Aperitivo is the new application by Mobisle.org (the same authors of Big Pallaudio). This application lets you choose your club from a list of selected ones that can offer an aperitivo. Aperitivo is not a happy hour: Italian clubs tend to make them similar just for business purpose but aperitivo does not mean that you get drinks at a discounted price. It is the exact opposite, instead. You can get aperitivo at a normal or even increased price. This is justified by the fact that most of the aperitivo in Italy follow now the ‘milanese’ way that is non-stop buffet with any sort of food.

Aperitivo is now on sale in the App Store for 0,79€ cents. You can get it here

As a member of the mobisle team, I am proud to announce that our application for making calls with soundscapes has been published on the Apple Store.

The application is called Big Pallaudio (on Apple Store)and allows you to pick a sound from a library and use it as ambience for your calls. You can choose among different situations (railway station, shopping mall, storm and so on…). The app is designed for people who want to lie \ joke about their real position. You can use that for making fun of your friends or as a tool that allows you to avoid unwanted interlocutors.

We plan to locate the application in the next month in English and Chinese. At the moment, it’s only in Italian.
I also want to thank OOCL, a young creative company, for the partnership.

Thanks to techcrunch.com I have found this interesting example of a new interaction for the iPhone. The idea is to offer a new way to select the pages of your home screen: some users use to have lots of pages of application and if you are on the first one…going to screen nr.9 it’s just a pain in the ass. So this Swedish design house, called Ocean Observation, have come out with a concept

I think that this concept has the strength of using an interaction that Apple users are familiar with (even though not every iPhone user is an OsX user) but on the other side has some points of weakness: how do I know which is the page I am looking for? While Exposé works pretty well on desktops, ’cause you also have a big display, would it work on the iPhone? Perhaps it could be a way to change page quicker but I don’t see this as a good interaction to select the page you want, unless the icons are very peculiar. Maybe it’s time to introduce a folder\category element. But that would transform iPhone into one of those smartphone full of things nested into each other. Maybe then, it’s time to think of a multitouch search that takes advantages of what the iPhone can do better: make interactions different.

This is really amazing: your desktop becomes a 3D space, like your room. I appreciated the perspective they have chosen and the idea of having a wall where you can hang up things. Take a look also at how you can crop pictures: nice. I hope to see ideas like this more often in the future.

An interesting application that makes a good use of the iPhone interaction capabilities.