iPhone apps S/D

DUDES. try testing the word motörhead. or typing it. IT PUTS IN THE FUCKING UMLAUT!

still doesn't recognize "fucking", but WOAH. my phone types motörhead.

this message brought to you by an unlikely iPhone pioneer on the 44 bus heading south through Glasgow

texting, even. etc

my phone types motörhead.

That's awesome!

I am rich
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DUDES. try testing the word motörhead. or typing it. IT PUTS IN THE FUCKING UMLAUT!

Doesn't do Björk tho.

It doesn't do motley but it does crüe. WAHT

it röcks

actually, a direct link to the piece would make more sense than linking to my fucking blog, so here you go

aaaaand there's an ssh client (pTerm)

aaaaand there's an ssh client (pTerm)

And iSSH is on the way

holy shit an X server wau wau wau wau

Ok then, bought this for meself as a birfday present. Anybody know how to get a wav as a ringtone on here? I need my Peter Davison theme, and everything on the itunes store is shitty electro mixes.

oh wait, this one sounds trancey. Still not good enough. I need that Arp Odyssey 2 sound.

oh wait, nevermind. A friend just sent me here

Basically (in iTunes)

1. Set up the prefs to convert songs into AAC files. I think you also need iTunes set up to "Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library."
2. Select a song, and get info on it. In the "Options" tab, set the in and out points you want.
3. Convert the track to AAC. It will convert only the section you set in the options. Go back in the options of the original track and un-set the in and out points.
4. Drag the new AAC file to the desktop. Change to file extension to m4r.
5. Double-click the file on the desktop. It should now show up as a sync-able ringtone in iTunes.
6. Don't forget to change the converter prefs back to mp3, or you'll end up with a bunch of crap AAC files in your library.

Yup, there you go.

anyone else tried zintin, then?

so basically... facebook?

"Techno rocks my world!"

facebook app is a bit lame though. no events = fail. the whole thing should be that you can look up events on the go!!! this is def a case where the mobile site is better.

so basically... facebook?

er, yeh, but with no integration with -- say -- facebook.

i'm not sure i'll ever really use it, or find a use for it. i guess if i somehow happened to be on the pull in a room full of women with iPhones it could be great. but even then ...

i'd be really impressed if the facebook app allowed any 3rd party app to work well on mobile.

I'm super impressed with Midomi.

I decided to mumble the vocals to Pavement's "Cut Your Hair" into the recording window, and it found the track, no probs.

Midomi vs. Shazam! in a nutshull:
Shazam so far is totally worthless. All UI, no actual functionality.
Midomi is freaky awesome. Cheap UI.
All IMHO.

I also tried Aurora Feint over the weekend. Oh man. It's basically a Medieval Bejeweled really really trying to capture the MMORPG melodrama but without any "there" there. I might delete this.

I think you're missing the point there (IT'S MEDIEVAL BEJEWELLED! AWESOME!)

shazam has worked 90% of the time for me. way more often i'll be out somewhere and want to know what a song is than... well... whatever midomi is meant for.

Yeah, Midomi has been the definition of "epic fail" for me 9 times out of 10.

ya, it's never worked for me. and rare is the occasion that i'll know the lyrics and tune of a song but not know the song itself. i mean i guess maybe with something i heard on the radio. but that's what shazam is for!

any other awesome new apps?

(xp)same here. ill take shazam over midomi any day

Out of curiosity, what tracks have you guys identified or failed to identify with either Shazam and/or Midomi?

Just wondering if the music DBs that either reference just happen to be mutually exclusive or not. (Like, maybe Shazam! is great for hip-hop but Midomi is good for indie? That's just an example.)

I know Shazam failed for me with Beatles, and the tunes Skream! was spinning last Wednesday at his DJ performance in Sea.

any other awesome new apps?

I don't think it's new, and it's not super awesome yet, but I like Feeds a lot, at least as some basic RSS feed aggregate. Feeds needs a mode to display Atoms/RSS's in reverse chronological order, and then it would already be the best RSS App out there.

Unless you guys know of a superior RSS app.

im kinda waiting on NNW to get good cuz i like the idea of syncing with my laptop version and not having to re-add all my feeds.

Agreed. I've been avoiding NNW like the plague until I hear something positive.

Out of curiosity, what tracks have you guys identified or failed to identify with either Shazam and/or Midomi?

Midomi has failed to identify anything I've played for it or sung into it. (Granted, that included Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms".) Shazam, OTOH, indentified random Keri Hilson, Mary J. Blige and T.I. songs with a ton of ambient noise in the background; the only thing it hasn't been able to identify was a random acid jazz track that was only under local release in Cincinnati.

Any updated game suggestions, either free or paid? I like Trism so far.

my shazam list (mostly testing it out):

A willie nelson song, i think, off the clock radio (has fallen off my list)

Laid Back: White Horse - PP's ringtone which he recorded by holding his cell up to his emac specker (ie very fuzzy)

Charlene: Ive never been to me - ihop pa system

Orleans: Dance with Me - ihop pa system

KT Tunstall: Suddenly I See - work office pa system. I had to out the name of the song that has annoyed me for the past who knows how many months

Alicia Keys: No one - see tunstall

Flight of the Conchords: Business Time - Car CD player

Led Zeppelin: Four Sticks - Someones cellphone iirc

Beastie Boys: Slow Ride - Licensed to Ill in the car cd player. I was trying to trick it by recording as "slow ride" goes into "girls". It stuck with the first song.

oh the only failed ones with shazam so far is some crappy contemporary jazz from another cable tv music/radio station and kids cd "the wonder pets" but i liked that it just says it cant recognize it rather than making a crappy guess like midomi does.

Midomi hasnt correctly identified anything so far

Call of Duty 4

(IT'S MEDIEVAL BEJEWELLED! AWESOME!)
Oh wow, must get this.

I like Pennies, actually. It was good for doing expenses on a trip.

Also still really loving Byline, too.

Aurora Feint is a good deal like Puzzle Quest, only with more tilting action, and less Warlords universe.

Weird. Midomi has gotten tons of stuff for me right. Techno, classic rock, indie, classical. Shazam's been a failure all 'round. :-/ ???

I'm curious if these apps rely on localized DBs... like maybe Shazam and/or Midomi work great in some cities, but are complete shit in others.

Agreed. I've been avoiding NNW like the plague until I hear something positive

i really like it! it's not perfect but it's not bloody bad, and syncs like a joy here.

shazam: it managed to pick out "surface to air" by the chemical brothers based on about five crappy seconds on a TV show, for which i will always love it. i've tested it on my own stuff to see if i can find its limits (did i post this above? i think i did, but hey): it only knew one earl brutus track (for shame) but recognised i start counting's "lose him", which i thought was fucking good.

midomi: hopeless. hasn't got anything i've tried. mrs F and i sang "happy birthday" into it; it only got her when she put on a ridiculous growly voice (she was pretending to be a shark singing it. don't ask.)

Weird. Midomi has gotten tons of stuff for me right. Techno, classic rock, indie, classical. Shazam's been a failure all 'round. :-/ ???

I'm curious if these apps rely on localized DBs... like maybe Shazam and/or Midomi work great in some cities, but are complete shit in others.

-- Mackro Mackro, Monday, August 11, 2008 4:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

so you're singing techno and classic rock songs to it?

dude, do you have the two apps mixed up?

You can play stuff into Midomi, too; it's just that you can do the same with Shazam and Shazam is more accurate, so the only reason to have Midomi is to sing songs at it and watch it flounder.

Flip the two app names, and that's my experience.

I'm wondering if this could be a regional issue.

(where's Elvis T to drop the knowledge?)

I've installed Zintin again, just to see what happens.

Graffitio will be useful one day, probably, but right now it's just loads of people writing nonsense about how crap the local food is.

Twinkle is wonderful. IceTV is handy. NNW is just fine; I don't get what all the noise is about.

Here I Am will come in enormously useful one day. So will Eventful, once the gigs begin to appear in greater numbers.

Facebook app needs more features if it's to be genuinely useful.

(where's Elvis T to drop the knowledge?)

I tried out Shazam a couple times. VU's "Stephanie Says" was correctly identified in a trial run and Dust Brothers' "Finding The Bomb" was recognized despite a bunch of Top Gear sound effects on top of it.

Haven't bothered with Midomi. I haven't really bothered with either of these because I, well, almost always recognize the song.

Recent apps I've added and liked:

Mobile Fotos, which used to be called Mobile Flickr and wasn't much cop. Has had an upgrade and is now pretty great.

TubeStatus: does what it says it does, perfectly well and really simply.

Top40 - Pop charts on my phone. With itunes store preview links. Cute, although I don't know whether it's really worth having on there when the same into is easy enough to grab through safari.

Vicinity seemed handy when I first started playing with it, but I'm starting to realise that Google Mobile can do everything it does, and better.

OK, DataCase is now my most valuable purchase.

that looks good!