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New Apple Invitation For January 19, 2011
Apple has sent out invites today for a press event to be held in New York City next Thursday, January 19, 2011. There have been and still are many rumors circulating as to what Apple will be announcing. The most likely one though is that this event will concentrate on iBooks with education majoring. Steve Jobs was determined to ‘shake up’ the textbook market and perhaps this event will mark the start of that… We’ll be covering this event, so check back for that.
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Our Daily App Digest – January 11, 2012
Latest apps and updates to hit the iTunes app store today… Tennis Score Tracker Porpoiseful Apps today is pleased to announce that Tennis Score Tracker has reached a milestone in maturity. Feature requests and suggestions from many users are incorporated into this application over the past year. Bug fixes and various other improvements also exist in the app providing for a solid product. Keeping score in tennis is very simple using this app. In just a few taps the match timer starts and scoring begins. If playing a tennis match users can set the score mode to game-by-game so that the score is updated during changeovers. If observing a tennis…
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Griffin and Crayola Kid-Friendly Apps and Accessories Announced at CES
Griffin Technology, one of the world’s foremost creators of innovations for everyday life, and Crayola, whose products have inspired creative expression in children for more than 100 years, are excited to announce a new lineup of kid-friendly apps and mobile accessories at CES 2012. “With these new products kids can enjoy taking photos, listening to music and using their iOS devices in a totally new and colorful way,” said Mark Rowan, President of Griffin Technology. “Making technology fun and accessible for children is both exciting and rewarding; we look forward to a continued collaboration with Crayola in 2012 to bring kid-friendly creative experiences to the digital world.” “Our successful…
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iPhoneography – EyeEm – Updated
EyeEm is a simple & slick photo sharing app that connects you with like-minded people through the photos you take. Discover albums of topics, places and events – just see where it takes you! Based on where you are, what you’re doing and what you like, you’ll stumble upon new photo albums that are filled by your friends and people around the world. That can be anything: What’s happening in the bar around your corner, photos taken in New York City, all the photos from last week’s birthday party or albums about topics like skateboarding or street photography. This app has just been updated and has received several bugfixes,…
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iOS – Photo District News – Updated
For photographers and photography lovers on the move, PDN provides creative inspiration, information on selling and marketing your photos, news, interviews with leading photographers, and hands-on tech reviews PDN is the leading international trade publication for the photography industry. This app delivers the full, current issue of the magazine digitally so you can access all the latest articles and view vibrant, cutting-edge photography on your iPad from almost anywhere. 1 year subscription for $45.99 or a single issue for $4.99/click here to download This app has just been updated with Newstand support.
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iOS – Adobe Updates Carousel To Revel
Adobe Carousel has just had an update and one significant feature is the name change to Revel. There’s also support for landscape orientation in loupe view on the iPhone. You can also now automatically import photos from the camera roll on either iOS device. Flickr is also supported and there are a few other bug fixes. This is a free update to a free app, you can download it here, but you will require a subscription. It is $5.99 per month but you will get a 30 day complimentary subscription, if you click here today
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Snapseed Coming To Android, Macs And Windows PC
In just a few days, Snapseed for Mac desktops will be available to purchase exclusively from the Mac App store at a cost of € 15.99, or the corresponding price in other currencies. At present, the app is only available in English. A desktop version for Windows PC, as well as a mobile version for Android tablets is also planned for the first quarter of this year. “We’re very pleased to bring Snapseed to the Android tablet market,” said Michael J. Slater, President and CEO of Nik Software. “Offering Snapseed for Android tablets is a great opportunity for more users to experience the fun and creativity of photo editing and sharing.…
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Our Daily App Giveaway – Amopic For Mac – Worth $49.99/£34.99
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much we want to share our love of apps with you. That’s why we have created this new section as each day we will be giving away free apps. Today we have some Amopic apps to giveaway, each worth $49.99/£34.99. Amopic is an all in one photo editing suite. Amopic lets you repair or enhance images on the fly, and share the photo on Facebook. Amopic now brings professional quality photo editing tools, so you can get the results you’re looking for without being tied to down to your computer. Whether you just need…
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iOS – Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game for iPhone – Review
We reviewed the iPad version of this app last year (you can read that here) but this purpose built iPhone version is brand new and offers even greater portability. Read our review as we take a deeper look into the new version of this classic art game. This game has a great history to it which Thomas Hoving (who is the author of the book upon which the app is based) explains in the foreword to the app. "I was introduced to it (this game) when I joined the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Once a week, at morning coffee a different curator would bring a bunch of…
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Would Henri Cartier-Bresson Have Used A Smartphone?
Theresa Malone from The Guardian has written an interesting piece in the paper today. She poses the question of ‘would Henri Cartier-Bresson have used a camera phone?’. It is of course a very topical subject, not speifically regarding Henri Cartier-Bresson but for all professional photographers. Many grumble that smartphone photography is not ‘real’ photography although many also embrace it for what it is, convenience. No smartphone is a Leica, don’t get me wrong but I can’t help but agree with the conclusion of this piece, that possibly in all certainty, he may well of picked out a Smartphone to use and captured some brillant images I’m sure. You can read…