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DISCOVERBESTNEWAPPS[ TABLET & MOBILE]Best new apps
JAMES O’CONNOR REVIEWS THE MOST INTERESTING NEW APPS FOR iOS AND ANDROID.
Trash takestheshortvideocrazeanddoes
something weird and beautiful with it. In
this app, you give your videos over to its AI
and it will edit it into a new video for you.
The new video will be set to a piece of
license-free music and will loop and jump
between the images you’ve captured. It
sounds like a gimmick, but the videos that
pop out on the other side are weirdly
gorgeous. Back in 2006, Lars von Trier tried
something similar with his film The Boss Of
It All, when he let an AI program dictate
shots; not surprisingly, it works better on
these much shorter films. Scrolling through
the feed, where all videos are uploaded, it’s
curiously striking how many beautiful,
weird, lovely little videos have popped up. So
many of them left me wanting to know more
about who shot them, where they were, what
they were doing. Trash is a weird effective- and affecting – app for video art. It’s far
from trash.
Trash: You Shoot
We Edit
ANOTHER PERSON’S TREASURE...
Free / N/ADeliciouslyElla
PLANTPOWER.
$1.49a month
https://deliciouslyella.com/Magpie – Photos
and Notes
SHINY OBJECTS!
$1.50 a month
http://www.getmagpie.app/
Deliciously Ella – which has been around
for a while, but which seems to have
recently revamped its app – is focused on
clean eating and yoga. It’s got a nice clean
UI that’s easy to navigate, and the food –
which focuses on simple recipes with
easy-to-find ingredients - looks great in
the pictures. The recipes are all
vegetarian, and although there’s no
calorie information given the app focuses
on health and wellbeing. Recipes come
with full instructions as well as videos,
making them easy to follow, and the
simple swipe controls mean that keeping
track of what you’re doing while in the
kitchen is easy. All in all, it’s a pretty great
source of vegetarian recipes, whether
you’re a vegetarian yourself or just
looking for healthier food options. The
yoga videos are divided by difficulty, and
provide nice, clear instructions for each
activity. The recipes are a larger focus
than the yoga, but this app generally
seems like a great source of good life
advice. The subscription fee is mercifully
light, too.Magpie is a list-making app with some
neat functionality and an easy UI. It’s
colourful and nice to look at, and making
and populating lists is easy. It’s built
around consumerism and shopping – it’ll
encourage you to track things you want to
buy, to take photos and make notes – you
can store the price, the location, and
anything else you’d like to note. It’s going
to be a handy app for a lot of people, then,
but its usefulness is pretty dependent on
you being a visual thinker. Every entry
needs a photo, so it’s useless for putting
together, say, a shopping list. As I kept
thinking of ways to use it, roadblocks
would emerge – I could use the app to
track books I own but haven’t read, I
thought, but each entry asks for a title, and
typing them in after each photo would be a
pain. Still, if you want to catalog items
you’re considering buying, this is a very
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