The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. DoggCatcher (Google Play) Previously $4.99, now $1.99. DoggCatcher is our favorite podcast app for Android, letting you browse for podcasts within the app or add your own audio and video feeds, and saving your place if leave a cast. Today's sale benefits the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Get it for $1.99. (via AppBrain) iOS iOS
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. GroupShot (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. GroupShot for iOS allows you to fix and perfect your group photos on your iOS device. Simply take a few group photos, and if anything needs to be fixed, simply open GroupShot and fix them from within the app. GroupShot makes it easy to take the best of one picture and combine it with another so you have a perfect group...
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Ghostwriter Notes (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now Free. Ghostwriter Notes for iPad makes it easier than ever for you to take notes on your iPad. Sports smooth and legible digital ink, Ghostwriter Notes allows you to important and annotate your PDF documents, print your pages over the air, name each of your notepads and pages, and even share your notes with your friends...
With iOS 6 right around the corner, Google’s official YouTube app for iPhone couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s a great app — much better than Apple’s built-in YouTube app — and it’s headlining this week’s must-have apps roundup. It’s accompanied by Poster, a great new blogging app; Journal for Evernote, and Google Drive.
Instagram has long been a favorite app of the filter-using, brunch-photographing, snap-happy mobile crowd. From its humble beginnings as a quick-and-…
The safe sexting app that automatically deletes pictures you send to friends a few seconds after they view it has added something that could get a lot raunchier: videos. Yep, Snapchat does video now. You can record a video up to 10 seconds long and send it to your Snapchat friends. They can only watch it once before it self-destructs into porny oblivion after a few seconds (1 to 10)....
Toronto photo-sharing startup 500px is reporting today that both of its applications, 500px for iOS and its recent acquisition ISO500, have been pulled from the Apple App Store due to concerns about nude photos. Combined, the app have over 1 million downloads, 500px COO Evgeny Tchebotarev tells us. The flagship application has just under a million downloads, while ISO500 has a little over…
Revel, Adobe’s photo syncing and storing service which competes against Apple’s iCloud/Photo Stream, is now free to use with limited uploads and premium in-app upgrades. Now, instead of having to pay $5.99 per month to use the service at all, free users will be able to upload 50 photos per month, after 30 days of unlimited uploads (to get you started)....
Apple aired a new iPad ad during yesterday’s Academy Awards that featured its typical ‘let the device do the talking’ setup. The device displays a series of apps that a disembodied hand interacts with and there are a series of buzzwords that relate to those apps....
Startup Qwiki launched a new iPhone app a little more than a week ago, and it now says that the app was downloaded 125,000 times in the first six days, with 27,000 Qwikis created. A Qwiki is a slideshow-style video automatically assembled from a user’s photos, videos, and music. It still shows the company’s roots as a multimedia search engine, building a video presentation around any topic…
The Lytro Light Field camera was probably the most exciting photography product that came out last year. Although it offers low-fi images, it takes photographs in a completely different manner to regular cameras, allowing you to choose and re-choose what element of your photo you want in focus after the fact. Since then, we've heard word that other companies are working on bringing sensors that can also shoot a single image with multiple depths of field. However, Developer Arqball believes it's managed...
Hipstamatic is giving everyone access to its Oggl photo-sharing application, ending its invite-only policy more than two weeks since it launched. Users can download the app for iOS devices and start sharing their photos with the service’s 4 million users. Today’s release also comes with other additions, including profile updates, ability to set exposure, double-tapping to love a photo, and other improvements....
Something about that portrait you snapped just isn't cutting it. Maybe it's that pesky blemish, stubble or unruly strand of hair that's trying to ruin your pic again. But fear not, the people from Lightricks Ltd. are making your photo-editing needs easier (and cheaper). Meet Facetune, which at time of writing was ranked number three on the App Store's top paid apps chart.
One of the more amazing things about our smartphones is that they don’t just put the capabilities of computers and cameras into small, portable form factors, they also leverage the combination of being both these things to give ordinary users the access to tools which previously required advanced photoshopping skills. Case in point: today, a new application called Groopic is launching which lets…
Your standard iPhone camera app is actually pretty slow, taking just three to six photos per second at 8 megapixels each. But with SnappyCam 3.0 you can shoot 20 full-resolution photos per second thanks to a breakthrough in discrete cosine transform JPG science by its inventor. 20 frames per second is fast enough to capture animations or every gruesome detail of an extreme sports crash.
Google announced a new version of its YouTube app for iPhone and iPad is hitting the App Store today. YouTube 2.0 includes a bunch of new features, including the ability to watch a video while searching for the next great thing to watch....
Tagging people and things in photos and videos to share across the social sphere is nothing new. Indeed, if you’re a regular user of Facebook, you’re probably well attuned to telling your friends that you’ve caught them with their pants down simply by appending their name to a candidly-captured Kodak moment. Or maybe that’s just me....
As Apple's App Store nears 50 billion downloads, the company reveals the all-time most popular apps for iPhone and iPad.
When Google first launched Google+ in June 2011, there was a fair amount of scepticism. Facebook and Twitter were still growing in popularity and questions were raised about what Google could offer to attract new users....
SGizmodoers, the holidays are upon us! And it's a safe bet you're either traveling somewhere, or waiting for people to travel to you this weekend. Either way, plenty of time to sit around and play with your phone. Here are some new toys to stuff your phone's stocking.Multi-Platform UpdatesPlowzIt's driveway-shoveling season, and thank heavens, there's an Uber for snow plows. Currently available in tundra-like central New York and Minnesota, Plowz is expanding rapidly, and the free app lets you summon,...
There’s no doubt about it – Storehouse, an iPad app that lets you quickly lay out and publish photos, videos and text as shareable stories, is simply gorgeous....
Long-distance grandparenting has come a long way. In this age of globalization, it’s common for families to be scattered across the globe. The U.S. Department of State estimates 6.3 million Americans live abroad and more than 65 million travel overseas each year. See also: 13 Popular E-Books That Cost Under $3 But with technological progress, families in different countries and continents can still be part of each other’s lives — not just at reunions, but on a daily basis.
Snapchat is slowly adding features on top of its highly successful ephemeral messaging platform. Today’s two new features are a good old chat interface and a new FaceTime-like video calling feature. Text messages could greatly change the nature of the app. While ephemeral photos are a great way to send something funny and start a conversation with your friends, many users sent multiple snaps…
Dubble, a photo-sharing iOS app with a twist — the twist being that it turns standard photos into random double exposures by combining two users’ shots to make a new image out of the two — has made its first monetizing moves.
Vine's iOS notifications just got a little more like Twitter's.
