New For Apple Developers – Introducing Swift
Swift is a new programming language for creating iOS and OS X apps. Swift builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works. “Swift has been years in the making. Apple laid the foundation for Swift by advancing our existing compiler, debugger, and framework infrastructure. We simplified memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Our framework stack, built on the solid base of Foundation…
Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift
Apple today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…
Samsung Launches Industry’s First Tizen Smartphone – The Samsung Z
Samsung Electronics today introduced the Samsung Z, the first commercially available smartphone powered by the Tizen platform. The Samsung Z will be on show at the Tizen Developer Conference, San Francisco from June 3rd. Built with unparalleled quality and the cutting-edge technology of Samsung’s latest premium smartphone, the Samsung Z is optimised with a Tizen platform that offers fast and powerful software performance. Complete with a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display and a 2.3 GHz Quad-core processor, the Samsung Z is the perfect choice for people who want a unique user-experience in an efficient and light-weight smartphone. “Samsung is committed to enhancing the mobile experience of consumers with innovation that…
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life Of Fiona Christian – A Wonderfully Talented Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 116th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Fiona Christian. Christian was born in Birmingham, UK and moved to the South of England around 30 years ago, she currently resides in a tiny village in East Sussex with her husband Carl and their daughter Holly. Christian…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – June 1, 2014
We are utterly delighted to publish this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, so many of you have been completely inspired! Your work is exceptional, eminent and phenomenal. We lead this week with a wonderful image by lorenka61 – this image really struck a chord with me. It reminded me of Mya Angelou’s first book ‘I know why the caged bird sings’ and of course, unfortunately she passed on this week, so I thought this would make a wonderful lead image. We then pass onto a similar and excellent one by Roger Guetta and then move into some incredibly powerful portraiture, we walk into street and then wade into some wonderful seascapes…
Tickle Your Fancy #38
Welcome back to our thirty eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to 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……
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 31 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the thirty-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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Cinamatic by Hipstamatic – And Another iOS App Giveaway
This is our third app giveaway for the wonderful Cinamatic new movie app created by Hipstamatic. This is the app we need you to use to enter our incredible Olloclip and Hipstamatic Competition. We have some wonderful prizes and one lucky winner will see their video proudly displayed in Hipstamatic’s Snap Magazine – to find out more about our competition, go here. If you haven’t picked up Cinamatic yet and would like to give it a try, RETWEET this article, FOLLOW US on Twitter, also reply to this post, telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com and we will select some winners and send you an email with a…
iOS Photography App – Mextures – Updated With New Features
Mextures is a hugely popular app for mobile photography despite being relatively new to the scene. Today is it’s birthday actually, one year today, May 30, 2013 it landed on the Apple App Store and it has had quite a time! The developer Merek Davis is prolific and it proves it pays. Today Mextures has been updated with a new landscape formula pack – featuring 13 landscapes from winners of their recent Landscape Formula Contest. Mextures retails for $1.99/£1.49, this is a free update, if you have previously purchased this app. Click here to download/update.
iOS Photography App – Gloomlogue – Temporarily Free
Gloomlogue is an app that many of you may not of come across, it not not hugely extensive. However, it is also not all doom and gloom, it offers some interesting effects, is simple to navigate and has a decent UI. It’s also not all positive, it does have some shortcomings too, one obvious omission being a crop feature; this app will not change your life. That said, Gloomlogue has been created by a college student and it’s free to download today. Why not give it a whirl and let us know how you get on? Click here to download
