SntapCamera A Buttonless, Swipe and Tap Based Camera App for iOS

There’s no arguing that Apple’s stock apps are very well built, designed and incredibly practical. One aspect of them that leaves some of us who are in a rush is the multitude of features and options almost every single app has. For example the camera app that comes native with iOS devices often times is just enough not too simple or crazy, but it could be even easier to use. SntapCamera is a free app that was just released for the iOS that can make picture taking and sharing to Facebook even easier.

The key behind SntapCamera’s design is that it is completely buttonless. There is no physical button press needed, and everything that you need to do is able to be accomplished by tapping, holding a press, and sliding your finger. It strips down a camera app to the bare bones, but often times that’s all most camera users want.

A great feature of this app is that from the same viewfinder you can choose to either just tap once and capture that image, or hold a tap to begin a video. This enables the user to go from a picture or a video without having to bring up a menu and deal with a little toggle icon in the midst of the action.

With the most simple, one swipe option to share the picture you just took on Facebook, it couldn’t be an easier ending to the easiest picture you ever captured. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the iOS stock camera app, but if you ever wanted something really quick and easy just give this free app, SntapCamera a try.

Source: SntapCamera for iOS

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Next Browser: A New Contender to the Android Web Browsing World

The realm of internet browsers in the Android marketplace is riddled with incredibly high quality, high functioning options which would leave even the pickiest user completely satisfied. So, why would anyone attempt to reinvent the wheel and take a stab at this world of already overpopulated greatness? I don’t know, but I’m glad someone did. Next Browser is a new online browsing tool which is quickly showing off its potential after only having been released a couple of days ago. It is fast, free, easy to use, and most importantly incredibly well designed.

It has everything you’ve ever wanted in a browser, tabbed options, complete customization, adjustable search options, a multitude of extensions, and bookmark syncing. It’s basically like if the top three: Firefox, Chrome, and Dolphin had a love child and thus, Next Browser was born. It works so well that with a few tweaks and updates it could become the next household name and the go to option for browsing.

It has the best of all of the worlds in the most easily customized interface I’ve seen. With a great “speed dial” front page to access your most common pages, bookmark selections and everything else you want to see right when you open a browser it comes out of the gates swinging. As of now, it might be hard to say this would be a full replacement for the mighty Dolphin Browser, but it’s a very good attempt and given time and a few adjustments to the bookmark settings and desktop syncing it could very well be just as good.

Source: Next Browser for Android

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Full Screen Technology: How Have Motorola Achieved This?

We’re seeing more and more smartphones that use full screens, or at least something close to them; phone screens are also getting larger and larger, with many phones blurring the distinction between a smartphone and a tablet. Motorola have been an innovator in terms of developing full screen phones, with the Motorola RAZR I representing an excellent example of the technology in use. How, then, have Motorola achieved this, and what does it tell us about the broader smartphone market?

Motorola’s full screen technology effectively involves reducing the amount of handset space devoted to bezel edges and buttons, instead focusing on making the screen as large as possible; the edge to edge screen employed by phones like the RAZR I have dimensions of 4.3 inches, and use Super AMOLED technology. Protective materials are employed to keep the back of the RAZR I secure, with splash guards also incorporated into the phone to prevent damage.

One of the advantages of using full screen technology is that a manufacturer like Motorola can make the most of a handset without having to significantly increase its size to something like Samsung’s ‘phablet’ Note II. Users can still access all of the features of Android on a RAZR I, but without having to rely on extra buttons; this minimalist approach focuses all of a user’s attention onto the touchscreen.

The RAZR I is demonstrating trends towards increasing the potential of smartphone screens – while there is an argument to be made that screens are getting too big, full screen technology means that you still have a relatively normal sized handset, just with more of it covered by the screen. The 4.3 inch screen of the RAZR I isn’t noticeably larger than rivals like the Samsung Galaxy SIII, and doesn’t push into phablet territory.

There is some debate, though, over whether screen size will continue to be so important to manufacturers as they look to distinguish themselves in the future. Samsung have certainly made strides in terms of the Note and the Samsung Galaxy SII and SIII, with the size of their phones’ screens being typically larger than Apple, who have so far managed to resist supersizing their screens to the same degree.

What phones like the RAZR I demonstrate is that you can have a full screen experience without creating a clunky handset – Motorola are also showcasing their full screen, edge to edge technology in the RAZR HD, which has a 4.7 inch screen, and removes even more of the bezel of the phone than the RAZR I. It’s likely that the RAZR HD will complement the RAZR I, while still benefiting from increasing screen size without making it too difficult to actually hold either phones’ handsets.

Much of what you get from a full screen phone experience depends on your preference – some people still prefer to have tactile buttons for returning to a home screen, and for switching a phone on and off. Others, however, are more inclined towards the tablet like touchscreen experience of a full screen smartphone, where you can be more intuitive in how you use Android to access different features on your phone.

About the author :

Rosette is a mobile fanatic,she is currently working to raise awareness of the RAZR I .She likes to check out the latest mobiles phones and apps.

Legato: The New Music Player and Music Discovery App

Discovering new music is one of the great joys of listening to music in the first place. Even though we all probably have a a few songs we could listen to on repeat day after day after day for hours on end, there is always a need for new and great music in our lives. The new app for iOS devices, Legato, hopes to help do just that. Part streamlined and sleek music player, and part music discovery app, Legato goes to a place that some other apps have attempted to, but in a more reasonable way.

The way Legato separates itself from the rest of the pack is with the social networking side of music discovery made simple. Your friends often times listen to music you like and more often than not they are the ones who introduce you to new songs and artists anyway. Legato goes off of that by making songs played by anyone using the app available for others to view. This means you can see and listen to whatever your friends are listening to as well. From there you can choose to download, or rate the songs so you can see at a later time which ones you liked.

Although the app is not fully integrated with social networking platforms yet, once it does it will be a lot more effective at linking together the people we know and the music they listen to. As of now though the functionality of Legato is still a great music player, and as more and more people download and use it, the music discovery aspect will grow lager and larger.

Simply sharing the songs you listen to for others to see and getting the benefit of seeing what your friends are listening to has never been easier. Just listen to your songs as you would normally and Legato does everything else for you. This app is free and there is nothing to lose, only new music to gain.

 Source: Legato for iPhone

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Evernote Reminders Now Available on the Web, iOS, and Mac Versions

Evernote is a great program and app that has made so many things simpler and more condensed. Not just a note taking app, but an all around organizer, planner, and place to keep up to date on everything going on. With the kind of service sometimes it’s easy to forget what you have going on with every little task you have started planning for. For that reason, Evernote has rolled out with a great new feature for its iOS, Web based, and Mac versions of its app. The new feature that has been added is reminders set directly into the app and the notes pages. This means with the simple addition of a few clicks or a few taps you can have reminders set to pop up when you need to look at, revise or finish up a page of notes that is time sensitive.

This type of reminder based addition to an app centered around note taking is incredibly useful. Take for example a note you have started making about a person’s gifts or presents you need to get for them. Set the reminder for a week or so before the date so you know you can not forget to pick one of those ideas. Also, have an important meeting with someone? Write down the questions in a note and then set the reminder for when you are seeing them to remember to look over all of your important things you need to discuss.

This is also a great feature for those groups or businesses that use Evernote to share items of productivity or business within their own people. With time sensitive reminders based on spreadsheets, business reports or budget notes, reminders can have these items pop up for the times allotted to review these types of things while in meetings. This makes sure nothing that needs to be addressed get forgotten.

The best thing about this app is that it is a simple addition to a great app, but it ultimately makes the app so much more useful and powerful without adding any clutter or new, hard to navigate menus or anything like that. It is a great reminder system that exponentially increases the level of integration Evernote has in making the notes taken meaningful and not forgotten. This has been a heavily requested item for this app, so to see it now having come to fruition in such a great way is an awesome sight. Whether you’re an Evernote user or not, go snatch up this app and start making it part of your life.

Source: SourceEvernote Blog

 

AirLyrics: The Great Lyrics Finding and Searching App for Android

There are tons of apps that help you find the lyrics to your favorite songs. Mot of them are apps that are essentially glorified internet searches and provide no real help in the search itself. Finally, there is an app that not only searches, stores and provides the lyrics to the songs you listen to, but it’s free and works incredibly well. The app is called AirLyrics and is set up to make the search for lyrics to songs you listen to obsolete.

The app works in the background while your music is playing and it finds the lyrics and stores them so you can look at them later, or display them while the song is playing. AirLyrics works with a massive amount of default music players so there is no configuration or settings related jargon to mess around with while setting it up.

AirLyrics is set up through the LyricWiki database so any lyrics available there out of the hundreds of thousands of songs on that database will be found quickly and received directly on your Android device. With an app that is constantly searching and saving data files you’d expect it to be clunky and take up a bunch of memory and data usage, but this app is so streamlined that it doesn’t even take up more than 1 MB of storage and to view the lyrics for one song only uses 40kb of data.

This is truly the best app out there for finding, viewing, saving and accessing lyrics to songs without going out of your way to do searches and fiddle around with an assortment of other apps. It is free with ad support as well.

Source: AirLyrics for Android

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