Ambience By Urban Apps – A very nice way to relax and get some peace

A week ago I downloaded the Ambience app so I could listen to “nature” sounds and drown out the noises for my servers, the AC, dogs and all the other sounds you magically hear when you’re trying to go sleep. So far, it’s been working like a charm. It’s very similar to the Audiobooks apps in that you pay for the player and it hooks into the freesound.org site and lets you browse and download tons of sound files. I’ve been listening to rainstorms for the past couple of nights. Regardless of what’s going on outside, in my little world there is a thunderstorm brewing. It has a lot of other tracks too like the sound of the ocean, birds, crackling fires, chants, wind and wind chimes. I have to say the library is pretty vast. There are a couple of paid files you can download, but those are only $0.99 so it doesn’t incur my wrath. I grabbed this […]

Google releases Blogger client for iTunes

Looks like Google has finally made a Blogger client for iOS. Too bad, it’s made for the iPhone rather than a Universal app. Seems like you would make it for the iPad as well since that’s far better as a blog tool than the phone. Sure the phone is convenient, but how hard would it have been to get it right and make it for both? See, it’s oversights like this that keep me from being a fan of Blogger. That and the absolute crap admin UI it’s been sporting for the past 5 years. Blogger for iTunes