OT: new iphone apps, discuss

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:37 am

djadonis206 wrote:I did the math this AM. It will cost you in money a little under $250 dollars over the course of your two year contract to upgrade or purchase a new Iphone

however, you will be on the 3g network - which some people would gladly $250 for

Apple did a good job on the pricing and service - they didn't screw over the original users and the new users are getting what they're paying for

all in all its a good day to have an Iphone

Mine's on order, it is more expensive than the service I have now, but I have an unseeingly good plan, ($40 for 1500 minutes), and no internet etc.

The simple fact that people will be making nice step sequencers, Kaos Pad type MIDI controllers, and that I can write it off as a business expense, ( I need a decent sync-able calendar, camera, and GPS), makes the price difference negligible IMO. A plan for a competing system is maybe at best $15 cheaper, and isn't dead tight with OSX, or Windows for that matter.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:02 am

Now if only I could stop playing Aqua Forest.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:25 am

Machinesworking wrote:...and GPS

Reminds me of that scene in Scarface when him and Mannie are at the car dealership

Tony wants fogs lights installed on his new car

Mannie's like, "Why do you need fog lights?"

Tony, "In case I get lost, in a swamp!"

funny

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:06 am

djadonis206 wrote:
Machinesworking wrote:...and GPS

Reminds me of that scene in Scarface when him and Mannie are at the car dealership

Tony wants fogs lights installed on his new car

Mannie's like, "Why do you need fog lights?"

Tony, "In case I get lost, in a swamp!"

funny

Great movie! That swamp is named Bellevue/Redmond/Renton... Mainly I need the Google Maps for contacts etc. and ability to organize incoming job emails into folders for months etc. Shit? you can save HTML as text on the iPhone right? That would seriously suck if I couldn't.

ChiDJ · Post by **ChiDJ** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:32 pm

PhoneSaber! - Motion sensitive light saber

BPM Counter! - Does what it says, just tap tempo

Remote! - already mentioned

Midomi! - sing or listen to a song from a speaker and it gives you the name and artist with a utube and itunes link.

Voice Notes! - record song ideas

Diggin the update.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:25 pm

ChiDJ wrote: Midomi! - sing or listen to a song from a speaker and it gives you the name and artist with a utube and itunes link.

I just read through this entire thread jacked thread to make sure someone mentioned Midomi. This shit is amazing. There is another called Shazam too.

A-hem...

PANDORA!!!

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:35 pm

Aww shit! GO Last FM!

http://www.vimeo.com/1314214

This whole Internet based music world just keeps blowing my mind.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:52 pm

I know it's stupid but I'm really enjoying ibeer

kramerica · Post by **kramerica** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:36 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:
ChiDJ wrote: Midomi! - sing or listen to a song from a speaker and it gives you the name and artist with a utube and itunes link.
I just read through this entire thread jacked thread to make sure someone mentioned Midomi. This shit is amazing. There is another called Shazam too.

A-hem...

PANDORA!!!

Pandora is sweet for sure. Now I can listen to Pandora radio in my car and find new artists.

Shazam is one of the most amazing apps I've seen. Been showing it off all weekend. Even G4 tv was hyping it up.

Karajan is a great teaching tool for musicians - it tests you on intervals, chords, pitch, scales, and bpm. You can learn on the go.

GuitarToolKit has a guitar tuner, chord library, and metronome.

Voice Record is great for getting musical ideas down real quick. You used to have to buy a secondary piece of hardware to record into the phone.

SportsTap - up to minute sport scores. Pretty sweet.

Weatherbug - has real time doppler radar, humidity, wind speed and direction, heat index, precipitation amount, etc. Much more detailed than the default weather app.

Facebook and MySpace apps are much better, faster, and more streamlined than checking them via Safari.

There's some sweet language apps too that would be useful for traveling to foreign countries w/ different languages. You can just put in the phrase you want (it has a list of common phrases for d/f situations) and will pronounce it for you or the intended recipient if you don't feel like trying.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:49 am

Gotta say I think Apple's got a game changer on their hands with the app store - this is effing brilliant!

ausgeno · Post by **ausgeno** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:57 am

Motion Poker X is digital crack, Tap Tap and Aurora Feint are awesome for free games, and Critter Crunch is another top time-waster.

Also the 'remote' app is dead handy for me.

blinkeye · Post by **blinkeye** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:16 am

Do any of these iphone apps have midi in/out capability yet? I've only heard about people using it as a wireless midi remote controller using wifi.

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:42 am

blinkeye wrote:Do any of these iphone apps have midi in/out capability yet? I've only heard about people using it as a wireless midi remote controller using wifi.

+1

What's the word on actually getting the iPhone to sync up? There's one existing method (the name escapes me), but it was batty as shit. Plus, there was some serious voodoo involved.

There's one YouTube vid where some guy has the iPhone sync'd up with Logic and the new IR 909 app, but he mentions that it was a pain in the ass. Drum machines and sequences are cool on the iPhone and all, but when is some cat gonna do a proper wifi interface? *fingers crossed*

...

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:51 am

Yeah, Aurora Feint is REALLY cool, can't believe it's free.

Hopefully we see some more music apps soon ala Bhajis Loops, that's what I really want too.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:20 am

Beatmaker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwr44OMcjf0

As mentioned elsewhere on the forums.