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YouTube Capture [App]

YouTube blog:

Making sharing fast and easy
YouTube Capture is ready to record as soon as you open it. When you’re done filming, write a caption, select which networks you want to share to, and hit Share. Even if you minimize the app, the video will keep uploading in the background. You can control who sees your video by setting it to private (only you can view it), unlisted (only people with a link to the video can view it), or public (to let it shine to the world).

More than a point-and-shoot
Have a shaky hand or bad lighting when recording your video? Touch it up easily with YouTube enhancements like color correction and stabilization, or trim the length and add free background music from YouTube. These enhancements are also available on existing videos on your device, and you can always undo enhancements later on YouTube.com. YouTube Capture will remind you to rotate your phone to a horizontal position for filming, so your videos look high-quality and free of “Vertical Video Syndrome.”

[iTunes]

SupperKing [App]

Wonderful Idea

Fast Company: SupperKing, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Meals

Have some sick cooking skills but no one to serve it to? Wish you had someone making home-cooked meals for you? This new service will help make sure everyone can go to as many dinner parties as they want.

[iTunes] [Company website]

Timbre [App]

Discover Your Music Scene
Timbre is a free, location-based band discovery app that finds local music and shows for you! Set it to your current location, or check out the music scene in San Francisco, New York City, or any other location you can dream of.*

Your Ears Know Best
Timbre was designed with the belief that your ears know best. Instead of tedious searching by genre or artist, Timbre automatically locates artists performing near you and starts playing their music.

Go See Your New Favorite Band
Once you're listening, it's easy to find your groove. First song not your cup of tea? A quick swipe on the screen and you’re rocking out to someone else. Like what you hear? Purchase tickets to the show straight from the app.

That’s a Lot of Things
Timbre searches a database that contains more than 65,000 artists and 75,000 venues, so you’re guaranteed to find a great show near you!

[iTunes]

 

TED Books [App]

TED Books are short original electronic books produced every two weeks by TED Conferences. Like the best TEDTalks, they're personal and provocative, and designed to spread great ideas. TED Books are typically under 20,000 words — long enough to unleash a powerful narrative, but short enough to be read in a single sitting.

The success of TED Talks has demonstrated that millions of people around the world are hungry to absorb new thoughts and perspectives. With more demands than ever on people's time, we think many will welcome the chance to absorb a TED Book when a spare hour becomes available.

The TED Books app allows us to embed audio, video, and social features into each book, broadening the depth and detail of each work. These additional multimedia features suit the wide-ranging creative palette of our contributors, many of who use photography, audio, and video in addition to the printed word to fully express their ideas.

TED Books can be purchased individually, or readers can subscribe and automatically receive a new ebook every two weeks. Those who subscribe within 90 days of our July 10, 2012 launch — whom we call Founding Subscribers — can download our entire back catalog at no charge.

[iTunes]

 

Ita [App]

Ita makes list-keeping better. We’ve made it really easy to mark stuff you’ve done, move items around, and keep track of everything you’d like to remember. Ita will make all sorts of list-keeping and note-taking quick, fun, and simple.

We designed Ita so that everything you need to do is just a tap away. Adding one or multiple items? Tap the plus button once, and you can add as many list items as you want just by pressing return. Want to move an item around? Just hold and drag it. Marking items as completed is just a tap.

To make Ita feel more like a paper notebook, we decided it should act like one. As you use lists, they’ll show signs of wear, just like a piece of paper. Your list will remember how it looks, and that look syncs across iCloud with the rest of your data.

Ita’s universal and retina-ready for iPad and iPhone, and supports full syncing through iCloud. The only thing we’re missing are check marks. That’s because Ita’s not a to-do list manager; Ita’s just the best list-making app we’ve ever used. (We’re biased.) So check it out.

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vjay [App]

This new app for the iPad, vjay, by Algoriddim, is getting some impressive reviews reviews and thought it might be of interest to you creative ones. It's currently 50% off, at $9.99 on the iTunes store.

vjay transforms your iPad into a cutting-edge mashup machine, directly integrated with the media libraries on your iPad. Mix and scratch your favorite music videos from iTunes or combine songs from your music library with personal video footage into an interactive audio visual experience. You can even use your iPad's built-in camera to add your very own clips to the mix. The first of its kind on the iPad, vjay lets you get creative with your content, display directly to a TV, stream wirelessly via Apple TV, or record your performances live to share on your favorite social channels.

vjay combines the worlds of music and video in an innovative and creative way, it paves the way for the next generation of personal and professional video creativity, it is the start of the next era of music videos as we know it.

In action:

Brekkie [App]

Hungry for inspiration? Have Brekkie!

Brekkie is a daily bite of advertising, design and marketing inspiration. Every day we provide you with a carefully selected video, image, article and quote, which will get your creative juices running.

A perfect little chunk of information which goes well with your coffee and croissant.

Bon appétit!

[iTunes]

Vogue Paris Releases iPhone App (In French)

Always ahead of the pack, Vogue.fr is developing its mobile presence so that readers can have their favorite content at their fingertips, wherever they are.

April 16 saw Vogue.fr go global, with the release of an English-language version of the site. Now, mobility is at the heart of Condé Nast's digital strategy, as we aim to enable users to step inside the Vogue Paris world wherever they are. From today, users can download a brand new iPhone app free of charge, based on the Vogue.fr look and feel. And if you use a tablet, a new, richer version of the magazine will be available as a monthly iPad download from September. An Android app is also on the way, set to launch by the end of the first half of 2012.

It's pretty straight forward; imagine a clean designed blog on your iPhone.

[iTunes]

Cinemagram [App]

 

Cinemagram

Create a stunning hybrid between photo and video. Animate small portions of your photo to create a magical image that's part-photo and part-video. Apply vintage / cross processing filters, and share your masterful creation

How it works:

1. film a short video clip 2-3s

2. Animate a small region

3. Apply awesome xpro, vintage filters

4. Share to Twitter/Tumblr and Facebook

[iTunes]

Thumb [App]

Ask Questions, Get Instant Opinions with Thumb.

What's Thumb?
Thumb is a tool for giving and receiving opinions and advice in realtime.

It's a community of people waiting to give you their opinion at the tip of your fingers. It's the last line of defense in your battle against buying ugly clothes. It's the critic when you can't decide which movie to watch. It's the mirror when you're not sure if you like your new haircut. It's the DJ when you need a good slow song for your mix. It's the caterer when you're not sure what to serve on game day: nachos or pizza. It's the genius when you're wondering which tablet to buy.

You get the idea. Jump in; help people navigate life.

[iTunes]

Pocket

Read It Later is now Pocket. It's getting good reviews all around.

When you find something
you want to view later,
put it in Pocket.

SAVE FOR LATER
Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket.
Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.

VIEW WHEN READY
If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection.

Springpad [App]

 

Springpad is a free, easy-to-use app that lets you create notebooks for any topic or area of interest. Whether you're saving recipes, planning events, managing projects or just looking for a better way to filter your interests and turn them into action, Springpad makes it easy to save what you love, discover what you want and share what you know. Millions of users and growing fast!

How it works:
- Create as many notebooks as you want, for any interest or project.
- Save things from anywhere on the web or on the go: products, recipes, links, images, etc.
- Share your notebooks with friends, invite them to contribute, and discover even more together.
- Springpad enhances the items you save with reviews, showtimes, maps, price comparisons, and more!
- Sync data instantly and access it on your iPhone, iPad, and on the web at Springpad.com.

[iTunes]

Review: Evernote and Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad

Snapguide [App]

Snapguide is a simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step how to guides. Discover new things to cook, build, wear, play and more. Create your own guides and share what you love making with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and more. Discuss your interests with other people who share your passions.

[iTunes]

Pair [App]

Pair is the easiest way to stay in touch with the person you love, making it easy to share the little things in life with each other. It creates a timeline just for the two of you, where you can post cute video messages and photos that no one else will see. You can also chat, share sketches, share your location, and even let your partner know that you're thinking of them with just the push of a button. If your partner has a Facetime account, you can easily switch from text chat to video chat from inside the app. If you're both online at the same time, you can sketch together, as well as ThumbKiss - a feature that let's you see where your partner is touching their screen so you can touch the same spot and make both phones vibrate simultaneously. Set reminders for your anniversary or your partners birthday, and share a to-do list to make sure your partner doesn't forget the milk!

Pair is perfect for long distance relationships, and is a great utility for couples in the same city. It keeps all your special moments saved privately in one place.

- Connect to only one other person for the most private messaging experience

- Send photos, videos, and text messages for free

- Draw cute sketches for your partner in realtime, or play Tic-tac-toe!

- Instantly share your location with your partner

- Get reminders for important dates such as anniversaries, and birthdays

- Use your shared todo list to remind your partner to pick something up on the way home

- Other special features designed for people in relationships

[iTunes]

 

Simple

Three items addressing simplicity.

1.

Life is messy. Simplify, with Clear
With Clear, there are only a few gestures you need to in order to use the app: pull down on a list to add an item, swipe to the right to complete an item or to the left to delete it, pinch apart two items to insert a new one in between, and pinch vertically to close the current list and see all the lists in the app. Lists are also color-coded with a heat map to show the most pressing tasks at a glance. (See video below).

That’s it. It’s a quick learning curve, and what’s more, doing away with buttons can actually speed up the process of using to-do lists once you realize that’s how it’s done. Clear even pushes you to simplify here, too, by limiting to-do items to just 30 characters. [TechCrunch]

Clear website. [iTunes]


2.

Audience, a simple Google Analytics App
Audience is a simple Google Analytics App for the iPhone. It displays only the most meaningful statistics in a beautiful interface with big numbers and joyful colors.

If you want a quick access to the stats you care about, avoid cluttered charts, too many settings or dull interfaces then Audience is the app for you.

Audience website. [iTunes]


3.

Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Apple is the world's most iconic company. It creates products that people fall in love with - and then markets them with spectacular success. Ken Segall has been behind much of that marketing for many years. He created the 'i', encouraged us to 'Think Different', and in the process played a key role in Apple's resurrection. Now he gives us a rare insight into one of the core principles that drive's Apple's success: simplicity. Inspired by Steve Jobs, this is an obsession that starts at the top of Apple and cascades throughout the entire global organisation. It dictates the way Apple is structured, the way it innovates and the way it speaks to its customers. Simplicity is a guideline, a style, a goal and a measuring stick. In "Insanely Simple" Ken brings the principles of simplicity to life in the context of milestone moments in Apple history. He explains how the religion of simplicity led Apple to enter new markets and humble competitors many times its size. And he provides principles that readers can use in their own careers and companies. We can all learn something from Apple. The power of simplicity can help anyone stand out in a complicated world.

[Amazon]