I’m always looking for creative new music-making apps to play on my iPod touch, and today I discovered Bebot Robot Synth. The iPhone app is developed by Normalware. Bebot features 4-note polyphony (you can play up to 4 different notes at once) and sports some cool effects like echo, overdrive, and chorus. You can even play along with music from your iTunes library. One of the most interesting features of Bebot, however, is the singing robot that appears in the background. Check out the YouTube demo video above, or go to www.normalware.com for more details. It’s only $2, which is a pretty good deal for a powerful little synth like this! I wonder when this app will come to the Android Market. Aesthetically, It seems like a perfect match for the new Google phones.
Ever since I got an iPod Touch a couple of months ago, I’ve been looking at websites in a new way. That is to say, I’ve become increasingly frustrated by having to zoom in and out, scroll side to side, just to read a few paragraphs of text on the Touch. Well luckily I found a plugin for Wordpress (the platform used to power this blog) called WPtouch. WPtouch automatically formats my blog posts for iPhone/iPod Touch, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, and Android users. No more unnecessary zooming or scrolling just to read a paragraph.
Unfortunately, when it comes to graphical design customization, WPtouch is slightly limited (it would be cool if I could use some of the graphical elements from the web designed blog in the mobile design). But though it lacks in style, WPtouch makes up for this in its ease of use and cross compatibility with most mobile platforms.
Now if only I posted to this blog more often, you’d have more content to read on your mobile…
If you have a blog running on Wordpress and are interested in mobile compatibility, check out the WPtouch plugin here: http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/
Last Thursday, I stopped by The Change You Want To See Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to hear Stewart Ewen speak about “Symbols, Branding, and Persuasion”. Stewart has written many books on media and politics, one of them being PR! A Social History of Spin.
Though I haven’t read this specific book, I was familiar with the BBC series “loosely” based on it titled The Century of The Self. In The Century of The Self, director Adam Curtis draws connections between the history of political power and execution, propaganda, and Freudian psychoanalysis (amongst other things).
And while Mr. Ewen clearly wanted to remove Freudian connotation from his own work (he was much more interested in theorists Bernés and Gustave Le Bon), the topics at hand were equally heavy and entertaining. Case in point, at the end of his lecture Mr. Ewen played the opening from the popular children’s show Bob The Builder. All I can say is, what does the message remind you of? (By the way, I apologize if the theme song gets stuck in your head for at least the next couple of days.)
Check out some of the other programming at The Change You Want To See Gallery: here.
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