Techaura

I had the joy and pleasure of spending the day at UCLA with my 17 year old daughter Amanda who’s been accepted into Psychology . UCLA has the #1 psychology program in the nation and it was no small feat. Of 44,000 applicants UCLA only accepted about 4200 new students and Psych had to be the toughest.

I have been pouring over all the DJ applications that are floating around out there and stumbled onto this little gem. It’s called AlphabetSoup from OzMusicCode and it’s basically a loop/cart system that can be triggered from you keyboard. It has tons of power in this little bugger. Full AudioUnits support, pan/volume per clip and a stunningly cool little interface. The great thing is that you can have sets of these keyboards… and beyond even that it has the ability to save your entire session as a mix.

My only complaint it’s expensive…$59.00 relatively speaking. It’s especially expensive considering they used a ton of GPL audio libraries. Drop the price guys and you could sell a bunch of these to Podcasters everywhere.

[UPDATE]

New version just released with JackOSX support! Thanks to Leigh and the team.

I’ve done a very brief podcast console demonstration as a show… primarily focused on audio routing and recording including Skype. Check it out!

Direct mp3 download here.

I just found this little gem at Wal-Mart. The interesting thing is it’s something that I’d talked about months ago on my podcast. How hard would it be to add a USB Flash drive port on existing automotive CD players? A lot of them already have MP3 codec capabilities in them for MP3 CD’s. Well check this little bugger out… it’s an FM Transmitter/MP3 player that has no built in media but does have a USB slot.

It was around 30 bucks… I haven’t picked it up yet to check out but will do so sometime this week. Stay tuned.

[UPDATE]

I finally went down and picked one of these up and it works well. I’m in the Los Angeles area and have a fairly congested radio marketplace but I was able to pull in on a couple stations. I’ve had an iTrip for my iPod for awhile and this works a whole lot better for me. If you have a USB key fob drive just laying around this thing is worth the 29 bucks.

You can get more information here.

Not two days ago was I postulating that this was around the corner. It’s so historical.. I remember in the 80′s where they did the exact same thing… around 80 bucks a share and 2:1 split.

Two-for-One Stock Split: “Apple’s Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of the Company’s common stock and a proportional increase in the number of Apple common shares authorized from 900 million to 1.8 billion. [Feb 11, 2005]“

(Via Apple Hot News.)