We have camera apps for burst shots, for doing high dynamic range, time-lapse and others with bubble levels. Our second app for budding iPhone photographers is another simple yet clever twist on the popular camera app formula. But hey, $2 beats $200 for an iPhone 3GS and early deactivation fee from AT&T, right? So though you can record video on 2G and 3G iPhones, you may not like the results, which apparently are lower-resolution, somewhat laggy videos. But if it were this simple, why didn’t Apple do it? In addition to wanting customers to buy the iPhone 3GS, older iPhones have two pretty major shortcomings when it comes to capturing video: 2 megapixel sensors and less powerful hardware. IVideoCamera is one of the first apps to benefit from Apple’s change of heart, giving owners of first and second generation iPhones the ability to record video. First it was live streaming video apps and now? Video recording for the iPhones of old. But things are changing on the App Store and by ‘things,’ we mean Apple app policies. What This Week In Apps would be complete without a couple camera apps? Well, except for iPhone 3G and 2G owners who got no love when Apple introduced video recording on the iPhone 3GS, that is. With another app from Microsoft entering the App Store fray, it makes you wonder if Steve Ballmer regrets some of those things he said about Apple’s iPhone. A couple ways Bing out-classes Google Mobile is with its menu of search categories (Images, Movies, News, etc.) that allow you to decide what you’re looking for before typing anything in (unlike Google, where one must select these after the fact) and its support for iPod touch users with mics, whereas Google’s voice-search only works on iPhones. Believe it or not Bing is actually Microsoft’s third iPhone application, following Tag Reader and Seadragon Mobile, a picture viewer with a similarly goofy name.īing’s app offers an alternative to Google’s separate Google Mobile app, providing unique-looking maps, a home screen featuring assorted pictures and embedded links much like the web app, and voice-search. ‘What? Microsoft on the App Store?’, I hear you say. Switching gears from clipboard magic to search competitors eyeing Google’s crown we have Microsoft’s first official app for Bing. Oh and did we mention Pastebot’s interface is gorgeous? Get it now. And for we Mac users, Tapbots has created a desktop app (available here) that saves any text you copied on your Mac into Pastebot on your iPhone/iPod, letting you paste it into other apps on your iPhone or back onto your Mac with one tap. Tapping any of these slots will automatically copy the text or picture into the iPhone’s central clipboard for pasting into other apps! Pastebot is, in essence, a visual clipboard that helps ease the copying of multiple, different bits of text between different apps. Opening the app after copying a picture or selection of text from another app will automatically store the text or image into a slot, which you can label and edit if you choose. Tapbot’s new app, Pastebot, is one of those apps. These days on the App Store, every week seems to be Christmas for someone but every few months, there comes along one or two apps that are so incredibly polished and useful and just plain cool that they make it Christmas/Hanukkah/Your-Birthday for everyone who uses them.
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