Author: Donny Yankellow

RealMac’s LittleSnapper iPhone/Touch app is the companion app to the Mac program of the same name. I love the Mac application. It has become my default way to take and organize screenshots on my iMac. When I was presented with the opportunity to review the companion iPhone/Touch app I jumped at it. Does the app live up to my expectations from the Mac version?

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, when it comes to drawing tablets Wacom is what you want. I have had the opportunity to review the Bamboo Fun and the Intuos 3, and my students us the Graphire 4 tablets. Recently, Wacom released the Intuos 4 and along with the fantastic pen and drawing features you expect from Wacom it comes with even more improvements.

Almost two years ago (actually almost exactly two years ago) I reviewed Corel Painter X. At the time I ended my review with the following statement: Not all program upgrades are worth the money. Especially when your talking about programs that cost as much as Painter X. I’ve been known to skip versions of programs every now and then. However, Painter X is one of those upgrades that is well worth the investment. That was then, and now Corel is back with Painter XI. Is it worth the price to upgrade this time around? Read on.

As a digital photography teacher, card readers have become invaluable in my classroom. Students come with different cameras the need different cables. Card reader solve this problem, if they read enough card formats. The Verbatim Universal Card Reader is my new reader of choice.

There are more and more apps in the iTunes App Store that fall into the category of physics games. These are games where you draw shapes and lines on the screen to get a ball to a star, or something similar. There are also more and more games with the hand drawn crayon look. Crayon Physics Deluxe is fits both of the categories.

A couple of years ago I had the chance to review ArtRage 2 by Ambient Design and it is one of my favorite, low priced, paint programs for the Mac. For $25 you get a fantastic Painter like program. Since that review came out, ArtRage 2.5 has been released, and many new features have been added. It was time for an updated review!

Want an easy to use program for editing and adding special effects to your photos? You might want to check out Funtastic Photos.

Recently, I reviewed a program called Artwork which turns your photos into paintings. In the past I have reviewed several other paint programs that have this feature. Well, now there is an iPhone/iPod Touch app called Artist’s Touch that does the same thing.

Recently, I had the opportunity to try out three VERY different games from the iTunes App Store: Board Games, Blurb, and Tatomi. What did I think? Read on.

Macally’s TurboTune speakers pack a big punch in a small package. For $29.99 you get pocket size stereo speakers for you iPod or anything else with an audio jack that has great sound quality.