Skrivarna Software

One of the interesting things with writing software that people actually use (as opposed to what many of us programmers do for a living) is the mails. I get ideas, problem reports, feature requests and questions on a daily basis. Keep it coming! I will collect some useful or otherwise interesting conversations under the Mail of the Month  headline. With a little luck and some input from you it may result in an interesting FAQ. The first mail I'll publish here is a little special. As some of you may have noticed, the GoodVibrations app is extremely simple, but at least I put some effort into the Market description . I tried to be funny, making up some pretty unlikely use cases. Or so I thought, until I got this mail: I would like it if the vibrations widget would keep vibrating after the screen times out or is locked. My father paints houses and his new phone is waterproof. I was thinking that if he dropped this phone in a bucket of paint he could rinse it off but it might be ...

So, the day after Amazon Appstore approved Fakebook , it is time for another app, another market and another platform! Today the BlackBerry Playbook version of VL-Tone was released on the BlackBerry App World . No big deal really, the functionality, look and sound of the synth is the same as before. That is, the same as the original Casio calculator from the early eighties. Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see what the more business oriented BlackBerry audience can do with it.

Well, it definitely took a lot longer than expected to get this app ready, approved and published on Amazon . But now it is time to proudly present:  the Real Fakebook. All the tunes you need – in the pocket. Preloaded with chord progressions for more than a thousand classic jazz standards (perfectly legal, as it is chords only – no melodies). Import songs from other programs. Include pictures from the phone's camera. More than 1500 Spotify and YouTube links to classical recordings of the preloaded songs. Compact, only 600 kB for app and 1200 songs. I know you love your well-worn Real Book, doggy-eared at all the right places, sharpie-corrected at all the wrong, stained with coffee and beer... Still, the Fakebook gives you all the tunes you need. In the pocket. And it even looks like The Real Thing. Fakebook comes preloaded with chord progressions for more than a thousand of the classic jazz standards from The Real Book ed 1,2,3,4,5... Easily add and edit your o...