Friday 4 December 2015

Snow app

Snow app is a photosharing social network. Free to purchase, and simple to use - I see it as an app like Snapchat which is used in S.Korea. (I haven't seen the app used by people outside of S.Korea, but that doesn't stop that from being true.) It has more options for animations and allows you to save the photos as either a gif or a video. As well as animations, colour filters can be applied the size of the photo can be changed. The animation/video can then be shared onto your story, as well as onto other social media sites, such as Instagram (as seen below and Monsta X and Chonunmigooksaram's profiles.) Facial recognition for use of animations also works on the outer facing camera, not just the forward facing one like Snapchat. As well as the cutsie animations, there is also a set of B1A4 animations... I believe they are a S.Korean boyband. There fans probably enjoy this , whereas it just suprised me to have animated people climb my face.
Enjoy.


Wednesday 2 December 2015

V app



To anyone who's a fan of S.Korean stars, V app allows you to chat with fans of the same artists and watch live web shows the stars broadcast, as well as videos previously recorded. Not much more can be said, really. There are not many things besides that you can do, but the fact that you get exclusive videos, and broadcasts and hear exclusives on songs, or games and tasks is pretty fun. Big Bang's T.O.P does a fierce monologue which was too genius not to miss, which the app notifies you of the upload. Many bands and stars have a channel, and often (though not always) captions are put on the videos in multiple languages so that their foreign fans can understand.

Pressing the heart botton (no. 4) elevates your Chemi-beat, as well as watching the videos and sharing them - though to be in the top 20 fans shows an extreme amount of dedication and possible injury due to the high frequency of pressing the botton over and over and over . Gotta give props to those dedicated enough.

1 closes the video
2 opens options, such as captions
3 allows you to share the video
4 lets you like the video multiple times (it refills over a space of seconds)
5 opens the chat box between fans
6 minimises the video
Simple enough.