Video Genius iPad App – A Consumer Review

If you’ve had your iPad for about a year and a half, you’re pretty much carrying an antique in your pocket. With smartphone innovations coming at such a frantic pace, there’s a world of difference between the iPad 4 and 3GS, and their predecessors. One of the most dramatic differences is in camera capabilities – where the more recent phones have fancy video capabilities, owners of the earlier ones are stuck with 2.0-megapixel cameras, that just take pictures.

Video Genius - Apps for iPad 2
Video Genius – Apps for iPad 2

There’s nothing much you can do about that disparity, but there are a number of apps available that give older iPads video-capture features, such as Camera Plus Pro and Camera Genius. The makers of Camera Genius, CodeGoo, have also brought out Video Genius, a free standalone app that offers video-capture. With this, owners of older iPad and iPad 3G models can record video. The results don’t quite match what the iPad 4 and iPad 3GS can do, though.

Using Video Genius, you can shoot video in either landscape or portrait formats, although the controls don’t offer automatic orienting. When you launch Video Genius, you’ll see an interface similar to the camera app that’s built into the iPad – your viewfinder is the whole screen. To start recording, you tap the green button at the bottom of the screen – when video is being captured, this will flash and turn red. You film in either portrait or landscape by turning the phone appropriately, although the controls are static and don’t re-orient. (more…)

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Worldcard HD – Comprehensive App to Manage Your Business Contacts

Worldcard HD is a powerful contact manager for your iPad. It is the iPad version of its predecessor WorldCard Mobile – an award winning application for iPhone which helps the users to scan business cards and add the details to the contacts. WorldCard HD is specifically designed for business professionals, social entrepreneurs, sales or marketing professionals.

Worldcard HD
Worldcard HD

WorldCard HD allows you to add a business card just by taking a snap of the business card or from the camera roll or by importing from iPad contacts. WorldCard HD uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the business cards. The OCR simply recognizes the text in the business cards and transfers to your iPad. All the details in the business cards like name, organization name, designation, contact number, fax will be automatically saved to your iPad. You can also add your contacts from iPhone 4S/4/3GS Photo Stream. (more…)

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WorldCard Mobile – Smart Business Contact Management Tool

WorldCard Mobile from Penpower technology is a award winning business card scanning application which scans and saves your business contact in your iPhone. The app uses OCR(Optical Character Recognition) technology to read the content in the business card.

WorldCard Mobile
WorldCard Mobile

The WorldCard Mobile accurately recognizes the details like name, designation, organization, contact address, phone/mobile numbers, fax and saves in the appropriate sections. You can also add/edit any additional fields if required. There is no need to enter data manually. Just take a snap of your business card with the help of your device camera.

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