Mobile Applications to Create Fun Photomontages [Photo Mixing Apps]

We all love our pictures or at least, to see pictures of our friends. Hence Facebook, Instagram or Flickr succeeded so much. With mobile phones, it is very easy to take a picture wherever you are, with your friends, alone or even at work. But that is not the full potential of the cell, as well as using the camera, you can create photo collage in the style of Photoshop. Besides the usual image editors, there are applications that excel at creating photomontages with mobile than just technical knowledge required and you only asked to choose an image and touch a button or two.

The applications shown below are intended for use by anyone. The vast majority has preview that shows you how the original photo is applying photomontage. Furthermore, the selection of filters and effects that these applications usually have nothing to envy to the filters of Photoshop and other photo editing professional programs, including the possibility to add text, create collages and even share the results online.

PHOTO2fun: We start with one of the most complete applications to place an image anywhere you can imagine getting amazing photomontages with mobile: a museum in the middle of the street in a city you've never been, a stop bus, the front page of a newspaper ... The selection of effects is impressive, with very good results in seconds. Also, to share the results on social networks.

Download: Android | iOS

PhotoMontager: This application is more focused on the frames, although these are in 3D and occupy almost the entire screen, so that your image will be in a small corner. Some are for everyone and results are achieved. As a bonus, you import your photos from Facebook.

Download: Android | iOS

BeFunky Photo Editor: BeFunky We talked about another time, since from their website you can edit your photos. It is also possible to achieve with mobile fun photomontages using this app for iOS and Android. It has a great selection of effects and filters and frames and the ability to add text.

Download: Android | iOS

Split Camera HD: This application is specialized in a particular type of photomontage, which is to photograph an object or person twice to look like it is repeated in the same photograph. It is very easy to use and with a little skill get good results without noting the effect due to its color and saturation correction.

Download: Android

imikimi Photo Frames Free: Another application full of effects, filters and frames , some free and some pay, with a photograph unrecognizable to leave boring and make it a fun and amazing photomontage. The effects are organized by categories and preview lets you see all the time how it will mount. Playing with your tools get a good result with little effort.

Download: iOS

Deco Face Free: This unusual application is designed to decorate faces or anything you can think of with eyes, noses, mouths, glasses, beards and any other supplement you can think of. Although it may seem somewhat limited, messing around with the drawings gallery find what you need to decorate an original photographs.

Download: Windows Phone

Face Swap: Finally, an application that changes your face by the person you have at hand. You select the picture, you indicate where are the two faces to be exchanged, and the application will recognize and change more or less successful. In any case, the result is fun.

Download: Windows Phone

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What is the Best Antivirus in Market Today?

AV Comparatives has published an article about the best antivirus ranking based primarily on the results of an extensive report, no doubt I am facing one of the biggest questions that arises when users install antivirus to protect their computer from various threats. We begin by observing the behavior of each virus against different Trojans, viruses, worms, and malware in general:

Avira 99.2%

GData 99.1%

Symantec 97.9%

McAfee Enterprise 97.8%

Avast 97.3%

TrustPort 97.2%

Kaspersky 95.1%

AVG 94.3%

ESET 93%

BitDefender 92.4%

F-Secure 91.1%

eScan 91%

Sophos 90.1%

Norman 88.5%

Microsoft 84.6%

McAfee Home 84.4%

VBA32 71.9%

Without doubt one of the most important points when deciding our antivirus. Then we will see a list of false positives, i.e. the number of times that the antivirus software wrongly identified clean, as viruses.

McAfee 1

ESET 7

F-Secure 11

Symantec 12

eScan 14

Avira 17

Norman 19

AVG 21

BitDefender 27

Kaspersky 28

TrustPort 30

VBA32 46

Avast 47

GData 62

Sophos 117

By the time that best match according to these statistics are Avira, Symantec and McAfee. Finally, we will provide the list considering the scanning speed in MB per second :

Symantec 22.2

Sophos 17.1

AVG 16.5

ESET 15.2

McAfee 14.7

Avira 14.7

Kaspersky 13.9

Norman 11.4

BitDefender 11.1

GData 10.8

Avast 9.8

Microsoft 8.8

F-Secure 7.6

TrustPort 4.7

eScan 4.4

VBA32 2.9

Undoubtedly Symantec results are really good about this, but taking into account the three statistics, Avira, Symantec and McAfee antivirus are the best current according to these results.

Link: AV Comparitives

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Author iBooks: Apple's New App to Create and Publish Multi-Touch ebooks

Apple responds to what was expected. In the educational event in New York Apple have filed the application with which anyone can make their own format digital publications eBook , it is Author iBooks. With this app, authors can publish their own books in ebook format.

It consists of a development for OSX that can be downloaded for free. In addition to the intention of carrying every Mac computer, the system seeks to be as easy and intuitive as possible allowing the user to drag photos or videos from your desktop, import text from documents created in Office or post links to online content. This app is available with lots of customization options.

The platform will allow the user to generate navigation pages or add widgets, though of course is that this will require more knowledge by the user. As a point relevant to the most critical, Apple executives announced that the authors can publish content directly from the application to the store. remains hidden details behind this option.

Link: Apple iBooks Author.

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WhatsApp for iPhone removed from Apple's App Store

WhatsApp has been removed from the App Store, The app had been removed from the itunes without any previous knowledge. The users were completely unknown about the fact that this app is being removed from the appstore. Surprisingly, the news we came to know yesterday via a tweet posted on the official account of the company:

The tweet posted on the official twitter account of whats app messenger was like below:

The reasons are not clear , in fact completely unknown. One can speculate security issues, some backdoor to know, but that Apple has discovered. Who knows.

And that's exactly what I've always been more concerned with WhatsApp: how little we know about how the application works, where are our messages, whether or not these are stored on their servers, if history or not, either know much about the company itself. The page describing the company just says it was founded by two people (names omitted) who previously worked at Yahoo!.

Even so is the network of mobile instant messaging and more popular choice for millions of people around the world and in the process save enough money by eliminating the use of SMS.

The unavailability of purchase WhatsApp in the App Store does not affect in any way sending and receiving messages, users simply do not already have and want to buy it for their iPhones, may not, at least temporarily.

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