Casio sets DJs free

Casio Sets the Stage for High-Mobility DJ Equipment

New All-in-One VJ/DJ Controller and Tough Performance Headphones Kick Off Winter NAMM 2014

Casio America announced the launch of two new products in its XW series that were developed with the on-the-go professional DJ in mind. The XW-J1 is an all-in-one controller for iOS devices and PCs, while the XW-H1 are tough performance headphones. Both the XW-J1 and XW-H1 will be exhibited in Casio's booth (#5900) during Winter NAMM at the AnaheimConvention Center, January 23-26, 2014.

Check out the Apple app for controlling the devices HERE

"Casio is thrilled to offer innovative new products to support professional DJs and music enthusiasts with a mobile lifestyle," said Stephen Schmidt, vice president of Casio's Electronic Musical Instruments Division. "We are committed to providing advancements to the XW series, which is comprised of synthesizers, controllers and headphones that will enable DJs and musicians to create their own unique sound."
The XW-J1 is an all-in-one VJ/DJ controller for creating remixes of audio and video from music players, smartphones, and PCs that supports OS X, iOS, and Windows platforms. Musicians can mix music using the djay app, transforming their Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a full-fledged DJ application by using all the songs from their iTunes library to get ready to rock their next party with unprecedented ease.  In addition, musicians can mix videos using the vjay video mixing app from Algoriddim GmbH, transforming their iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a mashup application for their music and videos.

XW-G1 - Price $799.99

For on-the-go professional DJs, the XW-J1 allows for a cool club scene to be created in virtually any venue with minimal gear. The XW-J1 connects to a Mac with a USB cable or to an iPad, iPhone, or iPod device with a built-in 30-pin dock connector and features plug-and-play capability to instantly take control of the djay software or app. Musicians are ready to mix and scratch with no bothersome set-up procedure. The controller fully supports all djay platforms (Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone) and seamlessly integrates with iTunes so musicians can mix music from their iTunes library. Along with instant access to their iTunes library, the integration also provides musicians with hands-on browsing, easy in-track searching and the ability to save unique mixes directly in their iTunes library.

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For easy mixing, the XW-J1 delivers all the legendary quality of Vestax professional hardware. The mixer controls are built using high quality faders and rotary knobs. Additionally, the controller features sound blending with EQ and filters, Harmonic Match™ for in-key mixes and tempo detection. For easy remixing, the XW-J1 features advanced audio FX, auto-loop, a live sampler and scratch jogwheels.

XW-P1 - Price $699.99

Along with the XW-J1 controller, the XW-H1 tough performance headphones were also designed for theon-the-go professional DJs and music enthusiasts as they are tough, lightweight, and combine high audio fidelity with superb usability. The headphones provide balanced, clear sound and were designed by audiophiles to reproduce accurate, natural sound across the entire audio spectrum. From crisp, clear trebles to rich, deep bass notes, the headphones meet the most exacting standards of audio quality so musicians hear music exactly the way they intended. For encapsulated comfort and focused listening, the headphones feature comfort-fit ear pads that were selected through extensive testing to be comfortable to wear even during long mixing sessions. They also feature a detachable, tangle-free cable that makes it easy to store while on the move and a folding headband for easy portability and protection.

The XW-J1 retails for an MSRP of $399.99, while the XW-H1 retails for an MSRP of $159.99. Both products will be available in March online and through specialty music dealers. For additional information regarding Casio's portfolio of electronic musical instruments, please visit www.casiomusicgear.com .

About Casio America, Inc. 
Casio America, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions. Established in 1957, Casio America, Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to fulfill its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casio.com.

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Emotions Analytics App

Moodies - The World's First Emotions Analytics App For iOS

App Analyzes Over 400 Emotions, Tells Users How People Are Feeling

Beyond Verbal, the Emotions Analytics world leader, has unveiled its first mobile application, named Moodies, to bring the patented technology to consumers on the go. The app extracts, decodes, and measures a full spectrum of human emotions from their raw voice in real time as they speak. With the click of a button and about 20 second of speech, Moodies provides users the option to analyze their own voice as well as understand the emotions of individuals around them.

The app's technology is based on Beyond Verbal's 18 years of research by physicists and neuropsychologists, who studied more than 70,000 test subjects in more than 30 languages. Bundled into cloud-based API software, the company's emotions detection engines allow devices and applications to understand an individuals' emotional dimension including mood, attitude, and decision-making characteristics as they speak.

The Beyond Verbal team believes Moodies will open consumers to explore the technology's potential in self evaluations, relationships, human resources, pitch feedback, language barriers and more. The app provides a running screen of results and allows users to share the resulted mood analysis through email or via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

"Over the past six months we have envisioned a world where our Emotions Analytics software is embedded into any voice-enabled device or platform. As we continue to reach additional markets and grow as a company, we believe this vision is coming to life," says Yuval Mor, CEO, Beyond Verbal. "Moodies offers everyone a chance to analyze their own emotions by simply clicking a button on their smart phone device. We envision Moodies as a front-runner to a new breed of emotionally-aware apps and invite third-party developers to join in, license the technology for their own solutions and use our API and SDK to access our engine. As the industry continues to evolve, we believe it's only a matter of time until we start seeing this sort of technology being integrated into a myriad of consumer and B2B product and service applications."

The company launched in May, 2013 and has closed $3.8 million round of funding led by prominent angel investors Kenges Rakishev, and Sami Sagol. Beyond Verbal licenses its technology, which holds four U.S. patents and allows third-party developers access through its API. The app is available on iOS and can be downloaded here.

ABOUT BEYOND VERBAL:
Launched in May 2013, Beyond Verbal is the developer and owner of a patented technology that extracts an individual's full set of emotions and character traits, using their raw voice in real-time, as they speak. Beyond Verbal's software was founded based on 18 years of research by physicists and neuropsychologists, who studied more than 70,000 test subjects in more than 30 languages. The ability to extract, decode, and measure human moods, attitudes and decision-making characteristics, introduces a whole new dimension of emotional understanding, called Emotions Analytics. Led by a veteran management team of industry professionals, the company's goal is to leverage its unique abilities to impact a new multi-billion market of emotionally-enhanced applications installed in practically any voice enabled, voice activated, or voice controlled device. For more information visit www.beyondverbal.com.

Download the app on the Apple app store for free HERE

from Developer
Your mood in 20 seconds. Just press a button and talk.

Intrigued by emotions?
Curious to understand how you and your colleagues feel as you speak, right now?

Moodies is providing the answer - all with a press of a button.

Based on 18 year of research into the science of emotions, Moodies analyses and presents the current emotional state of speakers in real time, as they speak. Based on Beyond Verbal’s award winning Emotions Analytics cloud-based engine, Moodies listens to vocal intonations to understand our emotions as we speak – because it's not what we say, but HOW we say it.

At the press of a button, Moodies requires just 15 seconds of speech to provide a deep, highly granular mood analysis which includes:
-Our Primary Mood: The speaker's most expressed current emotional state
-Our Secondary Mood: The speaker’s less expressed mood.
-Overall mood group categorizations.


Key Moody features include:
- Quick Analysis: Single automatic analysis by tapping the LISTEN button
- Continuous Analysis: Multiple and continuous analysis by pressing and holding (or pressing and locking) the LISTEN button.
- Analysis Library: Vault of emotion analyses complete with edit, tag and management features of analysis files.
- Replay of previously recorded analyses.

- Sharing of analyses by email, Facebook and Twitter.

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Happy Birthday MAC

The first Macintosh computer was introduced 30 years ago today. Happy birthday MAC. We can't wait to see what you come up with next.

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“We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people — as remarkable as the telephone.”
— Steve Jobs

1984 - Original Mac - The one that started it all wasn’t just a computer. It was a declaration that the power of the computer now belonged to everyone. At the time, most people didn’t even know how to use one. But thanks to the simple graphical interface of the Macintosh, they didn’t have to. It was approachable and friendly, starting with the smiley face that greeted you.

1985 - Macintosh XL - The design of the Macintosh XL was based on the predecessor of the original Macintosh, the Apple Lisa. Modified to run the Mac operating system, the Macintosh XL featured 1MB of RAM, a 400K disk drive, and a beautiful (for the time) 12-inch monochrome display.

1986 - Macintosh Plus - The first expandable Macintosh, it introduced the SCSI port to the Mac, enabling the connection of external hard drives, scanners, modems, and printers. Thanks to Apple’s new LocalTalk networking technology, anyone with PageMaker software and a LaserWriter printer could design and print documents with beautiful text and graphics. Desktop publishing was born.

1986 - Macintosh II - The Macintosh II featured a new modular design that could support a much broader range of displays — including some that offered color. With the simple addition of a video card, the Macintosh II could display 256 glorious colors from a palette of 16.7 million.

1989 - Macintosh Portable - The Macintosh Portable was Apple’s first battery-powered computer. Weighing almost 16 pounds, it wasn’t nearly as portable as today’s notebooks. But that didn’t stop it from being the first off-the-shelf notebook to be taken into space, aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 1991. Among other things, it was used to send the very first email from space.

1990 - Macintosh LC - The Macintosh LC dramatically lowered the price of a color-capable Mac, making it available to many more people. Color opened a new world of possibilities, letting users create things they could only imagine before. This computer also introduced built-in audio input to the Mac, making it easier to treat sound as a powerful creative tool.

1991 - PowerBook - The PowerBook was the first truly portable Macintosh. Its innovative design, with the keyboard positioned close to the screen, allowed people to rest their palms while they typed. And the rolling trackball made it possible to move around the screen with more precision than ever.

1992 - Macintosh Quadra 950 - The first Macintosh in a tower design, the Quadra 900 series featured an Ethernet port for high-speed connections to computer networks. For sheer power, it left the previous-generation Macintosh IIfx in the dust — quickly becoming the creative tool of choice for photographers, publishers, and ad agencies.

1993 - Macintosh TV - Not to be confused with today’s Apple TV, this was the first Macintosh with built-in television capabilities. It was an early example of Apple designers combining multiple devices into one, and was the only black Macintosh desktop until the introduction of  the new Mac Pro.

1994 - PowerBook 540c - As the Macintosh turned 10 years old, it showed no signs of slowing down. The PowerBook 540c wasn’t just the first PowerBook with an LCD display and Ethernet — it introduced the revolutionary trackpad that’s still used in notebooks today.

1997 - Macintosh - This Macintosh, celebrating Apple’s 20th birthday, wasn’t like other computers of the day. In fact, it wasn’t like any other Macintosh. It was personally delivered and set up by a white-glove concierge service. With its unique form and custom Bose sound system, it represented a futuristic vision of the desktop computer.

1998 - iMac - The original iMac marked the beginning of a new chapter for Apple and computers. The lowercase i in its name signaled something new and important — the Internet — and showed that the iMac was built for the next age of communication. It was the first computer to do away with floppy disks and popularize the USB port. Its egg-shaped, all-in-one design wasn’t like anything anyone had seen before. The translucent shell came in an eye-catching Bondi Blue, with other colors added later. But the most beautiful part of iMac was its simplicity: You just plugged it in and turned it on.

1999 - Power Mac G4 - The Power Mac G4 was heralded as the world’s first personal supercomputer. It was so powerful it was even classified as a weapon by the U.S. government. Paired with Final Cut Pro, which also debuted this year, it brought Hollywood-quality editing capabilities to a desktop computer.

2001 - PowerBook G4 - The titanium PowerBook G4 was a big departure from the previous black curvilinear models. It was the world’s first widescreen notebook. And it shipped with Mac OS X, a complete reengineering of the operating system that introduced the Aqua user interface and the Dock. The year 2001 also brought iTunes, which would go on to revolutionize the music industry.

2002 - iMac - This iMac looked like no Mac before. Or after. It was the first iMac that featured an LCD screen — an innovation that led to a much thinner profile. When the display was mounted on an adjustable arm above a white hemisphere, the unique form really took shape. It wasn’t just a new iMac, it was instantly iconic.

2003 - Power Mac G5 - The Power Mac G5 was the first desktop computer with 64-bit architecture. It also introduced the tower design that would define pro computing in the years to come. Inside its beautiful anodized aluminum chassis was amazing power and expandability and the engine that would propel a decade of creativity.

2005 - iMac G5 - The iMac G5 was a completely new design, with the logic board mounted behind the flat-panel display and the computer elevated above the desk on an aluminum foot. A remote, which could magnetically attach to the side, gave users one-click access to their photos, music, and videos from anywhere in the room. This was also the first Mac with a built-in iSight camera, integrated with iChat, so anyone could start video chatting right out of the box.

2006 - MacBook Pro - The change to an Intel processor gave this Mac notebook such a massive boost in performance, it needed a new name: MacBook Pro. With up to quadruple the speed of the PowerBook G4, professionals were no longer chained to their desks and had the freedom to create anywhere with a notebook.

2008 - iMac - The redesign of the iMac was radical in every way. It was housed in a stunningly slim enclosure of pure glass and aluminum. In fact, only one screw was visible, and that was on the bottom. Despite its thin profile, it was an incredibly powerful computer for both work and home.

2009 - MacBook Air was the first unibody notebook, crafted from a single piece of aluminum. Instead of a removable battery, it had a streamlined, built-in one. The popularity of downloadable music meant an optical disc drive was no longer needed. And the ubiquity of Wi-Fi networks made an Ethernet port unnecessary. The result of all this? The world’s thinnest notebook. 

2014 – Mac Pro - The new Mac Pro isn’t just a big leap forward, it’s a huge change in direction. It takes the most advanced technologies available today and puts them together like no computer before it. With two workstation-class graphics processors, incredibly fast flash storage, and unprecedented expansion capabilities, it’s designed to create on an epic scale. And we can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it.

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Megacity HD tablet certified

By ColePowered

Price - $0.99
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Category - Game

Greg's Review
Megacity HD game app is tablet certified.

Here is a great mash-up game that has me hooked big time. A combination of Simcity and Tetris. Can you believe that combo? Better than chocolate and peanut butter. You have to match up residential, commercial, and industrial properties to clear neighborhoods. The more you clear the higher the score and hard the play. Easy to learn but impossible to master.

Warning! Do not start playing this game unless you have a bunch of free time because it will suck you in!

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From Developer
"addictive iPhone gaming at its peak." 9/10 - AppGamer

"going to make the hours melt away." 9/10 - 148Apps

MegaCity is a highly original and fun 'one-more-go' style city building puzzle game.

It's easy to learn but hard to master and features gameplay that sees you inadvertently creating your own puzzles!

Place requested buildings in the queue to earn points, but watch out: Nobody wants to live next to a landfill site or industrial estate! Everybody wants a nice park or school nearby, but the city's budget is limited.

This is where you come in...

Megacity is a game of planning and thinking ahead to squeeze the most points of out your citizens by clever town planning. And if it all goes wrong, it's their fault for electing you mayor, right?

Megacity is a real thinking person's game, which appeals to and is suitable for all ages.

Features:
-Dozens of different buildings
-10 unlockable buildings
-New challenge puzzle mode
-Achievements, local & online high scores.

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