Photo and personal publishing giant Shutterfly, which has been gobbling up startups in recent months, is today launching its second iPad application called Shutterfly Photo Story, which allows you to build photo books on your tablet using photos from your iPad’s Photo Stream, Facebook, Instagram or those uploaded to Shutterfly itself. You can then choose to share those books to Facebook or…
YouTube is readying a new look for its mobile apps, introducing a card-based interface that allows you to watch one video while continuing to browse for others. An updated version of the Android app reveals a faster, more fluid version of YouTube that displays videos in the rectangular cards that have become a Google design signature. The Android app will be rolling out "soon," YouTube said, although some users were already reporting being able to download the update from Google Play....
Storytelling today means crowding around someone’s phone as they describe their photos. Shadow Puppet bring that show & tell experience online by letting you share a voice-over with an animated slideshow of your pics. Built with Greylock money by Carl Sjogreen, the Googler who sold travel startup Nextstop to Facebook, Shadow Puppet let you describe everything from vacations to app demos.
Yahoo is combating Google+ with an update to its Flickr for iOS app, which gives iOS 7 users the ability to automatically upload the photos in their Camera Roll....
YouTube's Capture app is a handy tool for anyone that frequently uploads video from an iPhone or iPad to the popular sharing site. And today the company has updated Capture for iOS 7 while simultaneously adding a slew of important features. You can now pause and resume recording, whereas before any interruption effectively meant ending your clip. But even if you do find yourself with multiple videos, Capture now lets users stitch together an unlimited number of clips in each video. Individual clips can...
SSnapchat just rolled out a big update with a bunch of new features, the most important being Replay. Now, every day brings a one-time chance to review the most recent message in your stream. If that makes you think twice about what you've been Snapchatting, maybe it's time to reevaluate your life.The Replay option is opt-in for recipients, not senders, and only gives you one extra look at the message — it's still deleted from Snapchat's server after the first view. The rest of the app's updates...
On its own, the iPad is capable of accomplishing a great number of day to day tasks. With a little help from an add-on accessory it can do quite a bit more.
Vimeo has just given its iOS app a significant makeover, introducing a more lightweight feel and what the company describes as "a friendlier vibe." The app has been revamped from corner to corner â at least visually â and now almost feels like something you'd expect from Tumblr. Perhaps Mailbox is a better example, as the main feed now contains swipe gestures that will quickly remind users of Dropbox's email app. Depending on how far you swipe each video, you'll trigger actions like sharing, saving...
Photo apps have evolved from adding filtering, to being social, to smashing up the two. Instagram grew like a weed based on this philosophy. EyeEm has grown by making your feed of friends photos look so good, you know you just have to take great photos as well (there’s some clever algorithms at work there). Now a new app, designed by one of the world’s best photographers, wants…
A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is that when two users mutually like one another’s photos, their identities will then be revealed to each other, allowing them to make a personal connection and begin…
Adobe has ramped up its mobile efforts in a big way today at its annual Adobe Max conference, with seven new mobile apps unveiled (though two are repurposed versions of older software). The new collection in some ways represents the same kind of unbundling of individual features as apps we’ve seen from companies like Facebook, with tools specific to different kinds of artists and…
Apple on Monday debuted its curated list of the best content available from its various digital platforms, including apps, music, movies, books, podcasts and more.
Since it launched, Instagram has been a way of telling a story with a single, square-shaped image. The Facebook-owned company may have expanded to video and time lapses, but its heart remains in those singular, postcard-style pictures. That changes today with the introduction of (gulp) "carousel ads" â photo sets of up to four pictures that you swipe through, Tinder-style, while thumbing down your feed. Instagram says the move comes in response to advertiser requests for ways to tell sequenced...
A new app from the ACLU lets you automatically report police encounters or civil rights incidents from your smartphone.
Users of Amazonâs online storage service can now view all their files on iOS and Android, but thereâs still no way to edit or upload.
Visit the Eiffel Tower in Paris, as I did last year, and youâll see tourists contorting themselves to try and fit the length of the monument into Instagramâs iconic square frame. Even after Instagram began letting you shoot in landscape mode, you could still only share your work as a square. That all changes today: Instagram is updating its Android and iOS apps to enable native support for full-size landscape and portrait photos and video inside the app. They'll run alongside the traditional square...
Instagram doesn’t want its feed getting stale, but doesn’t want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it’s launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It’s a dead-simple app where you shoot a one-second burst of five photos that are turned into a silent video that plays forwards and then reverses over and over in a loop. Boomerangs are automatically saved…
Don'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...
Easily, automatically whip up a "day in the life" composite video from clips that might otherwise stay trapped in your phone.
Subscriptions and a larger Live element headline the social network's efforts to make content easier on the eyes.
Google Photos is also getting a number of new editing tools so you can make more detailed tweaks to your existing images.
The Black Friday weekend means sales and discounts galore, and iOS developers are offering some crazy reductions on the some of the App Store’s best downloads. We’ve compiled a list of some of the greatest apps on sale, such as Readdle’s Printer Pro & PDF Expert; the Quickoffice Mobile suites, AutoStitch Panorama, and many, many more. Check out our extensive list of apps on sale after the break, and grab yourself a bargain for your iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.
Ten years ago, you probably wouldn't have dreamed your cellphone would replace your camera. Now, millions of people carry mobiles that easily out-snap their...
