You just have to love PalmSprak

I love the fact that someone made a Palm Sounds version of their app to celebrate when Palm Sounds was 5 years old. I really love the original Sprak app and this one is just as good, and reminds me that Palm Sounds was a really good thing and helped to create a lot of buzz around mobile music.

The Zoetrope

It is a brilliant idea for an app, as indeed is the zoetrope a brilliant idea in itself. Having a virtual one on a device is great as I never get out the one I have at home.

I love this app, and even though I have no real need to keep it whatsoever I will continue to.

Playing with Android Inventor: A very simple drum pad

I mentioned before that I’ve been playing with Android inventor now that it’s on MIT’s servers. The first thing I tried to do with it was to make something vaguely musical. Well, ok, not that musical to be honest. I thought I’d try and do something like a little drum pad to start with.

It works, sort of, but it really isn’t too useful sadly, as the drum sound only triggers when you take your finger off the button and not when you press it. So I really need a new way of getting that to work.

Why is there a baby hedgehog in this PDA?

And more to the point, what does it do? Good question. Well it was a demo app from what was to be a replacement OS for the Palm PDA. Sadly it never came to anything, but I still have the demo apps/applets that were around and every now and then I get one of them going to try and remember what it is that they actually do.

Baby hedgehog is a lot like that. Every time I come to use it I can’t really remember what it is that is does.

I still wish that there had been a replacement OS for Palm which was just for music, but that’s never going to happen now sadly. But if you want to know more about Capers, look here.

That Tweakybeat screen

I really do like tweakybeat, and one of the reasons that isn’t obvious is that it is really straightforward and simple to use. The interface is completely no nonsense.

If you don’t know it, then you should.

I wish I could build a drum machine like this.

Nanoloop work in progress

Another work in progress piece. I find it interesting that different music apps make you work in different ways and inspire different musical styles. I really should try doing something radically different with Nanoloop. Perhaps with the next track.