{"id":3221,"date":"2011-11-14T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T07:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-mixtape-lives\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:25:31","slug":"the-mixtape-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/14\/the-mixtape-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mixtape Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/27\/the-mixtape-is-back\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Mixtape Is Back!<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/john-biggs\/\" target=\"_blank\">JOHN BIGGS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They say that fashion is cyclical. The same goes for technology. Sure, most cellphones are the epitome of trendiness, but just think how cool you\u2019ll be if you hark back to the 1980s with AirCassette, an app that turns your iPhone into a cassette player.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/10\/27\/technology\/personaltech\/27gw-cassette\/27gw-cassette-blog480.jpg\" id=\"100000001138335\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\" \/><span class=\"credit\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.223em; text-align: right; color: #909090; margin-bottom: 2px; display: block; margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The $1.99 app,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/aircassette\/id445325105?ls=1&amp;mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">available in the iTunes App Store<\/a>, displays your music in handwritten script on a background designed to resemble a cassette tape. The reels actually spin and you can create and share mixtapes with your friends via e-mail or Facebook, just as we used to do back in 1986. Finnish programming house\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.majasalmi.com\/products.html\" target=\"_blank\">Majasalmi<\/a>, known for its Russian Roulette iPhone game, designed and built this decidedly more low-key app.<\/p>\n<p>Watching a cassette tape spin on the iPhone\u2019s high-resolution display is oddly calming and, thanks to digital compression, the audio is far superior in AirCassette than it ever was on my Sony Walkman.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/27\/the-mixtape-is-back\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times The Mixtape Is Back! By\u00a0JOHN BIGGS They say that fashion is cyclical. The same goes for technology. Sure, most cellphones are the epitome of trendiness, but just think how cool you\u2019ll be if you hark back to the 1980s with AirCassette, an app that turns your iPhone into a cassette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}