Apple brings Everyone Can Code to schools serving blind and deaf students nationwide
This is something or one of the many things I love about Apple, how they team up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities to bring accessible coding to their schools. Personally, having moderate to severe hearing loss, from birth and living with bilateral digital hearing aids (which I love by the way), I know that this is so important! Beginning this autumn, schools supporting students with vision, hearing or other assistive needs will start teaching the Everyone Can Code curricula for Swift, Apple’s powerful and intuitive programming language.
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (801) via Instagram
Here’s day eight hundred and one of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @before.1st.light – Jane Schultz with this breathtaking image entitled “Freedom (pinned)”. View more of her body of work here
Apple Introduces New 9.7-inch iPad with Apple Pencil Support
Whilst I was busy in Paris at a press event on 27th March, 2018, Apple quietly updated its most popular iPad with support for Apple Pencil plus even greater performance, starting at $329/£319. The new 9.7-inch iPad and Apple Pencil give photographers and artists the ability to be even more creative and productive, from post editing photographs, creating images, sketching ideas and jotting down handwritten notes to marking up screenshots. The new iPad is more versatile and capable than ever, features a large Retina display, the A10 Fusion chip and advanced sensors that help deliver immersive augmented reality, and provides unmatched portability, ease of use and all-day battery life.* “iPad…
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks off June 4, 2018 in San Jose
Apple today announced it will host its 29th annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose from June 4 through June 8. The McEnery Convention Center will be home to the world’s most creative developer community, who come together every year to share unique perspectives and learn about the future of Apple’s breakthrough products and services. Every year, WWDC provides an opportunity for millions of developers to learn more about how to create new experiences across Apple’s platforms for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac and HomePod. A broad range of robust developer APIs — including SiriKit, HomeKit, HealthKit, GymKit, MusicKit, ResearchKit and Core ML — give developers new ways…
Apple iPhone X – Portrait Lighting
Apple have released an excellent video demonstrating the process they went through to create Portrait Lighting. It combines timeless lighting principles with advanced machine learning, take a look…
Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘The Decisive Moment’ with Deborah McMillion from the USA
Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, I have asked mobile artists to consider their work within a story telling/narrative framework. My thoughts behind this, include an 18th century thesis, ‘Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry‘, Gotthold Lessing argued that although painting could not communicate narrative in the sense of telling a story, it could imply drama by aspiring to capture the “pregnant moment”. In photography, this idea thrives as the “decisive moment” first introduced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and his followers. Therefore, my question to a mobile…
Mobile Videography – Cinematic ITALY – Shot on iPhone X in Brescia
Matteo Bertoli is a videographer whom we have often featured and admired, not least with his latest film, filmed during the 2017 Christmas holidays when he went back home to Brescia in Italy. “I decided to go out and shoot some clips with my iPhone X. Everything was handheld. No slider, no tripod, no lenses. Just my iPhone X and my hands. I used Filmic Pro to record every single clip. The app on the new iPhone X is absolutely perfect. No lags and no problems at all. 100% compatible with iOS 11. I recorded everything in 24p Filmic Extreme quality in 4k. Everything was edited and graded in DaVinci…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (716) via Instagram
Here’s day seven hundred and sixteen of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate photographer and mobile artist, @sumendes – Suzana Mendes with this breathtaking image. View more of her body of work here.
Artstudio Pro – Brand New iPhone and Mac OS Photography/Art App Announcement
We are very excited to bring you ‘hot off the press’ news of a new app, Artstudio Pro, which according to the developers, Lucky Clan, has taken three years of development. It is the successor to the well known ArtStudio app and has been completely written from scratch with an array of new features; taking full advantage of the latest technologies like Metal, iCloud Drive, Apple Pencil. It is perfectly optimized for 64-bit multi-core processors to achieve the smoothest possible workflow. ArtStudio Pro for iOS is currently available for 40% off the retail price. Translating to your pocket at $6.99 as opposed to $11.99. You can download it here. ArtStudio Pro…
Mobile Photography – iPhone X – Reviewed – DxOMark
Just published by DxOMark, the iPhone X review makes interesting reading. “It’s exceptional for stills, achieving the best Photo sub-score yet at 101 points. The overall score is affected by a slightly lower result for video, but at 97 points, the iPhone X ties with the Huawei Mate 10 for the second-highest score in our database of overall mobile image quality. For portraits, the improved telephoto lens delivers sharp results even indoors, and the bokeh simulation produces a natural and pleasing background blur. Outdoors, exposures are outstanding, with great dynamic range, impressive skies, good fine detail, and punchy color rendering. Add to all that the extra features on the front-facing…
