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Lumiapps: TweeCoMinder for #WP8 – Track your tweet count
Video: @JasonAtNokia demos 4 Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Features
Video: Quick look at #6tagram Beta for WP8

Lumiapps: TweeCoMinder for #WP8 – Track your tweet count

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 01:43 AM PDT

Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to be on the beta of an app called TweeCoMinder. As an avid tweeter, this was a pretty cool app to have. What the app does, is tracks your tweet count and will notify you when you are close to a certain count. For example, some people like to tweet that they have 10,000 tweets. This app will help you make sure you don’t miss that special moment!

A live tile keeps you updated with your tweet counts. You can customise the “special count” to be notified about, how many tweets away from the count the notifications should start, sharing your count etc. The app is REALLY good at staying in-sync with the tweet count displayed on Twitter, however, if it falls behind, you can manually sync it (just in case).

Its a basic idea, yet something I could find myself using a fair bit! There are a fair few new features that are in the works, but I can’t discuss them yet – I will say though, I like the ideas!

"Sigh! I missed my xxxxth tweet!"    We often read this on our timeline, no matter if developer, user or tech guru.    We decided to do something against this: TweeCoMinder is our solution.    If you are looking for a convenient way to maintain your tweet count, this app is for you!    We are maintaining your tweet count with our cloud server, which updates your live tile as well as informs you at a certain point via toast notification.    Trial mode lets you test the app for 5 days. After that point, the app stops working.

Get it on the store now!

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/tweecominder/f05f429c-2f85-447d-b774-6903fda32cd7

Video: @JasonAtNokia demos 4 Nokia Lumia 1020 Camera Features

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 01:07 AM PDT

Jason Gregory, a Nokia employee, took to his youtube channel to share some amazing tips for capturing great images on the Nokia Lumia 1020, by showing off 4 of its features.

I’ll let the video speak for itself, but my favourite demo is the Shutter Speed one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUUkpMhikDw

Cheers, Glenn for the tip!

Video: Quick look at #6tagram Beta for WP8

Posted: 03 Aug 2013 10:22 PM PDT

The beta for 6tagram, Rudy Huyn’s Instagram client finally went live, and we are fortunate enough to be on the beta list. I’ve quickly put together a little hands-on look at the first release and hot damn is it promising! Besides the fact it looks good, it is pretty much 1-1 with Instagram on iOS and Android both feature wise, and user experience wise.

I’ve been a fan of Instance from Day 1, but sadly Daniel Gary never implemented the activity log fully. On Android and iOS, you can see what people you follow are up to, eg. which photos they like, who they follow etc. 6stagram has this functionality! Not only that, he has implemented Photo Map, which is essentially just geo-tagging your images, useful for those like myself who upload images from their holiday to Instagram. Rudy has also implemented “semantic zoom” which allows a user to go from the card-based feed view like above, to a grid layout, both in “popular” images, and the main feed. In a user’s feed, you get shown a grid, but selecting an image will transform it into a card-based view.

Video is supported, both viewing and uploading. From what we’ve heard, 6tagram will be free, however an in-app purchase will be needed to unlock video uploading. I think that is fairly reasonable seeing as the encoding needs to take place on an external server before uploading which Rudy is having to pay for. (Instagram have their own server, but since this isn’t official it doesn’t have access obviously.)

The fact that Rudy is in talks with Instagram/Facebook to ensure that a whole bunch of legal stuff (and I think experience quality) is all up to scratch is a real testament to this dev. I mean, they even want in on beta testing! (In saying that, Instance did too so let’s be fair here.)

Without further adieu, take a look at the video below (its not the best – was rather rushed and filmed on my Z10 which is average at best) and some screenshots.

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