Be Aware Of Your Suroundings With Awareness is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Every so often I find myself next to a car on the freeway with a driver that has earbuds in his ear. While the driver is jamming out to presumably whatever is on his iPhone, I often wonder what would happen if someone honked at him. Would he hear it?
The worst is when you see someone walking around with earbuds. Like a driver on a cell phone, the person walking is typically oblivious to their surroundings. They cross streets without looking, stop right in front of people on sidewalks, and will turn on a dime without any indication. People with earbuds are a hazard, particularly when they have the noise cannelling variety.
To combat this, essensy has created Awareness! The Headphone App. What Awareness! does is uses the iPhone’s internal microphone to pump sound to you while you are listening to your tunes. For example, if a train is coming, blaring its horn to warn you of its impending arrival, Awareness! will pump the trains sound from the microphone into your earbuds.
The app is pretty new, and I’m sure it needs some tweaks to be perfect, but it is getting a good amount of iTunes love. There are a few bad reviews, but the majority are five star reviews that say things like, “What an awesome app!!!!” and “I love it, LOVE IT”.
If you often find yourself in harms way due to your high end Shure headphones, I implore you to give Awareness a try. For the sake of humanity, just do it.
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-09-11 :: Category: Music
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To be fair, though, the interface in soundTable is interesting and unique and easy enough to begin with. It would help if the developers included a comprehensive help file with the app, but you will have to settle for the info button, which merely describes what each set of buttons represents. That’s certainly enough to get you going, but as users continue playing with the app they are probably going to want more and better explanations.
Binaural Beats has got to be my favorite type of medicine. It’s funny. As a kid my mother use to always tell me that I’d study better if I turned off my music, but I have always insisted that it helps me channel my energy into my work and avoid outside distractions. I guess she saw music as that distraction, but I think Binaural Beats might be the deciding factor in this ongoing debate. With a simple and easy to navigate interface, Binaural Beats gets the job done. Still, I feel the need to note that its interface is not visually unappealing, just simple.
Binaural Beats is unique in that it allows the user to control the amount of time they would like hear the melodic sounds. It can be anywhere from 1 minute to 24 hours, literally! With a musical interface that mimics that of iTunes, you can also fast forward through the sounds because they do change over time and are not the same 15 seconds of sound on repeat. Play and pause as you please.
You are also not limited to the default sounds that come with the app, simply select to add a new sound and you can choose from a variety of noises from Autumn Wind and Soft tide to Underwater. Perhaps the coolest thing with Binaural Beats has to offer is that you can record and create your own sounds from your surroundings. I particularly enjoy the sound of running water. This is definitely an app worth downloading!
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