In addition to launching the new iPad , Apple also completed iLife for iOS yesterday with the release of the mobile app version of iPhoto for its popular line of post-PC portable devices. As announced, the main features of the new iPhoto for iOS include multi-touch photo editing, photo beaming (between supported devices) and photo journals. But, hours after its launch, what seems to be getting considerable attention is something about the app that was never mentioned, even in passing, during yesterday’s Apple keynote
Google Play is set to offer audiobooks and magazines as well as apps and games and movies and whatever else iTunes does. The clues to the new content come from the Google Play Help page, which currently features empty sections titled ‘Audio books’ and ‘Magazines and journals’. It seems the search giant has also registered a number of domains that hold yet more deeply coded hints to Google Play’s future plans, inclduing googleplaymagazines.com, googleplaynewspapers.com, googleplaynewsstand.com, googleplaytv.com
iMovie Apple Genre: Photo & Video Price: $4.99 Release Date: June 24, 2010 Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create spectacular trailers and thrilling home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world — right from iMovie. Made for Multi-Touch • Tap to add video, photos, music, and sound effects • Drag to trim the length of any clip • Pinch to zoom the timeline • Swipe down on the playhead to split a clip; swipe up to freeze a frame • On iPad, pinch vertically to open the Precision Editor Create movie trailers • Choose from nine new trailers with immersive graphics and original scores by some of the world’s top film composers* • Customize movie studio logos, cast names, and credits in Outline view • Add and adjust video in Storyboard view • Add existing video from your device or record new footage directly into your trailer Build a polished project with Themes • Choose from a selection of eight unique themes, each with its own set of titles, transitions, and soundtrack • Switch themes or mix and match themed elements for a different look and feel • See the location of your video in titles and graphics Add photos, music, and sound effects • Add photos from your library or snap a picture and drop it into your project • Apply the automatic, face-aware Ken Burns effect to photos, or pinch and drag to create your own pan-and-zoom effects • Choose from soundtracks that match iMovie themes, or select songs from your own music library • Bring your movie to life with a library of over 60 sound effects Record and edit your soundtrack • Record audio directly into the timeline to add narration or custom sound effects • Create a song in GarageBand and send it directly to iMovie • Adjust the volume of any video clip, song, sound effect, or audio recording • On iPad, view color coded audio waveforms for every clip in your project Share your HD movie on the web and at home • Publish directly from iMovie to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport • Send to the Camera Roll and share in email or via iMessage • Use AirPlay to stream video to your HDTV over Wi-Fi with Apple TV • Transfer your project to iMovie on your Mac and compatible iOS devices *Trailers are available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later. AirPlay is compatible with the second-generation Apple TV or later
Today, I give in once more to the fact that you can’t judge an app by its appearances. I downloaded Star Cut with the belief that it would be a poor rip-off of Cut The Rope. Since it was free, and the thumbnail looks suspiciously like Cut The Rope, I thought I’d have a solid case
UPDATE: Check out our Hands on: new iPad review Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that iOS 5.1 is available to download from today, at the new iPad launch event in San Francisco. Don’t expect anything groundbreaking though, as iOS 5.1 is just a minor update bringing a refreshed camera app, multi-language dictation and a personal hotspot function. Cook said “iOS 5.1 also works seamlessly with iCloud”, which will allow you to store your content virtually and then wirelessly stream it to your iPhone, iPad or iPod – updating content across all devices when it is changed on one.