Fifth Generation iPad To Launch In September 2013
Well the rumor sites are awash with news right now that the brand new Apple iPad 5 will launch in September 2013, with the second generation iPad Mini (which we hope picks up a retina screen) soon afterwards. According to AppleInsider today, ‘The fifth-generation iPad is expected to adopt a design similar to that of the iPad mini, including more rounded edges and a thinner bezel. Leaked schematics have suggested the new iPad will also be thinner than its predecessor, while well-connected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has said the device will be 25 percent lighter’. Apple are said to still be debating whether to add a retina screen…
NEM/The Hungry Ghost – ‘Void’ Competition – Reworked!
Last month we published details of the NEM and The Hungry Ghost Facebook group competition. This competition involved artists creating artwork that depicted the term ‘Void’. Sixteen artists’ works were selected and these then went to a public vote. Finally the top three were determined and their t-shirts auctioned off for charity. The charities were to be determined but recently it was annouced that Edyta Lipinska a most talented mobile photographer/artist was experiencing very difficult and expensive health issues. A fundraising appeal on Facebook has been announced to help her and Steve Cooper from The Hungry Ghost has decided to pledge the entire amount to this organisation. We all wish…
iColorama Masking Tutorial Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
Last week we published the first part of this video tutorial by Jerry Jobe and we’re delighted to publish the second part today. Take a look below and enjoy… iColorama is a hugely popular app for your iPad and you can download it here, if you don’t have it already. It retails for $1.99/£1.49.
Popsicolor – 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 the recently updated Popsicolor app to offer you this wonderful app for free. Popsicolor retails for $1.99/£1.49 but if you would like to try it for free, just join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you love most about…
Over – Temporarily Free
Over allows you to ‘add beautiful text and artwork to your photos and share them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr & Instagram. Create inspirational, informational or even funny images to share quickly and easily. In only a few seconds you can add captions, quotes, jokes, memes, poems or anything else you can think of to a photo’. It’s a very popular app and usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
Transport for London and Apps for Good announce partnership helping young Londoners develop technology skills
My good friend Jenny Hodge, previously PR Manager for Leica in the UK is representing Switch Communications on behalf of Apps for Good and it’s a fabulous resource. Apps for Good is an open-source technology education programme aimed at providing young people with creative, business and technical skills, particularly in low income and under-represented communities. Participants in the new scheme will work together in teams over several months to design exciting new apps for mobile phones and social media platforms such as Facebook, which could work to find ways of tackling issues in their communities utilising TfL’s publicly available open data. Starting immediately, TfL and Apps for Good will aim…
Mextures – Updated
Mextures is becoming a hugely popular and important app to mobile photographers using the iPhone and it has just been updated with some great new features, including a brand new Summer Formula Pack full of nine ‘subtle, soft and warm edits’. Take a look at What’s New below to see all the new features. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not you can pick it up here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49. What’s New? – Images edited in Mextures now retain EXIF/Geolocation Data when exported! – New Summer Formula Pack full of 9 subtle, soft and warm edits. - An all new Guest…
The App Whisperer – Flickr Group Showcase – July 7, 2013
We have put together another very special Flickr group showcase , our twenty third of 2013 with some of our favorite images and some great new talent that have been uploaded to our Flickr group – Mobile Photography & Imagery, this week. The quality of submissions continues to rise, so we have decided to make our showcases that much bigger to incorporate as much of this stunning mobile art and photography as we can and to get it out to a wider audience. Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: _Lna, Allison Pistohl, Fabio D’Andrea, o’Brendan, Tracey Renehan, Creo Humaniac, Cedric Blanchon, Patty…
Instagram Updated With Landscape Mode & More…
Instagram received a minor update yesterday, compared at least to the major update of the Video update recently. This update now adds the very much desired landscape mode and video stabilization feature when using the front facing camera. The landscape support allows for both photos and videos to be shot in landscape mode. The front facing camera stabilization is only available on the IOS version of Instagram at the moment, hopefully this will be coming soon to Android. If you are hankering for front facing video stabilization, Vine have had this feature to their Android app from day 1. Click here to update/download Instagram
PhotoStation – Temporarily Free
PhotoStation is an interesting app and one that we have published several tutorials on to help you get the most from it. If you’ve missed those, please go here. Usually PhotoStation retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
