Google Shopper App for iPhone

Google Shopper app does all your favorite on the go shopping maneuvers like scans,compares and is now for the iPhone.

Google lets you search not only by barcode, but also by entering an item name or speaking into the phone, giving the app that special, non-smartphone-owning friend impresser Google quality. And of course, everything is Google integrated, meaning you're taken through the entire process, from search to locating and buying the items.

Once you've selected a product result, you can compare prices across web retailers, and even find where you can purchase the item nearby, which is especially useful for those of us who are last-minute shoppers. For some retailers, we also provide inventory information so you can see if a particular store branch has the item in stock, has limited availability, or if the item is out of stock and you should head to a different store.

The app is currently available for free in the App Store for both iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4.0 or newer.

Smartr iPhone App Strips Out Spam to Turn Twitter into a News Reader

Smartr for iPhone [iTunes link], which comes from natural language processing startup Factyle, gathers all the tweets in your Twitter timeline and determines which of them have meaningful content. The app then fetches the web pages housed within tweets and optimizes the content — text, images and video — for iPhone.
Instead of seeing t

weets, the Smartr user views a Twitter feed filled with news snippets. “It’s a lens on top of your Twitter Feed,” says Factyle founder Temo Chalasani.
Users can click on updates in the filtered Twitter stream to read a Smartr reformatted, ad-free version of the article, share it with Facebook, Tumblr or Posterous, and choose to save it in-app or via Instapaper or Read it Later.

The application is best suited for news junkies who want an experience that automatically filters out checkins, badges, stickers and updates of the same ilk — updates the startup considers “Twitter spam.”

iPad App tells JFK's story

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's inauguration, a new iPad application dedicated to the late president's life aims to be a multimedia museum for history buffs.

The app, by New York City-based historian and publisher Marc Schulman, includes a new biography titled "JFK History Maker - A Fifty Year Retrospective" as well as photographs, video and audio clips, the text of major addresses, letters, and his calendar.

"The paper book is limited, in that you can't see all the supporting documents, videos and photographs," said Schulman, who simultaneously created the app as he was writing the biography.

Schulman gives the example of someone wanting to learn about Kennedy and civil rights. The user could look into his meetings on the issue and how much time he dedicated to it, watch video clips and read the full text of Kennedy's speeches.

The app, JFK Historymaker, was released this month.

Source: Reuters

Penguin launches first book app for babies

The 'Baby Touch Peekaboo App' goes live in the Apple app store and brings to life the popular Ladybird series of books on the touch screen.

The app has been specifically designed for and tested on babies as young as three months so they are able to easily interact with the story on a touch screen device.

Simple taps of the screen make different characters appear, in lots of bold colours with sound effects, the Telegraph reports.

Anna Rafferty, managing director of Penguin Digital, said: "We are not aware of any other apps designed specifically for babies.

"The Baby Touch series of books has been extremely popular since its launch in 2005 and we thought it was a good story to turn into an app... We have designed the app in such a way that it helps develop a baby's eye tracking skills, hearing ability and motor and touch skills."

She said that the target age was from three to 12 months old and that babies as young as six months old would be able to operate the app without their parent's help.

The app also features an auto play tool - which allows parent to play the entire content of the app as a movie.

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Sortfix Launches Ipad Application

SortFix (free) is an iPad search engine featuring visual sorting, allowing one to conduct refined search queries and in the process receive more precise results.

The iPad version has been available for just over a week now on iTunes. The application is free. In the company's search for best user experience, Flash was chosen as the medium through which users engaged Sortfix on their browser, this allowed the natural dragging and dropping of "power" words on screen. Since Flash is not available on the iPad the company developed a native application from scratch. "Another great benefit of Sortfix on the iPad" explained Mr. Brasky, "is that the limitations of the touch keyboard are completely bypassed when a user can just drag and drop key terms into place with the touch of a finger."

Garmin released StreetPilot for iPhone

Garmin released StreetPilot for iPhone, the newest addition to their mobile line-up of GPS apps. The app boasts a lot of the same features nüvi owners already enjoy. StreetPilot has up to date map support for both the US and Canada. All maps and directions are pulled from Garmin’s servers so you can expect the same quality directions as a native GPS unit. Since maps are pulled from the server, the app only takes up around 7 MB of space on your phone.

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PayPal application for deposit checks using iPhones

A PayPal application that lets people deposit checks by scanning them with cameras built into iPhones was considered a budding success on lastweek

More than 100,000 dollars worth of checks were handled by a Mobile Check Capture feature in the 36 hours after it
.

The service, powered by BankServ, enables people to deposit money into PayPal accounts by using iPhone cameras to take pictures of checks made out to them.

Mobile Check Capture is one of the new features added to the recently released iPhone 2.7 application available online at PayPal.com/mobile or at the iTunes website run by Apple

Simply open the PayPal App, tap Tools on the bottom bar, choose Add Money From Checks and follow the prompts. The process consists of taking two pictures (front and back of the check) and entering the check amount -- much easier than trekking downtown.

Deposits take roughly six business days to appear in your PayPal account and the company recommends holding onto your checks for 15 days in case there's a problem. It's worth noting that you can't deposit more than $1,000 per day or $3,000 per month, so you might not be able to skip bank trips entirely -- unless you happen to use Chase or State Farm Bank, which have iPhone apps with a similar feature.

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GrubHub- New iPhone App

GrubHub, a service that lets you order food for delivery or take out from local restaurants online or by mobile phone, released a new iPhone app and an Android app in beta last week. The company also revised its native Web app to take advantage of HTML 5 features like geolocation and client-side storage.

The new apps feature a GPS-enabled restaurant search. Users can find the restaurants that deliver near their current location, or choose to manually enter a delivery address from their smart phones. The app will display restaurants in the GrubHub directory that deliver to that location.

The GrubHub geolocation features should make it easy for travelers to order take out when they’re camping at a client’s office and don’t know what’s nearby, or if they’re too tired to leave the hotel but don’t want room service.

The new apps also let users read menus, reviews, and ratings before placing an order; search by specific items, restaurants, or cuisines from the home screen. The iPhone app lets them: save multiple addresses, past orders and credit card info so they can order regularly from a home, office or local watering hole without re-entering all their info again.

iPhone Apps for Filmmaking

Hitchcock by Cinemek inc (Cost: $19.99)

(iPhone, OS: 3.0 or later)

Cinemek® Hitchcock for iPhone and iPod Touch is a mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer designed for Directors, Directors of Photography, Producers, Writers, Animators, Art Directors, film students and anyone who wants to be able to visualize their story.


pcampCam by David Eubank (Cost: $39.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 2.2.1or later)

A Motion Picture and Still Photography calculator for Directors of Photography, Photographers, Camera Operators, Camera Assistants, VFX Supervisors, Script Supervisors, Gaffers, Grips, Editors, Production Designers, Art Directors, Film and Photography Students. Created by the same Hollywood Camera Assistant who created the widely used Palm version.



pcamAction Log Pro Andris Ltd (Cost: $29.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 2.0 or later)

Action Log is a film and television logging tool, designed for use on location or in a studio with up to 25 recording devices. At the touch of a button the logging system keeps track of all reel names and timecodes for each recorded piece of action.


pcamScreenplay by Black Mana Studios. (Cost: $2.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Black Mana Studios’ Screenplay is the world’s first fully-functional mobile screenwriting application. It allows professionals and hobbyists alike to write complete movie and television screenplays directly on the iPhone or iPod Touch.



pcamFiRe by Audiofile Engineering. (Cost: $9.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

FiRe was created specifically to be a field recorder for the iPhone, not a voice or memo recorder. It is a truly professional recorder developed for audio professionals by audio professionals. It has many professional features other recorders don’t. In addition to supporting stereo recording, it’s the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform in real time, and the first to support markers, Broadcast WAVE metadata, and the instant downloading of files in multiple file formats. FiRe is also the first recorder of its kind to offer native SoundCloud integration.


pcamPocketLD by Michael Zinman. (Cost: $19.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

A photometric database and calculator with a vast array of the most popular lighting instruments for film and stage lighting. Need to know what an ARRI 10K fresnel lamp at 25’ will deliver in beam spread and footcandles? The Gaffer’s best reference tool.



pcamGel Swatch Library by Wybron. (Cost: $9.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Browse, search, and compare over 1,000 GAM, Lee, Apollo and Rosco gel colors with Wybron’s Gel Swatch Library™ for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Gel Swatch Library gives you multiple ways to find the perfect color for your production. Scroll through lists of gels made by each manufacturer, or search for a specific gel name. Spectral Energy Distribution curves and CMY/RGB percentages listed for each color provide the vital data you need to create breathtaking scenes.

pcamMyWeather by MyWeather, LLC. (Cost: $4.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

MyWeather Mobile is a feature rich weather application with animated looping radar and satellite, 36-hour temperature, precipitation and wind speed/direction graphs (USA only), 7-day forecasts, over 10,000 U.S. cities and now thousands of international cities. You can also rotate the phone horizontally to view FULL-SCREEN radar animation and 36 hour trend graphs (USA only).




pcamArtemis by Chemical Wedding. (Cost: $29.99)

(iPhone/iPod Touch, OS: 3.0 or later)

Artemis is a digital directors viewfinder for the iPhone. Designed with both cinematographers and directors in mind, Artemis works in much the same way as a traditional directors viewfinder, though much more accurately and much more conveniently. After selecting a camera format, aspect ratio and lens type, Artemis uses the camera in the iPhone to simulate the lens views you can expect when you come to shoot. You can either compare all the lenses (as above) or hit zoom and the camera will zoom in to fill the viewfinder with the equivalent view of the lens you’ve chosen.