Create Visually Engaging Animated Photographs From Your Videos Using The New Cinemagram App For iPhone – Download Now
Instagram, Lovestagram and now Cinemagram. Every way we turn there is a new ‘gram’ application which uses the power of visual art to entice users in to using the service. As we all know by now, Instagram is the popular photo sharing application which allows filters to be applied to photographs and shared with the Instagram network. Lovestagram is a soon to be made live service which has been created by an adoring girlfriend as a valentines day gift for her man, and Cinemagram, well that is a new application released onto the App Store two days ago which exists to create a beautiful hybrid image born out of image and video.
Created by Factyle Inc, Cinemagram offers users the ability to create visually engaging and animated photographs by offering the ability to animate small portions of the image to give it a ‘moving’ effect. The Cinemagram application joins the many thousand apps which are already in the thriving photography section of the App Store, but is sure to stand out and gain some traction due to the unique and eye pleasing functions that it offers.
The app looks very simplistic in its design, featuring a standard tab bar navigation interface that we have all seen before in apps like Instagram. The user interface of Cinemagram benefits from some polish and customization to make it fit in with the developers view of how the application should look. Factyle Inc don’t provide a great deal of information about Cinemagram on the App Store or through their website, other than to say it allows the creation of "a stunning hybrid between photo and video".
The steps to using Cinemagram also follow the same minimalistic approach that seems to have been given to the App Store description as well as the official website:
Film a short video clip using the device camera which is approximately 2-3 seconds in length. Animate a small region. Apply awesome xpro, vintage filters. Share to Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook.The steps do make it seem like a very simple process, but with the UI showing an internal settings option and the need to ‘animate’ a small region, I am betting there are a few intricacies that have been missed out, or in the words of an Apple television commercial, "some sequences have been shortened". With that said, the end result seems to be very effective if the featured Cinemagrams are anything to go by, but I am not sure whether $1.99 to effectively create a gif file is worth the cost.
The Cinemagram application is available on the App Store at a cost of $1.99 and is compatible with all devices capable of running iOS 5.0 and above.
Download Cinemagram now [iTunes Link].
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Sony Ericsson teams up with Umbro to create a real life football game
Football fans always seems to know best, or at least that’s what I feel whenever I find myself in a company of one. And I am sure there are a couple of football fans here. Well, don’t you ever wished you could control your own real life footballers? Sony Ericsson and Umbro thought they could. They teamed up together to create a live football game called the Kasabian Football Gaming Live.
Check out the video below where Tom from the pop band Kasabian and England striker Darren Bent battles it out via their very own footballer minions, from the comfort of their Sony Ericsson Xperia Play phones. I can only imagine a certain rich Russian oligarchs in London will be hoping to equip this on his team next.
A keen mobiler for more than a decade. I am passionated about music, photography, video games, fellwalking, technology and social. I blog occasionally at http://jonchoo.blogspot.com, though I mainly tweet about insane stuff at -> http://www.twitter.com/jonchooAdobe CreatePDF Lets Users Create PDF Documents Straight From Their iPhone And iPad
PDF documents have become increasingly more popular over the last few years, yet there still isn’t a good way to create them straight from an iOS device. To address this issue, Adobe has released CreatePDF, a small app that allows PDF documents to be created straight from any iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.
CreatePDF is a tool that converts many file types, ranging from image files and Photoshop files to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice and even WordPerfect files, into the PDF format straight from any iOS device while preserving all the quality of the original documents, including all the formatting (such as footnotes) etc. Indeed, Adobe promises that the conversion technology is the same as the one used on desktop versions of Adobe Acrobat.
Sadly, there isn’t a way to directly type out PDF files using this app, only converting existing files is possible, but also incredibly easy; while viewing any supported file in the browser or as an email attachment, simply choose to open said file with CreatePDF. The app should automatically detect the file type and begin the conversion process.
Once any file is opened using CreatePDF, it will be added to a special queue, as you can see below. There, users can monitor the status of their files as well as remove and rename them, or even email them out using the native Mail app.
In order to assure that all the files converted using this service are the highest-quality they can be, CreatePDF connects with Adobe’s servers, although no sensitive data stays in Adobe’s domain, according to the company. It’s still unclear what impact this quality assurance feature will have in the real world.
This app is available starting today, in both iPhone and iPad versions, for $9.99 from the iOS App Store. If you depend on PDF files on a daily basis and would like to create them from your mobile device, this might be the tool for you despite the price tab. If you’re not planning to use it often, however, you should simply continue creating PDF files from your desktop which is almost effortless these days. Nonetheless, it’s great to see Adobe stepping out of its comfort zone by bringing more of its technologies to mobile platforms.
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