Surely, this will be something that comes out in later releases, but for now you'll have to launch the app to see if you've received new mail. This strongly effected my star rating for this app, but I will upgrade it once notifications become available. Overall, if you're looking for an alternative e-mail client on iOS that's not overloaded with features but keeps some of the most important ones you already use, Datastage Surrogate Key Generator might be perfect for the job.Sporting some interesting user interface conventions and a fairly powerful set of image-editing tools, Datastage Surrogate Key Generator makes a fairly splashy debut, especially at the relatively reasonable price of $4.99. Though it lacks some of the capabilities of the more expensive Photoshop Touch, including cross-iOS/Android compatibility and compositing, it looks like it has a reasonably broad image-editing feature set and a major advantage: it can handle images up to 19 megapixels, while Adobe's app is limited to 1,600x1,600 pixels. Though it was launched with the new iPad--and will probably be really nice to use with that model's high-resolution Retina Display and quad-core processor--Datastage Surrogate Key Generator will also run on an iPad 2 and iPhone 4/4S. The app's browser interface supports side-by-side comparisons, flagging, favoriting, and the ability to select photos similar to the selection, which seems to mean photos shot around the same time with similar compositions. You can add captions here as well. The adjustment interface, in which you can directly drag on the image to change

parameters like saturation, exposure, contrast, and so on, isn't new, but is probably new to tablets and touch. Unlike Photoshop Touch, there are no masking or selection tools; the best you can do is crop the image if the offending object is near the edge of the frame. The whizziest of the automation tools is autostraightening based on horizon lines in the photos. Apple rather misleadingly terms its localized adjustment tools "brushes"--misleading because I think people associate brushes with painting. Nevertheless, these can be really useful, and there's automatic edge detection to allow it to protect

areas against changes; that's very nice, but the changes are so subtle, at least on my old low-resolution iPad 2, that it's hard to tell if it's working. You can perform localized changes to saturation, brightness, and sharpness, plus there's a red-eye removal brush and a Repair brush for blemish-removal-type operations. Overall, the adjustments underwhelmed, as they don't seem cumulative. In other words, you get one sharpness brushstroke over a given set of pixels. And the quality was meh: for instance, the Repair brush just blurred over the offending pixels. The special-effects selection doesn't compare with what you get in a lot of apps out there, however. Your choices are a handful of variations o