Filed under: Audio, Fun, iPhone
RjDj Shake and RjDj Album: mind-bending iPhone apps, free for a limited time
I've felt left out of the whole RjDj craze for a while now. Everyone I know who's tried it has raved about how fun it is to listen to music that adapts to the noise around you. I haven't been able to enjoy RjDj, though, because I have a first-gen iPod Touch. It's not much good to incorporate your surroundings into a song when you don't have a microphone to pick up sounds around you. Fortunately, I do have an accelerometer, which means I can rock out to RjDj Shake.RjDj Shake matches its seven different tracks -- "scenes" in the RjDj parlance -- to the movement of your iPhone or iPod, so the music is always in sync with the way you're shaking it. The different musical offerings that come pre-loaded with the app range from the slow and dreamlike to intense uptempo numbers. It's highly addictive to play with, and right now you can get RjDj Shake and RjDj Album free. The offer is "for a limited time, but I'm not sure how limited, so it's best to just head over to the App Store now if you're interested.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
