Category: Apps

Now live in Ireland. Google Launches “Art Selfie” Globally #Apps #ArtSelfie #Arts #Google

For the selfie lovers out there which is plenty now Art Selfie is available globally on Android and iOS, More than 78 million Art Selfies were taken in the Google Arts & Culture app since its inception and there is no sign of it slowing down..

Art Selfie is powered by computer vision technology based on machine learning. When you take a selfie, your photo is compared with faces in artworks our museum partners have provided. After a short moment, you will see your results along with a percentage to estimate the visual similarity of each match and your face.

Your selfie becomes a doorway into art—tap on your lookalike to discover more information about it or an artist that perhaps you’ve never heard of before.

Key stats:

  • Art Selfie has been incredibly popular – over 78 Million matches have been made to date.
  • We have collaborated closely with over 650 partner institutions from around the word to make the experiment available globally
  • Together we more than doubled the number of possible matches, to tens of thousands of artworks
  • Art Selfie is a feature within the Google Arts & Culture app on Android and iOS (App version 6.4 +) and available worldwide from 10.00am Tuesday 4th September
  • App download link for all countries, on both iOS and Android, is: g.co/ArtSelfie

What is Google Arts & Culture?

  • Google Arts & Culture puts over a 1,500 museums at your fingertips. It’s an immersive way to explore art, history and wonders of the world from Van Gogh’s bedroom paintings to Mandela’s prison cell. The Google Arts & Culture app is free and available on the web, on iOS and Android. Our team has been an innovation partner for cultural institutions since 2011. We work on technologies that help preserve and share culture and allow curators to create engaging exhibitions online and offline, inside museums. You can read about our latest projects on the official Google Keyword blog.

Discover gardens to visit throughout Ireland with a new app. #Apps #Gardens #Ireland #TGI

If like me and you travel quite alot in Ireland this app is for you and especially for those whom like to visit gardens around the country and there is lots to see so all you will need is a bit of forward planning some maps and of course this all new app.

Christine says.. Planning weekends away took hours, no garden groups existed in my hometown. Joining facebook groups helped~new gardens were discovered but I would come home from a trip and then learn there was one 20minutes away from where I had been! …..I would have to take a note and plan for again. My poor Chauffeur (Hubby) was happy to take me , I just had to have all the routes sorted.

About the app..

Total Gardens Ireland is an easy to use interactive map with details of hundreds of gardens in Ireland, including public gardens and private gardens. You can find gardens nearby, view details and telephone the garden in advance to ensure availability and other details. Many gardens have user reviews so you can see what other users’ experiences have been before you head off. Once you select a garden you can then use your favourite navigation app to help get you there. After your visit, you can add your own review of the garden to help other users.

Christine is also a brother of Ally who also has a great app in store called MotorHome Parking Ireland which is a popular app and has been popular here on site you can check that app out right HERE

On the app you will have Public Gardens – Private Gardens – By appointment and Open Days and Groups only and simple tapping the ellipsis on the right and the lists will then open and are easy to navigate the app also has layered maps embedded which is excellent. As is there is some 250 gardens listed now with links and description of each

TGI is free until next year and is coming soon on iOS and you can download the app below today.

Infographic: Gaming and Sports App Development Services. #Gaming #Sports #iOS #Android #Devs

Creating gaming and games applications has never been simple errand for designers. Be that as it may, with help of some propelled advances, it has turned out to be very basic and adaptable. There are various advancements that are utilized for various sort of gaming and sports app development. Some prominent application advancement administrations are portrayed here keeping in mind the end goal to begin gaming application improvement.

Helpful assets to make cross-stage gaming and games application –

  • Unity Mobile is a prevalent diversion motor. It bolsters Android and iOS with high involvement in application improvement.
  • Corona SDK is likewise a mainstream application advancement stage accompanies every single required instrument and administrations to make a cross-stage gaming application.
  • Unreal Development Kit is driving with Unity. It is open source and used to make gaming application for all stages.

Essentially, creating diversions isn’t a simple thing; one must be extremely imaginative, inventive and master to make a decent application. In any case, the good thing is that the arrival of venture can be gigantic if the creation is something astonishing and one of a kind. This is the reason; it is constantly great to procure the best diversion application engineer.

 

Infographic – Best Educational Apps for Students. #tech #apps #students #education

With schools and colleges opening up back soon this will be a handy one to check out and having apps at hand are great benefit for anyone. James logan who is managing director at Go4prep writes about Business, Education & Social Marketing and has sent us this useful infographic. Check it out.

 

Apps that Help from Dusk to Dawn – Infographic #Apps #Infographic #Tech

The importance of mobile phones in our everyday life is increasing day by day. These days everyone is using mobile phone to make their life easy like if they want to visit some place they can use the navigation app to reach their destination. Mobile apps are available in large number that covers all the age group and more and more people are installing these apps to make their lifestyle easy.

Apps are now widely used and can be seen in areas such as education, technology, cooking, shopping, banking etc. The below infographic from Swift Tech Buy highlights the most important apps those are required from morning to evening.

Aidan Murphy has sent us this Infographic and is the content manager at Swift Tech Buy, a company that is determined to help you get the most value out of your phone. Their goal is to help their customers get top dollar for their devices in a few clicks from the safety of their home.

 

 

 

Blinky – The Fun Finance App. #Money #Finance #Apps

Bankify is a company that started out with a simple mission – that want to make finance fun. Hai Ta says  “As the name suggests, we aim to gamify financial elements to make it fun and simple. At the moment we have two functionalities: Goal saving and Cost splitting. We are also developing the much-wanted Receipt scanner functionality, which will be a game changer. The goal of the app is to make money management more engaging to people, so that they can improve their financial life!
 Blinky recently launched in Finland and Ireland.
Hai goes on to say
As we live in a consumerist world, it is important for the youth to do manage their money better. Youngsters can improve their financial life drastically if they have a tool to do shared finance and save up for goals. However, financing is perceived as boring. Banks have had a tough time keeping the retention of the young demographic.  For that reason, we developed an app called Blinky – Fun finance.  This is a disruptive approach to make finance more appealing (We wrote a blog on Why finance should be fun).
At the moment, there are two functionalities: Cost splitting and Goal saving. With Cost splitting, Blinky quickens the whole process of calculating each person’s share and requesting the money. We all know how much of a pain it is to ask your friend for a long-overdue debt. And when saving for goals, Blinky helps keep track of the progress by breaking it down to actionable plan and making a game out of it.
Download the App –  https://get.blinky.app

New LIVE FACE app live captures facial performances via #iPhoneX to create 2D facial animations.

With the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera, and the LIVE FACE app for CrazyTalk Animator 3, users can instantly capture facial performances to animate illustrative or photo characters to produce fast cartoon animations, also for broadcast shows on TV, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or any other live service.

iPhone X’s exclusive face tracking power was only known for usage with Animojis in Facetime, but now Reallusion’s LIVE FACE app unlocks its full potential by live data streaming facial mocap data to any desktop client.

 

The new LIVE FACE app live captures facial performances via an iPhone X to create 2D facial animations with CrazyTalk Animator 3 (CTA 3) on a Mac or PC, turning an iPhone X into a powerful production tool that anyone can use.

 

With the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera, and the LIVE FACE app for CrazyTalk Animator 3, users can instantly capture facial performances to animate illustrative or photo characters to produce fast cartoon animations, also for broadcast shows on TV, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or any other live service.

 

“LIVE FACE by Reallusion made my jaw drop, both literally and figuratively when I used it. LIVE FACE is the game changer I’ve been waiting for to execute funny, quick animations utilizing the iPhone X for live TV.”

Jesse Griffith – Chief Animator, Jimmy Kimmel Live  
“Thousands of dollars of cumbersome equipment and connections are being whittled down into an app that students can easily use on an iPhone X they already have, on or off campus. Not only does LIVE FACE simplify the entire educational process, but it looks to bridge the significant gap that students face once they graduate and try to incorporate technology into their own pipelines.”  
John Blalock, Digital Applications Supervisor, Chapman University

LIVE FACE features..

LIVE FACE for iPhone X can track up to 57 face signals through Wi-Fi, to drive character facial expressions including; head angle, brows, eyeball rotation, as well as controlling talking mouth shapes.

Customise sprite-based expressions

Import custom facial animation sprites, or convert expression sets directly from Photoshop layers. You can further add different levels of Free Form Deformations (FFD) to smoothly alter each facial feature.

Flexible capture from different angles.

No matter where you place your iPhone, the unique Zero Pose design will quickly recalibrate the angle offset of your face, and accurately standardize the facial tracking in one-click.

Supports various face profiles

CrazyTalk Animator 3 will automatically choose the appropriate face profile, for front-facing or angled-facing characters. Mocap facial profiles provide optimized facial mocap for both sprite-based and image-based characters.

All users can now download the extended trial version of CTA 3.3 pipeline version ($299 value ) for free until July 31st, 2018.

CrazyTalk Animator 3

https://www.reallusion.com/event/CTA3Ppl/redeem.html

Version: 3.3  –  Platform: Mac / Windows – Trial Duration: To 31st of July, 2018

LIVE FACE Motion Capture App for iPhone X

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-face/id1357551209?ls=1&mt=8

Version: 1.0  – Platform: iOS  –  Limitation: iPhone X only

 

Cometdocs adds great new features to its app. #Cometdocs #Files #Apps #PDF

Cometdocs, a well known online document management system, has just released a new version of PDF to Word Converter, one of their most praised and downloaded applications which is now on version 4.8. With Cometdocs you can easily and accurately convert PDFs from anywhere on your device. You can even convert PDFs from Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Gmail, Box, and OneDrive into editable Microsoft Word documents.

What is new this time around..

– New and powerful document scanner feature.
– Automatic paper recognition when scanning.
– Ability to rotate and apply filters to scanned documents.
– Convert images and screenshots of documents.
– Improved user interface for an even better experience.
Cometdocs is available on desktop and mobile. See more HERE

PDF to Word Converter on App Store
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Jurassic World Comes Alive. #VR #AR #APPS #JurassicWorld

Bringing the virtual world into the real world is rapidly growing in popularity with the global market predicted to be worth approximately £100 billion by 2021. Augmented reality (AR) is undoubtedly one of the most exciting technological innovations around and games like Pokémon GO have inspired more developments in this sector.

Recently Jurassic World Alive was released in the UK and brings monster hunting to a whole new level. Instead of searching for cute creatures, players are tasked with saving dinosaurs from extinction by collecting DNA samples and creating new hybrid species in a lab. The game, developed for both android and IOS, is loosely based on Pokémon Go and only time will tell if it will have the same global success.

Will Jurassic World Alive Become The Most Downloaded App?

A recent survey conducted by mobile app agency, The App Developers showed that Social Media & Communications Apps are the most popular type of app downloaded (31%), with entertainment apps (Games, Streaming & Music Apps) are not far behind (27%). However, when looking at the top grossing mobile apps in the UK, 8 out of the top ten apps are games.  

Jurassic World Alive is free to download, but does contain in-app-purchases. The survey found that this was a good approach as 74% only download free apps with 68% saying they don’t make in-app purchases. Jurassic World Alive, like many gaming apps, offers ways of getting around making in-app purchases and the survey found that 38% would watch “unskippable” ads and 33% would answer survey questions to continue playing for free.

AR Technology Used in Apps  

34% of app users are 18 – 34, and since the release of Pokémon GO by Niantic, AR technology has become more popular. Other franchises have picked up on Niantic’s success and Jurassic Park Alive produced by Ludia, is only the second game to join this trend. Many more AR games are predicated to be released into the marketplace, such as Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and the App Developers could see this happening.

The App Developers, explain: “Both VR and AR technology have been around for a while now; but have still not really exploded into the public consciousness. 2018 and the next couple of years are expected to see a big change in this. Part of the problem with VR has been the low number of quality apps being developed, but this is now turning into a huge growth market. Particularly now developers and businesses are starting to see the potential”.

About The App Developers

The App Developers are an award-winning mobile led design & development agency, working with corporates & start-ups across multiple sectors. All products are created adopting a user-first methodology, and solutions are designed taking an expert think-tank approach to business pain points and objectives.  Everything is built with ROI in mind. The App Developers have worked with brands such as Fujifilm, Exxonmobil, Sainsbury’s, Walkers & many emerging and disruptive start-ups.

Survey Methodology

The App Developers surveyed over 300 men and women within the UK between 07/02/2018 – 12/02/2018 to discover their thoughts and opinions on mobile apps. Respondents were asked 10 questions regarding which apps they use the most, whether they spend money downloading apps or in-app purchases and if they are concerned about apps using their data for marketing. The App Developers then analysed the results.