i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app,  developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu.
And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live!
i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you to configure [...]

Apple has an interesting profile on DJ Paul Van Dyk. It looks at how he’s working now, and also provides a current look at the gear he uses:
“I’ve developed the same passion I have for making music as I have for DJing over the last 15 years,” he says. “It’s the ultimate thing to be [...]

Deckadance, the dj software with what some think is the most offensive gear ad ever, is coming to the Mac.
“Many professional DJs, producers and remixers use Macs as a preference platform, so the release of version 1.2 will make Deckadance a real proposition for them” commented Luis Serrano, the developer of Deckadance.
Here are highlights of [...]

A new web site promises to turn your genetic sequence into a musical sequence.Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of the University of California at Los Angeles describe the system in the open-access journal Genome Biology. They set up a system is to translate amino acids - the building blocks for human protein sequences - into [...]

Leading Mac musicians, producers, and technologists will share their technological insight and creative experience in a day-long, intensive event at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007.
Macworld’s first-ever Music and Technology Symposium will bring together some of the most cutting-edge and multi-talented artists on the Mac, including producer COUNT (DJ Shadow, Radiohead, Halou), guitarist Joe Gore (Tom [...]

Macintosh Universal Binary applications are ones that run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers. These are sometimes referred to as Mactel versions, because they run and the Macintosh Intel-based machines.
Mactel Music Applications:

Airfoil
AudioExpress
AudioLeak -  an Leq (Long-Term Equivalent Level) analyzer for audio files.
CastAway - Wooden Brain Concepts
Crystal Synth
Boom Recorder
eJamming Station -  Real-time Internet-based music [...]

MacWorld Update: Apple today unveiled the new iMac featuring Mac OS X running on the new Intel Core Duo processor. According to Apple, the new iMac offers performance that is up to twice that of its predecessor.
The iMac now features dual-core processors, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing out-of-the-box, and the media experience [...]

Macintosh OS X has joined Windows and other Unix systems in a inauspicious top 20 list - the SANS TOP 20 Vulnerabilities. OS X was added not because of any particular hack or vulnerability, but because “MacOS includes software that has critical vulnerabilities and Apple has a patch policy, described below, that do not allow [...]

Apple has introduced the Mac mini, the most affordable and compact Mac ever. Starting at just $499, the Mac mini lets users try Mac OS X and features iLife ‘05, the latest version of Apple’s innovative suite of software for managing digital photo and music collections, editing movies and creating music. Just two-inches tall and [...]

Apple’s latest version of iLife includes a new piece of software, GarageBand, that turns your Mac into an easy-to-use recording studio, capable of making top-quality music.
iLife, Apple’s set of media applications, includes several great applications that bring multimedia power to Mac users. iTunes is considered by many to be the best digital music player. iPhoto [...]