Simplify Photo Is A Go

People always ask me why I, the editor-in-chief of an app review website, only have an 8GB iPhone. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, I have to fill my phone up to the brim with pointless data. Maybe, just maybe, I can fill it up with e-mails or something, because everything else that I use can be made quite nice with an app. Big Movies? Just use iDisk… you can stream movies straight from “the cloud”. Music? I’ve got Simplify Music… all of my music is streaming directly from my computer to my phone. It’s nice when your 30GB music collection takes up less than 3MB. The only issue that I had before was photos. Sure, I could put some photos on my iDisk, but that is already bogged down with movies. That was my albatross… until…

Simplify Photo! Well fans, life is good again, and my $100 saved from getting the 8GB iPhone is looking smarter and smarter by the moment. Not only does Simplify Photo stream my entire photo collection, but it also holds onto the GPS tags and name organization that iPhoto so nicely provides, making your whole portable photo browsing experience that much better.

Life is definitely good with Simplify Media. Pick the app up now at its special introductory price of $0.99. Enjoy!

Simplify Photo

Category: Photography
Released: 2009-07-10
Price: $2.99

A singularly-minded iPhone application that does one thing well, One Tap Dial is my life preserver in a sea of generic, boring and sometimes expensive speed dial applications.

Docked on a nightstand or desk, your iPhone makes for the perfect digital photo frame. DreamStream greatly enhances viewable photo sources by accessing pictures from MobileMe, Facebook albums and Flickr tags among others. Even your friends’ photos aren’t safe!

If you are a twitter user then this may finally be ‘The One’. If you aren’t a Twitter user, it’s time you logged on. This app rocks them all.

When creating dice you gradually learn what looks best. When something is produced that looks exceptional in motion, it’s a great feeling. I can see this being fun for everyone from young children to fandom enthusiasts to grandmothers who’d rather look at their darlings than standard pips on monopoly dice.

The attempt at previews in realtime is truly impressive and the filters within Chimera are diverse. The interface could use some work and giving the user a choice on resolution would give casual shooters an option to sacrifice quality for speed. Some of the current limitations stem from the hardware it must employ. Still, this is definitely an application to watch as it reaches maturity.

The Tiffen Company has brought their digital photography filters to the iPhone as Photo FX. Even if you use Photoshop to edit pictures on your computer, Photo FX might be just the thing for a quick tweak on-the-go.

This neat photo editing application lets you selectively highlight areas of your photos with color. It produces such nice results with so little effort that you may actually find yourself putting photos onto your iPhone just to use it!

Picture dialing for your contacts, with the ability to phone, message or send an email.

Microsoft Releases an iPhone App. Yes, Microsoft.

I had to do a triple-take on this one. Microsoft Labs has released what they call a tech preview to the iTunes App Store called Seadragon Mobile. Yes, really, Microsoft has released an application for the iPhone.

Seadragon Mobile is an image viewer for large images or a large number of images. The ability to browse hundreds of images in it’s collections and zoom into those images to an impressive level of detail is fantastic. Standard pinch-zoom is used to zoom in and out and a slideshow function is available when viewing a collection. Forgetting the Microsoft source, this is a really good image viewer for this kind of content. And except for a few server issues we’ve had, the app responds really quickly considering the amount of data it is referencing.

Some of the collections available to view include some from Library of Congress, world maps, large scale artwork, and items from Microsoft’s Photosynth. Also included is the ability to add your own content from uploaded material at Photosynth, RSS image feeds such as Flickr feeds, and Deep Zoom Content.

Seadragon Mobile is impressive for what it does and it’s an interesting demo to play around with. But I have to wonder about it’s future.

Seadragon Mobile

Category: Photography
Released: 2008-12-13
Price: FREE

Fliparoni is a jigsaw puzzle game that adds moving puzzles and tile flipping

geneBlender is an interesting photo manipulation app the adds to the realism with blending techniques

Noteskinery+ is an absolutely beautiful note organization utility, but….

Earthscape is a fantastic 3D globe simulation app with extra user generated content features

Endless Walls allows quick download of random iPhone OS wallpaper sized images — but doesn’t do it with artist consent.

Face Melter is a very fun photo manipulation app that gives you the ability to push the pixels around to give your image an interesting stretched look.