Category: I-phone

Far beyond being mere communication devices, our phones have become essential tools that can legitimately help us get through the daily grind.

Today we’re going to walk you through a day in the life of an app-addicted iPhone owner. We’ll look at apps for waking up in the morning, laying down at night and everything in between. Best of all, they’re all free!

Alarm Clock Free

“Alarm Clock Free turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a beautiful digital clock and alarm clock for free! It even displays live, local weather conditions and temperature that makes you know about the weather immediately when you wake up.”

The first significant thing you do every single day is of course waking up! Right from the start, your iPhone is there to help you out. There are a number of free alarm clock apps for the iPhone but Alarm Clock Free is definitely one of the more attractive options, the simulated digital clock interface is pixel perfect. It’s not all about looks though, the app has plenty of helpful features as well such as multiple alarms and even local weather so you can decide what to put on when you drag yourself over to the closet.

If you want something a little more powerful, check out Alarmed, a free app that doesn’t look so great but contains top-notch functionality.

RunKeeper

“RunKeeper uses the GPS technology found in the iPhone to track your fitness activity, giving you comparable results to an expensive GPS watch. Now, you can also enter your activities manually, including your treadmill runs too!”

Once you’re up and out of bed, it’s time to get moving. Many people like to start their day with a quick jog to stay in shape and get their blood flowing. RunKeeper is a fantastic app for keeping track of your jogging routines. You can track how far you went, how long it took, what your pace/speed was, how many calories you burned, and the path you traveled on a map.

Traffic.com

“Take control of your commute with real-time traffic information from the #1 U.S. traffic-only website for online and mobile traffic information. With the Traffic.com app, you will have the pulse of the road at your fingertips, whenever and wherever you need it.”

After your morning routine is complete, it’s time for the first half of your daily commute. For city dwellers, driving to work can be an immensely frustrating task due to the inevitable traffic-stopping events that occur daily. Be sure to have a look at your iPhone before you leave so you can avoid the most congested areas.

Wunderlist

“Sync your tasks over the air and share your lists with friends and colleagues. Organize your to-do lists on the go and synchronize it with your free Wunderlist account between Windows, Mac and the iPad.”

Once you finally make it to work, you need to check out and plan your daily goals. I know I’m always ranting about Wunderlist, but there’s simply no better free way to manage your tasks right now. The interface is gorgeous, the functionality is a good balance between powerful and simple, and everything you do is automatically synced to every other Wunderlist app you use (web, Mac, Windows, iPad, iPhone and Android).

Simplenote

“People are using Simplenote to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Your notes automatically synchronize with your computer and all your devices. It’s extremely easy to use. For those who want more power, you can also use tags, pins, versions, and sharing.”

Task managers are nice, but as I work and go throughout my day, I need something to jot down my thoughts into. Whether it’s a random scrap of information like a password, an idea, a list or any other text-based information, I put it all in Simplenote where it can be easily tagged and searched. As with Wunderlist, I use it because it’s free and syncs to both web and desktop apps.

iheartradio

“iheartradio delivers over 750 of America’s favorite radio stations right to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Bookmark your favorite stations, tag songs for purchase on iTunes and view lyrics to your favorite songs.”

If you’re like me, you need some audio stimulation to get you through the work day. Whether you’re into talk and news radio or want some mad beats to pump through your headphones, iheartradio has you covered. Since I’ve moved around a little in recent years, I really like that I can create a list of my favorite radio stations from all over the country.

Also be sure to check out TuneIn Radio, another free radio app. I like the available stations better on iheartradio but TuneIn has a nicer interface and some impressive features like alarm clock functionality.

WHERE

“Join more than 4 million people who rely on WHERE everyday to answer the question, ‘Where should I go next?’”

After a few hours of slaving away, it’s time for the best part of your work day: lunch! WHERE is one of a million free apps that will help you discover new and delicious places to eat in your area. Get personalized recommendations based on what you like, get exclusive deals and Bump phones with a friend to find a place you both like.

Recipe, Menu & Cooking Planner

“Pepperplate is the only app for serious cooks, it has all the tools you need to cook weeknight dinners or host a dinner party for 12. Manage your recipes, create menus, shop with ease and cook like a pro with multiple timers on your iPad and iPhone.”

Once you finish lunch, you blitz through the rest of the day and finally make it home. At this point, it’s time to start thinking about dinner. Pepperplate Recipe, Menu & Cooking Planner is the ultimate free cooking assistant. With it you can import, manage and share your favorite recipes, create shopping lists and cooking timers and even combine recipes into a menu for the evening. If you’re planning a dinner with friends, this is a great app to check out.

Peel – Personal TV Show Guide

“Peel is a free guide that learns TV shows you like and suggests top picks to watch on TV.”

Dinner is finished, the dishes are in the dishwasher, it’s time to sit down and relax in front of the television for a few hours. Gone are the days of thumbing through paper TV guides to see what’s on, apps like Peel not only have comprehensive guides of everything that’s showing the stations that you have, they’re intelligent enough to make suggestions for new shows that you would like based on your interests.

Relax Melodies

“Relax Melodies is the leader in personalized relaxation and sleep assistance. No more insomnia for you! Tension is a thing of the past! Just custom mix your favorite sounds from a selection of 35, then slip naturally into a relaxed state or a deep, rejuvenating sleep.”

Our long day has come to an end. Like many people, I have a strange quirk that makes it nearly impossible for me to sleep in complete silence. My iPhone makes the perfect sound machine to pump the room full of constant and relaxing noise to lull me into slumber. Relax Melodies has a whopping 35 sounds to choose from and integrates both alarm and timer functions. If you’re having trouble sleeping and want a free solution, this should be your first stop.

Which Apps Get You Through the Day?

The combination of the App Store and an ingenious community of hardworking developers has made being an iPhone owner an unbeatable experience. The range of uses that you can get out of your phone grows by leaps and bounds every day and if anything you’re like me, you can’t get enough.

Leave a comment below and describe your day in apps. From morning until evening, which amazing utilities could you not live without?

With our increasingly busy lives it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of all the little tasks. Simply writing it down as a task doesn’t help if we don’t remember to look at our note or task management app.

This is where Notificant comes in. The cloud-based app, which has been received enthusiastically on the Mac as well, gives you a nudge at the right moment. Wherever you are.

Reminders deluxe

The one and only goal of Notificant is to deliver push or email reminders to you – via the web interface, on any of your Macs and on iDevices with internet access.

Basically, Notificant is a cloud based service that provides interfaces on other platforms to make the creation of reminders easier.

Creating Reminders on the iPhone

The iPhone app comes with a subtle design, keeping everything very basic yet elegant. There are two tabs – one for upcoming alarms set to go off and an archive for past notifications. On the very top of the window you have the choice between adding a new reminder or going into the options panel.

When creating a new task, which at least for the moment is only possible in portrait mode, you’ll be reminded of Twitter: the limit for your text is 160 characters and you can shorten inserted links. This makes it very clear that Notificant is not intended to be a task management app. It is meant for quick notes, which can be used together with task management, but setting a reminder in Notificant about an upcoming music album release or about not forgetting to call my best friend back makes much more sense to me than creating a task for it in Things, 2do or Wunderlist.

When setting your notifications, you can of course set the time the reminder is supposed to fire and you can set how the reminder is to be delivered.

If you don’t set a time, an alarm will fire automatically almost immediately, but you can also set alarms far into the future. The date and time picker is quite self explanatory, even though I wish there would be a way to quickly go forward a month or so instead of continuously scrolling forward.

As I mentioned in the introduction, Notificant is available on multiple platforms. Being primarily a cloud based app, you can access it via the web interface; there is a Mac app which sits in your menu bar and let’s you create and receive notifications. You can send reminders to your email inbox and you can push to your iDevices which run Notificant.

When you create a new notification on any of these platforms, you can decide where you want to receive the reminder. Imagine having an idea at home or on the road which you’ll need at the office or vice versa. Just create a new reminder and set your office computer or office email as the recipient. Voila.

Receiving notifications

When you set a notification to appear, you can chose among a wide variety of high quality alarm sounds, which actually make you want to look at your device – as opposed to some other Apple system or app sounds that make you dread the reminders.

The push notifications on your iPhone look just like ordinary push messages – a partly transparent overlay appearing on your screen. When you open the notification right away when the push message appears, you will be shown the details of the reminder. Later on, you’ll have a badge icon on the Notificant app (if you enabled it in the settings) and your past reminder will be available in the archives.

I’ve been using Notificant since it appeared in the Mac App Store and have been helping to beta test the iPhone version. During all my time of use, it has always been 100% reliable, making it my go-to app for important reminders because I can be sure that Notificant will fire when needed. There might a slight delay between devices, but usually it has’t been more than one minute. For me, that’s pretty near perfect.

Verdict

Notificant for iPhone is a dead-simple yet stylish solution for all of you looking for a reliable reminder app. It’s not meant to be a task management app or do anything complex. But what it does, it does flawlessly – pushing reminders to almost all your Mac devices and email inboxes.

Notificant shines with a simplicity of use that a lot of applications could benefit from. My only gripe is that, as of now, input is only possible via portrait mode (I know, I am picky that way) and that I’d love to jump ahead in time faster than scrolling day by day. But those are things that do not have any influence on the reliable performance on the app.

But be warned: if you get Notificant for iPhone, you won’t have any excuses anymore for forgetting something. It’s just too easy to create reminders and be reminded. For just $2.99 in the iTunes Store, there’s no way you can go wrong here.

The video on the next page shows a pretty mean feat of coding. Developer Brandon Jones has taken files from the iOS version of id’s Rage game, which came out for iOS a little while ago, and tweaked them to display in WebGL, a library for Javascript that can generate 3D graphics in a compatible web browser. In other words, Jones ported (some elements of) Rage for iOS to the browser.

He even had John Carmack’s help, getting a few hints on exactly how the file format worked and how to get it together. Understandably, Carmack also asked him not to post the art files on a public webserver, so though the source code is available for developers, unfortunately the demo isn’t actually live for players to try out.

Jones has a much longer post about the actual tech behind the demo, though it may cross your eyes if you’re not that code-inclined. It’s still amazing, though, and it shows that iOS might actually work well as a portal to development on other platforms. As Jones says, mobile devices often represent a crunch on available resources and performance, and that aligns perfectly with the limitations that lots of web developers are facing as games on that platform get more and more complicated.

[via Waxy]

Continue reading Found Footage: Rage for iOS running in WebGL

Found Footage: Rage for iOS running in WebGL originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve taken a few looks at Algoriddim’s excellent djay software before, originally for the Mac and introduced to both the iPhone and the iPad in the last year or so. And the excellent iPad version has just gotten better — a free update brings the software to version 1.2, including compatibility for all of the processors in the newest version of Apple’s tablet, making it faster than ever and providing for high-end features, such as time stretching, looping and advance audio analysis. The desktop version of djay can do things like detect beats in your favorite songs and sync tunes automatically, and now the iPad version of djay can do that as well (provided you’re running it on an iPad 2).

There are also some updates for the first iPad model, so you should still grab the update when possible. Algoriddim’s djay for iPad software is US$19.99, but that’s a solid price for all of the features an app like this provides. With these new features, the iPad version of the app provides almost everything the full desktop version does in a much more portable package.

djay app updated for iPad 2 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If there’s any one area of life that the iPad has had a huge impact on, it’s the creation of music. Writing for The Mac Observer, blogger Jochen Wolters noted that iPads were everywhere at the world’s largest trade show for musical instruments and audio recording technology — Musikmesse 2011.

This year’s show was held April 6 – 9 in Frankfurt, Germany. Wolters noted that almost every developer of audio software and manufacturer of keyboards and mixers was demonstrating some way of using an iPad to perform or produce music. While I won’t go into all of the many items that Wolters covered in his detailed article, there were a few products that deserve special mention here.

The US$99 Apogee JAM is a deceptively simple-looking audio interface for connecting a bass or guitar to an iPad (it also works with the Mac, iPhone and iPod touch). It only works with GarageBand for iPad at this point, but Apogee is apparently working on supporting other iPad music apps. Our very own Brett Terpstra did a great writeup of the JAM back in March. Along the lines of the JAM is the Alesis iO Dock, a soon-to-be-released pro audio dock for iPad with XLR and 1/4-inch inputs, MIDI jacks, an assignable 1/4-inch footswitch input, and audio and video outputs.

Synth software was everywhere at Musikmesse 2011 as well, with iPad apps from Reactable, Way Out Ware, Korg, and Spectrasonics catching Wolters’ eye. MixVibes demoed an app that is used to remotely control its CROSS line of DJ software, while Akai had a four-octave keyboard with an iPad dock. An image of the SynthStation49 can be seen at the top of this post.

You can get more details from Wolters’ original post. Next year’s Musikmesse is already scheduled for March 21-24, 2012. If your business is music and you want to make or produce it with the help of an iPad, you might want to make plans to attend the 2012 event.

iPads were everywhere at Musikmesse 2011 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Those of us who use the iPhone 4 and iPad know how amazing the displays on the devices are. The iPhone 4, with its Retina Display, never ceases to impress those who are familiar with less capable smartphone screens, and the iPad’s touchscreen has revolutionized computing.

Now the Society for Information Display has joined the chorus of people praising the displays on the two devices. On May 16 at SID Display Week 2011 in Los Angeles, the group presented Apple with the Display of the Year Gold Award for the Retina Display and the Display Application of the Year Gold Award for the iPad.

As reported on The Loop, SID noted that “the 640×960-pixel Retina display set a new benchmark for mobile display resolution, low power consumption and image quality.” The group also listed technical advancements introduced in the Retina Display, including a “customized LTPS TFT backplane with organic passivation and optimized pixel design” and an “advanced IPS compensation polarizer technology for high contrast (800:1) and color consistency regardless of viewing direction.”

The Society for Information Display was somewhat less technical and more ecstatic in their plaudits for the iPad, noting that “The iPad marks a new era of tablet computing, transforming the way people communicate, consume and create content, play games and learn.” The group also found the display’s power efficiency, allowing up to 10 hours of battery life for Wi-Fi web surfing, to be solid grounds for the award the iPad received. Congrats to Apple on yet another award, and we’re sure the next display Apple uses will be just as excellent.

iPhone and iPad win Display of the Year honors originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Now that’s a good looking nano watch. We’ve covered a few iPod nano watch bands before, but to me, they’ve always seemed kind of cheap and hinky, more hacks than things that you’d actually wear out and about. But I really like this new band from Hex Vision — it’s a stainless steel band with a solid clasp that hooks right up to your iPod nano with what the company calls a “Clip-in, clip-out system.” It’s a little pricey at US$69.95, but considering what you’d pay for a watch that looked like this and did everything the iPod nano does, that’s not too bad.

The one thing that keeps me from pre-ordering one, though, is that we’re set to see another revision of the nano pretty soon, and the rumors all say that it might lose the clip or gain a camera, depending on what you believe. That rumor aside, however, this seems like an excellent watch band that could be just what you’re waiting for. If we do see a new nano soon, hopefully Hex will make the appropriate changes, and then I’ll finally be able to Dick Tracy it up!

Hex watch bands for iPod nano on pre-order now originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Guardian reported that Apple is “actively investigating” the Lodsys patent infringement claims. Beginning on May 13, several iOS developers began reporting that they had been served with patent infringement notices regarding the use of upgrade buttons and in-app purchases in their apps. The company behind the patent infringement claims turned out to be Lodsys, a patent holding company based in Texas.

As our friend (and actual, real-life lawyer) Nilay Patel points out, the patent in question is US Patent #7,222,078, which Lodsys bought from inventor Dan Abelow in 2004 (Abelow remains a consultant to Lodsys and works with Webvention, the holder of some of his other patents). Currently, Lodsys is giving iOS developers 21 days to purchase licenses to use its patents, or face legal action. Understandably, many of the developers were unsure of what to make of Lodsys’ claims, so they began contacting Apple’s legal department seeking advice.

There’s no word yet on the actions Apple will take from its investigation of the Lodsys patent claim, but it’s nice to see that the company is standing behind its developers (if the Guardian report can be taken at face value; no other sources have come forward to note Apple’s actions). However, The Guardian states that Apple is not expected to respond to the claims until later this week. Until then, developers can read about Lodsys response to criticism of its claims here. Also FOSS Patents has put together an excellent Q&A titled “What app developers need to know about Lodsys and the in-app upgrade button patent problem.” Engadget also checked in with the EFF for advice on the patent situation.

If you’re curious about some of Abelow’s other patents, check out his site’s listing of abstracts. The one labeled “Accessing, Assembling, and Using Bodies of Information” is worth a read.

Apple “actively investigating” Lodsys patent infringement claims originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 18:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fire up Software Update, sports fans; there are two updates available this afternoon for slightly obscure corners of the Mac OS X world.

First, it’s the Digital Camera RAW compatibility update version 3.7, which adds import savvy to iPhoto ’11 and Aperture for several cameras: the Fujifilm FinePix X100, Nikon D5100, Olympus E-PL2, Olympus XZ-1 and the Samsung GX-1S. The 6.62 MB update requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or 10.5.8; for information on all the RAW formats supported in Mac OS X 10.6, check here.

Second, we have the ProKit 7.0 update for Apple’s high-end creative apps, which offers the following fixes for minor issues:

• Improved support for PopOver style tooltips.
• Improved support for Font Smoothing.
• Addresses an issue with an unwanted gap between a menu and submenu.
• Fixes leaks and improves stability for the color picker and timecode interface in Final Cut Pro and Motion.
• Improved compatibility when importing assets from older versions of Soundtrack Pro.
• Fixes an issue with the scrubber appearance in Logic Express and Logic Pro.
• Addresses AppKit related crashes in Motion.

Apple recommends the ProKit 7.0 update for all users of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, iPhoto, Aperture, Final Cut Express, Logic Pro, MainStage, Logic Express and iAd Producer. It’s 15.7 MB and requires Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6.7.

Apple Digital Camera RAW and Apple Prokit updates available originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Depending on how you look at it, the Samson Meteor Mic USB studio microphone (US$149.99 SRP, available from online retailers for about $100) looks like a little rocket, a silver bullet, R2D2’s best friend, or just another mic. I had an opportunity to try out one of these portable USB mics, which can be used with any Mac or iPad (with the Apple Camera Connection Kit), and found that it is very handy for anyone who needs to record and monitor high-quality audio on-the-go.

Design

The first thing that attracted me to the Samson Meteor Mic was the design. Unlike the traditional design of the IK Multimedia iRig Mic we reviewed a while back, the Meteor Mic immediately catches your attention. Don’t let the cute design fool you, though — this mic is surprisingly stout and looks as if it could survive a lot of abuse.

There are three legs that fold down on the Meteor Mic. The legs, also made of metal, are tipped with rubber to prevent the mic from sliding on a surface. Each leg can be adjusted separately in order to point the mic in a specific direction. Behind one of the legs is a mini-B size USB connector for connecting the mic to your Mac, PC or other device, as well as a 3.5 mm stereo jack for connecting headphones or studio monitors.

Continue reading this review on the next page, and be sure to view the gallery below.

Continue reading Samson Meteor Mic USB studio microphone: Solid quality in a compact package

Samson Meteor Mic USB studio microphone: Solid quality in a compact package originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I’m doing a beginners 101 class on how to set up your AirPort base station. My example shows an AirPort Extreme, but the basics can be used for both AirPort Express and a Time Capsule. We show you how to lock down your wireless and how to allow access from outside.

As always, video is after the post — and feel free to leave comments and email us to ask questions.

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Ask TUAW Video Edition: AirPort 101 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An Orange executive told Reuters that Apple has proposed a standardized SIM card that is smaller than those currently found in the iPad and iPhone 4. Apple says the design would allow the company to produce thinner mobile devices.

Orange’s head of mobile services, Anne Bouverot, told Reuters that “We were quite happy to see last week that Apple has submitted a new requirement to (European telecoms standards body) ETSI for a smaller SIM form factor — smaller than the one that goes in iPhone 4 and iPad. They have done that through the standardization route, through ETSI, with the sponsorship of some major mobile operators, Orange being one of them.”

Of course, the finalization of Apple’s proposed new SIM standard needs to be worked out, but Bouverot says devices with the new SIMs could hit the market as early as next year. This isn’t the first time Apple has been rumored to progress SIM technology. Last October, a rumor emerged that Apple was working with security firm Gemalto, a SIM card manufacturer, to create a software-reconfigurable SIM that would be directly integrated into future European iPhones. The iPhone would then be activated on the user’s carrier of choice by downloading a carrier-specific app from the App Store.

Apple has also taken interest in shrinking other common devices so that it could continually thin its mobile and handheld offerings. In September, an Apple patent emerged that described smaller audio jacks that could be used in future, thinner iPods. If you look at the iPod nano, for example, its current width is almost entirely dictated by the standard audio jack receptor. The SIM news is a sign that Apple is keenly aware that if it’s going to continue making thinner and thinner devices, standardized pieces of hardware — such as SIM cards and audio jacks — will need to be redesigned.

Apple pushing for smaller SIM card standard with Orange’s backing originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The long-awaited multiplayer update to Epic Games’ iOS hit Infinity Blade has finally been revealed, and it will be landing on the App Store later on this week. The update is called Infinity Blade: Arena, and it allows players to play as a Titan or a Knight, battling against their friends. The mechanics aren’t completely clear yet, but as you can see above, the battles will have players hacking and slashing against each other, which is close enough to the game’s standard format.

The update also includes an Arena mode, where players can take on a continuous stream of enemies to see how long they can last. It also includes a ton of new items, including Holiday helmets, as well as lots of other rings, swords, shields and armor to pick up and master with the game’s XP system. Facebook integration is also new and will let players show off characters right on their Facebook pages.

Sounds great. The update is free to owners of Infinity Blade (which we should all be at this point), but if you don’t have the game yet, you can grab it for US$5.99 on the App Store. If that’s too much, just stay tuned — odds are we’ll see a sale to celebrate this update sooner or later.

Infinity Blade: Arena coming out May 19 originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Those with an artistic bent have been making color-isolated photos in Photoshop for years, but a recent crop of quick and easy tools for doing just that has allowed novices (like me) to create some of the same beautiful photos in a fraction of the time.

ColorWash, currently US$0.99 in the Mac App Store, is one such program. It allows you to make color-isolated photos in minutes. You load your image of choice into the app, which will then remove all color from it, giving you a grayscale photo canvas. You then ‘paint’ the color back in using a brush tool, restoring the original colors into the areas of the photo that you want to.

If painting the colors back in sounds like hard work, there’s also an automatic fill tool to detect edges and colors and either fill in or remove the color automatically from a selection (although we had mixed results using this tool).

ColorWash is great for anyone who just wants to play around with their photos. But those looking for more advanced features, options and control over the image, or even just pinch-to-zoom, should probably look elsewhere.

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: ColorWash originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple is making a rare appearance at a third-party trade show later this month. The company has reserved a booth in a “prime location” at BookExpo America, which runs from May 23-26. BookExpo America is the largest trade book fair in America, and Apple’s booth will be situated by the booths of Random House, Disney Book Group and MacMillian.

PaidContent seems to think that Apple is simply attending the BookExpo to raise awareness of its iBooks platform as e-book sales heat up, and it isn’t expected that Apple will announce any iBook-related updates. That doesn’t take into account the company’s dramatically-reduced trade show profile, however, which makes every booth buy newsworthy. The Digital Reader, which broke the news of Apple’s attendance, speculates that the rumors of Apple planning something special for Apple Retail’s 10th anniversary could have something to do with iBooks. Apple digital libraries, perhaps?

[hat tip MacRumors]

Apple to exhibit at BookExpo America for the first time originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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