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5 Excellent iOS Apps for Capturing and Editing Video
Written by Emily Price
Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:09
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Making a great video used to mean pulling out an expensive video camera and owning your own video editing suite. Now you can do many of the same things once exclusively reserved for a high-end equipment right on your iPhone without a ton of cash or a lot of training.

The iPhone is capable of recording high-definition video suitable for the giant plasma screen in your living room, and there are a number of video editing apps out there to help you polish your video and add opening credits, sound effects and even a soundtrack into the mix — without ever leaving your device.

If you’re more interested in sharing your video than giving it a professional look -– or if you want to share a masterpiece you’ve just created immediately –- most iOS video apps also offer the ability to upload your finished product directly from your phone to popular video hubs such as YouTube and Vimeo, where you can share them with friends, family and the world.

Check out the gallery for some of our favorite iOS video apps for shooting, editing and sharing videos. Included in the mix are some apps that will give your video a finished look as well as a few apps designed to make your high-tech video look like it was recorded on a Hi8 camcorder.

Do you have your own favorite video app for iOS? Let us know what you like to use to create and share videos in the comments.


1. iMovie




iMovie is a video app created by Apple, and it's possibly one of the most well-known video editing apps for iOS. Much like iMovie on a Mac, iMovie for iOS lets you edit your videos and include photos, music and sound effects into the mix -- and it all happens on your phone. The app has eight built-in themes with their own titles, transitions and soundtracks, as well as nine built-in trailers for creating the perfect preview for your film. Finished masterpieces can also be immediately uploaded and shared on video sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Cost:: $4.99

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OoVoo Makes Facebook Multi-Person Video Hangouts Possible
Written by Samantha Murphy
Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:12
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Want to host a party with friends right on Facebook? Video chat company ooVoo has rolled out its service to the social networking site, allowing up to 12 friends to chat face-to-face at once.

The company also announced upgrades to its application for iPhone, Android, PC and the web users. The Facebook integration makes the service similar to Google Hangouts, which allows users to video chat in groups of 10 on the search engine giant’s social network Google+.

On the iPad, ooVoo doesn’t just support 12-way calls but also four-way HD video chats — an industry first.

Although the 12-way video chat functionality wasn’t announced until today, ooVoo quietly rolled it out on Facebook over the past few months. Since then, nearly 350,000 people have been using the service.

“We never announced that the product was available in beta form on Facebook, but our users found it anyway — this just reinforces how much of a need and desire to connect with others through social chat,” ooVoo CEO Yuval Baharav told Mashable.

SEE ALSO: Google+ Releasing ‘Hangouts on Air’ Feature to All Users

The integration between platforms is seamless. Even if a friend doesn’t have the ooVoo application, you can send them the web call link to start to the session.

The product news is the company’s first major milestone for ooVoo, which boasts more than 46 million users — up from 19 million in 2010. Although it still trails behind mainstay competitors Skype and iChat, the company has set its sights on further expansion.

“We will be releasing more innovative features in the upcoming months that will allow our users to be even more social online,” Baharav said. “We want ooVoo to be a communications platform that truly becomes a big part of our users’ social lives.”

The news comes just a few weeks after a Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project study found that nearly 40% of Teens Video Chat With Their Friends 40% of all Internet users ages 12 to 17 participate in video chats. Both teen boys and girls enjoy connecting with friends on the Internet to catch up, watch TV together and even do homework.

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Thirst App Will Change The Way You View Twitter
Written by Emily Price
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:53
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A new iPad application called Thirst might reinvent how you look at your Twitter stream. Using its own natural language processor, Thirst filters, organizes, and presents your Twitter stream in an engaging way, helping you find the tweets you want to read quickly and in context.

“I wanted to make an app that no matter how often you check Twitter, these are the things you need to see, ” Thirst Co-Founder and CEO Anuj Verma told Mashable. The app is designed so it can be useful for people who check Twitter constantly throughout the day, as well as those who might only check Twitter a few times a week.

The News tab in Thirst displays topics you’ve told Thirst you’re interested in. You can follow companies like Apple or Google, sports teams, people, or literally anything else you can think of that gets discussed on your Twitter stream.

As tweets come in, Thirst will sort them based on topic. So, if your friend Bob is talking about Facebook then his avatar will show up under your Facebook topic. If your buddy Dave is chatting about beer, then his avatar would show up under a beer section. The more people who are talking about a topic, the higher up it will appear on the screen and the larger its icon will be.

The language processing is what helps Thirst really shine. The app, for instance, will be able to tell that a friend is talking about Apple the company, not the Red Delicious they had for lunch.

Tapping on a topic icon in the news tab will not only bring up all of the tweets associated with that topic, but also recent news stories to give you a quick idea on what everyone’s talking about. News stories can be read directly from within Thirst, and can also be shared on Twitter or via email.

A Trending tab within Thirst will do the same thing as the News tab, except focused around the topics that are currently trending on Twitter. Tapping on a trending topic will provide you with news, tweets, and context on why that topic is trending. So, if movie star is currently trending you can tell immediately that their newest role is what’s creating the buzz, or if a state is trending due to a recent storm you can instantly read news stories about the devastation.

You can also send out new tweets from the app and reply to others.

Thirst is currently only available for the iPad. The company plans to release an iPhone version next, and potentially an Android version in the future.

What do you think of Thirst? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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