Sure, that looks great on a model, but how will it look on me?” Now you can find out thanks to ModiFace, an augmented reality startup that’s quietly grown to power apps for 55 of the top makeup brands like Sephora, P&G, And Unilever.Fire up the camera on your phone or a store makeup counter’s tablet, choose different styles of lipstick, eye shadow, or whatever…
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Augmented Reality For Trying On Makeup Is A Booming Business 0
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Giphy Cam adds X-Files filters for people who still want to believe 0
January 15th at 5:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you've not heard of it before, Giphy Cam is a neat little iPhone app that lets you easily make GIFs and share them from your phone. You can add borders, backgrounds, and there's also a bunch of filters to play around with. In December, Giphy introduced some specially for the launch of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and now it's doing the same for the upcoming reboot of The X-Files. The eight new effects include an FBI special agent badge, flying saucers and grey aliens, and, of course, the rebooted...
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19 apps to reinvent yourself in 2016 0
January 15th at 3:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsNew Year, new apps.
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VLC Arrives On Apple TV With Support For Casting, Playback Of Local And Network Files 1
January 12th at 7:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsVLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available for Apple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able to play your files on your TV’s big screen without having to convert them to a supported format. One of the more notable features in the new release is that the VLC app now supports…
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5 can't-miss apps: 'Emoji Party,' Animatic, Slinger and more 0
January 10th at 4:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app that makes your doodle come alive, an emoji-based Charades game and an app for sharing your favorite vertical videos.
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NBCU’s Comedy Subscription Service For Cord Cutters, SeeSo, Goes Live 0
January 7th at 6:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSeeSo, NBCUniversal’s oddly named subscription service aimed at cord cutters, is now live. The ad-free streaming service is solely focused on comedies, pulling together well-known titles and fan favorites, including Monty Python classics, “Parks and Recreation,” “The Office” (US and UK versions), “The IT Crowd,” “The Kids In The Hall,…
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This App Wants To Kill The Selfie Stick 1
January 5th at 3:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCan an app replace the selfie stick? Sadly that seems a forlorn hope at this point. The plague of wands topped with phone clamps and wielded by photo-loving tourists everywhere seems unstoppable.
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Show Off Your Snapchat Stories Forever On Slinger 0
January 5th at 5:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsEphemerality be damned. Some art deserves to live longer than 24 hours. So rather than just squirrel away your saved Snapchat Stories, you can upload them to Slinger. It’s a new app aiming to be the permanent home for vertical videos. And thanks to its Popular page and the ability to Like videos, it can help you discover content creators to follow in ways Snapchat lacks.You could write…
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Microsoft made a selfie app for the iPhone 1
December 30th at 9:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsMicrosoft's newest app for iOS isn't a piece of productivity software. No, it's a selfie app. Unambiguously called Microsoft Selfie, the product is designed to improve photo qualities like color balance, skin tone, and lighting for the most shareable shot possible. It's a more subtle version of Lumia Selfie, Microsoft's previous self-portrait app designed for Windows phones....
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Yarn’s App Lets You Share Short Clips From Movies, TV Shows And Music Videos 0
December 29th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGIF-sharing is so 2015. Or at least, a startup called Yarn hopes that will be the case. The team’s recently launched mobile app offers a different way to have fun while messaging your friends, by offering a way for you to search for and discover short clips from movies, TV and music videos that you can then pop into your conversation. Today, Yarn only supports Facebook Messenger, but…
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Live Studio Turns Your Videos And GIFs Into Live Photos 0
December 28th at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA good handful of apps have emerged to expand the capabilities of Live Photos introduced in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, including a tool to turn Live Photos into GIFs, a Live Photo editor called Alive and another app known as Lively. A fourth option from an indie student developer is Live Studio which – though a slightly less-polished app overall – offers a few unique tricks…
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The 10 best iPad apps of 2015 1
December 26th at 7:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhether Santa brought you a iPad Pro, or you're simply looking to refresh the lineup on your current tablet, here's a look at some of our favorite apps.
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The 12 best iPhone apps of 2015 0
December 23rd at 4:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsFrom beautiful new games to apps that helped supercharge our productivity, many apps became new favorites in 2015.
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360-degree videos come to Apple TV for the first time 0
December 23rd at 11:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsWeb giants like YouTube and Facebook have been showing off a slate of 360-degree videos in recent months, using the format for Christmas specials and iOS News Feeds, but the clips have so far been conspicuously absent from one format â Apple TV. That's changed today with the launch of an Apple TV app by Littlstar, a network of virtual reality and 360-degree videos, that makes 360-degree videos available for the first time on the fourth-generation Apple hardware....
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“App Santa” Promo Drops Prices On 20 Top iOS And Mac Apps 0
December 22nd at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThere are a number of holiday app sales now running as mobile developers slash prices in hopes of reaching potential customers who will soon be unwrapping smartphones for Christmas. But one of the better promotions, starting today, is called “App Santa” and involves a group of indie developers behind some of the most popular applications on the iOS and Mac App Stores. The group…
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Bjork launches virtual reality app for iPhone and iPad 0
December 22nd at 7:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThe real world finally caught up with Bjork's virtual reality style music, and now you can get it via an iOS app.
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LG to launch webOS 3.0 with mobile connection for smart TVs 0
December 22nd at 6:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsLG is hoping its webOS 3.0 platform can compete with the new world of set-top boxes.
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We Heart It, The Image-Sharing Site Used By 40 Million Teens, Launches Its Second App, Easel 0
December 21st at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWe Heart It, an image bookmarking service popular with teenaged girls, is out now with its second mobile application called Easel. The new app is designed to complement We Heart It’s main app, as it serves as a way to quickly create images using quotes that can be shared on We Heart It’s service or elsewhere on social media, including Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and…
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Meet the 7 apps that will give your amateur Instagrams professional gloss 0
December 21st at 4:22pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsFilters are fine, but take your Instagram posts to the next level with these editing apps.
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Lively Lets You Trim Your iPhone’s Live Photos, Pick Your Best Shot From The Video 1
December 18th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSince the debut of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which introduced support for a new, animated type of photo called Live Photos, a number of apps have launched to help iPhone owners do more with those moving images, including turning them into GIFs, save storage space by deleting the Live Photos and more. Now one of the first movers in this space, Lively, has rolled out a couple of notable…
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Switch faces with your friends in real time with this hilarious app 0
December 16th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAll up in your face.
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Giphy Cam now lets you create Star Wars GIFs 1
December 14th at 9:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsDon't have enough Star Wars in your life this week? Giphy can now help put a little extra Star Wars all around you. Its Giphy Cam app has been updated with six Star Wars filters ahead of The Force Awakens, which will be sticking around for a "limited time" to promote the movie. The effects can make it look like the Millennium Falcon is soaring past you, like you're swinging a tiny lightsaber, like you're chilling with BB-8, or like you're about to hit light speed. Like most of Giphy Cam's effects, the...
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Pandora gets more personal with Thumbprint radio stations 2
December 14th at 5:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsPandora is creating a more personal type of radio station. The Internet radio company is debuting a new feature called Thumbprint Radio, which creates a personalized station based on everything you've ever liked on the service. It will be available o...
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The 7 best iPhone photography apps of all time 1
December 13th at 11:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis list is a look at the best photography apps ever made for the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.
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The 13 most entertaining iPhone apps of all time 2
December 12th at 11:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis list is a look at the best music and entertainment apps to ever make their way to the iPhone, based on our list of the best 100 iPhone apps of all time.