It’s up for debate whether hearing an audiobook is the same as reading, but nobody doubts that listening is a unique way to process not only music, but information. It frees up your eyes, for one thing, so you can drive, pedal, or run, in cases when carrying a book would be absurd or impossible. Even…
It’s always nice when new technology erases boundaries between formerly discrete functionalities. Suddenly, you only need one thing where you used to need two or more. Agogo (free, iOS), released on Wednesday, does that for audio — not music, audio. This app combines AM/FM radio stations, TV audio programming, and podcasts, organizing all of that…
We don’t have time to write full-length articles about everything that happens in the burgeoning field of music apps. Rather than let important items slip through the cracks, we’re now including them in this, our new Duly Noted section: 5/31 IK Multimedia released a tiny little microphone called the iRig Mic Cast that clips onto your iPhone, iPad,…
Note 3/31/13: Evolver.fm is on a reduced publishing schedule due due to family logistics on the part of the editor. We don’t deny that plenty of the stuff on the internet isn’t worth much for long. Our news cycles seem to take about four seconds these days, and we spend so much time tweeting, retweeting,…
Information overload might feel less onerous if we spread it around. Why should our eyes and fingers do so much of the work of inundating our brains with torrents of information? Our ears can chip in. Social Radio for Twitter, an iOS app temporarily available for free, reads your Twitter feed to you along with…
