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VideoSelfie makes video selfies more fun with animated gifs

Posted on November 11, 2014 by

VideoSelfie is a new video messaging app that lets you take & send short video selfies that you can enhance with decorative animated gifs.

Video Selfie

Video messaging is a highly competitive field dominated by the social networking giants, with popular video messaging & sharing apps like Vine sucking away all the oxygen.

Pocket Supernova, Inc. probably realized this when they launched their own video messaging app called Unda. It already works in much the same way as VideoSelfie, helping you send selfies as short videos.

So the company just had to do some research & testing to include innovations like face tracking, where the gifs you add will follow your face or camera movement in the video.

Using VideoSelfie is quite easy. It takes 20-second videos. Just tap & hold to record, & it offers multi-take support too, if you want to change anything in-between. Sharing it is just as easy as with any video messaging app.

You can choose to activate face-tracking, or disable it. If it’s enabled, the gifs you add will follow your head movement & the camera movement.

You can use hundreds of GIFs from separate categories (reactions, emoji, fun, love, etc.) available in the app, or you can add any image you have on your phone – VideoSelfie supports not just gifs, but also png files & jpgs too.

You’ll end up goofing around with the app, creating selfie videos & then adding thick glasses or cat whiskers & ears to your head, or something equally ridiculous & fun.

You can add words to your actions (eg:- hello at the start & bye-bye with a hand wave & kiss at the end). You can also add a music track to the video.

Tokyo, Japan-based Pocket Supernova Inc. was founded in May 2013 by Oscar Noriega & Nao Tokui. Noriega is the company’s CEO & Tokui is the CTO. The company has raised around US $1 million, including a US $900,000 seed funding round from 4 investors in Oct 2014. There is no Android version available at the moment.

Click here to download the VideoSelfie video messaging app for iOS from the App Store.

Image Credit: VideoSelfie

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JS MobileConsole allows remote debugging of Web apps on mobile browsers

Posted on November 4, 2014 by

The JS MobileConsole is a console that allows developers to remotely debug Web apps using mobile browsers.

The console works just like remotely debugging Web apps Online on a desktop Chrome browser. The difference is that this is a JavaScript console built to run on mobile browsers on Android & Safari for iOS.

The files you need are available on the project’s GitHub page, & getting started is very simple. Include the CSS file in your page HTML, & the console itself can then be used without the need for any modular system.

This is how you integrate it:

mobileConsole.show();

console.log(1);

asdf;

It’s not hard to understand the appeal of a JS Console you can use on mobile browsers. Instead of lugging around your laptop all over the place, you can now continue coding & debugging even while you’re on the road with only your smartphone.

JSmobilecontrolIf you’re stuck in an airport waiting lounge or in a plane for hours with nothing else to do, might as well get some work done. You can use the console to test & debug new code even without Internet connectivity or access to a web browser.

It will catch errors & function exactly as a native JS console in a standard web browser.

The API allows you to show or hide the console, & include options to initialize the console or show it by default. It can also output all the logs you’ve written using an API of window.console.

The JS MobileConsole project’s developer is Binary Studio, an international software development company with offices in Donetsk, Ukraine; Bratislava, Slovakia; & London, UK.

Binary Studio was founded in 2005 by Artyom Goncharov & Anton Duzenko. Goncharov is the company’s CEO & Duzenko is the CTO.

 

 

Image Credit: GitHub/JS MobileConsole

 

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