Saturday, April 24, 2010
This Week's Best iPhone Apps
Gizmodo:This one made its debut on the iPad, where it is indispensable. It's a simple vector-based sketching app, with line normalization, layers, a larger-than-screen canvas, and PDF export. It's free.
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This looks pretty cool, actually. The downside I can see to this app is that it may not be transferrable to other applications or usable once you're done scribbling. It would be great to have (of course in place of a pencil and paper) to write things down in your own handwriting or sketch something to show someone on the fly. Maybe this is the new "bar napkin" drawing... I guess it's more likely that the person you're talking to had an iPad in their pocket than a pen or pencil these days.
While I do not have an iphone, I understand how helpful some apps are. Out of these apps, many seem like things a computer or a book would be better at, but then you are caring around more things, which I guess makes it understandable. The How to Cook Everything app looks interesting, having the ability to make grocery lists and already have timers ready. The games also could be entertaining especially while in a position of waiting for something.
The only bad thing about these apps is they cost money, and with the addition of the iPad some are only effective with the iPad. The drawing app looks pretty cool and something that seems pretty effective. I just hope in the future the iPad gets a pen or pencil so one can draw and design 3D renders on it. Hopefully that will be in future. Then I will buy an iPad.
This seems to be a great app for costume designers. This is great that you can export the files as a PDF. The only thing that would probably make it better would be to have a pen that is designed for the iPad or the iPhone. That is the one thing that made me not even think about getting an iPad; once they come out with that feature I will be all over the iPad. In general, this is a great app that has a great potential in the coming versions of the iPad and the iPhone. I am looking forward to downloading this app and seeing how well it works.
The list of apps are pretty interesting, especially Adobe one. It's not the first sketch app I've heard of for the touch based Apple products, but it is the first I've heard of that can export out of the program. Truthfully, I have no idea exactly how useful a drawing tool you essentially computerized fingerpaint with is, but the idea is still cool. I can see this being a more useful app for the iPad then the iPone or Touch just based on how big the screen is.
This app is free? If you could sketch something in this app and then be able to use it in other programs, this could be highly convenient for designeres to be able to quickly and efficiently sketch out ideas. Technology like this is fascinating in how it will change the way we design and envision theatre, and how we present these ideas.
I think a lot of these apps are cool. i thought the photo collection app was really cool and its kind of interesting to think that one day it will be possible to get a magazine on your iphone.
Another app that was cool was the translating one. it hast the potential to be vary useful, but they said it may not work all the time. if im going to pay $25 for an app (per language) i want it to work all the time.
The Sonic app looked really cool. i like the idea of making classic games, like sonic, for the iphone.
Being someone who absolutely loves downloading apps, I'm a little disappointed in some of these. The title of the article is called 'This Week's Best iPhone Apps,' even some of the descriptions admit that some of these apps aren't the greatest, or don't function to their full potential. It makes me wonder exactly what is making them the "best" at the moment. Perhaps it is the highest number of sales, or maybe they just happen to be somebody's favorites, but it is something that I am pretty curious about after looking at these apps.
I love the scribbling notion here. Often I find myself wishing there was a way to be creative on the iPhone, that isn't doing a sudoko or playing a game. The fact that it may not be cross platformable might be a problem, but its a great start. I would REALLY love to see something along the lines of google Sketchup for the iPhone -- be able to do quick models or really quick mock ups in a meeting or as you're sitting on the train. I bet it would be better on the iPad though.
This is pretty awesome. I can't see the function of the ipad so this to me is "for" the ipad and I agree with Naomi that I could not see things done in the program being able to be used in other programs. The other big thing is that I can only see this app being useful on the ipad. How could I use it on my small iphone screen. This is cool just like the CAD app is cool but I can't imagine using it on a handheld.
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