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ContaCam: Create Surveillance System With Webcams, WDM And DV

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ContaCam is a simple tool for creating your very own video surveillance mechanism. This application can turn a webcam into a motion detection camera with customized alerts. It can monitor the area within camera view, and auto-start recording once it detects motion. The recorded cam videos can then be saved in AVI or Flash video formats. Additionally, you can also upload the video to an FTP server or send it via email. ContaCam is also capable of capturing still images at regular intervals, and creates a thumbnail history log, which can be remotely accessed. Other than video surveillance, ContaCam can also function as a DVR for manual recording and scheduling on-demand recording. ContaCam supports numerous advanced configuration options, including customizable detection zones, snapshot editing, various video settings, detection scheduling, network based streaming, audio recording, and the like. ContaCam is capable of supporting Webcams, WDM, DV and other devices. Read More

Shoot Photos With Funny Overlay Effects Using Funny Faces For WP7

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Microsoft Research launched a fun-oriented Windows Phone 7 app pretty recently, named Face Swap. That app allowed user to choose a photo having two people, and then exchanged their faces with each other. Funny Faces makes changing faces a whole lot funnier and better. The app is based on augmented reality, and acts as a camera that overlays funny effects on the faces found in any view. There are some hilarious effects offered by Funny Faces, and you can find out all about them by heading past the break. Read More

King Camera Is A Free Replacement App For Stock iPhone Camera

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The stock iOS camera app is pretty quaint and has very few options, even with the iOS 5 updates. According to Apple, this is done for the purpose of keeping things simple in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. However, in real life, you might be faced with a lot of scenarios where you need customizable settings in the camera. King Camera is an app that has a ton of camera features, including a timer and sound trigger, and unlike some of its competitors, you can get it for free. Read More

Dotti Disposable Camera: Snap Photos, Have Them Printed & Delivered To You [Android, iOS]

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Sincerely Inc. is a name that has already made its mark among smartphone users with some wonderful apps such as Postagram and Holiday Cards for Android and iOS. The concept behind both the apps is simple; just personalize a postcard on your smartphone (with a photo, design and message of your choice), and get it delivered to your desired postal address in printed form. Dotti Disposable Camera is the dev team's latest release in the Android Market and iTunes App Store. The app converts your smartphone into a classic disposable camera, complete with sound effects and animations, and lets you fill its camera roll with as many as 12 captured photos. After a filling the roll with snaps, you can place its delivery order to an address of your liking. Each photo gets printed on 4x6 inch high quality fine paper, and the entire compilation gets delivered in a solidly built envelope to keep your snaps protected. Depending upon the target location, shipment charges and delivery time may vary. Read More

CamTethering: Take Pictures & Schedule Time Lapse Photos On Mac

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You may have connected a lot of devices to your Mac; phones, tablets, cameras and what not. For the most part, you do it only to access files on the device, and very seldom is it seen that you can actually use the device. This means not connecting you device for just accessing the storage, but actually using the device for its intending functionality. CamTethering is a free Mac App that allows you to connect your capable DSLR camera via Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth, and take pictures from it. You can specify the shutter speed, the F Number, shutter speed and crop factor. Read More

Movie360 For iPhone: Capture Videos With 13 Great Real-Time Effects

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We all have a cameraman hidden somewhere inside us, who wants to capture the world from his own perspective. Some of us want to make a cool documentary about life on campus, others want to bring the local life under the spotlight, but with a good eye for detail, you also need an exceptional camera that will make your dream movie leave an impression on anybody who watches it. From the team behind Camera360 for iOS comes Movie360, an app that lets you record videos with thirteen amazing real-time effects, and up to a length of two hours per clip. Read More

Hipstamatic Disposable For iPhone: Share Camera Rolls With Facebook Friends

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Back in the old days, it was exciting to wait for the whole film roll in a camera to develop to see a particular snapshot. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a taste of that again? From the team behind Hipstamatic and IncrediBooth comes Hipstamatic Disposable for iPhone, a free app that lets you choose from a collection of disposable cameras, each with a different filter and a capacity of twenty four photos. Once you have captured the twenty four shots, the app allows you to view them, share them in bulk or individually over Twitter and email. What makes Hipstamatic Disposable stand out from other apps of its genre is that you can invite Facebook friends to a camera you chose (provided they have the app too), allowing them to shoot photos with you until the roll runs out. The collective roll of resulting photos is automatically synced between all parties. Read More

Blippar: Scan Products To Reveal Virtual Info & Games [Android & iOS]

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Augmented reality is a field which really has a lot of potential, and up until now, one can’t help but feel that only a fraction of that potential has been unleashed. There are a few apps, on both iOS and Android, which make good use of the concept, and Blippar is one of them. At first glance, you might feel that the app is all fun and games, but it does have some pretty useful features as well. You just have to scan an object/product recognizable by Blippar, and the augmented reality engine kicks in, overlaying the object's image with an interactive layers of information or games. Read More

Cool Camera: Real-Time Photo Booth-Like Effects For Android

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Cool Camera is an amazingly feature-rich Android app from the photography category with plenty of, well, cool camera effects and filters that you can apply to your photos. Unlike most other apps from the genre, the app lets you preview all effects within the viewfinder before capturing a snapshot. In addition, the app also gives you the option to import images from the gallery and apply various post-processing effects to them. Read More

Stress Check Uses Camera & LED To Measure Your Stress Level [Android]

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Stress Check by Azumio is a cross-platform physical and psychological stress monitoring tool for iOS and Android that uses your device’s camera and LED flashlight to analyze your stress levels in real-time by measuring your pulse rate. Depending upon the user-specified age and gender, and the recorded heart beat, Stress Check tries to determine the exact stress levels, potential factors that could be causing problems (if any) as well as the immediate precautions that could be taken to remedy the issue. Unlike the iOS variant of Stress Check (that costs around $1 on the iTunes App Store), the Android version is absolutely free on the Market. Read More

Enable 1080p Video Recording On Acer Iconia A500 Honeycomb Tablet

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It is pretty surprising that the Acer Iconia A500, being such a capable Honeycomb tablet, had more potential than Acer actually made it out to be. Did you know that the Iconia tablet's camera is capable of recording videos at full HD 1080p. Well we said, capable, did not tell you it does. This is where XDA-Developers forum member m-deejay comes in and makes all of this possible. Thanks to him, you can now easily mod the Iconia's camera and switch to recording videos at full HD resolution. Read More

Improve Camera Quality On HTC Sensation 4G For Sense 3.5 & CM7 ROMs

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Do you own an HTC Sensation 4G? If you think the camera or more precisely, the Camcorder on your device is brilliant, it’s about to get even more awesome. Thanks to XDA-Developer |ErosizeD|, you can now mod your camera to record at higher bitrates which according to the developer, is close to BlueRay DVD quality with an increased FPS stability. The mod currently supports ROMs based on Sense 3.0 or 3.5 and CyanogenMod 7 or MIUI. As for the still camera, compression has been set to 0%, thereby the image quality has also been increased. Read More

FunShot: A Photo Booth-Like App For Samsung Windows Phone 7

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You might not appreciate it a lot, but Samsung does have some pretty decent apps for Windows Phone 7 in the Samsung Zone of the Marketplace. Just recently, we covered Wireless Manager, another app made exclusively for Samsung WP7, and while browsing for that app in the Samsung Zone, we ran across FunShot. The app has been around for a couple of months now, but has escaped most people’s notice as it was reportedly available for download via search only. But now that we have finally tried the app, we think it is simply awesome. What does it do? In a nutshell, FunShot is to Samsung WP7 what Photo Booth is to iPad. Read More

Zombie-fy Your Friends’ Photos With Zombiematic Camera For iPhone

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We might be a day too late for Halloween-related apps, but some goodies are just too good to pass no matter what the day or occasion is. Zombiematic Camera is an app which is a perfect solution for having fun with your friends' or your own photos and creating some really cool horror pictures from them. The biggest plus point of this iOS app is that it is extremely easy to use and the entire editing process takes no more than a few seconds. You just have to see the results this app yields to believe how good it is. Read More

Free Version Of PhotoToaster For iPhone & iPad Now Available On App Store

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iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users take their photos pretty seriously. A vast proportion of photos presently on the web can be traced back to iOS cameras. This, coupled with the fact that the iPhone does not have a lot of options in it for photo editing (natively), has led to a huge number of photo-related apps in the App Store. But only some apps stand out among the crowd and gather a reasonable fan-following. Snapseed is one, and PhotoToaster is another popular alternative. PhotoToaster has been around for quite a while but now, a free version of the app is also available. Like all good photo editors in the App Store, PhotoToaster has a few really unique features, and most of all, the app's biggest strength lies in its simplicity. You won't have to spend a week trying to master how exactly can you apply all the beautiful filters to your images, everything is just one-touch. Read More

IncrediBooth For iOS: Shoot & Share Picture Strips With Photo Effects

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iPhone’s camera is used for a variety of purposes, and not-the-least-popular of those is self-portraits. Ever so often, you see your friends’ Facebook display pictures to be ones snapped by themselves from their phone camera. IncrediBooth is an iOS app that makes use of the front-facing camera in iPhone’s later models and iPad 2, allowing you to shoot photos of yourself and upload them to a number of destinations right from within the app. The really cool touch? The app also offers some photo effects that can be applied even before you start shooting. The biggest positive about the app is not its filters, but the way those filters are presented. Everything about the app is designed to make it usable at very short notice. Read More

WeeFlashlight For iPhone: Control LED Flash From Notification Center

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Prior to iOS 5, Apple's mobile platform treated the iPhone's camera LED just as an ordinary and plain camera LED. But now things are changing and people are realizing that the flash can be more than just a camera support tool. The use of LED as notification alerter has been around for Android devices for quite a long time, but now even Apple seems to have acknowledged that the camera flash can be put to some extra use, as now you can use the camera flash as LED notification light if you are on iOS 5. Whatever Apple does, the jailbreak community is never too far behind in taking it one step further. That’s what WeeFlashlight is all about. It is a Cydia tweak that provides users with an LED flashlight, controllable right from the Notification Center. Read More

How To Make iPhone Camera LED Notifications Work [Complete Guide]

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The notification system in iOS, prior to the latest update, was always under fire by critics as it was quite inefficient and no match for a universal notification center like the one Android has always had. But iOS 5 saw to that issue, and even added a few pretty neat enhancements to the whole concept. In addition to adding widgets to notification center, it is now also possible to make the LED flash every time you get a new notification. The camera light is pretty bright and almost impossible to miss so that kind of reinforces the purpose of a notification. So if you have an iPhone (the ones having a camera LED, i.e. iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S) and you are running iOS 5, then this tip is perfect for you. Read More

Luma Video Camera Allows Steady Video Capture On iPhone & iPad

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iPad and iPhone’s later models come equipped with pretty decent cameras (and thus Apple’s advertisement of the fact that their camera is the most-used for uploading photos to Flickr and similar services). With iPhone 4S and its 8 Megapixel camera, things are about to get awesome in the photography arena. In addition to that, the camera will come equipped with anti-shake feature, so that each photo that you take with your new phone is as close to perfection as possible. But, unfortunately, not everyone is upgrading, and if you are among those, you can get the best out of your phone or tablet’s video camera using Luma Video Camera. This amazing app will counter all the blurriness your videos might suffer due to fast-moving objects or an unsteady hand. Read More

Take Photos With Effects From Your Windows Phone 7 With SnapFX

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Windows Phone 7 devices have really good cameras in general, and things took a turn for the better with Mango due to introduction of tap-to-focus. The camera in my Samsung Omnia 7 even has 6 photo effects in it! Still, who doesn’t want more? There’s always that thirst for the little something extra, and that’s what SnapFX is for. This neat little app lets you take photos with a bunch of really cool effects added to them. Now, we know there are already a lot of photo editors available for the Mango platform, so why would you want to give SnapFX a try? The most important reason for that is the app's intuitive interface. Rather than listing effects in a long and boring list, this app lets you make changes to your images in an interactive way. Apart from that, the app has to get full marks for simplicity, as everything is really easy and efficient in SnapFX. Read More