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The iPad seems to have become wildly popular among both performance musicians and studio technicians alike. I recently watch a live performance where the group was using the Yamaha sound board, and the sound guy was walking around the audience running the sound board. Now that’s cool! So, I decided to look into that genre of iOS apps. Among the best are: * AmpliTube for iPad * DP Control * MIDI Monitor * AmpKit * LS9 StageMix * M7CL StageMix * MIDI Memo Recorder … and even * MorphWiz from the music community icon Jordan Rudess!

Everyone wants a bite out of the old apple. We’ve been waiting for the big move from the internet’s largest online merchant — and you know, they almost always do it right. We’re going to be keeping our eye on this one…
* Amazon’s Cloud-y dreams
* Amazon Cloud Drive
* Amazon (AMZN) Ambushes its Competitors with an Assault in the Cloud
* Amazon’s ‘Cloud Drive’ Faces Backlash From Music Industry
* Amazon Cloud Drive: 3 things to consider before you commit
* How to Get Started with Cloud Drive and Cloud Player
… don’t forget to send in your news, views or reviews!

I admit that I have been lax in reading Research Buzz lately. I mentioned it on occasion since 1998. In an article called “Kickstarting a Collection of Public Domain Classical Music.” Research Buzz talks last September a new open source project called Musopen.
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SuperSync can help you access, merge, and manage multiple iTunes libraries. The demo (trialware) will let you view your entire library. You’ll be able to connect to a second library, You can use a single copy of SuperSync to get music from many sources, including your iPod, iPhone, your iTunes library, a networked SuperSync, or any type of disk storage.
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This article first posted last April on MacYourself talks about what you should do first on your new Mac.

It starts out: “A lot of new Mac users are so excited & overwhelmed by their purchases that they don’t even know where to start. While Macs do come out of the box ready to go, a little configuration here and a few applications there goes a long way.”
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This sounds like it could be useful for iPad owners who also have Macs. (Note that there is a PowerPC version too.)

iPad Transfer for Mac can help iPad fans to transfer Videos Music Photos TV shows Podcasts from iPad to Apple Mac, or import files to iPad from your local hard disc without iTunes. It is also a good iPad video converter that can convert DVDs/videos/audio to iPad compatible format on your Mac, and import to iPad directly.
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One of my favorite shareware companies, Ambrosia Software last week, announced the release of iToner 2.0.5, a free update to its best-selling custom iPhone ringtone utility. iToner is the original utility designed to easily turn any audio from your Mac into a customized iPhone ringtone without paying per-ringtone fees or jail-breaking the iPhone. Version 2.0.5 streamlines several low level iPhone syncing, communication, and support processes to enhance the iToner user experience and reliability.
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Of course, many of you have been able to get your iPad by now and probably have your own ideas about how good it is.
However there were several jounalists that had the opportunity to use the iPad for a few weeks and have written articles about it.
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The full title is “Make your mac os smarter with opensource stuff”
By now it has become pretty obvious that I like lists. This is another one of the Opensource lists with a few new ones.
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Any time you can make Math fun for kids, I am for it. Apparently in the new release of KidCalc Math Fun, Steve Glinberg has done just that. It is the tenth update to his popular animated math flash cards and learning activities app for iPhone and iPod touch. This new version of KidCalc Math Fun adds Valentines Day themed graphics and Number Tracing. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities, KidCalc helps teach math to children, ages 3-8 years using holiday themed graphics, engaging animations and voice-overs.
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Do you want to listen to music in the background. Do you feel that iTunes is to resource hungry? Maybe Everplay is for you.

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According to the New York Times and others, Apple agreed yesterday to purchase a four year old music company Lala.

The company is based in Palo Alto, California, not that far from Apple own base.

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This past week, Snarb.tk announced Everplay Public Beta, a preview of the successor to their popular iTunes controller Cover Stream. A light weight, stand alone media player, Everplay plays music from your iTunes music library as well as from Last FM online radio services. It lets you browse, search and play your iTunes music library and playlists in one simple, beautiful and easy-to-navigate Cover Flow window. All this without launching iTunes.

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In an article with the above title, Dwight Silverman shows that Apple is not the only one looking at the possibilities of selling media that can be played on any of your devices.

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