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Eye Recognition To Bring New Level Of Entertainment Convenience To LG Smartphone
Smart Video, a new multimedia UX feature from LG Electronics (LG), will be unveiled for the first time in the Optimus G Pro. Smart Video takes viewing videos on mobile devices to a whole new level of convenience with eye recognition that eliminates the need to manually control playback during the viewing experience. Through the implementation of advanced eye recognition technology, Smart Video recognizes the position of the viewer’s eyes and automatically plays or stops the video without any manual input from the user. When the viewer’s eyes are no longer focused on the smartphone display, the front camera recognizes this and immediately pauses the video automatically. Once the…
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Blurb announces a global partnership with Samsung for auto-creating stunning photo books and magazines
Blurb, the global creative publishing platform, today announces its partnership with Samsung Electronics to power worldwide book and magazine print production and fulfillment within Story Album for Samsung GALAXY S 4, Samsung’s newly announced flagship smartphone. Users of Samsung GALAXY S 4 will be able to automatically create professional quality print photo books and magazines quickly and seamlessly from their camera phone images. “People love the convenience and immediacy of camera phone imagery, but they also prize the beauty and permanence of print media,” said Eileen Gittins, Blurb’s CEO and Founder. “As our lives become increasingly digital, people are genuinely appreciating the value of physical artifacts,” Gittins continued. “By combining…
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Gray’s Anatomy – ‘I heard it through the (social media) grapevine’
Don’t miss this Friday’s edition of Richard Gray’s, Gray’s Anatomy Column. This week Richard discusses Marvin Gaye, coke-sniffing, Belgium and Instagram. Where else can you read content like this? (Please don’t send in suggestions, I can imagine!) Over to you Richard…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “I recently had the pleasure of being invited to visit Ostende by that city’s tourist board. I know all the jokes about Belgium, but I’m really looking forward to it. I’m a fan of Belgium. If I ever find myself in a Karaoke bar that does Jacques Brel’s Plat Pays, I’m on stage in a shot. Not very likely, I know. Though perhaps more…
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 Editor – New For Mac OS
Adobe have released Photoshop Elements 11 Editor for Mac OS. It’s a good photo editing Mac app that integrates well with iPhoto. You can read more about the features below. This app retails for $79.99/£54.99 and you can download it here. Key Features • Make unwanted photo elements vanish with one stroke of the enhanced Spot Healing Brush that fills in backgrounds beautifully, powered by the content-aware fill technology from Adobe Photoshop. • Go from flawed to phenomenal in seconds—Use one-step shortcuts to whiten teeth; make skies bluer; or fix color, contrast, and lighting—and then choose the best result from a group of adjustment previews. Instantly remove clutter…
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Huemore – New iPhone Photograpy App From The Developers of Hueless
Huemore is a brand new app for your iPhone photography, described by the developers as ‘the creative color camera’. The developers, Curious Satellite also have the very popular black and white app Hueless in their arsenal. This is not a post processing app, all the processes are done in real time. The live color saturation, contrast and exposure conts enable you to create images with just a ‘hint of color, or punch it up and over-saturate your scene. Huemore also saves full resolution, EXIF taggged images directly to your built-in camera roll. Humore retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here.
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CameraBag 2 HD – Temporarily Free
CameraBag 2 HD or iPad is currently available for free. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download it for free.
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A Day in the Life of Maddy McCoy – An Incredibly Powerful And Talented iPhone Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting 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 world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our eighty fifth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Maddy McCoy. Maddy is a mother, Historian and Professional Genealogist as well as a great iPhone photographer. Maddy takes and edits all her photos with an iPhone 4s. Her work has been featured on many of the weekly and monthly…
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Deco Sketch Pro – Updated
Deco Sketch Pro is a very popular app with many iPhone photographers and artists. Yesterday we published one of our uber popular Day in the life interviews, that time with Ali Jardine, and within that she confided that Deco Sketch was one of her new favorite apps. We are delighted to announce an update to this app today. Quote from the developer: “Deco Sketch is mobile artistry for the geometrically obsessed,” said Ben Guerrette, creator of Deco Sketch. “With a market oversaturated with filer apps, users yearn for something fresh and unique. Deco Sketch fill that void in a fashion that offers almost unlimited creative opportunities. Deco Sketch is a…
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Appstrax – ‘Is It Live Or, Is It Memorex?’ – By Rudy Vogel
We’re delighted to publish Rudy Vogel aka The Renaissance Man’s latest article to his wonderful Column with us, Appstrax. We are huge fans of Rudy’s iPhone art and delighted that he has achieved additional coverage with Griffin Technology by creating a series of iPhone cases, you can read more about that here. In this latest piece Rudy encourages us all to aim higher and he does it in his very own eloquent way, don’t miss this… over to you Rudy (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I awoke just now thinking about the column that I had to write for you and Joanne, our own “Whisperer of The App,” and…
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Repix – $5 Masters Collection – In-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, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away iTunes vouchers of $5 to enable you to purchase the complete Masters Collection of Brushes for the brand new and free to purchase app, Repix. We have just published a great reivew/tutorial of Repix and you can read that here to help you make the most from this great app. If you would like to win one of our $5 iTunes vouchers,…