Apple’s iOS 7 gets first showing at WWDC

Apple showed up at the Worldwide Developers Conference with  a host of new offerings, but the one that could make or break the company’s vast mobile fortunes, iOS 7,  stood out the most. As expected, Apple has torn itself away from skeuomorphic iconography and design.

In fact, all corners of iOS have received spit and polish. Besides changing the look of the core apps to a ore minimalistic interface- even the slide-to-unlock lockscreen has been dumped for a pull-the-screen-up style lockscreen-Apple has added a Control Center that mimics Android’s quick toggles drawer, has a music and brightness controller, and app shortcuts. The Camera app has received effects filters, while multi-tasking has been spriced up with a card-based view of all open apps.

  Apple also launched  !Tunes Radio, a music streaming service like Pandora, besides showing a new version of Siri, which can now do both male and female voices. The OS is currently in beta and is available for registered Apple developers. There’s still a lot that could change between now and the final version, and it will be interesting to see how Apple reacts to some of the initial criticism.

In addition, Apple also showed off the new OS X Mavericks operating system for its desktop products. The new OS brings deeper integration with iOS as well as the desktop versions of Apple Maps and !Books. There was also an announcement for !Work for !Cloud, which brings Google Docs-like productivity apps for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations through Safari.

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Twitter's popular video sharing app,Vine.

Twitter's popular video sharing app,Vine,is finally available for android devices.The app lets you create looping. GIF-like videos that can be a maximum 6 seconds long,and share it on Twitter at the Vine community.
      You need to log-in/Sign-up with your e-mail ID or Twitter account before you can use the app.The user interface is simple and resembles that of the Twitter app.it's divided into four Sections.Feed,Activity,Explore and Profile.You can follow your friends by signing-in to Twitter or invite them via text or email.
        Initially,the app shows you editor's picks and trending videos, but once you connect with friends,you can view their videos in the Feed section.
      The video recording item is located on the upper-left and lets you record videos by tapping on the screen.The app records as long as you maintain contact with the screen, and then stitches the scenes together.The
screen shows a 6-second status bar,and you can stop recording whenever
you want.
             Unlike the iOS version, Vine for Android doesn't let you record with the front-facing
camera.Once you shoot a video,you can add a caption and post it to Vine or Twitter,but you
can't share it on Facebook.The app takes some times to initialise before it starts and completes recording the videos.We found the app to be a little sluggish and buggy on a few phones,but it ran fine on other devices.
         Though Twitter has announced that all the features present on iOS version of the app will soon be made available to the Android app by way of updates,we hope they do so quickly.In a nutshell,
Vine for Android is interesting,fun and highly addictive,but leaves much room for improvement.However,we're sure it'll be up to the mark soon enough.

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