much like the netbook, which has been largely usurped by lower-cost full laptops and tablets like the iPad, the Flip was simply a product that disrupted markets before moving aside for a true successor.

Pocket-Lint.Com :

Bet you didn’t see this one coming, Cisco has just confirmed with Pocket-lint that it is killing the Flip Video brand, closing down the business and ceasing production of all models.

“Stopping the business rather than selling it was the best course of action,” Cisco’s global head of public relations exclusively told Pocket-lint on Tuesday, in response to our query on why the sudden decision.

In the dramatic move, the company will cease all production of Flip Video products globally, but has said that it will support the company’s FlipShare service for existing customers, while it formulates a “transition plan.”

"We are making key, targeted moves as we align operations in support of our network-centric platform strategy," said John Chambers, Cisco chairman and CEO. "As we move forward, our consumer efforts will focus on how we help our enterprise and service provider customers optimize and expand their offerings for consumers, and help ensure the network's ability to deliver on those offerings."

When asked whether the Flip Video division wasn’t earning its keep, Tillman side-tracked the answer, perhaps suggesting that the pocket camcorders are fast losing out to mobile phones with 720p video recording capability.

Tillman says that Cisco will instead focus on its core products and services moving forward.

Cisco bought the massively popular Flip Video business only a couple of years ago.

What do you think? Is there no future for handheld camcorders, considering that smartphones can record HD video? Let us know in the comments below...

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