Good news for Vine users, Vine has a new, beautiful high quality format. Starting today, the stories you watch and share will look better than ever. Vine upgraded the existing 480 p format to 720 p which makes Vine experience lot better almost High Definition.
“When you watch Vines on the app on iOS and Android , you’ll see these quality improvements — they are rolling out over the coming days. You’ll also see higher quality Vines embedded in sites across the web” read the blog.
The blog also read “If you have an iPhone, the posts you create and upload will support our new high quality format. For those with an Android device: rest assured, you’ll soon be able to create and upload posts with the same quality as well.”
Unfortunately no news on the WindowsPhone version of Vine which is still in Beta since it was launched to this platform. Hope WindowsPhone version scores an update soon.
Today, Twitter introduced the world with a unique and the best way to share and watch live video broadcasts from your mobile phone by unveiling Periscope, currently available only to iOS.
Twitter has been involved in this process for an year to give us a brand new way of looking things we want to right now and their blog reads “While there are many ways to discover events and places, we realized there is no better way to experience a place right now than through live video. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but live video can take you someplace and show you around.”
For Broadcasters
Periscope lets you share an experience with others. Press a button, and instantly notify your followers that you’re live. Periscope offers an audience and the power of a shared experience. Most mobile broadcasting tools feel far from live. Broadcasters on Periscope are directly connected to their audience, able to feel their presence and interact.
For Viewers
Periscope gives a new set of eyes and ears. Travel the world and step into someone else’s shoes. See what they see, hear what they hear, and hopefully feel what they feel. Watching a broadcast isn’t a passive experience like television. On Periscope, viewers influence the broadcaster by sending messages, and expressing their love by tapping the screen to send hearts.
Twitter will continue building Periscope as a separate product, with a small team based in San Francisco. Twitter brings you closer to people, places, interests, and events in an experience that’s immediate, unfettered, and conversational. We think Periscope can help further that mission by giving people a way to share and experience the world around them, both near and far read the blog.
Download Periscope for iOS right now from here and start sharing your live broadcast with yourfollowers. Hope this is soon made available to other platforms too.
A few days back we were surprised when MixRadio had announced their private beta program for Android and iOS. We were really excited to check the app ourselves and it is a good one. But now you can have the opportunity too, too check it yourself. Today we take you through the steps to follow to sign up for MixRadio Beta Program. Continue reading to understand this simple process.
Android Users
To join the MixRadio for Android beta programme users, must follow these simple steps;
HERE has been working tirelessly to offer it’s free offline navigation service to lots of people. In this quest to ease people’s lives, today HERE has take a giant leap forward by rolling out HERE for iOS. It was expected that iOS version of HERE was around the corner ever since the Android version was launched. iOS version of HERE combines saved maps with online information — such as live traffic, scheduled or real-time public transit info as well as photos and reviews for the places shown on the map. You can save maps to your phone so that the whole HERE app can be put into ‘offline mode’ and it won’t use any data. Even if your iPhone is in flight mode, you can still see where you are, search for places and navigate there on foot, by public transport or by car. The all-inclusive route planner on HERE for iOS allows you to compare walking, transit and driving directions including an estimate of how long each will take you – and all of this can be done in ‘offline mode’ too. The offline car navigation on HERE for iOS provides full turn-by-turn voice guidance with spoken street names. HERE for iOS is a completely different app from the one previously available on the App Store – because the old version was based on HTML5, it had limited features and it wasn’t optimized for iOS. This time we’re introducing an experience built for iOS from the ground up with the features and the polished feel that people rightly expect from their favourite map app.
WindowsPhone is all about personalization and pinning what you need on to the home screen. To make this experience on June screen even more personal Microsoft recently launched an app, which allows you to have images of your superhero or favorite cartoon character or anything you want to make your home screen and lock screen even more personal, the #TileArt app.
#TileArt app allows users to place the images as they wish to on the home screen with transparent tiles. Using #TileArt users can
• Create your own custom tile layout
• Upload transparent PNG images
• Access free #TileArt Gallery
• Customize your lock screen
• Share home screen with your friends
A closer look at Tile Art
You can download this app on your WindowsPhone from here. Let us know what you feel about this app in the comments below or tweet us @jimboireland or @Tiwaash using #techbuzzireland
Microsoft has recently been involved in developing their Office apps for iOS and Android, which are feature rich and gel very well with the environment. After OneDrive, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and OneNote today Microsoft added one more very useful and important Office app, Outlook to this list.
Today Microsoft officially announced the the availability of Outlook for iOS and Android. This official mail client from Microsoft is feature and is a good way to carry your stuffs all at one place.
Why choose Outlook?
Manage your inbox • Outlook automatically triages your inbox for you, surfacing your most important email. Less relevant email is placed in your “Other” inbox. • Swipe to quickly delete, archive, or schedule messages. • Schedule emails and they will return to your inbox at a later time.
Your calendar built-in • Switching between your email and calendar apps is a thing of the past. Outlook includes your calendar and notifies you with appointment reminders. • Find available meeting times and share them in email or schedule a meeting.
Attachments made easy • View and attach any file from your email, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other accounts with just a few taps. • Send large files even if you haven’t downloaded them to your phone.
Find anything fast • Filter your inbox to only show messages that are unread, flagged, or have attachments, with a single tap. • Quickly find the right messages, people and files by typing just a few letters. • Outlook shows people you communicate with most often, and lets you conveniently drill down to see all related emails, meetings and files.
During the last month the WindowsPhone community was pretty happy that VideoLabs finally had decided to develop VLC for WindowsPhone when it released VLC for WP Beta to the registered testers, which made it pretty obvious that the full fledged app was round the corner.
Good news is VLC for WindowsPhone is now available on the store for download and out from Beta. VLC player supports various video and audio codecs. The UI is clean and straightforward giving you control over your music and videos. VLC for WindowsPhone requires WindowsPhone 8.1.
Download VLC from here and enjoy your music and videos.
With everyday passing by selfie is getting hugely popular and the app stores are flooded dedicated apps. Today we have a unique app which helps you create personalized stickers with selfies and share with your friends and family, Line Selfie Sticker, an app from LINE Corporation which recently was in news for acquiring the famous personalized music streaming app, MixRadio.
Line Selfie Sticker app allows you to select a character from the many templates, then let’s you take a selfie, processes it and shows you the many different stickers available with the combination. You can then choose the one’s you like from them.
Line Selfie Sticker also allows you to edit the sucker you made by providing the text edit and face tilt and adjust. Once you are ready with your personalized sticker, you can now either save it or just share it on the social network. The UI is easy and very simple.
The moment the app opens, you are greeted with lovely music, you have the option of muting it though. Download the Line Selfie Sticker app now and start sharing your personalised sticker. You can download it right here for Android.
Share your personalised stickers with us in the comments below or or Twitter by tweeting to @jimboireland
It’s been pretty long since I last played the highly addictive Space Squids on Nokia 3310 but thanks to Bolopix we have the legendary game running on WindowsPhone.
It has the same visuals and style but different controls making good use of the full screen available for touch devices. Reminds me of those old days when I used to be busy with the monochrome display and those tic- tic sounding keypad.
To give the game a modern look, now you have option to buy the spaceship from among various types available. You can choose from the difficulty modes available. The controls are on screen with a joystick and attack buttons.
I’m having a good time, you should check this lovely nostalgic game to take yourself back to this days of Nokia gaming. Download this game from here.
I hope you all would enjoy this simple and awesome game cherishing the memories this game gives way back around 2000.
