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This holiday season, we’ll be running a series of weekly features called “A few of our favorite things,” where we round up some gift suggestions based on the gear that has passed through our offices either for review purposes or through personal purchases. We’ll tell you what we think is the best gear out there, for a variety of product categories and budgets. For our second edition of the series (which is a bit late thanks to last week’s U.S. Thanksgiving holiday), we’ll be looking at gear and software to make your iPhone the best camera it can be. Apple already helped out quite a bit by improving camera-related hardware with the iPhone 4S, and software with iOS 5, but these add-ons will definitely up your game. Best iPhone tripod mount: . iPhone photography is a challenge at night, and if you want to snap shots of yourself that don’t look like MySpace profile pics it can be tricky. The Glif is an elegant solution to this problem that has no moving parts, works exactly as advertised, and takes up virtually no space in your kit bag. Plus, Studio Neat, which created the Glif, now also offers two accessories that make your Glif keychain-compatible, and also keep a tighter grip on the iPhone should you be using the device in acrobatic circumstances. If you’ve got an iPhone 4 or 4S, the $20 Glif or $30 combo pack including all its accessories is a great deal. Best iPhone camera app: . This app manages to keep upping its game, staying ahead of the redundancy that Apple’s improvements to its own software has inflicted upon other third-party software. Camera+ consistently adds new filters and features, and its ability to stabilize shots and use the iPhone 4 and 4S LED flash as a fill light are amazingly useful. Camera+ is $0.99 on sale in the App Store now. Best remote monitor solution: . This is an old app designed for use with the iPad before the iPad 2 gained a camera of its own, and lets you remotely control an iPhone’s camera from your device. It’s still really useful if you’re trying to take studio shots with the iPhone however, since you can use it as a remote viewfinder while doing self-portraits or adjusting lighting, for instance. $0.99 in the App Store. Most anticipated accessory: . Belkin has a series of accessories coming out Read More

Jul 3rd 2010 at 2:30PM Please choose a different video host. A 30 second ad before a 1 minute video seems excessive. I completely agree, take a hint from google and at least make it skippable. I get to watch a 10 minutes worth of video on hulu in exchanger for a 15 second commercial. TUAW (or The Unofficial Apple Weblog) is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple. © 2011 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. We value our readership, especially when we receive tips which help us write compelling content. Use this form to send us a tip. Note: Some fields are required. Read More

Jun 30th 2010 at 9:00PM You're holding it the wrong way. Video does work. video does not work!! Now the video automatically plays... I don't know which is worse. Really good game because of the fast pace of action and great use of the touchscreen. Great graphics too. Challenge is a little on the light side but not terrible. Rousso just seems to bluff a lot. TUAW (or The Unofficial Apple Weblog) is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple. © 2011 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. We value our readership, especially when we receive tips which help us write compelling content. Use this form to send us a tip. Note: Some fields are required. Read More

Posted 04/29/2010 at 1:56pm | by Ray Aguilera With 185,000 apps and counting, the App Store is a vast warehouse of digital goodies for your iPhone (and now iPad too). But like most mega-marts, the sheer size of it all makes the good stuff harder to find. We’ve scoured the Store, and found the best apps to help you use your iPhone to it’s fullest potential. Whether it’s games you seek, or productivity tools, we’ve got you covered. As it turns out, there really is an app for that, no matter what that is. The iPhone and iPod touch brought back fun to videogaming, with developers focussing on innovation, affordability, and novelty. Touchscreen and accelerometer controls also force designers to think different, resulting in games that are a glorious collision of classic and cutting-edge gameplay and technology. --Craig Grannell Steph Thirion · $2.99 Eliss is the perfect game for the iPhone’s touch screen. The concept is simple--tear apart and combine planets and drop them into like-colored/sized “squeesars.” A successful drop sees a planet vanish in a cloud of stardust, which can be mopped up to replenish energy lost during collisions of differently colored planets. Requiring unique tactics for each level, Eliss is tough but rewarding, and has beautiful retro visuals and audio. It might look old-school, but Eliss is a modern multitouch creation. Arthur Ham · $0.99 We’ve no idea what the little guy in Run! is sprinting toward, but we hope it’s a great prize, because along the way he has to dodge or destroy numerous foes (zombies, walls, lethal giant saws) with the help of only his cunning and a giant bazooka. The superficially similar Canabalt may have more style, but Run! beats it on price, quirkiness, fun, variety, and the ability to flying-kick deadly leaping sharks in the head. Yeah, you read that right. You know you've always wanted to kick a shark. Drömsynt · $0.99 Imagine the mutant love child of Breakout, Pong, and a simplified Super Mario Bros. (or Pac-Land, if you’re old enough!) and you’ve got Squareball. Your ball constantly bounces and you swipe levels left and right, trying to collect green blocks and avoid hazards like holes and red blocks. It sounds simple, but the level design is devious, ensuring the game is both insanely frustrating and murderously addictive. Mini time-attack challenges add extra value. Be prepared to die... a lot. Rake in Grass Read More

is a new TUAW series that we'll run occasionally so you can see what the bloggers at your favorite Apple site are running on their pocket devices. This was suggested by one of our readers, who wanted to know just what kind of stuff we had on our iPhones. Since we're a group of individuals who all think a bit differently, it makes a lot of sense to have each of the bloggers in turn write up a short blurb on their favorite apps. In this post I'll list those apps that deserve special attention, but to see all of the apps that I currently have on my iPhone 3GS, you'll need to take a look at the gallery at the end of the post. To start with, you'll find that I have a lot of camera apps. In nearly three years, I've used my iPhones to take literally thousands of pictures. I love the look of most of the photos, and it's even more fun to run them through a filter or two to add some pizazz to the pics. I currently have the default iPhone Camera and Photos apps, but have added Best Camera, Zoom Lens, Pano, Color Splash, Project 365, Lo-Mob, Self Image, ReelDirector (for video), FocalLab, CinemaFX, iTimeLapse, iCamcorder (for video), and CameraForiPad to my 3GS. eBook readers make up another big category of iPhone apps for me -- I've loaded Kindle for iPhone, eReader, and Stanza onto the 3GS. You can bet that when iBook appears on the iPhone platform later this year, I'll add it immediately. I like to travel, although I'm not traveling for business as much as I had in previous years. I keep TripIt, Trip Journal, Ships Ahoy!, and FlightTrack on the 3GS to help keep me informed and amused while I'm traveling. I'm not what you'd exactly call a gamer, so my game choices are pretty dull. Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition has been a favorite for years, Skee-Ball is still on my phone (although I don't play it often), and Flick Bowling and Flick Bowling 2 are also still on this phone. DoodleJump is still my favorite iPhone game, although I frankly suck at it, and Astraware Solitaire, Scrabble, and Apple's own Texas Hold'em are also keepers. I do some personal blogs from the iPhone using Tumblr and WordPress, but I want to move the blogging to my Read More

By Tony Kicks on April 11th, 2010 Two apps that turn your iPhone into a remote camera for your iPad. So the rumored “One More Thing…iSight in the iPad” turned out to be another case of wishful thinking by us fanboys…it happens. I can’t say I’m disappointed in my iPad, quite the opposite actually, I love the darn thing, but not having a camera is a little depressing. Fortunately though, the dev community has come to the rescue where Apple has fallen short by giving us apps that add camera functionality, assuming you have an iPhone, that is. This amazing feat is done by streaming an iPhone’s camera feed directly to the iPad via wifi or Bluetooth and using the iPad as a remote to take and store photos. As of now the 2 apps I’ve found using this concept, Camera for iPad or Camera A, are limited to taking stills but it’s certainly better than nothing. While both apps ultimately perform the same function, there are some key differences between them, grab more details after the break. Let’s start with Camera A by VanishLab. First let me clarify that there are actually two separate apps needed for this suite to work, Camera A ($.99) is for the iPad and Camera B (Free) is its sister app for the iPhone 3GS. It’s important to note that this app will only run on the 3GS because it takes advantage of the camera’s auto focus feature. Thanks to this, the photos taken with Camera A have a slightly crisper look to them then its competitor. Unfortunetly though the user is not given control over the focal point meaning that the object in the middle of the shot is always going to be the center of attention. The coolest feature of Camera A is that it gives you the ability to digitally zoom in up to 6x for taking the photos. Saving a photo is almost instant and you’re also given the option of which device you would prefer the photo be saved on. Camera for iPad ($.99) on the other hand only allows you to save photos to the remote device and has a significantly slower transfer rate. However, notice I said remote device not iPad, that’s because this app actually allows you to use any iPhone OS device as the remote and it also allows pictures to be taken from any iPhone Read More

No, it's not a hardware device, but Camera for iPad (US$0.99) can help out those frantic iPad users who are wondering how the heck they're going to survive without a by-God camera built into their latest Apple toy. The app is universal and runs on both iPad and iPhone. In fact, the camera in the iPhone is what ends up being the real "Camera for iPad." Installing the app on your iPhone and iPad allows the two devices to find each other via Bluetooth. When they're linked, everything that the iPhone camera is seeing is transmitted to a window on the iPad. Press a button on the iPad, the iPhone snaps the photo, and then the photo is transferred -- slowly -- to the iPad. The idea is pretty cool, and it does provide a way to get photos into your iPad until that Apple Camera Connection Kit actually hits the stores. The slowness I'm talking about in the previous paragraph is not a fault of the app, but the fact that Bluetooth is being used for the file transfers. It doesn't have anywhere near the speed of Wi-Fi, but you will be able to shoot and transfer photos anywhere; there's no need for the two devices to be on the same Wi-Fi network. Possible uses for this could include the ability to set up a local webcam, a clever way to catch an iPhone thief in the act, or it could be used just for fun; the kids would likely enjoy being sent out around the house to act as remote cameramen. When you see something you like, you take the photo. It's a lot of fun, and inexpensive as well (provided you've already spent the $1,000 or so dollars for your iPhone and iPad). Read More

One of the biggest criticisms we've heard about Apple's new iPad is the lack of a built-in camera. But even though Steve Jobs and crew may have left that crucial feature off the list this time around, an enterprising Seattle app developer is looking to fill the void. Michael Burford, who ironically had his Strip Poker apps removed from the App store two months ago during Apple's infamous porn purge, is back in action with a 99 cent app called "Camera for iPad." When the app is running on both the iPhone and the iPad simultaneously, it wirelessly connects the devices via Bluetooth. That allows photographers to use their iPhones to take photos with an iPad, which Burford describes in the product description as nothing short of magic. "Simply start Camera for iPad on both devices, and they'll find each other," explains Burford. "Your iPad shows what the iPhone's camera is seeing. Intuitive controls let you zoom with a pinch or rotate with a swipe. And just tap the button to take a high resolution photo that is saved onto your iPad." Burford, who operates the small development shop Headlight Software, isn't the only one to have figured this out and attack what could be an emerging (albeit short lived) market. Gizmodo on Tuesday featured mobile apps for the iPad and iPhone called Camera A and Camera B which does much the same thing. Burford tells us that the app could be used for setting up group photos or even as a baby monitor. "One of the biggest complaints about the iPad is that it doesn't have a camera...so we thought we'd figure a way to solve it until Apple (maybe) adds it in the iPad2 next year," he said. Read More

10 Feb 2010 alle 16:33 Sono stati rilasciati diversi aggiornamenti per applicazioni che abbiamo avuto modo di conoscere su iSpazio e quindi in questo nuovo appuntamento con iSpazio App Updates vediamo insieme quali sono i cambiamenti. . Un ottima applicazione che permette di collegarsi al proprio FTP. . Un ottimo gioco in cui gestiamo un fast food . Un giochino in cui lanceremo delle bombe e dovremo stabilire l’equilibrio tra due strutture. . Uno dei migliori file viewer e file manager dell’AppStore con un’ottima interfaccia grafica Vocabolario d’italiano d’autore . In caso di nuovi aggiornamenti minori provvederemo ad aggiornare questa lista. Leggete il titolo per capire se sono stati aggiunte nuove applicazioni. Read More

Eccoci ad un nuovo appuntamento con , la rubrica da noi introdotta, in cui vi elenchiamo le migliori applicazioni dell’AppStore che vengono scontate per un periodo di tempo limitato. Oggi ci sono tante offerte da non perdere, compreso il gioco del Free App A Day! . Un gioco che integra una serie di test di intelligenza. Passa da 2,39€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] . Un’applicazione che raccoglie tanti nomi. E’ l’ideale per scegliere il nome del vostro bambino. Passa da 2,39€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] . Uno spettacolare giochino in cui utilizziamo la fisica e vari componenti al fine di superare i livelli. Consigliato. Passa da 2,39€ a 0,79€ [Link iTunes]. . Un giochino molto simile a Puzzle Bobble. Passa da 0,79€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] . Piloteremo un aereo e dovremo bombardare tutti gli edifici. Passa da 1,59€ a Gratis [Link iTunes]. . E’ un puzzle game basato tutto sulla fisica. Passa da 0.79€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] . Dovremo costruire e tenere in equilibrio delle strutture, dimostrando tutte le nostre doti da “architetto”. Passa da 0,79€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] . Il classico gioco del Reversi in versione online. Passa da 1,59€ a Gratis. [Link iTunes] . Un’applicazione che ci permette di visualizzare tutte le webcam su internet. Passa da 1,59€ a 0,79€ [Link iTunes] . Giochiamo con la chimica, abbinando gli atomi uguali e riducendo la formula. Passa da 1,59€ a Gratis. [Link iTunes] . E’ l’applicazione gratuita del Free App A Day. Integra più di 27 applicazioni in una. Passa da 0,79€ a Gratis [Link iTunes] Read More