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Tickle Your Fancy – #27
Welcome back to our twenty seventh post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Great literary…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 21 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-first article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
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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…
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Kickstarter – Ember – The Night Photography Tool For iPhone
We’ve just been sent information regarding this new Kickstarter camaign ‘Ember’. It’s an iPhone light accessory for night photography that allows you to capture night images and videos with soft warm light. The Ember is a continuous light tool contoured to the shape of the iPhone 5 and 5s. The back panel illumination provides a soft, warm light. The Ember’s design was inspired by the function of professional fill lights, used by photographers and videographers to illuminate their subjects. The 56 LEDs provide light that’s 10x brighter than the iPhone’s flash, and the built-in diffuser softens and spreads light evenly resulting in a flattering glow. The Ember’s soft, warm light…
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Samsung Redefines Network Possibilites At Mobile World Congress 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd will demonstrate its newest advanced networks and solutions at Mobile World Congress 2014. Under its theme for this year’s congress, ‘Elegant Connections, Possibilities Redefined’, Samsung will demonstrate its higher performance network, combined with versatile functionalities. Rapid growth of smart device users and the data deluge of multimedia radio traffic, mobile operators have faced new challenges in the deployment of advanced networks, improving the end user experience and generating additional profitable revenue streams. At Mobile World Congress 2014, Samsung will showcase its portfolio of cutting-edge network solutions to address these challenges. Quote Simon Stanford, Vice President of IT & Mobile division, Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland…
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Click London – Mobile Photography Workshop Tonight!
We’re delighted to publish news of a wonderful new iniative by the team at Click London. Vivi and Dilshad are both Contributors/Columnists to theappwhisperer and they’ve teamed up to present a Mobile Photography Workshop tonight – February 20, 2014 at Marhba, 26 Porchester Road, London, W2 6ES. This session will run between 1800-2100 hrs. It’s a small group, conisting of a maximum of seven students to ensure everyone receives a good three hours of informal teaching. You can find out more about this and future mobile photography workshops on their site here.
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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…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘PopAGraph’ Part 1 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial this time it’s on the app ‘PopAGraph’ and is in two parts, this is part 1. We think you will really enjoy this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PopAGraph is free and here’s the link to download it “With some apps, it’s easier to show you what they do than to explain what they do. PopAGraph by Flambe Studios is one such app. As suggested by the name, the app allows you to “pop” part of your image out over a frame, as if the frame can’t hold it. Let’s show you an example so you can know…
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Pencil by Fiftythree Giveaway!
We’re delighted (due to popular demand) 😉 to offer our readers an opportunity to receive one of two Pencils by Fiftythree in this giveaway. Pencil by Fiftythree the developers of the incredibly popular Paper iOS app have created a stylus that is incredibly exciting. It works with Bluetooth technology and connects to your iPad within the Paper app to offer some fabulous features that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a stylus/iPad app pairing. These include palm rejection – allowing you to draw whilst your hand rests on the iPad, use of an eraser at the top of the pencil, there’s also an additional an excellent finger blend mode. There are…
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Photo Tool Apps – Taking A Look At Workflow For Mobile Photographers with Martin Duerr
We are delighted to publish this very interesting article by our Photo Tool App Editor, Martin Duerr. Our Photo Tool App section is brand new and one that we feel is incredibly important. This section is designed to essentially help you operate and utilize your DSLR’s, mirrorless and medium/large format cameras with specialised apps, as well as utilise your mobile photography workflow regardless of whichever platform you use. You can read more about our new Photo Tool Apps section here. In this article Martin offers some great advice for utilising your mobile photography workflow with your Nokia Windows phone as well as Apple iOS system. He recommends some great apps…