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I never did understand why people would be fooled by magic using a phone considering its an electronic device and the app stores sell the app openly which after you present the trick people just look it up and wow look at that I can get it too? am I missing something?

As a magician myself I tend to think if its something that would fool me than it would be a good thing to learn, or if it can fool other magicans than it would be a great achivement.

Or perhaps Im too old school and tend to shy away from what I think is obvious

Or maybe I jsut cant understand what these applications do exactly? Anyone care to enlighten me?

Don't ask me, I replied to a TV Shopping Channel offer to develop perfect apps and the idiots sent me a chest expander.....

get idoodle.

it's nothing like the others.

you basically can have ANY 1-8 items. Could be fruit, could be numbers 1-8, could be arrows in different directions, whatever.

you launch a simple drawing app (which IS available on the ITMS as a standalone regular app). you show how you can draw with it. you make a prediction, put it face down on table.

spec names fruit/number/whatever

you turn the phone over, cleanly, not pressing anything

screen shows you were right

it's brilliant

Magic on a phone is intrinsically boring. Don't waste your time. More importantly, don't waste mine by showing me stuff on a phone. It fools no one, entertains no one except the phone owner.

TonyB wrote:Magic on a phone is intrinsically boring. Don't waste your time. More importantly, don't waste mine by showing me stuff on a phone. It fools no one, entertains no one except the phone owner.

With iDoodle, I completely disagree that it is intrinsically boring, fools no one and entertains no-one. All other iPhone "magic" apps - then yes, agreed.

Presented right, iDoodle really is powerful. Yes, it's a pub trick at best, but a very good one. Don't perform it as an phone effect as such, but as a replacement for "not having" a pen or paper on you. If you build the story right, the phone becomes just a convenient notepad.


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TonyB wrote:Magic on a phone is intrinsically boring. Don't waste your time. More importantly, don't waste mine by showing me stuff on a phone. It fools no one, entertains no one except the phone owner.

Have you seen iDoodle?

TonyB, I will take the bold step of suggesting that Magic SMS would change your mind.

So I'm the only person to dislike iDoodle then?

kolm wrote:So I'm the only person to dislike iDoodle then?

Apparently. What don't you like about it, out of interest. I've customised mine up the the doodads, and it works like a charm!

screwystewie wrote:

kolm wrote:So I'm the only person to dislike iDoodle then?

Apparently. What don't you like about it, out of interest. I've customised mine up the the doodads, and it works like a charm!

Apart from the memory leak I found it really difficult to get the correct 'answer' reliably

kolm wrote:

screwystewie wrote:

kolm wrote:So I'm the only person to dislike iDoodle then?

Apparently. What don't you like about it, out of interest. I've customised mine up the the doodads, and it works like a charm!

Apart from the memory leak I found it really difficult to get the correct 'answer' reliably

I found that with the *ahem* first method, but the second method works fine for me.

And on the subject of Magic SMS, I was annoyed at first because I need to change a LOT of my settings, but it works very well, and the attention to detail is amazing.

kolm wrote:

screwystewie wrote:

kolm wrote:So I'm the only person to dislike iDoodle then?

Apparently. What don't you like about it, out of interest. I've customised mine up the the doodads, and it works like a charm!

Apart from the memory leak I found it really difficult to get the correct 'answer' reliably

Fair play. Never had that problem really. But I can understand why it would make you not keen on the app!

The slow is VERY slow.

iDoodle does not seem to be available on the UK App Store. Am I missing sumfink?

screwystewie wrote:The slow is VERY slow.

Yeah I think that's where I'm going wrong

Replicant wrote:iDoodle does not seem to be available on the UK App Store. Am I missing sumfink?

I always thought it was iForce, might be that.

I really like it though, if you can get away with using your phone as a replacement for paper then it's good, if not it'll seem contrived and phone-y...

All the other coin in phone style apps seem pretty c*** (not the best) though...