Photogene Brings Easy Photo editing on the iPhone
November 29th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
As more and more applications become available in the Appstore that allow you Blog “on-the-move” you may just accept the fact that you only have a 2 megapixel camera at your disposal. Well earlier this week I stumbled across an application in the Appstore called Photogene. At a very reasonable price of just $2.99 Photogene allows you to edit your images right from your iPhone and save them back in your Camera Roll as a copy, so the original photo remains in the Camera Roll as well.
- Crop image
- Rotate image
- Sharpen image
- Auto or manually adjust colour
- Temperature and Saturation
- 3 different effects
- Frame the image
- Undo and Redo as well as Reset button for all changes
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Nimbuzz: Free iPhone App for Calling, Messaging & VoIP
November 26th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Nimbuzz has released its free iPhone application that lets users call, chat and message, for free, with their friends on virtually all major instant messaging communities and social networks. The appllication can be downloaded at the App Store.
Specifically for the needs of Apple iPhone users, this will be the first complete messaging product available with landscape mode chat, IM buddy calling (including Yahoo!), and regional social network support.
- Landscape-chat makes it easy and fast to type.
- Call your IM buddies all over the world for free on your Wifi connection: Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Google Talk.
- Chat with social network friends: Facebook, MySpace, Gadu-Gadu (Poland), studiVZ (German), Hyves (Netherlands) and more.
- You can find Nimbuzz in the iTunes App Store, download it.
Other key updates include Personal Message allowing users to broadcast real-time status updates to all contacts, presence information to see who is online and where, and emotions for additional expression.
Nimbuzz currently grows at over 10,000 new users per day, with over 10 Million logins per day, and they are happy to welcome iPhone and iPod users to the community.
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iPhone App that Monitors your Babies Sleep and Waking up
November 26th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Monitor your child sleep with the iPhone applications. IPhone as long as the place near your baby to sleep if it detects the noise, it makes the phone number you choose, you can listen to your baby from the activities. Great when you travel or on the road, often do not have to pack your baby monitor. A feature of this particular application, the monitoring of unlimited scope!
And even use it to monitor, the old children arrived home from school, such as the application is unlimited. It will also detect if your child pick up the phone. The child’s curiosity big wake-up their afternoon nap instead of noise. The outstanding value of only 4.99 U.S. dollars and cents.
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Handy iPhone Travel Apps
November 26th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Since the release of the App Store, users of the iPhone and iPod touch have seen a virtual flood of new applications that are useful for the traveler. Some of them are aimed at a particular city, while others are useful virtually anywhere. A few applications aren’t aimed at travelers in particular, but can be invaluable when you’re on the road.
We’ve selected eight apps that we’d take with us on our next trip.
Spend is an easy to use budgeting & finance tool that allows you to keep track of how much you’ve spent. Want to know if you can keep traveling or if you have to wire home for moola? It’s easy with Spend. (We use it on our Ipod Touch for keeping track of our regular spending and it’s awesome.)
We all know it’s important to be aware of holidays wherever you’re going, especially if you’re going to be in a foreign culture. Holiday can help you know what important dates are coming up, in over 60 countries worldwide. Don’t be caught unaware!
Drunk at a bar in New York? Lost in London? Calling a cab is just what you need. This app will show you all the cab companies in over 10,000 cities in 10 different countries. This app gets bonus points, as all the data is stored on your phone/ipod, no internet access required.
Oh so much more than just a GPS-based compass app, this little app lets you store up to 30 locations, which allows you to find your way back to use the compass to find your way back “home.” Now, you won’t have to wonder how to get back to your hotel…
There’s nothing crazier than having to use the bathroom in an unfamiliar place and not knowing where to go. SitOrSquat will allow you to find bathrooms close by, all over the world. No more frantic searching…
Take advantage of all the great features of Yelp, in the palm of your hand. Find the best food, coffee, beer, or shopping nearby, at least as long as you’re in the US or Canada.
A great app for finding great places to eat in the US and Canada. If you’re feeling indecisive, you can just shake your phone for ideas.
Discover allows you to manage all sorts of files on your iphone/ipod, which means you can take your pdfs and images of maps, etc with you when you go. No internet access required. Goodbye guidebook!
Honorable Mention:
These two apps are great, but are city-specific. Take them with you if you’re headed to their applicable cities.
If you’re in Washington D.C. and are looking for a place to have a good evening, the Washington Post’s Going Out Guide is a great place to turn. You can find bars, restaurants, and more, plus check out editor’s reviews. The app is well organized, so you can find what you’re looking for pretty quickly. It’s all self contained, so no internet access is required.
Metros Guide is a great little tool for planning your transit trips in major cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen & Hong Kong). Plus, it’s got a cute little panda as your guide! (Internet access is required)
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SP Photo Fix Lite Free iPhone Photo Retouching App
November 25th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
If you are looking for a free photo enhancer app for your iPhone, then check out SP Photo Fix Lite from Sponticelli.com, which offers the following controls/adjustments of photos on your iPhone:
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Blur
- Sharp
This free app is a (very) limited version of its bigger brother, the 59p, SP Photo Fix, which as well as the basic features above also include the following:
- HUE
- Saturation
- Lightness
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Blur
- Sharp
- B&W
If all you are looking for is a simple app to sharpen your photo’s taken on your iPhone, then SP Photo Fix Lite may meet your needs, but do not expect anything fantastic, as sharpening your photo’s (which does work) will also increase the noise, as the images below show (left before/Right after).
And also for adjusting contrast:
Despite its limitations, as a free app, it may be worth having, but if you are keen on enhancing your photo’s on the iPhone itself, then you need to go for a more fully featured app.
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Gas Cubby for iPhone
November 24th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Gas Cubby is the ultimate tool for tracking gas mileage and vehicle maintenance and now its available for the iPhone. Whether you’re a hypermiler, or just want a reminder to change the oil, Gas Cubby will help save you money and keep your vehicle operating at it’s peak.
Features:
Tracks gas mileage and vehicle maintenance
Charts: MPG, gas price, gas expenses, service expenses
Charts update as data is filtered
Customizable service reminders
Supports multiple vehicles
Store vehicle information: VIN, License Plate, and Insurance Policy
Turn data fields on and off
Excel compatible email reports (CSV attachment)
Easily search, sort, and filter records
Customizable tags
Number Pad or Odometer style entry
If data entry is interrupted by a phone call, the data will be stored and retrieved on next launch
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Mobispine bringing real MMS feature to the iPhone via App Store
November 21st, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Apple seems to have started listening to iPhone users lately. They seem to have authorized a Swedish carrier Telia which is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and would allow the easy sending of multimedia (photos, video) to your contacts. Macrumors has covered this news as well:
Their solution appears that it may be a third party application developed by Swedish developer Mobispine. Mobispine is marketing their MMS application to mobile carriers (such as AT&T) as a solution to provide the service to their end users.
We’re confident that operators will find the service easy to use and profitable with an opportunity to expand messaging usage, improve subscriber retention and hopefully increase revenue. The service will also increase customer loyalty and recognition as the brand is displayed on the user’s phone. The application is white-labelled and will be branded for each operator and distributed via the App store.
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Orb App for iPhone: Stream TV, Video, Music from Your PC
November 21st, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Orb, one of my long-time favorite applications for remotely streaming home media has finally come to the iTunes AppStore. Up to now, Orb was only possible on jailbroken phones, but somehow, Apple has approved the application for everyday use.
With the $9.99 application, you can access and view various content on a home Windows PC right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The Orb folks say that a version for Macs and Linux computers is coming as well. What I always liked about Orb is that is smartly manages the audio or video stream based on your connection speed: it’s always optimized. So what can you stream on your handheld while away from home?
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NumberKey Turns iPhone into a Numpad for your notebook.
November 20th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Here’s something ultra-useful for all those Mac laptop owners who need numeric keypad from time to time. It’s an iPhone app called NumberKey, which will display a numeric keypad and wirelessly connect (via Bonjour) to your Mac to allow input of numbers much faster.
As you can see from the image above, the app is designed to follow the look of Mac’s keyboard, meaning when you put your iPhone near your laptop it will look like they were made one for the other. Four skins are available - black, white, silver and classic.
NumberKey works with both PowerPC and Intel CPU-based Macs and you can grab it for $1.99 from the AppStore.
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Cole Zhu French/English Traslation App
November 17th, 2008 by iPhoneTechZone
Cole Zhu Français/Anglais is an easy to use French/English and English/French translation application Bundled also with a full featured English dictionary. All this works without requiring any internet connection (something that is essential when travelling abroad).
The software includes the following additional features:
- all-in-one multi-language search bar
- incremental search results appear as you type using our super fast index
- scrollable search result word list
- resizeable, zoomable word description view
- adjustable dictionary result order
- remembers your last word on close
- save your words for future study
- email your saved words to yourself for study or collection
- delete all saved words option
- word history
- word jump tap on any word in the data view to see its detailed description
Free for only 3 days (Get it fast !!). Normally 5$/3.99€.
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