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So we always hear about how hard it is to get an iPhone app approved by Apple, but here’s an interesting case; an 11-year-old boy managed to not just write an app, but get it approved, and now he’s donating some of the proceeds from the sale of that app to a children’s hospital.

This kid didn’t just teach himself how to program, but he also managed to get the app approved, something that many adults can’t seem to manage. The app is called iSketch and it’s a drawing and painting program with your choice of brushes, and colors, along with the ability to send your drawings via email. Now 11 year old Cameron has committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of his app to the Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA in Westwood and Santa Monica. That’s something you have to respect no matter how old you are. Normally we find it hard to get excited about iPhone apps (well, except for Button) but this is something worth passing on, if only to help Cameron with his donations. If you want to know more, here’s a link to his blog as well.

Here’s the letter we got today from Cameron’s father:

Hi.

My son Cameron is 11 years old and, last year, he had a medical problem that prevented him from participating in the physical activities he otherwise enjoys. (He is nearly fully recovered.) During that time, Cameron became interested in computers, and he began to read anything he could get his hands on. He watched Stanford University professors on iTunes, scoured the web for articles on programming and taught himself several different programming languages. (Neither my wife nor I have any idea how to program.) Cameron began to focus on the iPhone and iPod touch devices as the “apps” offered for sale for use on those devices seemed really cool to him. He began to work on a few different apps. After completing some summer camps on programming and continuing to read and learn, Cameron finalized an app, which he calls iSketch, and submit it to Apple. The app, which is a painting/drawing program, was approved by Apple for sale on its App Store in December. (He has since updated it several times..)

Inspired by the care he received at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, Cameron has dedicated a substantial portion of the proceeds from his sales to purchase entertainment and electronic items for Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA’s Child Life/Child Development programs in Westwood and Santa Monica so that pre-teens and teens will have additional age-appropriate options available to them during their Hospital stays. Cameron’s sales so far have been good, but he hopes to accelerate them so that he can donate even more to the Hospital.

One thing that separates you from many artist in the hip hop and electronic world is your ability to do something truly memorable live — you use your midi controller as an instrument, improvising a unique set each night. While it is something we are starting to see a bit more of, it is still a relatively new and exciting direction in music. What was your early inspiration for this type of approach?
What inspired me to do live shows was actually going to this venue The Smell, in downtown LA. I started going there when I was in high school and saw a lot of DIY acts - lots of noise and punk artist, just doing their thing. I remember seeing this one artist that would do a whole set with a variety of pedals. I thought it was really cool that he could express himself like that, and do such a cool show with just one man.

Computer and music technology was also just booming with all the midi controllers and stuff at this time, and growing up this was just more affordable. So I started experimenting and getting into it — I just started doing it.

I understand that some of your early shows actually took place at The Smell. That is really interesting to me — while a lot of amazing artist got there start at the venue, it has never struck me as a super electronic or hip hop friendly place. How did the crowd react to your early performances there?
Every time I would go there it was just a random lineup - I’d play between a noise artist and a folk artist.

But I think my sound was a bit different then. Of course the backbone was hip hop, but it would be more melodic, and some of the songs also had some noise elements as well. I think people kind of got that.

These days you are affiliated with Low End Theory, a weekly party that LA Weekly described as The Smell's “beat-oriented little brother.” Do you see any room for this traditionally hip hop oriented event to put together these type of eclectic bills?
Definitely, and I know it has been done before. They have had a few bands there — School of Seven Bells and Health played, and a few other bands. But yeah, I would like to see more of that.

From start to finish, Drift is a distinctly solo affair. Have you thought at all about bringing in collaborators the next time around?
I have done some production work for a couple of LA based MCs, like Bus Driver and Nocando, and definitely want to get a few vocalist for the next record.

It is actually kind of funny. When I first started working with production software, my dream was pretty much do hip hop beats, like Timbaland or Neptunes — that’s what I grew up with. But the more I got into music, the more I started thinking –“how am I even going to get this music to these ?” So I just kind of went my own way, and started creating more songs. And that made me feel better than making something for someone else.

Is there anything that you are working on right now that we can look forward to hearing in the near future?
Well I am working on a record - it is probably going to come out early next year. I also have a remix EP on the way — so far it is Daedelus, this dubstep group from UK called 16Bit, Lorn, and hopefully some others. And I am working on a remix for Fever Ray — the song is called Keep the Streets Empty.

Sounds like you are keeping busy! There has also been a bit of buzz surrounding a synced visual show that you have been working on lately. Can you tell us a little bit about how that came about, and if we can expect to see it in SF anytime soon?

I got really inspired to do a visual show after I saw Cornelius play. At the time, my girlfriend had just graduated from the Art Center College of Design and was taking an internship to Seattle. We live in a two bedroom apartment, so to save on cost we needed someone to take over this room we had for a bit. Her classmate Adam moved in, and it turned out we were into a lot of the same music. So I just told him that I thought it would be cool if I could do something like this [visual show], and it turned out he was really into the concept as well — he was even exploring basing his thesis on the idea. So along with my girlfriend Julia, we just started throwing out ideas together — just brainstorming and experimenting and trying things out.

Julia and Adam actually both come with me when we do the live visual show. We are all controlling these visuals with three separate midi controllers, routed through this special software. I would say it is in the beta phase though. We probably have done it three times, and every time we did it we just learned so much from it. I think we only did it successfully once, which was the last time we did it. But yea definitely want to tour it, but it is just logistical issues — you know?

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French Press Coffee Pot

Perhaps there are others out there with my particular problem. You see, my significant other finds it ever more difficult to “put up with” my addiction not only to coffee, but to coffee makers. Ever since that fabled Ethiopian goat herder found his animals prancing and dancing around the coffee tree, humans have struggled to find the very best way to make those berries into a delicious drink.

As a side note, it's an interesting fact that for a long time, people made coffee into a drink without roasting the beans first. Of course, you would get the same benefit in terms of caffeine, but when it comes to taste and aroma, unroasted coffee beans leave something to be desired. In truth, coffee beans actually have to go through a lot of processing before they are ready to be turned into that delicious bewitching drink we all know and love.

The beans of the coffee plant are actually quite beautiful when they are on the tree. They look similar to the berries found on a holly bush, only slightly larger. Once the berries turn deep red, they are picked, dried, hulled, perhaps aged, and then they are finally roasted to perfection. It is interesting to note that coffee beans are shipped unroasted, i.e. in their “green” state. Before coffee beans are roasted they are extremely shelf stable. They can keep their essential oils nicely packed away for years if left raw. Once you roast them, however, they begin to lose their flavor quickly.

Okay, on to the topic at hand-coffee makers. I love them. I find it fascinating to see how different cultures use different methods to create their unique take on this beautiful drink. One of my favorite coffee makers is the beloved French press. You've probably seen this one before. It looks like a huge beaker with a plunger attached to the lid. The idea is you put your grounds in the beaker, add near-boiling water, stir, let it steep for four minutes, and then plunge the grounds down to the bottom. What could be easier, right?

That's the real beauty of the French press. It is simple, and that's why many connoisseurs consider it to be the absolute best way to sample coffee. Some of you might be asking why the French press is better than your standard drip machine. The answer is simple-essential oils! A drip machine that utilizes paper filters actually filters out some of the best flavors of the coffee. Paper filters work too good in that they essentially throw the baby out with the bathwater-so to speak. The French press on the other hand utilizes a wire mesh filter system that allows all of the essential oils to stay where they're supposed too, i.e. in the coffee.

I recently got the WinTV-PVR-USB2 MCE with a new Dell and was amazed at how easy it is to use. The controls are easy for the lay person, a nontechy like me. I found myself watching more TV on my computer than on my actual TV, especially when I could set the recorder to record a show that I was going to miss. It was a Tivo for my computer. I was able to have a window open on my computer with normal computing things, and one with a tv show or video playing.

This took little drag off my computer, and I was impressed by that. I thought that it would be a huge memory hog and take up some serious space. However, I can have a TV show on and surf the net without having any hesitation on either window.

The coolest feature is where it allows you to search for a particular actor. Say you are in the mood for a little Bruce Willis (I mean, isn’t everyone?). Just find him and highlight and the WinTV-PVR-USB2 MCE will search to see if he is on or, if not, when he will be on again and in what show. 

You then can set up a record feature for the next time he is on. I have several TV shows and movies now downloaded and saved to my computer which is very cool so that I can take my computer with me somewhere and watch movies if I so desire.

It comes with a remote control so that you aren’t tied to your computer keyboard to scan and search the program guide. After installing this to my computer, my husband and I ate up three hours just browsing around the software and the channels. We don’t even watch TV for three hours a night, yet this really interesting device just was so much fun to interact with and explore.

A cool recorder with a good decent price, I highly recommend this. If you are thinking that it is going to be too difficult to figure out to be worth your while, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

System Requirements
Pentium III 733MHz or faster
128 MB RAM minimum
10GB HD Free minimum
Windows XP/98SE/ME/2000
an available USB 2.0 or 1.1 port
Sound card
CD-RW or DVD writer to burn videos or TV shows onto Video CD, S-Video CD or DVD

Included in Package
WinTV-PVR-USB2 device with 125 channel cable ready TV tuner, FM receiver, MPEG-2 hardware audio/video encoder
Wall mounted power supply
remote control
1 meter USB cable
FM radio antenna
CD-ROM that has: WinTV application, WinTV scheduler, WinTV editor, and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2

USB TV Tuner

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Apple iPad’s most striking feature, its gorgeous 9.7-inch touchscreen display, uses liquid crystal display technology — but with a few unusual twists — to present a vivid image and a wide viewing angle.

“The iPad’s display uses the same capacitive touchscreen technology as the iPhone and iPod Touch,” says Vinita Jakhanwal, principal analyst for iSuppli. “At the same time, it offers a better picture quality than conventional LCDs.”

After months of speculation, Apple launched its tablet, the iPad on Wednesday.  The lightweight device (1.5 pounds) features a luminous touchscreen and a user interface similar to the iPhone. The iPad, which can cost $500 to $830 depending on the model, runs an expanded version of the operating system used in the iPhone.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad’s screen as a LED-backlit with In-Plane Switching (IPS). Jobs was referring to a type of LCD screen that is more often found in HDTVs than it is in mobile devices.

So-called twisted nematic LCDs have dominated consumer laptop and phone displays. The viewing angle on these screens is limited, ranging from 110 to 120 degrees. When the screen is viewed outside this optimal range, its colors can look “off” and the overall image is faded or invisible.

In-Plane Switching helps fix those problems. In IPS LCD screens, the crystal molecules are oriented so their motion is parallel to the panel, instead of perpendicular to it. For viewers, the result is a very wide viewing angle — up to 180 degrees — with brilliant color.

“TVs have always used some variation of IPS in their LCD screens but now we are seeing this move to smaller computing devices,” says Jakhanwal.

The iPad’s screen, though, doesn’t have a wide aspect ratio, which is unusual in the TV-display world, says research firm DisplaySearch. Instead of a 16:10 or 16:9 aspect ratio, the iPad screen uses a 4:3 ratio.

“Perhaps they were trying to find a middle ground between the requirements for books, magazines and newspapers and the requirements for video and gaming,” say analysts at DisplaySearch.

The iPad display has some other interesting features. It is arsenic- and mecury-free and has a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating, which Apple had introduced in the iPhone 3G S. The iPad’s 1024 x 768 display resolution, at 132 pixels per inch, has chunkier pixels than the iPhone 3G S, which has a smaller display but a resolution of 163 pixels per inch.

But that may not be a fair comparison, says Jakhanwal. “If you have a smaller form factor, you need a higher resolution to better read the information on the display,” she says. Also, she adds, “the iPad has a more vivid display than a laptop screen.”

The iPad’s display is likely sourced from LG Display and Innolux, says iSuppli.

The biggest disappointment for tech enthusiasts is the lack of an OLED screen option in the iPad. That should be no surprise, say DisplaySearch and iSuppli. Display manufacturers just don’t have the fabrication capacity to create large quantities of big OLED displays, says Jakhanwal.

“The single supplier for active-matrix OLED screen today, Samsung Mobile, current production capacity is all taken up by the mobile phone market,” she says. That means large volumes of very small screens.

“It’s unlikely they will scale back on that to produce lower volume, larger displays for Apple.”

Sony also produces OLED screens but in limited quantities, largely for its own products, like the Sony XEL-1.

Though Apple showed the iPad’s potential as an e-book reader, iSuppli and DisplaySearch remain skeptical about it. LCD screens, even in black-and-white mode, get washed out in bright sunlight. And if users turn on the backlight to improve the contrast, they are likely to draw down the device’s battery. On top of that, reading on an LCD means you’re staring into a light source, which produces more eyestrain than reading words by reflected light, as you do with printed pages or E Ink displays like those used in the Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader.

“Ultimately, reading for a few hours on a handheld LCD screen can be quite a strain,” says Jakhanwal.

See Also:

• Live Coverage: Apple’s Special Tablet Event
• Would You Buy an iPad? Wired Readers Weigh In
• With iPad, Apple Still Has a Fatal Attraction for AT&T
• Give Us Your Personal Download On the iPad
• A Closer Look at Apple’s New Tablet, the iPad

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

Laptop TV Tuner

Sony L Series All-In-One Touch-Enabled HD TV/PC At CES 2010

Touchscreen devices are all the rage right now and when you throw in a quad band processor, blu-ray and top notch graphics, what you end up with is a Sony All-In-One L Seriesd desktop that’s worth a closer look.

The Sony L Series All-In-One was shown off at CES 2010 and offers a blu-ray drive, while running on an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, showing off a NVIDIA graphics card and an NTSC / ATSC TV Tuner.

The screen in question is a 24 inch (16:9) Widescreen HD display that offers smooth touchscreen interfacing with quick response times and overall great output for both videos and desktop applications.

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Pc TV Tuner

I'm assuming the people reading this are not people that have done this before, so this article will be to the point and less focused on the technical terms that you may not heard about. So please take this guide as a short reference guide but not your “bible” on how to install mobos (motherboards, for short). Also, the guide is assuming you are getting a current motherboard, not one that is 5-6 years old.

Tools

phillips screw driver (preferably automatic and cordless)

portable flash light (for reading those dark, shady areas of the motherboard)

Preparation

The first thing you should do before doing this new personal computer upgrade by yourself is…back up your data first! Changing your own motherboard is a risky operation. Unexpected situations like static, power surges, liquid accidents, etc an ruin you from the start so please back up your data to cd, dvd, or an external hard drive just in case.

True, you are not changing your hard drive, but keep in mind changing your motherboard usually involves re-installing your operating system! It's been my experience where I have had successful mobo installations, but 9 times out of 10, once your hard drive is connected to the new motherboard, windows will either not start, or bsod messages appear (BSOD = Blue Screen of Death error messages) which force you to re-install your os! (os = operating system) So back up your data, especially if you are running Windows XP. When re-installing Windows XP, it always formats your drive, which loses all your data.

The second thing you should do is research your new motherboard. Make sure it's the one you really want. Keep in mind there are mobos designed for the intel processor and mobos designed for the amd processor. There are no mobos that can work with both.

Also, decide how many ram memory slots you want to have. Most of the cheap mobos you get from stores that sell “combo deals” with the cpu processor and mobo tend to give you the cheaper priced motherboards and give you only 2 ram slots. Normal motherboards have 4 ram slots so you have more room for expansion later on.

You may not know that most of today's motherboards have many features built-in to save you money. I've seen all of them have built-in sound, lan and some even have built-in video! Please note even if you pick a mobo with built-in video, you are not stuck with only using that video option. You can always disable it in the bios setup screen when booting up your computer. Many times the mobo is smart enough to disable this for you when you install a separate video card of your choice.

Installation

The first part to installing a new motherboard is removing the old motherboard and other computer parts. Remove the cpu fan and processor (carefully!), the ram modules, the power supply cables, the computer case wires, the video card, any other pci cards (soundblaster card, tv tuner card, usb cards, etc) and put them in a safe place for later use.

Once those parts are removed, you can remove the old motherboard by unscrewing all the screws. Now, you can prepare to put in the new motherboard.

Your motherboard manual is a must read. Read through it carefully and study the schematics thoroughly before proceeding. The manual may surprise you unexpectedly on things you might have to get or do later. For example, the mobo might not be compatible with your old ram memory modules or it may not have as many USB ports you want. The biggest surprise for newbies is the video card slot. Nowadays, many of today's mobos support the new video card standard, pci-e or PCI-Express. If you are expecting to put in your old video card, which is probably an AGP card, then you are out of luck and need to get a new PCI-e video card before you can proceed further. There are still vendors that sell new mobos that have the AGP slot, but they are fast becoming obsolete.

There will be a new motherboard aluminum template that needs to replace the one you had on your case. Switch this out since the positioning of the motherboard will be different . Align the copper screw holders with the holes on your motherboard, put the new mobo on top to see the positioning and begin fastening the screws to the mobo and case firmly.

Refer to your motherboard manual again and leave it on the page showing the information on how to attach the pc case wiring. Sometimes the mobo will clearly indicate in English where to put the wiring, but other times you have to look at the manual to know the correct position. You will need to do this when installing the front USB wiring later.

All done!

I will have another article on how to put the other parts on after you install your motherboard. I hope this guide proves helpful to you.