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Envision the Impractical with My EYE
Envision the Impractical with My EYE is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $.99 Score: 3/10 By A. Papachristos
Phones have become a suspicious tool because they simplify one’s ability to spy and cheat. With the ability to send photos and videos by pressing a single button, users can share vital or incriminating evidence within moments. However, with My EYE by TouchMeProject, users now have access to an application that promises to serve just this purpose despite the fact that it lacks even some of the most basic features you can access for free with the tools built directly into your iPhone.
With My EYE, users can connect with other users to send messages and videos right within the application. (Yes, both users have to download My EYE in order for such transfer to work.) Working in real-time via Bluetooth, My EYE does not require an Internet connection, nor an additional paid messaging plan.
When you start the application, you will see two eyes, one being the actually letter i itself. Tapping on the letter will provide you with usage information because, without such instruction, it would be extremely difficult to figure out My EYE’s true purpose. By tapping the actual image of the eye, users can then search for and connect to any local devices also running My EYE. Once you have connected, you may send text messages by using the Chat button or video by pressing the Video button. Your friend will automatically receive your messages when connected.
As the App Store description suggests, you can easily use My EYE to spy on someone or copy off another person’s class work. However, I do believe that this is the exact reason why students must either leave their phones at home or present them to their teacher when taking important exams. Such cheating can also lead to plagiarism, which can have serious ramifications.
Also, with a special introductory price available until the next update, the My EYE description also includes a list of features to be added in the next version: the ability to connect via Wi-Fi, send audio, send photo and save photo. Not to be a killjoy, but I can already perform all these tasks with the default features nearly every phone comes with these days, and I will not need to connect via Bluetooth with someone running the exact same application on their iPhone.
I can already send text messages courtesy of the data plan my phone carrier mandated upon purchasing my iPhone. And, if I do not want to text them, there are multiple applications that provide instant messaging for free. I can already connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or 3G, allowing me to send information in this respect as well. I can send photos via text message or email, whichever I prefer, and I can save any received photos right to my photo library. And I have been sending audio messages since my very first cell phone. (That was their original use, correct?)
No offense, but if I can already accomplish such tasks without the $.99 price tag and the restrictions that come with only being able to interact with other My EYE users, why wouldn’t I simply use what Apple gave me?
My EYE [iTunes Link] requires iPhone OS 4.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer in order to speed up the publication of this review.
Facebook Friends Photo Albums Free
Facebook Friends Photo Albums Free is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
The app gives you fun to browse, view and comment your Facebook friends’ photo albums. Friend list, friends’ album list and photos are cached locally to improve performance and to allow offline access.
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CineCrop
CineCrop is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
CineCrop improves your photos by cropping them to cinematic aspect ratios used by feature films.
When directors want to create epic, vivid feeling imagery, they shoot their films with Anamorphic lenses. These lenses create the widescreen look popularized by modern feature films. CineCrop allows you to recreate this look by cropping your photos to Anamorphic, and other cinematic aspect ratios.
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Macworld’s September Cover – Made With iPhone
Macworld’s September Cover – Made With iPhone is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
For those of you who doubt the capabilities of the iPhone 4 for photo taking and editing, the cover of the September issue of Macworld is made entirely on an iPhone 4.
Macworld’s contributing photographer, Peter Selanger, who has “shot almost every photograph in the pages of the magazine over the past few years”, had apparently been “tinkering with the idea of shooting a Macworld cover with an iPhone for some time”. When he saw that the iPhone 4 was going to have a high-quality 5 megapixel camera, the time became now.
Using only the regular camera (no soldered on lens of any kind) and two apps, Perer was able to make a high quality shot, pretty enough for a cover, of none other than the iPhone 4 itself.
“For the most part, my strategy for photographing the cover didn’t change from how I normally would shoot,” Peter says in a blog post about the process. “I still had my normal set with lots of lights, flags and stands. I did have to change my light source from strobes to tungsten lights because the iPhone can’t sync with studio strobes.”
“The iPhone’s Retina display was truly awesome,” he says. “I was really able to see the detail in the photo as I was shooting. It made me wish Apple produced all its monitors this way. The final photo was dust-free and looked great. I was extremely impressed with the detail that the iPhone was able to capture.”
In case anyone wants to know, Peter used PhotoForge for some minor color correcting and Resize-Photo to make the shot large enough for the magazine cover.
[Source: Macworld]
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You Gotta See This! – The Epic Moment Capturer
You Gotta See This! – The Epic Moment Capturer is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Every once in awhile you see something that is just so epic, it isn’t able to be contained in a single image. You could be at a concert and want to capture the stage and the crowd with one shot or you could be walking around New York and see the most massive alien spaceship that you’ve ever seen (wait, that was Independence Day). These moments need something better than a normal picture.
If you’re in this situation, You Gotta See This! is the app for you. Instead of just taking a simple panoramic shot, the app uses the iPhone 4’s gyroscope to determine the proximity of the shots to the original, creating a single large picture that can be extremely wide and tall at the same time. Because of the sensitivity of the gyro, it also lets you take pictures that are diagonal, letting you blend pictures together from any angle that you want.
Check out the tutorial video on the uses of the app, as well as some examples of what the app can do, here. Pick it up in the App Store today for “less than a tall Cappuccino at your local cafe” (reason #4 for buying the app, according to the iTunes page).
$1.99
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-07-23 :: Category: Photography
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CamKewl Makes iPhone Photos More Fun
CamKewl Makes iPhone Photos More Fun is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $.99 Score: 7/10 By Anna Papachristos
Taking pictures with your iPhone 3GS can be both fun and convenient. With your device always at hand, you can capture any of life’s sudden and wonderful moments with a single tap. However, with the limited features of the Camera app that comes standard on the iPhone 3GS, creativity is also limited. Users may only take photos in standard color, not allowing them to branch out into other color schemes or other photo manipulations. But with CamKewl by Pannag R Sanketi, users can spice up their photo library with an array of options.
Though the name may seem a bit silly and juvenile, don’t let it fool you. CamKewl combines many of the features you wish the generic camera had, packaging them together in one convenient app for the surprisingly low price of $.99. With CamKewl, users can zoom, vary the color scheme and activate the self-timer all within the app’s simple and fairly intuitive interface.
With the integrated multi-touch technology, users can navigate throughout CamKewl with various gestures. To utilize the 5x zoom, use two fingers to pinch/stretch the screen or slide up/down for a gradual adjustment. Also, a single tap will cause the picture to zoom in or out immediately. A two-finger vertical swipe will reveal the menu, which allows users to access their photo library, the various camera options, and the extensive Help menu. While each of these categories can be found using other methods as well, users will want to remember this motion in order to access the Video Camera option.
Users will also find the Shake gesture both handy and amusing as this movement allows you to easily bounce around CamKewl with minimal effort. This characteristic allows you to return to camera mode from basically every part of the app.
CamKewl offers many simple new functions to your iPhone 3GS camera, which can be found in the dock at the bottom of the screen, such as the capability to take Black-and-White and Sepia photos, as well as use a self-timer. Another thoughtful function is the Date/Time capability, which stamps your photos with the date, time and location your photo was taken. However, if CamKewl fails to pinpoint your exact location, it will not allow you to even utilize the date and time part of the feature.
Blitz, another feature found in the dock, allows you to take three color pictures in a row so you get precisely the right shot you were hoping to obtain. However, despite the fact that the shutter noise goes off three times, every attempt resulted in only one photo being taken, making this appealing feature still only an idea. Two other lovely, yet unreliable, features are the One-1 and One-Z features. One-1 takes two photographs in a row – one in color and one in black-and-white. This way, if you are unsure, you will have a copy of the picture in both formats. One-Z takes one photograph of your subject zoomed out, then another of the subject zoomed to 2x. Unfortunately, these features seem temperamental, making them enticing attributes that cannot, however, be depended upon.
The most interesting aspect is CamKewl’s accenting mode. Simply go to your photo library by shaking the device and choose a photo you’d like to use. Then, tap the ‘Accenting’ button in the bottom right corner. With this, users can use their color photos and, just by swiping their finger, turn any part of the photo black-and-white. Discover simple, quick and easy photo manipulation right there in the palm of your hand. Use the ‘Save’ button in the upper right corner to save the changes you’ve made to your creation. And, while you are accenting pictures, or merely looking through your accumulated photos, use the arrow button in the bottom right to email your photo or post it to Facebook.
For a YouTube video demonstration of what CamKewl can do, click here.
CamKewl requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone 3GS or higher. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.
