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iPhone OS 4.0 To Bring Multitasking

Ryan Ray — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:13:07 +0000

Can you believe it is already time for the 4th iteration of the iPhone OS? We celebrated and rejoiced when we finally received copy and paste in iPhone 3.0, so what’s going to make 4.0 special? Of course the rumor mills are churning and churning as the time for a new iPhone and new software is getting near.

The big feature that seems like everyone wants is multi tasking, surprised? Nope, I wasn’t either. The iPhone already does some multi tasking in the background. You can continue to play music from the iPod app as you do other things. Also email is always running, it checks to see if you have mail based either on push notifications or different time intervals you already setup in the settings. So why aren’t people happy with this, and what will true multi tasking look like?

Both of those questions I’d love to know the answers to. Obviously the idea behind true multi tasking would be to be able to keep any apps that you wanted to running while checking out other apps. I’d guess and hope that Apple puts a limit on the number of open apps based on battery life and resources of the phone itself. It doesn’t have a ton of RAM nor does it carry any Core 2 Duo processors. I do expect the next iPhone for summer 2010 to be pretty beefed up if Apple is going to drop multi tasking on us. Let’s just speculate that you can have up to 5 3rd party apps open at a time. The next question is how does the iPhone go about handling this. There are some big interface questions to be asked. The current way the iPhone handles something like this is to push the screen down and have a colored bar across the top. That happens when you are on a call and hit the home button, or when you are tethering. Other ways include being able to tap the home button twice to bring up the iPod controls.

If there was true multi tasking a new interface for switching and closing the open apps would be necessary. I have faith in Apple since they are some of the best user interface designers out there. Apple has already bagged on Microsoft for their horrible task management, so it’s going to have to be great. It’ll be interesting to see if Apple brings multi tasking what kind of pretty interface they are going to wrap it in, and just how it works in general is going to be another problem that Apple will have to solve.

We all want multi tasking, but is it truly necessary? I love my iPhone and we’ve all made it thus far without any major multi tasking. I don’t ever think to myself, dang I wish I could just switch apps. But maybe this is one of those situations where Apple needs to tell me what I want? I’d love to hear your opinions on multi tasking and why you want. Drop a comment below and start the discussion! Thanks for reading.

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The Most Ridiculous Apps : iTinkle

Ryan Ray — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:35:22 +0000

I’ve come across quite a few apps that make me sit there, scratch my head, and say someone really spent the time to develop this app? I’ve decided since they are just soo far out there that I should gather my top three into a short series before the weekend and let you all know about them. I’m not saying that I like or hate them, only that the idea behind the app is pretty senseless if not useless. That’s only for me though, maybe someone really does rely on an app like these to make it everyday. So heads up on this short series, it should be a good one.

This first one might be the craziest one I’ve seen yet. It goes by the name iTinkle, I provided a link for you just incase you really wanted to see it in action for yourself. Don’t worry though, if you don’t feel like spending the time downloading and installing the app there is a video of the app and it’s sounds at the end of the review. iTinkle only does one thing, and that is to play sounds of mainly water to help your feel more at ease as you use the restroom. Weird to me, and probably to a lot of people. I’m sorry if this sounds offensive to those who truly do need sounds to help relax during their bathroom break, but when I’ve got to go there is no issue with me going whenever or wherever. I mean no harm by what I’m saying, just expressing a personal opinion. It’d be cool if you do often have trouble using the bathroom to leave a comment and let us know what you think about apps like this. Many thanks in advance

So here is the interface, that is it and that is all there is to it. It’s bad because I can’t make up enough words to fill up a lengthy post. There are more pictures below.

So as you can see from the very first picture that you find the sound you want and tap the man peeing in the urinal to turn it on. I’d suggest using headphone if you are wanting to use this in any public bathroom. Just pretend you are listening to your iPod. No one should give you any weird looks, unless you unplug your headphones on accident and the “Sploosh” sound is on. Haha.

iTinkle is just the first one of two more really wacky apps. Aimed at helping people pee more at ease, except for me I feel weird just knowing there is an app for this purpose. I hope you can have fun with me finding really goofy apps. It’ll help give you a chuckle as we work towards the weekend. If you know any outlandish apps and want me to check them out to add to the first three just let me know. I love to get suggestions from you all. Thanks for reading now check out the video to see the app in action. Have a great night.

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Tweetie 2 iPhone App

Ryan Ray — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:48:56 +0000

Holy smokes guys, sorry sorry sorry for the absence in writing some reviews! I hate to leave the website not up to date, but my life just gets crazy at times. I’ve been working on putting six tv shows together as a part of my minor in Broadcast Production. No worries though as I’ve brought an easy review for you guys today. Also the videos are making their return as well! So what do you say we dive into this.

Well we’re talking about a Twitter app that’s been around for quite some time, it’s name is Tweetie but it’s been upgraded to a brand new version 2. It cost a simple $2.99 and is very much worth it in my mind. I’ve paid $5 for a Twitter app that wasn’t as satisfying as this one is for me. Tweetie 2 has been completely rewritten from it’s earlier incarnation. At the moment and I feel safe to say, Tweetie 2 is well prepared for the future. Why do I say that, well let me run you through some of my favorite parts of the app.

First you all know I love great interfaces, Tweetie 2 has just that. A smooth, clean well thought out interface. You will see in the video some of what I’m talking about. It also handles multiple accounts like a charm. For the last year I feel like I’ve been stuck with TweetDeck because it incorporates groups really easily. Both between the desktop version and the iPhone version. I’ve now switched to Tweetie both on my Mac and iPhone. With Twitter’s new list feature and Tweetie already ready for lists I will be able to have my lists whenever they turn the feature on. Very excited about that. Nothing is wrong with TweetDeck, but for me Tweetie 2 works better. Take a gander for yourself at my screenshots.

First you can see the multiple accounts I help manage, then the next one is iPhone Nuts followers. Shout out to my friend Bruce Franklin ! Clean and bright interface. If you’ll notice along the bottom that you have a black bar with some icons on it. These are obviously how to navigate through your main feed, replies, direct messages, search and more. You can see more of that by watching the video

This first one is what it looks like when you swipe to the right across someones tweet. It gives you quick access to reply to them, interact with a link they might have tweeted. You can also see their profile, favorite and retweet and more. The next shot is their Twitter profile pulled up in Tweetie 2. A nice way to see or learn more about who you are tweeting with. You can also easily follow or unfollow from any account on this page.

Now, like I said I love Tweetie 2. My new obsession for my iPhone. If you are serious about your twitter account, or accounts, then be sure to check out Tweetie 2. Definitely buy the upgrade if you were already a Tweetie 1 fan. You will not be disappointed. Just read the reviews in the app store. It’s a hit! Thanks for reading, leave me some comments, then be sure to check out the video below when I post it. Have a great night.

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Boxed In Version 2

Ryan Ray — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:37:43 +0000

Hey there everyone. It’s about 1:15 in the morning here in the Midwest of the U.S. If you didn’t know I’m a full time student so for one it’s not strange to be up this late trying in vain to do homework and catch up on work. I’m very sleep deprived and have been for the past week. I missed 3 days of classes after my Great Grandma passed away. I decided it was worth the time to go home and be with family instead of keep up with school. I can always make up quizes and tests but not revisit my Grandma’s funeral. I tell you all this just because I’m a person too behind this keyboard. I thought you would appreciate to know what I’ve been doing and why I haven’t posted something nutty about the iPhone since October 26th!

I really appreciate your patience even not knowing the situation. For my sleep’s sake though let’s get on the road and talk about an app we’ve reviewed ONCE here at iPhone Nuts. The developer being the nice guy he is let us know that he’s got version two of his app out so we’re going to put it through it’s paces again. After doing some digging here is what I’ve found that’s new. Please correct me Mr. Mengelt if I’ve missed anything. Of course there are new levels! 50 of them I believe. There are some original music and sound effects added now, now worries if you like your game silent. You can turn it off in the options. That’s there for you who listen to your iPod while playing games. Of course autosave is still there, as well as the ability to move the main interface to the top or bottom of the screen. Personal preference as to where you like it!

But you might ask, “What’s your favorite part of the new app?” Well personally I love the new directional pad that was added. The game without the D-pad works with multiple swipes to move the robot across each level. At time though all that swiping can get monotonous. It’s great to use a D pad and move your robot around now. You should check it out if you are a fan of it. I believe you can turn it on under options. So you want to see some more screen shots? Alright well check it out below.

Like I mentioned you can turn on or off features to your personal liking. Try the D-pad out once though. See what you think. The next picture is the instructions on how you play this game. The great little map key is still there too. Definitely helpful in identifying objects for the noobie like me.

Just to show you how the levels progress the above shot is level 1. Pretty simple, you should be able to figure this out before you even start moving boxes. Again remember you can only push and not pull these wooden boxes. Now look at level 2.

Things get a little more complex here. As you can see you have to push this box up onto a lever to turn off that green thing blocking us from the exit. Also pick up the gear there on the upper left part of the level. As you can guess the levels are going to get harder and harder from here. Don’t worry about getting stuck on one level. You can skip up to five at a time I believe. Just to let your brain do some new solving. You can also reset the level you are on if you get stuck on a certain level.

So, worth the upgrade? Yup, I’d say so. If you are already a fan of Boxed In then fork over .99 for 50 new levels and a D pad. A cheap but effective 99 pennies spent. The developer is working hard for you guys so show your support and try out Boxed In 2. Leave a comment and let me know your own opinion of Boxed In 2. I’ll be trying to conquer this game over the coming weeks. I’m notorious for not being good at games. Sorry, I wasn’t born much of a gamer. Anyway, have a great Tuesday. I’m going to get some rest. As always, thanks for reading!

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3 Ways To Waste Time On The iPhone

Ryan Ray — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:43:41 +0000

Monday is here again, the slow, boring day that it usually is. While some of you head to work, I must head to class and take tests, quizzes, etc… Speaking of that I want to apologize for a lackluster week last week. Besides being super busy my Great Grandmother passed away and I was back in MO for the services. Now that I’ve caught up to class and work I’ve a break to talk to you about 3 of my favorite apps to help pass the time away. Now I’m not saying that during work, or class you should be utilizing these techniques to pass the time. Although I will admit that I am very guilty of doing so, these are for when you have time to kill and would rather use an app to do so instead of counting the threads in the carpet.

I was inspired by this after traveling all last week, and also inspired from sitting through boring classes. There is always points in the day when you can pass some time by using your iPhone.

Here are my top three apps that at the moment are my favorite ways to pass the time.

#3 – FML, TWI, ProTip apps

Technically there are 3 whole apps right here, but that’s the kind of bonus you get when you’re here with me. I’ve included these three in one because really they are all very similar. They are all made by the same people Enormego. If you’ve ever browsed and read Fmylife.com then you already know what these three apps are like. F my life contains some pretty crazy stories about the bad luck that people have experienced. TWI is texts while intoxicated. Which is you guessed it, texts from intoxicated people. Contains some funny pictures, but isn’t for everyone. ProTip offers a nice sarcastic view on life and the following tips are often as humorous as can be. I wouldn’t recommend following their tips, take them more as a do not do tip.

#2 – Shovel

I’ve heard rumors that there is an official Digg application on the way. It better be free too and have some great functionality! Until then there is a wonderful application called Shovel. It only lets you read the stories on Digg, you can’t comment or anything but that is Digg’s fault. They don’t open their API for developers to do so.

#1 – Any Twitter App

Twitter is an ultimate way to pass the time. At least in my opinion. It’s so awesome to have a simple way to see what the whole world is talking about. Not to mention your followers. Interact with people across the world. It may just be me but I find that a very awesome opportunity. Here you have quite the choice of apps to use. My favorite three have been Tweetie, Tweetdeck and Twittelator Pro. There are so many though so make your own decision if you don’t like mine.

So that is that, this is how I pass the time when I’ve got nothing better to do. That’s a rare occurrence but it does happen. I’m addicted to my iPhone and it definitely is nice to have around for instances such as this. Let me know what you think. What do you do when you have time to kill? Do you even use your iPhone, and if so what app? Leave a comment or send us a reply on Twitter. Have a great Monday, thanks for reading!

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Wallpaper App Showdown

Ryan Ray — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:32:03 +0000

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY! Thank the Lord it’s Friday here in Indiana! I’ve only been back for two days after an extended Fall Break in Missouri. Anyway I hope your Friday has started out well, let’s keep it light hearted as we talk about the iPhone today.

Wallpapers, do you use them on your iPhone? When I ask that, I know you have to have one by default. You can’t get away from using them, so do you really pay attention to it and care for your iPhone wallpaper? If not today is the day for a revolution for all iPhone owners out there and their respective wallpapers. Long Live WALLPAPERS!

Round 1

Here are the two apps going up on the chopping block today. I’ve chosen them strategically as they are both the most popular wallpaper apps, and one is free and one is a paid version. The one on the left is myWallPaper and is the free version of our apps today. On the right is the paid app call Backdrops, which comes in at $1.99. They are both very similar, their main focus is obviously providing you with great iPhone wallpapers. But how do they stack up in features and usability and quality of wallpapers. First let’s rate their main screen. I’d give a point to backdrops for a wonderful loading screen. Point to Backdrops

Round 2

The left side, myWallPaper, is what you’ll see when the app first opens. It by default goes to their popular wallpapers. The 4 square approach isn’t bad, but to check out more you must tap the arrows if you want to see 4 new wallpapers. Over on Backdrops side it has a wonderful interface and by default it opens up to the most recent wallpapers uploaded to the site. Bonus points for their starting category being the farthest left. It’s important for us cultures who read from left to right to start on the left. Their pictures are on the left and their first category is on the left.

For those unaware Backdrops pulls from a very popular site called interfacelift.com A great place to stop for your normal wallpapers, great icons, and more. Just a little plug for you there interfacelift, your welcome! To scroll and see more wallpapers is more intuitive on Backdrops. You scroll down until it asks you to tap to load more. Works better for me than myWallPaper. Point to Backdrops again.

Round 3

Round three starts NOW! The category division is a very important way for the apps to make finding a wallpaper you want even easier. Visually speaking myWallpaper is more interesting. They have nice icons for each category. Backdrops follows the Apple guidelines and uses an interface we are familiar with for every other iPhone app. They also provide a number of how many wallpapers are in the section. Then again it seems that myWallPaper has more categories. If they aren’t careful that can be confusing as well.

For this round both get a point. MyWallPaper’s is very visually nice, the icons are a good touch. Backdrops is simple, uses an interface we all know and even provides a number count!

Round 4

We have to measure the quality of Wallpapers here to make this fair. In my eyes I believe that Backdrops has higher quality photos, but then again it has less of a selection. myWallPaper has a ton of photos, although almost overwhelming the categories will help you narrow it down. So with a quick round 4 they both get a point again.

If we total our scores we’ve got myWallpaper with 2 and Backdrops with 4. I must say that I am very biased for an app that’s interface is thoughtfully planned and tweaked as the app grows. Then again for you economically sound app shoppers myWallPaper doesn’t have a horrible interface but it is FREE! I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s really up to your personal opinion on which app you choose. Of course there a ton of other wallpaper apps, these are just my two favorites. Personally I’d go with Backdrops just because it’s the cleanest, fastest, well designed one. It also consistently has high quality photos.

Be sure to let me know what you think about this showdown. Voice your opinion and tell me about you wallpaper.

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Photoshop For The iPhone

Ryan Ray — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:58:15 +0000

It’s hump day, and today we’re going to talk about an Adobe product brought to the iPhone. Sadly for all of you flash lovers out there this is not flash on the iPhone. But for us photo lovers out there, Adobe has released a very light version of Photoshop for the iPhone. At first it sounds REALLY exciting right? Photoshop on the iPhone, but don’t get THAT excited.

When I first heard of Photoshop on the iPhone I was thinking some great editing features, pretty similar to the desktop version of Photoshop. I then thought man I wonder how much this app is going to cost? At least $99 for what it offers. If I can crop, rotate, create layers, place text, adjust curve layers, mask layers, etc… everything I already do in Photoshop but on the iPhone that would be CRAZY. Then I came back to reality…

How would all of that be possible on the iPhone? Well I know it does run a variance of OS X so it has a font library, but is the graphic processor and processor itself able to handle that. Nope, that’s why Photoshop on the iPhone is free and provides some simple but elegant editing abilities.

First as I opened the app you’ll see like most other photo editing apps you’ve got the option to take a new photo or use an existing one. I took a new photo of the Wordpress admin section. From there I played with the tint just a little bit. Adjusting the tint is really cool on the iPhone. As you can see you just slide your finger back and forth and you’ll see the changes you are making in real time. I’ll be posting a video of the app eventually just so you can see how cool it is.

Next I went through and added a simple effect. One of my favorite effects ever. It’s a simple blurred vignette and I just love the effect for unexplained reasons. But if you look closely you have a lot of other effects built into the app as well. Things like black and white, rainbow tinting, warm vintage, white glow, etc… This is something I hope Adobe keeps adding to Photoshop on the iPhone.

Finally we’ve got the edited look we are going for, or at least found one suitable enough for our great iPhone picture. Now what? Well this is the thing I don’t like about the app. You must have an Adobe login and upload it to Adobe’s photo service. I’d rather save the photo back in my library then upload to Flickr or Twitpic with their respective apps. I hope that soon Adobe will make those options available as I’ve never known too many people, actually none, to use Adobe’s photo service to upload their pictures. Heck it’d be even better to integrate it with best camera’s service. Just something with a community around it.

All in all I do like the Photoshop app. It’s a nice start for Adobe, let’s just keep building on it and make the app great. If you have tried it, or haven’t. Leave a comment and voice your opinion on Photoshop on the iPhone. It’s much appreciated. Have a great Wednesday!

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Layar Brings Augmented Reality To The iPhone

Ryan Ray — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:11:21 +0000

It’s another Monday post again, Happy Monday to all out there. It seems like here in the midwest that the weather has picked back up to normal Fall levels. Sunny with crisp air in the 60’s! It’s great out there. Hope the weekend treated you well. Now let’s get into some iPhone stuff!

Augmented reality is the next great thing coming to the iPhone. Good news for us is that it doesn’t require much, except for maybe the iPhone 3GS. For augmented reality to work it needs to have GPS and a compass. You might be able to get by with other versions of the iPhone but the iPhone 3GS will do it best! Of course you can always upgrade like I did!

So with that out there, what is augmented reality anyway? This is what the Wiki says about AR…

“Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmentedby) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality. The augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, like for example sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer visionand object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally usable. Artificial information about the environment and the objects in it can be stored and retrieved as an information layer on top of the real world view. The term augmented reality is believed to have been coined in 1990 by Thomas Caudell, an employee of Boeing at the time^[1].

Augmented reality research explores the application of computer-generated imagery in live-video streams as a way to expand the real-world. Advanced research includes use of head-mounted displays and virtual retinal displays for visualization purposes, and construction of controlled environments containing any number of sensors and actuators.”

If you are still confused, just let me give you some examples to clear it up. One app that I know of that is fully AR is called Layar, download it by clicking on the name! Also if you are a big fan of Urban Spoon like I am, they now have it built into their great food finding app. Be sure to check it out.

Now while Layar has been mostly getting bad reviews, it still shows you what the potential of these kind of apps are. Before we talk more about AR let’s show you what Layar is made of. Inside of Layar you can easily add favorites and the most popular searches for your own AR experience. As you can see I’ve added Layar’s normal search, then skate spots that pulls up places to skateboard from a world wide databse, and lastly a favorite to help find places to eat. Although now I will probably stick to Urban Spoons AR just because I love the app.

On the right you can see what the most popular services are that use AR. An interesting one is the Tweeps Around. It will show you where people are tweeting from if they have a location tied to their tweets. Such as tweeting from your iPhone will do!

So what happens when you actually perform a search? This is my search using the local search. I searched for Dollar General because I knew there was one close just to show you what it looks like. The first picture is my iPhone looking slightly North West and you can see the grid that represents the horizon. On it is a marker for the Dollar General. The map is live updating as you rotate and tilt your iPhone. It’s really cool especially in a big city. The second view is just from the normal map.

The one downfall for me is that you can’t set your distance for more than 6 miles. In a small town I really need to set things for further than 6 miles. But then again in a big city that’s not required and it may ruin your AR experience with so many options popping up for under 6 miles.

Is Layars worth a try? Yes, it definitely is. It’s a free app and has some good AR. Definitely check out Urban Spoon too when you are out looking for food. Their implementation is awesome as well. Now it’s your turn, give me your opinion on AR on the iPhone. I’m curious as to what you think about it. Can you think of any genius uses for it? Be sure to comment and spark a discussion, enjoy your Monday. Talk to you all soon!

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Apple Blocks Jailbreaking, Opinions?

Ryan Ray — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:12:39 +0000

First off, happy Wednesday to you. Here in Indiana it’s dreary and a little chilly. As I write to you though I’m warm indoors with a nice sweater and coffee. Perfect fall setting. With that in mind I wanted to ask you, what are your favorite apps for fall? I’m building a post for that, and want you the reader to have input on the post. Just trying something new. Leave a comment and tell me some of your favorite Halloween apps, apps for fall, etc…GET CREATIVE.

Well there is big news out on the Apple iPhone front today. It’s being touted as a huge story, although it’s really not. Does that make it ironic that I’m repeating it then? Anyway, here is what’s going down. Some people are noticing that Apple is shipping a different Boot ROM with their new iPhone 3GS’s. This simply means in my eyes that Apple has plugged an exploit, sadly this exploit was the ones that all of the Jailbreakers had been using to unlock their iPhone and allow just about anything on their device.

Be sure to not take me in the wrong way. I haven’t really made up my mind either way in Jailbreaking. I’ve been really happy with what my iPhone does for me at the moment, and I really need it’s reliability. I don’t absolutely hate jailbreaking though. I’ve actually got the app to jailbreak downloaded just have never taken the time to get her done, as they would say. I could really use some tethering action back on my iPhone, but for just one feature I don’t feel a whole Jailbreak is necessary.

With that said, a lot of the community is mad at Apple for seeming to intentionally block an exploit. It does seem that way at the moment. Even though it is an exploit Apple hasn’t sent out some kind of update to patch the exploit. This makes it look like they are just blocking the new iPhones from being Jailbroken. Also since they only patched the exploit the jailbreakers are using this also looks like another shot at that community. So is Apple really acting this evil right now? To make it fair, Apple should push this update to everyone. Eventually this may be the case with the next software update. Only time will tell. On the other hand since I’m not using one of the new iPhones and not an avid jailbreaker I am glad that Apple is working towards patching their known exploits. From what I understand Apple is usually pretty good at patching known exploits in a timely manner.

So send in your opinions on this matter. We all know Apple should lean more towards making their device open, but they also have to protect profits and everything else that comes along with that. Leave a comment and let me know. What’s your thoughts on Apple closing a known exploit but that also disables the jail break opportunity?

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I Am T-Pain, Autotune For The iPhone

Ryan Ray — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:06:35 +0000

Again here we are, another Monday and another week of work! Thank heavens my work is doing homework and studying, oh and I also get to blog about the iPhone. The best cellphone created to date! Hah, if you are reading I hope you enjoy your iPhone as much as I. So T-Pain, why has this crazy rapper created his own iPhone app and what does it do?

I’m sure most of you have heard of this app, it’s been on just about every daytime news show, and every talk show around. Just for those who are unaware though, I Am T-Pain is a great iPhone app. It’s main function is to take your voice and auto tune it. Auto tune is the effect that has mostly made T-Pain, among other rappers, famous. Sadly their lack of talent is masked behind a piece of software. Aside from my personal opinion, playing around with Auto tune is still very much a fun experience. It’s so simple to auto tune your voice, and now with I Am T-Pain it’s even easier.

This is where you should start in the I Am T-Pain app. This is where the magic happens, that helps to auto tune your voice. Make sure to tap on tune and if you know anything about the key of your voice, if you are going to sing in a minor or major key, etc… then customize away. There is a simple switch up top that can turn the T-Pain setting on, and I’d recommend then if you aren’t a theory genius. It works well and is very simple.

The next section you’ll want to hit up before recording your own rap is the beats section. Here you can use instrumental takes of many T-Pain songs, his more popular ones can be purchased. Songs like I’m On A Boat, and Buy U A Drank are available to purchase from within the app. I’ve had a lot of fun with the Freestyle setting and if you scroll down there are some beats made by T-Pain that are good as well.

Alright finally we are ready for some auto tuning magic. Tap mic and the countdown begins until it’s your moment to shine. If you are going to attempt to rap with a beat I’d suggest using the iPhones mic headset. It’s just like recording in the studio, you don’t want the track playing back to be recorded. That makes it hard for your voice to be heard since the track is essentially being doubled. I believe you can also play it through the earpiece on the phone by holding it up to your face. As if you were talking normally on the phone. That also helps cut down on the double track syndrome.

Once you’ve got a take you like be sure to save it, and even name it if you’re so creatively inclined. From here you can email, share on Facebook, and more. Which of course you’ll want to do. Some of the tracks come out so funny it should be a crime to not share them.

So that is it. The app is fun, works great, and a great time waster. Especially if the power is out and you’re putting off homework by candle light. That’s how I started using this app anyway. If you are a I Am T-Pain fan, leave a comment and let me know what you think about this. Thanks for reading. I’ll be posting a video of this ASAP!

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