Concerts apps are mostly similar, in that they typically mash the now-familiar GPS on your phone against show listing databases. But when you’re on the run, trying to find that last-minute concert or be among the first to score tickets to something before it sells out or scalpers ruin the party for everyone, only a handful…
Remember Paint — as in Microsoft Paint, the ultra-basic graphics program that has shipped with every Windows operating system since 1985? As it turns out, people are still using this program, the “Comic Sans“ of graphic design, in one case to make what we’re pretty sure is the most bare-bones music visualization app ever. Even weirder, it apparently…
Before even cassettes became kitsch, we had the vinyl record. One legendary Englishman, John Peel, had more vinyl than just about anyone else. And, as one of the most influential disc jockeys ever to grace the airwaves, he often had them before everyone else. Vinyl sales are on the rise again, a testament to the physical format’s…
Many successful apps tend to encourage little bursts of activity, for when you’re waiting for the bus, the doctor, the coffee, whatever. Maybe that’s why Apple chose Band of the Day, a free iOS app that brings you one undiscovered, up-and-coming band each day, as its iPhone App of the Year Runner-Up of 2011,behind Instagram. Even Robert Scoble…
