Cutting-Edge Curriculum with Final Cut Pro X
Over the past 30 years, Full Sail University has trained tens of thousands of students for careers in film, broadcast, and media. The school has always focused on addressing the real-world needs of the industries it feeds, adjusting its courses and tools to match. And since a new class of students begins at Full Sail every month, the university has frequent opportunities to update its curriculum. For the 6,000 students currently at...
Hundreds greet Apple’s new store in Palo Alto
A queue of several hundred people, snaking around the block, greeted Apple’s new store in Palo Alto, California, on Saturday morning. Clapping and cheering, now a common sight at Apple store openings, greeted the first customers through the door at 10 a.m. The store, which was literally under wraps until Saturday’s opening, has an all-glass facade and roof and makes a bold statement on Palo Alto’s leafy University...
Invisible’s ‘The New Obsolete’ showcases self-constructed instruments, touts a typewriter-driven piano (video)
By Billy Steele posted Oct 28th 2012 6:45PM If you’re hip to repurposing old tech for new inventions, Invisible is right up your alley. The Greensboro-based unit calls themselves a “mechanical music museum” and “a reverse engineered folk science daydream” when describing their elaborate set of sound-making contraptions and recycled video equipment. The outfit’s effort The New Obsolete was part of...
Google puts Hurricane Sandy on its crisis map, hopes to help you weather the storm
By Sean Buckley posted Oct 28th 2012 8:13PM Just because Google abandoned its October Android event doesn’t mean it’s left its users out to dry — Hurricane Sandy now has its very own Google Crisis Map. It isn’t the first time Mountain View has lent its mapping tech to folks in harm’s way — survivors of Hurricane Issac used a similar Crisis Map to track the storm, follow public alerts and find...
Weekly Wrap: Giant Apple event, miniature iPad, and medium-sized Macs
Dont adjust your Retina display; Im not Lex Friedman, but this is still The Weekly Wrap. This week, Apple announced a slew of new products for you to spend your hard-earned money on, we took a look at some great new software and hardware, and what week would be complete without us showing you how to do things that youve never done before. Most of all, though, were just glad that Apple is now officially cool. Center stage Primadonna...
