WEBVTT - How iPhone Applications Work 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.760 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:15.840 tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hey there, everyone, 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.480 Welcome to the podcast. My name is Chris Poulette. I'm 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.520 an editor at how Stuff Works, and sitting next to me, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.640 as always is senior writer Jonathan Stricklandhi, HOWI everyone? Uh uh? 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.360 Today we want to talk about some applications and these 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.239 are very very very tiny applicate well, most of them 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.440 are very tiny applications, just a few pixels wide by 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.920 a few pixels high, right exactly. Um. In this case, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.160 we're talking about the iPhone UM. And a few months 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.600 ago we probably wouldn't be talking about that, so uh, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.120 you know, we really wouldn't have had much to talk 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.960 about because it was limited. But the with the birth 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.320 of the iPhone three G, the next generation iPhone, they 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:02.000 opened it up to everyone to create their own applications. Right. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.240 And when we say opened it up to everyone, there's 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.040 some limitations there, but we'll get into that later. That's true. 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.360 That's let's let's focus on the positive before we jump 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.800 right into the negative. Well, the nifty thing about iPhone 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.480 and in my case, the iPod touches the ability to 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.920 use other applications. You're not just using it to make 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.640 phone calls or shoot pictures who are listening to your music. Um. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.480 These third party applications can be anything. Um, there's a 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.319 whole list of them. You have e books, you have 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.640 productivity software, games, more games, still more games, completely useless, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:39.920 but still fairly entertaining. Distractions Yep, yep. For the iPhone, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.360 which has a GPS system, you can actually figure out 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.880 where you are and get get maps, which is very useful. Um, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.560 calendar software, stock you know, keep up with your stocks. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.280 But let's let's let's let's talk about some specifics here. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.480 I mean, okay, we've got a lot of categories here. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.360 Go ahead, pick one of your apps to talk about. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.120 We can do a little back and forth and if 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.560 that doesn't work and we'll we'll take it all right. Um. Well, Uh, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.960 one of the major categories we've got that both Jonathan 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.080 and I agree is a very cool thing is music. Yes, definitely, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.600 And um, you know both of us use streaming internet radio. UM, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.320 and I know that Jonathan wanted it to talk about these, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.520 but one of my favorites, you asked, um, Pandora. Yes, yeah, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.760 and both of us use that on our computers and 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.520 I use it on my iPod Touch too. So if 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.080 you're wondering what Pandora is, first of all, you need 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.919 to get online and check it out. Absolutely, it is 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.840 a really interesting especially you need to check it out 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.840 before it goes away. Um. But it's a really interesting service. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.200 The idea here is that it's part of the Musical 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:49.079 Genome project. And what the people behind Pandora have done 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.519 is they have analyzed music. They take a music track, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.200 they listen to it, they analyze it, and when I 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.520 say analyze, they write down essentially every single kind of 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.920 aspect they can think of that describes that, um, that 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.280 piece of music. It's kind of like tagging a photo, right, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.520 you know, you're tagging this piece of music, so that 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.280 you're describing it in different ways, like what you know, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.160 what time is it recorded in, what kind of musical 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.880 instruments are there? Is it a male vocalist, a female vocalist, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.840 is instrumental? What genre does it fit in? And what 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.679 you would do is go to this service and put 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.640 in a song or a music group that you like, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.280 and then the service looks for other musicians other songs 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.000 that are similar to what your your your kind of 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.919 your seed, the thing that you've planted to say, Like, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:35.760 for instance, I have a I have a I want 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.200 to be Sedated radio station. So it's off of the 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.560 Ramote song I want to be sedated. So there's a 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.520 lot of yeah, well I also want to be sedated, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.840 but there's a So what it does is it looks 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.920 for other songs that are similar to that in some way, 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.240 and it it can it can go pretty far. Like 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.280 you can get some music that comes back that you're like, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.760 how the heck did this ever get linked to it? 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.400 And it will tell you. So the iPhone application it 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.640 does the same thing and allows you to access this 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.080 great service and you get an internet radio station that 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.280 you can shape. You can tell it if you like 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:09.880 a song, you can tell if you don't like a song, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.440 and it won't play that song again. UM, And it 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.120 builds a radio station based on your likes and dislikes, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:20.400 and so it's it's pretty darn nifty. I think that's true. UM. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.800 Speaking of tags, last dot fm, which is a competitor 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.560 of Pandora's UM. They do things a little differently, but 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.640 they also offer their own free Both Pandora and last 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.320 dot Fm are free UM radio apps, and you can 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.039 go buy a tag or buy an artist and listen 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.360 to streaming music online. Um. Another one is a O 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.320 L Radio. Uh. Those are those don't give you as 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.560 much control, but you do have access to a O 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.359 L's radio lists, and it's another free app. It actually, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.000 even though I've never been a big A L fan, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.440 a L Radio the little app is actually pretty nice. Um. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.320 And another pretty cool one is a Stitcher, which is 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.919 also available online. You know, you don't have to have 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.960 an iPod or iPhone to use it. Um. But it's 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.880 sort of a talk radio version of this. It actually 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.200 sort of stitches together streams of different material, Like you 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.320 might get a news feed and you get something from 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.800 Fox News and then CNN and then NPR, and they'll 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.039 be all put together in one stream, and they're different 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.000 genres in there, which is kind of nice feed not 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.599 necessarily interested in the in the musical aspect in it, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:30.000 But there are plenty other music programs. I got two 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.320 more that I'd like to talk about kind of figured. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.800 One is Shazam. This is actually a request I got 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.600 a request from from a fan who wanted to hear 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.640 a little bit about Shazam. So Shazam is this, uh, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.440 this app that allows you to identify a song just 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.279 by holding your iPhone up to um speakers where the 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.520 song's coming out of it. I'll analyze the song and 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.320 tell you what the title is. So if you've ever been, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.720 you know, walking by a store, or you're in the 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.240 car and the radios on and there's this great song playing, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:00.640 but you have no idea who does it or what 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.280 it's called, this will identify it for you. And it 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.400 even gives you a link so that you can purchase 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.640 the song through iTunes, so that when you get home 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.680 songs waiting for you, you can just sink it right 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.120 up and there you go. You've got it on your 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.920 iPhone now, which is that's pretty cool. And the other 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.240 one is medomi Now Medomie. You don't even need to 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.800 have a stereo system playing the song. It identifies the 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.720 song based upon your humming or singing that song. So 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.039 I thought I would test this out. You can actually 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.000 test it out online, you know, regular computer, as long 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.320 as you have a microphone. Right, as long as you 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.279 have a microphone, you can visit the website Medomi's website 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.880 and test it out. So I did. So here are 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.960 the test results. The first title is what I sang. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.000 The second title is what it identified. So it started 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.640 out pretty well because the first thing I sang was 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.400 Weird Science by Oingo Boingo, and it came back as 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.720 weird Science. It's like, okay, that's cool. So then I 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.640 tried to Istanbul not Constantinople made popular by They Might 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.960 Be Giants. That also came back positive. It's like two 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.159 for two. But then things went a little south. I 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.520 tried to land down Under. It came back as I 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.880 Want to Hold your Hand, which you know, I like 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.560 that song, but it's not the same one. And then 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.160 I tried rocket Man and that came back is Runaround Sue, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.960 and then the Kicker I did Don't Fear the Reaper 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.600 by Blue Oyster Cult, and I came back as the 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.120 girl from hippan Ema. Yeah, so not flawless or my 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.920 singing or the application. Not sure. Actually no, I know 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.160 my singing is not flawless, but well you know it, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.600 uh and maybe because the only song you know is 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.040 the Girl from Eponema, it could be. But Don't Fear 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.120 the Reaper and the girl from Hippanema, Westly. Okay, you 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.480 needed more cowbell? I obviously I had a fever and 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.600 the only prescription UM. Moving on, Yes, I was going 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.920 to talk about social networking, which is a very very 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.960 popular category. Facebook is one of the you know, free 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.560 downloads that's very popular. You could see a list of 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.960 the downloads available for the iPhone on the iTunes store, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.080 whether or not you have them, just if you're curious 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.480 to see what kinds of stuff, because there are literally 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.840 thousands of these things on here. That's true. Facebook is 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.360 very popular free when they the original version of it, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.120 I tried with my iPod and I wasn't crazy about it. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.600 The newer version is uh, it's pretty nice. It gives 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.480 you access to the Facebook applications um. But there are 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.800 other things that uh take advantage of the iPhones unique abilities, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:35.080 like looped um, which is again another application that's online 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.080 on your computer, but it uses GPS, so it's a 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:45.000 combination GPS enabled I guess um social networking service. So 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.480 you could say, well, hey, I'm in downtown, I'm near 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.400 this bar, you know, and your friends might meet you there, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.640 or somebody might say, you know, hey, are you so 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.400 and so and say no, I'm not. How did you 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:59.520 find me? How did you know where I am? Exactly? Um. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:05.880 But a very unique application for the social networking capabilities 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.640 of the iPhone is something that one of the presidential 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.600 campaigns is doing this year. There is an application called 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.320 Obama for America and whether or not you're a fan 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.600 and we'll vote for him. There someone created an application. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.520 It allows you to make calls based on the people 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.680 in your address book. It stinks with the iPhone address 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.839 book and you can go ahead and dial people in there, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.839 so you can make calls for the campaign. If you're 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.280 a supporter, Um, you can find events in your area. Uh, 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.880 latest campaign news, things that speeches that he has made. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.120 You know, where is he now? That that kind of thing. 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.559 And I have the feeling, um, that you're going to 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.520 see more and more candidates taking advantage of this in 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:52.080 the future, you know, especially considering organizations like Twitter and 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.400 and you know, Pounds and some of the others are 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.720 being used as campaign tools just by the the average person. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.440 You know, people are posting things and hey, um, you 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.959 know the candidates have their own Twitter accounts, but uh, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.079 you know, I think you might see specialized applications like 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.040 the one that Obama's campaign has come up with this year. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.360 It's kind of a different way to use these things 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:18.560 because it is so specifically geared toward, you know, an event. Yeah, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.760 it's it's interesting that that politics is kind of catching 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.360 onto this whole viral marketing thing that things like the 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.240 movies and and and advertising has been on. They've been 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.160 on to this for a few years and actually like 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.040 a decade now and politics is just now catching up 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.920 and um, and yeah, the iPhone is becoming a tool 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.719 for that kind of thing. And and you were talking 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.040 about social networks, we should also mention there are other 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.240 ones that you can access through the iPhone, including LinkedIn 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.240 or or Twitter. There are many Twitter just like there's 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.480 just like on your desktop, there's there's dozens of Twitter applications. Tumbler. Yeah, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.800 there's a couple of Tumbler applications. And of course if 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.959 you have if there's a brand new site that that 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.959 you haven't yet found an application for in the iPhone, well, 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.920 first of all, rest assure that will be one eventually. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.600 And second of all, it has a version of Safari 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.680 on it, which is Jonathan's favorite web browser. But you 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.400 can you can visit the web and that's a built 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.640 in application too, So um, that's that's pretty cool. You can, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.000 you know, you don't have to wait for the application 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.200 or if you're prefer like I used it the New 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.400 York Times application for a while to check out the news, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.320 but I actually like the mobile web page that they use, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.240 so I I got rid of the application and just 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.760 go to the New York Times. I've seen that in 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.200 several reviews actually, where where in there are cases where 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.600 the application really just kind of replicates your experience of 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.520 going to the website, which seems kind of silly when 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.040 you've got the browser built into the device in the 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.920 first place. But we'll probably see less of that as 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.280 time goes on, as people begin to really grasp the 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.960 best way to leverage the iPhone and not just try 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.720 and make a you know, replace something that it can 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.720 already do. Um. And there are some neat apps that 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.760 that turned the iPhone into something other than what it 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.960 already is, you know, beyond just a phone. Um. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.960 I've got a couple I'd like to talk about. Okay, Well, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.080 there there's you mentioned e books, there is there's applications 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.240 to turn your iPhone essentially into an e book reader 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.480 like books for example. That's an application that lets you 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.560 do that. But there are others as well. But beyond that, 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.080 there's a there's an application called remote which turns your 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.760 iPhone into a remote control for iTunes and for Apple TV. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.640 So if you have an Apple TV, you can use 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:29.160 your iPhone to actually control the your Apple Apple TV remotely. Um. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.840 Then you have things like there's a graphic calculator application 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.240 that lets you plot functions if you uh so choose. Yeah, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.520 they're all kinds of educational things like flash cards and 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.400 language you know, language tools holp you learn new languages 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.520 to those are the same sort of category. Uh, there's 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.319 a Mandel brought let's you plot Mandelbrot sets. That's a 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.880 little Jonathan Coulton shout out there for any Joco fans. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.040 But yeah, you know you can actually get that that 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.920 application and see what Joco was singing about. It's it's 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.280 pretty cool. Actually, Um, there are tons of these. Uh, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.000 did you have any other useful ones you wanted to 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.360 talk about before you jump into the silly ones? Actually, yes, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.200 there I have a couple. Um. One of those is 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.280 uh sort of a favorite of mine. Um, been a 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.040 fan since the max switch to S ten of the Omnigroup. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.920 They used to make applications for the next operating system 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.560 and migrated and one that they have UM for the 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.200 iPhone is called omni Focus. It's actually for the Mac too, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:34.079 but UM, the omni Focus is a productivity application. UM. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.760 But it is you know, it helps you organize yourself 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.760 and keep yourself straightened out, which I need a lot 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:44.720 of help with. UM. Yeah, UM, you know, just because 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.679 I was gonna not come to the podcast session today, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.679 you know, he's just anyway. UM, But omni Focus is 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.960 a really really cool one. UM. There are lots and 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.959 lots more of them out there. I just happened to 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.680 be an omni fan. UM and this other one, and 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.199 this was probably the first of what I expect will 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.920 be many. UM. When I switched to the iPod Touch, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.319 I was kind of bummed out because you know, when 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.200 I plugged in my old style hard disk iPod, I 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.440 was able to use it as a hard drive. So 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.560 if I had, um, I'm in grad school right now, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.000 if I had a paper that I needed to be 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.720 working on and I wanted to take a look at 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.040 it at lunchtime, UM, at work, I could, you know, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.560 plug my my iPod into the computer and take a 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.280 look at it. Well, you know with this one, I couldn't. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.600 And I was going, why did you know? How come 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.240 Apple took that away? Well they did. But there are 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.160 other applications that are bridging the gap. And Avatron makes 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.840 one called air Sharing UM and you can use it 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:44.080 use air sharing to upload and download files wirelessly, uh 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.280 to your iPod or iPhone. And it's really useful because 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.840 you can, you know, for example, uh, some I've got 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.280 some free e books that I downloaded, and you can 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.440 you know, move them over and look at the PDFs 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.240 without having to get the third party application. And so 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.360 I can you know, transfer papers or articles or ideas 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.840 for podcasts or stuff like that and use that on 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.240 my iPod in that way. And it's wireless, which is 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.880 also very cool. Cool. Yeah, And there are other productivity 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.360 software things we can touch their their tons and tons 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.480 of ASO has an application on their yah, every note 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.120 has an application. I'm using every note right now though 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.280 I'm using it on my laptop, not on an iPhone, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.560 but I I should. Uh, I just want to throw 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.640 this out. We're going to talk about some silly stuff 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.360 but just as a bridge if you wish. Um. And 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:27.880 I'm not really going to get into a whole lot 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.920 of stuff, but games. One of the cool things about 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.240 the games in general on the iPhone and iPod is 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.120 the fact that they take advantage of the accelerometer, which 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.160 is uh, the thing that allows the iPhone to switch 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.520 views from barzon landscape to portrait or you know, the 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.840 the we remote to sense what you're doing and use 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.920 your remote as a putter or a lightsaber or whatever. Um, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.760 so you can. They have a lot of driving games 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.400 like pole Position or chromag Rally another long time Mac 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.640 favorite um and you basically steer your car by tilting 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.640 the iPod or iPhone. Very cool stuff, just the fact 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.560 that they've taken advantage of that stuff. And there are 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.080 big name games on here to like a Star Wars, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.480 The Force Unleashed, um, Spore the sport Origins I think 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.560 it is, which is the basic sort of a paired 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.440 down version of Spore. And you're going, you know, these 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.120 are not simple Tetris clones. No, it's it's kind of 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.880 turned the iPhone into a legitimate portable gaming stuff. Yeah, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.440 it really is. It's it's a little stunning actually I 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.640 wasn't expecting that when I when it. Anyway, so can 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.880 we get into the Google Yay? Okay, so my first 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.600 my first entry into the goofy is the virtual Zippo application, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.320 and it's here's the sad thing. It's not even the 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:50.480 most highly ranked virtual lighter application on iTunes. There are 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.680 other higher ranked virtual lighters. And all it does is 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.080 display an image of a lighter which you can then 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.360 flick open and light. And it's just it's just a 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.520 picture of a lighter. I mean, it's for those people 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.919 who want to go to a concert, but at the 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:11.479 concert then you has a really strict fire code, I guess. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.919 So when the free bird comes up, you can just 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.959 light up your iPhone and hold it up in the 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.520 air and just be a huge dork. Well, you know, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.479 if you want to go that route, we can talk 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.280 about I beer, which is which is two? Is the 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.200 virtual lighter application free or does it actually cost something? 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:37.199 Because ibeer is um beer and that's true actually, but 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.879 not nearly is satisfying, although I guess it depends on 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.320 what kind of beer it is. Um I beer is 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.640 basically shows you a beer on your iPod. And this 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.399 is another application that takes advantage of the accelerometer because 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:53.240 as you tilt it, you know, to quote unquote drink it, um, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.359 it goes away and it tilts, and you know the 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.440 liquid tilt. There's also I milk. By the way, there's 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.560 I milk. So that sounds like a condition if you're right, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.760 If I don't, I don't recommend googling that. But but no, no, wait, um, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.919 the the developers of I beer Um, which is I 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.560 think hot tricks, actually have a twelve point five million 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:19.040 dollar lawsuit pending against Cores who came out with a 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.400 version called I Pint Wow and uh they sued him 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.440 and they removed the application from the store. So okay, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.080 well I got another one for okay, Hello Cal, Hello Cal. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.560 It's a picture of a cow and when you touch it, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:38.000 it says move. I'm gonna have to download that. Congratulations. Yes, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.680 I'm sure they'll give you hours of entertainment. Not many 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.080 people know that polette has the same sort of entertainment 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:47.719 threshold as your average two year old. Um, you know, 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.000 since I have had a two year old, would like 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:51.679 to say that my two year old has a more 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:57.480 sophisticated said. Now she's five and has a much more sophisticated. Well, 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.640 I mean that that goes back to a free Verse, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.119 who makes some of my favorite Mac games. And I 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.560 have purchased Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab for the iPhone or 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.680 iPod um and they have sim Stapler and Jared Stapler 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:13.879 go ahead, go ahead, and Stapler is one of my 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.560 favorite Mac applications ever. Actually both of them are. Sim 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.439 Stapler is a picture of a stapler and if you 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.879 touch it at Staples and it keeps a count's just 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:32.040 calling Milton's and Jared Butcher of song he sings this. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.760 I can't remember now, it's been so long, Argentina. Yeah, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.160 it's something like that. I've seen this one. I didn't 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.959 write it, and it you know it, only you have 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.160 to hear it to believe it. Okay, Well, how about 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.480 the game Hold On? You heard this one't? Oh my goodness. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.560 So here's the game. There's a button on the that 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.560 appears on your your screen and it says hold. And 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.720 the way you play is you put your thumb on 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.320 it and you hold the button. And the way you 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.959 win is that you hold it for longer than you 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.560 held it previously. It just tracks how long you hold 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:09.600 the button down. So you know, like going for three days. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:17.400 That's that's the extent of that game. You heard it here, folks. Uh. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:22.040 Also cow toss cows. Yeah, as another there's there's like 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.439 a fascination with cows on the iPhone, but it's a 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.680 picture of a cow. We have the cows, the virtual lighter, 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.400 and the beer. This is going in a very Yeah. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.159 When they get to cow tipping, then they'll be speaking 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:36.720 my language. But no cow toss you do you There's 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:38.240 a little picture of a cow on there, and you 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.080 can drag the cow down and when you let go, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:46.840 it flings the cow into the air. The end. Um. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.159 You know most of the applications for the iPhone or 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.120 do you have some? I have one more? Okay, this one, 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.600 this one just drives me nuts. Okay. Psychic move. Okay, 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.359 So what psychic move does is that has a picture 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.280 of a being on it and you are supposed to 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.080 put your iPhone or iPod down on on a table, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.520 stare at the coin and try to make it move 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:13.320 using your psychic powers. And then, um, I haven't actually 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.080 used this, so I don't know if the coin ever moves. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.720 I mean, I think a clever thing to do is 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:20.919 to program it in so that at random intervals it 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.600 does move, thus convincing you that you do indeed have 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.040