Photography Accessories for iPhone

Factron Quattro Cases

The high-end Factron case for your iPhone will add some metallic and leather chic to your mobile, giving it a classic camera look and feel. The five interchangeable lenses (sold separately) will add more effects to your shooting repertoire.

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Flip-Cage with iPhone 4 Mount

Flip-Cage is folding tabletop stand for your iPhone 4 or 3GS model can be used as a small tripod and doubles as a desktop stand for watching movies or making Facetime calls.

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Zacuto Zgrip iPhone Jr. Handgrip

The Zgrip iPhone Jr. is a handgrip system for shooting more stable video on the move with your iPhone, and it also offers a thread to mount the handgrip to a tripod for stationary shooting.

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ZoomIt SD Memory Card Connector

This clever dock connector accessory (and the free app) allows you to use SD memory cards with your iPhone. It lets you view, access and share all of your photos (and other files) from your SD cards on the go without the need to connect to your camera, Mac or PC. It's slightly costly, but a good solution for anyone who favors the SD memory card format.

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USBFever Special Effects Lenses

If you can't afford to splurge on Factron's case-and-lenses system above,then USBFever offers some affordable alternatives. Its range of detachable lenses for mobile devices include fish eye, wide angle, macro and telescopic.

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Griffin Clarifi

Designed for iPhone 3G and 3GS, Griffin's Clarifi case boasts a built-in lens that claims to give your iPhone a boost in camera resolution. Macro and close-up shots are instantly finer in detail, while you can still slide the lens aside for normal photography.

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Joby GorillaMobile for iPhone 4

Joby is offers stand-alone bumper protects your phone, while the detachable, flexible tripod offers adaptable positioning. In addition to photography, the GorillaMobile can also be used as a desk stand, or even, suggests Joby, attached to a treadmill to watch your favorite show while working out.

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iPhone Tripod Holder

This tripod holder is low price, making it ideal for anyone who might have an occasional need to stick their iPhone on a tripod. For just under $10, you'll get a simple but useful sturdy mount that features durable brass threads for a secure attachment.

Cost: $9.95

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Owle Bubo

The Owle Bubo transforms the mobile device into a camera with some comprehensive features. It adds a full-size lens, an external microphone, four tripod mount points and an integrated cold shoe for adding lights and the like.

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FarmVille will soon be launching in Japan

Zynga's FarmVille will soon be launching in Japan, marking the first time the game has been translated into another language. A localized, mobile version of the game, which will be called FarmVillage, is slated to launch in Japan in early December.

FarmVillage is going to be available on Mixi, which is the top Japanese social network. But it will only be available for mobile 'feature-phones', at least for now.

Do More With PDFs

The new Acrobat X software suite from Adobe allows users to do more with PDF documents, that is, create, share, review, and make them interactive. Using Acrobat X, Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office documents can be integrated, merged, read, edited, and shared. The Acrobat X also works in a protected mode for safe communication over the cloud. It is also available for Android-based mobile platforms. The software suite includes Adobe’s Photoshop CS5, Acrobat X Pro, Presenter 7, Captivate 5, Media Encoder CS5, and LiveCycle Designer ES2.


Wesite:Adobe

Create your internet desktop - iBigBang

iBigBang is a free tool that gives you your own desktop on the Web. With that desktop, you can create bookmarks and projects that will make it easier for you to access your favorite and most used websites. Your desktop can be customized to your liking and you can even share bookmarks and projects with friends.


Once you signing up, the first thing you'll want to do is go to "settings" to customize your desktop. If your bookmarks are already saved in your browser, you can download and important them to your desktop. You can also do things like customize the color of your menu bar and add your own wallpaper/background or use a predefined one.


Go to iBigBang www.ibigbang.com

VB Developers Can Now Publish Windows Phone 7 Apps

Microsoft announced that its Visual Basic add-on for Windows Phone Developer Tools is now available in its final RTW version ("Release to Web"). With this add-on, Visual Basic developers who have built Silverlight applications and games for the Windows Phone 7 platform can finally ship their apps after months of testing and then have those apps published in the official Windows Phone Marketplace.


Download the new release of the Visual Basic add-on from  here
Microsoft has provided more VB for WP sample code here on MSDN.

To use the add-on, you'll need Visual Basic 2010 Professional or higher; Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is not supported.

Source : ReadWriteWeb

Top 5 facebook applications

Farmville
Farm Ville is a widely played virtual farming game that has initiated the concept of crops on Facebook. You can plow plots of them, do seedling and harvest the outcomes. Crops you sow require patience because it will grow within a certain time period. If you don’t harvest on time, your crops will dry up and die ultimately. This farming game comes with the top playing game on Facebook and holds 70,660,850 Monthly active users, 40,136,032 weekly users and 20,444,590 daily users on its application.

Static FBML
This is indeed a very useful Facebook application that allows you to fix up a desired tab in your Facebook fan page as per your likings and desires. Blogger are well aware of it because of the HTML codes for customization and more. It has quite many features like modifying or adding extra information on your Facebook fan page by using HTML or FBML i.e. you will be able to setup a landing page and media profiles. This Facebook application has now 65,487,654 monthly users, 22,694,372 weekly users and 3,925,171 daily users on it.

Facebook for iPhone
This Facebook application has been designed for iPhone users that allows iPhone users to make a easy access to friends’ profiles, messages, home tab, notifications, upcoming events, news feeds etc. you can even make a call your Facebook friend if they have their iPhone number displayed on their profiles. iPhone users on Facebook can easily upload videos directly from iPhone and Free calls and texts can be made. This Facebook application has now 35,628,483 monthly active users, 27,527,035 weekly active users and 18,247,689 daily users on it.

Texas HoldEm Poker
It is a high-bar for poker simulation video game. It’s an easy to play community-card game which is played on a single table with 2 to 10 players. Its main goal is to win as many chips as one can. It has about 28,283,996 monthly active users, 14,256,366 weekly users and 5,597,446 daily users.

Birthday Cards
Birthday cards, is a free birthday card sending application on Facebook that allows you to send customized cards to friends. It has birthday calendar that keeps all your friends’ birthdays in it and reminds you on time. Reminder is the best thing that saves you from regrets. It has 28,171,041 monthly active users on it.

UberTwitter app now available for iPhone

Twitter application, UberTwitter has finally arrived on the iPhone. The company has announced a variety of features for the iPhone app. In addition to traditional Twitter client features – such as composing and sending tweets, retweeting, direct messaging and embedded link shortening – UberTwitter allows users to read tweets faster and more easily.

As the company explains on their site, “Either by tapping the tweet in portrait mode or turning the phone to landscape mode, users will be able to view and use content from any embedded link (e.g., webpage, photo or video) instantaneously without leaving the app or opening a new page within an app.”  This is known as the UberView preview and is one of the more innovative features UberTwitter provides.

The current version is still in beta, with the 1.0 version on track for December.

Twitter Photo Search with Hashalbum

Twitter sees hundreds or thousands of Tweets published every second, and many of these are photos of things happening real-time. Hashalbum is a new website that aims to help you browse this constant stream of images in real time by allowing you to do a simple search by hashtag, returning images that are found in Tweets containing that hashtag.

Website Hashalbum

Acer Unveils 7-inch and 10.1-inch Android Tablets and a 4.8-inch Smartphone

Acer is placing its bets behind Android with the announcement of a 7-inch tablet, a 10.1-inch tablet and a 4.8-inch smartphone based off of Google’s mobile OS.

The unnamed tablets sport 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, an eye-popping 1280×800 screen resolution and 1080p HDMI capacity. The 10.1″ tablet is 13.3mm thick, making it just slightly wider than Apple’s 12.7mm iPad tablet. The larger tablet also boast a 5MP rear camera and a front-facing one. Both devices will go on sale in April 2011.

Acer also took the opportunity today to announce a 4.8″ hybrid smartphone/tablet device. Also yet to be named, the smartphone is similar to the Dell Streak, but is definitely more powerful. It sports a 1024×480 screen resolution (a ridiculous resolution for a phone), a 21:9 aspect ratio, an 8MP camera with an LED Flash, a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and a Gyroscope/accelerometer combo that makes it ideal as a portable gaming device. It also launches in April 2011.

Beyond ridiculously awesome screen resolutions, all three devices run on Android (Android). Acer did not reveal in its press releases which version each will run, but we’re hoping at least one of these devices will run the Gingerbread OS (Android 2.3) or even Honeycomb (Android 3.0?).

During its media blitz today, Acer also revealed the ICONIA, a hybrid laptop/tablet with a dual-screen running Microsoft’s Windows 7 OS. Instead of using a keyboard, the ICONIA uses a touch-based keyboard and gesture controls. It has 4 GB of RAM, two 14-inch multitouch displays, and an Intel Core i5 CPU.

Blackberry Torch Apps

Open Beak – There are few things on the internet lately that have had the same impact as the phenomenon that is Twitter. Seen as a revolution in social networking it allows users to let people know their activities 24 hours a day. Open Beak allows Blackberry users to update their status at any time without the need to sign in through the web browser, something that can take a long time occasionally. This app has multiple features for regular tweeters and is extremely easy to use so when you download it you can be tweeting within seconds.

Learn(Any Language) – This software is extremely useful for those who want to learn a language but are pressed for time as the application allows you to pick up new languages whilst on the go. The Blackberry Torch apps available include LearnFrench, LearnSpanish, LearnEnglish, LearnItalian and even LearnChinese so there is a great variety out there .

Score Mobile – This is an application for all of those sports lovers out there, keeping users up to date with the many sporting events that may be going on at any time. The app gives up to date scores statistics and news from all of the World’s premier sporting competitions, it even keeps up to date odds for those who like a flutter as well. If you like sport and want to keep up with the latest scores and blogs then this application is perfect for you.

Ebay – Ebay has become a global phenomenon in recent years and now the online market place has come to Blackberry. Users can browse buy or sell from their handset so if you like scouting out those bargains, download this app now.

To learn more about Blackberry Torch features and apps, check out the DialAPhone blog online today and read the latest news.

iOS 4.2 Ends the iPad's Wait for Multitasking

Apple is finally bringing multitasking to the iPad. While iOS 4.2 introduces a slew of media, app and printing updates to the Apple tablet, you'll find that your day-to-day use of the iPad is changed most by multitasking and folders.
Folders, Media and Printing

Upgraders will get access to folders, which can save you from scrolling through endless pages of apps on the home screen. Much as you would on the iPhone or iPod touch, just press and hold an app icon, and drag it onto another one to create a new folder on the home screen. The new AirPrint adds wireless printing capability to the iPad, while AirPlay is an expansion and rebranding of AirTunes that lets you stream music, photos and video to your Apple TV and other AirPlay-enabled devices, many of which will be launching this fall.

Mail and Safari

The iPad Mail app gets bolstered by much-needed messaging, which sorts your mail into conversations. Game Center brings social competition and leaderboards to your marathon iPad 'Angry Birds' sessions, but is otherwise just as underwhelming as the iPhone version. Mobile Safari finally lets you search on the pages you're currently browsing. Start typing in the search bar, and you'll see 'On This Page' results below the stock Google suggestions.

Losing the Hardware Orientation Lock

We've been using a dev version of 4.2 for a few weeks, and we most regret the loss of the iPad's hardware orientation lock, which has been repurposed as a mute button. With all the reclined reading we're doing, the lock was handy for quickly switching from portrait to landscape mode, or locking while going horizontal. The interaction works on the smaller iPhone, but is needlessly complex on the iPad; compare a simple button to a process that will usually involve two hands (one to stabilize) and four actions (double tap, swipe right, tap). While it's interesting that Apple is effectively reprogramming dedicated hardware buttons, it should be an optional, or at least a software-reversible change.

Once Apple pushes the update live, make sure you've recently synced your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, grab the latest version of iTunes, boot up Software Update, and get updating

Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone

GOOGLE (FREE) You can find Google through your mobile browser, but the app is a major time-saver. The voice search function is seamless. Ask it for specific Wikipedia entries, for instance, and it complies. Or just say "Starbucks" and the app uses the phone’s GPS to find the nearest location. A recent update put the "Goggles" service within the app, so you can snap a photo and let Google search for information on that object. And given Google’s emphasis on mobile, the app will continue to improve.

SOUNDHOUND (FREE AND $5) You’ve probably heard of Shazam, the app that identifies songs. SoundHound is faster, and it offers a broader range of ancillary features. You can hum a tune into the phone and it’ll find the song, look up lyrics and run YouTube videos of song performances. The $5 version lets you identify an unlimited number of songs. Users of the free version get five tags monthly.

HIPSTAMATIC ($2) Scores of photography titles are in the App Store. Many are terrific, but not one matches Hipstamatic’s blend of simplicity, serendipity and art. At heart, the app is a filter that will unpredictably saturate, blur or discolor your images, among other things. The results are always surprising and often stunning. Add packs of lenses and film effects for $1 apiece.

EVERNOTE (FREE) The company advertises this as a personal digital assistant, and it’s an apt description. Evernote is a traveling notepad that synchronizes with desktop and browser software (also free). Use your iPhone to copy an image, take a photo, record a voice memo or jot down a note, and it appears on your computer (and vice versa). It also recognizes your written text, within limits. The free version stores a fair amount of information, but for $45 a year, you needn’t sweat the data limits.

ANGRY BIRDS ($1) A runaway favorite among the iPhone crowd, the app tests your ability to break down the barricades that protect green pigs. The weapon: flightless birds, launched by catapult. No wonder they’re angry. The game is easy to learn, yet challenging to play, with witty touches throughout. You can try a limited free version, but if you do, good luck resisting the paid version, with more than 800 possible scenes.

URBANSPOON (FREE) Not sure what to eat, or where? Spin Urbanspoon’s slot machine and it will dial up a suggestion. You can also select certain attributes — Japanese food, for instance, or inexpensive food — and local eateries appear. The app includes user reviews and contact information, and you can press a button for a map and directions.

STAR WALK ($3) Point your phone toward the heavens and this app identifies all you see — constellations, planets, individual stars — in brilliant clarity. If you pivot in another direction, the app follows. It’s an astonishing app that’s great to pull out during dinner parties, beach walks or sleepless nights in bed. You needn’t have a clear view of the sky to experience the starry night.

FIREFOX HOME (FREE) In the same vein as Evernote, Firefox Home is a way to synchronize your desktop and mobile lives. Once you load the app and register, Firefox Home will show your browsing history and bookmarks. If you’re reading an important document online when you leave the office, you can start the app later and pick up where you left off.

QUICKOFFICE MOBILE SUITE ($5) The next time someone e-mails you a Word, Excel or Powerpoint document, Quickoffice will open it and allow you to make quick edits from your iPhone. (Otherwise, you can open, but not edit, Microsoft Office files.) You can also create documents with the app, but it is far less useful for that purpose. Rather, Quickoffice offers a way to complete small work tasks easily while you are on the move.

REDLASER (FREE) It may not tell you if a clothing item makes you look fat, but otherwise RedLaser is a perfect shopping companion. Scan a bar code and it retrieves product information, including prices at online merchants and local stores (in case you are in the mood to haggle). Or follow a spouse or child around a store, scan what they like and you have an instant gift list. The app’s scans sometimes fail, but more often than not RedLaser works smoothly.

Source : nytimes

NewTwitter Showing Full Conversations

Twitter rolled out new feature — one that many users have been asking for since NewTwitter was unveiled: full conversation threads.

Yes, if you click on a tweet with the chat bubble icon, you'll see the detail of what that tweet was responding to in the right pane of New Twitter. Previously, you could only see one level deep into the conversation. But now, Twitter will show you an entire back and forth (assuming the users responded using the "reply" button each time). And depending on where you hop in to the conversation, you'll see all the "in reply to" message above, the tweet you clicked on in the middle, and the "replies" below in this pane.

This is a much easier way to follow conversations on Twitter, and it's something that the standalone Twitter Searchproduct has had for some time. Several third-party clients offer this functionality as well (as do Twitter's mobile apps). But this is yet another reason not to leave twitter.com.

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week

Top Twitter Trends This Week: 11/13 – 11/19

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Rank	Topic	Top Index This Week	Intensity	Description
#1	Aung San Suu Kyi	1	3	Military authorities in Myanmar have signed an order authorizing the release of pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, according to news reports.
#2	Royal Wedding	1	3	Prince William, the second in line to the throne of the British Royal Family, announced his engagement to Kate Middleton. The wedding will be held in Spring or Summer of 2011.
#3	Boxing	1	2	Manny Pacquiao earns his 8th title via a unanimous decision after his fight against Antonio Margarito. After boxer Manny Pacquiao’s decisive victory, the sports talk turns to the only likely fighter left for him to face, the undefeated Floyd Mayweather.
#4	Eid ul-Adha	1	2	Eid Mubarak is a traditional Muslim greeting reserved for use on the festivals of Eid ul-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr. The phrase translates into English as "blessed festival," and can be paraphrased as "may you enjoy a blessed festival." Eid ul-Adha is being observed this year from November 17 to November 20.
#5	NFL	1	2	In football, top trends centered around Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick facing Washinton Redskins quarterback (and ex-Eagles QB) Donovan McNabb. The Eagles went on to win over the Redskins, 59-28.
#6	Harry Potter	1	1	Part one of the seventh film in the series, Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows, debuted in theaters on November 19.
#7	Soccer/Football	1	1	Officials announced the first-round groups of the 2011 Copa América South American football championship. It will be held in Argentina this time. Other top mentions were Marcelo Bielsa and Manuel Preciado, coach of Real Sporting de Gijón.
#8	Tony Parker-Eva Longoria	2	1	Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs and his wife Eva Longoria (best known for her role on Desperate Housewives) have filed for divorce.
#9	NBA	1	1	Greg Oden of the Portland Trailblazers is, again, out for the season with a knee injury, and the Los Angeles Lakers were defeated by the Denver Nuggets.
#10	Ryan Reynolds	4	1	People Magazine has selected Ryan Reynolds as the Sexiest Man Alive.

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Source: http://mashable.com

Facebook Accounts For 1 In 4 Page Views In The U.S.

Hitwise has released another data point in favor of Facebook's domination today. According to Hitwise's data, 1 in 4 page views in the US took place on Facebook.com as of last week.

In March, Hitwise reported that Facebook overcame Google to become the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google was second at 7.03% at the time. As of September, comScore reported that Facebook was behind Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Hitwise also says that visits to Facebook have increased by 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week. And the market share of page views for Facebook was 24.27% last week, 3.8x the volume of the 2nd ranked website YouTube.com with 6.93%.

it's important to note that this doesn't include visits from outside the U.S. and excludes mobile traffic

Share Greeting Cards from Your Mobile Phone

 

• Create personalized greeting cards on the mobile phone.
• Select greeting theme from four pre-loaded themes.(six preloaded themes available on paid version-CardzCreator+)
• Browse and download more themes.
• Customize greeting message and background.
• Interact in 3D (Zoom In/ Out, Rotate) to get the desired view of the card.
• Send the greeting card to one or multiple recipients as an MMS. (Available in paid version-CardzCreator+).
• Send the greeting card to one or multiple recipients as an SMS.
• Post the greeting card on friend's facebook wall.
• Tweet the greetings to celebrities, friends and others whom you follow on twitter.
• Change theme to create a different greeting.
• Save the greeting on image folder of the mobile phone to send it through Bluetooth

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blackberry apps for bloggers

1: WordPress for Blackberry : The all new WordPress for BlackBerry app allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.9.2 or higher) sites are supported. Download the app and start blogging on the go in no time.

2:  Viigo : Viigo (now merged with RIM) provides one of the best RSS reader application for your Blackberry smartphone. Along with this, Viigo is a one stop resource for news, podcasts, social networking, weather updates and much more.

3:  Evernote : Easily search for notes created on your desktop or web using your BlackBerry. Whether from last week or last year, all your memories are in one place, available whenever you need them. You can even search for printed or handwritten text within your snapshots  great for business cards, whiteboards, and wine labels.

4:  Tumblr : This BlackBerry app helps you to integrate with Tumblr’s blogging platform. umblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog.

5:  BBNotePad : BBNotePad acts as a text editor. You can the application to write full-length documents or code.

6:  Jaikuberry : Jaikuberry is used to blog in short about your daily life or what you are doing without the need of a PC. you will now be able to blog whenever you want through your favourite mobile device, your blackberry.