http://realcool.org The coolest gadgets and technology reviews Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am not a big fan of the camera in my iPhone. I wish that it had better low light performance, better optics, and a flash. I mean whether Motorola can manufacture a phone with a real point-and-shoot camera crammed inside, so can Apple. That said I have seen some ... http://realcool.org/blur-adds-tripod-capability-to-iphone/ AutoDesk is the company behind the commonly used CAD applications that engineers spend lots of moment with. Years ago, I spent a few years in engineering school before I remembered that I hate math. One of the things we learned the first year was how to sketch, the reason as ... http://realcool.org/autodesk-launches-sketchbook-mobile/ Our photography obsessed friend Chase Jarvis has been in touch to let us know about his new iPhone app, The Best Camera.  Intended to produce taking, tweaking and sharing images more straightforward, The Best Camera offers a palette of on-device camera effects, and urls in with an online community of ... http://realcool.org/the-best-camera-iphone-photo-sharing-app-supports-twitter-facebook-more/ Designers who work with color a lot are very familiar with the Panton color chart. The company has unveiled a new iPhone app that puts the full range of Pantone colors onto the smartphone. The app is designed for graphic, digital, multimedia, and fashion designers needing color pallets wherever they go. ... http://realcool.org/pantone-unveils-color-studio-app/ The iPhone is known for many things from great usability to poor battery life. Thankfully, there are several aftermarket external battery solutions available to help the poor battery life issue. Dexim has announced three new iPhone docks today that include the P-Flip Foldable potential Dock, the Rechargeable capability Stand, and ... http://realcool.org/dexim-unveils-p-flip-line-of-iphone-docks/ I have not so fond memories of those huge calculators from TI from school. They always went along with reams of homework it seems. TI has announced a new iPhone app called BAII Plus is now available on the app store. The calculator app isn’t cheap at $14.99, but as I ... http://realcool.org/texas-instruments-offers-calculator-app/ There are plenty of iPhone applications available that give you maps and direction to get to places you want to go like convention centers and malls. Once you get there, there isn’t really an app to help you get around. Micello is set to unveil its new iPhone app today that ... http://realcool.org/micello-offers-iphone-app-demo-for-mapping-inside-places/ The game app called Battle Bears has proven to be very popular. The game has you as a bear in a sandbag hideout shooting teddy bears that come stumbling towards you in an attempt to hug you to death. The game has proven to be so popular since its launch on ... http://realcool.org/battle-bears-takes-top-spots-on-app-store/ There were reports filtering out that iPhone apps may not be legal for business use. Those stories are untrue according to PC World at least for users of the App Store in the US. Those original reports were from language in the terms for Sweden and the UK that said ... http://realcool.org/iphone-apps-are-legal-for-business-use/ Most of us know already that Apple and China Unicom have been in talks to supply the iPhone 3G to the 400 million mobile phone customers in China. Key bits of info were lost on the initial reports including how much and precisely when the devices would launch. Yahoo Tech reports ... http://realcool.org/unicom-to-sell-iphone-3g-in-china-in-october/