Apps
iOS Photography App – PhotoMotion – Updated
Yesterday we published a great introductory tutorial by David Hayes relating to PhotoMotion and to help you gain the most from this new app, if you missed that, please go here. The developers EastCoastPixels have just updated this app and added support for adjusting photo duration timing for all photos and individual photos. A control to enable the video end fade optional has also been included. There’s also been a few user issues fixed. This is a free update, if you have previuosly purchased this app. If not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
iOS Photography App – Impossible Project – Major Update
As you all know we’re working much closer with the Imposible Project team and we’re delighted to inform our readers of their first major update to their app. Designed in collaboration with Berlin-based developers, nxtbgthng, the free iOS app enables users to transform any digital photo stored on an iPod Touch and iPhone 4s, 5, 5s and 5c into a Polaroid-type analog instant picture via the new Impossible Instant Lab. But it also offers so much more, not least that there will soon also be an Android version – due for release mid 2014. Here are 6 things you probably didn’t know about the Impossible Project app: Click here to…
Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use iPhone in the Car
Apple today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia…
Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds New Content from Blambot
Juicy Bits today announced a new in-app purchase for Halftone 2, its Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner Universal app for iOS. Halftone 2 makes it easy to create multi-page comic books by assembling photos from Facebook, Flickr, and the photo album. Users can add filters, customize page layouts, add speech and thought balloons, and so much more. The new in-app purchase offers over 50 licensed sound effect shapes from professional comic design and lettering company, Blambot. We have previously published Halftone 2 tutorials and articles, if you missed those, please go here. Quote “Customers are always asking us for more WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs,”…
iOS Photography App – Tadaa SLR – Temporarily Free
Tadaa SLR is temporarily free today, it’s a popular app and usually retails for $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download.
New iOS Photo/Video App ‘PhotoMotion’ Launches Today
East Coast Pixels, Inc. launches PhotoMotion, a powerful iPhone app that turns photos into an immersive video with motion, titles and music. PhotoMotion videos focus attention, set a mood and tell a story using a photo animation technique made popular by documentary creator Ken Burns. “Sharing a PhotoMotion video puts your friends and family into a moment and has them experience it through your eyes.” says co-founder Steve Troppoli. “It’s like you’re right there with them, telling the story.” Users start by picking photos from their photo library. Photo transitions are then automatically generated incorporating information like face detection. The video can be instantly previewed inside PhotoMotion. All aspects of the…
iOS Photography App – OKDOTHIS – Updated
Since its launch in November last year OKDOTHIS has been growing in popularity. It is an ‘idea’ community – allowing artists to show their favourite images and creative ideas, known as ‘dos’, that led to it. The developers have just updated this app and it now has faster loading, there’s the facility to customise notifications and even the option to block users if you feel the need. There’s additional features too in this update and we have listed them below. This is a free update to a free app, to download/update, just go here. What’s New? – Faster loading everywhere, especially the Discover section. – Choose which notifications you…
iOS Photography App – Waterlogue – Temporary Price Drop
Waterlogue was released in December 2013 and quickly rose to the number 1 spot in Japan and number 2 in the US app store. Over 150k copies have been downloaded so far. “The idea behind Waterlogue is that we wanted non-artists to be able to see the world as an artist might—to give people access to a creative tool that doesn’t require any training,” says Balestrieri, founder of Tinrocket, LLC. “We were inspired by what creative people like artists and architects carry with them for visually documenting the world when on-the-go: things like Moleskine watercolor sketchbooks and these little homemade kits of watercolor pigments stowed inside repurposed Altoids tins. The…
iOS Photography App – Romantic Photo – Temporarily Free
Romantic Photo by Jixipix is temporarily free today, for both the iPhone and iPad/HD. Romantic Photo is said to add a romantic mood and ambiance to your images’. So, if you need that little bit extra today, why not download this app, we’d love to see what you create. Both links are below: iPhone – usually retails for $1.99/£1.49/download iPad/HD – usually retails for $2.99/£1.99/download
Will Nokia Launch An Android Phone This Month?
Well that’s the rumour, The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia will launch its ‘Normandy’ phone at Mobile World Congress later on this month. WSJ goes on to say that Nokia engineers had been developing the Android phone before Microsoft stuck the $7.4 billion deal to buy their mobile-device business. ‘The decision to release the Android phone underscores how badly Microsoft and Nokia each miscalculated in the mobile market. For technical reasons, Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system doesn’t yet work on the low-cost smartphones that have become big sources of growth, particularly in emerging markets’. We’ll be reporting all this and more news from the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona…
