How many Smartphones can do this?

Just installed this on my iPhone and was impressed:
http://mister.aardvark.googlepages.com/iano

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo

It's a four octave piano that allows up to five keys to be pressed at once.
The capacitance touch screen means you don't have to press the keys very
hard.



--
Mike

"Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo

The guitar is better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related

Too bad he can't play well.

I'm glad they finally found a use for the bricked ones....

Larry wrote:
> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
> news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo
>
> The guitar is better:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>

Nah, I have both. Touch screen seems more suited to a keyboard instrument.

But people are impressed when I demo the guitar app--no doubt about that.


--
Mike

"Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:

> The capacitance touch screen means you don't have to press the keys very
> hard.
>
>

It also means that's about as small as you can make the keys. It's
capacitive screen doesn't have much of a stylus resolution like the touch
screens do. It's rather coarse...finger coarse.

This thing would sell like hotcakes if stupid ass Apple would simply
RELEASE Ipod Touch and Iphone to the hackers, like Nokia did the
N800/770/810. But, oh no, they have to FIGHT it tooth and nail to try to
prevent the hackers from making something real neat out of it so people
would buy it. How stupid, Apple.

Of course, that's what kept the Mac from overrunning the Micro$oft in the
first place...proprietary bullshit.

"Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in news:61h0i9F1s6dfjU1@mid.individual.net:

> Larry wrote:
>> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
>> news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo
>>
>> The guitar is better:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>>
>
> Nah, I have both. Touch screen seems more suited to a keyboard
> instrument.
>
> But people are impressed when I demo the guitar app--no doubt about
> that.
>
>

Did you see the news report about the teenager that has already hacked
around Apple's latest, now unsuccessful, attempt at preventing jailbreaking
it? iPhone users should be showering him with donations. There still are
genius kids on the planet, in spite of government efforts to turn all their
brains to mush so they can be controlled.

I think it said he was 15 from The Netherlands.

Larry wrote:
> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
> news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> The capacitance touch screen means you don't have to press the keys
>> very hard.
>>
>>
>
> It also means that's about as small as you can make the keys. It's
> capacitive screen doesn't have much of a stylus resolution like the
> touch screens do. It's rather coarse...finger coarse.
>

The touch screen has much higher resolution than a human finger; much higher
(not much different than any other touch screen in that respect).

I'll never go back to having to use a stylus with my smartphone. No way.

More importantly you don't have to press down like you do when trying to use
fingers on a non-capacitance touch screen.


--
Mike

Larry wrote:
> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
> news:61h0i9F1s6dfjU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> Larry wrote:
>>> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in
>>> news:61grviF1uio3hU1@mid.individual.net:
>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo
>>>
>>> The guitar is better:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>>>
>>
>> Nah, I have both. Touch screen seems more suited to a keyboard
>> instrument.
>>
>> But people are impressed when I demo the guitar app--no doubt about
>> that.
>>
>>
>
> Did you see the news report about the teenager that has already hacked
> around Apple's latest, now unsuccessful, attempt at preventing
> jailbreaking it?

I watched it as it happened, he posted it all on his blog:
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/

Nice kid, and very determined.


> iPhone users should be showering him with
> donations. There still are genius kids on the planet, in spite of
> government efforts to turn all their brains to mush so they can be
> controlled.
>
> I think it said he was 15 from The Netherlands.

He's 17 or 18 and in the USA. Yep, we can still turn them out!


--
Mike

"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A439B94FC385noonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
> "Tinman" <ask@for.it> wrote in news:61h0i9F1s6dfjU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> Larry wrote:
<snip>
>> Nah, I have both. Touch screen seems more suited to a keyboard
>> instrument.
>>
>> But people are impressed when I demo the guitar app--no doubt about
>> that.
>>
> Did you see the news report about the teenager that has already hacked
> around Apple's latest, now unsuccessful, attempt at preventing
> jailbreaking
> it? iPhone users should be showering him with donations. There still are
> genius kids on the planet, in spite of government efforts to turn all
> their
> brains to mush so they can be controlled.
>
> I think it said he was 15 from The Netherlands.

Bet his parents never gave him a trophy just for showing up!

In <Xns9A4398E72F989noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, Larry wrote:

> The guitar is better:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>
> Too bad he can't play well.

Considering that he has no tactile feedback and he can't actually directly
see what he is doing with his fingers from where he is, it is remarkable
that he's able to play anything recognizable.

-j

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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> In <Xns9A4398E72F989noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, Larry wrote:
>
>> The guitar is better:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rv...eature=related
>>
>> Too bad he can't play well.
>
> Considering that he has no tactile feedback and he can't actually
> directly see what he is doing with his fingers from where he is, it
> is remarkable that he's able to play anything recognizable.
>
> -j

Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0VX74alwk

Not as bad as I expected.



--
Mike

On Feb 13, 2:58*pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:

> I'm glad they finally found a use for the bricked ones....

IMHO there is no such a thing as a truely bricked iphone.

Larry, I'll give any one twenty five dollars cash for each iPhone or
iPod Touch that they think is bricked. ;>)

On Feb 13, 3:22*pm, "Tinman" <a...@for.it> wrote:

> The touch screen has much higher resolution than a human finger; much higher
> (not much different than any other touch screen in that respect).
>
> I'll never go back to having to use a stylus with my smartphone. No way.
>
> More importantly you don't have to press down like you do when trying to use
> fingers on a non-capacitance touch screen.
>
> --
> Mike

I hate all the other devices I have that do not have capacitance
screens. I find myself trying to zoom in on my GPS with a two finger
swipe all the time.