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DjRun Automatically Plays Songs With Tempos Matching Your Walking Pace [Android]

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Tired of manually switching between music tracks to pick the ones that match your sprinting, running or jogging pace? Try DjRun – an innovative Holo-themed Android music player that can automatically play a track whose tempo (beats per minute) matches the pace of your current body movements. The app has the capacity to analyze and automatically select music tracks by their tempo to let you enjoy an uninterrupted walking, jogging, running or sprinting session, at least in terms of music playback. DjRun scans your local music library for all tracks according to their respective beats per minute, and then analyzes your current stride rate to keep circling between songs as per your movements. Already impressed? DjRun is laced with plenty of other goodies, including a built-in pedometer, playlist manager, track filter, visual indicator for current pace and lots more. Read More

Gyro Draw: Have Fun Creating Drawings By Tilting Your iPhone

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A gyroscope is a sensor that is rather new to iOS devices, with only the newer models of iDevices having it. In older versions of iPhone and iPod touch, there was just the good old accelerometer, which performs the same task of keeping track of your device’s orientation, but in 2D. A gyroscope has the ability to be aware of a device’s current orientation in all three dimensions, which makes it much more sensitive than the accelerometer. Gyro Draw is an app which makes use of the gyroscope and accelerometer in your iDevice, and you can spend hours of fun creating drawings and sketches with it. Read More