PSA for ipod Touch/iphone owners

If you listen to your ipod Touch or iphone in the car, I cannot recommend Flicktunes more highly. I've had it less than 2 days and already I can't imagine how I lived without it. (Seriously, I kept fussing with the damn Touch in the car. While driving. Which is as dumbass as it sounds.)

It's an app which turns 95% of the surface of your device into a touchpad and then lets you assign something in the realm of 25 different swipe or tap signals to it. So, for instance:

- Tap it once, anywhere, to pause. Tap again to unpause.
- One finger swiping left to right; next song in playlist. Swipe the other way, and you get the previous song.
- Three fingers swiping top to bottom; shuffle playlist on.

You can enter a default playlist and assign a motion to it, so that you can always return to the first song in that playlist. For example, I listen to the Staggering Stories podcast and when it's over, I just tap the screen with two fingers and I'm listening to my "flavor of the month" playlist instantly. No looking at Tubso, no scrolling through menus, just "tap" and done. (Mind you, eventually I am going to get tired of "Save Me San Francisco." But it hasn't happened yet, and all I have to do is edit the playlist in iTunes.)

You can also build a playlist out of anything on your device that will exist as long as Flicktunes is on *that time.* So I can stack up, say, a set of different podcasts and maybe an audiobook and treat that like a playlist. And if I get bored - well, two fingers and San Francisco is saving me, and I can create something new and different next time I turn the app on.

Best. Buck. I. Ever. Spent.