5 iPhone Apps you Need: App 1

This post is the first in a series of five. Look out for more every Tuesday and Thursday. Read the second post here.

So you just got a new iPhone. Or you've had an iPhone for a while, but you haven't really gotten into the hang of the app thing. Or you've had the iPhone for a while, and you've been downloading apps, but you just haven't heard of these. No matter what your situation is, you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you need to check out these cool apps.

The first app in this five app series is Mint. From mint.com, this free app is available in the App Store.

Mint.com

Once you become old enough to live by yourself, you're bound to be confused with all of your financial responsibilities. Be it the mortgage, your college loan, or the groceries. Mint.com's free app is here to help. Although you might feel worried giving Mint.com all of your personal finance information, Mint is using the same service to keep the information as most banks do, so you aren't really giving any information you haven't already given. Once you put in all of your info, Mint will help you create a budget, and really manage all of your  finance needs. Mint is free, safe, and a definite download for any iPhone user.

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"It's Been Far Too Long" - Comex gave up on Jailbreakme 3.0 for iPad 2?

Here’s another teaser from Comex webiste http://www.jailbreakme.com
Do you think its coming soon or Comex just gave up?

Google Revamps it's Universal Web-App Look

The new Google.com Interface

Are you tired of that simple looking Google homepage? Do you wish Google would get rid of it's simplistic design, and make it more exciting. Well, thanks to the new Google web-app revamp, you are still out of luck.

The new Google.com design also applies to all of the other Google web-apps, and basically makes Google look simpler, although the Google experience hasn't changed much.

The new update puts the links Google.com all at either the top or bottom of the page, making it easier to see the blankness of the rest of the page. The Google logo is now slightly smaller, and this also makes is easier to see the blankness of the page.

It seems that the new Google color scheme is red and black. Although the actual Google logo hasn't changed, the bar of links to various Google services that hovers above most Google websites has gone from a light grey to a dark black. The site you are currently visiting is overlined nicely in red, and when you mouse over a link, the boxed area around it becomes a dark grey.

This red/black color scheme is more obvious on the actual page of search results. When searching for a word or phrase, the updated Google, like the older version, shows search results in the main area, and has a sidebar on the left side which allows you to search exclusively for images, videos, blogs, ect. This sidebar has changed in a few ways, most of them, in my opinion, for the better. As pictured below, the sidebar's few default search refining options are now spaced slightly further apart, and, while remaining the same font as the previous interface, are now dark grey. Instead of becoming bold when selected, the options now change to the nice shade of red used throughout the site. The icons are now grey instead of colored, and are changed slightly from the previous versions. When mousing over an option, the area around it becomes a shade of light grey.

The search-box area is also slightly changed in this new interface, as it is now boxed in grey and the search button is now a nice, rounded blue button, with a magnifying glass icon instead of the actual word "search". The Google logo on the left of the search box is now slightly smaller.

The new red/black theme makes the Google experience feel much more elegant, as well as simple, but it also makes it feel that the Google logo shouldn't be that colorful. Google has been using it's red, green, yellow, and blue color scheme as a base for it's new services, but some of the latest additions have seen a slightly different color scheme.

The new search interface

Overall, the new Google interface brings a cleaner interface, a simpler experience, and ultimately, more eye candy, something that was not in the early search engines, and has kind of become a new thing. Google was earned a +1 for this one.

It seems that the bar of links on top of most Google websites appears updated for everyone, but the newly designed home and search pages have not yet rolled out to all users.

Read Google's blog post here.


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PENTAX Q

PENTAX Q comes with a tiny size, lightweight design, a high-resolution 12.4 megapixel and 1/2.3 inch CMOS image sensor.

Features:

• PENTAX Q-mount lens system for interchangeability with a variety of specialty Q lenses including prime, zoom, fish-eye and more.
• Exceptional image quality in 12.4 megapixels from the Q’s 1/2.3 inch backlit CMOS image sensor, capable of producing 12 bit DNG RAW and JPG images.

• Extremely compact, durable, lightweight, scratch resistant magnesium alloy body.
• The power and flexibility of traditional DSLR shooting modes such as Program, Aperture/Shutter Priority, and Metered Manual exposure control as well as highly convenient PENTAX Auto Picture and 21 scene modes for casual shooting, including new Forest and Stage Lighting options.
• A variety of creative modes, Smart Effect options, or camera settings that assign to the Q’s Quick Dial located on the front of the camera. Smart Effects modes enhance digital photography by applying a series of effects to images to achieve high quality finishing. Brilliant Color, Vintage Color, Warm Fade, Bold Monochrome, and Water Color are just some of the Smart Effects available and may be assigned on the Q’s Quick Dial.
• In-camera HDR capture mode shoots 3 images of varying exposures, blending them to bring out the details in even the darkest shadows and brightest highlights of extreme contrast shots.
• High quality motion video with stunning full 1080p HD clarity at 30 frames per second. The Q  processes the full HD video using high quality h.264 compression.
• A sensor-shift Shake Reduction system with integrated DRII Dust Reduction. 
• 5 frames per second continuous shooting mode.
• Effortless bokeh control with the Q’s Bokeh Control filter.
• Powerful USER modes allow the creative photographer to save a series of favorite camera settings, filters, and custom image modes for instant reuse.
• Shutter speeds range from 1/2000 to 30 seconds. Bulb mode adds flexibility for low light photography and motion effects.
• A built-in popup flash. The Q’s flash is effective to 23 feet at 200 ISO, and covers a wide angle 28 degree field of view.
• Compatibility with the latest generation SD, SDHC, and SDXC memory cards.

Latest Rumor About iPhone 5 Contain dual-LED flash

Previous days remind us the features of our mobile phone camera that contain a low resolution. But these days due to continues invention of phone cameras, they created a flash for the improvement of the pictures taken by camera phones.

The latest news about iPhone 5 is will have a dual Led Flash.  According to the report, Apple orders for the Lumileds high-power LED flash products it currently gets from Philips and has lately switched the orders for LED flashes to this company.

Also, rumored that the dual flash set up has 8 megapixels and 5 megapixels in front camera. Some people wondered if having 5 megapixels in front of the camera using facetime, will clearly see your face without using any light.

JailbreakMe 3.0 to be release on Sunday (July 3, 2011)

Is this true?

iPhone 5 Infographic