App Pick: Natural Worlds★

So I may just be back on track with posting rhythms it seems, although I've yet to prove this.

I stumbled across a wonderful app called 'Natural Worlds'. It loads up in your dock and plays one of three available world sounds, Thunderstorm, birds or 'gurgling creek with birds'. Worlds can be submitted and created via instructions on the dev's website, my point is; there's no limit to the number of possible worlds that could be created and freely distributed.

If you are working on a project requiring intense levels of concentration, but the 'sound of silence' is buzzing through your skull, or perhaps you just need the iMac to pump out a few dB's of noise to mask the fan over-head, load up natural worlds!
Not as intrusive as music but its just as effective at silence-killing.

The sound quality of the 3 worlds is sublime and really quite convincing. My reflex to the bird chirps is sometimes to raise my head, initiating the process of shouting to quiet them down.

Primary complaints is that the app sits in the dock instead of the right side of the top menu bar along with spotlight etc. Perhaps this is a good thing, as it clearly shows that the app is open and that the ambient sounds of lush rain forest and birds chirping aren't coming from inside the filing cabinet.

Natural Worlds gets a total recommendation from me, definitely check it out at:
http://www.mts.net/~gbeggs1/NaturalWorlds/index.html

Consider making your own world and submitting it... I'll be doing that as soon as I find the time also! (Hyena's anyone????)

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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:05 PM | Links to this post

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