MotionX-GPS / Razor Face
The MotionX-GPS interface pretty much ignores standard iPhone UI conventions, demonstrating that developers don’t need to be constrained by the platform’s display/interaction conventions. Not at all sure that’s a good thing in the end, but this is a really powerful and actually useful app that takes a creative approach to iPhone UI.
The free version is fully featured until you try to save waypoints or tracks. Unlocking those features costs you a mighty three dollars. This thing should be tons of fun for hiking/biking/exploring the city. I’m glad I never gave in to that silly impluse to buy a handheld Garmin, but now I may need a portable power solution for the iThing.
Apparently the train takes a more direct route from Edmonds to to Seattle than I’d thought; I never noticed the whole beeline-over-water part of the journey: http://tinyurl.com/q3fjgy
Still amazing that it works even this well from inside the train.
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At the Zeitgeist counter window looking across at the Cadillac. They’re playing “Madman Across the Water” in it’s glorious entirety. I’d forgotten that break in “Holiday Inn” where the string section (Paul Buckmaster-arranged, if memory serves) bobs around Davey Johnstone’s mandolin (and somebody apparently couldn’t resist adding the sitar) — great dynamic groovy pop rock for sure. Persistent double-tracking of Elton’s vocal stands out now. A definitive padded-felt tumbling drum sound, loosely swung, before gated reverbs and midi and DX7s spoiled everything. Great stuff to start the weekend.
