Looking to reduce "over-policing" and surface instances of excessive force, the American Civil Liberties Union of California on Thursday launched a smartphone app that lets users securely document law enforcement encounters.
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ACLU launches iOS app to record law enforcement encounters 0
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Apple updates iMovie for iOS with fix for incorrectly cropped photos 0
April 30th at 11:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday issued a minor update to its iMovie video editing app for iOS, addressing an issue that sometimes caused portrait photos to be cropped incorrectly.
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GoPro just bought a virtual reality company 1
April 28th at 11:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe world's leading action camera company just took its first major step into the growing virtual reality market. GoPro just announced that it has purchased Kolor, a French company that specializes in virtual reality software. Kolor's employees will join the GoPro staff, with operations remaining in Savoie, France....
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Instagram puts three filters and emoji hashtags at your disposal 0
April 27th at 9:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsNew Instagram filters and emoji are always popular, so Instagram combined the two in Monday's update for iOS.
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Instagram releases three new filters and plans to keep making more 0
April 27th at 8:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsSome good news for Instagram fans: three new photo filters are arriving today, and Instagram plans to keep adding more in the near future. The app has gone for long periods of time without adding new filters â in December, it added five new ones after a two-year break â but we apparently won't be seeing extended gaps like that any longer. Instagram intends to add new filters "more regularly going forward," which should be music to the ears of its users who don't like having to outsource their...
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First look: Third-party apps on Apple Watch 1
April 25th at 7:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple launched its first wearable with an App Store filled with more than 3,000 third-party titles, a figure expected to grow exponentially in the months ahead. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the first offerings.
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25 Apple Watch apps you need on your wrist 0
April 24th at 4:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsHappy downloading!
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First look: Adobe Lightroom CC with HDR and panoramic photo merging, facial recognition, more 1
April 21st at 7:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAdobe on Tuesday announced a major update to its Creative Cloud Photography suite with the launch of Lightroom CC, which boasts powerful enhancements like HDR and panorama photo merging, facial recognition and Filter Brushes, along with other improvements.
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Taplet Lets You Pull HD Photos From Any Video With A Single Tap 2
April 18th at 12:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe iPhone has offered the ability to take photos at the same time as you record video, but capturing photos from video that has already been captured isn’t quite so straightforward. Taplet aims to solve that. The company, with $1 million in seed funding, has created an app that lets users upload HD video and then tap the perfect moments to pull HD videos. Currently, the easiest way to…
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Trio Lets You Mash Up Your Own Media With GIFs, Vines, Music And More 0
April 17th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you spend entirely too much time creating, searching for and sharing the best GIFs and Vines with your friends, then you might get a kick out of a new mobile application called Trio. The app allows you to mash up media in order to create unique “remixes” that combine photos, videos, GIFs and music pulled from a variety of public sources, as well as from your own Camera…
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IFTTT's streamlined 'Do' apps get Apple Watch treatment, iPad support 0
April 16th at 2:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular Web-based productivity tool If This Then That on Wednesday announced Apple Watch support for its one-touch workflow activation apps Do Button and Do Note, as well as iPad compatibility for all three titles in the "Do" apps collection.
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Apogee's MetaRecorder field recording app offloads controls to Apple Watch 0
April 15th at 3:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsDigital audio equipment and software maker Apogee on Tuesday announced the debut of MetaRecorder, an iOS field recording app with advanced features like multi-track support, tagging, file management and even remote control functionality with Apple Watch.
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Lyve Lets You Build Shared Photo Albums With Friends – Or Anyone Else Nearby 1
April 14th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCollaborative photo albums is the startup idea that just won’t die. Today, photo-sharing and organization app Lyve is rolling out a new feature which will allow anyone to create photo albums with others in their same location, whether that’s at a wedding, a concert, a festival, a party, or anything else. With “Mix,” as this new addition is called, users will be able…
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5 can't-miss apps: Snapseed, Mixkit and more 2
April 12th at 1:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app to make your own mixtapes, another that creates personalized reading lists based on your Twitter feed and a big refresh to Google's photo-editing app.
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9 apps to help you up your selfie game 0
April 10th at 6:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsWhy do your friendsâ selfies look so #flawless? Because theyâre using these apps.
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Google’s Snapseed photo app gets its first major update in two years 0
April 9th at 1:27pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe Google-owned Snapseed photo editing app has received a major update today, which promises to deliver "the precision and control of professional photo editing software on your phone or tablet." The new version, rolling out now for Android and iOS, adds new tools including lens blur, tonal contrast, intelligent perspective transform, and spot healing....
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Instagram update adds new editing tools and post notifications 1
April 7th at 9:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsInstagram is making it easier to keep tabs on posts from friends, celebrities or other users you want to follow more closely.
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Vidme, An Imgur For Video, Grabs $3.2 Million 0
April 7th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsVidme, a video sharing application which is a lot an Imgur for video, as it also has a strong connection with the Reddit community, has raised $3.2 million in new funding, the company is announcing this morning. Investors in the seed round include Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian of Initialized Capital, First Round, Lowercase Capital, SV Angel, Mucker…
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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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Facebook’s New Homegrown Messenger Apps Focus On Selfies, Sound And Shaking 0
March 27th at 4:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFacebook has launched its first home-made apps for its Messenger Platform after Sound Clips (iOS/Android), Selfied (iOS/Android), Strobe (iOS/Android) and Shout (iOS/Android) went live. Stickered, an existing app that lets you plaster photos with stickers, has also been retooled for Messenger.
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Tandem Lane’s App Makes It Easy To Share Photos Offline 2
March 24th at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsBecause grandma and grandpa may not be using Facebook, a new startup called Tandem Lane is launching a mobile application today that allows families to stay better connected with members of the older generation by turning photos into beautiful and fun postcards you can mail to anyone for a small fee. The idea is to help people share their favorite moments with others offline just as quickly…
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Hands on with Layout, Instagram's answer to photo collage apps 0
March 24th at 3:30am / Macworld / 0 opinionsInstagram's new iOS app lets you create a visually stunningâand not at all cheesyâphoto collage.
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Instagram built a brand-new app to make photo collages 0
March 23rd at 1:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you've spent any time on Instagram over the last few years, you've almost certainly noticed the proliferation of collage pictures â even though Instagram's default image size is rather small, users often take several photos and mash them together using third-party apps before posting them. Instagram has noticed this trend â the company says that one in five of the app's 300 million monthly active users post collages â and it led the company to build Layout, its second standalone app, which...
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Fully-functional Launcher returns to App Store, Pixelmator for iPad gets watercolors 1
March 19th at 5:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsPopular shortcut app Launcher has been allowed back into the iOS App Store with all of its original features, while Pixelmator for iPad has been updated with a large assortment of improvements, including watercolor tools.
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Best New Apps: Enlight 1
March 19th at 11:48am / The Verge / 0 opinionsPhoto apps have been around as long as the App Store itself, and they're still getting better and better. VSCO Cam's original interface and distinctive take on filters have won countless dedicated fans, Instagram itself has upped its game in response, and new entry Darkroom â which we awarded Best New App last month â brings pro-style curve editing to the phone. Is this a solved problem by now?...