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OF THE MANY features introduced with the iPhone 6s, Live Photos is one that hasn’t exactly taken off.
Described as “unlike any other way to interact with photos” when it was announced, it captures a few seconds of video when you’re taking a photo.
The feature wasn’t exactly useful, partly down to the lack of ways to share them, but its biggest rival has created an app that turns them into something you might want to share.
Called Motion Stills, Google’s iOS app takes all Live Photos and stabilises them, letting you save them as either GIFs or videos. It helps that the app is incredibly simplistic – it just displays all relevant photos in a single line and the app doesn’t require a Google account to log in.
The techniques the app uses is similar to others like Instagram’s Hyperlapse, removing any shakiness from the original clip, but it doesn’t use videos to create its clips.
You can remove the watermark and adjust its quality in settings, but either way, it could convince iPhone 6s users to start using Live Photos again.
The Greens will be struggling to survive after the madness they have put us through since they got into power.
@Red Line: Can’t you not focus on the subject being discussed instead of taking potshots?
Take your frustration out in the polling booths instead of ruining the comments thread. The destruction of nature threatens our very existence.
@Ollie O’Cleirigh: The Greens are fake environmentalists. For example they approve of mass immigration, no matter of the impact on Ireland’s carbon footprint.
@Ollie O’Cleirigh: public discourse is far more important than voting even though both are important. The greens have set back the green agenda in Ireland for decades with lazy and incompetent political leaders and party members. They constantly commentate on our emissions and come up with no strategy as to how to mitigate them. Not one word from them on nuclear power and investment in our grid which cannot even connect new wind farms as its totally ineffective and at its capacity already. Then when asked about public they talk about hydrogen trains when electric trains would transform the islands public transport. Bicycle lanes painted on the side of roads and south facing window boxes. They are done. Get them out. Impoverishing the poor further particularly rurally will not help.
@Allora: 100%. There a bunch of amateur politicians that got lucky in the last election.
Malcom why is your so called Green party destroying wildlife habitats ,biodiversity killing trees wasting millions of taxpayers money at Lough Funshinagh flood crisis causing the demolition and flooding of homes farmyards and villages in a National housing crisis !! By not allowing the lake return to its natural level!!! Is there a hidden agenda ?
Well said Malcolm. Green policies are becoming accepted in most governments and we need a brave voice.
Just how committed is the government to preserving what’s left of our biodiversity? It allows coursing clubs to capture thousands of our native hares, supposedly a protected species, for the purpose of setting dogs on them. If that can happen to an iconic species that conservationists have dubbed the “Flagship of Irish biodiversity”, then how serious can our leaders be about saving our wildlife heritage? The image of a hare having its bones crushed or being tossed into the air by a coursing dog could aptly represent the attitude of this government to the wild creatures that share the island with us.
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