In the Photos section of the just-released version 1.1 of Take Control of Media on Your iPad, I mentioned a great utility for locating stock photos for research (see the sidebar on page 94). There was one catch, however: Apple had not yet approved the app. Sure enough, the day the updated version of the ebook was ready, Viewfinder made its appearance at the App Store (that link opens a Web page and iTunes directly). The $9.99 app from Connected Flow can not only search Flickr for images, but also filter ones that have Creative Commons licenses in use. I've used the Mac version of Viewfinder, which is far easier than plodding through pages and pages of Flickr search results pages on the Web.

—Posted by Jeff Carlson on July 12, 2010