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DIY breakout dock looks to get professional sound out of iPad 2

by Mike Schramm (May 31st, 2011)

The iPad is an excellent device for creating and editing sound, but sometimes, just using that headphone port isn't enough. For that, DIY musician Qubais "Reed" Ghazala built this custom-made iPad dock, which plugs the iPad into a whole row of various sound-related ins and outs, from a line ...

TUAW talks to T-Pain at CES ShowStoppers 2011

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2011)

We stopped by the ShowStoppers event at CES 2011 this evening, a special event in the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas for a few CES exhibitors and select press, and there we found none other than the prince of Auto-Tune himself, rapper T-Pain. He was there shilling a brand new microphone gadget that will ...

TUAW's Daily App: Voice Fantasy

by Mike Schramm (Nov 5th, 2010)

Voice Fantasy is a weird little app from Square Enix, creators of the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series of role-playing games. You may remember Song Summoner, the original RPG created for the iPod a while back (that later came to the iPhone as well). That game had you creating soldiers with ...

iPhone headphone mic works with new laptops (and previous MBPs?)

by Michael Rose (Oct 15th, 2008)

As our old friend Nik tipped us yesterday and Macworld's Jason Snell reported in his two-hour rundown of the MacBook Pro and MacBook updates, there's a stealth feature with these machines that is sure to please iPhone owners: the $29 US Apple Stereo Headset, included with the iPhone, works as a ...