Leonardo, an advanced photo editor app for iPad & iPhone

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http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/08/11/leonardo-an-advanced-photo-editor-app-for-ipad-and-iphone/#more-137409 / advanced image editor app magic wand tool selective image adjustments iPhone iPad post process iOS device photos photographs sophisticated tools clone tool text tool paint tool adjustable brush sizes hardness? Leonardo full featured full-featured photo editor iOS publish published Pankaj Goswami recently released Leonardo available App Store discount $1.99 promotional promotion period layered collage complicated selection unwanted background feather edge background selection invert main subject selected copy and paste pleasing background transform selection more realistic proportions Curves color adjustments shado highlight histogram unsharp mask options layer layers Photoshop layer blend modes mode option mask options fast enough 25 photo effect presets real-time no status bar effect applied export your file .psd layers .png .jpeg file resolution iPad maxes 4096 x 4096 iPhone limited resolution camera view video tutorials view tool names how function feel familiar high end image editor Adobe Photoshop interface plug in plug-in 19 filters adjustable parameter repetition capable learning curve relic desktop PC clone app available iPhone iPad Mini iPod Touch iOS 5 /

Buying Apple products is a form of "Narcissism"

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This may be more popular with Android/Windows users than the iOS/OS X crowd.

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Einstein likely never said one of his most oft-quoted phrases

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Albert Einstein called the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder", right?

Quite likely, it never happened.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/einstein-likely-never-said-one-of-his-most-oft-quoted-phrases/278508/ / tales biggest blunder problem bugging theory of general relativity universe stable theory Universe collapse collapsing collapsed steady state fixed physicists equations work 1917 Einstein introduced additional term into them expression expressed Greek letter lambda ƛ cosmological constant new term represented repulsive force would counter gravity gravity's attraction evidence mounted belief Universe's morionless motion motionlessness Universe expand expansion expanding equation intuition intuit cosmos concoction concocted contrivance preserve false assumption repeated thousands of times books journal articles across the disciplines discipline uttered phrase biggest blunder astrophysicist author Mario Livio documentation references physicist George Gamow posthumously published autobiography My World Line 1970 Scientific American article September 1956 Livio Brilliant Blunders thin sourcing Gamow brilliant physicist reputation student Ralph Alpher write paper astrophysicist Hans Bethe Alpher Bethe Gamow Einstein archive Jerusalem collection personally correspondence scientist famous physicist correspondence between Einstein Gamow confirm /

Time Warner Cable CEO admits "Game Of Thrones" piracy is good for HBO

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Get rid of those damn mosquitoes with the Mosquito Magnet

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A tiny iPhone photography studio built into a Moleskine notebook

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This thing will allow you to film both sides of a conversation using an iPhone. Comes with coloured filters too.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/08/a-tiny-iphone-photography-studio-built-into-a-moleskine-notebook/ / colour color coloured video mirror /

Would you retrofit a range extender to your electric vehicle?

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