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Apps World Announces San Francisco Developer & Mobile Marketing event for Feb 2013
Apps World is heading to San Francisco for its tech city debut in February 2013. Following on from the phenomenal success of the 2012 London show the global multi-platform app event series, on February 7th and 8th next year Apps World will be taking over the dynamic Moscone Center West in San Francisco’s urban centre, for 2 days of discussion and debate around the mobile app ecosystem, amongst a bustling exhibition with 150+ leading technology players. Apps World North America will be showcasing 6 niche workshop tracks, covering areas including Mobile Marketing & Advertising, Gaming & Web Apps, HTML 5, Mobile Payments NFC, TV & Multiscreen Apps and Automotive…
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Grid Filter – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away Grid Filter apps, each worth $1.99/£1.49. With a few gestures you can quickly fashion your own grid based tweaks to any photo with GridFilter. Highlight or obfuscate. GridFilter is great for manipulating macro or micro shots. Would you like to try it for free? Join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the…
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Phototwine – Updated
Phototwine is a social sharing photo app, with a difference. It allows you to view images from one event and not just your own. If you and several friends are attending a wedding reception for example and are all using this free app, you can then share all the images together, live as they are taken. It’s a very popular concept and has been doing well since this app came out in July this year. It’s just been updated with support for iOS 6 Facebook and Twitter integration. This is a free update to a free app, you can download it here if you’d like to give it a try.…
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EyeEm – Photo Filter Camera – Updated
I know many of you enjoy EyeEm, it is a great platform and Instagram alternative. It’s just been updated with a new camera with new filters, frames, cropping and photo enhancement. You can also view the images that you’ve liked and post up photos to your Facebook pages from within the app. This is a free update, to an already free app. Click here to download.
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PowerSketch – Temporarily Free
PowerSketch is described by the developers as ‘a fascinating yet easy-to-use app that brings out the Picasso in you. 10+ realistic and creative sketch effects come standard with PowerSketch, including rice paper, picture-in-picture, shadow, wash, neon, and more. You can capture an image and turn it into a sketch or select an image from your camera roll or gallery to convert to a sketch’. This app usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can download it for free. Click here to download.
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Tutorial – Technical – Layover – A First Look
For a long time there were only a couple of apps that everyone seemed to use when they wanted to blend layers. Apps like Iris, Image Blender, and Juxtaposer. Each of these have their strengths and are quite dependable blenders. However, you can only blend two layers at a time when using these which can slow you down if, you’re working with more than two layers while building your image. Recently the same folks, Peak Systems, that brought us Diptic introduced a new blending app, Layover. It’s been out long enough to work out some of its newness and was updated back in mid-October. What’s special about Layover is that…
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DS Styles – Camera Crystallized Swarovski iPhone 5 Case
We’re currently running a wonderful competition to win a $250 Swarovski iPhone 5 case and we have ten runner up prizes of awesome cases worth $25 each, so in total that’s a $500 giveaway we are currently running, see here for more details on that. I want to tell you what my iPhone 5 is currently dressed with. It’s this gorgeous 1,000 handcrafted crystallized Swarovski Camera Case (seen below). It is beautiful and I just love it. It comes in a beautiful box with cleaning cloth, superior soft pouch, phone strap and product certificate, there’s also a few spare crystals in case you need them too. My white iPhone 5…
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ColorStrokes HD – New
ColorStrokes is a new app for your iPad or iPad Mini which lets you create stunning images with selective colors and mix and play with the colors on all your photos too is so many ways. There’s also an iPhone version available as well as a Mac version, see here, and this iPad/Mini version comes with similar powers of the Mac app but optimised for the tablet. If you’d like to try the iPhone or HD versions, just click on the links below: iPhone/$0.99/£0.69/download iPad/$0.99/£0.69/download
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LensLight – Updated
LensLight is another very popular app with iPhone photographers and it’s just had a huge update for iOS 6, iPhone 5 and new content. There’s new effects, new improved interface, social sharing and universal support. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download. Video Demonstration
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A Day In The Life Of Kimberly Post Rowe aka @iPhotoArtist – The Most Incredible Botanical Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and this is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our sixty sixth installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today, we are featuring Kimberly Post Rowe also known as @iPhotoArtist who currently lives in Maine, USA. Kimberly holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography and MEd, and is passionate about teaching and learning. Although she is a working artist, her “real” job…