Get Hollywood quality special effects in your iPhone movie projects. This was the simple challenge I had from a 5 and 8 year old, fortunate for me there is an app for that. Action Movie FX is a free iOS app that gives you two free effects of a Missile Attack and Car Crash with additional special effects available for an in-app purchase.
The app has a built-in slider control that lets you place each effect where you desire. The effect is about 5 seconds in duration so your video needs to be longer than 5 seconds. If your timing is off you can make adjustments during the edit process. This is not a high precision frame-by-frame editor but it gets the job done. From inside the app you can share your video via Facebook, Email, or to the Camera Roll.
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If your looking for an easy way to back up your Windows Phone for emergencies, then WP7 Easy Backup Tool might be for you. This tool is a Homebrew created by XDA developer Marc Hoover. The WP7 Easy Backup Tool allows Windows Phone 7 users to create or restore backups easily without hacking.
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The new Xbox Companion app essentially allows you to control your Xbox 360 from your Windows Phone 7 device. With the app, you will be able to look at friend activity, achievements, search for TV shows and movies and more.
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If the price of the GPS apps of Windows Phone 7 have been keeping you from buying one, then Garmin StreetPilot sale may help win you over. It seems Garmin has reduced the price by $10.00 however, we are sure it will be for a limited time. Garmin StreetPilot is an internet based GPS system, which means the maps are downloaded, as you need them. The advantage to this method is your maps are always up to date and take less space on your phone.
Get your copy from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
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There is a lot more to eating healthy than simply cooking food at home compared to eating fast food every time your stomach grumbles. The food you cook needs to be healthy, and, though your list of grocery items make look healthy at first glance, not all jars of pasta sauce are created equal.
This is where Fooducate, an iPhone an Android App that helps you make selections between between the dozens of options available on your grocery shelf. Rather than selecting food based on commercials you have seen or colorful packaging, Fooducate enabled you to find and buy the healthy option.
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One of the many goals of a parent is to teach our children effective ways to communicate. Because infants and babies haven’t yet developed the ability to speak, it can be difficult, at times, to understand what they need or want.
Sign Language, on the other hand, is a skill, that children as young as six or seven months old can use effectively and My Smart Hands for iOS and Adroid is an app that can help children communicate with their parents long before they start to master verbal communication…
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Any reader of Simple Mobile Review knows that we are huge fans of the Slingbox which is a device that essentially allows you to watch you’re your Cable or Satellite box anywhere you have an internet connection. SlingMedia has done a great job bringing their SlingPlayer app to most mobile and desktop platforms and they even have a version that runs in a web browser. For whatever reason, Sling Media did not think that was enough so now they are adding the ability to watch your TV right from Facebook. All you will have to do is search for and install the SlingPlayer app in Facebook and you will be able to connect to any of your Sling Boxes.
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How many times at the end of a business day have you said, “I will deal with this first thing tomorrow,” only to forget about it over night. Since iOS 5 was announced I felt the Reminders app would be a stand out winner, and it has proven to be the ultimate task reminder tool. We frequently get asked “can you call me around 3:00,” “can you remind me about that tomorrow,” or told “ we cannot book the flight for another 45 days.” Some of these may actually make it to your calendar as events, while others you may only hope to remember. With iOS Reminders, however, all of these small tasks are pushed off to a humble app.
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TweetDeck is one of the most social networks that allow you to read and post status messages on Twitter and Facebook. TweetDeck has apps for the desktop, iPhone, Android, and the Google Chrome browser. The UI is designed into columns that contained a filtered view of your social network based on a person, search term, list, or other filters.
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GarageBand is an app the lets you explore your creative side of recording and editing music or the spoken word. You can edit a short family vacation video on you iPhone with iMovie, and then record a voice over with GarageBand for the iPhone. In GargeBand for iOS you can easily product a quality recording with the power of a desktop app in the palm of you hand. Don’t think complex audio editing, rather think simple easy to use with advance features you and perform with the swipe of a finger. If you already own GarageBand on the iPad then just re-download on your iPhone but for new users the cost is only $4.99. The app is supported on the iPhone 3GS and above and the iPod 3rd generation and higher.
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