Drum

August 4, 2008 – 7:12 pm
Though 3rd party iPhone/ iPod Touch apps that simulate instruments are plentiful, ones that incorporate the devices’ accelerometer are few. Drum, as the last application designed by Sean Heber for his iApp-a-Day project, needed to be innovative, but simple. Drum is both. It is not so much a normal: “Push-the-button, hear-the-noise” instrument simulator like a drumpad or drumset, but rather it is a…drumstick. The “Drum” is played by waving the device to and fro in the manner which one hits a drum with a drumsick. Each time the accelerometer senses this motion, a tone is produced.  This tone is not the crash of a cymbal, the ring of a tom, or the snap of a snare, but a simple “electronic” tone. This tone’s pitch can be controlled by placing ones finger on the touch screen, letting the user play higher tones with his finger at the bottom and lower ones with ...


Though 3rd party iPhone/ iPod Touch apps that simulate instruments are plentiful, ones that incorporate the devices’ accelerometer are few. Drum, as the last application designed by Sean Heber for his iApp-a-Day project, needed to be innovative, but simple. Drum is both. It is not so much a normal: “Push-the-button, ...

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Graffiti

August 4, 2008 – 7:10 pm
Instant messaging, email, and telephone are on the forefront of human telecommunications, but let us remember the classic cave wall, upon which the Neanderthal could doodle messages for his friends or tell stories with pictures. The updated version of this classic forum is apparently the urban brick wall, upon which delinquents can spray-paint their messages for all to see. Sean Heber of iApp-a-Day combines the old with the new in his app called Graffiti. In the app, the user has the ability to post messages on a scrolling brick wall that anyone else using the app (who are connected to the internet) can see. To write on the wall, one must tap the screen to reveal a keyboard and option window. The user can also see the messages that other people have posted and write responses. Posts keep piling up until the oldest ones fade away. To keep the posts underneath ...


Instant messaging, email, and telephone are on the forefront of human telecommunications, but let us remember the classic cave wall, upon which the Neanderthal could doodle messages for his friends or tell stories with pictures. The updated version of this classic forum is apparently the urban brick wall, upon which ...

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Piano

August 4, 2008 – 6:57 pm
The Piano is a great instrument to emulate on the ipod touch/ iphone; while other instruments involve multiple movements that are hard to perform on the touch interface, pushing the keys of a piano isn’t hard at all. Naturally, it was one of the first instruments turned into an app, but Sean Heber of iApp-a-Day decided to cash in on the craze and make his own piano app, called Piano. It has a simple, one octave keyboard, and though there is no animation when a note is pressed, the finger detection is spot-on. At least 2 notes can be played at a time. The sound is obviously synthetic, as if from an 8 bit videogame. With only one octave to work with, one must be creative in wrapping full tunes around the screen. Though there exist piano simulators of higher quality, a different sound is refreshing and nonetheless fun to play ...


The Piano is a great instrument to emulate on the ipod touch/ iphone; while other instruments involve multiple movements that are hard to perform on the touch interface, pushing the keys of a piano isn’t hard at all. Naturally, it was one of the first instruments turned into an app, ...

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Scribble

August 4, 2008 – 6:56 pm
There is an unexplained whimsical fun in doodling random scribbles on paper. Why is it so much fun to draw nonsense?  There is no answer to this mystery, but we might as well enjoy scribbling while we can. Sean Heber of iApp-a-Day has brought this fun to us with his app, (appropriately named) Scribble. Scribble is like an Etch-a-Sketch for the iPhone/ iPod touch with one slight modification: the pen is controlled by the accelerometer. As easy as you think it may be to draw by tilting your device around your device, it is not. You will never draw a masterpiece with Scribble. It's just too crazy. Don't even try. Leave that to some Rain man out there. What this app is destined for is making random scribbles, and that is enough. You can change the color of your pen, erase what you've drawn, or even send it to a friend ...


There is an unexplained whimsical fun in doodling random scribbles on paper. Why is it so much fun to draw nonsense?  There is no answer to this mystery, but we might as well enjoy scribbling while we can. Sean Heber of iApp-a-Day has brought this fun to us with his ...

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Pumped

November 14, 2007 – 4:30 pm
The app for November 5th is “Pumped” subtitled “your personal portable fuel log”. This app is so great! It lets you track your vehicle gas mileage. It is so easy, you just enter in the gas price, gallons of gas purchased, and current odometer reading. After the second log it begins to track miles traveled, gallons used, total fuel cost, miles per gallon, cost per mile, and cost per gallon! Great usable app! more info | Download via Installer | source of this post


The app for November 5th is “Pumped” subtitled “your personal portable fuel log”. This app is so great! It lets you track your vehicle gas mileage. It is so easy, you just enter in the gas price, gallons of gas purchased, and current odometer reading. After the second log it ...

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Burp

November 14, 2007 – 4:28 pm
The app for November 4th is “Burp”. It let’s you take a picture of your food and share it with the world. You can tap to take a picture or tap to see other’s food. When the app was first launched many pictures were not of food but there is now a feature that lets you mark the image as ‘not food’. Also scrolling through the pictures was a problem for me, but this was soon fixed after a couple of updates. Great idea and creativity at work here! more info | Download via Installer |source of this post


The app for November 4th is “Burp”. It let’s you take a picture of your food and share it with the world. You can tap to take a picture or tap to see other’s food. When the app was first launched many pictures were not of food but there is ...

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Melt

November 14, 2007 – 4:26 pm
The app for November 3rd is “Melt.” As soon as you start the app a timer at the bottom of the screen starts and on the screen are two ice cubes. As you rub your finger over the ice cubes they start to melt. If you stopping moving your finger the ice cubes stop melting. Once the ice cubes are melted it gives you the time it took you to melt the ice cubes and then the option to view the global status. In the global status you will see how many times the ices cubes have been melted, the average melting time and how many hours have been “wasted” melting virtual ice cubes! more info | Download via Installer |source of this post


The app for November 3rd is “Melt.” As soon as you start the app a timer at the bottom of the screen starts and on the screen are two ice cubes. As you rub your finger over the ice cubes they start to melt. If you stopping moving your finger ...

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Fall

November 14, 2007 – 4:24 pm
The app for November 2nd is “Fall”. It starts off with a tree with fall colored leaves. As you shake the iPhone, leaves fall to the ground. Once all the leaves fall, it begins to show. Here are the screenshots: more info | Download via Installer | source of this post


The app for November 2nd is “Fall”. It starts off with a tree with fall colored leaves. As you shake the iPhone, leaves fall to the ground. Once all the leaves fall, it begins to show. Here are the screenshots: more info | Download ...

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Magic

November 14, 2007 – 4:22 pm
iApp-a-Day is Magic which is a magic 8 ball that you can turn upside down for your destiny. You can also enter in custom message that will appear randomly for others. Here’s the screenshots: more info | Download via Installer | source


iApp-a-Day is Magic which is a magic 8 ball that you can turn upside down for your destiny. You can also enter in custom message that will appear randomly for others. Here’s the screenshots: more info | Download via Installer | source

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Pumpkin

November 14, 2007 – 4:20 pm
The first of many apps to come in a project called iApp-a-Day is called Pumpkin. It displays a orange jack-o-lantern face on a black background and rotates when the phone is rotated. Here are some screenshots: more info | Download via Installer | source for this post


The first of many apps to come in a project called iApp-a-Day is called Pumpkin. It displays a orange jack-o-lantern face on a black background and rotates when the phone is rotated. Here are some screenshots: more info | Download via Installer | source for this post

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