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ABBYY TextGrabber Sure Does Grab Text

I'm not sure exactly what situation would cause me to pull this app out, but I love the technology at my fingertips. Just snap a photo of a page with text on it and ABBYY Text Grabber will convert it to editable text. My tests so far show it to be a great little OCR app. See an example above.

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Shiny Object Alert - WITH

New from the creators of Path. Introducing With, a Path Short: http://blog.path.com/post/6288422944/introducing-with-a-path-short. You can find a download link here: http://with.me

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Thankful For: "Not On This iPhone" iCloud Updates

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I've missed updates to apps I've deleted that made them apps I would not have deleted. The iCloud update to the iPhone app store will help me easily install and retest. I like that.

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Video Calling From Skype On iPhone - That Didn't Suck

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Except for the fact that Loren Nason was one of my only options to test this out with, I have no complaints. :) The Skype for iPhone update released today works as advertised.

Sweet.

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iPhone Photo Buffs Are Gonna Like 100 Cameras In 1 App

The just released 100 Cameras In 1 iPhone app is definitely worth a look. The effects are beautiful and they are applied lightning fast!

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Quick Look At The New Posterous App

Some screen snaps from the new Posterous iPhone app.

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Need To Loose 18 pounds? There's An App For That.

When my scale continued to read 220 for a period of time I'm not ready to admit, I determined I needed to do something different. And since my iPhone has never failed me in the past, I decided to trust the advice of a friend, Ines Hegedus-Garcia, and start using "Lose It"  to make some changes in my food consumption.

As it turns out, I eat for sport way more often than I'd like to admit. I like food. Sue me. But eating for sport is not the same thing as actually participating in a sport, so the downside is you gain weight. Imagine that. What the "Lose It" app has done is help me realize that I can eat a LOT less and be happy about it. In fact, I'm so happy about it, I'm about to lower my goal from 195 to 185, a weight I haven't seen in 7 years. 

If you're looking for a tool to help you lose a few pounds. This one may be right up your alley. Of course, you have to actually input the food you eat. But if you're like me and your iPhone is practically surgically attached to your hand, it won't be that hard. After six weeks of use, I can safely say "Lose It" has certainly worked for me. 

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I Kinda Dig ToonPAINT

I've been playing with the ToonPAINT iPhone application for the last few days, mainly on airplanes. I love some of the "toons" I've created with my kids' photos. But I needed a subject who probably wouldn't mind being toonified, so I chose Derek Overbey www.Twitter.com/doverbey as my subject. ToonPaint is not your typical image filter. It gives you some great control over the base cartoon image, but you have to do the work of selecting colors and painting them on. It's like paint by numbers without the numbers.

As with many of these apps, my main gripe is export size. These save at 320x480 pixels, which is really only large enough to use as avatars. Which is sad, since a few of the ones I've made with my kids would look great larger and hanging on a wall. Not sure about this one. ;)

It's fun and worth a try.

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Realtor.com Launches An iPhone App

Realtor.com launched their consumer-focused residential search app for the iPhone today. It is available for free in the iTunes store. 

They key features of the Realtor.com iPhone app are, GPS location of nearby homes for sale and open houses, the ability to sync your mobile searches with your online Realtor.com account, save searches to the iPhone itself, the ability to share properties via email, Facebook & Twitter, and a notes section for rating the properties you visit. I've had the chance to play with the app for several days now and it's very responsive and accurate in my area. Each house I drove to had a for sale sign out front. That was nice. :)

From a consumer perspective, it does most of the things I'd hope a search app would do, including giving me the ability to take notes on each house I visit. I like it. Here's a few screen grabs, but hey, it's free. Download it for yourself and give it a shot.

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Engadget Twitter Fail

Engadget has a nice little iPhone app that allows you to share to Twitter. So far so good, except they do a poor job of creating the message, focusing on themselves and not on the post... And the message is not editable.

If they want people to use this, they need to use a short URL and input the article tile as the base for an editable tweet. As it is, it has limited utility.

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Sent from my iPhone

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