Get Your Smartphone Photos Instantly With Prynt

• Singyin Lee —
 
• Gadgets

Do you take and post photos of yourself, family and friends, and pretty much about your everyday life a whole lot? Where do you store your photos when you are done? If you want a more tangible way of keeping snapshots of your life, rather than lose your photos to social accounts or worse, to cloud storage, why not print it out on the spot with Prynt?

Prynt is a concept that is perfect for the selfie generation. It is a camera case that lets you print your photos anywhere you are – in just half a minute – without the use of Wi-Fi, bluetooth or any other wireless technology.

Just slot your phone into Prynt, take your snapshot then print it out. You can also print photos that are already in your phone gallery or those you have uploaded on your social accounts. The app also comes with filters and frames, if you are into those sort of add-ons.

Each photo printout is about 2 inches by 3 inches and is printed on ZINK (Zero-Ink) paper. This keeps the camera case light; it’s only around 0.49 lbs (225 g) without your phone slotted in.

Prynt is compatible with the iPhone 5, 5c, 6 and Galaxy S4 and S5, and if you ever switch to another (supported) phone, all you need to do is get a new dock adapter, rather than a whole new camera case. The team is looking into supporting more phone models in the near future.

Prynt also comes with a fancy augmented reality app. Every time you snap a photo with Prynt, it takes a short video of the process and uploads it to a cloud storage. This video will be triggered whenever someone scans that photo you took with the Prynt app. What they will see is the few seconds right before that photo was taken.

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Limitations

Prynt comes with a separate battery, which is chargeable via USB. Thus, it won’t drain your phone but you can expect to get only about 20 prints from every full charge. Prynt takes 90 minutes to fully charge.

It also can carry 10 paper sheets only, so keep your refills nearby for reloads. Speaking of which, every time you want to refill the paper sheets – because 10 printouts can’t really last long – you will need to remove your phone, put in the paper sheets and slide your phone back in. It’s a little disruptive but you can always do all the photo-snapping first, and all the printing later in one go.

How To Get Prynt

Prynt is available in pink, blue, black and white and can be backed at theirKickstarter page from $99. Their initial goal of $50,000 has been met many times over.

While the rewards may vary, you can expect a pack of 10 sheets paper and a mini USB charger with each case. To top up on paper sheets, every $25 spent gets you 50 pieces. Additional shipping costs may apply for international backers. The early bird batch will ship in August and the classic batch in October.

10 Best Spy Apps for Android That Are Free

Again, don’t take this as a challenge to go on imaginary missions like a wannabe spy and getting yourself into trouble for all the wrong reasons. These apps can be used for many legitimate reasons that have little to do with turning into James Bond and getting into fights on top of a train, chasing down bad guys and kicking their butts like Bourne, or wearing amazing disguises and using mind-blowing gadgets like Ethan Hunt.

It doesn’t sound that much fun now, does it? No matter, onwards to the list!

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1. Cell Tracker

Have someone you need to track? Like a delivery guy or a sales rep for your business? If you give them a company phone, having cell tracker on it can log down their location, where and when they have been to a place, every half hour. Cell Tracker automatically collects the location of the device holder through WiFi/GPRS. Tap on ‘View Now’ to see the list of location the target device had visited.

2. Children Tracker

Environments change and a parent’s worse nightmare is finding that their community’s crime levels have risen and their children could be victims of crime. Paranoid or not, if you are not against the idea of tracking your child’s whereabouts (for their safety), Children Tracker is a fine tracking solution to have. All you need is to install the app to the phone, run it and lock/hide the app then track the phone online.

3. Ear Spy

Ear Spy lets you appear immersed in your music but in secret, it amplifies the sounds around you via your device microphone all the way to your earphones. Have your earphones in your ears and under your hoody, but leave your smartphone bare to pick up conversations in its surroundings. The app also has an equalizer to enhance the listening conditions of your surroundings.

4. Mobile Hidden Camera

What spy list can be complete without a hidden camera app. Activate it then tap on the black screen to grab a fast snapshot with no one the wiser. You can also capture videos on it. Once you enter video mode, it will automatically record the feed until you stop it. This app covers a variety of camera features while still keeping the app minimal and easy to use.

5. Sneaky Cam

Appear like you are working on something else on your camera with this sneaky cam. Choose and fix a background of your choice to show when Sneaky Cam is on. The background image can be a browser or even a shot of a music player. Tap on any part of the screen to start capturing images, and not worry about anyone catching you in the act.

6. Spy Message

Want to send a confidential message to your business partner but doesn’t want it to be kept in his/her phone? Time your message to be automatically deleted over time without leaving a trace. Spy Message allows you to exchange secretive messages and appointments, then have the message self-destruct (minus the explosions) after a configured time frame.

7. Secret Calls

Protect your contacts and keep your call activities safe with Secret Calls. This app can easily hide your phonebook contact icon to prevent anyone from seeing them, and automatically delete all outgoing and incoming call logs so no one can trace them, even they have your phone.

8. Spy Video Recorder

As a spy, you would want your recording device to be appear turn off to avoid anyone knowing they are being monitored. This app does that on top of keeping you updated with before and after pictures of the place you are monitoring, e.g. when there is unauthorized movement.

9. Secret Agent Fake Call

If you want to create a fake call that comes in in an opportune time, this app is for you. Secret Agent Fake Call ‘calls’ you and prepares pre-recorded conversations, customized messages and you can even schedule when the call can come in. Complete the illusion by selecting the secret agent identity you want to be, and use it to prank your friends.

10. Secret Agent

This last app is Secret Agent, a complete toolbox that every spy should have. It contains useful tools and sensor features for you e.g. a spy torch, a fun (fake) infrared-style camera filter, a compass, a spectrum analyzer, secret audio recording, sensor data and many more!

How to Download & Install Apps on Older Version of iOS

iOS 8 comes with many improvements and plenty of new features such as Continuity, Apple Pay and SMS Relay. Sadly, many of these features will not work on older Apple devices, like the iPhone 4, due to limitations. Worse still,many apps now will require at least iOS 7 to run smoothly. Trying to install an app will probably prompt a notification like this:

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However, that doesn’t mean you cannot get a compatible version of the app installed. Here’s how to do it. First of all, you will need to login to the App Store through iTunes in Mac. Search for the app you would like to install. In this case, I am trying to install the 9Gag app.

Once the app is installed, the app will be added to your Purchased historybut it won’t turn up on your iPhone if you don’t have it connected to your Macbook (which is fine because keep in mind that although the app has been "installed", it needs iOS 7 to run and thus can’t function on your iPhone 4).

Now, to get the latest compatible version of the app on your phone.

On your iPhone, launch the App Store and go to the Purchased page via theUpdates tab. Try installing the app. Your device will notify you that the current version of the app requires iOS 7 or later. Then, it will offer you the option to install a previous version that is compatible with the iPhone you are holding.

Here’s what you will see:

At this point, tap Download to proceed.

And you should now have the compatible version of the app installed and functioning.

You can try installing other apps this way too but note that this only works with apps that have been around since iOS 6. Only then would there be a version built for iOS 6 aka the "compatible version" you can fall back on.