In March, Twitter announced that it would be shutting down its TweetDeck iOS and Android apps. That’s bad news for TweetDeck devotees, but good news for Twitter—I’m betting that the social network plans to funnel users to its own app, which offers basic functionality but allows the company to display paid tweets (better known as ads).

Although I love Twitter’s main app for its simplicity and ease of use, that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. TweetDeck offered features such as scheduled posts, multiple-account management, and Facebook integration. If you’re missing those extra functionalities, you may want to look for an alternative.

No matter which smartphone platform you use, there’s a Twitter app for you. Which app you choose ultimately depends on what you want to do with your Twitter life—whether it’s reading tweets while you’re on the road or managing five different company accounts—but we selected a few of the best.

iOS: Echofon

iOS Twitter power users should check out Echofon, a clean yet customizable free universal app that can handle multiple Twitter accounts seamlessly. Echofon, which is also available for Android and Mac OS X, has everything you need in a Twitter app, including a fully customizable interface, push notifications, and a “signature” syncing feature that keeps unread tweets synced between your devices. If you’re halfway through reading your Twitter stream on your iPhone, you can open your stream on your Mac and keep reading right where you left off.

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These days, Microsoft gadgets and Apple gadgets can co-exist happily in the same household—and the companies know that. Hence Microsoft’s free Xbox SmartGlass app for iOS, which lets you interact and control the Xbox 360 game console on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

SmartGlass, which began its life as Xbox Live Companion, has a couple of different facets to it. For one, you can sign in to your Xbox Live profile via your Microsoft account; that lets you check your messages, view your friends’ activity, browse recent games that you’ve played, and browse movies, music, and TV shows in the Xbox Marketplace.

That’s pretty handy, in and of itself. I frequently use the SmartGlass app to check and see if any of my Xbox friends happen to be online playing games. The ability to use the iPhone’s keyboard to send them messages is also quite the godsend—nothing encourages me to use text slang more than having to enter it by pointing and clicking on letters one by one with an analog thumbstick.

You can also view and edit your profile and friends list, as well as view your friends’ profiles to see what they’ve been playing; there’s even an option to compare your achievements. Pimping out your avatar—the cartoon representation of yourself—is also available via the app, letting you choose new clothes, props, and outfits.

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As more and more smart cars come online, perfectly good older cars start to look…old. You can bring some of that connected-car experience to your beloved beater with Magellan’s new SmartGPS. It takes a different approach to in-vehicle navigation, combining a SmartGPS tablet with a free app and cloud synchronization to bring you all sorts of useful data while you’re driving.

An app and a mini tablet

The SmartGPS experience consists of a couple different parts, but the SmartGPS itself is an actual device. The $250 SmartGPS is a small tablet with a hard plastic backing and a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen. It runs on a 1GHz TI processor and has 4GB of built-in memory along with a microSD card slot for expansion. The tablet has a speaker output jack (for plugging directly into your car’s audio system, though it’s also got a built-in speaker), an AV output (for connecting to a Magellan wireless back-up camera), and a microUSB port for charging. The device comes with a super-suction windshield/dashboard dock, a car charger, and a regular wall charger.

Magellan

The SmartGPS device connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth (through your iPhone or Android device) to display weather, gas prices, Yelp reviews, Foursquare info, and traffic and safety alerts on small, constantly-updating tiles. It uses Wi-Fi connections to download heavy data, such as new Yelp and Foursquare reviews, and it uses your phone’s Bluetooth connection to download minor updates (so it can connect location data with your actual location, I assume). Oh, and it also syncs addresses and location-relevant content across the device, the app, and the cloud.

Navigation includes turn-by-turn directions

Magellan

At first glance, the SmartGPS looks pretty basic. On the left side of the screen, there’s a map with a big blue arrow that marks your position, and on the right side, there are four tiles, each displaying different types of information. The map side is pretty run-of-the-mill: You can zoom in and out using on-screen buttons, you can tap and drag to move the map, and you can display the map in 3D, 2D, or 2D oriented to your direction. The SmartGPS offers turn-by-turn directions with landmark recognition, which is useful if you’re in an area that you don’t know very well. For example, instead of saying “turn right on Moorpark,” the SmartGPS will say, “turn right by the Shell gas station on Moorpark.” This feature can be toggled on and off.

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There are times when you want to listen to music, but may be tired of what’s on your iPod or iPhone. Sure, you can check out a streaming service, such as Pandora or Spotify, but you might want to make your own music for a change. Not by composing music—unless you’re not a musician, of course—but by using one of a handful of apps to “doodle” with music, in what can be an interesting (and relaxing) process.

Brian Eno coined the term generative music in the 1970s, with his first true ambient recording, 1975’s Discreet Music. This record contained (on its original A side) a 30-minute piece designed to serve as background music, and generated through a number of processes.

According to the original liner notes, Eno’s involvement in the work was “limited to (a) providing an input (in this case, two simple and mutually compatible melodic lines of different duration stored on a digital recall system) and (b) occasionally altering the timbre of the synthesizer’s output by means of a graphic equalizer.”

Eno has worked with Peter Chilvers (under the company name Opal Limited) to create four iOS apps that allow the unmusical to doodle with music and create generative music. These apps don’t create songs so much as soundscapes. Air and Trope are available for iPhone, Bloom comes in both iPhone and iPad versions, and Scape is iPad-only. (Air is actually credited to Sandra O’Neill and Peter Chilvers, “based on concepts by Brian Eno.”)

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Like the quest for perfect weather itself, looking for the perfect weather app can sometimes feel neverending. There are apps that don't give you enough data. There are apps that give you too much. There are apps that use great data for seven-day forecasts, but terrible data for realtime information. And there are apps that simply look terrible when presenting their information. And then, there’s Forecast.io—which technically isn’t an app at all.

The skinny

Last year, a few developers got together and put together a project called Dark Sky—a $4 realtime weather app that told you exactly when to expect rain or snow. And not only did it provide this information, it was accurate; more often than not, it was right, too. Dark Sky became the app many of us popped open to see if we could flee a restaurant in-between showers or if we had time to make a grocery run before the snowstorm hit.

But try as I might, it was hard to justify having Dark Sky replace my default weather app. Knowing the current weather was great, but sometimes you need more comprehensive data: I can’t accurately pack for a week-long trip to California if I only know how warm it’s going to be for the first day.

Enter Forecast.io: all the realtime action of Dark Sky mixed with 17 additional weather service forecasts. The developers of Dark Sky put their heads together and came up with a system that allowed them put many of the most prominent weather forecasting systems to work alongside their own product—and they did it entirely on the Web.

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Apyr’s new iOS game, Sushi Mushi, combines a love of sushi with a love of mobile gaming, without the fear of dropping your iPhone into a side of soy sauce.

Sushi Mushi is a fast-paced timed puzzle game where you, an adorable monster character of your choosing, challenge your opponent, an adorable monster of the game’s choosing, to a competition of matching up sushi rolls. You can either challenge a random opponent or can invite your friends through Facebook or your contact list. It’s a cute and novel spin on the classic match-the-tiles type of game.

Each match consists of three 90-second rounds fought against your opponent where whoever has the most total points wins. You have one relatively simple task: match up the sushi to earn points. You can match up the rolls by two different ways, by color or, if you’re looking for a slightly more difficult way, by shapes. The total points add up and eventually you’ll earn your achievements and promotions for your little monsters, which start off with a white belt and then advance all the way to the rank of black belt.

Sound easy? It is. Within a few rounds, you realize that Sushi Mushi isn’t a hard game, but it’s fun, and there’s actually some strategy to it. In no time you’ll be foregoing the easy three-piece matches for the more challenging, and rewarding, 17-piece tsunamis. And although you’ll hate to admit it, when the in-game music switches to its “time is almost up” tune, your eyes and finger will be left feverously darting across the screen in hopes of finding those remaining matching raw fish.

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Few of us will enjoy the Super Bowl this year, since the Philadelphia Eagles aren’t playing it. Still, we can’t allow our sour grapes regarding Andy Reid’s unpleasant swan song in Philadelphia to taint our enjoyment of all things football. And thankfully, your mobile device offers plenty of gaming options to get your pigskin fix, whether it’s in preparation for Sunday’s Eagles-less Big Game or to stave off the misery of a football-free offseason.

Football fun comes in various forms for touch screen-based gaming. There are true football simulators that aim to recreate the action of the game as much as is possible with entirely finger-based controls, and there are more arcade-style games that instead choose to focus on a singular element of the game: running back jukes or field goal kicking, for example.

We’ve looked at football-related iOS games before, including the long-in-the-tooth but still enjoyable Super Shock Football HD, a pair of field-goal focused apps, and the delightful running and tackling-focused Backbreaker Football 2. But here’s a fresh look at some other football titles available from most mobile app emporiums of your choosing.

Big Win Football

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Fitness social networks work on the premise that if you put your workouts online where all your Facebook friends can see them, you’ll be more motivated to, well, work out harder. Runtastic is one of those fitness social networks—but, unlike other such networks, it doesn’t just assume that you did what you said you did. Instead, Runtastic works in conjunction with several apps released by the company to easily and accurately track your workouts.

Fitness level

Runtastic, and its suite of exercise-tracking mobile apps, is suitable for all fitness levels. It’s a fitness tracker, not a fitness coach, so there are no lessons for beginners in the main app. For example, the push-up app tells you how to use the app, but not how to do a good push-up. The workout-specific apps do offer instruction on doing exercises so that the app can track them—touch your nose to the phone so it can count your push-ups, say—but that's all.

Best activities

It should probably be obvious that an app called “Runtastic” is designed primarily for runners. This app, however, is designed, more specifically, for trail runners, marathon runners, Central Park joggers, and other people who run outside, or perhaps on an indoor track. That's because the main Runtastic app tracks your running workout using your mobile device’s GPS—not, as some other mobile apps do, by using your device’s built-in accelerometer. So if you’re running indoors on a treadmill, the app is not capable of tracking your workout.

I learned this the hard way—I went for a 25-minute run on a treadmill, and then uploaded the app’s stats to my Facebook account. Within seconds, my younger brother (who happens to be a personal trainer and CrossFit athlete) commented on my post: “.15 miles in 25 minutes…fail.”

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Anyone who’s ever been late arriving home or to a meeting (and that would never be me!) will appreciate Twist, a free app by Twist and Shout. This app does one thing very well—it tracks your location and notifies those waiting for you of your estimated time of arrival. Here’s how it works:

You create a “twist” (which is what the app calls its notifications) by choosing two things—your destination and the people who are to be notified of your whereabouts. As you start typing the address of your destination, Twist provides possible matches, including those from your Contacts. Pins appear on the map which you use to select your destination. From there, you select one or more people to be notified—either via your Contacts list or by entering email addresses or phone numbers manually. Lastly, you specify your mode of transportation—either car, bus, walking, or bicycle. Twist then uses local traffic data to plot an optimized route for you, including an estimate of the travel time and your estimated arrival time. Once you confirm everything, then your twist is set.

The magic happens when you leave your current location. After you get a short distance away, the app sends out its first notification, announcing your departure time and estimated arrival time. Your recipients are notified either by email or SMS, depending on whether you used their email address or their phone number when setting up their twist notification. Alternatively, if your recipients have Twist installed on their devices—and their phone numbers or email addresses have been registered with the developer—the app will send out push notifications rather than text messages or emails.

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Agent Dash is a gesture-based action game that puts you in the well-polished shoes of an international spy. The object of the game from Full Fat is similar to side-scrolling platformer Robot Unicorn Attack—you need to prolong gameplay for as long as possible without hitting an obstacle. Death is inevitable and how long you’re able to dodge rocks, pits, and death traps is a matter of skill and timing.

The graphics are about the most compelling aspect of what is a fairly standard game. The 3-D world that you run through looks great on the iPhone 4, with bright textures and distinctive cartoonish models. The graphical quality comes at a tremendous cost, however: the game takes a while to load and burns through batteries. The developer seemingly spent more time on the graphical engine than the level design: You’ll be playing through the same randomly-generated jungle levels dozens of times.

Agent Dash’s over-the-shoulder perspective, jungle setting, and swipe controls will remind some gamers of Temple Run. One key difference: Unlike Temple Run, Agent Dash doesn’t use tilt controls to position your agent, instead, you swipe left or right to position him on the screen, which can be a little awkward at first. The game has the same look-and-feel on the iPad as it does when you play on the iPhone or iPod touch.

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Pholium is an iPad app designed to create virtual books of your photos. The app, in turn, is linked to an online service that lets you share your books with friends. Pholium 1.3, the newest version, includes a number of major improvements over previous versions, and a price drop to free.

Pholium Gallery

You get started with Pholium by importing some photos into Pholium’s Gallery. This is not as easy as it sounds because you have to use the iOS photo picker to select photos, and the thumbnails in the photo picker are tiny.

It’s difficult to tell if the photo you’re picking is in focus or whether the subject’s eyes are fully open, for example. After dealing with this frustration through my first few Pholium books, I finally got smart and organized everything outside Pholium into a single folder. I still had to import the images one at a time, but at least I didn’t have to make decisions about what to import.

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If you want to blog, or manage a blog, from your iPad, you could use your blog platform’s web page editor. But it’s unlikely that interface has been optimized for the iPad’s screen. Enter Posts, a $10 iPad app from Pico that lets you create, edit and view posts on blogs using Blogger or WordPress. (For the latter, it works with blogs hosted on wordpress.com as well as self-hosted WordPress blogs.)

After you enter the necessary information for your blog, Posts shows you all the posts your blog contains in a graphical timeline. The app’s sidebar contains links to the content of one or more blogs, and tapping a blog name expands its section to show the types of content you can access—Posts, Unread Comments, Drafts, Submissions and Pages.

You can scroll through the timeline to go back and edit older posts. The display is a bit choppy, even on the third-generation iPad, but it’s attractive, even though you don’t see full titles of posts. Tap on an existing post to view it, and tap on the pencil icon to edit that post. When in edit mode, you can choose rich text or HTML display. I prefer working in HTML, but the font is a bit small; there are no options to choose a font and size for either mode.

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Sometimes, you play games to build something, like being the architect of your own simulated city. Sometimes, though, it’s more fun to wreck stuff, like being the architect of your own sandcastle’s destruction. In Plague Inc. by Ndemic Creations, you get to have the appeal of strategic creation and the subversive glee of wanton destruction as you craft a pandemic to destroy all of humanity.

You play not as a bioterrorist, but as the germ itself, choosing where in the world to start, how to spread, and how to mutate along the way. Develop your germ to kill people too quickly, and you’ll soon find yourself without any hosts. Develop the germ to be carried by livestock, and you’ll have a head start in rural areas. Strike a careful balance between being low-profile, easily communicable, and just a few coughs away from developing into something catastrophic, and you may just wipe out the planet.

Plague Inc. is a clever and intricate game, and—much like your pet germ—pretty hard to shake once it infects you. However, you may require some time to get accustomed to some of the game’s quirks and issues. 

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Major League Baseball is getting its mobile app into shape for the coming season, and video looks to hold down a key spot in the lineup.

Video features are nothing new to MLB.com At Bat, of course. The five-year-old app has featured video highlights in previous seasons, and MLB.TV Premium subscribers will once again be able to watch live video streams of games on their smartphones and tablets. But Major League Baseball has redesigned its mobile offering for the 2013 season to better feature video clips and highlights.

“You’re going to see video integration that’s much more intuitive to the way fans use the app,” MLB.com vice president of corporate communications Matthew Gould told me as we talked about Thursday’s update to MLB.com At Bat.

Previously, video clips were kept in a separate section of the app. Now, if they’re relevant to a particular article, they’ll appear within the article itself. MLB developers also redesigned team pages to better integrate video. It should be easier to search for videos, too; instead of getting just the most recent additions, searches will turn up results from the app’s entire video archive.

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It’s the new TV ritual: We sit in front of the TV, our iPhone or iPad in hand, busily surfing or texting, both while the show is playing and during commercial breaks. Instead of distracting us from what we’re watching, our second screens enhance our enjoyment.

Second-screen apps, or social TV apps, help you find new shows or movies, simplify the task of locating streaming content, and connect you with other viewers who like the same programs that you do. I looked at five popular second-screen iOS apps (BuddyTV, GetGlue, Into_Now, Miso, and TV Guide Mobile) to see which ones handled certain tasks best. Each app seemed to have one stand-out feature that distinguished it from the others, so I assigned categories for those features and picked the winner in each category. Think of it as the Emmy Awards for second-screen apps.

Best show discovery

Nominees: BuddyTV, GetGlue, and TV Guide Mobile.

With all of the sources of entertainment available these days, the question isn't how do you find out what’s on? Instead, it’s how can you efficiently locate what you want to watch? BuddyTV, GetGlue, and TV Guide Mobile take different approaches to TV listings—and not all of them worked equally well.

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Critics are crying foul over the New York Post's effort to push subscriptions for its iPad app by blocking access to its website via the Safari browser.

Visit the newspaper's website from an iPad via Safari and it directs you to download the subscription-based application in order to view the website.

The paper's move basically makes its content unavailable to iPad users who do not pay for the New York Post's dedicated iPad app. An iPad landing page now redirects readers to the App Store, instead of an ad on the full website promoting the app, as previously employed.

Users of third-party iPad browsers, such as Opera Mini and Skyfire, can still access the Post's website, in what seems to be an oversight on the part of the Rupert Murdoch-owned publisher.

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The 2013 Major League Baseball season is here, and tech-savvy fans have more ways than ever to stream high-quality video and audio at their command, whether it’s pulling out your iPad on the train home, checking your Android phone at the gym, or using your Xbox 360 for more than just late-night gaming sessions.

MLB continues its successful multi-tiered subscription model, albeit with a slight uptick in prices. The pricing structure is simple to grok. The mobile app version, called At Bat or At Bat 13 (depending on the platform), is $20 across the board (there’s also a $3 monthly option on iOS); one purchase works across all like-minded platforms. So $20 on your iPhone also gets you the iPad version. Android users can pay $20 for access on their compatible Android phone, tablet, and Kindle Fire. (There are also BlackBerry and Windows Phone versions of the At Bat app.) Every app purchase comes with real-time scoring updates and unlimited home/away radio streams throughout the season. This year, purchase of MLB mobile apps also includes audio streaming on Macs and PCs.

For those who also want unlimited video streaming, there are two subscription tiers. For $110 (or $20/month), you get the basic home team video feed on your Mac or PC for each game that isn’t blacked out. (Basically, you won’t be able to watch local in-market games, since they’re theoretically being offered on a TV channel in your area. Red Sox fans in Boston, for example, wouldn’t be able to watch the Old Towne team on their computer.) That’s all you get.

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If you’ve spent any time with iPhoto for iOS, you’ve probably accumulated a few albums on your library shelves. Chances are good you didn’t try to create any of them. They just started showing up, and in a variety of colors at that.

There’s actually a method to this madness. And once you figure it out, those various albums can actually help you manage the pictures inside. To take full advantage of this, it’s best to first familiarize yourself with a couple of iPhoto’s tagging tools, then learn the logic behind its album creation and organization.

Photo tags and albums

Image tags are directly linked to two types of albums in iPhoto: Flagged and Favorites.

When viewing an image in iPhoto, you can Flag it or mark it as a Favorite. Reveal these options by browsing the photo and tapping the Edit button in the upper right corner. Up springs a tool bar at the bottom of the window. If you tap the flag once, the image will get marked. If you hold your finger on the flag icon, more options are revealed, such as Flag All, Last 24 Hours, and more.

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While iPhoto for iOS has a lot of editing features for color photo enhancement, there's charm to spare in a simple black and white photo. This classic effect in iPhoto for iOS can add a touch of timelessness to your photos, or you can use it to show off dramatic shadows and color contrasts.

iPhoto for iOS has several options for turning photos black and white—some are obvious, while others are a little less so.

Easiest way: use the Effects tool

The most straightforward way to get the black and white effect is to use iPhoto's Effects tool. The Effects icon offers a series of tools that can make great enhancements to your photos. Tap the icon (the last in a series of editiing icons), and then select Black & White from the available reels.

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Since light could first be captured accurately on a substrate in the 1800s, photography has nearly always meant one thing and one thing only: a bit of space preserved across a slice of time. Even as analog photography and filmmaking have given way to digital replacements, cameras still capture a piece of light focused through a lens for the length of a given exposure, from thousandths of a second to minutes, hours, or years, and fix it—now in bits rather than silver halide molecules.

That’s changing. You needn’t throw out your cameras, however, even though computational photography will fundamentally alter how you conceive of and take pictures, even (or perhaps, especially) snapshots. In fact, you may already be using computational photography and not even know it. Part of the reason is that such algorithmic techniques are in apps you use on a smartphone, and that don’t seem out of the ordinary. The ever-better processors and cameras in phones like the iPhone allow real-time processing or relatively fast post-processing of images, and we’re just seeing the beginning of what that looks like.

Software builds a better picture

The term computational photography encompasses the technique of using sophisticated algorithms to combine multiple exposures across either or both time and space. You may have used different exposures on layers in an image-editing program to selectively multiply, darken, or mask each other and produce a modified output. Or you might have taken several shots and tried to distort them and stitch edges to make a larger picture. Those are fairly primitive (albeit useful) approaches compared to the greater image-processing sophistication used in computational photography.

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Whether it's using Brushes, adding special effects, or simply making basic edits, iPhoto for iOS offers a great degree of flexibility for editing photos on your iPad or iPhone. But aside from the ease with which you can edit photos, the mobile version of iPhoto offers users an unusual advantage when it comes to sharing.

Using the Beaming feature, users can wirelessly share edited photos across devices without iCloud, Dropbox, or other cloud-based services. Instead, Beaming uses a shared Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection to allow users to share photos between devices with the iPhoto app installed.

Beaming is a fast and simple way to share photos between iOS devices. And since iPhoto uses non-destructive editing, you can easily edit an image on multiple devices or revert to the original photo.

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There are numerous benefits to editing your photos in the iOS version of iPhoto, which gives you much of the same functionality as its analogous desktop Mac software. The most obvious advantage is how much faster and easier it is to edit photos on your iPhone or iPad directly with your fingertip or a stylus. Although editing on an iOS device takes a little getting used to, once you've gotten the hang of making basic edits in iPhoto for iOS, you can move on to more advanced edits such as adding special effects.

iPhoto for iOS offers several kinds of special effects, and adding such effects is a fun and easy way to enhance your photos without spending hours tinkering at your desk. With the iOS app you can easily add professional-looking special effects to your photos in just a few seconds. Here's how.

Open the photo you wish to edit and tap the Edit button in the upper right corner of the screen. Tap the Effects tool, located next to the Brushes too: It looks like a cluster of stars. This brings up a fan of effects strips in different categories. These effects do everything from change the colors and tone of your photos to add vignettes and lo-fi filters.

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iPhoto for iOS is not only a joy to use, it's easy to learn—even if you've never used the desktop verion of iPhoto '11.

Indeed, once you've mastered the app's basic editing features, you'll want to explore some of the more in-depth editing capabilities that the program has to offer. iPhoto for iOS provides an array of photo enhancement tools, collectively called Brushes, that help to bring out the best of an image you’ve already captured.

When in the app's Edit mode, tap the Brushes icon at the bottom left-hand side of your screen—the icon with a trio of paintbrushes between Color and Effects. Eight large paintbrushes pop up. From left to right, these brushes are: Repair, Red Eye, Saturate, Desaturate, Lighten, Darken, Sharpen, and Soften.

This group of tools takes advantage of your iPad’s touch interface, making it easy to tweak small sections of a photo. (You can also use them with iPhoto for your iPhone, but the screen size makes precision a little difficult.) These effects are intuitive—just brush the area of the photo you’d like to enhance with your fingertip. You'll likely see the difference immediately. If you don't, you can always tap the Show Original button (next to the Edit button) to toggle between the original and the edited version to view the effects, and undo what you don't like.

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Half the fun of iPhone photography is editing and altering your photos in various photo apps. And now that Apple has introduced its iPhoto app for the iPhone and iPad, bringing its desktop photo management and editing software to the touchscreen interface, users have a great, all-in-one photo-editing tool at their fingertips.

iPhoto is one of the most packed and powerful iOS photo apps we’ve seen, so there’s a slight learning curve when using it to spruce up your photos. Here’s how to use some of the app’s tools to make basic edits. Instructions are based on the iPad version of iPhoto for iOS, but it's easy to extrapolate the same techniques for the iPhone 4 or 4S.

Navigate the edit toolbar

To enter Edit mode, tap the Edit button in the top right corner while viewing a photo. An editing toolbar will appear on the bottom of the screen. While you’re editing, it’s helpful to get the most from your screen space. To remove the thumbnails from view and get a full-screen view of the image you’re editing, tap the thumbnail icon (which looks like a grid), in the top left corner next to the Albums button. This makes the screen less cluttered and you’ll be able to focus on editing your photo.

All of the tools you’ll need to make basic edits are in the editing toolbar below your photo. In the center, you’ll find the absolute basic editing tools and a few buttons to label your photos for organization. (We'll have more on organizing your iPhoto for iOS photos in a future story.)

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