2 very interesting things I found while surfing the web today. Normally, I just tweet about these things when I find out about them and end it there, but today I thought I’d bring some life into my blog again by sharing them with my readers, all 2 of you.
1. Flow (not the one for ftp)
A best of show at Macworld, and targeted at designers, Flow is one of those applications that make you stop and wonder how the heck you possibly survived without it. As the wonderful (and paid) writers at Macworld put it:
If you do any kind of creative work, for Web or print, you generate masses of interlinked files of all sorts. Flow is a tool for organizing and tracking the relationships between all those assets. It knows which files are used in which documents, which fonts are used in each file, and knows what will happen to your projects if you delete a particular file from your system. Its Visual Versioning feature lets you go back and restore older versions of a file; it’s a bit like Time Machine, except that it lets you specify which file types it’ll store, how much space to devote to them, or how much time or how many versions you want to go back. It also lets you package up all the elements used in a particular project. Pricing hasn’t been announced and Flow doesn’t ship until the second quarter of this year, but as long as the prices is reasonable, it could save you all kinds of time and hassle.
Unfortunately, Flow is in beta right now. The only way I know of to get your hands on a copy is to apply for the beta at their site and cross your fingers. This looks like a really promising app though; I can’t wait to try it out.
2. Pocketguitar
(via TUAW) An iPod touch/iPhone app that has this cool mini-fretboard. I can’t try it out right now, since I have the 1.1.3 firmware, but it’s an awesome concept. And it sure beats air guitar.
That Flow application looks pretty neat, although I probably wouldn’t use it enough for it to be worth the cost (whatever it turns out to be).
And I like the concept of pocketguitar, but I don’t know how to play the guitar, so I probably wouldn’t get much use of it. :P
David 2008.01.22
You know what would be cool? Pocketpiano. I don’t know how that would work, though…I don’t think even half an octave’s worth of keys would fit on the iPhone screen…
On a side note, I find it hilarious that two Davids frequent the same blogs :)
David 2008.01.22
@David (the second one :P) There actually is something like pocketpiano (I forgot what it was called, specifically)—I’m pretty sure it’s in the app a day repository, if you want to check it out. But like you mentioned, it doesn’t work all that well—an octave barely fits on the iPhone’s screen.
And yeah, it’s pretty awesome that there are two Davids here. (Hi David! (the first one :P))
River Jiang 2008.01.23