iOS 8's Time-Lapse Feature

Dan Provost of Studio Neat examined how the time-lapse feature in iOS 8 works and shares his findings.

“Time-lapse videos look best when they are buttery smooth, and dynamically selecting intervals in this fashion would create a jittery and jerky video. So what does Apple mean by "dynamically selected intervals"?

Turns out, what Apple is doing in quite simple, and indeed, pretty clever.”

Apple's method is indeed clever, even elegant.

(By the way, can I just geek out for a moment about how gorgeous the Studio Neat website is nowadays? My goodness.)

Big Morning in My Little Corner of the Web

I woke up to all sorts of good news today:

• Dropbox increased my Pro storage from 100 GB to 1 TB.
• Quotebook, one of my favorite iOS apps, has updated to version 3. I was on the beta and loved watching the developers' thoughtfulness and attention to detail as the app came together. [iTunes link]
• My friend Federico Viticci and his girlfriend Sylvia Gatta have released Perspective Icons 2, a lovely set of 100 icons for OmniFocus 2. Introductory price of $10.
• The guys at Studio Neat have redesigned their website (it's gorgeous) and made their Neat Ice Kit available for everyone to purchase now that the Kickstarter backers have been taken care of.
• Smile have announced that they've created a custom iOS 8 keyboard for TextExpander Touch that will allow you to expand snippets within any app. Now I won't have to rely on iOS' own built-in keyboard shortcuts anymore, as helpful as they've been to me.

There's probably even more I'm forgetting but man, this is one of those days when it's awesome to be a nerd.