Here’s an app I wrote recently for drummers which allows you to use your iDevice as a single-channel drum module for your kick drum. It has 35 kick drum samples with a range of styles from rock to techno, and you use it with a standard piezo drum trigger in combination with a guitar input such as the iRig2.
Using EZTrigger allows you to augment your bass drum in the mix without having to mic the drum or set up a separate drum brain or module with all the extra cords and whatnot. There’s a separate site for eztrigger (http://eztriggerapp.com/) where I’ll be posting news, updates and support material.
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A new app for drummers, EZTrigger
So long, Parse, it was fun.
Now that Parse has shut down, and developers are looking for alternatives, here’s a quick proof of concept called Farse I wrote a while back. It’s a service clone, which leverages Objective C’s Key-Value coding and the Apache Software Foundation’s project Solr to model a schema-less, nosql database with rest api and iOS client library. (The Parse service offered quite a bit more than this, such as push messaging and server-side code execution, which Farse doesn’t address)
When I first saw Parse, Solr immediately came to mind as it provides the schema-less database and REST api out of the box. It seemed to me that one could create the client side using the “modern” objective c concept of object subscripting to create fields ‘on-the-fly’ which could be serialized to and from Solr / json.
If you’re interested in building your own Parse service clone, I present this as one way to start.
There’s a github repo with the code which includes a readme and a pdf document tutorial on how to set up solr on your local machine to try it out.
CercaPix – ios code sample for instagram location-based search
Here is an example app showing how to use the instagram search api to retrieve photos based on user location:
iCatalog WebViewer
One of my freelance projects a while back was to make an html version of iCatalog for International Color Services. The web version takes screens from a pdf created in catalog prepress production and linkifies the products in it. For a time this was used on customer websites, and I have archive some examples here:
These are several years old, last built to work with iirc, Internet Explorer 5. Beware, the zoom feature is a bit banged up on one side, and the product links are stale, but for the most part it still works!
Shadertoy – GLSL glslsandbox.com shader runner
Update: Just released a newer version of this app which handles the migration of source site glsl.heroku.com to http://glslsandbox.com/
Here is a fork of a project I found on github that retrieves shaders from glslsandbox.com and runs them.
I hacked it a bit to make it run on ipad and load the gallery. Fun for tinkering with fragment shaders on the iPad. Very alpha but if you are a developer and like glsl, check it out.
Explode 1.0
An old classic, Explode — written for ios version 1.0.
See what people are saying:
- “This is the dumbest stupidest most retarded dumb spastic idiotic flipen dumbest stupidest piece of junk ever.” — NicMR
- “Exploderific!” — kenn fusion
- “I enjoy ketchup” — travis…
Caardvark 1.0
Caardvark 1.0 powered by dreamtype. There are more options than the few screenshots on the app store, check out some of the examples at http://www.dreamtype.com/