First of all, I'd like to share my excitement about phogy.
A while back a friend from London showed me seene and all since then I've been waiting for the moment this app was made available for Android. I even signed up for a newsletter to get notified when my dream got real. Slow developers have got to live with the consequences though. Here's why:
While I've been jealous of the iOS users all the time I still managed to get some first person experience of the app by convincing people to download it to their iPhone, iPod, iPad whatsoever. In addition to the limitation on i-devices there were even more restrictions to the use of the app. It had to be a decent device. And by decent I mean that it had to be of the 4s generation or higher (iPad3 or mini for iPads). Statements on the seene homepage said that it was due to some significant calculation and composing work for the 3D animations that was only possible to be accomplished by more-than-one-core devices. Sucks for the users of older phones. They could still receive and view the 3D models done by others which is almost as lame as not being able to use the app at all. Those 3D models are the next negative point. While I found them to be really cool in the beginning, I've always had problems with getting the background to not look like a stretched illustration of how it was supposed to look. An issue I didn't mind living with because I thought that it might get fixed in the future and that it was just part of the experience. I don't do so anymore.
When I saw phogy yesterday evening, I downloaded it and it made me grin and smile all since then. Even though, it doesn't work the same way seene does, it gives you a similar result. In my opinion even a better one. Getting the right angle and waiting for the light to be perfect is over. Just target your object and move around it within the given time frame. Whoop whoop, the app does everything else and you can even do different effects with it by turning the phone around you staying centered yourself and just changing the background. That's possible because the app also works with the front camera (seene doesn't, does it?) and does not come with any limitations regarding the phone as far as I know (might just be that it takes a whole lot longer on older phones). For me the best feature is that it is available for Android though. I don't want it to be an android-only app and I think the developers do actually work on an iOS version right as I speak but for now I'm just happy that it's available for me. Sorry, iOS users.
The app is really easy to use and does even support exporting to .mp4 (which is somewhat stupid because you could just record a movie instead; offers you to do both at the same time though) and .gif which comes in handy if you want to share your pictures on a blog (see below).
While the free version is great to try things out, I'm actually thinking about buying the pro versions to fully enjoy every aspect of capturing life in motion.
Secondly, I'd like to talk about IFTTT which got out for android recently. IFTTT stands for "If This Then That" and offers you to use one of the most simplistic and useful phrases of software development on your phone in a really smart manner. You can build up own recipes or chose one of many that were already created by others to link functions within your phone.
An example, even if not the smartest one would be, "if new blog post then send me a notification" which lets your phone beep and notify you if there's a new blog entry. For it to be working you have to give the app permission and access to your blogger account.
This is cool and all but the app shows its full potential when it comes to linking hardware to your phone.
A friend of mine uses the app on his iPhone to switch lights in his house on and off according to his positions (100 meters away and the lights turn off) and the on/off status of his projector. Additional hardware that can be integrated is for sure to be found somewhere on the IFTTT homepage or a forum. It wont be cheap though.
And last but not least one of the more useless but still funny apps I've found because it's got its roots partly in my hometown. The App tellM lets you share pictures or text anonimously with contacts in your phone book that use the app too. While there's no real use to it, except for sending nsfw pictures and letting people guess who's parts they are staring on, the app has got a really cool way of preventing screenshots. The Photos are blurred and you can always only view a small unaffected part around the region of your finger when you go over it.
Altering the app and making the unblurred circle around your finger bigger results in revealing your name to all your friends and posting your face to a blackboard for everyone to see.
Well, it does not do that, unfortunately. Instead, the developers integrated a rather strict policy of banning reported users. As for any data sensitive app like snapchat and alike I would suggest you to use it for fun only. Send people your body parts and a picture of your new string (should be safe, you're anonymous after all) but don't use it to share these confidential reports your boss told you to get rid off.
That's it for now. I've got to get back to work. St... and Ma.. if you actually read until this part, your both retarded or really bored and you should #getalife Thanks for reading though.
What follows now is a clumsy, ugly attempt of creating a gif from a phogy (way cooler if viewing angle differs according to the angle of your phone, seriously!):
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