Here we take a weekly look at the voluminous world of apps for the iPhone and iPad, picking out the best of the bunch and showing you what’s cool, new, noteworthy, and innovative. If you have any favorites or suggestions, feel free to let us know in the comments below.sir Sampleton [iPhone, iPad]
This one’ll take you back, if you were someone who owned one of those Casio SK-1 toy keyboards where you press the disco drum pattern button à la Gary Numan. Artist Paul Slocum has created this nod to that golden era of cheap sounding synthesizers with a sampling app that lets you record and sample sounds, playing them back through the dual keyboard for a totally chic, lo-fi aesthetic.3 Degrees of Wikipedia [iPhone, iPad]We all trawl Wikipedia, hyperlinking from one article to the next with casual abandon, but are you taking any of that knowledge in? This app, created by Ivan Zhao, is based on the idea that memory works through connections. Turn navigating wiki pages into a social game where you must solve connection puzzles to acquire knowledge, all while creating your own problems to enlighten others. See, learning can fun.Visualator [iPhone, iPad]
Computer Arts magazine has created their first app called Visualator, made by Matt Booth and Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale, which allows you to create abstract shapes using the touchscreen while unleashing your inner avant-garde artist. Express yourself through color, shape, and form with the two tools: Gradulate for pen-based drawing and Triangulate for geometric designs.Photo Booth [iPhone]
Remember cramming all of your friends into a retro photo booth, frantically pulling different whacky poses between shots? Hilarious. But now times have changed, and some photo booths now boringly print the same photo for all four. What a rip-off. Well, now you can bring back those days of too much fun with this app that recreates those vintage photobooths.
This one’ll take you back, if you were someone who owned one of those Casio SK-1 toy keyboards where you press the disco drum pattern button à la Gary Numan. Artist Paul Slocum has created this nod to that golden era of cheap sounding synthesizers with a sampling app that lets you record and sample sounds, playing them back through the dual keyboard for a totally chic, lo-fi aesthetic.
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Computer Arts magazine has created their first app called Visualator, made by Matt Booth and Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale, which allows you to create abstract shapes using the touchscreen while unleashing your inner avant-garde artist. Express yourself through color, shape, and form with the two tools: Gradulate for pen-based drawing and Triangulate for geometric designs.Photo Booth [iPhone]
Remember cramming all of your friends into a retro photo booth, frantically pulling different whacky poses between shots? Hilarious. But now times have changed, and some photo booths now boringly print the same photo for all four. What a rip-off. Well, now you can bring back those days of too much fun with this app that recreates those vintage photobooths.