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Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD
Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
*** ENDORSEMENTS ***
August 19: AppAdvice.com declares “Game over: Lifelike Clock is now perfect” and adds “The app’s night mode has been significantly improved.”. Read more at http://tinyurl.com/398cvw7
August 4: Geekanoids.com gave a rave video review of the first version (v1.0): view it at http://tinyurl.com/259yznx
July 30: Lifelike Alarm Clock HD makes the Staff Favorites!
July 12: iPadDaily.com reviewed 5 alarm clock apps (July 11) and says: “Our favorite here is the Lifelike Alarm clock with the weather”
July 11: AppAdvice.com reviewed 4 alarm clock apps in their post “My Obsessive Search For An iPad Clock App Is Over” and declares: “The app that suits me best is Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD by Lifelike Apps”
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Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD is the most beautiful alarm clock and weather app ever made for the iPad. Designed from the ground up for the iPad, it will look great on your nightstand and is also easy to use and full of clever features. Like gorgeous animated skies that match your current weather, a night mode that won’t light-up your room and super-sized snooze buttons.
Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD is designed to look great in either landscape orientation (perfect for use with the iPad Case standing on its side) or in portrait mode (when used on the iPad Dock).
This clock will also make a great travel companion with its worldwide weather forecasts and international temperature display.
Alarm clock features include:
- 5 new ultra-realistic clock faces to choose from. Effortlessly swipe the current clock to display the next one!
- Unlimited, easy-to-set alarms
- Several built-in alarm sounds (from funny, to gentle to just plain loud when you need that extra push!)
- Use any song, podcast or audiobook in your iPod® music library as an alarm
- Repeat alarms on specific week days
- Bedside music player with full access to your iPod® music
- Sleep timer to fall asleep to soothing nature sounds or your own iPod® music, podcasts, audiobooks
- Big snooze buttons for those times when it’s hard to aim
- New menu option that lets you override the iPad’s auto-lock mode
Weather features include:
- Automatic location detection with option to override the auto-location and enter your location manually
- Memorize multiple weather locations so you can switch between them to check distant weather
- 5-day forecast with detailed view for morning, noon, evening and night
- Beautifully animated sky images matching the current weather (like watching a virtual window)
- Worldwide weather and display in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.
- Pull down a rolling shade to put your clock into night mode
- Optional large digital projection clock in night mode
For a few bucks, this app replaces several costly dust-collecting, hard-to-use gadgets in an efficient and elegant interface.
A no-brainer!
SwingSwing Motion – iPhone App Review
SwingSwing Motion – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
SwingSwing Motion – © pointers, Inc.
Version 1.0
$2.99
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
We have seen many “tap” style music games come to the iPhone, since the App Store opened in 2008. Music games are a natural progression for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and the tap style games a great. Pointers looks to bring something different to the genre, with SwingSwing Motion, using the accelerometer to play the game.
Similar to other music games in the App Store, the premis is to get through all the songs on each level of difficulty, to progress through the game. It starts you off pretty easy, but gets quite challenging, the further you get. Each song has three levels of difficulty, Easy, Medium, and Hard. There is also an Extreme mode to unlock, for a few of the songs.
There are 17 songs in total. There is no licensed material, but the songs included are well known classics. The list as as follows:
1. Chopsticks
2. Wild West
3. Turkish March
4. Dancing Cat
5. Twinkle Little star
6. Hokey Pokey
7. Ten Little Indians
8. Dance of The Swans
9. Habanera Tango
10. San Sebastian
11. SwingSwing
12. La Campanella
13. Pathetique
14. Thunder Cat
15. Extreme Notes for Turkish March
16. Extreme Notes for La Campanella
17. Extreme Notes for Dance of The Swan
Each level and each song has uniquely designed backgrounds, making the game visually fun, as well as fun to play. The design is simple and easy to follow, so anyone can pick up this game and start playing.
SwingSwing Motion is available in the App Store now for $.99. Get it now!
written by Mike McKinnon
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Innerviews
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The Innerviews iPhone/iPad app delivers in-depth, uncompromising interviews with music’s most vital and original voices by acclaimed journalist Anil Prasad. Innerviews explores the widest variety of genres and styles imaginable, including rock, jazz, fusion, electronica, world music, pop, and folk. Brought to you by the publisher of the award-winning Innerviews.org website, this beautifully-designed app offers a truly unique and immersive reading and visual experience.
“Anil Prasad is like a great musician,” says Victor Wooten. “The way he expresses himself through his own art—his writing—causes readers to feel inspired, as if we’ve learned about ourselves, as well as the subject of the interview.”
“It’s a real pleasure to talk about things in such depth with Innerviews,” says Mike Rutherford of Genesis. “What Innerviews does is very rare nowadays.”
Key features of the Innerviews iPhone/iPad app:
-The latest Innerviews interviews optimized for mobile viewing
-Playlists exploring the latest in eclectic album and reissue releases
-News about forthcoming interviews
-Artists reflecting on their Innerviews experiences
-Full support for iPhone 4 Retina display and iPad, as well as previous iPhone generations
-Offline reading support—launch the app with a network connection and then enjoy Innerviews content offline
-Gorgeous, intuitive user interface
iPad Gains Tools For The Songwriter
iPad Gains Tools For The Songwriter is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Songwriters on the go now have a reason to leave the pen, paper, and laptop at home. Songwriter’s Pad is looking to change the way you doodle down those non-work-safe lyrics. This powerful app just might become your next must own productivity app.
Songwriter’s Pad is looking to pack a lot of punch in one little program. Besides having a way for you to jot down all those lyrics your humming in your head, you can arrange and store those ideas in one app. Use a dictionary and thesaurus without lugging around heavy books. Better yet, use the 70k+ word Rhyming dictionary to find those obscure words that go with your Bieber rap.
You can easily take your next sonnet of love and arrange the full song. Everything from the verse, chorus, and bridge are easily editable. Swap whole verses if it suits your fancy. The key here is you can do it on the go without fear of that key sticky note flying out the bus window.
Arranging your next masterpiece on the bus might sound fun at this point. There is still more to Songwriter’s Pad. The app includes a digital audio recorder. Easily hum a few lines and have it stored right with your work in progress.
The best feature songwriters just might come to love is the Idea Generator. Songwriter’s pad uses an emotional word based idea generator to help you get past that nasty case of writer’s block. Just tap on categories like ‘Hate’, ‘Hope’, ‘Love’, an others. From here, Songwriter’s Pad will generate words and phrases to help you get on your way to breaking into American Idol.
This full set of songwriting tools comes at a small entry price. Songwriter’s Pad is available in the App Store right now for $9.99. Check out the video and screenshots. If you’re a song writer, this could be the app that sells you an iPad.
[ iPad Gains Tools For The Songwriter is a post from 148Apps ]
Decrescendo
Decrescendo is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Decrescendo is an automated music playing interface for iPhone that intelligently decreases the volume of your audio as you fall asleep.
“Why do I need Decrescendo?”
Everyone loves to listen to music or podcasts in bed at night. But it’s difficult to manage what you are listening to if you’re tired and trying to fall asleep. See, the issue with the standard audio player is that the volume remains constant as it plays, which prevents you from drifting into peaceful sleep. Moreover, switching to another track requires you to interrupt your relaxation to manually open your player and change the song. And on top of that, the screen then brightens the whole room and your eyes have to adjust to all the startling light— not an appealing way to try to fall asleep.
“OK, what’s the solution then?”
Decrescendo! In 3 easy steps you can be ready to enjoy the perfect playlist, without distracting noise or excessive features. Decrescendo allows you to listen to your music or podcast in serenity and style, making it easy for you to fall asleep the way YOU want to.
Light Up Any Party With Trackdance
Browse Rock Show Concert Posters on Your iPhone
Browse Rock Show Concert Posters on Your iPhone is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: FREE Score: 10/10 By M. Schusterman
I have to admit, this app hit my sweet spot by opening with a Stevie Wonder poster and “Boogie On, Reggae Woman.”
Not that it was a coincidence – after browsing the app, I realized it draws from your music library in choosing posters to show you. Because that’s the idea behind the aptly named Rock Show Concert Posters, by Neutrinos, LLC; you can view and purchase the professional posters made for your favorite bands.
The design is perfect. At the top, choose whether you’d like to search by band or designer. At the bottom, you’ll say the name of the band, the designer, and the edition, along with the option to email and share the poster. The price and option to purchase is at the top right. You can even go into Settings and change the background on which the poster appears.
Tap the Search icon to search (be sure you have it on Bands if that’s how you want to search, or go by Designers). The app will first generate a list of bands in your library who have posters, followed by the rest in alphabetical order. Start typing in the name of a band or designer in the field, and the app will narrow it down to the closest matches they have.
I love free apps that don’t skimp on quality. The design and layout of Rock Show Concert Posters is great – tapping on the poster even gives you a full screen view, which you can rotate. When you’re looking at a poster for a band in your music library, the app pulls one of their songs, which you can listen to by tapping “play” at the bottom. If you’re shopping for rock show posters, or just want to check out the images on your iPhone, this a great one to download.
Rock Show Concert Posters [iTunes link] requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.
Say What You See: Music Fest
Sys-Cake – Shut Da Mouth iPhone App Review
Sys-Cake – Shut Da Mouth iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Sys-Cake – Shut Da Mouth ($2.99)
Version 1.0
Looking for a DJ type music app? If so then you may be interested to read about Sys-Cake – Shut Da Mouth. This app comes pre loaded with some bass tracks and gives you the ability to mix in your own touches to make it your own.
This app was developed by MindPol and comes with 5 different tracks that you can build onto. There are many different modes within this app so let’s take a look ..
The first row of icons are more informational icons, giving you information and background on the developers. The second row starts getting into more of the DJ abilities. Since the app doesn’t have a help menu or tutorial associated with it I’ll have to interpret the way some of these icons act for me.
The DJ Play icon appears to be where you pick a song and then it just plays a pre-mixed song made by the developers. When you go into Game Play, you will pick a song to start with and then you will start adding in different mixes as you choose to. Ghost is where you would save a song, if during the Game Play you end up with something that you really liked.
The banner icon appears to be a flashlight type that scrolls Shut Da Mouth across it. Twitter send you to their twitter profile. Finally the Mingame icon takes you into a minigame (obviously) where the goal is to match up icons that have three of the same one on the screen.
Ok .. my favorite part of this app was the minigame although there is no way of returning to the Main Menu without closing the app and reopening it.
The only other part of this app, to me, was the Game Play icon. Without directions I had no idea what to do at first, or even how to exit out of it. Once I started it up I had no idea what half the icons along the bottom were for, so I definitely think that this app needs a nice tutorial in it for the different section. In the middle of the Game Play screen (as you can see from below) there are a bunch of buttons for different sound effects, which you can turn on and off while a song is playing. Another note if that without digging in to the app a bit I would have had no idea how to save a song to the “Ghost” section.
Anyway, the app seems interesting although I think that it needs a bit more content to warrant the current price it is asking in the app store. Right now it only includes 5 songs so you could use this to play around with but you couldn’t use it extensively. Also, once you create songs and load them into your Ghost slots you can’t really do anything with them except replay them. I would think it would be a great addition to make these songs exportable to an mp3 format (if Apple would allow such a thing) so they could be used in a real DJ setting. Right now it seems like a DJ toy that is limited and not transferable to anything someone could use in real life (unless you can DJ a party with your iPhone).
While I think it needs more content and possibly a lower price, if you are interested in this application you can head over to the App Store and pick up your copy today.
- Chris G
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Piano: for iPad
Tapic Review
Tapic Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: Zentertain
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.65 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.83 out of 5 stars
Tapic is a typical rhythm game that does something that is fairly unique. It takes any song on your iDevice and converts it to a playable “Tap Tap Revolution”-like game level. Once the song is in the game, it automatically stores it along with its album art to prevent duplicate conversion. Assuming that you have a ton of music (doesn’t everybody?), Tapic really becomes a game with infinite replayability.
The first concern that I had was how well the game would translate each song into a level. To test this, I threw in a few different songs from a few different genres. Most songs translated quite well, with the best being super clean electronica and electronic influenced rock. Songs by Phoenix and some of the cleaner Radiohead tunes worked particularly well.
On the other hand, Rap was a bit tougher for the conversion process to manage. If the rap was more beat based, the game worked just fine, but the more lyrics there were, the stranger the level became. First, I tried Hustlin by Rick Ross (ha, I love my song selection), and it worked out well; the rapping was clear enough to get a consistent beat. I tried some MF Doom next and had some mixed results. Some of his songs had clear beats and came out well, but some had too many lyrics at the same time which left gaps in playtime. The game didn’t freak out or anything, just no dots came down.
The worst experience though, by far, was trying to play the game with At The Drive In. Apparently the wall of sound isn’t translated well by Tapic, and the game barely spits out any dots at all. I was expecting an extremely difficult level and ended up scoring 96%, the best of all of my songs. Go figure.
Even when the game it as its best though (at the hardest difficulty level) it really isn’t that hard. Because the game converts the songs into gameplay instantly, there aren’t any special features in the levels. There are no slides (chances to hold down a button), no extra instruments, and no power ups: just straight up gameplay. The buttons also linger a bit too long in their “hit” position, making hitting pairs a bit too easy. For instance, if two buttons come down at the same time, you don’t necessarily have to hit them at the same time, just relatively soon after each other.
To keep things fresh, even though the gameplay varies very little because of the lack of slides and power ups, you can unlock different backgrounds and game view modes along the way. It’s not much, but it adds a bit to the experience.
If you are looking for a Tap Tap Revolution-like experience and are tired of playing the same old corporate stuff, give Tapic a try. It’s only 99 cents, and if you like how it plays, it has as much replayability as you have music.
[ Tapic Review is a post from 148Apps ]
MakeMyMusic – iPhone App Review
MakeMyMusic – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
MakeMyMusic ($0.99)
Version 1.1
Not happy with the ipod functionality on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? Looking for a funner and more customizable way to set up your daily listening? Well you may really enjoy MakeMyMusic then!
Developed by Tekton Technologies this app is slick. It looks slicks and it’s a new way to play your music from your iPhone or Apple Device. Let’s take a look ..
When you first open the app it goes to your music to choose a song to start. Hitting the ‘i’ button in the lower right hand corner goes in to a bunch of tweaks you can make to enhance your playback experience. That brings up the Music Options, where you can set which songs play when, the look and behavior of your app, display settings, and much more.
First let’s look at the “My Music” button. By opening this you can actually go into your song list and define which songs you’d like to hear during different parts of the day. So, if you’d like mellow music while sitting in your office, you can set that up while keeping the fun and energetic tracks for later in the day when you need a little pep in your step.
From here let’s look at the “Time of Day” option. This is where you define the app’s different times of day .. i.e. morning, noon, evening, and night. These of course work with the customize tracks that you just set in the “My Music” options.
Going into the General and Display options let you define the user experience, from the background image, to shuffling options, slideshows, and so on.
Ok .. so you’ve set up your music for the different times of day, you’ve tweaked your settings, and now it’s ready to go. Now when you open the app, it determines what time of day it is, then goes into your music listing and retrieves the songs you’ve designated for that time slot. It not only does this but it presents it on a very rich and user – definable screen.
In addition there are some really nice controls built into this app as well. For instance, to change a song you can either set it to act on the shake to shuffle feature or you can simply flick the screen to the next track. Want to change the volume? Just drag your finger up or down the screen and it’s easy as that! Want to change your place within a track? Grab the spinning ball in the middle of the screen and reposition it. There are all kinds of really nice tweaks built into this.
All in all for $0.99 this is a pretty slick app that really bumps your music playing experience up a few notches. If you use your iPhone or Apple Device for music as well I’d suggest heading over to the app store and grabbing a copy of this today. You will be really pleased!
- Chris G
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NanoStudio – Synth For Synth Geeks
NanoStudio – Synth For Synth Geeks is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
I always amazes me what people can do with various music programs on the iPhone. To me, it would require some seriously heavy duty equipment to make a good synth beat, but I’m no music expert.
NanoSynth is the iPhone equivalent of the heavy duty equipment that I was talking about. Combining “sampling, synthesis, sequencing and mastering in a single application”, NanoSynth just about does it all.
“Record your ideas in real time, mix synth layers with samples, compose and arrange your tune using the powerful sequencer and bring the mix alive with real time effects such as reverb, waveshaping and delay. You can use your own samples or record them using the microphone. NanoStudio’s low latency audio engine is custom engineered for iPhone, capable of delivering an amazing 48 voice polyphony in CD quality stereo.”
Check out the promo video that they made for the app and see its awesomeness for yourself. Enjoy!
$14.99
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-07-21 :: Category: Music
[ NanoStudio – Synth For Synth Geeks is a post from 148Apps ]