Protect your iPhone photos with PhotoMarkr
Above: Don’t even TRY to take credit for this beautiful shot!
If you’re anything like me, you are sick and tired of people taking your iPhone snapshots of cheeseballs and posting them to the web as their own. If only there were some way to add a watermark to your photos while still in the iPhone…
Well, there is. PhotoMarkr (99¢ on iTunes) is a new iPhone app that allows you to easily add custom watermarks to your photos directly from the iPhone.
PhotoMarkr’s intuitive interface allows you to type any text message or choose any image (logo) from your iPhone’s library to use as a watermark. Logos need to be white on black, as seen below, and need Read more
Games you SHOULD be playing: :Shift:
As we all know, I happen to live under a rock (for financial reasons) so somehow I missed hearing about the (apparently) popular online Flash game :Shift:. Well, the game has come to the iPhone (iTunes link :Shift: 99¢), and while I never heard of it before today, I can see why it has a loyal following.
What at first glance may appear to be a simple “run and jump” platformer is actually so much more creative and fun than that. :Shift: is actually more of a puzzle solving game, and it’s its unique controls that make it so fun. The goal of each level is to get to the exit (the door) while avoiding spikey hazards. To do this, you will need to occasionally “shift” (invert) the screen, causing the elements which were black to turn white, and the white ones to turn black. By alternately doing this, you can run and jump your way to the various parts of the board necessary to get to the exit. The idea of shifting may sound a little confusing, but check out the video below (taken from the Flash version) to see what I’m talking about.
The game has wonderfully simple black and white visuals (with an occasional splash of red when you mess up), as well as a great control scheme and overall sense of humor. Even if you are familiar with the Flash version of the game, there is reason to check out the iPhone version, as 25 new iPhone exclusive levels have been added.
If 99¢ is a little too much to part with based solely on my recommendation, then try out :Shift Lite:, the free version of :Shift: to get a feel for the gameplay. In either case, :Shift: is a game you should be playing now.
Review: SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone - A hobbled app still manages to shine
Filed under: Awesomeness, Product Reviews, Software, iPhone, iPod Touch
Smart phone owners are notoriously loyal and defensive about their handset of choice, and like a good soldier I have vigorously proselytized the benefits of the iPhone to any Blackberry user I have run into. For the most part this was easy, as the only real argument I couldn’t defend was the iPhone’s lack of a physical keyboard, which to me was a non-issue. However, there was ONE trick the Blackberry could do that had me more than a little envious, and that was the ability to stream live TV via a Slingbox. It wasn’t so much that I even really wanted to watch TV on my iPhone, but the fact that my iPhone physically couldn’t while Blackberry users could for some reason got me steamed.
Well, that all ended about 6 weeks ago when the good folks at Sling Media hooked me up with a beta of their SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone. SlingPlayer Mobile allows Slingbox owners to watch live TV, streamed from their homes, on their iPhones. What’s more, if you happen to own a DVR, SlingPlayer Mobile allows you to control that as well, meaning you can watch your recorded shows and movies and access On Demand Programming, as well as pause and rewind live TV, just as if you were watching from home.
Above: Tap the screen to bring up the menu screen
What’s a Slingbox?
For those of you unfamiliar with what a Slingbox is, basically it is a device which you can hook to almost any audio/video source and control remotely from your computer or mobile device, from anywhere in the world where Read more
Review: Pico P1 portable iPhone/iPod projector
For many, including myself, the iPhone has quickly become one of the most indispensable gadgets in our lives. The iPhone owes its great success in large part to the sheer number of devices it can replace. Obviously it is both a phone and an iPod, but it is also can serve as a GPS unit, does an admirable job serving as a Nintendo DS/PSP-replacement, and it also packs in a decent amount of laptop functionality with its above average web browsing and e-mail abilities. But can it serve as a home theater replacement? A quick look at its 3.5″ screen would be enough answer for most people, but what if you could bump that up to, oh, say 60″? Well, that’s just what AAXA Technologies Pico P1 portable projector does, and it does it in a size not much bigger than the iPhone itself.
Above: The P1 comes with an RCA audio/video adapter and power cable, but you’ll likely want to purchase an iPod cable (right) for an extra $15.
The Pico P1 is a 6-ounce portable LED projector that can project virtually any standard definition video signal (meaning 640×480 resolution) at sizes up to 60-inches, depending on ambient light situations (obviously the darker the room, the better). Read more
Review: Focal XS 2.1-Channel Multimedia + iPod System
Filed under: Product Reviews, iMacs, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch
Guess what? Your current iPod speakers suck. No, I don’t need to know what you’re using, because I know what you’re NOT using, and that’s the problem. What you should be using are the Focal XS speaker (that is, assuming you have $600 burning a hole in your pocket).
“$600 for iPod speakers!” you say? Yup. Focal, makers of high end studio speakers are breaking into the high-end iPod/computer speaker market with the very nice Focal XS, and for well-to-do audiophiles, they come temptingly close to justifying their $600 price tag.
Design
Much like the “Apple Tax”, a not insignificant portion of the money spent on the XS’s goes towards the design. And while a glass martini chair like the one pictured above in not required, it is implied that these speakers are being marketed more towards the design conscious than Joe iMac. From the moment you attempt to lift the 20-something-pound box, you know you’re getting something special. Opening the box reveals Read more
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