If you’re outdoors with your iPhone, a gorgeous bright, sunny day can turn into a trying challenge if you want to shoot photos or video. Often the sun is not only in your eyes, but worse, obscures your view of the screen. A washed-out view is no fun, but Sig Innovations’ Daylight Viewfinder ($30) offers a quick remedy....
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Expo Notes: Banish sun glare with Daylight Viewfinder 2
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Koozoo Lets You Explore The World Through Live Smartphone Videos 0
March 9th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAUSTIN -- Ever wonder what it looks like right now across the globe? On vacation and want to know what it looks like outside back home? Meet Koozoo, a crowdsourced video app that displays smartphone videos from around the world. The San Francisco company launched its service in both San Francisco and Austin on February 28, and is a 2013 SXSW Accelerator finalist.
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10 Apps to Help Execute the Perfect Prank 2
April 2nd at 4:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsDecades ago, April Fools' Day was a barrage of whoopee cushions and "Is your refrigerator running?" prank calls. They got old quickly and left pranksters longing for more sophisticated tools to execute the most evil of gags. Enter technology. SEE ALSO: 50 Amazingly Epic Pranks The ultimate jokesters now have mobile apps at their disposal to ensure that hijinks are original and perfectly tailored to prank victims.
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Disney Joins The Private Social Networking Craze With New Photo & Video Sharing App Called “Story” 2
May 9th at 1:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe latest to join the cadre of startups offering tools for more private sharing outside of Facebook’s massive footprint is not, in fact, another startup, but rather another media giant: Disney. Citing its “rich heritage in storytelling,” Disney’s Interactive division, best known for games, sites, and virtual worlds like “Where’s My Water?,” “Temple…
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Divvy Is Photo Consumption And Sharing Done Right 0
June 3rd at 5:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThere are dozens upon dozens of apps interested in your photo creation and sharing habits, but very few focus on the consumption of photos. Meet Divvy, an iOS app that lets you combine all of your social feeds (for now Facebook and Instagram) into one collective photo stream. You can filter between the two social networks, of course, but that’s just the start. Divvy also lets you share photos…
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19 apps that already look perfect for iOS 7 6
June 25th at 10:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsEditor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan Matzner of Fueled. Fueled is a digital product design and development incubator based in New York, Chicago and London....
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Frontback: an addictive camera app for capturing both sides of the story 0
July 22nd at 8:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsA couple months ago Fred della Faille was on a roof, looking out at a picturesque New York City skyline. He felt a sudden urge to take a photo with Instagram, like many of us would, but he wanted to capture the entire moment — not just the view from the top of a random rooftop. He wanted his face, his reaction, to be part of the scene he was documenting. As you flip through your Instagram feed, friends’ avatars scroll by, but none of them ever change. A face floats idly, never responding to the...
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The iPhoneographer’s toolkit: 9 essential iOS apps for shooting, editing and sharing 1
August 10th at 6:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAt this point, there’s no need for me to explain the popularity of smartphone photography or how it has changed the way we share our daily lives. Apple’s competitors continue to release handsets that offer new and improved camera sensors – the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom being the most recent – but the iPhone has always been the device to beat....
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What Instagram Did For Photography, This App Will Do For Design 1
August 29th at 7:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThe Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Studio One-Liner Pitch: Studio is the Instagram for design. Why It's Taking Off: Most social networks revolve around consumption but Studio puts the focus on creation, providing simple tools that allow users to create beautiful layered designs.
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Instagram Launches iOS 7 App 1
September 25th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsInstagram is now optimized for iOS 7. Version 4.2 of the app launched in the App Store on Wednesday, and it's designed specifically for the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. See also: 25 Most-Followed Users on Instagram [PICS] The updated Instagram received a new look -- similar to that of other iOS 7 apps -- as well as new features. Photos in your feed are larger, and both the photos and videos are displayed at an increased resolution.
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22 of the best mobile messaging apps to replace SMS on your smartphone 3
October 18th at 5:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWe’ve known for sometime that SMS is becoming passe for many smartphone owners worldwide....
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Videogram updates its iOS app to help you better capture clips that are stitched into a video 0
December 6th at 10:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsInteractive video platform Videogram has rolled out an update to its iOS app that makes it more user-friendly for anyone to create ‘videograms’ — a video made up of individual short clips, similar to Vine but with videos of a longer duration....
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Pic A Moment Lets You Discover Public Instagram Photos From Moments – Or Even Months – Ago 1
January 2nd at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you've ever wanted to travel back through time to see what was happening in a given location on a particular date, a new, simply designed mobile application called Pic A Moment can help. The app is an Instagram search engine of sorts, allowing you to enter in a place name - be it a city, a business, or any other venue - along with a date, in order to see all the photos snapped there for the…
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Chinese Photo App MomentCam Now Lets You Create GIFs 0
February 10th at 3:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsLast year, we wrote about MomentCam, a Chinese photo app that strangely went viral and was subsequently launched in English....
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Briefly: Apple updates iPhoto for iOS with print order enhancements, bug fixes 0
April 4th at 4:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday rolled out a minor update to its iPhoto app for iOS, building on an in-app print ordering capability by adding the option to include white borders around selected pictures.
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Apple announces 2014 Apple Design Award winners, Threes and Monument Valley among selected 2
June 3rd at 5:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAfter the WWDC keynote wrapped up on Monday, Apple announced the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards that recognizes the most innovative and technically superior OS X and iOS apps of the year.
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Athla Velocity and More 3
July 13th at 4:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes a new spin on a classic game, a personalized shopping assistant and a speed radar app for athletes.
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Best New Apps: Hyperlapse 3
August 27th at 11:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsInstagram might be best known as and endless stream of pictures of your friends' meals, but their new standalone video app Hyplerlapse aims to change that. It's a dead simple way to create time-lapse videos accompanied by an outstanding built-in image stabilization algorithm that can make shaky videos look steady enough you might think they were filmed with a professional rig. It just takes one tap to start recording, lets you pick your playback speed after, and easily shares your video to Instagram...
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7 Vine Tips and Tricks You May Not Know About 1
October 27th at 1:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThink like a professional Viner with these seven tips and tricks.
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Media Streaming App Allcast Is Finally Available For iOS Devices 1
January 13th at 2:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsImpressive mobile streaming service Allcast has been an Android-only affair for some time, much to the delight of those that use the Google mobile platform, but at last it has finally made its way to iOS.
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Meerkat works around Twitter social graph, Vine gets 720P update, and Instapaper adds 'speed reading' 0
March 28th at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsA trio of popular media apps received updates Friday, with live broadcasting app Meerkat gaining upgrades to compete with Twitter's Periscope, while Vine moves to 720p video and Instapaper adds Instant Sync and Twitter "textshots."
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Google reveals Google Photos with free, unlimited photo and video storage [u] 1
May 29th at 2:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsDuring the keynote presentation at its annual developers conference on Thursday, Google officially announced Google Photos, a new photo storage and backup service that offers unlimited storage for photos and videos.
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Hands on with Livetext, Yahoo's silent new video chat app 0
July 30th at 7:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsA couple of weeks ago, we wrote that Yahoo had quietly released Livetext, its new messenger app, and was testing it in Hong Kong. The company must have been satisfied, because as of today Livetext will be available in five new countries â the United States, the UK, Canada, Germany, and France....
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Camera+, The Third-Party Camera App With 14 Million Users, Goes Free 0
September 10th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsTap tap tap, the company behind the popular third-party camera app Camera+, is making its flagship application free today. The app, which has grown over the years to reach 14 million users and $18 million in sales, has capitalized on Apple iPhone users’ demand for an expanded set of photography-related features that take advantage of the high-quality cameras found on their device.
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5 can't-miss apps: Yellow, 'Beneath the Lighthouse,' DSCO and more 1
November 1st at 1:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app to meet people on Snapchat, a GIF-making app and an app to make visualizations out of your running stats.