Photo Rotate 1.2 is now available on the App Store. This update contains the following changes:
Photo Rotate 1.1 has now been approved by Apple and is available. This update works around an iPhone bug to ensure that photos not taken with the iPhone camera do not appear to lose quality in the iPhone photo browser. It also has small UI enhancements.
My second iPhone App, Photo Rotate is now on sale in the App Store, for a tiny AU$1.19 (US$0.99). This app does one thing – rotates photos. Sometimes, when holding your iPhone at a strange angle and taking a photo, the orientation of the photo is incorrect. This app lets you correct the rotation of the photo, so you can view it correctly, or upload it to a site such as facebook the correct way up.
1. Select the photo from your camera roll or photo library
2. Rotate the photo until its the correct way up
3. Save the rotated photo to the camera roll.
The iPhone is my favourite internet-enabled mobile device – and I’ve used quite a few; I write software for Windows Mobile devices at work (and I hate Windows Mobile). But I don’t wear rose-coloured glasses, the iPhone and Apple aren’t flawless. Thus I fill the holes by jailbreaking my phone (running unauthorised by Apple applications). When an iPhone firmware update comes out I patiently wait until the jailbreaking community has updated too. To jailbreak your iPhone browse through the iphone-dev’s blog. Once you’re jailbroken, Cydia is pre-installed, and serves as the equivalent to Apple’s AppStore for getting Apps. Here are my top five reasons to jailbreak my iPhone.
Swirly MMS
The lack of MMS support on the iPhone has been discussed greatly on the webisphere. Apple made a conscious decision to leave MMS out in favour of encouraging email (which can achieve the same result). However my wife doesn’t have an internet plan enabled on her phone. Now while the only MMS’s we send each other are usually of cute cats or dogs, its nice to be able to do so. Swirly MMS gives full MMS support for US$8, with a free 14 day trial. It works seamlessly and as expected. While you have to manually enter your carrier’s SMS network details, there are numerous listings for all the major carriers for you to reference. MMS notifications come through in a similar manner to standard SMS notifications.
Following on from Bed’s Top Five Essential iPhone Apps, here are my top five useful iPhone Apps. These aren’t used on a daily basis – but are useful to have around for when they may be required.
IM+ Lite
Its always handy to have an Instant Messenger application around. While I don’t need always-on-push instant messaging on my iPhone – having the ability to log on and talk to someone quickly can be useful. Just the other month I was relaying technical support to a work colleague while in a busy loud shopping mall. It was much easier via IM than trying to talk on the phone through all the noise. IM+ Lite isn’t fancy, but it supports pretty much all IM protocols (AIM®/iChat, MSN®/Windows Live™ Messenger, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, Jabber®, Google™ Talk and MySpaceIM) and is free.
