Is there any application to take hdr images? (the way it takes multiple pictures with different ranges and merges them)
If you find this or anyone else does please let me know as well... one thing I miss from the iPhone.
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does it need full unlock or just dev?
I'm also waiting for this.
The best application IMO is HDR Pro as it boosts and balances saturation and contrast as well. Plus you can select the exposure manually for all three photos. Unfortunately it is available only with iPhone and Android and last time I emailed the company, they didn't sound too eager to produce this for Windows Phone. I had used this with my Samsung Vibrant before coming over to WP7.. loved it.
There is another very creative company that makes a good photo editor and also a camera application giving them the capability to add a true 3-shot HDR function - FhotoRoom. They have HDR on other platforms. I emailed them and the reply I received was promising - they told me they are committed to bringing true HDR functionality to their Windows program - but unfortunately WP7.5 is too restrictive on camera control. They told me this is something that is priority when they update the application around the upcoming Apollo OS - WP8. But that depend on the OS allowing the freedom to use the camera that way. If they don't change this, then no-go..
I've used Winamp for many years. When Google Music was released, I hated it right away, despite loving Android. When I bought my Xoom a few days ago, I noticed that Google had finally fixed many old bugs that I had encountered many times when I'd occasionally retry their software. Seeing the integration, I again considered seriously using it as my default player. Google obviously wants it this way, since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to uninstall it from vanilla ICS.
There is only one issue left I am having trouble withstanding - the album art that doesn't match the standard square is distorted and unacceptable. After thinking about it a long time, I've decided that I will attempt to fix the offending covers by customizing them myself. I was thinking that I could add black borders around the image to force the program to render the picture in its original aspect ratio with blacks to fill in the gaps that would otherwise be cut from the image in Google Play Music.
I have tried searching Google for a program that could easily help me do this, but all I have found are programs to grab art, rather than allow me to customize original pictures at the proper aspect ratio. I'm thinking that I may have to resort to using a picture editor to achieve my goals, but I don't even know the first thing about editing images to get what I am looking for.
Could you help me with some ideas?
I am considering getting a Nexus 10 to replace my iPad 1. I mostly use my iPad for browsing the net and reading magazines on Zinio. Zinio really has the best magazine selection, far better than Amazon or Google Play. However, the Zinio app for the iPad is really awful, and the same problems seem to plague the app on my phone.
I was wondering what the experience is like on a Nexus 10. Do you find that the magazines scale properly? Does anyone have a subscription to National Geographic (this magazine has been optimized for tablets) ... and if so, does it render properly on a Nexus 10?
I really want to avoid giving Apple any more money.
I have a bunch of subscriptions through the play store and they all look gorgeous on the nexus 10.
The magazines in the google magazine app look so amazing on the n10 it is insane looks way better than on ipads
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Thanks guys, unfortunately the magazine selection on Google Play is pretty poor in Australia. No New Scientist, The Economist, National Geographic. I want to know what Zinio is like on the N10. Anybody tried it? Could someone download it and try ... pretty please?
what problems do you have with it on the ipad? I've only browsed it there briefly as its my friends. i'm downloading the app right now, just want to know what you are looking for. My friends current gen ipad is here to so I can compare the two.
Thanks y2whisper. Note that my Ipad is the first generation and not the current iPad 4.
On the iPad, the app crashes frequently, especially in the store, with larger magazines, and multimedia heavy magazines like National Geographic. The resolution of the magazine is very grainy on the iPad, and it is difficult to read text unless you zoom in. There are also all sorts of usability issues - the app fails to auto-download new issues of magazines unless I specifically click on it. It won't download in the background if I swap out of it and do something else (good old Apple's lack of pre-emptive multitasking). This means a good 5-10 minute wait where I can't do anything else on the iPad because the Zinio server is so slow. If I try browsing whilst it is downloading, there is a good probability the app will crash. Also, there is no way to delete single issues of magazines. If you have a folder full of copies of Time you can delete individual issues. But if you have a single issue of Time you can't get rid of it.
Some of these complaints are due to the app and not the device, so I don't necessarily expect that the N10 will be any better. However, I would like to know:
1. Do the magazines automatically render to take advantage of the higher resolution?
2. Does the multimedia content in magazines work?
3. Can magazines download in the background?
4. Does the app crash, or act unstable, etc? Can you check your resource meter to see if it eats up spare CPU cycles when run in the background?
5. Are there any issues on the Android version which are not present on the iOS version?
I realize that you won't be able to answer all my questions, but I would be grateful for any help you can give.
1. The render to where they are clear but don't use all of the real estate that the screen has to offer. it does do landscape view which google magazines doesn't
2. Wasn't able to find one for free that I could test but the interactive magazine functionality does exist including national geography
3 couldn't test this as the preview magazines loaded up to quick to see about background downloading
4 suggest an app and I will use it to monitor it. but no crashes thus far.
5 unsure so far
you do have to zoom at times in articles on this. a problem i don't have with google magazines. too bad their library is crap in your area.
Thank you so much for taking the trouble, y2whisper.
I'm a Zinio magazine reader, I used to use the Adam. Since it died about 9 months ago I've essentially stopped reading magazines... Until now!!!!! I got my N10 about 2 weeks ago and I've been reading all of my mags. Images are amazing, Zinio has been behaving very well no crashes, speedy downloads, my wife thinks I'm having an affair... Yes with my N10 and 9 months worth of subscribed magazines. I've rediscovered my bathroom and throne.
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While my N10 didn't arrive yet, I have bought a few magazine issues on my SGS3. On the small screen everything looks very clear, though I still have to zoom in for the letters to be large enough to read comfortably.
Also, there is background downloading, though speeds in general (not only in background) are quite slow as you mentioned.
y2whisper said:
1. The render to where they are clear but don't use all of the real estate that the screen has to offer. it does do landscape view which google magazines doesn't
2. Wasn't able to find one for free that I could test but the interactive magazine functionality does exist including national geography
3 couldn't test this as the preview magazines loaded up to quick to see about background downloading
4 suggest an app and I will use it to monitor it. but no crashes thus far.
5 unsure so far
you do have to zoom at times in articles on this. a problem i don't have with google magazines. too bad their library is crap in your area.
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Google Magazine does do landscape, it is dependent on the magazine. For example, open up the Traveler magazine that came free with the n10
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Landscape mode for Google Play magazines?
Hi all,
I really hope you can help me out with a question I have about google play magazines. I am wondering if the Nexus 10 takes advantage of landscape mode when viewing magazines. I have an iPad and I love how GQ changes when you switch the orientation. My Nexus 7 does not change, and i was wondering if the Nexus 10 acts more like an iPad in that regard.
Thanks!!!!
I read Game Informer digitally on my iPad 3. It's a very cool app with quite a bit of interactive material in addition to the static material from the print magazine. It's also available for "10 inch Android tablets", so I installed it onto the Nook HD+ with CM10.1 installed since the screen size is close and the resolution is better than pretty much anything short of the Nexus 10 right now.
While technically, it does *work*, that's being kind! The magazine doesn't expand to fill the entire screen, leaving significant borders on either size, and it's really flaky, often not showing the correct page when performing explicit page selection, and eventually it just FCs.
Does anyone have any experience with this (or similar) apps on the HD+? Is there a way to make them work properly, or is it just a lost cause. This one of the only apps that I use heavily on my iPad that I can't get working well on the Nook HD+ so far (the other notable one being Marvel Unlimited, but it has the same behavior as on my Galaxy S4 so I think that's an app issue, not a device issue).
Thoughts?
Ditto for most Android efforts for magazines. Half hearted in comparison to iPad.
Hey SCWells72,
Ive seen Game Informer in the Play Magazine section. GI now lets you get the issues right from Play Magazines with your digital subscription. If i remember right: go find GI in Play Magazines and in the subscriptions options you should be able to chose existing customer, or what ever its called. From there you will have to login with you GI Digital ID created when you switched from physical to digital subs. this should let you just download the new issues from Play.
Cam
RE: Google Photos
I recently got a new budget phone, which I actually like considering the very little $ it cost. It's been flawless except one problem which makes it impossible for me to find any photos. The phone is a Umidigo Power running stock Android 9. The one and only app that is doing what I am about to show is VideoShow which I use frequently and want to keep.
The phone is pulling every single folder which contains a graphic file (hundreds of folders and thousands of thumbnails) and putting them in Google Photos be making it impossible to find my own stuff. I have emailed both phone maker & app maker with no success. Attached is a screenshot of a small percentage of what's showing up.