Since I upgraded my Flickr account to Pro, I started using my iPhone as my main camera. I’ve got no background in photography, but still I like to take pictures when I stumble upon a gorgeous landscape or a beautiful girl. What better device than an iPhone for someone who doesn’t have a professional camera and still wants to upload stuff on Flickr?

So I purchased some photography apps in the App Store, like the amazing Tiltshift Generator (the app I use most), Hipstamatic and Camera Genius. They provide an easy way for an ignorant like me to get pretty decent shots, whenever I like. They’ve got basic post processing capabilities as well, so I don’t have to mess with exposure sliders and other advanced stuff I can barely spell at all.

But you know, it could happen that you have this pic shot with your iPhone, which is almost perfect except for that little detail in the background that ruins it. Let’s say it’s a car. Now what, you want to export the photo to your Mac, fire up Photoshop and edit it? Sure you can, but you have to be able to use Photoshop or other image editing tools - which I’m not.

Luckily, I’ve discovered this neat and promising app called Liquid Scale: it allows me to “magically scale” pictures, deleting details I don’t want, still without comprimising the main content. Sounds crazy? It is.

And we even got 10 copies to give away.

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Do you remember Gi-lo, the iPhone developer we interviewed a while ago here? He’s part of the Eyedevs team, and the guys have finally started releasing their tweaks and apps on Cydia.

SBSimplify is a simple tweak for your iPhone / iPod Touch that allows you to hide the statusbar and the dock from your springboard. Simple as that, you just have to assign an activation method in the Activator settings (mine is “short hold” on homescreen), execute it and watch to springboard magically stretch to fit the whole screen.

SBSimplify

SBSimplify

The only problem is that the app is still uncompatible with Iconoclasm (our post) but Gilo told me that they’re already working on it, together with extended settings for customizing the behaviour of the tweak.

You can head over Eyedevs website here, follow them on Twitter or just search fro SBSimplify on Cydia.

Shaun Inman, the genius behind Mint and Fever (and Horror Vacui too), has just published a new blog post to announce Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, his new game for iPhone and iPod Touch. Judging from the video (which I’m embedding below) and the introductory post, Mimeo already looks amazing.

The game will be a platform, clearly inspired by Super Mario Bros. & Co, but it will “re-invent” the whole formula by enabling the user to collect cartridges  ”upgrade” the entire levels from 2-bit to 16-bit graphics.

From the post:

“Mimeo started as a Mario clone with a twist. Instead of power-ups affecting the player, they affect the entire game world. A story and mythos quickly developed. The so-called Mimeoverse consists of two 16-bit demiverses sharing 32-bits between them. When the evil Kleptopus King, an 8-bit Octopus with an inferiority complex, discovers a portal into Mimeo’s realm and begins to syphon off its bits, Mimeo is sucked in and downsampled to 2-bit. So begins Mimeo’s quest to restore balance to the demiverses.

Mimeo collects carts to upscale himself and the game world and enables switching between acquired resolutions to solve platforming puzzles. He will find guidence from nearest-neighbor and native rabbit Gaido. Collected bits translate into 1ups. Disposing of certain types of enemies leaves behind hoodies that grant Mimeo special abilities.”

Sounds cool. Shaun is aiming fir a 2010 holiday season release, so we’ll have to wait to put our hands on this pixel magnificence.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you should have read that Opera, the popular Norwegian browser, is coming to the iPhone. While many people - including me - thought that it was just crazy to port Opera to iPhone OS at first, it turned out that the browser has been completely rewritten from the ground up to follow Apple’s rules and it should be released soon in the App Store.

Especially for browsers, Apple has a very strict policy in the App Store: they must be based on MobileSafari, they can’t use their own engine or anything else, they just can apply some graphical modifications, use fullscreen mode and some other features. This means the App Store saw the rise of hundreds of alternatives to Safari, some good and some real shit, that started implementing custom buttons, different use of tabs, fullscreen and more options for bookmarks.

VanillaSurf from bitStorm Software is a recently released alternative browser for iPhone which has replaced Safari for me. Can it work for you as well? Find out below.

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One of my favorite features in Hulu is the ability to queue videos, so that when I get to school (where bandwidth is considerably better), I can quickly go through a couple of shows between classes. Although my friends and I share what we watch between our accounts, occasionally the time comes when I’m chilling in the deli just off campus, talking about shows with my friends, and need a quick reminder of what latest episode of House I’ve got plugged in. No longer is there a need to yank out your laptop for such things, because A Good Company has a simple (and deliciously pretty) application for doing just what I described above: giving you a preview of everything you have in queue.

Meet Hqueue.

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Some call me a deal hunter. Others call me Bargain Finder the Barbarian. I’m a savvy connoisseur at purchasing things at great deals; a savant at money spending. Part time window shopper, part time wishful thinker, I might not be exactly rolling in cash, but I always do my best to spend my cash wisely when I find something I want - usually for the cheapest price available. On the iPhone, it’s more difficult to look up prices, because I can’t utilize my Google Shopping, camelcamelcamel extensions, and other promo sites I often have in tabs gobbling up Google Chrome.

The timing was well placed, as at that very realization I received an email in my inbox which eventually turned me onto what is probably my new favorite toy, since it integrates everything I’d ever want on my desktop when researching product prices and trends. Strap your wallets no more you high spending goons and goonettes, because I’m about to take you on an adventure through the world of Gazaro.

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The iPhone is more than just a phone to me. It’s an assistant, a device that I use to keep track of multiple things in my life (money, stats, followers, weight, smoked cigarettes) - each thing with a dedicated application. In the age of database driven applications, this is no doubt the best situation Jeff Raskin could ever imagine: a device that transforms in a new one everytime, according to the application that’s running on it.

But wouldn’t it be great to track all of this data in a single software? You know, at the end of the day they’re just numbers. I’ve slept 5 hours, I’ve spent 10 Euros in beer, I ate 3 eggs two days ago. They’re different situations, but they’re just numbers. And that’s why Sahil Lavingia (developer of Twizzle and Color Stream) started developing Dayta, the already popular One Week App: a single app that could keep track of data, no matter the context. Just data, and days.

And I tell you what, it works.

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