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4-inch Retina Display is Great for Teleprompt+ and Setlists

The newest iPhone 5 and iPod touch include a beautiful 16 by 9 screen which is 176 rows of pixels taller than that of their predecessors. At first glance this might not seem like much of a big deal. An extra row of icons on the home screen, a few extra emails in your email [...]

Setlists is a Great Set Organizer for Comedians, Too

Comedy is the one gig that’s even harder than music. Night after night, getting in front of that crowd, alone, trying to juggle people’s sensitivities, dealing with hecklers—and all the while having to keep track of material on your head. It’s one of the most nerve-wracking and torturous things a human being can do to [...]

Setlists 1.2: Live Lyric Prompting Now Available on your iPhone or iPod touch

Setlists has just hit another milestone with the release of version 1.2. This update adds support for the iPhone and iPod touch, making Setlists accessible to millions more devices worldwide. And since the app is universal, those who have bought or buy Setlists for their iPads get this extra compatibility for free. So if your [...]

The Story of Setlists (the iPad lyrics app for musicians) 5 – Jam Session

“I don’t see the mockups for the remote feature. Did you ever get those to me.” This is what Tim wrote one night late in the process of developing Setlists. I had done so many mockups, so many revisions of every other aspect of the app, but for some reason, I had never gotten around [...]

The Story of Setlists (the iPad lyrics app for musicians) 4 – Page Breaks

I wanted to take a moment to talk about the way Setlists creates page breaks, because it’s a good demonstration of why you should share your design issues with your collaborators. As I mentioned in an earlier installment of this series, one of the early decisions for Setlists was that it wouldn’t have constantly scrolling [...]