How to Get Rid of the Incessant Buzz of Vuvuzelas

Something different about this World Cup? We hear it too.

If you've been watching any of the World Cup soccer games lately, then you'll know what a vuvuzela is, even if you've never seen one in real life. You'll know it by its buzzing sound – the product of an instrument in African culture.

While the host nation's culture should be respected, those watching from home worldwide aren't as appreciative of the constant droning, buzzing noise. Quite frankly, it can take away from a match for those who aren't used to hearing anything other than cheering from the crowds and words from the commentators.

This noisy World Cup phenomenon has presented an opportunity for audio companies such as Waves Audio from Tel Aviv, Israel, who is now selling audio processing tools to filter out the sound of the vuvuzela in real time.

According to the EETimes, the solution comprises of two pieces of plug-in software: WNS Waves Noise Suppressor and the Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer.

Lifehacker has found that most audio editing software, even some home theatre EQ's, can do the job of filtering out the B-flat drone.

iPhone 4 has twice the RAM of iPad and 3GS

The new iPhone 4 has twice the RAM of Apple's magical and revolutionary iPad.

When the iPhone 4 was announced, a lot of people were surprised that some features, like iMovie, were exclusive to iPhone 4. Not even the iPad, with its identical A4 processor, was said to be getting all the same apps.

However, it seems the issue is one of hardware, more specifically, RAM. MacRumors reports that while the original iPhone and iPhone 3G boasted 128MB of RAM and the 3GS and iPad had twice that with 256MB, the iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM.

Though Apple isn't exactly known for releasing the processor speed and RAM of any of its iPhones, the company supposedly confirmed the 512MB at WWDC last week.