Sunday
May212017

Apple Music reportedly stopped offering free three-month trial in three countries

If you want to try out Apple Music for the first time, you still get a free three-month trial here. Unfortunately, for those in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland, that’s been taken away. Instead of the first three months being free, Apple is charging $0.99 in Australia, 0.99 € in Spain, and Fr. 0.99 in Switzerland. The tech company hasn’t commented yet on this changes but 9to5Mac speculates the move is most likely fueled by competition. Music streaming service Spotify charges the same small fee for three months in the same countries. It’s unclear if Apple Music plans to introduce this scheme to other countries. But if ever they will, we should hear about it at WWDC next week.

Sunday
May212017

ROLI NOISE comes to Android, with a few caveats

Musician Grimes has been quoted before saying “ROLI BLOCKS will democratize music production.” And now the app to control this modular music studio, which makes it easy for anyone to make music, is on Android. The ROLI NOISE app comes to Google’s mobile platform but with a limitation: a compatible device. ROLI is only letting devices with “Pro Audio” to run the app and this is defined as a “set of requirements that handle complex audio data in real time.” And at the moment, there are only three devices that meet these requirements: Google Pixel, Google Pixel L, and Samsung Galaxy S8. According to ROLI, they are testing more devices to add to the list.

ROLI NOISE is currently in beta so you can’t expect it to work similar to how the iOS app does. But if you have a compatible phone and just want to try it out, the app is free to download and still works without the extra BLOCKS.

Source: Android Police

Saturday
May202017

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 05/14-05/20

Saturday
May202017

Bug exposed email addresses and phone numbers of Vine users

It looks like shutting down the service isn’t the worst thing to happen to Vine. Vine’s owner Twitter has started sending out a mass email to Vine users alerting them that a “bug,” which they say was “immediately fixed,” briefly let third parties see email addresses and phone numbers linked to Vine accounts. But they don’t make any mention of passwords being compromised. They did want to emphasize the window also lasted “less than 24 hours.”

If you’re notified that means you might have been affected. But it also doesn’t mean that your information has been misused. What Vine warns about is being suspicious of any emails or messages from unknown senders. And reminds its users that “Vine will only send communications from @twitter.com, and we will never send emails with attachments or request your password by email.”

Source: Vine on Medium