We have been testing Camera Plus Pro v4.0 on the iOS 5 Beta builds and observed that everything works great as it is. There were some quirks on the video recording part with live filters and in the creation of time-lapse videos, which we had fixed during the development of v4.0. So, Camera Plus Pro v4.0 was unofficially compatible with iOS 5 when we had released it on September 30th. We could not however make it official because of iOS Terms.

When Apple actually released the iOS 5 GM to the public this October 12th one issue was uncovered. The photos on an iPhone 4 was capturing at 640×480 resolution even though you had set it to capture at the highest resolution! We quickly fixed this and tested the app on all the devices (iPhone 3GS, 4, iPod touch) and submitted an update to Apple for the approval.

And Apple approved the new version in time for Halloween so that you can capture some great photos and record videos with live filters with this camera app!

Another great feature in Camera Plus Pro is the smooth video zoom. When we tested Camera Plus Pro on the iOS 5 beta, we recorded videos with great fps, which made the videos look like they were shot in HD! The fps is close to 28 on iPhone 4 and iPod touch! Even with live filters, the performance is great and should inspire you to create some great looking videos and share them.

Some of you reported an issue with video trimming in iOS 4.3. When you wanted to trim a video, the video trimming timeline bar was hidden below the top menu bar making it impossible for you to trim them. Thanks to Apple, they have fixed this issue in iOS 5 and you can now trim the videos on your iPhone and iPod touch again.

Thanks for sending all your great suggestions and feedback for Camera Plus Pro. Keep sending them our way and do not hesitate to give a 5 star rating and reviews on the App Store As a Hallloween special, we are running the sale for some more time and you can buy Camera Plus Pro at just $1.99 (33% off).

We are now testing Camera Plus Pro on the iPhone 4S – yes, we got it a little late – and all seems to be working fine. We are working on a few new features and one of them is very exciting. When we had added that feature in Camera Plus way back in September 2009, Apple loved it, and so did you! We are checking if we can get it into one of the updates planned for Camera Plus Pro. We’ll keep you posted about its progress. Once again, Happy Halloween and enjoy the long weekend!

-Global Delight Team

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No words can express the deep sorrow that many of us are experiencing today. Not many of us knew Steve Jobs personally, yet we can say with confidence that he has touched each and every person with his innovation and creativity. And for developers like us, he has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, pushing us to perform and deliver only the best. He was a true inspiration and a visionary and one whose values we will always cherish and will continue to imbibe in our work and our lives.

Apple has beautifully summed up their emotions that could also hold good for us as well as for those billions of people who have been touched and inspired by Steve Jobs.

We will miss you Steve.

- Global Delight Team

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As this amazing year comes to an end, Apple has gathered some of this year’s best apps, categorized by trends that stood out. And guess who has made it to the list!

Camera Plus Pro in the Top Paid Photography Apps:

Camera Plus in the Top Free Photography Apps:

Thanks to Apple and all of you for your continuing support. You constantly keep us on our toes with your feedback and suggestions, helping us improve and make better apps every time.

-Vaishnavi

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This didn’t come as a surprise. It was long overdue.

Screen capturing on your Mac using the built-in shortcuts, can be confusing, especially if you aren’t one those few who find it hard to remember the zillion commands that you need to give just to get one decent capture! And don’t even get me started on the other zillion times you may have to re-capture just because you couldn’t tweak the capture after selecting the area! Voila eliminates all this with a simple tap of a button capture, but also does not leave out those  who are used to short cuts, with customizable short cut keys. Add on Video Recording, Image Editing and Annotating, Organizing and Sharing, and you get a nifty little package that is heavy on features and lighter on the pocket. Priced at just $29.95 USD, Apple has now given just yet another reason why Voila Mac Screen Capture Tool is a must have! Thank you Apple for picking Voila as one of your Staff Picks and a Featured Download.

-Vaishnavi

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It’s that time of the year again, when Apple releases a major new firmware upgrade for the iPhone and scores of iPhone users hit the Update button in iTunes. It’s also the time when iOS developers scramble to test their apps on the new version of the operating system and push out updates to fix anything that may have broken.

Although usually that just means tweaking a few lines of code here and there to optimize things or not having to do anything at all, the scope and enormity of the new features that iOS 4.0 brings have a much deeper impact on the fundamental architecture of some of the underlying elements that we developers use in our apps.

This posting is intended to make you aware that, as of their most recent versions available in the App Store today, Camera Plus and its older sibling Camera Plus Pro are not very friendly to iOS 4.0. We have been testing the apps out on iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS units here in the secret underground bunkers that form the Global Delight headquarters and working furiously to make it play nice with the new OS on the block.

The Problems

• An extra helping of zoom: You know how Camera Plus Pro gives you a zoom slider to allow you to capture that tiny butterfly that seems just a little out of reach? With iOS 4.0, Camera Plus and Camera Plus Pro customers who upgrade to the new OS on existing iPhones (and those who purchase the iPhone 4, presumably) will find two zoom sliders, one overlaid on top of the other. While that does quadruple the amount of zooming our apps will now allow you to do, the outcome is not exactly pleasing to the eye.

• Displacement of sharing: Customers who upgrade to iOS4 will find that the screens that allow you to enter details when sharing images are displaced when the keyboard is put away. It’s not pretty but, hey, it works.

• So many tasks, so little time: Needless to say, all pre-iOS 4.0 apps, including ours, were designed without multi-tasking in mind. With iOS 4.0, your applications keep running in the background in a nascent state, even if its main feature is one that does not work in the background (like, say, taking a picture). Therefore, if you press the Home button while Camera Plus Pro is clicking away in burst mode, waiting for the timer to get done or uploading media, it gets downright confused about what it should do and clams up. You’ll have to quit it from the multi-tasking dock and relaunch it to nurse it back to full health.

• The great video meltdown: If you have Camera Plus Pro configured to use the default Apple-supplied video capture UI and try to use it after upgrading to iOS 4.0, you’ll experience something you do not expect from a high quality application like ours: a crash. We are deeply apologetic about the fact that this bug exists. While the others on this list are problems we couldn’t have foreseen, this particular one could have been avoided, at least in theory.

The Solution

We’ve been working sixteen-hour days ever since we realized that these problems would rear their ugly heads for Camera Plus and Camera Plus Pro customers upgrading to iOS 4.0 and will be submitting a version with all the necessary fixes for the latter within a couple of days. We’ll also get an updated version for Camera Plus out there as soon as possible. We expect Camera Plus Pro version 2.4 to be out in the App Store before the end of June and Camera Plus version 2.2 to follow soon thereafter.

The Recommendation

If you cannot live without Camera Plus Pro for a second and the idea of going up to a week without it is enough to give you nightmares, we request you not to upgrade to iOS 4.0 until we’ve released the updates, which will make them as compatible as a pair of nesting penguins! We suspect there may be some other developers out there as well whose apps may be caught in the cross-hairs of iOS 4.0 and its whiz-bang features and your holding out for a week will give them a chance to bring their apps up to speed as well.

As for those of you who cannot wait an extra second to get onto the iOS 4.0 bandwagon and multi-task till your precious iPhone 3GS begs for mercy, we recommend that you not press the Home button while the app is in the middle of something and set it up to use our custom video recording interface if you have it set otherwise (you’ll also get to use our excellent video filters as an added bonus). We realize that this is not ideal but, at the moment, it’s the best we can do.

The Future

All the problems we have outlined here and the steps we are taking to solve them pertain to iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users. However, we have no way to test our applications on the iPhone 4 yet and cannot predict with any certainty what additional problems, if any, they will exhibit on the new hardware. Once it is released, we will have an iPhone 4 in our hands as soon as it’s possible to do so and will get cracking on optimizing our apps for it as well.

We hope that you’ll bear with us while we tirelessly work to get these issues fixed and we look forward to your continued patronage. As always, if you encounter any other bugs in the Camera Plus apps, we encourage you to drop us a line via email.

-Aayush

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