![]() ![]() You can apply a Holga-like supersaturated effect called Helga, go mono, use a fish-eye lens effect, make it look like a Lomo shot, apply a Polaroid effect, or make the shot look like it was taken in 1962 or 1974, if you really wanted to. With it, you can apply a bunch of special effects either to pics already saved onto your iPhone, or taken directly with its camera – to make them look a lot more interesting. But you can at least make its poor quality charming by buying CameraBag (opens in new tab). The camera on the iPhone is mediocre at best we are all agreed on this. And if you used eReader on a Palm, say, you can access your entire eReader bookshelf through its iPhone app – over the air. This will read many text formats, so you could fill up your iPhone with a library's worth of copyright-free classic texts from the likes of Project Gutenberg. So, if you're looking for a more extensible reader, try Stanza (opens in new tab). Unfortunately you can't add your own books to it – though the developers are committed to adding more classic books to the collection. It's very polished throughout, with pages that you flip with your finger, chapters, and a bookmark that keeps your place when you switch between different books. We love Classics (opens in new tab), it's such a pretty little application that we wanted the chance to show you the bookshelf view here. ![]() Definitions' words are hyperlinked too for extra mileage. Pricey, but no more so than the paper copy, and this is far more convenient. The interface could be more elegant, and the quality of the recordings for pronunciation could be better, but it's great to have the authority of the OED in your pocket. It's a proper native app, so once it has launched, it's snappier than a website. Step forward, then, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus (opens in new tab). There are a few problems with this, however it can be sluggish, is rarely optimised for the iPhone's screen, it can lack authority, and is usually focused on American – not British – English. Yes with the iPhone, you have access to an internet-full of information, and with a few taps, you could track down definitions and synonyms for any word you care to mention. Once you're done, transfer recordings to your Mac (or PC currently in beta) over Wi-Fi using a little helper app. You can even add text notes, which we've found to be helpful when conducting interviews. You can pick quality levels for new recordings, pause and resume the recording, and append new audio to existing recordings. There's a free version with ads, or a £2.99 version that's ad-free, but they're functionally identical. Our favourite is the iTalk (opens in new tab) application from Griffin, those clever folk who make rocking iPhone and Mac accessories. But thankfully there are some third-party developers stepping in. We're still puzzled as to why Apple hasn't added the ability to record voice memos to the iPhone – we can only assume that it's down the list of priorities, somewhere underneath adding 'copy and paste'. When Sling Media finally releases its iPhone client, which will allow live TV to be streamed from your home via one of its hardware encoder boxes – TV will truly have arrived on the iPhone. Also Last.fm (opens in new tab) is a brilliant service that creates music stations tailored to your tastes. As far as apps go, try downloading Tuner Internet Radio – a centralised service for thousands of streaming radio stations from all over the world. And you can record TV using, say, one of Elgato's TV tuners and then export the content to your iTunes library, ready to be synced to the iPhone. The BBC's iPhone-optimised iPlayer site is genuinely very good – though it requires a WiFi connection, and you must be in the UK to access it. There's a whole bunch of ways of getting good media onto your iPhone.
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