Shoot Pictures on Your iPhone and Send Them Directly to Photoshop with Acquire

Photographers are a finicky bunch. Always editing and always changing images until they get them just right.

Adobe’s Photoshop is used for all the heavy lifting, but more and more people are just using an iPhone to take the shots in the first place. We already know just how popular a camera the iPhone 4 is, and that’s only going to improve with the release of the iPhone 5.

A new app from FlyingCarLTD aims to help budding photographers and professionals alike, by making the importing of iDevice photos into Photoshop as easy as possible. It’s so easy in fact, that you don’t even need to think about it…
Acquire, available to download right now on the App Store for a mind-bogglingly low $1.99, uses Adobe’s Remote Connect feature to send images wirelessly over your network, right into the waiting Photoshop app on your Mac or Windows PC. There’s no user interaction from you, and the full image is sent over – no drop-in resolution here folks.

“Acquire is a simple, powerful utility for instantly ingesting images from your camera-equipped iOS device into Adobe Photoshop CS5. Using Adobe’s Remote Connect feature, an image shot with your device’s camera is instantly, wirelessly transmitted into Photoshop so you can work with it without delay.”

At less than $2, Acquire is a bargain even if you only ever use it once! That’s assuming you already have a copy of Photoshop, of course!

FlyingCarLTD has even put together a tutorial video, showing just how easy Acquire is to use.
Acquire is compatible with the iPhone 4, iPad 2, and 4th generation iPod touch.

NBC Lets You Watch Full-Length TV Shows for Free on the iPad

NBC has just updated its iPad app adding the ability to watch full-length TV shows. Also with this update adds performance enhancements and bug fixes. One good thing about this is that watching full-length TV shows is completely free and doesn’t require any subscriptions.

The app lets you check your local listings, so you can see when your favorite shows are on. NBC’s iPad app also lets you play trivia, to the show of your liking.

Vodafone UK Almost Confirms iPhone 5 to Come With 16/32GB of Storage

An interesting little tidbit this Sunday morning, and as is so often the case recently, it’s more iPhone 5 news. This particular story comes courtesy of one of the UK’s largest carriers, Vodafone.

A product listing on Vodafone UK’s website appears to have dropped the bombshell that the iPhone 5 will come in 16GB and 32GB flavors only, meaning no 64GB storage bump this time around…
The product in question is Vodafone’s Sure Signal unit, which is built to extend Vodafone’s coverage in more signal areas. The product’s web page has a list of compatible products, and there you would have found listings for the iPhone 5 in 16GB and 32GB models, and in black and white. We say would, because if you hit the page now, all mention of the iPhone 5 has been removed. A smoking gun, perhaps?

Also worth noting is the inclusion of both colors, meaning none of the crazy delays just for a spot of white paint this time around.

None of this really means anything of course, with Apple expected to hold an announcement event sooner rather than later, and an early-October release date very much looking on the cards.

Just a couple more weeks of rumors, hopefully!

Contre Jour by Chillingo is a Hauntingly Beautiful Game for the iPhone and iPad

Chillingo has quite a variety of games in the App Store. It looks like their newest game, Contre Jour, may soon be the staple title for those looking for something more than a casual gaming experience.

This gorgeously designed puzzle game ups the App Store anty for creativity and artistry in game development, and it does so in a simply designed game that it makes you wonder if other devs are sleeping on the job.

Contre Jour welcomes players to a dream-like, animated world of inky darkness and beautiful aesthetic.  In the game, it’s your job to help a mysterious little fellow called Petit…
Petit may not sound like an exciting hero, but Contre Jour somehow makes it so.  Petit’s goal is to exit each level safely, and the player must use the tools at his or her disposal to safely swing to the goal.  These tools are, more often than not, other Petit-like creatures.
The creatures share the one-eyeball syndrome that is epidemic in the Contre Jour universe; they have different talents which will help Petit progress.  Rubbery arms swing Petit safely along, while some will directly carry Petit from one point to another.  Petit will also need to be on the lookout for blue-white orbs, which should be absorbed or collected along the way.

The controls are mainly drag and drop; the challenge in Petit’s puzzles comes down to predicting Contre Jour’s physics and outwitting the tricky landscape.  Players will also need to experience each new situation solving tool (or creature) as it’s presented to get the hang of utilizing the game’s dynamics.
Contre Jour sets out to be art-like and haunting, and it acheives this goal without looking like it’s tried too hard.  The challenge of the puzzles presented won’t rack your brain entirely, but they do give enough challenge to go beyond the typical, Doodle Jump-like, casual gaming experience.

I was quickly hooked by Contre Jour and found it difficult to put down before beating the game, which was all too soon in my opinion.  It could have had more content, but the content it had was of such exceptional quality I can’t lodge a true complaint.

It’s a clever game with beautiful visuals and a soundtrack to match. That said, you’re only going to love Contre Jour if the style appeals to you.
Contre Jour sets out to be art-like and haunting, and it acheives this goal without looking like it’s tried too hard.  The challenge of the puzzles presented won’t rack your brain entirely, but they do give enough challenge to go beyond the typical, Doodle Jump-like, casual gaming experience.

I was quickly hooked by Contre Jour and found it difficult to put down before beating the game, which was all too soon in my opinion.  It could have had more content, but the content it had was of such exceptional quality I can’t lodge a true complaint.

It’s a clever game with beautiful visuals and a soundtrack to match. That said, you’re only going to love Contre Jour if the style appeals to you.