Jeff
I got a free $10 gift card and was wondering what good apps can I download. NO GAMES!!!! please.
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Hipstamatic ($1.99)
Thereâs a reason Apple chose Hipstamatic as the Best iPhone App of 2010: it creates some really interesting vintage-style images out of your digital photos. Instead of making crisp, clear and somewhat sterile digital images, Hipstamatic creates an old-style look by mixing and matching different effects. The app emulates an old Instamatic toy camera, allowing users to match âlenses,â âfilmâ and âflashesâ -- each alters the picture slightly to give you all kinds of customization options. Hipstamatic includes the ability to grab additional packs of flashes, film and lenses through in-app purchases as well, expanding your options. The pictures that come out of it look great, and using the app feels a lot like the experience of using a real camera, making it both a novelty and a great way to get the most out of iPhone photography.
Camera+ ($1.99)
Hipstamatic is nice, but itâs really only good for making your photos look old. And that leaves out a lot of other great effects that the iPhone camera is capable of producing. Enter Camera+, an app for dealing with âregularâ digital photos of the non-vintage variety. Youâll find a lot of filters and effects within Camera+, along with many features for making your photos better, like a stabilizer, a 6x zoom feature and the ability of using your iPhone 4âs flash as a continuous fill light. Just about everything you could need to execute some quality iPhone photography is on-hand in Camera+, making it an indispensable addition to your app lineup.
iMovie ($4.99)
Appleâs movie editing suite is a powerful tool for anyone interested in creating films and videos, putting all kinds of power to manipulate film in the palm of your hand. It makes manipulating film exceptionally easy -- tap to add a clip to your reel, then drag and hold to adjust its length, add transitions, drop in background music and any number of other additions and effects. Itâs kind of crazy just how much is possible with iMovie, and you donât need to be a film director or a tech wizard to make some really compelling videos.
TuneIn Radio Pro ($0.99)
TuneIn is like having a radio in your pocket at all times, but instead of just tuning in local stations, it can tune in radio stations from all over the country and the world. In fact, TuneIn Radio can access more than 40,000 radio stations from around the world, which you can search through using the appâs simple interface to bring them up by geography, genre or show. The app will even use an iPhoneâs GPS capabilities to tap into local radio stations. Awash with features and allowing its users to listen to just about anything they could ever want to, TuneIn Radio is the best radio app you can get on your iPhone.
Mobile Mouse Pro ($1.99)
Hereâs a simple premise: Mobile Mouse turns your iPhoneâs touch screen into a mouse touch pad. Itâs a great idea, it works pretty well, and using a Wi-Fi network, it gives you fairly elaborate control over your computer from anywhere in the area. Mobile Mouse requires a software download on your computer, but once youâve done that, the touch pad is almost as responsive as one hardwired to your computer. Mobile Mouse also brings up contextual controls for each program youâre using. People who hook computers up to bigger television monitors could find this app indispensable.
NewsRack ($4.99)
Reading things on the go is one of the best uses of the iPhone. NewsRack is an RSS feed aggregator that can sync with other services, like Google Reader, to streamline everything that you find interesting in one place. Itâs a cool system if you use a lot of RSS feeds, or if you like to keep up on breaking news. By subscribing to feeds from NewsRack, you get a constant flow of info, and the app lets you share articles with other people through Twitter and Facebook as well.
FlightTrack Pro ($9.99)
This is must-have travel app for anyone who flies frequently. With live flight status information, you'll be the first to know if your upcoming journey is going to be delayed and even at what gate your plane is waiting. By automatically importing your various flight itineries, they'll be updated in real time so you can always stay on top of your trip. FlightTrack also integrates nicely with the popular TripIt app and offers beautiful zoombable maps complete with weather radars. These maps are even available offline so you can view them when you're away from a connection or stuck at the gate. Push alerts keep you readily informed and the app will even help you find an alternative flight if necessary. Seriously, FlightTrack has it all and is a must for travelers everywhere.
Can a smartphone automatically re-size and re-date an old photo uploaded to it from an SD card?
Q. (I am asking this question again as last time I inadvertently changed its status to "resolved")
This is a crucial question for my peace of mind. Please answer with some detail as to your own experience. Thank you.
Can a 2011 HTC_Amaze_4G alter the "date and time taken" information on photos uploaded to it from an old Nokia from 2005? And change the EXIF data to HTC data for the day it was uploaded?
An old micro SD card with lots of old photos on it from the old phone was inserted into the HTC that day and left there for several hours. The owner of the phone claims that the HTC Amaze "took ownership" of the old photos and made them into HTC photos on the day they were uploaded and dated them that day, renaming, re-dating, and resizing them. On the other hand, the 2 photos that should be side by side show 3 hours difference between them in the time taken, as well as 12 digits missing between the number naming of the photos..
The owner of the phone said these are old photos taken with his old Nokia phone sometime starting 2005. That he started to upload photos that day from a little micro SD photo card that was in his phone. He said the card contained photos from his old Nokia that were then transferred to an old 2nd hand IPhone and then to his HTC_Amaze_4G, and that the Amaze changed the data. The SD card is now destroyed, so the data can't be verified that way.
Please note that this person is NOT tech savy, so would not have intentionally re-dated or re-sized the photos himself.
Thank you in advance for your thoughtful answers.
Answer
Something sounds fishy.
Camera programs do NOT mess with the pictures unless you tell them to. Not even gallery programs. I am not familiar with HTC phones myself, but I doubt that any HTC app would actually rename all your photos, change all your EXIF tags, and so on.
And changing the EXIF data is beyond the capability of most computer neophytes.
What's more *likely* is he didn't physically take the card from the Nokia, but used some sort of transfer program and a cable to link the two. THAT may have caused the pictures to all take on the HTC app info. However, that seriously depends on the program doing the transfer, the revisions, the settings, and the exact models (not all stuff transfers completely). There are too many variables.
What's more, iPhones do NOT have microSD card slots. So he could NOT have transferred the pictures to iPhone that way.
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