CogBlogged Tagged ‘iphone’

Listen to the World Play Ocarina by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ’08, 3.04pm MST PST on flickr I’ve already raved about Ocarina, the iPhone magic flute — a real instrument you can turn your phone into. But there’s more- activate the bottom menu bar, and click the world icon (2nd from left) and you can browse the music people are playing around the world! In real freakin time. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing Stairway to [iPhone] Heaven:

More iPhone love. If you cannot stand it, go read a blog post about Android. I just gave Recorder for iPhone a quick test and it so rocks! For 99 cents, the price of a sappy Abba song in iTunes (or a Led Zeppelin anthem, just to be fair), I have an audio recorder on my iPhone: It could not be easier to use. You click the big giant button labeled “record”- you even get the levels as a visual display as you record: When you are done (yes, do you remember step 1, click the red button??), you can then email the audio file if you wish, but better! You can sync it via wireless to your computer- when you activate the sync feature, it gives a local network address you can pull up in a web browser, and see a directory of your audio files on the phone: [...]

My iPhone excitement is nothing new here, given how long it took me to get one, but there is wave after wave of discovery of new things, I am forgetting I have only had it for 2 months. But last night… I found an app that is, to me, explosive, in terms of opening potential for what a portable, networked, web connected media acquisition device can do. I am projecting the children of so-called “digital natives”, the ones that will make those natives seem foreign, will look back at our use of keyboard driven computers the same way I might look at a Victrola or a telegraph machine. So, first a tip of the blog hat, a linktribution to David Warlick for sharing in his post, an iPhone app called SnapTell. It is a visual parallel of one of the other most amazing iApps, Shazam, which lets you hold the [...]

Just came across TryPhone a site that offers web based interactive interfaces for a wide range of mobile phones. Seems a great way to see the features. And in the spirit of good embed-ness, you can put any of this in a web page. So before I do this, my own backl story. I have always been years behind in the latest phone tech. I use mine mainly for… calls, plus some photo/upload to flickr and a few posts to twitter. I am definitely a phone lagger. But believe me, after trying an iphone in the Apple Store last August in Chicago, the tempation has been hard to ignore. You want one, admit it. I want one, I admit it. So with some shame I mus admit that when offered to get a work paid iphone… I actually turned it down (for now). Why? Well, my previous one just died, [...]

It’s Monday, and I do not have an iPhone. The forecast is more of the same, for a long time. The mania, pro/con commentary is impressive for the sheer amount of energy generated/expended. Seriously, when was the time people camped out for a phone (yes, I know it is more than a phone)? And there is no shortage of opinions on the extreme ends of the continuum, of which I am grateful camped out right in the middle. It’s not so bad to be without the shiny toys (that’s what we tlel ourselves, applying band aids over the ego. To shatter some techno myths aboout this dog, I rarely, rarely, like almost never, ever go after first releases of software/hardware. I like to see how the dust settles. I clung on to Mac OS 9 for quite some time after 10.0, maybe after 10.1. I was late to get an [...]