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| Product | Neon Wallpaper/Backgrounds Creator |
| Rating |
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| Developer | Mark Chamberlain |
| Age rating | 9+ Applications in this category may contain mild or infrequent occurrences of cartoon, fantasy or realistic violence, and infrequent or mild mature, suggestive, or horror-themed content which may not be suitable for children under the age of 9. Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes; Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor; Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour |
| Compatibility | Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch; requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later |
| Filed Under | Utilities |
| Price | $1.19 |
Neon Wallpaper/Backgrounds Creator from CreateNetworks lets you quickly and easily create wallpapers for your iPhone and iPod touch, placing neon text over them. You can choose from tons of different fonts, neon styles, background pictures, and text colours to create your own custom wallpaper.
The app comes loaded with lots of different background images of cars, landscapes, football teams, abstract art, and much more. If none of that suits your fancy, you can use your own pictures.
Neon Wallpaper features around 40 different nice-looking fonts to choose from in about 20 colours. You can opt for a number of different text effects, from the classic neon look to backlit or glowing.
Once you’ve chosen all the elements of your wallpaper, you just type in the text and tap the Generate button. After a second you will see a preview of the wallpaper that you can save to your iPhone’s camera roll; you can then assign it as a wallpaper or a contact photo.
All of the elements you choose from are displayed in slot-style wheels that you spin to select. Neon Wallpaper also sports a Shake It Up button that will automatically randomise the selections to produce a random image.
Unfortunately, you can only change text placement by
adjusting sliders to offset the X and Y axis. Doing it this way is just
really unintuitive and annoying—it took me multiple tires to get the
text right where I wanted it. A slider adjusts the size of your text.
Neon Wallpaper uploads your image and device ID to the developer’s servers temporarily when you create a wallpaper—the company says this is done to uniquely identify images when it comes to serving them back to devices. As long as you don’t mind that, Neon Wallpapers is pretty good at making some cool wallpapers.
[Tim Mercer is a technology enthusiast, graphic designer, and blogger, whose blog, digital-artist-toolbox.com, offers free resources to the digital artist and graphic designer.]
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
Matthew JC. Powell | Mar 7, 2008
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
jim dalrymple and Dan Moren | Mar 28, 2008
We don't normally run rumour stories in AMW, but this one's getting a bit too loud to be dismissed as rumbling. The Apple reseller "grapevine" has been abuzz this morning, with numerous sources now telling AMW that the iPhone will be released at the end of June or the beginning of July. While there has been no official public announcement from Apple yet, it is believed that the company has briefed its resellers on more detailed plans. Among the other tidbits: no network will have exclusivity and any Apple reseller — not just telecommunication resellers or Apple-owned stores -- will be able to sell it.
Matthew JC. Powell | Apr 9, 2008
Vodafone has made an iPhone announcement, telling Australia that it will be selling the iPhone in Australia, New Zealand and eight other countries. The release says nothing about 3G, exclusivity, timing or anything else, really — will Voda be the only carrier? And if so, what will it be carrying? And when?
Anthony Caruana | May 6, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
