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It’s music to Apple’s ears Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I am the first to admit I have been a “PC guy” since PCs first came on the market (though, I might add, I look nothing like the PC guy in the Apple ads - well, aside from the glasses and balding pate). But I was convinced to buy an iPhone and it has been an eye-opener for me (pun intended). I have been experimenting with the various iPhone applications and my favourite one (my wife would argue that iFart is my favourite application, at least in terms of chuckle factor, but that’s another story…) has been Ocarina, where you blow into the phone’s microphone and use it as a pan flute. The very cool thing about this is that as well as making your own music you can use it in social mode, which allows you to listen in to what some of the 600,000 Ocarina users around the globe are playing, right now.

This is turning out to be a great social media tool. If you need to be convinced, here are a couple of links: a story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and a video of a group of ‘artists’ playing “Stairway to Heaven” on their Ocarinas.