Halftone 2 – 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, you better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’ve teamed up with the developers of Halftone 2 to offer you free codes. Halftone 2 re-imagines what it means to turn your photos into professionally-themed comic book pages on a touch device. Halftone 2 was recently updated with the developer completely eliminating all in-app purchases. Halftone 2 retails for $3.99/£2.49 but would you like to try it for free? Just join our ever…
Gray’s Anatomy – ‘So Many Platforms, So Little Time’ – By Richard Gray
It’s Friday, so that means it’s Gray’s Anatomy! Each Friday, Richard Gray graces us with his humorous mobile photography column, Gray’s Anatomy and this week Richard humorously expresses his frustrations with platforms. Whether this is weather induced, who knows… we’ll let you decide but you’re sure to enjoy this. Over to you Richard (forward by Joanne Carter). My head is spinning. And it’s not because of the heatwave we’re having in the UK at the moment. I’ve just come back from a small visit to Google+. I’d been looking for the digital whereabouts of France Freeman who was recently featured on the App Whisperer. I loved her Slow Shutter…
TheAppWhisperer.com – Site Updated
Not a major update but relishing our 100MB brand new Broadband speed that was installed yesterday, many thanks to Virgin Media – we decided to do a little housekeeping on the site. One area that we’re sure you will be delighted to find is that we have grouped the sections together for easy finding. So for example, if you head over to Columns from the top menu and hover over that, you will see the full listing of all of our Columns, if you have particular favorite sections, such as Streets Ahead or Grays Anatomy, just click on those and you will be taken to all the articles within those…
Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge – With Lola Mitchell
Welcome to our Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. We recently published the Top Five Photo Apps as recommended by Yannick Brice , Cedric Blanchon, Irene Sneddon, our Columnist and Award Winning Mobile Artist Sarah Jarrett as well as Louise Fryer, Lisa Waddell, Davide Capponi, Ali Jardine , Clint Cline, Elaina Wilcox, France Freeman and Tess Gomm’s Top Five Photo Apps including accompanying images demonstrating these selections. Lola Mitchell is another one of our outstanding Columnist’s and writes The App Nerds Column contributing bi-monthly – it’s effectively…
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ColorStrokes/HD – Temporary Price Drop
Both the iPhone and iPad (HD) versions of ColorStrokes are sporting a temporary price drop today. ColorStrokes allows you to color specific sections/elements of your images individually. It’s a popular app and offers a powerful tool. The iPhone version usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69 and the iPad HD version usually retails for $2.99/£1.99. Click here to download: iPhone version iPad version
Photo Editor by Aviary – Updated For Older iOS Devices
Photo Editor by Aviary is a very powerful photo editor with great photo effects and frames, one-tap auto enhance and lots more. The interesting thing is and the reason we are writing about it is that the developers have just updataed this app and have improved the performance significantly for older devices – meaning in this case, the iPhone 4 and 4S. As well as that there’s also new summer themed content and some minor improvements and bug fixes. Photo Editor is free and so is this update of course. Click here to download/update.
Alien Sky – Temporarily Free – Don’t Miss Our Tutorial
Alien Sky from the developer of LensFlare and LensLight is temporarily free today. We published a tutorial last year to help you maximise your usage of this app, if you missed that please go here. Click here to download Alien Sky for free today and save yourselves $1.99/£1.49.
The HTC One Goes Compact With The Launch Of The HTC One Mini
HTC have announced the launch of the HTVC One mini, a compact version of the award winning HTC One, which has redefined the smartphone experience with revolutionary technologies including HTC BlinkFeed™, HTC UltraPixel Camera™ and HTC BoomSound™. Available in 181 countries and across more than 583 networks worldwide, the HTC One has proven to be an unprecedented success across the globe, receiving multiple industry accolades since launch and increasing the company’s brand awareness with young consumers to an all-time high of 87% Answering the call of consumers who want the best in mobile technology in a body that slips easily into a pocket, the HTC One mini heralds an exciting…
JOBY Photo & Video Competition – Winners Announced!
We’re delighted to announce the winners of our JOBY Photo & Video Competition that we held in June. Our theme was ‘extreme angles’ and we had some absolutely fabulous entries to our Instagram feed. We have listed all the winners below for both the photo and video categories. Take a look at the winning entries – all winners will be contacted directly for postal details so their prizes can be shipped. The prizes are as follows: First Prize – Entire GripTight Family (GripTight GorillaPod, GripTight Micro, GripTight GorillaPod Magnetic, GripTight GorillaPod Video) – Worth over $135 Second Prize – GripTight GorillaPod and GripTight Micro – Worth over $65 Third Prize –…
LG Aligns Premium Smartphone Behind New “G” Name
The next flagship device from LG Electronics (LG) will be officially known as G2 and will be the first smartphone from LG to be launched as part of the company’s new “G” premium brand. Future smartphones in the same series will carry only the G name while the branding of mobile devices that have already been in-troduced will continue unchanged. “Our vision is to make LG’s newest G devices synonymous with excellence, raising the bar even further for the ultimate in user experience,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “The new G2 will build upon the excellent reputation established by previous G…
