I’ve always been a fan of PowerKeys for the iPhone/Touch. It started off a bit buggy and crashy, but since the last update, it seems very stable. A really nice feature of the new version is that you can Read the rest of this entry »
A new and very Irish idea to solve global warming. See the Independent article.
Mobile Roadie has a very neat way of creating iPhone apps, mostly aimed at the music market. It’s very, very neat. Rather than me rabbiting on about it, have a look at the video here.
So, this week’s been a pretty bad one for Apple then. The three most important things to Apple over the past number of years have been the Mac user experience (ie OS X and the Mac computer), the iPhone, and of course, the iPod & iTunes. Every single one of these came under serious attack this week from either Microsoft or Google.
Has IRMA taken it too far this time? Check out this new article by Eric Kennord.
Felt I had to put this one in:
Spotify has managed to jump the many, varied and often bemusing hoops of the iPhone App approval process, and get accepted. Despite being a very clear and possibly quite threatening competitor to the Read the rest of this entry »
There’s lots to be annoyed about right now if you live in Ireland. And there’s lots of reasons to believe there’s nothing you can do. But democracy isn’t just about turning up at a school every four years. So I’m gonna make this as easy as possible.
1 – Copy and paste the email below into your mail client or Gmail or whatever. Feel free to Read the rest of this entry »
Apple put an instant hole in the pocket of people like me everywhere today, by releasing updates to their two premium software products for media professionals, Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio.
Logic Studio adds features like “flex time”; a much needed upgrade to its time manipulation abilities on the timeline, and better workflow tools to allow easier exporting and importing of settings and tracks between projects. Also Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, I posted about Spotify; the insanely scary and cool application which streams pretty much any song to your PC legally, and for free. I was under the impression that the app didn’t seem to care where you were.
Unfortunately, turns out, Spotify allows users to go on a “holiday” for 2 weeks away from their home territory, but after that, they shut you down. Currently, Ireland is not a territory where you can use the free service. Thus, as a citizen of Ireland, I am deSpotified, unless I agree to pay the (frankly quite reasonable) €10 a month to subscribe. Tempting, but somehow, I feel robbed as my UK friends use the service for free. In the music world, the valuable lesson here is that perception of value is more an issue than price. Record companies, take heed!