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MuSiC - SOKO - We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow

2012-05-30T22:11:00.000-04:00

MuSiC - Kanye West & Jay-Z (Feat. Frank Ocean & The-Dream) – No Church In The Wild video

2012-05-30T00:32:00.002-04:00

TeCh - Alleged iPhone 5 Case Has Aluminum Back, Smaller Dock Connector

2012-05-29T13:28:00.001-04:00

9to5mac and iFixyouri say this could be the back for the next iPhone. If real, the next iPhone would have an aluminum alloy back, bigger speaker/mic, and a smaller dock connector.
Apparently the part comes from a Chinese supplier who, according to iFixyouri, is reliable. But not even they know if it is for an actual product or a prototype. This more or less lines up with past rumors of a metal backed iPhone and a smaller dock connector, but then again, you could probably find rumors to back any combination of features you'd ever think of.
Also worth noting is that the sides of the phone are part of the back plate, which would essentially create a box for the screen and guts to sit in. And not to jump the gun on this, but if that subtle two-tone look ended up in the final product, we wouldn't be opposed.

UPDATE: MacRumors dug up the same case design in white, which was sent to them by ubreakifix. The font where it says "iPhone" looks weird, but the design jives with everything else we've seen. And assuming the image isn't artificially stretched out, it looks like this case would be housing a larger screen.

UPDATE 2: 9to5mac has better pics of the rumored new case in black and white. They also have shots of a front panel, which has the front-facing cam aligned directly above the earpiece, but otherwise looks similar to the iPhone 4/4S. And yep, that black and charcoal combination looks real good. [9to5ma]

(Info provided By Adrian Covert of Gizmodo)

MuSiC - Pusha T - Exodus 23:1 video

2012-05-29T06:32:00.005-04:00

Go to previous post for song and download HERE

MuSiC - Birdman (Feat. Rick Ross) - Born Stunna video

2012-05-29T06:32:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Bow Wow (Feat. T-Pain) - Better video

2012-05-29T06:31:00.003-04:00

TeCh - Apple pushes out iOS 5.1.1 update revision for GSM iPhone 4

2012-05-26T16:12:00.002-04:00

As noted in a tweet by iPhone hacker iH8sn0w, build number 9B208 is an iPhone 4 (GSM)-only version of iOS 5.1.1 that was quietly pushed out without explanation after reportedly being compiled on Thursday morning, reports The Next Web.

The original iOS 5.1.1 update was released on May 7 and brought various improvements including fixes for HDR photo and AirPlay video bugs.

iPhone 4 owners on GSM networks can download the over-the-air update via iPhone's Software Update found in the settings menu or by physically connecting the handset to iTunes.

Earlier today, the latest untethered Absinthe v2.0 jailbreak was made available, though it is unlikely that the iOS re-release is somehow related.

MuSiC - 50 Cent – Murder One (Video)

2012-05-26T16:10:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Slaughterhouse Freestyle Over “I Don’t Like” (Video)

2012-05-26T16:09:00.004-04:00

MuSiC - Childish Gambino – Black Faces f. Nipsey Hu$$le

2012-05-26T16:09:00.000-04:00

MuSiC - A Place To Bury Strangers - You Are The One

2012-05-26T12:24:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Blood Orange - I'm Sorry We Lied

2012-05-26T12:18:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Chris Brown - Sweet Love video

2012-05-25T10:05:00.002-04:00

TeCh - Fortune: Executives ‘Blown Away’ by Apple’s New Products

2012-05-24T19:57:00.003-04:00

Fortune has a lengthy profile of Tim Cook on tap in this week's issue, compiling reports of the CEO's performance through the first 7 months and how that has affected Apple. Mostly there's nothing new; Cook is an accessible, efficient CEO who is putting his expertise in factory production to good use. But there are a few bits of interest, including murmurs of Apple's future products.
As Fortune describes, Apple holds an annual event where it invites, according to its own criteria, the "Top 100" executives to check out the company's upcoming roadmap.

Participants left the Top 100 energized about Apple's near-term outlook, presumably having seen Apple's next iPhone and perhaps its long-awaited television product too. One veteran executive was "blown away" by what he had seen, says someone this executive spoke to afterward. Reports another person with access to top-level Apple executives: "People came away totally comfortable with where the company is headed."

Obviously there too many unknowns to form any definitive opinions, but for those who feared that the innovation and quality would evaporate from Apple products once Jobs died, even little nebulous anecdotes like this have to be encouraging.
But there are still concerns as well. For all the positive opinions about Cook's down-to-earth leadership style, Fortune says the engineers who thrived under Jobs are concerned that the increasingly corporate personality the company is taking on may not be for the best. For example, the growing presence of project managers and supply chain execs within the company, who are purported to be in every important meeting.

Indeed, allowing anyone to interfere with the creative-genius engineers is anathema to the Steve Jobs ethos at Apple. Sniffs one engineer: "This leads to more sharing of resources, which leads inevitably to fighting, which leads to weaselly excuses." They are normal corporate concerns, in other words, and very un-Apple-like.

But all in all, the general consensus is that Cook is still running a steady ship where employees are happy, and shareholders satisfied. But it will be the next several months of possible new products from Apple that will be the most telling. In any case, check out rest of Fortune's profile here, as it's chock full of info vital to understanding the world's biggest company.

(Info provided by Adrian Covert of Gizmodo)

MuSiC - Shanell (Feat Drake And Lil Wayne) - So Good / 6am video

2012-05-24T10:18:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Birdman (Feat. Lil Wayne And Mack Maine) - Dark Shades video

2012-05-24T10:15:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - Pusha_T-Exodus_23-1_(Feat_The-Dream) Drake DISS

2012-05-24T00:14:00.001-04:00

MuSiC - Omarion (Feat. Rick Ross) - Let's Talk video

2012-05-23T23:55:00.001-04:00

MuSiC - The Great Gatsby (Starring Leonardo Dicaprio) (Movie Trailer Feat. Jay-Z & Kanye West's "No Church In The Wild")

2012-05-23T10:37:00.000-04:00

MuSiC - Jay-Z & Kanye West – No Church In The Wild (Video Preview)

2012-05-20T20:54:00.002-04:00

MuSiC - DJ Khaled – Take It To The Head f. Chris Brown, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne (Video)

2012-05-20T20:53:00.002-04:00

TeCh - Steve Jobs biopic to begin filming in garage where Apple was born

2012-05-20T14:08:00.002-04:00

In an effort to be as accurate and authentic as possible, the early scenes of the film will be shot in Jobs' old Los Altos home and garage where he and Steve Wozniak put together the first Apple computer.

A Friday release from the movie's production company Five Star Feature Films said that production began immediately upon Jobs' retirement in 2011 and involved extensive research that included interviews with friends, co-workers and mentors.

Producers hope to create an accurate and rousing depiction of what they call the "30 most defining years" of Jobs' life in a film that is "dark, honest, and uncompromising."

Thus far, only the film's star Ashton Kutcher has been officially announced as being attached to the project, though it has beenrumored that broadway actor Josh Gad from the "Book of Mormon" was approached to take the role of Wozniak.

Executive producer Mark Hulme said in April that he hopes to get the film completed in time for a fourth quarter 2012 release.

Director Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) and Oscar-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter (Titanic) will bring tasked with bringing the defining moments of Jobs' life to the small screen. The project is said to focus on the innovator's tumultuous years between 1971 and 2000.

"jOBS" is set to start principal filming in June. | Source: TheJobsMovie.com

In an unrelated project, Sony is planning to make a major motion picture with its purchase of the movie rights to Walter Isaacson's best-selling authorized biography. The book will be adapted for the screen by acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for his work on The Social Network. It was reported on Thursday that Wozniak had been brought on as a"tutor", though it is unclear what duties that role entails. Sony has yet to announce a tentative release date.

(Info provided by AppleInsider staff)

MuSiC - Google cleared for Motorola purchase after receiving Chinese regulatory approval

2012-05-20T12:50:00.003-04:00

After receiving permission in February to move ahead with the merger from theEuropean Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, Google had been waiting for China as the final jurisdiction to sign off on the transaction. Chinese law requires that companies doing sales of more than $63 million domestic or and $1.5 billion globally must seek approve from its Ministry of Commerce.

“We are pleased the deal has received approval in all jurisdictions,” Motorola Mobility told Bloomberg in a statement that confirmed approval in China. “We expect to close imminently.”

Google said simply that its stance on the deal "has not changed" and that it is looking forward to completing the acquisition.

According to the report, China's Ministry of Commerce declared that Google must keep its Android mobile operating system free and open for the next five years as a condition of the approval.

Google announced last August that it had agreed to buy Motorola for $12.5 billion in a move that would "supercharge the Android ecosystem" while allowing Motorola to continue to run as a separate business. Google CEO Larry Page also revealed that the acquisition was meant to "better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies."

Along with Motorola's cache of over 17,000 patents, Google will also pick up Motorola's legal disputes. As such, Google will face off against Apple once the deal is completed. Apple and Motorola are currently engaged in a complicated patent battle across multiple countries. Most recently, Apple succeeded in having a case against Motorola and HTC consolidated.

(Info provided by Josh Ong of AppleInsider)

TeCh - Apple patents multi-point camera focusing system for multitouch-equipped devices

2012-05-20T12:46:00.002-04:00

The awarded U.S. patent No. 2012/0120227 for "multi-point touch focus" describes a system that lets the user of a camera-equipped device select two or more areas of focus on a touchscreen which, when a picture is taken, are passed through a dedicated image processor to produce optimal sharpness and exposure for both regions.

The patent background mentions that as the capabilities of automated image capturing progresses, so do the "possibilities for capturing images not as desired by the photographer." To solve this dilemma, Apple proposes a solution that combines multitouch input, live-preview imaging and advanced auto-focusing algorithms and tracking assets.

From the patent abstract:

A camera includes a lens arranged to focus an image on an image sensor and a touch sensitive visual display for freely selecting two or more regions of interest on a live preview image by touch input. An image processor is coupled to the image sensor and the touch sensitive visual display. The image processor displays the live preview image according to the image focused on the image sensor by the lens. The image processor further receives the selection the regions of interest and controls acquisition of the image from the image sensor based on the characteristics of the image in regions that correspond to at least two of the regions of interest on the live preview image. The image processor may optimize sharpness and/or exposure of the image in at least two of the regions of interest. The image processor may track movement of the selected regions of interest.

As seen above, the patent calls for an image processor that continuously tracks the user-defined "regions of interest" in a combination of live image processing and auto-focus technology similar to that found in the iPhone 4S. Unlike the current handset, however, the focus will not be limited to center-weighting or face-detection and will in theory choose the best mix of camera settings to achieve the highest possible clarity in the multiple selected areas.

In order to facilitate the multi-point focus acquisition, the dedicated imaging processor calculates the two or more user-defined regions and adjusts the camera's focus drive to change the distance between the image sensor and the rear element of the lens. In addition, the regions' sizes can be changed on-the-fly by pinching the touchscreen, which will change how the imaging processor will weight the photo's overall focus.

Also noted was the ability to perform exposure adjustments using the "regions of interest" multi-point method. Currently, the third-party Camera+ app allows users to spot-meter a live image, but Apple's solution would take that functionality a step further by introducing multiple metering points.

Illustration of pinching to change "region of interest" size in Apple's multi-point touch focusing patent.
Source: USPTO

Because the system requires a significant amount of computing power, the patent suggests that a dedicated chip be used to process the raw sensor data as well as control the camera's operation. Past iDevices have all used the main SoC to process image data and a dedicated chip would likely yield quicker operation and higher quality pictures.

Apple took a giant step forward in mobile camera design with the 8MP unit found in the iPhone 4S. Reworked optics, a backlit sensor and an inline image signal processor are used to create images many consumers believe to be the best in the smartphone market.

It is unclear whether Apple will implement the newly patented technology in the next-gen iPhone rumored to debut sometime this fall, but the size of the imaging sensor, dedicated processing unit and new optics may be too large to fit into the expectedly thin chassis

(Info provided by Mikey campbell of Apple Insider)

MuSiC - A Day In the Life of ?uestlove

2012-05-20T12:42:00.003-04:00

Here’s a dope 20 min documentary on a day in the life of one of the busiest and most knowledgeable men in music, ?uestlove. Yes, per usual, there are commercials. Don’t let that stop you from watching this though. Everything from the origins of his name (first went by BrotheR ?), his health to his introduction to music which gave birth to his extensive knowledge of MUSIC are spoken on. Oh yeah, ?uest raps too, in case you didn’t know. Peace to Khal on the heads up.