The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past. With a swipe of the finger, change your lens, flash, or film. Each adds a unique touch to your HipstaPrint, so mix and match to find your favorite combination! (via Rage Digi)
The digital space is ever-changing and now theres finally a program to keep up with it. Boulder Digital works is a CU program to help prepare students to face this exactly. They recently launched an awesome new site dedicated to curating well executed digital experiences. See below and on how it works…
Eboy does it right with the FixPix app. This is a great example of how an artist or designer might approach the app world. It couldn’t be easier. Tilt your iPhone to explore eBoys art and find the right angle to solve the puzzle. There are 100 hand-crafted levels in this game with slow increasing difficulty. Available on iTunes
(Via Rage Digital)
HelvetiNote™ for iPad is waiting for app store approval! The yellow paper and ugly marker felt font in the stock notes app just didn’t work for us. HelvetiNote™ features thousands of available color themes and uses the classic design and layout typeface, Helvetica.
Version 1.0 of the Cypher 13 x Rage Digital collaboration will be available soon! More info below…
About:
We all take notes - somewhere. The iPad is the perfect device to collect our thoughts and organize our notes, but the apps available all leave something to be desired. HelvetiNote™ is here to simplify and improve your note taking experience. HelvetiNote™ was designed and built specifically to fill a void in the iPad app market, and offer us all a purist and more enjoyable means of collecting our thoughts - in Helvetica.
Notes on Helvetica:
- Helvetica was developed in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas type foundry
- Helvetica was originally called Neue Haas Grotesk
- In 1960, the typeface’s name was changed by Haas’ German parent company Stempel to Helvetica
- The name Helvetica is derived from Confoederatio Helvetica, the Latin name for Switzerland
- The change from Neue Haas Grotesk to Helvetica was to make the typeface more marketable internationally
http://www.deathtomarkerfelt.com/ (Best URL ever)
Going with the one of the stock wallpaper options on your phone, computer or iPad doesn’t say too much these days. That photo you took doesn’t look that good either. Their seem to be an ever increasing number of desktops in our lives you have to fill with something interesting or inspirational. The iPhone OS4 lets you put a wallpaper behind the icons now too which is really hard to make look good. We are all in need of good places to find cool wallpaper! Poolga is one place to start. With a large list of contributing artists you should be able to find something good. They have most available in iPhone/iPod and now iPad as well.
(via Rage Digital)
This is an extension of a previous post we put up for sketching app ideas. The App Sketchbooks come in iPhone/iPod touch templates as well as iPad sized. The stencil UI kits would work nicely with these.
(via Rage Digital)
We thought Mad Decent was a fun app, but this new one that was just put out to accompany the release of Diplo and Switch’s new dancehallcentric project Major Lazer looks to be stepping up the game and expanding what is possible on the handheld device of our generation. Peep the possibilities.
Get your Major Lazer iPhone app here: http://bit.ly/MLiphoneapp
For more info: www.myspace.com/majorlazer
Also, check out iSyn, a great way to get your electro on.
The recent bursts of warm weather got me thinking about one of the most fun summer activities - SCOOTING!!
Admit it, you have been watching the euro dudes cruise around town on their Vespas for too long. Forget all the plastic styling and go with a legit choice - The Honda Ruckus. This thing has the essential steel frame, fat tires to go off road, and non of the crap you don’t need. The 1.3 gallon tank will keep you moving for over 100 miles…enough said.
Find a good deal at ATV Discounters or Scooter Depot, so when the mercury rises above 70, you are ready to rock.
Looking for a great waste of time on that next layover in Newark? Head on over to 2D: Boy Games and grab the demo for the highly buzzed game World of Goo. It’s available for Mac, PC, and even Wii! If you dig it, buy the whole thing for $20. Not only will you be keeping yourself preoccupied while toxic deicer is being applied to the fragile wings about to shuttle you around at 35,000 ft in the air, you will be supporting some pretty talented dudes running an independent gaming studio.
Well, that’s how they are advertising a new media format dubbed slotMusic and I have to say it does have some potential, or at least some good ideas. Besides having the entire album in high quality 320kbs MP3 format, the remaining space on a 1GB slotMusic card (really just a microSD card with a slotMusic stamp on it) which fits in a variety of devices from cell phones to computers also stores exclusive videos, album art, lyrics and leaves room for other content possibilities including midi files, remix loops and even karaoke files. The slotMusic albums retail at $14.99 and a basic player from SanDisk only costs $20! So, if you are looking for an inexpensive solution to your iPod shuffle wants, just get the player and a cheap microSD card, fill er up and start lapping the park. I’m not a psychic (like Dan) but I don’t see this “new” format bringing the slumping music industry back to its glory days, but it sure could help and is showing that artists and labels have stopped whining about sales and are truly working to find ways to sell their art in new ways while giving more to the fans. I would expect to see more creative formats to start popping up, the real question being which will be the most successful.
