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Time-Lapse Lite for Android 1.4 Review

With the use of time-lapse photography one can capture weather, traffic, or other slow-moving action and create amazing videos. Time-Lapse Lite for Android allows the user to capture entertaining videos but does not deliver the high-quality images generally seen on today's mobile devices.

At less than 1MB Time-Lapse Lite for Android is a very small application. It installs instantly and the user is able to take videos without the hassle of an advanced setup or registration. The user interface is well designed and easy to read. Intuitive controls are highlighted in white while the background remains in a dark … Read more

How to shoot a 360-degree time-lapse video with your phone

Editors' note: This guest post is part of a five-part series on Photojojo's best photography tips. Check out the rest of Photojojo's tips here.

Time-lapse videos aren't just for pros. With the right accessories and apps, you can shoot, edit, and publish a 360-degree time lapse with just your phone. Let Photojojo guide you through the setup.

What you need:

Tripod Your phone Rotating tripod attachment (like the Camalapse) Smartphone tripod mount (like the Glif, or your own DIY solution)

1. Pick your subject Maybe you've thought about what you'd shoot if you made a … Read more

DIY: Hack a rotating time-lapse tripod

There's something about time-lapse videos that grabs your attention a little more than your average YouTube video. Especially popular on Vimeo, these videos often capture scenes like a starry night, a cityscape, or snow piling up over the course of a particularly rough storm.

Sometimes, the camera stays in one spot, monitoring a scene from just one angle. But the most beautiful time lapses involve movement -- the camera pans across the scene over the course of an hour (or longer) to capture change over time on a 360-degree angle.

It sounds complicated. Like, too much work. But, the … Read more

Episode 32: Unboxing the hotly anticipated HTC One

After weeks of clawing and scratching, we were finally able to get the perpetually delayed HTC One to "unbox" here in San Francisco (with a ding in the back, no less!). Fresh out of the envelope from our guys in New York, it only took a matter of seconds for Jeff to start with the Matrix jokes. The One...

As corny as Jeff's jokes are, we think HTC's Neo might have indeed taken the red pill and left our humble dream world, because we've been begging for it for months and it's still not … Read more

Compile your photos into a movie with Time Lapse Assembler for Mac

Given the large number of photographs typically taken during a vacation or trip, working with them effectively can be difficult. Time Lapse Assembler gives Mac users a way to make simple videos out of their albums quickly.

Time Lapse Assembler for Mac is available as freeware, with only a one-time request for (voluntary) donations. The program's small size makes installation and setup quick and easy. Time Lapse Assembler is up and running in less than a minute. The simple interface lacks bells and whistles, and the program has only a few features, namely options for different video formats and … Read more

YouTube video '21 Years' records every day in the life of a boy

The YouTube video "21 Years" starts with a black-and-white sonogram image of a baby and ends with a photo of a young man holding a birthday cake about to blow out the candles. This six-and-a-half minute time-lapse video shows every day of the first 21 years of Cory McLeod's life and has quickly become a YouTube sensation.

McLeod's father, Ian McLeod, took the first photo of his son five minutes after he was born and then just kept taking photos day-by-day. The video shows one photo for every day of Cory McLeod's life. There are … Read more

Watch: Time-lapse video of Endeavour's final mission

Space shuttle Endeavour's final mission may not have been its most glamorous. Trucking through the streets of Los Angeles certainly counts among the shortest trips for a spacecraft that racked up more than 25 million miles since its first launch in 1986.

But "Mission 26" may be Endeavour's most watched journey. The throngs of people hoping to get one last glimpse of the spacecraft are one of the many elements that make this visually impressive time-lapse video so moving. … Read more

The Radian makes time-lapse photography affordable

The Radian was created to let users capture moving time lapses. It can rotate from side to side, tilt up and down, and be adjusted to move at different speeds for more creative applications. For the uninitiated, time lapses are photos taken at preset intervals that are stitched together to make it appear as though time has been sped up.

Built to sit comfortably on a flat surface -- acting as a stabilized platform, too -- the Radian can be controlled with an app that lets shutterbugs adjust the device's titling angle, total shooting time, and interval time without having to tether their smartphone. … Read more

Google releases gorgeous Landsat imagery

I confess that waking up today, I didn't wonder why I'd forgotten to send Landsat a birthday card.

However, it seems that the Earth-observing satellite has been floating and watching for 40 years now.

Though it doesn't seem to have quite deserved a doodle, this birthday has deserved something just as visually rich: the release of live imagery of the Earth's surface by Google, as well as some fascinating time-lapse video.

I am grateful to 9to5Google, which discovered these mind-enveloping images.

Personally, I was enchanted by one video that showed the changes in Vegas over the years. … Read more

Five tools every iPhone photographer must have

As the saying goes: "The best camera is the one you have with you." More often than not, for me, that camera is my iPhone. I always have it on me, it's ready to take a photo in a matter of seconds, it takes amazing photos, and I can edit and share those photos all from the same device.

With the iPhone's camera continuing to be used more and more, there are plenty of accessories available to aid iPhone photographers in getting the best shot possible.

Here are five tools you should have in your bag:… Read more