Hi Mark, M. Taylor wrote:
> Hello Esther, > > The only Ambiance Apps I can find in the iTunes store are ones made by > Healthcare & Fitness. Are these they to which you refer? > Here's a link to the Ambiance App at the iTunes Store: • Ambiance by Urban Apps ($0.99) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ambiance/id285538312?mt=8 This app is in Holly's list of accessible apps at the Mac-cessibility site, but I found out about this because someone recommended it to me. Your question made me look up the app's web site, where an embedded movie will play that gives a description of the app and some of its features. I recognized a few of the sounds. There was a faint section with "Large Wind Chimes" in the background, and then, at the end where they demonstrated that you can mix sounds that was a mixture of the "Loons" and one of the rain sounds -- maybe "Rain - Leaves". The demo of setting up the app's alarm feature to play sounds was pretty good. You get to this menu by double tapping the "More" button (the 5th button at the bottom of the screen in the bottom right corner), then select "Alarm" from the list and double tap. There's a really large range of sounds, and although you can search for them by topic or keywords, this is somewhat daunting when you first get the app. For example, if you simply type in "rain" in the search field, you get a really long list of various rain sounds that you can play. Also, the sound library is not simply relaxing sounds, but collects sounds from all sorts of places. So some of the featured sounds could be the sounds of Christmas shoppers in a market in Germany, or a subway train arriving, or a Shinto temple drum being beaten, or a Zamboni machine for resurfacing an ice skating rink being operated. If you have this app for a while, you'll get a sense of the kind of sound samples that show up in the new and features sounds every week. A lot of them won't be what you expect. For example, mixed in with the new sounds this week is "Blizzard" (which really sounds like white noise) and "Warfare" (which is a sample of guns fired) and "Traffic in slush". Many of the sounds you'll just have to try playing through in Preview to decide whether you like them. You can sample the new weekly alerts or just search and find sounds of the sort you want. Hope this gives you a flavor of the app. The Ambiance home page with the intro movie is at: http://ambiance.urbanapps.com/ Cheers, Esther > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Esther > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 5:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Applications > > Hi Jane, > > Meant to reply earlier with some suggestions for apps. For sounds of > all kinds, including ocean waves, streams, rivers, and rain sounds, I > would get a program called Ambiance by Urban Apps ($0.99). They have > a great set of sounds, and constantly add more selections. You can > preview them and download any of the ones you like. There's also a > free Ambiance Lite version that you can try out first. I'd also > recommend that you try out the (free) Lite versions of some of the > apps from Red Hammer Software, such as "Relaxing Sounds of Nature > Lite". There are a whole bunch of these. > > I recall that you're a news junkie (at least with regard to podcasts), > so you might want the free NY Times and AP Mobile apps. There are > also some NPR apps. > > Cheers, > > Esther > Jane Jordan (GMail) wrote: > >> I suspect I am getting some sort of iPod at some point and I am >> trying >> to grab free apps while I can. I have the e-book reader. I am >> having >> trouble searching the store tough. Looking for ocean waves, streams >> and >> rivers, rain sounds, text editing software, since I like to write, a >> sudoku game, a word game. STuff like that. Thoughts? >> >> Jane >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
