Skrivarna Software

Guess which of the apps that inspired this review: Just adorable...hours of fun! - Love to drain my battery by hiding under cushion in mother-in-law's favorite chair......"what is that thing i feel....are WE having an earthquake?" (no, "we" aren't, but YOU are!.)...."i feel funny in my pants..." (yes, and you LOOK FUNNY in your pants.)...and "something is wrong with my butt!" (that's possible, but i do know something is definitely wrong with your HEAD!). so on and so forth.... ...thanks, dev!

So, in the tradition of full disclosure, let's continue this user mail series with some ... well ... opinions about the VL-Tone app. First a (translated) Google Play review: The totally unnecessary CASIO VL-Tone keyboard was a little funny in 1981. Today it is no longer interesting, just as this app ...Nostalgia, when you hold us ...! And then, from the BlackBerry App World, short and concise: Why did you bother even creating this?

This months Mail of the Month will consist of snippets from some user mail conversations - a short Fakebook FAQ: > I purchased the fake book for android today. When I open it I cannot > scroll through the tunes. What am I doing wrong? There are several ways to change tunes: * Swipe left/right to "turn page". The faster you swipe, the more songs will be skipped. * Use the menu button and then press previous/next. * If your phone has hardware buttons, pressing left/right on these. * If you have a headset with buttons, these shall work as well. * The simplest way, if you know what you are looking for, is to press the menu button and then the "browse" button. In this dialog you can search any way you want. * The same dialog is available when pressing "search", if your phone has a dedicated button for that. > Can you switch between C instruments and Bb?  Transpose is planned for the next release -- both global (for all tunes, e.g. for win...

Since a few days the Fakebook app is available for download on Google Play and the Android Market . It's the same app and the same description as previously published on Amazon . It's also the same, ridiculously low price during an introductory period. Get it now, get it cheap and get me some feedback!

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...