Rapid fire camera app ‘Blink’ from Microsoft Research gets new look and features today

We final saw an update for Blink back in December. That update simply brought a ready for the Lumia 1520, though it build off of the 2.2 update that brought new features. This morning, version 2.4 is live in the Shop and it'south a significant overhaul of the app in terms of blueprint and office.

Let'southward meet what's new.

Glimmer version two.4

Fresh new look: New branding and refreshed UI elements throughout the app.
Dual Modes: Switch hands between ii modes - Blink manner to edit and share your animations, and still style to salve and share the perfect shot.
Focus Lock: Tap on the screen to lock focus in that the region. That region will ever remain in focus fifty-fifty across telephone movements. Tap once again to unlock.
Improved stabilization: Even better video stabilization then that your Blinks play without whatever camera shake or jitter.
Live Tile: Pivot Blink to the start screen and run into your perfect shots on the live Tile. (Note: might crave a phone reboot or a unpin/re-pin for live tile to get-go showing.)
My Blinks: A new gallery view in the Blink whorl to apace jump amongst captured Blinks.
Tutorial: An interactive tutorial is included to quickly get you going.
Orientation lock: Bug fix to orient Blinks correctly on sharing, under orientation lock.

That's a whole lot of changes, and we're glad to written report that nosotros like them all so far. The new look, which includes the Tile icon, certainly looks much cleaner and less cheesy than the original. The rest are simply new features that greatly ameliorate the app, from the Focus Lock to the Tutorial to the Alive Tile characteristic, version 2.iv certainly gives us a lot to chew on.

If y'all oasis't tried Glimmer, yous really should. The app allows yous to accept a quick succession of photos, which yous tin then use to create an blithe GIF or select the all-time photo of the agglomeration as save equally a withal. GIFs can be shared to various networks including Blink.so.cl, Facebook, Twitter, Email or OneDrive. It's an app that started off equally beingness 'corking' to something really well polished, especially with version 2.4 today.

Selection up Glimmer for Windows Telephone 8 hither in the Store. It's completely free.

Thanks, chowdhary1994, for the tip!

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