Anyone who has ever wanted to play a musical instrument on their iPod knows that there's a lot of music and instrument apps in the app store. 

There's a lot of Piano apps on the iTunes store but I've never had an experience like this! Within a couple uses of this app, I couldn't wait to perform for my friends and show them my new piano playing abilities. 

Its like a game like guitar hero, but you can control the pace and choose whether you want to follow the lit up buttons or the keys as you follow along in the settings before you start to play the song you've chosen. 

Most of the songs are classical piano songs, and you can choose well-known tunes from famous composers. Before you start your first lesson, you choose the song and composer, and the speed you want to play along at. In a song, you play the lead, so there's background music to help you sound better. 

After a couple of tries, your scores get better and you start to learn the songs. While I'm still quite a way from being a concert pianist, Piano Man from Yudo is definitely one of the coolest music apps because it is really fun to use and easy to learn!

-iPod Grrl

Interesting terms like Bluetooth and Cloud always get my attention, especially when I see them in the app store. When I saw the word cloud as I happened to be buying some apps, I saw Artwork Cloud and just had to try it out.

When you open the app, it scans your music library to get the cover art to build an artwork cloud. 

This may take a long time depending on how music you have on your device. 

Once its done, your screen is filled with a colorful cloud of album cover art.

There's no clear interface, but the natural impulse is to pan and zoom around, and you can get a closer look at the images.

If you want, you can tap on an image, and it will pull up a detail window with track information like length, and even lets you preview the track.

Navigating your library using the cover art is an interesting way to enjoy your music, so next time you're unsure of what you're in the mood for, try finding some tunes in an Artwork Cloud!

iTunes + iPod go hand in hand, and so everyone with an iPod Touch or an iPhone has probably made sure to update to the most recent version of the software recently. Everything went smoothly and was running the same as usual, but once I relaunched, I immediately noticed a new feature in iTunes 9.1 that I absolutely love and that most people may not be aware of.

I have limited storage on my Macbook Pro, so I have my iTunes library set up on an external hard drive. The only problem is, I can't launch iTunes until I plug in that device.  

Before, iTunes just wouldn't launch if it could not find the iTunes library I had it pointing to. Now, it asked me to choose a library, or create a new one, giving the user an option to have multiple libraries. 

I can make separate libraries for my different audio devices, and save them whereever I want. iTunes 9 has  a lot of other new features like letting you convert to a higher bit rate, so if you have any lossless music, anything over a 128kbps is going to be converted. You can see the bit rate in the settings. 

I'm really excited about what's been added to iTunes 9.1, and its good to see an update with the release of the newest Apple device, so I'm interested to find out about the new features with the iPod and the now the new iPad too help you get all the entertainment you need out of these fun devices.

-iPod Grrl 

One of the biggest obstacles I have when uploading pictures to the web. While there are apps out there that will rotate your photos for you, sometimes you need to do more.

I found the PicEd app, and not only does it have an awesome interface, but it also allows me to do whatever I need to do to a photo on my iPod Touch, all without leaving the device.

You can easily select the area that you want to select to do an effect on, then do whatever effect you want to on the area you just selected. 

You also have the rotating your image, or just applying some kind of color filter to it. Save it to your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone, or email it to yourself or a friend. 

Hit the little rose colored window for all sorts of options. Its always easy to access your photo and the whole process is pretty intuitive overall.

We all know about the mysterious things that happen to your photos when you save them to your iPod, but now you can find out the size of your photos too, so this is a sweet full functional photo editing app from Moobila is one you will love!

-iPod Grrl 

Well, so much for Spring break!

Once class started back up, daily blogging became much more of a challenge.

I also have my hands literally full with a new device from Apple. Add in a very intense weekend business trip, and you have a recipe for a sorely updated blog. 

I'm energized to blog more than ever, but my time is so limited! Fortunately, we have a ton of episodes recorded and ready to go. We/I are a week behind schedule but looking forward to releases shows that will amaze you with the potential of the iPod.

Did you know the iPad does many of these amazing thing also, and more?

Be back soon!

-IPad Grrl