In the midst of promoting their latest app Voices 2 a few days ago, the iOS development company Tap Tap Tap made a brief mention on their blog that the pulled app Camera+ photo-enhancing app was soon to return to the App Store -- the first mention of it since it was removed -- and shortly afterward it was restored to the store as Camera+ v2. The app was originally pulled due to a violation of Apple's policy on undocumented features.
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PHYX Stylist is a new collection of video processing tools designed for the FxFactory platform, which plugs into Mac-based pro video programs like Adobe's After Effects and Apple's Final Cut Pro (and Express) and Motion. The package includes a filters and generators to create effects without compromising quality or image density, and for a limited time is on sale for half its normal price.
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Ford tonight acted on a promised upgrade to Sync and launched AppLink. The framework lets third-party smartphone apps talk to and control Sync with only the app, not the car, having to know the tasks. An updated Pandora Radio can stream audio from its 3G connection to the car, give the dash display track ID, and support thumbs up or down through spoken controls; the Twitter client OpenBeak can feed updates and read them back with text-to-speech.
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A post by Taiwan celebrity and race driver Jimmy Lin has drawn attention this evening as he showed what appeared to be a small iPad. The photo of a "toy iPad mini" showed what appeared to be an almost literally shrunk 3G iPad with very few changes. While the photo was too small to show whether or not iOS is on the screen, it did show a working device using an interface layout consistent with what Apple uses.
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Avatron has released Print Sharing, a $3 app that prints wirelessly to a wide range of printers, including shared and network printers. It works with both Apple's own AirPrint or its own print engine, and includes options not found on most other AirPrint apps such as dual-sided printing, page order, choice of paper trays and more -- depending on the printer model. "Print Preview" is available to all printers.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), which represents the largest public pension fund in the country, is currently pushing Apple and other companies to revamp existing rules for handling board elections. The agency is pushing for a change that would require board members to receive a majority vote to keep their seats.
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MacWorld 2011 will debut a new event at the annual conference, taking place January 26-29 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. The "MacWorld Industry Forum" will consist of presentations featured speakers such as Daring Fireball's John Gruber and Technologizer editor Harry McCracken along with "market" presentations covering education, digital video, enterprise deployment, tablet-based software, photography and web technologies.
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The popular photo-styling and sharing iOS app Instagram now has over one million registered users only three months after its debut, according to a post on the company's blog. The free app lets users take pictures with their device's built-in camera, style them using retro-flavored filters and upload them to popular social services. The company believes that this is "only the beginning" and has plans for a more expansive web site, more funding and an Android version of the app planned for 2011, according to an interview with TechCrunch.
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Evom developer The Little App Factory has released a new product called Grappler, designed to capture videos, music and other items off web sites, convert them to iTunes-friendly format and store them in a users iTunes library. The app features a built-in media player and search engine and integrates with a number of the most popular video and music services such as YouTube, Vimeo, Grooveshark and others.
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The FCC in voting for its net neutrality rules cited Android as a reason for softening the conditions for wireless neutrality. The official statement from chairman Julius Genachowski (PDF) argued that relatively open mobile operating systems meant there was less need to prevent "unreasonable discrimination" as there was on the desktop. The requirement for supporting open devices on Verizon's 4G service played a role.
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Today in the MacNN forums a thread was started by Le Flaneur, a Mac Enthusiast, who is trying to figure out how much RAM iPhoto '11 is suppose to use. Yesterday one forum goer started a thread looking for some advice because his old G3, filled with accounting information, stopped working and he is trying to get it running again.
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Motorola will be one of the first to have an LTE smartphone on Verizon's just-launched network, the carrier's COO John Stratton reaffirmed on Tuesday. Confirming earlier hints, Stratton said Motorola would be "right there" when Verizon moves 4G from modems down to the phone level. Neither company has confirmed the timing to the Wall Street Journal, although Verizon has gone on record as planning for the first phones to arrive at or before mid-2011.
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Apple this afternoon updated its photo-organizing and editing app iPhoto '11, part of the iLife '11 suite, to v9.1.1 -- adding new themes to its built-in e-mail options and restoring both a preference to allow photos to be e-mailed using external mail applications and the option to size photo attachments as Small, Medium or Large. The update also addresses a number of issues and improves overall stability.
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A new social data powered GPS application for the iPhone and iPod touch has been released by Cynapse. Localscope is designed to help users quickly explore a location, as well as share information with friends and family. The application collects information about a users location from a variety of sources including Google, Bing, Foursquare, and Twitter. Points of interest around the user are then displayed in a list view with realtime direction pointers and distance meters. Locations can also be plotted out on a map, or displayed through the use of augmented reality and the devices built-in camera. Localscope is currently available in the App Store at a price of $1.
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Acclivity has released an update to its small business accounting software, launching AccountEdge 2011 today. The premier feature of the new update is integration with AccountEdge Mobile for iPad and iPhone, with the iOS apps launching alongside the update. The new iPad app is launching with the release of AccountEdge 2011 and the iPhone version will arrive shortly. The iOS apps will sync cards, items, jobs and activities, while creating quotes, orders, billing for services or time and record expenses. The iOS apps communicate with the desktop software via the online storage service Dropbox.
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has sent an open letter to the FCC, arguing in support of extensive protections for net neutrality. The plea suggests the Commission is the only agency "still wearing a white hat," as few other government agencies are generally viewed as helping to protect the rights of the population.
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