Tag Archives: Animations

Customize iOS Notification Banner, Alert & App Switcher Animations With Animer

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Cosmetically speaking, iOS has remained largely the same since it was introduced back in 2007. If you believe this makes Apple’s mobile operating system boring and stale, you can always jailbreak your device, use Dreamboard or Winterboard and make it look like the illegitimate child of Android, Windows Phone and iOS itself. We don’t honestly like that sort of mutation, but we do like and recommend playing around with smaller user interface tweaks to make more subtle changes. With that thought in mind, we’ll be discussing yet another tweak today that helps you personalize certain system animations in iOS. Check it out after the jump. Read More

Vire Launcher Is A 3D Android Home Screen With Stunning Transitions

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Developed by XDA members navdeepsangwan and winograd, Vire Launcher is a Android home screen replacement app boasting a visually refreshing UI with 3D effects & transitions, real-time lighting & reflections, super smooth navigation, and automatic theming of nearly every element in the entire interface including home screen widgets and icons etc. Currently in beta, Vire Launcher is an attempt to provide Android users with a 3D home screen offering tons of customizations. Besides being one of the most responsive and beautifully-crafted home screen replacements we've seen recently, Vire Launcher impresses with the realistic light reflections on its native metallic clock widget, determined solely by the readings fetched from the device's accelerometer. That’s not all – the launcher has its own applets, shortcuts, animations, themes, wallpapers, transition styles and several other UI tweaks that we shall look at in detail past the break. Read More

View Endless Streams Of Vine Videos On Your iPad With VineTube

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Countless examples have shown in the past that merely being a brainchild of some giant company doesn’t ensure an app’s success. Google, Microsoft and Apple have all been forced to shut down certain services that the masses simply refused to use. Some might have expected Twitter’s Vine to meet the same fate, but people have taken to it pretty quickly. More and more Vine videos are showing up on almost every Twitter user’s timeline, despite the fact that the app is presently available only for iOS. We are sure Vine’s popularity will soar when its Android version is released, but we've got to wait for it for now. Even the iOS app isn't optimized for the iPad yet, which is a source of frustration for many tablet users. Creating and uploading videos in Vine’s letterboxed version isn’t much of an issue, but you just can’t enjoy browsing through the service’s video collection without a dedicated tablet-optimized client. In Vine Flow, Android already has a pretty decent app for discovering and viewing Vine videos, and now, there is an app by the name of VineTube that basically brings the same idea to the iPad, albeit with a slightly different implementation. Read More

Lightt For iPhone Defines A New Way To Create & Share Animations Out Of Photos

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New to the App Store, Lightt is an iPhone app that, in addition to being an uncomplicated photo sharing service, might also be one of the most unique yet convenient ways to create animations. Lightt captures a burst of photos and then stitches them together in a single animation or “Highlight”. Essentially, a Highlight can be defined as a photo-video hybrid, a group of photos being played back in a loop. The minimum length of an animation is 10 seconds, but the app allows you to capture and group multiple animations together. The concept itself is quite fresh, but what truly makes the app stand out, and could contribute to making it addictive is the way it creates one combined stream out of all the animations ever created by a user. There are no filters or photo effects or heavy editing on offer, but the basic idea behind Lightt alone should be enough to spark the interest of photo-sharing enthusiasts. Read More

Create, Download, Randomize & Backup Custom Boot Animations On Android

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When talking of tweaking your smartphone’s UI and firmware settings to the very core, hardly any OS comes close to Android. From boot animation to system and sound profiles, Android users have the liberty to tinker with virtually any aspect of their devices as they like. Speaking of boot animation customization, previously-reviewed AniBoot by SoCal Devs is a fine example of how easy it is to download and install custom boot animations on Android. If, however, you felt somewhat unsatisfied with the various animations that the app had on offer, or wished to have some more control over modifying the settings of your favorite boot animations, then you must give Boot Animations by JRummy Apps a try. This particular solution from the developers of ROM Toolbox, BusyBox Installer, Root Explorer and numerous other nifty apps, offers arguably the most comprehensive collection of custom Android boot animations that can be configured in a number of ways. There are more than 300 different high quality stock and custom boot animations that can be downloaded from the online servers. Whether you’re looking for the stock Honeycomb, ICS or Jelly Bean boot animation, some custom Android ROM goodies, a random animation upon rebooting your device, or itching to create custom animations out of your own select GIF images, this app has you covered. Read More

ClockWind: Make Your iPhone Seem Faster By Speeding Up UI Animations

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If you have a lot of Cydia tweaks and apps installed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, your device is bound to start getting a little slow after some time. Mostly, the reason behind this lag is nothing really serious, and you can pin the problem down to something as simple as UI animations taking longer than usual to load, giving the appearance that your iPhone’s performance has diminished. So, even if you can put your finger on the problem, is there any possible way you can fix it? Well, maybe you can’t, but a 12 year old Cydia developer, iHackerMe, has certainly come up with a rather neat solution for these lagging animations. ClockWind is an awesome tweak (specially for older iOS devices), using which you will be able to control the speed of all system UI animations in iOS. The end result is that your iPhone will appear to be working faster, as less time will be spent on animations, and you will be taken to your desired OS destination in the blink of an eye. Read More

Microsoft Research Introduces Cliplets, A Windows Application For Creating Cinemagraphs

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Cinemegraphs have seen a lot of popularity during the past few years. It’s a photography technique where certain subjects in the image make brief and repetitive moments, while the rest of the picture remains still, creating a blend between image and video. If you like making cinemagraphs, then you’re definitely going to love Microsoft Research Cliplets. Being promoted under the tagline "juxtaposition of still and dynamic photography", the application emphasizes on creating seamless loops of selected areas from your videos, into what Microsoft refers to as, “Cliplets”. While most of the cinemagraph tools only enable you to generate outputs in GIF format, the beauty of Microsoft Research Cliplets lies in the fact that, along with GIF, you can save your cliplets in MP4 and WMV formats. Coupled with an intuitive interface, the application is not only easy to use, but contains a handful of options to create countless varying cliplets. Keep reading for a detailed review. Read More

BeMe: Android IM With Audio Emoticon, Video, Photo & File Sharing

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Fresh to the Google Play Store, BeMe is an innovative and fun-filled instant messaging Android app with plenty of exciting features. Using BeMe, you can start chatting with other app users from any part of the world, and share texts, photos, videos, audio clips, conventional emoticons, location, contacts, files, or various audio-based emoticons with them over the internet (Wi-Fi/3G/4G). Whether it’s a freshly grabbed photo, video, voice clip, or an existing one from your device’s local storage, the app lets you share all in an instant right from your Android. BeMe is a welcome addition to list of world-famous instant messengers, like WhatsApp, Viber and plenty of others that allow users to share messages and multimedia content with their mates in real-time over the internet. All you need to start indulging with your friends is a valid mobile number and a nickname that the app will use to create a unique BeMe identity for you. Once an account is created, you can start chatting with your friends, and share virtually anything from your Android on the go. The app maintains a detailed log of all your conversations with your friends, as well as the total amount of data shared with contacts via the BeMe chat interface. Read More

Cinemagram For iPhone: Create & Share Half-Video Half-Photo Animations

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Meet Cinemagram for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, a simple, fun app that combines the pattern of Instagram with a unique and interesting concept. The app lets users create cinemagraphs - images that are part animated and part still photo, apply gorgeous filters to them and share them with each other. The process of creating animations (or 'cinemagrams') involves capturing a video and marking an area within it that you want to have animated. This produces amazing results wherein the marked area keeps repeating a part of the captured video, while the rest of the image remains still. Read More

Animated Greetings – Download, Edit, Share Animated Messages [Android]

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Not that the Android Market doesn't offer plenty of fun-filled apps that can help you pass some quality time, but it's rather about finding something that can transform that pastime into something bit more productive. For instance, an app that lets you send funny messages to your loved ones via customizable and animated greeting cards. When talking of such apps for Android, you won't find too many options that can surpass Animated Greetings. Designed with a purpose of sending customized messages/greetings to your friends, the app packs dozens of pre-installed and downloadable animated movies, each carrying a funny message. Users can tweak an animation, put their own picture on the body of a superhero, add funny voice effects to audio recordings and do whatever they like to make their message more personal and a bit more naughty. Animated Greetings can be shared with Facebook buddies, YouTube friends / subscribers as well as with mail contacts. Read More

Prevent Thumbnail Animation Preview In Windows 7 Taskbar

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Whenever you hover the mouse pointer over the icons of the running applications in the taskbar, you will see that it displays the preview of each application with some animation. This feature consumes quite some system resources. So if you are on a low specs system(like netbook), then you should seriously think to tune up your Windows by disabling some unnecessary features. In this post, we will guide you through the process of disabling the Taskbar Thumbnail Preview Animations in Windows 7. Read More