Samsung announced the launch of its new Samsung ATIV Q tablet that runs both Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2. The 13.3" panel features a 3200 x 1800 resolution (276 PPI). Impressive! Android runs in a VM on top of Windows 8. Networking, storage and CPUs are all virtualized resources. There's even a dedicated key on the keyboard to switch between OS's.  The Samsung  ATIV Q is powered by a Intel Haswell Core i5 processor, and features include 4GB of DDR3L, a 128GB solid state disk (SSD) and connections for USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and HDMI outputs are provided as well as 720p HD video and lastly a microSD card slot for expansion. Samsung says it'll get up to 9 hours of battery life. No available date for release or a price tag.  So the question would be: would this be something that you would want to give you the experience of working on a laptop, but also turning it into a portable Android tablet?

We children of the 90's remember pogs, troll dolls and pump-up shoes and more...  So does Internet Explorer and Microsoft wanted to remind you of that with a new campain titled "The Browser You Loved to Hate". It focuses on children who grew up in the 1990's and what it had to offer back then. Check out the video below:

It seems the iPhone gets another sweet music app that the Android lacks, although I'm hoping Swedish Propellerhead (the makers of Reason) will make it for the Android as well. Figure is not your run of the mill beat grid style music app. This app is not only eye popping but it has controls that will make it easy for anyone to make music in minutes. They even have a thorough overview on their site on how to operate Figure and for a .99 cent app. You can't beat this (pun intended).

“I think we as an industry haven’t been that great about inviting people in who don’t have deep dreams about becoming big stars or understanding everything about music production, it’s time for that: I think everyone should be invited to be part of this. Figure is a small step towards that.” – says chief executive Ernst Nathorst Böös.

Source: is50

Do you think the world of DJ'ing will be using multi-touch surfaces in the future? In this video the user is demoing a touch screen called the Token. It was designed by Yöyen Munchausen. It's a large multi-touch screen interfaced aimed at performance. I wasn't able to find pricing on one of these bad boys, but I sure do want one.

The software being used is called the Emulator ($149), it's a DJ Software designed to work with tablet PCs. It's basically a multi-touch MIDI controller (for Windows 7). They also just released a new version 1.5 that now supports Native Instruments and Traktor 2 Pro. They are still working on coming out with a Mac version and also to support other DJ software's like Virtual DJ and more. They tried to make Emulator more intuitive and easy to use so DJ’s can begin playing on a touch screen interface immediately. Whether they use a tablet PC, touch screen monitor or their holographic looking transparent touch surface. This software will turn a few finger swipes into a new style of lights and sounds. Do you want to buy one now?

On Iso50 this morning Tycho released a video of raw footage for his new Tycho Live Set. The song that is playing in the video is from his up and coming fourth album. To catch this new live set you'll be able to see it at his next show in San Francisco on April 7th.

The new visual design for his live sets are being generated on the fly with VDMX effecting / compositing video on a Macbook Pro. Everything is being triggered / synced by another machine via MIDI over IP running Reaper which is handling all the audio duties. He stripped down the entire live set — audio and video — and started from scratch. With the new album pretty much wrapped up he decided to rework the visuals to go with all the new material and to have everything work better with the new live band.

From the article I read it looks like Tycho is looking to finish up and release the new album in the summer of 2011. It seems far away at this point but it will slowly creep up quickly and we'll be able to enjoy some new Tycho music. If you've never seen Tycho's Live Set. I have added some video's from when I saw him in San Fransciso at the FITC event last year.

Video From FITC Event

It has been some time since I have done anything related to web design. So let me get started then and give you some different image gallery options to use on your website. jQuery image galleries and sliders are very common on adding to your portfolio sites and are also useful for any other type of site for displaying images and photos. They also provide a better user experience and make viewing images easier and more stylish to your website.

So being in the spirit of the almighty Monday. I have found a couple of JQuery image sliders and galleries plugins that can give your galleries a much needed stylish look to go with that stylish website.

Supersized

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Supersized is a full-screen slideshow jQuery plugin. It supports images preloaded with image cycling with transitioning effect.

CU3ER Image Slider

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This image slider was initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides, turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotators.

Galleria

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Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded.

Cycle

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The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects.

Piecemaker XML Gallery

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Piecemaker is an open source 3D Flash image rotator gallery. I actually think this one is pretty neat. Check out the demo.



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