: Recording video on your iPhone is pretty easy; effectively editing that video, less so. The free app lets you do both, and offers a few nifty features along the way: While you're recording a live event, you tap the screen to highlight critical moments, making it easier to find important footage when you're editing later. You can then splice clips together, add transitions and effects, layer in music, and either share the final product to YouTube or Facebook, or save it to Givit's cloud. Now everybody can be a movie director, armed with no more equipment than what fits in your pocket.
Last we checked, there were exactly eleventy kajillion cloud-based storage services out there. It's hard for any one of them to stand out from the rest. But is doing its darndest with the latest update to its free app for iPhone and iPad: Users can now do a voice search for documents containing keywords and phrases--just speak it into the microphone, and the app will turn up the files containing those words. Other improvements to the app include the ability to share documents on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And Office Drop promises that integration with the new Passbook app in iOS is coming soon.
Learning new languages is, for most of us, very difficult. Two new apps promise to make it easier--one by connecting you to language speakers, the other via memory exercises. is a free iPhone app that acts as a sort of combination Facebook and Craigslist, letting users connect with other nearby foreign-language speakers to practice and listen; a $1 "premium account" offers users live-chatting capability, as well as options to block other users who don't always act in the spirit of education. The app for iPhone and iPad lets users download flashcards from --including language-learning exercises--to encourage learning through brute-force memorization. Yes, your iPhone is making you smarter.
has been updated with new audio features, including one that lets users record notes for themselves ... iOS app now has a "Just For Kids" section ... the is now available as an ; it's still subscription-only.