Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, First Look
First Look: Touch Poet lets anyone be a poet
With Valentines Day right around the corner, it would seem that everyone is looking for something to get their loved ones. While most might settle on candy, or other holiday items, would you ever think of writing your special someone a poem? Even if you've never written a sentence in your life, you can easily write a poem with Touch Poet [iTunes link] for iPhone.Touch Poet grabs word snippets from works by Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, and Rudyard Kipling as well as Digg headlines and other news sources. When you tap on the right-pointing arrow in the app, words will be move out from behind the arrow. When you find a word that you want to use, you can drag it up to the top portion. The snippets of paper has a really great physics engine that makes it look as though you are actually touching it. If you don't like a word, or would like to choose a better word, then you can "throw" the piece of paper in the garbage shoot by tossing it towards the bottom right of the screen. If you can't seem to find a word that you like, you can input your own words by double-tapping on the bottom of the screen -- this will allow you to input your own word.
If you tap the upward facing arrow you will have several options, namely the ability to select the source of your words. From here you can also Twitter your masterpiece or e-mail it straight to your loved one. You can get your hands on Touch Poet by visiting the iTunes App Store. It is currently on sale for $.99 (US) through Valentines Day; after then, it will go up to $2.99.
Gallery: Touch Poet
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
capuchin said 11:50AM on 2-11-2009
I bought this thinking "hey, it's 99 cents, how bad can it be?" and found that the answer is the diametric opposite of bad.
This thing is freaking awesome, and a massive drain on time and productivity...
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James F said 6:00PM on 2-11-2009
I had this niftly little app called mcPoet.
"It was like photoshop for words.. It would dadafy, distort, rip up, imitate and generally clusterfork text in a million and one different ways. Unfortunately no one thought to create an OS X version. *single tear rolling down my cheek*. "
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/2794
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puhsitch said 12:33AM on 2-12-2009
It looks like they did make an OS X version, but you just can't find it anymore. No one seems to host their own copy of JanusNode anywhere! All the downloads end up going to an obsolete site with a 404 page. Oh well.
James F said 3:48AM on 2-12-2009
You're in luck, there is a working link on archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20040224221433/http://www.telusplanet.net/public/westbury/Janus.com/JanusProduct/JanusNodeOSX.sit
puhsitch said 7:56PM on 2-12-2009
Great find!! I love the magic of archive.org
I'm not sure why I was getting an error message during the .sit extraction, but the program appears to work just fine. Wee!
James F said 3:56AM on 2-12-2009
I found a working link on archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20040224221433/http://www.telusplanet.net/public/westbury/Janus.com/JanusProduct/JanusNodeOSX.sit
It appears to be the 2.08 version
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Ron said 12:26PM on 2-12-2009
I'm surprised this App is only available in the US store... Don't they realize we celebrate Valentine's Day in Canada as well? (Or elsewhere for that matter?)
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Ron said 12:40PM on 2-12-2009
Ignore my last comment... for some reason the link in the article took me to the US store, but it is working now.
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