No doubt that Haitians right now need help. From the original 7.2 earthquake, the dozen 5.0 aftershocks, and last night’s 6.0 aftershock, the place is in ruins. If you want to help, then get yourself some Apple or iPhone software in the process with indie+relief. They’ve got lots of applications, and here’s some of interest possibly to the VizWorld community:
Acorn is an image editor built for the Mac with simplicity in mind. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the tools you need to alter and enhance your images, without any overhead. Acorn feels right, it won’t drain your bank account, and you don’t need a Ph.D. in computer graphics to use it.
Clipstart helps you discover and organize your own videos. Import your videos from the iPhone 3GS, Nano, Flip, and other video cameras, then tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, and Twitter. You can even upload a trimmed portion of a video without saving a new copy. Clipstart’s clean interface automatically organizes your videos by date and provides a fast tagging workflow to make sense of even large collections.
Chromixa is a new and unique colour-blending puzzle game, designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch Truly the first of its kind. Arrange shapes of light to complete beautifully designed puzzles. Based on the colours found within white light; red, green and blue combine to create new colours as shapes overlap. Like a jigsaw of light, your goal is to arrange the shapes to fill an outline with a single colour. As you complete puzzles, the points you earn can be used to unlock fun arcade-style mini games. Like all good puzzle games, Chromixa has a simple concept which creates progressively harder puzzles. A fun and addictive mental challenge for all ages!
wxRadar provides quick and easy access to all 150+ US Doppler Radars. You get a beautiful and clutter-free interface along with everything one would expect in a radar app: “locate me”, pinch zooming, radar loop, one tap full-screen, and landscape mode… But you also get a feature unique only to wxRadar: “tap and hold” to access adjacent radars. wxRadar is simple enough for all users, but if you want to dig deeper, wxRadar provides advanced options that allows you to access additional radar imagery (for example: “Storm Relative Velocity”). Many more features are planned for wxRadar this year and all updates will be free.
There’s loads more, including games, productivity tools, and much much more. At least go check out the list, maybe you’ll find a piece of software you’ve always wondered about but haven’t wanted to fork out for. Now you can get it, and feel good for helping out.
