Ultimate Guitar chords is a bargain. (Secret: I would have paid 3 times as much)
I was in the mood to play some guitar the other day. But the thought of starting up the iBook, opening a browser, searching for a song and then having to choose between competing websites offering lyrics, chords and tabs was a bit off-putting.
“Why hasn’t someone brought out an iPhone app that does this?” I thought – and then went looking. A few minutes later, I was downloading the Ultimate Guitar app on the strength of the screen shots alone.
£1.79?? I would have paid a tenner for this app. For a guitarist, this app is simply the best use of the technology you can get: any song I want to play, whenever the mood strikes me.
Seriously, the value this app adds over and above the laptop/browser based experience is huge. I genuinely think that the developer has been guided here by the norms of app pricing rather than by the actual value this app delivers.
It is a tiny bit buggy (it’s crashed a couple of times) but it’s so fast to load – and has been such fun already – that it’s still worth every one of those 179 pennies.
George Pal’s 1960 film of H.G.Wells’ classic sci-fi story ‘The Time Machine’ has long been a favourite of mine. I’ve watched it dozens of times. But last week, on the train up to London, I spotted something new that I’d not noticed before. There’s a scene where the Time Traveller stops in the year 1966, amazingly, on the very day that the world gets destroyed by atomic war (what are the odds of that?).
‘Put down on water’? Disintegrate into a million pieces you mean” I thought every time I heard that line in an in-flight safety video.
It’s a real good-news story.
Google Earth on a 30″ Mac monitor. I won’t even bother trying to show you what it looks like.
