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Chunky Comic Reader Review

iPad App - Designed for iPad
By Mike Deneen on January 31st, 2014
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: THE BEST AT WHAT IT DOES
Looking for a Comic Book Reader that has it all? Chunky Comic Reader will keep things organized and make comics look amazing, all while giving users a ton of options.
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148Apps 2013 wrAPP-Up - The Dynamic Duo of Digital Comics and iOS

Posted by Lee Hamlet on December 31st, 2013

Comic book purists who like their comics bagged, boarded, and boxed may disapprove, but there's no doubt that digital comics have revitalized the comic book industry these last few years as more and more people embrace the platform on their tablets. Below are just a few of the ways and reasons to go digital this year.

Comixology



Where better to begin than with the biggest comic book store on iOS: Comixology. Featuring titles from DC and Marvel (sharing content from their respective apps), Valiant, Image, and a plethora of indie publishers - their thoughtful collections, frequent discounts, and generous giveaways are a great avenue for discovering new series and lesser-known works. Digital format is also often the only way to read out-of-print comic books or issues that would cost a fortune to purchase from online merchants.

Comics have often been thought of as a perfect medium between literature and cinema, and Comixology's Guided View technology only strengthens that idea. Delivering the content in a frame-by-frame format not only makes reading possible on smaller devices, but really builds suspense unlike anything comic readers will have previously experienced. Especially since there is no opportunity to have a cheeky peek at those bottom-of-the-page spoil-the-surprise panels.

ThinkInvisible Review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By David Rabinowitz on October 15th, 2012
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: CAN YOU GUESS IT?
Try to guess what the partially covered image is in this fun and easy to play game.
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FilmWise Invisibles Review

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Jason Wadsworth on October 18th, 2011
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: REMOVE ACTOR INSERT FUN
Players can test their movie knowledge to see if they recognize movie scenes with some important details missing.
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Interlacer Review

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Jason Wadsworth on May 16th, 2011
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: LINED ART
This unique photography app blends images line by line for some stunning results.
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Photoshop-Quality Image Retouching For iPhone?

Posted by Ben Harvell on May 25th, 2010
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Some apps need to be seen to be believed and CaPix is certainly one of them. This image retouching tool for iPhone has just gone live on the App Store and makes light work of any elements you don’t want included in your pictures. Simply drag your finger over the area you want removed and CaPix will extract it as if it were never there. Whether it’s a random stranger in the background of your family photo, unwanted lens flare or, as in the picture above, a can getting in the way of your lovely shot of… well, grass, CaPix can cut it out. It’s as if the app understands your pictures.

This kind of cloning tool and the algorithms behind it are not far from the powerful features found in Adobe’s Photoshop software, except Photoshop will set you back several hundred dollars. For $1.99, CaPix offers incredible results that could save an image or perfect one of your favorites.

If you don’t believe us, check out the video below.


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Smart Photo Retouching For iPhone Coming Soon

Posted by Ben Harvell on May 24th, 2010

Adva-Soft has announced a new photo editing app for the iPhone that allows users to remove blemishes and other unwanted elements from photos. Aimed at users who wish to remove unwanted spots, wrinkles and other imperfections from their images, the app is expected to launch at the end of May.

TouchRetouch uses intelligent algorithms that avoid compromising any other elements of the photo outside of the problem area. Using a simple swipe, users can select the area of a photo they wish to fix and hit the Go button to perform the edit which preserves the surrounding area. The app will be compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and also offers features such as in-app video tutorials, unlimited undo and smart image background recovery. If TouchRetouch lives up to its billing and provides the features promised it should be an interesting prospect for its small $0.99 price point. Adva-Soft president, Davydov Maksim said of the launch "Word got out that we have developed this piece of software and there seems to be a bit of buzz going around about it. We're figuring on quite a bit of activity the date of release.” TouchRetouch is planned for launch on May 25th subject to App Store approval.

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CardSnap

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Billy Miller on April 17th, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarhalfstarblankstar :: AVERAGE
In a couple of the cases I was genuinely surprised how well the software worked. Text that I could barely make out was interpreted perfectly. Conversely, perfectly legible text in standard fonts was not transferred at all.
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QuadCamera-Multi Shot Cam

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Donna Harrison on February 19th, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
QuadCamera is one in a series of Art&Mobile's Toy Camera applications aimed at adding fun and often beautiful effects to your iPhone pics. It takes a series of 4 or 8 photos in succession and arranges them in a grid, with optional colorations and layouts
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PicTricks

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Gary Lucero on February 10th, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: ABOVE AVERAGE
When given exactly the right starting photograph, PicTricks can create funny or interesting pictures. Like any image manipulation app, though, it requires time and effort to master, and will just as often frustrate as satisfy. It's definitely worthwhile,
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Ki-Ri-e

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Gary Lucero on February 2nd, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: RECOMMENDED
The word Kirie speaks of traditional Japanese cut art work, where paper is folded and then cuts are made so when it is opened again, geometric patterns emerge. The app Ki-Ri-e serves the same purpose. Choose from a number of folds, styles of origami paper
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Save My Docs 2.0

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Gary Lucero on January 13th, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: ABOVE AVERAGE
While Save My Docs is a one trick pony, all it does is save documents viewed within Safari and then allow you to view them within the app, it does it fairly well. Other viewers offer a variety of ways to get documents onto your iPhone, but Save My Docs is
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Everest: Hidden Expedition

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Steven Wong on October 30th, 2008
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: AVERAGE
Find objects within a picture as you trek your way up Everest
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Endless Walls

Posted by Jeff Scott on September 6th, 2008

Developer: Motacore
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.4

iPhone Integration [rating:0/5]
User Interface [rating:0/5]
Re-use / Replay Value [rating:0/5]
[rating:overall]

Endless Walls is an application that displays a slideshow of wallpapers from Flickr and allows you to copy then to your camera roll for later use as wallpapers. The problem with this is that it looks like many of the images used in Endless Walls are copyrighted. Even though the images are loaded directly from the Flickr servers, this is still an application that ignores any sort of copyright or do not download settings the owner has set on their images. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

It would be easy enough to go to one of the Flickr groups that were created to index iPhone sized wallpaper images and download them directly to your iPhone in Mobile Safare. So is this application doing anything different? Well, yes. For one they are charging for the ability to do this. They are also ignoring the setting that the owner has set to keep people from downloading their images. Next, they are not even displaying any of the metadata for the photo such as who uploaded the photo, title, etc.

Another thing, they claim that there are over 7,000 wallpapers. Then why do I see so many duplicates? Inside the Endless Walls bundle, there is a file called cache.xml -- while I'm not sure that this file contains all of the images used, it does contain only 2,000 unique URLs all pointing to Flickr.com image servers.

Motacore.com, the developers of Endless Walls were asked if they though their use of copyrighted images in this application was OK and this is their response:


That's a very interesting point that our attorney may have overlooked. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. I will speak with our counsel as soon as he is available for a meeting.

While Flickr is currently one of our bigger sources, we are in the process of moving away from it to a user submitted (submitted to us) cache of wallpapers.

Way back in the pre-historic days, you know before the App Store, when there were other ways to get application on the iPhone, there was an application called Wallpaper, developed by Sean/Big Zaphod, who now works for Tapulous. It was a great and similar app but all of the wallpapers were user submitted directly from their iPhones. Seems like that is the direction that Motacore is heading. (And here's hoping we'll see an official version of Wallpaper, too!) Motacore is targeting the end of September, 2008 for this move. We'll see how it goes.

So, in the end, I'm torn. This is a really easy application to grab new wallpapers on your iPhone, and fairly well developed. But legally and morally it just doesn't seem right. So I'm going to have to leave this application at 0 stars. In the end you will need to make your own decision. Once they move to a user-generated and submitted version, we will re-visit it.

DataCase

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Jeff Scott on August 19th, 2008
Our rating: starstarstarstarhalfstar :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
DataCase allows you to both store documents on your iPhone and view them on the go.
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