Tag Archives: Google

Dec 7 2012

Google Makes Snapseed Free, Adds Google+ Sharing, Introduces New Filter

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Google has released an update to its recently acquired Snapseed app making it free, adding Google+ sharing, and introducing a new filter.

Snapseed is the only photo app you’ll want to use every day. It makes any photograph extraordinary with a fun, high-quality photo experience right at your fingertips.

Anyone can enhance, transform, and share their photos with ease using incredibly advanced features from the leader in digital photography software. Built-in Google+ capabilities make it even more powerful to share your images with your friends and family.

Features:
• Easily adjust your photos with a single tap using Auto Correct
• Tweak your photo to perfection with Tune Image
• Use Selective Adjust to enhance specific objects or areas in your photos
• Experiment with fun & innovative filters like Retrolux, Drama, Vintage, Grunge, and Tilt-Shift
• Add one of the many high quality frames for a finishing touch
• Share your creations via email, Google+, and other built-in sharing methods

Features:
• Auto Correct – Automatically analyzes your photo and adjusts color and exposure to perfection.
• Selective Adjust – Make precise selections and enhancements to specific areas of your photos in seconds with Nik Software’s revolutionary U Point technology.
• Tune Image – Use Ambience to create depth and vibrancy that uniquely adapts to colors and textures. Adjust White Balance, Saturation, Contrast, more.
• Straighten & Rotate – Rotate 90° and/or straighten photos with simple gesture controls.
• Crop – Easily crop images to remove distracting parts of your photo with standard aspect ratios, or a free crop.
• Take Photos – Open photos from the Camera Roll or take new photos.

Enhancements:
• Black & White – Get that classic Black and White look with this darkroom-inspired filter.
• Vintage Films – Make any photo look like a vintage color film photo from the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s.
• Drama – Add style with a custom effect specifically tailored to your photos, ranging from subtle textures to wildly artistic effects.
• Grunge – Give your photos a totally unique, hip, and dingy look.
• Tilt-Shift – Create a narrow in-focus area designed to simulate depth of field, common in a Miniature Scene look.
• Details – Enhance details with traditional sharpening or the unique Structure control found in the Nik Software professional products.
• Center Focus – Draw attention to the subject of your photo by blurring and adjusting the brightness of the surrounding background.
• Frames – Add stylized borders to photos for the perfect finishing touch.
• Retrolux – Make your photos look truly retro with light leaks, scratches, film styles, and more.

What’s New In This Version:
• Now free!
• New icon!
• Built-in Google+ sharing functionality!
• New Retrolux filter! Use one of the newly created film styles, combined with a range of different scratches and textures as well as light leaks to create a truly retro look for your photos.
• Updated Frames filter! Now includes a wide range of new, high quality photographic frames. Colorize the frame edges to match the look of your image or switch to square mode with a single tap.

You can download Snapseed from the App Store for free.

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Nov 27 2012

Google Voice is Updated With iPhone 5 and iOS 6 Support

Google has finally updated its Google Voice app with support for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

Features:
● Access your Google Voice account right from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
● Send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at very low rates.
● Access your voicemail messages with transcription.
● Make calls with your Google Voice number.

What’s New In This Version:
● Optimized for iPhone 5 and iOS 6
● Bug fixes and performance enhancements
● iOS 4.3 or above is now required

You can download Google Voice from the App Store for free.

Nov 20 2012

Google is Working on an Open Alternative to AirPlay

Google is reportedly working on an open alternative to AirPlay, according to a GigaOm report.

YouTube unveiled the first implementation of this technology last week, when it launched AirPlay-like video beaming from Android phones and tablets to Google TV devices. But Google product manager Timbo Drayson made it clear during a conversation I had with him a few days ago that this is just the first step. “We really want to move the whole industry forward,” he said.

Google posted a page to promote the new feature. According to Drayson, the company is “actively working with other companies” to make it an open standard that can be used on other platforms and with other apps. The protocol will reportedly allow for data to flow in both directions which enables second-screen experiences that correspond to what’s happening on live TV.

Nov 17 2012

Google and Dish Held Talks About Launching a Wireless Network

Google has reported held talks with Dish Network about partnering on a wireless service to rival AT&T and Verizon, according to the WSJ.

The talks between Dish and Google aren’t advanced and could amount to nothing, one of the people said. Google is just one of several companies that Dish has held talks with recently, and the discussions with other potential partners are also at an exploratory stage, said the people familiar with the discussions. It is unclear which other companies are discussing a potential partnership with Dish.

Dish has said it wants a partner to help it build out a wireless network with the spectrum it acquired in 2008. The network could be used for mobile phone and Internet services.

Nov 15 2012

Samsung’s Mobile Income Surpasses Google’s Entire Income

Samsung’s mobile operating income has surpassed Google’s entire operating income and is on pace to double it soon, reports Asymco’s Horace Dediu.

Not only did it overtake Nokia, the market share leader for 14 years, but is making more profits than Nokia ever did. So much profit in fact that it has overtaken Google’s decisively.

The reason I point this out is that Samsung’s success is dependent on having ridden on the back of Android. Samsung’s ascent can be precisely timed to their adoption of Android.