Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Top Five Apps That Rival Google's Camera


Google, the search engine has revamped its Google Camera with advanced features that works in a faster pace than earlier. People love it for its minimalistic UI,  shutter bar which replaced shutter button, and in addition to Panorama mode and Photosphere the app offers a new feature called Lens Focus, which lets you selectively choose which spot of the picture has to be in focus.


PicsArt: PicsArt is a photo-editing app that even acts as social media to share your images like VSCO app or Instagram. The editing options of this app are Camera, comprises Effect, Draw, photo and shop. Using the app, users can take pictures from their phone gallery as well as from social Medias such as Facebook, Picasa, Google+, Flickr, Drive and more. The filter mode in the Effects menu enables the users to add different types of blurring effects, modifications such as red-eye correction, and fixing blemishes on images. There is also a Draw feature that enables the users to add text to the image or doodle on the image itself. The app provides lots of options for editing your photographs artistically.

 

VSCO: VSCO facilitate the users to shoot pictures and then apply different editing option to it. Users can either select from filters and stock options or can download them from app store, which comes with new filters very often and many of them are free for downloading. Moreover, user can generate their own filter preset and put up for sale on the app store.  The app offers lots of photo filters and includes more upgraded editing and tweaking options as well. Its preset packs enable the users to easily process the images into a specific look with few taps, without having to fidget with settings before or after you take each photo. Users can upload their images to VSCO Grid, where they can make the pictures public, license or copyright them, list them as Creative Commons, or join in the group of other photographers.


Pixlr Express: The photo-editing app from Autodesk offers lots of editing options and its user friendly interface enables not only to take image from the gallery but also to click new images or make a collage of existing images. Users can alter the brightness, sharpness and contrast and also can carry out the function such as focus blurring, healing, and more. The effects menu includes a Text option that permits the users to add text on their photographs.


Camera FV-5: The camera app includes features such as color effects, frames, filters, and borders, but it includes more granular control to the equation. Users can manage certain picture elements and camera controls such as aperture, stops, exposure time, white balance, light metering, and so on. User can combine any of these settings or controls to the volume keys. This app even offer support for time-lapses and long exposures. The view finder in this app boasts a RGB histogram. The manufacturer has tried as much as possible to make this app a professional viewfinder.


 
Snapseed: Snapseed is a free photo filter app that can do more than just apply effects and filters to the photographs before you share them. Its auto correct feature really enhances your picture, corrects common errors, and makes them look sharp and clear. Snapseed enables the users to have a control over whatever the changes they make on picture. Selective Adjust enables the users to tweak certain portion of the image, while Tune Image enables to tweak the overall ambiance of the photograph. This app also allows some editing such as crops and resizes, rotations, and so on. Users can even apply photo filters, alter the landscape images to tilt-shift masterpieces, and modify the focus once the image is taken and so on.


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Monday, April 21, 2014

Pump Up The Music With These Android Apps


Android Smartphones can cater to music obsessions of its users with variety of apps available on the Google Play, ever eager to pump the beats for you. While some app comes with unique, easy to use interfaces, others are packed with high-end features.  Below listed are some of the best android music players, as compiled by Hongkiat.com


doubleTwist Music Player: It is a free music player that enables the users to enjoy music, videos and podcasts on their Android devices. doubleTwist comes with iTunes sync app and podcast manager and also boasts more than 90 thousand five start rating for the app on Google Play. It stands out the crowd owing to its sleek design and user friendly interfaces. Its magic radio feature offers a personalized mix of songs based on your existing library, moreover using this app, the user can directly sync iTunes or Windows Media Player playlists from your desktop to phone using USB. The app provides Airplay and MagicPlay from Android to your speakers. AirSync enables the users to stream tunes to various devices such as XBOX, Apple TV, PS3, Sonos audio system and more.




Poweramp Music Player: Poweramp is a customizable and full featured audio player for Android, which offers support for a wide range of acoustics, cue files, lyrics and many playlists formats. The player also supports features such as ReplayGain, gapless playback, and scrobbling. In terms of acoustic tweaking, this app includes 10-band graphic equalizer with bass, stereo expansion, mono mixing and left or right balance controls. Poweramp packs with four variety of themes and boasts numerous UI customization options. The Android player is available free for a 15 day on trial basis after which you may have to purchase it to enjoy its music offerings. Added features such as fast library searching, tag editor, home and lock screen widgets, setting and visual customizations make this app a heck of choice for Android users.


Rocket Music Player: This is a clean and simple to use music player that contains some solid feature even in its free version. The player includes features such as Holo-style UI, a built-in equalizer, home and locks screen widgets, library search and management tools. User friendly interface enables a faster browsing of music without getting overloaded in details and extra button. Moreover, upgraded options provide an opportunity to generate your own music listening experience with fast editing and a dynamic equalizer. It features 5-band equalizer, dynamic live list playlists and also an element resembling ‘Up Next’ in iTunes. The player can work with isyncr that enables to sync podcast bookmarks, play counts and playlists to iTunes.


PlayerPro Music Player: Playpro is a media player packed with many features and settings to customize the listening experience. It contains audio effects such as equalizer and reverb and it also supports SRS, Dolly and Beats audio enhancement. It enables the user to share album artwork and text notification on Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, users can shake or swipe the device to change the playlists. Playpro includes more than 20 free skins that offer support for both grid and list view. The player also enables the users to change library display layout, use custom themes, download missing album art and lyrics, and filter songs by title, album, and artist.


n7player Music Player: n7player comes with unique user interfaces and influential audio processing. This interface enables easy and quick music browsing based on albums and artists. The player’s interface is based on OpenGL and includes 3D wall of album covers that offers support for multi-touch. The player features a unique UI for navigating and browsing audio collections. It also features a 5-band graphic equalizer, gapless playback, bass boost and environmental effects.




Neutron Music Player: This is a professional media player with premium 32/64-bit audio rendering machine that delivers the best sound quality from Android devices. Neutron also includes upgraded audio control features such as 4-band parametric equalizer, pitch control, surround sound, crossfeed and rumble filtering DSPs. It enables the users to tweak left/right balance and pitch. The player is highly customizable and also offers support for numerous file formats, including lossless files.


 


WinAmp Music Player: The music player offers a better listening experience with simple playlist organization, browsing by album, artist, or genre, SHOUTcast radio, and FM scrobbling. It provides simple to use syncing options with WinAmp desktop player, and also the option for Wi-Fi synching. Aside from being able to sync wirelessly with the device, it can import iTunes playlists and library as well. WinAmp can integrate with Android voice search and also features a 10-band equalizer, FLAC support, customizable home screen, and gapless playback.



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Amazon Soon To Unveil A 3D Smartphone

Amazon has announced its first 3D Smartphone which will be launched sometime in June this year. The phone is not expected to hit the stores till September and the price remains unknown too reports Wall street journal.

The 3D phone from Amazon renders images on the Smartphone without a user wearing any special glasses for it. The phone has four front facing cameras to track the user’s retinas, adjusting the image to look like a holographic projection on the screen no matter from which angle the user views it. The technology in the phone also monitors the movement of the user if it is far or near to the screen.

Apparently, Amazon has been inviting app and game developers to demonstrate the device’s capabilities under tight security. People used the device have said that it would be ideal for gaming. The OS on which the device runs is yet to be disclosed. The current Amazon devices the Kindle fire tablets and the Fire TV set top box, runs on a Android platform which is customized by Amazon similar to what Nokia did for its Android phones.

It is anticipated that, Amazon is in talks with two display manufacturers which includes the Japan Display, who supply screens for the Apple. The handset would go into mass production later this month and is already having an initial order of 6 lakh units.

According to the BGR leak on Tech advisor, the phone is expected to have a 4.7 inch screen with a HD resolution of 720p and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 2GB of RAM. On the optics side, it has a 13MP primary camera and not less than 12MP on the secondary.
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