• Dual signal UHF high band
• Polar Pattern: Cardioid
• digital sound processing
• Outputs: Individual XLR outputs per channel, one 1/4” mixed output
• Frequency range: 614MHz-698MHz
• Frequency stability: ±0.005%
• Modulation mode: FM
• Maximum deviation range: ±25kHz with limiting compressor
• Frequency Response: 40Hz-20kHz
• Signal to noise ratio: 100dB
• Total harmonic distortion: <0.5%
• Audio dynamic range: 90dB
• Service area: 200 ft
• Comes with two handheld microphones
• VU meter
• LCD display with microphone frequency
• Dimensions: 19”w x 1.75”h x 9.5”d
• Weight: 5 lbs
• 110V
• Technical pro’s microphones are preferred by sound professionals and performers. the innovative technology that is used always produces a proper translation to any voice and to any audience…and the sturdy design will give you confidence that your show or conference will always be a success. These same two elements can be found in the WM1201 professional UHF wireless Microphone System.This system comes complete with a base transmitter that has a 1U rack mountable design and 2 dynamic cardioid directional Ultra High Band Wireless Microphones. The base and microphones are both stylish and durable. The front of the base shows LED meters for both microphones and has two separate digital panels showing the frequency information. The cardioid directional design is meant to only translate a direct signal into the microphone. This will give you the ability to address a loud room like a club or large stage performance and not worry about any type of feedback. And if you are addressing a large room or audience no need to worry about any unwanted crowd noise getting picked up in your microphone!

  The benefits of a wireless microphone also include giving you the freedom you need to move around the stage or room without the hassle of messy wires. This is a huge plus if you are performing or need to address a large audience…move around freely without worrying about getting tripped up!

  In today’s world of technology and communication wireless signals can often be interrupted. In any given space and especially in densely populated areas like a city, the atmosphere is filled with various signals that can interrupt your equipment. The WM1201 uses a UHF design. UHF = Ultra High Frequency. A step above a normal VHF design, the UHF design has a much less chance of interference. UHF wireless microphones have the ability to use a much larger range of frequency spectrum as opposed to VHF microphones. Interference is a concern for everyone from high-level performers to professionals addressing a crowd…it can ruin a performance or speech. The WM1201 will give you the confidence you need that this won’t be an issue! And at a price that won’t break the bank!

No matter if you’re drinking vodka, gin, rum, or whiskey, your booze of choice came from a plant of one form or another. the Drunken Botanist ($12) takes a look at this grand tradition of fermentation and distillation, with tons of information and stories about various drinks. And should you think it’s all just boring facts, rest assured that the 400-page book also contains over 50 drink recipes, as well as growing tips for those looking to grow their own garnishes. Source:The Drunken Botanist

Technical pro’s microphones are preferred by sound professionals and performers. the innovative technology that is used always produces a proper translation to any voice and to any audience…and the sturdy design will give you confidence that your show or conference will always be a success. These same two elements can be found in the WM1201 professional UHF wireless microphone System.

This system comes complete with a base transmitter that has a 1U rack mountable design and 2 dynamic cardioid directional Ultra High Band Wireless Microphones. The base and microphones are both stylish and durable. The front of the base shows LED meters for both microphones and has two separate digital panels showing the frequency information. The cardioid directional design is meant to only translate a direct signal into the microphone. This will give you the ability to address a loud room like a club or large stage performance and not worry about any type of feedback. And if you are addressing a large room or audience no need to worry about any unwanted crowd noise getting picked up in your microphone!

The benefits of a wireless microphone also include giving you the freedom you need to move around the stage or room without the hassle of messy wires. This is a huge plus if you are performing or need to address a large audience…move around freely without worrying about getting tripped up!

In today’s world of technology and communication wireless signals can often be interrupted. In any given space and especially in densely populated areas like a city, the atmosphere is filled with various signals that can interrupt your equipment. The WM1201 uses a UHF design. UHF = Ultra High Frequency. A step above a normal VHF design, the UHF design has a much less chance of interference. UHF wireless microphones have the ability to use a much larger range of frequency spectrum as opposed to VHF microphones. Interference is a concern for everyone from high-level performers to professionals addressing a crowd…it can ruin a performance or speech. The WM1201 will give you the confidence you need that this won’t be an issue! And at a price that won’t break the bank!

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  The 2TB Transporter allows you to share, access, and protect up to two terabytes of data. That’s 2x the movies, music and photos. Better than the cloud, the Transporter is completely private with unlimited sharing and no subscription fees, ever….

Our lives tend to accumulate clutter in every corner: on our desks, in our drawers, on our shelves at home, in our closets, on our computer — you name it, and clutter finds a way to fill every available space.

But having a simple, uncluttered life is possible, with some very simple methods.

Devote a little of your time to tossing clutter from your life, and keeping things relatively clutter-free, and you’ll be rewarded with much more pleasing living spaces, with a less stressful life, and with better organization and productivity. Clutter weighs us down, distracts us, brings chaos into our lives.
Let’s look at some ways to kick it out … for good.

1. Your desk
   If your desk is covered in paper and other clutter, clear it off to create a pleasing work environment. the steps here are the basic decluttering steps we’ll follow for many of the other steps below: 
   • Clear everything off: Take everything off your desk and put it in a pile on the floor. Clear out the drawers too, if you have time. The only things that should be on your desk now are the computer, phone and other similar equipment.
   • clean: Wipe down your desk, and clean your drawers if you’re decluttering them too. It’s good to start with clean surfaces.
   • Sort: OK, here’s the meat of the process: sort through your stuff, one pile at a time. Toss out or route as much as possible, so that what you’re left with is a relatively small amount of stuff. If you won’t be using it again in the near future, or if you can access it on the computer, toss it out.
   • Designate homes: Now you get to place everything back in your desk. Set up a simple alphabetical filing system, with one folder for each project or client. Have drawers for your office supplies and other stuff. With less stuff to organize, it shouldn’t be too hard. Be sure to have a place designated for everything, and keep things in those places. Sometimes it helps to label, so you don’t forget.
   • Leave flat surfaces clear: Don’t put stuff on top of your desk. Have an inbox for all incoming papers, and then sort them each day and either toss, delegate, do them immediately, or file all documents, so nothing remains on top of your desk. The only thing that should be on your desk is your computer, phone, inbox, perhaps a family photo, and the documents you’re working on right now.
2. Files
   If you decluttered your files in the above step, you can skip this, although you should declutter not only your work files but your home files as well. Keep a simple alphabetical system, and try to fit everything in one drawer. It’s good to take out all your files, and purge what you don’t need. Many times that can be half of your files or more. Get rid of as much as possible — most times, we keep copies of stuff we’ll never need again. When you’re done purging, you should have a minimum of files, and it shouldn’t be hard to keep organized.
3. information
   In today’s digital world, there are tons of ways that information comes into our lives — and it can be overwhelming. It’s information clutter — we get too much of it. Instead, set certain times of the day when you check email, your RSS feeds, Facebook, or various forums or other things you read daily. Reduce the number of things you read each day — purge anything that doesn’t give you value, reduce your consumption of news and television, get rid of magazine subscriptions. Keep information to a bare minimum, and only check it at certain times of the day instead of letting it rule your life.
4. Computer
   Purge your computer files, getting rid of stuff you don’t need. Clear your desktop of icons — they slow your computer down, create visual clutter, and are an inefficient way to access files, programs or folders. Set up hotkeys with AutoHotKey or similar programs. With online search tools (such as that in Gmail) and programs such as Google Desktop, you don’t need to keep your files in a complex array of directories and subdirectories — just archive, and search later. Purge old, unneeded files at least every month or two.
5. Closets
   Use the same method for your closets as you did with your desk: clear everything out, clean it out, sort (and toss or donate as much as possible), and designate homes for what you decided to keep. Keep only what you love and use often. I recommend keeping your closet floor clear — it makes everything look nicer. If tackling the entire closet is too intimidating, it can be helpful to just tackle one area of your closet a day, until it’s done. It’s also useful to go through your wardrobe, and donate everything you haven’t worn in 6 months — it greatly simplifies your closet.
6. Rooms
   Are the rooms in your house too cluttered? A few rules about simplifying a room: first, start with anything that’s stacked on the floors; then work to the flat surfaces (tables, shelves, countertops, the tops of dressers, etc.) and clear them completely if possible; then do the larger stuff like furniture and other things that clutter the room; and finally tackle drawers and cabinets and closets. As much as possible, keep floors clear and all flat surfaces. Sort through everything in piles as in the first step above, tossing and donating as much as possible. Organize everything else in drawers and closets and cabinets, out of sight but still neat and uncluttered. Tackle one room at a time, going for a clean, uncluttered, simple, minimalist look in all cases. It can be helpful to continually edit a room once you’re done decluttering — you can always find little ways to make a room simpler.
7. Drawers
   The way to declutter a drawer is the same as outlined above: empty everything out, clean the drawer, sort through the pile of stuff from the drawer (purging as much as possible) and organizing the few things left. Keep like things together — a drawer for office supplies should only be for office supplies. Avoid having a junk drawer — everything should have a designated place. Go through one drawer at a time — don’t jump from one drawer to another.
8. Commitments
   Aside from physical clutter, our lives are often way too cluttered by the things we need to do — at work, at home, in our civic or religious lives, with our hobbies, with friends and family, etc. Go through each area of your life, and write down every commitment you have — from things you’ve volunteered or agreed to do on a regular basis, to meetings and sports games and other things you do every month or week. It can be overwhelming. 

   Now examine each one, and decide if it truly gives you joy and value in your life, and whether it’s worth the time you commit to it. It can be useful to just choose a few of the commitments that your really love doing. Get rid of all the rest. Just call people and tell them your schedule is too busy, and you have to decline. Learn to say no! One by one, eliminate the commitments in your life that don’t give you value, and you’ll have more time to do the stuff that’s really important to you — stuff for yourself, or your loved ones.

9. Routines
   It is extremely useful to examine your daily and weekly routines. Often, we don’t have any set routines, and we tackle our chores, regular tasks, and obligations haphazardly. This leads to chaotic days and weeks, and often a drop in productivity. It’s better to batch like tasks together — do all your errands at once, for example, or all your laundry at once instead of throughout the week. Write down all of your weekly and daily obligations, chores, tasks, etc. and plan out a weekly and daily routine. Post it up where you can see it and try to follow it, at least for a week. It could bring some calmness and simplicity to your life that hadn’t been there before. Be sure to schedule time for decluttering in your weekly routine!
10. Systems
    Once you’ve purged clutter from your life, it will inevitably start to creep back in. To keep from having a cluttered life again, you need to set up systems that will keep the clutter to a minimum. Examine how you do things, how things come into your life, and see if you can create a simple system for everything: chores, laundry, paperwork, email, RSS feeds, yardwork, errands, work projects, filing. And then write down your systems, step by step, and try to follow them. If your systems are set up right, you will continually purge clutter you don’t need. For example, a system for paperwork might look like this: 
    • All incoming papers go in inbox.
    • At the end of each day, inbox is processed.
    • Rules for processing: toss, route, file, do, or write on to-do list to do later and put it in “action file”.
    • Process to empty, leaving no papers in inbox or on desk. Clear desk of any working paper

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Despite the stereotypes, most guys aren’t really that handy. Which is why we need helpers like The Art of Fixing Things ($11). This slim paperback provides you with 150 tips and tricks for doing repairs — it’s information that most of us are smart enough to know but never got experience doing. Helping you along are over 175 photo illustrations, so all you need to provide are the problem, the tools, and the brawn. Source:The Art of Fixing Things

Technical pro is known to build professional gear that audio professionals and audiophiles turn to for all of their sound needs. Our new line of Bluetooth Compatible equipment is quickly becoming the bench mark for all others to follow. With its sleek design and powerful sound the BLUET7 Powered Bluetooth® Loudspeaker is one of the hottest units in the market. It’s packed with options and of course built with the same long lasting design that you can expect from the engineers at Technical Pro.

Besides the Bluetooth connectivity & FM Tuner there are also inputs for a USB flash drive and AUX (1/8″) connections. Connect such sources as a laptop, computer, mp3 player, CD player, DVD player audio, mixer or other stereo audio devices to the 1/8″ AUX connector. The USB flash drive input can handle a maximum size of 16 GB & play your .mp3 & .wma files from your USB flash drive through this speaker. You don’t need any other equipment. Playback features only available on the USB flash drive input include play, repeat and random playback.

Forgot your USB flash drive at home? Want to play audio files from your phone while keeping it safe in your pocket? No problem. The BLUET7′s Bluetooth compatibility allows for wireless connection to any A2DP stereo Bluetooth device. That means you can play audio files from your phone, laptop or any other Bluetooth enabled device within a 30 foot foot range. The BLUET7 gives you the freedom to stream music wirelessly from any Bluetooth enabled device.

Your in the car on your way home listening to your favorite beats or maybe a podcast from the your phone via the Bluetooth connection in car. You pull into your driveway. Previously there were only two options; stay in your car and keep listening or turn the the car off and continue the listening next time in the car. Technical Pro’s BLUET7 unchains you from you car. Now you can walk into your home and connect your Bluetooth enabled mobile device to the BLUET7 and continue listening to your audio.

The BLUET7 Bluetooth connectivity is also very useful if your having people over. Connect your mobile phone to the BLUET7 and play your audio from anywhere within a 30 foot range of the BLUET7. If crowd wants you to change the track you don’t have to go running to the speaker anymore. Just take out your phone and select another song.

The most impressive feature on the BLUET7 is the clarity of the Bluetooth transmission. You wont be able to tell the difference between the sound coming from a mp3 player connected directly to the BLUET7′s 1/8″ AUX input or a mobile device 30 feet away connected via Bluetooth.

The front panel shows a digital fluorescent output display that shows the audio source, ID3 tags, and track and title information for the USB flash drive input. One quick look to the face of this unit and you know all the information you need about your playback status. Use the included remote control for ease of use. Set up your sound sources, walk away and control all your features from the remote.

One look at the BLUET7and you will think it arrived from the future. The unit is extremely stylish and will surely impress your clients or your crowd. If you are serious about your sound, and are in need of options to play modern audio sources, and want to maintain a high level of performance this is for you…and it’s available at a price that won’t break the bank.

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Great views of East Harlem, the South Bronx and Astoria

Although Governors Island tends to get all of the attention, there’s another isle off Manhattan where families can go for great views, picnicking and relaxing under the summer sun: Randall’s Island.

Located in the East River and bordered by Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, the isle has recently undergone major renovations with more planned or underway. While it’s not as bucolic as Governors Island—the RFK Bridge cuts right through it so you never forget you’re in the city—Randall’s Island offers many kids’ attractions like mini golf, Sports fields, batting cages and a playground, so it’s a great place for families to explore.

Previously owned by the Randel family, the 480-acre isle was purchased by the City of New York in 1835 and the Parks & Recreation Department took control in 1933. Since then, Randall’s Island has hosted countless sporting events and many notable concerts, like the New York Rock Festival in the summer of 1970 (featuring Jimi Hendrix) and Lollapalooza in 1994.

Today, Randall’s Island boasts more than 60 sports fields, which account for over half of all fields in Manhattan. You’ll find fields for baseball and softball, lacrosse, soccer, rugby and football (although many require a permit for use), plus Sportime, a state-of-the-art tennis complex and Randall’s Island Golf & Sports Center, which offers mini golf and batting cages. There’s also the 5,000-seat Icahn Stadium, which hosts local, national and international track and field events, even Olympic training and trials.

If you’re just looking for a place to relax for an afternoon, you can picnic on the open grassy lawns or lounge by the water and enjoy views of East Harlem, Astoria or the South Bronx, depending on where you’re sitting. There are lovelylandscaped areas and themed gardens to explore and designated barbeque areas. It’s best to bring your own lunch as food trucks are rare and the sole restaurant is the Courtside Cafe in the Sportime tennis center.

For cyclists, waterfront bicycle and pedestrian paths already circle most of the island. Just this April, the Hell Gate Pathway was completed.

There is one modest playground on the island and bathrooms are located at both information centers. Public restrooms are also available in the tennis complex.

Randall’s Island also hosts frequent events like outdoor concerts, art exhibitions and sporting events, some free, like FLOW.12, an environmental art exhibition on the shoreline, others requiring admission. In the past, Cirque du Soleil has pitched its tent here and Check its calendar for a complete schedule.

If you’re driving, Randall’s Island is easily accessible from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx via the RFK Bridge. The M35 bus on 125th Street also goes to the isle. You can also walk or bike to the isle via the recently reopened 103rd Street Footbridge. Another pedestrian bridge connecting the island to the South Bronx is slated to open in 2013. Check the website for complete directions.
Find more seasonal activities in our Summer Fun Guide.

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BY LORY GIL

PictoPlay (Free) by IRL, INC is a social networking game that is all about photographs. Just like the popular iOS game draw Something, this app lets you play against friends in a word-to-image game, only with PictoPlay, you get to take photos instead of draw pictures.

 

You can take a picture from within the app, or select an image from your camera roll. For one of my turns, I found an image from the Internet that I had taken a screen shot of. Your options are unlimited. However, if you enjoy taking photos, I don’t suggest simply using preexisting images from the Internet. It defeats the purpose of the game, which is to take cool pictures.

Once you’ve added your picture, you can add a comment. If you take a photo that needs explanation, this is a good way to provide your friend with a bit of background information on why you took the picture, or what they are seeing. Players can also comment on pictures from their opponent.

With every turn, players earn credits that can be used to customize their experience. For example, you can pay two credits to get a new set of words to choose from, or pay four credits to enter your own custom word.

Players can also send images to Instagram and Facebook. You don’t have to stick to your own images, either. You can add your opponents’ photo with just a tap of a button.

I was only able to play this game for about a day with a friend, but it seems to be a pretty fun way to share photos with others. The game lacks variety for how to connect with friends. The only way you can play with people is if they are your Facebook friend. I know a couple of people that don’t use Facebook, but would probably love to play this game. I’d like to see the ability to connect with friends through Game Center.

 

Even though the friend discovery feature is somewhat lacking, this is a great game. It may not gain the overwhelming popularity that Draw Something did, but I’d be surprised if it didn’t gain some notoriety over the next few weeks. download it, get your friends to download it, and start taking pictures of everything around you. This is a fun way to stay connected with others throughout the day in a more visual way.

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