![]() I know a few people that fit that description, but we won't talk about them here. You know, something that's completely useless, has no intellectual or socially redeeming value, and exists purely for the sake of existing. It's a nice little app that comes in handy. The sound quality is first rate and adjustable, and each recording is timed and dated for easy reference. And when you want to move your recording to your Mac or PC you can use the free iTalk Sync app, also from Griffin, to move the files. Press "done" to finish the session and save. Press it again (it's now green) to stop recording. To record, just press the big red button. Life can be good.Īnother prime freebie app is iTalk from Griffin Technology.Īgain, there are other free recording applications, and some nice paid one too, but I like iTalk because it has a clean interface and is nearly idiot-proof. Me? I grabbed In the Year 2898 by Jukes Verne (free!). The screen is smallish, but you can enlarge the font so you can read comfortably (even without glasses for some folks), you can reverse text and back ground so as to reduce eye strain, and navigation is as easy as touching the screen. Heck, if you've been to the movies in the last five years you likely watched something based on one of the free books available to Stanza.Īnd you might not think it, but the iPhone is a pretty decent e-book platform. The list goes on: I, Robot, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, Frankenstein (pronounced, "Fraunk-en-STEEN"), and more. Yep, it's free, but the book version is much better. War of the Worlds, that movie featuring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning? How about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the one that Brad Pitt and Taraji Henson starred in? Free! You can get books that are the basis of recent Hollywood hits, FOR FREE! There's also a boatload of free content as well: Paradise Lost, Alice in Wonderland, and The Art of War are among other timeless classics.īut wait. Bestsellers, magazine and newspapers subscriptions, and so much more paid content is there for you to choose and download where ever you happen to be. There are other e-book readers available, but what stands Stanza apart from the others is its breath of available material you can get for free of for purchase. Then I remembered that I had my trusty iPhone and an application called Stanza, an e-book reader you can get free from the iTunes Store. Magazine? A possibility, but they are so full of ads these days that you can hardly find the articles. More bad news and a body can only take so much in one day. It was a good read.), so I needed something more to read. I had a book with me that I had just finished (Stephen King's Cell. Jeez! I can't tell you how much I hate that!) (I know! They have that silly T-Mobile thing where you have to pay for access. Worth airport with a three hour layover, and this particular airport does not offer free WiFi. Yesterday I was heading back home from several meetings in Albuquerque (Thanks again Debra, Ruben) and I found myself sitting in the Dallas/Ft. ![]() And to kick things off I'd like to point you to three free absolutely cool iPhone/iPod touch apps. So, from now on I will point you to content that's free, any content. Here I will focus on aspects of the free media that make it a stand-out, be that in a good way or bad. ![]() You marvel at the color and clarity, you enjoy its nose, you analyze the taste, and toast with a click of the glass to ring in some sound. It's kind of like enjoying a glass of fine wine. After all, we have other senses that need stimulation we feel, hear, smell, and taste to varying degrees and it makes sense to seek out anything and everything that is offered up freely at the the iTunes Store that stimulate senses other than sight and sound. Massive Attack uses samples and keyboards in a very unique way, but not all the songs pack the same punch.Īfter I finished writing last week's installment of Free on iTunes I sat back and wondered why I've almost exclusively looked at the free video content on iTunes and all but ignore the other free media available. "Black Milk" knocks me off my feet in this collection of moody and eclectic songs. Apparently, Mel Torme is a joke to anyone more than a decade older than me, a living parody of a Vegas crooner.
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