There’s been a lot of talk of wireless earphones lately, mostly due to the removal of the headphone port on the iPhone 7. I love wireless earphones, and for the most part I think their pros outweigh the cons significantly. However, they have one particular problem that really needs to be fixed.
Published September 13th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
Hyperbolizer is my new app for iOS 10. It’s a silly, fun idea. It has a standalone app, but the main focus is its iMessage app, which allows you to type…
Published September 13th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
Earlier this summer I was appointed as the first Ulster Youth Choir Composer-In-Residence. As my first task, I was commissioned to compose a piece for their summer concert, As Dreams Are Made On, which was centred around Shakespearean text and themes. I chose to set Shakespeare’s sonnet number 43. I named the piece Darkly Bright, both because I really love that phrase, and because I feel it has personal relevance to the harmonic language of the piece. Above is a video of the piece’s premiere, in Down Cathedral on 30 July. Read More Darkly Bright
Published June 8th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
Since January I’ve been learning Swift to let me create an app which I had an idea for late last year. It’s called Tapt – it’s a rhythm-based music game.…
Published May 3rd, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
I’m currently developing a music game for iOS (and my first app, ever). It’ll be out soon I hope, but I’m stuck waiting for what feels like months on some…
Published May 2nd, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
The Pi Zero Simpsons Shuffler is simple – you press the yellow button, and it plays a random episode of the Simpsons. I’d wanted to make it since hearing Will…
Published April 12th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
A few days ago I posted a video comparing note taking apps on the iPad Pro 9.7-inch. Since then, there have been updates to OneNote and Notability which improve things…
Published April 7th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
I do a lot of video editing, mostly using Premiere Pro on my desktop or laptop, though I’ve been increasingly using my iPad/iPhone for small edits like sharing with friends…
Read More Benchmarking and comparing video rendering times on the iPad Pro
Published April 6th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
Today I got an email from the Irish Aviation Authority, letting me know that an error on their drone registry site gave registered users access to everyone else’s details. While…
Published April 5th, 2016 by Stephen Coyle
I made a quick video to compare some writing/drawing apps on the iPad Pro. I used the built-in Notes app, OneNote (which has been my note-taking app of choice to…
Read More Comparing Pencil latency between apps on the iPad Pro 9.7