7

Dec

Appletell reviews Lady Gaga iOKI for iPhone, iPod Touch

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Section: iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iTunes , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Reviews Category: Music Developer: gridMOB Requirements: iPhone 3.1.2 software or later Compatibility: iPhone and 2nd Gen iPod touch File Size: 71.5MB Version: 1.0 Price: $4.99 Availability: Now The Lady Gaga iOKi karaoke application is meant to allow users to sing along to some of their favorite songs, as well as potentially record and upload those songs. Furthermore, it allows the user to purchase songs other than those sung by Lady Gaga, and to sing along to those as well. As the song plays, words appear across the screen and turn blue as you’re supposed to read them. When you first launch the application, there is a 10 second or so video of Lady Gaga doing various things, which is somewhat annoying after you’ve seen it once, especially considering the noises in it. That said, you can simply double tap it to skip the video at any point. Once it does get to the main page, it looks like the image below. The interface is very much oriented around glamour.

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7

Dec

Appletell reviews Lady Gaga iOKI for iPhone, iPod Touch

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Section: iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iTunes , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Reviews Category: Music Developer: gridMOB Requirements: iPhone 3.1.2 software or later Compatibility: iPhone and 2nd Gen iPod touch File Size: 71.5MB Version: 1.0 Price: $4.99 Availability: Now The Lady Gaga iOKi karaoke application is meant to allow users to sing along to some of their favorite songs, as well as potentially record and upload those songs. Furthermore, it allows the user to purchase songs other than those sung by Lady Gaga, and to sing along to those as well. As the song plays, words appear across the screen and turn blue as you’re supposed to read them. When you first launch the application, there is a 10 second or so video of Lady Gaga doing various things, which is somewhat annoying after you’ve seen it once, especially considering the noises in it. That said, you can simply double tap it to skip the video at any point. Once it does get to the main page, it looks like the image below. The interface is very much oriented around glamour. For instance, the rays in the background rotate and the buttons get a little shine when you tap them. This makes it seem slow or laggy at times on my iPhone 3G, which doesn’t have as much CPU and RAM power as the 3GS. At one point, I had to restart my iPhone to use the application because it kept crashing on launch due to not having enough RAM, I think. Once you head into the library with the tab on the bottom left, you initially get five songs to listen to and sing along with. These songs are Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “LoveGame,” “Paparazzi,” and “Poker Face.” To begin the karaoke part of the application, you simply tap a song in the list and allow it to load

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23

Nov

Macintosh/iPhone software update roundup – November 23, 2009

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Section: Software + Apps , Miscellaneous , Third-Party , iPod + iTunes , iPod touch , iPhone , iPhone , iPhone SDK & Apps , Mac + Computers , Software Macintosh and iPhone/iPod updates and announcements for November 23, 2009: Macintosh Until November 28th, TheMacBundles is offering the highly rated iArchiver utility for one week at a 55% discount. Due to the large response to the survey and related free bundle offer, the survey will end on November 23rd. However, as originally announced, a free copy of the December bundle will be awarded to two randomly selected individuals who completed the brief survey. Maxprog has released MaxBulk Mailer 7 , an update to its popular email-merge solution for Macintosh and Windows. MaxBulk Mailer supports plain text, HTML and rich text formats including optional plain text alternative and attachments. Version 7 includes several interesting new features and improvements, and now available in English, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Russian and Portuguese languages. .com Solutions Inc. has released FmPro Migrator Platinum Edition 5.31 , updated with enhancements to the AccessToFmPro migration feature. FileMaker Pro developers can automate the conversion of Microsoft Access Forms/Reports, Relationships, Value Lists, Queries and Visual Basic code to FileMaker Pro database solutions. The Access to FmPro Migration feature can easily save hundreds of hours of development effort in a typical Access to FileMaker Pro conversion project

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7

Sep

C64 emulator approved for iPhone

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Filed under: Gaming , Multimedia , Software , Odds and ends , Apple , iPhone , App Store Well how about that. A Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone is nothing new — we covered the fact that one had been developed a little while ago. Here’s what is new (and a little surprising, to be honest): Apple approved it . In an environment where Apple seems intent on rejecting anything that might encroach on their platform, even just a little bit, they have apparently allowed an emulator right there on the App Store. There are catches, of course — the emulator comes bundled with five officially licensed titles: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck and Jack Attack , and more will be available to purchase soon, so it’ll all be above board and legit (and the flip side is that if you want to play classic titles like Elite or Ultima , you’ll have to hope that whoever owns the rights to those will let them see release). The biggest catch is that the emulator doesn’t come with BASIC support enabled by default (although, via Daring Fireball and the iPhone Blog , it’s possible to get to it via a backdoor), so it’s more of a C64 arcade emulator rather than an actual software emulator . But of course this is a step in the right direction — someday we may finally see official SNES or NES emulators running in full glory on the iPhone and approved and available to purchase on the App Store. This emulator, simply called C64, is available right now on the App Store for $4.99. C64 emulator approved for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . C64 emulator approved for iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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2

Jul

App Store Rejections: Apple rejects iKaraoke app, then files a patent for a karaoke player

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Bad Apple , Apple , iPhone , iPod touch As if the waters surrounding the App Store approval process weren’t murky enough, one developer has just hit an unprecedented wall . Apple rejected his app, iKaraoke, citing that it duplicated functionality of the iPod application. Of course, the “duplicate functionality” reason is nothing new, but Apple’s next step is: just a few weeks after rejecting the application, they have filed a patent for including karaoke functionality into the iPod app. A brief look at the demo iKaraoke’s website will quickly tell you that, while the app does bear a light resemblance to some of the menus found in the iPod application, the actual interface that the user interacts with to select and download a song is far from duplicating the iPod’s polished interface. Another key point is that the file format used by iKaraoke is known as the .kar format — an unofficial extension of the MIDI specification that enables lyrics to appear in time with music. The lyrics are then displayed on the screen, and highlighted as the song is played. Does any of this sound like functionality found in the iPod app? We didn’t think so. So what exactly was duplicated then? According to apple, iKaraoke ” duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application, iPod, without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality.

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