Lifelike Apps, Inc. recently unveiled their newest app for the iPad, [Alarm : Clock] . The $3.99 app is a follow-up to the company’s popular Alarm Clock’ app, first released in June 2010. While we found the original app innovative as well as practical, this one has left us scratching our heads. At its core, Alarm : Clock tries too hard to provide both “realism and customization options” and ends up over complicating and ruining the user experience
Perfect Guitar Song Book ($3.99) by Florian Draschbacher is customized to display guitar “tabs” (tabulars) while you play guitar. Those familiar with finding tabs online know what a pain it is to print them out, and then find some way to prop up the paper while you play. Or you can just work straight from the screen, but what if you need to scroll down
Earlier today, Apple finally released iTunes Match, about one month later than the service was originally expected. Now that it is here, consider this our first look at Apple’s highly-anticipated new product. Say Hello To iTunes Match Describing iTunes Match is a lot like describing a jet flying in the sky. You know it is there because of its contrail, but you can’t actually see it
When it arrived in early September, The 911 Memorial: Past, Present and Future app climbed immediately to the top of the App Store listings and with good reason. Now, on this Veteran’s Day (11/11/11), the app has received its first significant upgrade and now includes features requested by users. Available for $.99, the iPad app is the creation of noted writer-director Steve Rosenbaum and documents New York’s World Trade Center before, during, and after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The app includes hundreds of still photographs and hours of video clips, some of which are available on Rosenbaum’s CameraPlanet archive and 2002 documentary, 7 Days in September .
Initially releasing it for the iPhone and iPod touch, IK Multimedia continues to help musicians create the most portable but still powerful audio setup ever for both behind and on stage use with the availability of VocaLive for iPad , the first professional live processing and recording application for iOS. Whether for a live performance or recording something for inclusion in a separate project, VocaLive provides 12 studio quality audio effects and a 4-processor vocal effects chain, whereas the iPhone and iPod touch version allows a 3-processor vocal effects chain.