Evernote

Evernote is a beautiful system for “Remembering Everything”. In essence, Evernote is an iPhone application, desktop application, and browser plugin. It lets you capture anything from the web or daily travels and organizes it for you. It’s a very simple way to keep track of your project notes, photographs, and clippings from the web.

The best thing about Evernote is that if you have a laptop, desktop, office computer and iPhone, it syncs all of them automatically. I only wish I could find something to organize my firefox and google chrome bookmarks across multiple machines!

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Convertbot by Tapbots

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to highlight an iPhone app that is seriously well designed. Checkout Covertbot by Tapbots – a two man team that has put out a couple different apps (convertbot & weightbot). This app does what you would expect it to – it converts various units of data into other units of data – but it does so in a sleek, fun to use interface. It is obvious that the designer and developer worked closely together to keep the design pixel-perfect and tight, preserving all of the subtle gradients, bevels and shadows. Additionally, this app has fantastic transitions.

Remember, even when designing the smallest of apps, Apple and users love to reward thoughtful, great design. As one person said to me, “I bought it just because of the design”. And so did I.

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Ocarnia – A flute that really does take you to a magical land

Some of us remember Zelda, a game that I originally played on Nintendo 8 bit. Aside from generally being, in my opinion, the mother of all role playing games, it had some really fun features which brought you into the Zelda world and kept you there. One of my favorite features was the whistle. Hard to get, it gave you the ability to warp within the game.

The Ocarnia application by Smule is one of the coolest that I’ve seen come into the app store for a while. It utilizes the inherent iPhone features while pushing the boundaries of what we would normally consider an app to do. Yes, it is a flute. Yes, it has all of the roots and modes that really only make sense to a full-fledged mucisian. But, if you click on the globe from the primary nav, you enter into an experience that is different to most applications I’ve found.

In the globe feature, you see essentially two things. 1) The hot spots of iPhone users with the Ocarnia application installed and 2) The location in the world a person is playing right at that very second. This what I really find to be “other-worldly” – the fact that I can listen to a person interacting with their phone at this very moment in time connects me to their life in some other place on the planet.

It’s really surreal.

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