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FaceSnap for iOS Takes Selfies to Another Level

May 9, 2014 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

FaceSnapAh, the famous selfie! The word of the year, the Oscar made – famous hobby, the pride and glory of all Internet users from all walks of life, perhaps the most appraised, mocked and common activity of people having a phone in their hand. Taking selfies is more than a practice, it became a cultural “thing” that invaded our lives and it looks like it is here to stay for quite some time.

Enter FaceSnap for iOS, a new app that allows iPhone users to take selfies with a lot less effort than reaching out their arms, focus on a posture, get the angle right, tap the camera button and still manage to look decent. What is this amazing app, you might ask yourselves? Simply put? The FaceSnap for iOS

is a photo timer for your smartphone. It takes a series of selfies in successive bursts, pausing a few seconds between each take to let you decide on a pose. That way you can spend less time focusing on pulling the trigger and more time mugging for the camera.

A timer for the phone camera? Don’t we already have some of those on several of our Samsung models and the HTC One? Well, you’ll be surprised to find out that the large majority of standard iOS and Android powered cell phones actually don’t feature a timer for their high – end cameras. What is quite surprising about this app is that it took developers quite some time before coming up with a simple solution for introducing a timer. Following this trail of thought, the selfie aficionados should also know that the app is available for $0.99 and that FaceSnap is more than a timer.

It also encompasses two other features powered up by a room – scanning technology that goes by the name of Galileo. If the simple “timer” allows you to snap 3 pictures in a row of your beautiful face and pose, the Party Camera option scans the room you’re in and snaps a series of five consecutive pictures when it detects a face. The second Galileo powered feature, called Room Surveillance, will snap a single picture of a face it recognizes after randomly surveying the space around you. Now if you think these features are a bit creepy, you are not the first to notice that the app may allow people to engage in nefarious activities. Just as Alyssa Bereznak says,

Depending on whose hands this falls into, these tools could be awesome or creepy: awesome because they’re a great way to capture candid images of your friends at a party or crowded room; creepy because the ability to discreetly hold your iPhone up, scan a room for faces, and take photos could be abused by stalkers and weirdos in public places.

But before you get a bit paranoid, let’s just have some fun with the FaceSnap for iOS and take those brilliant selfies we always dreamed of! If you want to know more about the FaceSnap’s user guidelines, you have here a very detailed explanation.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Apps, cameras, FaceSnap, iOS, iphone apps

PastBook App Is The Latest Tool To Build Your Photo Book

April 29, 2014 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

pastbook app for iphoneIf you want to build a photo book using your smartphone or other mobile devices, there are a number of tools out there specially designed for doing this. Apps like Mosaic, Shutterfly, and Printic are just some of the photo book builders applications available on the internet. If you are not completely satisfied with these apps or you simply want to try out something new, the PastBook app is the one for you, if you are an iPhone user, that is.

Most of the photo book apps share similar features: you have the option to select the photos from your social networks or from your phone gallery, customize the order and the layout, then you checkout and place your order. The new PastBook app offers a couple of different tools with its service. Firstly, besides letting you ad photos from Facebook or from your iPhone’s Camera roll, you have the option to invite your family and friends to add photos to an album, too. You can do this by sending them a private link in a text message, email, on Facebook, Twitter or even via a QR code.

After you create the album PastBook app also gives you the possibility to share that album privately via a link or you can even download the album as an e-book, in PDF format. This is a cool option, especially for users who just want a casual album, like for a school project or to give it to a friend as a nice gift.

If you want a more professional looking photo album you can make a 24 page book for $19, free shipping everywhere included. The PastBook app also gives you the option to print large photo books up to 500 pages for $92. This means approximately 1000 photos for album.

PastBook app – design and other features

The app looks modern and has a minimalist design, although the fonts are a little too small and it’s sometimes difficult to see it on the iPhone screen. Other than that, it’s an easy to use app, it lets you rotate the photos quickly, delete them or set different pictures as the cover of your album. If you want to purchase the photo albums you can pay via PayPal or by typing you credit card info. All in all, the PastBook app is fun and easy to use and can easily compete with other photo book tools available at the moment.

You can get the new PastBook app for iPhone here.

 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: free apps, iphone apps, new apps, pastbook app

Match.com New iPhone App Released – Better Than Tinder?

April 29, 2014 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

match iphone appA great thing about apps is that they help you meet new people and that can lead to friendship, dates and even great love affairs. One of the most popular dating apps at the moment is, of course, Tinder. But Tinder may have a new competitor because another famous dating site has launched their first dating app for iPhone users. Match.com new iPhone app promises a redesigned experience for its users in the form of Match 3.0 for iOS.

The Match.com app takes cues from other dating applications and even comes with a new logo design. All this, Match.com says, for an enjoyable mobile experience. The dating site has implemented new features built specifically for mobile devices. The previous version of their app was a mirror image of their website that used algorithms and information provided by the users to offer daily matches. You also had the option to search for people based on various criteria.

So how does Match.com new iPhone app work? It first opens up to a brand new Discover page, one that didn’t exist on their old app until now. The Discover page has two parts: the Stream and the Mixer. The Stream is a stream of people that you might find interesting. The app shows them to you based on your location, your interests, things you prefer, etc. Match.com says that it has found a way for its users to fit multiple photos on the Stream page. This will save the user multiple clicks, said Amarnath Thombre, the president of Match:

“The challenge was to leverage all the rich data that Match has about users, like secondary photos and information from their bio, and make it super lightweight. With the Stream, users can see a lot of information about their potential matches without ever clicking in to anything.”

The other cool tab in the Match.com new iPhone app is the Mixer. This feature resembles very much our personal favorite, Tinder: if you like someone, you swipe right, if you don’t, you swipe left. Mixer gives you the option to like their photos and send messages. Thombre said that the Match.com new iPhone app is not trying to copy Tinder explaining that the “swipe movement” is a natural motion on mobile.

Match.com new iPhone app – other features

The new app features the traditional search and matching modes but it does have a modern mobile feel to it. You can download the Match.com new iPhone app from the iTunes store here.

 

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: dating apps, iphone apps, match.com app, new apps

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