NanoStudio for iPhone

Posted by iPHi under Apple Related, Applications, Iphone News on Wednesday Aug 4, 2010

If you’re a music geek like me, the NanoStudio app is just for you.  By now, everyone knows that the iPhone is much more than just a phone- it’s a music player, too.  With NanoStudio, your iPhone can be the ultimate music-maker.  It has synths, trigger pads, sequencers, samplers and lots of other things.  Best of all, it’s easy to use! 

This app is an actual recording studio that has 4 virtual analogue synths, 16 sampler trigger pads, a comprehensive sequencer, a sample editor, a mixer, and 10 effects units that are all integrated into a single application.  Another thing this amazing app allows is for you to record different samples using the iPhone’s built in microphone and then resample with the app’s own output or upload it to your computer.

This app is simple enough for a beginner to figure out, yet complex enough to entertain an expert, like the man on the video.  This app is a little pricey at $15, but if you ever think you might get a little more ambitious, it’s worth the money.

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IMDb App for iPhone

Posted by iPHi under Apple Related, Applications, Iphone News on Tuesday Aug 3, 2010

The makers of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website now have something new.  It’s an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.  All the information you would look up on the IMDb website is available on the app.  You can see lists of cast members, actor credits, reviews from critics and other IMDb users, and more.  

The format for the mobile app is slightly different from the website.  By grouping things on the website into links that you can tap on, it’s easier to maneuver around the app.  On the iPhone and iPod touch, IMDb’s makers know that the amount of screen space is limited.  When you search for movies, instead of trying to fit the entire cast list onto a single screen, the IMDb app just lists the top billed actors.  From here, you can tap on their names to see what other movies they’ve appeared in or you can tap another link to get a full cast list on another screen.

The app is even easier to use on the iPad.  The app is different because with this one, when you tap on the link to see the entire cast list of a movie, it appears as a separate window on top of the main screen.  The same thing happens when you tap to show the pages for individual actors’ filmography.  This also shows up as a separate window, which gives you the information you want without making you to tap your way back to where you started. 

The IMDb app lets you view trailers.  The video player is built right into the app soo when you’re done watching the trailer, you go right back to the screen where you left off.  An IMDb button that is always shown lets you go right back to the app’s home page if you want quick access to the main menu of search categories.  This is nice because there are a lot of apps that would make you hunt to find your way back to the start.

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