2nd Entry

I am a little late with my 2nd entry, but here goes.

It was amazing to consider the vast array of iPhone applications currently available. Dr. Piercy brought up a particularly popular, innovative and creative one called Ocarina. With this app, you blow into the phone's microphone while pressing down on certain buttons located on your screen. This creates musical sounds, and many users have grown to be quite advanced "players" of this "instrument".

Two other widely used apps include Google Earth and Maps. The first allows you to search any area on the globe and provides an amazingly detailed aerial view. The latter includes this feature but also provides you with driving, bus or walking directions. The application is rather advanced in aiding users in locating the address they are looking for, you can zoom in and out, it constantly updates your location between point A and B, and other features like quickly reversing your directions are easy to use.

Yet another innovative application is Shazam. Essenstially, whenever you hear a song and what to know its title, artist, album, etc., you select Shazam which listens to the music and gives you a summary of its information. I have used this app more recently, and I was pleased with how well it was able to listen to a song, even with a significant amount of noise in the background.

I really look forward to the opportunity to create an iPhone application. Sometimes it seems that any possible app that could exist has already been created, but there are still some great opportunities ahead. And as the iPhone continues to advance, these opportunities will only continue to grow.