I’ve been trying out the iRig MIDI 2 and one thing I’ve been meaning to do for a long time is experiment with Patch Morpher. It works really well, and, as expected, the iRig MIDI 2 just works seamlessly.
Tag: Apps
Everything is about apps at the moment. A lot of what I mention under the apps tag is around iOS and mobile music, but there’s other stuff too, and not just iOS, but Android, Palm OS and Windows mobile.
Some new music: There are always interruptions
I started this ages and ages ago, but only finished it off last night as I was trying out the latest version of Music Studio.
Untreated Expression, made in Korg Gadget
Brute LFO and Molecule Synth
I do like using this app with stuff. You can get some really interesting sounds and effects from the various modules in my molecule synth.
Goodbye Foursquare, it was fun, you ruined everything sadly
FourSquare have finally gone too far. They’re forcing users to switch to their new app Swarm. I don’t really know why, but the new app runs GPS in the background and therefore uses loads of battery. So I’ve decided that enough is enough. I’m giving up on check-ins with FourSquare. If they subsequently change their minds and stop doing this stupid two app stuff then maybe I’ll start using it again, but for now I’ve had it with FourSquare.
A little something I made with Quincy for iPhone
Launch Center Pro 2.3 arrives
Wow, they’ve got a new @IFTTT channel and loads more besides. I think that this is probably a really big step forward for iOS automation, so I’m looking forward into digging into this in a bit more detail and finding out just what it’s capable of.
It’ll also be interesting to see what other people make using it.
Numerous, the dashboard I don’t know what to do with
When I saw that IFTTT had integrated the Numerous app into their ecosystem I was intrigued. I hadn’t heard of the app before, but when I read about it I knew it was something that I’d want to play with. And it was. However, what I hadn’t bargained for was the that I’d very quickly realise that whilst it’s interesting to be able to collate all these numbers into a dashboard, I wasn’t really sure of what numbers I wanted to track. It was in effect a dashboard with no need for any information. Which is a little bit defeating.
So I’m still wondering what to use this for. What I can usefully measure or track that won’t be obvious or boring or pointless. I do hope that something comes to mind in the not too distant future as I think that Numerous and IFTTT are a great combination.
IFTTT comes to Android, and what I’d like to see next
Well it had to happen sooner or later. They’d done the iOS app, the iPad version, Android is the obvious next stop on the route. But I think they did it right. Adding a whole bunch of Android only functionality into the delivery. I thought that was a really nice touch.
Of course, on the day they launched their app didn’t support the 7″ tablet, so it wouldn’t install on my nexus, but it didn’t take long to fix at all which was impressive. I haven’t really had a chance to test out the Android only channels and functionality. Hopefully late this week or early next I might be able to do that, but what I’ve seen so far looks pretty impressive and should allow some interesting cross platform working to occur.
IFTTT have made themselves completely indispensable when it comes to web automation, I do wonder where they’ll go next though. They’ve added so many apps that their service is really comprehensive now, but what I’d really like to see is some improvement in some of the core services, like the simple ability to add multiple accounts for a service under a single IFTTT account.
All I’d like to be able to do is to add more than one twitter account in IFTTT. That would make it so much more useful. I expect that they will do this at some point, perhaps with some kind of ‘pro’ account feature.
I’d pay for that.
IFTTT comes to Android, but not your Android (well not mine really)
I got really excited today when I heard that IFTTT was finally coming to Android. It was always something I knew that they’d do, just a question of when, and the when was now. So when I opened up my Nexus 7 to find the IFTTT app on google play, and it wasn’t there I was a little disappointed. Of course, it was there, but just not for me, or rather, not for the Nexus 7.
I suppose it will come to Android tablets eventually, but it’ll take a little while I guess, which is a shame as the Nexus 7 was Google’s flagship 7″ tablet. I suppose I just don’t get why apps like this can’t come to the OS fully universal from day one? It doesn’t make sense to me.
So I’m back to waiting again for this, and what’s worse, I know about the Android specific channels that IFTTT have built into their Android app. So I really do know what I’m missing!
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