Videos you shoot on your iPhone are about to get a lot cooler, with Strum, a new video app that instantly turns 15-second video clips into rock masterpieces. Similar to how you might put a filter on a photo with Instagram, Strum offers a number of built-in filters for video that don’t just change the look of your video, they give it a soundtrack as well. The free app is the latest release from Smule, the same company behind music-centric apps such as AutoRap, Sing!, and Magic Piano.
Adobe has unwrapped a welcome gift for smartphone owners after it announced the launch of its Photoshop Touch app for the iPhone and Android devices, priced at $4.99....
Usually, when an entrepreneur pitches me something about the need for a more “private” or “intimate” social network because Facebook has gotten too cavalier about privacy settings, I kind of roll my eyes. Not only have there been numerous casualties and acq-hires as a result of this strategy (like YC’s The Fridge, Drop.io or take a look at Path’s implied growth…
STake beautiful shots, drink responsibly, cover up bodily functions, and improve your phone. Sound like an unattainable amount of multitasking? Not really, if you have this round of the best iPhone apps of the week to assist you....
With the power of iPhones, we can do incredible things on the go. We can manage bank accounts without speaking to a teller; water the lawn at home while on vacation; monitor and track our heart rate. Then there are apps that have absolutely no use, aside from curing boredom. These are the ones you probably hide in a folder to avoid explaining yourself to nosy friends.
Facebook today announced video for Instagram, saying it aimed to make video as easy to create and share as possible. The overall look and feel of the app are the same, but next to the main capture icon is now a video camera icon. The user taps the button to begin recording up to 15 seconds of video. It will become available for iOS and Android simultaneously today....
S The group shot dilemma—it's the bane of both narcissists and scrapbooking enthusiasts alike. But what are you supposed to do when you want to snap a pic of a precious moment between friends, but the only person around to take the picture is, well, you? Fortunately for you, Groopic has taken it upon itself to leave no group shot incomplete....
Back in the dark ages of the internet, if you wanted streaming video you had to deal with too few options and too many janky browser interfaces. But we've entered a golden era of streaming; almost every major provider has tablet and phone-friendly apps, meaning you never have to suffer through the malaise of being without on-demand television and movies anywhere you go....
Google's iOS YouTube app has received an update that brings multitasking capabilities, and a new music service is taking on established brands like Pandora and Spotify with a "pay what you can" business model.
Adobe has updated its Photoshop Express app for iOS, giving it new filters and increased capabilities, and Google has tweaked Chrome for iOS to give it better search functionality.
Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service. The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution. Flickr is also including auto straighten support to its editor, allowing users to fix up photos before they're uploaded to the service. After launching customizable filters and pro editing tools ahead of iOS 7, the latest update will be a welcome one for those wishing to make use of the ...
With November 2013 now consigned to the history books, we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch....
December (and 2013) will soon be a distant memory, so we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch in recent weeks....
Here's the thing: most apps suck. And not only does that make bad apps hard to avoid, it makes the good ones hard to find when there are hundreds of thousands of apps out there. So in this series, we highlight our favorite apps on every platform, whether it's for your phone, your tablet, your laptop, or any other device....
Got an iPhone and a Chromecast? You can hold a photo viewing party with the new Photowall app from Google. The software lets multiple people share and doodle on big screen photos, creating a YouTube video of the entire session.
Family photo sharers now have more room to upload photos for free after Adobe increased the storage limit for its Revel service, while popular universal calculator app has received a major update that includes a new calculator core.
A pair of ex-Microsoft engineers, Robert Mao and Haito Li, have launched what they describe as a new social network based around photos and videos with Pixotale, an app that aims to re-imagine long-form storytelling for the mobile era.Mao, previously having spent five years with Microsoft Research, says that to create Pixotale, the two had to basically “unlearn everything…
Instagram today announced Hyperlapse, a new standalone app that's been designed to help smartphone users shoot time-lapse videos that look like they were produced with a professional video rig. Prior to the official unveiling, Wired got an exclusive look at Hyperlapse, which is a refreshingly simple departure from the company's primary app. There are no filters here, nor any real editing tools....
Vine has just released a minor update to the app that not only beautifies the platform for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but adds some new functionality in terms of sharing videos and consuming them. The Twitter-owned video sharing app now takes advantage of the share extensions functionality in iOS 8, meaning that users can share directly to Vine from the video itself.
Popular video player VLC has been absent from the iOS App Store since it was pulled without explanation in September, but the developer of the app has indicated it could become available for download once again as early as next week.
If 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...
Google spins out the best parts of Google+ into new stand-alone app.
This week's list includes a social news app, a relaxing game centered around a tree and Google's immersive Spotlight Stories app making its iOS debut.
The new app for Android and iOS makes it easier to discover and contribute 360-degree images from around the globe.
Giphy wants you watching and sharing more GIFs from your phone, so it's launching a new version of its app today to make that happen. The app is called Giphy, and it's basically a mobile version of Giphy's website, a place to browse and search through its many, many GIFs. The difference is that Giphy's app plugs into the other apps on your phone, so you can tap a share button and send a GIF to Facebook or Twitter, into a text message, or wherever else supports both sharing and GIFs....
