The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often! TUAW is asking for your votes for the best iPhone photography and video apps of 2011. The iPhone is one of the best point-and-shoot cameras possible. That's not because it has stellar lenses, great low-light capabilities, or high shutter speeds -- because it doesn't -- but because it's always with you. Developers have stepped up to the plate with some of the most innovative apps for iPhone, all in the photography and video app categories. In the photo app category, readers nominated FX Read More

Stop whatever you’re doing and grab the Occipital’s 360 Panorama app for your Android smartphone (presuming you own a compatible, Gingerbread-powered smartphone). Yeah I know the Ice Cream Sandwich will bring this capability built-in, but I’m sure it won’t work the way 360 Panorama does its job. Occipital relied heavily on OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics to make the magic happen. Heck their app will work even without a gyroscope which seemingly is impossible since accelerometers alone cannot track rotation — they are simulating a gyroscope using their own camera-based motion tracking algorithms. Impressive! Now the question is whether you think 360 Panorama is worth a buck (99 cents actually). I’m confident it is worth every penny, especially if you’re travelling somewhere and want to bring home the memories in a way that wasn’t possible before (at least with an Android smartphone)… So what are you waiting for – hit the link below Read More

By Lisa Caplan on November 9th, 2011 We look at four classic favorite apps for creating or editing photos with stunning special effects. Last week we looked at the best camera replacement apps for the iPhone native app. So, this week we wanted to continue the theme, this time looking at apps that focus on adding those ever-popular effects and filters. Many of the choices feature a camera replacement component, but all do unique things to produce end results that are anything but the average cell camera shot, no matter how high the resolution. All of these apps will make even casual photographers look like virtual experts. Instagram Instagram is all about effects and sharing and it’s completely free. This long-time user favorite allows shutter bugs to shoot right from the app or use existing images in the photo album and easily add custom filters. Most photo apps have social media Read More

Oft nachgefragt: ein Beitrags-Update über meine ‘Homescreens‘. Seit März 2011, als die letzte Aktualisierung dieser Artikel-Serie erfolgte, hat sich die eine oder andere App verschoben, geändert und aussortiert. Der derzeit aktuellen Stand ist an dieser Stelle festgehalten. Vielleicht finden an diesem Montag ja speziell frische 4S-Käufer, die einen ersten Grundbedarf an Software benötigen, die eine oder andere Anregung. Ich persönlich ziehe jede individuelle Empfehlungen allen generischen ‘Hitlisten’ vor. Genau deshalb soll mein privater Einblick auch nicht alleine bleiben: Wer Screenshots oder Tipps von seinen verwendeten Apps in den Kommentaren kundtun möchte, ist dazu herzlich eingeladen. Zwei Anmerkungen noch: Die zwei benutzten Hintergrundbilder gibt es hier und hier. Auf meinem Standby-Screen befinden sich dieses und dieses Bild. Außerdem führe ich zwei Ordner mit ‘Review’-Software, die ich mir für dieses Blog noch genauer anschauen möchte. Da diese Programme (noch) keine Empfehlungen sind, verbleiben sie für diesen Artikel ohne Erwähnung. Außerdem verstecken sich in Read More

by on 16. Aug, 2011 in Lets face it, 80% of the apps out there are garbage. They either don’t solve a problem well, they were poorly built, or just don’t work at all. These apps deserve bad public ratings and don’t belong anywhere on the app store charts. Then there’s the other 20% that are backed by passionate designers and developers changing how we interact with technology. People like Mobile Orchard readers These apps deserve recognition. Even great apps get negative feedback, and that’s OK. Feedback is a great thing when we can learn and improve from it. What’s broken is that when someone leaves a negative review in the app store, it scars your app for life, you can’t respond to it, and you can’t learn more about the problem in order to fix it quickly. Most of the developers I know building great apps tell me how app Read More

Occipital, the company behind the popular iPhone and iPad app 360 Panorama, announced on Wednesday that it received US$7 million in venture funding. 360 Panorama lets you take panorama pictures by shooting a series of pictures at one and stitching them on the phone before saving them to your camera roll. Besides a healthy infusion of cash, Occipital is also expanding beyond its iOS application to create a computer vision platform that other developers can use. Occipital will create the backbone and developers will use their creative skills to produce innovative apps with advanced imaging and camera features like eye tracking. Occipital has also added four new members to its board of directors including Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld of a venture capital firm Foundry Group, Manu Kumar of venture capital firm K9 Ventures and Gary Bradski, the creator of OpenCV, an open source computer vision library. Read More

Como todos sabreis, con la ayuda de algunas aplicaciones podemos usar el iPhone para realizar fotografías panorámicas en pocos segundos. Pues bien, este fin de semana, mi amigo Surfiky me ha hablado de 360 Panorama, que va más allá y nos permite realizar fotografías a modo de “visita virtual”. Para los que no conozcan este tipo de fotografía, se trata de panorámicas pero con una salvedad: nos podemos mover dentro de ellas pudiendo ver lo que hay a nuestro alrededor. Estas instantáneas son ideales para mostrar por ejemplo pisos que queramos poner en alquiler, enseñarles nuestra casa a algún amigo que se encuentre lejos o incluso poner en la Web de nuestro negocio una visita virtual de nuestras oficinas, bar, hotel, etc. Su precio no está nada mal, así que aprovechad y sacadle todo el rendimiento a esta magnífica aplicación. Precio: 0,79€ Read More

Last November, TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lacy sat down with Vineet Devaiah from “social streetview” startup, Phototour.in, which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the “Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010″ by Nvidia. The startup was the first international, non-funded, under-20-member company to win the award, according to Devaiah. Since then, Phototour added Academy Award certificate-winner and entrepreneur Bala S. Manian as an advisor (who was honored for “technical achievement” for his contributions to optical technologies used in films, including Star Wars) and has gained more than 47,000 users for the alpha version of its image and panorama crowdsourcing app, “360″, on Android. Users have logged more than 75,000 panoramas in a relatively short period of time, so, considering the rumors that the iPhone 5 will have a native panorama app, sources tell us that 360 might be Read More

Last November, TechCrunch’s own Sarah Lacy sat down with Vineet Devaiah from “social streetview” startup, Phototour.in, which, at the time, had just received term sheets from a number of high-profile U.S. investors and had recently been awarded the “Top Emerging Technology Company of 2010″ by Nvidia. The startup was the first international, non-funded, under-20-member company to win the award, according to Devaiah. Since then, Phototour added Academy Award certificate-winner and entrepreneur Bala S. Manian as an advisor (who was honored for “technical achievement” for his contributions to optical technologies used in films, including Star Wars) and has gained more than 47,000 users for the alpha version of its image and panorama crowdsourcing app, “360″, on Android. Users have logged more than 75,000 panoramas in a relatively short period of time, so, considering the rumors that the iPhone 5 will have a native panorama app, sources tell us that 360 might be Read More

Suppose you're at at your desk with a MacBook and an iPhone. You want to check cinema screening times at your local multiplex and the weather forecast so you'll know if you'll need a jacket or not. Which device do you reach for? If you choose the MacBook, you'll need to go to a cinema listings service and enter your zip code to find your multiplex, then repeat the process on a weather tracking site (unless your Dashboard already includes appropriate widgets for that data, in which case it's one keystroke away). On the iPhone, you just load a couple of apps, which know where you are so can show you the local data automatically. This exact scenario happened to me earlier, and I surprised myself by reflexively reaching for the iPhone, without thinking. Somewhere along the way it started to feel like the logical device to use for this sort Read More

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Auf gute Apps darf man auch zweimal hinweisen. ‘360 Panorama‘ erhält nach seinem ersten App-Store-Auftritt Anfang Dezember eine nahezu komplette Design-Überarbeitung, geht neuerdings mit Geotag-Infos um und läuft als Universal-App auch auf dem iPad 2. Die Rundumblicke entstehen weiterhin in Echtzeit und erfordern bei guten Lichtverhältnissen kein absolut ruhiges Händchen. Aber auch Aufnahmen innerhalb von Gebäuden erzielen beeindruckende Ergebnisse. Seine persönlichen Aufnahmen teilt man neben den lokalen Speicherorten bei Bedarf auf ‘360verse‘. Aus der Browseransicht – natürlich auch auf dem iPhone oder iPad! – wirken die 360°-Schnappschüsse gleich noch einmal beeindruckender. Beispiel gefällig? KLICK. Nicht unerwähnt soll jedoch bleiben, dass die neue Aktualisierung in den App-Store-Kommentaren reichlich Kritik erntet. Dabei wird auf die angeblich bessere Vorversion verwiesen. Einen qualitativen Vergleich kann man mit dem kostenlosen Photosynth (App Store-Link) von Microsoft anstreben. Nichtsdestotrotz: Für Fotofreunde oder alle diejenigen, die mit ganz speziellen Urlaubsfotos ihre Verwandtschaft verblüffen wollen, investieren hier in gut angelegte Read More

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by The panoramic capture has become accessible to amateur photographers by way of mobile app makers. The new iPhone app UScapeit, available Wednesday, is the latest of the bunch and makes capturing and sharing the perfect 3D panorama as simple as shooting a video. The free application, developed by EveryScape, merely requires the user to shoot video of the location, place or attraction he or she wishes to see transformed into a 3D panoramic image. UScapeit users can also choose to shoot multiple videos, called “views,” from different perspectives. The only catch is that video capture process feels a bit unnatural; the user is instructed to hold the mobile device steady and turn in a circle to capture a 360 degree shot. Though the capture process may feel awkward, the final product is an exceptional and life-like 3D rendering of the 360-degree shot. The user can choose to share the capture Read More

Microsoft’s Bing team today released Photosynth, a free mobile app for camera-enabled iOS devices that creates spherical, panoramic images. Captured photos can be shared through Facebook, Bing Maps or freely hosted on the Photosynth.net website. Photosynth is now appearing in the iTunes App Store and the next version will be released for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices. Having taken panoramic pictures in the past on an Android handset, first with the Motorola Droid  and then on later phones, I first thought Photosynth was just a rehash of that functionality. But it’s not. Instead of a linear set of horizontal images like the ones I created prior, Photosynth creates a near-360 degree image. You simply snap, snap, snap different frames of the world around you and the software quickly creates an immersive image that can be panned around. The official Photosynth video illustrates both the app’s usage and output: I installed Photosynth Read More

It's funny how times change. In 2008 Microsoft released Photosynth for Windows, an impressive technology that allowed the stitching of several photos into one large panorama. Microsoft said at the time that they weren't "cool enough" to run on Mac OS. Well, I guess times have changed, and Apple has eaten Microsoft's lunch in smartphones and tablets, so now Photosynth is available for at least the iPhone. The app was released today, and it's free, so I gave it a quick checkout in my neighborhood. You take an image, and then move the camera in any direction. The app continues capturing pictures, and when you are ready, it stitches them all together and saves the resulting panorama to your camera roll. It works pretty well, although it got a bit lost doing a 360 degree sweep. Also, Photosynth sometimes wanted to take a picture while I was still moving, and I Read More

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By Chris Nitz on March 9th, 2011 Some of the best camera apps for the iPhone! Love it or hate it, the iPhone is a big player when it comes to on the go photography. Many people no longer buy point and shoot cameras as they already have their iPhone with them everywhere they go. Apple has dedicated a section of the App Store to Camera and Photography apps. There are even photographers who have dedicated columns to “iPhoneography.” If you happen to fit into the group of users that loves taking photos with your iPhone, but want something to help make those photos more unique, we have four apps perfect for taking your photos further. Hipstamatic:Hipstamatic was one of the first apps to take the iPhone camera and give it a retro feel. Now this app has become a must own for many people. Hipstamatic gives you plenty of options Read More

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App maker Occipital has provided a working demo of Apple's newly integrated gyroscope support in Mobile Safari using images created by 360 Panorama, Occipital's great panoramic photography App for iOS 4.2. The site, when visited by an iOS device with a gyroscope and running iOS 4.2.1, allows you to view photographs taken with the 360 Panorama App by simply moving the device. Based on your iPhone's orientation the photograph will follow. I had to keep my iPhone fairly vertical in order for the gyroscope to read properly, but the experience was pretty fun considering I had to spin around in my chair to see the entire photograph. With Occipital's software, you can create an entire 360-degree image and share it with friends via Twitter or e-mail, or add it to your Camera Roll for viewing later. According to TNW Apps interviewing Occipital co-founder Vikas Reddy, 360 Panorama has been the No. Read More

Occipital, a company that has been getting lots of attention for their iPhone application “360 Panorama” that utilizes the built in gyroscope and camera inside Apple’s Jesus Phone to make taking panorama images easier, has discovered that the Safari browser, as of version 4.2 of iOS, supports reading information from the gyroscope. The headline used by when announcing the discovery “Hidden Safari Mobile feature reveals augmented reality capability” is a bit misleading since augmented reality implies that in addition to the gyroscope, the camera and compass are also put to use. This new found feature shows that Apple is not only working relentlessly to make the best mobile smartphone platform, and then with App Store one of the finest distribution methods ever to be conceived, but that they also care about web applications and fully expect the browser to house the same rich types of applications that would otherwise be written Read More

posted by Trey Trawick on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 10:17 pm.   While creating their latest app, Occipital stumbled onto a hidden gem in Mobile Safari: gyroscope support. The iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G running 4.2+ can both take advantage of this secret feature, which allows users to move their body to turn the content in the browser. Occipital’s 360 Panorama application can be used to photograph and upload a 360 degree scene and share it with others, who can use their device’s built in gyroscope to pan around the photo from within Mobile Safari. At the moment, there doesn’t seem to be any other service that takes advantage of this feature, so Occipital has put together a demo for users to test it out. Some details: Developers will probably use this newfound technology to create some very interesting websites. Read More

We've talked about 360 Panorama before -- it's a cool app that lets you capture 360° panoramic photos in real time by just moving your iPhone around in a circle. The $0.99 app (available here) has been out for a while, but keeps receiving amazing updates that improve its functionality and wow factor. Now the wizards at Occipital have figured out a way for you to view those panoramas as if you're actually standing at the site where they were taken. You simply open up Mobile Safari on an iPhone 4 (or any other gyroscope-equipped iPhone running iOS 4.2), point to a URL where the photo is stored, and then move the phone around. The gyroscope is detected by the browser, and then your movements control where in the panorama you are looking. The standard reverse-pinch gesture lets you zoom into a panorama, while pinching zooms out. All using HTML 5 Read More

By – Is your job somehow connected with images and photos or maybe it’s just something you like? Get in! Capturing panoramas has never been easier! Just tap the screen and pan your phone camera in any direction. You’ll see your panorama being built in realtime as every incoming frame is processed. When you’re done, you can save and share your panorama instantly with no need to fumble around with a clumsy stitching process. There’s nothing else like it! WebCut is the tool for cutting the image in freestyle mode. User can cut picture form web browser, photo album, screen capturing. After a freely cut as wanted user could send it via e-mail or save to photo album for later use. This will be a nice quick useful utility for photos lover. You can take strange and beautiful photos easily by using filters and frames included in this app. Photoscope3D provides Read More

In unregelmäßigen Abständen halte ich an dieser Stelle meine ersten beiden Homescreen-Seiten vom iPhone fest. Zuletzt erfolgte dies im August 2010, Januar 2010 sowie September 2009. Für mich von Spannung ist dabei welche Apps sich immer noch auf meinem Geräte befinden, welche komplett verschwanden oder sich eventuell (nur) verschoben haben. Dabei greife ich die (für mich) wesentlichen Änderungen heraus. Ansonsten überraschend wenig Veränderungen: BeejiveIM flog dank Push-Benachrichtigungen in einen Ordner auf der zweiten Seite. Außerdem verstecken sich innerhalb der Ordner folgende Apps*: Amazon.de (kostenlos; App Store-Link), Convertbot (1.59 €; App Store-Link), AnalyticsPro (5.49 €; App Store-Link), Delivery Status touch (3.99 €; universal; App Store-Link), Dropbox (kostenlos; universal; App Store-Link), iCabMobile (1.59 €; universal; App Store-Link), Skype (kostenlos; App Store-Link), WeatherPro (2.99 €; App Store-Link), Pastebot (2.99 €; App Store-Link), LogMeIn (23.99 €; universal; App Store-Link), OffMaps (1.59 €; universal; App Store-Link), Kik (kostenlos; App Store-Link), PayPal (kostenlos; App Store-Link), Linkie (0.79 Read More

Mit ‘360 Panorama‘ (0.79 €; App Store-Link) in Version 3.0 erreicht eine ‘Echtzeit-Foto-Stitching-Software’ den App Store, die vom iPhone-4-Kreiselinstrument Gebrauch macht. Der Nutzer muss zum Aufreihen von Rundum-Bildern lediglich in der Lage sein, den großen (roten) Aufnahme-Knopf zu drücken und sich halbwegs ‘normal’ im Kreis zu drehen. Sind diese Anforderungen erfüllt, entstehen innerhalb von wenigen Sekunden wahrhaft beeindruckende Panorama-Bilder, die sich in die Fotobibliothek exportieren lassen. Extra für das Web aufbereitete Beispiele, wie hier aus dem Techcrunch-Büro, geben einen mehr gelungenen Rundumblick. Aber auch ohne zusätzliche Nacharbeit entstehen sehr breite Fotos. Die Qualität hängt zweifelsohne von einem ruhigen Händchen (oder Stativ) und guten Lichtverhältnissen ab. Die Vorgänger-Version von ’360 Panorama’ bekleckerte sich in diesen Punkten zuvor nicht mit Ruhm. Die aktuelle Fassung liefert eine weitaus bessere Performance. ‘360 Panorama‘ ist natürlich nicht konkurrenzlos im App Store. ‘‘ (2.39 €; App Store-Link) oder ‘You Gotta See This!‘ (1.59 €; App Store-Link) verfolgen Read More

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We first looked at 360 Panorama back in July when it debuted against other panoramic photo apps, including Boinx's You Gotta See This and Debacle Software's Pano. On sale now for just US$0.99 (regular price $2.99), Occipital's panorama application has been updated to add what developer Jeff Powers calls "streetview sharing." This new sharing feature (a "hosted immersive viewing experience") allows you to upload your panoramas and access them from any web browser, whether that browser supports Flash or not. When viewed, you can flick and drag to see the panorama from any angle. Follow through the "read more" link to view a sample embedded panorama that I created at a local cemetery, which showcases the hosted interaction. You can easily share your panoramic creations with family, friends, colleagues and clients. All they need is a browser. Occipital is the group that brought Red Laser to the iPhone, providing real-time barcode Read More

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There are plenty of iPhone apps that shoot panorama photos. You take a picture. Move to the left or right, and after you have 3 or 4 images the panorama software stitches the images together. Now, Occipital is offering 360 Panorama, a different approach to getting wide, or even 360 degree images. The app is dead simple. Click on a button to start the process, then slowly turn left or right. You appear to be taking one continuous image, and as you move you can see the image filling in on a grid. You don't do any stitching, the software does it in nearly real time. You can go wide, or even shoot vertical images. Or you can do both, panning up and down, and moving left or right. The image will fill in. It's pretty cool to watch. When you tap 'save' the image goes to your camera roll. The Read More