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By Kevin Stout on July 21st, 2011
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Coverjam Pro by Electric Pocket is a new iPhone and iPad app that, while listening to music, displays photo slideshows of the band.
Listen to your music and Coverjam Pro will search Instagram and Flickr for photos tagged with the band’s name to create a stunning full-screen slideshow of the artists as you listen!
Enhance your listening pleasure with photos of the artist
Share the photos you like with friends via Facebook, Twitter or Email
Get a fresh slide-set each time your track changes
Play music from your iPod, or select from within Coverjam
View photos in Safari, find out more about them and see other photos by that photographer
Ban photos you don’t like so they’re not shown again
Coverjam is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99. Screenshots and video after the break.
[iTunes link]
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HandyPadSoft has released their diary, journal, and note-taking app, Wonderful Days – Diary with Style.
It is a polished with a lot of customization options, including themes, photo frames, font, and tags. You can effortlessly keep track of your wonderful moments everyday, and enjoy them in exciting ways.
Help you keep a diary. You can write multiple entries in one day.
Sync content seamlessly with Evernote across multiple devices.
Insert photos anywhere in the text.
Choose from over 20 lovely hand-crafted weather and mood icons.
Geo-tag your entries and browse them on the map.
Decorate your entries with a collection of beautiful themes with diverse styles.
Add various kinds of frames to your photos.
12 fonts to choose from, including 4 custom fonts that are not in the OS.
Make your diary unique and stylish with different combinations of themes, frames, and fonts.
Three modes of viewing entries: List, Preview, and Photo.
Calendars for selecting dates and browsing entries.
Easily email your entries, export them as PDFs, or print them out with AirPrint.
Rate entries from zero to five stars.
Search entries by keywords
Passcode protection
Portrait and landscape support
I’ve played around with Wonderful Days for a bit and it really is fantastic. Every thing looks great and runs smoothly. I’m not much of diary keeper, but Wonderful Days makes me want to be.
Wonderful Days – Diary with Style is available on the iPhone for $2.99. Screenshots and video after the break.
[iTunes link]
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A guitarist decided to video himself playing an acoustic guitar and, to be different, he stuck an iPhone 4 inside to capture the action from behind the strings. The results are really dramatic. The video has not been edited to emphasize the guitars oscillating strings; it is a natural occurrence with the iPhone 4 video camera. It is caused by the way the iPhone 4′s rolling shutter works. Most consumer grade digital cameras do not take instant pictures; instead they scan the CMOS sensor diagonally from the top left to the bottom right. Fast moving objects create problems for this technique and produce these weird and wonderful distortion effects.
Take a look at the video after the break; it is definitely worth a few moments of your time!
[YouTube via TUAW]
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Google has released another photo sharing app for the iPhone, this one called Photovine and actually made by Slide. Slide was acquired by Google some time last year.
Watching the video it appears that it is aimed at some sort of photo word association type game. One person starts the photo conversation with a picture then friends add other photos with a similar theme. It is all a little bit strange if you ask me!
What’s also hard to figure out is where it fits in with Google’s other photo sharing services, like Picasa, Google+, and Pool Party. When do you use one rather than the other? Is it variety or lack of focus?
[Free - iTunes link, Photovine]
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Ever wished you could hear Apple SVP, Phil Schiller on the WWDC 2011 stage, quoting All Things Digital‘s John Paczkowski saying “the Mac is kicking @$$”… run through autotune?
Us neither.
Then we watched it.
Check out the video after the break.
[YouTube via AllThingsD]
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Remote Potato HD is coming soon for the iPad and if you’re a Windows Media Center user this could be the perfect app. With Remote Potato HD you can browse and stream all of your Windows Media Center content directly to your iPad in high resolution; locally or over the internet. You can also access your Media Center EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and schedule recordings all from within the app.
Another great feature, if you have an Apple TV, is AirPlay. As Remote Potato HD uses the Apple video player, to play back content, AirPlay can be used to stream to your Apple TV 2. This would enable your Apple TV to become a type of Media Center Extender.
In order to use the app with your Media Center system, you will have to install an application that handles the streaming and transcoding. This is available free from Remote Potato. The app has already been submitted to Apple for approval; so expect it to arrive any day now. No news on pricing yet but the existing version for iPhone and iPod touch is priced at $6.99.
There is a video demo of the app after the break. It looks like a fantastic solution; if you are a Windows Media Center and iPad user. I will be trying this one out as soon as it is available!
[Remote Potato via The Digital Lifestyle]
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We’ve gotten a lot of requests for ZENandTECH in video format. If you’re not up on ZENandTECH yet — and you really should be! — it’s is our new podcast focused on dealing with stress, anxiety, procrastination, avoidance, and other issues in the context of our tech and gadget filled modern lives. The goal is to help all of us center our inner geeks, and many of you think that’s easier if you’re watching and not just listening along. Fair enough.
Consider this an experiment. Up top (part 1) and after the break (part 2), are the videos for ZENandTECH 6: De-cluttering, where Georgia asks whether you own your stuff or whether your stuff owns you? We discuss the joys of de-cluttering your life, and how getting rid of the physical clutter can help you get rid of the mental clutter as well.
Check them out, let us know what you think, and if enough of you find them of value, we’ll try to do more of them in the future.
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