Hum: The ultimate smartphone app for songwriters?  Categories:
Technology  When inspiration strikes, you need to catch it quick
-- on a bar napkin, the back of an envelope, a whiteboard, or a
smartphone. For songwriters, that means capturing that elusive
melody or writing down the perfect lyric before it floats away
into the ether.  Countless musicians have used their iPhone's
notes app and the voice memo function for these purposes, but
how about something that's actually geared for their creations?
A Minneapolis group is debuting an app called Hum, a faster,
smarter, better way to capture and organize your songwriting
ideas.  On Monday, January 27, three designers/musicians --
founders Aaron Shekey and Joseph Kuefler, along with the app's
back end architect Ellen Shapiro -- will launch Hum, a new app
that seamlessly combines those many different tasks into one
terrific new tool for songwriters.  "So many apps focus on
automating the musical experience. It's easy to find synths or
drum machines or looping ap