THINGS I FIND ON THE WEB
Acquire ($1.99) is a new iphone app that uses Photoshop’s (CS5 only) Remote Connect feature to send the photos directly over wifi from your iPhone to Photoshop. An Android version is said to be coming out soon.
This explains how it works in more detail:
**Edit: If you don’t see the Remote Connect in Photoshop (edit > remote connect) you might want to check to see if you have any updates.
Make your photos lego-ized.
You can either take photos directly with your camera or from your gallery. The app says that its better to use photos that are shot at a close range with a solid light colored background. You can change the colors of the legos used in the photo by touching the screen after the photo has been lego-ized. P.S. the app is free!
I tested this out for myself. It’s super easy to use.
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My favorite radio station on the planet has a new iPhone app, which allows me to listen to KEXP at anytime. This makes me very happy.
Check out all the new cool things on their blog. And download the app here. And for you Android users, they are working on a version for you to release in the future.
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New iPhone game: Crayon Physics Deluxe
This game is alot like Trace (free). It’s not made by the same creators, but the look and how you interact (by finger) is virtually the same, just a different game. Trace is a really fun game that you should definitely check out.
Meanwhile, Crayon Physics Deluxe is an update to Crayon Physics and created by Petri Purho. The game is based on physics puzzles in a crayon world. You have to create motion to get one object to the next by building a series of contraptions/pulleys using your finger. The game was The Grand Award winner for 2D Physics PC puzzle game in “INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL” and will be released in January. The cost is a mere $4.99 at the App Store, which isn’t so bad considering there are over 70 levels.
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
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Agile Lie Detector for the iPhone
For $8 the Agile Lie Detector uses voice stress analysis, a 3D spectrograph and special lie meter to detect if the speaker of truth/non-truth is lying to you. The results are in real-time, so you can hold it up to someone speaking, hold it up to your computer speakers (test out politician’s speeches on youTube) and see where they start faltering.
(credit: Gizmodo)
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C|NET posted about a Handy Dandy iPhone app that lets bypass the bull
to connect to AT&T’s free wifi
Just last week while at Starbucks writing thank-yous, I would occasionally hear Roo grumbling and cursing under his breath every time he needed the internet on his iPhone. AT&T has this annoying process where you have to go to safari and put in your phone number and connect. Doesn’t sound hard, but anyone with an iPhone knows that as soon as you close the browser, or set the phone down for a bit, everything connected quits. Also if you want to use other programs like Twitter, Facebook, etc, you can’t use the free wifi cause you weren’t in Safari.
Enter Easy Wi-Fi and start the glorious music. All you have to do is enter your AT&T number into the app’s settings, then when you’re in range of an AT&T hotspot (and the app will verify that you are), you simply hit the “Log In” button, and you’re on your way. Better hurry and get it now, Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T is a free download until Friday, Dec 5th. Link to iTunes : Easy WiFi
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Apple’s top 10 iPhone Apps downloads of 2008
Apple has released several top 10 lists of Apps downloaded since the launch of the App Store this summer. The categories (paid & free): games, entertainment, utilities, social networking, and music
Top Paid Apps (Overall):
1. Koi Pond
2. Texas Hold’em
3. Moto Chaser
4. Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d
5. Super Monkey Ball
6. Cro-Mag Rally
7. Enigmo (Pangea)
8. Pocket Guitar
9. Recorder
10. iBeer
Top 10 Free Downloads (Overall)
1. Pandora Radio
2. Facebook
3. Tap Tap Revenge
4. Shazam
5. Labryinth Lite Edition
6. Remote
7. Google Earth
8. Lightsaber Unleashed
9. AIM
10. Urban Spoon
Top Paid Games:
1. Texas Hold’em
2. Moto Chaser
3. Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d
4. Super Monkey Ball
5. Cro-Mag Rally
6. Enigmo
7. Air Hockey
8. Bejeweled 2
9. Flick Bowling
10. Line Rider iRide
Top Free Games:
1. Tap Tap Revenge
2. Labrynth Lite Edition
3. Sol Free Solitaire
4. iBowl
5. Pac-Man Lite
6. Touch Hockey:FS5
7. Cannon Challenge
8. Audi A4 Driving Challenge
9. Sudoku
10. reMovem
Top Paid Entertainment:
1. Koi Pond
2. iBeer
3. iChalky
4. Face Melter
5. iFish
6. TouchScan
7. What’s on TV?
8. Pocket Piano
9. Sketches
10. OneTap Movies
Top Free Entertainment:
1. Remote
2. Lightsaber Unleashed
3. i.TV
4. BubbleWrap
5. Movies
6. iDoodle 2 lite
7. Showtimes
8. Now Playing
9. Scribble
10. Crazy Pumpkin
Top Paid Utilities:
1. Units (crossroad solutions)
2. A Level
3. Air Mouse
4. Fake Calls
5. Voice Record
6. Clinometer
7. Spell Check
8. Speed Dial
9. FileMagnet
10. iNetwork Speed Test
Top Free Utilities
1. Flashlight
2. myLite Flashlight
3. Say Who – Dialer
4. Units (TheMacBox)
5. Compass Free
6. Alarm Free
7. A Free Level
8. Molecules
9. Speed Test
10. myLighter
Top Paid Social Networking:
1. MobileChat
2. BeejiveIM
3. Quip
4. Rooms – Your Mobile Chat Client
5. Twitterific Premium
6. Flutter
7. Twittelator Pro
8. mBoxMail
9. Secrets
10. hiCard – Suite
Top Free Social Networking:
1. Facebook
2. AIM
3. Myspace Mobile
4. IM+ Lite
5. Loopt
6. Fring
7. Palringo IM
8. Earthscape
9. Twitterific
10. Avatar
Top Paid Music:
1. PocketGuitar
2. Drum Kit
3. Ocarina
4. Pianist
5. Band
6. Tuner Internet Radio
7. Beat Maker
8. Guitar Toolkit
9. Harmonica
10. Guitarist
Top Free Music:
1. Pandora Radio
2. Shazam
3. AOL Radio
4. Midomi
5. Mini Piano
6. iheart Radio
7. MixMeister Scratch
8. FlyCast Mobile Radio
9. Last.FM
10. DigiDrummer Lite
(credit: MobileCrunch)
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Kensington Battery Pack for iPod and iPhone
Need this, I use my phone so much, I have to charge it everyday.
Power and charge your iPhone or iPod on-the-go, and enjoy an extended playtime of up to 30 hours of music; 6 hours of video; or 3 hours of talk. The high-capacity, rechargeable Lithium-Ion Polymer battery pack is small and unobtrusive enough to keep connected to your iPhone or iPod while you’re using it.
The LED battery meter lets you visualize how much juice you have left, and the included retractable USB charging cable makes powering up the battery pack a snap. Backed by Kensington’s 1-year warranty
(credit: Swissmiss)
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AppVee is an iPhone App review site.
They have a mix of user reviews and official AppVee reviews. They rate each application depending on the type of application, so it’s a really in-depth review. They also have the reviews organized by type of application so if you’re looking for a particular type of App, it will be pretty easy to sort through. Each official AppVee review comes with a video and a few screenshots of the App.
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Testing 1-2-3
The first most frustrating thing is writing out my dashed divider bar. This theme didn’t separate posts to my liking, so I’ve just been using bolder dashes. Without cut & paste, I just found out exactly how many dashes are in the bar, but I think I miscounted. I guess I’m going to have create a banner or something. And I guess I won’t be embedding links or videos without that handy dandy missing cut & paste.
It’s also odd to type code having to go through so many menus to get the right character. Not to mention the auto correction feature can mess things up too if you’re not careful. There isn’t a tool bar on here to cheat the bolding, or quoting.
My last complaint, the photos. You cannot control where they go in the post. They are automatically placed at the bottom of the post at who knows what size. (please excuse the photo of my cat, I needed a test subject)
I guess I’ll be using this as an “incase-of-an-emergency” posting, when I just can’t wait to tell the Internet the coolest thing I just found.
Dang it, I can’t figure out how to publish.
