Tag: Application Software

photojojo:

Did you know we post about our favorite apps over at We Love Phoneography?

True story. Read up on our fave Android and iPhone apps.

welovephoneography:

Photojojo’s Top 3 Artistic Photo Filter Android Apps!

App #1: Painteresque

The Lowdown: 

Turn your photo into a detailed, HDR-looking colored-pencil drawing with this app.

  • No need to plow through a plethora of filters; this app has only one, yet high-quality filter, with consistently stellar results.
  • Really simple app to use: choose a pic from your camera roll & run it through the filter.
  • Best used for photos of architecture, still lifes, & landscapes—really brings out the details in ‘em!

The Essentials: Android 2.2 or later. Costs $2.00. Also available for the iPhone!

Our photo above was first run through Painteresque, then edited with Pixlr-o-matic.

My newly discovered favorite photo filter app.

OS X Mountain Lion

The word is out, Apple will release a new version of OS X this summer. I got news of this from a friend who is a Mac developer. The interesting thing he pointed out to me was that Apple dropped the word "Mac" from the OS. It's just OS X Mountain Lion. After looking over the previewed feature list I can understand why. OS X Mountain Lion is meant to be a complement to the iPad and iPhone.

iCloud

When Apple realeased iOS last year, it also introduced iCloud. iCloud allows seamless sync of contact, calendar, mail, photos, and documents (iWork) between iOS devices. Add a contact on your iPhone and immediately have it appear on your iPad. Take a photo with your iPhone and seconds later watch it on your iPad. Apple did bring some of the sync capability to OS X Lion but it was limited to contacts and calendar. I could not, for example, create a document in Page on the Mac and continue editing on my iPad. First, I had to upload it to iCloud via Safari. With OS X Mountain Lion, the circle is complete.

One key addition is Documents in the Cloud. In iOS 5, apps like Pages take advantage of automatic saving to iCloud. With OS X Mountain Lion, the circle is complete as all documents in the iWork suite of apps will save this way as well. (via TechCrunch)

In OS X Mountain Lion, sign in once with your Apple ID and iCloud is automatically set up across your Mac.1 That means right away iCloud keeps your mail, calendars, contacts, documents, and more up to date on every device you use. So when you add, delete, or edit something on your Mac, it happens on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. (source Apple)

So now, I can work from any Apple device! I expect third-party app developers will update their OS X and iOS apps to take advantage of the feature. OS X Mountain Lion is starting to look like iOS.

Messages/Reminders/Notes/Notifications

The three apps - Messages, Reminders, Notes - were introduced with iOS 5. On iOS, Messages allow iPhone (iPad) users to text each other for free. The Notes and Reminders app on iOS 5 sync back to the notes and reminders section of the OS X Mail client. With Mountain Lion, this apps gets separate treatment as a stand alone app along with Reminders.

iOS 5 introduced a new notification system for the iPhone and iPad. This notification system now comes to OS X. I wonder what the Growl developers are thinking right now?

Gatekeeper

I don't know too much about this one except that Apple will require developers who want to sell apps in the Mac App Store to register and digital sign their software. One notable feature is that users will get to choose whether to allow apps developed independently of the Mac App Store onto their Macs.

Apple wants to help you steer clear of malware even when you download applications from places other than the Mac App Store. That’s why Apple created the Developer ID. As part of the Mac Developer Program, Apple gives developers a unique Developer ID for signing their apps. A developer’s digital signature allows Gatekeeper to verify that their app is not known malware and that it hasn’t been tampered with. If an app doesn’t have a Developer ID associated with it, Gatekeeper can let you know before you install it. It’s another step Apple takes to keep your Mac safe. Apple

Chris Moseley on Apple TV

TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are…great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration. The ultimate is about picture quality and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on picture quality.Chris Moseley
Right, that’s what televisions are ultimately about today. But that’s like how cellphones were all about being as small as possible five years ago. And voice quality.Then Apple came along and changed the game. The iPhone was bigger than a RAZR. And it had worse voice quality (thanks AT&T). But it had apps. And Visual Voicemail. And multi-touch. And a dozen other things that made the phones of the day seem like stodgy turds in comparison.Picture quality will always be important on televisions, obviously. But we hit that “good enough” wall years ago. The next evolution will not be about picture quality. And that’s why it sure sounds as if Samsung is fucked 5 years from now in the market.Paris | The Titanic is Unsinkable