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Brian Eno, widely known as the father of ambient music and one of the greatest musical minds of our contemporary epoch, is the composer of the music for the Windows 95 project. When he was approached in 1994 by designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk, he created the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, which was called The Microsoft Sound.



There’s a confession in the San Francisco Chronicle, where he said that “the idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I’d been working on my own music for a while, and was quite lost, actually, and I really appreciated someone coming along and saying “Here’s a specific problem – Solve it!” […] “And it must be 3¼ seconds long". I thought it was so funny, and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It’s like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to miscroseconds, at the end of this, that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then, when I’d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were, like, three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time”.

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Today, Brian Eno was once again approached by the musician/programmer Peter Chilvers, but this time to create one of the coolest iPhone applications that was ever designed. The project was dubbed Bloom and it’s “part instrument, part composition and part artwork”.

Most music-creation applications take an existing musical instrument and stuff it in a very awkward way into the phone, but compared to those Bloom creates from scratch an entirely new “instrument”, which is, of course, designed for the iPhone and for the iPhone only. A very important aspect is that everyone can play with Bloom, generating and visualizing ambient music. It’s a little bit hard to explain the mechanism, but you’re provided with a colored screen and a quiet drone and you should tap the screen in different places, at random, in order to generate sounds. The sounds you play repeat themselves from time to time, forming a composition.

When you get bored, you can either shake the screen and your work up until that moment will be cleared, or tap anywhere else, so that more sounds are added. If you’re not in an inspirational mood, you can also let Bloom create music on its own and listen to it, especially because the application comes up with a unique piece every time you run it. Once you have something you like, you have the possibility to freeze the piece you’ve created, so new notes will be no longer introduced. In addition, the tones correspond to colored spots appearing on your display and slowly fading.

If you are familiar with Eno’s work you might have expected this application as he has always been interested in exploiting the latest technologies and platforms for his artworks. As a consequence, you can now witness several Eno-inspired tools and toys available on Apple platforms.

Bloom is available on the App Store for $3.99 and addresses to all of you out there interested in ambient music or, why not, music in general.

(Source TheAppleBlog)

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This is indeed the price set for the world’s most expensive iPhone, which is available exclusively at Amosu Luxury, one of the top luxury customization companies founded by Alexander Amosu. It’s called Amosu Ultimo Diamond iPhone because it is decorated with 1179 dazzling 16.18 carat diamonds, handcrafted by some of the best specialists in this luxury side of art.

“Amosu Luxury is at the forefront of customisation and diamond encrustation, but we have our impersonators," declared Amosu. “Our diamond iPhone is a genuine and exclusive product that is designed to appeal to a select audience that is above the mass market.”

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On the world’s most expensive iPhone, 458 diamonds are surrounding the front face, while the rear bottom case is made of 18 carat solid white gold encrusted with 660 diamonds. In addition, the Apple logo is has 61 diamonds, and the handset is brought in a luxury wooden box.



Together with this special creation, customers receive one year’s complimentary VIP International Concierge Service available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, as well as a Luxury Network VIP Privilege card accepted by Lamborghini UK, Bombardier Skyjet International, Sunseeker Yachts, Oliver Sweeney, Holland and Holland, Selfridges and Ascot Horse racing.



The world’s most expensive iPhone is also the world’s most popular mobile handset, as well as world’s most advanced. It features multi-touch input, which allows you to control it using multiple fingers simultaneously, a 16-million colors display measuring 3.5 inches, the accelerometer technology for landscape mode, proximity sensor for automatic turn Off, multimedia player, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, the Mac OS X v10.4.8, email, a built-in 2MP camera, TV out, picture editor, Safari Internet browser, and up to 8 hours of talk time.

It's the most expensive iPhone but it has a very low price comparing to GoldVish Le Million, available at 1 million Euros.

According to Sprint, Samsung Instinct broke records after the release on the market. It was released on June 20 and became the fastest-selling EVDO handset in the first week of availability.The high-end functionalities that we saw during the Sprint’s live presentation we were invited at, plus the amazing price of just $129.99 with a 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate, convinced us of its upcoming success, but we would expect some numbers from Sprint, to backup its announcement.
And now it’s iPhone 3G’s turn to prove what it is capable of.

The latest Apple’s press release says that the company sold 1 million new iPhones with 3G capability in the first weekend, three days after the release to be more exactly, which is really impressive, but as we’ve expected, because the iPhone 3G had a longer promoting campaign than Samsung Instinct, plus that Apple had the first version available since a long time on the market.



iPhone 3G appeared at AT&T on July 11, at $200 for the 8GB model and $300 for the 16GB version with more storage, and is not available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, US and France, totalizing 21 countries. The price includes a 2-year contract.

"iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world."

The 3G technology support makes the transfer speeds 2 times faster than the previous model, and in addition it brings also built-in GPS, iPhone 2.0 software supporting Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, and access to 800 third party applications.

On July 11, the cool new iPhone 3G will be released on the market at a starting price of $199 via AT&T US for a new 2-year plan. Besides United States, the other countries that will have it starting on the same date are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and UK.



TeliaSonera, the telecommunication services provider for Nordic countries, Baltic countries, Spain, Russia and Turkey, announced that it will introduce the iPhone 3G on July 11 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, while later this summer it will arrive also in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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In addition to the known iPhone functionalities, the 3G-nabled model brings 2 times faster transfer speeds, built-in GPS module, the iPhone 2.0 software with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support, and lots of cool third party applications developed with the help of iPhone SDK.
It measures 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.48 inches at 4.7 ounces and sports a 3.5-inch multi-touch display.

Among its large capabilities list we enumerate accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, 5 hours talk time in 3G mode, 10 hours talk time in 2G mode, 300 hours standby, 7 hours video playback time, GPS, built-in 2MP camera, and picture geotagging. More 3G iPhone specs are available on BindApple.

The other countries that will welcome the new iPhone 3G are listed on the Apple's website.
Update: The 8GB model will be available at $199 and the 16GB model at $299, with the AT&T 2-year contract.