A new photo-sharing app that's licensed the ailing Polaroid brand purely for name-recognition doesn't sound like that promising a prospect. But Polaroid Swing â backed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone â is a surprisingly fun and easy to use. Whether or not it'll be able to attract many users in a crowded marketplace, though, is doubtful....
Turning photos into a artistic works of inspiration just got a lot easier.
Some of the biggest Independence Day fireworks displays in the U.S. also sync with special iPhone apps, enhancing the spectacle with sounds and visuals on your smartphone to celebrate the Fourth of July. Here's how you can take advantage of these free apps, as well as some camera enhancement apps that will allow you to take better fireworks photos.
Apple on Monday announced its annual selection of Design Awards recipients on Monday, handing out honors to the developers behind standout app properties like Lara Croft Go, Frame.io and dj Pro, among many others.
Built-in apps like Stocks, Calendar, and Weather are now in the App Store, and deletableâwith some consequences. Apple also hasn't said whether you can replace a built-in app with a third-party app.
If your early days on the internet involved dial-up modems, slow-loading pages, and low-res graphics, then you’ll get a kick out of a new app called BitCam. The app, which hails from Iconfactory, best known as the makers of popular Twitter client Twitterrific, lets you snap retro-looking images with your iPhone camera. But it’s more than that, too – the app itself is designed…
Avast is a company best known for its security software, but the days where everyone’s first download to their Windows PC is an anti-virus program are fading into the past. The 25-year old software maker still claims 230 million individuals and businesses using its security applications for mobile and PC, including anti-virus, VPN utilities and other programs, but…
Subscriptions and a larger Live element headline the social network's efforts to make content easier on the eyes.
Apple on Tuesday released an important update to its iTunes U iOS app, adding features like a cloud-capable document picker. Google meanwhile debuted Motion Stills, an iPhone app that creates unusual GIFs based on Live Photos.
My entire picture library is inside Google Photos, which makes Apple's Live Photos feature on my iPhone 6S Plus rather useless. Google doesn't support the format, so if I want to preserve them, I need to convert each Live Photo to a GIF using a third-party app, save it to my phone's gallery again, and delete the original. Then it gets backed up to Google Photos as a GIF, which is something you can share far beyond Apple's ecosystem....
A new application called Flag has launched on the App Store, promising user free photo prints that are actually free – there are not shipping or handling charges, nor is a credit card required. This is possible because these photo prints will be ad-supported – that is, businesses pay to advertise on the back of the photo. Effectively, it’s an ad that people will never…
Snapchat has acquired Seene (also known as Obvious Engineering) a couple of months ago, TechCrunch has learned.Seene lets you capture 3D models from your phone with a simple smartphone camera. Snapchat could use Seene’s format for a brand new category of selfie lenses, a new 3D photo format and potentially virtual reality projects.According to our sources, Snapchat was interested…
If you have albums and shoeboxes stuffed with old photos, a startup called Photomyne wants to help you scan those photos, in order to bring them online where they can be saved and shared. Now the Tel Aviv-based company has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which today is closing in on its first million users, over half of whom are paying…
We all have boxes and boxes worth of photographs from the days before digital photography, just begging to be rescued from obscurity. Unfade is a new app from the team behind Scanbot to help photographers immortalize their images.The app uses the technology that makes Scanbot great, and adds a layer of ease-of-use for photography buffs, taking the hassle and inconvenience out of turning…
Months after adding VR support to its Android version of YouTube, Google is bringing the feature to iPhone users. An update to the iOS YouTube app notes that it now comes with Google Cardboard support, a feature that's been notably absent so far. By selecting the small Cardboard icon under any video, users can either watch a 360-degree video in virtual reality through one of the simple cardboard headsets, or watch any other video on a flat screen in a VR environment, like a big-screen TV....
The Nexus 6P is wonderful. It's a superb Android phone from top to bottom â design, build quality, display, battery life, and camera. But when I say "camera," I mean the image quality that the 6P (and 5X for that matter) can capture. I'm talking about the sensor and image processing. You can take shots that stand up to the iPhone 6S, Galaxy S7, or any other recent flagship smartphone. But here's a different line of truth: the camera app that Google includes on these Nexus phones is pretty bad....
Wondering which of the tens of thousands of photos on your phone are worth keeping or sharing may be a thing of the past, thanks to The Roll, a brand new app from EyeEm. The iOS app analyses your camera roll and uses computer vision to tag your images, and to rank your photos by how good they are. “The Roll is there to replace your phone’s camera roll,” said Florian…
The nostalgic logo is out, with the new app icon embracing the trendy move to flat design and sharp colors.
Musical.ly, the app that makes it easy to create music videos, is in the process of raising about $100 million in funding, at around a $500 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned. The details are still being finalized, but the plan is for GGV Capital and Qiming Venture Partners to co-lead the round, with participation from Greylock Partners and DCM.Headquartered in…
Smartphone users shoot a lot of video, but turning those videos into something special still takes a lot of work. A newly launched app called Videorama aims to solve that problem by offering a powerful video editor that’s also super simple to use. In other words, you don’t need to be a video pro in order to do things like trim videos, add text overlays, music, or special…
Next time you open the YouTube app on your iOS or Android phone, you’ll be greeted by a new homepage experience.Before, YouTube would show you a list of recommended items with small thumbnails, followed by a few more lists of recommended videos about topics you’ve recently shown interested in. Now, you’ll see a single feed of recommended videos that are all presented with…
Mindie does with soundtracks what Instagram did with filters: it makes boring imagery interesting. And with the insane amount of video that teens are sharing, the music video making app seemed too useful to die when its creators shut down Mindie in December. So Mindie’s technology is getting dug out of its grave thanks to an acquisition by Shots, the selfie app turned comedy feed backed…
Snapchat released an update to its iOS app today that lets you overlay emojis on top of video snaps. So if you'd like to place, say, a "Face With Tears of Joy" or "Ghost" emoji on top of your video, just record the clip and tap the emoji button at the top of the screen, located next to the text option. From there, you can find the select emoji, drag it around the screen, and resize it with the pinch-to-zoom gesture. You can choose static ones or emojis will subtle animations that can interact with...
Apple on Thursday launched "Apps for Earth," an App Store promotion which will direct all of the proceeds from a small collection of apps and in-app transactions to the World Wildlife Fund during the month of April.
Instagram wants to show you the best videos without completely destroying the sanctity of your main feed, so today it overhauled the Explore page with a slew of new video channels. Most importantly, there’s a personalized “Videos You Might Like” feed. There’s also themed channels like one for Coachella, and feature spotlights on specific creators like the ones…
