Apple Will Price Match iPhone Discounts From Other Retailers
Well, this is unexpected, after all we are talking Apple here but according to AppleInsider today, ‘Apple has instructed its retail stores to match the iPhone discounts being offered by major retailers including AT&T, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target, Sprint and Verizon when customers present with competitive offers’. Apple currently sells the iPhone 4 and 4S at $49.01 more than many retailers but with this price matching now in force, it means you can pick up an 8GB iPhone 4 for only $49.99 and the iPhone 4S now starts at $149 for the 16GB model, that’s pretty cool. We’re still holding out for the awesome iPhone 5 but…
Pic Grunger – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we are giving away another hugely popular and important app to the iPhone photography community, Pic Grunger, each worth $0.99/£0.69. Pic Grunger makes your pictures look as if they were hanging on the wall of a rock club for years. Choose from 11 different grunge effects, seven textures and 6 color styles to apply to any picture taken from your camera or stored on your…
Artistic Reflection Effect HD – Temporarily Free
Artistic Reflection Effect HD is designed for you to add glass and flare filters to your photo. You want to try to make your photo look very impressive and charming? Artistic Reflection Effect HD can add magical stage light effect to your photos. Feature -70+ different filters -upload a photo and photo the filters on it. Easy to get a great effect. This app usually retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
Filterstorm Pro – Updated
Filterstorm has been designed from the ground up to meet your iPad photo editing needs. Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography. A favorite of Photojournalists, Filterstorm is at home in a professional workflow, or for anyone who simply wants to get the most out of their pictures while on the road. This app has just been updated. You can see what’s been added in What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $14.99/£10.49/download. What’s New?…
Booster! – Temporarily Free
This is a great app and it is currently free. Usually it retails for $0.99/£0.69. This app is free at the time of posting in both the UK and US stores. You can download it here. Features ★ Touch exposure and focus ★ Live preview ★ 8 awesome filters ★ Custom color curve ★ Brightness, Contrast, Saturation control ★ Beautiful vignette effect ★ Color temperature control ★ 4x digital zoom ★ You can bring photos from the camera roll to apply filters
The LA-MobileArts Festival 2012 – Schedule Of Events
The LA -MobileArts Festival 2012 commences on August 17 and we know so many our readers and contributors are heading off to embrace. enjoy and share this spectactular event with fellow mobile photographers. We’ve been sent through Schedule for the event, from the first meet up at Typhoon an Asian fusion restaurant to the final event on August 25. Click here to read and follow the complete schedule, it’s going to be fantastic.
PhotoRaw Lite – Updated
PhotoRaw for iOS is a viewer and developer for image files in raw format. Raw file formats from most camera manufacturers are supported, for example Nikon NEF files, Canon CR2 files, Leica DNG files, etc – see the product web site for a full list of supported cameras. PhotoRaw allows you to view these files at full 1:1 pixel resolution, even 16 mega-pixel plus images such as from a Nikon D3x or a Leica M9. PhotoRaw implements virtual memory. Virtual memory means that if PhotoRaw runs low on physical RAM because of other apps running the background, it can use the device’s flash memory to process even the largest images,…
Rays – Temporarily Free
Create stunning and realistic light ray effects quickly and easily. Known as volumetric lighting in computer graphics or crepuscular rays in atmospheric optics, this dramatic effect adds polish and style. Since the rays are only added to highlight areas, they have the effect of passing through objects and add a third dimensional quality. Add shafts of light streaming through clouds, rays filtering through a forest canopy, beams of light on a foggy night or rays shooting out from text. Rays adds a striking and dramatic quality to any image. This app usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but at the time of writing it is available for free in both the UK…
STV-Stereographer Toolkit & Viewer – Huge Price Drop
STV is a useful application for stereoscopic photography that allows you quickly check that things will look fine on screen after you shoot. Set up your Camera, IPD and Screen that you will get on screen. STV will show you depth bracket and available parallax budget in post-production field. This app is the perfect tool for creative professionals in the 3D post-production. Both stereographer and photographer can check their work from any location. Usually this app retails for $89.99/£59.99 but it is tempoarily available for $43.99/£30.99. You can read more about it below and download it here. Features * Manage scene and cut and change cut order *…
Vintage The Guardian Smartphone Article, by Me
As many of our regular readers know, I have been a camera/photography technology journalist for many years. From my earliest days starting out at Which Camera? magazine through to now with my dream website, theappwhisperer.com. I thought some of you might like to read one of my very first articles for The Guardian, from 2005, when ‘cameraphones’ were becoming very popular. This is four years before the advent of the iPhone and apps were not even thought of. Did any of you have these handsets? How times move on, take a look at this….
