Pinnacle Studio

Developer Quote: "Pinnacle Studio's leading film-editing technology brings you an easy-to-use app that enables you to quickly edit video, audio, and photos at the speed of your creativity."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4-1/2
- Categories: Lifestyle, Native, Photo Effects, Photo & Video, Videos

Recently, I've started making home videos, particularly because of the new puppy. Need I say more? I've branched off into capturing footage at our office where there's a dozen laughs a day. In fact, we are certain our zany workplace should be on World's Funniest Videos! Anyway, having taken a look at Pinnacle Studio, I have begun enjoying creating unique and mostly funny home videos on my iPad.

With Pinnacle Studio, quickly and easily produce excellent videos arranging your clips into a Storyboard and making edits the way you want using the Timeline famework. Then the fun really begins! Add cool transitions, unique effects plus a fun soundtrack to your footage. Creative features of this photo and video editing iPad app include:

Easily Access Your Media
- Work with any media on your device—video, audio, and photos
- Access media from external devices via an iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately)
- Capture video and photos from within the app
- Organize media by Albums, Events, Faces, and more

Edit
- Get started quickly with how-to materials
- Easily navigate your project with intuitive gestures
- Swiftly arrange clips in the Storyboard
- Make precise edits and trim individual frames in the Timeline and Precision Trimmer
- Easily replace one clip with another

Enhance
- Use Montage templates to create multi-layer 3D animations, transitions, and titles
- Help your story flow using 16 transitions—including high-quality dissolves, fades, and more
- Easily composite video tracks to create layered looks
- Generate professional-looking motion titles and graphics with full control over text, font, color, size, position, and rotation
- Create amazing Picture-in-Picture effects with full control over position, size, and rotation
- Pan and zoom on your photos to create high-impact slideshows
- Enjoy full-screen playback

Create Soundtracks
- Use your own audio or choose from the included sound effects
- Trim audio to any length, set levels, and fade audio in or out
- Use the Voiceover feature to add documentary-style narration to your videos and slideshows

Share
- Easily share your movies via YouTube, Facebook, Box, and more
- Export projects to Pinnacle Studio for the PC
- Enjoy full 1080p output support

Pro Technology, Pro Results
- Easy enough for the hobbyist, powerful enough for the pro

When you have finished your artistic and personalized video, you will have the benefits of 1080p output. Now share your work directly to YouTube, Facebook, Box and other supporting sites. Visit the Pinnacle site to watch tutorials and view frequently asked questions which will help you produce even more dynamic videos. The technology included in this app really does credit to your videos and makes even the novice film-maker into quite the upcoming movie director!

COOL CONCLUSION: Turn your simple and unpolished home videos into sleek pieces of work with the many editing features of Pinnacle Studio.

--Date/Version: Released 8/30/12 - Version 2.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.1 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Compatible with iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation), and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.
--Developer: Corel Corporation

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Pinnacle Corporation

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The Daily Tracker. Omni Cruncher. Calorie Counter...

Developer Quote: "Daily Tracker lets you take notes, make lists and keep track of other things in your life, such as time, workouts, expenses, calories, food, weight, sleep and pretty much anything else you can think of!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4-1/2
- Categories: Healthcare & Fitness, Lifestyle, Lists, Native

It's not easy to count calories, stay fit, keep an exercise schedule and a thousand other personal tasks of all varieties that we face daily. With The Daily Tracker. Omni Cruncher. Calorie Counter, Fitness Journal, Food Diary & Workout Log, it's easy to stay on top of recording the items that are important to you.

Let's explain right here, that this app is not just about diet, health and fitness. In fact with The Daily Tracker ,keep count or track of just about anything! Use this one handy app to organize your lists for anything from weight to groceries, to expenses (I'm sure you've got your own pile of tasks!)

One super handy feature of The Daily Tracker is that it will backup your data automatically to Google Drive. Another great bonus is that you may export your recorded data to Excel or Google Docs! Cool new additions to this app include: When searching notes, the results will now contain the most important snips so it's much easier to get accurate results quickly. Also, search for a location on the map, as opposed to just saving your current location. When an app is useful in many ways to the vast majority, we want people to know about it. The Daily Tracker is just such an app.

COOL CONCLUSION: The Daily Tracker has feature galore, all convenient, handy and so useful that you can eliminate several apps in favor of just this one!

--Date/Version: Released 8/6/12 - Version 6.2.1
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 12+.
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: Lumen Sparkle LLC

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Cool iPhone, iPad Tech & Net News: 8/30/12

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Lingo of the Day: trackball - A pointing device consisting of a ball sitting in a socket that contains sensors to detect the rotation of the ball about its two axes. It looks like an upside-down mouse. To move a cursor, the user rolls the ball with his or her thumb or palm. Trackballs are common on CAD workstations, for ease of use, and on laptops, for use where there isn't enough surface area for a mouse. Some trackballs clip onto the side of a keyboard.

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MetaTrader 5

Developer Quote: "With the MetaTrader 5   iPhone app, you can control your account, trade in the financial markets and use technical indicators for market analysis."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     3-1/2
- Categories: Business, Finance, Lifestyle, Native, Productivity, Trading

When you're dealing with foreign countries in the financial arena, you need to be ready to trade currency at a moment's notice. You're not always going to have a laptop or desktop handy. Prices fluctuate quickly, so there's not a moment to lose. Brokers can conduct their trades and manage their accounts from any location globally when using MetaTrader 5.

MetaTrader 5 trading platform allows you to use Forex on your iOS device. In explanation of the term, Forex is an acronym of the words "Foreign Exchange". So when you trade Forex, you are trading currencies from different countries against each other. Forex trades are typically placed through a broker.

So how does this app prove to be helpful? Well, with MetaTrader 5 you can receive quotes, trade as well as view the history of your trades. These are all super helpful tools while traveling or on the go every day. Let's take an in-depth look at some of the features offered in this Forex currency trading, iPhone and iPad finance app:

TRADING

• Real-time quotes of financial instruments
• The full set of trade orders, including pending orders
• Support of all types of execution modes
• History of trading operations

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

• Real-time interactive charts with zoom and scroll
• 30 most popular technical indicators: Accelerator Oscillator, Accumulation/Distribution, Alligator, Average Directional Movement Index, Average True Range, Awesome Oscillator, Bears Power, Bollinger Bands, Bulls Power, Commodity Channel Index, DeMarker, Envelopes, Force Index, Fractals, Gator Oscillator, Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, MACD, Market Facilitation Index, Momentum, Money Flow Index, Moving Average, Moving Average of Oscillator, On Balance Volume, Parabolic SAR, Relative Strength Index, Relative Vigor Index, Standard Deviation, Stochastic Oscillator, Volumes and Williams' Percent Range
• 7 timeframes: M1, M5, M15, M30, H1, H4 and D1
• 3 types of charts: Bars, Japanese Candlesticks and Line
• Adjustable graphical settings of technical indicators (color, line width)

CONVENIENCE

• User friendly interface
• Trade levels and volumes on chart
• Offline mode (prices, charts, current positions, all trading history)
• Minimum traffic
• Push notifications from the desktop terminal and MQL5.community services, viewing received notifications

When you launch MetaTrader 5, choose between options to Login with existing account, or Open demo account. Once you are registered and have selected your broker, the screen will display Quotes, Chart, Trade, History and Settings underneath, while you have the option for Simple or Advanced views above. (See the 1st screenshot on top left of this page). These tabs will give you easy and convenient access to all your trading needs.

Tap a currency, for example, USCAD: US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar, then have the option to Trade, Chart or see Details. Tap Trade and you will be able to adjust the wheel for Instant Execution, Buy Limit, Sell Limit and the same for Stop Limit. MetaTrader's Chart images contain many finely-tuned adjustments on top of the screen. (Screenshot 2 above right is an example of the Chart feature). The Details screen will provide items such as the Spread, Digits, Stops Level, Contract Size, Margin Currency etc., as well as your Sessions time.

The Trade button (Screenshot 3 above) will give you the details of your recent trade as well as show any Open position. Once you have conducted transactions, you will be able to view these under the History button. Use Settings to further make your business easier and customized.

I would have to say the interactive charts are a real bonus to work with. Scale and scroll through them as you wish. Change timeframes to suit your needs. Even more important, technical analysis becomes a snap when you have all the indicators necessary at your fingertips. This clear and simple interface really does make it easy to achieve the results you need. Move quickly and easily between screens that are all geared to make mobile trading a snap. More importantly, MetaTrader's security system takes the risk out of your transactions.

The bottom line is that with MetaTrader 5, mobile Forex trading reaches new highs. Don't be tethered to a desktop when you can buy, sell, place stop orders, work with orders, analyze the currency market, see your history, and so much more right on your iOS device. The immense functionality and rich features within make MetaTrader 5 an absolute must-have for brokers!

COOL CONCLUSION: Forex trading is as easy as pie with the graphs, charts, utilities and excellent analysis tools contained in MetaTrader 5.

--Date/Version: Updated 7/23/12 - Version 5.0.674
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 4.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Video See VIDEO of Charting System of MetaTrader 5 iPhone
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: MetaQuotes Software Corp.
--Facebook: MetaTrader 5
--Twitter: MetaTrader5

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iOrnament - The Art of Symmetry

Developer Quote: "iOrnament   is an app that is designed for drawing ornamental designs that are both artistically and mathematically fascinating."

- COST:     99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     5
- Categories: Art, Education, Entertainment, Games, Math, Native, Science

Colorful, shifting, ever-changing kaleidoscopes have always fascinated me. Remember as a child those cylinders through which you could view colorful crystals which moved with your every rotation? Now with iOrnament - The Art of Symmetry, use your finger or stylus to create line segments or strokes, and the app repeats these in a pattern according to the 17 wallpaper groups included. Using this mathematical formula, amazingly colorful designs are drawn to delight all ages.

Still, this app is not just about playing mindless games! iOrnament also contains an interactive pop-up book that describes the mathematical backgrounds pertaining to the wallpaper groups. Some of the features of this beautiful, scientific, kaleidoscope universal iPhone and iPad app are as follows:

• Full support of all 17 wallpaper groups
• Artistic color palette and pen
• Glow pen to add highlights
• English and German language support
• Export to photos, e-mail and facebook
• Adjustable color palette
• Extensive collection of tips for usage
• Preview of symmetries and fundamental cells
• Animated drawing process
• Change symmetry type on the fly
• Scroll, zoom and rotate
• Interactive tutorial on math backgrounds
• Sampler of classical ornaments
• Based on mathematical theory

The design of iOrnament is based on the kind of stuff you see in science exhibitions. This kind of symmetrical and colorful creation is of great interest to child and adult both. The patterns are mesmerizing. The developer explains that, "Each infinite regular Ornament that has specific symmetry properties defined by its mirror axes, rotation centers and glide reflections, belongs to one of the wallpaper groups". Enjoy the gorgeous palette of colors and pens, and start making your own beautiful ornaments with intricate designs.

COOL CONCLUSION: iOrnament is a feast for the eyes of color, symmetry and design art. Gaze in wonder at your creations built on artistry, math and scientific formulas.

--Date/Version: Updated 8/17/12 - Version 1.2.1
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Universal: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.
--Developer: Jürgen Richter-Gebert

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iOrnament - The Art of Symmetry

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Cool iPhone, iPad Tech & Net News: 8/27/12

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Lingo of the Day: insourcing - The process of looking inside the company to find someone with the needed skills to perform a certain job. This happens a lot in an economic slowdown, for example: "The budget's tight, we'd better insource this one."

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Translator for All

Developer Quote: "Translator for All is fast, talking and multilingual. It not only shows you how to write the translation, but also utters it aloud in a professional, synthesized voice."

- COST:     99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     4-1/2
- Categories: Education, Languages, Lifestyle, Native, Reference, Translator, Universal

We can't all speak 6 languages like some of my friends. Instead we must rely on books or language translator gadgets to turn our conversations into something sensible when talking with one from a different country. You could also use Translator for All on your iOS device. It is a sleek and useful language translator universal iPhone, iPad app that will help with increasing your knowledge of foreign languages, as well as give you confidence in your business or personal communications. Here are a few of the key features of Translator for All:

♦ The database contains 50 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Danish, Bulgarian, Estonian, Polish, Korean, Greek, Indonesian, Latin, Afrikaans, Hebrew and others.
♦ Easily change direction of translation
♦ Ability to maintain translations to Favorites
♦ Professional voice translation
♦ Full-screen view mode
♦ Ability to copy the translation into another application
♦ Share your translation to Twitter, Facebook, EMail or iMessaging

The display is pleasantly clean, polished and easy to read. Simply pick your native tongue from the left, and then pick your preferred language (from among 50) to which you want it translated on the right. Your native sentence will be written on top and the translation will be written below. Your phrase will also be spoken so you can hear pronunciation, or use your device to play the audio to someone else. The convenience and uses of such a translator is unlimited. Don't miss out on this helpful utility while it is on sale!

COOL CONCLUSION: Translator for All is a polished, sleek and effective language convertor that should be carried with you at all times for quick spoken or written translations, or even as an educational tool!

--Date/Version: Released 8/1/12 - Version 1.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 4.3 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.
--Developer: App Industries

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Translator for All

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