I started the East End People blog using ShoZu (£2.99), a blogging app that allows picture and video integration. After successfully creating an account and uploading a test blog it stopped allowing me to upload. Apart from that it had a simple to use interface that allowed you to save drafts of your blog. Unfortunately it didn't have the option of previewing your drafts. Anyway, since I couldn't upload to my blog I switched to Blogpress (£1.79). This is a great app, a lot easier to use than ShoZu and you can choose font and picture sizes from the settings tab. Pictures are automatically saved to a Picassa account and videos to YouTube, which means they are saved outside your blog for online retrieval, very handy if you want to create media streams from your blogs. You can even choose to wrap text around the picture and choose where you want it placed right inside the app, a feature I especially love. For those of you that understand HTML code, you can even use that from inside the app too. You can save and preview before publishing, which gives you a limited idea of what the blog will look like. Unfortunately my preview didn't look much like the end version. Some of the pictures overlap the text, which should never happen if the coding is right. A possible saving grace is that you can edit published blogs in Blogpress, so you can go back and tidy up the formatting on the fly too.

My main problem with the app is that the landscape mode doesnt work properly. The keyboard will appear in landscape, but the text is squashed to the left hand side of the page, which is annoying. I rely heavily on the landscape keyboard, because I have large thumbs and typing one handed is almost impossible for me. Because of this, I have to write the blog in Documents to Go first then copy and paste it into Blogpress. If you have small thumbs this won't be an issue.

For those of you with a keen eye, you might have noticed that I used Hipstamatic for my photos. I won't spend a long time reviewing this app, a Google search will give you an exhaustive amount of reviews. That said, it's by far the best camera app for the iPhone. Nine different lens, thirteen different types of film and seven different flash effects creates hundreds of photographic possibilities. It is a fantastic way to enhance your photography and I have to admit I have shelved my Canon G9 in favour of my iPhone. The Hipstamatic team have just updated the software to make it even more user friendly, with background processing, an additional lens and camera body. In the old version you had to wait until the photo was processed before you could shoot again, so this update is a god send. However, try to avoid quick firing and don't process more than 3 shoots at a time. The app tends to crash if you do and you can lose vital photos. The app makes you think in creative ways, once you get used to the different effects you begin to think about the best combination of film, lens and flash for what you are shooting. You pre-Photoshop your images, and I believe this is more creative.

Other than over shooting with the app, the only other limitation is you can't zoom. Your subjects have to be very close to shoot them and that can be difficult if you want to shoot secretly. Although it can be nice to get up close and personal with you subjects, many times I have missed a shot because I haven't been close enough to shoot with meaning.

Many have criticised the in app purchase of different bundles of flims, lenses and flashes, preferring a one off fee. However, with a £1.19 price tag and 59p for each bundle I hardly think this app will rip a hole in your pocket. To coin a too often used phrase, this is a must have app for photographers with the iPhone.

Next week I'll be using another app from the Hipstamatic stable and continuing my look into East End People. Don't touch that dial...

It's not exactly a holiday destination, although its history is steeped in immigration and trade. It really hasn't changed that much in that respect. It is still one of the most multi cultural areas in the UK and has a market on nearly every corner.

Statistically home to some of the poorest, and the most dangerous, boroughs in London, the East End doesn't exactly stand out in terms of tourism.

However, it still attracts many migrants and immigrants from all over the world. Many different languages echo through its narrow grey streets and yet it has integrated so perfectly as to become almost homogeneous. And this is one of the East End's most endearing qualities, that it hasn't formed broken communities or developed a sense of race hatred. Although ideologies and religions may clash, East End people accept it and just get on with their lives. That is not to say racism and distrust aren't prevalent, it simply means that they have found ways to live harmoniously.

It is very cheap to live in these areas, excluding Canary Wharf, the financial capital of London, where workers earn an average of £100,000 a year. The local shops cater for a plethora of different ethnicities, something that even the local supermarkets have picked up on.

To the west and south of the East London postcodes are the City of London (with it's EC postcodes to separate it from being part of the East End) and the Docklands respectfully. Both are a hive of finance, with billions of pounds passing through each annually.

The Docklands, part of the defunct merchant ports of the East End opened in the 19th Century, shares its E14 postcode with Poplar; a hub of the working class. How can two areas share the same postcode, yet be so financially contradictory? When the initial plans for the redevelopment of the docks were in the planning stages in the early 70s, there was a glimmer of light in the East End landscape. But now the Docklands is alienated from the working class areas that surround it.

So why does the stigma of East End life stick? Is it the historical tradition of the East End that holds it back, the working class living in squalor and poverty, which many a Dickens and Defoe novel will highlight for you? Or is it the modern idea that the East End has become a dumping ground for immigrants and migrant workers, London's cheap labour contained within an E postcode?

I don't have the answers to any of these questions. I'm just an old East End boy with a camera.