This excellent app is ideal for online meetings/classrooms for 50 (or more) participants. It's not a Skype look-a-like and doesn't try to be. Unlike Skype, you are not shown a user's online status and so cannot just call them for a chat. Instead, meetings have to be pre-arranged for a specific time when the host is online in his/her virtual room. The host has various controls over participants' activity e.g. the host can mute or activate a participant's sound or video. Any participant can send a note to any other participant or can share their screen and use various markup tools to annotate what is shown on-screen. With the host's permission, participants can activate the inbuilt record button to record the meeting. Sound and video quality are excellent, although sound quality suffers the more people have their mics active, so it's best to keep mics muted when not in use. The app is free, but sessions are limited to 40 mins. To remove time limits the host needs to buy a pro account (currently about $150 per year). The app remains free for all other participants and there are versions for iOS, Android, Mac and PC. (MacUpdate is not showing the latest version. An update to 4.0.29656.0413 was released April 13, 2017)
Enhance and adjust your webcam's video settings from within any app, including Skype. Requires Mac OS X 10.6. You've never looked so good. Digital pan and zoom controls give any webcam the ability to zoom in for a tighter shot.
High-resolution photography app Hydra received an update today that brings a couple of much-requested improvements to its camera support. For those unfamiliar with the app, Hydra merges up to 60 individual images to make a single high-quality picture, effectively getting more light from the scene. In this way, Hydra produces up to 32-megapixel high-resolution images (4x the 8-megapixel sensor resolution), enhanced HDR, better 2x/4x/8x zoom, and reduced camera noise in low-light scenes. With the just-released version 1.5 update, users can now activate the telephoto camera in Zoom mode on iPhone with double lenses, as well as the front-facing camera in High Dynamic Range and Lo-Light modes. The update means Hydra users can now take selfies with improved quality in poor lighting conditions, while the Zoom mode can be used in up to 8x for long shots. Existing users should note that Hydra 1.5 now requires iOS 10 or later to work. The app costs $4.99 and is available to download for iPhone from the App Store. [Direct Link]
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