Edit Photos On iPhone Using Photoshop From Adobe

San Jose, California-headquartered Adobe Systems Inc has introduced a new version of its software product Photoshop for the iPhone mobile.

iPhone users can now edit the images captured or downloaded by them on their mobiles, using Photoshop.com. The application can be downloaded free of cost from Apple’s App Store, and is called “Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone”.

The application allows iPhone users to edit their images using gesture-based editing. Essential functionalities such as cropping, rotating, flipping are seamlessly available in the software. Additionally, there are special effects possible such as transforming photos such that they look like drawings using the Sketch tool, giving a soft blur to the photos to impart them an artistic look. The color across the image can be adjusted to “saturate” or “tint” mode, besides converting images to black-and-white and back again. What’s more, users can always undo their experimentation, so that the original photo can be brought back.

Adobe offers its users a free account on Photoshop.com. iPhone customers can open an account on the website and use it to upload and store their images and build a library worth up to 2GB, which is roughly equivalent to 1,500 photos.

Read more about what more you can do using your iPhone device, here.

New Voice-based Service From Tellme

Tellme Networks Inc, a Mountain View, California-based organization and 100% subsidiary of IT behemoth Microsoft Corporation, has announced a new voice-based service that reduces the number of buttons to be pressed on the mobile phone.

The new service allows users to use their voice to activate features of the phone. For example, holding the mobile near the mouth, when they say “Text”, their voice causes a text box to open. The user now simply speaks the text message, and then says “Send”. Now they can select the receiver’s name from their contact list and the message gets sent.

Similarly, users can initiate a call by simply saying “Call” to the phone, and then utter the name of the person they wish to call, from their contact list.

Further, users can search the web with Microsoft Live Search by speaking their request, for example, “Weather in Cupertino”, “burger in Alabama City”, “movies in Richmond city”, “Gift ideas for Valentine’s Day”, etc.

This new facility will soon make redundant having to use the finger and thumb-tips to keep pressing the small buttons on the text pad. Because of its intuitive nature, people are expected to embrace the new technology whole-heartedly, according to the press release. The new service is available for free on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones beginning fall 2009. Blackberry customers can download the product right away on their device by visiting the company’s website.

Read all about the latest voice-based service from Tellme, Microsoft’s subsidiary, here.

Now Print A Photo From iPhone Or iPod Touch Directly

You’ve clicked those beautiful photographs using the iPhone or the iPod Touch. But how do you print them out? The days of connecting these devices to the computer, which is in turn connected to the printer, are over. Say hello to iPrint Photo from HP, which allows you to wirelessly print your photos directly from the iPhone or the iPod Touch.

A product of Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard Development Company, the iPrint Photo is a software application that can be downloaded from Apple’s “App Store” website. This website is easily accessible from the iPhone or the iPod Touch. Prerequisites for installing the software are prior installation of Apple iTunes on the devices, plus the firmware of the devices to be version 2.0+. Once installed, the iPrint Photo becomes an icon on the menu, which when clicked displays all the images captured on the device. Select the image, select the print option, choose from all the printers that the device has recognized to be in the Wi-Fi network in the vicinity, and the printing begins!

The printer must be already connected to a Wi-Fi network, of course. Recognition of the printer is handled in the background by Apple’s Bonjour technology.

The software is available free of cost.

Read more about HP’s software application here.

Opera Releases Latest Version Of Mobile Web Browser

Oslo, Norway-based Opera Software ASA made the latest version – Opera Mini 4.2 – of its mobile web browser software available today (November 25). The product is available free of cost as a download from the company’s website.

The new version is claimed to provide more than 30% speed improvements, especially to US and Canada customers on their mobile phones, thanks to a new server park built by the company in the US. Users can now personalize the browser by choosing from a range of colorful skins, thus enhancing their experience of the internet over their phones. Customers of Sony Ericsson or Nokia phones can in the near future also watch videos from the site – http://m.youtube.com – after downloading the Opera Mini 4.2.

Users who work on Opera on their desktop as well as their mobile phones can create an Opera account free of cost, and synchronize all their bookmarks, Notes, searches, speed dials, typed history, as well as their personal bar. So the same experience they have on their desktop is available to them while they are traveling and using the mobile with the Opera Mini 4.2 loaded.

On phones that follow the JSR-75 Java app specification, Opera Mini 4.2 provides the functionality of uploading and downloading files, without having to be rerouted through the phone’s own native browser. Further, pages can be saved for offline viewing.

Read more about Opera’s new mobile web browser release here.

Download the latest version of Opera Mini here.

New, “Data Erasure” Service From Sun

Santa Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems today (November 25) launched a new data protection service called “Data Erasure”, which helps data center personnel to remove and destroy from their storage, data that is no longer useful or relevant, yet may be sensitive enough to pose fraud and / or security risks.

Guidelines for protection and security of data are given by the Department of Defense (DoD) document, 5220.22-M, “National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)”, whose latest updated version was released in February 2006. Data center personnel often have to relocate data from location to another, or redeploy information across different media, or send the storage equipment back to the vendor for any maintenance / repair, or decommission the storage hardware after its life is over, or upgrade to the latest models that come in the market. The new “Data Erasure” service provides the facility to remove data from the original storage on the site itself, and at the platter-level. The service also helps the organization become compliant with regulatory requirements, especially if it is supplying products and / or services to government agencies, where disclosure of classified information only to authorized persons is a top-priority issue.

Read more about the new service from Sun here.

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