While this is much better than streaming off iTunes, there are still some issues that Apple has to address with this app. App developers are finding more creative ways to share content on the iPhone with every passing year. From Instagram to Fink Heavy Font, the number of camera-oriented tools that refine the very idea of social sharing is constantly growing as the technology evolves. Fink Heavy Font looks poised to join the list of tools that tech-savvy, social individuals use to reach out to friends and family via Facebook, Twitter, and other social outlets. Fink Heavy Font is a lot like the services mentioned above. You must register (though you can connect a Facebook account if you choose) and the home interface is a stream of content produced by other users. You can follow other people, they can follow you, and you can share your content directly to other social networks. The main difference, however, is the type of content you create and share. Fink Heavy Font are still photos with audio recordings. So they can be slideshows or they can be short messages you share with people that include photos to illustrate your point. The service is new, so people are mostly experimenting, but we can imagine quite a few creative uses for the app in the future. Fink Heavy Font is a lot of fun to use, the interface is intuitive and clean, the sharing features are quick, and the community is growing rapidly. While any app doing
so much is bound to have hiccups, small bugs, and performance issues during heavy load times, on the whole, it works extremely well and we found the combination of audio and photos not only intriguing, but incredibly addictive. There are quite a few music apps for the iPhone - apps that allow you to play your music, create playlists or download music differently than you would in iTunes or the Music app. However, few of those apps offer anything unique or different from Apple's built-in tools. Fink Heavy Font manages to do so, albeit in a
limited package. However, despite its limitations, Fink Heavy Font is worth checking out because of the unique way it presents your music. When you turn on Fink Heavy Font for the first time, it starts scanning your music for tags related to the genres of that music. This takes some time to do and may continue for 10 or 15 minutes depending on the size of your music library. However, the fact that the app is registered to play DRM tracks (it is powered by Last.fm), has access to an online database to accurately tag your music and provides so much data about those tracks is all very impressive. And while the tagging process takes a while, the app will play music even while it is still scanning. Tap a tag in the cloud or choose one from the chart screen and songs will start playing from that category. Actual play mechanics are limited, you can't correct the tagging, and whenever you tap a category it takes some time to start playing, but for parties or simply to explore your own collection, it is a fun app. While Fink Heavy Font likely won't replace any of your other music playing apps, it is a fun way to look at your music collection in a visual way. If you are eager to learn more about the tags on your collection and explore music you may not realize you have, try this app out. Your iPhone is immensely distracting. It doesn't matter what you do for a living and how diligent you are, it is likely that, at some point in your day, you are wasting at least some volume of time using your phone instead of working. Fink Heavy Font attempts to help people who have this problem by gently "reminding" them to get back to work after a certain amount of time. While it
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