The plugins include Adjust, which can produce some really amazing effects; simplify, which lets you create painting, sketching, and line drawing effects from your photos; Clean, which smoothes, adjusts texture, and enhances edges; and DeNoise & DeJPEG which remove noise and compression artifacts.

Here’s an example of the color blast effect in Topaz Adjust.

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Unfortunately, installing it overwrote my old Topaz plugins and wiped out the license keys. When I re-entered the keys, they were no longer recognized. I’m waiting for Topaz support to resolve this. Update: Topaz just sent me updated keys.

Unfortunately this means the next version won’t include the ’save to favorite’ feature, since old versions are still out there that WILL crash if the server sent the element necessary for favorites. I’m keeping that code in the application so it will ‘magically’ start working if we ever do make the server change.

Due to Amazon’s new contract, Delicious Monster has removed Delicious Library from the App Store. Wil Shipley says: “Delicious Library for iPhone isn’t coming back as long as we’re using Amazon’s APIs, unless they decide to make an exception to section 4e.”

Section 4e of the Amazon contract reads:

You will not, without our express prior written approval requested via this link, use any Product Advertising Content on or in connection with any site or application designed or intended for use with a mobile phone or other handheld device.

Wil also says, “I already did ask for permission, Amazon said no permission is being given right now. So, that’s that.”

Not all items can be saved as favorites. Movies can’t be saved as favorites & it isn’t available on all network sites.

Wilco’s output tends to be inconsistent, like they were constantly searching for the right sound, but they seem to have found it on this album. I preferred their more rock-oriented sound of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” to the more laid back sound of “Sky Blue Sky”, although YHF had a bit too much noise that detracted from some of the songs.

Wilco (the album) reaches the ideal middle ground between the two extremes, with songs that are instantly catchy and will have you humming them for days. These are some of Wilco’s happiest and most positive songs ever. “Wilco (the song)” is just plain fun. “You never know” & “I’ll Fight” may be their best songs. There are no weak songs on this album; this is another album I can listen to from start to finish without skipping any songs.

In the months leading up to the release, I discovered and started reading Spencer Tweedy’s blog (Jeff’s son), which is always interesting in its own right, as well as often giving an insider’s view of their current tour.

Since I’m still waiting for Apple to approve version 1.5 of the free ad-supported version (which I submitted on June 15) and version 1.5.1 of the premium version, which I submitted on June 28, it will probably be a while before this version is available.

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