Want to go to a pub and get free beer?  Get this free app and blast it at the next futbal game.  People will through their beers at your.  Sure, you have to drink what you can as the glass shatters on your cranium, but hey, free beer what?

Anyway, here is the video.

Well lets think about it.  What if Apple has a rule that says anytime a preexisting well know app get an update, it put on the fast track.  New or lessor known app are on the slower track.  And there could be more then two tracks.  Then that would make sense wouldn’t it?  And further, what if Apple keeps a copy of your source code and simple does a code compare and only looks at the newer code?  Well, that would go even faster wouldn’t it?

Now is the actually, how they are doing things? I have no idea.  But to get approved in 7 hours, it would have to be.

.. and that is a good thing.  The idea of having to wait a few weeks for a simple update; as happened during the first twitter apocalypse definatly pointed out a weekness in the apple store approval process.

So Kudos to you Apple for improving.  I know I like to bash you quite often, but I have to call Win a Win.

{update} Matt Burns over at CrunchGear makes a good point that its not like THIS is going to kill off the GPS companies.  There are plenty of people who do not own smart phones and thus stand along GPS is the only option. But He also points out that the current model is a dying model.  Read more here…

Now, will we see this on the iphone?  Eh.. Not at first for the reason I listed above, but I think Apple understands they can only fight the river for so long, so perhaps late next year?  But this I can say, it sucks to be a GPS device company right now. Take a look at  today’s  GRMN’s stock.

Now check out this video from Google.  You will see now why the “rules have changed” (song title)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXK4jKN_jY&feature=youtube_gdata

Unless you are a full NASA nut, I’m not sure how often you would check this app, but for someone who followed the mars rover adventure, and can you believe they are STILL going?, its kinda cool.

Its a free app so download and explore… and now, the screen shots..

Now if this was some small little startup or something, sure, I can understand and even give credit for doing something ‘cute’… But Oracle??  Really?  Well, check it out for yourself. As for a review of the app, well, perhaps someone can chime in here who has tried this app or other receipt tracking applications.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzxDmdG6kU

You can choose between a male and female voice on the paid version. I’m using the free one (which is female be default) but the voice quality is good and so far, the translations have been impressive.  The only complaint I have is it also reads SMS messages that I send.  Not a full FAIL because its suppose to be when you are driving, but still..

There is more I want to try though.  Next time I’m on a long ride, I’m going to have my email forward to my phone. Then when new emails come is, I will at least hear the first few lines. Same for the next time I’m on a long drive in the car.

Here is more info on motorcycles and state laws in case your curious.

http://motorcycleinfo.calsci.com/PrintLaws.html

http://layar.com/layar-is-in-the-iphone-app-store/

This is effort is part of the Open Screen Project adding Adobe Flash to various operating systems – including Google Android, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian OS, and RIM with their Blackberry OS.

When you see the video below, you see that they have taken the same approach. I do not know who long it will take till its up and running, but I volunteer to beta test.

Watch this Tutorial Video

Remember, this is still early, so do not expect too much from the video.

You can also upload your images to photoshop.com (2 gig limit) and then share / email them out from there.

Now what will be interesting is the idea that they ‘could’ add more filters if they wanted. Right now the UI does not seem to support that, but that would be an easy fix.  Just allow the top panel to slide to expose more filters.  Next thing I would LOVE to see?  The ability to add text over the image.

Its a free app and very easy to get.  Just go to photoshop.com on your iphone and there is button waiting for you.

.. and now;  to the images!