Musical and Laptop Info
I just released a semi-minor update to Musical with a much requested feature. The 2-octave stacked keyboard is now mapped to the physical keyboard. This means that the keyboard is now “multitouch” (well… you can play more that one note at once at least, although its more difficult on the keyboard than the screen).
The reason I was able to release this is because I finally gave up on Dell after they shipped me a new SSD… for my laptop… which they have (see last post) and borrowed another machine to use for developing. I’m currently in Tahoe with a friend for a weekend of skiing (I’m posting this from my laptop tethered to my G1), and about 4 hours after we left, FedEx finally delivered my laptop. Again, thanks Dell—a little late. Hopefully I’ll be able to release some more updates this weekend, but it depends on how good the skiing is (it’s supposed to be pretty bad—icy and it might rain/snow).
And finally, Musical has hit 500 reviews! It’s currently at 507 reviews (4.16/5), 33456 downloads, and 15043 installs.
Side note: Google is planning on releasing the Market in “Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland in the coming weeks”. If anyone wants to waste 10 minutes or so, I would love to be able to translate the very limited amount of text in the app to other languages… otherwise I’ll have to either limit it to the English speaking locations or use the dreaded machine translation.