Category: Application

As reported on TechCrunch. by Catherine Shu SketchVid is a cool new iOS app that lets even the most ham-handed doodler make striking animations for Instagram. The app lets you trace over or draw on a photo, or sketch freehand. It records your strokes as you are drawing and then automatically turns them into a 15-second video. I have a Jot stylus, but I’m still pretty bad at writing on my iPhone’s touchscreen, let alone drawing. Thanks to SketchVid’s…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Romain Dillet Music startup 8tracks just released a major new version of its iPhone app. The 3.0 version comes with a completely redesigned interface, a simpler user experience and a new advertising strategy. At its core, it remains a laid-back radio service like Pandora or Songza, but with human-generated playlists. After launching the app, the music experience is slightly different. You are presented with a horizontal timeline of human-curated playlists. If you swipe…

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes Thanks to editing tools like Photoshop, it can be hard to tell what’s real on the web. There have been a number of forensic tools available to those wishing to investigate suspect images, but likely none so easy to use as Izitru, the service introduced on Monday by Dartmouth professor Hany Farid. Izitru, pronounced a bit like “is it true,” lets you upload a photo and automatically get a computer’s analysis of whether…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Catherine Shu Digest Comes To Android The makers of Hipstamatic, the app that was introduced in 2009 and gained a loyal following for its square-format photos and filters before Instagram took over in ubiquity, has launched a new video editing app called Cinamatic. Cinamatic is currently available for iPhones and costs $1.99. Additional filters are available as in-app purchases. Cinamatic uses the same formula as Hipstamatic: first you take a square-format video of three to 15 seconds, then…

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As reported on Engadget. BY EMILY PRICE Whether you’re doing a book report or trying to show someone how to boil an egg: video can make it a heck of a lot easier for you to get your point across. Adobe’s new iPad app, Voice, hopes to make the often time-consuming experience of creating your own such videos a lot faster and easier. The app guides you through making a sharable vid, from the conception of…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois  Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day While the U.S. real estate market is still experiencing its ups and downs, the number of online real estate startups continues to increase quickly. The latest entrant in this business is Flipt, which aims to take some of the emotion out of real estate purchase decisions and replace it with a more data-driven approach. Flipt analyzes available residential properties in an area and then…

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger More than just photos, Snapchat’s new text and video chat feels immediate and intimate By any measure, Snapchat has had a busy year. 23-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel reportedly rejected a $3 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg, dealt with a data breach that leaked 4.6 million usernames, and watched as countless “ephemeral” apps launched to compete with his app. Meanwhile, Snapchat, by some metrics, had passed Facebook in daily photo uploads. The night…

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