Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App Store
Play Free Bird!
Next time you're at a concert and just gotta have an encore, don't pull out a cigarette lighter. Instead, launch iLightr!iLightr is a virtual cigarette lighter for iPhone and iPod touch that is available in the App Store now (click opens iTunes). It's only US$0.99 and is an amazingly good simulation of a lighter.
You can choose from several different case designs, light the lighter with either a flick of the wrist or by sliding your finger along the sparker, and the flame sways back and forth as you move the iPhone. The sound effects alone are pretty amazing.
iLighter was developed by Ubermind and is localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The developers do not offer a guarantee that iLighter will cause an 80's hair band to play an encore, nor can iLighter be used to start fires.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Ed Pummelon said 9:34AM on 8-13-2008
"It's only US$0.99 and is an amazingly good simulation of a lighter"
Is this the moment when TUAW finally jumped the shark?
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lobo said 9:37AM on 8-13-2008
You forgot to mention CrazyLighter wich does pretty the same and for free (oh, it's not localized.. ;)
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eric dolecki said 9:59AM on 8-13-2008
Crazy Lighter is $0.99 too.
scrapple said 10:03AM on 8-13-2008
Or just download MyLite for free and use their built in lighter option... and its better!
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Viper007Bond said 10:46PM on 8-14-2008
Free = win!
Glen said 10:06AM on 8-13-2008
Who needs all that battery life? Skynyrd!!!!!!!!
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kshea said 10:06AM on 8-13-2008
Freebird the song title is one word, otherwise you're just telling a bird to play freely.
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Guess_Who said 11:15AM on 8-13-2008
Nope, the song title is two words.
kshea said 11:22AM on 8-13-2008
Nope,
It's 1 word according to http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/ and the discog from their first album.
http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/index.php?module=discography&discography_item_id=23&discography_tag=STUDIO+ALBUMS
Release date
January 1st, 1973
Label
Sounds of the South/MCA Records
Recorded At
Studio One, Doraville, Georgia
Producer
Al Kooper
Track List
I Ain't The One
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man
Things Goin' On
Mississippi Kid
Poison Whiskey
Freebird
kshea said 11:25AM on 8-13-2008
Nope,
It's 1 word according to http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/ and the discog from their first album.
http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/index.php?module=discography&discography_item_id=23&discography_tag=STUDIO+ALBUMS
Release date
January 1st, 1973
Label
Sounds of the South/MCA Records
Recorded At
Studio One, Doraville, Georgia
Producer
Al Kooper
Track List
I Ain't The One
Tuesday's Gone
Gimme Three Steps
Simple Man
Things Goin' On
Mississippi Kid
Poison Whiskey
Freebird
Guess_Who said 11:40AM on 8-13-2008
I assure you, the back of the album has it as two words.
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4569/pronouncedlehnerdskinnefg1.jpg
Neil said 10:13AM on 8-13-2008
Why is Apple allowing all this junk to clutter up the App Store?
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Glen said 10:16AM on 8-13-2008
Same reason Facebook is: $$$
BeyondtheTech said 10:23AM on 8-13-2008
So, that's what caused the fire in Building 6!
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jwilliek said 10:58AM on 8-13-2008
lol, nice one
punkassjim said 10:27AM on 8-13-2008
um... http://rocklighter.com
Why anyone would pay one red cent for this is beyond me.
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Gary Katz said 11:23AM on 8-13-2008
So let me get this straight...an accurate simulation of up to 5 dice is free, but an app that simulates a lighter is 99 cents? I don't get it.
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SammyJ said 11:29AM on 8-13-2008
I love how garbage like this is allowed on the App Store, yet productive (and fully legal) apps like NetShare are pulled in a most Fascist fashion.
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Andrew said 11:41AM on 8-13-2008
Ah, so I Am Rich gets shafted for this, huh? Hypocrisy much?
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eric f. said 9:32AM on 8-14-2008
uh, at 1/999 of the price of I am rich. you can't compare the two.