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I’ve used the camera on my iPhone a lot ever since I bought it. I love taking pictures of any random stuff I come across: water drops on the window, tree leaves on the pavement, kids playing in the park, car lights lining up under a traffic light. The built-in camera in the iPhone is perfect for those casual shots, but if you download the right photo apps you can turn ordinary images into small works of art. Here are some of my favorite:
The official Twitter app for iPhone has been updated to version 3.2.1, and now features push notifications. This means you can get on-screen alerts about Twitter activity, according to the configuration options you set.
Google has launched the official iPhone app for Google Voice, the communication service launched back in 2009.Though there was already an HTML5-based Google Voice app for iOS 3.0 and WebOS, this is the first time Google Voice users get a native app for the iPhone.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about Google’s new Place Search, a tool that improved local search results by adding tons of relevant information to them: location, photos, reviews and more. Today Google launches another geolocation-based service, named Google Hotpot.
No matter for how long you’ve been using Photoshop, you can still find new tools and tricks in this fantastic piece of software everyday. For instance, I had never tried Smart Objects until recently, and I have already found a good way to make use of them: creating digital photo frames you can use over and over again. Here’s how to do it:
Google never stops working on improving its search engine. After launching Google Instant a couple of months ago, they’ve now taken a leap to image-based search results with the Google Instant Previews – a snapshot of each website listed in the results of your query.
Swedish online streaming music service Spotify is now offering 7-day free trials to give free users a chance to test Spotify Premium. To obtain your trial code, all you need to do is logging into your Spotify account and visit the trial website.
I only use Gmail for my personal email, and I certainly don’t get any important assignments there. But I do know people whose jobs are mainly email-based and use Gmail for all sorts of work-related topics, tasks and projects. If Gmail is also your tool of choice to manage work stuff, you’ll probably like this list of Gmail features focused on productivity – a bunch of extra Gmail tools that can be enabled in Labs and which can help you become more productive when working with email.
The online file sharing service Drop.io is shutting down servers in the next few weeks, as a direct result of the deal signed with Facebook. The ubiquitous social network has acquired Drop.io’s technology and has also hired the man behind it, Sam Lessin, as announced on the company’s blog a couple of days ago.
Judging by the user comments I’ve read in the program’s review and blog post, I’d say Windows Live Messenger 2011 hasn’t been very successful among users. Whether the problem is the integration with Facebook or the new “social” interface, I can’t tell. What I know for sure is that many people want to get rid of it and go back to a previous, lighter and more friendly version of Live Messenger. So here’s a short tutorial I wrote on how to downgrade to Windows Live Messenger 2009 in just a few easy steps.
While half the world was celebrating Halloween, the other half was adjusting their clocks to the new daylight saving time for winter, starting effectively Sunday October 31st at 3:00 AM. But the iPhone didn’t seem to notice, and though the device switches hours automatically, a bug in iOS4 prevented many of them from working it out successfully. Time was adjusted, but the built-in alarm failed. This resulted in thousands of iPhone users being woken up an hour late!
Google can help you discover great new places if you know how to use it – like combining Google Search and Maps to find a sushi restaurant nearby. Now Google has made this function even easier to use with Google Place Search, a new local-oriented search feature.