Author: Lukas Hermann

Steinway & Sons is one of the best, if not the best piano manufacturing companies in the world. Their instruments are symbols perfectionism and quality, and are bought by top musicians all over the world. And now, you can get some of this unique Steinway feeling and look on your iPhone for free — with the mobile Steinway metronome app. Designed by Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain this app offers unique style in perfection combined with a very useful metronome. Taking nearly every time signature you can think of, exact tempo descriptions and “tap to rhythm” feature, this metronome has got all the…

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Basecamp clearly is a household name on the interwebs. The project management software coming out of the caves of 37signals is clearly the most popular way for getting big things done collaboratively. Basecamp is also pretty big on the iPhone, with a lot of clients already bringing most of its functionality to the iPhone. Some time back we featured Headquarters, a nice but, in my opinion, overloaded Basecamp app for the iPhone. But now, the time has come for Summit to rise, a minimalist, but nevertheless gorgeous mobile client for getting projects across. And as the strapline promises: it really…

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Capo for the Mac has been around for quite a while now (and already been reviewed over at SA). It is a gorgeous-looking app for learning music by slowing it down, eliminating certain elements of the sound for getting special lines in focus and much more. It is really one of the best apps for Mac users have secret musical aspirations. Now developer of SuperMegaUltraGroovy announced Capo for the iPhone. It has basically got the same UI as the Mac application, but shrunken down to the iPhone display. And: it still looks tasty! In terms of functionality, the only feature…

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It surfaced on twitter just a few days ago: The preview of what may be the hottest dictionary for the iPhone. Designed by lovely Mathieu White, who makes consistently nice dribbble shots, Discourse is going to garner quite a few fans. It’s got a polished organic design borrowing from the iBooks app. Natural tones dominate throughout, right from the icon, presentation, right down to the app microsite. It’s not released yet (and the release date is just defined by an open “Coming Soon”), Discourse is going to be a must have for pixel nerds. It will cost $2.99 — soon.…

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It may be said that social bookmarking a.k.a. Delicious doesn’t have that much hype anymore — Twitter, facebook or even tumblr has largely negated the need for a link sharing platform. But delicious can be more than social bookmarking; it can be about personal bookmarking a.k.a. Pinboard. It’s only better when there are beautiful client apps to keep you company across devices, with Delibar, now available on the iPhone. Delivering all needed implementation and controls you may need, Delibar really is full-featured social bookmarking right at your fingertips on the road. You can edit, add (via bookmarklet in Mobile Safari)…

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We at BP love simple but fantastic homescreen wallpapers. It’s evident that even you love them, since the two times (Round 1/Round 2) we showcased them turned out to be the two most popular posts in BP history. But your Lockscreen needs more than just simple textures or boring blurry colors. Poolga has become my No. 1 resource for beautiful, handcrafted pixel art, optimized for Apple devices. And now, the Poolga Collection apps brings Poolga’s real art natively to the iPhone. Curated by Luis Mendo the app presents some of the best walls, right on your iPhone. The design of the…

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