Storehouse - cool app for story telling on iOS

According to the iTunes tag, Storehouse is ...

Share your world through Storehouse. It’s the easiest way to create and discover beautiful stories.
Combine photos, videos, and text to meaningfully document your experiences. Publish your stories for friends and followers, or share them by email, Facebook, or Twitter. Explore stories created by your friends and our community of storytellers from all around the world.
BUILT FOR MOBILE
Storehouse was designed for mobile, from the intuitive touch-based interface to the way we allow you to create and share on-the-go.
UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
We’ve made laying out photos, videos, and text so easy that anybody can create beautiful stories. Easily add photos and videos from your iPad Camera Roll, Dropbox, Flickr, and Instagram. You don’t need to be a designer to put together something stunning.
SHARE YOUR STORIES ANYWHERE
Stories look great on all screen sizes so you can rest easy knowing that you can share them with anyone.
DISCOVER STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Get inspired by exploring stories created by our global community. Instantly travel the world, learn a new skill, or discover interesting places and people, all from your iPad.

Here's their promo video.

It appears that Storehouse has just won an Apple design award in the past week or two as well. So, I gave it a try.

Firstly, the interface is clean and that usually makes for a simple app. And it pretty much is. The only issue I had was trying to find the embed link ... finally found it on the web view on my laptop - on your iPad is simply gives you the option to open in Safari, but the once there you can get the embed code for your website or blog. IMHO they should have this as an option on the final "publish" page too.

Anyway - here's my simple Storehouse just taken from some random pics from my camera roll. Embedded of course! This app could be used for any story that has plenty of visuals and short video. 

Videoshop - Nice addition to iOS apps for simple publishing

According to its iTunes entry, Videoshop has the following attributes.

Videoshop is an easy video editor with fast editing tools, filters and many other effects for personalizing your videos.

FEATURES
1. Music: Integrate songs from your iPod to your videos.
2. Trim: Cut out any unwanted moments.
3. Slow motion: Adjust video speed to slow or fast.
4. Combiner: Merge multiple clips into one.
5. Text: Type your own text with color or various fonts.
6. Voice overs: Record your own voice over the video.
7. Sound effects: Choose from animals noises, farts, explosions, laughter, and more.
8. Animated titles: Introduce your videos with animated titles.
9. Filters: Select from several Instagram-inspired filters to enhance your videos.
10. Transitions: Choose from 10 transitions to animate between video clips.
11. Photos: Create slideshows easily.
13. Stop Motion: Create Vine videos with stop motion recording.
14. iTunes store: Access and purchase music directly from the app.
15. Reverse: Playback videos in reverse.
16. Copy: Create duplicate video clips.
17. High resolution videos: Supports up to 720p.
18. Share on Vine, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or by E-mail.

Now - what Videoshop does is the usual video composition stuff - it takes your pictures and existing video from your camera roll, but using all of the functionality above you get some cool results.... all very quickly.

Here are a few screen shots and a finished 40 second video. All took about 5 minutes this morning between classes. Really easy, really quick!  I got this app when it was free on the App Store though its regular price is around $2.50.

Apply effects and themes

Sharing options

Start screen

Original images

Original images

And the finished video using "vintage effect".

Four months with an iPad

Little bit late this one. The reason is time. Just so much happening at the moment. Still, am happy to report that this little iToy is still a favourite tool of mine.

The awesome battery life is a huge plus. The ability to type a few notes is great - though I sometimes wonder just where the predictive text comes from - some the interpretations are bizarre. I have pretty much given up my Pulse Smartpen since becoming attached to this iPad. I record all notes from seminars or meetings directly into Pages and sync either via iTunes or DropBox with my other laptops.

I haven't looked to print anything - why would you when you've got the live document with you. I'm really please Google has finally brought a basic form of editing of Google Docs via iOS or Android. I can now create new documents on my iPad and iPhone without using Docs to Go - though Docs to Go still has more functionality.

I still think Feedler is good as an RSS reader for my Google Reader account.

The biggest draw back is the 3G network ... Last weekend we used the iPad when geocaching around the Miranda coast - the network performance was pretty poor even though the indicators showed full strength 3G.

So yes, the iPad is great. I've upgraded to iOS 4.2.1 and look forwardbto seeing if the multitasking is any good.

Stay tuned!


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