Enter to win Snapseed, Apple’s iPhone and iPad app of the week

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This week, Apple’s  iTunes “App of the Week” distinction goes to Snapseed, a fantastic looking photo app for both the iPad and iPhone. Now anyone can enhance, transform and share their photos with ease using incredibly advanced features. Snapseed retails for $4.99, but we are giving away two copies and making it super easy to enter.

To enter, simply post a comment to this article and let us know that you’d like to win.

It’s that simple. Please just one post per person. There is no bonus for retweeting, liking or Google plusing, but it would be very awesome of you to share this contest with others.

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Make sure you fill in your email address correctly, since we’ll use that to contact you should you win. Next Wednesday, we’ll randomly select (2) winners who will receive a copy of Snapseed.

Here’s more information on the app and why you’ll want to enter.

Snapseed makes any photograph extraordinary and is brought to you by href="http://www.niksoftware.com/snapseed/usa/index.php?view=intro/main.shtml">Nik Software, the recognized leader in digital photographic products and technologies. Whether you use an iPad, iPhone, or both, you’ll always have Snapseed at hand.

Enhance your photos with one tap. Tweak photos to perfection with Tune Image or selectively adjust only a part of your photo with revolutionary Control Points. Add incredible effects with innovative filters like Drama, Vintage, and Grunge. Share photos with your friends and family with social network support, or print your photos directly in Snapseed.

Google’s Photovine Goes Live

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Google’s newest entry into the world of social media is an app called Photovine, which we first heard href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/is-photovine-googles-iphone-photo-sharing-app/2011/07/12/">word of in July, and was originally only available href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/googles-photovine-goes-live-if-you-have-an-invite/2011/07/14/">via invite. Now the app and service are available to all and sundry as a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photovine/id447965023?mt=8">free download from the App Store.

The app is a sort of low level photo-sharing tool. Rather than just taking an image and getting everyone to look at it, you create a “vine”, a theme which your friends submit their photos to, riffing on a theme.

Right now it’s pretty bare. Even after scouring my Facebook and Twitter accounts, no one I know is on it yet, but you’re able to add to public vines, even without knowing the people on them.

[via href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/17/photovine/">TechCrunch]

Daily Deal: 50% off Seidio Inno Dock Jr. for iPhone!

For today only, the TiPb Store has the Seidio Inno Dock Jr. for iPhone on sale 50% off. That means no more removing your case before charging and syncing your iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone, AT&T iPhone 4, or Verizon iPhone 4! Just pop it on this innovative cradle and power up! Now go get it before it’s gone!

Don’t Panic, Your iPad Is Now The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy has been an audio play, a series of books, a TV show, a computer game, a movie, and will now be able to add iOS title to that list. Coming this fall, href="http://www.thenewhitchhikersguide.com/">H2G2 (as it’s affectionately known) will be coming to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

We’re still not entirely sure what the app is — if it’s the original text adventure game, or the novel, or what, but it looks like it’s an actual attempt to be the guide itself. That’s right, an actual guide to the galaxy — well, the wonderfully weird galaxy of Douglas Adams.

We’ll see if the app maintains the humor and wit of the original when it debuts.

Full press release after the jump:

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Hothead Games today announced that an interactive edition of the beloved The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will be released this fall for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy app is an authentic experience, allowing fans to feel like they’re holding the device that Douglas Adams described over thirty years ago. Users can learn all about the importance of towels, vogons, Milliways, the Babel Fish, a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, how to survive in space, and more, all in this friendly app.

“We really focused on taking existing Guide entries and presenting them in a new, interactive way,” commented Joel DeYoung, Hothead Producer. “We have so much respect for the original that we had to stay true to the style of Douglas Adams, and deliver an app that feels familiar to fans, but updated for today’s devices.”

For more about the upcoming The Hichhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy app, visithref="http://www.thenewhitchhikersguide.com/">www.thenewhitchhikersguide.com

[via href="http://io9.com/5831478/new-app-turns-your-ipad-into-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy">io9]

State of the Jailbreak: iOS 4.3.5 and iOS 5 beta

We’re getting a lot of questions from Jailbreakers and would-be Jailbreakers both on iOS 4.x and iOS 5 so we figured it was time to once again take a look at the state of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Jailbreak. Here it is:

If you still have an untethered Jailbreak on iOS 4.3.2 or below and want to stay untethered, don’t upgrade just yet.

If you’ve already updated and you currently have a tethered jailbreak on iOS 4.3.5, you’ll probably have to stay tethered until the release version of iOS 5 drops this October.

Why not? Because if they release an untethered Jailbreak based on an exploit in iOS 5 beta, Apple could easily patch it in the next beta and it’s back to square one.

I’m currently on iOS 5 beta and personally can’t wait to have my jailbreak back. iOS 5 is a major improvement but I still miss apps like Mail Enhancer and SBSettings. I’d much rather wait and have an untethered jailbreak for the iOS 5 final release than a quick fix now that Apple kills off during the beta.

LinkedIn App Gets Total Overhaul

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Despite the contant invitations from your aunt, LinkedIn is set up to be a social network for business contacts, keeping you in touch with the people you’ve worked with over the years. As useful of a service as it can be for maintaining business contacts, its abysmal iPhone app has been a disappointment.

LinkedIn has href="http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-mobile-app/">just released an update for their app, and completely overhauled its look and feel. The new redesign is far more modern, and works perfectly with the limited screenspace of a mobile device.

It’s not just the iOS version of the LinkedIn app that’s gotten a facelift. The mobile web version and Android editions have both been spruced up too.

This is almost enough to actually make me use LinkedIn more than once a year!

Apple raising the bar on Apple Store design. Again.

There have been some fantastic Apple Store designs already, everything from the glass cube in New York to the glass cylinder in Shanghai, but some recent designs for a massive glass roof in Santa Monica, a redesign of the glass cube on 5th Ave., and a spectacular design for Grand Central Station — not to mention the enormous new Mothership in Cupertino — show that Apple’s ready to take things to another level.

Apple already makes some of the best phone, tablet, and computer hardware in the word — precision crafted aluminum and glass. Do they really have to push the envelope in architecture and retail design as well? No, but they want to. They could spend less on the stores. They could do less. But they consider it an investment. They believe it matters. That’s what makes Apple, Apple. They’re dragging us, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the future.

Now if I could just get them to build one of those giant glass tower Flasgships in Montreal’s Old Port. Where would you want one?

Check out the pictures after the break.

[Curbed via Macrumors, Gothamist via MacStories, The Real Deal via MacRumors]