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Google has greatly improved one of the iPhone's forgotten features

Anyone remember Live Photos? Anyone?

OF THE MANY features introduced with the iPhone 6s, Live Photos is one that hasn’t exactly taken off.

Described as “unlike any other way to interact with photos” when it was announced, it captures a few seconds of video when you’re taking a photo.

The feature wasn’t exactly useful, partly down to the lack of ways to share them, but its biggest rival has created an app that turns them into something you might want to share.

Called Motion Stills, Google’s iOS app takes all Live Photos and stabilises them, letting you save them as either GIFs or videos. It helps that the app is incredibly simplistic – it just displays all relevant photos in a single line and the app doesn’t require a Google account to log in.

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The techniques the app uses is similar to others like Instagram’s Hyperlapse, removing any shakiness from the original clip, but it doesn’t use videos to create its clips.

You can remove the watermark and adjust its quality in settings, but either way, it could convince iPhone 6s users to start using Live Photos again.

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    Mute ElaineMcEveney
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 9:59 AM

    Great article. Thank you!

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    Mute Dearbhla O Reilly
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:07 AM

    @ElaineMcEveney: wonderful article.

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    Mute Claire Quinn
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:17 AM

    Well done, Clodagh on highlighting heroic Irish women.

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    Mute Paul
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:26 AM

    In the distant past women were considered property and breeding stock.
    Good to see that some broke out and did their own thing

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    Mute Dawn Harvey
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:06 AM

    Love this

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:56 AM

    Great article, don’t forget “Mother Jones”, Rosie Hackett, Elizabeth O’ Farrell etc. Let’s get their names our and honour them too

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    Mute Annette Stacey
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:15 AM

    Very interesting, I have not heard of these women before, great to highlight their stories.

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    Mute Sean Ryan
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:08 AM

    Very interesting!

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    Mute David Dineen
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 10:13 AM

    Wat i took from this great article was to stop bringing women into victim mode when looking at history and praise the thousands of great women who said “fog your man rules, im here to rip them up” thats a plan im going to live by

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    Mute Anthony John Cotter
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 3:46 PM

    Wonderful stuff Clodagh, strong women who have achieved have been airbrushed out of history for centuries.

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    Mute Lynne Tunney
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    Jan 23rd 2022, 4:46 PM

    That’s amazing about Mabel Cahill – She probably had to play in similar outfits to the one she is wearing in that photograph.
    Such a shame she ended up in a workhouse and in an unmarked grave. She deserves much better than this.

    They all do.

    Thanks for highlighting these wonderful women.

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    Jan 24th 2022, 8:34 AM

    @Lynne Tunney: In the song title (Bring her Home)

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    Jan 23rd 2022, 7:18 PM

    Fabulous article , one to show my daughters !! Mna na hEireann !!!

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    Jan 24th 2022, 12:59 PM

    Good article and well said in the line “Let’s look at what women did in history, not what they weren’t allowed to do” Today’s society is not responsible for what happened in the times of our forefathers and foremothers. We cannot change what happened and looking at today’s Ireland it is much more equal. I like the way this article takes a break from the usual victimhood we hear about and the inevitable “it’s all men’s fault” that ensues. Divide and conquer solves nothing. Spreading awareness about the great women mentioned in this article is a very noble project – best of luck!

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