Your Digital Life

Today, our photos are increasingly scattered between hard drives, camera memory cards, phones, social networks and the cloud. A new software program from Nero, dubbed NeroKwik promises to help — at least with your photos stored on social networks. NeroKwik is an app for your iPhone or Android phone that connects to both Facebook and [...]

Corel is adding several new features to its Pinnacle Studio for iPad video editing app. What will you get? New fast-and slow-motion creative effects, updated title styles, faster performance and greater stability. The Studio app costs $12.99 in the apps store and the feature upgrade will be free to current Studio app owners. Using the app you [...]

Polaroid may be a shadow of its former self, but the fascination with Polaroid-style prints endures. If you’ve been dying to transform your digital images into Polaroid-style prints, a new iPhone app dubbed Printic will do just that for just $1 a piece (that includes shipping). It’s a pretty straightforward app. You select a photo [...]

If you’re looking for a simple, elegant app for adding text onto your images, the aptly-named Photolettering caught our eye. For iPhones and iPads, Photolettering does one thing: adds letters to your photos. Big deal, you say? Well, it comes from a bona-fide type foundry (i.e. they create font styles), so they’re not just ripping off common [...]

While smartphones are great for taking photos, it’s a lot harder to do any editing on their small screens. To address this problem researchers at the Adobe Imagination Lab have teamed with the University of Michigan to develop something called PixelTone – an app that would allow you to speak image editing commands to the computer [...]

There’s loads of image editing apps out there that allow you to instantly turn your images into some fairly interesting looking works of art and the latest that has crossed out paths is dubbed PicLab for iOS. The app lets you easily add typography, masks and other effects to your photos and share them across [...]

It has come to this – an iPad 2 app that can actually measure your vital signs – a true what-app-will-they-think-of-next moment. Philips recently launched the app dubbed Vital Signs Camera that can measure your heart rate and breathing via the tablet’s camera. The iPad 2’s camera detects the small changes in the color of [...]

It’s hard to get noticed in the increasingly crowded mobile photography market, but Streamzoo is giving it a shot by blending photo-sharing features with social gaming. The app – available for Android and iPhone models and available online – turns photos into a social competition with a leaderboard, user-awarded points and badges you can obtain [...]

One of the new features of Apple’s highly touted iCloud service is Photo Stream. With Photo Stream, photos you snap on your Apple devices will automatically appear on other Apple devices running the new iOS 5 operating system as well as a select folder on your desktop. All of this is done instantly and automatically [...]

More and more home printers are building in support for Airprint – Apple’s wireless printing technology. If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and have been itching to make some prints, this informative video shows you how it’s done: