Adobe has had their web applicaition equivalent of Photoshop at Photoshop.com. Photoshop.com offers a free account with 2GB of storage space to get you started.

Photoshop.com lets you upload your pictures and edit them with a variety of rich controls through the web applications.

Now, Adobe has released a free iPhone app for Photoshop.com that brings a small subset of the functionalities to your iPhone.

Photoshop iPhone app has 2 menu bars. The top one has different effects and edit controls. The bottom bar has undo, back, forward and save button.

PhotoShop.com Mobile App Features

• Choose a picture in your Camera roll or take a new one
• You can now Rotate, Flip or Crop
• Crop brings a nice grid in the picture where you can drag edges to resize to the frame you want
• You can also apply effects such as Exposure, Saturation, Tint and Black & White!
• You can make your pictures look like a Sketch or apply Soft Focus
• Color effects – Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow
• Works in Landscape mode for pictures taken in that mode
• Save to iPhone or Save & Upload to Photoshop.com

I have had other Photo Editing apps like PhotoBox to apply effects to my iPhone pics. But, the free Adobe Photoshop iPhone app takes the cake in the simplicity of its interface. The effects are minimal and few compared to some premium photo editing apps in App Store.

But, if you just want to casually crop your pictures, rotate your iPhone picture, make it black & white, then Photoshop app is going to do all that for you!

Adobe has done an excellent job with this iPhone app and I can predict 2 things. Photoshop.com app shooting to the top spots in iTunes store and increased signups for Photoshop.com. (you could learn more here)

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: Free

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Adobe PhotoShop Mobile App for iPhone

A big mobile browser launch and mounting frustrations add up to some intriguing iPhone storylines

Norway-based Opera Software ASA’s mobile browsers — Opera Mini 4 (currently in beta for Mini 5) and Opera Mobile 10 — are the world’s most used cell phone browsers. One of the key challenges to Opera’s mobile market share over the past couple years has been Safari, the browser used on the iPhone.

Traditionally Apple did not allow third-party browsers on the iPhone. It recently relaxed these restrictions allowing third-party browsers — but only those based on webkit. Now Opera has offered a sneak peak of Opera Mini on the iPhone, leaving many unanswered questions.

Opera Mini is based on the Presto layout engine, not Webkit, and is underpinned by Java ME API calls. Opera has already been welcomed on less unrestrictive platforms, such as Google’s Android OS (which uses an emulation layer to translate the Java API calls to appropriate Android API calls). However, it seems pretty amazing if Apple actually allows Opera Mini — a huge threat to its big mobile browsing market share — on the iPhone.

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Opera Mini Ready for iPhone – Wil Apple Allow It?

Shriya travelled to India on Monday and this was a great chance for me to put the Flight Track iPhone app through its paces and share it with you.

Flight Track iPhone apps lets you track your flights easily. It is available in 2 versions Flight Track and Flight Track Pro at $4.99 and $9.99 respectively.

To start tracking a flight, you just enter the Airline, flight # and the date of travel to start tracking the flight.

If you booked your flight online, you can just forward your travel itinerary to plans@tripit.com and you will automatically see your full itinerary in Flight Track Pro without reentering all the flight info.

Flight Track Pro Features

• Track flight itineraries without retyping flight info
• Push notifications for flight status
• View live flight maps with weather radar
• Flight delay prediction with FAA warnings for airports
• Review weather and forecast to predict delays
• Search international flight status
• Tap to tweet a flight’s status
• Speed, altitude and weather for saved flights in US airspace

As Shriya was flying across the world, I was watching the flights make its way from Chicago to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt to Chennai. I also received Push notification when the flight landed and I exactly knew when Shriya reached India.

Flight Track Pro was simple and easy to use although for the price you might feel like it is a little lacking in features. Then again I am not sure what else I would like to see besides this information.

If you are not a frequent traveler, the Flight Track app without the Pro features like Push notifications, TripIt integration, etc would probably suffice for you.

For the sky warrior, Flight Track Pro could be an indispensable tool on the iPhone with all kinds of useful flight information at the fingertips.

If you travel very infrequently, you might want to check out the FlightStats.com which has an iPhone optimized website. You can get basic flight status info for free here.

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Rating: 4 stars
Availability: App Store iTunes link – Pro iTunes link
Price: $4.99 & $9.99

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Flight Track Pro – Push Alerts & TripIt Integration

SimplyTweet has been my favorite iPhone Twitter app. You can check out my SimplyTweet review here.

SimplyTweet is one of the premium iPhone Twitter apps with Push notifications enabled. It is feature-packed and hasn’t let me down ever since I started using it. The developer has been pretty active pushing out updates with new features as well as bug fixes.

SimplyTweet version 2.4 is now available in App Store with the following

• Allow forced refresh in content pickers
• When displaying photos from the result of photo search, the original tweet can now be opened.
• Add button to toggle scope search bar
• Change syntax of links appended from – saving couple of characters
• Multiple drafts – notes can also be used as drafts for tweets and DMs!
• Add support for configuring buttons on swipe menu
• Add favoriting button option to swipe menu
• Add retweet as option for swipe menu
• Add timestamp format d.M
• Add option to disable landscape mode
• When choosing to block/unblock account, there is now an option to report an account as spam
• Bug fixes

I am really looking forward to using the Multiple Drafts functionality. Plus, I am going to configure the swipe action to RT as I do a lot of that!

I know Tweetie iPhone twitter app gets a lot of coverage but SimplyTweet is one of those hidden gems in AppStore. You won’t be disappointed and you can read more about SimplyTweet features here.

If you wanted a feature-rich iPhone Twitter app with Push Notifications, look no further! SimplyTweet also has a FREE lite version that you could try out and see if you like it.

Rating: 4.5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: $4.99

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SimplyTweet 2.4 is Available Now with Multiple Drafts

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Free Denise Milani iPhone Wallpaper

One of the most awaited apps – Dropbox for iPhone has landed in App Store.

It’s been more than a month since it was submitted to Apples approval process and it has finally made it’s way into App Store!

Dropbox is a free iPhone App download.  Dropbox works with its web service that lets you keep files in multiple computers in sync as well as make it available via a web interface.

Dropbox iPhone app lets you access those files on your iPhone now! One catch is that Dropbox iPhone app requires iPhone OS 3.1. If you are waiting for iPhone 3G or 3GS 3.1 jailbreak, you might have to wait a little bit before you could use it.

Dropbox has a free 2GB account that you could sign up for or you could Try Dropbox Professional as well.

Rating: 5 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: Free

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DropBox iPhone App is Here!

One of the first apps you would look to install in your iPhone or iPod Touch would be a good weather app. The native weather app is nice but it lacks the details one might have gotten used to the weather relates sites.

I have tried and used many Weather iPhone apps but I have zeroed in on the Weatherbug Free iPhone App at the moment.

Weatherbug has a simple, intuitive and neat interface. After you set up the locations you are interested in checking weather for, you get a nice clean white interface showing the current conditions.

The main focus is on the the current temperature and the wind conditions. The first screen is devided into 3 sections if you looked at it. The top section showing the location can be swiped to the side to quickly switch locations (utpo 10 in free version).

The middle section showing current conditions can be tapped to get even more detailed information on the current data. And you will see an Alert in red under the current conditions if there were any active National Weather Service alerts.

The bottom section shows either tonight’s condition or tomorrows conditions and you can tap on it to see detailed forecast just like you hit th’Forecast‘ tab at the bottom.

The bottom tabs can take you to Conditions, Forecast, Maps, Video and Camera.

You can pinch and zoom in weather maps. You can also see daily national weather outlook video. Plus, you can see live weather conditions through cameras in your area. Plus, you can play most recent camera shots like a mini video of the conditions as well.

Weatherbug is available as Free ad supported version as well as a Weatherbug Elite ($0.99) version. Weatherbug Elite is completely ad free, has 6 additional map layers, unlimited saved locations, etc.

If you are looking for a good and capable weather app, Weatherbug will definitely fit the bill.

Rating: 4 stars

Availability: App Store [iTunes link]

Price: Free & $0.99

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Weatherbug – Excellent Weather iPhone App

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Free Sara Jean Underwood iPhone Wallpaper

The excitement of the iPhone finally getting multimedia messaging, is overshadowed by the Google Voice drama

After a long wait AT&T finally rolled out support for the multimedia messaging service (MMS) protocol. This means that iPhones can at last send pictures, video, and audio recordings like users of other smartphones.

IPhones have actually had MMS support built in since June when the iPhone OS v3.0 was released. AT&T, however, kept the functionality disabled for fear it would overload and break its network. Meanwhile, AT&T upgraded much of its network and built extra capacity to handle the service.

On September 22, early last week, it sent a free SMS text message to inform its customers that it would be rolling out the update on Friday. The message read, “AT&T Free Msg: Picture & video messaging (MMS) will be available for iPhone on 9/25. While we prepare your account for MMS capability, the current ‘view my message’ experience will be turned off but your ability to send and receive text messages will not be affected.”

Users began receiving the update when they synced their phones with iTunes on Friday. The update wasn’t without its problems — most of which appear to be software/firmware related. Some users found that their attempts to send MMS failed. Apple and AT&T suggested users first try to reset their networks settings. A more extreme fix involves selecting your iPhone’s settings in iTunes and choosing “General > Reset All Settings > enter your pin if prompted”. That fix appears to get MMS working, but you may have to reenter your Passcode, Wi-Fi passwords. You may also lose your VPN connections and remembered Wi-Fi networks. A perk, though, is that your apps are arranged alphabetically, something previously not easily done.

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Google Voice iPhone App Breaks the Law, AT&T Launches iPhone MMS

If you find your iPhone Camera app leaving you a lot to be desired, look no further!

Camera Genius is loaded with features that you would want in a camera app. This app gives you a lot of controls like zoom, anti-shake, tap to focus, visual guides with just a few simple taps in your camera viewer.

Camera Genius Features

• Make some noise or say ‘cheese’ to capture group photos when everyone is ready
• Zoom with your camera with a slider to take close-up pictures
• A timer to setup timed group photos. Set time between 2 and 30 seconds
• Anti-shake stabilization to get good pictures even when the object is moving
• Camera guides to take good pictures with the help of visual guides based on good photography principles
• Your whole iPhone screen is the ‘Photo’ button now.. self-portrait pictures and other pictures are much easier since you can tap without looking for the button
• Keep track of the number of photos you are taking with the little icon in the top
• Camera Manual – shows you a lot of nice hints on photography

Camera Genius has replaced my regular Camera app in my iPhone home screen! It provides all the basic features you would come to expect in a mobile camera.

Some new features introduced in the latest version are

• Tap to focus works on iPhone 3GS
• Faster shot taking with iPhone OS 3.0.1
• Improved photo review with pan and zoom
• Redesigned user interface
• Compatible with iPhone OS 3

Plus, Camera Genius is on sale for $0.99 (orig $2.99) right now! I didn’t regret spending $0.99 in buying this awesome app.

Rating: 4.5 stars
Availability: App Store [iTunes link]
Price: $0.99

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Camera Genius – Supercharge Your iPhone Camera