I’m not much of a musician. Back in grade school, I was always the kid who got the triangle while all the other kids got flutes, slide whistles, thumb pianos and other neat instruments. So when I first saw Smule’s Ocarina, currently the best-selling, paid app in the App Store, I knew I would finally [...]

To celebrate the success of its hugely popular Ocarina musical app, Smule, its developers, has launched an online video contest.
Smule will award $1,000 to each of the best 10 video creators and T-shirts to the runners ups.
Here’s how to enter

Make your video featuring the Ocarina in a Smulean way.
Post your video on YouTube in response [...]

When something “blows,” it’s usually a bad thing. Here’s a case where something “blows,” and it’s a good thing. In fact, it’s $1,000 worth of goodness.
About a month ago, Smule, the developer of the extraordinarily successful Ocarina musical app, launched its “This Contest Blows” competition. Entrants were asked to send in videos of themselves playing [...]

Smule’s Ocarina iPhone app is an electronic version of the physical instrument. Blow into the microphone, touch any combination of four “holes” and tilt the phone to alter vibrato. If you have any talent (I don’t) you’ll be playing music in no time. Ocarina is currently the number one paid app in the AppStore. Smule [...]

Harmonica is a little app created by Benjamin McDowell, developed in the same vein as Ocarina. It’s designed to be used like a real harmonica.
Just like the real thing, you place the iPhone in your mouth and slide from side to side to play notes. There are two buttons which allow you to choose from [...]

If you’re easily amused, you’ll like the Drum Kit app from CrimsonJet. It’s a six-piece drum kit that you can play using your thumbs.
Tap the snare, bass drum, cymbals to pound out a beat. Choose from among four flavors of sound: classic, rock, hip hop and techno. You can adjust the sound volume in a [...]

A wise man once said: “The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
That pretty much sums up a recent article in Newsweek that reports on the fast-rising success of a handful of iPhone developers. Dan Lyons in There’s [...]

Smule, known for Ocarina and other best-selling apps, has introduced a new version of Sonic Lighter that enables users around the world to help answer one of life’s most pressing questions: “Boxers or briefs?”
If you’re a boxer guy, flick on a green flame; if you’re a briefs guy, light it white. To check out where [...]

What can I say about SaxMan, from Yudo Games, except that it really blows.
I have no idea what happened to SaxMan on the way from the drawing board to the App Store but it looks like it might have had a house with a three-car garage dropped on it. The app description contains a list [...]

These days, whenever there are awards to be handed out for mobile application development, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch always dominate the list of finalists
Coming up on March 18, iPhone Boot Camp, which styles itself as a community of several thousand mobile developers worldwide, will hand out its first annual Mobie Awards at the ThinkMobile [...]

Leaf Trombone: World Stage – There’s something vaguely intimidating about being assigned to review an application and, upon doing a little research, finding out that it’s an extremely hotly-anticipated app from a developer with a line of very successful, high-profile offerings. So as I sit here, preparing to review Leaf Trombone: World Stage by smule [...]

Its now been just a little over 4 months since the launch of the App Store, and it feels that the platform is starting to reach a new stage of evolution. Here are a few signs of the new world order:
1. Multiplayer apps have arrived. Originally, Multiplayer on the iPhone meant having to be on [...]

Patrik Hedmalm, a Happy Game Developer at Epicore, recently took time to answer a few questions for our iPhone Developer spotlight.
When did you start developing apps for the iPhone? Did you have previous experience as a developer?
I started programming on the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 back in the day. Since 1995 I have been working [...]

The question of how to make money selling apps at cut-rate prices or by giving them away free in the App Store is one we’ve asked a number of developers such as Simon Oliver (Rolando), Ge Wang (Ocarina) in recent weeks.
We’ve begun to wonder whether developers were “conditioning,” iPhone users to undervalue their apps with [...]

AppCraver recently spoke with Branislav Beno, of Animion. He shares his experiences developing for the iPhone and iPod touch.
When did you start developing apps for the iPhone? Did you have previous experience as a developer?
Yes. Mainly with Flash and Flash Lite. Developing for iPhone is absolutely different. Powerful animation tool and higher level components [...]

On the lookout for Free stuff? We’ve got schwag leftover from Macworld and we’re feeling generous. All you have to do is sign up to follow us on twitter, then pay attention to the feed. Starting Thursday morning, we’ll be giving stuff away once a day for as long as it lasts.
Each prize will be [...]

In the past, creating professional quality tracks meant dropping some serious cash on high-end software and hardware. In more recent years however, there has been a push toward making it more affordable for musicians to record at home. A key player in the development of these powerful yet straight-forward apps is Apple. In 2004, they [...]

With less than a month to go before 2008 wrings out (pun intended since we’re officially in a recession) Apple has just announced its Top 10 iPhone App downloads for the year. The list comes out only a couple of days after word began circulating in the blogosphere that the number of apps in the [...]

David Frampton, creator of DuckDuckDuck and Chopper, says that all he wants is for the best apps to float to the top of the best-sellers list, customers to find the best apps for what they want and for the developers of the best apps to make the most money. That’s not the case but it [...]