Author: Mel Martin

If you like to take photos on your iOS device, grab Snapseed. If you already have it, you’ll see an update today that really adds some nice features.

This latest release adds two very important features. One is called HDR scape, which gives your imag…

Seene is a clever and free iPhone app that lets you capture an object or person in three dimensions. It’s not the 3D you get from taking two images that are horizontally displaced, but instead you move left and right, up and down while the camera is ru…

You can spend a fortune or a pittance on a home security system. There are wired systems that contact the police or fire department for you, webcams with motion detection, systems with monthly fees, and systems that are DIY and cost you only for the ha…

Here’s a handy iOS app for a very specific task: Using the iPhone camera to create a nice looking snapshot for resumes, Linkedin or any business use. The app, called George – Quick Business Portraits (US$0.99) makes the process easy if you think ahead …

The free Audiophile Music Player app for the iPad is an attractive and great-sounding way to improve iPad audio if you are connected to external speakers or headphones. Speakers can be the plug-in type, or connected via Bluetooth or AirPlay.

Like so…

View Seeker Location Scout is a handy US$0.99 photo app that can help you find the best locations for landscape photography. You can get all the best locations around you with a click, which the app does by sourcing images from Panoramio and Flickr.
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The popular Nest Thermostat has updated its internal software to version 3.5, and pushed out a new iOS app to control it. Most people should have had their thermostats updated automatically at some point yesterday. The software is being billed as summe…

PDF Converter Pro (US$34.99, currently on sale in the Mac App Store) is a powerful multifunction tool for converting and tweaking PDF files.

The app has a wide variety of conversion options and is able to output to Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpo…

Phoster is a free universal iOS app that is really one of the most useful and clever photography-related apps I have seen in a long time. The app creates posters and invitations that look like they were professionally designed, yet the base elemen…

Pixies-Fun with Photos is a nice twist on regular photo-editing apps. The free app lets you take a picture, then add some graphics (objects, animals, symbols etc) so you can share the augmented whimsical results with family and friends.

The deve…

Elsewhere: Ambient Nature Sounds is a nice little free app that lives on your menu bar and plays ambient sounds in the background while you work or relax.

There are three environments; City, Forest and Beach. Each soundscape has a switch for night…

DabKick is a free app that allows you to create and share a slide show from your iPhone in realtime with someone else, no matter where they are as long as they have Internet access.

First, gather some pictures from your camera roll on the app, the…

iOS Signal Flare from Lookout is a free app that has proven popular on Android and Blackberry and has now made it to the iPhone.

The app has many of the features of Find My iPhone, but it has additional features that you might find compelling.

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There are quite a few note-taking apps for the iPad, but I have to say Note Anytime has features that are compelling. Notes can be as simple as writing on a legal pad, or more complex with images, hand-drawn illustrations, diagrams and documents tha…

I took a look at the free iOS app News360 more than a year ago and found it interesting and useful. The idea behind the app was to show you lots of different takes on a story, so you could see the subject covered from many different points of view.
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This is hardly shocking news, but good news that will make the iPhone competitive going forward. The Wall Street Journal reports the upcoming iPhone will support LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks all over the world, including the US, Europe and Asi…