Price drop: iStalin

iStalin is a universal app that lets you create communist style posters on your iPhone or iPad, and is currently available for FREE.

"MOSKOW, USSR - Good news, comrades! Finally, after years of struggle the Industrialization of the Soviet Union paid off.

From the creators of the Communist Manifesto, the October Revolution and the Perestroika comes the best Soviet Union’s product since Kalashnikov – iStalin! Finally, the people will have the privilege to create Soviet posters themselves and spread the communist glory!"

NOTE: THIS IS A JOKE APPLICATION AND ITS SOLE PURPOSE IS TO BE FUNNY! AND NOT INTENDED TO BRING COMMUNISM TO USA OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!

App Store Link: iStalin; Price: FREE

Photo app updates

Over the past week some of my most favourite photo apps, and those that have been featured on this blog received updates, but rather than create separate posts for each I have decided to rap the updates all in one post, so here goes.

First off the mark is Best Camera, which received the following minor update.

• New option to Auto-save your original photo when shooting with the camera
• Facebook sharing now uploads to the "Mobile Uploads" album

Then iFlashReady was updated to address bugs related to the stability of the app, but sadly this has not fixed the app crashes I've been experiencing.

Apps that we've covered, but not necessarily recommended have also been updated, and these include...

Camera Plus, which now boasts...

• The innovative point zoom
• The best quality Flash for free
• One tap access to Camera Roll

...but sadly still does not support full resolution. Despite this app being free, the same effect could be achieved by cropping your photos at a later stage.

iStalin got an update, adding a whole host of new features and bug fixes, as well as having its price reduced to £0.59/$0.99

NEW FEATURES:

• Share your pics on Facebook directly from iStalin

NEW ADDITIONS:

• 5 new stickers

CHANGES:

• Changed the background colors of several stickers in order to blend better on the pictures

BUG FIXES

• performance improvement when selecting an image
• fix picture rotation depending on the camera position
• fixed 2 possible memory leaks
• less memory consumption
• use the same background picture for stickers and texts
• fixed stickers and texts flickering while zooming
• keep current scroll position of background picture after selecting a new text or sticker

Mill Colour, whilst not my favourite of apps got a much needed boost for iPhone 3GS users with...

• Added support for the higher resolution camera in the iPhone 3GS, with image sizes up to 2048 x 1536
• Increased the default resolution to 1280 x 960, up from the more conservative 1024 x 768. Changes can be made in the Application Preferences, in Settings

...and all for FREE!!

And finally

TiltShift Generator was updated, with the most requested feature...

• Hi resolutaion image export.

...as well as some minor tweakes like:

• Twitpic, yfrog supports.
• Small UI improvement
• Tutorial is addes.

So that was this weeks key updates for me, and I may even be tempted to buy iStalin at its current low price of just £0.59/$0.99

New iPhone Photo App: iStalin

Description from the AppStore: WOЯKEЯS OF THE WOЯLD, UNITE! MOSKOW, USSR - Good news, comrades! Finally, after years of struggle the Industrialization of the Soviet Union paid off. From the creators of the Communist Manifesto, the October Revolution and the Perestroika comes the best Soviet Union’s product since Kalashnikov – iStalin! Finally, the people will have the privilege to create Soviet posters themselves and spread the communist glory!

Spread the joy of living under the communist regime!

The people can choose between different styles and papers that were approved by the communist party or place a photograph of Stalin or the symbols of the industrial proletariat – the hammer and sickle. There are some celebrity appearances including the comrades Lenin and Che. Last but not least, the people will be able to add different soviet slogans that tovarish Stalin personally picked.

Useful interface that resembles Tetris!

Soviet engineers gave their best to provide the people with an easy to use interface that increases the production of soviet posters by 120%. The camera of the iPhone apparatus can be used to take pictures that are not black and white anymore! The people can also choose between the communist party photos that appear to be on their iPhone/iPod Touch apparatus. After they manage to finish their job they can save their work and continue to work for the prosperity of the party.

What about support?
New stickers and texts will be added constantly so that the glory of the Soviet Union will be spread throughout the world. Updates will be completely free unlike those capitalist applications that want you to pay for each update.

With capitalist applications one person exploits the other, with iStalin – it’s exactly the opposite. And remember – In the Soviet Union, iStalin buys you!

AppStore Link: iStalin - Price £1.19/$1.99

Editors comments: An interesting looking app, if a little over priced.