We’ve just caught wind of a new
app for the iPhone / iPod touch… should you be either a little hard of hearing or a little nosy. SoundAMP works a lot like those Sonic Earz you see on the infomercials — you run the app with your earbuds plugged in, and then sit back and enjoy listening to the sweet sounds of whatever’s going on around you — only louder. The app allows you to control volume and tone, and you can also replay the last 30 seconds of what you’ve been hearing — in case you missed something particularly juicy. Now, personally, we put in the earbuds and crank up the tunes to shut
out the outside world, but if this is your kind of thing — it’s available in the iTunes store right now for $9.99. [Warning: read link takes you to the iTunes store]
[Via CNET]
Filed under: Cellphones, Software
SoundAMP hearing aid app for iPhone unleashed on our delicate ears originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cisco Systems wants us to believe that video is “the killer app,” but the Web and, indeed, its own product strategy, suggest that shorter-form communication is the key to its future.
Categories: Technology News Tags: app, Cisco, cisco systems, killer, killer app, product, product strategy, shorter form, strategy, video, Web
It’s one thing to bury something like developer mode — a mode that the average Pre user will never need — behind a cute-but-exhausting throwback Konami code, but it’s quite another to hide useful stuff that way. A PreCentral tipster discovered that entering “RocknRollHax” on the keyboard (and yes, capitalization is important here) while in the email app enables the previously missing capability to use it in landscape mode; presumably Palm hid it from end users because they thought it was too buggy or weird for mainstream use, but it certainly works alright for us. Worst part is that the code needs to be re-entered each and every time the email app starts, so you’d better really want it — but at least you don’t have to root to get it.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Frustratingly long secret code enables totally useful landscape email on Pre originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Categories: Technology News Tags: app, buggy, capitalization, code, developer mode, email, end users, engadget, landscape, landscape mode, mode, nbsp, Pre, Read, throwback
