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"ACDSee Camera Flash has a button to clean up the dark areas of a photo, and that is about it. You actually can adjust the amount of the clean up that is applied, but for the most part, the app just does the one thing… very well!"

"The universal Kindle App for iOS was updated today with quite a few new features for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Included are adjustable margins when running on the iPad, allowing you to choose from three new layouts. Amazon has also added faster highlights to let you mark important stuff to reference later as well as an improved brightness control, highlighting for images, a notebook feature to gather all the bookmarks, notes, and highlights for studying, and better navigation for print replica textbooks."

"We play with a lot of stands. They are tripods, suction cups, big power stations, little pieces of wood with a cut out… we are talking there are a LOT of different stand ideas. When a new idea comes along, we all like to bang on it for a while. The latest falls in the 'why didn't we think of that' category. "

"We have talked about the photo enhancement Universal app SnapSeed before. The free photo tuning app offers the features of the higher end photo editing apps with a nice finger interface. Import a image, choose what you want to do to the image, move your finger up/down to choose which tool to use, then a left/right swipe to adjust the amount of the effect to apply. A particularly nice feature SnapSeed provides is pinpoint tuning. For example, lighten just a single spot of an image rather than applying a full image filter."

"There isn't an iPhoto application on the iPad and while it might be nice to have iPhoto for iPad, we have to ask do we really need it. There are available a number of iPad applications that do allow you to edit and adjust your photos, you don't necessarily need to look for a free photo editing online application."

"Camera Boost 2.5 is a camera app with night mode, live image enhancement and effects for the iPad2! Record smooth HD video and take photos with truly unlimited effects with this totally unique app. Camera Boost is a new kind of camera: Filters and effects are shown live at full size and quality right in the camera view, and everything is instant. You can take photos and record video with effects like color adjustment, noise reduction and HDR applied in realtime. See the end result before you shoot! "

A free alarm app we found to help keep us on time in the morning is Winter Wake-Up. The app is for the iPhone but works fine on the iPad in 2x mode. The idea of the app is that it watches for weather changes where you are (you need to have Location Services turned on), then adjusts your wake up alarm time to give you extra time.

"How do we raise emotionally aware and well-adjusted kids? With lots of talking and sharing, of course. For some kids, digital media can also help by packaging powerful messages inside enticing apps. In one, kids explore how we are the same and how we are different from one another. In another, they interact with silly characters to learn their emotional responses. And in a third, virtual friends share stories to get 'tweens thinking about how to best handle emotionally charged situations. Here's a closer look at these three masterful apps. Wee You-Things"

interesting video recorder software for iphone ($19.95). Curious if anyone uses it or if you just use the free online applications? All methods seem to require jailbreak process for iphone.

Record both audio and video Record to compressed mpeg4 format Intelligent dynamic volume adjustment algorithm Up to 15 fps with high-quality video Playback, upload to Youtube, send out by email 1, Can it run on 3G iPhone? Yes, it has been made to smoothly run on 3G iPhone. Registered users are entitled to permanent free upgrades. 2, How to install the application on my iPhone? To install iPhone Recorder on your iPhone, you must know how to jail-break the iPhone and install the software needed. You may find excellent information on this topic at http://www.hacktheiphone.com

"They developed and released Sosh, a mobile-device application designed, in the words of its iTunes description, "to help tweens, teens and young adults improve social skills." The program currently is compatible only with iPhones and iPads."