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74iPhone as eBook?
How difficult would it be to put a web browser and a PDF reader in a wireless tablet-form with a really good display? Well, as it happens, that's been done now. It's called an iPhone.
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71Chord Progression and the Math of Music
Once it is possible to discuss intervals between notes and understand their relationship to one another within a certain key, it becomes possible to combine notes in different ways. Combinations of notes are...
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69Apple and Nintendo Innovation
Every so often the stagnant gives way to a moment of brilliance, and it is for this reason that we can believe that innovation, like hope, springs eternal. Fortunately for us, there have been two such moments recently. They are the Apple iPhone and the Nintendo Wii.
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68How do String Instruments Make Music?
String instruments, including guitars, violins, cellos and double basses must follow the same principle as woodwinds and brass instruments, and that is that the longer a sound wave, the lower the pitch. The...
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64How do Woodwind Instruments Make Music?
In order to understand how instruments make different sounds, it is necessary to understand one basic fact about acoustic musical instruments: the more distance that air must travel to produce a sound, the...
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67The iPhone Innovation Most People Probably Missed
The best innovation of the iPhone improves the simple by making it even simpler.
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63How do Brass Instruments Make Music?
Brass instruments must abide by the same basic law of physics that woodwind instruments must: the further air must travel, the lower the pitch of the sound produced.Unlike woodwinds, however, brass...
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50Chord Progression and the Twelve Bar Blues
Most people listen to music as recreation. Music is a very powerful medium of expression and a profound art form. Some people, however, listen to music in order to understand it, and when music is heard...
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51Orchestral and Band Instruments You've Probably Never Heard Of
Most people know what a French Horn is. But do you know what an English Horn is? Benny Goodman was a very famous clarinet player. But did you know there is such a thing as a bass clarinet? Everyone has...
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55URLs run the Web E-Mail Browsers Shopping and even Videos on YouTube
There's billions of pieces of information on the web, but a very simple technology is used to find them every day. It's called a URL.
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