iPhone Apps For The Photography Enthusiast In You

Posted by Thom Yarbrough under iphone applications on Wednesday Aug 19, 2009

Whether you’re an avid photographer or just someone who is realising the joys of this fantastic hobby, you’ve surely used your iPhone’s camera to take many a picture. At times you may be ecstatic with the quality and at other times, it may not be to your liking. But there are so many ways in which you can tweak your photos and other settings to make your work look professional. Let’s check out some of them here.

Photo Cleaner

Haven’t there been so many times when the pictures taken don’t seem clean enough? The problem could be too many grains or a lot of visual noise ruining the aesthetics of the taken picture. You can better the quality of your picture in numerous ways with the With the Photo Cleaner app for your iPhone. This app is versatile as it can be used not just on photos taken from the iPhone but other pictures as well. Some of the things you can do with this app is adjusting the brightness and contrast of the pictures and saving the photos in four different output sizes.

Private Pics

Surely you have plenty of photos in your iPhone and you may not want others to view it accidentally when they borrow your phone for some reason. There are some people who also deliberately snoop around, trying to see what kind of photos you have taken and who is featured in your photographs. Here’s a way to keep them from doing this. Download the Private Pics app for your iPhone and protect your pictures from prying eyes. Save pictures in the folders within the app and set decoy passwords so they are safe.

Collage Wallpaper Creator

Be creative and make your photographs come to life! Make your pictures into an awesome collage and use it as wallpaper. Create your unique masterpieces by using different photographs; play with the transparency levels and combine two photos into one or convert the photos into sepia or black and white images and add borders to the pictures, let them overlap or set different backgrounds for the pictures.

Juxtaposer

How about a little more fun with those photos on your iPhone? Come up with outrageous photographs like having your pet’s face on your friend’s body and laugh your heart out! Be the president by adding their face to your body or shake hands with celebrities. You can go as crazy as you want, the options are endless. You can even draw on the screen with your fingers and erase or undo your drawings and clear out the little bits that stick out so that the final results look nice and professional.

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Business Apps For Your iPhone

Posted by Thom Yarbrough under iphone applications on Sunday Aug 16, 2009

No matter where you are, today thanks to constant connectivity, the demarcation between your work and personal life has blurred considerably. Whether it’s a business presentation that you have to prepare for your office or a simple look at your email, more and more people are now turning to their mobile phones. The iPhone with its history of rich internet connectivity comes to your rescue with its numerous business based applications. Here’s a look at some of these cool and exciting apps that can turn around the way you do things at work.

Enlume Password Manager

Isn’t it so hard to remember all our different passwords for numerous applications, emails and what not? It’s even tricky to keep a track of all of them, but all those problems are a thing of the past with the Enlume Password Manager. With this app, you can now store all the passwords access points, PINs and other private information that you were afraid to pen down anywhere. Sure, saving it on your computer can be done too, but it is only with an iPhone app that you can get instant access to the passwords as and when you need them.

60 Presentation Tips from Ethos3

Power Point changed the way we viewed presentations but it also affected a lot of things in many different ways. For instance, people began to rely less on their speaking skills and more on the computer but they also ended up doing the vice versa. So, in effect, presentations over the years are not as good as they ought to be. Download the 60 Presentation Tips application for your iPhone and you have a handy app which provides you with some amazing ideas to make your presentations click and be remembered. All these tips come from Scott Schwertly, CEO of Ethos3.

Contact Capture

Every time you browse through something on the internet over your iPhone and you want to save a contact into your contacts book, you no longer have to laboriously tap until you reach the number, copy and paste it because with the Contacts Capture, getting the contacts becomes very easy. With this app, you can extract contact information from various sources and have them ready in your contacts book for use.

Card Scan

Here’s a useful app just for your iPhone. Remember how every time you get somebody’s business card at a conference, how it gets so convenient to simply stash it away somewhere and then later struggle to hunt it down? Well you no longer have to go through all that trouble; save yourself the task of hunting the card down, after suddenly realizing that you need the contact information from that card for something important. With the card scan you can now save the contact information from a tangible business card, by simply scanning it with your iPhone’s camera and then save it as a contact in the address book. The only thing you’ll need to do is, activate the scan while holding the card and the iPhone at a right angle and then the phone captures an image of the card, right after which it scans the text and automatically stores it in your contact list. How cool is that?

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Trendy Apps for your iPhone

Posted by Thom Yarbrough under iphone applications on Thursday Aug 13, 2009

If you’re the kind who’s always been the one to set trends then you obviously have the iPhone. But these days it doesn’t take long for new things to come into market so just owning an iPhone isn’t enough. There’s no need to feel disappointed, because with the iTunes store, you can keep your phone current and make sure it stands out in a crowd. So here’s a little look at just some of the app on iTunes that are totally hot and real must haves.

Liquid Lite

There is something remarkably smoothing about watching liquid flow, and what if you could make that happen on your iPhone screen? Imagine the mystery and calm of watching colored liquid dance around the screen of your iPhone in tiny waves. Not only is it calming but also impressive to look at. Just play around a little with this app when you’re feeling bored and find yourself instantly entertained by the awesomeness of flowing liquid. Get the flow started by tilting it and push the liquid and manage the flow by using the multi touch interface. You can ruffle it up a little by tapping anywhere you’d like to on the screen and watch the chaos rise. With three different colour schemes and backgrounds, this app is a cool one to keep.

Sketchmania

We all have a child in us and this app lets the child in us to come out once again. Scribble all across your iPhone screen and watch the drawings develop a life of their own. There are five fun drawing tools which include a pen, sticky pen, chain, disc and box and you can use these to create a set of doodles and have fun. It’s as simple as just touch and drag the shape to move it around on the screen, flick the shape to throw it and tap it once to freeze it in position or unfreeze it as required. You can also tilt the shape to apply gravity and shake the phone to erase off the canvas.

After Image Illusion

Everyone knows about those illusion apps that make you see things that aren’t really there. This one takes that a step further by letting you choose your own image from your own photo gallery and allows you to create a fantastic illusion out of it. When you select an image, the app colors the image with different colors. After this a dot has to be stared at for twenty seconds and the screen has to be touched. Now you will be able to see an image in color when the actual picture is actually in black and white.

Face Mixer

This is a really cool app to have. You can take photos of your friends and then mix it up with various combinations. There could be sexy looking lips below but have thick, bushy eyebrows and all sorts of combos. This app allows you to save the photos in your gallery so that they can be shared with your friends. The latest version of FaceMixer allows you to integrate it with Facebook, so you can take pictures from Facebook and mix it up with pictures in the gallery. These pictures can then be uploaded back on Facebook where it will automatically tag the people in the photo. This app is really cool and is super fun to use not to forget it’s really easy to use.

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Totally Cool iPhone Apps

Posted by Thom Yarbrough under iphone applications on Tuesday Aug 11, 2009

There’s nothing better than having the cool iPhone in your hand and showing it off to your friends. Everyone knows how amazingly cool the iPhone is. It only makes it cooler if you have some awesome Apps that will make your friends go green with envy. It’s a good thing to do to keep checking and looking for new apps on the App Store. Here are some of the cool, fantastic Apps that are being paraded on the iPhone App Store.

Stitcher Radio

This application comes free and it gets your favourite shows, pod casts, news, sports and entertainment into current on-demand stations that are much better than the radio. The Stitched app does the work of stitching your favourite things in one place so that you don’t have to restrict yourself to any one thing any longer. The typical content on Stitched varies from news from Fox News Radio, CBS, Wall Street Journal, as well as entertainment and sports options from ESPN, Entertainment Tonight E! And also many others! There’s no need to waste any more time, simply download this awesome app for your iPhone now!

Stanza

Today, the mobile phone has transformed to a book of sorts. Everyone is reading a book on their mobile phone. It is very easy to buy books online and these books can be carried anywhere and everywhere and there are so many free downloads as well. The eBook revolution hits the iPhone also, with Stanza. Stanza brings you an eBook application that fits your iPhone and offers amazing clarity and reading capability. There are more than 50,000 contemporary titles that can be bought in the eReader store, along with another 50,000 books that are absolutely free. So now you’re never without a book even when you’re out.

Mirror Free

No more sneaking looks at car windows or elevator mirrors to see if your hair is looking all right and whether your nose has become shiny! With this cool iPhone app you can turn your iPhone into a mirror and look at your face anytime you want. This free app is a snap to activate and there are some cool mirror frames as well which frame your face perfectly. Make sure you angle the iPhone at the right angle and there’s the right amount of light. This app is not too serious, but a simple one where you can actually see your reflection in the black background.

Spray Can

This is a cool app where you can pretend to hold a spray can in your hand although it’s just your iPhone! Yes, this app creates a very cool 2D effect where you can pretend to shake your iPhone and when you press a button on the top of the screen, you can actually hear the sound of paint spraying out and the screen fills with color. You can also switch the color by tapping at a particular place on the screen.

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iPhone Apps for the Music Lover in you!

Posted by Thom Yarbrough under iphone applications on Tuesday Aug 11, 2009

Music is a universally spoken language and it is loved and enjoyed by all at some point or another. In fact, it can be safely said that there cannot be any one person who hasn’t been affected by music. With the iPhone, you get to listen to various songs and musical pieces and even play them loud as your ringtones; the advent of caller tunes, the world of music has transformed and evolved for cell phone users. But here’s something you probably didn’t know, than iPhone users can do so much more than just the above mentioned functions, especially when it comes to music.

Maestro Lite

For the musically inclined individuals, this app comes for free. This visual as well as audio metronome is an apt device for those passionate about music. You can follow a steady pulse pattern while practising music with this metronome; it also works with the speaker turned off and the headphones turned on, while you follow the directions on your baton. Face the world with confidence, and break out of your skins, and be the conductor you always dreamed.

Touch Chords

Always fancied playing the guitar did you? Well then here’s your chance, to do so, with the Touch Chords app for your iPhone and this incredible app comes to you absolutely free of cost. The app takes you through a step by step routine, where you learn the basics of all you need to know about playing the guitar and then, you can even practice on a virtual fret board that comes with strings too! It’s so cool, because as you keep playing on your virtual fret board, you can actually get a hang of how co-ordinated you need to be and can associate the right kind of muscles needed to play; and you can also zoom out each chord so you know exactly how to strum! There’s always some hesitance on whether you’re doing things right if you learn on your own, so you can see the hands of a properly trained guitarist on each chord, showing you how to position your hand the right way.

Lyrical

Wouldn’t you want to sing along with all the songs you play on your iPhone? If you can’t seem to remember the best lines from your favourite song, don’t worry, because thanks to this brilliant app for your iPhone called Lyrical, you have to do nothing but play the song, and the app will search for the lyrics automatically. If it’s other songs you want the lyrics for? Then that too is possible all because of the comprehensive search options with this app. And even if you don’t know the name of the song, just a few scattered words from it and it will be enough to find the lyrics that you want.

Balls

Sometimes it is just fun to watch paint balls float around, and that’s exactly what you can do, if you download the Balls app for your iPhone. You should watch how these balls bump into each other and bounce off walls and fall because of the precious thing we cal gravity. When these balls collide you get to hear a soft and almost gentle soothing pinging sound which will end up leaving you a little thrilled as you watch a trail of colour that these balls leave behind. Sounds neat doesn’t it?

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