iPhone iOS Device Screenshots And Iphoto Smart Albums

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If you're looking for an easy way to sort your iOS device screenshots in iPhoto, here's a few handy smart album configurations that may help.

For documentation at work I take numerous screenshots of the different iOS apps we use.

In an attempt to organize these screenshots easily in iPhoto, I came across these two Smart Album configurations that might be helpful to others.

For iPad match all of the following conditions:

* Aperture is Unknown

* ISO is Unknown

* Filename starts with "* Filename contains PNG

* Any Text contains 1024

The last step filters out the iPad screenshots from other iOS device screenshots (iPhone, iPod Touch).

For iPhone (or iPod Touch) match all of the following conditions:

* Aperture is Unknown

* ISO is Unknown...

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Apple Has Informed Us

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The only reason I make this post is because it's getting a lot of attention around the web. A post on Mac Rumors is stating that one of their members e-mailed them telling them that an AT&T representative told them that there won't be an iPhone 5 Release Date in June or July. Here is the exact quote:

Apple has informed us that they do not plan to release the iPhone in the June to July timeframe, though there will be a newer version in the future. Unfortunately, we have not been given a release time for the new phone. We will release this information on our website when it is available to us.

Now I doubt Apple has informed any AT&T rep about the release date of the iPhone 5 and I believe that whoever sent this tip to Mac Rumors just made it up. No Apple or AT&T representative is allowed to give out any information on upcoming Apple software that hasn't been announced by Apple.

Apple has already informed us that their WWDC 2011 conference will focus on software and operating systems but then again Apple has never announced any new iPhone hardware in their press releases so we can't rule out that there won't be any iPhone in June or July because Apple is secretive about these things until they're actually released. To find out whether or not a new iPhone 5 is launching, we'll just need to wait until June 6 as that's when Apple will hold their official Worldwide Developers Conference and announce new products.

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Apple Inc We Need Your Feedback On Our Worthpoint iPhone And iPad Apps

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We've received lots of great suggestions already, but it's time to start planning our next release for the WorthPoint iPhone/iPad app and other mobile devices. To do so, we have created this brief survey about the application to make sure we get all the input possible. So, if you've already had a chance to use the app, we are asking for your help. Please click on the link and take a few moments to let us know what you think about it. If you haven't had a chance to use the app, you can get it for free from the ITUNES STORE. Then check out the app and take the survey. As always, we appreciate your help in making our products better.

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Daisey Expressed His Fanboyism For Apple Products

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"Updated: March 19, 2012; 9:20 a.m. EDT"

NEW YORK - The show must go on, and so it did Saturday For Michael Daisey in a live performance with few changes of his widely-known monologue critical of Apple's overseas manufacturing operations -- despite allegations that it contains significant fabrications.

Daisey only peripherally addressed the controversy surrounding "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," telling the matinee audience just before the performance that he had altered parts of his work. But he left in many disputed details, including those which prompted This American Life to retract their piece on him. The radio program this weekend also aired a 1-hour show that both confronts Daisey directly and points out numerous alleged fabrications.

"When the lights go down, I will go backstage. When I come back up, the lights will come up on the stage and I will be telling a story," Daisey said before curtain time. "The whole attempt is to try to shine a light through something and get at the truth. The truth is vitally important. I believe that very deeply."

Daisy met a firestorm after This American Life, a radio show produced by Chicago Public Radio and distributed by Public Radio International, retracted an episode based on Daisey's monologue, still in production through Sunday at New York's Public Theater. Daisey performed the piece as scheduled Saturday afternoon - his first public performance since the retraction.

During the roughly one hour and 45 minute dark-humor stage performance, Daisey expressed his fanboyism for Apple products and retraced the tech company's curious history. A narrative throughout the show detailed Daisey's June 2010 investigation of poor working conditions in Apple's overseas factories, which are owned and operated by Foxconn.

As performed by Daisey on Saturday, the show still contained many details that This American Life alleged are lies or fabrications. Tales of gun-wielding security guards outside the Foxconn factory, a crippled factory worker who used an iPad for the first time and called it "magic" and even a personal interaction with his Chinese language interpreter, who goes by the name of Cathy Lee - all of which the interpreter flatly denied -- remain in the show.

Compared to a full transcript of the original show, Daisey's new version expanded some sections, shrunk others and questioned Cathy's memory.

One challenged her word on a chat with a female factory worker who cleaned iPhone screens in the assembly line. Daisey claimed he met her outside Foxconn's factory, asked the girl how old she was and she replied "I'm 13."

"Two years later, when Cathy is asked about this, she won't remember. But I do," Daisey said during his show today.

Cathy has refuted this particular story. "I think that if she said she was 13 or 12, then I would be surprised. I would be very surprised. And I would remember for sure. But there is no such thing," she told This American Life.

The playbill for the show states "this is a work of nonfiction" and "some names and identities have been changed to protect sources."

Philip Rinaldi, Daisey's publicist, told Wired an updated transcript is "[n]ow being worked on," but he didn't provide a date for its publication.

Since This American Life's retraction, Daisey has published a statement on his website addressing the debacle:

I stand by my work. My show is a theatrical piece whose goal is to create a human connection between our gorgeous devices and the brutal circumstances from which they emerge. It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity. Certainly, the comprehensive investigations undertaken by The New York Times and a number of labor rights groups to document conditions in electronics manufacturing would seem to bear this out.

What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed THIS AMERICAN LIFE to air an excerpt from my monologue. THIS AMERICAN LIFE is essentially a journalistic -- not a theatrical -- enterprise, and as such it operates under a different set of rules and expectations. But this is my only regret. I am proud that my work seems to have sparked a growing storm of attention and concern over the often appalling conditions under which many of the high-tech products we love so much are assembled in China.

A statement released discreetly on the Public Theater's website also confronted the controversy:

In the theater, our job is to create fictions that reveal truth- that's what a storyteller does, that's what a dramatist does. THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS reveals, as Mike's other monologues have, human truths in story form.

In this work, Mike uses a story to frame and lead debate about an important issue in a deeply compelling way. He has illuminated how our actions affect people half-a-world away and, in doing so, has spurred action to address a troubling situation. This is a powerful work of art and exactly the kind of storytelling that The Public Theater has supported, and will continue to support in the future.

Mike is an artist, not a journalist. Nevertheless, we wish he had been more precise with us and our audiences about what was and wasn't his personal experience in the piece.

Candi Adams, director of communications for the Public Theater, told Wired that Daisey was not conducting any interviews, and he could not be reached for comment.

"Arikia Millikan contributed to this report."

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Ultrasn0w Fixer Released To Unlock iPhone 4 3gs On iOS 5 1

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The iPhone Dev team has released Ultrasn0w Fixer, a new update that will allow unlockers to use iOS 5.1. If you were one of the unlucky users who had an unlocked iPhone but upgraded your iPhone to the new iOS 5.1, you are in luck.

There is a new fix that will allow users to keep their unlock while running on iOS 5.1. Ultrasn0w fixer only works for the following basebands:

01.59.00
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05.11.07
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05.12.01
06.15.00

If your baseband is not one of these mentioned above, then tough luck, Ultrasn0w Fixer will not help you. If your baseband is included on the list above then read on.
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Sprint iPhone Customers Are

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In an interview with Mobile World Live, Sprint's CEO Dan Hesse says that iPhone users are some of the best cellphone users to have around.

Not only are iPhone customers "more profitable" (in that they just plain spend more money, given the price of the iPhone itself), but Hesse says iPhone users are also more loyal to Sprint (with "a lower level of churn"), and they actually use "less data on average than a high-end 4G Android device." That combination of more money coming in with fewer services going out means that iPhone customers are apparently just as premium as Sprint as the devices those customers use.

That's probably why Hesse spent billion last year to get the phone on his network in the first place. Given how happy he seems to be about the whole situation, it must have been worth it.

[via Ars Technica & BGR]

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Apple Inc Find All The Best Apps For Your New iPad With Appstart For iPad

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Just get a new iPad and a little overwhelmed with all the app choices in the App Store? AppStart is an iPad starter guide that not only teaches you how to use your iPad, but also provides essential lists of apps for different types of people and different sorts of tasks.

Looking to plan an event? AppStart has a list of apps for that. How about the best fitness apps? AppStart has a list of apps for that too. Want to turn your iPad into your personal assistant? AppStart's got you covered.

The layout of AppStart is very beautiful and appealing to the eye. It's like a cross between a newspaper, magazine, and scrapbook. As you scroll through the pages, you'll find guides on how to get started with your iPad, how to use iCloud, and a seemingly endless number of lists of different sorts of apps. These aren't just boring lists either. Each lists includes detailed descriptions of each app and explains why it's even worthy of making their list. It's clear that the minds behind AppStart didn't just throw this app together -- every app showcased by AppStart was handpicked. If you decided to download one of the app, just tap the price and AppStart will send you directly to the App Store.

THE GOOD

* Gorgeous Design
* Guides are actually interesting to read
* App lists and description are very well done
* Better organized than the App Store

THE BAD

* You may find yourself spending a lot of money on apps after downloading AppStart

THE CONCLUSION

AppStart is a much friendlier way to browse for apps than Apple's App Store. With nearly 50 different lists of apps, everyone is bound find AppStart to be a great asset. AppStart truly is a must-have app for every iPad user.

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How To Rename iPhone 4 iOS 4 Folders For Apps

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One of the most obvious features on the iPhone 4 iOS 4 is "Folders for Apps" to organize your apps. This is how you can cope with the food of apps - at least on your own iPhone. iOS 4 automatically names the folder and you directly can customize the name. But what about changing the name later on?

CREATING FOLDERS FOR APPS

* If you're in rearrange mode - by tapping and holding on an app on the home screen until the app icons start to shake - creating folders is easy and intuitive: You only need to drag an app icon over an other app icon and the iOS instantly creates a folder and automatically names it.

* The folder opens up and shows the included apps.

* You can change the automatic generated folder name by clicking into the rounded white name field.

RENAME AN EXISTING FOLDER FOR APPS

* Changing existing titles of folders for apps is only working in the app rearrange mode.

* So, you have to tap and hold one of the app icons on the home screen until the icons start to shake.

* Then you tap on the folder you want to rename. The folder opens up so you can see the apps and the title in edit mode.

* You only have to click on the title. Now the keyboard appears and you can rename the folder.

* Just press the home button once you are finished to exit the rearrange mode.

Hope this saves some time.

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Apple Should Be Responsible

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The new iPad and the iPad 2 are very simliar in form factor. They're actually almost impossible to tell apart from a the outside with the exception of a slight difference in thickness. That's disappointing, because I was really hoping Apple would change the way the new iPad was constructed and make it more user-serviceable.

While the new iPad and iPad 2 are beautiful devices to look at and hold in your hand, the overall design is terrible from a service perspective. "iFixIt" recently tore the new iPad down and went on to share a lot of the same sentiments I do about the overall design.

As our video guide guru MJ points out in her video below, not only can we hold Apple to a higher standard than other manufacturers, we must. If Apple ships one million iPads today, at 1.44 pounds each, that means 650 metric tons of unrepairable toxic iPad going out just today. And Apple's the most valuable company in the world. Their stock hit 600/share yesterday. They're recognized as leaders in the design and business worlds.

If Apple is going to be at the head of the pack, we must ask them to lead responsibly. And in electronics, leading responsibly means that your devices must be sustainably made and designed to last. Designed for use. Designed for repair. Designed for a more sustainable future.

When it was suspected that the new iPad would be a bit thicker than its predecessor, I was secretly hoping that Apple would be going back to using clips to hold in the screen like the original iPad instead of adhesive. Alas, that was not the case and Apple decided to stick with the same horrid adhesive they used on the iPad 2.

Now this would be fine if there were a way to gain access to the device from the rear. But there isn't. The only way to access internals on an iPad 2 or new iPad is to physically "melt" the adhesive around the edges of the screen. Yes, I said "melt". This makes it a nightmare for anyone who wants to DIY repair anything other than a broken screen. Actually, replacing a newer iPad screen is a terrible experience in itself and way beyond what most would be willing to take on.

I've gotten several emails from readers asking for directions on how to repair their iPads, the same way I've shown how to repair iPhones. I've been hesitant to even offer advice as the process is so tedious and way beyond what even a skilled user should attempt on their own. The screen is damn near impossible to get off without breaking it. This is why I dread the day when the iPad 2 starts coming out of warranty all at once and I start getting calls for battery replacements, bad home buttons, and anything other than a cracked screen.

For those of you wondering what goes into replacing an iPad 2 front assembly- here's a quick run down.

Repairing a new iPad or an iPad 2 can be messy and is something many wouldnt even attempt.

First you'll have to take a heat gun to the edges of the screen and get the adhesive running around the edges soft enough to be able to fit a putty knife underneath an edge. Next you slowly heat small section by small section sliding your putty knife around the edges to free the glass front from the adhesive.

The thick adhesive around the edges and the foam adhesive on the LCD makes it extremely hard to gain access to the inside of the new iPad and iPad 2.

Apple also decided to put a devilish type of foam adhesive on the frame of the LCD which you'll have to break too. You'll have to do this without inserting your putty knife too far as you can easily scratch or ruin the LCD completely if your putty knife comes in contact with it.

While working your way around the edges you'll need to be careful not to damage the Wi-Fi antenna which sits to the right side of the home button and can be ripped right out of its home easily if you pull up even the slightest bit too hard. This is because it will stick to the adhesive and come right out with the screen. This is why I stay away from using large suctions cups on iPads as there are just too many delicate internals that will get stuck to the adhesive.

The 3G and 4G antennas can easily be pulled from the inside casing if care isnt taken to separate them from the main digitizer before removing it.

Just like the wifi antenna, the 3G/4G antennas can easily stick to the screen adhesive as well in the top middle portion of the iPad. You have to take great caution to melt the adhesive completely so it doesn't come up with the digitizer.

Once you've finally gotten all the adhesive broken, you'll be able to remove the front assembly, hopefully still in once piece. And when putting on a new piece of glass you'll need to make sure every single shred of glass or old adhesive is completely picked out of the frame before placing in a new one. If you don't, it won't sit flush and you'll have terrible light leak. If the frame was bent, you'll either need to replace that too or dremel it down. Not. Fun.

Not only is repairing the new iPad and iPad 2 extremely difficult, tiny shards of glass can also make it dangerous.

The worst part of all this is the tiny shards of glass that you'll more than likely end up picking out of the frame. I've had more than one client attempt a screen replacement on their own. Only one has succeeded and more importantly, another actually hurt themselves pretty badly when a piece of glass broke off in his hand.

This is not taking into account the other small cables and odds and ends you can easily tear or rip if you move too quickly. I've been guilty of sticking a putty knife just a bit too far under too quickly and cutting a cable. Then you've got that to replace as well.

I understand Apple wants to keep these as sealed appliances, as magical boxes that, if they break, you simply bring them back to Apple and either swap them for, or pay for, a replacement.

But what happens to your old device?

It gets ripped apart and a many of the internals may never be used again. A few components may get re-used but for the most part, it's garbage. The same thing goes for iPhones and iPods which are actually fairly easy to repair. I can probably swap four to five iPhone 4 or 4S screens in the time it takes me to fix one iPad 2.

The sad part is most of the phones that go into Apple and get swapped for new ones probably could have been fixed and given back to the customer in less than 30 minutes time. To my knowledge the only thing Apple employees are even trained to replace is the back cover, rear-facing camera, and vibrator assembly on the GSM iPhone 4 and the front assembly of an iPhone 3GS. Anything else just gets swapped and that's a shame. It's prioritizing packaging over everything else. It's too much.

Users have been fixing their own gadgets for years -- whether it's a phone, tablet, or a computer. Apple's recent design practices are making it economically unrealistic for businesses like myself to even bother with devices such as the iPad 2 or new iPad. The process is time consuming and has a very high margin for error. The front assembly isn't a cheap part and it's extremely difficult to remove it without breaking it or scratching the paint around the edges.

"iFixIt" is dead on in asserting that Apple should be responsible for making sure their devices are not only sustainable but repairable.

I fear what the next iteration of iPhone is going to bring with it and surely hope that Apple seriously evaluates their current design process and changes some things.

Not only because it would hurt me but because it hurts my clients. Some of them just don't have the money to walk into an Apple store and drop another 200 or more on a brand new replacement device. But they can afford to buy a part and swap it themselves or pay me a more reasonable amount to fix a shattered screen, broken home button, or replace a battery. They walk out happy and the odds of them purchasing another Apple device is more likely. They have the security that if an accident does happen, they have a safety net -- either their own repair skills or businesses like my own.

Apple offers certified repair for computers, why not mobile and tablet devices? Isn't that a better option than tossing devices that are perfectly salvageable? Apple retains a happy customer and it's better for the environment.

"iFixit" gave the new iPad a 2 out of 10 on their repairability scale. One of their lowest scores ever. They also lowered the iPad 2 repairability score down from a 4 to a 2 as well. I stand behind their scores completely. These devices are extremely hard to repair. I'm convinced that Apple can find a different practice of securing the screen without sacrificing size or thickness and would allow easier access to the internal components.

Sure consumers can buy services like AppleCare+ to avoid unfortunate accidents and save themselves some money but that only lasts for 2 years and after that customers are left with no options but to buy new devices, which they can't always afford.

Apple, please consider how these practices impact your consumers, other businesses, and the environment. You're selling millions and millions of iPads yet you continue to make them almost unserviceable even by your own stores. Creating a product made mainly of glass that's next to unrepairable is not responsible, it's form over function. You now set the standard in mobile. It's time for you to re-evaluate those standards and prioritize not only beautiful looking, excellent working devices, but easy to repair and maintainable ones as well.

Response to: iFixit

(Note: This is part of an ongoing point/counterpoint series at iMore, where different writers with different opinions make their arguments. We'll post and link to an alternate point of view in the near future.)

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Apple Inc Iphoto For iPhone And iPad Review

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IPHOTO IS A FANTASTIC PHOTO EDITING TOOL, IN SOME WAYS BETTER THAN IT IS ON THE MAC, BUT SUFFERS FROM AN INEXPLICABLE LACK OF USEFUL SYNC.

Apple has brought iPhoto to iOS. Announced alongside the new iPad, but available as a universal app for the iPhone as well, iPhoto completes Apple's mobile iLife suite and once again challenges the misconception that multitouch is better geared for content consumption than creation. iPhoto took the longest to arrive on iOS, despite being the most popular of the iLife apps. So was it worth the wait?

PHOTO EDITING

I'm am very impressed with the editing power of iPhoto. It's better then iPhoto for the Mac, that's for sure. It's jam packed with options, so it's nice that Apple included an info button that pops up a bunch of helpful notes about what each button does and what each filter or brush is named. (Not as nice as if they'd made the user interface more intuitive, but nicer than having to poke around and get frustrated.) If you tap the arrow on one of these tabs, a help screen will pop up with more info on the specific feature.

COLOR ADJUSTMENTS

The basic editing tools include cropping, auto enhance, and exposure. Included in the color adjustments tab is options to adjust saturation, white balance, and skin tones as well as smarter adjustments for blue skies and greenery. Be careful with these two, though. If you don't have greenery or blue skies in your photo, it produces horrific results.

This is the perfect time to mention that iPhoto does not support layers or masking, so you cannot exclude a portion of your photo from an effect or adjustment taking place. There "is" an option to preserve skin tones when making color adjustments, but it's mediocre at best.

To make color adjustments, you can move sliders provided at the bottom of the editing screen, or you can just drag your finger directly on the parts of the photo that correspond wit the color type. For example, holding your finger on the sky will pop up the Blue Skies tool and sliding your finger left or right will adjust the slider. Doing the same thing anywhere on your photo, but vertically, will adjust the saturation.

You can also adjust white balance with the typical presets that come with most apps and cameras: sun, cloudy, flash, shade, incandescent, and fluorescent. There is also a Face Balance tool that lets you choose a person's face and iPhoto will automatically choose a good white balance for the skin tone. Lastly, you can make select a white point on your photo with the custom white balance tool.

BRUSHES

The best editing feature of iPhoto is the brushes. There are 8 of them: Repair, Red Eye, Saturate, Desaturate, Lighten, Darken, Sharpen, and Soften. The Repair brush will removes things like blemishes, dust marks, and scratches. The other Brushes are self explanatory.

To use a brush, you simply use your finger to "paint" the areas of your photo you the affect applied to. My biggest complaint is that iPhoto doesn't use a circle to show where you're touching -- the only visual cue is to see the results of the brush. But if you're making subtle changes, it's very hard to notice. However, the alternative that's available is the option to show your strokes. Turning this on displays all your strokes in red. When you're done applying the brush, just turn the strokes off to see the results.

My other gripe with brushes is that you cannot adjust the brush size - well, not directly anyway. The brush size is always the size of your fingertip, so to adjust it, you need to zoom in and out of the photo. This is just terrible. It's hard to be precise.

Now, I started out by saying that the brushes are the best editing feature of iPhoto, but have done nothing but complain about it. That's because, despite these two flaws, brushes are actually very powerful tools. The opacity of the brushes are fairly light, so you have control over how drastic you want the change to be -- just paint multiple strokes over one spot to create a thicker layer, so to speak. Showing your strokes is very helpful in this regard.

EFFECTS

iPhoto has a set of filters that Apple calls Effects. The categories are Artistic, Vintage, Aura, Black & White, Duotone, and Warm & Cool. Honestly, there isn't really anything special about them in comparison to other apps, they're filters that change the look of your photos. End of story. Well, I guess the fact that you can adjust the vignetting intensity makes it a little bit more interesting?

EXAMPLE OF FINAL EDIT

Here's the before and after comparison of a photo that I edited fairly quickly. I think it's a great example of a nice edit job that isn't overdone. I cropped and rotated, used the Face Balance tool, increased the Greenery slider, applied the repair, sharpen, and soften brushes, and added the Saturated Film filter from the Vintage category.

You can see a larger version here.

SHARING, BEAMING, AND SYNCING (OR LACK THER)

You can share you photo from iPhoto directly to your Camera Roll, iTunes, email, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and an AirPrint compatible printer. There is also a new feature called Beam that lets you share photos from one device running iPhoto to another device on the same Wifi network also running iPhoto. It's really easy to use and a great way to share photos between devices. Unfortunately, it's also the easiest way to share photos between even your own devices.

I was really hoping that with the introduction of iPhoto on the iPhone and iPad that my iPhoto libraries would stay in sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but this is not the case. It's not even the case within iOS. Each devices has their own library. Having photos and the non-destructive edits that go with them seamlessly sync between all devices would have been the single most useful feature a platform owner like Apple could implement. I expected more from the maker's of iCloud. Maybe in a future update.

JOURNALS

iPhoto has this fun new way to display your photos called Journals. It's basically a collage of your photos with the ability of adding captions, blocks of text, notes, map, weather widgets to your collage. You can resize your photos and drag and drop them to place them exactly how you wish. Unfortunately, you cannot adjust the size of the widgets, so even if your sticky note only has one small phrase, it must still take up just as much space as four small photos.

Journals are pretty fun to play with and can be shared online through iCloud. This will give your Journal its own web address that can be shared with whoever you want. All your photos are also downloadable from your online journal - a "feature" that cannot be disabled.

I was very disappointed to learn that this was the only real way to share a Journal. I was really hoping for an export that would allow me to then share my Journal to my personal blog.

You can see an example of a journal that I shared through iCloud here.

THE GOOD

* Very powerful editing tools

* Journals are pretty cool

* Easy to use

* Integrated user manual is awesome

* Beam is a great and easy way to share to other iOS devices

THE BAD

* iPhoto libraries don't sync

* Brushes don't have visual indication of brush size

* Must zoom in and out of photo to adjust brush size, which isn't very precise

* No support for layers

* Can't adjust size of inserted widgets in a Journal

* Can only share Journals online through iCloud

THE CONCLUSION

iPhoto is a fantastic addition to the iLife family on iOS with very powerful editing tools. Sure, there are some things that could be changed to make it better, but at just 4.99, it's quite a steal. Minus the creation of books, cards, and calendars, it's better than iPhoto on the Mac.

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