Steady Clappin'

Path was an app that I downloaded almost a year ago and used for a hot minute. I enjoyed it because it was simple and pretty. However, it suffered from the fact that nobody I knew really used it. Who needs another social network? It eventually grew stale and I switched to Instagram. However, with the launch of Path 2.0, I’ve been sucked back in. (Tractor beam). The UI is gorgeous. It’s miles ahead of Instagram in that regard. There are all kind of little animations and touches that make the app a joy to use.

Instagram has become this bloated spammy thing, not because of the developers or designers, but because of its users. It’s essentially Myspace. Path (hopefully) keeps from that happening by limiting your following ability to only 150 users, up from the original idea of 50. There are filters, just like every other photo-sharing app out there, but it isn’t dedicated to that the way Instagram seems to be. You can comment, geo-tag, check in—all that jibba jabba nerds need—right from Path.

Path is about the simple sharing of your day to people you know. I just hope enough people I know start using it.

There are an insane amount of games available for the iPhone. Unfortunately, 95% of them are completely unoriginal. Porting Doom to a small touch screen device doesn’t necessarily work. A lot of them are also really ugly. I call it The Tri-State Talent Percentage, or TTP. Most people could do pretty well in Jersey. There’s a lot of girls there. But so what? Snooki’s iPhone game equivalent is probably Paper Toss. Sure, it’ll pass the time when you’re pooping, but so can making toilet paper dolls. Or staring at a wall.

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Today I’d like to tell you about a wonderful little diddy available in the App Store called Ghostly Discovery. It’s essentially a Pandora-like application, except it’s limited to music from the Ghostly label’s catalogue. Luckily for us, they have some pretty great, relatively unknown stuff. Most of the music falls into the electronic category, but it’s all pretty solid.

Read more, nephew.