Currently playing:
Or apps wise:
It’s always fun to discover new apps, and a good way to see which apps are used most is to look at the first home screen. So here’s mine, where is yours?
The apps you can see are (apart from the built in Apple ones):
Create a smart playlist with all unplayed podcasts. By using this playlist you no longer have to find the next podcast on your iPhone whilst driving back home. Make sure that you include the smart playlist on the Podcast tab of your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Update:
Although this seemed a great solution in theory, there are some issues with this approach in practice. As diskspace on the iPhone is at a premium you will have to limit the amount of podcast data stored on your device. However, because there is not an option to keep 1 unplayed episode per podcast in the smart playlist editor you have to set the amount of diskspace used. When you have several podcasts and some are updated more frequently then others you will end up for some podcasts not being on your device and others that are continuously listened to. Therefore I opted for InstaCast which caches 1 episode per podcast and comes with continuous playback in its latest update.
We have seven people in a smallish office and typically two people discuss a problem by shouting across the room, while another person is busy making phone calls. As a developer it can be hard to concentrate on programming with all this noise around. That is until I discovered the Inception app.
From the official website:
Experience your life as a dream [..] This app is a dream machine that transforms the world around you into a dreamworld. It uses augmented sound to induce dreams through the headset of your iPhone and iPod Touch. It will change your perception of reality.
The idea of this app is that you listen to it while you do live your life, and in certain situations it unlocks interactive dreams, for example on a sunny day – or in a busy place. The still dream I’m listening to currently records audio through the microphone and playsback the samples through an echo with pitch-shift, resulting in an ever-changing soundtrack.
In my busy office with headphones on, this successfully creates an interactive soundtrack blocking all communications. I prefer it to a regular radio station and other solutions I’ve tried.
I’m currently testing the WordPress iPhone app (WfI). It’s great for a free app! However I noticed a few things that need to be polished:
Still it’s a great way to do some writing while not at a desktop and I appreciate the offline mode for iPod Touch users.
