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Create Your Own Real Time Video Effects With Videosis For iPhone
Photo and video editing apps usually have a lot of filters, but at times you might feel like none of them fits your needs perfectly. There are many apps that let users create their own effects, but that can be a bit too time-consuming and even intimidating for relatively inexperienced users. Videosis is a new iOS app that has a nice collection of predefined video filters and effects, and in addition, lets you easily create your own by simply combining available effects and changing their values. Videosis offers real-time filters, some of which even react to the sound around you.
Videosis offers a tutorial when it is launched for the first time but even if it is skipped, you can always rerun it from the app’s settings area. The same menu has options for toggling the shutter sound and controlling the ‘capture photo on-the-fly’ feature.
Before you begin shooting, choose the filter you want to apply to the camera. Hit the ‘FX’ button and up comes the list of all the predefined effects. Videosis has more than 40 filters, and you can apply any of them to the video with a single tap. If you want even more effects, hit the ‘+’ button available at the start of the list. New filters can be created by toggling on different effects or altering their values using the provided sliders. Some of the editing options even let you control the camera flash, and this becomes part of the filter. Once you are satisfied with your creation, start shooting or save the effect for future use by giving it a name. User-created filters appear at the very beginning of the effects list.
Videosis supports both front and allows you to rear cams, and the camera LED can be toggled with a single tap too. In order to capture an image while shooting, hit the small camera icon located in the bottom-right corner.
According to a warning from the Videosis developer, the app requires a lot of processing power and might not work smoothly on devices older than iPhone 4S (although we have to say that it was only slightly laggy on our iPhone 4). The app is available as a free and universal download. You can grab Videosis from the iTunes App Store using the link given below.
Download Videosis For iOS
Videosis offers a tutorial when it is launched for the first time but even if it is skipped, you can always rerun it from the app’s settings area. The same menu has options for toggling the shutter sound and controlling the ‘capture photo on-the-fly’ feature.
Before you begin shooting, choose the filter you want to apply to the camera. Hit the ‘FX’ button and up comes the list of all the predefined effects. Videosis has more than 40 filters, and you can apply any of them to the video with a single tap. If you want even more effects, hit the ‘+’ button available at the start of the list. New filters can be created by toggling on different effects or altering their values using the provided sliders. Some of the editing options even let you control the camera flash, and this becomes part of the filter. Once you are satisfied with your creation, start shooting or save the effect for future use by giving it a name. User-created filters appear at the very beginning of the effects list.
Videosis supports both front and allows you to rear cams, and the camera LED can be toggled with a single tap too. In order to capture an image while shooting, hit the small camera icon located in the bottom-right corner.
According to a warning from the Videosis developer, the app requires a lot of processing power and might not work smoothly on devices older than iPhone 4S (although we have to say that it was only slightly laggy on our iPhone 4). The app is available as a free and universal download. You can grab Videosis from the iTunes App Store using the link given below.
Download Videosis For iOS
Create Scheduled Notification Panel Reminders With Lotify For Android
The Android notification bar provides you with a quick and convenient means to take a peek at all your important phone, social media and other events and updates. Be it the app update notifications from the Play Store, your upcoming calendar event, a missed called alert or a critical system upgrade notification, the bar serves as a dedicated spot on your device to remind you about virtually every important thing. With the previously reviewed ReNotify, we have already seen a very handy solution to create multiple custom notification bar alerts that can keep you apprised of your important tasks/notes without requiring you to rely on any overly complicated alarm, to-lo list management or reminder apps. New to the market, Lotify is yet another app belonging to said genre that can be called an enhanced variant of ReNotify. Besides supporting almost all the core features of the aforementioned app, Lotify brings to the table certain subtle personalization tweaks, as well as the option to create scheduled notification bar alerts.
Just like ReNotify, this app lets you create custom notification bar alerts/reminders, complete with custom title and brief description, by simply tapping the Lotify icon within your device’s notification shade. You may create as many notes from anywhere within the entire OS as you want, and make each note distinguishable from the other by assigning it a custom icon. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (and higher) users can use the two finger swipe gesture to view a brief description about the note, whereas users with older versions of Android will have to make do with just the subject/title of the note itself.
A Lotify notification can take three different forms: scheduled notifications, ongoing notifications and temporary notifications. Once on the new notification screen, you can assign the note a subject, a message and an icon of choice. Using the toggles at the bottom, you may decide to keep the reminder as an ongoing and/or scheduled one, or just a temporary one. In the latter’s case, swiping sideways, or tapping a notification from the notification shade will dismiss the message permanently.
An ongoing notification, on the other hand, cannot be cleared from said area via the clear button or the swipe-to-dismiss gesture. Instead, tapping such notification will take you to the app’s main UI, prompting you to clear the note once and for all if you choose. Should you opt to create a scheduled notification, you’ll be asked to specify the date, as well as the start and end time for the notification to display and it will show up at the assigned time, for the specified duration.
By default, the app keeps its new notification addition option persistently accessible from your device’s notification shade. You can however, disable this option by navigating to Menu > Disable “Add new” on the app’s main screen.
All in all, Lotify proves to be another remarkably simple to use solution for placing custom notes/reminders on your Android’s notification dropdown. Though there are certain improvements that can help the app get even better. For instance, the developer can consider adding the option to edit existing notes, maintain history of previously created notes, switch between dark and light theme, and/or allow users to pick custom notification icons from the Gallery.
Download Lotify Notification Maker For Android
Just like ReNotify, this app lets you create custom notification bar alerts/reminders, complete with custom title and brief description, by simply tapping the Lotify icon within your device’s notification shade. You may create as many notes from anywhere within the entire OS as you want, and make each note distinguishable from the other by assigning it a custom icon. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (and higher) users can use the two finger swipe gesture to view a brief description about the note, whereas users with older versions of Android will have to make do with just the subject/title of the note itself.
A Lotify notification can take three different forms: scheduled notifications, ongoing notifications and temporary notifications. Once on the new notification screen, you can assign the note a subject, a message and an icon of choice. Using the toggles at the bottom, you may decide to keep the reminder as an ongoing and/or scheduled one, or just a temporary one. In the latter’s case, swiping sideways, or tapping a notification from the notification shade will dismiss the message permanently.
An ongoing notification, on the other hand, cannot be cleared from said area via the clear button or the swipe-to-dismiss gesture. Instead, tapping such notification will take you to the app’s main UI, prompting you to clear the note once and for all if you choose. Should you opt to create a scheduled notification, you’ll be asked to specify the date, as well as the start and end time for the notification to display and it will show up at the assigned time, for the specified duration.
By default, the app keeps its new notification addition option persistently accessible from your device’s notification shade. You can however, disable this option by navigating to Menu > Disable “Add new” on the app’s main screen.
All in all, Lotify proves to be another remarkably simple to use solution for placing custom notes/reminders on your Android’s notification dropdown. Though there are certain improvements that can help the app get even better. For instance, the developer can consider adding the option to edit existing notes, maintain history of previously created notes, switch between dark and light theme, and/or allow users to pick custom notification icons from the Gallery.
Download Lotify Notification Maker For Android
Create Local Cloud Nandroid Backups Without Recovery Using Orange Backup
Create Local & Cloud Nandroid Backups Without Recovery Using Orange Backup:
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A timely NANDROID backup of your Android device can save you from losing your precious mobile data and personalized system settings. Android users have long relied on custom recoveries (such as ClockworkMod Recovery and TWRP) to create NANDROID backups of their devices. However, there are various apps and solutions available these days that can help you create NANDROID backups without having to reboot into recovery. Developed by XDA member snoopy33, Orange Backup is arguably the finest addition to the list of such tools to date, as it supports 1-tap NANDROID backup, zipping and uploading to cloud storage of your choice. Needless to say, Orange Backup is meant to work with rooted devices only. The tool also supports scheduled backup & uploading to cloud, full, incremental or split backups, backing up user-selected partitions only, option to upload data over Wi-Fi and/or while charging only, integrated app & task manager, and lots more.
As of now, Orange Backup supports automatic uploading of backups to Google Drive, Dropbox, and any medium that supports FTP transfers. In terms of supported custom Android recoveries, Orange Backup works with both ClockworkMod Recovery and TWRP. The app is meant for rooted devices only and if you haven’t rooted yours yet, don’t forget to check out our Android rooting guide.
The app’s interface has been neatly designed in accordance with the latest Android UI guidelines. The main screen lists all your backup instances, the sidebar allows quick access to the native app uninstaller, task killer, event logger, device info and system settings tools, and the menu overflow button reveals options to upload last backup, reboot device into recovery and clean unwanted incremental backup instances with a tap.
At launch, you are prompted to verify your device manufacturer and model, which is automatically detected by the app. Next, you’ll have to choose Dropbox, Google Drive or FTP for your cloud storage.
To start creating complete backups of your current Android ROM with all your personalized system and app settings, just hit the magic wand button on the app’s main interface, and leave the rest to Orange Backup. The app will back up the data, compress it, generate MD5 checksums and upload it to the cloud in the background, keeping you informed of the overall progress through status bar notifications.
If you wish to tinker with the contents to be included in the backup, go to the app’s settings screen where you’ll find plenty of options to play around with, including:
Automatic Backup: Option to schedule automatic backups at your desired interval and time. You can also specify the number of old backups that you wish to retain; older backups will be deleted only after the ongoing backup has been successfully completed.
Backup Name: As the name suggests, you can set default parameters to rename your backups by time or with user-defined tags.
Backup Configuration: Depending on your recovery, you have the option to choose among full, incremental, split or TWRP-specific backup type. For local backups, you can specify the custom directory on your device’s SD card. Special provision for TWRP compression is also included within the app. You can opt to backup all partitions, or just pick the ones you want to backup and leave out the rest.
A few other handy options provided here include specifying a custom SD-EXT partition path to backup (required only if you have SD-EXT configured), backing up the Yaffs2 partition as TAR files, preventing your screen from going to sleep during backups, and setting the device to vibrate upon backup completion.
Cloud Configuration: Provides options to enable/disable the cloud backup feature, upload backups over Wi-Fi and/or while charging only, and delete all but the latest backup from cloud each time a new backup is uploaded there.
ZIP Configuration: Allows uploading backup content in the form of ZIP files only. You also have the option to split ZIP files in case of relatively large backup files, which is useful if your cloud service account has maximum file size restrictions. Last but not the least, you may secure your compressed archives using a password.
We’re not done with the app’s features yet; the Uninstaller and Task Killer tools that come bundled with Orange Backup support working on both system and third-party apps. Orange Backup was successfully tested on HTC Desire Z where it impressed with its 1-tap NANDROID backup, zipping and cloud uploading capabilities by completing the entire process in no more than 5 minutes, all from within the OS (Android 4.0.4-based AOKP custom ROM) itself.
The most surprising part of the entire deal is all Orange Backup features are available for free. The app is compatible with any rooted device running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and higher, and can be downloaded from the Play Store link provided below.
Download Orange Backup For Android
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As of now, Orange Backup supports automatic uploading of backups to Google Drive, Dropbox, and any medium that supports FTP transfers. In terms of supported custom Android recoveries, Orange Backup works with both ClockworkMod Recovery and TWRP. The app is meant for rooted devices only and if you haven’t rooted yours yet, don’t forget to check out our Android rooting guide.
The app’s interface has been neatly designed in accordance with the latest Android UI guidelines. The main screen lists all your backup instances, the sidebar allows quick access to the native app uninstaller, task killer, event logger, device info and system settings tools, and the menu overflow button reveals options to upload last backup, reboot device into recovery and clean unwanted incremental backup instances with a tap.
At launch, you are prompted to verify your device manufacturer and model, which is automatically detected by the app. Next, you’ll have to choose Dropbox, Google Drive or FTP for your cloud storage.
To start creating complete backups of your current Android ROM with all your personalized system and app settings, just hit the magic wand button on the app’s main interface, and leave the rest to Orange Backup. The app will back up the data, compress it, generate MD5 checksums and upload it to the cloud in the background, keeping you informed of the overall progress through status bar notifications.
If you wish to tinker with the contents to be included in the backup, go to the app’s settings screen where you’ll find plenty of options to play around with, including:
Automatic Backup: Option to schedule automatic backups at your desired interval and time. You can also specify the number of old backups that you wish to retain; older backups will be deleted only after the ongoing backup has been successfully completed.
Backup Name: As the name suggests, you can set default parameters to rename your backups by time or with user-defined tags.
Backup Configuration: Depending on your recovery, you have the option to choose among full, incremental, split or TWRP-specific backup type. For local backups, you can specify the custom directory on your device’s SD card. Special provision for TWRP compression is also included within the app. You can opt to backup all partitions, or just pick the ones you want to backup and leave out the rest.
A few other handy options provided here include specifying a custom SD-EXT partition path to backup (required only if you have SD-EXT configured), backing up the Yaffs2 partition as TAR files, preventing your screen from going to sleep during backups, and setting the device to vibrate upon backup completion.
Cloud Configuration: Provides options to enable/disable the cloud backup feature, upload backups over Wi-Fi and/or while charging only, and delete all but the latest backup from cloud each time a new backup is uploaded there.
ZIP Configuration: Allows uploading backup content in the form of ZIP files only. You also have the option to split ZIP files in case of relatively large backup files, which is useful if your cloud service account has maximum file size restrictions. Last but not the least, you may secure your compressed archives using a password.
We’re not done with the app’s features yet; the Uninstaller and Task Killer tools that come bundled with Orange Backup support working on both system and third-party apps. Orange Backup was successfully tested on HTC Desire Z where it impressed with its 1-tap NANDROID backup, zipping and cloud uploading capabilities by completing the entire process in no more than 5 minutes, all from within the OS (Android 4.0.4-based AOKP custom ROM) itself.
The most surprising part of the entire deal is all Orange Backup features are available for free. The app is compatible with any rooted device running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and higher, and can be downloaded from the Play Store link provided below.
Download Orange Backup For Android
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Jam For iPhone Lets You Create Original Songs In Seconds Makes You Sound Like A Star
When apps like Songify and AutoRap were first released, the novelty factor played a big part in their success. Now however, the concept of converting speech into songs is not very new, and an app in this genre needs to have something really special to garner a following of its own. Jam for iPhone seems to have this extra bit of flair. The app offers a lot of styles, rather than concentrating on just hip-hop or pop. You get to decide the category of your song, and Jam processes the singing accordingly. You can even adjust the level of auto-tune you want to add to your singing, while the ‘beats per minute’ factor can be customized as well. Like most apps of this type, Jam has a comprehensive sharing network where all the publicly recorded songs are available for everyone’s listening pleasure.
I you want to share songs from other people or create your own recordings, you’ll need to connect your Facebook account with the app. Jam lets you hide your real name and Facebook display photo by letting you swap them with app-specific credentials. Before you start recording yourself, it is better to look around and get a feel of things. The ‘Charts’ section lists all the songs that have received most likes and have been favorited by the highest number of people (a concept labeled as ‘royalties’ in the app). Jam also features different users who have done a lot of recordings or have created well-liked songs. All the songs available in the main chart can be streamed by every Jam user. If you really like a recording, you can add it to your favorites, or share it with people on your social network.
You don’t have to rely solely on the Jam charts to discover good recordings; just head to the ‘Home’ tab and search for a song or artist you like, and all the attempts at singing the searched track will be listed. It is also possible to simply browse through the Jam collection via sections for music genres and artists. The Home section also shows your activities on the network, along with those of your friends who are on Jam.
Creating a song of your own in Jam is really easy. Once you are in the ‘Record’ section, choose the style in which you want the app to process your song. Only Pop/Rock is available for free, while in-app purchases can unlock all the other styles. Before you get down to business, select the auto-tune level and speed of the beat you want to sing to. Choosing a lower auto tune level means Jam makes less changes to your singing. Now that everything is set, hit the record button and start singing. When you’re done, hit the stop icon and wait for Jam to process everything, which might take a while, depending upon the duration of the recording. After the processing, Jam plays the song for you. If you really like what the app has done to your voice, you can save the recording, or share it with your friends over Facebook and the Jam network. Jam also offers an achievement badges system to keep users coming back for more.
A lot of people won’t feel the need of making the in-app purchases for additional styles, since the default one does a pretty decent job. The app is available as a free download, and is optimized for all iDevices except the iPad.
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I you want to share songs from other people or create your own recordings, you’ll need to connect your Facebook account with the app. Jam lets you hide your real name and Facebook display photo by letting you swap them with app-specific credentials. Before you start recording yourself, it is better to look around and get a feel of things. The ‘Charts’ section lists all the songs that have received most likes and have been favorited by the highest number of people (a concept labeled as ‘royalties’ in the app). Jam also features different users who have done a lot of recordings or have created well-liked songs. All the songs available in the main chart can be streamed by every Jam user. If you really like a recording, you can add it to your favorites, or share it with people on your social network.
You don’t have to rely solely on the Jam charts to discover good recordings; just head to the ‘Home’ tab and search for a song or artist you like, and all the attempts at singing the searched track will be listed. It is also possible to simply browse through the Jam collection via sections for music genres and artists. The Home section also shows your activities on the network, along with those of your friends who are on Jam.
Creating a song of your own in Jam is really easy. Once you are in the ‘Record’ section, choose the style in which you want the app to process your song. Only Pop/Rock is available for free, while in-app purchases can unlock all the other styles. Before you get down to business, select the auto-tune level and speed of the beat you want to sing to. Choosing a lower auto tune level means Jam makes less changes to your singing. Now that everything is set, hit the record button and start singing. When you’re done, hit the stop icon and wait for Jam to process everything, which might take a while, depending upon the duration of the recording. After the processing, Jam plays the song for you. If you really like what the app has done to your voice, you can save the recording, or share it with your friends over Facebook and the Jam network. Jam also offers an achievement badges system to keep users coming back for more.
A lot of people won’t feel the need of making the in-app purchases for additional styles, since the default one does a pretty decent job. The app is available as a free download, and is optimized for all iDevices except the iPad.
Download Jam For iOS
Create Natively Syncing Notes In Google Chrome With Papercuts
There are countless note-taking extensions available for many popular web browsers, but the ones that save and sync your notes across computers usually rely on a third-party service at the back end for the purpose and if you don’t have an account on the service already, you end up having to sign up for it just to be able to sync your notes across different browsers and devices. Some extensions lack a sync feature altogether, and the notes are only accessible from the browser you made them in. Papercuts is a Chrome extension that relies solely on Chrome’s own sync feature to sync the notes you create between different installations of the browser. The notes themselves can be of any length, and each one has it’s own title. Papercuts adds its button next to the URL bar, and lets you work on multiple notes at the same time under different tabs in the extension’s popup window. You can also copy the entire text from a note with just a single click.
Before you start using Papercuts, make sure you have Chrome sync set up and that you have enabled extensions to sync. If you haven’t done so already, just go to Chrome Settings, sign in with your Google account and make extension syncing is enabled. You will have to sign in with the same Google account and keep extension syncing enabled like this on all Chrome installations that you want to access your notes from.
Once done with the sync configuration, you can launch the extension by clicking its button. Tabs are located at the top and multiple notes can be tiled over each other in each tab. A note can also be dragged from one tab to the other. To add a note, click the plus sign at the bottom, while to add a new tab, click the plus sign at the top.The left/right arrows above all notes allows you to move through the different notes you have in a particular tab. The drag icon next to a note label lets you move the note to a different tab. You can drag the corner of a note to resize its text area. The small arrow at the left of each label lets you collapse or expand a note, and the copy icon under it lets you copy the text from that note to your clipboard with one click.
At the bottom, there is a notebook button that will open all your notes and tabs in a separate Chrome tab for a larger UI that’s easier to work with. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to any nine notes from here, though this didn’t seem to work for us in our testing.
Next to the notebook button is a cog wheel button that opens Papercuts’ options. The options allow you to select a background color for your notes, and change the width of the popup.
Lastly, according to the extension’s feature list, if you select text on a web page and right-click it, you will be able to add it to a note in Papercuts. We did get the option in the context menu, but the feature didn’t work in our testing. However, pasting the contents of any of your notes into a text field using the context menu worked fine.
Papercuts is ad-supported, but the advertisements appear only when you access the notebook or it’s options, and are quite unobtrusive. You can grab the extension using the link provided below.
Install Papercuts From Chrome Web Store
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Before you start using Papercuts, make sure you have Chrome sync set up and that you have enabled extensions to sync. If you haven’t done so already, just go to Chrome Settings, sign in with your Google account and make extension syncing is enabled. You will have to sign in with the same Google account and keep extension syncing enabled like this on all Chrome installations that you want to access your notes from.
Once done with the sync configuration, you can launch the extension by clicking its button. Tabs are located at the top and multiple notes can be tiled over each other in each tab. A note can also be dragged from one tab to the other. To add a note, click the plus sign at the bottom, while to add a new tab, click the plus sign at the top.The left/right arrows above all notes allows you to move through the different notes you have in a particular tab. The drag icon next to a note label lets you move the note to a different tab. You can drag the corner of a note to resize its text area. The small arrow at the left of each label lets you collapse or expand a note, and the copy icon under it lets you copy the text from that note to your clipboard with one click.
At the bottom, there is a notebook button that will open all your notes and tabs in a separate Chrome tab for a larger UI that’s easier to work with. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to any nine notes from here, though this didn’t seem to work for us in our testing.
Next to the notebook button is a cog wheel button that opens Papercuts’ options. The options allow you to select a background color for your notes, and change the width of the popup.
Lastly, according to the extension’s feature list, if you select text on a web page and right-click it, you will be able to add it to a note in Papercuts. We did get the option in the context menu, but the feature didn’t work in our testing. However, pasting the contents of any of your notes into a text field using the context menu worked fine.
Papercuts is ad-supported, but the advertisements appear only when you access the notebook or it’s options, and are quite unobtrusive. You can grab the extension using the link provided below.
Install Papercuts From Chrome Web Store
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