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The apps on my iPhone 3G

PhoneCam records ambient sound with photo

  

PhonoCam takes a photo and record the ambient sound at the scene. The image came be saved to the iPhone Camera Roll separately. The sound files can be exported to iTunes. In iTunes the photo is included in the AIFF sound file and is used as the cover art for the sound.

In order to import the sound files onto the Mac, there is clear step-by-step here:

http://audibles.jp/2009/03/phonocam-file-backup-tutorial/

When uploaded to Posterous, the original sound file has 3 seconds of noise added at the end. I tried an old Mac app called AudialHub to convert the AIFF file to MP3 and it had the same problem. Then, I used WireTap Studio which did the conversion without the noise. This is what I've uploaded here. There is no problem with the original sound file in iTunes.

PhonoCam brings a new dimension to taking photos.

ipadio: Sends Directly To Posterous

After the initial success of the first SpinVox transcription, this one is a bit more flaky; or maybe it's my slurred speak. Still it's all quite magic.

Posterous required that I Confirmed the post before making it public. ipadio added the word 'ipadio: ' to the start of the title, so I've deleted my use of it in the title above.

Note: it does a "post@posterous.com" so the post appears on my Primary Posterous blog AND it is auto-posted to all auto-post accounts e.g. Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr.

Trying ipadio the audio blogging app

This is a try of ipadio, the audio blogging app. It is similar to AudioBoo but with ipadio as well as recording offline and uploading by WiFi or 3G, you can create a blog by phoning a number and record your audio like voice mail. The recording can be streamed in real time by people following you or from a plugin -- if I understand it correctly. I have not tried this. My recording was made on the iPhone App and uploaded via WiFi. I have pasted the Flash embed code from the website above this text, to see how Posterous handles the code.

Another special feature of ipadio is that it uses SpinVox to convert your audio into text (the first minute of the call is converted, more costs a fee). This text transcription is included in the webpage widget and in the the RSS Feed either in a newsreader or iTunes podcast info.

 

Simplenote - Current Serious Flaw (Fixed)

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If you change the password on the website, the iPhone app stops syncing. Then when you change the password on the iPhone, all the notes on the iPhone are deleted before copying the notes from the web onto the iPhone app. This means that if you have been entering notes via the web and the iPhone you will lose the iPhone-only notes unless you email them out -- one note at a time -- all the iPhone notes (unless you can work out which ones are only on the iPhone). This is a serious flaw and cost me days worths of notes as I only realised what happened in hindsight.

Sent from my iPhone

Update: 01-Sep-09. Version 2.11 of Simplenote fixed this problem.

Retro Recorder - Emoji in Tape Title Crashes the App (Fixed)

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Tip of the Day - Don't use Emoji in the Title of a Tape. It crashes the app.

Retro Recorder Splash Screen

Update: 17-Sep-09. Version 1.0.9.3 partially fixes this problem. Partially because you can name a tape with emoji in the title; press record and it appears that you are recording but when you press Stop you cannot Play the 'recorded' tape nor is the emoji titled Tape added to the Tape Collection. Ideally, if you include emoji in the title before recording, you should not be able to record and get a warning as to why.